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Os? /■'"T?' _l—x ■ ~,.: -'l'-V '^: y ■ 1 ■■■ ■'—■■■- —■■- VOLIJMN S : ' ' 1 ■■■■■■l »■■■■, ■ ■ . ■■■>■ F- ■ '■ ■* - -■■■ ■■■ .■ ■ - ■■ •ACL Champion Is Derailed At Dillon Last Night' Dunn Voters Go To Polls Today To Elect Mayor, Councilmen ■ fpNr |§j Jm r^z''P p;'Cp.:P,i 'V piPPPy/PP' 'PPwm < 11 11 V‘V V-'\- I '"{ 11 * ,y'~ * I - /**/ / P' : ,% v* C f .*1 *<. '0^ v ‘ S; *' v / J I*' H MAYORALTY CANDIDATES VOTE Mayor Ralph E. Hanna, left, hod his opponent, Joe A. Wilkins, ■UMmilkAni here as they' raged today hi Dwa'a mnarielpal election. Afterwards, they shook hfnds t~ eheh settop " Rescue Workers Aid Victims DILLON, a C. . m Railroad crews, Red Ortas workers and townspeople worked side by side today to find the dead, comfort the * hurt and care for the stranded after a northbound Atlantic .Coast Line streamliner jumped the tracks, kill in* at least five persons *nd in juring an estimated 180. The all-chair car train, the “Champion," plunged from the rails near this small town near the North OarOUna border in bitter cold, weather late Monday night. Two of the dead were still trap ped in the telescoped wreckage of 2- ,one Os the forward coaches at noon PWioday. The badly injured were tak en to fdur hospitals in the area. Many others were tinted on the tracksidfe, at motels, hotels and In private dwellings. Dillon opened its doors and its heart to the shocked and weary passengers who were enroute to homes in the east from points in Florida. A "makeup” train was to take uninjured passengers on to destina ■ tions later today. The railroad issued no statement, as" to the cause of the accident ex cept to say “We are Investigating." of the*train, said hTcoufd not ex «<.tuitia«* on BMW twot .High Honor Given /ifff#i MJlnk Cfi *3P» ***+9 TELEPHONES: 3117 . 3118 - 3119 ' . ~T ibi - —(i-IM : Pastors Checking On Mission P.zsults Pastors and guest pastors of the Methodist Chureheig in the area went to Raleigh today to evalu ate the results ot the opening days of their'oombined Evangelistic Mis sion to the Raleigh District, of which these churches are a part. Reports from churches in the area indicate that the first two days of -thig uftited religious effort have been an unqualified success. Every service, since the opening service siinday, has drawn a good crowd and the visiting groups have shown (jjgeellent results. /, The .. ierviees Will continue throu*h66t file week with morning and evening services at each of the Methodist Churches, with the pas tor aided by the guest pastor from , At the fconclusion of file services here the pastors of the churches Ir, North Carolina will return the visit add on May Ist they will travel to our neighboring southern state and hold similar services there. Everyope is urged to make an mm 4 mm + 4 m. l* ▲ 7i iT) tftlit I[l mJF L 111 Wl P I wL a Mm I. II P I ■• wr 111 I I jmLP wv 4r JR)/ I . effort to attend as many of these iuppira|tLonal services as possible during the remainder of the week. \ Church Building Put Up For Sale Does anyone want to buy a church? A church building in Erwin is to be sold to the highest bidder providing be will move it away from it* present location n*xt to the Erwin Baptist ChUrdh. It is the old building which has been out of use since the beautiful new church buildjng was built on the adjoining lot. - . . Erwin Baptists had plumed to remodel the old structure to be used as a religious education build ing. However, they now plan to era* an entirely new structure for this purpose on the lot now occupied by the old building. Now that the new bonding and its. furnishings are completely paid for, the building committee of the church is ready to go ahead with the p**"« for the new hnW»«ng and In order to clear the lot they are offering the old church tor sale. Anyone interested, in bidding for the <dd building is advised to get in touch with Roy Cameron in Erwin. 7. f ——f IIVV I 81 111 fflVUIv f I m - Vjit M Jfcii^iiiiiiiill Mm i s nninrrnur - IpVI I IPJHVI MW WW /V. [ Two important to II day. DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL' 21, 1953 Bigger Vote k Being Cast Than Many Expected Dunn citizens were turn ing out in larger numbers than had been expected to day to elect a> mayor and two members of the city council. At 1:32 this afternoon, a total of 593 citizens had cast their votes. A light vote had been predicted and even though the turnout has been larger than expected it is still smaller than the vote cast two years ago r However, the heavy voting hours were still ahead. The heaviest vot ing usually takes place between 3 p. m. and the time the polls close at 6:30. Robert Draughon, one of the el etion officials, said the most signi ficant thing about the voting to day was the unusually large num ber of ladies voting. “I’ve never seen so many ladies voting here during the morning before,” he observed. CANDIDATES ON HAND All of the candidates were on hand to greet the v.oters this mor ning with the exception of Com missioner L. L. Coats of Ward I, who cast his vote and then enter ed the Dunn Hospital for treat* T4f interest today centered in the race for the top office. Mayor Ralph Hanna is being opposed by Joe A. Wilkins, former city coun cilman and mayor protein. Other candidates are* and Commissioner R. <3. Tkrt, who is being opposed by W. M. (BUI) Brysik The other;*,wo members of the cgundb#. V, Bass at Ward n, and B. A.*»acey of Ward IV, are not up for re-election until 1986. Voting was quiet and orderly to day and everybody—lncluding the candidates—appeared to be Jhgood spirits/ 1 STATE NEWS ; BRIEFS NEW BERN —(tn— Three New York youths will be tried in fed eral court at Wilmington May 18 on charges erf stealing 36 hams from file Camp Lejeune Marine base. Police said the youths, Anthony Johnson, 33; Rudy Petti, 25, and 'John Vera, 34, were* on their w»y. back to New York after a trip to, Florida. All were placed under 81,006 bond, NEW BERN Oh Police held a 24-year-old Virginia man Without bond here today on a charge of stabbing his mother - in law. Police Capt. Purvis Brinson said John W. Baldwin of Newport News, forced his way into the home of Mrs. Jack Dalton, 46. and stabbed her. Her condition was not consid ered seriously. Brinson said Baldwin had been separated from his wife and had tried to regain custody erf a child. GASTONIA (IB A young mother who said she drowned her three children so they wouldn’t have to “grow up like I had to” will be brought to trial here tomor row, Solicitor Basil Whitener said today. " -j A grand jury yesterday indicted Mrs. Mary Irene Hullett on three chargee of murder hi the drowning (Cttwaed *• Pax* i» -'mill mi m n' ~HM^fw<|v and revetments;-,'- , ' ■ , Ip ' * asaßß'iiiiii'iii —nsiii^WH» jjjm J mjt: WORKERS TAKING OUT BODY Workers are shown trying to extricate a body from one A the coaches in the wrecked Atlantic Coast Line train Champion derailed at Dillon, Sooth Carolina shortly after midnight last night. Some' of the telescoped c are had to be cat apart with acetylene torches before the victims coaid be taken oat. Fire added to the haxards of the rescue work during the early part of operations. Many of those rescued were shoeless, having taken off their shoes to rest in the coaches. (Daily Record photo by Fay Ridenour). OTHER PICTURES INSIDE Freed Men Tell Os Atrocities P* ■x ; -S . • : : . mother In Ptiii.helphi, h;.o .. dream that came true .... Two Tennessee fifes made a pact ..... ‘ •> A New York family held A false celebration .... In Panmunjom, the ambulances rolled the brown—gray, Russian built ambulances bringing to the Allied side and hurt in the Korean prisoner exchange. In America, for the second straight night, hearts stoad still while the families at home waited it out. - In Alabama, a sergeant’s wife named Sue and a sergeant’s chub by five-year-old named Johnny, hit a jackpot- All fSght Sunday. Mrs. Sue An derson and her son Johnny kept a vigil by. the radio and television, both turned on in their Alabama city home. AU night-nothing. But Monday night it happened. The anaounaar said Sgt. Edward O. Anderson had been freed by the Communists. In 'Philadelphia, Mrs. Efilzabeth - Jankovits burst into tears when she heard that her son, John Jan kovits Jr., 23, a private first class, had been released after two years in a North Korean prison camp. “I knew something was going jo happen—l (beamed it,” she Skid. In Tennessee, Mrs. William H. White of GrkenvUle and Mrs. Jac queline Howard of Nashvißp plan ned to join forces and drive to the city at which' their husbands enter the United States. > ' v Sgt. William H. White and Sgt. Albert Howard* were imprisoned to gether. Both were released Mon > day night. Their wives began cor -1 responding during the imprison ment and began nkiwkw far the day of IbMMmolns J* ftwAlyn family knew a moment of happineaa-and ! then a night of emptiness, lira. : Antonia live FIVE CENTS PER COPY PANMUNJOM, Korea Wed nesday <IP) Allied war pri soo&te jreed from Red pri-> se* camps told today how' many of their buddies died unefer skull-crushing blows from rifle butts wielded by North Korean guards and from lack of medical care on forced “death "marches.” They told /too of semi-starvation in Communist prison camps and deaths from malnutrition and dis ease- And many reported that the Reds still are holding some of the most critically wounded and the most seriously ill. Their reports were individual and unofficial. But they added up to an ugly sidelight to the repatria tion of sick and wounded Hie stories of brutality, mal treatment and of sick and grounded left behind came to light' as the Reds announced no Americans or other non-Koreans will be included among the' 100 Who will be hapded hack to the U. N. in today's ex change at 9 a. m. 7 p. m. E 8 T Tuesday. SERIOUS QUESTIONS Serious questions were raised by the report that scores of sick and wounded are being left behind in the Red camps. Pvt. JasjrS Pieerno, of Jamaica, N. Y., said the Reds stiß were hold ing “quite a few prisoners worse (CMiUmMI On Pas* twez Southern Bell diets Rate Hike ' RALEIGH W) The State Util ities Commission granted Southern Bell Telephone Co. fate Increases In North Carolina today which will the an additional | total tacraaae' granted.' ■ On I SnHni TlT..ui.[ f " THE RECORD GETS RESULTS > t —a l Mayor Is Cggeiy ■" On Tolk Aboi/T- A-Fourth Term Mayer Ralph E. Hanna—win or lese—was playing it safe to day. On election day two yean ago. Mayor Hanna told reporter* that he would never seek the office ’'again not under any circum stances. He even went further and said he was positive -that there was no possibility he would r AsHnnMl On «*a«* tww Educo Club Hears Talk On "Tatars'i “The Tater Family” Wks the top ic of a humorous address with ser ious undertones, delivered by Rev. Ben Eller of Coats at the final meeting of this school year of the Harnett County Educo Club last night. The meeting was held in the Home Economics Building of Erwin High School. - „ “Fve always liked to stiffly fam ilies,” the speaker said byway of introduction, “and one of the larg est and most influential families I have discovered is the well-known Tater' family.” The first member introduced wa*s Dick Tater, whom he said was sometimes a man, and sometimes a woman. “As long as people fol- I low this person," he declared, “the whole world suffers.” A brother, Hezzy, he described as C ' I A i D IJL £ h/j|L/wvii\ I Ctr CJ i News was released today that 11 the forthcoming Holy Communion I I »-Aalrf f <- kp Uibi a A 1 ] No 95 ; Five Die When Streamliner Is Wrecked In S. 6. Dillon, s. c. m An Atlantic CoastKne railroad streamliner, speeding north from Miami to New York, jumped the tracks near here last night, killing five and juring about 150 as 14 cars plunged into a field. . % Rescue workers, working during the night by the light of torches and a fire that was touched off by the derailment, worked on into the new day searching for more vie- , tims. Heavy - duty wreck trains were attempting to pry apart ■ the telescoped steel of the cars, • Cause of the accident, which sent ACL’s “champion” hurtling from, the rails, was undetermined. An, investigating team was trying find the answer. It was a miserable night for toe injured, many of whom lay moan ing in the darkness for several hours in temperatures near the freezing point before they could 24 FROM NEW YORK At %ast 24 of the injured wajjp-' from New York and vicinity iK about 14 others were headedtfragy Eastern destinations between Waab»3 ington and New York. AU hospital# in this area were filled with MB It was impossible to obtain gjlfl accurate account of the serilmiMH of all injured but at least 90 were hospitalized. About 00 others stem *sT«ugenes d-bed hospital here was taxed to the limit and at<«S time during the night beds were set up in the corridors, j&jnlfii burned all night in its one Optra* ting room where two unldM&fljjn doctors worked without rest'«• fca. injured were wheeled in. “We are trying to save lives here,” an attendant at one IMnMH haven't time for rec-uds The railroad’s double track JB ripped up for almost half a mftoH It would take a major repair JH (Contlnnedf an Page gte) y he said, tries to be an both and at the same time on neither, example with their concern^ml Immy, another member of Tater family, he said, never copycat. He illustrated with. £s§ story cf the husbatfH who wag a model until he found' it defkiwm as a small imitation of the awBB one full of words, words 3 ftrSg|Hß words. He comments on every||^H a good sermon,' but" or “thq£|mH [ M .■'.'£§§§ill
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