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: Charles D. W. Canham, left, ie shown as he preaenteJafU Tbirt
; Army’s coveted Training Trophy to Xt Ed Wade, commander, who
reeelTM it on behalf of the unit, (Daily Record Photo).
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Colorful Rites
Held In Honor
Os Dunn Guard
Dunn’s crack National
Guard unit, Battery B of the
■ll3th Field Artillery, Re
ceived the Third Army’s co
veted Training Trophy Mon
day, night in a colorful cere
mony attended by State and
Federal official!.
It was a histo: y-making occas
ion. Never before iji history had a
unit wolf the highest honor which
the Army has to bestow upon a
National Guard unit two years in
a row.
The guardsmen, sharp and snap
py, received the trophy with the
praises of one speaker after an
other ringing in their ears.
CANHAM PRESENT AWARD
Major QeneJ.al Charles D. W.
Canham, of Atlanta, Ga., deputy
commander of the Third Army,
flew to Dunn to present the award
to First Lieutenant Edward Wade,
the outstanding unit.
Praising T ‘the amazing record of
this organisation,” General Can
ham, a distinguished airborne Sold
ier who formerly cohtmanded the
•2nd Airborne declared: ‘
“The Third Army Is proud of
Dunn’s National Guard uhlt; this is
the kind of unit we strive for.*
He praised the battery for up
holding the traditions and ideals
of a great Dunn soldier, the late
TRIBUTE TO LEW *
General Canham tis&
never before had the honor gonr
to the same organisation twice, and
more (Specially two years in a row.
“But,” he said, “when the records
were In Dunn’s .unit was way
ahead of all ttle rest.”
Dunn's battery received a score
of 85.26 out of a possible 100, which
was one point more than its record
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Mason Indicted
In Death Case
The Harnett County Grand Jury
today formally indicted Benny
Mason, 17-year-old Erwin student,
for manslaughter for the death of
Warren Lee Hudson, ftve-year-old
son of Mr. and Mm. Kie Hudson
of Dunn.
Mason,- already on probation m
anoth/v court case, was the driver
of a ear which failed to make a
curve and careened into the yard
where the child was playing. Hie
child was killed instantly, his body
t)adly crushed by the impact.
t The accident occurred in a
secluded residential area which
ordinarily to net travelled by
• tourists or Joy-riders.
District Solicitor Jack Hooks
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Last Minute
News Shorts
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toXaßaftar inltrueUons frorn Judge
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gray-baited mother who walked dt
every year—raid today she wasn’t
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DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 19, 1953
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DIGNITARIES HERE FOR PRESENTATION Major General Charles D. W. Canham, deputy com
mander of the Third Army, and other high-ranking military officers and dignitaries were In Dunn
last night to pay honor to Dqpn’s Guard unit. Left to right are, sitting, Mayor Rflph E. Hanna, who
delivered the address of welcome; General Canham, who presented the trophy; Mrs. William C.
Lee, widow of Dnnn’s famed war hero; standing, Major General J. Vann B. Metts, retired Adjnant
General; Brig. Gen. Eugene Griffin of Lonlsburg: L. T. Ballentine, State Gommsiaioner of Agricul
ture, who delivered the address; and First Lt. Ed Wade, commander of Dunn’s guard unit. (Daily
Record Photo). ■ - j
New Officials To Tqke Over
no f&BT
cßPoony not £veo a
oraVer when Mayer Ralph
E. Hanna and two new city
cottHcilmen are inducted in
to office here Thursday
night. . ;X
City Manager A. B. Uzzell said
today that the swearing-in cere
monies will take place Thursday
night at 7:30 o’clock.
Magistrate George F. Owen,
Widely-known Dunn citizen and a
former councilman who has sworn
in many other city officials has
agreedto officiate/again this year.
ifce officials this year are break
ing precedent in nob having a
minister present to ask God’s
guidance on the new administra
tion. i
< City Maanger Uzzle said be
brought the matter up at the last
council meeting and that the.
oificials told him they did not
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BULLETIN
: WASHINGTON (IP) John L. Lewis’ first falling
•tit With the Eisenhower administration was warming up
into a first class feud today. The United Mine Workers
chief charged that Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay
“is willing to have the blood of coal miners on his hands”
by recommending, Tom Lyon to be director of the Bureau
of Mines. He said he hopes President Eisenhower <*|eads
the papers and may get to know something” abtoV the
situation before tormalFy nominating Lyon. .
CHARLESTON. SC. (IP> Gerard Hartxog, Jormer
vicejTJrman of tile State Republican been
by a federal grand jury on a charge of ad apting
to usehis influence to obtain a postmastership, the seventh
such case to arise irt the South within three days.
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Bishop To Address
Church Men Tonight
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Is Most Brilliant
LAS VEGAS, Nev.'— (IP) — ; The Atomic Energy Com
mission finally set off the “jinxed” ninth shot of its current
test program just before dawn today, and it turned out to
be one of the most brilliant of the series. • ! i
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The explosion, postponed four
times because of excessive radia
tion and unfavorable'weather, burst
with a brilliant glow shortly after
5 a. m. PDT (8 a. m. EDT)
It lit up the sky over YUeca Flat.
65 miles northwest of here, at 5:04V4
a. m. with the most briUtomt flash
seen for any tower explosion in
the'current test series. The sky re
mained light with an ever-ehanging
color pattern for several aekbds.
Wm&m V"”-’ ‘ •i'i'&tj v - ■ -
| Right Reverend- Edwin Anderson
jPenick, DD. Jjtobep of the'Dio-
JceM *of North OardUna. will speak
ito-» Joint meeting of the Men's
j Fellowship Club of St.. Stephen's
ij Episcopal Church and the liw of
}*t Erwin at W tonight! i
j The Joint meeting wa« scheduled
Wu’jtir visitation to St. Stephen’s
returning a visit the tStT of
The AEG announcement said- “a
nuclear device was detonated on a i
300-foot toWer.”
“More than 00 experiments were
conducted so- weapons development
and for military and civil effects
purposes,” the AEC sa(d. “Included
was the exposure to radiation of
antibiotics for the Food and Drug
Administration." *
The commission also disclosed )2
(B-50 bombers were flying over the
atomic braving ground at the time
of the eMriosion, as part of the Air
Force crew Indoctrination prograjn.
A total of 47 aircraft took part in 1
various- phases of the test. 1
It was not announced imimxtyi- 1
tely whether the second attempt 1
to fly pilotless planes through the 1
thermal envelope was successful. 1
The AEC said only that “a Navy
AD-2 Skyralder was usfe in a .
thermal and test” /
The thermal envelope *is the ;
churning ipass of heat apd flame
which surrounds -the core of an
atomic fireball.
A similar plane sent through th#
fury of the explosion three weeks ]
ago was tom apart by the vtylento ■
of the fiery mass 'and hurled to
the ground.. \ i
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2,500 Evacuated
In Louisiana Ared
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NEW ORLEANS, (IP) Parts of Georgia and South
Carolina were put on tornado alert today as the death toll ]
rose tc six from foul weather that has plagued the Sduth*
east throughout the spring. .'■* A .
Almost since winter’s grip Was
broken, the area has been swept
by tornadoes, other forms of danu
aging winds and more recently by
floods.
The Atlanta weather bureau
Warned of the “slight possibility
of a tornado o- two” in a wide
area of west and north Georgia and
northwest South Carolina between
noon and nightfall.
Louisiana was in the midst of
flood relief that brought the evac
uation of more than 2,500 persons.
The figure was increasing by the
hour. '
The state’s critical area for the
present was in Natchitoches Par
ish oa the Red River in central [
Louisian. The parish lies in river r
bottom country between the Red 1
and the Sabine to the west", which
also was flooding thousands of acres
of low country.
Sheriffs Earl Morris of Natchl- 1
toches parish said Leroy Williams,;
24-yeal-old Negro drowned while
rounding up cattle in a bayou Tflat
brought drownings in Louisiana to
three, bringing to six the number
dead in Louisiana, Texas and Mis
sissippi r
TOWN CUT OFF
CloutiervUto, a small town In
hjatchltochee parish,, ’BapL'ußtt) .oft
for the farming and cattle opera
lpns, were sandbagging. The lush
bottomland to the center of the
states cattle country. _y
U INCHES OF HEIN
More than 11 inches of rain fell
during a 36-hour period in the sec
tion. >•''
Many schools were closed in,
Oakdale, Derldder and Leesville
further south and all schools of
East Baton -Rouge Parish were
close* 1 oecause of flood and wash
out conditions over the rural roads.
Upwards of 5,000 children vterekept
at home.
Gillikins Is Heard
By Local Shriners
Lester Gilllkin; Imperial Poten
tate of Sudan Temple, complimen
ted the members of (fee Dunn Shrine
Club cor their conduct and the
conduct of the membership of'Su
dan Temple generally, at the recent
Spring Ceremonjal in Goldsboro.
The Potentate was the speaker
at the meeting Monday night at
Johnson’s Restaurant of the tooal
Shrine Club. President Hiram Rose
presided and the speaker waa intro
duced by D. Vic Lee of GoaU. .
Mr. Gillikto told the group that
he wanted to clarify some points
that might be. in doubt fcmong the
1 membership,with regard-tomembers
drinking at stfCh ceremonials..
THE RECORD
GETS RESULTS
MRS. AUUndl M|NTZ ' ?
hand tonight wSSkS™. • R&edS
Mints, home economist forjbip- , -si
line Power and Light Co., wili
sent a treewr deihonetation at tjrt ,
local Sears Catalog Sales Office **-
night at.?:OS. . ; •■'■'^7'' '.rtelHj
H^°in no to^ t ma^ger y^ S SMM! Ul ;
Mrs. Mnu nrrjift S food*, for .
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