rWEATHER*
Fair and continued hot today,
tonight and Wednesday.
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NEW WAREHOUSEMEN Clarence Lee Tart, left, Rodney Chestnutt, center, and Emmett
S’ Kdeerton, right, have formed a new tobacco warehouse group In Dunn. They’ll operate the new
planters and Farmers warehouses on the Fayetteville highway. AM three are well known in business
circles of this section and are well known to the farmers. (Daily Record Photo).
Chestnutt, Tart, Edgerton
Form New Warehouse Group
Public Not Invited
To Council Meeting
noun’s city council last jrigbl
hell ,a special, unannounced, un
,, sohfffaMdd aft# unpnbtictod me»»
Mayor Ralph E. **<»»» instruc
ted City Clerk ChJU*e«R. Storey
yesterday afternoon to notify the
officials about the meeting.
Members of the press were not
notified. Neither whs the pubUc
notified or given an oppoft unity
to be present for the session.
Mayor Manna decided to call
the meeting to plenty of time
that he could have notified local
na newspapers to announce in their
v editions yesterday afternoon.
Commissioner (Bryan said he was
notified of the meeting yesterday
morning.
Mr. Bryan, who has gone on
Republicans Favor
18-Year-Old Votes
WASHINGTON tm Vice Pres
ident Richard M. Nixon said today
the nation's 18 to 21-year-olds prov
ed in last pear’s election campaign
that they are anxious—and ready—
to vote. J' . f;';'’
He made the statement as Re
publican leaders began a drive to
lower the voting age in all states
wfrem 21 to 18. The OOF high com
kijmand recalled President Elsenhow
- er’s campaign statement that a
than old enough to fight is old
enough to vote.
Nixon said he knows of ‘'literally
thousands” In the 18, 19 and 30
year age bracket who remonstra
ted their intense political inter
est. and voting qualifications bv
participating in the 1962 campaign
‘Tight up to election day.”
; “The tremendous interest which
m people In that age group showed
*lh the last campaign was added
+ Record Roundup +
MAKE GOOD SHOWING -
Dunn's National Ofiard unit. Bat
tery B of the 113th Field Artillery,
spent the weekend at Fort Bragg
firing on the range. U. Ed Wade
Commander of the unit, said tortiy
that the Dunn Guardsmen made
ft good showing. *
T ,• /.; .
i VFW OUTING-OnJVednMday
for% tnter
are* 1 present as* plans
are undeway for a VFW team. Don
Meleher wUI be Os the
te “ a ’
TELEPHONES; 3117 . >llß . 31 IB
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n|l urM tlftilYrlfcit hk Mil*>il In
H spyi^rjK
meeting, but decided not to be
cause “they might net tte ft.”.
He did not tadenßfy They.”
City Manager A. B. Umel said
H was an official meeting and
that minutes were kept.
He said the purpose pf the meet
htg was to discuss uHfai water
meters ontfie the city Hmita and
that no dophdon was reached. Oth
er subjects discussed, if any, wore
not disclosed.
NO URGENT MATTERS
The matter has been under dis
cussion hpnt for a year or so and
no reason far holding such a spe
< run Unwed On Pm two
proof that they Were ready to as
sume this responsibility," he told a
reporter.
THINKS MORE WOULD VOTE
‘lt would not surprise me if a
higher percentage of that group
would vote than any other if they
i were given the opportunity.”
i GOD National Chairman Leon
ard Hall started the ball rolling
Monday With a statement which
declared that “the youth of 18 today
I is better informed than 21-year
olds of 50 years ago.” Hall added
' that:
» “It is thy Intention to support
all valid proposals in this direction
■ with every effort at my command.”
’ Initial congressional reaction to
i the plan was mixed. Chairman
Cfiauncey W. Reed (R-IU.) of the
i House Judiciary CSommittee said
I he “would go very slowly” with the
1 <ContMmcd. jsp eage twa)
to see a short suspicious Negro
with a acar .are urged to notify
police.
RIG CROWD A capacity crowd
was on hand at the Episcopal Par
ish House JR Erwin last night for
I *•
Mrs. Ruby Newsome’s “Mother
Goose Schfin!;" The program was
turned in an outstanding perform
atßOUTlNE MEETING—Mrs. Grace
Ji&tiu Jlmtrd
Formation of a new tobac
co warehouse group by three
prominent Dunn business
men was announced here
today, and will give the
growing Dunn Tobacco
Market another competitive
house.
Partners in the new Planters and
Farms Warehouses jgTe: Rodney
ChastguM, ■ Cgarence Lee Tartfcnd,
■have bdwnpronuiiently identified
til’ the business life of this section
for many years.
Mr. Chestnutt has been c.wiec
ted with the warehouse business
previously, and Mr. Tart and Mr.
Edgerton are also cotton merchants
and have extensive other business
interests.
The’new Planters Warehouse will
be located in the building former
ly used by the Buck Currln’s Old
Blg-4 Warehouse on the Fayette
ville highway. Mr. Currln now op
erates the New Blg-4 Warehouses
on the Benson highway.
The Farmers Warehouse, also
located on the Fayetteville highway,
has been leased by the three men
from Louis Baer, prominent busi
ness leader and realtor.
Mr. Chestnutt, who has been
Identified with farmers for many
years, will manage the operation
of the warehouses.
Among members of his staff will
be: C. B. Brewer of Loris, S. C„
bookkeeper; Jim E. Godwin ts
Smithfield, who will be in charge
of leaf accounts. Both are well
known In the tobacco business.
TO HELP BUILD MARKET ’
“One reason for taking over there
warehouses,” pointed out th* three
(Continued on paer two)
Last Mihute
News Shorty
WASHINGTON (lb The Agri
culture Department today asked
Congress to give its discretionary
power to support the prices of Irish
potatoes. Such legislation, sponsor
ed by Rep. Clifford G. Mclntffe
(R-Me.) weald repeal a ban against
price supports for potatoes. t-
WASHINGTON (V) Counsel fin
two North Carolina Negroes t oh
victed of murdering a white taxi
driver near Greenville in 1949 to
day asked Chief Justice Fred M.
Vinson for a stay of execution so
that a third appeal can he made to
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Mdfi^toMSiS:
R. Daniel* .Rone Vin
sen hold a heart!* in his chamber*.
CHICAGO (•) Deputy Defense
ta n^gllr ,te m7S.
DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 26, 1953
Democrats Seek
To Restore Sum
Cut From Budget
By UNITED PRESS
A scrap over federal aid to
education and hospitals ra
ged in the House today as
appropriations for the labor
and health, education and
welfare departments came
up for a vote.
The economy bloc whipped its
forces into line in an effort to
shoot dowri a Democratic bid to
restore $25,000,000 which had been
cut from, the Truman recommen
ation for new hospital construction
funds.
The bloc also hoped to lop $12,-
623,391 from aid for education funds
by knocking out eight of nine am
endments which were adopted ten
tatively with Democratic backing.
She showdown came on a 81,980,-
706,461 bill to finance the labor and
health, education and welfare de
partments for the fiscal year start
ing July 1.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
Defense: Rep, Melvin Price (D
--ill.) charged in a prepared speech
that Budget Director Joseph M.
Dodge used a “meat-axe technique”
in slashing Air Force funds, pos
sibly overriding even Defense Sec
retary Charles E. Wilson. As evi
dence he cited a May 7 letter lrom
Dodge to Wilson on defense bud
get cuts.
Ships: Sen. H. Alexander Smith
(R-NJ.) said President Eisenhow
er should work out some sort of
common policy on trade with the
Soviet bloc during his forthcoming
Bermuda meeting with British Prime
Minister Sir Winston Churchill and
his French counterparty
Tax/Scandals: The Hfeue Ways
jjndffAeans subcommtttA investi
’ferttft* tajc scaacMr ifivitetf-former
Treasury Secretary John W. Bnyd»r
to explain why he intervened with
the International Revenue Bureau
to help a Democratic campaign con
tributor get a favorable tax ruling.
♦MARKETS*
HOGS
RAfJ3IGH (lb Hog markets:
Goldsboro, Wilson, Tarboro, New
Bern, WBjnington, Jacksonville,
Washington, R'vky Mount, Fayet
teville and Florence: Steady at I
2380 for good and choice 130-240 lb.!
barrows and gilts.
Slier City, Elizabethtown, Mount
pßve, Dunn, Whiteville, Smithfield,
Lumbefton and Clinton: 25 lower
at 23.50.
Kinston: 25 lower at 23.25.*
COTTON
NEW* YORK (IP) Cotton fu
tures prices at noon E3T todav:
New York July 33.95; Oct. 33.68;
New Orleans July 33.68; Oet. 33.08.
BULLETINS
SEOUL, Korea (to American Sabre jets shot down
12 Communist MIGs and damaged a 13th today in blazing
dogfights over North Korea. It was the second time this
month the Sabre jets had accounted for an even dozen
jets. The record for a single day is 13.
WASHINGTON, (to Sen. Wayne Morse, whipped
in a four-month fight to regain his choice Senate commit
tee seats, today reluctantly accepted assignment to two
minor committees. The Senate by a 19 to 56 vote yesterday
refused to enlarge its Armed Services and Labor Com
mittees to give the Oregon independent his old seats there.
WASHINGTON (to Rep. Melvin Price (D-Iil).
charged today that Budget Director Joseph M. Dodge
used the meat-ax technique” to slash Air Force funds,
'',!,((,»< o*»\ War* <wn \
Stewart Addresses
Planning Officials
P. A. Stewart of Chapel Hill for
merly with the Regional and City
Planning Department at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, met with
the Dunn Planning Board this
offer suggestions for
As their first project, he sug
««*«* populatlon •**“**’
analysis of businres and Industries
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HARNETT WHEAT SHIPPED TO GOVERNMENT - Three Harnett County farm officials are
shown here as they finished loading and treating another carload of Harnett County wheat purchased
by the Surplus Commodity Credit Corporation. Five carloads left Dunn on Saturday right
?D.Uy Reford “hotoL °' the PMA ’ and bounty Agenf Chff Ammot
Queen Back In London; City
Takes On Mardi Gras Spirit
By JACK V. FOX
(UP Staff Corre|sponcient)
LONDON (IP) The royal stand
ard flew from Buckingham Palace
today, announcing Queen Elizabeth
was back in a London which has
been transformed into a Mandi
Gras city.
to^ b «da^^f^w P bMort mi**
night after «He had been drives
alone from Windsor Castle, but »
crowd of 3,000 spotted her.
Mounted police and motorcycle
squads- had to clear the way to
the palace gates for the royal lim
ousine. f .
Bright early morning sunshine
brought crowds back to the palace
gates today. The heat which had
reached a May record of 88 de
grees Monday broke as a result of
storms which had wrecked corona
tion demands in North England
and Scotland.
JAMMED WEEK AHEAD
Her coronation is only seven days
away and Elizabeth has a jam
med week ahead, with final rehear
sals of her 2% hour part in the
solemn Westminster Abbey service
and greeting thousands of disting
uished visitors arriving by plane
and ship.
Lttfcle Prince CSiaxlefs, heir to
the throne, will hold a coronation
party for 14 children in a suite on
the second -floor of Buckingham
Palace on the biggest day in the
'GnHnnMl on mvr two)
sent against the future. This ln
formation can be used as a teste
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Governor Discusses
Bis Appointments
■* RALEIGH Gov.
William B. Umstead held his
first press conference in his
office since his inauguration
today and said he hoped to
divorce from politics as much
as possible the sta,te high
way patrol, Department of
Conservation and Develop
ment, Ports Authority, arid
Prisori Department.
The governor said his appoint
ment of Edward Scheidt, former
leading official of the MBI, as head
of the Department of Motor Ve
hicles was the first step in that
direction.
“X’ don’t believe the highway
patrol in North Carolina ought to
be a political organization.” Um
stead said. “I • think to take It
out I bad to try to find a man
camible as an administrator and
a law enforcement officer who had
not been in politics."
“I think I found one.” he added,
“and the state should be congratu
lated for securing the services of*
such a man. It seems to me he's
mast a natural in this place.” ,
“I don’t believe anv member of
the patrol ought to be threatehed
with his job.” Umstead said, for
not voting right.
“I don’t believe a man in his
official capacity and in uniform
ought to be sent out or go out on
a oolitical mission.”
Umstead said he wasn’t referr
ing to “any incident or any cam
paign, but. I am referring to some
future f ones.”
TO NAME BOARD LATER
The governor said he didn’t know
when he would name a new Board
of Conservation and Development
Speeder Here
Speeders Here
City Solicitor J. Shepard Bryan
today won his fifth straight jury
trial In Dunn Recorder’s Court
when a jury convicted It. B.
(Huckleberry) Jackson on charges
and Jack Black arrested Jackson
on April 26th for, speeding 60 miles
an
his license for JO days.
FIVE! CENTS PER COPY
ior Pprts Authority as authorized
I by the General Assembly.
I The Board of Conservation and
Development, he said, “is just not
a place to give a man an honorary
... or political, appointment ”
He said the board is the “one
agency with overall responsibility of
seeking to develop and improve
everything in North Carolina.”
The new Ports Authority will be
one of seven members, instead of
nine as at present. Umstead added
that agency also “is not a place
to give a man an honorary appoint
ment."
He repeated his conviction that
the state’s new deep wa’er termin-
K.ontinued an page two)
CONNIE RUTH JACKSON BETTY JACKSON
THE RECORD
GETS RESUITS
Negro Cut Two
Men, Tried To
Kill Officer I
Harnett Coroner Grover
C. Henderson today absolved
Constable C. E. Moore of
Coats of all blame in the
slaying of a Negro assailant
who stabbed a bus driver in,
the back, cut the throat, of’
another man and then tried'
to kill the officer.
•He ruled the killing was in self- ’
defense and was a case of “justl-'
fiable homicide.” He said no in-»
quest would be held.
The Negro was identified as Fre-*
derick Simmons of Stanford, Cohn.,*
believed to be mentally incompe-«
tent. ■
V. S. Blanton of Columbia, B.C.*
driver of the Raleigh-Atlanta bus,*
said the Negro got aboard at Ra-»
leigh. Just as they reached Coats,*
the driver, related, the Negro went*
to the front of the bus, holding his.*
stomach, and told .the driver,*
“They’re trying to kill me.” *
Blanton said he reassured , the"
Negro nobodv was trying to harpt
him and told him to go sit down.
In a moment, the Negro was bate
and asked Blanton to stop the bite,
STABS BUS DRIVER > »
When the Negro started to ga&
out. he pulled out a knife, stabbed
Blanton in the back and dashed'
him about the face and head. Blan
ton is in Good Hope Hospital at
Erwin with 110 stitches In his body.
Constable Moore arrived on the
sceno, quickly and began the tease.
mZc Man A. J. Godwin and a ci
vilian, Stacey Byrd, also joined the
chase. The Negro cut the ttuoat
requiring 31 stitatea.-
ble IteMKMfeeThe
and the burxMwar had ted itm-
Constable Moore kept tettng h&ft
to surrender and fired the .46 t
bre pistol to frighten the He**
terse nws^tteja
the leg, but didn’t step
bullets entered the left leg, tide
left arm and the left breast. It was
the last bullet white felled the;
Constable Moore’s story was cor
roborated by the bus driver, by
Byrd, and his father, Fred Byrd,
no. i