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BEFOBC AND AJTTEB - Sylvta Jean Beariey, Me 9, la sheens at Mt wHkher t|(«l*M and with the entctw* fee were
befere She WM cured of poMo at a healing service conducted Sanday afternoon by the Rev. Reuben Jams, noted evan,elM and faflfc-fcealer
She’s shown at right standing erect and holding the crutches and braces. She put on the braotg to pose for this picture beeatte she
doesn’t need then any longer. And hoentM God has seen fit to» heal her, sho says she’s dedicating her life to Him. John ia conducting
an evaageilstic campaign In a big tant'Jist outside Dunn on the FayettevlHe highway. (Dally Record Photos).
Congress Cuts
* Ike's Request ’
By
t -. A House appropriations
subcommittee revealed today
that it has sliced more than
$250,000,000- from President
■ Eisenhower’s fund request
for veteraiK?'’ pensions and
compensation. ••*..
Chairman John Phillip* (Jt-OaL)
said in ordering the cuts hi* group
was banking on fewer claims than
President Truman estimated and
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were talking about— and marveling over the miracle
of nine-year-old SJlvia Jean Beasley.
The pretty little hlondo-hflred
girl, daughter of thg Rev. and
Mrs. Stacey Beasley, Was stricken
with polio last August, a*rd and a
few days later was given up to die.
Her cOHdiHnn grew* better Wad
she-was able to leave the hospi
tal on >pril 38th, still 'wealing
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structed the Rev Mr. Jones and
the child's took Jmp> Into
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A/ews Shorts
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (W Pcr
mer President Truman reiterated
briefly today that his action In
ordering troops In Korea Initially
was “ In support of the United
Mr. Trunwn. Whs asked for com
ment on the peasant Korean truce
developments. He declined to com
ment yesterday dn the grounds he
harf no information “othtr than
what T have read Jn the n*Ws
papers." •
OAKMONT, am W -- Temper
amental Tommy Bolt of Maplewood,
m J„ shot a one over par 30-36-72
on the Pittsburgh field club course
today to lead the early finisher* In
the first of ttro qualifying rounds
ft* Use U. ». Open golf champion
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DUNN, N. TUESDAY JUNE 9, 1953
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Mrs.Newsorae
Attends School
ifih William fiewaome return
ed Monday from Boat Carolina
College in Greenville, where she
ha* been attending a Kindergar
ten Work Shop under the direc
tion of Miss Annie Mae Murray,
director of the college kindergar
ten and assisted H»y Miss Sally ‘
Klingenschmltt. '
Dr. John Measlck, president of
the cdllege, opened the class, com
posed of 60 kindergarten teachers
throughout the state. Classes were
held morning and afternoon ses-,
slons throughout the week in the
Flanagan Building.
On the Closing day, the group or
ganrier a North Carolina Kinder
(bmthHMd m fhtee fmi
private stag dinner Monday night for 13 top-drawer na
tional figures, including ex-Treadde«t Herbert Hoover and
Gen. Douglas BfacArthur who were nuririag their first
White House visit; since the Republicans moved in last
January. - -fs
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wife: • •****s• '•‘UP -;r
Stall Officers
Begin Drawing
Cease-Fire Line
PANMUNJOM, Koaea, Wed
nesday (IP) United Na
tions and Communist nego
tiators drove determinedly
closer to a truce in Korea
today despite increasingly
explosive South Korean op
position.
Staff officers of the Allies and
the Reds started, drawing a cease-*
fire line, yesterday and the truce
delegations are ' expected to take
up a report from them at a meeting
at 11 am. today 9 p.m. Tuesday
EBT.
In Pusan, wartime capital of Ko
rea, the lower house of parliament
urged the Bouth Korean govern
armistice and cglled for prepgra
ment to repudiate the proposed
tlen for an "advance north to unify
The assembly also hinted that
South Korea should resist with
force of arms. If necessary, "should
forlegn troops land to supervise
prisoners who refuse repatriation.”
CITIZENS WEEPING
In Seoul, peace time capital of
Korea, up to 500,000 weeping,
chanting men, women and children
surged through the streets protest
ing against what they called an
Allied surrender to the Cbmmunista-
A fire hose was turned on one
group i- spearheaded by school
girls who tried to storm United
States ;Bth Army headquarters. U 4
Many were trampled In thg idslf
estimated l, 000,000 (Marne Com
munist troops in Korea be sent back
agroas the Yaiu River as part of
an armistice agreement.
K V*e announced at the same
naUon w
South KliwSlwt ;eKuS
Rhee, but that Rhiee had not accept
ed it.
South Korean troops Jumped off
on the eastern front In a major bid
to recapture bigore the fixing of
a cease-fire line, ground they lost
to the Communist* last week.
tures priced* noon
New York July 3038; Oct 33.78;
New Orleans Ju» 0337; Oct. 33.70.
RALEIGH (If) - Hog markets:
Kinston: Steady at 2330 Ipr good
and choice 180-360 lb. barrows and
gUta.
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5 WILLIAM S. WELLONS
Dunn Dealer On
Chicago Program
William a (Bill) Wellons, prom
inent Dunn merchant, business and
civic leader, will be among the
speakers at the mid-year meeting
of the National Appliance and Ra
dio-TV Dealers Association in Chi
cago on Monday, June 29th.
His appearance op the program
was announced from Chicago today
by A. W. Bernsohn, managing dir
ector of the national association.
Appliance dealers .from all sec
tions of America and from sev
eral foreign countries wilt be in
JltghdapQe at the greeting, to he
h«3g at Chicago's famed Merchan
to aopear on the program because
of his outstanding safe* and deal
ership record. '*V *■ ‘
national winner
In 1951, Mr. Wellons won second
place among the nation's 36,000
Hotpoint dealers In a nationwide
refrigerator sales Contest and re
ceived as his . prize a Roadm&ster
Buick and a free trip to Chicago.
A dealer in Chicago won first plaee v
hr that contest. v
The subject of _Mr. Wefcnns’ ad
dress will be, ‘Tnii Don’t Have
To Be Big To Bel Good.” He is
expected to tell tht nation’s deal
ers of his record! of success in
Dunn, and how pther small-city
dealers ‘can succeed in the busi
ness. f . /
i On the program;, with Mr. Wel
lons will be a number of nation
ally-known public agunes and some
tCarstteaed on page two)
COTTON BLOSSOM
REPORTED HERE !
The first of the
mrnm JW3, hLJm**
town'an evidence of a fine crop
of edtfs*. Ho U gdnrtng N acres
of cotton this year.
• . HI m mil TilriimiH Dreaident of
ike CMolimw’ Amoc~
iation, saM U whs the earliest
, Mbern ever reported here.*
Ordinarily, pojfHj oat Mr.
Woemlng in tidal osoSn anttl
about Dm last gn Jane. •
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FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Over 1,000 Suffer
Injuries In StorM
I FLINT, Mich. (IP) State Police in Michigan iMplj
Ohio counted 143 dead today in one of the nations dead
liest tornado disasters in 50 years. >
Michigan reported 124 dead and
Ohio 19, and more than 1,000 were
linjured in the two states.
I Harc\;st hit by the series of
B twisters which buzzed-sawed with-
H out warning through the heavily'
I populated region at dusk Monday
was the Beecher metropolitan dis
trict immediately north of Flint,
where 113 bodies were recovered.
Oov. G. Mennen Williams, accom
panied by< a staff of executives,
igoved from the state capital in
Lansing to temporary headquarters
at Flint, where he called In the
National Ouard to assist -state and
local law.officers. Williams issued
a proclamation baiting unauthor
ized persons from .an area north
of Flint.
BLOOD DONORS FORM LINE
Lines of blood donors more than
1 a Mock long formed at first aid
stations soon after the Red Cross
broadcast an appeal for whole
blood.
The death toll exceeded that of
last month’s twister at San An
gelo and Waco. Tex., where 123
died, and the chief of the U. S.
weather bureau in Detroit said It
was the “fifth worst” such disaster
in this country’s history.
In addition to the dead here,
Miatilgan police -counted dour
dehths at Tapaa, four at' Erie, one
at Pleasant Lake and Ohe at-Uu
My. 7 - * ' , I
! saUF were'
than 808 In Ohio. T
Borne 408 persons were treated
at fUat alone. J
FEDERAL AID SOUGHT
After a mid-morning tour of the
stricken area, ”Oov. Williams sent
a teleg*»» to president Eisenhow
er asking federal aid for recon
struction. Red Cross allotted SIOO,-
000 for emergency relief in the
Flint area;
More than 1,000 carloads of mov
ie-goers were gathered at’ the North
Flint Drive-In Theatre when the
twister struck just as the first
show began.
Many of the deaths occurred
Umsteod May Delay
School Bond Void
| RALEIGH «P - Gov. William
!B. Umstead noted today that the
delay by the U. S. Supreme Court
In ruling on public school seg
regation cases will have an “ef
fect* upon the forthcoming $50,-'
008,000 school bond issue referen
dum in North Carolina.
However, Umstead said he will
not make a statement "with re
gard to tbe effect of the delay-up
on the school bond issue until I
have had. an opportunity to study
the matter _and confer wRh a
number of other people."
If ' Umbtead decides that the ef
fect of the delay will he too great.
Capital sources believe **le gover
nor may call a special jession of
the legislature to postpone a vote
on the school bonds.
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there. Hundreds were injured .jfT’
cars were thrown about like toys.
Only a light rain gave any TfStp
vance indication of the tornadjEKt
moved a swath 10 miles long rad
100 yards wide in a relentless 'are
curving around Flint. The Oity ><M'
Flint itself was not touched.
By midnight, 97 bodies had bgpn
laid in rows at the National OAkHL’
armory here, which was prewfdt
into service as an emergency mjpC.
gue. Some of the bodies were*fi»
badly dismembered they wereMgfi!
lected in cellophane bags. ’Wmm
SURVIVORS FOUGHT RAC*#*
National Guardsmen fought njjjfc.'.
hold back survivors from ent«rj|K
the armory until it could bp "cleajf?
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Tornado Tears 3
Baby Out Os
Father's Arms *
CLEVELAND, O. (W “WP
. wind tore the baby right oat if
my hands."
That’s the way Louis
father of three-month-old Riißt!i
ny Balint, described the tonW#;!'
do which last night Oasl>|gßfc|
his home in 30 seconds.
The child eras dashed agaip#;)
1 a garage Ave houses
“The Wind tare the baby Hlft"
out of my aims," Balint mSfc
“and the next thing I a—f fan
under Umbers out in the biijjfe ■
yard."
BaUnt, 44, himself saiMHHplj
possible fractures of shoulder and
pelvis, broken ribs and Internal
injuries. A fireman found m/Mm
crawling around the
hU house looking for the baby.
His wife, Mary, their 6-year
old twins, Gerald and GernljHjgkfp
and Pamela, 3f were slightly jig!
jured when the tornado midiNM
down their four and a half rsaigV
home. t
FOR CONSTRUCTION J
The 1953 General AsscmMypll
'owing Umstead’s wishes, protHK
for a statewide referendum
year on the bond issue to
in school construction to equMgft.'
white and Negro school faCOtH
Umstead may" delay calling
naifanan H t ir.. imHI rwAmitMl
reierenuuni urn.u. ooccmoeri OWIV.
sources here believed that the A*
lay by the Supreme Court f«P fiß
ther arguments in Octob*
mean no decision on the gaMftgfc,
of the constitutionality of wMm
gation until 1954. . - : , 'IS
Atty. Gen. Harry
the "fact that the court,
new arguments shows tb)gi|H
ciate what a tremendous praUW
it is.” McMullan added th»t,f§b.
course, it’s better than
verse decision at this WawL'Mlt:-
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defenses to * ‘'pitiful level" ?
the old pocketbeor' again folW
of trouble.
newer « murjrs
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