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PAGE TWO BULLETINS :■"_;-t :■ j * (O—tt—4 Im OTOT 1) POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.' Iff) Joseph Curran, 49, resident of the CIO Notional Maritime Union, is under «PhC treatment and observation today at Vassar Hos jfltal for a heart attack he suffered at his home near here hit Friday. EAGLE BOCK, Va. «F> Peggy Lou Stayhorn, 20, of .Durham, N. C. was killed and Robert H. Kirk of Greens horo, N. C., was injured shortly before midnight when the car in which they were riding ran off U. S. 220 two 'miles north of here, state police reported. 1 WASHINGTON (IP) Sen. John Sherman Cooper to .day introduced a bill to authorise $300,000,000 in federal grants in aid for public school construction. The Ken tucky Republican used a formula which would give poorer States proportionately greater grants in the three-year program that more prosperous states would receive. VIENNA (IP) Communist concessions to hungry and restless populations spread through the satellites today. Romania became the latest to join the list with the an nouncement by Bucharest radio that bread would be .‘taken off the ratio list for the first time in eight year The government also said it would increase the ratio of potatoes and fruit. -< WASHINGTON (IF) The FBI today placed Jack Gordon White, 31-year-old Southern desparado, on i£s list of “10 most wanted fugitives.’’ White fled last Any. 25 from a Florida state prison camp at Loxahatehee where he was serving a 30-year term for breaking and entering, grand larceny, and armed robbery. It was his tßird escape from Florida and Georgia prisons in seven years. « NEW YORK (IP) Sen. Robert A. Taft, who entered JSfew York Hospital Saturday night for further treatment fsg a serious hip ailment, is reported resting well. The Ohio Republican who was forced to turn over active leadership in the Senate to William F. Knowland i of California because of the ailment spent several days hi the same hospital last month for diagnosis and treat- 1 ment j SEOUL (IP) Raging flood waters and a four-day- ! <£d “monsoon” rainstorm lashed Korea today killing at i least ten persons, including two American soldiers. Rising 1 liver waters pressed against military and civilian bridges franning battlefront and rear area streams. Torrential , rain collapsed flimsy mud and rice straw Korean homes, i I; ' !; WASHINGTON (IP) Tom Lyon, “discouraged and m*** ” by the furor over his ill-fated nomination to 1 1 head Che Bureau of Mines, has resigned his government j dost but will stay on until a replacement is found, General , Services Administrator Edmund F. Mansure said today, i *■ Lyon has been acting deputy administrator of the Defense Material Procurement Agency DMPA since May •Si. . *• -1 l', FLORENCE, Italy (IP) Titta Buffo, 76, one of the RarM’s neatest baritones, died early today after a heart attack. For 45 years, Russo sang throughout Europe and Ifbrth America. He was a dose friend of Enrico Caruso with whom he often sang at New York’s Metropolitan • LONDON (V) Burglars Rivaded the bedroom of Sir hturenoe Oliver and his actress wife Vivien Leigh early today and escaped, without awakening them, with $20,- •00 worth of jewelry and furs. The thieves got into the hedniom window at Oliver’s farm home by using a ladder .from the barn. TOKYO (IP) The 300,000th air evacuee to be flown from the front lines in Korea since the war started ar rived at an airbase near Tokyo this weekend, 30 hours .after being Wounded by mortar fire. U. S. Army Pfc. Ar thur B. Pear Son of Madison, N. C., was the evacuee whose Airlift marked the milestone flight. He and 33 other wounddd U. N. combat men were flown from Korea in a tJ-54 Skymaster of the U. S. Air Force 374th Troop Carrier • /SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (IP) A 34-foot-long single masted beat was enroute today to London via the United States and Spain with Rafael Colorado, 34, charting her course. The vessel sailed Saturday for Santo Domingo on the iirot leg «f its trans Atlantic voyage. It will stop in Nbw York before continuing: across the Atlantic to Cadiz, Spain. From Cadis it win sail to London. HEW YORK ff) Ring Crosby and his son, Lindsay, J 5, sotonod from a three and a half month trip to Eu rope today and will leave tonight by train for Crosby’s liecada ranch. Crosby said he’d found the Spanish people “genuinely friendly” but he caused a flurry of indignation fthan he confessed to Spanish reporters that he could not freak their language. Congress Probing Gasoline Increase I The House Commerce Committee I today launched an investigation of I recent gasoline and oil price hikes I fk representatives of four major [ dU companies were called to ans- I Wer charges of “collusion.” j'‘?Chalrittan Charles A. Wolverton I (R-NJ.), demanded to know how I they could Meat prices on the face [”«!»£’* af'euiap. I top C&. apcony-Vacuum Oil Od. | tmo Standard Oil Co. and Stand. OH -Company of California scheduled to testify before I mete I JOhn W. Heselton (B-Mass ) 1 m Taxes: Republican leaders have quietly shelved for this session of Congress three of the four items in President Elsenhower’s program of tax legislation: Freezing the So cial Security tax at the present It? per eent rate, indefinite extension of present corporation income tax rates and continuation of present excise rates on gas, liquor, beer and clgarets. Wheat: Chairman * Clif-ira R. Hope <R-Keni> of the House Ag riculture Committee said he be lieves a “two-price system” would solve the problem of wheat sur- Under the plan growers would be assured the government mpport price only on that port.on rs their crop which is produced for the domestic market. For the re mainder. they would get only what wheat would bring on the com petitive world market. .. Breach: Acting Senate Repub leader William F. Knowland (Cal.) aid that if South Korean Presi dent Syngman Rhee bad been consulted" on truce nego- mmW!UM liTIB BbF Ej Kans > lJ . w 4 V * iMlfflfyi • Mm I m MmMEuL pW'k J 1 Wißmm llllfflt *f .IS - ■ » J • j** M JH |Jpr\ 1 jpffß 1 * NEW ROTARY PRESIDENT John Strickland, center took over as president of the Dunn Rotary Club on Friday night. He succeeds Ch arlle Byrd, left, who is retiring after a very success ful year. Dr. Byrd automatically becomes vice President. At the right is Herman P. Green, who was renamed secretary-treasurer of the club. (Dally Record Photo.) Ike Given Digest Os News Each Day By MEBRIMA SMITH Ilf) White House Writer WASHINGTON Ilf) Backstairs at the White House: Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Washington bureau of Tass, the of ficial Russian ' news agency, was barred from President Eisenhow er’s last news conference. Fedorov arrived after the conference started L and as a late comer, he was not admitted. Tass, however, got a report on the conference from one of Its other correspondents. Jean Montgomery. She got there early and had a seat down front. “Mike” Federov is reported cue to return to Russia soon. In the several years he has been assigned here, he has taken little part in the life of the large Washington press and radio community. While the children of White Housq staff members splashed noisily in the President’s pool the other morning, they were watched atten tively by a lifeguard who slowly patrolled the edge of the pool—in full Army uniform, except for a cap. . ' On the walls of the White House press room are personally inscrib ed photographs of Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman, each presented to the cor respondents and photograph erj while the chief executives were in office. No picture, however, of Mr. Eis enhower is in the press room, al though be has autographed many pictures submitted to him by indi vidual newsmen. Chances are that tlation terms, the "breach” that now blocks a Korean truce agree ment would not have occurred. Mail Rates: Rep. Harold C. Ha gen (R-Mlnn.) said the higher pos tal rates sought by Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield would put many small companies out of business and “ad fuels bo the inflationary pressures. Drought: The House Agriculture Committee today was scheduled ,to consider a bill to provide addition al government aid for drought stricken cattlemen and farmers in the Southwest and Great Plains states. Chairman Clifford R. Hope (R-Kans.) said there is a “good chance” emergency legislations can be rushed through the House this week. rigro£i DapAVFOTrth «f My oetebraUoo. Mr* Sarto, to shewn bJT with F. CuthreU, toft her pester, wrt'ttafr' -.Breton, right, legion if wi.nirr. (Daßr. THE DAILY RECORD, IV. v. ' ■ ■■ mil»i u i I his staff members have never sug gested to the President that he pre sent a picture to the press room gallery. • j Speaking of pictures, Mrs. Eisen hower recently gave a handsome ; inscribed, color photograph of her self to each of the reporters and photographers who gave her a birthday party last November in Augusta, Ga. Rather than wade through many newspapers, the President relies on a highly compressed morning di gest fbr much of his news. Hie one or two-page digest is prepared early each morning by Press Cecre -tary James C. Hagerty. Quite the season for converti bles among the White House stafi. Sherman Adams, highly dignified assistant to the President is whirling about town in a bright green dream boat; Max Rabb, one of Adams’ assistants, has a yellow convertible., and C. D. Jackson psychological warfare expert, has a British sports roadster. Services Sunday For Mr. fart Raymond A. Tart, 52, of Benson and Carolina Beach, died Thurs day night at 8:30. Mr. Tart was accidentally electrocuted while making repairs to an attic fan in his home at Carolina Beach. Fu neral se: vices were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Holly Grove Advent Church near Ben son, of which he had been a mem ber for over 35 years. Officiating was his pastor, the Rev. J. W. Smith, assisted by the Rev, I. Clyde Shep pard. He was a son of the late Young John and Amanda Tart of Johnston County and is survived by his *wife, Mrs. Alice M. Tart; one son Young Ira Tart of Ben son; two daughters, Mrs. Milton Lee of Benson, Route 2, Eva M. Tart of Dunn; one brother, John William Tart of Benson, Route 2; two sisters, Mrs. T. D. Tart of Benson, Route 2; and Mrs. Brady Johnson of Fayetteville, Route 1; fire grandchildren. Mr. Tart oper ated a garage and service station in Benson for several years prior to moving to Carolina Beach. Henry's Body (Continued from rage one) torists who drive a Willys product will be assured of expert service, courteous and friendly treatment at all times.” On display at Henry’s Body Shop will be the new Aero W-lllys, the car that combines airborne riding smoothness, spacious 61-inch-wide seating, take-off performance, pa [ noramic visability and mileage up to 35 miles per gallon with over drive. i Also on display will be the Wil lys -Station Wagon, offered In both 4 and six-cylinder models; four wheel drive Willys trucks, the Willys Sedan Delivery, and the 4- wheel-drive universal Jeep, the all-purpose workhorse. "We are happy and proud,” said Mr. Henry, “to have been awarded the Willys franchise. It is a fine automobile and we are proud to handle and endorse it.” Opening of the Willys dealer ship is another milestone in the growth and progress of Henry’s Body Shop, which was established here by Mr. Henry on June 1. 1941. The first building was located on the Dunn-Benson highway but it was outgrown in a few years and in 1949 Mr. Henry opened his larger and more modern build ing on South Clinton Avenue. EXPERIENCED BTAFF Henry’s Body Shop now has an experienced staff of nearly a do zen, all expert workmen. Since its opening, the firm hag shown consistent growth and pip-' gress, atyays keeping abreast bf the latest techniques in the air-' tomottve field. ”' r * Henry’s Body Shop is the oldest independent body shop in this sec tion. It has the best of equipment for servicing automobiles and can make an old wreck look like a brand new automobile. Mr. Henry Is a native and life long resident of Dunn, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Henry. He Is a gra duate -of Dunn High School. After leaving school he became associ ated with his father in the bicycle business and later entered the' automotive field.. Mr. Henry married the former Miss Leona Register, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Q. J. Regis ter, dr. He Is a member of the Gospel Tabernacle and is also active in other affaire of the town and community. • Mr. and Mrs. Henry have four children. Earline and Gearidine, 13-year-old twins, Pamela, age 9, and Rickie, age two and a half. Mr. Henry today joined other members of his staff in extending to the public a cordial invitation to visit his place of business and see and inspect the new Willys. In addition to the new dealer- Hardship, Disaster Face Millions Os Farm Familiesi ' .TV By UNITED PRESS Hardship or disaster today fsoed millions of American farmers try. Ing to make a crop In the face of drought, pestilence, falling market prjoes and damaging storms. In many areas from the eastern slopes of the Rockies to the At lantic this was the-worst fanning year in two decades. In the dusty, parohed Southwest 1953 became a new standard for measuring disaster. It waa the wont year in the memory of many an old pioneer Texas churches offered special prayers Sunday for rain. But in most areas it was too late, and pven soaking rains coula not save this year’s crop. In the Southwest, this was the fourth year of almost uninterrupt ed drought. Thj Eisenhower admin istration approved 58,000,000 feder al aid for portions of Texas, Akl.i homd, Colorado, Kansas, New Mex j Sandhills Action Wont Affect Date HENDERSON (If) Fred S. Royster, president of the Bright Belt Tobacco Warehouse Associa tion, said today the withdrawal of the Sandhills Association won’t affect opening dates on the Mid lie Belt “but it could be detri nental to the entire marketing system.” The Blight Belt hoard of gov ernment set Sept. 1 as opening late for flue-cured tobacco tiuc ion sales in the Middle Belt. Sandhills warehousemen, proteat ting that their leaf would be ready fore than, split off from the Bright Belt Association at a meeting m Sanford Saturday and set Aug. ist 97 as their opening date. The action effect markets at Aberdeen,, Carthage, Sanford, JBt lerbe and Fuquay-Varina. “I regret their action,” Royster :ald. “But the Bright Belt la just a trade association and nobody is ?ompelied to belong to it it he iosen’t want to.” Trumans Enroute To Independence COLUMBUS, o. (W Former President Harry Truman and his wife, Bess, headed across the mid section of Ohio in their car to day on their way home to Miss ouri after a “wonderful week” in New. ,Y«rk. .Mr. Truman drove his big black Chrysler out of Manhattan through the Holland Tunnel early yester day and was swallowed up in the maze of c:oss-country highways. He did not outline his Intended route beforehand or indicate when he and Mrs. Truman expect to reach Independence. The Trumans were believed to have spent the night in eastern or central Ohio, having spent the . night in eastern or central Ohio, having spent most of yesterday traveling through Pennsylvania. . STOWS OWN BAGS Mr. Truman left his 32nd flow trite in New York’s Waldorf As torla'towers at «:I5 «. m. with two bellhops earring his suitcases. In the hotel garage, the former pres ident Insisted on stowing the nine pieces of luggage hi the car by him- Roumfnp (CoaHmwd Pag* Oast The Daily Record ofltoe. The only holiday observed by The Record Is Christmas. AT RIDGE CREST—A group of lo cal Sunday School officers and teachers from the Pint Baptist Church are attending the Sunday School Assembly at Ridgecreat this week. The Assembly began Mast Thursday and Win be concluded on this Thursday. Those attending from -the local church are Mr. and Mrs) Ralph Maxwell, Mrs. V. L. Stevens, Mias Kate Wiggins and Mias Vara Lee Thornton. RBOSIVBB HONORS The thvee choirs from the Dunn First Bap tist Church which were competing in state wompetltlon at Caswell Baptist Assembly last week, were all a warded certificates as state winners. Accompanist for the two younger choirs, the Boy's Choir and the Carol Choir, to Miss Btotow Hodges and accompanying the Youth Choir to Mrs. C. O. Up church. Mias Bvelyn Strauchan. dllector of Religious Education at the church, is leader of all three «tellved excellent ratings* every year ’ in the competition. ANNOUNCE BIRTH Mr. and Mrs. James Hawley »n --nounce the birth of a daughter. Linda Ann on June 21 in the Dunn Hospital. • I® ship, Henry’s Body Stop' faM »|M, just opened a new Used car lpt, ? located at the corner of Ba* %ht* n<l stables.' A large selection of u**d Cart to carried, drip Maynard to , salesman for the' lot. , . MONDAY AFTERNOON,JULY 6,1953 ico Arkansas and Louisiana. Rep. W. R. Poage (D-Yex.) re- ' ported after a personal tour of West Texas that “The people aren’t i going broke. They are broke.” GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE Colorado authorities wore fight ing a record Infestation of grass- 1 hoppers that threatened more than 1 a million acres of farm and range land. In places 50 hoppers to the square yard were counted. Severe crop drainage was caused earlier this spring by an invasion of army worms that felled small grain like It had been mowed and ruined tender young corn and clo ver from West Virginia through Ohio, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, and Minnesota. And in the midwestern tornado belt, hall and -high winds have pounded many stands of grain in to the ground or stripped* them clean. As frightening to the farmers »; . ’ *- ‘‘ ’ I “Besides,” he added, “with the exception of about two firms In the Sandhills area, none of them has paid dues for last year, any way.” The spilt by tin Sandhills warehousemen was threatened last year whan several Sandhills groups refused to pay dues to the Bright Belt Association after opening dates for the Middle Belt were set for Sept. 2 instead of Aug. 28 as they had ashed. They protected again this year when the date Was set for Sep- I, claiming It was too k»u a gap between the time the Eastern and Middle belts opened. A. It Talley of Fuquay Springs, president of the Sandhill* Assoc iation, geld “our tobacco matures two weeks earner than .other to bacco in the Middle Belt. ’ Withdrawal of the Sandhills mar kets leaves the Middle Belt with only Durham, Henderson, Louls burg, Oxford and Warren ton. Rox boro, now in the Oh) Belt, has asked to open with the Middle Belt. self, over the protests of the bell i hops. “Now we’ve got that stowed away. I'll go back and get the, folks for breakfast,” Mr. Truman said. ■Alter breakfast, the TYumang with their daughter, Maißartt, i posed briefly for pictures and climbed into the car. “This hge been a wonderful week,” Mr. Truman said. “I wan i ted to coma East anyway. Well, i let’s go.” >. ■ . n Violent St*ran Batter Midwest By UNITED DRESS Violent thunderstorms and roar ing winds lashed across the Mid west today, and at least three per sons were dead and downs Injured , In their wake. Heavy local rains were reported In some areas. Dubuque, la., re-1 , corded IMinohas in a 15-minute period. Lightning hit an anti-aircraft ammunition dump in Chicago last night and exploding 120 milimeter . shells rocked the City’s northwest side. More than 000 residents were evacuated when the fire and ex , plosions lit up the night sky "like an inferno.” Strong winds hit Peoria, HI.. Springfield, HI., Indianapolis. Ind., ; and Cincinnati O. Rainfall toiall | od 3.58 at Rastoul, Hi., and 327 at . Indianapolis. , ■ 1 tone evro'to * * ■ MwlMflf 9 MwoW--- • the weather and, Insects were theY market columns qf their news papers. , Cattle prices were down 5 to • cents a pound and more, despite the fact that receipts were not ex tremely heavy. Wheat gnd other grains recently plunged to danger ously low levels, recovered some what and have fluctuated since. Cattlemen in the Southwest hare lost 90 per cent of their range and in some cases -have no water for their stock. Reports from -the area said that range cattle were losing flesh rapidly. Poage reported that many stock men had been feeding their cattle on lots for three years, an ex pensive practice. N Massachusetts, Indiana, r’.inols, Mississippi, Ohio and parts of Ne braska all have suffered some crop damage because of drought. The army worm Invasion that spread over Ohio was followed by a cur rent attack of chinch bugs which Is threatening Northwest cornfields. Tennessee stockmen and .'Miss ouri farmers needed rain “badly.” But In the northern Plains and upper Gnat Lakes states there has been almost too much rain and crops were In feavaUj good con dition. ( Large Crowds ttteattnacd From Tags Onto tributed by the Fire Department, wag presented to Leslie Clark; sec ond prise a cuff link set contribu ted by Stanley's in Dunn, was won by Johnnie O’Quinn. PAT WOODWORTH QftISSN Seven bathing beauties were con testants for the annual queen of the celebration. Patricia Wood worth took top place and was crowned by Patricia Warren, 1982 queen. Runnerups were Shiriey Be fthea, second place; and Wanda McLaurin, third place. Afternoon attractions included popular and string music, quartets and choir music. Prises Iwarded in eaoh of the events were presented by mer chants of Dunn and Erwin. A direct dance sahedoM for the evening was called off bees use of rain. Slut Your Savings 1 COMMERCIAL J oa»Hr I' Dunn, W. C. « / QUINN'S Eiimamml UaNIA Mineral nome 24-HOUR SticViCE RHONE 3306 311 W. HARNETT ST. DUNN. N. C. E* ' V . i SfckonM \ Hoftodt v jra Knock on Yoor Boo* with Gilto A Groofinda. from Friondly BuginoaqJ MAhtßMlttir Civic and S<*W7 On tk, ****** *ft bixteenti* Jjiribaay# 1 DUNN f Y : '- ■ aim. b m “rtfiniir '' ; • ‘ •1 “• ” '*-v• “7•
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