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;- n ' wr l V ' ; -w\ • -on wV £ JS\ jf rl £ ir,A QhMQbmA cimtoti diowm lat? htternmn «r 4m4*x. > . - #* —WWM—' . mmnr- -Twining Says Reds Overtaking Our AF Harnett Budget Is Fixed ; Tax Rate To Remain At $1.30 Wilson's Goal More Defense For Less lloney, WASHINGTON <W " “More effective defense for less money” is the big goal oi Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson and the team of bus inessmen helping him run the gigantic Defense De partment. His actions, all controversial have included slashes In requested appropriations tor future spending, top to bottom reorganisation, and civilian and military manpower cuts. . "Uncle Sam’s big old podketbook • has just been too wide open," the | former General Motors president IfeqnentlV assorts. Just as fre quently he Invokes the magic mili tary name of President Elsenhower in supoort of his plans as he stands unruffled amid criticism by. Dem ocrats and .general*. Wilson, Deputy Secretary Roger I M. Kves and the Army. Navy add ;V Air Force secretaries have taken on a long-term shore Evidence of . this Is the fact that Uncle Solti’s defense pocket book la open wider todav than It was In January. The Pentagon wrote cheoks In June for to about 53,900,000.000 compared With ur $3,652,000,000 last January and the spending trend still is on a sltvht upgrade under contracts let by the Imrr at tear U iiaWWllson's own experts believe it pW-hli meat of fiscal 1964, which | wwjn thtovfcnth. to make a fate* Democratic sdniiniitfstion- • hgife done a heap of work In l«r s*£ n half a year: v r ju. 1 They cut $6547,000,000 frag srs&ssaaTss , sk appropriations. The cuts feU bearit » «*t «» the Air Force, reducing ft* expansion goal from 148 to-' wings and provoking a, controvert*, in the Pentagon and In Ooogress. Th '«s STATE BRIEFS SYLVA The widow’ of a sheriff who waa idiot and killed ast week ha» taken ewer her slain Su’a.T ’v&.’T’y TTRON Ml - Ouster charges i SSSiSfesS J. Will Pleas, in a hearing of Mafl U . (CemOmm* an- page tmel *l ■■■■»- ■■ - • - ■ -■ BhF ■■ ■■ I— ■| l c„|« ; >i,.i r v. «< W v A . <£*-* wrv'. ■ ' Laughinghouse To Manage Deere Firm mg - ; • mx I^AtJQVtNOHOUfiK . V'' *‘ v Wh* JJaiiu %tmA fELEPHONESi lin . nis - tin *»■ . W—■> . , - SM “Mm ' kA *' It 13~ Sm §§lj jj §| |lj JkQh FROM PAINTS TO TRAMPING lt’s a life a* tramping for Orville Ewing of Pritchett, Colorado? pictured above with hio “hack to the west” wagon. Orville stopped over In Dunn this morning to toll those who gathered around that ho b on Us way to see ‘"Mamie add Ike.” (Dally Record Photo) Rambler From OldMfie&t Stops Here Enroute To See Ike AnothelltSil At WuUenwaber. general mana ger of Ct&h&l Ftoaen Rood X«ck ara, Data; announced the pur- I chase of a new pfctnt In Fayette ville - today. Operation Was begun With the addition of this plant, the CoJosUal, Frozen Food Lock dUßfWi three.plants with one being, in Wifliamston. The Dunn plant ip the jargept in North Car olina wltli 1188 lockers. The Fay etteville plant’ ha# 697 lookers and icmSusuca owi ptuw Two) Dunii Poss Office Receipts Rise mOT^Po^SMt^Ma^^de*^'- Tbe receipts for the same period of IMB amounted to $34,826.67. The gain over’l962 is $3559.40 or percentagewfis‘A gatai of imately 18 per oent. | W. Uu*»mhoMo has I jolnod tho jphnson Cotton Com BWM jgd the farm ma- Ifihlnery dirtaUß Hi succeeds OUen Stroll l ° Uk? ,gAngifc "■■ ■ ■ ] By CARL CONNER Record Stall Writer Equipped with a covered wagons baggage, bed, and about everything else but the kitchen sink, a rambler from the- days of the “old West” stopped by Dunn to day. Armed with a wooden pistol— With a cock—one small chick, Or ville Ewing brought his covered Wa gon into town. He wa s on his wpy to see Ma mie and Ike. he said. Would bike about a month to get there, but that didn't make much difference to a traveler who has covered more than 3,000 miles a year since 1918. . :!*, . Bad* before he became a nation al traveler, Orville was a painter and artist. And to prove it, he took the pen and while weaving a rhyme about ‘TAttfe Boy Blue” sketched the hat aad horn with the boy perehed under it. Back home a wife waits, hut, the traveler doesn’t seem too much con cerned. "She ought to be glad to get rid of me,” he commented. But he was Interested in hip two child ren. ■ A boy Klden, lg, graduated from high school in May, And ha had a picture to prove it. “Borrow-, ed a suit and tie and ooaabed his hair,” he commented—"looks right good.” ’ * And besides the son there is a 14 year old daughter. The traveler didn’t seem too much Interested in the daughter. Her name wasn’t re vealed. TWO MILK GOATS m his collection of Items In the KrJs."^a, n r« (OenUaeed ea Page •> HaimLe Anetdr Move Is Killea WASHINGTON Os - The House 1 Judiciary Committee today unan lmously killed a resolution to >m i peach Supreme Court Justice WU ltam O. Douglas. . - ■ - LUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 7, 1953 WNAO-TV To Go On The Air Soon ..RALEIGH HI - Officials es WNAO-TV, Raleigb'i first televis ion station, said today that pre liminary test patterns transmitted for the first time yesterday werp .received clearly at Fayetteville In the south and Hendersan In the north. Tim station, North Carolina’s first nltra high frequency televis ion , station, will begin regular test pattern transmission on chan nel 88 tomorrow. County Board Has Very Busy Session Hie Harnett County Board of Commissioners yesterday boopted the annual grant to the Harnett County library from $3,000 last year to t 3,600 for 1963-64. Mm. & R. McKay, county li brarian, to|d the commissioners , this increase win be necessary to take care of the added operational costa of the van type bookmobile which will go on the roads In Beptembfcr and to provide the ten per emit salary Increase of the two library employees. The librarian and the bookmobile cleric are classified as county employees and eligible to share in the raise approved for oounty workers. + Retord Reendup + I ka WORKERS MEET _ N. C. Extension staff members, both mqn aitd' women, in the Southeast- J | July 10 At the Cumberland ipriMfr I I ty Extension Service buildins la >|to the coofereftee. j "i .... “ t v , ■. ' Valuation Up To Prevent Raise In Rate By LOIS BYRD Record Staff Writer Harnett County commis sioners yesterday planned a $1,300,085 budget for 1953- 54 on a county-wide tax rate of $1.30. This marks the third year that the tax rate has remained the same. County Auditor H. D. Carson, Jt.. istresspd the fact that the budget adopted by the commission ers In a ; short session ending shortly after noon, is tentative. Under the state law, the budget will not be finally approved until a special meeting called for Mon day, July 27, at 10 a. m. However, no major changes are expected to be made In the bud get estimate. Resolutions former ly fixing the tax rate will also be made at the July 27th meet ing. Meantime, commissioners au thorized the interim appropria tion of tSQ.OOO to the county schools necessary to pay tor press ing repair bills. SCHOOL FUND LOW This action came after County School Superintendent G. T. Pfor fit told commissioners that only $8,700 remain in the school fund. “Unfortunately,'* Proffit said, “summer time iq spending time for schools.” He noted that many 4bli*atloryi must be met beftare the tax motley starts to oonw in. • - I Proffit went cm to say thdt ma season. He listed a# samples <5 " pressing work, repairs at Harnett Training Scjhool, conversion of cloak roams to class room at Dunn elementary tbhool to take care of large number of expected first graders, new : flooring In bathrooms at Boone Trail to replace floors eaten by termites, addition of a room at Johnsonville Negro school. On motion of Commissioner 8. P. Ingram the board voted to . grant the schools a loan of 660,000 for 90 days from other county funds until the time when the new tax money is available. On an overall picture the bud get of slßop.Q>6 for county ex- . penaas Is only a little over *«,- , 000 more than last year’s total of 61.233.790. < SALARIES raised Straight tqn percent salary rais es for all Bounty employees and addition of five rural law enforce ment officers will account for most of the Increases. Approxi- 'Ceatfeaed an Page g> At the saine time, the library board submitted the name of Mrs. J. H. Withers of Broadway as member of Uts board to succeed Mn/ J. H. Wither Mrs. A. L. Overby, Angler resigned. ‘ A &wnmJssiooer B the purchasing agent, was named to confer with the LilUngton Town Board on repairs to the concrete sidewalks adjoining the court house and to erect a streetlight on the walkway connecting the jaU sad the agriculture building. The county seat board wrote the commiartoners requesting them to (Qaatiaaed «■ Page 9» ,USTCTSiTS 1 _zs_ . * * i M X , PRAYERS FOR RAIN IN TEXAS mAh H » Mm 1 fl , .ji av . . ! He CHILMIN- JOIN TNBt iIDEKS in Dallas seeking divine intercession to end the long drought that has turned great ureas of Texas into near desert. People throughout the state have joined In almost continuous prayer for relief from the catastrophe. (International Soundphoto) Harnett Will Get new Bookmobile The Harnett County Library ifcoard had good news for the county commissioners yesterday. A new modern van type bookmobile has already been bought, paid for, and will go into action in September. Mrs. S. R. McKay, county Ub- < rarian, told the county fatheca I the library board had been saving for a number of years for the pur- < chase of the new bookmobile which ' cost $5,500. It is now being built i in Wooster, Ohio. The new model, which will be an all-weather bookmobile of the walk-ln variety, will accommodate 1,800 books, in contrast to the 800 which can now be moved on the present bookmobile. Entrance and exit doom will be 1 s I Last Minute ! I News Shorts ji LONG BEACH, Calif (VI , Eighteen more planes wert expect ed to land here today to end the all - women “Powder Peff Derby” trans-continental air moe. Twenty six planes arrived between dawn and sunset rooter day, bringing to 19 the namber that have finished the hep-scotch ernes country reee from North Andover, Mass. CARNOUSTIE. Scotland tm American (tan Ben Hogan, Frank Stranahsn and Lloyd Mangrum , qualified for the British Open Golf golf championship here today, bit their rain-hampered performances were evsrshadewed by Beuth ca’s Bobby Locke, defending cham pion who carded a brilliant 138. WASHINGTON HI The Reuse Interior Committee .today ap proved a biß to change the name es the Appsmsti nx. National Historical Park. The HI waa iniredaeed because there is no monument et the park. NEW ORLEANS (VI A Coeat iCeuttnunt ria ran* Three) IVirsn MHrn H A# RALEIGH HI Central North (inn up- to 16 a. m. fryers or htt» 22-ft mostly as-s®* 7 ’ THE RECORD GETS RESULTS FIVE CENTS, PER COPY oil the curb side, marked by fold ing step*. Bright 110 volt lighte will provide adequate light for dark daya or night operation. Two large ventilating type skylights increase supply of natural night and ven tilation. • SPACIOUS INTERIOR But chief attraction will be that the spacious interior will provme head room of 76 Inches whlon will allow adults to browse about the shelves and make their own book selections. , To show the part the bookmo bile plays in Harnett County, Mrs. McKay reported that during the past year the bookmobile traveled 6.098 miles, circulated 28822 books and had a total of 1808 registered borrowers. The 65 book stops made every two weeks Include private homes, service stations, schools and town libraries. Starting point far the bookmo bile is the Harnett County Lib rary located on the courthouse, square In LUUn*ton. Mias Jean McKay Is the bookmobile clerk. . L. A. Tart of Di’nn, chairman .of the county commissioners, Mrs Alton G. Johnson of LUlington, James F. Davis of LUlington, Mrs. J. O. Warren of Dunn and the new member, Mrs. J. H. Withers of •Broadway, Route 1. * to Negroes without segregation on grounds “the right tt lease property is a civil right protected by the 14th A raendment” pitaiizea nere today w *tn serious burns. They Uwt l MHfc bathroom heater. NO. 14* Says Shortage Os Maintenance Men Is Hurting BILOXI, Miss. (IP) Gen.‘ Nathan F. Twining said .tad day that Russia is gradu ally overtaking America in the training of skilled air* men. The new Air Force chief of stall coupled the warning with disclos ure that a shortage of mainten ance men has hindered use of the new electronic gunslght in the F* 86 Sabre jet in Korea. In a speech at the Mississippi American Legion convention, Twi ning urged , America not to make the prewar German mistake of building first-class combat planes without sufficient trained people to keep them flying HIS FIRST SPEECH The speech, Twinlng’s first since he succeeded Gen. Hoyt 8. .Van denberg, reflected Air Force con cern over falling re-enliatment* rates and apparently, over man power cuts ordered by Defense Secretary Charles B. Wilson. The cute will number 20,000 in the next 12 months. Some re-enlistment rates are as low aa 15 per cent Appealing to the Legion for help in recruiting and retaining super ior men, Twining said: “Not a single item of our shiny new machinery of defense is worth two cents without sufficiently trained and experienced men to make it go at the instant we need tt-’’ K The Communists, he told, an training hundreds of pilot* aad a&tqr-jsaggst the boot training and experience possible. Illustrating the Air Faroe’s need for a new breed of airmen In the jet and electronics age. Twining said the F-M gunslght makes sights of several years ago reeeta- ICWtlnwed On Pwoe Three) Road Requests Will Be Heard A hearing on rend requests of all types will be held Wednesday, July 16, at 9:30 a. m. at the Sixth Dto« trict Highway Office In Fayette ville New district highway commiss ioner C. A. Hasty has notified county commiddonera. throughout the five counties, Including Har nett, to notify persons with road requests to appear at that time. Several delegations, particularly from the Johnsonville section of Harnett, were In LilUngton Mott* day asking the question whether road petitions, previously approved by George Coble, the retiring com* missioner and now on file in the Ashebaro headquarters, will be transferred to the new headquar ters or whether DCtlttonert will have to star proceedings anew. Chairman L. A. Tart id the Harnett comn*s«loner* said be supposed petitions will be tratta lerred to the new headquarters. However, he suggested that petit ioners go to the Fayetteville meet
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