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North Carolina Considerable
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day and tonight. Thursday eon
sidenbto ciondlneos and not to
warm. Scattered showers west and
south portion.
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BEAUTIFUL PROMOTION - 8h« did hw beantiM M—M—. Her am I* Min Darts Hagler, and
m _, her title 1> “Mia* Charlotte of 1*53." Pretty Miaa Hafter was in Dunn yesterday where (he uaiated in
)Uie promotion of a forthcoming movie to Stewprfe Theatre, ‘‘•Cruising Down the River.” Shown with Mias
wntfltr is James Yates, manager of the Theatre. (Dally Record Photo)
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mar nett Officers Get 4&
,Whiskey Stills In July
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Plans Are Pushed
For Curb Market
Sellers and others interested in Dunn Curb Market will
meet at the Coats Baptist Church next Wednesday, Aug
ust 12, to make a trip to Durham to observe a curb market
in operation.
Sr Persons interested in making
' the trip are requested to contact
~' Miss Lela Huntley. Home Dem
onstration Agent in Lillington.
£ ,- Members of the Dunn market
Board last night decid
; ed that a trip would be wo:th the
time for anyone Interested in sell
h ing In Dunn.
FOUR COUNTY MARKET
K In an executive meeting, the
I Board decided to name the mar
fleet the Four County Curb Market.
Opening-date was set for Sat U
r-1 day, August IS, with the side
‘ (oom of the Dur.n Armory being
| Market hours will be from * a.
Em, until 11:39. it was announced.
UU’ies and regulations for the oper-
Pstion of the market are being
rfdrawn up and will be announced
later, the Board stated.
Temporary aqd regular sellers on
the market are required to have
a check uo by a doctor before the
opening date. A special appoint
ment has been made with D . L.
R. Doffenryre for Tuesday. August
(Coattauad on page two)
J U.S. Plane Crashes
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TELEPHONES; 1117 ■ 1110 .
Last Minute
News Shorts
WASHINGTON m Chair
man Robort W. Kean sate today
Houso tax sdandai inrushgator.,
probably will ask tho Justice Do
partment to dctmnfaMß , wltfthff
Weiburn Mayoek’a •tsM a* testi
mony has left him. apart to federal
pgneevtiM. Mtysck, a lit iMOi at
torney tor the Democratic flOtlo—l
committee, admitted yesterday he
osUaetod a <65,666 law site in 1948
far getting a favorable fax ruling
WASHINGTON W> The State
Department said today that Rus
sia’s reply tq an tortfutton to *
Big Four meeting on Germany and
Austria ins ast "appear” to be
(Centtamd art page two) .
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• vessel, began Picking them dp.
ifrom the tr t^%hLJ t,a %ae^.
B etiltj %\tmriy
Harnett County law enforcement
officers out a big slash Into boot
legging activities during the month
of July, county commissioners dis
covered this week from the month’s
report of Sheriff W. S. Salmon.
The “take” of the enforcement
officials was: 10 illegal stills, both
tin and copper, captured; 5,225 gal
lons Os beer destroyed; three and
half cases of whiskey seised at ode
place and four and’half gallons at
another; and one Ford pick-up
confiscated.
New rural policemen accounted
for the capture of 17 stills, arrest
of two men both since convicted,
seizure of 1,450 gallons of beer and
all of the confiscated whiskey
found. >«
Constables Preston Porter and KU
Nanning tied for the first place
among this group of officers with
eight still captures each to their
credit during July. A total of 33
were seized by this group.
Constable W. B. Castleberry was
second with six still seizures, and
constable O. R. Pearce reported one
situ taken in AverasboTo.
SUHi were discovered in every
township except Hector's Creek and
Neill Creek. _• 3
Poultry Expert
Coming To Dunn
A State College poultry expert
will be in Dunn August 13 to. teach
farm wives how to prepare poultry
for marketing on the Dunn Ourb
Market. Chamber of Commerce
Manager Mermah ButUee announced
today. ;.jpy- - Y
The nesting will be held at I
p. m. in the High School Voca
tional ij>i»ifating, for the lecture and
(ktnoutnttOQt Suttles stated.
Plans for the demonstration have
! Aufmt 1, but the opening WAS dt-
DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ANGUST 5, 1953
Soviets Slash Their Defense
Budget For The Coming Year
Korean Battle
Casualties At
141,705 Today
WASHINGTON (IP) With
reports still incomplete, A- j
merican battle casualities in
Korea now total 141,705, the
Defense Department an
nounced today.
The report covered all casual
ties whose next of kin were noti
fied through last Friday and show
ed an increase of 1,159 over last
week's report.
The increase was comparable to
those of the previous two weeks
and reflected the heavy fighting
in the closing phase of the war.
The official casualty toll is due
to rise still higher although the
fighting has ceased. This results
fiom the time lag caused by the
necessity of cross-checking casual
ties before official notification is
made.
The new total includes 25,434
deaths, 103,038 wounded, 8,705 mis
deaths, 103,038 wounded, 8,705 mis
previously missing but since re
j turned to military control.
317 MORE DEATHS
The increase since last week’s
report was 317 deaths, 749 wound
ed, 40 captured, 51 missing, anu
two previously missing but since
returned
. ... Tba» breakdown by services:
Artsy: 110,309 casualties—2o,7s7
deaths, 78,408 wounded, 7.217 miss
ing, 2R62 captured, and 1.537 miss
ing but returned.
Navy: 2,074 casualties 333
deaths, 1,589 wounded, 104 miss
ing, and eight missing but re
turned.
Marine Corps: 27,794 casualties
3,741 deaths, 23,376 wounded,
497 missing, 145 captured and 35
miasm? but returned.
Air Force: 1,528 casualties 543
deaths, 47 wounded, 887 missing,
four captured and 47 missing but
returned.
Harnett’s Tax
Revenue Drops
During the last month of the
fiscal year As Tax Collector D. P.
Ray, Jr. was trying to close his
books on the 1953 tax collections,
only <1,842.12 trickled into the of
fice. from sources other
than taxes totaled 440,954.37 in July!
His report to county commission
ers made this week, shows that a
balance of <81.778,78 or 1134 per
cent of the total charge of *721,-
388.85 remains to be collected.
However, on the positive side of
the picture the collecture garner,
ed a total of <839390.07 or 88.68
percent of the money he was depu
tised to collect. Last year at the
same time, Ray and his assistants
had 90.29' percent' of the 1951 taxes
in hand. His record this year is
only 1.63 percent off from that of
last year.
All revenues have been deposited
with the First Citizens Bank and
Trust Co., Dunn.
Meanest Man
STOWE. Vt. im Police Mid
today an intruder pried open a
sleeping woman’s eyelids and hurl
ed acid on her face.
Doctors dt a Burlington hospital
said they hoped US save the sight
of Mrs. Gertrude Bailey, 35. though
she was “horribly burned" by, the
acid.
+ Record Roundup +
LATOR -^Umngonk
prolSs
county seat. His industrial com.
sdttee hooded bar D, P. Roy, Jr.
mMk
BIG RURAL JOB Rev. Les
ter T. Marsh of Mamers is the
new pastor of Antioch Baptist
Church in Mamers, a rural
church which has 682 members. ;
The church has been without a
pastor for 14 months when the
Rev. Mr. Marsh accepted the
church call several weeks ago.
Previously, he had preached at
Shennandoah, Va. He’s a gra
duate of Campbell College
Wake Forest and Southern Bap
tist Seminary, Louisville, Ky.
Farmers' Aid
To Be Slashed -
WASHINGTON Wl Govern
ment, aid tip farmers for conserva
tion practices will be sharply re
duced next month.
Maximum amount available to
any one farmer will be <1,500. ra
ther than the current 12,500 for
the 1954 crop year beginning Sept.
1.
Moreover, the government wyi
pay not more than 50 per cent of
the costs of putting conservation
practices into eNect. Previously,
the federal share ranged up to 70 ,
per cent.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T.
Benson announced the new rules
yesterday.
Benson had wanted to elimin
ate federal payments for all but
permanent conservation projects,
such as well-drilling or establish
ing pastures. Congress, however,
voted to include recurring practic
es such as crop fertilizers.
Benson's new program provides
that payments may be withheld
from farmers who fail to maintain
conservation practices carried out
under a previous program.
Chamber Has
Guests Today
Glenn Adair and Roy Blue of
Beaufort, were guests of the Dunn
Chamber of Commerce this morn
ing. Touring various chamber offi
ces in North Carolina, they were
interested in revitalizing the Beau
fort organization.
In a discussion with Manager
Norman Suttles, Blue and Adair
stated that their office was going
down and that they were touring
the chamber offices in Dunn,
(Greenville, Kinston, and New Bern
to determine how they keep theirs
successful
Blue and Adair stated that the
Dunn Chamber of Commerce is one
of the most progressive in the state.
Suttles told the delegation that
members of the Dunn Chamber
would be glad to visit Beaufort and
assist them in setting up their of
fice. ' -Yv
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names of. 72 Juror to serve during
tito two terma M court in
i in ocw compiled qu&rterly. t
FIVE CENTS PER COPT
GOP Planning
September Meet
To Decide Term
WASHINGTON (IP) Se
nate Republican leader Wil
liam F. Knowland said today
GOP legislative leaders
“might” meet here in late
September to decide whether
the state of federal finan
ces warrants a special ses
sion of Congress.
The California senator made the
statement after a White House
breakfast with President Eisen
hower. Bt was Knowland’s first
visit with Mr. Eisenhower sinet
his formal selection as Senate GOP
Republican leader yesterday.
Knowland said it would be about
Sept. 25 before Treasury Secretary
Geoige M. Humphrey knows whe
ther federal revenue will be suf
ficient to meet government bills
without raising the federal debt
dimit.
Knowland said he told the Pres
ident he hoped the administra
| tion would state its 1954 objectives
early next year—“early enough in
advance to avoid bunching up con
gressional work as we did this
year.”
DISCOUNTS RUMORS
He discounted fears that the
death, of Sen. Robert A. Taft may
-apMt ftongresslonal Republicans in
to quarrelling factions.
At the same time, he acknow
ledged his party owes a great debt,
to Taft, He said the late Ohio
Senator “did a job that no other
man could have alone fn bridging
this period" since the GOP took
control of Congress and the ad
ministration last January.
Knowland, 45-year-old Caltfom
nian with eight years of service in
the Senate, was unanimously elec,
ted Tuesday to succeed Taft as
Senate OOP floor leader.
The Republican caucus elected
Sen. Homer Ferguson, <4, of Mich
igan, to -succeed Knowland as
chairman of the Party Policy Com
mittee. Ferguson has been a Seh
ato- for more than 10 years.
Both men were elected without
contest.
Lanier Is Named
At Buie's Greek
Coyt Lanier has been named
principal of the Buie’s Creek High
School replacing Torrey Johnson
Who resigned recently.
A native of Buie's Creek, Lanier
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. T.
Lanier.
Until his appointment to the
Buie's Creek school, Lanier had
served as principal at the Buck
horn School In Harnett County.
His resignation there leaves the
school without a principal.
Lanier attended Campbell Col
lege, Wake Forest College, and
East Carolina College where he will
receive his Bachelor of Science de
gree this year.
The Buie’s Creek school has It
teachers; eight in the elementary
grades, and three in high school.
Lanier was elected principal last
night at a meeting of the District
Bchool Committee, of which Her
man Green is chairman. Other
members of the committee are, B.
F. McLeod, Herman MeLnmb, Ce
cil Wilkins and Sion Mitchell.
First Prisoners Exchanged ;
Describe Red's Atrocities
PANMUNJOM, Korea » - The
first American war prihonen freed
home today with mm iOto of Red
atrocities and a last-minute double-
rode to freedom to blue!
THE RECORD
GETS RESULTS
NEW PRINCIPAL Norwood
E. Jones, shown heye, Is the
new principal of the BOone Trail
High School, near Mamers. He
has had five years teaching ex
perience, the past four ao prin
cipal of the Mingo High School
in Sampson County. The new
principal holds »4.8. and M.A.
degrees from East Carolina Col
lege, Greenville. Mr. and Mrs.
Jones are making their home in
the Boone Trail toaeherage.
Cattle Show
Plans Shape _
Hans for the Junior Daily Cattle
show in Dunn were shaping up to
day, according to Nremafl.R|lMteo,
Chamber of Commerce.
The Show will qp<(v here Sep
tember 11. with the boys arriving
September 10, A banquet sponsored
by the Agriculture Committee of
the Chamber will be given on the
evening of the 10th honoring the
boys showing. Some 20 counties will
be represented in the show. To date
there are 150 entries. Suttles stat
ed.
Prises tor the winners will be do
nated by Belk Stores of Eastern
North Carolina. Plans are to give
premiums valued at approximately
<2,000 it was reported-
The show is one of the largest
held In the Btate, and has been
sponsored financially by Belk’s
Stores for many years.
The show will be held in the Big
Four Warehouse In Dunn.
A1 WuDenwaber is chairman of
the Agriculture committee of the
Chamber.
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON IW American officials indicated today
that the United States wilT flatly reject Russia’s bid for a
full dress Big Five peace conference that includes Rer Chin*
Tjiey privately branded the proprosal as a scheme to divide
this country and its allies and to take the spotlight off its
own unwillingness to give Germany and Austria their
freedom. >
TAMPA, Fla. (IP) Hie Air Force today claimed the re
cord for non-stop flying in let aircraft with the 4,450-mile
flight of a B-47 Stratojet bomber from Fairford, England
to Tampa. The six-engine craft landed at MeDffl Air Force
base here yesterday after a nine hours and 53 minutes
journey, mostly over water without a halt.
LUDOWICHI. Ga. (IP) Nine cars of r the Atlantic Coast
Line’s Miami-to-New York streamliner Champion “just
slid off the rails” here last night but only orie passenger
was injured The engineer, W. W. Clark, Savannah, Ga,,
(Continued mi page tore)
.
< pan. *At Tuewtay. Seventy more
Americana wIH be freed at the
zame time Thuraday.
NO. 170
Supreme Soviet
CouncihOpens
Session Today
By HENRY SHAPIRO
UP Staff Correspondent
| Moscow (IP) The Soviets
are cutting their defense
outlay for the coming yeai
by 3.2 per cent, Finance Min
ister Arseni Zverev told a
joint session of the Russian
parlament, the Supreme So
| viet tonight.
In his report, presented on be
half of the Soviet Council of Min
isters, Zverev also disclosed that
the government proposes to reduce
agricultural taxation during the
coming year by 43 per cent.
He said that income under the
new budget will be 543,300,000.000
rubles ($135,825,000,000) whUe ex
penditures will total <530,500,000,000
rubles (*132,625,000,000).
His report was presented to some
2,000 members of the two houses.
He told them the proposed new
defense budget is 110,200,000 rubles
(*27550.000,000). That would be 3.-
600,000,000 rubles (<9004)00,000) be
low that for the previous year.
Members of the union council
and the nationalities council will
meet in separate essions tomorrow
to debate the budget.
‘MALENKOV GETS OVATION
a When the Supreme Soviet con
vened in the grand hall of the
Kremlin, Premier Oeorgi Malenkov
(Continued M MX t**i
Finch Opening
Another Station
Keith Finch has onened a new
station at 306 W. Broad Street,
Dunn, at the location formally oc
cuoied hv Dyer’s Taxi.
In conjunction with the opening
Finch is running a oontest to name
the new station. A <25 prise will
be given to the person who can
name the new business.
Each nerson mav submit one
name. The suggested name sboifid
be nlaced in an envelope with the
contestants name and address, and
left at the box at the station. In
the event of duplications in names,
the prize money will be divided.
The business will be s dealer for
Mobilgas. .
some Americans