and. partly riesrtjr east portion to
rt*!. »H today and cool again
tonight. Satwday partly cloudy
and warm with chance of Showers
near the coast.
VOLUME 3
Dunn Tobacco Sales Up Million Over Last Year
Dunn Negro Given Life In Prison ; Other Cases Heard
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Pkjrnett Finances
In Good Condition
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County commissioners spent greater part of the af
>o< ternoon Tuesday with Thurman C. Ehttls, road t>f the au
diting firm which has just completed the audit of all de
partments of the county government, *
And while detail* of the audit
have yet to be released, commis
sioners resorted they found the
county a financial condition "was
excellent”. *-:•’. ; ’ /••-.•. V \ . •*. -
ltoutlae matters dealing with the
start of work -on the new health
center to be built in hillington
by the county and the- Medical Care
Commission were being handled
when a csll to the MetlicalJCare
Commlsaipn revealed that *«? rite
to donate a site for the new health
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• Turner Ta Canducf
* Tabernacle Meet
Revival services will begin at theOofcßel Tabernacle
Tuesday evening, September 15, at 7:45 with Dr. W .H
S£S£Ky mlnu, * r ' Rev * T - Dnl(frTO>i '*T
. Dr Turner it a returned mis
sionary from China, having serv-
yean o 0 the foreign fieicL
im Including his writings on hit
wide range of missionary exper
-1 sneer, Dr. Turner has authored
more, than 46 books. Amort* the
more outstanding 1* “I Was A
JaOAMM PriWirtf w
He attended the TJWversto of
Georgia where he receded his M
A- and Ph. D. degree*. ..
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center had been reeleved by the
State-agency.
Prevtoioly, the Medical Care Com
mission had inspected and tenta
tively approved the N*rth Best
comer of the present cdurt house
aguare. Sxact .rite of the proposed
donation, or name of the donor
cwjrjjot be topmed by commls-
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DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON SEPTEMBER 11, 1953
The Junior Dairy Cattle Show
ended in Dunn today with local
businessmen, county Agent Cliff
Ammons, and others participating
proclaiming it “a great success.’'
When the final showing began,
170 animals were present for the
exhibits. Ammons stated that 310
animals were entered, but not ail
of them had arrived.
The showing represented Id
counties and 4-H and agricultural
boys and girls from Alamance'Coun
ty to the coast.
Prises were , given wit]) the com
pliments of Belk and Leggett stores
of Bastern North Carolina. Ap
proximately 13,600 in prize money
was given >to those participating
FISH FRY HERB
The event opened last night with
a fish fry at Big-4 Warehouse far
the contestants and for local busi
ness men and merchants who par
ticipated In the arrangements.
Some 000 persons attended the sup
■ .per. ' •
Following last nights feed, the
boys and girls were entertained at
a dance at the Dunn Armory whicn
some 400 persons attended.
lAM AT JUDGING
This morning around MM peo
ple tamed eat for the first of the
Baiting which tasted until sag
this afternoon .
Cattle wore Judged hi each of six
classes including the senior calf,
junior yearling, two year olds, three
year olds, and four year olds.
The last event was the judging
for fitting and trim. Proceeding
the showing for fitting, the show
manship were exhibited.
■ Wake County turned out hi large
number* and took a number of
S§, iGuudnuod on tan Three*
Shell Their Peas
While Attending •
vrRWNo Theatre
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Large Number
Os Cases Are
Disposed Os
Arthur Matthews, ‘23 year
old Dunn Negro was sen
tenced to life imprisonment
Friday by W. H. S. Burgwyn
after the defendant had eiv
tered a plea Os guilty to se
cond degree housebreaking.
Melvin Haire of North Layton
■jive.; Dunn, identified Matthews
as the Negro man he saw jump
'out of the window of the Haire
bedroom after an alarm from Mrs.
Haire. Haire told the court his
wife said she felt the hand of an
intruder reach up on the bed and
cried out in alarm.
The break-in occurred at 2:30
a. m. May 34, Dunn police offi
cers reported. Officer K. M. Fail
said officers immediately sought
Matthews, whom they knew by
sight, and several days later ar
rested him at his home. His ar
rest followed report of another at-
I tempted break-in at the home of
i Dr. Harvey Eldridge. Matthews
J was not charged with entering
. the Bktrldge home.
1 Case against Elwood Oates,
Dunn Negro charged with assault
with deadly weapon b n Isaac Lee
Oethers. another Negro, was dis
missed by the court at close of
state's evidence.
Oethers sustained permanent
head* injuries as result of a lick
bh tiie head with a board as he
. tap .'sleeping in ah apartment in
Dunn. TMveral other persons were
In the same place and tile court
ruled there was lack of, evidence
to place Oates as the guihy peS
son. ~
James Paul Stubbs, who entered
a guilty plea to driving an auto
mobile while intoxicated was fitt
ed SIOO and costs.
Oscar Dorman was found guilty
of careless and reckless driving. ;
(Contlwwee on page two).
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Younf Slayer
Enters Plea I
Marvin West, Jr., charged with
the fatal shooting of Private Au
brey Walters at a service station
in the Spring Lake area on May
ISth. entered a plea of involun
tary manslaughter shortly after !
noon Friday in Harnett Superior
Court. M
West, son of a prominent Har
nett .political leader, had been
placed on trial for murder and
evidence had been started.
Presiding Judge. W. H. S. Bur
gwyn promptly sentenced West to
serve from 5 to 7 years in State's
prison, but suspended the sentence
for five years eh condition that
West remains sober, violates no
laws and pays $2,600 for use of
the IS-year-old widow.
PROVES GOOD CHARACTER
Judge Burgwyn passed sentence
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BULLETINS
MT.'hMI, Fl*. W> Hurricane “Dolly" timed winds of
110 miles per hour northward today toward an expanse
of open Atlantic, apparently ending a threat of the Bahama
Islands and Florida.
DENVER (ff> President Eisenhower’s leisurely vaca
tion shifted to a period of difficult derision today as he
and Vice President Richard M. Nixon worked together
on a collection of knotty administration oroMems.
'flic president and Nixon flew here from
late Thursday and Vice president planned to remain in
Denver until Sunday.
PORT BRAGG, N. C. m An Army psychological war-I
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SCOOT MEETING - Scout offi
cial! 'of Harnett Count; will
meet Monday evening at the Hr
wta Methodlat Church for a
round table dlacussion. Scout*
masters, Motitanaaters,
committeemen, neighborhood com
mlaaioners, and other scout offi
cial* .are requested to attend.
BALE otn -Dunn* Oreen
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TIME OUT FOB LUNCH Members of the Dunn Advent Christian Church are doing the work them
selves on the coostraction of a handsome new church building here. This picture was made last Satur
day during the lunch hour when the ladies spread a picnic lunch for the workmen. Left to right are, kneel
ing: J. E. Fields, Albert Sutton, Lexie Blackmon, Dan Woodall. Woodrow Whitman, Rev. Lee Stancil, Lee
Massengil, .Clarence Raynor, Tom Woodall and J. W. Johnson; standing, Monroe Allen, Kirby Johnson,
Ruth Fields, Mrs. Harold Hodges, Mrs. Janette Stewart, James Stephenson, Joyce Stancil, Mi’s. Myrtle
Strleklahd, Mrs. Lee Stancil, Chester Stanley, Donald Hudson, Rev. J. W. Smith and J. V. Stephenson. The
group will be at work again tomorrow. (Daily Record Photo.)
Members Os Advent Church
Doing Their Own Building
Weed Forecast
Lowered Again
WASHINGTON (IF The Agri
culture Department has lowered its
forecast of the 1053 tobacco crop
slightly Since last month's estipiate.
The newest forecast is 2,034,007,000
pounds.
The department said yesterday
| that the 2 1-2 per emit reduction
from the previous forecast resulted
[ mainly from dry weather which hit
i hard at the flue cured crops of Vir
ginia and North Carolina.
But a slight reduction in the es
timate was also found in order for
fire-cured, dark air-cuied and cigar
biller and binder tobacco, the de
partment said. Burley and Mary
land tobacco prospects remained
unchanged.
The national tobacco estimate
compares with last month’s crop
forecast of 2,088,000,000 pounds, the
1052 output of 2.542,866,000 pounds,
i and a 10-year average production
of 1,048344,000 pounds.
Georgia crop prospects improved
during the month to 131,847,000
pound* The estimate in August was
125,035,000 pounds.
The flue-cured crop is now esti
mated at 1328,000,000 pounds; bur
ley, 570,000,000; Maryland. 37,800,-
000; fire-cured, 57,100300, and dark
air-cured. 31,700,000.
DOUGLAS. Isle of Man (V)
The powerful British Trade Union
Congress overwhelmingly defeated
a series of left wing resolutions
today at the last mooting of its
MMraal teuton.
mm will (MC Fayetteville in a
football game in PfcrettcfiSe to- ;
night at » o’clock. • 5
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‘ meeting of the Membership Com
mittee qi the Chamber of Com
merce *u» M Mi mmmr, Bep
watber if it tSTltt OX tihembtr
Thirty-one faithful and
devoted members of the
Dyfri n Advent Christian
Church are proving that
Wj^e^ there’s a will there’s
With‘ Ite sweat of their brow,
their off-time labor and all the
money thsy can spare, they’re build
ing a large beautiful church hers
at a cost of approximately $25,000
That figures, roughly, a little
more than $650 apiece for every
man, woman and child in the
church. It’s a big job and it may
take a long time because they’re
paying for it as they build, but
they aren’t the least bit discourag
ed.
“Ive never seen such a wonder
ful spirit,” declares the Rev. Lee
W. Stancil, pastor of the church,
ami Monroe Allen, chairman of the
building committee.
The building program hasn't
been underway long, but already
the church Rhus ate about hats
completed.
ORGANIZED LAST TEAK
The church wasn’t organised un
til last October 11, with 18 mem
bers, and a movement to erect the
building was started that very day.
Monroe Allen, one of the organ
isers of the church and an em
ployee of Oodwln Building Supply
Co. here, suggested the idea for
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Clerk Reports
Record Tax
! Receipts in the office of the
• Clerk of the Court of Harnett
’ County during August broke all
previous monthly records since the
> county was established Clerk Rob
’ ert Morgan told commissioners
this week.
A total of $7,685.93 was coUect
; ed, largely as a result of the drive
' instigated by the Harnett Record
er’s Court to collect all past due
court costs.
Fines and forfeitures in Record
er’s Court in Lillington collected
by the ‘derk amounted to $4,64810.
The county school funds is that
much richer and Superintendent
; G. T. Proffitt said the schools
were “happy” to get it.
Civil and criminal actions in Re
corder’s Court accounted for $2,-
487.20. Other monies came from
the following sources: from trust
commissions, $37.10; from civil
and criminal actions and special
woceedinvs in the superior court,
$12333; from probates $42130.
Around 200 capiases issued dur
’ ing the month warned oonvicted
’ defendants delinquent in court
'Continued on Pace Seven)
The Record
Gets Results
Local Market
Expected To
Break Record
Tobacco sales on the Dunn
Market this year are run
ning more than 1,000,000
pounds ahead of the same
period last year, according
to a report released today by
Sales Supervisor Norman
Suttles.
On September 10 of last year,
the market had sold only 2,515,-
310 pounds for an average of
$48.49.
On September 10 of this year,
the Dunn market has sold 3.628,-
394 pounds for an average of
$5531.
This represents a net gain in
poundage of 1.113,084 pounds. The
average is $6.82 per hundred high
er than a year ago.
RAPID GROWTH
These figures, pointed out Sut
t’es, represent the growth and pro
gress shown by the Dunn Tobacco
Market, fastest growing market •in
all of tobaccoland.
Some other markets in the belt
have reported a sharp drop in
sales this year while the Dunn
market has been steadily gaining.
Dunn has two large and. pro
gressive warehotve organizations.
The Big-4 group of warehouses is
headed by Buck Currta and the
group of warehouses is
headed by Rodney Chestnut*; »|
L Local warehousemen report that
Dunn market or any other market,
and farmers are especially well
pleased with the prices received
here.
YESTERDAY’S SALES
Tobacco sales hit 313338 pounds
yesterday with an average : of
$53.68 per hundred pounds.
So far the average for the year
is $55.08 per hundred pounds.
Sales Supervisor Buttles said to
day that 3,628306 pounds of to
bacco has been sold for $1.988361.-
14 this year. ;
Minor Accident
Reported Here
Damages estimated at $125 re* ,
suited from a miner accident on
N. Wilson Avenue yesterday ac
cording to the Police Department.
A 1952 Old* - obile driven by
Geraldine Hockuday Lee, Benson.
Route 3, was damaged $75 when
she pulled ou* from a parking
space and was. hit in the left side.
Peggy Louise Hrt>er7o|n, Dunn,
was the driver of a 1953 Olrtsmo
bile. Damages were listed at SSO.
No charges were ipade.
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