+WEATHER+
NORTH CAROLINA Mostly
fair aad slightly warmer today.
Pair and cool tonight. Wednesday
fair and mild.
VOLUME 3
Another Hurricane Develops Southeast Os Miami
Michigan Governor Denounces Republican Farm Policies
Harnett Board Considers
Remodeling Courthouse
The Harnett County Board
of Commissioners is con
sidering 'the possibility of
remodeling and enlarging
the county’s outmoded coun
ty courthouse, it was dis
posed here today by Chair
man Lofton A. Tart.
Chairman Tart pointed out that
the county has a surplus of ap
proximately $200,000 and said this
money could be used, along with
soma other flnanc.ng, without ne
cessity of a bond election.
He said the recent county audit
1 showed more money in the sur
plus fund than the commissioners
had anticipated.
i Harnett clLisns last, year de
feated a bond election for the
purpose of erecting a new court
house hy a landslide vote of more
than $ to 1 against. Not a single
township in the county voted in
favor at a new courthouse.. *
MOBS SPACE NEEDED .
Hbweved officials po.ntad out
today, the oounty is in desperate
need of more space for its offices
and thn entire building needs re
and modernizing.
» Mr. Tart said some had estimated
that the present building could
be remodeled and enlarged at a
coat of about (800,000 and poasibly
lor lboo>'~»• J, / *r
He said Uwbcwrd .would probably
did*lttse*the*idea of dtaeardlnTu
“ P |BSP I “hOW” DESIGNS 100
“And I don’t like those low things
I the architects are designing these
days and calling courthouse*. They
don’t •*•*> look like a courthou*
°^ t pototed < out that the plan of
submitted In last year’s
/end election didn’t even resembte
Courthouse and that fact probab
ly coat the plan some votes.
Mr. Tart said part of the funds
in the surplus could be used for
the purpose and that a plan of
financing oould be worked out with
out having to submit the issue to
a vote of the people.
He said he didn’t Marne the peo
ple for not wanting higher taxes,
but did not anticipate much oppo
k slUon to Die plan now under con
► aiders tion..
Harnett's courthouse has been
erttWmd end condemned as “the
wont in the State" by visiting
judges and others on numerous
Ottimns of the county are in
agreement that something needs
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Dunn Girl To Make
Her Debut On TV
Pretty little Miss Gloria Barnes, seven-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Barnes of Dunn, will make
her debut on television Saturday night over Station
WFMY-TV in Greensboro, it was announced here today.
Selection of Gloria to appear on
North Carolina 1 * No. ri. television
station was announced here by
James Thornton of
ager of the famed Smile A While
Boys.
Thornton hailed the young sing
er ee "the greatest talent dissoftry
I’ve made in a long time," and de
clare, "She’s really terrific Mr.
Thornton serves as a talent scout
for WMFY-TV in this section of
talented curb - haired I
girl 'villi appear with the Smile
a-whiie Bon at 10:16. Her first
number win be "Wait A. UtUe
Longor." Her second number has
not been announced.
This w 0) be Oloria’e firit ap
pearance <» a hillbilly program,
although 3m has been a popular
singer at • numbers for
sometime. Thornton, Hayden Ivey
and Little Jimmy Capps will fur
nish the awwmpaMment.
VOICE PRAISED
I kriow Gloria wUI be a hit with
the station and with its millions
of listeners," declared Thornton
today “She has a wonderful voice
and she doesn’t know what stage
fright is. She’s got more poise and
feels easier behind a mike than
moot people 21 year* Mr
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Wxt jUtttlu |t tmxjJ
Gloria has been singing for
sometime with Mrs. Henry Whit
tenton, Dunn’s Ho. 1 Lady es Mu
sic, and has sang frequently over
Radio Station WCKB here.
She lea member of the second
grade at Dunn Grammar School.
Gloria is popular with the crowds
at Johnson’s Restaurant, which is
operated by her parents, and en
tertains the crowds there on week-
Bill Jackson To
Broadcast Here
One of Radio Station WPTFs
most popular programs will origin
ate in Dunn Wednesday morning
at the Parker Deed and Feed Com
pany store on Bast Broad Street.
Johnnie Parker, owner of the com
pany, announced today that Bin
Jackson, conductor of the popular
"B. J, Show” on WPTF dally, will
visit his store Wednesday to pre
sent “The Checkerboard Report,”
"Checkerboard Report” is a pro
gram sponsored by The Pvrina
Company, 'or which Parker Seed
and Feed Co. is the local represen
tative.
Mr. Jackson will be happy to
meet his many friends and listener*
while at Parker Seed and-Feed Co.
and Mr. Parker Joins in extend
ing to the public a cordial welcome
to attend this event. The broad
cast win begin Wednesday morning
at 11 o’clock. ~
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DUNW, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1953
Adlai Speaks j
Tonight Over i
Large Network ,
CHICAGO UP Gov. G.'
Mennen Williams of Michi
gan, following up attacks
by Hairy Truman and other
Democrats against the Re
publican administra tio n,
said today that “creeping
Hcoverism” is hurting the
farmers and threatening the
national economy.
Williams led a panel discussion
at which Democrats attending a;
two-day conference mapped plans
to capture the farm vote In next
year’s congressional elections. ,
Party officials attending the con
ference were sparked by speeches
attacking the Republican adminis
tration made at a tIOO-a-plate din- ,
ner last night by Truman, 1952
presidential nominee Adlai E. Stev
enson, Sen. Paul Douglas of Ill
inois, and House minority leader
Sam Rayburn.
HITS FARM POLICY
“Historically, the leaks which
foundered our economy into reces
sions and depressions have sprung
first in agriculture,” Williams said.
“Under the Republican farm policy
there Is evidence of leaks today.
“We don’t want creeping Hoover
tarn for epr farmers or for any
other segment of our economy and
-that’s just what we’re getting from
the Republican Party.”
Thq, Michigan governor recalled
that (President Elsenhower made
one qf his first major campaign
speetaes last year at a plowing
apwrifi, near Hasson, Minn.
“Everybody mnembew those
(CeritaweS an eetfe saw)
Adlai Speech
"Sound, Fury"
DENVER, Colo. UP —The
White House today charac
terized the oratorical blast
of former Illinois Gov. Ad
lai Stevenson last night
“sound arid fury,”
White House press secretary
James C. Hagerty was asked about
the statement in Chicago last night
by the 1952 Democratic presiden
tial nominee that the Eisenhower
administration was a “government
by postponement.”
"It’s Just sound and fury ” Hag
erty Mid, “and the rest of the
quotation Is ‘signifying nothing.’ ”
Hagerty was quoting from
Shakespear’s "As You Like It”
TO SEE IKE
Hagerty at the same time con
firmed that Sevenson will see Pres
ident Eisenhower sometime after
Mr. Elsenhower return* to Wash
ington late this week. Stevenson
will report to the chief executive
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BULLETINS
MILWAUKEE Iff) The National Boxing Association
today took up the biggest problem facing thg prizefight
ing industry—restrictions on televised boxing matches
to save the sport.
COLUMBIA, C. C.. «P> Columbia and Jacksonville
t 1 up
playoffs today In a climax set up by Colombia’s 9 to 8
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FORME* PRESIDENT Harry S. Truman (left) grin* broadly ss he shakes
hands with Adlsi Stevenson, former Illinois Governor and the defeated
1952 Presidential eahdtdste. Their meeiing teak place la Chisago,
where Democrat* Party bigwigs gathered for a scries es conferences.
Lster, tha two mad Maw together. (Interaction*! Soun4photo)
Churchill Prepares
Story Os His Depth
But he does not intend to resign.
Taylor repented, aad he Jb de
termined to see completed, before ,
his death, s written agreriaept
between nations that will set turn
down in history as a maker of
peace as welt. aS a man of war. *
Taylor, who has Just returned
from a trip to England, reported
in an American Broadcasting Co.
commentary last night the situa
tion surrounding Churchill, as de
scribed by the prints minister’s
associates. /,*' • * • • ' u
Taylor said the Prime minister
is supervising the preparation "on
a large scale” of hb own obituary
by assembling hie own choice Os
excerpts from hta television, radio,
and newsreel appearances and ar
ranging them in what he considers
to be their proper balance to be
shown at hi* death.
HISTORY-MINDED ' ’
Churchill, who is “inkenaely his
tory-minded," has been “deeply
affected and angered," Tkylor said
by the chatge of some of Mi op
ponents that he lq a great war
leader but not the kind of man
who can make peace. \.#■
Ttylor said % hss told close
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annfnimnl tfflHiy fay Miss Letaj
ScoutCamporee
Dates Are sefe
' .Hasoett County;* bqy, aeqvf. eam
poree has '.beta set for WwiM
21. M and 27 at ROes’s Puoß,?Direfe
miles North of
Executive Ramril McLean
ed last mght ai s rOMWd tabte dli
cusalon in Erwin. ‘ • •*• *.'
Some. 19 scout officials and guests
attended a meeting at the ,Swln
Methodist Church for the purpose
of irenihg e«i problems faring the
County’s spout troops.
John FoPtitt* district scout chiir
man, prerided over the fbwt pait
of the meeting during which fllerin
rion of the urn of arr-r- was
held.
MCLEAN IPEAKB v.V,
McLean di*cu*oed the faU. mund
ui> es new ecPwters and liotad the
&ards which Will he -gttan for
Ocrultlng a‘ new memtttrft V The
During the dlacussion dt'' the
rnnitiiiAi IfwfAan nernanl-*’ 1 toluol
roundup, kmsui ncognuia wi
Whitman, Erwin, and preaenjed
him with the Eagle Scout, QilvOr
Palm, the highest awns* a na*ter
can rePpHe. .' It was potated out
that Whitman has received'-more
than 80 merit, badges durix*. hts
work in scouting. He lit, leader es
a scout troop; at the Erwin Meth
odist Church.
The next round table ffiewlsslon
will be held October 19.
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Blast Os 115
Miles An Hour
Is Reported
MIAMI UP Hurricane
Edna, which began decep
tively like a girl keeping her
Intentions to herself, sud
denly generated a blast of
115 miles an hour today in
the Atlantic 1,000 miles east
southeast of Miami.
The Miami weather bureau plac
ed the center of the year's fifth
tropical storm about 170 miles
northwest of Puerto Rico and said
that no land mass was in immedi
ate danger.
Edna started off a* «n “easterly
wave” a hurricane-producing at
mospheric condition yesterday,
slowly built up steam to 70 miles
an hour by early morning and then
whistled into a full-blown tempest
by the time of a special 9:30 a. m.
advisory.
MAY INTENSIFY
An 11 a m. weather bureau
advisory cautiously said winds were
‘ slighUy over 100 ihHes p*r hour Just
north of outer,” bqt there was “a
nod possibility of further intensi
fication.” The advisory said Edna
was ekpeoted to -pass north of Turks
Isiapd la ths southern Bahamas
during the night “but the area
should expect squalls atM) possible
sue was headed in a weit-naifH* -
westerly direction with some ten
dency towards the jlorthvMt
to investigate a nuny area in the
Gsilf at Mexico that oould be atm
-dtiftlttr hurricane hi the making.
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Hear Bond Pleas
The Bmm*. County iield its first meeting
3 ‘So"m, y „iS‘p^r gU1 '’ Hlgh sch ° ol w,,h 298 "
ey. was dls
schQQ t K t pl^^l^P»^ln r Hamett
classrooms tar spselal training
Mr. Johnsofi awnd that his chad,
a first grader, VaS rite of 48 pupils
In conaidsrtiiHr’ the problem of
segregation, he warned that unless
we get Negro sthoblk.up to stand
ard segregaUan' will end by Sup
reme Court ddgico.
Superintendent Gtaon Promt, to
carrying forth tbs plea, pointed out
that Harnett County has six
Negro schools, Vito pot-bellied coal
stoves, outside toilets aad pitcher
pump!.
“These cwiiffllrin would be al
; lariated by the passing es this bond
■ Dsns,” said Protfit.
A1 Wullanwaber of Dunn, immsdlEte past
Is appearing on the program of 4 ths National
V . .’.T -w •> 4 ■ y. ..
Tha Racord
Gets Results
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Mrs. E. H. Lasater of Erwin, mem
ber of the Mats Hospital Board of
Controls, presented s very ririd plea
for passage of the $22,000,000 bond
issue for mental Institutions. She
sam that overcrowded conditions
and the understaffed hospitals made
HJtapsSslbteJTorJfaa State to give
Dunn Weed Soles
Pass 4 Million
Sales os the Dunn tobacoo mar
ket passed the four Million pound
mark yesterday. So far this year
•ales have been 4,135,434. prim*,
with an average of *56 per httn
am*®? humhred^pou^ta.
Tobacco sold on the market tbis
year has-gone for a Stan of $3278,-
30024.
«*. .ffditey arom of Milwau.
Mr. W Ulldir«' & hr X W&S ■
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