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VOLUME 4
IKE DRAFTING SPEECH TO CONGRESS
Fight Looming
Over Defense
tontrad Plan
If WASHINGTON (W A
I /congressional fight loomed
lltoday over the administra
lUion’s plan to ease unem-
Ijpiloyment with defense con
■Kntcts as two powerful West-
Hem senators Joined South-
Hprners in attacking it.
|H Senate Republican leader Wil-
Hni F. Knowland of California
he. was disappointed by the
■Met, personally backed by Presi
■nent Eisenhower, to channel de
fense work Into labor surplus areas.
| fie predicted legislation to curtail
B 'the plah, would be enacting during
I the near session of Congress which
I tftavenes next month.
I ’ .Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Nev) said
1 the administration’s policy could
|M# tn "ugly and undesirable"
| form “controlled economy He
■ lnterf erence by the federal govern
s McOarrsn pointed out that In the
■ past effort* has been made to keep
■ the South and the West In a "state
I of economic vassalage” to the in
■ dustrial North and East but that
■ these areas had overcome efforts
I If MbSSsw* Mt aae* twml
Mrs. O'Quinn
HM h Wreck
8 O’Quinn of Mamers
0 Lee County Hospital
With a broken leg fol
d-car collision Wednes
mlnole.
ept happened at 4 p.
My 431, 13 miles west
V
Herman Ward, who
said Mrs. O’Quinn was
f a 1951 Pontiac which
east toward LUllrarton
* hit by a IMS Ford,
John Alexander Rag-
Broadwav. Route 1.
— KKLXABED
Three passengers ip the O’Quinn
Car were released after receiving
Bftfcel Allen oi Mamers. facial cuts;
■Mrs. Elisabeth Dean of Lillington,
■Mia. Clara Brown of Lilllnglfon,
■ Ward'said his investigation show
■ed that Ragland who was^headed
Wm oncoming car as he started to
|®Yhe elderly driver, who was alone
failure to yield
■the right-of-way. He suffered mild
■Here's How To Stay
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Experts Think 1954 Will Be
Second Best Year In Business
Judge Plays Santa
To Two Defendants
Judge B. Paul Strickland played
Santa Claus to two defendants In
court today. The men were charged
with drunkennee*.
The Judge asked each If he had
been drunk over the Christmas hol
idays. When they stated that they
hadn’t, the Judge was easier on
them.
Jack Bryant, white man, was giv
en time to raise funds to pay a
fine for drunkenness because he
didn’t get drunk over the weekend.
“That make* two Christmases," he
told the court.
The court thought Bryant had
made a good record and allowed
him an additional week to raise
money to pay a line handed down
in,a ease tried before Christmas.
highways during the sacred holi
day season.
When the cold statistics Indicated
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DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 31, 1953
FINED sl4 AND COSTS
In a case against Theodore Roy
als, the court gave a sentence of
30 days in Jail, suspended for 13
months on payment of $lO and
cost of court. “You should go to
the road,"’ the Judge told Royals,
“but since you say you didn’t get
drunk over the holidays, m - let
you off this time.”
Other cases heard in Recorders
court this morning Included,
Joe Bennett, drunk, 30 days In
jail' suspended on payment of 4S
and cost of court.
Ida Bell Jones, drunk, 30‘days In
jail, suspended on payment of $5
and cost of court.
Jatqes Odell Smith, no license,
30 days in jail, suspended for 13
months on payment of 835 and
cost of court
William Curtis Stephenson, care*
less and reckless driving, prayer
(Centinned an page two)
Here's Review Os Area News
Fer First Half Os The Year
With IMS fast becoming history,
Dractically everyone is taking to
syssyff a |£s teg
inventory to see what has been re-
I Fortunately Harnett County and
I WASHINGTON OF) The
most prosperous year in U.
IS. history ends today, and
1 Friday begins the year that
most economists think will
turn out to be the second
best.
’After nearly four yean of un
interrupted expansion, the country
Is In a period of economic “re
i adjustment” or “recession” the
’ experts disagree as to which—and
I It may take most or all of 1984
I to wind It up.
> There are a few economists who
• say the disturbance is past al
; ready, some who say the end Is
■ only a few months away and a
small number who fear the nation
1 Is on It* way to a full-fledged
depression.
, By far the largest number of
experts both inside and outside the
, government expect 1984 to bring
( a gradual decline of about 8 per
cent in total output of goods and
service*, which this year amount-
I ed to. a record 367-billion-dollars.
1 Such a drop in output would
mean fewer jobs and shorter work
. weeks; It might be accompanied
r by lower prices for consumer goods
(Cwrtlaeed on peg* two)
ing hit an all time record, and here I
and there through out the county
there have been changes. I
Taxpayers Get
10 Per Cent
Cut On Friday
WASHINGTON (IP) —Tax
payers will receive an aver
age 10 per cent cut in per
sonal income taxes tomor
row.
Social security taxes Increase at
the same time. Therefore, millions
of persons In lower Income tax
brackets actually will pay more,
or about the same in taxes.
For those In the middle Income
brackets, the weekly paycheck will
be slightly fatter-from a few cents
to a few dollars.
The tax cut will cost the treasury
about $3,400,000,000 for the year.
The excess profits tax on business
also expires Friday, and that will
cost the treasury an additional
estimated $1,600,000X100. /
How does 4 happen that a pef+
sonal income tax cut will meads 3
more total taxes for some persons V
,;j<<iniiaiitE,w>ii a i »
The answer Is that the social" '
security levy on the first 83,600 of
a worker’s Salary will rise from
1 1-3 to 3 per cent
Take a married couple with two
dependents and earning 83,500 a
year. This couple will pay no per
sonal Income tax. But their social
security payment will jump from
837.50 to 880 for the year.
The social security tax Is paid
by both employers and employes.
Beginning tomorrow each will pay
3 per cent an increase of 1-3 per
cent The Increase will mean less
take-home money for. many.
A married couple with two chil
dren and having a gross income
of 83,000 a year now pays 866.00 a
year in Income taxes and $46 In
social security taxes a total of
4111.60. After tomorrow, this cou
ple will pay S6O a year In Income
taxes and S6O in social security
taxes—a total of $136.
However, the picture gets bright
er for married couples with two
dependents and earning more than
83,000 a year. A married couple
with two dependents and having an
Income of 84.000 a year now pay
a total of 8330.40 In income and
social security taxes. After tomor
row, they will pay a total of 8313.
I gets better far those in this
group as the income goes higher.
A 810,800 a year couple with two
dependents will pick up 8137A0, or
about 83.66 more In each weekly
paycheck.
He Has No Plans
Far The New Year
PHILADELPHIA 86-• Francis
O’Keefe, 26, emphasised today he
had no plans for 1864.'
O’Keefe’s wife, Janice, 38, gave
birth to their third daughter yes
terday, Dee. so.
Their second daughter, Barbara,
was bum Deo. 86 1963.
Thor first daughter, Nancy, was
bora See. 80, 1981.
"Next year? . . Mo Star.” O’Keefe
safat Tb not trying to set any
more records."
I we megs
I As the year 1888 came to an end,
began making plan* for abfiyear.
J ergttlcHenry Sandlin tohmd the
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PRISM NT D WIGHT O. EISENHOWER, after signing the American Red
Cross pledge at the White House, is presented with the organization's
official button by Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. Beside the
President is Clifford Folger, District of Columbia AJI.C. chairman.
Y&uth BounebOvgy
For Stealing Auto
Ralph Ray Goodman, 16-year-old Dunn, Route 3,
youth was bound over to the January term of Superior
court under a $6,000 bond by Judge H. Paul Strickland
today on a charge of stealing a car here December 23.
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News Shorts
..WASHINGTON .(PI . Senate '
Democrats talked Informally to
day about pressing for a congres- i
sional review or investigation of i
the. Elsenhower administration's ,
defense policy. <
The discussion Is an outgrowth of
their concern over the withdrawal i
of two D. S. divisions from Korea i
and proposed hefty new cote In the i
budget and manpower of the arm- 1
ad eervleee.
1
AUGUSTA, Ga. (V) President 1
Eisenhower will welcome 1954 with
a quiet new year's eve before start- *
Ing final work on his State of the 1
Union message to Congress. Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr., chief American de
legate to the Csltod Nations, Bud
get Director Joseph E. Dodge, and
Presidential Assistant Sherman A
dams, were expected to arrive late
teday to help In preparing the bn-’
part Ant ipccch.
WASHINGTON (W The United
States today ordered Communist
Romanis to stop publication "forth
with” of the Romanian Nows and
any other pempMoti published In
(CsnHanoi on page six)
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Goodman was picked up in Selma
for breaking a red light around
midnight of the same day the car
wee stolen from the Auto Ex
change on the Dunn-Erwin high
way.
He was taken to Smith field for
trial yesterday and was held for
the Dunn police, according to Chief
Alton A. Cobb.
Mordecai Vann, owner of the
Auto Exchange stated yesterday that
he last saw the 1948 Pontiac, valu
ed at 8700, around six o'clock of the
day It was stolen.
After finding the car missing,
Vann notified the highway patrol
men and Goodman was picked up
after he crashed a red light In
Selma. According to his testimony
in court thtfs morning, Alfred
Moore Jr. was with him at the
time the ear was stolen.
Chief Cobb told Judge Strickland
today that he had heard that Moore
is now in Roanoke Rapids. Vann
(CaattasM aw page two)
New Pepper Plant
Will Employ 150
Formal announcement of the
plans Os a nationally lrnnmrn
concern to locate a plant here that
will provide employment for about
150 persona was received here to
day from H. P. Cannon St Son, Inc.,
of BrlilgevtUe, Del
H. P. Cannon, H, president, said
in a letter to officials of the Dunn
Chamber of Commerce and to the
State Department of Conservation
and Development in Raleigh, the*
his company expects to have its new
plant completed and In operation
by next July 1. New machinery and
equipment wOl be installed as toon
as a building the firm has leased
from Dunn Enterprises, Inc., has
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NO. 19
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Flemming Called
To Augusta
For Conference
AUGUSTA, Ga. (IP) Dr.
Arthur S. Flemming, direc
tor of the Office of Defense
Mobilization and author of
the administration plan to
channel defense contracts
into unemployment areas,
was called to the winter
White House today by Pres
ident Eisenhower.
Press Secretary James C. Hag
erty said Flemming was asked to
Augusta to consult with the chief
executive on the Jan. 7 State of
the Union message “and nothing
more.”
The" White' House obviously erne
unhappy about the opposition to the
administration unemployment plan
by Sen. William F. Knowland, (R-
CaUf), State Republican leader, but
too Jpember of the President's staff
WiFi ZUgmkHs
'The President worked on file
State of the Union message for
two and a half hours this morn
ing, then took advantage of a pleas
ant break In the weather and went
out on the Augusta National gotf
course.
It was sunny today after three
days of dismal gray and int
ermittent rain.
In addition to Flemming, Henry
Cabot Ladge Jr., chief U. 8. rep
resentative at the United Nation*;
Budget Director Joseph M. Dodge;
Sherman Adams, the to
the President, and another shift to
White House aides were due here
late today to begin conferences at
8 am. tomorrow with the Presi
dent.
The Elsenhower* made no Me
dal plans for New Year's Eve, but
expected to celebrate the holiday
quietly with some old friends at
the Augusta National Club.
The President’s staff, mindful of
the 8 a. m. message writing session
, tomorrow, planned to go to bed
early rather than join the revelers
> in traditional New Year's Eve style.
The men who supply the raw ma
’ tertal for presidential speeches bad
messages face a rough two months
> ahead, because once the Preridaotk
major January message* are on
I their way to Congress, Elsenhower
plans to start firing a series of de
i tailed messages on specific subfocts
at the House and Senate.
While the eomptay will be con
cerned in large measure with ow
ning of red bell pepperß Cannon
advised Director Baa t Dougl** of
the Department of Conservation
and Development that Ids
3. Cotter., Jr. of Kiplln* lo coast?
oouacfl prosWoot^
Bon, ngcnw ~
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