+i HEATHER*
Ctoady. Windy with showers and
widely scattered thundershowers
today. Colder west perttsu this af
terneon. Much colder tonight with
scattered showers east portion.
VOLUME 4
CONGRESS GETS FRILL-FREE BUDGET
•HO CROWD—Lari* crowd* of people Jammed
. la to the Williford Dry Good* Store here today
a* the roods formerly owned by Honaton Jernlgan
'•> mat on Sale. In LUltogton, the court annoaneed
Two Enter Race
For U S. Soak
RALEIGH Iff) The race
for the Democratic nomina
tion for U. S. senator from
North Carolina had at least
two candidates today with
the possibility that a third
kWsi!d file within a few days.
U. Bostick of Cary filed to
(Appose Sen. Alton A. Lennon of
VWHmllaSton In the May primary,
B. VC- Maxwell, secretary of the
BMte Board of Elections, said yes
today. ■
; 1 -V NOT FILED
< Lennon has not yet filed bat has
annoaneed that he win seek the
boMlnaUon and has named attor
ney John C. Rodman of Washing
ton. M. C., as his state campaign I
- V tmimw Oov. W. Kerr Scott of
Raw, River has been prominently
ipentioned as a possible candidate
fer the office. Scott has refused to
comment, but has said be would
make an announcement on or be
a politician but that be is Inter
ested to “good, sound government *
and (n seeing both the state and
national budgets balanced. He Is an
tiaemployad tool and die maker.
Marines Drown
Alter Accident
INCHON, Korea m Twenty-
IWtfR American Marines drowned
in the icy waters of misty Inchon
Btorbor today in the second worst
navrif (Master since the start of
iwgffEOVean war.
The Marines, carrying heavy
” coQibat packs, sank immediately
'. MOanttawed an Base. 7)
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Wei lons Protests
Express Rate Hike
John H- Wellons of Dunn, owner
gaff the huge Wellons Candy Com
r jany and ona es the biggest thip
|Sl to ttos section of the State,
ESSmed before the State Utilises
iUbMBiSSion to Raleigh yesterday
l further rate increases re
frit many Uppers doubt that it
Wellons said he and other
TELEPHONES: til? - Silt •
that the business now is the property of n Char
lotte sales company. The property was sold for
SIMM, the court petitions showed. (Photo by T.
M. Stewart)
Store Sale Private
Business Court Says
News Shorts
SAIGON, Indochina (V) French
Union forces today seised the im
portant Red port of Tnyhoa, laun
ching what spokesmen described as
“the biggest offensive operation
since the beginning of the Indo
china war." An official French an
nouncement said some MM sea
born commandoes stormed ashore
yesterday and captured the Anna
meae coastal citadel from Its Com
munist defenders. They were the
vanguard of more than B,oo* troops
thrown into the offensive under
Gen. Guy de Beaufort.
BERLIN (W A Ul-man Red
Chinese delegation arrived to East
Berlin today, authoritative sources
reported, and a Utter duel appear
ed Inevitable at tnn coming foreign
minister’s conference ever Soviet
demands that Chinn he Invited to
n world peuee conference. Sources
close to the Soviet sene’s govern
ment said the Peking delegation
arrived to “observe” the (Big Four
talks next week. The Russians have
served notice that they will demand
a five-power world peace confer
ence with Bed China participating.
They also are believed committed
to press for Rod China’s admission
to the United Nations.
PINE BLUFF, Ark. TO John
Daniel Rost, ti, philanthropist and
Inventor of one of the first meehan
l leal cotton pickers, died here late
i yesterday after a heart attack. Rust
■ (succumbed at hit desk as he pre
’ | pared to close Us office for the day.
(H* was rushed to Davie Hospital
f 'but was dead on antral. His sec
’, rotary said he had been “feeling
1 . (Continued on PMo Mr) '
100 of a aeries of hearings on a pro
posal which would increase North
Carolinians’ express tolls an aver
age of 15 per cent and raise the
minimum charge per shipment from
$l4O to $l4O.
Wellons said he had tried’ to get
other candy manufacturers to Joto
him far the hearing.
“They told me” be reported,
“that the express company would
a.’&r.stkjtvs
Raleigh by oomingto the hearing."
J. Melville Broughton.' Jr. at
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Jbmrd
DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 21, 1954
Public sale in Dunn today
of dry goods from the W.
P. Williford store, formerly
owned by the late Houston
Jemigan, is strictly a pri
vate business venture on the
1 part of WellQns, Levy apd
; Slnkee of Charlotte, present
owners.
| Clerk of Court Robert Morgan
said today that the order confirm
, lag the private sale of the person
, al property of the Dunn business
| man, who was lost in a hurricane at
, the beach on last August 13, was
was signed more than a month ago,
on December 6, 1953.
The court approveu the estate's
1 acceptance of the $13,000 cash offer
) made by the Charlotte firm after
1 all legalities had been observed.
No other bid fas received by the
> estate for the | Dunn mercantile
1 establishment. .
1 On Tuesday. January 19, an or
i der confirming the private estate
■ of a Bladenboro dry good’s store.
1 also going by the name of W. P.
f Williford and owned by the Jeml
> gam estate, was signed by the
• court.
(BROTHER MADE BID
Records in the clerk's office show
I that the first tod on the sale of
> the Bladenboro store goods was for
$5,000, and received from Charles
W. Wadsworth, brother of the wid
i ow, Mrs. Alberta Wadsworth Jemi-
I gan who under terms of the will
• of her husband, qualified as ex ecu
i trix of the estate.
1 To this first bid on the Bladen
- boro property, J. W. Wilson of Dunn
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I All Was Well—But
Officers Wondered
Only the curtain was misting
from this drama in the fJlHitgton
business district which boasted a
better than a grade-A movie end
ing. ,
Policeman Lee Upchurch, ans
wering a hasty summons from a
beauty parlor, found the staff
cringing behind u locked deer.
They reported “wtard sounds"
next door in an Insnranee office.
They feared far the safety of the
Becrctary and called on tty*
law to investigate.
Into the office plunged Up
church followed by the soUcitieiu
ipsratsrs. They stared Wo tig
* surprised faces'* *f two highly res
potted bvjtnsM man*
his Mend wRh a "vhrW” Imper
sonation of how once when, green
htthjzurkrsz
. She was playing the Vale efths
Congress Slated
To Increase
Cotton Acreage
WASHINGTON OP) .A
dual purpose bill to increase
this year’s cotton acreage
and provide potato growers
with limited government
price protection came up for
almost certain passage in
;the House today.
1 The Senate approved measure
may become the first major legis
lation to be enacted at the new
session. The Senate will have to
pass on House changes in the bill,
.but the measure may go to the
.White House tomorrow.
The measure, a compromise be
tween earlier House and Senate
versions, was drafted by a confer
ence committee last night. It would:
1. increase the national cotton
allotment for this year’s controlled
’rop by 3,458,854 acres, a 15 per
'ent reduction from last year’s un
■ontrolled crpp instead of 30 per
Tent originally ordered by the De
partment of Agriculture.
, 2. Permit the department to use
pHce support funds to buy up a
'United amount of surplus potatoes
’or use in school lunch and similar
programs. Congress banned all
price supports on potatoes several
years ago after government losses
oh the crop passed the 500 million
dollar mark.
ENDORSED BY BENSON -
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T.
Benson endorsed both the cotton
and potato phases of the bill. Ha
urged an increase in cotton acre
age to ease the shock of production
controls on fanners. ,
a Under present Taw, Benson was
required to proclaim a national
allotment of about 17400,000 acres
compared to last year’s crop of
about 25 million acres. The toll
would set this year’s plantings at
about 21479442 acres.
The government is now support
tog cotton prices at 90 per cent of
parity the “fair price” yardstick.
It now has about $1400,000,000 tied
up to surplus cotton and stocks are
mounting.
Presbyterians Plan
Meeting In Harnett
The next meeting of the Pres
-1 bytery will be held to LUltogton at
; the Presbyterian Church April 20,
i It was announced this week at the
, 311th session of the Fayetteville div
ision of the church to Maxton.
1 During the meeting, officials of
r the church voted to accept an in
i’ vitation of Cumberland County to
participate to the 200th anniver
( sary of the organization of the
; County, April 23, 24 and 25 of this
year.
>■ Among tHe ruling elders at the
! meeting was H. T. Atkins, pastor of
>, the Uillngton Presbyterian Church.
Frank Davidson was granted a
• license with the church and exam
s toed for ordination by the Fayette
ville Presbytery during the meeting,
He will serve as pastor of the Er
v (Centinned on Fag* Severn)
f
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HANOI, Indochina (ff) French and loyal Indochl
_ nese troops thrust north from recaptured Thakhek and
a southeast from Pakseng today, hoping in close a trap on
some 4,000 Communists believed lurking in the jungles of
Central Laos. French spokesmen predicted the two col
umns vrill link up in a low days to cut off the retreat of
survivors of the Communist drive across Indochina. They
I said the attack, launched mainly for propaganda purposes,
already has cost the Reis 4,000 to 5,000 men.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. (TO The late William Neal
Reynolds, philanthropist who was former president of the
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and Mrs. Nancy Reynolds Bag
ley were revealed today as the donors of a two million dol
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DISCUSS TESTS Dr. Thelma
Thurstone, member of the school
of education of the University of
North Carolina, visited Dunn on
Monday. She met with tint end
fourth grade teeohera from the
Dunn Orammar School and the
Mary Stewart School to dtoeuse
techniques of administering stand
ard mental teste. Results of these
tests, of which Dr. Thurston* ts
the author, will be used to help
tee chen understand their students
and adapt methods to suit the
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LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON Steve Surles shakes hands with
his mother, Mrs. Iris Surles, as the bus driver looks on. Steve, a Rec
ord newsboy, will tour Washington With a number of Boy Scouts who
won the trip by selling tickets to a B*y Scoot Circa* In Raleigh.
(Photo by T. M. Stcwartj ( ,/ ■ .
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Newsboy Wins Trip
T 6 Washington , D.C.
Steve Surles, 12 year old
Daily Record newsboy, left
this morning for a free trip
to Washington, D. C. He was
awarded the trip for stand
ing fourth in 12 counties of
North Carolina in the sale of
Boy Scout Circus tickets.
Surles is a member of Troop 714
of the Divine Street Methodist
Church. The troop is under the
leadership of Scoutmaster Furman
Tumage.
Active to all scout work, Surles
lacks the Morse Code having his
first class badge.
LEFT TODAY
He left Dunn today to go to Ra
leigh where he will be Joined by
Mr. and Mrs. Russell McLean who
will accompany him to the Washing
ton. McLean is Harnett County’s
Scout Executive.
In Washington, Surles and the
, other youths from this district on
the tour, trill visit the Washlng
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needs. Tests will be given in grades
one, four, eight and ten. Services
of Dr. Thurston*, a nationally rec
ognised expert m the testing field,
are made available to Dunn
through the Kellogg Foundation
school study.
PULPIT EXCHANGE Minister*
Os tailing ton’s three churches plan
SSSSTcto n.
will hem- PteebytSertan
FIVE CENTS PER COPT
Puiett Draughon
Dies Wednesday
Wesley Puiett Draughon, aged 85,
died Wednesday at 5:55 p. m. at
his home on Dunn, Route 5. fol
lowing an illness of four months.
1 Funeral services will be held Fri
■ day afternoon at 3:00 at the Stoney
1 Run Baptist Church. The services
: will be conducted by the Rev. Rich
ard smith, pastor of the church, as
-1 sis ted by the Rev. Richard Gammon
1 or Dunn and Elder Lester Lee.
The body will lie to state at the
church from 2 till 3 pjn. Burial will
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Lillington Businesses, Homes,
To Be Numbered In Near Future
Before the month Is out, every
house and place of business to Lil
ltogton will have an official num
ber.
Last night Joel Layton, Jr., mayor
of LUltogton, said the town au
thorities, spurred by the February
deadline on new listings to the te
lephone directory, have started the
big task of numbering every lot.
used and unused in the county aeat.
Never before has LUltogton ever
had any official numerals on any
property.
Mayor Layton said that with the
natural boundary of the Cape Fear
River on the North and a railroad
on the South, engineers have rec
ommend eliminating all North or
South listings. Everything win be
listed as East or West, with Main
Street and highway 15-A, which are
one and the same, marking the
dividing line.
EXAMPLE
For example, Dewey Johnson’s
LaFayette Drug store bee been
designsteo Number One, on West
Mato Street.
Following the recommendation*
of local engineer* and advise of ex
ports from the fire rath* bureau
of the State Insurance Deportment,
Layton said there will be a stogie
MW-aarsas
SWASiTS'JMR
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Th* cyvtM, Layton wpUhrtd,
President Opposes
Any Further Tax
Cuts For This Year
By DAYTON MOORE
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON (IP) President Eisenhower sent Con
gress today a bedrock “necessity” spending budget of $65,-
570,000 which he said was stripped of frills and would pro
tect national safety and prosperity.
He outlined $1,200,000,000 of selective tax relief sot
some individuals and corporations, but opposed any fur
ther general tax cuts this year.
This first all - Republican
budget in 22 years was
slashed $12,300,000,000 un
der the last Democrat budg
et proposal. It still would
leave the government $2,-
928,000,000 in the red in the
fiscal year of 1955, which be
gins this July 1.
. .Elsenhower said “necessity—ra
ther than mere desirability—” was
the test he applied to all proposed
expenditures.
He said he “firmly” believes his
budget “will not only protect our
way of life but will also strengthen
our economic base and enhance the
welfare of all of our people.” ....
As In every budget since the out
break of the Korean war, national
security was the biggest item by
far—544469.0*9,M0 this time. This
was *3460,00*,000 below (Jw OstiMt.
estimate for the current fiscal
year
MORE DETXNiMt — ~
The President pledged to provide
more national defense for less mon
ey by cutting down on manpower
and putting greater reliance on air
power and atomic weapons. Mili
tary forces would get $37475,000.000
of the national security total, and
the Air Force would get the lion’s
share of that—over 16 billion.
Other big national defense items:
$4475,000,000 for foreign military
aid, $2,425,000,000 for atomic ener
gy and $585,000,000 for critical
stockpiling.
It added up to the biggest air
power buildup since World War H
—40400 planes by 1957 instead of
, the present 33,000—and the biggest
t atomic program to the nation’s
. history.
SPENDING
Eisenhower’s proposed spending
r figure was $5400,000,000 under the
s latest estimates for the current
. fiscal year of 1954 and $12400,000,-
■ 000 under the amount proposed be
ll former President Truman Just be
fore he left office last year.
> Budget Director Joseph M.
1 (-Dodge told reporters the proposed
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will mean that every lot. vacant or
to use, will have its official number.
He said that to secure uniformity,
engineers suggested that to number
ing the residential sections the
guide should be to start with the
smallest lot permitted, which in
LUltogton is a $6 foot lot. This
means, that for the sake of the
number-givers, every block in town
will be divided on paper into six
56-foot lots.
MASKED STREET
The mayor reported be person
ally marked the length of Front
Street yesterday from the Southern
Railway to the western town limits.
This is the street on which the
oourthouse stands. Other work will
progress rapidly to time for the
new numbers to appear in the
Oaroltna Telephone and Telegraph
Company’s new directory.
Plans eon far every number as
signed a piece of property to be
liatarf An a COfTEEDOndinff in
, whtoßtial. now stand win receive
its.
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THE RECORD
GETS RESULTS
Committee Will
Set Projects
For Development
The Finer Carolinas Com
mittee of the Chamber of
Commerce will be in session
this afternoon at 4 o’clock to
select projects for 1954. Last
year the Committee under
took five projects.
Norman J. Buttles, manager of
the Chamber of Commerce, said to
day that a number of projects have
been suggested for the year, but
' as yet none has been selected.
. Under the projects, Dunn could
win up to SI,OOO from the Carolina
Power and Light Company Wr civ
, ic improvements. The contest be
gins immediately and closet around
the last of December, 1954.
Projects discussed ana up for con
sideration this afternoon include:
(1) Expansion of the town library
and relocation.
(2) Establishment of a City wel
fare council.
(3) Construction of a bath bouse
and dressing room at the City
swimming pool.
(4) Continue development of the
park and recreation program.
(5) Continue the development of
agricultural curb market in Dunn.
i (6) Construct bleachers for the
football field.
(7) Establish a day nursery In
1 Dunn.
(8) Establishment or an awards
program in Dunn for the person
i growing the best acre of cotton
‘ in Harnett.
t (9) Construction of an industrial
building in Dunn.
Buttles pointed out that so far
- none of these projects has beset
decided on, but they will be open
: for discussion. Others may be add*
1 ed by members of the committee
he added.
ones. No numerals will be fumiahsd
by the town." .
NO GUIDE
Layton said that more or I*M
casual inquires last fall about why
LUltogton had no more numbers
prompted him to make soma in
quires of his own, which he ad
mitted led him back and forth to
Raleigh many times.
The mayor saM be discovered thas
there u no state tow to guide «
mayor seeking to give his town tts
first set of numbtrs. H* was re
ferred to the Stole Insurance De
partment because the totwvato (t
policy holders. Whose property to
described in tiro insurance poUetoq,
must be protected.
As a result of conversations to
that denartment. « n»«i
the fire rating bureau, intensely In
terested to adequate property des
criptions. sent an engineer to sen
fer with the town botoffi end atom
because several years anothi
Lillington town board officially
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