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North Carolina lncreasing
cloudiness west. Generally fair east
portion and continued cold today
and tonight. Frost tonight Satur
day, cloudy and somewhat wanner.
VOLUME 4
ARMY PLANNING BIG SHAKEUP
Progress Made
On Contes!
At liltington
Lillington’s Finer Caro
lina Contest committee to
day could already point
with pride to accomplish
ments made during the
. week.
The general solicitation qf all
citizens for donations of $1,700 to
finance the various undertaking
will continue 'through Monday.
Robert Morgan, central fund drive
chairman, said first reports were
"very encouraging." A kick-off
breakfast was held on Wednesday
at the O and R restaurant. Vol-
I, unteers who made the canvass of
the business district and residential
areas attended.
Land3capin«r of the grounds of
■jJhe Baptist Church and parsonage
Wjp also completed on Wednesday
John H. Blackmon, chair
man of the steering committee In
(Charge ,of the LUlington partici
pation in the Finer Carolina pro*,
mm.
Volunteers planted over 80
Shrubs an the Baptist church
grounds. Special donations made It
possible to buy plants in one lot.
Blackmon pointed out that
the estimate of 1,700 includes
various projects earmarked for
civic clubs, including beautification
of the Community Center grounds,
plots in front of the Town Hall,
and the town approaches. Clubs will
: not be asked to finance these jobs
separately, unless the drive falls
short of Us goal.
Mcar.tlme, work will start on Set-
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By HOOVER APAMB
PRETTY FRENCH SECRET ART
STEALS SHOW AT HEARING
Dunn’s city courtroom this morn
ing literally bristled with lawyers
in town for the Jernigan deposition
hearing.
Bome of the State’s highest-priced
attorneys were here, Including such
big lawyers as Julius Smith of
Greensboro, John Anderson of
Smith, Leach and'Anderson in Ra
leigh and a dozen or so others, plus
all the local and county lawyers.
Their combined fees would run
into literally thousands of dollars
for just one day in court alone.
Thomas Aman, the key witness In
the Insurance fight, and other prin
cipals In the case were also on
hand.
* But the person who stole the show
, was a pretty French girl, who is
secretary to Attorney J. L. Eman
uel of Raleigh, one of the lawyers.
She sat very damurelv on the
front sest chatting with Mrs. Hous
ton Jernigan. The lawyers couldn’t
keep their eyes off her.
Everett* Doffermyre took one
look and declared: "How In the
World did Emanuel get a secretary
like that? I’ve never been able to
do it.”
There’s no doubt about it, she la
') a very beautiful girl and was dress
til like something right out of Jac
ques Faith* celebrated salon hi
One after another, the other law
yers teptjisktag us who sha^was—
Recreation Croup Dumps
H ' Dunn’s Recreation Oommlsrion
today pushed recreation into the
. fa p of the Chamber of Cwumri
If 1 announced that they will trana
!Sf m isp business unless told to do so
* »y Cltv Council
'if* a statement' issued following
s; a meeting of the Commiasioa yea
; terday, the group stated:
•The Dunn Recreation Commis-
I «le* Wntj Uke to thank thoee who
&4Sm'4* March 1, ISM. We we«M
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Britton Hardware
Opened JuJDjJnn
George Britton, a veteran of 28 years in the hard
ware business, has opened a new hardware store on North
Wilson. Avenue, - vTS m . r, • v >**?
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The new concern opepedTor busi
ness today, but, will bri* lto grand
opening Saturday, March if. The
store is located-in thebajldiie for
merly occupied .by
Britton ta'V native of ..WhlteylUe,
N. C„ but has been tiling in bunn
since 1931. Ha u Attended ThZ SW%
schools of Whlierihg and .wig grad
uated from High BtmeLlMto- in
1938. > 7 . W-.&Tk
During, the summer at 19$g, Rrtt
ten worked: with a bqrwtoe state
in Whitevi 11*. He continual ’ wit*
1 the concern, which had l{e, main
office in FayetteviQe, aftd'.'te.'. 13*1;
he was moved to U^Utoj^rtprq,
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Two More Victims
Dead In Accident
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Four occupants involved in a two car crash five miles
South of Ulhngton early Thursday were dead today, State
Highway Patrolman R. B. Leonard reputed:
Death of Herbert McGlrt, Ft
Bragg soldier, and Herman Harris.
Bunnlevel, Route 1, brought Har
nett County’s highway fbteWtas
for the year to four. Not a Atogle
life had been H*t bn highways this
year until the early mtontM qplHr
•ion of the twe am traveling in
opposite directions on Highway
810. - f eg? .
Raymond MeKoy of taring Lake.
Rout* 1, and BUI A Bbdrlf Ala
bama, Negro aold'Srit recently dis
charged from Ft. Bragfl were dead
on arrival at Ft. nNwfc hospital.
The other iwo dW, «upd M 0
P. m. Thursday.
gvvsier in • f OHr car nBMnl IWw,
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gfo Chamber of j
Stw JJailu IRrtnril
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Tbd .business was then known as
Honjie Hardware .House.
, to 1904. Britton joined the Cro
martie Hardware Company, which
hW haen previously known as the
Cromartie-Dall Hardware Company.
with Cromartle until
Brlttbn.wbs In' charge ■of wholesale
cuatomw** lrt, central and eastern
Norih Carolina. He resigned this
position this year to
,v. UNEB’ ■ ..
.• Included in necial lines of mer
chandise to be handled by the new
and MoKoy and McOlrt were rid
lng to a Bulck, traveling South
when the crash occurred. There
wgre only two feenons in ends'
car and pone survived the wreck.
Hamqtt Coroner Grover C. Hen
derson said today that no inquest
wIU be held, 7*
He aaU Investigation showed
that MoKoy, one of the drivers,
was the man at fault In the fatal
pulled around one vehi
cle on the crest of a hill and met
the other vehicle head-on. He had
been following the vehicle tor sev
ernlmfla* but did not try to peas
imta be reached the crest of the
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DUNN, N> C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5, 1954
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GEOROE H. BRITfpN
Man Hurt In
Unsolved Case
One mu was in Dunn Hospital
with a possible broken leg, aripthbr
in jaU; and another free today In
a yst-undotved adcldeftt near Daw
son’s Tourist Court last night.
Frederick Haak, manager of the
oourt, said today that around 9:30
last night he heard the brakes of
a car aquealling and went out hi
time to see two men run across
his yard. He asked them what they
were doing, he said, and Was told
the car had attempted to run them
down.
Seconds later, Haak stated, the
ear backed Mo a concrete block
waU and broke it down, and then
sped back onto the highway. But,
when the driver of the car back
ed up again, the vehicle went into
. the ditch. Haak stated.
1 Haak called the police who cqms
1 wit to Investigate. Jack Black and
Buddy Jackson worked for sometime
' ; iCimHwasg an gage taw)
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FEUS FOR CLERK - Mm. Ell*-
beth Fuquay Matthew*, assistant
clerk of the superior court; is offi-
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Democrats Won't
Drop Fight To
Add Alcttka
By UNITEp PRESS
Senate Democrats today
refused to drop their efforts
to add Alaska to the Hawai
ian statehood bill despite
GOP assurances a separate
Alaskan measure would be
brought up.
Senate Democratic Whip Earle
C. Clements (D. K?) called the as
nirance of the Republican Senate
Policy Committee a "hollow ges
ture.” He said Democrat# would
go.ahead with plans to jump the
statehood hopes of, both territories
into a package UR.
The Senate began debate Thurs
day on an admjnietraUen-backed
bill to make Hawaii the 49th state.
A Democratic-sponsefed measure
to bring Alaska Into the Union has
been approved by the Senate in
terior Committee.
Senate Republican Leader Wil
liam F. Know land said the OOF
policy oommlttee had decided to
call up the Alaskan measurs *as
early as possible" after action is
completed on the Hawaiian MU.
OOP leaders better* Hawaii’s
chances of becoming a state will
be spiked If the two statehood
measures ar* (Head. They tsar op
ponents of statehood for on* or
the other terrlMHes will hand to
gether to defeat a eomUnathgi bffl.
The Senate took a long weekend
breather to what Is MBsUOd to
be S weeks-long statehood debate
Thtfhtey after Sen, imm a
Hawaii am afert to the Red danger
and are able to cope with it.
OTHER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS
Infiltration: Sen. Joseph R. Mc-
Carthy (R-Wla) called six wit
nesses before his permanent in
vestigating subcommittee to his
search for poeslbU Red tofftratioa
of a brivate laboratory doing radar
work for the 'Army Signal Corps.'*
Coffee: Pour .hxuirwlTeS Just
’ beck from a' tour of Brazilian cof
fee plantations were expected to
fell a Senate subcommittee that
frost was to blame, for soaring cof
fee prices. *: ‘V‘> • “ ’
Farms'' Chairman George p
Aiken (R*Vt) of the flwute Agri
culture Committee warmly praised
Agriculture Secretary' Rim T. Ben
son and took the offensive against
Benson’s “politloal enwnite.^
Methods: out
«dos it
now has covering tovssttgahVe pro
cedure rather than write no* ante.
Public Waste Rep. AupwttoC
B. Kelley (D-P*) prc#os*d that the
state and Mm governments
start a $6,500,000,000 puMte works
program immedteMg to Mad oft
a serious recession.
Work HcltedOn
School Protect
Old Man Winter a*g toy Mortar
SrUMtel 7 JslirlLJM man.
chairman MRtofttete ftete
Caroltoa rnmswttet. teijr to hast
auagifciilttffi
to
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driving. “But wa grtTMrt to Mow
York citt." Whflo
AT OAKPAjajPw»I» «jN recent
FIVE CENTS REE COPT
Hff
ROTARY SPEAKER ‘state Treasurer Edwin M. GIIL shown
here, will addrae* the Dunn Rotary Club tonight at l:3t o'clock at
Jahnson’s Restaurant One ts the State’s best known public officials,
fß *»te BsppamntaUve and ateo served as State Pa
(rtbs Commissioner, and as V. 8. Director of Internal Revenue for
North Carolina. He ia an outstanding speaker.
Jernigan Hearing
Delayed For Week
A deposition hearing in the Houston Jernigan insur
poe ease was postponed here today until next Friday due
to the illness of one of jthe witnesses.
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Attorneys for. Mrs. Jernigah, who I
Is seeking to foroa insuranog com- i
panles to pay off $380,000 insurance <
on her. husband's life, requested
that deposition* he taken from two i
of their wttnstoea.’. . .’.I- ,
Jernigan,, prominent Dttnri pter»
chant,, was rsported to have beep
drowned during a hurricane teat
August at Wrighteville Beato but
Insurance companies have refused
to pay off claims, oontending that ,
he is still alive. - .
Mtes' than- a dozen suite have ,
been filed against as many com
panies, in the, case, one of the
strangest' -.in 'Horth Carolina to- ,
sura-ace annate. Jerhigan’s body has
never been-found, ••
’ •’ ' MANY LAWYERS ,
Approximately 30 -lawyers were
on hand 'for the hearing this mor
ning, some of ; them representing
, some of the' State’s Hugest tew
, firms, including those of Julius C.
i Smith of Greensboro and ;■Smith,
, Leach and Anderson in Raleigh.
t Attorney Duncan C. Wilson, rep
resenting' Mrs- Jernigan, said be
had requested the depositions to
“preserve testimony."
"What if something happened to
one of our wltwfiri" TOfeoa. ask
ed newsmen. Attorney aßjnteh; rep
resenting Jefferson Standard Life
r Insurance Co., said ,he didn’t ob
t, Jeet to -the depositions but <skw no
r necessity for them. w..
Witnesses scheduled to be ques
k Qoned were Thomas Aman, Dunn
. flower shop employee, and only
witness' to the reports drowning,
■ and Floyd Oox, who lives near the
l scene. Aman was with Jernigan at
the time of the reported rownlng.
Attorney VWteon offered a doc
tor’s certificate osrtoytog that Oox
waa toe ill to come toeotot. WU
•an said he had'been 11) stotortif-
Jefferson Standard
» tot toe < !Sw? I csSMte l^£Sd
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t-l AtttfflftV i A IfrTjtfMl Ji# v-|.„. _
Idea that Jernigan Is still alive Is
ridiculous and that there is no
question about his drowning.
MTS. Jbmigan was in toe court
room for the hearing this morning.
Hews Shorts
VIENNA, Austria Wl The So
viet news agency Tam «M tonight
that U. S. 2nd Lt. William d. At
kins, 33, of Indtenapotts, Ind., has
asked, the Conunnnteu for poßU
eal asylum Adklna, dso Bribed as
“mentally dtetwtted" by hte Ameri
can Army superiors, vanished from
toe U. S. occupation son# of Aus
tria last Jan. 13.
WASHINGTON fW Son. Jos
eph R. McCarthy (R-Wls) today
With grrw hi* two billion dollar Übol
and slander salt against former Sen.
William Bentos* (D-Conn.) McCar
thy did not immediately give any
russii for Ms action.
RABAT, Morocco <m The Sul
tan of Morocco was wounded to
day when a terrorist bomb blasted
toe m»sqat where ho was praying
In aontowert Morocco. First reports.
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Gammon Is Citizen
After Long Efforts
The Rev. Richard Rhea (Dick) Gammon,
pastor of Dunn’s First Presbyterian Church, was a cltiwn,
of the United States again today after IS years of
ment red tape which Livolved two countries. \s&
He was given toe oath of cit-.
isenship Thursday to a ooremooy I
.. J nro V y«bitno Wtoans M
ggsra
wouucnui ißcungt wiu i
and_oosapltaated story, j
Rev. Ur, Cmm.<n<m w&s »orn I
school 1& BtuQ, and Hi ttoUwr,
itepmum. s
THE RECORD
GETS RESULTS
Wilson Seeks
To Improve
Army System
WASHINGTON (IP) Thf
Army Department was re
ported today to be
for a jarring administratis
shake-up to correct condi
tions which touched off Are
works between President Ei
senhower and Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy.
Defense Secretary Charles t
Witeon is represented as bring U «
up with toe Army's peacetime •:
up for handling personnel. He cal?
14 months too long to discover an ;
get rid of an undesirable o£flcu
or enlisted man.
The United Press was Informs
that Wilson Intended to do som>’
thing about lt. Whether reorgante i
tion would affect high ranking h ,
dividuals or merely toe admtol,
trative procedure governing toe:
operations was not yet evlder
There waa no indication that Arm -
Secretary Robert T. Stevens ws>!
under Wilson* fire.
The dedsito secretary dropped i
hint of the projected shake-up
hte news conference Thursd*;
when he said torn would be a|
effort to improve Amy organtesf
tom “before long."
“We have a wonderful group ol
men in toe Army," be said... .“to*
they are much better organised t|
fight in the field *s>«?» they sri
to operate to peacetime."
to identify
for dealing with Maj. Irving fSsag
that led to the rough questioning
of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker
and tote week's rebuke to McCar
thy by Mr. Elsenhower.
A high defense official told Unit
ed Press that Wilson’S investiga
tion or the Pereas case would
several weeks. TtwrptftQr* :aamM
thing is likely to happen to'the#
Pentagon. It took th« Aroar-fopr..
months to discover pqress had re-*>
fused to sign a togfij;
document and 10 months thereafter ...
to decide what to do sßqut It. »►■
got an ,honorable discharge. •
Prof Who Taught
Einstein Theory
Found As Faker
DURHAM, N. H. ffi A hte*
school graduate poaed at » j«te
lessor and taught Einstein’s theory
of relativity at the University «|
New Hampshire for a year hsCasw
h*k wm Jlred as A
students,” y *aid the self-stjlito
cator, 31-year-rid Marvin Hewitt,
, who has a yen for implicated sdh*
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