+WtATHtR+ Fair and mild today. Cold tonight with scattered froat. Low tempera tures 25-JO except tt-M pn coast. VOLUME 4 IKE REFUTES DEMOCRATS’ TAX CLAIM 5 v • ■ k IHHilnfi' l - ■ : L **S~ Hk /HHBHFiIP -■ ■ I Kvfif ‘,; ? ■ > ■ M . wW jkjM BK'iI **'~v b TEil'*V' •' *• * .jH ,: BiaSMcyyfe »/-,.• -i b>- fc| ilHfli NEW LION INDUCTED SI Harrington, Erwin fuel denier, le •hewn here Igat night as he was Inducted into the Erwin Liens Club at Table’*. Amen* other things, he lost Us tie. Lien Lynwood Harps Is shewn with the other end of Harrington’s tie, wUch he stashed Into SBfees. The initiation, all In fan, was in' charge of Mr. Harris. Shown In the Z. E. Matthews and Club President Rotarians Memorial Jhsm Jjttb JhinqA By BOOTEE EDAMS il_. :—- BE THINKS HARNETT MEEDS SIX SHERIFFS 1 ! Here’s the best story we’ve heard yet on Harnett’s wide-open race for sbariff: ~ A Dunn man who formerly lived In Johnston County went back to antthfield for a visit a few days ■ago and somebody told him: ‘T ■see you’ve got a hot race for sheriff ■gown there.” ■jpgreah.’’ he replied. “We’ve get ■Six candidates already.” 9 “And," he added. “I hope every ■darned one of them gets- elected ■too. because w e need six sheriffs If (Continued On Page Twe) [Alfred Surles In Constables Race Alfred Surles, 41-year-old Dunn [business man. today announced as la candidate for toe office of con- TELEPHONES: till . tilt To Seek To Lee The Dunn Rotary Club has launched a movement to ask North Carolina’s leg islature to erect a suitable memorial to Dunn’s famed hero of World War 11, Major General William C. Lee. General Lee is recognised as the “father'’ at American airborne troops. He organised and trained the first' paratroopers and gilder in fantryman and then wrote toe air borne doctrine used in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Rotary President John Strickland announced today that the club’s board or directors had decided to sponsor the movement and he ap pointed a committee of five Ro tarians to push the project. COMMITTEE NAMED On this committee are: Dr. Glenn L. Hooper. Hoover Adams, George Franklin Blalock. Ed Wade and Dr. Charlie Byrd. Hooper was named chairman. All are former military men except Hooper, who was a close personal friend. Adams was a member of General Lee’s outfit and acted as his aide. The Rotarians will enlist Die support and backing of the Town of Dunn, the County of Harnett (ConUnned ss page eight) AFLRED SUELES Jlaittj Jl ttwcb/i Mighty Battle On Tax Cut Now Shaping Up By UNITED PRESS The House squared off to day for a mighty battle over the Democratic drive to cut taxes by boosting income tax exemptions by SIOO. It scheduled debate on a sweep ing tax revision bill backed by GOP leaders and the administra tion. Democrats are seeking to add a provision to the measure which would increase exemptions from S6OO to S7OO a year. House Speaker Joseph W. Mar tin Jr., (Mass) said Republicans are “very optimistic” that the Democrats will be beaten. He said President Eisenhower made a “very effective” speech avainst the Democratic move Mon day night. But Democrats refused to con cede defeat and fired back at Mr.' Eisenhower’s speech in a radio-tel evision reply Tuesday night. They said the Republican tax bill fav ors “the few” and offers “little or no relief'’ to 80 per cent of the taxpayers. The payofT vote wiil come Thurs day on a Democratic move to sub stitute their exemption hike for a GOP plan to ease taxes on divi dends from corporation stocks. The outcome Is expected to be close. BYRD OPPOSES BOTH Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va), a leading government economy advo cate, came out, meanwhile, in op position to both the Democratic move and the revision bill itself which would provide some selective tax outs. He also opposed a House passed bill now before toe Senate Finance Committee to trim excise taxes by ,on« billion dollars. The Virginian said taxes shottfif not be reduced until toe federal budget is balanced. OTHER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS Statehood: A band of Southern Democratic senators, led by Sen. James O. Eastland (Miss), spoke out Tuesday against statehood for Hawaii on grounds the territory is Communist-dominated. Civil Functions: The' House has passed and sent to the Senate a *430,9 3,700 money Mil to finance toe Army’s civil works program during toe fiscal year beginning July 1. Documents: Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R-NY), chairman of the House-Senate Atomic Energy Com mittee, said Hanford, Wash., is not the only atomic plant where class ified documents are missing. But he said there is no evidence that theft or espionage is involved. Young Father Claims Rape By 3 Girls TOLEDO, O. U lAfti wnra wwwnn [ THE RECORD ] [ GETS RESULTS Quotes Figures To Show Claims Are Incorrect WASHINGTON (IP) Presi dent Eisenhower today said Demo cratic congressional leaders were wrong in charging that the Republi can tax bill would help rich people primarily. The President’s tax remarks came scarcely an hour before the House took up a Republican tax reform bill which the Democrats claim is favorable to the rich and discriminates against the poor. Biggest controversy over the GOP measure centers around a provision to give tax relief to stockholders by eas ng the tax on dividends. The Democrats propose to cut taxes a little for everyone by in creasing exemptions from S6OO to S7OO a year. The big showdown in the House will come tomorrow when the Democrats try to substitute their higher exemption proposal for toe Republican provision on tax relief for stockholders. The President was questioned spec fically about criticism of the GOP tax bill which came last night from Rep. Sam Rayburn, (D-Tex) and Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga). They said only a comparatively few and wealthy people would benefit from the div idend tax proposals in the new bill. QUOTOB FIGURES The President in reply cited sta tistics concerning the U. S. Steel Corp. to show that most Os Its stockholders are In salary" brack ets even below the national aver age. To say that the Repubi can bill was designed to help the rich peo ple was and here the President paused to pick his word carefully an error. He declined to say whether he would veto the tax bill If it finally contained the Democratic proposal for Increasing the personal income tax exemption. He said he would have to wait until he receives the (Continued on png* rigwt) 1 Recreation Group Maps Out Program The Dunn Recreation Commission and the Chamber of Commerce Park and Recreation Committee will work together in carrying out a program this, year, Willie Biggs, chairman of the Committee said today. Biggs made the announcement this morning following a meeting of the Committee and members of the Commission yesterday after noon. In a statement issued today by Biggs, he said that a program will be worked out with the Comission and Committee “striving to put on the best co-ordinated recreation program that could be worked out with the monies available.” Roy Lowe president of the Com mission, said that the City group will work with the Committee for (Csastinaed an Page Eight) Martha Deri Lee Enters Pageant Miss Martha Deri Lee, II year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Lee of 301 Bast “F” street, Erwin, became the third candidate for the Dunn Junior Chamber of Com merce beauty contest. The pretty candidate Is a graduate of Erwin High School with the INS class. She it now at tending Campbell Collece where she is a sophmore. t pother candidates who^have^an wtll ben^he^Jaycew"l»4 NO. 74 Shillelagh Queen y|m S ml, '' CATHY STANLEY, 17, of Union City N. J, named 1954 Shillelagh Queen, is ready to lead a delega tion of Irish colleens in the New York St Patrick’s Day parade. The shillelagh she holds to 600 years old. (International) Corinne Colvet Sheds Bromfield 5 HOLLYWOOD (ffl French film actress Corinne Calvet, who divor ced actor John Bromfirid because he refused to let her have a- baby, will receive 10 per cent of Brum field's earnings when they exceed $20,000 a year. The 29-year-old actress was granted a divorce in nearby Santa Monica Tuesday after testifying tearfully that Bromfield- suggested she take Up sports when she told him she would like to have a baby. She said she married Bromfield, 31. in Boulder City, Nev, Nov. 7, 1948. John Lewis Pope Given 18 Months John Lewis Pope, 21, of Dunn, Rot e 4, today entered a no con test ■ plea to a charge of hit-run driving and manslaughter In Hkr. nett Superior Court, in the death of Benjamin Wood of Erwin. Judge George Fountain gave Pope 18 months In prison. He «a(d he was giving him a light sentence because he did not contest the act-' ion. , V* f) Allen Salmon of LiUington plead ed guilty to assaulting his wife and was given six months on the roods, suspended for two years and put on probation. He was ordered to pay the costs and to refrain from drinking for two yearn.