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+ WEATHER * Fair and eeeler tonight; ltiti abbot' r r *' f * ’ M in mountains, 78-6* elsewhere. 4 * * ' • Saturday sunnny and mi|d. . 1 'i VOLUME 4 ■^^HISTADECADEAGj^^^ I Towb stormoshora teg battered Normandy Invasion heath American paratroops petit warily through St*. Mora tglis* wF* • • ”'V i • '••' ••••••-' I - I .•jjsgl ." Materiel oml mm for the Ai»J farces arrive ia Franco Vanguard of thee/mds, mom of 4n> Nazi prluoora Wand oa load) ION» SNCI bade In dvOtan clothes, score* of thousand* of Amert- over assembled. They were the spearhead oC the Allied Might th*s eon men are pousta* to let their memories wander back a decade rolled through France and the Lour Countrice gad into Oormany It* «• hoc A IN4, when they stormed ashore on the battered and self to bring the Nazi government to tto knee ieoo than a year tatee. Moody benches ofNornuhidy ns part of the gnatoot invasion force) Allied strength totalled Marly throe mffllon. (HtUtuattaMJ JhltAS Jtittle JhirujA Mr HOOV** ADAM*y ITS ?HE SEASON FOR v yijSl>,,il,Wt; lawyers hw ■ •r MpteUti** weeks before the and set a tentative calendar, thn meet again one week before the . opening of court and set a final calendar . . . This takes care of elsed settled in the meantime, etc. pfei . Twelve couples are seeking a' diyorce at the court term which nappe Monday . . . But about 10 tknes more marriage licenses are ' issued ;b) Harnett each year than there are divorces granted . . . Dunn’s swimming pool needs a can opy Or some shade trees just about as bad As K needs a bathhouse . . . The Baptist picnic Wednesday v fiightjng.a big success... Dr. C. D. ; Bata's contribution to the heavlly ' Mm table was a big fat turkey, prepared by Mrs. Mattie Wash (O*tinned am pace twel Campbell Graduates Many From The Area K Chwiter exercise of personal, responsibility among the people of America. Mu Urged here today by Dr. Herbert J. ftorring, Vice President of Duke University, as he ,spoke M the Sixth-Seventh annual commencement of the school SSd wamed the graduates that Increasing inroads into the permanent danger loathe way of life we arefrying°to pro : v.- : :"L \ • t . totiroduced by President Leslie 8. Campbell of Campbell College, Dr. Herring to.d toe graduating i|M» that Hitler’s assertion at one KM that there were in toe world *jHf '|iki<tlillui phfloeephlee of Ufa and that they could not live to ilpMr to the same world had been jjpfealb P»*w t™*- m warned against an intellectual tettdown both to schools, in the chutch And to the home.” President CamobeQ presented di- at the commence of toe Alumni Association, yCaattaate Q* Fag* TWe) TELEPHONES Silt - *llß Drivers Cleared Os Criminal Negfipence In Woman's Death HpA Is P\eof* Dog Ir Man's „ v Very Bess FrieJitf Dana’s Police Department Ate proof positive today that a dag la man’s beat friend. , Yesterday David R. Gay, E. Egk gerton, came to the Felice De partment to see about a warrant fat which he was charged with as? sault. Itot he had a lUtle too msei to drink before leaving heme and so landed in jail. m Gny had a partner, however. A little red deg earn* slang with him to fan. After Gny w*e lock ed up the dog went to the Jan cell and stretched oat. There he stayed, waiting for his master. It was not nntn six boors later that the dog would move, Chief Alton A. Cobb‘said today. And •very time unbone got within right of the hr, A* raised to* to Mills and showed toe white teeth. He left ealy when allowed to take Me warier with tom. dr. ******** t.'wwmm" r rfM. 3 pip! Batin %txnx& A jury of six Dunn bwmedsmen yester day declared that the negli gence of both Harold Wilson and Roland P. Hall resulted tn~4he death of Miss Melba •I-dges, 31-year-old Dunn woman, here Wednesday evening. However, the jury held that the negligence WM not of a “criminal na ture.” -The inquest yesterday was held by Coroner Grover C, Henderson to determine what caused toe deatn of Mies Hodges, and who was re sponsible.. She was killed in a two car collision Wednesday evening around 9 o’clock at toe intersec tion of South .Elm Avenue and East Divine Street. According to evidence presented yesterday. Miss Hodges was riding with Hall when his car collided with a ’052 Ford driven by Wil son. HaF.Was driving a 1960 Che vrolet. On the Jury yesterday were. Frank Belote, J, Norwood Stephen son. Woodrah Hill. Paul Hester, Jack Hemingway, bad Hsl Jordan. * QUICK DECISION The six men deliberated for less than 10 minutes and returned to report that Mias Hodges died of a head concuaHon. Funeral services for the Dunn woman were conduc ted this afternoon at 3 o’clock at (Centtnoed On rage Fear) Man At Erwin Tries Suicide Lonnie B. Byrd, Jr, 27, of Erwin, is in toe hospital in a serious con dition a» toe result of a self-in flicted bullet wound. Byrd reportedly shot himself Thursday bight about 9 o’clock at his home in Erwin. He used a 33 rifle. He fired once and missed and then shot himself again. Dr. W. E. Adair, the attending physician the bullet entered his chest 'and pierced hie tong. Be hnwigttHi, from ' jfijfcJU'*# ’ T » *'-?•- (* -;V;.. v r' ; 1 . ‘ DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 4, Iff# Ports Official To Speak lonite W. Avery Thompson of Lake Woe*, camew, secretary of (be Btate Ports Commission, will address Dunn Ro tarians tonight at 3:30 o'clock at Johnson’s Restaurant. One of the State’s best known political-leaders, Thompson Is al so North Carolina vice president of the U. 8. Congress of Harbors. He is expeoted to discuss the States ports program tonight to his addiess. Mr. Thompson has served to the legislature and has held various other positions in his count .and in toe state. ’’ Y i He will be introduced by his bro ther-in-taw, Johnnie Patter, who i has charge of the program. c ■■■ 111 'll II ' ■■■■■■■ u r Oqsas i *i—taAwi ■■■!■■ I ■ 111 iidfw*lßritoriAM»——■*» 46 Are Named As Meter Violators * j; - ■ Dunn’s City Council waa present ted a list of parking meter vio lators last that looked like a page from "Who’s Who to Dunn.” The list was made Wednesday, June 2, between 9 and 11:36 o’clock dur ing a survey to determine the “non effectiveness” of meters.new in use here. i U*C Included on the list were 6, Dunn attorneys, including ’ Solicitor J. Shepard Bryan whose business it is Wo prosecute traffic violators am/ifu other things, other attorn eys listed woe: J. A McLeod, Max E. McLeod, J. R- Toung, aad Dun + Record Rouadop + ! PLAIN VIEW SHOT The Plato View School shop, which Me jrt i viously been open evtry 'Wednas : day afternoon, will be claeod’ bnttl * July ,M. The agriculture teacher will be away to suttiair MbM* «B tu that date Patten, of the chop ■ \ D. L. I t*J ■ * -v lii State Will Open Bids On Bypass July 27 I Racial Issue Conies Up A) Baptist Meet ST. LOUIS, Mo. (0* The Southern Baptist Conven tion was to deal with the thorny problem of racial segregation today. The issue was ta hit the floor to night to the form of g report by the Christian Life Commission. A copy pf the report paid “it is time for us to remembtr that ra cial advantage is not facial su premacy." It said, the recent Supreme Court decision cd the issue ‘’should not have been * surprise to any of us— they have been in tod making for half a century.” Meanwhile two speakers touched on toe subject. Dr. Curtis Redford, executive secretary of to* Home Mission Board, said last night the helping minority groups Is ‘ dear to toe hearts of all Southern Baptists.” "We want to help the minority group*, the neglected people, the underprivileged, the isolated and those who have fallen hy the way side,” he said. TO EXPAND nbmons He said the board Will place em phasis to 1957 on increasing the nufehsr of mission cegttpft “to care far fjbe multitudes.” In a report on ssgitoarfss. Dr. Attend Q. Lea vail, president of toe MMr Orleans, spgl today toot mss - problem* - from the atomte .jSsadd toe seminaries’ are "franti cally” seeking tgtteqil and lead en to teach the “astounding” num ber of Baptist ministerial students. The Negroes of the Beuto have been “traditionally a Baptist peo ple,” he said. “Other groups” through spend I tog, education and ohhrity are attempting tp ’reach these people” I and Southern Baptists mult do i more than ever, “if we ate to win them to Christ and sCve toem for our Baptist cause.” he Mid. "This is America’s hour, to world conquest,” he said. “If America Is to meet the challenge of this hour, her people must be. getaulnety ! Christian." “Let us go up at oboe ted possess the land,” Bedford Bate, quoting the Bible, “for we are well able to pomes* n.” In 1953, 38,500 Amertoans were < killed to traffic accidtat*. There, were 50,000 Brin persons Injured to V. ft motor vehicle ac cidents last year than toU»>. can Wilson. ■> , in addition to the attorneys, the i list included-*• two bdntemsn, Wes ley Goats and Vernon W#*t, and i on* constable, O R. Peareal RECORD PtJRLUHEKR VIOLATOR On top of the Met of offices* end i attorneys war* tto* ntoMMkr pub lishers. Hoover fktetog of tbs Daily i Record, and L. Btetee JPppe Sr. of . the Pope Printing Osoipany, and i (me newspaper enter. JMto Thomas of the Dvinn DlspteSft- In all there wsps M nsmss along 1 wtu> y Uc^ at P*B*oDgtenyw gad* 8m Ltrtl Oamumitf fliMlllt liqrchMuX dtr. ’ S ' (doMtoait m '■•jS* '■ ' ’ *rnflHHßr 5 !! i'ifir* **- FIyE cents PER COPT HUNT MADMAN IN ATTACK ON GIRL ' rr v* MMEMV WESTWATIE, It, hows between life and death to BeUevue Bnepttsl, Hew York, as police search for the madman who stabbed. Mat and stripped the girl to the hallway of her home. The attack eeweraed cnly a few blocks from to* scow of toe unsolved murder of Mwrian Brawn, IT, waitress; to a kaliway lest April. Dorothy waa asadßed as she left her apartment for school and was found by a ter; wte aald a shost, dark scan brushed past her. (hUmmOtmal) , Hearing Turned Info Shouting Exhibition WASHINGTON (01 Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R- Wis). and Army counsel Joseph N. welch agreed today it was time to stop the long bickering over Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens’ monitored telephone calls and to make public only a few of them. Parking Meters Bought By Town The local City Council last night tentatively approved of the pur chase.of parts for meters to use here which would make them com ply with the recent State Supreme Court decision calling for one coin meters. Consideration of doing something about the parking meters here has been under way for three or four weeks. Two weeks ago the Board.almost accepted a bid far new meters, but the matter was deadlocked when a tie vote block ed the purchase. Last night Ooundlmen spent se veral hours opening bids and hear ing talks on eight different me ters. Bids, ranged from 34g with an allowance for the old meters to 334. However, Mark-Time Meter Co mpany, manufacturer of meters now used here, offered the town a proposition Os making toe meters le gal Iqr changing the insides at a cost of 318 each. 3M99 Re venae Lest Year Payment will be made, if this preposition is accepted on the basis of the increase over last year’s revenue from meters. The meter company will receive *ll over $8,490, which was the total coUeetad for 190. The salesman promised last night to come to Dunn and supervise the placement of 39 new meters, and replace the insides in the me ters to use. The Town Board promised that once meters are legal, the parking (Osattawed Oa teg* Two) Met Turns Down $125,000 Gif) NEW YORK m - A bequest of 1136,000 pm Man tuned down by the Metropolitan Opera because of a u trig tom toot It produce an opera written by the doner. A spokesman for Rudolph Bin*, general manager, sold the bequest was njieted “as * matter of (WiES&feiMLtV.; SUiSSE - v 5; The Record Is Find IN CIRCULATION... NEWS PHOTOS . . . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES But Sen. John L. McClellan (D- Ark) blocked their proposed pro cedure for the present at least. The McCarthy-Welch agreement would release all of Stevens’ con versations with McCarthy and the seven members of the Senate sub committee investigating the Army- McCarthy dispute, but would rule out introduction of all other con- i venations. McClellan objected. He said I President Elsenhower must take the responsibility if some of the calls are barred by the chief ex ecutive’s secrecy order, although he (McClellan) might agree that some should not be made public. The accord came within a few minutes after McCarthy and Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo) had en gaged to a furious shouting match about their own monitqred con versations with Stevens Syming ton was insisting that calls made to Stevens by Roy M. Cohn and Francis P. Carr of McCarthy’s staff also be made public. WASHINGTON m -- Th a House Appropriations Commitipe voted today to give the Labor and the Health, edaeqtlon and Welfare depoiimnts almost the entire SL -952,144,261 they raqasstsd to spsad to fiscal 1955. Voting In Harnett Broke All Records Hy LOIS HYRD Record Staff Writer Last Saturday's primary election attracted a record number of voter* to Harnett County. That was tt* official word from the county board of elections which has completed its canvass and for warded results to the state hoard of el.ufoo., Who ST|l| NO. 131 Work To Begin On New Road In Early August ~ Tentative plans for begiD ning the new Highway 3dl through Hara ell County, and the alternate route through Dunn were an nounced today at Fayette ville by C. A. Hasty, Sixth Division Highway Commis sioner. " 32 The state Highway Ccruuilnijea will open bids, according- tip POP* sent plans, on Tuesday, July & Hasty said today. These bids awe scheduled for confirmation ThunL day, July 29, and construction should begin immediately. Commissioner Hasty pointed smit that these plans’ are subject $0 some adjustment, but that cunHtai ' plans are set for work pn tisth the new highway and toe allot(UgF to begin around the first o*\AW‘ The alternate will follow the teth of Clinton Avenue, North to a pitet around 300 feet from the tatife* section of North Clinton gad Kit Granville. From this position, -tee highway will mate a 46 degree tan and cross the properties of k>W ell Insurance Service, too- O. J. Hanna. Inc., M F. Hodge* *M son BUly, and W. H. Adam*. The attentate will join (h* ntiw highway when Jt terms a kuqgttan tilth Jonesboro Road to trote te ihe American ijdun, |Ur nrfmnrt potntedwttoday tel alternate route wf* be Widened If the town win fkwt place curb and gutter on ft Clinton Avenue. Thte Is included to the tads to be open ed in July, he steed. DRAINAGE PROBLEM £ Mayor Ralph Hanna stated todk* that the town win face $ gnlilti|| problem when curb 1* poured On the alternate, and that a study vjjffc have to be made before gny ac tion can be taken. Then Is a poo sibility that property owners atap* the route will be a*ted to tihapp the cost of the curbing, Banna ate*. The new Highway 301 wfli le*fVe the old highway peqth of Dutta . near Mb’s Kitchen, and opt arotidt (Centtnoed <to fteofti*) ’ ■ , i ii -—— v- v- Cromartie Finn is Given Honor Cromartie Hardware qf Dunn has just received notice that it was die of 150 hardware staite to the tou ted States to receive special tear for promotional aehieveihent (hir ing National Hardware We*ft ApM 16-34. ; Earl Jones of the local store, totey exhibited a citation praising m Dunn store far promotional achieve > ment from Dwayne Letia,;' pMSk. > ging director of the Harware AO - soctation of the Oarohnas r,± i Hardware Week was devoted wo • promotion work this year with OtW- I martie running a aerie* at f|MD> vertisements a* part a t thetr thsmq. assn the 1.730 cast for bis enpcnsnC’V cumbeot sen. Alton Lennon. In ate board oount. Scott ptahgd UP *£* Five other candteatw in theW. S. sens tonal race daftacted mgr 91 votes from to* twoßpK*
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