+ WEATHER + NORTH CAROLINA General ly fair through Wednesday, not so hot today and little change In tem perature Wednesday. VOLUME 4 CROPS IN AREA DAMAGED BY HAIL A BAD BIGHT Stewart Matthews of Lil- Ungton. Route 1 stands in Ms tobacco field and survey* the damage done by the hail storm which ■truck last night. Mr. Matthews reported that i'\ JhsM * <&iik JhinqA By BOOTH AD AMP DUNN GET A FRESH AIR (MARKET Dan McCormick, who married the former Miss Margaret Wilson of Dunn, operates a grocery store at St. Pauls and is one of the mast successful small retailers in the whole country. For two consecutive years, he has won nation-wide recognition from the Brands Names Foundation as a grocery “Retailer of the Year.” Is one of the highest honors ■Sti can come to a merchant, one the big merchants all over the nation dream about and strive for. It is almost unheard of for • Dunn Clinic Is Formed Here By Four Prominent Doctors Dunn now has a modern medical clinic, providing complete out-patient serv ice. Formation of the Dana Clinic was announced here today by Dr. Charles Byrd, Dr. Randolph Doffer myre, Dr. Gale Johnson, and Dr. William Lilly. Offices are located in the hand some professional building located behind the Dunn Post Office, e rected here several years ago by Dr. Johnson and used for the past few years by Dr. Byrd and Dr. Dof fermyre. BUILDING ENLARGED The building has been greatly en larged and much new equipment has been added to provide adequate quarters for the four physicians and for the examination and treatment of their patients. The clinic provides every type of medical service from examination and treatment to surgery. It has a completely-equipped laboratory and X-ray facilities. FILLS VITAL NEED The clinic has been provided at a cost of many thousands of dol lars. No estimate as to the cost was made public. All of the doctors except Dr. Lilly, who came to Dunn recently from Charlottesville, Va. have prac ticed here for years. Dr. Johnson, Dr. Byrd ynd Dr. Doffermyre revealed that they have been planning the clinic for several years. "Long ago," they said, “we felt the need- for such a clinic in this (Continued On Fags Five) Truman To Leave Hospital Soon KANSAS CITY, Mo. API A cheerful Harry S. Truman looked forward today to leaving Research Hospital in about nfne days. Doctors attending the former President said he is recovering steadily from the effects of a dou ble operation and is definitely out of danger. The chief attending doctor, Wal lace Graham, said his patient has “been resting well and his appetite Is good.” Barring complications, he should be able to go home in nine days. Butler at 327 E. Cumberland St. where a fire had started in the wall. The cause was unknown and little damage reported. Nineteen men answered the call and returned to the station at 6:00. MEETING SET Al} Harnett wo men between the ages of 18 and 40 in the vicinity of LilUngton inter ested in a job at the new LUling toq Garment Co. are asked to re gister in a labor survey which wiU be held Friday, July 9 from 9 a.m. (Continued on Page Three) I EUGENE W. HOGUSLET ; FIVE CENTS PER COPY DR. CHARLES BYRD DR. L. R. DOFFERMYRE Hr 1. 4 Me k - W mtm '«■■■ % A m \ mi iv-P ft | ' mhvMt&i i§*t j, ■ , I g DR. GALE JOHNSON DR. WILLIAM LILLY Billy Graham Back From Big Crusade NEW YORK (IP> Billy Graham, the American evan gelist who preached to 2V 2 million persons on a five-month European tour, said on his return today that he felt “the golden hour of the church” is at hand. “I can’t express the feeling of hunger for God that I found,” he said. "I feel that a spiritual a wakening might save us from a third world war.’’ It was Graham's eighth European visit. This time, he said, there was an optimistic note in Western Eu rope that he never had felt before. “I think part of it is the spiritual awakening and the feeling that peace is here for a while, any way,” he said. ‘The closer we got to the Iron Curtain, the less fear we found of the people for Russia, and the greater hunger for religion. In Fin land, they were just Uke sponges, drinking up anything about God. SECRET SESSIONS “We heard wonderful stories of secret religious meetings in Rus sia, and we were told in Sweden. Finland, and Oermany tHat if there was freedom in Russia today there would be the greatest spiritual re vival in history in that country.” Graham said he believed he and | his group helped offset the impres sion held by some Europeans that I the United States is a country of cowboys, sexy movies, and gang sters. Warrens Rexall Drug Store Sued Fcr Selling Too Cheap A Dunn drug state, barren’s Cut-Rate Rexall Drug Store, has been sued in Federal Court for— of Ell thing* „ merchandise too cheap. Sterling Drug, Inc. of New York City, a huge wholesale drug con cern, has filed suit for 636300 de mages in Federal Court at Raleigh against C. Ottts Warren, operator i of the local store. R Is believed to be the first suit of its kind ever filed In the State The Record Is Firs 1 IN CIRCULATION... NEWS PHOTOS . . . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES , The Baptist evangelist took ' his “crusade for Christ” to Britain, I Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Hol land, Germany and France. The i enthusiasm and attendance, he said, “far exceeded anything I had ever dreamed of.” After he preached to 80,000 per sons at a Berlin meeting, he sslid. between 20,000 and 25,000 responded to his call to join the church. He estimated that one-third of that au dience had come from East Berlin. Graham, who is 35, has been in. He had five attacks of a kidney ailment during the trip. Although he lost 20 pounds, he said he now feels fine. He said his father-in law, Or. L. Nelson'Bell, of Ashe vifl, N. C. will examine him in consultation with other physicians to decide whether an operation is necessary. His wife, Ruth, and three of his four children met him at the pier when he arrived on the liner Queen Mary. Graham plans to go to Washing ton Thursday for a private address before 120 congressmen. and possibly In the nation. The New York firm claims that! Warren’s Drug Store .advertised and acid Bayer aspirin and Phillips milk of magnesia” at prices tar too low to phase the manufacturer* of the two commodities. anrg WHITHEAIMO The N«w York firm is also ask ing the court to restrain the Dunn firm from advertising any of the NO. 153 Extensive Loss Reported By Some Farmers Hail, wind and rain swept parched Harnett* County fields late Monday leaving widespread crop and prop* erty damages in some areas. County Agent C. R. Ammons said, however, that damage was not county-wide and seemed to bt limited to streaks. In some sections of the county, there was no rain. Some farmers, however, were hit hard. Several said they lost their entire tobacco crop; others report ed heavy damage to cotton, com and other crops. Rain started falling here just before 6 o’clock and continued for about an hour. Hail was mixed with the rain. IN SAMPSON TOO Heavy damage was reported by seevral fanners in the Spivey’s Cor ner section. The hail also cut a severe path through the Lillington- Angier section. Insurance firms said today they had many claims today and from every direction around Dunn. "The hail seemed to be general in every direction,’’ said one in surance firm. On LilUngton, Route 1, Stewart Matthews said he had seven acres of tobacco a complete loss. He said he couldn't find a good stalk any where. He said it was insured for only S3OO an acre. His neighbor, Talton Butts, reported 12 acres of tobacco destroyed. News Shorts ,* - ■■ •* WASHINGTON (UP) The Ag riculture Department reported to- * day it had $0,109395,000 tied up in farm support operations on May 31, a decline of $79,443,000 from- a month earUer. It was the third consecutive monthly drop, and was chiefly due to farmers’ repayment of $64,400,* 000 in loans on 1953-crop cotton. WASHINGTON (07 Ships and aircraft of six North Atlantic Treaty nations will participate this month in major NATO air-sea maneuvers in the English channel, the De fense Department announced to day. AUGUSTA, Ga. im —An or ganization to be known as the Na tional Association for the Preser vation of the White Race has ap pUed for a charter in Superior Court here, court records showed today. „ .Continued on Page Three) Son Os Radio Star Is Dead SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Bl -* An autopsy today was to seek tbs cause of the “peculiar death” of 7- year-old John J. Correll, son of Andy in the radio comedy team of “Amos ’n Andy.” The bqy died at St. John’s Hos pital yesterday, apparently from a mysterious kidney ailment Freeman Gooden, comedy part ner of the child’s father, Charles Correll, said the boy was stricken Thursday. A physician termed the case “peculiar" and said consult ing specialists called into the case did not agree on its nature. Hie physician said the boy may have been poisoned by paint or in sect spray. He noted that the fam ily home was painted recently and its lawns were sprayed. . tig!!