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+ WEATHER + Nsrth Carolina—Pair and a Utils 4 ' UZZLE ASKS 5-CENTS TAX CUT HERE SIGNS PROCLAMATION Judge H. null ttrKMuit ylii, Dunn Recorder* Court Judfe, It ftetnrod m«t a* he signed a nil driving proc ; hWlßwi ytritrday. Looking on are (L to r.) El ba** KaM r<#Wlittw (or the Depart fcfr*. ■ ,y ; Jhait JOUh JhinqA k» toww iDun *••— - 1 ™*" 'sn LONG LAST WE RIDE jjjfA REAL bolls royce ' • We can now any. with pardonable pride, that- we have lived—for at least 10 minutes—with the upper crutt. • ; Tenth-, now we know what It Is to alnk down deep In the solid plush of a genuine Rolls Royce— a 1984 Rons Royce, too, If you ? It happened last night at John son's Restaurant while we were having supper. We looked out the Window and thaw It was, glittering th all Its British glory, : Our ottrioslty finally got the best Os us-add Our supper got cold while t*e sought, the owner, expecting to Bnd some retired banker, movie Star dr Wall Street baron. The own- Sr looked Immediately familiar and Wien we recognised him—none other ipkn Joe Reynolds who owns a drug store over In Clinton. foe Is a man who has worked Bard, triad* a . big success and fln (Canttaned On Pago Two) I New Pepper Plant Bp Open Next Week mWi Cannon, nationally known cannery which lo ■ttted in Dunn this year, has set July 26, as a tentative ■ute on which they expect to begin operating their new ■P""* for canning of red. peppers. ■ The plant Is the first large vege table cannery to begin operations ■n th* state. It will be operated Kith lock! labor with supervision KtiOUbad by the Bridgeport, Dele ■ f*ART RECEIVING MONDAY H Rdy V. Tew, field representative Ksssl 'for the Cannon firm, stated ■bday that the cannery win prob- Kdp Start receiving red peppers ■io jday. Tew said the present crop Hf peppers, which farmers In the sna Planted especially for Kta eanpery, appears to be of good uppers are already SrPiPK' * 0 turn red. The crop ■ 1 *T the first ever grown KMMkOiallg In this area. It was iKSCSTK TELEPHONES 111? - Silt meat of Highways; Chief of Police Alton A. Cobb of Dunn; and CpL Romie Williamson, located tn Harnett County. The proclamation declared a apodal “drive-safe” period to begin today and extend through Labor Day. (Dally Record Photo) Safety Campaign /& L aunchedMere^ Dunn's Recorders Court Judge H. Paul Strickland yesterday signed a “diive careful” proclamation, and ad vised Dunn motorists that “There is no substitute for careful driving.” Looking on as Judge Strickland Issued the proclamation were Chief of Police Alton A. Cobb, Opl. Ro mle Williams of the Highway Pa trol, and Klwood Mints, field rep resentative of the Department of Motor Vehicle*. SLOW DOWN AND LIVE In signing the proclamation. Judge Strickland reminded drivers that from now until Labor Day will be a special campaign sponsored by Governors of 13 Southern States to encourage careful driving. The campaign will be known as “Slow Down and Live,” but a local news paper man urged that tbs positive way to say the same thing would be, “Drive Fast and Die.” Judge Strickland urged that driv ers should let their speed be con sistent with conditions, have a con stant lookout for children, and consider the other fellow who uses the highway. “Qool driver* drive safe cans check your car, check accidents,” 1* the July traffic safety slogan, the Judge emphasized. Hie Recorders Court Judge also tKi fl union Hie Cannon firm occupies a building constructed by the Dunn Development Carp, on a natal bas is. Machinery fbr cannihg has al- FRONT HEW PEPPER PLANT., ready been installed in the building. The pepper cannery was secured for Dunn through the combined efforts of the local Chamber of Commerce, the State Department of Conservation and DevStopment the Atlantic Coast. Line Railroad, and Carolina Power * Light Go, Director Bern B. Douglas of the State Department of Conservation and Development said B* Nona tbs Cannon plant at Dunp wfll be "the successful forerunner as athir imnw ■ wuuwemss tt- 'Wanted nlng and processing slants wo want to mo located In North qwattng fee *« of our vugetabto as wall as our seafood praMoß.” 3fa? failtj Jtemril DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 13, 1954 warned drivers to kee pthe car un der control where childen are pres ent. watch drinking, and be sure the car is In top condition. He particularly called attention to brakes, lights, tires, wheel align ment, exhaust system, and wind shield wipers. Hoods Suing Each Other For Divorce Counter divorce suits against each other have been filed In Har nett Superior Court by a Dunn couple. Kathryn Jones Hood of Dunn Is seeking a divorce from Edward P. Hood, and custody of their five year-old daughter, Phyllis Macon Hood. Hood, In turn, has filed a cross action also seeking a divorce from her. In both suits, the parties cite two years separation as grounds for the divorce. The child Is now In the custody of the mother. Kate Weaver Moran has filed suit for separate maintenance for the couple's three children, Barbara Sue, 10 , Brenda Fay 4, now living with the plaintiff, and Billy Earl, now with the defendant. Hie wife alleges that Moran’s abusive con duct forced her to flee her home on June 18 taking the girls with her. She cites a long record of “Cruel and barbarous treatment on part of the husband, caused she contends, by excessive drinking. She contends that her husband who Is a painter and has farming and real estate Interests U financially able to provide for his family. She asks regular payments In whatever amount the court sets as “fair 'and just.” Jane Withers Gets Divorce HOLLYWOOD <Ol Jane With ers, 38. former child movie star, oewtre drinking and gambling today for ' her divorce from wealthy Texas on and cattle man William Moss Jr., 33. Mist Withers was grmntsd a di (OaatinnsA Oa Page Two) Many Strikers Return To Job At Oak Ridge OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (IP) Some 1,600 craftsmen of an idle 8,000-man force at two huge Atomic Energy Com mission projects ignored pickets set up by striking laborers and returned to work here today in compli ance with a request by un ion leaders. Some 2,000 AFL laborers halted construction at the K 33 gaseous diffusion plant addition and the super secret Yl2 project yesterday when they setup pickets after re jecting a wage-hike priposal by Associated General Contractors. ABOUT ONE FOURTH An AEC spokesman said almost 25 per cent of the force at the secret projeat being put up by Rust Engineering Co., and about 20 per cent of that at Maron Con struction Co. K 33 project had re turned. The walkout is the second to plague Oak Ridge operations in less than two weeks. It followed the first strike of production work er sin gaseous diffusion plant in the nation’s history. High Point Hit By Three Fires HIGH POINT, N. 0., (IP)—Three raging fires roared through four industrial sites in the heart of this furniture manufacturing city early today, fcausing damage estimated at -thSrt a million dollars. *j Authorities suspected the Ores may have been set deliberately by a “firebug”. The State Bureau of Investigation was called into the investigation by city officials. Two of the firms hit by the pre dawn blazes were almost total los ses. These Included a furniture upholstery plant and the Monarch Furniture Co. plant. The most spectacular blaze swept a lumber company, wiping out one end of the yard stacked high with costly furniture woods. The fire destroyed several small buildings, sheds and machinery. The lumber blaze, last of the three, threatened the City Hall and the famous 14-story High Point Furniture Exposition Building. •Fire Chief Claude Canaday said arson was “definitely a possibility” and warned Industrial Arms to post guards at their property. Police ordered additional foot patrolmen into Industrial districts. No injuries were reported in the all-night conflagrations. BOBEMARY EXPECTING HOLLYWOOD (IP) Singer Rosemary Clooney, wife of actor Jose Ferrer, disclosed last nirht that she is expecting the birth of a child next winter. The singer said she was In “ecstasy” over the Im pending event. BULLETINS The House was scheduled to vote on President Eisen hower’s $25,000,000 health reinsurance plan today and GOP leaders were confident of passage. The plan for broadening coverage and benefits of voluntary, private and nonprofit health insurance is the administration’s al ternative to so-called “socialised medicine.” It would of fer federal backing to acceptable insurance plans which try to give broader coverage to more people. HANOI, Indochina OR Authoritative sources'esti mated today at least 100 secret Communist cells inside Hanoi were preparing to aid rebel tfhops in the final bat tle for the capital. The cells form the hard-core of about 100,000 Communists and Red sympathisers in Hanoi, these sources said. + Record Roundup + Finer Carolina Contest committee met for a covered dish supper on Friday night hi the basement of the LlUlngton Presbyterian Church. Hie steering committee, oomposed of representatives of the civic or ganisattons, viefwed color slides depleting th* project* the oommlt tee has, so far promoted during the calendar year. John H. Black man, chairman, the phOtO grapha which show baton and gs- “MISS DUNN” PACKS FOR PAGEANT Pretty Min Becky Lee, who will represent Dunn in the “Miss North Carolina” pageant this week, is shown here packing In readiness to leave to- - morrow for Burlington. The Dunn beauty, who eel- • Becky Lee To Receive Big Sendoff From Local People Pretty Becky Lee, “Miss Dunn of 1954,” and the lo cally sponsored candidate for the “Miss North Caro; lina” title will receive a rousing send off tomorrow as she leaves for the beauty pageant to be held in Bur lington Wednesday through Friday of this week. Opening the days events In Dunn will be a Dutch luncheon at 12 o’clock at Johnson’s Restaurant. The luncheon will be attended by local Junior Chamber of Commerce officials along with members of the local city government. Immediately .following the din ner, a motorcade headed by CpL Romie Williams of the State High way Patrol will lead a number of cars, Including the one In which Miss Lee will ride, out of Dunn and through Erwin. Tickets for the events In Bhrling ton are available at the local (Continued On Face Hr*) ter views of the county seat town hopes will bring h a prise In the civic im provement contest RinppriMj by the Carolina Power and Light Compa ny In the two Carolina*. Beautifi cation of th* school grounds, hlgh- CommunTty Center and Mart of a park have bean major ynOagto. FIVE CENTS PER COPY ebrated her 19th birthday last week, is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Lee of Dunn. For s full psge of pictures of Miss Lee, made by John Lewis of Lewis Studio to Dunn, turn to page six. (Daily Record Photo.) Nurses File Suit To Collect Claims Three entirely separate civil suits, recently filed in the office of the Clerk of the Harnett Superior Court, in dicate that sometimes nurses, both registered and un trained, contend they fail to collect their wages. In a suit filed on June 25, Mrs. Rosa Wells, a registered nurse of Dunn, has sued the estate of Joel B. Altman in an effort to recover $2,190 and Interest for professional services. Mrs. Wells contends that for three or four years prior to the death of Altman, who died in 1953, she administered daily hypodermics to him in treatment of diabetes. The nurse contends that the cus tomary price for injections is two dollars each. Several times when approached about payment, the nurse declared in her complaint that Altman told her he would settle as soon as he sold lots he owned in the Town of Dunn. No settlement ever was made the nurse alleges. The firm of Young and Taylor represent Mrs. Wells. UNUSUAL SUIT ' One of the most unusual civil suits to be entered in Harnett Court Is one started by Mrs. Mary Humphera of Angler In which she sets forth how she spent 20 years In hard housekeeping tasks and nursing without collecting wages of any kind. She claims she did so in full expectancy of receiving a suit able settlement from her employers In accord with an agreement made at the time sue started to work. Mrs. Humphera, who Is repre sented by Attorney John R. Hood, alleges that the late J. Mack Wil liams, well-to-do Ang'er it .r who died in March lSal, -Begged her to come to his place and help look after him and his brother, Joe Williams. Both men were bachelors and lived together at the same house. The suit Is brought against the estate of J. Mack William* who was second brother to die. Mrs. Humphers alleges that the understanding was that aha would be paid and eared tor as kmg m she lived. She allege* she moved Into the William* home where she “cooked, washed, scrubbed” and cared tor Joe Williams who was IB for a long time. She also nursed The Record Is Firs f IN CIRCULATION... NEWS PHOTOS . . . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES Mack Williams in his last Illness. Mrs. Humphers contends she was never paid any wages and has found no provision was made for her at their death. Her lengthy, faithful service, she contends, is reasonably worth $21,900. She charges specifically breach of agreement and seeks what she terms “long over due wages." Another and separate complaints also lodged against the same Wil liams estate. Mrs. Mae Smith seel,, reimbursement of $12,410 for 17 years service to the Williams bro thers. , She contends she and her husband moved to the Wil liams farm at their insistence and that she milked cows, fed pigs and helped nurse the 111 men. Like Mrs. Humphers, Mrs. Smith who is also represented by Attorney Hood, alleges she was led to be lieve she would have financial be nefits from the Williams estate. Dulles In Paris For Vital Talks PARIS KB Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew to Paris fer dramatic showdown talks cn Indochina and the European army with French Premier Pierre Mendea-Ftance. Dulles Arrived In Paris by plane as authoritative reports from Lon don. said he will have Britain’s full support cn both Indochina and the European army plan. French sources said Mtirtit - France agreed to seven am-1 eral oonditioM which President I me seven points were not ott* * • ■ 'ffssal NO. 158 City Manager Will Present Year's Budget City Manager A. B. Uzzle indicated today that he will call for a tax rate cut of at ' least five cents on the hun dred valuation when he pre sents the 1954-’55 budget to City Council Thursday eve ning. If approved, the cut would set the tax rate at $1.60 per hundred valuation from the present $1.65. Ap proval is expected. In spite of the proposed cut in the tax rate, Uzzle will ask for a budget of $437,000 against $390,- 000 last year. The City Manager pointed out that some of the Town’s debts are being cut down and that he be lieves the cut in taxes wiU be pos sible. Last year considerable dis cussion of taxes resulted from Council’s decision to leave the rate at $1.65. “The total valuation for the new year has not changed much,” Ua zle stated today as he discussed the new budget. An estimate of approximately nine and a half million valuation will not change much, he added. Uzzle pointed out that he did not know how much Council might cut the budget he has proposed, but added that everything has been covered In the proposal he will make Thursday evening. The copy of the budget to be studied will be just a pencil sketch, the City Manager pointed out, with room for additions and reductions, i OTHER MATTERS In addition to consideration Os the budget, the Board will act oa Uzzle’s choice of a tax collector. Provision for hiring the tax col lector was made some weeks ago, but no appointee has been announ ced. Uzzle said today that 14 per sons, including three women have applied for the poeitlon. The choice of a collector has been tentatively made, he commented, but there Is a possibility that Council Will change. Salary for the tax collector was set at $250 at a recent meeting of the Town Board. The job will he fulltime. Council Is expected to hear re ports from City Attorney L R. Williams on: 1. Progress on Tax foreclosures. 2. Collection of several hundred dollars due the town for work on the Fleishman sub-division. The Board is also expected to open two bids for a town bookkeep ing machine. However, Uzsle said today that the bids will be for “consideration only.” 301 Award Will Be Made j On July 29th RALEIGH An —The State High way Commission called far Mds to day on 5$ projects involving SIMS miles of road work In 87 eenntiee, one of the largest lettings in reseat state history. Bid are to he received July 91. The Highway Coaunlaaton will re view bids and award oon tracts at (Continent On Page Twa) closed, but authoritative sources | said they barred aay Red take over of Indochina, kept open tiu ‘1 sav.w® i Nam and demanded an effective
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