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* WEATHER + WEATHE R .. REUBEN Tomorrow some cloudiness and warm with scattered afternoon thundershowers in mountains. VOLUME 4 lln E • H, ' JfcV 9BH PT ' _, .?• • - OBSERVE BUSINESS ANNIVERSARY M. F. Hodges, left, and his som Billy, will observe the 45th anniversary of the business of M. F. -Hodges and Son tomorrow. Mr. Hodges this week review ed much of the history of Dunn as he looked back 9 Mack Hodges , Dunns Oldest Merchant, Has Anniversary JAcac JjlUsi JhingA By HOOVER ADAM! PLANS SHAPING UP FOR r PERRY COMO’S VISIT - Chamber of Commerce Manager, jIQA Carroll says both chamber and officials are favorable to the Idea of conducting a special census In Dunn Clinton has just com pleted its recount and picked up 2.587 from the 1950 census Clinton’s population is now 7,001... . Dunn will no doubt show a big ger gain than that Tht 1950 •census gives us only 6300.... Mast people figure Dunn’s population how to be at least 8,000... .The new census would be in line with Ed’s new slogan for Dunn, “Fastest growing town in the State.”.... Becky Lee is all set to reign over the AAU diving and swimming meet at Raleigh Friday and Satur day nights .. .J. E. Womble, the new copnty commissioner, was a visitor in The Record office the other day Bay the new hog market at Lllling ton is doing we 11.... Mr. Womble is a mighty busy man, has a lot of varied business interests Doris Day’s new record, “Anyone Can Fall In Love” is catching on. . .. . G. T. Stutts says he’s all ready lor the opening of Erwin’s schools. *3 BIRTHDAYS: Today is the birth day of Mrs. J. O. West, whose hus band had a birthday Just eight days ago, Eastwood Turlington, Sexton ■ Lee, Rosaline Smith and Kenneth ■ Neighbors. Hf THINOAMAJIOS: Willard Nix ■ on says he got quite a kick out of ■ f (Continued On Page Two) \ Mot her Given 64 Years [For Beating Her Child If- LOS ANGELES (IP)—Trinidad Vera, 20, was sentenced ■to six to 64 years in the women’s prison at Corona, Calif, ■for the beating, crippling and partial blinding of her nine ■fcar-old daughter. : ’ ■ever properly fed, clothed ed the child. You burned her and broke her bones," Judge Mildred L. Lillie d Mrs. Vera she had com ’hldeous crimes” against i - daughter by a previous . -fThe Judge denied a motion for a ■ Btrmi on grounds MrVo-a’s jjoe Vera, Celia’s stepfather, is TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 on 45 years of successful business. He is tbe last remaining merchant of those who began business es here around half century ago. (Daily Record Photo) M. F. Hodges, the last remaining Dunn merchant who established business here almost half century ago, will cel ebrate his 45th anniversary of community service tomor row Friday 13. He now operates M. F. Hodges and Son Grocery and meat market on W. Broad Street. This wqek Mr. Hodges began to review his business development over the past 45 years, and also stappsd- to . note that Dunn has grown some too during that time; August 13, 1909: M. F. Hodges, a young man of 25 took a few re sources and moved into a wood building 18 by 20 feet on W. Broad Street. The first building in which he operated was located where Louis Baer now runs a modern department store, and was owned by John W. Thornton. JUST A DREAM THEN Forty-five years ago Dunn was just a dream for a big future. Hodges can remember. There were only five brick stores in the entire town. After two years in the Thornton building, the modest little meat market moved to the “City Market.” And what is now the local police station was then the store stalls, for Hodges located in the same building now owned by the city. Here he remained eight years and saw even more growth. The next few years were spent in business on Broad Street, again in a wooden building located where E. and W. Restaurant is now From the wooden building, he moved across the street to a loca tion where E. Baer now operates, and from this location he moved to a building located where the Smith Optical Shop is now. BURNED OUT But, one night fire broke out in tht block and burned out the busi- 1 ness located on the South side of E. Broad. Years passed and Bodges’ son, Billy joined the business in 1944, and the store relocated on the North side of Broad where it is now. But between the moving times a good many things have happened in Dunn. Mr. Hodges recalled a few of them today. He remembers when the streets through town were mud instead (Cantoned On Page Two) now awaiting trial on chasgM sf assaulting and tpnWwf.ifig the child. Mrs. Vera said Celia was the only one of her six Chfldreh die ever mistreated. . Celia was taken to orthopedic and^iM^te that had been bode* Mr *efcsS» Jtoiiig Jlemrd Sally Rand Is Married Third Time LAS VEGAS, Nev. Ilf) Fan dancer Sally Rand slipped (rhato a wedding chapel between shows early today to marry her third husband, Los Angeles plaster contractor Fred Lalla. Miss Rand was married under her real name of Helen Gould Beck. At first she gave her age at "somewhere over 21,” but later admitted to reporters that she was 52. Lalla, who only yesterday receiv ed a divorce from his first wife, gave his age as 35. The two got their marriage license at the city courthouse last night and were married in the Lit tle Church of the West at the Ho tel Las Frontier shortly after mid night. Shortly after Lutheran Rev. Thomas Daly pronounced the pair man and wife. Miss Rand scurried back to the hotel’s Silver Slipper Saloon for her next elusive per formance with her fans. 3-Year-Old Child Kidnaped, Raped STANFIELD, Arte. <m Pinal County authorities had only one slender -clue to go on -today in their search for a man who kid naped and raped a three-year-old girl Tuesday night. Bobbie Holliday, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carel Holliday, was sto len from her bed about 11:30 p.m., assaulted, then left wandering in a cotton camp two miles from her home here. She was found asleep on a bench In front of a cabin at $ am. yesterday. . Movie Colony Hit By Polio LOS ANGELES <m Health ot fleers today found an epidemic outbreak of infantile paralysis that covered sprawling Los Angeles County and has touched tbs wealthy motion picture colony. DUNN, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 12, 1954 Ike Says Nation Now Showing Marked Economic Improvement About Half Os Dunn's Budget Goes To Labor Around $179,785, or ap proximately 41 percent of Dunn’s 1954-’55 budget of $437,000 will go for salaries, City Manager A. B. Uzzle es* timated today. Broken down for understanding, this would mean that approximately 18 houses valued at SIO,OOO each could be bought with the salary money paid out here during the coming year. The largest salaried department of the city’s many functions is the public works division of the local government. Here workmen will re ceive $37.067.44 —or Just shirt of e nough to buy four SIO,OOO homes. J. A. Bass, a lifetime employee of the town and superintendent of the Public Works Department, re ceives an annual salary of $3,813, or $317.75 a month. PUBLIC WORKS DEPT. Other than Bass, the Public Works Department employs 14 re gular employees with salaries run ning from $3,517.80 for a dragline operator to $1,778.40 for common laborer: Other salaries of the Public Works Department include: S3XBO for a traotoi- operator; $2,856X8 for a mo tor grader operator: $3,246.40 for •JUMruck driver and $1X02.16 for another; $2X46.40 for one laborer; $1,778.40 for seven others; and $4.- 500 for general street work under the Powell BUI. The PubUc Works Department of the Town is in charge of general street widening, grading, ditch dig ging. storm sewer line opening, and similar work. However, In case other departments of the town need ad ditional workers, employees from the Public Works Department can be switched. Totaled, the Public Works De partment's salaries cut about two percent out of the total budget of the town. City Manager Uzzle said -today that the salaries of the laborer* in the Public Works Department Is about the same as similar towns of similar size as Dunn. He point ed out that the size of the depart ment is not too small or too large for the work that has to be done here. As for the efficiency, the City Manager called the work of the department “good.” They have a lot of street patching, curb and gutter laying, and similar work to do, Uzzle stated. Police Involved In Diamond Thefts BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (W Police Commissioner Rob: ert E. Lindbergh said today he believes a theft ring involv ing possibly 50 policemen here might be much trigger when completely investigated. ‘ 88 Police Director Paul L. Singer : said 23 policemen were known to have taken a part in the burglar- < ies which netted the thieves some $56,000. Already charged with burglary and grand larceny were traffic of ficers K. Frank Estes, 29, and Na than E. Smith, 30 and R. G. But trell, 34, a former policeman who + Record Roundup ♦ TO FILL PULPlT—Edward H. Williford, Dunn native and minis- : in Winston Salem to attend the :er will receive her&egre* from the « ffwmifbrt is now rnffh ; Weldon. JELKE WEDS. SETTLES IN BRONX . Sjh ||pl WL • : XR r 1 m III m / mm | saga w •=Mr BHIL ' Ipv -j&JL- 0 jf | WLfm? > y I Ww ' * MINOT 8. *Wtllir JBXE, 23, whose conviction tor compulsory prosti tution wss recently upeet, has reportedly been married to Sylvia Eden, IS, tor six weeks. The couple pre shown to a night dub before Jelke’s •mat, at which time Sylvia with hit n. The oleo heir and his bride ham taken a tour-room apartment in the: Bronx, K. Y, while awaiting g. (’lnternational) Policeman Indicted For Assaulting Man Willie Malloy, Jr., Dunn Negro, yesterday issued a warrant against Policeman John Brockington charging him toith assaulting him with a blackjack Sunday eve ning, August 8. The trial has been set for Wednesday, Angiut 18. On motion of Prosecuting Attor ney Charles Guy, Judge H. Paul Strickland today’set the Brocking ton trial on the same day which Malloy is due to face trial for drunkenness, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. Malloy has re quested' a trial by jury. Malloy has charged Officer Brockington with assaulting him with a' blackjack with Intent to kill, and inflicting serious bodily (Cntinned cm rugs Two) resigned a few months ago while under Investigation. Officer Herbert O. Black, 28, wss charged with possession of stolen property. ONE CONFESSES Travis Ferguson, a former po liceman who admitted be participa ted in 41 burglaries netting an es timated $50,000, was held in county (Owthmed On Pag* Twn) week in Barnett County. Not a mar riage license has bean issued from the register of deeds office in Lil lington since last Friday. Most re cent permits to wed went *© the toQbwihg couples on Aug. 6, to Sa te! Wayne McLamb, 31 of Ngwton Grove, Route 2 add Martha Deri FIVE CENTS PER COPY Ike Prevents Atomic Strike OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (IP) ' President Eisenhower won a last. , minute Taft-Hartley injunction that halted 4,500 atomic production workers from going on strike today at plants here and at Paducah, Ky. U. S. District Judge Robert L. Taylor granted the Injunction Wednesday night at nearby Knox ville a few hours after the Presi dent said an atomic plant was one place where the government can not possibly tolerate a strike. Officials of the CIO Gas, Coke and Chemical union immediately called off the strike that had been set for today. Justice Department attorneys won the injunction soon after some 3XOO CIO workers here voted to Join about 1,000 fellow unton i members who agreed earlier to ; strike today at the Paducah. Ky i plant. Harnett Negroes Demanding Desegregation In Schools Harnett County Negro leaders to day were demandin'? i-imtd: ? u lc tion to end segregation to Harnett County’s public schools. A formal demand has been filed with County Superintendent Glenn T. Proffitt by toe Harnett Coun ty chapter of the National Associ ation for the Advancement of Co lored Ftopl*. The letter making the demand ill endorsed by ■ or more Kkm ciuzen* w wi© oou&vy. A Harnett uhit «f tot NAACP SSS’JIU. The Record Is Firs 1 IN CIRCULATION... NEWS PHOTOS . . . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES Economic Miracles Wrought In Change From War To Peace WASHINGTON (IP) President Eisenhower reported today there are “numerous signs of economic improve ment’’ in the nation. He listed a “tendency” toward diminishing unemployment, rising retail sales, a high rate of spend ing by business for capital expan sion and improvement, a construc tion book, reduction in inventories, and “great strength” in the stock market. "The level of business and con sumer confidence in the economic future is high and improving.” the President said in a mid-year state ment on the economic situation. PARAMOUNT FACT The “paramount fact” about the national economy in mid-year is that the recent business decline has been halted, he said. The President noted that the Federal Reserve indexe of industrial production has moved to an “ex tremely narrow range" around 125 per cent of the 1947 - 49 average since March. “In view of this narrow range of fluctuation in total industrial production ran 8.1 per cent tower in the first half of this year than in 1953. he said, that this measur ed only factory, and mine output. It omitted construction, which has been booming at record levels, agri culture, transportation, and person al services. GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT As a measure of sit|vity to *»e economic fields, Resident Eisen hower said that gross national product—the total or all goods and services produced—Was only 2.7 per oent below the first holf of 1953. Personal income showed a 2 per cent gain and disposable income rose 1.4 per cent. Non - agricultural employment was down 2.6 per cent. “It Is fair to conclude from these facts that the recent economic de cline. on an overall basis, has been very small,” the chief execu tive said. The President said that an even better economic picture results from a comparison with the first half of 1952, the nation’s second most prosperous year. Compared to then, industrial pro duction was up 3.3 per cent, the gnoes national product rose 4.4 per cent, non-agricultural employment Increased 1.1 per cent, personal in come was 72 per cent higher and disposal personal Income was up 8.8 per cent. President Elsenhower also noted that wholesale prices were up only a "tiny” eighth-tenths of one per cent and consumer prices up one tenth of one per cent over a year ago. He said that toe value of the dollar has remained stable and that wages have continued to increase as “one of toe principle expres sions of toe progressiveness of toe American economy.” AO thee statistics, he said, "sug gest a high —or even an im proving state of economic wel fare.” Economic historians of an dent. Steele resides alar LUltogton, bnt .s employed by The Carolinian, a Negro newspaper at Raleigh. IMMEDIATE ACTION Hie demand has been made for immediate action despite the fact tost toe United States Supreme tty to th# Bthwh. to oatot out Unit thwTu ntMrt* NO. 189 Fringed and Fancy ijSav y•, H m i mi ; 'v. Bj "y 'o^o Lv "fa .• , MANCB POUARD mate on Was. •sting beach scene as toa poos* m to* sands at Daytona Bondi, Fla. The fancy suit and toe frfaqpd chapeau make nice Icing for tog tofilrffi, (Mmigtiowd * Terrible Touhy Back In C|ink CHICAGO (If) 4- Roger (toe Ter rible) Touhy’s attorney planned an appeal to toe United States Su preme Court today to win back toe ex-mobster’s freedom. Tohy was put back behind bars yesterday only 49 hours after a federal Judge freed him on grounds that he had ben "framed” into 39 years’ imprisonment. U. s. Appeals Court Judge 13- mer J. Schnackenberg ordered Dm hy*s re-imprisonment until a court rules on toe State of HHnott’ appeal of Touhy’s release. MOV* TO DUNN Mr. and •Mrs. James W. Lae who have been living in TTMulgti. ham taken an apartment with Mrs. Lee'S mother, Mrs. Allen H. A. Lee, Mr. Lee will teach science in the If. win Schools this year. groups toe procedure to be *sml The State Board has rretlwudj advised that the public schools of toe State will be opened, amuhic ted and doeed in the ean*r«umer gregaticn.
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