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* WEATHER * Considerable cloudiness today. Somewhat cooler. Scattered light rain Thursday. VOLUME 5 HODGES ASKS BIG TAX INCREASE *#|... fflUggp b p : fl| ■ , fßff , y ■ BT i£ jh^ J|r’v-..- M I.' IJ ■ ' M 4j <^HE ■/ M JnJ| * V .JUS f Jr / M i ■ k''^ jfflfi M * '" / jj? 'ji y || ''’’^f^al $ J m DUNN’S NEW MASONIC OFFICERS The Dunn Masonic Lodge last night installed Master J. L Thomas and other new officers for 1955. W. A. Hooks of Smithfield, extreme right, deputy grand district manager, conducted the rites. Left to right are, front row: Paul L. Strickland, Jr., trustee; Curtis B. Ennis, secretary; J. E. * Jh&AG JjiiJst $ JhinqA By HOOyER ADAMS 1 : LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS A number of Dunn Rotarians are making plans to attend the Golden Anniversary convention of Rotary I International at its birthplace in jr Chicago this summer .. President ♦ Eisenhower has been invited as one | ■ of the speakers .. The Dunn club also expected to send representa- ItfjKyves to Lenoir on January 31 to welcome International Presi- W dent Herbert B. Taylor on his visit to North Carolina It will be the § first time a president of Rotary In ternational has visited the State in a number of years .. Maude Lee was a sad, sad gal today .. Maude, who runs things for Tit Tart out at Tart Coal and Oil Co., was real proud of her growing aquarium but for some reason or other many of the fish, snails and other water creatures have been dying She was lamenting the demise of her ocean family yesterday morning when we dropped by her office #She figures the cold weather must have killed them But it really shouldn’t get that cold in the office of a fuel concern, should it? Earl Jernigan, back from the Or ange Bowl game, brought home copies of The Miami Daily News, which had big sections devoted to color photos of the Orange Bowl parade, game and other festivities.. .. “Who said Miami is full of beau i tiful wimmin?” asked Earl He ; said he saw more old folks than r pretty girls....ln fact, he added, the latter were noticeably scarce i' . And Paul Hester says he found ;v Mia-' has developed into a beauti fy ful dream city... He reports that | (Continued On P«ge Two) 4 Sheriff Asks Funds For Extra Services 'f , The people of Harnett County like to have their sher iffs office open on a 24 hour basis and are willing to pay for this service. , That , was what new Harnett County Sheriff Claude R. Moore told the county commissioners on Monday. The sheriff said his de cision to make good on a cam - jl paign promise to keep the office m open at all times has met with po pular response. "I even venture to say that over half the people of the county would Resign a petition to keep this service ” "said Moore. And he added he thought the public is willing to ' pay for efficient law enforcement. £. “If you gentlemen can see fit to get the money we could use a night cleric’* Moore told the commission 'em. He pointed out that with onl; TELEPHONES 3117-3118 Dunn To Be Host To Rotary Forum The Dunn Rotary Club on April 15 will play host to I an Inter-City Forum of Rotary International, it was an nounced today by President Herman P. Green. District Rotary Governor Ralph Wellons of Pembroke and represen tatives front Rotary International in Chicage will be present to lead the forum. President Green said the forum will be attended by Rotarians from five visiting Rotary clubs, Lilling ton, Fayetteville, Roseboro, Clinton and Mount Olive. The meeting will be held at 6:30 o'clock in the General Lee Banquet Hal) of Johnson’s Restaurant here. President Green said today that the names of speakers who will ap pear here representing Rotary In ternational have not yet been an nounced. They will be assigned to the meeting at an early date by the Chicago headquarters of the world wide civic organization. Localco mmlttees to handle ar rangements for the meeting will be announced later. ANNIVERSARY SET _ Plans for the Dunn club’s observ ance of the Golden Anniversary of Rotary were also announced today. This meeting will be a Ladies’ Night on Friday evening, Feb. 25th. Past District Governor J. Shepard Bryan of Dunn will give a history of the local club and showing of a film on (Continued On Page Four) HAS OPERATION Former Mayor Herbert B. Taylor, prominent Dunn business man, Is a patient at McPherson Hospital in Durham. Mr. Taylor underwent an operation yesterday to have a cataract removed from his eye. His condition today was reported sat isfactory, although he will have to remain at the Durham hospital for about two weeks and will then be confined to his home here for several more weeks. four rural policemen at present, two men are on night duty and two on day with the sheriff. In order to answer the two-way radio it is necessary that one of the po licemen serving on night side re main constantly in the office. Moore said he bad mentioned the matter to Mayor Joel Layton, J\ of Lillington of using a combined clerk for both the county seat town and the county. However, he said Mayor Layton said he would not make any discussion of the matter without first talking to the LU lngton Town Board. Commissioners, appearing to like this idea, suggested that Cbunty (CewH—4 on Page Twe) JJailtj 'fXtmrU Williams, senior deacon; Master Thomas; N. M. Johnson, Jr, sen ior warden; back row, Retiring Master Earl Jones; H. A. Westbrook junior steward; R. L. Cromartie,( Jr., treasurer; Coy Bullock chap lain; Nick Joseph, senior steward, and Mr. Hooks. (Daily Record Photo by Willie Biggs.) Honey Blonde Picked As Cotton Maid MEMPHIS, Term. (tPl—Honey blonde De Lois Faulkner, 20, beau teous “cow girl” from an Okla homa ranch, has been chosen the 1955 Maid of Cotton to represent the industry on an international tour. Miss Faulkner, of Sallisaw, Okla., who already holds several beauty Towns, was winner over 21 other girls from 15 cotton-growing states In the annual Maid of Cotton con test Tuesday night. She succeeds Beverly Pack of El Paso, Tex., as the world ambas sadress of the nation’s cotton In dustry. She will spend six months on a 60,000-mile tour of the United States and parts of Europe after first taking a brief modeling course In New York. Faye Anthony of West Palm Beach, Fla., was chosen first al ternate and Mary Lou Holliday of Galveston, Tex., second alternate. Miss Faulkner, reared within sight of cotton fields, also must ■earn all she can about cotton and talk about it during her travels, and on radio and television ap pearances. She leaves for New York Thursday. An important pert of her assign ment will be ip show off to ad vantage an almost limitless ward robe to be provided her, partly with the help of Parisian designers and all of cotton. * Miss Faulkner is blue-eyed, five feet, 8 1-2 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. HOUSTON. Tex. 0?) Frank Broyles, the man who coached the backfield for the Cotton Bowl champions, Georgia Tech, was re ported first in line today for the head football coaching job at the University of Houston. Dunn Post Office Is Still Growing Business at the Dunn Post Office is still Increasing, Assistant Pot master Charles Lee reported this morning. Postal receipts here for 1954 to taled $87,682A3, as compared with $88,122.58 In 1953. This is a net in crease of $1,559.95. Mr. Lee pointed out that the in crease, although small, continues a steady pattern of growth shown by, the Dunn Post Office. He said the Dunn office has shown an in crease each year for the past 12 years. DUNN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 5, 1955 Dunn Han Has Narrow Escape I A. B. Adams, 75-year-old retired Dunn business man, suffered a close call late Friday afternoon when his automobile was struck and completely demolished on the Dunn r Fayetteville highway, just outside the city limits. Adams was returning from a fishing trip when a truck owned by Casper Tart and driven by Harvey Bass cut out across the highway in front of him. Corporal Rommie Williamson of the highway patrol, investigating officer, said the only thing that kept Adams from getting killed was the fact that he was traveling at a slow rate of speed and managed to swing to the left side of the high way to avoid the full impact of the crash. He escaped with only minor bruises. Mr. Bass, well-known Dunn citi zen and church leader, assumed full responsibility for the accident and was cited to court by Corporal Williamson on charges of falling to yield the right-of-way and mak ing a turn without giving a signal. Adams’ automobile was a com plete loss and damage to the truck was estimated at about $250. Congress Convenes ; Democrats In Seat WASHINGTON (IP) The Democrats took over com mand of Congress today with a prayer and a pledge to cooperate with Republican President Eisenhower in the two crucial years that lie ahead. Harmony was in the air as the 84th Congress convened at noon with the traditional opening-day formalities. Nolegislative business was transacted. Four ( hours before the Senate and House were gavelled to order, legislators joined President Elsen hower and Cabinet members at the National Presbyterian Church and prayed for divine guidance for the new Congress. The change of command—from Republican to Democratic—w as the highlight of this opening day. It was the first time since the Re publican-controlled 80th Congress of 1946-48 that the political party which controlled the White House + Record Roundup MORE TV SETS The number of television sets in Harnett County is growing rapidly. As of October 29, 3,504 of Harnett’s 11,800 families had' television sets, and all dealers of the county reported heavy sales during the Christmas season. DIRECTORS TO lIL Mem bers of the board of directors of the Dunn Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight at 7 o’clock. It will be the first meeting since the County Board Faced With Wide Variety Os Requests Roads and office space, not to mention uniforms for rural policemen and a night clerk for the sheriff’s office, were on the list of wanted items when the county com missioners met Monday in their first session of the New Year. At the same meeting the board fixed the term of all rural police at one year, with the term beginning the first Monday of each December. Rural jpollce, employed by the com missioners, work under the direc tion of the Sheriff. Previously, no length of term had been fixed iby the board. Members present were Chairman L. A. Tart of Dunn, and Commis sioners B. P. Ingram of Mamers, J. E. Womible of Lillington, Bob Pate of Erwin and R. Glenn Johnson of Kipling. A day-long session had a pleasant break at noon when the board was invited to lunch by Com missioner Wamble at his home. Commissioners, beset by road problems, however, declined the in vitation of Sixth District Highway Commissioner C. A. Hasty to go to Whiteville on January 5 for a dis trict-wide meeting to consider road requests. Instead, commissioners suggested Informally that any board member with a road request in his district would accompany pe titioners and petitions to the area office In Fayetteville and confer with L. E. Whitfield, district engi neer. Chairman Tart pointed out that the Fayetteville office is more con venient for .persons from' this sec tion. He suggested that an apipvint ment, made in advance, would he hoped save time of the petitioners and highway officials alike. ROADS APPROVED Meantime, commissioners took favorable action on three road peti tlons, one for Upper Little River Township and two in Anderson Creek. Colin Black of Upper Little River appeared to inquire about a petition first circulated around five years ago. It requests all-weather surface for a road measuring around five miles, but In three different sec tions. This road intersects Norring ton Road, North of Upper Little River, and runs North two and sev en-tenths of a mile to the Johnson ville Road, which it crosses and then runs South of the Johnson ville Road, then North for two and three tenths of a mile to the Mc- Dougald Road, crossing McDougald Road and North for one and four tenths of a mile, where it inter (Con tinned On Pace Two) was not in power In Congress. Rep. Sam Rayburn of Texas took over a familiar Job In the House speaker. JOHNSON 1 PLEDGE A Republican • Vice President Richard M. Nlaon—called the Sen ate to order, but it was the Deml crats who were in control with Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas as majority leader and Sen. Walter F. George of Georgle as new Sen ate president pro tempore. Johnson has pledged that the Democrats will follow a policy of supporting the President when they think he Is right and opposing him when they think he is Wrong. But (Continued on Page Two) election of Emmett C. Aldredge, president, and other new officers. COUNCIL MEETING Dunn's city council will meet tonight at 7 o’clock. Tax matters and a num ber of other issues are scheduled to come before Mayor Ralph Hanna and the board. FINANCE COMMlTTEE—Treas urer Earl H. Mahone has been nam (ConttaoM on Page Pew) aIIIeHS mk "’liiun gk fIHF jj|L M -a RECONCILED —Exiled King Peter of Yugoslavia says he and his estranged wife, Alexandria, have agreed to a reconciliation. Peter filed divorce proceedings 14 months ago because of money difficul ties, but a holiday meeting of the pair in Switzerland changed their minds. FBI Agent's Case Transferred Today Harnett Judge M. O. Lee of Lillington Wednesday morning signed an order transferring to U. S. District Court the case of FBI Agent Robert B. Hurley of Fayet teville, charged with an alleged false arrest and assault on an alleged Harnett draft-dodger. The U. S. district attorney filed a motion on December 21 asking removal of the case, but Judge Lee postponed a ruling until today pending arguments on the motion. In the meantime, Federal Judge Don Gilliam issued an order res training Harnett court officials from assuming jurisdiction over the case. The order was served on Judge Lee and County Solicitor Neill McK. Ross. The restraining order could not be served on Court Clerk Elizabeth Matthews since It had been improperly made out against “Court Clerk Robert Morgan,” who went out of office last month. Hurley had been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Larkins Nu chols Grissman, 26, of Broadway, Route 1, who charges the FBI agent tried to arrest him without a war rant and assaulted him with a pis tol. NO ARGUMENTS Attorney Herbert F. Seaiwell of Carthage, representing Crissman as private prosecutor, indicated on Dec. 21 that he would oppose re mival of the case to Federal Court, but today consented to removal of the case without oral argument. The FBI said the case against Crissman for draft-dodging and the case against the officer would be (Continued On Page Four) General Assembly Convenes; Billy Byrd Is Given Post £4 a™d- lh ? e H4 5 e 5 „^^SS “ ,mmedtate briefln ß on problems Rep. Larry I. Moore of Wilson] told members of the Democratic I caucus after h’o nami-avim as] speaker last night he planned to scan the way ahead immediately after formal organization of the lower chamber. *Td like tomorrow sometime to outline some of the things I feel face us,” Moore said. He said in an interview recently that the par amount Issues before the session are those of financing and North Carolina's position in regard to public school segregation. Secretary of State Thad Eure was scheduled to convene the Senate at 11 a. m. and the House at noon, presiding until members of each The Record Is First / IN CIRCULATION . . NEWS 1 PHOTOS. . . ADVERTISING J COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY Husband Os Mambo Queen Is Arrested NEW YORK (IP) The elusive Norman V. Nusser, husband of the “Mambo Queen of America” and object of a coast-to-coast search as a $250,000 burglar, w'as arrested in a Greenwich Village bar last night as he calmly sipped a glass of beer. Eight defectives seized the dap per, 30-year-old former mental pa tient while he waited in the bar for a rendezvous with his night club dancer wife Mercedes, 33, known in the trade as “Conchita Lopez, the Mambo Queen of Amer ica.” ONE KILLED, 3 HURT ANDERSON, S. C. (1?) C. Lang don Cheves, 2, vice-president of Daniel Construction Construction Co. of Greenville, was instantly killed and three companions were injured last night in a traffic ac cident 16 miles north of here. . chamber were sworn in and elect ed their presiding officers. BILLY BYRD NAMED P’n. Luther E. Bamhardt of Ca barrus county was scheduled to be come president of the Senate, hav ing won unanimous nomination I last night at the caucus of the Democrats who hold all hut one Senate seat. The caucus also nom inated unanimously Dr. Paul & Jones of Pitt County as prsidnt pro tern, S. Ray Byerly of Sanford as principal cleric, William H. Byrd of Lillington as reading cleric and Herman Scott of Chatham County as sergeant at arms. (Moore was nominated unani mously by the (Democrats who con trol all but 10 House-seats, tin NO. 22 Heavy Proposal Os 552 Million Is Submitted RALEIGH UP) Gov. Lu ther H. Hodges and the Ad visory Budget Commission proposed new state taxes to taling $52,063,004 in the next two years today to en able North Carolina to meet an estimated record general fund spending bill of $425,- 325,663. The heavy new tax proposals were placed before the General As sembly with a companion appro - priations measure that represents an increase of $27,705,082 over the current biennium. Hodges emphasized the new tax es are necessary to maintain state services at their present level in view of burgeoning school enroll ment, increased costs and declin ing state income. The appropria tions measure does not include a penny for permanent improve - ments projects nor for matching funds for hospital construction. TOBACCO TAX The revenue bill proposing the first substantial new state taxes in almost two decades provides: Tobacco taxes totaling $8,945,000 a year from a two-cent per pack levy on cigarettes, a $lO per thous and tax on cigars and 10 per cent of the sales price on smoking to bacco. Soft drink taxes totaling $7,125,- j 000 a year from a 3-4 cent per J crown tax on bottled drinks and M an equivalent rate on fountain drinks. Removal of the present sls, single-article limit from the sales tax, designed to bring in $7,250,600 - a year, and elimination of the fleet owner provitym from the sales tax - statute to provide an -estimated $450,000 a year. Additional liquor taxes• $900,000 a year by increasilSSSSt 1 /.,’, liquor tax from 8 1-2 'to Ito'r cent. ’•*» An increase in insurance ium taxes for domestic comptdWL from one per cent to the foreMltJjl. (Continued On Page Four) Campbell Rites 1 Held Tuesday Funeral services were held Tues- ' day afternoon at the Franklin Pres byterian Church on Salisbury, Rt. 1 for Luther Ramsey Campbell, - 60, brother of Locke Campbell of Dunn. Mr. Campbell died Sunday at Rowan Memorial Hospital In Salis bury. He had been in declining health for the past six weeks and seriously ill since Saturday. For the past nine years, Mr. Campbell had been associated with the Hedrick Motor Company of Salisbury. Prior to that he was with other automobile firms in Salisbury. | He was active in civic, social and religious affairs of his county. Officiating at the funeral were the Rev. K. E. Pollock and the Rev. * L. B. Metis. Burial was in the (Continued on Page Twe) nominated unanimously were MOL ' i Annie E. Cooper of j principal clerk. Billy Arthur of Chapel Hill as reading cleric C. Wayland Spruill of Bertie Conn ty as sergeant at arms. House Republicans, meeting with GOP Sen. B. C. Brock of Davie County, named Rep. Paul FMfcsr of Transylvania County as House mi nority leader. They decided not te i nominate candidates for fiftfrrg House or Senate of floes, ' jMNMBk: election of the Democratfe Gov. Luther H. Hodges is schsd uled to address s joint session to morrow combining his “stats s# the state" speech e els haPpet
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