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WEATHER * It's snowing and sleeting out side. Much colder tonight. VOLUME 5 IKE DECLARES FUTURE IS BRIGHT FROSTY THE SNOWMAN All over Dunn yes terday at nearly every home —a snow man was built. This one at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Roberson was one of the largest. Kneeling in JhstM JjjtiJs JhinqA By HOOVER ADAMS * ]OpUNN IS A MAGIC WORD BUT BUCKINGHAM PALACE r, ' If you’re ever in London and * want to get into the inner portals of Buckingham Palace, just call for the head of the Queen’s Household and tell him that you’re from Dunn, North Carolina. We’ve got a dollar to a doughnut that says you’ll get a warm recep tion, also that you’ll get inside the palace. Tell the suave little fellow that you're a friend of General and Mrs. Bill Lee and he might even usher you right in to see Her Majesty, The Queen. General F. A. M. (Boy) Browning, “ now retired, is a man who has a warm spot in his heart for Dunn and for the Lees. He visited here back in 1943 and he loves the town. General Browning until his re tirement some time ago was head of Great Britain’s airborne army, a position equivalent to that held toy Dunn’s General Lee, and the two became close friends. Incidentally, General Browning is the husband of Daphne De- Maurier, the famed novelist. General Browning is distantly re lated to England’s Royal family (he told us once just who the relation ship is and, if we remember cor fContinued on Page Slat •Sen. Morgan Raps Claim On Mental Harnett Senator Robert B. Morgan of Lillington to day took sharp issue with a claim made by State Repre sentative John Umstead of Orange County, chairman of the State Hospital Board of Controls, that waiting lists for the State’s mental institutions have been eliminated. We suggested that Rep. Umstead woud do well to get the facts and to make an actual investigation of conditions before making such a claim. Senator Morgan, who has brand. led failure to care for its mentally i ill as “one of North Carolina’s big gest disgraces,” said today he had a list of at least three names in his pocket to give to Mr. Umstead and was also getting together a list of others. CITES ACTUAL CASES The Harnett Senator said that one of his last acts before leaving office as Superior Court Clerk in December was to sign an order TELEPHONES 3117-3118 front of the snowman are C. A. Roberson, left, and Tommy Roberson, right. Standing, left to right, are: Joyce Pope, Erbien Faircloth, Sybil, Letha, and Patsy Roberson. (Daily Record Photo) Governor Opposes Highway Bond Issue RALEIGH (IP) Gov. Luther H. Hodges recommended to the General Assembly today that “there be no authori zation for a highway bond issue at the present time” and asked the lawmakers’ aid in “devising means” of getting the Highway Commission to deal with needs of the state as a while instead of those of 14 separate divisions. The governor’s message struck a direct blow at the Highway Com mission’s recommendation to the Legislature for a 150-million-dollar bond issue to modernize the state’s primary highways. However, the chief executive said some of the commission’s recom mended ways of increasing high - way fund revenue about $9,385,000 a year “seem to have merit.” The recommendations of the com mission were delivered to the Leg islature Monday night. They called for the bond issue, increases in truck and car registration fees, an increase in fuel tax and a tighter collection system, and a mileage fuel tax system on interstate trucks operating in North Carolina. The governor said then that the recommendations left many ques tions unanswered and that he had asked for the answers. In today’s message, ready by reading clerks in each chamber, he said he had received the answers but they "have further convinced me that much of what the commission has recommended is, to say the least, premature.” Hodges expressed dissatisfaction with the commission’s failure to explain its choice of the lower esti mates available on future increases trying to get into a State hospital a Lillington Negro who has been , waiting for admission for about two years. He also told of another Negro kept confined in Harnett’s jail dur ing the months of November and December with tuberculosis while waiting admission to one of the State's mental institutions. Umstead claimed in a speech in the legislature that it is no longer necessary to confine insane per sons to jail in the State for lack . of facilities at the hospitals. “That statement is absolutely i false,” said Morgan. “Apparently. ' Mr, Umstead doesn't know what The Daily Record in highway revenue and to take into account possible increased fe deral aid or toll roads. He stressed that “no suggestion was offered as to how the proposed bond issue is to be financed.” Says Tonsil Removal Cuts Power BERGAMO, Italy (IP) Two Ital ian specialists in diseases of the throat claimed today that removal of the tonsils lowers a person’s strength and sexual powers. Drs. Guido and Innocente Cal deron! said that men and women robbed pf their tonsils showed an increased desire to drink alcohol and shun work. They said their findings were based on 20 years of research. Dur ing this period they have accumu lated stacks of statistics on the “devastating effect of the missing tonsil.” "Snipping out tonsils is slowly (Continued on Page Eight) Umstead Hospitals situation actually exists at the Ne gro insane hospital at Goldsboro.” “I started to call Mr. Umstead’s hand on his statement in the Sen ate,” said Morgan, “but as a fresh man Senator I thought possibly it might be better to handle the mat ter with him personally.” He said another matter before the Senate at the time also influenced his de cision not to take issue with Um stead in the legislature at that time. UNFAIR TO CLERKS Senator Morgan said he thought Umstead’s claim as “highly unfair” to the Superior Court Clerks of the State who are constantly worried and harassed by the problem. He said that only recently the Clerk of Court in Robeson County had told him of the trouble he was having in getting insane persons committed and that he also knew (Continued On Fag* Twe) DUNN, N.C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 20, 1955 School Board To Meet With County Leaders The Harnett County Boafd ot Education will meet with other county officials and school leaders from each dis trict in the county Friday night to discuss a proposal for a $2,000,000 school build ing bond election in the county. It will be a supper meeting at 7 p. m. in the high school cafeteria at Lillington, Chairman Sidney G. Thomas of the school board will preside. County Superintendent Glenn T. Proffit said today that the meeting will be attended by members of the county board of commissioners, attorneys for the two boards, Har nett Representative Garson Greg ory, Harnett Senator Robert B. Morgan, district school principals and members of all local school boards in the county. NEED IS CRITICAL The two-million-dollar bond issue was proposed at the last meeting of the education board by a delega. tion from Dunn, headed by Dr. Clarence L. Corbett, chairman of the district board. “The need for classroom space in practically every school is criti cal and desperate,” pointed out Proffit, “and the only way we can see to get the money is through a bond ,election.” H£&aid the purpose of Friday meeting Is to get tfcfe sen timent of leaders from each com munity. “After all,” he pointed out, “there would be no need in going to the expense of calling an election un less we can get the support of the people and their backing to put it across.” Rose Funeral To Be Friday HENDERSON (If) Funeral services will be held Friday for Paul H. Rose, founder and presi dent of the Rose department store chain, who died following a heart attack at Palm Beach, Fla., yes terday. Rose, a native of Northampton County, was 74 years old. He open ed his first store in Henderson in March 1915 and expanded opera tions to 138 stores in six Southern IContinueo On Page Two) Lillington Corps Needs Volunteers Lillington Ground Observation Corps, notified to stand by for a 24 hour alert at any time, today issued an urgent call for more volunteers to staff the post. Lillington’s post, in operation since 1951, is located at the prison camp and is in charge of Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Sessoms. At present around 45 volunteers, many high school pupils, have qualified to work at the post, but Sessoms pointed out that one hundred workers is a bare minimum needed in the event the post is called to spot planes on a 24 hour basis for an + Record Roundup + TO RALEIGH Dr. W. B. Hun ter was In Raleigh Tuesday for a ; conference with Dr. Roy Norton, i State Health Officer. All county health officers were called to the : capital to discuss with their chief : recommendations made by the ad- ' visory budget committee relative : to the cost of operation of the pub lic health department for the next two years. Final decision as to : spending is up to the legislature. HEALTH BOARD The Harnett County Board of Health is slated to meet January 27 and it had been hoped to have the meeting in the handsome new center now being completed on the courthouse square •jt . ■■ | CHAMBER LEADERS—Pictured here are the two men playing the leading role in tomorrow night’s annual banquet of the Dunn Chamber of Commerce. At the left is Chamber Manager Manager Ed Carroll and at the right is President Grover C. Henderson, who will preside. You can still make reservations for the banquet. (Daily Record Photo.) Dunn To Be Host At Band Clinic High School band members from four towns will gather in Dunn next Friday and Saturday, January 28 and 29, for a two-day band clinic. Plans for the event, second to be held here, were announced this morning by Harold Grand, band director at Dunn High School. High school musicians of Dunn, Fayetteville, Smithfield and Fu quay Springs will participate in the clinic. Conducting the clinic will be Herbert L. Carter of the East Caro lina Department of Music. He is director of the East Carolina marching and concert bands. The clinic, pointed out Grant today, will give high school musi cians an opportunity to play to gether in concert and to receive in struction from expert teachers of various instruments of the band. BEGINS ON FRIDAY Visiting musicians will arrive and join the Dunn band Friday morn ing at 9 o’clock to begin rehearsals. A big 80-piece band will be massed from the four schools. Rehearsals will be held all day Friday and Saturday and a concert by the massed barid will be given Satur day night at 8 o’clock in the high school auditorium. It will be open to the public. Grant said today the group is exceptionally fortunate to secure Carter as director. For several years, Carter has served as chair man of the Eastern Division of the All-State Band Clinic, held an nually at East Carolina College. indefinite period. In the past, long est alert has been three days. MEETING SET The Air Filter Center in Durham is sending a representative to Lil lington next Monday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Cen ter to instruct volunteers for thee Grounds Observation Corps. House wives who can donate as much as one hour of service in the day, and many more men, are needed at the post. Tasks are simple, but some instructions are necessary before worker can be used at the post. All iCnntltmed On Page Twe) No date for the move from the health department’s present quart ers in the agriculture building to the new home has been set. Last minute work on the floors and other finishing touches remain to be done. Time for a public opening ceremony has yet to be announced. COUNCIL MEETING The Harnett County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs will hold its quarterly meeting on January 25, but a place of meeting has not been decided. Announcement will b e made at a later date. Meantime, the extension service has announced two special meeting in February (Continued On rage Six) Morgan Offers Bill To Aid Law Officers RALEIGH (IF Both House and Senate received two bills today designed to strengthen state sta tutes authorizing police to arrest persons without warrants. The bill was introduced by State Senator Robert Morgan of Harnett. Eleven other Senators signed the warrant, providing a person has bill with him. One bill would allow a peace officer to make an arrest without committed a feony or misdeamear.- or in the presence of the officer, or if the officer has reasonable ground to believe a felony or misdeanmean oi has been committed in his pre sence and will evade arrest if not taken into custody immediately. The second bill specified the offi cer would be required to take im mediately the person arrested be fore a magistrate or any other rants. The bill would allow the officer authorized to issue war officer to keep the person in cus tody until a warrant could be is sued. Convicts Still Holding Guards BOSTON (IP)—Four defiant con victs holding 11 hostages in Massa chusetts State Prison today spurned all peas to end their three day mu tiny. They said they were deter mined to gain freedom at any cost. Churchmen and relatives of the convicts tried without success to persuade the mutineers to free the five guards and six inmates they hold prisoner. “They are determined to hold out,” said Father Edward T. Harti gan, Catholic prison chaplain, after a visit Wednesday night to the (Continued on Page Two) i MISSED GAS CHAMBER, GOT PRISON TERM Sherwood Barefoot Facing New Charges In Johnston Sherwood' Barefoot, 18-year-old Meadow High School student who last year escaped the gas chamber on a first degree rape charge and only last week received a prison term in Harnett for a sex crime, today was facing trial in Johnston County on two more charges. . The 90-pound, tenth-grade stu dent has been charged with pos sessing and transporting bootleg i whiskey and with assaulting a Ben son police officer. , Policeman C. O. Woodall said he < and Police Chief Johnnie Medlin , of Benson arrested Barefoot as he The Record Is First IN CIRCULATION. . . NEWS PHOTOS . . ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY Continued Economic Expansion Is Seen WASHINGTON (IP) President Eisenhower said today that “the vigor of the recent recovery” points to a ‘‘high and satisfactory level of employment and production” in 1955. In his annual economic report to Congress, he said that continued economic expansion, coupled with further cuts in federal spending, i “should make possible . . a general, though modest, reduction in taxes” next year. But he repeated that a tax reduction will not be justified this year. As for long-range prospects. Mr. Eisenhower held out the possibility of "a glorious economic future" with national production rising from the present annual rate of 360 billion to 500 billion dollars 01- more within 10 years. He also warned in his generally optimistic report that the govern ment will not permit a bull stock market to run away and upset the nation’s economy. “Continued eco nomic recovery must not be jeo pardized by over-emphasis of spec ulative activity,” he said. Mr. Eisenhower promised that the government will keep a “close watch” on the stock market and other financial developments. The Senate Banking Committee also will investigate the Wall Street boom next month. GRADUAL BRAKING But the President said that any government brakes on the rising stock market will be applied grad ually. The 203-page report contained 33 specific recommendations fbr ac tion by Congress or the states to create a favorable climate for economic growth. Most were re peats from the President’s State of the Union anq budget messages. His principal new proposals were that Congress “substantially” increase the maximum fine for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and that the states liberalize unemployment compensation payments. He based his forecast for a pros perous 1955 on the expectation that spending by consumers and state and local governments will continue to rise, likelihood of “some rebuild ing” of inventories, a good outlook for construction and export trade, prospects for an upward turn in plant and equipment expenditures, and a slowdown in the decline in federal spending. Mr. Eisenhower termed last year’s economic decline “relative ly mild and brief” and said 1954 “will go down in history as one of (Continued on Page Two) Court Takes Action To Collect Fines Harnett County, all too frequent ly a speed corridor for soldiers tra velling to and from Ft. Bragg, Tuesday took measures to assure prompt payment toy servicemen of court costs in traffic indictments. On recommendation of the State Highway Patrol officers, Judge M. O. Lee, of the Harnett Recorder’s Court ruled that all traffic viola tions that involve servicemen w'ill be set for trial the first Tuesday in each month. Solicitor Neill Mc- Kay Ross and Sheriff Claude R. Moore seconded the suggestion of the patrol. Patrolmen pointed out that fre quently soldiers, cited to Lillington tried to make a get-away after they saw him unloading whiskey on the streets of Benson. Woodall said in attempting the get-away the youngster tried to run over him with his automobile. Another youth, Leroy Joyner, of Benson, was arrested with him. NO. 33 Veep Pumps Gas To Aid Polio Fund WASHINGTON IIPI Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon, who “grew up in a filling station,” pumped gas yesterday for the March of Dimes polio fund. His first customer pulled out of the station with tank full and bill fold intact. Nixon forgot to ask for the money. Fortunately for the polio fund which was collecting the profits of today's operations at two stations here—his subsequent sales were more business-like. The vice president was possibly the only filling station attendant in history to drive to work in a chauffeur-driven limousine and surrounded by Secret Service agents and uniformed police. He removed his topcoat, got into a station attendant’s jacket and (Continued on pare ate) Three Marines bie In Crash NEW BERN OP)—Three Cherry Point Marines were killed today when a car went out of control on a curve, skidded on the icy shoulder of the road and struck a tree 10 miles east of here. The bodies of the victims were thrown clear of the wreckage but all three died almost instantly. Highway patrolman John Jenkins said the car, a 1950 Mercury, was traveling “apparently as fast as if could be driven.” The Marines were listed as Rod ney Stoltzfus, Henry J. Perron and Byron Craw-ford. Their home ad dresses were not immediately avail able. NO SCHOOL TIL MONDAY Superintendent Glenn T. Prof fit announced this afternoon that because of the weather and condi tion of roads, there will be no school in Harnett County Friday. Classes will reconvene Monday. to court for traffic violations, fail to appear the first time. This is often due to fact that trial is some weeks past pay day, which falls on the first of each month, and defen dants often seek postponements, call on chaplains to intercede for them, request extension of time to pay costs. “We will try to have these cases the first of each month,” said Judge Lee. “Then there can be no excuse for requests for time pay ments. I think you have a good idea. It will save time of the clerk an of the court.” “After all,” commented the so (Continued oa Page Two) i Barefoot’s girl friend, Betty Hud son, riding with them was released without charges. ASKS JURY TRIAL The officers also confiscated Barefoot’s 1954 Ford, but said it “mysteriously disappeared” from in front of the police station about the same time Barefoot left poUoe. headquarters under bond. Hie of ficer said he was sure the person who had the other key to the *A§- cle took it. It hasn’t been found since. (Continued on Pigs Two)
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