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* WEATHER * Partly cloudy and cool today. Ge nerally fair tonight and Wednes day. Colder tonight. VOLUME 5 AMMONS, OTHERS ARE RENAMED ■RyP . f^vjjjSlßpPPM JhsiM dtitttff JhinqA By HOOVES ADAMS BEjtUTY QUEEN, CHURCHES MR. HENRY, OTHER NOTES Becky Lee, one of Dunn's loveli est and shapliest young ladles, is entering the annual Maid of- Cot ton ConteHt in Memphis. Tesn ' Contestants are selected on/y from photographs and if Becky can Just get picked as a finalist she would stand a mighty good chance of winning.. The Mary Stewart School is holding a .barbecue Thursday ....One of the most beautiful churches in Harnett Co unty Is the new Baptist Church at Coats It Is a magnificent structure .. SO Is the new First Baptist Church at Erwin It would toe hard to find pret'.ler churches anywhere in Eastern Carolina. . _ Postmaster Ralph Wade of Dunn attended the district postal meeting at Fayette ville Friday night and he and Con gressman Eriel Carlyle chatted briefly about the cut In service to Dunn. The Post Office Depart ment has assured Congressman Carlyle that the regional office in Atlanta will Investigate immediate ly the reduction In mall deliveries 4nd pick-tups to and from the Dunn Post Office .....The congress man has asked immediate action (Continued On Page Two) DEALERS GET FIVE-YEAR CONTRACTS GM Will Revise Dealers' Contracts WASHINGTON (TO President Harlow Curtice an nounced today that General Motors Corporation will re vise Its franchise agreements with auto dealers under fire by Senate investigators to offer dealers a five-year contract instead of the present one-year agreement. Curtice made the surprise an nouncement as the Senate monopo ly subcommittee resumed hearings on QM’s activities as the nation's major industrial giant. Curtice made public a telegram to all GM car and truck dealers advising them that, if agreeable. Milling agreement* which were signed effective Nov. 1 for one year will be extended to expire TELEPHONES 3117 - 3118 WHILE A WAITING TRIM fcoss Accepted Pay , Judge Lee Didn't The vice-recorder, who substitut ed on the bench of the Harnett Recorder’s Court pending disposi tion of grand jury indictments against Judge M. O. pee and Soli citor Neill Ross on charges of mis conduct in office, has had his pay. but so far. the acting solicitor had drawn nothing. This was revealed yesterday at the meeting of the county board of commissioners when the manner of compensating Vice Recorder L. M. Chaffin and acting solicitor J. T. amm came before the board. Indictments charring Judge Lee and Solicitor R%ss with misconduct in public office were returned hy the Bentember Grand Ju.v. Ross tried last week in Harnett Superior Court, was acquitted. Trial of Judge Lee. over his protest, was continued until January. Meantime, both of ficials who had voluntarily relin quished their duties have returned to their jobs. In the interim between Septem ber and the trial of Ross. Vice Re corder L. M. Chaffin held court twice weekly, and Attorney J. T. Lamm of Lillington was designated by Acting Judge Chaffin to prose cute the docket. At the meeting of the county com missioners Auditor H. D. Carson advised the board that Judge Lee had not taken his salary checks, but that Solicitor Ross, as both have legal right to do. has taken his. Judge Lee submitted a bill for acting Judge Chaffin’s services. Oct. SI, 1960. The one-year franchise had been criticized by former OM dealers, and some current dealers, in sub committee testimony. Chairman Joseph C. O’Mahoney (D-Wyo > asked General Motors executives last Friday to sit down with deal ers and work out a revision of the selling agreement. O'Mahoney said (Continued mi Ifef* tight) mt jUmtrd : 3i« -.%m c waitfe • ■ * SOME MAMA Mack Halrr, (above), freshman FFA student at Mingo School and a practicing hog raiser, was up good and early yesterday morning. He went to do the chores as usual, looked in on a sow whom be already knew as a prolific mama, and got the surprise of his life. It wasn’t Just that she had pigs, and that the pigs were as squirmy and tumbly as the new ones usually are. Mack's immediate impression was that never had he seen so many back sides in his life, all pointed at mama's storage locker. The count verfled him. His talent sow, who had a Utter of 14 the time before, this time rave birth to 22 of the scrappiest Httle pigs this side of the Chicago hog market. Although several died, the survivors look ed very perky. Mack's Utile sister was as delighted with them as he was. By last night the number had dwindled to 15. “We'll prob ably get raised about ten of them," said Herman liairr, Mack’s father, ‘but that’s still more than what the usual Utter starts with." Everybody is inclined to agree with Mack that he has some pig. Oliver Manning, agriculture instructor at Mingo, said 18 in one Ut ter is the most he ever heard of before. (DaUy Record photos by Ted Crail.) Chairman L. A. Tart then sug gested that the board send for Judge ee and Vice-Recorder Chaffin to arrive at a just compensation. Ju- Cootinocd on Page Six) Players Meet Tonight With Susan Black Tryouts are tonight for the more than ten roles in Garson Kanin’s political-comedy masterwork. “Bom Yesterday." which is to be produc ed In Dunn bv the new little thea ter group, The Players. All interested persons are Invited tft attend the meeting tonight at the home of Mrs. Susan Black, 1200 West Cumberland St.. Dunn. Mrs. Dee Crail. director-manager of the group, said the little theatre membership is not limited to per sons from Dunn, and that anyone who could make rehearsals regu- larlv Is welcome to try for the parts or to join the stage rt-ews. Rev. E. P. Russell Twice Honored At State Meetinq Rev. E. P. Russell, deetinguished and popular pastor at the First Ra.otist Church in Dunn, will serve a three year term on the Campbell College Board of Trues tees. That’s not the ony honor to come to him at the recent meeting of the State Baptist convention ip Asheville. At the same meeting, he was elected North Carolina State president of the Southeastern Se minary Alumni Association. Tne seminary is in Louisville. Kv. Rev. Russell Is a member of the class of *47 of the seminary. Mussolini Turned Down FDR Bid MILAN. Paly (W—A son of Beni to Mussolini asserted today that his father turned down an Invita tion to confer with the late Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt on a warship In mid-Atlantic in 1937 i The, statement was made bv Vit torio Mu«oiln! eldest son of the ■ late Fascist dictator, in a copy- I right article in the Milan* maga alse Tempo DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 6, 1955 PioHeer Dunn Woman Dies Mrs. Bertha Hudson Felton, 79, of Dunn died at her home early Tuesday morning. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 o’- clock from the Cromartie Funeral Home. The Rev. Leslie Tucker and Rev. Bane T. Underwood will off iciate. Burial will follow in Green wood Cemetery. A native of Sampson County, Mrs. Felton was the daughter of the late Dr. William L. and Tennie Thomas Hudson. She moved to Dunn as a small child and attend ed the Dunn schools and Meredith College. Mrs. Felton taught in the Pis gah Forest School, Dunn Schools, and Lee’s Grove Schools. She was principal of Long Branch School at one time and also matron of the teacherage in Kenly,, N. C. in 1927. In 1944 and 1945, Mrs. Felton worked In the Register of Deeds Offices in Lillington as indexer of records. She was recently employ ed as bookkeeper at H. P. Johnson Oil Company in Dunn until her (Continued On Page Eight) hear San ta: Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl of five years old, I have been a pretty good girl this year. J want a blackboard and some chalk, a coloring book and some crayons for Christmas. Please do n’t forget all the rest of the chil dren. Remember our parents and our brothers and sisters. Signed With Love, Janifa Rose Tart Dunn, Rt. 2 Hi, Santa: I hope you are all well. I have ♦ Record Roundup + NEWPORTER COMING Cor dial invitation has been extended one and all to the Green Ford Pri mitive (or Old School Baptist) meeting to be held Sunday, Dec. 12. Special speaker for the occasion will be Elder M. L. Simmons of Newport, North Carolna. LAWN TABLEAU Each year the Ist Baptist Church has a tab leau on the lawn in front of the church. This year, announced Rev. E. P. Russell, pastor, the tableau will be seen the last three nights before Christmas Dec. 22, 23 and 24. Chief Justice Post Too Good For A Gamble WASHINGTON (IP) To put it perhaps too bluntly, why Iwbuld a man quit a job with an assured annual in come of $46,545.84 and the privilege of retiring on full pay in a few years? And if this fortunate person’s present job was rated by many ot hijf colleagues as the most desira ble) In ( the whole world wouldn’t thAt be another reason why he might want to keep it? And if this individual already had announced publicly that he would got change jobs tor anything on earth, would not the whole cir cmftstances of the case suggest that hg would keep it. come what ' mav? Tfae man, of course, is the chief Justice of the United States, Ear! Warren. These ponderings are prompted by the current report In a well-edited national magazine that Mr. Warren can be had. News weak put it like this: "Chief Justice Earl Warren will ,ruif if pressed that’s the definite tmjgesslon brought away from Warren’s chambers by recent visi- j tors including at least one who is anti-Warren and had predicted he would not run.” might issue statement Mnt sol But the last United warren —^qulwreceirtfy. boo—goi, it the other way around. The chief justice said with considerable vigor that he would not return to politics as Republican presidential nominee or anything else. He added that he thought he might have toi issue another public statement savins just that if the Warren boom failed to subside. The chief justice deflated a boom some months ago when polls showed him far and away the Re publican and independent voters’ favorite If President Eisenhowe’- did not run. Mr. Eisenhower’s Ill ness Inflated the boom all over again, and Mr. Warren has been trying to puncture It bv authorizing friends to utter his denials. There is much more, of course, than monev Involved in any deci sion Mr. Warren might make. Monev might not influence him at all. in fact. But it is true that the young man who began his po litical career back there in 1915 as clerk to a California legislative committee is coming only now to know what it means to be secure and financially Independent.. Mr. Warren drew *25.000 a year and fringe benefits during his 10 years as governor of California jbst prior to Joining the court. But he j had three daughters and any father 1 (Continued On Page Four) been a good girl this year. I have been doing good in school too. 1 want a cowgirl suit and cowgirl boots and scooter and a swing that you can swing by yourself, and a record player and baby stroller, ba by doll and a dancing doU Jtpo. and a sewing machine and irbn and ironing board and a ball and basket to play basket ball, a seat on the back of my bicycle and a basket for It in front, and a little roller horse for Nancy. Get a trans fer truck for J. W. and a cow truck (Csntinaed On Page Six) MASONS TO CHOOSE - Elec tion of officers in the local Masonic organization is tonight, 7:30 p.m. Palmyra Lodge will select its of ficers for the coming year, and al so take up other matters of busi ness. Members are urged to be in attendance. FUTURE FISH EATERS The Future Farmers of America. Dunn Chapter, are sponsoring a fish fry at the Dunn High Vocational Ag riculture Building. It will be Dec. 7, 5-8 p. m. Tickets available from FFA members. (Continued On Page Four) Mm Q‘- K j'iaflggiHßß .. MB H R 1 9IHV, Ji DR. W. E. ADAIR Dr. ttairToHea<f Harnett Doctors Erwin’s Dr. W. E. Adair was elected president of the Harnett County Medical Association last night and he wasn’t even there to inspect the vote. An important church meeting prevented him from attending Dr. Adair said. Others elected at the meeting, which was attended by a number of prominent guests including Con gressman F. Ertel Carlyle, were Dr. Oscar Pearce of Dunn, named to the vice-presidency, and Dr. Bruce Blackman of Buie’s Creek, re-elect ed secretary-treasurer. Dr. Adair, one of the leading phy sicians of this section of the State, has been prominent in the medical group since coming to Erwin. He also takes a leading part in the civic, social and religious life of the community. Blackman was also named dele gate to the state medical society convention to be held at Pinehurst in May. On hand for the meeting last night were the county commission ers and the county welfare board, who joined with the assembled doctors in discussing the mechanics of the welfare act. Dr W. W. Stanfield of Dunn said today, “We just discussed the prob lem generally.” SEEK REVISION Members of the medical group have formerly presented the com (Continued On Page Four) Harriman Says Ike Are Busting Labor NEW YORK (IP) New York Gov. Averell Harriman charged today that Presi dent Eisenhower’s ees are using the Taft-Hart ley act to bust unions. Harrimas made the accusation in an address before the conven tion of the new 16 million member labor organization formed by the merger Monday of the CIO and the AFL 6 The New York governor singled out Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Secretary of Defense Charles E WUson, Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay and form er Assistant Secretary of Com merce Lotbalr Teetor as men high The Record Is Firs* i IN CIRCULATION ... NEWS PHOTOS... ADVERTISING COMICS AND FEATURES FIVE CENTS PER COPY Program Listed By Methodists At County Seat. The Rev. E. C. Shoaf, pastor of tIT Lillington Methodist Church, today announced special church activities that are designed to make the Christmas message relavent to members through sermons, wor ships, special music, drama and fellowship. Th minister preached Sunday morning the first of a series of sermons on the life and meaning of Jesus Christ, which will be given in the month of December. Other events call for a musical cantata to be resented on Sunday, Decem ber 18, a Christmas drama to be given Wednesday, December 21st, and a candle light vesper service at 5 o’clock on Christmas Day. The three church choirs will hold rehearsals as usual on Thursday, the Junior and adult choirs at the Methodist Church at 7 and 8 p. m. respectively while the senior choir will meet with the Presbyterian young people at that church at 7 I p. m. in the Eisenhower administration who are unfriendly to labor. “Unhappilly, there are people in places who don’t like your marriage," Harriman said in his speech prepared for delivery to the new merged labor organization. “What these enemies of Ameri can labor fear is that this mar riage will last. And at this very moment they are plotting, and car rying on. a powerful and systema tic attack designed to weaken the influence of labor in American life.” CITEB INDIANA CASE “Is it any wonder that the NLRB has been turned over to men with long anti-labor records? - ’ Harri man said. “Or that these same NO. 2J&I Harnett Board Approves Four Road Requests By LOIS BYRD Record Staff Writer Eighteen county employ es, including County Agent C. R. Ammons, yesterday were reappointed by the County Commissioners for a year’s term without dis cussion. Ammons, county agent in Har nett for 18 years, has been the storm center of controversy on se veral previous occasions. He was named last July U an interim, six month appointment. Others reappointed T. D. O’- Quinn, assistant farm agent, L. K. Boston, veteran negro farm agent, Thelma Hinson, home agent, Mi’s. Margaret Randall, assistant home agent. Mrs. Ida Hinnant, negro home agent, L. M. Chaffin, vice recorder of Harnett Redorder’s court, W. A. Johnson, county at torney. Six rural police also renamed to their present .posts are A. W. O'- Quinn of Manners, J. Stanley Byrd of BunnlevejJ B. E. Sturgill of Dunn. Leon S. Sirfth of Duncan, Clarence E. Moore »f Coats, B. F.. Temple who is assigned to Johnsonville township. ■ All apperouuients, were made in one motion arid Wfanyscwly adopt ed is the late afternoon of an all ad^J?WlssSrtrgrihe list of pro visions which, by law, are due to be filled each first Monday of De cember. Only comment came from Com missioner. Glen Johnson of Kipling Who expressed the opinion that in trite event any changes were ever planned in county positions it would seeth a proper procedure for com missioners and appolnteees alike to have appointments made in De cember take effect a month later tn January. However the county attorney re plied that under the law as now drawn the appointed office-holders must take office Immediately. DRAW JURY LISTS In another action, the commis sioners approved four road peti tions, drew three jury lists, discuss ed at length long range plans the county should take In providing facilities for the care of the senile, aged. A number of cases of senile cases formerly cared for in the state hospital In Raleigh have been re turned to the county in keeping with the new policy in state insti tutions, which intends to preserve all available beds for mental cases in which there is a prospect of cure. Miss Wilma Williams, welfare superintendent, said Care of the senile cases in the county boarding home presents a problem not only to the operators of the home but to the paying guests, who are men tally competent and frequently dis turbed by the irresponsible pati ents. Commissioners will confer with Mrs. Annie Pemberton of Raleigh, consultant on the problems of the (Continued On Page Eight) Men Unions men have tried to use the Taft- Hartley act to bust unions, as they did a few days ago in the case of a UAW focal in Indiana. “You remember President Eis enhower himself said the law ought to be amended so that it could not be used to bust unions. But it wasn't, and now his very own appointees are using it Llutl way. , ■‘lts high time we quit talktnf and eliminated from law the in justices of Taf--Hartley.” he said. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell told the new AFL-010 convention that he had always fa vored uniting the two labor organ izations. 4Cilntt—»* sa Pag* Eight)
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