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THE RECORD
IS FIRST
VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES 3117-3118
DUNN, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 24, 1956
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 84
BROADSLAB MAYOR HERE — Mayor James <BI( Jim) Thorn
ton of Broadslab — newest section of Dunn — was hi town for a
conference Ule today with Mayor Ralph E. Hanna to map oat (dans
tor the celebration of “Broadslab Day" In Dunn. Thornton, moot
popular TV entertainer In the CaroUnas, will brine Ms musicians to
Donn that nl*ht for a b* March of Dimes dance In the Donn Ar
mory. “It’ll be the biggest hoe-down this State ever heard toll of
before," promised Thornton. The capital of Broadslab waa moved
to Dnnn after the Benson Chamber of Commerce said cJ linens there
want no part of Broadslab or Broadalabbers. Mayor Hanna wel
comed the move and said. “We love BmadaUbbers; aa a matter of
fact, we're all Broadslab berv" t Dally K. oord Photo by T. M. Stew
art)
Rians Shaping Up
For Broadslab Day
JJlAAB
JhinqA
By HOOVER ADAMS
BACHELOR GUTS, EAGER
DOLLS AND OTHER NOTES
County Judge M. O. Lee of Har
nett Recorder's Court has written
personal letters of thanks to each
of the more than 100 witnesses who
were subpoenaed to testify in his
behalf before Solicitor Jack Hooks
threw his caae out of court for lack
of evidence. Both Judge Lee and
Solicitor Neil! MoK Ross are ex
pected to seek re-election. Long
before his indictment, Solicitor
Ross made up his mind to retire at
the end of the present *erni but
fa now expected to run sisain to
secure a further vote of confidence
by the citizens of the county. . .
Harnett citizens last year Lough:
a total of $453,812 50 in V. S. Sav
ings Bonds . . Further evidence
that somebody must hare plenty ol
dough . Tommy Oodwn* pred
icts 1956 will be the blggeit business
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James (Big Jim) Thorn
ton, the Honorary Mayor of
Broadslab — newest section
I of Dunn — was scheduled to
arrive this afternoon for a
[conference with Mayor
' Raich E. Hanna and other
leaders of the town to make
plans for the celebration of
; Dunn’s big “Broadslab Day.”
Ttll be the biggest celebration
thiw town has seen since the town
paid tribute to Oeneial Bill Lee
back during World War H.
Mayor Hanna already hat pre
pared an official statement pro
claiming the day as "Broadslab
Day.” AU that remains, said May
j or Hanna, is insertion of trtSjiate.
BIG HOEDOWN DAN®
One feature of BroadslMBDay
will be a big round andfljuare
dance that night In the DtufjBArm
ory. with all the profit golnaktp the
i March of Dimes.
County Chairman Harvest Wll
| liams was scheduled to attend the
meeting, along with J. V. Jemlgan.
j local March of Dimes chairman,
were scheduled to meet with May
, or uanna and Mayor Thornton.
"Its gonna* be the biggest hoe
! down in the history df Dunn and
Broadetah," said Big Jim. “Why.
tt'll be blgger'n anything ever held
In this part of the State before."
Yesterday. Mayor Hanna dtocuss
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Red Cross Quota
Boosted By Need
A R. Marley. chairman of the
Dunn-Brwin Chapter of the Amer
ican Red Cross, has been informed
by National Red Cw Chairman
E. Roland Harriman that of ne
cessity the onranizattem must ask
for an addition $8,000,000 for dis
aster work above the normal collec
tions to be made by its chapters In
the 1966 campaign for members
and funds.
The local Chapter has been asked
to add *M5 to Its goal for Its 1956
campaign as its fair share of the
$8,000,000 additional goal.
■The decision to appeal for this
additional fund, Mir. Marley was
Informed by Mr. Harriman, ‘"was
reached as a sequel to the worst
disaster year In American history.”
First, he pointed out, there were
unusual tornadoes in the Midwest,
next hurricanes on the Atlantic
Seaboard followed by devastating
flood* in the East, and finally the
unprecedented “Christmas floods
that struck the West Coast.
"Rrls unique series of disasters.’
he said, "has all but exhausted the
disaster funds at the Red Cross
Therefore, It is necessary to rais«
the over-all goal of the IBM Red
Cross fund campaign by apprad
Balanced Budget
May Be Upset
By Farm Bloc
WASHINGTON <W — The
bipartisan farm bloc is about
to demolish President Eisen
hower’s delicately balanced
budget for the year begin
ning next July 1.
Mr Eisenhower submitted a
budget for that year which not
only would balance, but would
provide an anticipated surplus of
400 million dollars. This seemed
about to be upset by:
1. Prospects that Congress will
insist that the President s "soil
bank ’ program be financed entire
ly by the Treasury.
2. Demands by Midwest Repub
lican congressmen for a big expan
sion in government rrfeat buying
to bolster hog and cattle prices.
The soil bank, proposed as a
means of reducing farm sulphides
and putting money in farmers'
pocketfeoaks at the same time,
would provide government pay
ments to farmers who take crop
land out of production
SOIL BANK FUNDS
The administration asked Con
gress for authority to put a 1 bil
lion dollar soil bank into operation,
it would pay 800 million of the cost
directly from the treasury in the
next fiscal year and make up the
rest by selling 400 million worth of
government-owned crop surpluses
on the domestic market.
This 400 mllHos dollar ‘savings"
happens to be the exact amount
of the budget surplus anticipated
by the President.
But the idea pf using crop sur
pluses to help pay the cost has
run into etiff bipartisan opposition.
Influential Democrats and Repub
licans on the Senate Agriculture
Committee, after studying the plan
content that the surplus sales
would, or might, depress market
prices.
Record
Rbundup
DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT — Girls
over 18 who are interested in danc
ing at Service Ciub No. 4 at Fort
Bragg Friday night trom 8:00 to
11:00 are asked to call Anna Mprle
Daniels at 9701 before Thursday
noon. Orchestra, refreshments and
chaperon: if over s»ven are inter
ested, free transportation will be
provided.
SEWING CLASSES TO BEGIN—
Classes in sewing “short cuts” will
be held in the Erwin Hune Econ
omics Cottage Tuesday. Jan. 31
Mrs. Helen Crews of Islington nnl
Mrs. Dorothy Hales of Olivia, Home
Economists, will have charge of
the meeting. If you have sewing
problem?, tailoring problems, or
would like to give your sewing
a more professional' look, plan to
attend one of the meetings. After
noon class will meet from 3:30 till
5 o'clock, and the evening class
will be held from 7 to 8:30 o'clock.
PAINT JOB—Four school audi
toriums in Harnett County recent
ly have been painted. They are
Coats. Angler, Boone Trail and
Lillington. And for school patrons
who may have wondered ahout the
two-tone color Jobe, County Sup
erintendent O. T. Frcffit says the
color scheme was worked out by
Pittsburgh Paint specialists. At
Llllington, the front wall ia “eye
retit green.” and the walls "rose
ton.'
LIST THAT DOGGIE. NOW—
Harnett County Dog Warden Earl
Wells today reminded dog owners
that the last day for listing dogs
Is Jan. 31. If all dogs are not on
the county tax books by that time,
the owners will be liable to Indict
ment tor violation of the law. They
will be subject to penalties for late
listing, and for fine* on proof of
failure to list the dogs for taxes.
The place to list' is with the listers
now on duty In every precinct in
the county.
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CUT RATE — Henry Krajewski and running: mate Anne Marje
Jean pose during bis 11.98 fund-raising dinner, held across the street
from Madison Square Garden. New York, where Republicans paid
(SIM a plate to see President Eisenhower on closed-circuit television
, during the “Salute to F.nisenhower" affair. The “American Third
Party,” which Krajewski heads, turned out some 1M to eat roast
pork or swordfish. The Garden's throng dined on lobster box lunch
Dulles Raps Politics
In Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON (W — Secretary of State John Foster
i Dulles made an urgent new appeal to both parties today
; not tft play politics with the nation’s foreign policy.
t i.i
ference that political wrangling
over foreign policy will increase
the risk of war if it raises doubts
abroad about America's intentions
to live up to its international com
mitments.
Dulles warned there is a danger
point which all patriotic citizens
should recognize in an election
vnu. a ii», uc mu, w uut&c
sure that other nations do not lose
their confidence in the solid, basic
foreign policy of this country.
Dulles said basic bipartisan po- j
sttions on foreign policy developed j
during the last 10 years involve |
U. S. prestige and honor in other
countries.
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Southern Governors
Strive For Unity
RICHMOND, Va. (W—Five Southern governors sought
unity of action by the South today in efforts to bypass or
possibly defy the U. S. Supreme Court’s decision on school
segregation.
‘‘Any action without unity won’t
be worth anything," Oov j. p. Cole,
man of Mississippi told newsmen.
“We’ve done too much talking and
not enough acting.”
Rep. Walter Siliers, speaker of
the Mississippi House, said “we
want as many states as possible—
at least 13" to join in the move
ment of overturn the Supreme
Court’s ruling Sillers ^aid he is
sine that if the governors can
agree on a unified plan Mississippi
will go along.
Oov. Marvin Orirfin of Georgia
said Georgia is "for a strong reso
lution of interposition" in a declar
ation that the state will not recog
nize the ruling of the Supreme
Court unless It is ratified by at
least three-fourths of the states.
Session Delayed
“We feel that the Southern states
should have a unified proposal to
present,” Griffin said.
A meeting of five governors in
vited here by Gov. Thomas B.
Stanley of Virginia was delayed
for 22 minutes by the late arrival
of Gov. Luther H. Hodges of North
Carolina.
Gov. George Bell Timmerman
Jr. of South Carolina said be
would “prefer to wait and see what
develops at the meeting before
commenting” on interposition.
I CLAIMS INNOCENT OF BREAK - IN
New Troubles
For Stephenson
Trouble has brewed and boiled for David Stephen-;
son since he escaped serving a prison term * few weeks
ago. Not that the local man. who has spent 15 of his 37 1
years in prison, has ever led a quiet life. '
; the home of a police chief, he and
; trouble have almost seemed made
| for each other. It is not a flirtation
; but a serious romance.
Ri«ht now. Stephenson is In the
: middle of a cauldron of woes.
Though as one officer put It “the
Ink Is hardly dry on his* proba
tion.’' he la now facing trial cm two
different arrests.
i The latest, and most serious, was
made by the Dunn police force
Cobb believes Stephenson is guilty ;
of indulging in one of his old spe- I
cialties. breaking and entering. The
chief says there is an eye-witness
to a break-in at Pope and Mixon's,;
and some pre-emption that Steph
enson was involved in other break
ins over the weekend.
HEARING THURSDAY
Charles L- Guy. who bad been
retained aa Stephenson's attorney
Cites Great
Opportunities
Still Aread
WASHINGTON (IP — Pres
cient Eisenhower told Con
gress today the nation’s
economy has “broken
through to new and high
■r ground” and is now ad
usting to “a slower rate of
idvance.”
This ‘'magnificent" upsurge, he
said in his annual economic mes
sage, has brought the country to
the threshold of a 400 billion dol
Ir economy, with “great opportuni
ties" ahead. The gross national pro
duct hit a record 387.1 bUihn dol
lars last year and now is at an
estimated annual rate of 397 billion
dollars
But the President cautioned, as
he did earlier in his State of the
Union and budget messages, that
some Americans—notably farmers
are not enjoying “the full mea
sure" • of this prosperity.
Notes ‘Cross- Currents’
He also noted that “cross-cur
rents," such as the threat of infla
tion, run high in boo:n times. The
nation, he warned, cannot afford
to become complacent or take its
financial well-being for granted.
With the advent of the new year
President Eisehower said, the re
cord-setting expansion that elevat
ed almost all segments of the
economy in 1955 had begun to
slacken tots a “tamer movement.”
Although ‘"ihe underlying trend
still appears to m upward,” he
said, the government must remain
alert, for “neither the threat of to-*
flation por the threat of recession
can ever be very distant”
As “stand-by" precaution
the President suggested that au
thority for the government to fix
minimum down payments and
maximum repayment periods on
installment buying would be use
ful.
He cited “increasingly liberal
terms" n auto loans during 1955
as one example of a possible trend
toward over-extension of credit.
However, he said present condi
tions do not call for installment
credit regulation, and he proposed
nothing more than a study of the
problem at this time.
Other Steps
As other steps which the govern
ment mi^ht take "to moderate
economic fluctuations without be
coming a dominant factor in our
economy,” President Eisenhower
rvilt fnefVi m/vwa tknn RA vaaom .
mendations and suggestions for
federal-state action.
Most of them he had mentioned
previously,;* either last year or in
earlier messages this year. They
included his new ‘‘soil bank” farm
program, which he coupled with a
warning against Democratic moves
to restore high rigid farm price
supports.
He also reaffirmed his opposi
tion to an “early” tax cut, saying
itj would be “irresponsible” to re
duce revenues when the national
debt is so high. He tusked Con
gress to postpone again the sched
uled April reduction in corpora
tion and excise taxes and to con
tinue the present temporary in
crease in the legal debt limit.
The President’s proposal*; em
braced a wide range of social and
economic segments In this country
and even touched on such topics
as foreign aid and trade.
Aska Other Aid
Among other tilings, he asked
additional government help for old
people, the unemployed, flood vic
tims and farmers. He outlined
programs for highways, housing,
schools and health Insurance. He
also mentioned one relatively new
concern—“automation," or the Im
pact of mechanical progress on
worker.
The chief executive credited pol
icies adopted by his administration
and its refusal to adopt certain oth
ers. with creating a climate in
which free enterprise has flourish
ed and the nation has prospered.
He declared that “on an increas
ing scale. Americans have taken
the initiative to make Jobs for one
another, instead of waiting for the
federal government to do It for
them." There were 94.3 million
Americans gainfully employed last
month.
President Elsenhower’? other
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MAKES A POINT—President Eisenhower stresses •
his press conference In Washington, his first formal meeting with
newsmen since his heart attack last September. Mr. Elsenhower
said be had no objection to his name being entered in presidential
primaries, but be emphasized that this did not mean that be would
run again.
Eden Leaves For
| Washington Tonite
LONDQN <tP> — Prime Minister Anthony Eden today
thwarted Socialist attempts to commit him in advance
on what he will tell President Eisenhower during their
forthcoming talks in Washington^
Eden let the clock run out on
him during a question period in
the House of Commons in which
Lalxtr members had hoped to pin
him down on Britain’s policy on
j trade with Red China and Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles’
-brink of war” interview.
Eden, who leaves for Washing
ton tonight, met with his Cabinet
for the last time this morning to
map streategy. Then he went to the
opening session of Parliament to
attend a debate on Middle East
arms policy.
Socialist members had submit
ted questions beforehand in an
attempt to smoke out the topics
which will be discussed with Presi
dent Eisenhower.
House custom allows an hour for
questions. The hour passed before
Eden got around to the motions
He could have gone on speaking
but did not
It has been customary for Eden
to deliver written answers to his
questioners, but authoritative sour
ces said that in giving any such
answers at this time Eden woiu'd
word them to protect his freedom
of maneuver In Washington.
Marilyn 11 Get You
If You Dont Pony Up
WASHINGTON (IP) — Motion picture czar Eric John
ston was “nominated” for President and promptly an
nounced that if elected his commissioner of internal rev
enue will be blonde Marilyn Monroe, aided by Jane Rus
sell.
The mock nomination featured
the venerable' Alfafa Club’s annual
soiree, which saw Vice President
Richard M. Nixon and seven other
notables inducted as members.
Club member Dwight D. Eisen
hower could not be present to see
the fun, which ran the gamut from
friendly gibes at his Secretary of
State to “candidate” .Johnston’s
crack that his own humble begin
ning was in “a mere $2 million
log cabin* on a movie lot in Cul
ver City, California.
The hundreds of members and
guests included Cabinet members.
Senators, Congressmen, industrial
ists and Supreme Court lusttces.
No political novice, Johnston
grabbed the Presidential nomina
tion and started running. His au
dience became clamorous when he
promised to bring the Misses Mon
r-!« n’-rf Russell — ladles “of equal
proportion and capacity’* — into
the Internal Revenue Service.
He also promised changes in for
eign policy. “I hate to admit this,"
he said, “but I intend to borrow
an idea from those Russians. They
’ve got a vaudeville team on the
road: Soft shoe dancing and funny
sayings. 86 I’m going to pick a
pair. They'll get those feregners so
bewildered end beaumbled and be
fuddled that we can sweep the
problems of the Near Best, Middle
East and Far East right under the
diplomatic rug.”