Mahone, Mrs. Johnson, Godwin Get Awards
* WEATHER *
Cloudy, occasional rain or dria
rJe tonight and Saturday. Some*
what colder north ‘portion tonight
and Saturday.
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IS FIRST
VOLUME 6 TELEPHONES SU7-S11S
DUNN, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 3, 19W
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NO. 42
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EARL H. MAHONE, MRS. NATHAN ML JOHNSON, SR., O. W, (BILL) GODWIN, JR.
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LONNIE, TEEN-DANCING
DOC JAMES AND A DOLL
The Chamber of Commerce ban
quet turned out to be a great night
for the Methodists.
Dunn's Man, Woman and Young
Man of the Year are all Method-i
bits. The Invocation was given by!
the Rev. J. W. Lineberger. Icca!
Methodist pastor. Norman 8uttles.
a Methodist, presented the award i
to Methodist Billy Oodwin, the i
Young Man of the Year.
Earl Mahone and Mrs. Nathan
M. Johnson. Sr., the other two
honorees. are Methodists, and so is
the speaker of the evening, Citar
de McCullers of Kinston.
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Truman Says Nixon Makes
Him Mad Enough To Fighi
NEW YORK W—Former Presi
dent Truman said today that
whenever he thinks of the fact that
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
has called him a traitor, "I not
only swear, I want to punch some
body.'
He told newsmen during his
morning walk that although he had
known Nixon in Congress he ted
Chamber Had Busy Year In '55
Laying of groundwork for
the new Bien Jolie plant and
duce Auction Co., a new yam
market, were among the ad
vances on the local business
front cited at last night’s an
nual banquet of the Cham
ber of Commerce.
It wa* a year in which Ed Car
roil. tor some months the manager
of the Chamber, came and went,
and during which Huber: Peay
selected aa the man of the year
for last year! was named to head
the Finer Carolina prog .am.
‘ The Oround Observers Corps
made headway under the impetus
of Carroll's leadership and when
the manager left. Corky Cretin!
took over where he left off. The
first state vocational agriculture
land judging meet was held m
Dunn in *65.
The Centennial celebration wa*
planned and carried through with
much local excitement and a good
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| refused to see him since Nixon so
characterized him.
1 wont see him.” he said. “Tt
| would just start a fight.”
The matter was raised when a
j r<*i»rter mentioned that Truman
used strong language In a radio
; and television speech last night
| referring to charges that he end
1 Gen. George C. Marshall were
Record
Roundup
TO SPEAK MONDAY—Or. R. 8.
Dearstyne, W. O. Andrews, and
Tom Morris, poultry specialists
from N. C. State Extension Ser
vice, will apeak on Monday at 2
p. m. In the courthouse auditorium
In LUllngton. They will bring re
cent information in poultry pro
duction of various types. The meet
ing is open to the public.
TALK OPEN—Tre address Dr.
Charie* Cor roll. State Superinten
dent of Public Instruction, will give
on Monday night at the school
house in lilUngton will be open to
the public. Dr. Carroll's appearance
in Harnett County is sponsored by
the county Unit of the N. C Edu
tion Association. Mrs. Kitty Byerly
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“traitors." He Interpolated Into his
prepared speech the remark that
if that were true, “this country Is
sure in a hell of a Ha.”
PASSES THE BUCK
“I got the damdest wigging you
ever saw from my wife and daugh
ter," Truman said. "Ibey said, 1
wish theyd cut you off the air
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Four Children
Die In Blaze
NEW BRUNSWIKC, N. J. IW —
Four children died today when
fin pitted their frame shack home
near here while their mother was
at work.
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Mission Rally Set
For Local Church
n ** Harrison- Pastor of the Assembly of
God Revival Center in Durham, N. C. will be guest speak
er at a Home Missions, Rally to be held at Glad Tidings
God in Dunn, Monday evening, February 6,
at The service is being staged simultaneously with
some 300 other such rallies throughout the United States.
Them# of the local rally .whicn
kick* off the Assemblies of Ood
drive to complete the 1.000 church
crusade this year, will be "Every
Church Help 8tart Another
Church.”
During 1955 the Home Missions
Department of the denomination,
with headquarters in Springfield,
Missouri, assisted in the establish
ment, of some 400 new churches.
Additional churches have been ad
ded to the Assemblies of Ood at
the rate of more than one each
day for the past 10 years.
Participating in the local rally
will be Calvary Assembly of Ood
and Burn street Assembly of Ood
from Fayetteville, Barberton As
sembly of Ood, First Church of tha
Assemblies of Ood of Raleigh. A»
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Annual Banquet
Is Staged
Here Last Nite i
j Dunn citizens last night
reviewed the progress of the
Chamber of Commerce dur
ing the, past year and paid
its highest honor to the
three citizens who have con
tributed most in the way of
public service to the com
munity during 1955.
Earl H. Mahone, rice president of
the First Citizens Bank and Trust
Company, was presented a r.ophy
as Dunn's "Man of The Ysar."
Mrs. Nathan M, Johnson Sr.,
prominent civic, social and reli
gious leader, received the trophy
as Dunn’s "Woman Of The Year.”
O. W. (Bill) Godwin. Jr. presi
dent of the huge Godwin Building
Supply Company and a leader in
practically every phase of com
munity affairs, received tne Jay
cees’ Distinguished Service Award
as “Young Man of The Year.”
PO PILAR CHOICES
All three were popular chexes
for the town’s top civic honors ar.d
their selection was hailed through
out the city.
8tth of them rendered exception
ally outstanding and mentor lob.®
public service during IMS, as wfll
as during previous years. '
Mrs. Johnson’s round-the-clock
service as head of Dunn's participa
tion in the Harnett Centennial
Celebration, was one of the factors
which copped the honor for her.
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Coats Soldier
Hurt In Wreck
Master Sgt. Charles T. Weaver of
Coats was removed to Ft. Bragg
hospital Thursday afternoon by
ambulance following a wreck
around 1:30 p. m. near Harmony
Baptist Church on highly *10, a
few miles south of Lilllngton.
Sheriff Claude R Moore said in
vestigating officers found the four
wheels of Weaver's car in the air
and the vehicle upside down across
the highway.
No other oar was involved. The
sheriff said apparently Weaver,
who wa« driving alone, had headed
in the direction of Coats from Ft.
Bragg. His condition is reported
critical.
I Sergeant Weaver was attached to
the Headquarters Battery 206 of
the Field Artillery Observation
Battalion, Ft. Bragg.
MANAGER C. C. AMOS
GOOD BOSS FIDDLE MAN, TOO
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Leder Bros. Hires
Youthful Manager
Arriving yesterday morning from Whitevilfe where
he stopped for a visit at the headquarters Of Leder Bros.,
C. C. Amos immediately started on his new job as man
ager of the branch in Dunn.
His immediate reaction to Bunn,
which he had never visited, and to
this section of North Chralina,
which he hadn't seen, was, "I tike
the looks of it. 2 like what I see
here.”
First thing on his planning Hst.
following a day getting acquainted
with the staff and store, was pre
paration for moving his family to
Dunn. They are now in Danville,
Va., waiting for him to clear the
way for them.
The 33-year-old manager has
two children— Mike, 4, and thlrd
prader Janice, who is 10. His wife’s
name is Connie.
In the retail clothing business
since the age of IS or 18 — his
first job was as a shoe salesman
with a firm in Danville—this will
be Amos’ first Job with leder
Bros. For six years, he has been
manager of a retail store in dreen
wood, South Carolina.
At Greenwood, he had a term
as secreary and treasurer of the
■ Junior Chamber of Commerce and
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Broadslab Salute Is Set
Saturday night trill be “Broad
slab Night” on James Thornton’*
big hour-long “Country Style TV"
show over the Durham television
station, WTVD, from XI to 12 p m.
A group of leading Dunn citizen*
will appear on the big TV show—
; largest live TV show in the two
j Carolina*—to w«1-ome v' It'-—«■ to
Dunn for "Broadsiao Day , tenta
tively set for Feb. 17th.
DUNNES THE CAPITOL
Dunn is planning a big celebra
tion on "Broadslab Day" to wel
come citizen* of the new Broadslab
section of Dunn Into the city lim
its. Two weeks ago Thornton, the
honorary mayor of Broadslab. offi
cially moved the cwpitol of Broad
slab from Benson to Dunn oh Invi
tation of Mayor Ralph E. Hanna.
This took place after the Banaco
Chamber at Commerce wrote the
Last Minute
News Shorts
WASHINGTON — The United
State* and Britain have spurned
Russia’* new offer of friendship
treaties. Britain’s rejection was is
sued by Prime Minister Eden at a
news conference.
..WASHINGTON — Air Force
officials briefing a Jet-age avia
tion conference have hint id this
country’s bombers now patrol the
skies equipped with atomic bombs.
WASHINGTON — Senator says
attorney offered him BIN cam
paign gift in mistaken belief ha
woald vote for natural gas bill.
BUENOS AIRES — La Prana
resumes operations with greatest
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See No Value
In Russia's
Peace Offer
WASHINGTON W — The
United States and Britain
today cold-shouldered Rtis
sia’s latest proposal for sep
arate 20 - y e a r friendship
pacts with the Big Three.
Britain’s position was set forth
by Prime Minister Anthony Edc*i.
He told a Washington new. confer
ence he sees no value In t Br'tmS
Soviet treaty so soon after i simi
lar 20-year pact was ’’torn up’ by
Russia. Moscow last year Ivokc off
: non-aggression pacts wit a Britain
and Prance.
Eden declined to comment on
the broad aspects of Soviet Pratt
ler Blkolai Bulganin’s latest letter
to President Eisenhower 'since, it
was not addressed to him. Eden
said “the answer clearly must come,
from you. and I have evsrv con
fidence in the answer.”
Diplomatic sources were certain,
the American answer will be an
other polite but firm "no”- path
temed after the original rejection
of Buiganin’s proposal, contained
in a new 3,000-word letterd to the
President yesterday.
Confer With Allies
The President studied the letter
at his Gettysburg farm. He and
Secretary of State John Foster
Butter will be in touch with Allied <
leaders before th* American repiy
if sent to Moscow.
Erwin Scouts
Received Awards
Th« Boy Scouts Court of Honor
v.Zi h id last night at 7:00 at the
Pt. ^S^phenV Episcopal Pariah
ir«,se In Frwln.
At the Court of Honor session,
sec-'*'— awards were made to the
f ■"lowing scouts of Troop 54 of
Erwin: ’ . 4
Second Class awards went to
Messie Godwin. Bruce Ryals, James
Wilson. Paul McUanahan, Jerome
Pope, Kenneth Pope and •Sward
Pope.
Leslie Clark received a merit
I badge for safety. Others who re
! ceived merit badges were Jwle
| Oodwin, safety and fireman ship:
i Dale Butler. Safety and Flremgn
shlp: Earl Morre, Wild Life manager
•hip: Earl Moore, Wild Life mhn
! agement and Public HeMMi J. wi
i Warren, Safety Sc Flrwnanshlpj
! Dale Butler. Farm Home and 'ltd
Planning; Mike Beard. Weather}
Joseph Johnson. Weather: Eugene
! Pope, citizenship to th j cdmmurtJtf
| and citizenship to -the home,
f J<* Johnson, who is scoutmaster
of Troop 84, has the foUowhHr «s
l sistants: Eugene Pope. Assistant
scoutmaster: Tom Cameron. Ass
sis tant Scoutmaster: Roger Sr^wu*
Junior Assistant scoutmaster.
E. L. Sewell, Ray D. CaldarpH*
James Boat, C. L. Taylor, and Dr.
W. E. Adair, troop physician, serve
on the troop committee.
W H. Twyford. Sr., advance
ment chairman, presented tne sw
ards at last night's meeting.
BROADSLAB’S MAYOR THORNTON
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