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- li Wreck + WEATHER <■ Fair t« partly cloudy and warm* er Friday and Saturday. Hl«h Fri day 76 to 84. t THE RECORD IS FIRST V0LT7HB • TELEPHONES 1117-111S — DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 30. 195fi FIVE CENTS PER COPY NO. 163 LUCKY TO BE ALIVE — The shock caught up with these two (Iris from Hamlet as they sat out* side the hospital emergency room following the wreck. Martha Peele, SI. crying at left, told a reporter that she was riding along and. “Next thing I knew I was lying under the exhause pipe of the car,” Shaken but not believed to be eer iously injured, Martha watted with Beulah Good win, 21, another paasencer, while their more eer. ioualy injured companions were treated. (Daily Record Photo by Ted Crail) Is Smashed; $450 Taken JVisas Jjjbth JhincfA By HOOVES ADAMS MERRITT, CHARLIE, FRED, COOKING. OTHER NOTES Dunn National Guardsmen will take some special 'training next weekend at Fort Bragg . Paul Hood wrote home from las Vegas, Nevada that he didn’t like that town, gay as the famous gambling resort may be .Mrs. Rachel Tart Pate MacArthur has moved back to Dunn from Clinton and Is now In her pretty new home here. . She shed her last husband with a divorce in Florida . .“Feels good to be free and wonderful to be back in Dunn,” said Rkchel. . . We forgot to ask her what name she’s using now that she got her divorce . . A former Dunn youth. Merritt Bums, of Greensboro, has been elected president of the Ouil < Continued On Page Twn) A safe in the office of The Daily Record was cracked Sunday night and thieves es caoed with an estimated $450 in currency and silver. The robbery vu discovered shortly before 9 p. m. when Hoover Adtuns. publisher, returned from supper. He had left the building about 7:15 o’clock. "This Is the last place In town I thought anybody would have rob bed." declared Adams. He said so much cash Is riot nor mally kept In the office but that n> bank deposits was made on Satur day. Luckily, Adams said, he had taken 5350 in cash from the safe earlier In the day. All four drawers In the heavy fireproof safe had been forced open *ith tools from the newspaper's printing shop. Ledgers and other records Were dumped on to the floor. CHECKS, BONDS LEFT The thieves left several hundred dollars worth of checks and money orders, government savings bonds, corporation stock certificates and other Va/uable papers scattered ab out the floor. Approximately *200. mostly in silver, locked In a nearby filing cabinet had not been bothered. Among the stolen money was a large cigar box completely filled 'Continued On Page gtx) Tucker Will Speak At Memorial Rites line ksv. Leslie Tucker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will deliver the address at the an nual Confederate Memorial Day observance Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the historic old Chicora Cemetery, near Dunn. Plans for the historic observance were anounced this morning by Mrs. William Newsome, pro .dent of the Chicora DEC chapter, the sponsoring organization. The colorful ceremony will In clude presentation of the color* by the Dunn American Legion post; music by the Dunn High School Band, under the leadership of di rector Harvey BoaseU. the annual Roll Call, decoration at the graves and other events. The Invocation will be given by the Rev. Jack Daniel, pastor at Hood , Memorial Christian Church (Continued on Page Eight) Revolution In Cuba Crushed HAVANA 0P» — the gov ernment of President Ful - gencio Batista announced today it had crushed a re volution in the seapnrt town of Matanzas- Unoffi cial renorts said 15 persons were killed and 15 wounded, including military person - nel. The government suspended con stitutional guarantee of the writ of hafeess corpus ami the right to assembly, and armtted former President Carlos Prdo Socarras on charges he instigated the uprising at Matanzas. the names means slaughter. 60 miles esst of Havana. Sources said approximately 70 civilians were involved in the at tack on government installations there. Scores of arrests were made (Continued on Page Eight) Woman Runs Through Sign At Crossing Evelyn Parks Smith, 22 year-old Salisbury resident, was “walking around pretty stiff” when she appeared at a special session of Dunn Recorder’s Court this morn ing. It w*w onlv a tem hour* otter an aerldent which hospitalized two nereons, Including 15-year-old K*v Dudley of Dunn, tossed taro girls out of their car, and gave a num ber of other pas-enger* bruises and a severe shaking up. It was one of the moat thorough pile-ups to occur oa the streets at Dunn In months, and Investtgatto? officers considered it lucky that more serious Injuries were not suf fered. Samuel Peele, a 50-year-old res ident of Leurinbunr, will remain at Dunn Hospital a few days for observation. All other passengers of the 1948 Bulck four-door sedan, drivga by Bvelyn Smith, were fHarak and released. 1 *nie driver of the car In which Ray Dudley was riding was his 17 year-old brother Billy. Billy did not suffer serious Injury. In She Buiek were Joe Wallace. 21, of laurel Hill, Route 2; Beu lah Godwin. 21, of Hamlet: and Martha Peele, 21. of Hamlet. The Peele girl and Bveyln Smith, the driver, were both thrown Bom the car at the time of Impact. Heading home from the Bain bridge Naval Training Center, where the group had visited the sailor husband of one of the girls, they arrived In Dunn and found they had to take a detour on South Wilson because workmen were busy putting asphalt on the regu lar Highway 301 Route. Evelyn confessed to the court that she was unfamiliar with Dunn. streets, and simply hadn't noticed the stop sign cm South Wilson. Go- j Continues m Page Six) + Record Roundup + ATLANTIC FLEET (FHTNC)—Aa ron McKoy, Jr., fireman appren tice, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron McKoy of Guy Road. Dunn, N. C„ is serving aboard the At lantic Fleet attack aircraft carrier USS Randolph, undergoing a six week shakedown cruise in the Car ibbean, REUNION—Shady Grove Free Will Baptist Church, In Sampson bounty near Spivey's Comer, will hold its annual reunion Sunday, May 6. 11 a. m. The public la cor dially invited-to attend—and bring rell-filled baskets, A program with plentv of singing is planned. (Continued on Page Eight) CANDIDATE ADDRESSES ROTARIANS — J. Vhta WUlfltM of Burfftw, rijht, iildre—td the Dana Rotary Ctab Friday nirht on rital Imw of rr the day. Left to rlfht arc Mrs. Whitfield, Mrs. J. Shepard Bryan, Mr. Bryan, who introduced the speaker, and Mr. Whitfield. (Daily Record Photo) THESE PIGS ARE OUT FOR PRIZE! Johnson, the bey without a hut in the Hire, and his friend Chute* Sorrell attended to the wants of a pair who have been entered in the Johnson. 18. and Sorrell are P. J. bove pic W** here. Coats. The two Yorkshires seen here will eventually win* up as bacon, but before the* the young owner hopes to have t trophy for his shelf. Clester John son. his father, has 75 hog* on his Coats Tan*. They had first prise winners at both Dumf and Benson this summer. (Daily Record Photo.) Stock Arrives ror Show Cliff Ammons, the county farm agent, and others were on hand this morning as an orchestral background of moos and oinks slowly moun ted at the Big Four ware - house Itwoughout the mom iixr hours, farmers. FFA erg and 4-H'ers from throughout this four-county area arrived at the warehouse with the >iok of their stock loaded into (Continued on Page Eight) CHURCH SHOWING RAPID GROWTH Glad Tidings Plans For New Additions The Rev. Robert Palmer, pastor of the Glad Tidings Assembly of God of Dunn reported today that the congre gation voted unanimously yesterday to build two more stories on their present educational building. it nas neen just a utue over tnree years since the one-story annex a was opened, and already the build- s ing is crowded to capacity. An in- r crease in average attendance from 1 190 to 282 has been seen during " that period. This month a new all time high average attendance was set with 297. The new building project is to begin about June 1st and should be completed by about July 1st. Th? estimated dost is approxinfetely $8,000 for the completion of the second story. The third story will be completed as it is needed. Nightspot ; Gets Raided Willis Gray, owner of a'night spot located between Dunn and ’ Erwin, will come up lor trial in i Harnett Record. :*s Court on May 'i 10. Three rural policemen walked i into Gray's on Saturday night (Continued on Page Eight) i Memoers oi me cnurcn ooara, ui ddition to the minister who serves s chairmen, are: A. B. (Joe) Bur ette, O. W. Godwin, Sr., Shelton forris, Rex Watson and Willard 'yndall. Pre-Payment Proposal Of GOP Loses WASHINGTON <IP> — The House Agriculture Commit tee today approved a new farm bii containing the ad ministration - sponsored 1.2 billion dollar soil bank plan. The catch-all measure wa* ap proved unanimously after the com mittee rejected on a straight party - line vote ot 19 to 15 a Republican attempt to provide for “pre - pay ments" under the soU bank. Th s Insured a hot floor fight over the issue. President Eisenhower had requeu ed the pre-payment provision un der which farmers could be paid up to 500 million this year for promising to curtail plantings next year. CHARGE POLITICS Democrats oppose the prepay ment provision. They called it, a '‘political gimmick” that would farm income this year only to de press It next year. The new bill was approved ex actly as introduced by Committee Chairman D. Cooley iD-NC ) The committee beat down by voice vote lupr a dozen other attempts to The measure abandons the Dem ocratic fight to restore price sup ports to rigid 90 per cent of parity — the chief reason for President Eisenhower’s veto of the original farm bill. Mamers Pastor Dies Suddenly Tire Rev. William Carroll Shaw, died at his home in Marnera Friday at 1 p. m. from a heart attack. He was born Stay 5, 1881 In Chill ford County, a -on of the late Wil liam Henry Clay and Henrietta Welker Shaw. In early life, he at tended Whitaett Institute and later taught school near Burlington. Alter serving in the Army for three years he attended LaShhe Extension University in Chicago where he studied law. He later practiced law in California. He .en tered the ministry In 1922 and has Canttnned m Page 8tx) DISCUSSES ISSUE OF THE DAY Whitfield Speaks To Rotary Club J. Vician Whitfield of Burgaw, one of the top Demo :ratic contenders for the office of Lieutenant Governor, ieclared here Friday night that “the lack of courage ant ing public men in dealing with the segregation question s astounding.” "I don t believe in dodging the dial Issues of the day,” the pro. ninent legislator declared in an iddress to the Dunn Rotary Club. I believe in taking a stand — and i courageous stand." Whitfield has taken the most po sitive stand of any of the candi dates on the issue of segregation. He was introduced to the dub by an old friend. Attorney J. Step | ard Bryan of Dunn. • My position,” he said, -to that; no ’ sacrifice is too great for us to make to protect and preserve the (Continued Oa rage Two) am «Aa LUUJt HMln IV KKUVt If Pu//a Wiles Hair, Beats Child-He Gets 30 Months Sam Hurley, Negro husband, erf s Lillington, (Route One, Jaced charges of assault on hi* wife, Isa- i belja* last week in Harnett Record- i er’s Court. 1 The six foot tall defendant who ^ had no lawyer, submitted a* guilty i to the charge, but told Judge M. ( O. Lee, “I Just don't know what 1 «t* into me when I drink liquor * i Isabella didn’t know what “got nto 'em”, but she knew exactly ih*t he did—he pulled her by the iair. And from her pocket the ritnee* took great handfulla of Hatching hair to prom her —enlt ontention. “He beat on the obUd, oo, " added Isabella. She told the
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