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VOLUME II
•American Sabre Jets Continue War On Reds
WILL THE OLD LTRUSTURE BE REPLACED?
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Harnett To Vote On Courthouse
Ike Offers Nation
Program For Peace
BY JOHN L. CUTTER
United Press Staff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, (IP)—Dwight D. Eisenhower offered to
day 10 “steps toward peace” which, he said, would help end
the Korean war and reduce the threat of further Commun- i
ist aggression.
" Prisoner Tries
To End His Life
Earl McLean, Dunn Negro, held
in the Harnett County Jail on two
counts of first degree burglary,
tried to commit suicide today by
cutting his wrists with a piece of
. glass.
* Dr. J. K. Willofrd, Lillington phy
sician, called to the jail to treat
the prisoner, 'testified to Jnctf?
Susie Sharp that, in his opinion,
McLean was in need of mental
treatment.
The doctor said he thought it
would be very dangerous to leave
him where he was because he
might make another and more suc-
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TOBACCO BUYERS GALORE This picture was made this morning as tobacco buyers went up
and down the rows paying top prices for the golden leaf on the Dunn market. Dunn’s tobacco market
has 11 company buyers, which is more than any other set in North Carolina. All major tobacco com
panies and six independent companies are represented. (Dally Record Photo by T. M .Stewart.)
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The Republican presidential can
didate outlined his ideas in a
speech last night in which he ac
cused the Truman administration
of “bungling” into tire Korean con
flict and the brink of World War
Three with a “patchwork” foreign
policy based oh “political profit”
and "petty ambition.”
His outright assault drew so
many cheering interruptions from
the crowd of more than 16,000 pack
ed into Philadelphia’s Convention
Hall that the last minute never
reached the radio and television
audience tuned in for his first
“major” speech of the campaign.
The time, 30 minutes, ran out be
fore he was through.
The Philadelphia speech was
billed as the “formal opening” of
j his campaign.
Today, he planned to spend the
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| Harnett County citizens
will go to the polls Saturday
i to vote on whether or not
the county shall issue $490,-
100 in bonds for construct
ion of a new county court
house.
Polls will be open in the county's
21 precincts from 6:30 a. m. to
6:30 p. m. Voting places are the
same as those used in the recent
gubernatorial election.
Harnett Elections Chairman
Douglas Mcßae said today that
1 all of the election machinery is
I in readiness for tomorrow’s voting.
Chairman Mcßae predicted that,
due to lack of interest in the issue.
. that the vote will be small. It is
, not a vote against the register
. ation and only a majority is need
• ed to pass.
i Under the plan, the present
1 courthouse, jail and farm building
would be torn down and replaced
by a modernistic structure.
1 Harnett’s courthouse, enlarged
1 on a piece-meal basis, is one of the
' most delapidated in the state.
1 HIT BY JUDGE
Judge Susie Sharp, now holding
| court in the county, told members
' of the bar yesterday that she
• new of only one county in the
State that needs a courthouse worse
than Harnett.
> i Those favoring the new building
I: cite the need and point out that
! now would be the best time to
s build.
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DUNN, N. C\. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1952
Jury Suggests
New Taxes For
Paid Deputies
For the second time du> - -
ir.£>' this year the Harnett
County Grand Jury has
j recommended action with
regard to paid deputies for
the county, after receiving
renorts from a committee set
up to study the system used
j in other counties.
In its report the body also rec
] ommended more school construction
| for the county to “promote better
j educational ■ facilities for the youth
of our Country."
! The complete text of the report
is as follows: N
TO HER HONOR. SUSIE SHARPE.
PRESIDING:
We, the Grand Jury of Harnett
County Superior Court, submit this
our final report for the week be
| ginning September 2, 1952:
We have carefully considered and
passed upon all bills of indictment
i sent to us by the Solicitor and
have made return on same.
A report was submitted by Mr.
W. A. Johnson, County Attorney
and also a member of the Special
; Committee appointed at May Term
of Court, regarding the study made
of the system of paid law enforce
ment officers for this County. Be
sides Mr. Johnson, this committee
was composed of Mr. Charles Jack
: son. Foreman of the Grand Jury,
; and Mr. Arthur Byrd a member of
the Grand Jury, and Mr. H. S.
Hollaway from the County Com
missioners. The committee made
I, a visit to Chatham County and with
the cooperation of the Sheriff of
j that County the Committee ob
tained much information that osn
jbe used in assisting this Courivy
with its problem of having a suffi
! cient number of paid law enforce
ment officers. Mr. Johnson’s report
is attached hereto for reference
purpose only. At the suggestion of
this Jury. Mr. Johnson is mailing
i a copy of his report to the State
Representative for his study.
ASK MORE TAXES
We. the Grand Jury, again rec
| ommend “that the Senator and,
the Representative representing
Harnett County in the 1953 Gen
\ eral Assembly secure the passage
!of legislation that will enable,
j authorize, and empower the Board
| of Commissioners of Harnett Co
| unty to levy and collect taxes in an
j amount sufficient to provide an
i adequate number of paid law en
forcement officers for Harjett
County.” (This was the same rec
-1 ommendation made in the January
j report).
j Mr. G. T. Proffitt, Superintendent
of the Harnett County Public
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Union Controversy
Continues At Erwin
Scott Hoyman, administrator of
the CIO at Erwin, this morning
issued the following statement:
The UTW-AFL is raising a fake
issue about the dates of an elec
tion in Erwin. The truth ®f the
matter is that even the AFL staff
has finally realized that they are
going to lose the election here in
Erwin,
They know that. But they are
trying to arrange it so that the
Erwin workers in Durham and Cool
eemee will have to vote before the
CIO victory in Erwin is announc
ed. They know that if the other
mills in Durham and Cooieemee
know that this mill, which is the
largest in the shain, has stayed
in CIO thep workers in the other
two mills will certainly follow.
They hope that they can have :
HllllTmS
WASHINGTON, (IP)—The FBI today sought a mild
mannered “Mi ' iuetoast” bookkeeper who may be bent on
suicide »o exidain a short, ge of $36,500 in funds of the
Boys’ Club of Washington. Janies H. Kensey, 53, has been
missing since Aug. 16 when he rented an automobile and
disappeared, club officials disclosed today.
BOSTON. (IP)—A jobless veteran who thought God
and his GI insurance would take care of him and his fam
ily was under observation at a hosoital today after at
tempting a 13-story suicide leap. Jt husky fireman seized
Arthur F. Colleran._27 from certaiiF death last night when
a woman distracted the would-be suicide with a job offer.
WASHINGTON, (IP) —Former Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull, 80, “has maintained slow improvement,” the
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RAH! rah: Pictured here are the pretty cheerleaders who will cheer the Greenwaves on to victory
tonight at the game between Dunn High and Washington High. Miss Peggy Ruth Barfield, a senior
(his year, is chief of the cheerleaders. Those show n left to right are Miss Dorothy Laughinghouse. Miss
Ann Byerly, Miss Barfield. Miss Margaret Godwin. Miss Becky Lee, and Miss Faye Godwin. (Daily
Record Photo by T. M. Stewart.)
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Harnett Men To Go On Trial
Next Week For Bank Robbery
| Four Harnett men are
1 scheduled to go c i trip! in
Federal Churl at Ralfeigli
next week for the April 29
robbery of the First-Citizens
Bank and Trust Company
it Angier.
District Attorney Charles P.
Green announced today that the
case will go to the Federal Grand
Jury Monday morning and that
he expects trial of the case to be
gin Thursday. ,
The defendants are: James Mur
chison. 23, alleged to be the lone
bandit who went inside the bank
and scooped up $44,000 while he
held bank employees at the point
of gun. David Watkins, 32. Lilling
ton mechanic. Pvt. Will Roger
Arnold, 19, and Jesse Frank Arn
old. 26, all of Lillington. The two
Arnolds are brothers.
Murchison and Watkins are
charged with conspiracy to rob
and robbing and the two Arnolds
are charged with being an accessory
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f Meetings of workers in the
; mills at Erwin, affiliated with the
AFL, the CIO or with no union,
' and with no staff members present,
- were held yesterday. AFL leader's
- charged today that in the groups
were many of the CIO members,
■ who, disregarding the instructions
' of their CIO leaders who attempted
j to forbid their supporters to at
; | tend, attended anyway.
i j At both meetings the workers
j voted unanimously to reject the
■ j CIO proposal of separate union
■ | elections in the plants of the Erwin
• | chain and did vote that all three
! | be held on September 15, the day
! | the NLRB is holding open for these
I j elections.
WEST’S STATEMENT
! Business Manager J. Thomas
1 j West of the AFL local union de
iCnmlnDNl on pore t«o>
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- To Speak
Over Radio Tonight
SPRINGFIELD, 111. (IPU
barked today on a whirlwind
policies to the people of the
Judge Upholds
Jury Trials
In Dunn Court
Two eases sent up 'to Harnett
County Superior Court by Judge H.
Paul Strickland of Dunn, were re
manded back to Dunn Recorder's
Court by Judge Susie Sharpe. Judge
Sharpe reversed the Dunn judge’s
ruling that jury trials be trans
ferred to Superior Court.
In the case of Elbert Strickland,
charged with hit and run. Judge
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Tobacco Market
Enjoys Big Day
Yesterday was another big day
for' the Dunn Tobacco Market, with
a total of 310.13 d pounds bringing
! farmers $149,663.20 for a market
I average of $48.26. The market was
also having another full sale to
day.
At Buck Currin’s Big Four Ware
house a total of 211,188 pounds was
sold for $104,644.50, with an aver
age of $51.14.
At the Farmer’s Warehouse, op
erated by Dick Owen, sales total
led 98.950 pounds which brought
$45,017.67, an average there of
$45.48.
As warehousemen predicted, the
leaf coming in to the market now
is of generally better quality and
the prices on the top grades cor
resoondingly higher.
The weekend should bring in a
heavy volume and warehousemen
look for Monday’s market to be the
bigeest since the opening of the
season here.
’MARKETS*
EGGS AND POULTRY
RALEIGH (IP Central North
Carolina live poultry: Fryers or
broilers steady to weak, supplies
generally adequate, demand fair to
good: heavy hens steady to firm,
supplies adequate, demand good.
Prices at farm up to 10 a.m. to
day. Broilers or fryers 21 2-3 lbs.
32: heavy hens 21-24, mostly 21-22.
Eggs steady to slightly weaker,
supplies short, demand good. Prices
paid producers and handlers FOB
local grading stations: A large 60-
61, A medium 51-53, B large 51-53.
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-Gov. Adlai Stevenson em
tour of nine states to sell his
West.
The Democratic presidential no
minee. setting his sights on the
"independent vote,” will cover 7.500
miles in the next nine days and
make 19 speeches, five of them
billed ap “extremely important;”
He and his party were to take
off in three planes from Capital
Airport for Denver, where he will
deliver the first of his Western
addresses tonight.
The other major speeches during
his airborne invasion of the west,
! will be delivered at Kasson, Minn..
I Saturday: Seattle, Wash.. Monday:
| San Francisco Tuesday, and Los
Angeles Thursday.
Wilson W. Wyatt, campaign man
ager for the presidential hopeful,
said “these will be extremely im
portant speeches as we see it.”
ON AIR AT 8
Wyatt said the Denver talk, to
be carried over radio and televis
ion at 8 p. m. EST iABC), would
be directed “to what you might
call the independent vote.”
”1 suppose the governor will pay
his respects to one or more of the
slogans used by the Republicans.”
Wyatt said.
Asked if that meant the GOP
campaign slogan “It’s time for a
change," Wyatt replied: “It could
even be."
A. W. [Pa] Jones
Dies At Home Here
Alfred Wesley (Pa) Jones, 74,
oldest employee of Harnett Coun
ty’s oldest business firm, died sud
denly last night about 9 o’clock at
his home on South Magnolia Ave
nue in Dunn,
Mr. Jones, one of Dunr’s oldest
residents, was foreman of the foun
dry at the John A. McKay Manu
facturing Company here.
He had been in poor health for
sometime and had recently recov
ered from an illness. Death re
sulted, however, from a heart at
tack.
Funeral services will be held Sat
urday afternoon at 2:30 at the home.
The Rev. Joyce V. Early, pastor of
Divine Street Mqthodist Church,
Elder E. C. Jones of Fuquay Springs,
and Elder Luther W. Turner of
Erwin will officiate. Burial will be
in Greenwood Cemetery.
CAME HERE 41 YEARS AGO
Mr. Jones, a native of Randolph
County, was the son of the late
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Wednesdays
No. 194
Van Fleet Says
Reds Boasting
Their Strength
SEOUL, Korea, (IP)—Am
erican Sabre jets destroyed
three Communist MIG-15
jets, probably destroyed one
and damaged three others
today as the Russian-built
fighters tried desperately to
halt a pulverizing United
Nations air raid on a vital
Red war plant.
Today’s air victory brought the
toll of MIG s taken in the last two
days to 16 destroyed, one probably
destroyed and six damaged
The swept-wing Red jets tried
unsuccessfully to crack through a
ring of Sabres screening American
and Australian filter-bombers
that hit a mine and ore processing
plant at Sinhung, deep in North
Central Korea.
While the air war was raging
with new fury. Gen. James A. Van
Fleet said the Communists have
boosted their Armies in Korea over
the million-man mark and could
launch an offensive at any time.
GENERAL CONFIDENT
But he said he was confident
U. N. forces could "contain any
enemy thrust, however powerful,"
and, if necessary, win the war on
the battlefield.
F-80 Thunder jets, F-80 Shoot
ing Stars and Australian twin-jet
Meteors roared in on the Sinhung
plant in a two-wave attack.
Some 326 sorties with bullets and
bombs left the target area a mass
of flames, explosions and billowing
(alack smoke.
Van Fleet said his Army is “in
, every way” prepared for battle if
'/necessary.
“I am pleased mfcre and more
with our ability to destroy the
Communist Army in the field
! should hard fighting break out
again,” he said.
Van Fleet said his forces now
have "all the ammunition neces
sary" and sufficient armored vests
to give them to all U. N. troops
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Truman Names
Henry Fowler
WASHINGTON OPI President
Truman today appointed Defense
Production Administrator Henry H.
Fowler to be defense mobilizer.
Fowler succeeds Dr John R.
Steelman, assistant to Mr. Truman,
who has been acting defense mo
bilizer since Charles E. Wilson re
signed last spring during the dis
pute over the steel crisis.
In a letter to Fowler expressing
appreciation for his accentance of
the job. Mr. Truman said that in
the period ahead “there must be
no let down" in the national ef
fort to achieve defense production
goals.
MUST NOT FALTER
“The nation cannot be permitted
to falter for a single day, month
or season in the work of defense
mobilization which is the key to
peace and security for Anvriea
and the free world." Mr. Truman
said.
He added that early shortages in
the defense production program are
being overcome as a result of ex
pansion of basic rescources and fa
cilities.
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