INSIDE THIS WEEK
Shorts columnist, former football great Fritz Pol
lard is of the opinion that Hovvaia Uiiiversir> should
not nave given an honorary /roe to Branch Rickey
for the i'oic he played in intcgYutih*: Negrtn-e. m Major
League bus bail. Poilard's popular ’H.'iostmp Spurts'*
column, page 15, gives the reason.'.. A! -o inside: N nvs
from hometowns throughout the stut.-
VOL XII
State Colleges Eyed As Site For Nursing School
&ILKIGH ~ Gov. William It.
Uinslr.ia's three c ember raui-
JiJitlee re. . nti> appointed "lo
study estutiii.shnii.iO ul a nurse
training program at one or-more
RESIDENT OF
RALEIGH IS
DEAD AT 105
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;u:a.s. tempi*: pitts
Okies! Resident Os
liitv Nmeuinbs
i't.-u ETGH Itfi"’ claimed Mrs. 1
Tempi© rat reputedly tin- oldest ! :
1 esideiit ui i-tuHieL iu t IVIOI uiu ,
i.iOilliiii -l It :lt; ‘j .1 li»s.i ;
Street iioair a tthe time of her
death. Mi i its- >... tub yea; !
of age-.
Porn into iiuvei y rr. Halifax;
COuUty in IJ!3. Alt' Pill:, sel Veil
tin- Wiggins lamily ol Uni :uea
until coming to Xlulcigh iu year
it.su. She it in ;\ and Worked for ;
six generation: i f the family
.-iii a Ole churchwoman untii j
wme lew months u;.;o, Mr.:. Puts
held membership at the lu.ui
Fir.'.t (. Li; ,V -a! id!..;! i’ Mll'Ctl atKl
took part in many phase.*, ol the
ifiitre.l s .uii.'iin . Only last kali
on tiic occasion of liei uxiut birth
day, tvir*. P»Ds tnaicuted no sign.*
01 let-; lene.-;:. and joined in with
person .n .nm. per a happy hi; in
day in sin;,in,-.’, •.•vend byltlns
Mrs. Fitts 1 immediately .sui
vivitd by two tlaii; ’item. Mis; Al
lene Pit! with whom she has liven
a. Hah iuli '!:> year: ami Mrs. Ma
mie White of B.duniti!e, Md Thert
i* a sister, Mrs Nannie Johnson
of Halifax County and titroj
grandchildren.
Impressive funeral rites vvert
scheduled at tin- Fu st Congrega- j
tional Church htue lor ! oclocl j
Thursday alternoon with the pas- j
tor, the Hev. Howard Cunnhufhacn, |
(Continued on Page Hi
YOUNG BABY
ABANDONED |
RALEIGH. A .colored mah !
baby, four or five" months oh I
was found on the doorsteps at
£2u 5. Wilmington Street by Mrs
BiaiH.it- iltmeli of Id E. l.enoii
£U'tet on Uie morning of July 4
Police wen- informed that pos
sibly a miiiwile delivered the baby,
because the navel cord had been
tied with ••surgical cord,” but it
it bad not been tied by a Doctor
This information came from, St
Agiit.*: iiii.p.bal, where the chile
wa* idken lor treatment.
Tim baby was wrapped in a
Ipt blue blanket, officers said,
and wore a white decs* and other
baby clothing. No note or feeding
instructions were found near the
child About an hour before she
decided to investigate, Mrs. Bunch
said shat she heard the baby cry
ing, She said that she saw by the
lights from passing car:-, mat a
“White bundle’ wax on the dark
ened doorsteps.
p took her about thirty minutes j
to awaken Mrs. Charles Warner j
living at the house according to
Mrs. Bunch and Mrs. Walker was
at b loss as to what should be
done wit" the child. It was at
this poirp that Mr*. Bunch c&LcCI
the Polite. ‘
institutions’' had completed a
tour of three oi the .state's ,\'e.
gro colleges here oeer the past,
w i ek end.
State Senate; Warren P VV£J '
Nurse , Formerly Working At NC Hospital
JAILED ON DOPE RAP
Race Councilman at Odds
With G’Boro Mayor; Says
Mayor Would Be Dictator
GREENSBORO IV William
M. Hampton, Greensboro's papu
lar lirst and only .■: : o city couti
e.lman, is none too popular iu the
eye.-, ot local Ma><>r Robert it
k' -'<• r this reck alter havoia
taken .-- iaip with the mayor s :
UeStßli;-; i\iulHld\ and cUVUSiiIV Tlif
citv it; iu ot I 'htK:i: ; to be a
d:vt3t*H' tu oxtC'ui.i hrL jtU- i
il’Oi ity!“
liuueatiii;.; that he Ugd drown I
iltt* riKivu.' * ti*v by not ‘woing |
alunr ' v.-iut turn on a previous ;
nuittvj id rnunivi! ai idlina^rUi^nt,
ipi Haniptwn told 'snitrii nd- ;
JoVy iii{; v< li**cited Ottj' i:oUfn.-»l >tr' •
ion Monday that t-u-f lu&yor j
odtm rt-tributjoii against me“ a?>;
tvr ult. of the disagreement j
iu Monday council session liere
f>i iiampton adamnantlv * « fused ;
lo back the mayor's proposal that :
t:if a'id.vor 1. 1: Miowed to pci's-orisu
i> appoint a pi aiming and zOinng
ccm m L-' '• iO(i, l u ei*t t»a t jpr ov a I
at the coiincdh
| News of the Garoiinas -In Brief
GAMBLERS (.IVLIN
TERMS IN PRISON
GBifIENSBUHO Fum men were
otVvielfd in jvluniOipiU ('iiuniy
.'oiiit last week oi buttei unu egS
Ottsr i‘ y eOLi cll a* ■ >
A find tmm, wins giveo u
non Ui sttispended a tenet.- lie \* es
al II fined SIOO and tusts on the
•onsplracy count
Two of the ciinvietcd conspira
tor: Charlie Warren, 4S ot ms
M Clinton Street, and Felix May*
nard -Ti of 113 N Olintmi t.Va-ei,
ijniealiai active .-a tiH-ma s and
.vert-, b.nmd over Iu Glliliurd Su
perior Court for trial
MAN SAYS WOMAN
“RAPED” HIM
COLUMBIA. S. C A suldh r
Where First Holiday Death Occured
•Wsgm *-•;. FF ■ w
m} I Wm
Pltfured here is the remain*
of a late made! sedan which
plowed ir.to a truck near Ra
leigh last Friday morning, kill
&ig one pc-r-oi! and Hijuring
three hilled hi the wreck was
THE CAROLINIAN
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sTxtfvn "Fact s —~uT.nrßNmsr ir 'sTturda^ y 4 jul ot 1953 it at EimiTxoTmrcAßui jka
liauis hi SaiifiKil, chairman, with
Miss Ruth ( oujicil. State tin.irti
hi Hnltk, Raleigh, wd Held
ilultues, WllHLiin-Siill-iii, 'admin
' i'trator of Bowman-tiray Hospt
Vo‘t r X < I IMA N IIA Mn o N
Dr. Hampton, the only council
imember to vote against the pro
posal said "I am not interested in
(Continued on Page 8)
: tatiOi'icd at Fort. Jackstci, H (
t'.uncd the table* in t ity Police
Court on July 3 v.'heu lie charged
woman with rape
The soidie-i raid tnat t', woman
, ! “iurca c.ie iij, to hei uparmieut,
1 I then pulled a ruror and forced me
! to have intt i. o•■. ith h( r
At tins point the conrtiootn :;pcc-
V I
.. • tators howled with haightei. The
i soldier added She held Pit: : azor
..'at tiiy throat f liioughl she was a
*> : nice (Ur'l hi. .said.
-j Although he -am the woman
■ : Iso bad tai.cn about |'lhi m ca .:
■*; from his pocket hook, he did not
' ienter a grand larceny charge.
Tin- woman steadfastly denu.-u
the morals charge. She udinitted,
'however taking the soldier to her
room.
The charge was reduced to lir
'ordeily conduct by Acting Record
r :er John W. Scholenbei gcr.
I Tee Johnson, 7t). His d-iutifhter,
| Kate McKenzie. 40, hi,* nephew,
j TroH Benson, 7 anal his irwii*
! f Aifhui' Tee STy«rs«f, 0
| ‘Mart injured. All were colored
i »ud were icside-nts of i'emdaie,
taf, last week visited the. Agrl- j
cultural and Technical i ellege :
(A and 8), Greensboro, tV Ins ton-
Salem teachers' t oilette. Will- I
ston-Salem, and the North ( a to-
N C NEGRO ORDAINED PRIEST
First Os Race From N. C,
Ordained Catholic Father
GREENSBORO The first Ne- ;
a,;.. H-Hiienl ot the state ot North;
fati-Um. ’.v::*; ordained a priest in j
11... Hoiiiau Cm-.u.:lie Church last i
W' F'k
Tijf* M.Litt* • first fitOc i>*,
lU' \ .--it. Z*. ; iiorne, wltO-Sc ilsi' ;
dc 1 11: e i s ( Vive tin boj: «* i :»n ci vv t\ o wa i |
orctu*.t Fdthtfi* dui'iiU’, iiapres-1
Daring Duo Robs Raleigh
Nightspot ancf Customer
RALEIGH Katrina's ITacff. a
might club, *»u North State Street
u wav the scene oi a danuv -holdup
" last Friday night Two unidentt
n tied men walked into the place
* ho; tty ;.fc N midnight Friday
MAN, 70 IS IST
; HOLIDAY FATALITY
RALEiGfI - ,r..0,c County j
,lu ;l accident for the July 4tn ftoli
, oav ~ tk. iiu occt.t rtfi E'riviay
Imorniug tifui On sham s Lake on
; U S. Highway One. between Wahe
iForest and Raleigh. A late model
sedan bearing Michigan license
i plate: crashed into a truck owned
by the 7-UP Bottling Company ol
haieit'i.
• Killed in the accident was Lee
! Andrew Johnson, 70 of Oak Ridge
iFerndale, Michigan. He was killed
I inslardl.v. suffering u factured
iskidl and a crushed chest. Johnson
, was thrown out of t ie car. Those
| injured iu the wreck were Mrs
j Katie McKenzie, 33; Otha Lee
i Friuson, ti: and Trois Benson, 7:
jail passengers irt the Johnson au
tContinuetl on Page f>
, M»ehi*an, This was Wake Coun
i ty’s first accident for the July
1 \ holiday weekend. STAFT’OTO
; HY CHARLES R, JONES.
■ 4 is (did ay weekend, and possibly
: the first iit North Carolina.
Una College at Ourham. ;
Senator WHUitma said in Due- j
hani on Thursday his eonuriltiee :
l was charged with "judiciously j
.pending the f200,0«0 approprl-
sive ceremonies held at St Au-ru
i stine's Seminary at Bay Saint
; Louis, Mississippi The seminary
;is conducted by the Fathers of the
i Society of Vie Divine Word
father Thorne is the son of Mrs
Mary E Thorne who lives at 91 f.
Logan Street, Greensboro. Mrs.
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i ynd held the proprietor, Edward
i T. Winston at gun-pomt while S3O
> were taken from the cash register.!
Winston told investigation offi
* eers that two men canse into the
place around 11:55 p. m. and or
dered two soft drink*. Minutes
: later. Winston said, one of T.ie
tv* o pulied an automatic pistol and
.-.id "this is a stiekup"
The other man walked behind
| the counter and’ emptied the cash
jdrawer of its contents. The PYan
| with the gun, Winston said, stood
j beside the door arid kept every
] one "covered".
Troy Patterson, of 419 S. Bay
wood Street who was in tie place
at tile time, was robbed oi' his
vallet which contained about for
ty dollars by one of' the men.
j The pair left in a red 1949 Mer
: 1 oury after the holdup Waymortd
Wright of lid Smithfield Street,
was driving up to the place when
ihe Mercury drove off Wright told
cffiiers that he did not know what
had taken place inside, but he had
, to stop for the Mercury as it was
on the wrong side of the street,
beaded North, and almost hft him.
Wright also told officers that
there vvert three men in the car
, and Winston said that the third
man must have been in the car
; keeping the motor running, since
the car roared away immediately j
alter the holdup.
One of the men pulled the tele
phone from the wall before leav
ing. Winston described the two
(Lontinued ori Page 8)
BISHOP J. I). DIGGS
IS FUNERAUZED
WINSTON-SALEM Funeral
services for Bishop J. D. Diggs
of 1400 Wallace Street were con
ducted at 1 p. m. Tuesday at Fries
Auditorium ori the Winston-Salem
Teachers College campus.
Bishop Henry Harrison of Co
lumbus, Ohio officiated at the ser
vice, followed by burial in Ever
green Cemetery.
The body lay in state at Union
Mission Holy Church until one
hour before the service hour at
whir-h time it was taken to 'Fries
Auditorium.
Bishop Diggs, age BR. died un
expectedly at his home at 7:30 a.
m. on July 1.
17-Year-Old
Boy Drowns
HENDERSON—Jam eh Hargrove,
17 year old Henderson resident,
drowned last Thursday in an arm
of a lake just off the Henderson-
Townsvllle Highway some six
miles north of Henderson.
Hargrove was reportedly paddl
ing about with a tube, then swung
onto a log which rolled over cius
ing htrn to lose his grip.
Hargrove lived in the vicinity
of the site wnere he was drowned.
ated Dv the legislature for this
program.” Miss Council empha
sized that Uie etmimUtee was
anxious to see that Negro nurs
es were "given every aiivuii
In Effort To Prevent Spread Os Polio
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The above scene in Montgome
ry, Alabama, last week, was re
enacted WIOII times in Caswell
Cwunty, North Carolina, early
this week as a full-scale drive to
prevent tin spread of a polio
epidemic got underway with
I ■ ■ f jBT jg 9tk, jRj Jm I
To better acquaint Carolinian readers with merchants
and products advertised in your newspaper, listed below
are recommended businesses and products for your selec
tion.
The .management of The Carolinian will be grateful
to you for considering- these businesses your first choice
when making purchases.
Advertising is essential to a newspaper and, of course,
patronage of these advertisers is vital to our business as
well as theirs.
Your attention to this phase of The Carolinian will
be appreciated.
FIRMS AND PRODUCTS
Advertised «« Page Z
Sungas
Bankers Fire Ins Co
Corrc-11 Coal Co.
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
vV E. Cooper Furniture
Wake Furniture Co
Acme Realty Co
jHJlon Motor Finance Co,
Nile-Congo Drive-In
S, M. Yotuia
O. K. ClothtibK
FIRMS AND PRODUCTS
Advertised on Page 3
Ford Motors
Johnson - Lambe
Calvert Whiskies
Chesterfields
FIRMS AND PRODUCTS
Advertised on Page 4
i Civeriers Insurance Agency
THEY WERE THERE
Carolinian reporters were on hand throughout,
the state this past holiday weekend to bring fust-hand
accounts of the man her ui which the holi da y was spent!
here and there. Staff Writer J. B, Harren spent the
July Ith holiday at Harper’s f erry, W Va. His report
on the pilgrimage by members of the IBPO of Elks to'
the John Brown Shrine appears on page 9,
OTWN pages
tage in facilities and opportuni
ties.
The program was originally
authorized by the Legislature's i
of that group cluised with rr-
chlldren between the ages of 10
j month and 10 years being in
; iHiculated with gamma globulin,
| new polio-preventative drug. A
i hove, attaches to the Montgome-
I iy chapter, National Foundation
! tor Infantile Paralysis and the
Davis Crown Service
Sir Walter Chevrolet Co.
Ha yes-Jackson Elect Co.
HUIr
Madam Farrell
Wilken’s Whiskies
Jeffreys Food Store
FIRMS ANi) PRODUCTS
Ad veil Bed On Patfe i>
Roscoe-Griffin Co.
liudson-Belk
Goodman’s
firms and products
Advertised on Page <i
Brooks Appliances
Hood System Bank
Lee Bain©
Ambassador Theatres
Carolina Power & Light Co,
rain’s
(Continued on Page 81
porting directly u* Gov. Uiu-
Httd. H was hoped final recoin -
men© ution:> euuld he compieted
by iaxt week-end ti itit.s hope is
(Continued ou I'.tr 8|
American Red Cross administer
the drug to little Julius Lynn
Hargrove. No respecter of rave,
polio has struck down white,
Negro and Indian children iu
North Carolina's belabored Cas
well County.
GETS 3 YEAR
JAIL TERM
i
I TAMPA, Florida (Special) A
. | 21-year-old. nurse who formerly
, I worked at Duke Hospital, Durham,
NC, and who was reported as huv
j ing had one of the most brilli
ant nursing careers imaginable be
■ fore -her, was sentenced to a three
year prison term here recently.
( Miss Mary Ellen Thomas was
j found guilty of illegal use of nar
cotics and was ordered to spend
i her term of imprisonment at Rai-
J lord. She was arrested earlier this
year by FBI agents who found
narcotics in her position when she
went off duty at Tampa Negro
hospital,
! Described as a "most able" nurse,
| Miss Thomas finished her nurse
| training locally before she reached
i the age which would permit her
to lake the estate board examina
tion. In the interim, she worked
at Duke 'Hospital, Durham, NC;
the Lily White hospital, Tampa,
and Mercy hospital, St. Petersburg.
Sometime during her work at
these three hospitals, testimony
pointed out, the young nurse* be
gan to use dope. At the hospitals
at which she worked, it was learn
ed that narcotics were being mis
appropriated and Miss Thomas'
service were discontinued.
Shortly after she began work
at the Tampa Negro hospital, oi
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