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VOL, XII
BOD? IS CREMATED IN ROOMING-HOUSE FIRE
_ _ ! /d J >-
NATIONAL GROUPS RULE
Durham Man 1 Os US’s Most
a Distinguished Citizens”
J. H. Wheeler
Is Accorded
Recognition
AAKGNSBURC. Pa. «,Special) -
Joan Harvey Wheeier, president
ix) ff\e t'Vleehanics and Farmer*
Bank, Durham. N. C. was selected
by the Aaronsbuig Assembly Com
xr.ittee and the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania as one of America's
most distinguished citizens. The
Committee which was responsible
for naming Wheeler was com
posed of the following individuals.
Ralph J. Bunche, Felix Frankfur
ter, William J. Genevan. Tames H
Duff. Charming H Tobias, Daniel
A. Poling, Phillip S. Bernstein
In accepting the honor. Wheele*
attended the Aavonsbarar Assembly
held in the village of Aaroiwburg.
Pennsylvania and on the campus
of Pennsylvania State College, The
sponsors of the Assembly were the
A*rcns.burg Committee end the
k Conunonweajtii of Pennsylvania
| The purpose of the Assembly was
F twofold:
it *s A Fad - - Shaw U. Will
Have Football Team In ’53
RALEIGH - It's a fact.
Shaw University will indeed
field a football team during the
1953 playing season, and the ath
letic department of the local Bap
tist institution has not only lined
up a tough regular season schedule
hut has also inked a pact to play
in a post-season classic that tends
to be in the "rough-tough" cate
gory also.
Despite tears unit me once form
iriibie Bears of Shaw U. would
never again take to the gridiron,
following the "benching' of the
entire team last season because of
lack of funds, men and other re
quisites, Shaw Athletic Director
James Lytle went right, ahead
with plans to put the Bruin group
back afield.
Since late lust spring when an
nouncement was issued that Shaw
•would forego football competition
for ’52, Mr. Lytle, along with
Head Coach' Brutus Wilson, comb
ed the field to find the funds and
the fellows to guarantee Shaw a
team for '53.
Even though Shaw will neces
sarily enter into competition with
an untried team this coming sea
son, the mentors at the local school
have nonetheless lined up a sched
ule that even some of the most
iormidible competitors of the past
year would not* have tackled.
Shaw's gridders have selected
t-aeir traditional “cross-town ri
vals”, The Falcons of Saint Augus
tine’s College here, to be their
initial foes. .Raleigh's Chavis
Heights iFeld will be the site of
that clash of Capital City greats
on October 3.
Virginia State College, A. and.
T. College, Allen University. Mary*
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BLESS THIS HOUSE Bap
tist and laymen front throughout
?Jtje state gathered last Friday at
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I it UiIPELi R
- • d i,\ till fill isiHU
(1) to bring together one-hun
dred of America's most distin
guished citi/rie; to consider means
of achieving national serenity and
world peace through brotherhood
and understanding; and
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Miracle Surgery Proves Fatal j
WINSTON-SAI.EM Douglas,
Mock, local man, who attempted!
: suicide on July 2 and accidentally
l performed a needed brain surgery
lon himself, died at 7 am. Satur
; -ay in a local hospital, seventeen!
j lays “late'.
Mock was believed to be re-!
| covering despite the fact that j
: several bullet fragments remained !
i 'ii l.is brain.
An autopsy may be ordered to j
determine the exact cause of death, j
, The man; reportedly worried!
jhv a family problem, shot himself)
lin the head with a .22 calibre i
Lay That Pistol Down , Bab!
WENDELL Charged with car
| tying a concealed weapon, Charles
I L. Watkins of Raleigh was given
! s sixty-day sentence, suspended
j ''pon payment of a -SSO fine and
j costs. The gun was ordered con
i I iscated.
Highway Patrol Cpl. R. E. Shar
riii ui Raleigh testified that he
found a .32 caliber automatic pis
ton on the defendant. The offi
Baptist Women End Sessions
RAI.EIGH The Interracial In
stitute, which is sponsored by the
North Carolina Baptist Women’s
Missionary Union and the Wo
then's Baptist Home and ForiMgn
! Missionary Convention, came to a
1 ft. tn, tor the historic oere
i monies which, marked the form
j sti beginning of iiie new State
Baptist Headquarters in Balriflt
THE CAROLINIAN
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RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA
71-Year-Old
Woman Wins I
EOTC Degree
I i ELIZABETH CITY - Among the
Ii 2b undergraduate students and in-
II Vice teaU.eis completing re-
I j iiuirements for a degree, was Mrs.
I j Maria Newsome. 71. of Ahoskie.
I | For 3k years Mrs. Newsome has
I i taught in the public schools of
1 j Hertford and Bertie Counties. She
't >e mother of tour sons and
| daughters, and th< grandmother j
... eight children. All of the New- |
i w/ne cinch eii are Cvdlege gradu- j
ate.. Tni'fre hold the master's tie-;
wee, ana one if; now studying at I
* I Meharry Medical College.
Mrs. Newsome's (laughter is the;
•: *a ile of H. D. Cooper, principal of
< it L Vann High School, Ahoskie.
The hcv Moses Newsome is pas
i« until.tied on Page 8i
; rifle shortly before midnight, July
2. For several days he was un- f
conscious, then he began to re
lurn io consciousness, gradually
According to the attending sur
i .'eon, Mock showed post-operative
jsyintums of a pre-frontal lobotom
j natient This is a type patient
| who has undergone certain type
I'd brain surgery.
; Last week, the surgeon believed
[that Mock's physical recovery was
assured. But later, from causes
wel unknown, Mock died the way
he had tried several days before.
l'-’er did not mention a broken rib
ion his left side received during
la scuffle with Watkins. It was
I necessary for the officer to hand
jcuff Watkins in order to put him
jin the patrol car
Watkins pleaded guilty to the
i charge of carrying a concealed
j weapon, but did not mention re*
Isistmg arrest either.
("lose at the University Church on
j -haws West Campus Friday after*
| more
I "We've A Story To Tell" was
] -he theme of the program. Mrs,
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, As this photo was taken, prayer i
| was being delivered. STAFFbTO
; BY CIIAF E. JONES,
1
COURT RULES WOMAN
j NOT GUILTY; MAN TO |
FACE MURDER TRIAL i
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Wake County Wife Freed In Fiery
Death Os Hubby; Deranged Man
Fingered As The Murderer
RALEIGH A Wake County Su-i
perior ( ourt Judge last Thursday |
; found a young Wake woman “riot j
guilty '' on charges of murdering i
her husband by use of fire and |
an axe.
The court indicated, however,
that a man. who was found men- j
tally incapable to stand trial when
Bihe axe-fire mur-:
Uer first came to i
'ight, should ha\y !
his day in court, j
Mrs. Cora Lee j
McPhaii of near)
Fuquay Springs!
was cleared of j
all blame in the;
death of her bus-!
band, To rn my,
last February 5,
at iFuqauy Hu-j
I. l >t Dean, also;
c* near Fuquay,
uon fitted to the
i> ta t e H ospital
(or the Insane at ;
Goldsboro, and
has been charged •
In the death.
testimony heard b> the Wake
court last Wednesday and Thurs
day arid investigation by this news*
I paper when the ease first broke
! noted that Mrs, MePhatl had gone
j dong witn Dean to the house oc- !
Man’s Body Reduced To
i Ashes As House Burns
DURHAM i Special) A 49
year-old man was cremated when
a Sunday night fire destroyed the
j rooming house uere in which be |
I nad made residence for the past
Live months,
The remains, mostly iiuhstma
j uishafole ashes, were sent to;
j Clarkton, the man’s native home. I
j tor burial early tins week
! 'The victim of the Sunday fire j
j was identified a? James Stephen
-1 son. He died when fire completely |
|destroyed the nine room Fayette-j
j ville Road dwelling he made his!
i home.
! MAY HAVE CAUSED EIRE
Preliminary investigation of the j
l tragedy by Durham County n'ner- .
jiffs deputies and the Fire Depart-:
[meat tended t; reveal that the J
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1953 SIXTEEN PAGES
1 oipied by Manual Barber on the j
i K M. Johnson farm on the fatal j
lay to “have a few drinks of I
wine”.
i The “wine-drinking” was going]
along at a merry pace, when sud- j
: lenly Tommy McPhail. Mrs Me*;
Phail's Juiaband put in an uriex* |
! pected appearance.
A few words, reportedly were I
! passed between MePhaii and Bean
!md the two decided to fight it
j out. McPhail had a knife.
During the ensuing fight, Mrs
; McPhail told the court. Dean pick-
S cel up an axe and struck McPhail
j about the head. While McPhail lay
: dazed as result of the axe blow,
' ‘somebody”, not identified by the
j witness, poured kerosene on the (
i stricken man and set him afire,
i His head crushed and cut by
| the axe blow, and his clothes blaz
;mg from the kerosene-aided fire,
. McPhail stumbled into the yard
]of Barber's house, staying there
until an ambulance was summoned
ito take him to Si. Agnes Hot
! pital here
Enroute to the hospital, McPhail.
i testimony given by E. M. Johnson,
declared that “Hubert" ‘.Dean) h?d j
■dapped him down with the ax* •
and that ‘‘Cora'' (Mrs. McPhail) |
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: fire mi Alt have been started by j
i the victim
j The investigators found that the j
fire bad its origin on the second j
tioor of the two-floor structure
’ and damage was centered mostly j
•in the area of Stephenson's room, j
The victim shared a room with j
].l brother-in-law. who was in ar* j
; other part of the house when the
j alarm was given. A passing mo
torist saw flame.’ leaping from the
] hc/.tse and Vp {1 persons seated
jon the porch that the structure
i was afire.
j All occupants of the house, in
] eluding W. A. Jeffries, owner, and j
j family and sevral other roomers,
j escaped injury. They shared the
! brother- in - taw 1 s opinion that Ste- .
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TWON7CTWHITE MEN
Must Face Trial For Rape
Attempt On Negro Woman
Meeting To
Start NAACP
Drive Sunday!
RALEIGH Sunday, July 26th \
is a banner day in the history of
ihe National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) in Raleigh,
Sunday is the day vm n a huge
rally !•> to L> staged at Manley
Street Christian Church marking
the kicic-ofi of a mammrth drive
jin which the Raleigh NAACi-j j
branch hopes to gain lOOh mem- j
hers
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Twin City Golfers Seek
Use Os City - Owned Links
WINSTON SALEM ~ ‘Special*
Local Negro golfers have pe
titioned the city for permission to
use city-owned Reynolds Park
Golf Course.
Some 50 or sixty persons signed
a petition handed the local recre
ational governing body by Richard
Moss last week.
This petition noted the fact that
Greensboro, Charlotte and Thomas
ville have given Negroes the right
to utilize public-owned golf facili
ties.
Action oti the petition will
necessarily be made by the Rey
nolds Park Commission which di •
reels the park
Winston-Salem Negroes will soon
have a $75,000 public park whim
is 10 include' a 9-hole golf course,
city officials pointed out, yet the
actual date of the realization of
this park is questionable since
no actual work has begun on the
project. I
The Rev. W. R. Crawford, local
alderman and member of the rec
reation commission told the com
mission that local Negro citizens
are interested in learning the game
of golf before tneir course is com
pleted, His stand on the Issue was
upheld by Clark Brown, also a
member of the commission.
Rockingham
Man Is NC’s
Top Farmer
REIDSVILLK Because his en
tire family worked with him, Hu -
gene King of Rockingham County
was named North Carolina's
•Farmer of the Year."
This marked the second time in
three years that a Rockingham
County fanner received this na
tional recognition.
Located in the Pcteat Communi
ty near Oregon Hill, King's farm
is an outstanding example of good
profitable soil conservation farm
ing an of what careful planning
and hard work can accomplish
T. D. Williamson, farm agent, j
points out t-nat Kings entire 214
acres are sowed into some growing
or cover crop. Presently, 11 head
of beef cattle, eight dairy cows
and 13 baby calves roam the farm
and add to trie income.
Listed among the projects
King carried out to win the
Farmer erf the Year award
are: terracing at entire farm,
wild life border, 22 acres of
| permanent pasture, eight acres
of meadow strips, 9.3 acres of
tobacco, one acre of cucum
bers, ten acres of wheat, four
and half acres of oats and bar- j
ley and three acres of rye
and an acre seeded to pines.
Mechanization had a lot to do ;
with King's receiving the covet
ed award. He has a euo tractor
for row cropping and cultivation
purposes: and a "Super C" tractor
for all the heavy work. A bailer
is one vital piece of rolling stock |
missing find Use famer-of-the- j
year says that it will be added if j
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SOME OF THE BEST
THE NATION’S TOP COLUMNISTS are included
among whose weekly offerings are published m The
Carolinian. Among columnists featured weekly are
C. D. Halliburton, Dean Gordon Hancock, 1-ou Lu-
Tour, James. Shepard, Rosalie Williams, Olive Adams,
and many others. Follow the nation’s top writers in 1
The Carolinian!
REV. SISTER GARY
- - - drive co-chairman
i Carolinian Photo - Story
! Gets Immediate Results
RALEIGH Advertisers' have
known for years that advertis- -
ments placed in The Carolinian
get results, and this past week
leaders of the paper'.- news col
umns had opportunity to learn
that Carolinian news stories also
“bring home the bacon"
I
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j FARMER OF THE YEAR
Eugene Kuuf, prominent Rock
ingham County fanner, was
canned "Farmer of the Year” for
North Carolina recently for out
standing achievement in soil
I conservation. King has done a
I complete job on bis 21.4 >er»«s
[ tfwitig the past year which will
NUMBER 33
Mari , Wife
Picked Up
\ By 7 Men
j
I MOCKS VILLE - Two 23->eai •
: old h-edr-ij County whin m«i will
! hi:vc to foot: trial for Un- mw.ni tod
iijjo ot ,i 36-yeo, --oid colored wo
! man here Specifically the pair is
| charged with assault on the wo
{ man with intent to commit rape.
Til addition, the two men, one
j of whom is an Army pr ivate, must
j luce drunk and disorderly charges
In all, Weil white men in
volved in the tape attempt One is
ito be fed ioj opeivtlmg ii .lutn
.. mi-.- uito. ;.'at*-.-d and ti .u- au
ce-;or- before the fact m the
:pe aitdtnpt in.ee othe: were
U.ontir.ueu mi PS-;. St
It wasn't exactly “the bacon”
that a Carolinian news .Tory
brought home last week, it was a
missing girl,
i .ns is the way it happende:
A Raleigh woman, a UhgTime
subscriber to * The Carolinian,
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assure continuance of good soli
j on his farm for years and years
! to come. The lower photo shows
i an example of terracing with
! curving rows to prevent valuable
i top soil rum washing away.
i just one example of severs!
1 methods he uses on the farm.