AFTER ' HAZEL" LEFT the city last weekend the following scenes were '-aught by a CAROLINIAN ramerman. Th< p! on tin- Us» 'ho ■ ■tr r sprawicd acres- the entrant-' to St. Agnes Hospital The institution was without lights for several !• ;rs
following the hurricane and water was reported ankb deep in sonic portions of the hospital. Several students at St Angus' m - College are p • nred in tlv renter photo surveying the damage to a lat* model convertible on the campus The roof was lifted
from the Lyman Building, a men's dormitory, and landed -top :h> c.-<- wlii h as parked in front In the phot*-- on the ngh! 3 " r shown j. •ijint »..w «-u ipso the street after being blown over by “HagelV 60-mile pc? hour winds. No local fatalities have
. been attributed to the hurricane, although residents report extensive property damage — Staffotns by Chas R Jnoe s
DOCTOR
A
BREAKS 70-YEAR PRECE
DENT A .0 rear precedent
at the Metropolitan Opera
Company in New York wa*.
4 broken last week with tin*
signing of world famed con
tralto Marian Anderson, the
first of her race added to the
••etaipant s roster. Singing at tlie
M“t is the melons: realization
A of Die 4» \ ear-old Philadelphia -
horn concert star.
Charlotte Host To 27th
Annual NCPTA Confab
Mrs Mary C. Holliday, of
Statesville. President of the Con*
gress of Colored Parents and
Teachers, has recently announced
that the 27th Annual Convention
'‘•ill be held at the Worth West
High School, Charlotte, Novem
ber 19-20.
M A. E. Zanders. President
of the Charlotte Council; Mrs.
Willie M. Porter, General Chair
man of the local group; and C. L
Blake. Co-Chairman, all give in
dications of a great meeting.
Discussions by outstanding
authorities will bring inspira
tion keyed to a current
► stressful world, needing re-
, Or. Patterson at Bennett
GREENSBORO -■ Speakers for
file annua! Founders’ Day pro
gram, a traditional event at Ben
net College, have been announced j
by Dr. David D. Jor\e: college
president, and committees in
charge of the all-day affair sche
duled for October 29.
Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, pm- i
sitient of the.. United Negro Col- |
lege Fund, and Dr. Henrv Hitt I
Crane, pastor >j* the Centra! I
Methodist Church in Detroit fence !
im will be featured speakers j
on the program.
Dr. Patterson will make the
Founders’ Day address at 10:00 a I
m. in Annie Memo Pfeiffer I
Chapel while Dr. Crane will ;
:*./oak to a rjinnci group attend- :
mg the spec ip.! 7 p. n. banquet ,
at the Student Union.
Bn tu D; But terse; i and Dr.
Crane are trustees of Bennett and
— -
Carnation Babies Pc
r-
THE I AflOi f N'T AIS if proud
of Lip rebust group of Carna- ,1
It, ti,>n babies that arc flooding 1
cur office. V.'e are happy to
know t ;>t r-r mothers «f Ra
— ( vv'iti'v.'i ctPsoious.
T' f..-;* b ev‘l 'j t'-r
l.r. number of ( agnation led
yt Uttgatera pouring in.
To date Washington Terrace I
Is leading in the number of i
"HAZEL” RIPS OFF
SKYLIGHT: MEDIC
CONTINUES W 3
Quick acting on the part ci
Mrs Laura Kelly. 51.1 Hoke Bt..
a nun* at St. Agnes Hospital
probably helped in savjre, the 1 fc
of a patient who was undercoi’v:
surgery at St. Ap: cs Hospi.'a! N •
I Friday during Hurricane Jia-
I ael's”, rampage through the city.
I Dr. tV. F. ( lark. Raleigh ph -i
| cian and surgeon sa- in the midst
I of a deli'ate neck operation w hen
I the hurricane hit the city. Antici-
I paling damage to the Hospital,
I Dr. Clark had moved the patient
irorn under the skylight to a more
: remote portion of the operating
j room w here he proceeded to open
| the neck of the patient, Mrs.
I Marie Gupton of Youngsviile.
I The surgeon reported that hr
I noticed the skylight continously
I lifting from if- found--.' . but
| was not prepared for w at nap
| p?ned next. The , iu, t mnai
I frame of the skylight came tutnb-
I ling down into the room leaving
I a wide gaping hole. Rain came
I into the operating room and Dr.
[ Clark moved the patient out into
I the hall. He ..aid Ih was too deep
into the operation to st The
lights went out throughout the
hospital at tills time.
At this point Airs. Kelly came
into play. She quickly found sev
eral flashlights, assisted in hold
mi; them in strategic positions
while Dr Clark finished the deli
cate job of surgery.
The hospital sprinkler system
was turned on by the force of Trie
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assurance for children ami
lonth iri our time through the
theme—New Responsibilities
in a Changing Society.
■ | Other features will be the
Youth Forum with members of
five high schools in the western
! section; panel presentation, ex
, Mbits and general discussion of
. j problems and needs of children .
' and youth.
The Congress is made up of e- 1
i .'even districts in the 100 coun
| tie* in North Carolina, represent
i mg some 30,000 members.
C. 51. Moreland is principal of
the North West Junior High
1 School. Convention Headquarters.
active m the work of the college.
Dr. Patterson, who holds a
wore of honorary degrees
and awards is nov & trustee,
cf the Phelps-Stokes Fund as
well as various colleges and
organisations. The founder of
the United Negro College
Fund of which Bennett is a
member. Dr. Patterson also
initiated 11. S. Army Pre-
Flight Instruction in 11)43
where members of the faro
oiis 931 b Pursuit Squadron
were trained. He is presently
the special assistant to the
secretary of the U. 3. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
An author and lecturer. Dr. Pat-
I terson war- appointed a member
of the International Bank Mission
, to Nigeria last yeai.
Dr. Crane, who will make the
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entrants. It is our under
j standing that there are a
large number of babies loca
ted in Chavis Heights. Come
on Chavis Heights get these
r b in. Don’t let V.' hieg
tm Terrs re b it you in t. is
contest. The Oberlin section
is leading tile South Park
section. Fourth wardis slight
ly ahead of north Raleigh,
THE
VOLUME THIRTEEN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
•A. -L. -JL -A L L w w w w
LIBERIAN PRIME? HERE - WillUun V. S, Tobtmu. (left;, presl
rt-nt «f Liberia, and WiltiiMT! Tolbert, vii» president of the republic,
are shown as they arrived in the lulled State* .Smurie to be » gu» u
of Preskient Lvnhowef a! the White House. Tubman and hi* part,
wits make a mr through the South before Journeying to New Lott.
October 26 for the traditional ticker tape reception, (hrwspces*
Jr hetft)
Rocky Mount Mourns
Death Os Bishop, 85
ROCKY MOUNT This city’s
oldest active minister. Bishop
Cornelius Remus Whitley, wa s
claimed by death last Sunday
New Alumni Policy
The Alumni Association of
Shaw University has adopted a
»ew policy regarding the nam
ing of the annual alumni queen
it was announced here Wednes
day. Previously the Alumni As
sociation had assumed the dis
tinction of naming a queen.
Howe'er, following a meeting
of the Aiunini Executive Board
it was decided that the queen
be selected by the club or chap
ter ranking highest each year
in supporting the objects of the
national organization as set
forth m its charter of incor
poivtion. Tiis year the Dunn
'haw Club was chosen as the
group which best exemplified
these principle*.
raring In
Additional entry blanks may
he obtained at the Editorial
office of the CAROLINIAN.
The official form is reproduc
ed ill the CalUatlMi milk *d
v -- rr < wMrh appears
< •xevrbv ■ ;o i'.-js paper and
may be used by entrants in
submitting baby snapshots.
Mothers the prizes are
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morning, ending a 50 y< -
preaching career which had its
beginning in the remote areas of
j the deceased’s native home. ,
i Greene County, near Snow Hitt,
The 85-year-old Rev. Wiiit
ley had been vice bishop of
the Apostolic Church of God,
Inc,, for 35-years and was in
charge of four churches at
the time of his death, al
though he had not been phy
sically able to carry our the
services, which w ere turned
over to his son the Rev
Elisha Whitley. i
Bishop Whitley started presch
; in?; with the United Holiness :
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C. News In Brief
DR, CLARK GRANTED
DIVORCE
Dr. tv. F. Clark, prominent
J physician and surgeon n) 314 E.
j Cabarrus Street, was granted s
j divorce decree absolute from
Mrs. Isabel Chisholm Clark. Mon- i
day in Wake Superior Court by i
Judge J. Paul Friz/.elle. The medic,
"bo was represented by local at- i
lomey. E. A. Solomon was grant- :
! ecf his freedom cn the grounds of ;
| two years separation. Mrs. Clark i
is a former instructor at St. Aug- 1
Ustinov College.
i i
COLLEGE TO ADMIT ALL
CONCORD—Barber-Scotia Col
lege’s president, L-. S. Coasart, an- t
j nounced this week that the Pres- 1
i bytena.il institution has revised
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY,’OCTOBER 23? 1954
★ ******
Milford Doors Reopened
EOWLES LOSES '
rism
■ as- j'i 1' m t‘‘ s ,j,-vy
GEORGETOWN DFL -7
William Marvel Issued a decree
here Thursday afternoon grant
ing Negro children the right to
again attend the former all-whit*
high school m Milford.
The judge had before him at
the time of issuing the verdict, ;t
petition filed by \AACT counsels
Louis Bedding and .Lick Green
berg. asking readmis.sion of tin
children to the same high school
from which they had ben mist
ed after a racial iTarettji several
weeks ago,
l! is only necessary now for NA
ACP lawyers to app- ir before the
vice chancellor of the Court of
Chancery and a. k him to issue the
oi de: for the nice children to go
back to school.
An NAACF spokesman is allege
'•d to have said that h<- expects
the children to return to school
some time this week. When they
return n will mark the third time
this group of stud- tits have enter
ed she Delaware school.
They were first admitted for 'he
; opening of the fall term but the
school was closed because of de
| monst radons.
The students wen* buck to
school under police escort but a
new school board ordered them
tram 'cored to a jlm crow school
:n nearby Dover The studen-'s ,*•■-
i fused to go back to the Dover
! school and have not attended
school since September 23.
hi handing down his eight-page
' ruimg on the motion Thursday,
Judge Marvel said:
“i b«*id ihai ibe plaintiff* have
a clear legal right to have then
statu*- as students ol M It trd High
School preserved, pending linul
hearing, and (hat an order wlil
he entered enjoining the defen
dants from denying' to the plain
tiffs because of color or race,
their vested right to attend Mil
ford High School.”
fin Tuesday the attorney gen
eral of Delaware appealed to the
judge to readmit Negro children
to the ail-white .school and dedur
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its charter so as to permit the ad
mission of any qualified student,
regardless of race or sex. He ex
plained that the revision was
made last spring by the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church. UJS.A. which owns and
operates the college. The school
is formerly all-uirl. A young Whitt
man. who is alleged to hove en
tered the college this fall, is be-1
llevad to be the first male student,
to enroll in the history of Bar
ber-Scotia. Three white teachers
ar3 employed at the college.
CL ASMS ACCIDENT .*- L
BURLINGTON • Buti! the vic
tim. and the offender in a shott
ing here earlier this week have
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■ Ht
I HUK, GOOD MARSM AIX
SAYS
!*; u*,f : pD pen
ny J. b. !!.\r,M:v
1
T* '■ i r R.-lafon* b.-r-n.
N. C. NAACT Conference
‘I — Deapitfc tn<*
f , “Hazel’’. which" roared thru et.yf- :
■ «rn North Carolina Friday and j
’ c&ugh! Lumberton on the fringe i
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! “Fierce ws the wild billows" |
i \ 12 Homes Destroyed I
* *' ?
I OCEAN CITY BEACH—Hisr- j
rfeaue ‘'Hate!’’ destroyed twelve j
of the fifteen home*, here last |
weekend during her jaunt j
through North Carolina. Among |
those whose homes were t om- 1
B&etely destroyed ai* Dr. M. L. c:
Watts, Raleigh; Steve Rogers, j
Fayetteville, and Wade Chest* t
nut, Wilmington, manager oi i
tiie beach. Jacob Hayes, Ra- S
leigh. who lost his garage In the I
hurricane, reported that most I
of the homes destroyed were j
blown into -the sound, located l
aopsoximato .">OO feel irom j
the nearest inane. A complete j
estimate of flic damage done
here bj “Hazel’' could not he
ascertained at press time.
r imriiryn ■••■trrr — t iwmn nmn
W aks Rcsid 2ixt D1 -s In W reck
A 23-year-old auloist was:
drowncl Sunday morning as his!
j car plunged down a ravine and j
into a creek a mile and one half <
south of Fjpu'.'.y Springs, and tote ;
female coji'pa;.;t)ii is reported in
j fair condition a: a jo-ai j j.-y.ud
suffering troru multiple injuries. .
Killed was Moses Bullock, 23, ,
of Kuo nay Springs, who was deaa ;
when he was brought to the e- •
NO. X XXXIV
ISABOLISHED
Prisons Director W. F. Bail
ey issued an order Friday
abolishing the use of the gag
and claw. This means of re
straining a prisoner figured
heavily in the recent inquest
into the death of Miss Elean
or Rush, young native of Al
bemarle, \y h o was found
dead in an isolation cell in
August.
Bailey’s order began “Careful
scrutiny of all reports cor.rern
iin: the Eleanor Finish case at the
Women's P including a
transcript of the Coroner's In
quest tret cited on October 12*,;
reveals the need for department :
policies p- ceh,.ne-'. and guide
hooks for prison personnel."
i "On assuming r y preterit re
sponsibilities as Director of Pns- :
ons. it was found that though a
general >cl e-i Kuh s tr.d RcßUla- :
ions fee iiie S:, e i':.i .a System, •
• >id largely upon reco.nmenda- '
:.<i.is of the Prison Advisory
until. whicn had been adopted
the State Hu; it way and Public
'ks Comiai.ssion nr*a sp’pro vtu
■>y Die Governor, there was no
a.i of departmental policies j
to: Tim lu os rAGE it)
Oberlin Family Destitute
BY CHARLES K JONES
Oietti v. ?> are made aware of
! the plight of persons who are
! loss fortunate than ourselves :
I through personal negligence on t
their part, as a result of not wish- i
:ng to better then condition, or 1
through just plain “bad luck.’’ j
Earlier this v-e-ek The CARO*
L INI AN was informed of the
hardships confronting c 31-year- j
• old Oberlin mother of five chil- j
dren.
b", Sadie Mae Punches, of
*O7 "j icr's L-oe lived in a j
-woorlbwiiic* type of home, con- I
sifrli&g of one room nine feet :
tong, six feet wide. c.r.lit Hurri- |
catk* "Han i' v:s; etl the city las'- J
weekend,, ripping off part of the ['
roofing, scattering weather ;
beard* :.nd lea*.jug tin: homo in j
a sham Was. hardly fit for any ;
human to live in. especially one j
with five small children. Follow- j
mg the hurricane, she was '-arced I
to take shelter with a distant ’
relative in that section.
Mrs Functors came to ft a- i
mergency room of St. Agues Hos
pital here
Miss Helen Wyche. lb. who was
: riding in the automob! c with Bui- i
lock at the time of tfco incident
and who also lives ia Fuo.uuv
rings, vas admitted to tbs toos
p al suffering abrasions, lacera
| tion,- of the right arm, and a con
cussion from a head injury Hei
j condition was reported as "fair” |
SDƑDFSF
1
MRS. GLADYS WOODS
GREENSBORO Mrs Glad;,*
Woods, principal of the David T>
Jones School here will receive
national honor known as tb s
James J. Hoey Award for Interra
cial Justice Jater m this month
for her "outstanding contribution'!
to interracial justice during the
The announcement was made
last week by Father Louis La
farge, chairman and founder of
the " Roman Catholic Interracial
Council. Each year a white and a
Negro person are named to i‘ -
c>: ice the national honor. Co-re
ceipient this year will be Juoge
Collins J Seitz, cbancdlot of
Dataware
Mrs. Woods Mas voted to
receive tiic honor by the coun
cil members od the basis of
her work for interracial jus
fire on the educational level.
•\ teacher and principal in the
Greensboro school system
since i Tl, he was reeotn
eniuded lor tiie award b> her
parish priests, Father Vincent
Is words and Daniel Donovan
of Our Lady of the Miraculous
Medal Church.
A Roman Catholic since 193.
Mrs. Woods has been active in the
North Carolina Catholic Layman's
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Icigto approximately n-vr*
months age from err home u
Orangeburg, S t... followinr
a break -up with V-f husband
whom she dcacrifcrd as "just
no good " The man is report
ed to have left her flat with
the care of the kids being her
entire responsibility.
Following iis desertion, Mrs.
Flinches came here where she
has a cousin, Mrs, Hattie Jon.: ~
ot 2113 Roberts Street
Finding her cousin s Feme !•*-
small to accommodate her and
her children, she rented a small
structure in the backyard of a
nome owned by Mrs. I-:,.:
Miller, paying her five aolt;<"s
a week rent.
* Mrs. Punches related to T-u
CAROLINIAN th«l she has bo
unable to secure any reguk-u
work, although she goes- -b
hunting almost every day. A row
part-time jobs are ail that have
been thrust hei way.
Always finding herself
:>hurt of the finances wees
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, a*, pre.rs time.
Accoi-Uing to Highway Patrol
man Gt orge A Lessard, Bullock,
was driving a IB 17 Mercury con
veH'.ble, which r-'-n off of H.y'h
wuv If?-A and want about ?'<o
f.-e; be'.orc u plus.jcd into ti;c
i water
The accident is reported to
Jtavc oc curred at about 12 a m. •
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