WOMAN FINDS $1000, RETURNS IT
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Four Tots Burn To Death
In Korea
In Korea, PFC Lather Cole
man, Jr., of Greensboro, to Mrv-
inf at a ctenofraplier in Head'
quarters and Headi|aarters Com
pany, 14th Reflmeait, 2Sth Infan
try Division. Private First Class
Coleman, whose parents live at
801 IS. Cedar Street, Greens
boro, entered the Army in April
1951 and arrived in Korea in
March, 1952. A graduate of Dud
ley High School, Coleman op«r-
ated a dry cleanlnc bnsiness in
clvilUn life. — (V. S. AKMY
PHOTO.)
Applications
Now Taken For
Housing Project
Bids lor utility equipment for
McDongBld Terrace, Durham’s
Negro housing project in the
College View section will be
opened at 2:30 Thursday aft
ernoon in the administration
building at Few Gardens, the
white project in Edgemont. L.
H. Addington, executive director
of the Durham Housing Author
ity said the Invitations for pro
posals had been sent out ^ early
in February.
The equipment includes 246
electric refrigeralors, 248 gas
ranges, 249 gas-fired water heat-
ers, 247 gas-fired space heaters,
2 gas-fired panel hearters, 12
gas-fired unit hearters, 248 elec
tric meters gas meters.
After the bids have been
opened, tabulated and checked
for specifications, the local Au
thority will make recommenda
tions as to awards and these will
be forwarded to the Richmond
field office of the Public Hous
ing Administration for approval.
When approved, orders will be
placed with the successful bid
ders.
Work is progressing steadily
at the McDougald Terrace proj
ect, and applications from ten
ants are being received at the
Few Gardens office. When space
is available, tenant selection
quarters will be set up at Mc
Dougald Terrace.
Meanwhile, the tenant selec
tion section of the Authority is
giving the final screening to a
group of applicants, who will be
moved into the next group of
buildings to be readied at Few
Gardens.
Families interested in renting
an apartment may apply at the
Few Gardens office, Monday
through Friday from 0 to 4, and
the staff is on duty Saturday
morning for those unable to
make application during the oth
er days of the week.
Gastonia eitisen. is entered in the
raoe for City Connoil in Gas
tonia. Barber, who to preddeat
the Bxoetoior Credit Union in
Gastonia, may beeome tlM city’s
first Negro conneilman since B*-
ooastmotion.
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FOR THiRTY YEARS THE OVTSTAND iNG WEEKLY OF THE CAROUNAS^
Entered a$ Second CUut Maiter at the Poet Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879.
VOLUME 30—NPMBEB ^ ~ “
DUBHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 7. 1»S3
PRICE 10 CENTS
No Trace Of Arson
In Three Haiti Fires
Flames Destroy
$20,0(10 Here In
Five Weeks
First Lt; William W. Laxson
(left) of Ontario, Ore., 1st Lt.
Mary M. Kline (center) of Skip-
pack, Pa., and Capt. John R.
Henry of Winston-Salem, N. C.,
check orthopedie iftstrumento at
the 5th Mobile Army Surgical
Hospital set up in Breda, The
Netherlands, to give snpport to
flood victims and disaster work
ers.
A surgeon aasicned to the
130th SUUon Hospital, Lieu
tenant Laxson has been in Ger
many s|gpe January, 1952. He to
graduate of Monmouth (Hi.) Col
lege and Stanford University
School of Medicine in San Fran
cisco and the son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Laxson, Ontario.
* Captain Henry to assigned as
general surgeon in the 5th
MASH. Entering the Army in
August, iSSi, he arrived ov^
seas the following November.
The captain to a graduate of St.
Augustine’s College in Raleigh
and Meharry Medical College,
Nashville. The son.of Dr. and
Mrs. J. R. Henry of 217 E. Sixth
Street, Winston-Salem, hto wife,
Mary, and children are presently
living In Heidelberg. — (U. S.
ARMY PHOTO).
TIMES Story On NCC Dean
Replacement Brings Denials
A TIMES story last week list
ing person who have been men
tioned as likely considerations to
replace Dr. A. E. Manley, who to
resigning jis dean of North Caro
lina College to accept the presi
dency of Spelman, promoted a
flurry of deniato, new develop
ments and general "hassle” a-
mong those mentioned by last
weeks's story.
Dr. MaiUey’s resignation to
scheduled to become effective
July 1, and he will assume duties
at Spelman in September.
Neither President Alfonso
Elder nor dean Manley, contact
ed earlier concerning a possible
replacement for the Dean, would
make a dbmment on the matter.
So far, there has been no offi
cial word on a replacement.
Last week’s story listed ar
possible candidates Drs. J. H^
Taylor, R. K. Barksdale,' J. A.
Pittman, W. H. Brown, Miss
Ruth Rush and Arthur C. Banks.
After last week’s story ap
peared, many of those hastened
to deny that they were being
considered, or that they had as
pirations for the position.
But, two more names were
added this week to the list of
those who may be under consi
deration for the post. They are
Dr., George T. Kyle, vice ehair-
nUn of the graduate coimcil and
acting director of the graduate
school, and Dr. Charles A. Ray,,
professor of SngUidi and direc
tor of the News Bureau.
S^eral questions addressed to
a TmES writer by some of the
persons mentioned li^ week as
to the importance of speculating
on who would be the new NCC
dean, were answered with the
reply that the position often be
comes the stepping stone to the
presidency. It was further point
ed out that North Carolina Col
lege’s present president. Dr. El
der, served as dean at NCC for a
time. Also, there is the more
currently obvious case of Dr.
Manley, who has Just accepted
a presidency from his position
as dean.
Although two more names
were added .to the list of those
likely to succeed dean Manley,
Dr. Taylor still appears to have
the best chance among NCC
faculty members of receiving the
appointment. At an alumni din
ner last spring , President Elder
reportedly paid tribute to the
summer school director in a
comment which said that Dr.
Taylor is one of the "most de
pendable'’ faculty officers.
Dr Kyle came to North Caro
lina College in 1949, He received
his undergraduate and Masters
degrees at the University of Illi
nois. He earned a Ph.D. degree
from New York University. He
has s«rved as vice-chairman of
the graduate school, a pMition
which to tantamount to acting
directors of the graduate sehool.
for at least two years. ..
When contacted this week for
a statement. Dr. Kyle emphati
cally refused to comment.
Dr. Ray, not considered in last
week’s story because of what to
believed to be his peculiar fit
ness for his present job as News
Bureau director, to now thought
to be under consideration. Ray
came to NCC in 1943. He re
ceived an A.B. degree from
Shaw, and later earned a Mas
ters and Ph.D. degree from the
University of Southern Califor
nia. '
There appeared to be some in
dication thto week also that
"outsiders” are being considered
for the deanship. One source
said that it is not too improba
ble to presume that some per
sons from the University of
North Carolina faculty may be
under consideration.
Woman's Day
GREENSBORO
The annual Woman’s Day
program to be celebrated at A.
and T. College next Simday,
March 8, will, feature Miss E.
Estelle Thomas, dean of women
at Hampton Institute as the prin
cipal q>eaker. The event to an
annual project of the Junior-
Senior Woman’s Council of the
college.
No trace of arson could be
discovered in three fires in
the Haiti section of this city,
all coming within five weeks
and one block of each other,
which destroyed an estimated
$20,000 worth of property
here recently.
The latest blaze occured
Sunday afternoon, Mardi 1,
badly damaging the residence
of Mrs. Lizzie Mayo. Although
several persons were inside
the house when the fire start
ed, all escaped without in-,
jury from flames. No persons
were hurt in any of the other
fires.
On January ^0, four stores,
located in one building at the
comer of Fayetteville and Glenn
StnMi^, four houses., frotn the
Sunday blaze, caught fire and
burned with an estimated
dailiage of $12,000.
On February 9, a residence at
Piedmont avenue, almost direct
ly across the street from the
Sunday, March 1 blaze, was
damaged to the extent of $6,000
by fire.
The ■ extremely strange coin
cidence of three fires occuring
so close together both in time
and distance, raised the question'
here early this week of the
possibility that the fires may
have been started by an arson.
But, Fire Department officials
discounted this possibility this
week.
Assistant Tire Chief C. H.
Lawson told the TIMES that
each fire had been thoroughly
investigated and that no trace of
the work of an arsonist could be
found. He stated that the cause
of the fires could not be exactly
determined because each struc
ture was burned so badly.
Assistant chief Lawson also
pointed out that “firebugs,” im-
less they are pyromanlacs—per
sons mentally unbalanced—us
ually have some motive such as
insurance collection or revenge,
and added that no traces of such
a motive behind these fires could
be found.
It was also pointed out that
“firebugs” usually work at
night, and that two of these
fires; the one at Fayetteville
and Glenn streets and the one
Sunday, March 1, occured in the
afternoon, a fact which further
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Mrs. Viola Johnson to'shown at Henderson Institute. Her on-
pictured in the living room ot ly other child, a daughter, was at
her house in Henderson with her | work when this picture was
son, Plummer, who to a senior | made. Mrs. Johnson to a widow.
Honest Widow Recovers Plywood House
Money For Pa. Couple
HENDERSON—An act of honesty by a widow here, rare
to be found in these days, brought applause from this town’s
citizenry this week and from the persons who directly bene-
fitted from the honest deed-
Mrs. "Viola Johnson, resident of 648 Orange Street, is
clearly the outstanding personality in Henderson, for she
found a wallet containing $1000, wrote to the owners at an
address given in the wallet and restored the lost money to
the owners.
The owners of the money,
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ulrich of
Elizabethtown, Pa., were ap
propriately gratified to the ex
tent that they addressed a letter
to the Henderson Daily Dis
patch, praising Mrs. Johnson’s
honest act, and gave her a re
ward.
The purse containing $1000
was lost by the couple passing
through Henderson on their way
to Florida. It v/^s received by
Mrs. Johnson who wrote the
Ulrich’s at the address given in
the >Vallet, and returned the
money to them.
Mrs. Johnson, who is a widow,
has two children, and works at
the home of a banker here.
The text of the Ulrich's letter
to the Henderson Dispatch is as
follows:
“My husband and I were go
ing to Florida, traveling through
your town on Sunday, February
8. We changed'drivers. My hus
band dropped his wallet. A week
later we had a letter from Mrs.
Viola Johnson (colored), 648
Orange Street, your town, stat
ing she picked up the wallet on
Monday morning while walk
ing to work. She works in the
home of a banker in yaur town.
“I hope you will publish some
thing in your paper about the
honest woman. The pocketbook
Man With MimT
Ot 5 Year-Old
Sentenced To Die
ELIZABETHTOWN
A 20-year-old carnival work
er whose mentality has been
testified to be equivalent to
that of a five year old was
sentenced to death here last
Thursday for the murder and
rape of a young white farm
wife.
Douglas Grayson, whose
home is listed as Mannasas,
Va., was convicted by an all-
white jury, which included one
Indian, of fatally bludgeoning
Mrs. Thay Lewto White last
September after he had ravish
ed her near her home.
See Senteneed, Page 8
had $1000 cash money in it.
"We paid her a reward, but
pe. haps money doesn’t mean ev
erything to some people. She is a
widow with two children. We
stopped last evening, (February
23) on our returp trip Home
from Florida, and found her to
be a very nice colored woman,
and your town cwT^ proud to
have her living in it.”
Tar Heel Man
In MGM Movie
GOLDSBORO
William Hairston, 23-year-old
native of this city, has won a
role in the forthcoming Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer movie, “Take
The High Ground” which stars
stars Richard Widmark and
Karl Malden.
Hairston who won the role
over 14 other contestants,
plays the part of a Chicago
Negro inducted into the Army
and assigned to an integrated
platoon.
His mother is Mrs. Malissa
Hairston of this city.
9-Year-Old
Killed As
Brother Looks
HAW RIVER
A nine-year-old boy was kill
ed here instantly last Wet^nes-
day afternoon as hto younger
brother looked on helplessly.
Guy Thomas Day, Jr., was
kilM around 2 o’clock when
he was struck by a car driven
by James O. Small of Route S,
Burlington. The accidmt oc
curred on highway 49 about
two miles north of Haw Riv
er.
According to the driver of the
car, young Day dashed across
the road in tront of hto 1IM7
Chevrolet, and he was unable
to avoid hitting him although
he swerved onto the right
shoulder of the road.
The left front fender of the
car struck the victim and
knocked him nearly 50 feet.
He su0ered head and internal
injuries and a broken leg, and
was pronounced dead on ar
rival at Alamance County
hospital in Burlington.
The boy’s younger brother,
Charlie, said he was running
along a path toward the road,
chased by a dog, when he
tripped and fell 20 feet tiehind
his brother. As he was about
to get up, he saw hto brother
being knocked into the air by
the speeding automobile
The dead boy was a student
at the Green Level school, and
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Thomas Day, Sr., of Route 5,
Burlington. The accident oc
curred very near the Day
home.
In Henderson
Is Death Trap
HENDERSON
Four young children, be
tween the tender ages of three
to two months, were roasted
alive in a fire which destroy
ed their home here last Thurs
day.
.The mother of the four vic
tims was seriously burned
when she tried to rescue them
from the flaming hotHB.
Dead in the fire are the Hnr>
kins children, Pete, 3; PriKllla,
^8 months; Erskine, 2; and Ed
ward, 2 monttis. Their mother.
Mrs. Mary Hawkins to t>eing
treated at Jubilee Hospital here
for serious bums after slie tried
frantically to save her children.
The flames completed destroy
ed the three room, plywood
l)o^d dwelling of the Hawkins
which was located in So>^ Hen
derson.
Vance county coroner F. G.
Hight said that tite fire apparent
ly started from a heater, and
the flames had gained so much
headway fireman could do little
to save the structure.
Mrs. Hawkins first learned of
the blaze when someone shouted
to her as she was twanging up
clothes in her backyard. She
made a futile effort to rescue her
children ftam the conflagration.
The father of the children,
Willie Hawkins, to serving a 12
month sentence or possession of
non-tax paid whiskey.
at I authority to establish
standing
Wheeler,
right, to shown reading a report
in the North Carolina Mutual
Auditorium before a public bear-
Ing here Tuesday aftemooa held
on an application for the Me
chanics and Farmers Bank for
window branch at the comer •(
Fayetteville and Btaa Street.
Wheeler to prtaident ef the Me-
cbanTcs sad Farmers
Shown seated at tar left f
ground to W. W. J
teller’s sieaer ef banks fer
Jenes to expeeted te
repert te the State
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