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Some of the 550 freshmen and new students who are attending classes at North Carolina College for the first time this week are shown here on the col
lege’s gridiron, ‘O’Kelly Field. Last year, twenty-three states and three foreign countries were represented in the first year class. Indications were tfiat the
class would show 4 similar representation this year.
FREF TRIPS TO HOLY LAND, PARIS
$10,000 Prize Contest Is Revealed
New, 'Everbody Wins' Prize Laden
Contest Announced By TIMES
^ The management of the CAROLINA TIMES is
pleased to announce this week its mammoth, *‘ev>
erybody wins” circulation campaign for 1953 with
two-round trips to the Holy Land and one-round trip
to Paris as top prizes to the three persons securing
the highest number of subscriptions to the CARO
LINA TIMEIS within a period of six weeks.
In addition to the three top prizes, all non-prize
winners will receive 20 per cent commission on all
subKriptions sold during the six weeks campaign
which opens October 5 and closes midnight of Nt>>
vember 14.
The nomination period lor the campaign is now open
and all persons desiring to enter the contest are r^uested to
fill out the coupon at the bottom of the advertisement on
page four and mail or bring it to the office of the CAROLINA
TIMES, 518 East Pettigrew Street, Durham, N. C. As soon
as nominations are received, receipt bboks and other cam
paign material will be given or mailed to each contestant.
No report for subscriptions will be accepted until Oct
ober 5, the official npening riatp of t.hp campaign.*No reports
from contestants will be accepted after midnight, November
14.
The free round trips to the Holy L^nd and Paris will be
made via Trans World Airlines any time between Nov^ber
20, 1953 and March 31, 1954. It will consist of three weeks
and will give the winners of the Holy Land trip an oppor
tunity to see such interesting places as Jerusalem, Cana of
of Galilee, Mount Tabor where the Transfiguration of Jesus
took place and many other most inter^ting places.
In Paris, they will see many int^esting places during
daily tours of the city by motor coach with guides, visiting
the Latin Quarter and Monmartre, the center of Parisian
gaiety, Montparnasse, one of the famous Parisian night clubs,
clubs.
Following the close of the contest midnight, November
14, the auditing committee consisting of J. H. Wheeler, Presi
dent of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank; R. N. Harris, Sec
retary and Manager of Bankers Fire Insurance Company and
City Councilman of Durham and W. J. Walker, Jr., Secretary
and Manager of the Southern Fidelity Mutual Insurance
Company, will make the official audit and tabulation of all
contestants and announce the winner which will be publish
ed in October 21 edition of the CAROLINA TIMES.
For the past several weeks, the management of the
CAROLINA TIMES had has several conferences with repre
sentatives of the Trans World Airlines, the final of which
was tliis week when a representative of the company was in
(fe -
gh will 1 _ ,
er of the CAROLINA TIMES, who announced that no men-
Durham and completed details for the tri^
The campaign will be managed by L. £.
Austin^ Publish-
ber of the TIMES staff or employee or their relatives will
be eligible for the contest.
VA Hospital At Oteen Slowly
Moving Toward Non-Bias Policy
ASHEVILLE
Oteen Veterans Admlnlatn-
tion hospital, with its Swanna-
noa division (commonly refer
red to as Moore General Hoapl-
tal), and located near Asheville
is one of the government hoq|)i-
tals in the South, which accord
ing to Harvey Higley, Veterans
Administrator in Wafhington,
“we hope that the day la not
far removed when there will be
no semblance of racial legrega-
tion...”
Hlgle}r’s statement of policy
was made in an exchange of
letters with Clarence MltcheU,
an official of the National Asso
ciation For the Advancement of
Colored People. MitcbeU had
protested to Highley about ra
cial' segregation which he said
existed in most of the Southern
VA hospitals, contrary td Presi
dent Eisenhower’s recent policy
statement against such racial
discriminatory practices in fede
ral institutions.
Highley assured Mitchell that
the VA was moving as rapidly
as jx>ssible toward the complete
elimination of racial segregation
in all veterans’ hospitals.
The TQSES conducted its own
investigation as tp the situation
locally and found that there was
evidence to bear out the state
ments of policy coming from
Washington.
P. L. Collins, manager of the
local VA hospital units, told the
TIMES that “we do not counte
nance anything such as ,that
(segregation)...’* and that every
one at Oteen is as “one big fami
ly.”
Oteen VA. hospital Is prlmarl.-
ly tubercular care and treating
center, one of the largest of its
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FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTAN DING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
Entered os Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879.
VOLUME 30—-NUMBER 35
DURHAM, N. C.,
SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 1953 PRICE 10 CENTS
Durham
Support
Votes
Of Bond Issue
Charlotte Youtiis Hear Sentences
For Murder Of Middle-Aged Nurse
CHARLOTTE
Two teen agers were sen
tenced to life imprisonment here
early this week for the murder
tff an elderly white spinster.
A Meciclenburg Superior
court session required only 15
minutes to dispose of the case of
18 year old Karey Harris and 15
year-old William McQueary who
had confessed to fatally stabbing
of Miss Helen Swink, middle-
aged practical nurse last August
2.
Judge Peyton McSwain, in
pronouncing the sentence, said
that if the defendants had been
adults he would not have allow
ed a plea of guilty which saved
the youths from the death pen
alty.
In their confessions, the two
youngsters told police that their
motive was robbery. They said
they thought a large bag in
which Miss Swink carried some
clothing- was her pocketbook.
Both youngsters have a long
record of i>etty crimes and other
Involvements with the law.
Harris, who saw his father shot
to death some three years ago,
is said to have “run wild'
since that time.
Sources close to the Harris
family say that while the youth’s
father lived, he was jUst like
any other youngster, but that
after seeing his father die, he
lost interest in going to school.
LSU Bucks
Court Order
MISS DOROTHY HEIGHT
New Building At
Durham YWCA
To Be Dedicated
DURHAM
Dedication services for the
new wing of the Harriet Tub
man Branch of the YWCA
will be held here Sunday aft
ernoon at the YWCA on Um-
stead Street.
Miss Dorothy Height, mem
ber of the leadership .staff of
the YWCA National Board of
New York, will be the fea
tured speaker.
The new wing of the YWCA
was recentl^i completed at a
cost of some $90,000. Money
for its constinetlon came from
a ctty-wlde campaign headed
by M. M..Fowler and B. N.
Harris. The new wing will af- *
ford space for some 18 re
sidents. offices for the branch
staff, a registry, lobby and re
creation room.
Work on the structure was be
gun in July, 1052 and recently
completed.
An array of Dnrham YWCA
officials and civic leaders are
expected to take part in the
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DURHAM
The Durham Committee on
Negro Affairs voted to give
support to the 72 million dol
lar bond issue which will go
before North Carolina’s voters
on October 3.
Announcement of the com
mittee’s action was made late
this week by a spokesman
who declined to comment far
ther on the Roup’s action.
Support by this group of the
bond issue for schools and hos
pitals is the latest in a series
of endorsements made of the
bond issue.
Already, key state officials
have openly given their back
ing to the issue. And Gover
nor Umstead this week urged
citizens to vote for the bond
issue in a speech.
Some 50 million dollars of
the money will be used to fi
nance expansion of school
facilities aftd the remainder
will be used on state hos
pitals.
CHICAGO, ILL.
Dr. Theodore R. Speigner of
Durham, North Carolina, is the
first member of his race to be
appointed to a policy-making
board of the National Lutheran
Council by the American Lu
theran Ch\irch, according to Dr.
Henry F. Schuh, President of
the American Lutheran Church,
Columbus, Ohio, and Dr. B. D.
Lechleitner, Ibtecutive Secre
tary of American Missions.
In notifying Dr. Speigner of
his appointment Dr; Lechleitner
said, “I am writing Immediately
to advise you that you have been
appointed >to represent the A-
merican Lutheran Church on
the Division of American Mis
sions of 'the National Lutheran
Council.”
The Division of American
Missions of the National Luther-
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C. D. SPANGLES, Charlotte
realtor, is shown giving his
check for |1,000 to the Negro
Stadium Fund. He is handing
it to W. Howard Moreland,
principal of the Marie Davis
School and head of the Negro
Divtoion of the drive.—Photo,
Courtesy Charlotte News.
NCC Prolessor Is
first Negro On
Liillieran Cmncil STADIUM DRIVE AT CNARLOnEE
EXPEHED TO HIT SIIJM MARK
CHARLOTTE
More than $6,000 was collect
ed in the Negro division at the
close of the Stadium ]f^md drive,
it was revealed this week by
W. Howard Moreland, principal
of the Marie G. Davis school and
co-chairman of the drive.
And reports indicate that
nearly $10,000 will be realized
before contributions to the cam
paign stop coming in.
Overall goal for the projected
stadium is $40,000.
'Dm Fullback Club, which in
itiated the idea for the fund
drive, is expected to make a con
tribution of $2,900 which will
boost the total to $8,500. More
land said this week that the
drive could have possibly netted
I $15,000 for the division if
pledges of contribution had been
accepted also.
The division’s fund drive was
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NEW ORLEANS
Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr.,
this week awaited a ruling by
a federal appellate judge to
determine whether he would
be admitted immediately as
the first Negro freshman in
the College of Arts and Sci
ences of the Louisiana State
University.
Following a ruling handed
down on September 11 by
United States District Court
Judge J. Skelly Wright re
straining the university from
excluding him, the 17-year-old
applicant, on September 14,
again sought to register for the
combination liberal arts and law
course at the university. And
again university officials reject
ed his application.
Meanwhile, attorneys for the
university filed a motion ter
a new trial and asked for a
stay of execution of the conrt’s
injunction. On September It,
Judge Wright denied the mo
tion for a new trial and re
fused to grant a stay of ex
ecution of his injunction, as
serting that he could not do
. otherwise in light of the Su
preme Court decisions in the
Sweatt and McLaurin cases.
However, he granted an ap
peal to the United States Cir
cuit Court of Appeals.
The young applicant is i
graduate of the New Orleans
public schools and the son of
the well-known civil rights law
yer, A. P. Tureaud, Sr., one time
president of the New Orleans
branch of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People and the state
conference of NAACP branches
Tureaud, who together with
NAACP attorneys Robert L.
Carter of New York and U.
Simpson Tate of Dallas repre-
sentea young Tureaud at the
trial, said that his son would
await a ruling by an appelate
judge on the request for a stay
of execution.
The suit filed on behalf of
young Tureaud alleged that
the combination course at LSU
leading to the A. B. and LLJI
degrees was the only sneli
coarse offered by the state In
which the applicant could re
ceive the edocatlonal op
portunities which he desired
and that this privilege was be-
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and became in
series of petty
finally quit
volved in a
crimes.
His mother, who lives in Orter
town, a community in the east
ern section of the city, said that
the youngster seemed to bafve
developed "spells” after his
father’s death and became so
unruly tliat no one could do any
thing for him.
It is reported that she took
him to see a doctor on one oc
casion and that nothing could
be found wrong with him.'^
HENRY W. GILLIS
ATTORNEY F. B. MeBJSSICK
HENBY W. GILLIS, Bey
Scout Fi^d Executive, and
Attorney Floyd B. McKissiek
(bottom) were named this
week co-chairman of the Dnr-
liam Business and Professienal
Chain’s Trade Week commit
tee. The event is scheduled to
hetin on Oetoftcr zg.
In a Joint statemeBt this week
issued after their annM-
mcnts, Gtllis McKissick
called on every Durham mer
chant, “whether a member of
the Chain or not to Join ta the
activities of this year’s Trade
Week because the activities e
this week symbolise the im
portance of better business
practices.”
Plans for an intensive dri\e
to gain support for the event
are already underway, tiit/
said.
S. C. NAACP
Gives $5,1
To Marshall
COLUMBIA. S.C.
Accepting a check for $5,000
to be used in the re-argumoit of
the Clarendon County sctKwl
segregation case, Thurgood Ibr-
shall, special counsel of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored Peopto,
today assured the South Caro
lina Conference of NAACP
Branches that the Association’s
legal department Is concentra
ting all its efforts on preparing
for the cases which will agaiw
be argued before the United
States Supreme Court duriiic
the week of December 7.
The check, presented to llar-
shall represented money nind
by the South Carolina brandM
of the Association for thi» ciu-
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DEDICATION SERIES 10 BEGIN FOR SIMM
CHAPEL HIU CHURCH BUILDING SEPT. V
CHAPEL HILL
Dedication services for the
new First Baptist Church build
ing wUl get underway at the
church here Sunday with two
special services.
The dedication services, which
will Span a four week period
during which ministers find lay
men from the area will be heard
each week day nighty with the
exception of Saturday, and each
Sunday afternoon, climaxes a
six year expansion program of
the church.
The night swrvicea are at eli^t
o’clock and the Sunday after
noon services at three.
Construction oi the neiw
church building, last in a
of projects in the
program, was recently
ed at a coat of $100,000^
than 80 percent oi tt«t
has been paid.
The expandon ivosnin •! VMft'
church g^ started rix Mtt aMb'
shortly after Mgr. 9. *
poalor of Hw
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