Scenes At The New Radio Station, WSRC-Which Opens Friday
The above photos are some of the personnel of the new radio station WSRC that will open here Friday morning at five o’clock with an all Negro staff, with the exception of the owner. Pictured from left to right they are: John
Greene, Jr.,-owner; Norflay Whitted, public relations director and announcer; Miss Thelma Jones, traffic director and Frank Graham, announcer and engineer. Other photos on page eight. — Staff Photos by Joe Davis.
Death Claims Child Bitten By Mad Dog
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Thurgood Marshall Slated For State NAACPMeet In Lumberton
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EXPECT COO AT NURSES MEET
Last Friday night at tM
"Homecoming”' game played
here between HilUide High
School and Epps High School
of Greenville, Miss Beverly
Wright was crotoned "Miss
Homecoming” for 1954, by]
Prof, H. M. Holmes, principal
of the school. At Miss Harvey’t
right is Miss Barbara Lyons, at-i
tendant. At her lefe is Miss
Shirley Harvey, attendant. Hill
side won the game 50-0.
—Staff Photo By Joe Davis
Many Expect To Hear Address
Of ''Mr. Civil Rights" Friday
7-Year-Old Boy
Dies From Bite Of
Unl(nown Canine
What was at first thought to
have been an ordinary dog bite
of harmless nature turned out
to be the fatal wound of a mad
dog here Wednesday when a
seven-year-old boy succumbed
at Duke hospital following a
determined but futile effort on
the part of physicians to save
the youngsters life when it was
belatedly discovered that he had
hydrophobia.
The deadly disease, which
does act set in proper until
about thirty days after infec
tion, started on August 26
when Philip McLean was bit
ten by an unknown dog that
escaped - after attacking the
child. Philip was attacked
near his home where he lived
with his parents near Buie’s
Creek.
When it was finally discover
ed that the young boy was de
veloping symptons of hydropho
bia he was rushed to Duke Hos
pital where treatment was be
gun in a fruitless effort to save
his life. The disease is always
fatal if treatment is not begun
in time and doctors announced
in the beginning that they held
little hope for the boy’s recov
ery. They stated that there is no
recorded instance in medical
history of recovery once the full
onslaught of the disease lias set
in.
BTl J. B. HABBEN
PubUe Belatlons Ohalnnan
N. C. NAACP Conference
LUMBER’TON
This city is preparing for the
NAACP meeting here when the
11th Annual Session of the N. C.
Conferences of Branches con-
TMiM October 15-17.
President Kelly M. Alexander
of Charlotte will present Friday
night the Honorable Thurgood
Marshall as keynote speaker.
All sessions will at the
First Baptist Church of which
the Rev. E. B. Turner, secretary
of the State Conference, to pas
tor.
The program will include in
teresting, highlights, torunlis,
panel discussions and workshoiM
conducted by Gloster B. Cur
rent. Herbert Wright, Youth
Secretary, will conduct the
youth division of the conference.
Miss Joles Fritz and Mrs. Mar-
garet Bennett will assist him.
The president’s annual mess
age will come on Friday. Mayor
R. A. Hedgepeth will give the
city’s, official welcome. Other
speakm will be C. C. Jones,
Rev. J. J. Johnson, Dr. A. J.
Robinson, Mrs. Bennett and
Rev. Miss Fritz.
Lawyers’ Conference
This will be held Friday and
the theme of the conference will
be, "The Meaning of Segregation
in America. All State Attorneys
have been invited to a Special
Conference to hear Attorney
Marshall explain, NAACP tech
niques.
Assistant si)eciEd counsel Rob
ert L. Carter is expected to ac-
company Marshall here^for the
one-night stop enroute to the
South Carolina NAACP confab
at Spartenburg. Marshall is ex
pected to hold a press conference
while here.
It is hoped that the people of
this state will flock to Lumber
ton for this important session of
the North Carolina Conference
of the NAACP. Members of this
group especially should be pres
ent in order to leam in greater
detail about the work of our
great organization.
Wiiite Rock To
End Anniversary
Program Oct. 31
The 88th anniversary pro
gram of Durham’s White Rock
Baptist Church will end a month
long celebration on November
1.
Dr. Trela O. Collins, Chair
man of the Durham County
Welfare Board, was guest
preacher at morning services
on October 10.
Dr. Miles Mark Fisher, pas-
See White Bock, Page 8
KERR W. SCOTT
Senator-Elect
To Speal( In
Durham Oct. 17
Former Governor Kerr Scott
and senator-elect of North
Carolina, will deliver an ad
dress at the Covenant Presby
terian Church here Simday,
October 17, according to an an
nouncement released by Pro
fessor C. E. Boulware, Monday.
Scott will appear in a meet
ing, sponsosed by the Men’s
Council of the church, schedul
ed to begin at 6:30 P.M. M. J.
Medlln, President of the Coun
cil will preside.
The prayer wHl be offered
by Rev, J. W. Smith, the pastor.
D. B. Martin, Chairman of the
political commiitee of the Dur
ham Committee on Negro Af
fairs, will present the former
state ciiief executive.
During the time the former
governor was in office, he did
much for the rural areas of the
state. He launched the greatest
road-'building program in the
history of North Carolina, ex
tending paved roads in areas
remote from the centers of
large populations, and improved
dirt roads, giving the Farmers
greater accessibility to needed
markets.
The Senator-elect also dur
ing his gubernatorial 'adminis
tration was responsible for the
extension of telephone services
into rural areas and stood solid
ly behind a rural electrification
program.
Many Noted Persons To Take Part In
Joint Gathering bijDirrhain Oct. 28
ion WSRC
Goes On The Air
Friday Morning
Radio station WSRC will go
on the air here at five o’clock
Friday morning October 15,
according to an announcement
made here Wednesday by
John C. Greene, owner. The
station, with the exception of Mr.
Green, will have an all Negro
personnel and will operate on a
daytime schedule of from five
in the morning to seven in the
evening.
As public relations director
WSRC will have Norfley Whit
ted, formerly with station
WDNC of Durham and well-
known in broadcasting circles
as the originator of “A Study
In BroWn.” Whitted stated tWs
week that he probably will be
on the air in what will be
known as the Norfley Whitted
Hour. He stated that everytWng
is now ready for the opening
and that enthusiasm is running
iiigh among members of the
staff who are “raring to go”
when they will be able to give
Negro citizens in Durham and a
radious of 100 miles some of
the finest radio entertainment
it is possible to obtain.
Mr. Green, the owner, also
stated here this week thiat he
has secured some of the best
radio announcers, disc jockeys
and technicians to be found
anywhere and that station
WSRC intends to give its listen
ing audience the best in news of
all Icinds, as well as religious
educational and popular hits
programs.
This week the station was
visited by many Negro business
and professional personalities of
Durham and they expressed
themselves as being - liighly
pleased with the staff and the
general outlay. WSRC is lo
cated on East Club Boulevard
on the site of the state health
See Station, Page 8
The Rev. C. E. McLester,
shown above is the pastor of
the Morehead Avenue Baptist
Church. He was recently
stalled at the president of the
Interdenominational Alliance of
Durham and Vicinity. He had
been for two years prior to his
election to this office, the body's
secretary.
A few years ago, Rev. Mc
Lester organized the Morehead
Baptist Church which now con-
stitues a membership of 500
person*.
Under his direction, the
Morehead Baptist church haa
recently completed a new brick
structure which was one of a
group the Carolina Times pic
tured recently under the cap
tion "Durham’s Picturesque
Churches".
Dr. M. Shepard
To Preach Entire
Week In Oxford
OXFORD
Dr. Marshall Shepard, pastor
of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church
in Philadelphia, Pa. will be the
guest minister in a week of re
vival services at the first Bap
tist Church here next weekt
October 17-22. He will preach
each evening in a service be
ginning at 8'P. M.
Dr. Shepard Is a native ef Ox-
See Shepard, Pag* 8
More than 1200 registered
and student nurses from
tiiroughout the state are expect
ed to attend the 52nd annnai
convention of the North Caro
lina State Nurses Association
and the fifth convention of the
Student Nurses Association ot
North Carolina which will ba
held in Durham October 26-29.
The complete program for tha.
joint meeting of the two state
nursing groups was announced
today by Mrs. Marie B. Noell,
of Raleigh, Executive Secre
tary. A highlight of the open
ing session on Tuesday, Oct. 26,
will be a discussion of the role
nurses will play in civil defense
in the event of atonuc attack.
Dr. M. M. Van Sandt, regional
medical officer of the U. S.
Civil Defense Administration,
will be the featured speaker.
Others who are scheduled to
speak on this part of the pro
gram include Brigadier General
Edward Griffin, of|^ Raleigh.
State director of Civil Defense,
who will discuss “Civil Defense
in North Carolina”, Dr. Walter
W. Kitchin, of Clinton, chair
man of the Emergency Medical
Committee of the State Medical
Society, who will define thd
“Nurses Rseponsibility in the
Event of Attack” and Mrs.
Mary Watts Dunn, of Watta
Hospital, Durham, chairman of
the State Nurses Association's
Committee for National Defense
who will explain “Nursing Re
sources and Preparation of Nur
ses for Defense”.
At the opening session of tha
Convention, Mrs. Juanita Lee
Long, R. N., of Durham, who
was named “Miss North Caro-*
liha Student )Nurse” in 1949
while in training at Watts Hos
pital here, will welcome the
delegates.
Representing the American
Nurses Association on the pro
gram will be Miss Adele Her-
witz, of New York City, Asso
ciate Executive Secretary'. Misa'
Herwitz will assist all of th*
various section groups in their
business and program session*.
Speakers on Thursday morn
ing will include Dr. llary
See NnnMa,