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VOLUME IV, NUMBER52
Judg
Law!
FIVE PERSONS HURT I
WHEN BUS OVERTURNS
ON BURLINGTON ROAD.
At least live persons were
Dllitlhlllr Ininro/i on/1 ?l
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7 others sustained minor lacerations
and bruises about 6 p. m.
t Wednesday when a 29-passenger
Carolina Trailways company bus
overturned off Burlington high-!
way near Buffalo creek bridge
about four miles east of the city.
Ambulances rushed to the
scene, where passengers were
freed from the wreckage by
smashing a windshield, the door
v-s way exit being pinned to the
ground,
"There was no disorder to
speak of," said Joseph F. Still,
?- 41, of 617 North Eugene Btreet,
a front seat passenger, who sustained
neck and right shoulder
injuries. ''We were just piled on
top of one another and finally
/ realized what had happened and
scrambled out the windshield
place."
The windshield he referred to
was the right front section of
the bus smashed by Still's front '
seat companion, W. ,E. Hlnshaw,
I 48, of 129 Bishop street, who
was injured about the head,
; right leg and right knee. Both
gwere patients last night at Piedmont
Memorial hospital,
i . , Also at the hospital was Frank
|V -Huckabee, 42, Y. M. C. A., Bin
; swinger Glass company employee 1
who sustained bruised and un- 1
determined injury to the right 1
jjp shoulder and right hip. '
Patients at L. 'Richardson hos- '
J pital, victims of the accident, '
| Wednesday night were Crlstohel 1
| Smith, 23, Liberty, route 1, and 1
?>; . Naomi Haith, 42, Gibsonvllle,
& - whose injuries were- undeterm- 1
inejl.
% Hinshaw said the bus was appreaching
an' incline and was
? meeting two large trucks, one of 1
$j\ >' ' which was in the center lane,
'r facing the bus. He stated further '
S"; that the bus driver turned to the 1
iy right to avoid colliding with the 1
B v " truck and the bus apparently
Stli skidded and overturned.
State highway patrolmen reg?
ported the driver, Robert Lewis
X Guffey, 22, of 1509 Nineteenth
Sp street, had just rounded a curve
and the bus began skidding 75
Ww? yards west of the bridge, overturning
after traveling 90 feet.
H&7 They quoted the driver as sayBfe
ing that the bus turned over on
Er. >, 118 top an<^ then to the side.
SpjJ,'' Investigation of the accident
aEj, was continued Thursday, patrol-!
Kga, men said.
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A Carolina Trail ways bus, si
near Buffalo creek bridge, four
only ininor Injury. They crawlei
H ins haw, 1129 Bishop street, wh
smashed'in overturning,
JASPER BRIDGES
APPOINTED TO CITY
SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK
Jasper A. Bridges, formerly
supiji ?iaui ui musiu at jonuson
County Training School, Smlthtleld,
N. C., who also taught music
In Greensboro, and In Washington,
D. C., has recently been
appointed as teacher of music In
the public schools of New York
city.
Having receleved his M. A.
iegree In music education from
reacherB College, Columbia university,
his masters certificate
In English, history and public "
school music from North Carolina,
Mr. Bridges is organist and '
choir director of Grace Baptist
church, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and 8
coaches private students In pt- 1
ano, voice, and harmony of high ?
merit. s
A graduate of A. and T. col- i
lege, Mr. Bridges was formerly
organist of the Institutional Bap- t
tlst church here. 1
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CITY AND COUNTY USHKHS I 1
WILL MEET SUNDAY !l
The city and county ushers ^
union will hold ltB regular
monthly meeting Sunday at 3 p.
m., at the Ebenezer Baptist 1
church, Sedgefleld. The usher (
choir will render music. I
j"-THE?
I. N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBJ
ey V
; B@ f
lown above, overturned early U
miles east of the city. Passenf
1 out of the right front windslii
o was In one of the front seats.
EMANCIPATION EDITION
The "" ure Outlook will feature
in its Emancipation Edition,
(January 5, 1944 issue),
iaminos or generations In the
county (Guilford), who have
inherited some security and
have earned for themselves a
reasonable amount of training,
high school or college.
Older ones must have been
residents of the county for
more than 2H years.
Please call 3-17S8, or mail
information with picture.
WILLING WORKERS CLUB
IIEETS WITH MRS. MILLKlt
The Willing Workers club met
it the home of Mrs. Callle Mller,
606 Bennett street, with
ilrs. F. A. Hargett as the guest
peaker, who chose as her subect,
"Thanksgiving."
Refreshments were served by
he hostess. Members present at
he meeting were Mesdaines C.
illller, Janie Mack, Mattle Buter,
Elsie Crawford, Alcroa Rigg>ee,
Elizabeth Webb and Miss
rene Slier. Mrs. Grace Wade was
i visitor.
Mrs. Laura J. Walker, of Etnnd,
visited her sister, Miss
leorgla Walker, and Mrs. N. E.
Inrgett.
1 Reac
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ednesday lilght on Burlington road
era, excepting live, escaped with
Id shattered by kicks from W. K.
Windows on the right side were
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FOUNDERS DAY AT
BENNETT COLLEGE
MARKS 72ND YEAR
Bennett College held its Founders'
Day exercises Friday, No
eiuuer io, ai iu:su a. m., marking
72 years of service to Negro
youth, 20 of which have been
for women, exclusively.
Dr. Roy A. Burkhart, pastor
of the First Community church,
Columbus,' O., spoke on "The
Kinship of Learning and Faith."
Dr. David, D. Jones, president
of the college, presided over the
exercises. The invocation-was given
by Rev. G. M. Phelps, pastor
of St. Matthews church, and Rev
J. E. Brower, superintendent of
the Greensboro district of the
Methodist church, read the scrlp(
ture.
Greetings were extended by
Mrs. Julius W. Cone, chairman
of buildings and grounds. Appre,
clatlons were expressed by Miss
Doris Lowery, chairman of the
Student Senate, who represented
the students; Mrs. Juanita Morlsey,
'34, who represented the
t alumnae, and Miss Bessie Jones,
! who represented the faculty.
, Music was furnluhed by Miss
Carrie Kellogg, soprano, and the
college choir, under the dlreci
tlon of David Holland.
The college was founded by a
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{ The Future Outlook! |
PRICE: So
?Vet
icted
T. L. Dixon, ExSoldier,
Draws
Road Sentence
Judge Felix E. Alley. Waynes
ville, speaking from the bench
at Wednesday afternoon's session
of Guilford Superior court, voiced
the warning that "soldiers returning
home, whether or not
they-have an honorable dischargo
cannot be permitted to take the
law into their own hands."
Expressing himself as having
"all the sympathy in the world"
for returning servicemen and
consefiuently finding it doubly
i hard to punish them, the judge
made his statement prior to postponing
judgment until Wednesday
In the case against Lorenthaus
T. Dixon, ex-soldier, against
whom a jury returned verdict of
guilty of aiding and abetting assault
with a deadly weapon.
Charges against Dixon grew
out of his alleged participation
in the assault of John Hansberry,
Southern railway porter for 43
years, when Hansberry refused
Dixon's brother, William Harrison
Dixon, entry to a crowded
northbound train.
The state attempted to prove
that the defendant had boarded
the northbound train to hit and
hold Hansberry while his brother
put thp nnrtar with a Vnlfo dftnv
the plaintiff had informed them
there was no room for them. The
state contended that Hansberry.
defenseless against the two, sustained
a cut which permanently
Injured his hand. William Harrison
Dixon, who allegedly wielded
the knife, has not been arrested
and his whereabouts are unknown.
Defense counsel contended that
Lorenthaus Dixon hit the porter
in self-defense after Hansberry
had kicked at him in ap effort
to keep him from climbing into
the car vestibule. Dixon himself
was cut on the hand by the knife
allegedly In the hands of bis
brother, who joined in the scuf1
f'e. Dixon drew 12 months.
In another action Wednesday,
| Willie Lee Young, entering plea
> of nolo contendere to two charges
of manslaughter, was sentenced
to two years suspended for
1 five years, put on probation and
i ordered to pay the costs after he
had placed himself at the court's
mercy. The charge grew out of
the September 6 deaths of Miss
Martha Brice, a Bennett college
student, and Norrls Lee Headen,
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