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First High School Honor
Roll Of Year Released
By LEROY BRADSHAW
New Hanover High School re
leased its honor rdl yesterday
for the first report period this
semester.
The requirements to make tne
first honor roll is: a student tak
ing four subjects must make four
‘‘A’s” with no conducts cuts. A
pupil who takes five subjects
must maintain four “A’s, and
they are allowed one “B’ on
any subject of their five, they
are also limited to no conduct
cuts in any classes.
In the first honor roll the sen
iors led all other classes. The
following students were among
the upperclassmen who made the
grade: Patsy Cole, Malcolm
Crawford, Catherin Crowe, Bet
ty Lou Leonard, Olivia Lynch,
Catherin MacRae, Shirley Phil
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lips, Sarah Ann Post, Mary Eliz
abeth Poplin, Dorothy Puckett,
Billie Jean Smith, Irene Sondy,
Frances Westbrook, and Tommie
Vaught.
The junior class was resented
on the first honor roll by the
following eleven students: Mar
jorie Cagle, Larry Dagenhart,
Mary Ann G Id, Clara Mae
Haithcock, Laura Harriss, David
Milnor, Derych Nuckton, Edith
Rogers, Margie Vander Schalie,
Georga Walton, and Patricia
Anne Williamson.
Sophomores who made the
honor roll were: Miriam Bowen,
Margie Covil, Evelyn Goldberg,
Anne Hall, Rebecca Lane, Billie
Leonard, Leverne Puckett, Vi ■
viar. Seigler, Nancy Sloan, Eloise
Soots, and Rodney Walters.
The following students from
the freshman class were put on
the list as honor roll students:
Frances Baker, Olivia Lynch
Brown, Lou Clark, Judy Harrison
Joyce Hayes, Joan Johnson, Sa
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STAYED SENTENCE
Jurist To Sentence Man
In Connection With
Woman's Death
An attempt to obtain a lenient
sentence on a charge of man
slaughter for James Robinson,
Wilmington Negro, for the alleg
ed murder and criminal assault of
Alma Lewis, negro married wom
an, hit a snag in New Hanover
Superior court Tuesday afternoon
when Judge Luther Hamilton
stated that in his opinin there was
evidence of second degree murder
in the brutal slaying and that he
wanted to think the case over
before handing down a judgment
Wednesday morning.
“I may be wrong, Mr. Solicitor,
but I think this is a very brutal
thing,” Judge Hamilton answered
Solicitor Clofton Moore who
had spoken the opinion that the
defendant was guilty only of man
slaughter. “According to the
testimony he beat her all around
the room, up and down the hall,
and after she was unconscious he
had intercourse with her and says
he did that ‘just to bring her
around.’ ”
I i tninK ne naa seduced this
man’s wife and grown tired of
her,” Solicitor Moore explained.
“When she reproached him for
dancing with other women he
became angry and struck her. I
believe it is just a case of man
slaughter—one of the strongest
cases of manslaughter I ever
saw.”
The judge did not agree, point
ing out that all that was neces
sary to make out a crime of sec
ond degree murder was evidence
of malice on the part of the de
fendant.
“If I were on the jury, I would
find malice,” Judge Hamilton
commented. “This woman can
not rise up and tell her side of
this story. The crime would have
been horrible even if he had fel
led her with just one blow. . .
there is no evidence that she
ever struck him once.”
The judge then repeated the
details of the severe beating, as
indicated by the blood spattered
walls. He said he would with
hold judgment until the morning
in hopes he might be cooled off
and more charitably disposed to
ward the defendent.
.n.u.orney uavia Sinclair en
tered a plea of guilty to man
slaughter for Robinson and in
troduced character witnesses to
show that Robinson came from
a Christian negro family and had
not been in serious trouble be
fore. Commenting on Robinson's
good family and environment,
Judge Hamilton said:
“I’m not unappreciative of the
fact that the defendant comes
from a good family, but a man
who is brought up in good sur
roundings and then goes out and
commits a heinous offense is not
entitled to the same consideration
I that is due a man brought up in
! evil surroundings. He ought to
know better. The defendant’s
family can be argued against him
as well as for him.”
Judge Hamilton said it would
be a good thing for the defendant
if he took a more lenient view
of the crime after a night’s rest
and a good breakfast.
“If I knew what your honor
would like for breakfast I would
order it sent over to the hotel,”
smiled Sinclair, and the supecta
tors laughed.
About one-third ounce of dry
rubber is obtained fom each
tapping of a rubber tree.
rah Lassiter, Mary Livingston,
Eugene Peterson, Herman Post
ma, Faye Robinson, and Faith
Sneeden.
The second honor roll stud
ents who take four subjects must
make three “A’s” and one “B”,
with no conduct cuts. Those tak
ing five subjects are allowed two
“B’s” along with their three
“A’s”, with no conduct cuts.
Seniors who made the second
honor roll were: Mike Austin.
Gene Fales, Lonnie Gaddy, Eve
lyn Hickman, Sally Kelly, Jean
Tope, Rosemary Sweeney, and
Jane Troy.
The junior class had only two
on the second list: John Hazel
hurst and Robert McCarl.
Leading the second honor
roll were the sophomores
with the following students:
Anita Anderson, Alice Bullard,
Anne Durant, Willy Ann Erick
son, Sally Anderson, Betty Jur
genson, Lois Magnuson, Iva Lee
Nichols, Ann Penton, Nancy
Powell, Mary Louise Stewart,
and Florence Stone.
The freshmen had the following
to meet the requirements:
Patricia Baysden, Nancy Ben
nett, Margaret Crowe, Bird
Grant, Ruby Moore, Melvin
| Schwartz, and Effie Sneeden.
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! CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
When Philip slipped in the
booth beside Alison he said,
“Teresa wouldn’t come to a
place like this. Comparisons . . .
Do you mind?”
“But in fairness to her, our
lives have been very different.”
“I grant that. Surely I have
never been less than fair to
her.”
“You love her . .
He folded his arms on the
edge of the table. “I’m defeat
ed. Sam’s beaten me twice. All
during the war I wondered what
would happen when he came
back to see his daughter.
There’s a lot of bitteness and
love mixed up in that. I don’t
think they themselves can get
it quite straightened out. Ap
parently they haven’t got over
each other.”
She felt annihilated. “You
think Sam loves her?”
The ash of his cigaret crum
pled on the red porcelain table.
He didn’t see it.
“I think he’ll marry her
again. Isn’t that enough? And
isn’t it high time I called the
whole thing off? You’re a girl.
You can’t see Teresa as a man
sees her. No one can possess
her because she possesses her
self. That’s what makes her
fascinating. Men want to try to
break her down.”
“Can Sam?”
He shook his head negative
ly. His voice was unusually in
tense. “Not even Sam. Teresa
has lived without love for more
than three years. She’s lived like
a hermit telling herself that her
career and her child were
everything. She’s tried to de
spise men, but she hasn’t suc
ceeded. She wants love, needs
it. But a man is only a side
issue to her; a flash and it’s
gone. It would be the same if
she hadn’t had a new dress for
more than three years. She
would have to have a new
dress. But after she wears the
new dress a few times she
wants to throw it away.”
Sam, his vitality, his warmth,
his strength compared with a
new dress . . .
He said, “If Teresa were not
so strongly sexed she could be
a successful career girl and
that would be that!”
one reacnea lor a cigaret and
lighted it before he could assist
her. She had to do something
to keep her hands steady.
“You know all these things
about her, Philip, yet you’d
have married her?”
He nodded. “Yes. Yes. Which
makes me into a case of re
tarded development or some
thing. The perenial adolescent
and his first love. Love is a lit
tle like a habit-forming drug. It
isn’t easy to break the habit
when it has a firm hold on
you.’’ He took off his glasses
and smiled at her wearily.
“Would it embarrass you if I
told you you could assist in the
cure?”
“I like you very much, but
M
“You’re an exciting girl.
You’re a lot of the things I
tried to dream into Teresa,
things that simply weren’t there
That’s so easy to do. We want
our love to be perfect. That’s
one of the reasons why we get
hurt because the person won’t,
can’t live up to the image of
perfection we’ve built up in our
minds. It’s one of the stages of
love. And the last stage is when
you accept her faults, knowing
you’d rather have her than an
other girl who could better live
up to that image of perfection
. . . That’s how it is. I’ll tell
you no lies. You’re tired and
sleepy. Let’s go home.”
She sat with his arm around
her and her head on his
shoulder all the way home. It
was a good arm and a good
shoulder, she thought half-con
sciously. You didn’t have to
worry about anything. You
didn’t have to think if you didn’t
want to. All the things you
needed to soothe a damaged
spirit Philip could give you. And
he was taking you to a house
that was the nearest thing to a
home you had known snce you
had left Vermont. Her room
was waiting and the bed and
in the morning breakfast would
be brough in. There would be
fresh flowers on the tray and
the morning paper. Nothing for
gotten. Maybe love could evolve
from this greased existence . . .
Sh opened her eyes. It’s al
most daybreak, she thought.
And I don’t believe any of these
things I’m thinking. I don’t want
substitutes for Sam. I want
Sam. . .
She and Philip walked up the
broad stairway together.
“If you catch up on your
sleep by tomorrow afternoon,
Alison, will you drive in with
me and have tea with my ven
erable Aunt Sara? Two Sunday
afternoons a month that’s a
date put above all others. I’d
like you to meet the old lady.
She’s out of another era, but
she keeps a finger on this one,
too.”
* * *
As Edna drove off, Alison
walked up the steps to the clean
white door with the shiny brass
knocker. If only sh could go
back to October and begin all
over again, she thought. But
would it be different if she still
trusted her feelings, believing
that love wanted to fulfill itself?
Her hair had begun to glisten
with the partly frozen rain be
fore Annette responded to the
knocking.
“A lot of changes here since
you been gone,’* Annette said
eagerly.
Were Sam and Teresa mar
ried?
“Changes?”
“Suzy’s goin’ to school. One of
them nursery schools. They
come for her in the mornin’
along about quarter to nine and
bring her home about a quarter
past twelve. I give her her
lunch and put her to bed for her
nap. Miz Tarrant didn’t get an
other nurse. Suzy don’t need no
nurse. She’s a big girl now.”
Alison looked at Annette’s
round beaming face, scarcely
seeing it. They were not mar
ried—but Sam had won his
point. Suzy would have play
mates now and learn how to
play with her contemporaries.
She was out of her ruffled pris
on a few hours each day. Te
resa had listened to Sam and ac
quiesced. She was doing as Sam
wished. She was trying to please
him. She was being a woman
in love smoothing out the wrin
kles. . .
Annette was waiting for her
to say something. . .
“Does she like school”
“At first she didn’t. You know
how bashful she is. But she’s
gttin’ warmed up to it.”
“I think it’s fine. But who
gives her her lunch on Thurs
day, your day off?”
Annette laughed. I don t get
no day off except Saturday and
Sunday afternoons. But Miz Tar
rant made it worth my while.”
Teresa had so planned it that
she, Alison, would have Suzy in
charge on Saturday afternoon
and, since Annette was loudly
vocal in her denunciation of
cold weather, it would also fall
to Alison to take the little girl
for her walk every other after
noon during the week.
As Annette went back to the
kitchen to her morning radio se
rials she paused long enough to
say, “Miz Tarrant has a whole
flock of new r cords. They’re
good.” Her laughter trailed. Ob
viously she was enjoying the
new spirit in the house.
Alison’s eyes roamed the
room. Sam had been here with
Teresa. They had been together
in this room with the music
pouring over them and through
thm, music that Teresa want
ed to hear when Sam was with
her. ff she should go over to
the phonograph now and play
the last record that had been
played, the room would be fill
ed with low warm music. And
once this had been a room
where Sam had risen to meet
her and where- their laughter
and the smoke of their cigarets
had met and mingled. Now it
belonged to Teresa and Sam
and to the new music of love.
(To Be Continued)
Oratorical Winners
Announced By Jaycees
Miss Betty Britz and Robert
McCarl, members of the senior
class at New Hanover high
school, were adjudged winners
in the “I Speak for Democracy”
oratorical contest sponsored in
the school by the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, Jaycee offi
cials announced last night.
The winners will have record
ings of their speeches forwarded
to Gastonia for entry in the
State competition,
lina will be entered in the na
State winner in North Caro
tional contest, sponsored by the
National Junior Chamber of
Commerce. Four regional win
ners in the national contest will
be awarded scholarships in col
leges and universities.
Seventy students, members of
the speech arts class at New Han
over, under the direction of Miss
Grace Robbins, took part in the
local contest. Jaycee spokesmen
said that “the competition was
both spirited and close.”
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throughout the city and county,
the vote from the rural precincts
of Craven county overwhelming
ly defeated the issue in a special
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NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 4—“The
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in the $500-prize contest for the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad’s
streamlined train to be put in
service December 12th for travel
between New York and both
coasts of Florida, it was announc
ed today by C. E. Bell, passenger
traffic manager of the road.
Mrs. Harry Jordan, of 1675
Tangerine avenue, St. Peters
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Matthews, Seaboard’s assistant
general passenger agent in St.
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their home early this year.
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out the nation.
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zed 130 samples of milk from
every section of the state during
September, and most of the
samples were “satisfactory and
showed marked improvement”
in comparison with tests before
the new dairy law became ef
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head of the division, reported to
day.
The problem of adulteration
stll exists in a few locations,”
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to hold eight hearings regarding
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