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The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23
FACTS TO FILE ABOUT
NEGRO INVENTORS

Elijah Mccoy, a Negro inventor
born in Colchester, Ontario, Cana
da, May 2, 1874, was the inyen-
tor of the lubricatlng cup which
was first generally used on rail
roads of the Northwest and steam
ers on the Great Lakes. The use
became widespread. and today
there is hardly a place in the
world where McCoy's lubricating
devices or others built upon his
models are not used.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23
WINS FOUR PLACES

Jesse Thomas of Michigan State
won four places in the Big Ten
meet Saturday, taking second in
the hurdles, third in the 60-yard
dash, and fifth in the broad jump.
He was the first Big Ten trackman
to win four places since Lloyd
Duff did ii in 1949
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23
Some Little Known
Facts and Figures

Slavery was abolished b. the
state Of Missouri on January L.
is65, eleven months before I II =
Federal government issued ia
Emancipation Proclamation
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

Gates to Mrs. Anne Brennan, Mrs.
Wilma Colley, Mrs. Josephine Ev-
erman. Mrs. Betty Johnson, Mrs.
Marjorie Martin, Miss Mabel Ser
vice, Mrs. Louise Simonson, Mrs.
Mary Summers, Mrs. Mercy Tay-
Tor, Mrs. Frances w b e r, Mrs.
Louise Walker and Mrs. Myrtle
Williams.
Organization of the practical
nurses training program followed
meeting of a citizens committee
in January, 1850, to discuss the
need for additional nursing care
IN this community.
MRS. NAOMI c. MURPHY,
superintendent of nurses at Carrie
hospital; Mrs. Eta Schmidt, for
mer president of Champaign coun-
ty Practical Nurses association and
now state president, and Madden
were among committee members.
Curriculum was planned by re
gistered nurses from all local hos
pitais. The teaching program was
set up under the Urbana board of
education which selected instruct
ors. Mckinley hospital furnished
demonstration claSSrooms. ln-ser-
vice clinical experience was fur
nished by earle hospital.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

When European explorers came
10 America, Negroes were with
them to play a prominent part.
In the discovery of the Pacific
Ocean, Balboa carried " It h him
30 Negroes, including Nufio de
Olano. In the conquest of Mexico,
Cortez was accompanied by Ne
gro, who, finding in his rations
some grains of rice and wheat,
planted them as an experiment,
and thus made himself the pion-
Ger in wheat raising in the Western
Hemisphere.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

Financial support of no small
a M cunt was supplied William
Lloyd Garrison for publication of
his famous abolitionist news
paper, The Liberator, by wealthy
and philanthropist. Born in Phil
adelphia on September 2, l766,
James Forten was the son of Ne
gro parents whose ancestors had
lived IN Pennsylvania as freemen
for at least two generations. In
addition to his efforts in behalf
of the slaves and his financial as
sistance of Garrison a d other
abolitionists, he is famous for hav-
ing invented and perfected de-
vice for handling sails. He employ
cd as many as forty men at a
time and amassed a comfortable
fortune from his sailmaking bus
mess.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

One of the first Negro daily
newspapers was edited by W. S.
Scott at Cairo, Ill. This paper,
known as the Cairo Gazette, be-
gan as a weekly publication and
its first daily issue appeared on
April %, 1882.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

A vacuum pan which reyolu-
tionized the method of sugar re-
fining and pave d the way TO
sugar cane growers in Louisiana
and sugar beet growers IN other
parts Of the country was the IN
vention of a Negro, Norbelt Ril-
lieux, a machinist and engineer
born in Louisiana March rs, 1906,
Rillieux, who left the United
States because of racial prejudice,
died October 8, 1894, in p r i s,
France.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23
Freeport Sweeps The
Stakes in Basketball

Here is how Freeport took the
state championship last evening as
they wrestled with the Sweet Six
teen" Moline soon found Free
port too much to handle.
FREEPORT (7I)
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

both Of Peoria.
Shooting Percentages Freeport
.376: Moline .301.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

Africans brought 10 Europe
early in the Middle Ages demon
strated unusual capacities despite
cultural differences. Juan Latino
excelled the scholars of Spain in
latin; Juan de Pareja won his
way as a noted artist there and
so did Sebastian Gomez, Miguel
kapranizine became such an out
standing theol0gian m ong the
Poltugese that they m d e him
the vicar Of the convent Of Santa
barbara IN Goa.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

usszAv
When Europeans first began to
Africa during the fiji
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

The most prominent Of all Ne
groes in ASIA was Antar, the war
rior ana poet Of Arabia. Tie vas
born between 90 aud 900 AID.
the son of an Abyssinian slave
woman and an Arabian nobIeman
and died about els. He won fol-
lowers by his deeds of bravery
and charmed them with his Pc
etry. The Odes Of Antar continue
to this day to an k as classics
in Arabian and Aaiatic literature.
Antars poetry comprise the aMu'
Allakat," the seven suspended
poems with which Arabs adoru
their temples.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

teenth and sixteenth centuries
they found the natives - far adj
Yanced n then political and social
organization as the Europeans
we're in the ninth and
zenith centuries. This the ATM
eane had accomplished with little
81 no help from Asa OF Europe.
Evidences Of this progress " e + C
found IN the well-organized Afri-
can kingdoms and empires / k c
Manding, Mossi, Songhay,
Hausa, Bornu, Congo, Dahomy,
Ashanti Loango, Bechuana. Mo
aomotapa, and Uganda.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-03-23

Norbert Rillieux. a Negro ma
chinist and engineer, born in
louisiana March 10, 1906, de-
yised a system of sewerage to re-
move the menace of yellow fever
in New Orleans. His proposal Was
turned down, although later the
city was compelled to take up a
similar plan.
, 1951-06-18

find himself in the same boat as
the American taxpayer, out there
all by himself on a high sea in a
leaky canoe and no paddle.
And if Roberto has a rowing.
eye, don't toss me the crying
towel on behalf Of Ingrid. She
made her bed, if you will pardon
the expression.
Also, do not ask me to lose
sleep over frankie and Ave. |
have a kindly word of advice for
them: get lost! I think that is
potter than drop dead, jughead!
Also, do not expect me to pace
the floor because Macy's is taking
Gimbles like Grant took Rich
mond, or vice versa. Color tele-
, 1951-06-18
bear it quite, quite we'll.

OccI ~ qulIc, qullG we'll.
Naturally. | want the folks in
the White House tos have the best
Of everything. I want them to
keep up with the International
Joneses and take no lip from any
one who drops by for a meal and
a million.
And yet, I feel I must warn
Mr.. Fields that I shall resent any
attempt to spend any part of my
tax or blood for gold soup spoons
or fish forks in this time Of crisis
when l am scrounging for Sup.
A generation has grown up in
this nation that doesn't even know
what the gold standard is. If it
weren't for the radio gags about
, 1951-06-18
~ LAYTON CARVER

NEW YORK, June 10 (INS)
Joe Louis and Lee Savold, chased
indoors by the weather after two
Polo Grounds postponements, will
meet tonight in Madison Square
Garden in a 15-round match x
pected to produce a challenger
for Heavyweight Champion En-
gard Charles.
Unless both figures are so
utterly inept that they will eli
inmate each other-a possibility
in the eyes of some expert obser-
vers - the winner will meet
Charles in September for the
crown, he clinched by outpointing
Louis.
The switch from the Polo
Grounds to the Garden for this
battle Of the aging gladiators was
expected to enhance the gate re-
ceipts if for no other reason than
that uncertainty ove prevailing
, 1951-06-18

NEW YORK, June 10 (lNS)-
Oh, I have my share of worries
all right what with June Is star
ing me in the face and checkbcok.
It is quite obvious that beth
Uncle Sam and I cannot live on
my income, and there is no doubt
in my mind as to which Of us is
going to win this hassle.
And just because I have the
kind Of figure that looks good in
a drapeshape barrel or in sack
cloth with an over-lay Of ashes is
no particular comfort to me. 1
would rather have one of those
gold mesh bathing suits like the
other girls.
While / attend to my own
worries, kindly include me out of
any future worries over whether
Little Yasmin gets that $3,000,-
900 trust fund, or whether Joan
Fontaine gets Ali Khan, Or vice
versa. And anything Rita gets
serves her right.
Likewise, do not ask me to
furrow my brow over whether
Babs meets Igor in Paris or sizes
the dogs on him.
Do not ask me to bleed from
airy pore because the King Of
Greece has decided to do with
out a $4,000 yacht for which
the Greek Government, large
scale recipient Of American econo-
mic aid, was to cough up the ma
jor share of the folding money.
THE KING or GREECE should
, 1951-06-18

weather is eliminated and the new
site is more accessible. $
Officials of the International
Boxing Club revised their esti-
mates of gate receipts upward to
well above 100000, contrasted
with the $4,000 10 top figure they
predicted for the Polo Grounds
Wednesday night and again last
night when the bout was post
poned for the second time.
Change of the site and the date
were the only developments in the
hours before the battle which fl
nally is definitely on beyond
further delay unless an accident
befalls one principal or both to-
day.
There will not be a second
weigh-in and thus Louis will Of
ficially enter the ring at 211A
and Savold at 100, their weights
last Wednesday at noon.
, 1951-06-18
THE OHIO DAILY EXPRESS

vision is no skin off the nose of
a woman who doesn't even own
it in black and white. Likewise,
| am not wringing my work
gnarled hands: over the futures of
either Joe Louis or Happy Chand-
Ter.
But all these non-worries are
mere preliminaries. The thing I
am not worrying over the mostest
is the fact that the White House
does not have a complete set Of
gold eating tools for formal din
ners.
A Mr.. Alonzo Fields, who ap-
pears on the Civil Service list as
Maitre d'hotel of the executive
MANSION, mas just revealed the
terrible. truth that there isn't
enough gold plate to go around at
a White House dinner for 1O1
persons, which is apparently par
for the course and the room.
The service, Mr.. Field said, is
gin dire need of supplementary
pieces" The situation is so crucial
that guests at former White
House dinners are forced God
save the mark;-to shovel their
soup with the gold tablespoons be-
cause there aren't any gold soup
spoons.
, 1951-06-18

Fort Knox, it wouldn't even know
what gold is.
Furthermore, fingers came be-
fore forks, even in the White
House, and, with an election year
in the offing, fingers are a cinch
to win over gold forks in the
hustlings.
, 1951-06-18

Very wide draperies are prac-
teal and easy to launder when
made of "never iron" plastic
fabric.
For a bedroom picture window,
hang translucent, plastic white
curtains in gathers all the way
across. They insure light and
privacy at same time. To wash,
dip in bathtub full Of lukewarm
soapsuds, then rinse with running
water or spray and let drip dry.
, 1951-06-18
HARASSED WATERS are

HARAsSED WATERS are al
ways having to snatch the gold
forks between rounds rush them
to the pantry for a quick wash
and wipe and then double back
to the table on the quick for the
next course.
Ordinarily, the shame Of it all
would be more than ]. could bear.
But with June IS only twenty
tours aways, I find that I can
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
RURAL FIRE PROTECTION.

The growing need for organized systems with proper
eoupmen for fighting fires in rural to
subject that should get consideration from our law
making bodies fire department has become under mod
conditions fully important for the country as well
for towns.
People who live in rural areas now run many risks
from fire which they did not in the old days One is
subject loss because of his neghbors careessness to
greater extent than the days of few years ago. Once
there ALWAYS plenty of people if brush fire got out
of hand and they could be called to help People had
idle time spare in those days Now most people work
long distance from home and while they are gone tire
suddenly break out, from nelghborS IRE.
Had not been for the prompt response of fire depart
of neighborng towns many homes might not have
saved These fire departments have done good job
but they legally have right in to spend their
towns money to fight fires outside of town.
The Manteo Fire Department has done lot of good
work fighting fires and has received support from
additional paid by the Roanoke Island Fire District
and service that should be provided particularly when
consider the great increase in property values and the po
tental actual loss involved
The Belhaven Fire Department has been outstand-
ing example of nsefsh service to people living outside
the town limits They have been instrumental in saving
vast amount of property many miles from town, and
even in neighboring counties.
1t to that the legislature should make some
provision whereby state and county funds could be used
to finance adequate freghng organization with
per equipment to achieve maximum results seriously
these losses is the loss in tax Property damaged
destroyed cannot pay taxes Another benefit might be
much lower insurance rates result of better fire protec
ton
Doesn't it look like way spend public money profita
bly,?
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
OTHER EDITORS
I'm the Laurinburg Exchange)
COULD WE LEARN
FROM VIRGINIA?

The News and Observer carried
cartoon Wednesday which tells
an unpretty story. The cartoon is
titled "Carry me back to Old Vir-
ginny," and it shows a motorist
driving down a 3-lane Virginia
highway to the North Carolina
state line where the 3-lane road
suddenly converges into a narrow
road, which is in the worst kind
of condition. The scene is on US.
Highway No. 1, the road from
Richmond to Raleigh.
Tar Heels who have travelled
that route in the last year or so
can appreciate the facts, and they
are not calculated to make us hap
py. Ours was the original good
roads State, but we are not living
up to past reputation. Maybe we
could learn something from Vir-
GINA. The Old Dominion is said
to have superior system of high
ways. They were built on the pay
as-you-go plan, while we built
ours largely with borrowed dol
lars. That is nothing to argue a.
bout, but what we are interested
in is results.
How Virginia manages to keep
her highways in tip-top shape
while ours deteriorate faster than
they can be repaired and recon-
structed is the $64 question.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
GOOD CITIZENSHIP.

Carl Georch publisher of the State Magazine recently
wrote letter to high school girls in Johnson
County who had inquired of him to outline of the
ways to become good citizens His reply strikes forci
bly, hatwe feel ought pass readers Here
it is:
"The is just word that important in connection
with BET Agood citizen, and that word is Obedience
you will Hsep that in mind you forget about
thing else
This word enters into lives before we are able to
talk W&34GS&W pbedent to parents and later on to
Dur teachers Sunday school taught obedience to
God and to the teachings of the Bible When start out
70 make LIKING for ourselves must be obedient to the
laws that been made, to the principles of honesty and
fair deal St6Ihe rulestof courtesy and constellation
"TheTwe words thatvi challenge you all your life
Qbedienceand DsobedenS They both will try guide and
direct 0Qng you keep Obedience before you and
pisohed1snc bAind yo1 you will always be good citizen
ehenye motheg tells you to do something and you
90 thu4gh YOU may not want to do -then your
eonsaence esyou that yO have done the right thing
Whe sEs tells to nsomefhing and you disobey her
then hugtsyc you feel bad all day long
HoweXek youkeep 0 disobeyng, it won't be long before
your gnseenee will hurting and after that you
longer cauSbe good citizen.
'Reing fieh won Il make you good citizen. Being
DemofEat 0 Republ wont make you good citizen.
Being Rk0teSkAnt OF catholic won't make good
eitize1 Just one that takes of everything
30 far GOOD cQizenShip IS concerned Obedience
"Nhatmakss it very simple doesntE? You regu-
late ynnr just bne word if Wifi constantly in
mind 1 lat Won win make very good citizen of
E Win fee g4sad y your and RF 0lf
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
TEN POINTS OF ADVERTISING
lin the Myrtle Beach, S. c., News)

When Herman Roe was field
director of the National Editorial
Association, he outlined "Ten
Points for Newspaper Advertising
which have brought a high meas
ure of success, prosperity, and
profit to a big retailer who spent
the greater part of his advertis-
ing appropriation in good news
paper copy" He was addressing
the National Merchants Associa-
ton and the retailers ten points
were:
1. Advertise regularly. Every
issue of the paper takes my story
to its readers.
2. l make every ad look like
mine. Years ago l adopted a dis
tinctive style and have stuck to
it. I use plenty of white space;
8. l put into newspaper adver-
Using a definite proportion of my
gross sales. l fix this at the be-
ginning of the year. My rule is to
make it 8 per cent of the previous
years gross, with more if special
conditions justify it.
A. / brighten my ad with fire.
quent illustrations, either humor-
Gus or practical.
5. am careful never to over
promise. When l make claims, ]
back them up with reasons. Then
when l really have an unusual
bargain, people believe me when
l "whoop'er up a little"
6. / think advertising all the
time. buy goods that will adver-
tise well.
z. l get good display for my ads
by seeing that the copy is in the
newspaper office in plenty of time
/ do this by having a definite hour
to write the copy.
8. Whenever possible, carry
nationally advertised goods that
are advertised in my home paper
| / feature them. Sometimes they
give me a smaller margin thar
fiy-by-night concerns, but / fine
that / sell faster and make more
money in the end, besides pleas
/ ing more customers.
9. always plan my window
and counter displays to link W
with my newspaper advertising
Each helps the other.
10. My sales people back up m!
advertising. They aften help witt
suggestions for it, and ] see to j
that they always read it.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
A DISGUSTING LEGISLATURE.

We know there many able patriotic, sincere and
good the General Assembly this year but far as
they must feel ashamed to be in the company
they For the large percentage that have so
effectively hwarted theswshes of those interested in the
welfare have up to reflected nothing but dis
credit the people of North Carolina It has been dis
gushing spectacle the number who have been grinding
axes seeking despoi the poor and the man back in
the country to help the rich interests and the big cities
is shock that many people, with the blind disregard
of drunken bully exhibit full determination to block
eryhng put forth for the welfare of the people does
happen tagged with the governors approval Patriots
hell They amt worth the of politicians, and
unless they change their ways will go down in history
legislature that snks like those read about in the
days of the carpet baggers.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
CLAM INDUSTRY
is DEVELOPED IN
CAR T Fret co.
Willis Brothers of Williston
Supplying Heinz With
$4,000 Gallons OF
Clans

Eastern North Carolinians who
do a lot of hopeful talking about
the need for outside capital to
come in and develop industries
would do well to study the case
of the Willis Brothers Of Willis
ton in Carteret County, according
to a story from the State News
Bureau.
They could call this place
"Chowderville, U.S.A.," since the
Willis brothers began shipping
upward of 1000 gallons of clans
day for making chowder to fill
the little cans that go on grocery
shelves all over the nation.
More than $4,000 gallons of
North Carolina. CLAIMS are requir-
ed by one soup manufacturer
alone = the H: ]. Heinz Co. of
Pittsburgh-which obtains its en-
tire supply from Willis Brothers.
A huge pyramid of shells near
the eastern extremity of U. S.
Highway 70, marks the location of
the establishment, which opens
and ships more clans than any
other establishment in the State.
The Willis Brothers handle moth
ing else. Boatmen bring clans to
their road and sound-side pro-
cessing plant from as far north
as Ocracoke and south to Swans
boro.
The plant is a busy place, and
local residents, expert at opening
the clans as they are loosened by
steam, get zoe gallon. The best
can open 60 gallons day, which
accounts for some of the shiny
new cars and freshly painted
houses between Beaufort and At
lantic.
The empty shells go on con-
veyor belt and out to the pyramid,
from where they are removed for
crushing into an excellent road
building base. But since Governor
Scott has about paved all the
IOdOS, cCCOI uAiiS W 1AAAlCI w A1lAop
they'll have to find another use
for them:
The succulent clans go into
shiny gallon tins and are rushed
to Beaufort for quick-freezing.
There, refrigerator trucks take
them over the mountains to Pitts
burgh. The huge trucks make two
trips a week.
Growing taste for canned clam
chowder-and consequently North
Carolina clams-has Mr.. Willis
concerned about the supply. Two
thousand gallons day (shucked)
is a lot of clans, and he feels that
every effort should be devoted to
! proper research to insure a con-
tinuing supply Of the shellfish
which is adding materially to the
! wealth of this section.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
A SORRY MESS
I'm the Williamson Enterpris

Prompted by the love of a dol
lar tainted or untainted a few
North Carolina citizens, supposed
ly reputable, have, it is now we'll
established, invited representa-
tives of the acknowledgements ell
ement down from the big cities.
Pictured in a favorable light, the
race track is now recognized as a
wedge for unholy gambling with
crime breeding potentialities be-
yond ones Imagination.
North Cardinals General AS
sembly was literally sucked in"
as a silent partner, the shadows
extending to railroad presidents
and even to reputable law firms.
While the little village of Mo-
yock has little to lose, Morehead
City, with its fine recreational
possibilities can lose much when
people learn they have been duped
by gambling syndicates, embrac-
ing their own acquaintance in the
membership.
It's all one sorry mess, and
when the people and the com
munities finish paying the bill the
bait thrown out as profit dividends
to the communities will be negli-
gible in comparison.
If North Cardinals Legislature
is interested in the welfare of this
State and its people, it will close
up the tracks and chase the gang
sters out. Quite a few wives and
mothers in this immediate area
will support the custer action.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
MANTEO COURT SQUADS
IN PLYMOUTH TOURNEY

Both Manteo high school bas-
ketball teams were in action in
the Plymouth Invitational Tourn-
ament last night. The girls play
ed the winner of the Hobbsville-
Creswell game in the evenings
curtain raiser, and the boys tack
led the Creswell quintet as the,
feature game of the evening.