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Tar Heel Convicted In N. M. Slaying GALLUP, N.M., Jan. 30 UP A District Court jury of 10 men and two women early today found James William Hutchins, 25, Forest City, N.C., guilty of manslaughter in the slaying of a Dallas truck driver. Hutchins was charged with the pistol slaying of Bruce Weibel, 32, last April 7 after Weibel had picked Hutchins up hitchhiking.

Weibel's, body, under shot a three bridge times, near Gallup. The manslaughter conviction could carry a penalty of one to years in the State Prison. Hutchins contended he shot Weibel in defense after the Texan awoke from in the back seat, ordered Hutchins to pull off the road and started to strangle him. The young AWOL airman heard the verdict quietly. Defense Attorney Henry Glasscock today declined to discuss plans for an appeal with newsmen, saying it might "be against the best interests of my client." District Judge James Princess Launching Tour PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan.

30 -Princess Margaret flies from wintry London tomorrow to begin a month's tour of Britain's sunny Caribbean islands-her first major mission abroad. Vivacious and informal, the 24- -old sister of Queen Elizabeth II can be counted on to make the good will trip something of a pleasure cruise. And it is being planned that way. Official functions will be interspersed with exotic West Indian barbecues, private beach parties and programs of calypso singing dancing to bongo drums. The Princess, arriving in Trinidad Tuesday afternoon, will stay until Saturday and then sail aboard the luxurious royal yacht Britannia to Grenada, St.

Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts, Jamaica and the Bahamas before flying home March 2. She will come here in the British Overseas Airways Stratocruiser Canopus, specially outfitted for the royal family and newly redecorated in blue, gray and white. Two ladies in waiting, secretary and military aide are accompanying her. Trinidad's cosmopolitan popuulace -Negroes, Creoles, Europeans, Indians and Chinese will greet Margaret as her motorcade arrives in gaily decorated Port Of Spain.

The sections of a big shanty settlement which are visible from the highway have been hurriedly brushed over with fresh paint, and city sanitation workers have been working for days to eliminate bad odors in the A garden party is planned at Government House for 1,000 guests on the evening of Margaret's ar' rival. After a day's rest she will attend a public reception, open a new hospital and plant a memorial tree in the botanical gardens. She also will make a one-day visit to neighbor- ONE FAMILY OUT OF EVERY will have a loved one in the hospital this year! PLAY Mail Coupon A Now! SAFE! Reserve Life Insurance P. 0. Box 2054, Raleigh, N.

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County. RN ling Tobago, claimed here to have been the home of Robinson Crusoe. Menus for the Princess' stay in Trinidad already have been prepared. They promise a blend of spiced creole dishes and milder European food. Robeson Hospital Gets $25,000 Grant LUMBERTON, Jan.

30-Robeson County Memorial Hospital has been granted $25,000 toward its building fund by Duke Endowment, it was announced by Administrator J. M. DeVane. The formal announcement was made Thursday night at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, at which officers were re-elected and new trustees elected. DeVane announced also that the gift from Duke now leaves the hospital's drive for funds only $10,000 short of the $52,000 goal set for construction of additions to the plant.

Other funds have been donated locally. R. president, H. Livermore Hector was reelected president and DeVane secretary and treasurer. Three new trustees are David M.

Britt of Fairmont, J. A. Singleton of Red Springs and Robert Hughes of Parkton, all for terms of four Tribute Is Paid Retiring Organist BURLINGTON, Jan. 30-More than 55 members of the Consistory and choir of the First Evangelical and Reformed Church paid tribute to Mrs. Herbert W.

Coble, who will retire as church organist on Feb. 1 after service for more than 35 years. Mr. and Mrs. Coble were honor guests at a banquet in the social hall of the church Friday, at which time a resolution was passed in her honor and a gift was presented from the Consistory.

The gift was a $100 U. S. Savings Bond. Those who spoke briefly in the included Dr. Harvey A.

Fesperman, pastor, George H. Fowler, master of ceremonies, and Norman B. Fidler, choir director. Special Training. LUMBERTON, Jan.

30-Capt. Wilbur C. Lovette of the Lumber- ton Police Department will at the FBI National Academy in Washington March 21 for a special course of training, Police Chief W. M. Harris announced.

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He was driving Weibel's car. When officers questioned him about bloodstains in the vehicle, he admitted "killing a man in New Mexico" and being AWOL from the Air Force. Hutchins said he left Ellis Air Force Base, for his North Carolina home after receiving letter from his wife that she was pregnant and unhappy with her family. Fatal Dream OAKLAND, Jan. 30 (P)-Mrs.

Jennie Terrell, 38, an elevator operator, "dreamed" three weeks ago of the death that came to her yesterdaythe death circumstances recorded by her own camera. The woman's husband, Hardesty, told police his wife, about three weeks ago, said she "dreamed" she was sitting on a window sill to have her picture taken and fell to her death. Yesterday during lunch on floor of a medical buildings she asked Mrs. Clara Young, 33, also of Oakland, another elevator operator, to "take some pictures of me" seated in an open window. Mrs.

Young took one. She cranked the film roll and looked through the viewfinder for another-but Mrs. Terrell was gone. Her body fell in a parking lot six floors below. the developed snapshot showed her sitting in the window, apparently at ease.

Homicide Inspector Leonard Fake said Mrs. Terrell suffered from a heart condition and had dizzy spells. Dispute Over Will Slated For Trial WILSON, Jan. 30-A case involving the will of a prominent Wilson woman will come up when the Feb. 1 term of Superior Court convenes in Wilson.

Included in the weeklong term court, which will be presided over by Judge Q. K. Nimocks of Fayetteville, are 13 motions and pretrials and 22 civil cases. On the slate is a case involving the interpretation of a section of the will of Mrs. Mary P.

Churchwell, a leader in civic activities in Wilson for years and founder and past owner of Churchwell's Jewelry Store. Mrs. Churchwell died Jan. 5, 1952. She was 71 years old.

In her will, Mrs. Churchwell directed that a sum of $22,000 be placed in trust to the Branch Banking and Trust Company. She wrote, "'The purpose of this trust is to establish a fund with which the tuition fees of certain of my grandnieces and grandnephews may be The beneficiaries, and plaintiffs in this suit, are Anne Privette, 16, daughter of A. A. Privette, Dan Davis, 19, son of Maude Privette Davis, Mary Anne Winstead, daughter of Mary Carter Winstead of Mecklenburg County, and Mary Ellen Smart, 10, daughter of Roy Rogers Smart of Denver, Colo.

They are petitioning the court to interpret the term "tuition fees" to include all normal college penses such as room, board and books as well as the cost of instruction. The defendants, the Branch Bank and Trust Company, and a sister of Mrs. Churchwell, Mrs. Ellen Privette Rogers of Washington, D. named co-executors of the $76,505 estate, have filed separate answers to the complanit.

The trust corporation answers that it feels obliged to adopt a literal and restricted definition of term. They called the court's attention to the fact that Mrs. Churchwell directed that if the money were not used for education, the beneficiaries are to receive it upon reaching the age of 28. Judge Nimocks will rule on the intent of the provision. No jury will hear the case.

Merchants Officers Will Be Installed UMBERTON, Jan. 30-A new slate of officers of the Lumberton Merchants Association will be installed Monday evening at 6:45 o'clock at the Lorraine Hotel when members gather for the first quarterly meeting of the association. The earlier meeting time, a change from 7 o'clock, was necessitated by a conflict Monday evening with the Community Concert. Immediately following the regular meeting, association directors will convene. New officers to be installed are Kenneth Harley, president; Paul Davis, vice president and Charles Gardner, treasurer.

John Gardner remains as executive secretary. Wilson Blackman is outgoing president. Lumberton Firm's Cash Drawer Looted LUMBERTON, Jan. 30 Lumberton Trading Company on First Street was robbed of $240 in silver and currency Thursday night. The burglary was discovered Friday morning when the store was opened.

Capt. W. C. Lovette is investigating. According to Lovette, the thief broke the glass from a side door and crawled through.

He ransacked cabinets and drawers in the office and took the money from the cash drawer. Lovette said the burglar apparently knew his way around but it did not appear to be a profesI sional job. THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N. MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1955. 13 Long Life Ahead Unusual Cancer Story LOS ANGELES, Jan.

30 (PA case in which a big piece of cancerous bone was removed from a woman's hip, then scalded with steam to kill the malignancy and finally put back in place was reported today by a Los Angeles specialist. The operation was performed five years ago. The woman, a housewife then 20 years old, spent nine months in bed. Then she was allowed to walk a little on crutches. But the regenerating bone broke.

She went back for a bonegrafting operation and another six months in bed. A little while later still another little fracture developed. A splint and more time in bed fixed that. At present, said the specialist, Dr. Vernon P.

Thompson, the woman is working and apparently cancer-free. The hip joint had to be made rigid by the operations but she can walk slowly without a noticeable limp. By all indications, she has a long life ahead of her. Dr. Thompson reported details of the operation, performed at the Los Angeles County Hospital, to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.

Dr. Thompson passed up two conventional ways of treating such cases because the woman was so young. He could have cut out the diseased bone and just left it out, in which case the patient wouldn't have had the leg to stand he could have replaced the diseased bone with metal or plastic. With a metal or plastic replacement, Dr. Thompson said, the patient's future might have been unnecessarily marred because there is no that these bone substitutes 40 to 50 assurance, years, the normal life expectancy of the woman.

With a new growth of bone, he added, she would have the maximum opportunity for a long, useful life. The cancer had eaten into the ball joint at the top of the leg bone, through the neck of bone which slants outward and downward at a 45-degree angle for an inch or more, then into the knobby formation from which it turns straight downward. A part of the hip socket also was diseased. The piece removed was nearly inches long. Steam sterilized bone has been used before for grafting but never a piece this size, Dr.

Thompson said. The steaming killed the healthy cells in it as well as the cancerous cells. But lifeless bone makes a good framework for the growth of healthy new bone. So now the patient has a solid new growth of bone rigidly connecting the leg bone with the pelvis. Another operation in which pieces of cartilage from around the ribs are put into a mould and planted in the abdomen to grow together and form a ball for reconstructing the top of the hip bone was reported by Dr.

John J. Flanagan of South Orange, N.J. Cartilage makes a good substitute for bone that has to be removed from a joint, Dr. Flanagan said. The abdominal planting gives the pieces a blood supply which permits them to grow together in the right After shamonths the mould is removed from the abdomen and the shaped cartilage is grafted to the hip bone top to make a workable joint.

This has been tried so far on only four patients but it looks encouraging, Dr. Flanagan said. TWIN GIVES KIDNEY TO SAVE -Richard Herrick, 23 (left), walks away from a Boston hospital with his twin brother, Ronald, both fully recovered after a kidney transplant operation that saved Richard's life and made medical history. On Dec. 23, one of Ronald's two sound kidneys was transplanted in Richard, who suffered uremic poisoning because his kidneys failed.

(AP Wirephoto.) Music Engraving Still Being Done CHARLOTTE, Jan. 30 (P) sic engraving is almost a thing of the past, but a Charlotte man with an antique press still practices the once closely guarded secrets of that trade. Lamar Stringfield, composer and flutist, has become an accomplished hand with the old time press that was found in an attic of a mountain home. He has spent many years in Man Held In Slaying GREENVILLE, Jan. 30-A 21- year-old Negro is being held on a murder charge here for the (slaying of his step-father Friday night.

James Norman, alias Booker T. Darden, is being held without bond for the slaying last night of Richard Langley, 55-year-old "juke joint" operator. Sheriff Ruel W. Tyson said that Langley was shot around 8:45 last night at 905 Taylor Street, just outside of the Greenville city limits. Langley's body was found around feet from where spots of blood were discovered near the entrance of the small juke joint which was operated by Langley.

The blast from a 12 gauge shotgun filled the upper part of Langley's body with No. 8 buck shot. Tyson and city police officers who investigated said that it was their information that Langley and his step-son, Darden, had been arguing about girls dancing in the store. A check of the premises operated by Langley revealed two pint bottles partly filled with bootleg liquor and a small quantity in a milk bottle. Darden told the officers that he and Langley had been arguing.

School District Expansion Aired GRAHAM, Jan. 30 The proposed extensions of the Burling. ton school district were aired thoroughly at a special joint meeting of the Alamance County Board of Commissioners, the Burlington and county school The Burlington board reported that it had approved the extensions, and turned its documents over the the County School Board for further action. Chairman Henry A. Scott of the County School Board said the board would consider the al at its next regular meeting, scheduled Feb.

7. Approximately 60 persons, including members of the three boards and interested residents of Burlington fringe areas, attended the meeting held at the Agricultural Building. In a show of hands, most of the visitors indicated they lived in the fastgrowing Alamance Hills residendevelopment just east of Burlington. Delegations were also on hand from the Grove Park and Dogwood Acres area south of Burlington and the Old Elon Road section west of Burlington. In submitting his board's report, Waiter M.

Williams, chairman of the Burlington. School Board, said, "We haven't sought to enlarge the Burlington district. It doesn't make a particle of difference to us, but these people have petitioned for a vote on the issue, and we have to honor their requests." If the county school board approves the measure, it will then gO to the county commissioners, who must call a referendum on the issue. SPECIAL OFFER, COLGATE RIDDO 47 REGULAR TUBES VALUE KERR REXALL DRUGS 2017 CAMERON ST. CAMERON VILLAGE studying music engraving, passed with jealous caution from father to son.

Stringfield's press is used to make the master print from engraved plates of the music score. The owner is currently making his own plates from which he'll draw a master print from the press and in turn submit the print to local printing firms for the actual copies of the sheet music. Stringfield has apprenticed another flutist, Miss Ann Smith of Nashville, to learn the tra She comes to Charlotie regularly to work the manually operated press. Miss Smith plans to print her own compositions in the future. Stringfield got some unexpected aid from an unusual source when he began his practice of music engraving.

He was having trouble find someone to make the dies used in the actual engraving process. The Secret Service referred him to an ex-counterfieter in Greenwich Village, N.Y. The former bogus money artist made the dies used in Stringfield's initial efforts. The press itself had to be registered with the Secret Service. It's the same type used in making counterfeit bills.

Health Educator Resigns Position BURLINGTON, Jan. 30 The resignation of Alan Young as Alamance County health educator was announced by Dr. W. L. Norville, county health officer.

Young, who has been associated with the department here for more than four years, is resigning to accept a position with the Richmond, Va. City Health Department. On Feb. 11 he will assume the duties of director of Bureau of Health Information and Methods of that department. Currently, six justices constitute a quorum in the United States Supreme Court.

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