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14 THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1958 Head Qf Ghana Mission To UN To Speak At 88th Yr. Banquet BAI tIMORE. MD. Hor.orabe J F,. .Tantuah, head of the Ghana Mif-shn to the United Nations, will THE WEEK m RECORDS f.V ALBERT ANDERSON LOR ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS LAT! ! JAZZ FARE Instrumental music, ballad... ••la.-iiic.-ls, pope, and folk songs round out this week’s jazz fare., “The Ballaid Style of Stan Ken ton' (Capitol), is the best in the instrumental category, and ts al- Jeady heavily in demand. An LP, the set ' features the usually hard dtiving Kenton and his orchestra playing a collection of soft melo the! are all standards, except a fine composition by Dale Barn* turd, title Wncn Stars Looked Down This is definitely Kenton’s smodnest work, hut as such it is drlightfuily different. It is a departure, at least on this cut. from the Rig Sound’' tcehni i ue that has made him famous. Low,-vcr, as usual, the orche stration is sol'd, v ith the v oorir. ind and hr*-.* sections cen-i'Tco's tor th»lr restrain ed eloquence* Stan's piano vo' k also s’ tc.ds out. Or.i-fftliv. thr ntusm hordei s r>n t' e moody side, but with all the Kenton Should score well i "■ ah mat! INTERPRET »lIVS J V/Z “Jar..: Impressions of Eurasia,” f”; (. nf; the Dove Brubcck quar tet (Colo .bias is anot.hr- instru nv*r:«i album o' particular inte rest. P corded by Fie Brubcck pru'ip da 11 . S. Sta»c- Dooart nvr.l tot;-,- ,)t Europe, the album features intf .•orctat’ens of sound.', ft'-'ii si'rh countries nr- England. Gcruvny. P -land. intii, an;! Tur key Pi-i.-dl.v ii ; fpresents an of. foil by T.l —GtoI a; ■ in to I'u •• iis jrunror ions of th.e I’.-nn'o (.' tbw codtltri 'l'm, a,-' ; * >: oi*rr d “bivndon- F ■"" Oat? ’* -The Golden Horn.” "Than Yon " *\- ; hip Arch.” and ‘C ik",:'ts Bine:,". .A most intcrest * I i.A\*r of;-* n 4 g.ir>r«r’n mffic “Have Rand. Will Travel.” (Ep ic*. is rti'l unoth’ r in the instrui rrvmbi! e*:l r*/u*y. The banc in ques tion is that of Li ter Lanin, vete ran h---'Hi- "h r. whose dance 'bands hove niayed to top society audi crc in A • tcGra. and whose alum ni inch-dc• inch top jazzmen as Bcrtry C-.-oihnun. Glen Miller, Tom my an-' .I'uiitii.v Dorsey. Artie Sir ■ . Carrv.-h Cavelloro. Rnlnh FI;;I- - ,jn and CFuid' T ■ rnnhlli.. t* i t'-c set, Lanin and ©rr.br ''■ > I*’>v ii m-ilVv of tunes (’• < h-i-.-'s pick nx-inoi-ics of <’••• -ru-t. ; include “Stand , r>.. T '.,. Corner ” "A Fine ’ •'■. ’ '"'l -.*r> ■», - I. rs ;* n -r Hi - P-iiThov.” a mm*" t " ~ I- 1 — 1. .... I j^.-i.,., T***r —*-n.* |. ’t n !, ’l a nt d-..| <.f Larin imlivitl n End "- ■! th«i;‘“’i the i > e-t *•*. Tat voii’d term ?’** r"'—ii. r-’-ord hm • '*' >■'• ‘ F “T •> 't nf tiiw f> " ’’ * ! <V« COT." v .;*< c:*»EAT T- t -r; 's t 1 rt iv'v. N l **,( ’’ - “ (“ • ••T'r, tV ~v Thni-ht ■' C ■ it.o!v t v'.;,. V’tth T ' J- r-'ii-.c r "-idinr the (■ ~-V jit l sou If ull v s-v'-s i - :• ■ o' ri'imsnl r * ne.s. i-<- • Fie t't’’- ; lid "Chri'« r \ t T,*i\ • You." v-bjeh. T think. :" ' af.v r* L ; tf'll. Other songs <• d ■ Cot- ; i*f -Bti* rjpauti • ' ■ ' • -J - Wish I v -I f,..r,.. a M■'' ; n D .Her !' ; ■ ■ —'l C, . . ; \ c i ’"s'l M ds TT-." on Side ! ' -f' “>•; fp •< ' -TEli.; ’ A’l t A fi- VB> lievc You’re H> .. ’ “Cherchc-- La f emme." "For All We Enow ' ami -The Mure I See Y- <>•' t’-n flin s ; dc. The aln- v*- b- '.'tif"Uy pHckngi-d. up: ..- p-s ; r(ithr, fine perform ent-c hv flolc and should be a Li'. DAKOTA STATON’S NEWEST Anothci ballad offering that should score well is Dakota Sla tons “Dynamic’’ (Capitol*. On the record 9V LP. Mis-: Staton, who rocketed to fame with her “Late, Late. Show,” grooving, swings a way tn fine style on a collection of tunes not among the least arc ‘ Might Mist.” “Sunny ’ "Little Girl.” find “It Could Happen" Harry ' Sweets’’ Edison and an un identified group provides the mu sical setting for her songs. This set is x fine follow-up to Dakota’s “!n The Night,” which is still go ing big. i“ s Ik mm 970 \ PT ‘ 4*</SQT & to,, NortJi U«tM, V«„ Sr-cbeyvlU.« X be the principal speaker at a ban quet celebrating the SStn Anniver sary of Robert S. Abbott, late noted Negro publisher, on Mon day evening, November 24, at the Wabash YMCA. The affair is under the au spices of the Afro-American Heritage Association’s Commit tee on African Affairs chair ed by Mrs. Christine Johnson. Mrs. Johnson, public school teacher who has traveled widely in Africa declared, "Mr. Abbott has indeed left a great heritage to people of African descent and to America. At a dismal time when a voice v.i' needed for democracy and a gainst rai ism and lynching*, the paper he founded was the leading clarion eai! among the Negro people to unite deve lope themselves and fight back. Mr Abbott’s paper was once Mississippi Negro Tells Why He Won't‘Run North 1 CHICAGO—To avoid pn judice mci discrimination, thousands of | Negroes have let’. Mississippi, but according to a young NAACP exe cutive he will “try to change things that he doesn't like rather than go North. li-, the current issue of Eb ony Magazine, Medgar Meyers, field secretary of the Missis sippi Conference of NAAI P Branches, tells why he hopes to make a positive contribu tion to the overall productivity of the South. M'-ycis read a great deal about Mau-Mait uprisings and reign of terror in Kenya, and once con sidered a hate society in Missis sippi. ex trading an ‘eye for an eye from whites who mistreated tbr'r black brothers." He decided however that love. GARDEN TIME m.e.gardner n.c.state college Last week I promised to make -orne variety suggestions for lire fruits, small fruits and grapes for the home But first, these questions have just been received from a la dy in Hamlet. "Is it. harmful to grape vmes to ime posts treated with creosote?" "Ts it harmful to use metal pipe for the cross sup ports?” Answering the second ques tion first, it is not harmful to I'm vines to use metal pine supports, but we prefer No. 19 wire. About rco; utc - we '■•.’c made no tests hut have hat! ppnortunlty to observe - vpe plantings on arbors u • big creosote posts, and found ro damage caused by the eren ■ however, there ire other "r-'wva’ive e-'mpouiids used ’••** impregnating wood posts “ hichf may he toxic to plants V> prefer either cedar or lo ' c*i-t. < unrinol is a good pre servative and is harmless in plants. Wivie 0*; I’m subject of era pcs. we* might ."s well suggest some va ried.! r*. First th crouscadines. Seuppernong i- still a standard variety and well known to most people in eastern North Carolina. It is green'sh urotv/.e sweet and cf good quality!. It is self-unit uit tul Thomas, also one of the older “King Kong” Makes The Harlem Scene Once More NEW YORK CITY f ANP) Po lice raiders broke up a Harlem drinking party of 25 persons and discovered a large quantity of that potent concoction of wine, beer, | and alcohol known as "King i Kong,” ' fbp*S h #*-*'&&< ! 1 LI of ) "YOUR PU£ . FOR DINNER J-iO, it isn't n.ftiwir:e that hard/* OrArr'A/fArr.-K barred from many places in the South. His paper many times voic ed the needs of the African people for freedom from colonialism and imperialism. Mr. Abbott’s paper was a voice for new beginnings iri the political life of black America which had been reduced to naught following the betrayal of Civil War objectives at the end of Re construction. Indeed in a period when the noted Negro scholar. Dr W. E. B Dußois was the “soul of black folks." Mr Robert S. Abbott was the “voice.’’ To welcome Mr. Jantuah. there is a Greater Chicago Citizens Comm, of business, labor, civic, professional and church leaders headed by Mr. Chas H. Ford, ac countant. Mr. Chas. Hayes, Di.-E Dir. United Packinghouse Workers, and Dr Chas. Thompson, druggist. A women's hostess committee head ed by Mrs. Johnson has been form- not violence was the manner in which to achieve the same goals of full equality for the Mississippi Negro. Meyers joined the staff of the NAACP in 1954, and in 1D55 be came the youngest man on a nine man “death list." Mississippi's chief NAACP man. Meyers spends long hours on the road, chasing down stories of bru tality and civil rights abuses, and long sessions in the office examin ing and weighing valid and invalid complaints. Os his work Meyers say*. "We don't have any suits pending, but we are doing our best to err.harass the whites to death. For a long time, they literally got av«y wi»b murder. Now, when a Negro is mistreated, wc try to tel! the world about it.” varieties, is a dark wine colored grape which is tender, juicy, very sweet with a rich fruity flavor, it ' is one of the best for unfermenied , i juice and preserver. Ii is also I self-unfruitful. Burgaw is one of the best black ! self-fruitful < perfect -flowered» va • rites. Bearing is the newest, and j best, of the self-fruitful musea i dines. Tiie fruit is translucent ! given and about the size of Thorn- S as. The flavor is much better than i any of the other .erfeet Lowered j varieties we have tested. It is more resistant to black rot | leaf spot than most of the* other j varieties. Incidentally, black rot | does riot, attack the fruit of the ! muscadine. This species i.~ rernark j ably free from both insect and ! disease troubles. I This is important. I advised that j both Scuppernong and Thomas i aie self-unfruitful: The means that j pollen must be supplied from an j other source Either Burgaw or . j Dearing. both perfect-flowered ; will pollinate the Thomas and : Scuppemong. If you especially 1 i want Scuppernong, then plant or.o : | vine of either Burgaw or Dealing . j with it. The same is true for i ! Thomas. If you are planting a vin ■ i yard, use one perfect-flowered variety for every three plants of ■ the seif-unfruitful sorts. Confiscated were five gallons of alcohol, 3! pints of port and sherry wines, and H cases of beer. Arrestee! as hosts of the party were Waiter Pyer, 52. and Joari Oliver, 32 They wore booked on selling bootleg whiskey and por- i , FORMER DISADVANTAGED FARMERS MOVING AHEAD ~ These farmers, who formerly were disadvantaged, arc moving ahead'partly as *> re*-ult of credit aid and counsel fro t the Farmers Home Administration of the V. S. Department nf Agriculture. Top panel, left to right: O D. Marlin of SumerviDe. Tcnn., locks over part of his hog crop. He expects to sell 50 head this fail. In background is his home * which is being veneered with brick. Ivory D. Clark. Swedesboro, N. J., is proud of his sweet potatoes. Admiring them with him are tow Farmers Home officials, Stephen Wurn, Center. New Jr«*. . area supervi-or: and L. J. Wa.-Jimgton e the Washington '■ vpq|pppr e*j "■ ' CRO .. s “MiGS ST. A EG*.'STINE — Left to right: Hilda Dawson, junior. Kinston; Barbara Brown, sophomore. Leal, a die: Fochhonias Jones, sensor, Norfolk, Virginia; Dr, James A. Boyer, Presi dent. and Evangeline Hunter, freshman, Raleigh. Dr. . Jshn W. Davis Keynotes Founders Day At Bennett GREENSBORO •• Whether m.,n < .•an a chi:-vc fm mc-n what he has unanswered, Dr. John W’. Davis, i 1 of New York city, declared in his j j Founders' Day address at Bonnet! ! j College Saturday morning. Calling attention to the fact that i i Bennett was founded at a t ime I j when questions simitar to this ; | wore very much on the minds of i ! American men and women. Or. i - Davis, v. ho is, special director of j i teacher inforanlion wd secuvitv j with t>r NAAcT Legal IWervo ! nd V tuc-iuon Fund. said that i Bennott today, as yesterday, must - | seek to realize us idea’s of service ! | -by helping man to advance know- ; • ledge of himself and of his uni- ! Dr, Davis, after tracing the es ; forts of Negro colleges and uni- | : versifies tn make their contribu j lions "outside of the main stream !of institutional developmenl,” I i stated: "The free access r,f ali in dividuals to thr full content of j the advancing body of know- i i ledge began to be meaningful in !f»53 when it had become the lav of the land that all , slates. North and South, must provide ptjLMt etit-.estional op portunities for Negroes In j their state universities, if ndal ly segregated public * rltnof* became trrrHy unconstitution | as In liDI -j 1 In his analysis of the eontribu j tions which Negro in-rtltiitions of j higher learning have made to A- l merican education. Dr. Davis noted ! that "d is significant that the mini- j her of those graduating from 21 | J> rI v ate. denomination a! and i church-related colleges and uni- ! versifies is greater then the mirn-’ h f *r from either the 17 land-gran! i | colleges or the 14 piibliclv sup. I oo*dsd colleges and universities." The nonaVor ■'"’Fed attention so j the fact that the emorer-nec o’ these 73 invitutitins coincided with America’.* e-catost. collet?*! build. ! ing neriod. He paid tribute to their ! leaders who suffered "insults os- I 1 treciam, hate and m*hta' agonv" i because they “dsrfid to do a fob in edueatoin which the Southern ! states at that time refused to do j or were too timid to attempt " "The.se great men and women," i J trial in %>ceiqi ‘-.'•.•-ions- * ? ' -rod Dr. Davis, ‘"worked on a b.osL-s of a vibrent faith in man and God and on each new day ex • pressed the hope for h rewarding ; and realizable substance based up l on an evidence* wist<**n. The-?.* pi - j oncers with keen insight into the ; future, brought into the glare of i a promising sunlight the marvo J lous certainty of an adjustable Ne gro college for expanded services ! ! n an cver-chunging world. B. n ; nett College was rnw of the in- ’ i stitutions which was founded or j such faiih ” Fh Davis concluded by saying ; *hat "the future of Bennett College ' ip in the hands of students and i ! 'hat Bennett will be secure in the | i 'utim*. if her students and erndu-) Do’s And Bon f ts ! ~ >- {” *’ I • t frp**Tw4«jrAi. wu** I . “Do Relax, but Not to llie Annoyance of Others ” office. At extreme right Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Smith. Helena, Ark., prepare to hand the swing on the porch of their new home while larrr.ers Home County Supervisor At-Large .les.se Mason, right, looks on. Bottom pane): Harry Lewis, Sulphur Springs. Texas, dairy farmer, and one of his sons, Robert, cheek their silage cutter. In the background is their attractive home. At right WiHic Scroggins, center, Idabel. Otela., is spraying his beef cattle herd while County \gent Andrew B, Murray and Farmers Home Supervisor At-large Hollis I>. Stearns help him round up the cattle. iI'SPA PHOTOS). ates remain students as long as Appreciations were given by Mrs. Pauline A. Donnell ’35 i ;r tiu* graduates: James t Chalmer#. president of the tudent Senate, for the student hedy anil by Francis L. Gran di‘on for the faculty-staff, who presented to President ’Vitla B. Player $12.10 for the endowment seUidarshtp fund which ts now approximately 330.1100. Annual giving by graduates will reported at the All-Bennett Luncheon in the spring and siu j dent contributions will be reported i at the conclusion of their endow ; m«nt drive still in progress. Man Has Spent Three Years Oil Death Row CHICAGO The story of a man ; who has spent 3 1-2 years on ; Death Row. has bad twelve stays ■ j of execution, and is awaiting an appeal to the- U. S. Supreme Court i to learn hi.s fate, is told in the D> - j ] cember issue of Ebony Magazine. ; The man, Charles Townsend, is I ! accused of bludgeoning a Chicago ! ; steel plant worker to death with | a brick in 1933. Townsend, who lives in a 12 x : : 12-foot celt in ttie Cook County l jail’s Death Row. says, ”1 don' : believe it is God's will that I ; die, I'm not afraid anymore. I’m not going to die in the electric chair ” The men on Death Row, ar eoniing to Ebony, are Inter minably busy. There are no signs of whining st if - pity. There is no evidence of re signed remorse. They al! dc rlare themselves innocent and spend every waiting hour try ing to prove it. Townsend, on whom the Suite | of Illinois has spent an estimated i j SIOO 00!). declares he is innneer.t j and says he is in prison because of ] • another man’s statement. His !aw~ j ye.- contends that a confession j 1 made by Townsend during the first ; ; 24 hours after his arrest and which ; ! he repudiated duriiig his trial, is ; | not admissible because it was oh- \ I tinned while Townsend was under , I the influence of drugs administer- j t*d by a doctor employed by the ■ police. I Townsend, who has never work- ; I cd more than $ day- in his life. claimed to be a professional pool I player, and admitted to the habit ! of narcotics when arrested. “I’ll tell yoa who won the game in 1949—the Bureau of Internal Revenue won, that # who!" 1 |T STRAIGHT llSfl f, #$ #25 faster f X F/ J? iffl P,NT ft ' -wy m m£gj*?gi 350 ~ v# R PROOF JAMts wai9« « 00. ma i ' ,Mllttß S AV.'RLNCE.BURG, INB,J| • while Waiting for word on hi c ! fate, Townsend spends time copy ■ mg the Scs ipumes, writing letters exorcising, and at personal care. Bolstering contention of inno i ounce, Tow, send ivfus"S to permit i lawyers to seek commutation of I the sentence, says, “if it come to ! it, I'd rather die in The) chair : than rot 69 years in prison." At St. Aug.: irn trar- aif - Many Even Is Highlight Homecoming St Augustine's celebrated home coining Saturday at Chavis Park I with its filth win of the year, s | 12-0 decision over Johnson C. ; Smith of Charlotte. During the halftime cere monies, the following queens were crowned: Miss Pocahon tas Jones. "Miss St. Augus tine's." Miss Swannie Thorpe, Miss Alumni: 1 ’ Miss Ruth Sprits. Miss St Agnes School of Nursing:” Mrs. Krlitie Dch rum, "Miss St, Agnes Alumni,” Memorial services for five grad | i •• es of St Augustine's College. ! who have died in service, wete j held in the college chapel Sunday morning, November 16. Honored were Col. Cato L. Bas kervill: Lt. Max Britto; Sgt Rob ert Albert Johnson; Pvt. Charles l T Norwood, for whom a Raleigh | post of the American Legion is i named, and Lt. Frederick Robin j son ! Dr. .Tames A. Boyer, president ] of the college, and William Bas j kcrvill of Princeton. N. J., brother of Colonel BarkervjU, explained I ;he purpose of the services nod | Chaplain Louis Baskervill of the (t. s Army, another brother of Colonel Baskervill presented the Cato L. Baskervill papers to Dr. Boyer for the college library. The Rev. Joseph N Green, .Jr, college chaplain, delviered the sermon.