I' I Over $500 Given Away In TIMES Contest ★** '★★★ if * * -k V‘★ ★ ★ Olympic Stars Coming Home HERirS mCOK HM RUIERS m Top three prlie winners In the Carolina Ttane* first ooUere Mholarship inbscrlption contest are ihown in theee Menca re* celvlnc priiea at a formal pre sentation cerenumjr in Boxboro last Thoraday. In pMnra at top, Jesse Gray, oootMt ^manacer, presents eheoka of |M9 to first Enthused Crowd Cheers Winners At Presentation Over $500 in prizes and cash was awarded to winning contea* tents last Thursday night at the Carolina Times first College scholarship subscription con test. An enthusiastic gathering at the Roxboro elementary school auditorium greeted the winners with heartening rounds of ap plause as they stepped up to the platform to receive prizes tor their winning efforts.^ The contest ran tor six weeks and was opened only to high school seniors. It officially closed November 14. All of the top prize winners came from the senior class of the Person Coimty high school. Olovenuia Bass, who almost made a run-away of tiie race to finish easily in first place, was awarded a cash prize of $250.00. Alexander Brandon, second iftace winner, received $190 and Frank Bradfeher, who wound up tlilrd, got |100. Prizes were also presented to Lessie Pulliam, Katherine Vin cent and Charlotte Norwood, last Thursday. Present at the formal pre sentation of prizes were school officials of the county, parents of the contestants and a large number of their friends. L. E. Austin, publidier of the Carolina TlmeS) delivered a brief speech and Jesse Gray, contest manager, presrated the awards. (CofitlnMd M Page Bight) prise winner Olovenaia Bam. Frank Bradsher, (extreme left), third plaoe, and Alexander Brandon, second prise winner, look on. Winning conteatants and their families are seen in picture at bottom following the preaentatlon ceremony which was held at the Boxboro ele mentary school. Left to right are Mrs. Bass, her daughter, Gionvennia, Mrs. Brandon, hw son Alexander, and Mrs. Alex ander Brandon, Brandon’s wife. The first three prise winners are seniors at Person County l^igh. Police Brutality Hinted In Affray WlNSTON-SAIJ!M the ticket was a parking viola- A 52 year old Winston-Salem man told ihe TIMES here last week that he was the victim of an unwonted attack by an uni dentified city policeman. ' Sam Crockett, who said hei had been «nployed by the Safe Bus company for nine years, displayed to TIMES reporters this week a bruised forehead and a swollen right eye which he said was inflicted by a beat ing he received at the hands of an unidentified city policeman on November 23. No confinnation or denial of Crockett’s stoiy had come from police headquarters at press time this week- According to Crockett, he parked his car in front of Charles H. Sosnlck’s store at 531 North Liberty street be tween five and six on the even ing of Nov. 23. The area had beep reiBlpricted from parking because of a Christmas parade, scheduled to begin at seven. Crockett said he stayed' in Soanick’s store for about 20 minutes and when he came out lie was confronted by a police man who demanded, according to Crockett, if be hadn’t seen that “damn ticket” he had placed on his car. Crockett, who can’t read or write, said he answered yies, and asked the officer what it meant. He said the officer told him it meant the area was restricted to parking for the parade, that tion and that the car would have to be moved by a wrecker. Crockett said he received the policeman’s permission to wait for the wrecker so he could pay for the towing, but soon after Sosnick came out of the store and asked Crockett to take him home. In the meantime, Crockett (Continned on Page Eight) Plans Set To Honor Calhoun And Shankie A ticker tape parade down main street, brass bands, recep tion committees, the key to the city—^these are some of the things being planned by Dur ham to welcome its two heroes, Olympic stars Lee Calhoun and Joel Shankie. Although members of a group working on the welcome re- cation refuse to confirm the fact that a recei>tion is in the worlw for the two athletes when they return to Durham, it is general knowledge that plans are proceedings apace for hero's welcome for the Calhoun and Shankie. Both won medals in the Olympics games at Melbourne, Australia. Calhoun won a gold medal for first plaoe and Siian- Icle won a bronze medal for thigd place in the 110 meters hturdles. Shankie is a graduate studoit at Duke Unlverstty and Calhoun la a Junior at North Carolina, College. Unimpeachable sources close to a committee working on plans for the reception, say they Jknclude a jnotorcade of city,, county, North Carolina College aiid Duke University officiate, which will meet the two when they disonbark at the airport, a pararle consisting of Dulee, North Carolina College, mil- iMe i^ p^ham Hl^ band*, boy Wdbts and school safety pa- tr(d, and a cbremony at ^e city where Mayot Evans will pre sent the keyl to the city to the two athletes. * The reception is tentatively scheduled for the day on which Calhoun and Sliankle are expect ed to arrive in the city. Though to be a part of the committee planning the cele bration are representatives from the Durham Chamber of Com merce, the Durham Business and Professional Chain, North Carolina College and Duke University. Spingam Award NEW YORK The 41st Spingarn Medal will be presented to Jackie Robinson, the versatile Brook lyn baseball star, at a luncheon in his honor here on Saturday, December '8, at the Hotel Roose velt. The presentation will be by Ed Sullivan, newspaper columnist and host of the popu lar TV program, "Ed Sullivan Show.” The medal, awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to a Negro American for distinguished achievement, is being presented to the brilliant athlete “for his superb sports manship, his pioneer role in opening up a new field of en deavor for young Negroes, and his civic consciousness. Anti-NAACP Laws Face Ito in Va. RICHMOND, Va. In a frontal attack upon a package of seven anti-NAACP statues recently enacted by the Virginia legislature, attorneys for the National Association for 1«he Advancement of Colored People Thursday filed a com plaint in the United States Dis trict Court here asking the Court to declare the new puni tive laws unconstitutional. The complaint, filed by Oli ver W. HiU, NAACP attorney of Richmond, and Robert L. Carter of New York, NAACP general counsel, further asks the court to enjoin state and lo cal law enforcement officers from enforcing the statues which, the complaint charges, violate the constitutional rights of citizens as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment and Ar ticle I of the U.S. Constitution. The laws were enacted dur ing a special session of the General Assembly last Septem ber. The open purpose of the legislation is to ciurb th^ NAACP. The laws (1) prohibit the solicitation of fimds to de fray the costs of litigation in antt-dlscrimlnatlon suits; (2) ban public advocacy of desegre gation of the public schools in compliance with the Supreme Cotut ruling; (3) penalize at torneys who accept fees raised (Coatlnned on Page Eight) V(M.UME 32 — NUSffiEB 49 DURHAM, N. C., SATUBDAT, DECEMBER 8,1951 PRICE: TEN CENT* Six Get Jail Sentences In Greensboro Golf Asa f. Spaulding'of Durham received a warm reception from Ittdla’s Prime Uinitter Nehru at reception in the Rashtrapati UNESCO m Stimulating, Says U. S. Delegate NEW DELHI, INDIA Service on the United States delegation to the current United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization con ference here has been “stimu lating and challenging” to Asa T. Spaulding of Durham, North Carolina, - one of the American delegates. Spaulding, vice-president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, is serving as the spokesman for the U. S. Delegation in the field of tech nical assistance and in matters concerning a regional office of UNESCO in the Western Hemis phere. Spaulding made this obser vation to newsmen here on the eve of the culmination of the conference. It is scheduled to end on December 5. He also is a member of the working parties in architecture and town-planning, regulations on publications and copyrights and definition of fundamental education. Thus far during the confer ence, he has substituted for the chairman of ^e delegation at )loui plenary sessions of the general conference and repre sented the United States during the debate on the right of Na tionalist China to vote in the sessions. He has been the voting memlier of the delegation on four occasions. Spaulding has found his du ties at his first UNESCO Con ference "enlightening” in the conteoct ,of present-day CQndi- tions and against the “back drop of international relation ships, interests and objectives, as represented by the various national delegations.” He l^s foimd in India a rich tradition of culture and histori cal development amid the most vigorous attempts to Improve the nation economically through its second Five-Year Plan in dustrial and agricultural pro gram. Bhavan, PreMetitt Pjjfiaee, giv-1 of the United States delegates en for delegate* of thi^NKSCO to the conference. At right is general conference meeting I Burmete delegate. in New Delhi. SpamUtiig Is'onel Court iVoids Ban On NAACP In La. NEW ORUEANS, La. The Louisiana ^urt of Ap peals ruled this week that a lower court injunt^on banning NAACP activities In the state was null and void and should never have been Issued. The ruling was on the techni cal point that since NAACP at torneys had filed a motion in the Federal court last March {trior to action by the state court, the latter bench had no right to hear the case and issue an injunction until the Federal court had decided what it would Dr. Sarah Martin Pereira, chairman of the Romance Lan guage department at West Vir- ginia State College—-one of the first to be integrated in the South—will speak in Durham under the auspice* of the Ba ha’i* on Friday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 at the Van Sombeek home on Essex Road. Dr. Pereira was trainid at Ohio State and Western Reserve Universities. She was appointed a member of the Auxiliary Board of nine Baha’is in the western hemisphere who urill assist in the teaching of the Bahai’ creed in this continent and South America. Subject for her address Fri da]/ is “Building a Divine CitHli- zotion." Durham Baha’is invite the puMic to attend. do with the NAACP moUon. The state coult ignored the fact that the NAACP had fUed in the Federal court and pro ceeded with a hearing, after which it issued the injunction. NAACP attorneys appealed to the state Court of Appeals. The effect of the ruling this week . is to place the matter where it was before the state ^court acted, namely, the (Continned on Page Eight) Christmas Too Late For Boy KINSTON The Christmas party planned for six year old Charlie Kenne dy will not-be held. Hiere’s no need. Charlie died just hours t>e- fore it was scheduled to come off. Four months ago, doctors diagnosed the trouble be began to have with trequent head aches and nose bleeding as leu kemia, or blood cancer. He was taken to the Manorial hospital in CHiapel Hill for treatment but was released a few weelu ago when doctors decided they could do nothing fOr Kim. His playmates decided that Charlie should have a special Christmas party and a local ra dio station heard about the idea and pitched in. Soon, Kinston citizens, busi nesses and organizations chipp ed in with donations and a fund for him grew to $114, more than enough for party and toys and with some left over for medical billa. Station WFTC, WTTO-TV and the Kinston Free Press helped with publicity. A special Christmas party was planned fbr little Charlie Saturday aftmmoon at four. Two of his Aivorites, Jack Benny and Willie Mays ware to have tale- phoned him. Benny did actually write a letter. Four hours befor« the party waa to b* bdd, Oiariia dtod. Judge Opens Course To Race In Charlotte Six Negroes iriio played a few holes of golf a year ago osi a course operated for whites fai Greensboro which they con tended was city property wen given a sharp tongue i—hfaig on the damage they had done to the race and a 30 day acttv* Jail sentence by # S«q>erior Cbft Judge in GrcenAoro Tiiiwlij Mean^^e in Charlotte, aa- other Superior (!ourt Judge oa Tuesday opened that city'* gotf course to Negroes. “You men have done yow rac«Just about M barm as 'Vou fonidr**^ostfSly do...rm satisfied that it was a delibe rate move to...play on the course contrary to the wishes of those in possession . Jor the purpose of showing that the Negro race was going to play on that golf course.” ( This was the sum of a lecture delivered to six Greensboro men in Superior Court Tuesday by Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn of Woodland just before he handed them 30 day active Jail MB* tencea. The six were ctiarged with trespassing and found guilty by an all white jury. Sentenced were Phillip Cook, Leon Wolfe, Joseph Sturdivant, Samuel Murray, Elijah Herring and Dr. George Simkins, Jr. They played a few holes of golf on the Gillespie Park Golf course last December. At that time, the property was owned by the city but had been I .-rtscd to a private organization which was operating a golf club. Golf club officials pressed charges of trespassing against the men and they were arraign ed on the ctiarges in the city court. Notice of appeal from Judge Burgwyn’s decision was filad immediately by attorneys for (Continued en Page Eight) Bus Firm's Route Threatened By Pending Action -• WINSTON-SALOtr-'^ The Safe Bus Company, the only Negro Bus finn in the United States, facea a aerioua threat of having ita Chcfrjr Street rotue invaded by City Coach Line* of Wlnston-Salcm. There are at present, four bua componiea serving Winston-Sa lem. They are Safe Bus Co., Twin City tines, CMty Coach Co., and Forsyth Transit Uaaa. Safe Bua Ctmpsaty swea cipally. East Winston, Cohmbin Heists, and Old Boston—all heavily populated tfa^o mc- Recently, the Twin City Ijinea lold oat to Ctly Obm^ Lines and baa apidlod to tb* Winston-Salem Bom4 «t men for pfrmtml— abandon Its city routas. Thiaa raulM, at couzsa, wouki b* takan ovar hf CTity Cotb Linas, tonnal action haa baas MMNiI the Board of AhU abaedonrattit. no (Ciatlaaiii aa I

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