NCC Cqgers Are CIAA Champions
Loop Tourney Begins Today
Eight Teams To
Clash Today
The ninth annual CIAA bas
ketball tournament gets under
way here today with the host
North Carolina College, visita
tion champs, top seeded. This is
the second year NCC has played
host to the CIAA cage-fest. Ac
cording -to advance ticket sales,
each game will be played be
fore a full house.
Last year’s trouble shooters,
the Blue Devils of St. Augustine’s
College, didn’t make the grade
this year. And last year’s
champs, the Winston-Salem
Rams, are occupying fourth
place in conference visitation
standings. The Rams took both
visitation and tournament
crown last year and are expect
ed to go all the way again this
year.
The top eight teams in visita
tion standing will participate in
the tournament. They are, in or
der of standing, North Carolina
College, Durham; Virginia State
College, Petersburg, Va.; Vir
ginia; Virginia Union Universi-
t ?, Va.; Winston-Salem Teachers
College, Winston-Salem; John
son C. Smith, Charlotte; Morgan
State College, Baltimore, Md.;
Hampton Institute, Hampton,,
Va.; and West Virginia State
College, In^stitute, West Va
The touriiamMit will get under
way today! with Winston-Salem
pitted against West Virginia;
Viasir.ia J„ C.
'tth; and Hampton Institute
jhist Virginia State; NCC
bist Morgan. Winners of these
ches will go to the semi-
Is tomorrow, and Friday
jners will meet each other
.turday night to decide the
>urnament championship. (See
,ports page for exact time of
games.)
High school students will be
admitted at a reduced rate for
the opening round on Friday.
Officials for the tournament
are R. D. Armstrong of Rocky
Mount; S. E. Carey of Winston-
Salem; Otis Troupe of Washing
ton; and S. R. Watts of Balti
more.
RUTH/
Echo
VOLUME 12—NUMBER 6 DURHAM, N. C.„ THURSDAY, FEB. 25, 1954 PRICE 15 CENTS
A group of admiring students
get autographs from Matti-
wilda Dobbs, soprano, who
gave a brillijint recital here
last week.
Miss Dobbs included on her
program Mozart Arias, Ger
man lieder, a number of Span
ish and French songs, and
Negro spirituals. She was call
ed back for two encores.
Students ar^ LaVie Griggs,
Mable
Streeter. Oho:
Hill looks on.
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Binnie
Director Sam
Law School To Give Title Award
The North Carolina College
School has been chosen as one
of the law schools in the
Southeastern area eligible to
award a $100 prize in cash or
books and the certificate of
“Lawyers Title Award” to the
graduating' student who has
excelled in the law of Real
Property.
This award is sponsored by
the Lawyers Title Insurance
Corporation of Richmond, Va.
Joseph F. Hall, president of
the company, met recently
with representatives of sev
eral law schools in this area
to consider plans for the estab
lishment of the “Lawyers Title
Award.” Other law schools
represented, in addition to N.
C. College, were Duke Univer
sity, University of North Caro
lina, and Wake Forest.
Funds For Grants
To Students Asked
Mr. Roger D. Russell, chair
man of the annual North Caro
lina College Scholarship Fund
Drive, reported last week that
appeals are still being made to
student organizations and fac
ulty members for contributions
to the 1954 scholarship effort.
At press time, no official
tabulation had been made to de
termine the exact amount which
had been collected. However,
the most outstanding single con
tribution made thus far was two-
hundred dollars donated by the
Women’s Assembly. This con
tribution was made to President
Elder at the annual Co-Ed Din
ner, on February 14.
The president or chairmen of
the various student organizations
have been contacted in an ef
fort to encourage their respec
tive groups to make their con
tributions, and faculty mem
bers have organized into small
er groups with drive chairmen.
These chairmen collect the
pledges and report to the general
chairman, Mr. ilussell.
The deadline for pledging was
specified as Friday, February
18. However, Mr. Russell re
ported that the time has been
extended. Several community
people have also contributed to
the effort.
Four Adult Education Classes
To Open Here In March
Blood Donors Sought In March
Drive; B'mobile To Visit Campus
Plans for a campus-wide visit
of the Red Cross’ Bloodmobile
are being considered for March
25. The Bloodmobile will visit
Duke University on March 24.
The Bloodmobile visited NCC
last in 1952 in a successful drive
that netted some 400 pints in a
twc' day stay.
One of the interesting fea
tures of the 1952 Bloodmobile
visit was the unsuccessful effort
of the Communist Party to dis
courage the NCC community
from participating in what the
Red propagandists called “Op
eration Bloodletting.”
Tentative plans call for close
cooperation of the heads of all
student organizations in spon-
I ring the Bloodmobile’s visit.
Di". Roy Hare, Durham Coun-
y chairman of the Red Cross
lood Campaign, has been in
^t.^ct with representatives in
j News Bureau, the Student
vernment, and the CAMPUS
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Enthusiastic response is ex
pected to greet additional an
nouncements concerning the
drive.
Although the shooting war
has stopped temporarily, the
Red Cross is now concentrating
on an effort to accumulate a
large backlog of blood to use in
the campaign to fight infantile
paralysis.
The CAMPUS ECHO will keep
the college community informed
of steps to organize the 1954
campaign.
E. M. Poteat Is
Sunday Speaker
Dr. E. McNeill Poteat, pastor
of the Pullen Memorial Baptist
Church of Raleigh will be ves
per speaker here Sunday, Feb
ruary 28.
Dr. Poteat is a scholar, critic,
poet and preacher of national
standing. He is making his first
appearance at North Carolina
College.
Aimed at creating a better
understanding of the Negro in
America, an adult education
program, financed by the Ford
Foundation, will get underway
here March 1. The program
which will attract adults from
the local community is under
the general supervision of Dr.
Benjamin Smith, librarian.
Group leaders will come from
the ranks of professors at North
Carolina College. Included are
Dr. J. Neal Hughley, Dr. Charles
E. King, Dr. Elvin Rose, and Dr.
ONE MORE WAY TO SKIN
THAT FOUNTAIN ....
(ACPJ—You think you’ve
got problems.
Consider the case of the
decorative water fountain
at Southern Methodist Uni
versity.
It isn’t run in the winter
—because it might freeze.
And it isn’t run in the sum
mer—because there’s a wa
ter shortage in town that
time of year.
Last week the SMU stu
dent council voted un-
aimously to try to get the
fountain flowing.
How are they going to do
it? Easy. Use anti-freeze,
and let it bubble all winter.
William H. Brown. Other lead
ers will come from the Durham
communit.y
Dr. Hughley, who is professor
of Economics, will lead discus
sion on “The Negro’s Economics
Background in America,” “Ne
gro Labor in the South Today,”
and other topics underlying Ne
gro, enterprises in the south, the
Negro as a consumer, Negro
housing, and the importance of
the government in the Negro’s
well being. These topics will in
clude consideration of the eco
nomic aspects of the slave sys
tem, the plantation system, and
the Negro worker’s past. Atten
tion will also be given to Negro
labor population, mobility, re
cent agricultural development
and their affects upon the Ne
gro.
Dr. King and Dr. Rose, pro
fessors of sociology, will lead
a group discussion centering
around “The Negro Child in
American Society.” This group
will explain the many cultural
factors affecting personality de
velopment of the mature indi
vidual.
Dr. William H. Brown, chair-
man-director of the Bureau of
Research at North Carolina Col
lege, will lead a group in dis
cussion of problems in “Negro
Education.”
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Eagles Claim
Season Title
In annexing the Central Inter
collegiate Athletic Association
basketball championship last
week, the Eagle cagers gave
North Carolina College her sec
ond crown in a major sport this
school year. This marks the
first time that NCC has held two
major championships in one
year.
The Eagles are now visitation
champs. They are top seeded in
the tournament and slightly fav
ored to win the tourney cham
pionship also.
Good Record
Coach Brown’s high flying
basketeers copped the crown in
impressive fashion. They com
piled a 17-3 season record in the
conference, never losing to the-
same team twice. And though
badly crippled toward season’s
end, they sealed the visitation
crown by troimcing second place
Virginia Union University in
two engagements.
The Eagles beat every team in
the first division—^five of them
twice. They lost to West Virginia,
and Howard on the road but
later avenged these losses on the
home court. Their only other
loss was at the hands of Winston-
Salem in Winston in the last
week of the season.
High Scorers
Adjusting their usual control
ball tscties 4o tbe_,last- bxea!^
when necessary, the Eagles com
piled a total of 1,435 points in
twenty conference games. They
averaged 71.7 points per game.
Opponents, on the other hand
scored only 1, 281 points for a
64 points per game average.
Their two big guns—Tex Har
rison and Sam Jones—^were
among the conference’s top scor
ers. Harrison tallied 525 points
during the season—an average
of 19 points in 27 games, and
Jones tallied 506 points—an
average of 19 points per game in
26 outings.
Coach Floyd Brown, above,
took his Eagle cagers to the
1953-54 visitation C. I. A. A.
visitation championship. Thia
is his second year at the helm
and his first CIAA crown. His
team compiled a 17-3 confer
ence record and a 22-5 over
all record.
Brown performed a master
stroke in winning the visita
tion crown despite injuries to
three key players and relin
quishing one star to the draft.
He is married and has two
children.