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EXPKT 5,000AT A&T HIGH SCHOOL SINIOR DAY
Near 200 Institutions
To Send Students To
Annual Meet October 4
Shown above are iome of the i October 6. A total of 603 fresh-1 trar, the 1952 enrollment will 11,017 femalet were enrollled
600 frethmen who enrolled at men were enrolled at the Dur- probably be equal to that of the at the college with only 578
North CaroUna College, last ham quarter during all three previous year. Noticeable, hiw-1 males. Total enrollment in 1951
week. More frosh are expected] quarters in 1951. According to ever, i» the steady decrease in loas 1,590 students,
before registration closes on Mrs. Frances M. Eagleson, regis- males enrolled. During 1951-52,1
Maryland^ State Replaces Shaw Univ.
As Eagles Homecoming Opponents
Maryland State College hat
replaced Shaw University as the
opponent of the Nortii CkroUMi
College football team tor NCC’s
Homecoming here on October
25. An estimated 25,000 fans
may see the game.
I. Gregory Newton, director
of athletics at NCC, said here
Tuesday night NCC had “final
confirmation of Maryland’s in
tention to play us here as our
homecoming attraction.”
The powerful Maryland
eleven has not been seen in this
section since the institution has
become a gridiron giant.
North Carolina College's foot
ball team is improving rapidly
according, to the college's ath
letic publicity. The team roster
reveals some of the finest back-
field talent in the conference
with several all-America possi
bilities in Joseph “Iron Man"
Battle, quarterback, Frederick
"Houdini” James, halfback, and
Melvin “The Mighty*’ Spencer,
fullback.
If Coach Herman H. Riddick
and his aides at NCC can de
velop some reserve* for NCC's
questionable line, the 1952 sea
son may be Riddick's best year
at the home of the Eagles. In
Captain Robert Mason, Gastonia
senior tackle, Riddick has an
outstanding lineman who ought
to come into hla own as great
fighting spirit along the forward
wall.
Riddick’s flankmen, Winifred
Tillery, senior from Morehead
City, and MaUrice McNeil,
Smithfield senior, provide be
tween them some of the flnesi
offensive abd defensive ability
the CIAA is likely to see this
year.
The NCC Athletic committee
is making special plans to ac
commodate a huge crowd at the
Homecoming program; A special
promotion committee composed
of faculty, alumni, students, and
friends of the institution will
soon announce elaborate plans
for attracting one of the largest
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Atlanta Host City
For 18th NFA Meet
Beginning This Week
A New G>liunn In
The Caroina Timet
“WITHIN AND
AMONG”
By Alfred Anderten
Thought Provoking
Daring And
ForcefnL
INSTITUTE W. Va.
The eighteenth national con
vention of New Farmers of A-
merica will convene in the Exhi
bit Hall, Municipal Auditorium,
Atlanta, Oeorgia, September Hfr
to October 3, according to W. T.
Johnson, Itinerant Teacher
Trainer, West Virginia, and
chairman of the Public Relation
Committee of the national or
ganization.
The New Farmers of America
is a national organization for
farm boys studying vocational
agriculture in states where
separate schools are maintained
for Negroes and under the pro
vision of the national vocational
acts. More than 1^00 delegates
and members from 17 southern
states will trek to Atlanta to re
present the organization’s mem
bership of more than 46,000.
During the convention, the farm
boys will participate in Judging
livestock at the South-eastern
fair, leadership activities,
awarding the various degrees,
dnd conducting the various busi
ness activities of the organiza
tion. Awards will be given by
the Future Farmers Foundation,
Inc., to boys for outstanding
achievements in vocational agri
culture and NFA work. Various
entertainments have been
planned by the Steering Com
mittee in Atlanta. The National
NFA Chorus composed of ap
proximately 80 members, tmder
the direction of Mrs. I. S. Glo
ver, Monticello, Georgia, will be
on hand to render music.
According to the program re
leased by J. R. Thomas Na
tional Executive Secretary,
Petersburg, Virginia, the follow
ing individuals will address the
group; Mayor William Harts-
field, Atlanta and Harley F.
Taylor, Dover, Delaware. The
donors to the Future Farmers of
America Foundation which pro
vides the awards, will be honor
ed guests. On Wednesday night,
one will address the delegation.
At this time, $9,700.00 Will be
awarded to national and sec
tional winners in farming activi
ties which include livestock
Judging, farm mechanics, farm
electrification, dairy farming,
and soil and water management
The organization’s most outstan
ding member will be awarded
the Star Superior Farmer De>
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Two Appointed
Tot)ffteStaff
Of NAACP
NEW YORK
Appointment of two new field
secretaries was announced today
by Gloster B. Current, director
of branches of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People. Robert
W. Saunders of Tampa has been
employed to replace the marty
red Harry T. Moore in Florida.
Charles McLean of Winston-
Salem has been assigned to
work in North Carolina.
A veteran of World War H,
Mr. Saunders was graduated
from the Detroit Institute of
Technology after having started
his college training at Bethune-
Cookman College in Florida.
He also studied at the Univer
sity of Cincinnati. He has served
as a newspaperman in Cincin
nati and as a factory worker in
Detroit where he was active in
his local of- the United Auto
mobile Workers, CIO.
Mr. McLean, who directed the
successful NAACP drive to in-
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Representation
On Housing
Group Aslted
HIGH POINT
Mayor Amos Keams an-
nomiced here last -week that the
High Point City Council has
been requested to consider some
qualified Negro to fill a vacan
cy on the local Housing Authori
ty.
The request, made by Dr. M.
B. Davis, Negro physician, who
made it clear that he was not
representing any ^cial group,
referred to the vacancy created
by the resignation of Charles F.
Carroll. He stated that the Ne
gro population was affected by
the housing control and yet they
had no representation ;on the
Housing Board.
The council is expected to ap
point someone to fill the vacan
cy at an early date.
GREENSBORO
The annual High School Sen
ior Day to be celebrated at A.
and T. College on Saturday,
October 4 will attract some
5,000 students from nearly 200
institutions in North Carolina
and parts of Virginia and South
Carolina. Invitations sent out
last week had responses pour
ing in early this week and offi
cials are assured that the re
presentatives will outnumber
last year’s record attendance of
4,400 guests.
Committee chairman, William
Gamble, dean of men at the
college, reported early this
week that plans have been com
pleted for the largest single
^legation ever to visit the
campus. The program released
by him calls for a full day of
entertainment, demonstrations,
a conducted tour of the modem
facilities at the institution. All
qf this will be topped off with
the ^nual football game to fea-
'ture the A. and T. Aggies, last
year's mythical national champs
and the strong, and improved
Virginia Union University Pan
thers of Richmond, Virginia.
The visitors will be luncheon
and dinner guests of the college.
Registration, to take place at
the public relations office on
the campus, begins promptly at
8:30 A. M. The guests will be
gin a^gtdded tour of the campus
to be followed by lunch in the
recently renovated Murphy
Hall. A concert by the 120-piece
marching band of the college
has been scheduled for 12:00
noon at which time Dr. F. D.
Bluford, president of the col
lege, will welcome the guests to
the campus. The students might
get the Very first look at the
new All-Girl’s Band being or'
ganized at the college.
Five thousand choice seats
have been set aside for the high
school guests at Greensboro
Stadium for the higlilight of the
day’s visit, the football game.
The day’s program concludes
with dinner following the game
56-Year Old Man Freed After
Being Wrongfully Jailed 26 Years
Barbers Only
Person Happy
At Price Raise
A cross section survey made
here this week of the sud
den jump in the prices of
hair cuts from 75c to $1.00 for
adults and 50c to 75c for chil
dren made nobody happy but
the barbers of Durham.
From the man in the street
to the business and professional
men questioned on the matter,
only two or three stated that
they did not mind the raise and
that they felt the Durham
Colored Barbers Association
acted wisely.
One man approached on the
James H. Schooler, Jr., (cen
ter), is shown here receiving
Eagle Scout award from his
mother, Mrs. Frances M. School-
... . „ 1.1 while hi* father, J. M.
subject who would not ^w^ Schooler. Sr., princip.1 of
name to be u^, ^ted ; Chitted Elementary School,
generally speaking the service |
in the Negro barber shops oi
Durham was below standard
Last Rites Held
ForMrs-Bratdier
Funeral services for Mrs.
Mariah Elizabeth Bratcher, age
74, wife of the late Robert
Bratcher were held at First Cal
vary Baptist Church, Sunday
September 21 at 1 P. M.
Mrs. Bratcher died at her
home, 1012 Rock Street, Thurs
day September 18 at 2:35 p. m.,
following a paralytic stroke
which she suffered in May, 1951.
She was bom in Durham and
had lived here all of her life
and for SO yean was a member
of the First Calvary Baptist
Church.
Surviving are two aooa by ■
former marriagej Grover Shaw
of Durham and Simon Shaw of
Philadelphia, six grandchildren
and one great grandddld.
and he hoped that the raise
would increase the quality of
work done, as well as the sani
tation in some of the barber
shops he had seen here.
'f
R. N. Harris, Secretary-Mana-
ger of the Bankers’ Fire Ins.,
questioned on the matter who
was in favor of it. He stated
thaV he suggested it to his bar
ber since in a recent trip to Chi
cago he paid $1.50 for a hair
cut and $1.00 for a shave.
Another man said that he
would have to stretch a hair
cut from two weeks to four be
cause he just could not afford
to pay the price and get his hair
cut as often as before.
One tobacco worker said that
he had not given the matter any
thought and was not prepared
to give a statement on the raise.
One man who operates a small
business in the Hayti section
stated that if the 25c raise for
a hair cut meant less loud talk
ing, checker playing, joking and
cleaner personal appearances of
the barbers he had been patro
nizing, he was willing to pay it.
William Jay Walker, Secre-
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Young Schooler, a member of
Troop 55 of White Rock Baptist
Church, is a senior at Hillside
High School, where he is a mem
ber of the school band and presi
dent of the National Honor So
ciety.
The award was presented by
H. W. Gillis, field executive for
Occoneechee Council at a special
Court of Honor presided over by
G. D. White. Jr.. Advancement
Chairman and D. F. Reed,
Chairman of the troop Commit
tee. Nathaniel B. White scout
master and Clarke Egerton. Jr..
is assistant scoutmaster of Troop
55.
President Of Columbia
Bank Claims Action
Of Baptist Damaging
Land Grant
Presidents To
Meet In D. C.
NEW YORK
After a quarter of a centiury
of serving in prison “illegally
and imjustly",, James Carroll,
56 year old Negro, finally be
came a free man. And through
his own initiative. For by learn
ing to read and write in prison,
he discovered he was being held
unduly and sent a hand written
petition for a writ of error to
the Kings County Court early
this year.
Carroll was sentenced in 1927
to a life term as a fourth offen
der. But Judge Goldstein ruled
that the 1913 and 1916 con
victions should be set aside be
cause he had not had on attor
ney. SaAd the Judge: “These
things do not happen today in
our courts and I hope they never
happen again. I find you have
served 26 years illegally and un
justly and in view of Uiat I am
giving you a suspended sentence
and setting you free, so that you
can breathe the liberty you so
Justly dMerve.”
With no bitterness in his
heart, C^arroU told reporters that
he was going to try and trace
his wife and son, Ardith, who
must be about 30 if s^U idive
He thought though that his wife
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WHO SAYS ONE VOTE
DOES NOT COUNT
WeU, ONE VOTE had a lot to do with a lot of things in thla
coimtryl Thomas Jefferson was elected President fey ONE VOTE
in the electoral college. So -was (John) Qnincy Adams.
COLUMBIA, S. C.
j H. D. Monteith, president of
; the Victory Savings Bank, Co
lumbia, South Carolina, has de
manded the immediate with
drawal of a 'damaging accusa
tion” against the Institution as
contained in a recommendation
; passed during the annual ses-
j sion of the National Baptist
«r A FI o * Convention of America, held in
The Vork, Sep„n.b„ W-U.
Of Negro Land Grant Colleges Quoting an article in the
will hold its 30th annual session ' September 20 iasue of the Pitts-
in the nation’s capital, October ^ Courier, the bank presi-
21-23, it has been announced by | ^ent said that the recommenda-
a spokesman for the conference. called for the removal of
monies of the Foreign Mission
A highlight of the conference Board of the Convention from
will be an address by Secretary i the Victory bank to the Citizens
of Agriculture Charles F. Bran-1 Bank and Trust Company of
nan, who will give attention to | Nashville, because of "certain
an “examination of the Land | unbusinesslike policies of the
Grant College program in terms l (Victory) bank,'
of present day needs"—thenie of j
, the three-day conference.
Dr. Monteith's statement follows
“As president of the Victory
The business sessions of the' Savings Bank, Columbia, South
conference are scheduled for the | Carolina, I must defend the in-
Federal Security Building, with j stitution against a most dama-
a special visit planned to the gjug accusation made during
United States Department of your annual session in New
Agriculture Experimental Sta- York, SeptemlSer 10-14, arid re-
Batberford B. Hayes was elected President by ONE VOTE, at Beltsville, Maryland. ported in the Pittsburgh Courier
His election was contested, and It^was referred to an electoral col
lege. Again he won by ONE VOTE. ^ ^
The man who cast that deciding vote for President Hayes was " hIch"'cMperate with
a Congressman from Indiana, a Uwyer who was elected to Con- ^ program
greas by a margin of inst ON* VOTE: and that ONE VOTE was ^ expected to appear at the
cast by a client of his, whe, thoni^ desperately ill, Insisted open ^
being taken to the voUs.
By Just ONE VOTE there came into the nattra the states ef
Califemia, Idaho, Oregon, Texas, and Waahingtwa. That^i a big
cnnk of territory and, today all the millions living in those states
are Americans by Jnst ONE VOTE.
Now, yon may say that the ONE VOTE sitnatlan applies to the
t. WeU, don’t fwget that the draft aet ef World War D passed
the House fey last ONE VOTE. Ton ean carry this ONE VOTE
history oa and on.
For example, ONE MOBS ADDmONAl. DBMOCKATIC
VOTE In each of Ohio’s S,SM precinets in lt44 wenld have defeated
Mr. TUt. In lt48, ONE MOBE AODRIONAl. BSPVBUGAN
VOTE In each of the MS* preclnete weald have eairled tte state
far Mr. Dewey Instead ef Mr. I^amaa.
--€ODBXB8T THE BLACK WOBKU^
Specialists from various of Septemljer 20 under the by
governmental departments and
sessions of the Association,
which embraces twenty-four
Land Grant and associated in
stitutions.
Key ofHcers of the conference
are Dr. E. B. Evans, Prairie
View A. and M. College, Texas
president; Dr. R. E. Clement,
Atlanta University, Georgia
vice-president; Dr. R. B. At
wood, Kentucky State College,
Frankfort, secretary
Dr. Felton G, Clark, Southern
University, Baton Rouge, La.,
treasurer; and Dr. John W
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line of Evelyn Cunningham. The
article states that because of
“certain unbusinesslike policies
of the bank” a recommendation
was accepted to transfer your
funds to the Citizens Bank and
Trust Company of Nashville.
While like any bank, wo
want and need tmsiness. tliis
letter is in no sense an appeal to
you to rescind your action in
this matter. We must demand,
however, that you poeitively
clear the Victory Savings Bank
of any apparent involvement in
any mishandling of your funds
by having your auditors make
public an immediate' check of
your account at this institution.
If you desire, we wtU provide
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