Ihirteenth Annual Song-fest To
Feature Over Twenty Groups
GREENSBORO
More than 20 choirs, glee
clubs and quartets will partici
pate in the thirteenth annual
song festival and quartet con
test to be held at Memorial Sta
dium her^ at 2 p.m., Sunday,
May 16.
Heading the list of musical
groups on the program will be
the popular Du-Droppers of
of New York City and the Fa
mous Interns' of radio station
WPTF, Raleigh, N. C. The
Harps of Zion of Chicago and
the Master Singers of. High
Point will also be on the pro
gram.
An additional attraction
be the appearance of Lewis
Watts, the armless athlete of
Lexington, Va. who does about
everything other normal boys
can do including playing base
ball, pitching horseshoes and
writing.
Several of North Carolina’s
most popular Negro^ disc-joc
keys will be present. They in
clude those from WCOG,
Greensboro; WPTF, Raleigh;
WAAA, Winston-Salem and
WSSB, Burlington.
James Thomas Martin, a
Guilford County hero will be
honored at the program. Martin
risked his life a few weeks ago
to enter a narrow well to res
cue a woman.
Leroy R. Russell and John
Troxler are sponsoring the fes
tival.
Elalx)rate Events Set For Girk'
Day Camp: Registration Begins
It is CAMP TIME again and mortician.
May 3 marked the opening day
of registration for the local
Brownies and Girl Scouts who
plan to attend the Day Camp at
Camp Daisy Scarborough this
summer. Two eight-day sessions
will be held beginning June 20,
and all local girls may register
for bot^ sessions if they wish.
tiirl Scout Day Camping is
just what the name implies; a
complete day at camp with all
girls returning home at nigbt to
sleep. This is the first year that
the Girl Scouts have had their
own camp site and the camping
committee is very busy making
plans and getting the site ar
ranged for the campers. It will
be a grand outdoor experience
for all scouts and their friends
who may not belong to the or
ganization.
Camp' Scarborough will have
three units in which the girls
will be divided according to
their ages and interests. The
younger groups will have many
activities that will interest their
ages and abilities. The next
unit will have an opportunity
to cOok, practice new camp
craft skills, and have fun in an
outdoor play area. The girls
who are assigned to the older
group will plan - their own
menus, and stay overnight at
the camp one night during each
session. The three units will ac
commodate 60. girls each ses
sion.
Outdoor tables to be used by
eacK unit and the clearing of
the camp site is being arranged
by-. Benjamin Whaley, a mem
ber of the camping committee.
Mrs. Virgie Davis will be su
pervisor of the camp’s health
and safety services, and Mrs. J.
G. Searborought-Jfv and Mrs.-Wr-
J. Kennedy, Jr., are in charge
of business arrangements.
The Scarborough camp was
made available for the girls of
the^ city through a land grant
by J. C. Scarborough, Sr., local
Mrs. C. D. Watts and Mrs.
Martha Jon^s are planning to
show pictures of former Day
Camps to the local troops and
stated that in addition to the
activities mentioned, all girls
will swim each day, learn new
songs, folk dances, and do
handicraft work. Miss Annie
Cobb, an experienced Brownie
leader, is in charge of securing
the personnel for the camp
Mrs. Lulu Booker, Girl Scout
field secretary for Durham’s
Girl Scouts, will be the camp
director. Girls may register at
the local Girl Scout office or
with their troop leaders.
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Blues' Father
To Appear On
Radio Program
W. C. Handy, known to A-
merican music as “father of the
blues,” will be Galen Drake’s
guest on CBS Radio’s “Galen
Drake Show,” Saturday, May
15.
Mr. Handy, a pioneer in giv
ing written form to the words
and music of blues and other
American folk music of Negro
origin, will offer vignettes from
his six decades of work as com
poser, performer, musicologist
and publisher.
In addition to the “St. Louis
Blues, “Mr. Handy has written
dozens of,other compositions in
cluding “Memphis Blues,”
and “Blue Destiny,” a sympho
nic composition based on four
of his most popular songs. _
Mr. Handy is also a member
of the firm of Handy Brothers
Music Co., which has published
significant musical anthologies
compiled by Mr. Handy. His au
tobiography, “Father of the
iretf Durham
Teacher Writes
Autobiography
^ NEW YORK
A sociological autobiography
of a Negro teacher, “A Spark
For My People,” by Mrs. Ella
Earls Cotton of Durham, will be
published soon by the Exposi
tion Press, it was announced re
cently. As a background to her
-.perranal story, the author re
creates the struggle of her peo
ple for education in the South
from the Reconstruction Era
down to the present day.
Mrs. Cotton, the granddaugh
ter of an ex-slave, sketches
briefly her early life in Vir
ginia,- her gradual spiritual
awakening and her growing
sense of the time, an authentic
evocation of tiie life, speech,
humor and activities of the
people about her—both Negro
and white.
The author pays special tri
bute to Knoxville College for
the help and understanding ac
corded her there, and to the
United Presbyterian Church au
thorities who later gave her
and her husband the opportuni
ty to put into practice their
theories for achieving a fine
school and community spirit
and for raising the educational
level of the entire community.
Mrs. Cotton, now retired, re
sides in Durham whefe she
takes part in the activities of
the Fellowship of Southern
Churchmen.
A. T. Spaulding
On Committee
Of TV Station
A new note in Negro leader
ship in television here comes
with appointment of Asa T.
Spaulding to the Program Ad
visory committee of station
WTVD, to air this fall over
Channel 11.
Announcement of the ap
pointment was made recently
by president Harmon Duncan,
who heads thiis station which
probably has a more integrat
ed Negro-white base among
stockholders than any video
operation in the South.
Spaulding, who is a candi
date for county commissioner in
the forthcoming elections lo
cally, is one of six Durham Ne
gro businessmen who together
hold an impressiye amount of
stock in the television project.
Says Spaulding: “I consider
WTVD a democratic instru
ment through which sound pro
gress may be realized.”
Amohg~dutIes 6T th¥ Program
Advisory committee are “to
study new proposed programs
to examine their potential con
Blues,” was edited by Ama
Bontemps.
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man Carter Mason,
president of the National Coun
cil of Negro Women will be the
guest speaker at the Women’s
Day Observance at St. Joseph
AME Church Sunday, May 23.
She will speak at the morning
and evening services.
Mrs. Mason will address the
invited sororities and other wo
men’s organizations in the eiie-
ning. Special music for the day
will be by the Women’s Chorus
of the church.
Zion, followed the , theme,
“The Church 4Jsher Conquer
ing.” Mrs. Louise Harvpy i*
president of the' Ladles Depart
ment of Mt. Zion Church and
Mrs. Sadie D. Cates is chair
man of the program committee.
Others api)carlng on the pro
gram were: Mesdames Clem
ents, Mitchell, Fikes, Owens,
Mae W. Webb, Josephine Stray-
horn, and Miss Violet Perry,
who sang a solo. Music was also
rendered by the Ladies’ Gospel
Chorus of Et>enezer Baptist
Church.
tribution to community life”,
and "to suggest ideas for great
er integration of the station’s
program with the life of the
area covered by the station.”
The five-man W’TVD com
mittee consists of: Spaulding
who is vice-president of North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Co.; John A. Forlines, Jr., sec-
retary-treasurer of Dailey’s,
Inc.; the Rev. Warren Carr, pas
tor of Watts Street Baptist
church; Earl W. Porter, direc
tor of Duke University’s Bureau
of Public Information; and Wil
liam B. Pace, Durham County
farm agent.
Durham Ushers
Union Hears
Mrs. Johnston
Mrs. D. A. Johnston, instruc
tor at East End Elementary
School, delivered the main
address to the Durham Interde
nominational Ushers Union
when it convened Sunday, May
9, at 3 p.m. at Mount Zion Bap
tist Church on Fayetteville
Street.
The program, sponsored by
the Ladies’ Department of Mt.
Sorors Close
May Program
With Party
OXFORD
Gamma beta Sigma Chapter
of the Delta Sigma Theta So
rority will close its annual May
Week Observance with a movie
party at Henderson Institute
for the seniors of the five high
schools in Vance and Granville
Counties.
Activities of the week began
Sunday, May 2, when members
of the Chapter worshpped at the'
First Baptist Church of Oxford.
Tuesday morning, the Annual
Georgia Royster Green Me
morial Scholarship Aid Award
was given to Miss Merrill
Jones of Henderson Institute in
a special program conducted in
the Institute chapel.
Participants were; Mrs. O. H.
Davis, chapter president; Mrs.
A. M. Rivera, Mrs. G. L. Harris,
Mrs. E. B. Whitted, L. E. Spen
cer, and a girls’ trio. Later, a
similar award will be made to a
senior of the B. F. Person High
School, Franklinton.
The Chapter sent Miss
Yvonne Jones of Hawley High
School, Creedmoor, to the Delta
Job Opportunities Clinic held at
Shaw University, May 7-9.
Members of the May Week
Committee who planned the ac
tivities are: Mrs. A. D Spencer,
Spencer, chairman; Miss M. C.
Morris, Mrs. R. E. Howell, and
Mrs. E. B, Whitted.
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Africans Interested In Senator
McCarthy's Influence In America,
Says Bishop Matthew W. Clair
NEW YORK. Y. Y.
Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Jr.,
of Safnt Louis reported to the
Council of Bishops of the Me
thodist Church recently on his
trip to the church’s mission
fields in Africa.
"Everywhere I went in North
Africa, “said Bishop Clair,” 1
was asked by state officials and
others prominent in public life,
if Senator Joseph McCarthy
would be the next president of
the United States. They also
wanted to iinow why he re
ceives so much publicity, and
if he speaks officially for A-
Finals Set For
Spaulding High
SPRING HOPE
Commencement has been set
for 8 p.m.. May 17 at Spaulding
High School.
Dr. Sidney D. Williams, presi
dent of Elizabeth City State
Teachers College, Elizabeth
City, N. C., will address tlje
seniors.
Other dates on the seniors
calendar are: Class Night, May
14, and Baccalaureate May 16
at 4 p.m., with the Rev. Mc
Kinley Hawkins of Kinston, de
livering the sermon.
All activities will be held Jn
the Spaulding High School
Auditorium.
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Five other bishops of th^ de
nomination. visiting in various
parts of tlie world in recent
months, said they had been ask
ed the same questions by peo
ple who are eager to know tiie
extent of Senator McCarthy’s
influence in his own country.
Bishop Clair, only son of a
'Methodist bishop in tiK WteCSfy
of the church to be afW
to the offiM, walked in- Um
step* of bis late awtb
of his African tour. His tathec
was bisliop in Liberia for £S
years.
He stated tiiat .vh«t imprea»-
ed him about African natlvM
was their familiarity with ai^
Vances of modem science—ma
chinery, radio, maana ot eom-
munication and travel, etc., bat
their primitive manner of liv
ing. "While they live in to-day's
world”, he said, “at the aam*
time they live as their fathars
lived a. hundred yoars ago, in
many instances.”
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