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TO LEAD DURHAM HAMPTONIANS—Installation of officers of the Dnrham Chanter of . Correa pondinK Secretary; I mModlntr Secretary; Gilbert Harden, Treaaurer, Mrs. Estelle Nixon. Recordbic Secretary: Georce D. White, Jr., President. Not shown: Mrs. rellce Holmes, Vice-President: F. V. Allison. A»dirt. ant Secretary, H. T. Tucfcer, Serteant-at-Anns and CrodkeU Rivers, Chaplain. The Confessions Of A Ham Singer BT CHAHLES JACOB HABBIS (Continued from laat wwk) In the fall of 1927, 1 went to the Eastern shore of Maryland and taught four years in what is now Princess Anne CoUege. I found the students there the most musical bunch one could wish to find. They seemed to actually live for music. The choir learned the notes of a standard choral composition in one rehearsal. We polished .up the expression in a few more re hearsals, then blew the works. The smoothest male quartet with whom I ever worlced was at this college. There was Emanuel Mansfield, first tenor, Sinclair Swan, second tenor; Joseph Jam6s, baritone; and Lycurgus Locicmah, bass. These young men could sing from the Negro spirituals up to Bach. They toured the South and the New England states. They became so good until Ro land Hayes had them do musi cals in his beautiful Brookline Village Home. There were a few excellent voices among the young women also—there was Genest |A. Waters and Betty Long, sopra nos; and Betty Thornton and Grace' Coulboume, contraltos. Dorothy Cannon and Louise > Petway played the pianaforte 'abOve average. The late Thomas Henry Kiah was the principal then. He had four sons who had good voices. As was to l}e expected, I threw a couple of recitals while teaching at the Maryland col lege. At each of them I sang my songs in baritone keys instead o£ Jn—the--iener_ raage. Thte change was a wise one; no long er was I wolrried over those up per reaches. After four delight ful years among the Elastem Shoremen, I decided to run out to Chicago and work for a de gree. Anyone with a grain of horse sense would think I should have used the piano as my ma jor in the .pursuit of this de gree. But no, I chose the hard way, by making voice my ma jor. Like Dr. WuUner, the Ger man master of interpretation, who was said to be a singer without a voice-I took my cue and obtained the degree after a year’s study. Because of all the years of previous study and ex perience, the faculty of the con servatory only required me to learn counterpoint, composi- ■ tion, and voice. I sang on two occasions in Kiml>all Hall and at commence' ment. During the school year, I was soloist of St. Paul’s Metho dist Church whose enrollmi was between foiu- and thousand members. I had the exquisite pleasure of broadcas ting as far away as Australia. 1 also sang for Mr. Hayes during one of our visits in Chicago. It had been fourteen years since he had heard his determined pupil. He seemed a bit surprised at the progress made. He said, tntot five r^STRANNTEI yK/ife- USE ONLT SHU LEADIIiliii;/ tt CMKCflHE lIMt hr “Harris, your singing is ripe. It goes with much expression.” I said, “Look here don’t kid me, or do you mean it is over ripe?" “No,” he said, “I am sincere.” Roland was staying'in the home of Mrs. Malone and sh^ was the famous manufacturer of hair goods. When next I saw her, she told me Roland had raved over my singing; hence, I be gan to believe he was not hand ing me a line. Then too, Eman uel Mansfield wrote me from Boston that Mr. Hayes told him and the quartet that I had de veloped a voice. After the Chicago days, I went back to my home in the Tar Heel State. Following a few months of barn-storming, I went to Salisbury, Md., and or ganized a choral group, plus giving private lesson^. I had a swell time with these lovers of music. Many.of them had dandy voices. I had pupils in several nearby towns—Princess Anne, Pocomoke, ahd Wattsville. The eight months spent there left a memory of endearment. A COMPLETE ELECTRIC AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICE DUKE POWER COMPANY DIAL 2151 Corner Mangiiin and Parrisli Sts. I WMUIi 'l u,n- wir»y=~ 1 mmmrtgmmm lathKAL va.k GbMMk SEAORAAMMSTIUm CORP., N.Y.C *0 PROOP, DISTIUEO DRV WN. OMTKUD PROM AMBUCAM ORAM Civil Itiglits l^der Held For Failure To Produce Records NEW YORK William L. Patterson, vete ran Negro civil rights leader and executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress, has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for failure to produce records of the organization which are no longer available. The Jail sentence for alleged contempt x)f court, meted out Monday, June 28, by Federal Judge Joiin F.X. McGohey, was called by Patterson “another effort by the United States government to bring a_stop to the CRC’s many campaigns in defense of the constitutional liberties of bona fide political parties who oppose the status quo, for the rights of the Negro people, and the protection of the constitutional liberties and or ganizational integrity of the trade unions.” Patterson, who has led such historic campaigns for Negro rights as Scottsboro, the Tren ton Six, Willie McGee and the Martinsville Seven, had been ordered to produce CRC’s lists of donors for 19£^, 1951 and 1952 for examination by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Agents of the bureau had pre- I sang with different church choirs each Sunday. On one of these Sundays, a woman got “happy”. I tried to hold her to avoid her any injury. The next few seconds found t>oth of us on the floor from the power of the spirit. (Conunuea next week) viously spent twenty days ex amining the documents on which CRC income tax returns for those years were based. In a sworn affidavit, the CRC leader had declared in good faith that no receipt books containing names of donors were available because they were mislaid or lost when the CRC moved its offices in Jan., 1953, “If the action of the govern ment were in good faith, ” Pat- tersoti commented, "the Bu reau of Internal Rfevenue would have proceeded with its tax de ficiency action instead of seek ing a contempt order. What the government seeks to do, how ever, is to victimize me because of my fight for constitutional liiierties generally, and particu larly for the dignity of the Ne gro people.” SATUBDAY, JVLY 1«. ltS4 THE CAXMJWA TOm PAOE TBUS House Bombing Ignored By Ky. Negro Couple LOUISVILLE, KY. The luxurious home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wade, IV., of Louisville, Ky., was blown up early last Sunday afternoon by some unimown assailants, ac cording to reports. Mr. Wade expressed his courage and de termination to ignore the im plications of the bombing by saying, “We're going to stay here.” The Wai£ home i* lo cated in a white neighborhood in Liouisville. The explosion occurred while Mr. Wade and his wife were sitting on their porch. A county policeman was stationed across the street at the time. Eviden ces of the blast revealed that tho explosive had been stufied through a ventilation hole in the foundation of the house. ' The bathroom and two bed rooms of the new home we:e completely demolished, iiow- ever the occupants were unhurt. Police protection has licen maintained in the area of the Wade' liome since early jn May when attempts of other vio- lertce were made. pinking-fhears from Ellis Stone Company of Greensboro for iurperb workmanship on the garment. Other Durham County dele gates who attended the six-d»y Short-course were: Barbara Patterson and Paul Home of Merrick'Moore Sciiool, Jowb and Joyce Holrmaa of Little River School, and Uitwood Walker and Lewi Br»eey ti Pearaontown lEtchool. The group was supervfied by Mrs. Z. .T Nixon, home demonatattan agent. tittle River Student Wins 2nd In Revue Shirley Turrentine, local 4-H Club member of Little River School won second place honors in a State-wide Dress Revue held last week in connection with the 4-H Club Short-course in Greensboro. Forty-two con testants competed in the Dress Revue entitled "The Girl in The Picture Frame”. Shirley’s dress of iced, navy- blue cotton with a pink bdlero jacket, was modeled in the ‘Church-Dress’ division. She was also presented a pair of Pay your bills from home! It’s a lot easier to mail check* than to walk aroond payinf bilb with cash. 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