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^ gATUBbAT. FIB. It. 1H» CTl CAMOUia fti«i #iMil j|f» Brilliant CIAA Performers Slated For Tourney ———______— ■ Four CIAA basketball itan ■— ■■ " — ■ M Brown's North Cato|ioa College Eagles tm icm Three Home Victories; four Stars Honored Floyd Brown’s North Caro lina College basketball tei^n scor^ three borfte victories re cently that put the Eagles in position to challenge Virginia Union University for the CIAA’s 1955 visitation championship. NCC’s victories were over West Virginia (86-72), Morgan ^84- 7S|), and Johnson C. Smith (71-70). NCC’s record at the close of last weelcs play was 17-2. Union sports a 12-1 CIAA mark. Union’s leadership is based on the CIAA’s unofficial percent age rating system. The Eagles are expected to stake their claim to the title if they get by West Virginia State at In- stutitute, West Virginia, and Shaw University in Durham on Saturday niglit, February 19, in the Ragles last regular season If the Yellow jackets Bears dump the Eagles, claim to the title -is likely -to- have less validity than it might have if the Eagles’ string of vi^ories remain unbroken at the present point. In the West Virginia game at Durham, Charlie Badger, Peeks- kill, N. Y. sqphomore center, sparked the Eagle scorers wiUi 25 points. Harvey Heartley was second with 21, and Rudy Dud ley and John Kels scored 16 and 14 respectively. High scorer for the losing Yellowjackets was Samuel Jor dan with 20 markers. The Eagles took a quick six point lead at the two minute mark, and led the Yellowjackets all the way. Coach Brown's hoopster's ar ranged an earlier defeat, and clinched a berth in the 10th Annual CIAA tournament when they defeated the Morgan State Bears 89 to 73. Big Badger hooped 33 points to lead the night’s scoring.. H e a r t l,e y Smithfield senior forward scored 19 points for the Eagle cause. NCC’s John Kels hit on 14 markers. Coach Talmadge Hill’s Bears gave the locals a hot time of it during the first half as they played nip and tuck ball. Ernie “Greedy” Garrett, the Morgan •star, fouled out with 12 minutes remaining in the ball game, to kill the Bears’ hopes. At that however, Garrett netted 16 points to place second behind teammates Ray Murphy and Jazk Rozier who led Morgan with 17 markers each. Without the service of their senior defensive star and (jap- tain, Charley Barrick, the Ingles eked out a 71-70 victory over the Johnson C. Smith Bulls in Durham last Saturday night. John Keels, Tarrytown, N. Y. freshman forward, sank a sen sational turn shot from the key- hold slot in the last five seconds of play to give the Eagles the hard-earned victory. Claude Saunders of the visitors was the high point man with 24 . points. Heartley and Keels of the Eagles tied for runner up hon ors with 18 each. Robert Wells &nd Bi Partlow, with 17 and 13 points respectively also scored in the double column for Smith. In addition to Heartley and Keels, NCC’s two column scor ers were Badger, 14 and James Cato, 11. Ai And T. College Aggies Dropped Two Games here Last Week; N. C. College, 64^, Virginia Union, 65^2 The A & T College Aggies dropped two “heartbreakers” in ba^etball games played here last week in the last minute of play, to North Carolina College 64-60 and Virginia Union Uni versity, 65-62. In the North Carolina College game played here Thursday evening, February 10 before some 2,500 fans, the game was knotted at 60-all with less than 2 minutes to go. Cal Irvin’s Aggies elected to control the ball in the outer area for the final shot, but the strategy backfired as the Eagles stole the ball in, the last half minute and laid up the winning counter on the end of a fast break- down court. Rudolph Dudley, N. C. Coll|jge guard, dropped the win ning score at 62-60 and on top of it, intercepted the Aggies’ final pass-in under his own goal to bucket the final score of the game. The winners put together four consecutive field goals after 0 minutes of the first half to build up a seven-point lead, the largest bulge dicing the entire game. The Aggies, trailing at halftime, by thre points, 33-36, came back strong and went head by 6-points, leading the Durham outfit, 43-37 after four minutes of the second stanza. The lead changed hands six times during the sparkling en counter and the score was tied 10 times. The locals were out front for almost 15 minutes of the final period. Virginia Union won their game in the last half minute of play as the Aggies in possession, one-point beliind at 61-62, missed an easy one which would have put them outfront. In the wild scramble which followed; the victors broke through to stretch the lead with a free throw and a field goal. The crowded gym was in pandemon ium those -^last 30-seconds as the Aggies were not fully out of the game until the final whistle had been blown. Union’s biggest lead of the game was seven points at the 6-minute mark, but the Aggies came xoaring back to get with in a single point oi the winners. The Aggies led by 11 points after 7-minutes of play and had a halftime bulge of 8 points, leading at 32-24. Carl Smith, big Union for ward was high scorer. He tinn ed in 30 points. His.teammate Irves Pretty, was second with 12. Wyatt Minton was best for the Aggies with 13-points. TOURNAMENT BOUND Captain Frank “Gabby" Mo- wery, senior forward on Coach Nat Taylor’s /ireballinp Mary land State College basketball team, is all set for the CIAA’s Tenth Annual Basketball Tour nament at North Carolina Col lege in Durham on February 24, 25, and 26. Mowery sparked the Mary^ land State cagers to a first di vision spot in CIAA play during his school’s first season in the conference. Georgia Prince Hall Masons Open Legal Defense Special Fund Raising Campaign With $6,51)0.00 Solution of Three Key Problems ; (8 Sought by Heart Researgl^ By E. G»w1m Androit MJD«' Amerldm Heart AModatloil' -Or.AiOnM. flki) fftttf of Milioni of Amerl- «•«% now Urine and yet unborn, depends upon the speed with which research seientists find the •nswen to theae three quMtlons: 1. What causes the •rterjes to bccome thliSk- ened, rough- ened and nar> rowed, inter fering with thoblood flow and ttonrlsh* ment of the tisanes, and sotting the •tago tor "heart at> tack”t >. What •re.tho exaet neeha- nisnis responsible (or the abnor^ maVcoDBhrletioB ot the tiny ends of the arteries. «ft«slii( high blood pressoreT S. What aM the enwt meoha' niams throagh whloh strep Infeo* Uon loads to rhewnatlo forer, and eonseanently to rhtumatlo heart dlseaaoT These throe eendltlona—hard ening ot the artorlMk high blood prossnr% and rhenmatle (erer-^ cause more than nlnotr peiMnt Of all heart diaeaaa. The haste eansea ot theee 4la> orders are nnknown. Until they are tosnd« the Ukelihood ot ee- tablidUng enree and oontrola Is lessened aecordlnglr. TIm Importanoe ot oar finding the answers to theae three pro- (onndlr Important **imknowiiaf Is undonMored by the ffeet that diaeasee of . the heart now eause more than 7M.OOO deaths atmv- ally.^ jMheteMeet for new knowl- e^i«ab«!atih»-baslo causes of tfeea% thm oondlttons, research scientists hate develop^ a great many promising docs which are being intensively followed-np. Uoreorer, they have made poe- slMe great progress In the dUr Boels, pTerenUca. earo and treatr MBt 0( tlM Mwrt 4iNH«k Jjst tts eODSlder just a ten of the more dramatlo advances which are saving hearts today. Initial and recurrent «ttaoks of rheumatic fever are being pre vented through prompt and effeo- Uto use of antlbiotica. Antibiotics have made possible a recovery rate of better than 76 percent in subacute bacterial en docarditis, a heart infection once almost inrarlably fatal. in many thousands of cases. It has been demonstrated that sur gery can often repair heart valves damaged as a result ot rheumatio fever, eorrect certain abnormali ties present at birth (as In "blue babies"), and repair other heart eondltlcoa prevlonaly eonsidered hopeless. ReUet Is being btottiAt to many thoukands ot heart sufferers throagh new drags, new dietary controls and new therapeutic teehnlqnti. DlagnosUe and atndy tools are eon Stan tiy Improving. All ot these Ikcts reeolve them- selves into a hopeful picture. High on the list of factors war ranting optimism Is a ehaage of baale attitude^ Slowly but surely, man is discarding the view that heart disease Is necessarily fatal. He la easting off needlees tears. He la becoming Increasingly aware that, some forms ot heart rtlseass can be prevented, soms can be cured, and almoat aU oases can he beat eared tor by proper treatment after early dla^osis. The pubUe, too, has gained new hope from the nationwide cru sade against diseases ot the heart and blood vessds that to sup ported by the Heart Fund. Through the Heart Fund, the pubUe has Joined with medlcaf solenee In flghUns heart disease with reeearch, professional and pabUe education and eoaamunity heart programs. Tbeae programa are adminis tered by your Heart Association. Ita meaningful appeal — "Help Toar Heart Fund — Help Tour Heart" — merlta the thoufhtful eoaaideraUoB ot mry AnertoM. NEW YORK Grand Master John Dobbs of the Georgia Prince Hall Ma sons gave a big push to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educationhl Fund 1955 special fund raising campaign last week with a check for, |6,500.00 from the Georgia Jurisdiction Masons. ’The Legal Defense 1955 spe cial campaign began February 5 and will continue for thir teen weeks. It has the support of the entire Negro press with 48 members of the National News papers Publishers Association pledging extensive drives. Grand Master Dobbs and the Georgia Jurisdiction Masons are annual contributors to NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The Prince Hall Masons contribute $25,000 aimually to Legal Defense and maintains the Prince Hall Masons L«gal Research Department. l^eaders In the rellj^ious, la bor and business fields will con tribute weekly artless on why the Legal Defense should be supported. JllB. 22-21 NTs BIGGEST MUSICAL STAGE HIT HITHf »UT TIMI AT THHI NfwimrPomAR nicES/ —■n—nfWMiiinwnw MMCMnnM mmmhhm MUM _ MmAVMVMItNiaMMWl ■VCNING ADMISSION: M.4«—M.«»—11.6« Bamin UatlBos Wed. 7 P. H. $t4> — — 91.H ♦ BASKETBALL TOURNEY SET FOR Pin CO. The sixth amiual basketball tournament of the Pitt County Interscholastic Athletic Associ ation will be held at the H. B. Sugg High School In Farmvllle February 22-26 according to a news release by J. W. Mayo, the association commissioner. The competing schools will be Robinson High, South Ay- den, H. B. Sugg, Bethel High and the Pitt County Training School. Each of these schools will be represented by a team composed of girls. ' - . - The schedule of play has been arranged as follows; On Tues., February 22 at 6:00 p.m.. South Ayden and the H. B. Four CIAA basketball stars won national recognition in the latest release of NCAA statis tics. Th e CIAA cagers are James Boone of West Virginia, Clar ence fiurks, St. Augustine’s Ronald Evans of Fayetteville State Teachers College, add Johnny Johnson of Virginia State. College. Boone and Burks are likely to be among the performers at the CIAA’s Tenth Annual Tour nament at North Carolina Col lege in Durham on February 24, 25, and 26. Boone, 6’1” forward, leads his team in scoring with a 23.9 average. A senior, he has shown tremendous improvement over last year when he finished the season with a 14.1 mark. Boone hails from Pealx>dy High School in Petersburg, Virginia. He has liit on 51.7 per cent of his field goal attempts to*rank nineteenth among small col leges. Burks, 6’5 and one-half in. senior pivotman from Cham paign, III., has been the big gun in the St. Augustine’s of fense. The lanky eager is tied with Boone for CIAA scoring nonors with a 23.9. average. “Dead-Eye” Buries ranks second among individual field goal percentage leaders. He iuis Iiit on 60.1 percent of Ills shots, connecting on 78 out of 129 at tempts. Johnny Johnson, Virginia State’s sophopiore sensation, ranlfs high among individual field goal percentage leaders. The 5‘11” product of Henderson Institute has liit on 119 of 228 attempts for 52.2 per cent. Fayetteville State, newcomer to the CIAA, has its star Ronald “Knowledge” Evans, 6’5” frosh from New York, N. Y. Evans is called “Knowledge” because he always seems to icnow how to handle himself on the court. Evans has connected on -89 of 170 field goal attempts for 52.4 percent and 15th among small colleges. 1100 in Prizes Offering Fans Selling Tickets For NCCShaw Engagement Saturday night, February 19 has been designated as Com munity Night in Durham’s plan to aid the shalcy athletic ship at North Carolina College. NCC’s athletic program is currently running a deficit of some $3,000 in spite of winning teams in football and basket ball. A cross-section of Durham citizens and staff memljers at North Carolina College are co operating to make the NCC- Shaw basketball game on Sat urday night, Feb. 19, the rally ing point to attract some 5,000 fans. One of the big attractions is the cash prize contest. This con test offers three prizes totaling $1000 for organizations selling the largest number of tickets to the game. First prize is $50, second $30, and third, $20. Or ganizations winning any one of the prizes will not be eligible to compete for the others. NCC President Alfonso El der and Attiletlc Director I. Gregrory Newton were among NCC representatives meeting with leaders of local organiza tions on last January 27. At the end of the session the following committees were named: Half- time activities, Mrs. Callie B. Daye and Prof. Benjamin Hud son, co-chairmen, with C. B. Noel and Cardoza McCollum; Ticket distrubtion, E. W. Phil lips, chairman with Dr. S. B. Fullbright and Dr. Ray Thomp- Suggs team will play and, at 8:30 p.m. the Bethel High girls will engage the girls from the Pitt County Training School. The winning teams will be pitted against each other on Thursday at 7:30 p. m., with final play offs on Saturday night at 7:30. The boys tbams will also be gin action on Tuesday. The fireworks will begin at 7:30 p.m., when the Bethel High team' tackles the Pitt County squad. Thursday at 8:45 the winoors will be seen in action And final playoffs will take placs on Saturday at 8:45 p.m. The teams wining in the play offs will be declared champions. -Letter- (Continued from Page Two) was living in a big Virginia city (Norfolk) and saw peddlers going from place to place sell ing half dollars for a dollar. What became of this profit? On a recent visit to the me morial site one would not be too impressed to see incomplete buildings, run down grounds and a dull Post Office that had received so much publicity. What became of the profit? Was this a stab in the back of those who are doing a good job at Tuskegee? There ought to be a lot of explaining. The Negro race must not be blamed be cause one man made a failure and now seeks a way out. S. R. Jolmson, Jr. Salisbury, N. C. ClAA's Tenth Cage Tourney Honors Coacties Three Union University fa culty members are slated for key roles In the forthcoming 10th annual celebration of the CIAA’s annual cage toiuna- ments. In the three day dribble der by planned for the North Caro lina College Gymnikium at Durham on Feb. 24-26, Coach Tom Harris of the league lead ing Union Panthers will be honored as the only three-t|me winner among the victorious tournament coaches. And as plans to honor coach Harris take shape, the CIAA tlurough two other Union pro fessors, Dr. Thomas H. Hender son, league president, and L. D. Smith, tournament committee ctiairman, «lso will honor Coach John B. McLendon, win ner of the first conference tour nament in 1946; Coach Harry Jefferson of Hampton Institute and formerly headman in ath letics at Virginia State College; and Coach Clarence “Big House” Gaines oi Winston Sa lem. The conference will also honor th* captalm ei tournament teams, hmgtmmimg with the NCC dob iM« eap- tain. Aubrey "Stinky” Staalcy. Stanley is now employed la New York and McLendoa, who left NCC for Hampton, Is now out of the CIAA and serving as head man at Tennessee A and I University in Nashville, Tenn. Plans to honor the eomebea and captains of yesteryear were made at the Tournament Com mittee's Feb. 8 meeting in Dur ham. Vrhe pommittee will stage a qiecial meeting to determine the pairings at NCC on Feb. 30. WON DEAL; LOSTTHEPRIZE According to sports colum nist Jimmy Powers, Leo Doro- cher. manager of the World Champion New York Giants in sisted on getting Bob Buhl in the trade which brought Bobby Thompson to the Milwaukee Braves. Milwaukee turned him down and insisted on Leo’s tak ing Johnny Antonelll Instead. Leo lost out in the conten tion, but Antonelll, the pitcher, Leo didn’t prefer, won .21 games for the Giants; while Bulhn, the pitcher he wanted but couldn’t get, won less than three for the Braves who re fused to let Leo have him. Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky /S QT. $2-70 PINT EXTENSION TELEPHONES • BIG IN SERVICE • WIN VALUE Call Telephone Business Office Today. DIAL 6711 DURHAM TELEPHONE CO. 86 Pniof EARLY TIMES DISTILLERY COMPANY Louisville 1, Kentucky BASKETBAU AT IIS BEST! THE CIAA*S TOP EIGHT TEAMS TENTH ANNVAL CIAA Basketball Tournament THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY February 24, 25, 26, In The North CanMna CoUege Gymnasium Durhamt North CaroUna TICKET PRICES Thursday, February 24, 1955 AFIEKNOON AND KVKNING QAMSS AT Z:3«. 4:l«, M9 AND 9:M P. li. ALL ABENA SEATS i W-** COUBTSIDE SEATS Friday, Evening, Fdiiruary 25, 1955 GAMSS AX S:M AND P. M. COUBTSIDE SEATS fl-T* END ABENA SEATS • t.H ,SIDE ABENA SEATS —— Saturday Evening, FdMruary 26, 1955 GAMES AT t:M AND 9'M 9. H. COUBTSIDE SEATS —l*.H END AB^A SEATS SIDE ABENA SEATS — (Tax laclndad la iUI PlicM) HIGH SCHOOL DAY THURSDAY mail CHECKS OB^MONBV CMHUBS TO E. W. PmUJPS, N. C. CCMUHC* DUBHAM, NOBTH CABOLIMA Towmameia Tehphonm 9-X^