North Carolina Newspapers

THE CAROLINA n«* f«-"TNt tucmi CMRrOLtD" TIMES SAT, JAN J1. Ma Lose to Snifth Basketeers; will OlKT Virpia State Five 6HERNSB6II6—Hie AftT Col leff ASfi««, hurting at two im- portaBt spots, were dropped from from Ufie rankt of the undefeated by Johnson C. Smith University, bat bounced back later with a win over Vii|tinia State College In dAA ' basketball action last week. Injuries to Aggie defense giant, bis Bob Keller and freshman scor ing ace, William Harley, bogged down the Aggie attack. Johnson C. Sfnitta stormed back with a second half rally to de feat the Aggies. 8MI, in a game played here at the Charles Moore Gymnasium on Saturday night, January 7. AftT led by 10-points, 61-51, after five minutes of play in the final stanza, but saw it wither away before a torried scor ing -engineered by Jim Hester, Smith shooting sensation which dumped 21'polnts for the evening. Walt Holtzclaw led the scoring for the Apgips with 10-points. It was the fir.st conference d®' feat for the At;gics and tha. first by Johnson C. Smith in fourteen starts since back in 1054. A&T whipped Virginia State College 84-78 at the Moore Gym nasium on Tuesday evening, Jan uary 10. The Virginians led at only one point during the ball game and that at 26-25, irJdway the second period. Cal Irvin, Aggie need coach, dug deep into his reserves in a desperate effort to bolster his sag ging quint to squeeze past the Petersburg club. Herb Gray, Aggie center, cur rently leading the nation (NAIA) in rebounding, and William Law son, Virginia State playmaker, led the scoring with 17-points each. The loss and win left the ag gies with a 6-1 record and Vir ginia State now has a 6-3 record. Bean Halte It Two in a Row BALTnjORE, Md.—The Morgan Bears played hosts to the Lions of Lincoln University, and victim ized the visiting aggegation by a decisive 80-69 margin to boost the season’s average for the Bruins to an even 500 percentage points, on a two-hand jumpshot by scor The local team drew first blood on a two-hand jumpshot by scor ing ace Harry Johnson, but the spirited Lions, sparked by their stellar captain, Walt Sullivan, fought back, and on the strength of two quickies by Sullivan soon knotted the score at 44. The scoreboard was deadlocked on three other occasions, the last reading at 13-13 before the vic tors went out in front to stay on a cord-swisher by Morgan’s hust ling Jimmy Hill. At half-time the Bear lead was 48^. High-score honors went to Sul livan who sank only a total of six shots from the floor, but arched twelve of sixteen free- throw attempts or twenty-four points. Hard on the heels of Sullivan was teammate Ed Itoris, «1io racked up a 22-point total. John son was the big gun for the vie tors with 22 credits also. Hampton M Howffd, ^54 MAHHTON, Va., — The Hamp ton Institute Pirates continued their up-hill l)attle in the CIAA confd^nce by defeating Howard University 56-M on Jan. 8 in' Washington, D. C. In seoijng their second straight win in conference play, the Pi rates Dflir have won 4 and loist 3. With' Francelle Walker provid ing a spark, Hampton grabbed a six i^nt advantage after traling ttroi^ Jiust of. the second half. Jimmji Brm brfkef# to' imit» •dr.^y 48at saW, p’s 02-60 leiid inraease and be come the victory margin. Lajvrenoe Hancock was high man for Howard with 17 points, followed by teammate George Wil liams with 15. PiC^ Captain Walter Ward toppdl all scoring with 20 points. Although he was held to four field goals, he tallied 12 of 15 from the foul line. Francelle Walker who was inserted late in the game rounded the scores in the double figure* with 14. 0 Tenn. Beats East Illinois NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Showing fire-power from former years, Tennessee SUte University cage crew blasted Eastern Illinois Uni versity ItM last Satmxlay night before a standing room only hometown crowd. The torrid shooting Big Blues hit the target with of 96 sal voes from the floor for a solid 81 per cent. Defensively, Coach Harold Hunter’s netburaers held Eastern Panthers to 37 of 00, and their 12th straight win against one seaMB's loss. Porter Meriwether and boMe-grown Ttoasie Johnson shai«d the aeortaf baaon with 22 potots Sigmas Stage Founders' Day Program at FSTC FAYETTEVILLE — The Pi and Zeta Beta Sigma Chapters of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity cele brated jointly last Sunday their annual Founders’ Day in the form of a vesper program in the Sea brook Auditorium at the Fayette ville State Teachers College. Guest speaker for the occasion, the Rev. A. J. Johnson, local minister, cen tered his remarks about the topic, “The Ideas That Use Us.” The speaker insisted that great men possessed with vital- ideas have pushted back the frontiers of knowledge throughout history. “One reason we hear so much abotu founder, A. Langston Tay lor,” he said “is that he put himself in the way of big ideas and let them determine the course of his life/’ The speaker was in troduced by John H. Lewis, local school principal. The ideals of the fraternity, his torian Jesse Hall pointed out, are brotherhood, scholarship, and ser vice, and the motto “Culture for Service and Service for Human ity.” President of the Zeta Beta Sigma (graduate) chapter is James Sigmas on the campus in 1954. Levi Montgomery, a senior, heads the Pi or undergraduate chapter and Richard Robinson of the Col lege faculty is advisor to the group. Virginia State Starts Course in African Culture PETTERSBURG, Va. — As part of the celebration of the 25th an niversary of the founding of the department of sociology at Vir ginia State College, the depart ment inaugurated a new course, entitled African Life and Culture, The department will re-offer the course the second semester of the preseht school year Second semester registration takes place Tuesday, January 31, 1961, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p. m. The announcement was made by Dr. Harry W. Roberts, Head of the department of sociology, who will teach the course, assist ed by Professor George O. Ro berts, himself a native of Sierre Leone, West Africa, and a new ad dition to the faculty of the de partment. Th& course will consist of “a' study of the African peoples; their physical ’enviroi«ment resources, and cultures; their forms of economic, social and political or ganization; their major move ments and problems their rela tions with other peoples and their contributions to civilization.” Spe cial attention will be given to the rise of African nationalism and in relation to the problem of war and peace. O JapaneTC smokers reportedly like a new chocolate-flavored smoke, Which has flue-cured to bacco as its main ingredient. AGGIE DRIVE —Jerry Powell, A&T Guard, drives past Freddie Neal (22), Johnson C. Smith University guard, for an easy layup in the game between the two teams (^uK-week. Sml’.b UHe game to knock Hit* Aggies from the ranks of the undefeated In CIAA *play. ■4t WIIHINGTON NEWS By MRS. L. ANN WRIGHT Airman 3rd Class Richard A. and Mrs. Cora B. Evans of New Cliette of Seymour-Johnson A. F. Base, Goldsboro, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Quintel Smith. Mrs. Carolene Morine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Johnson of Dickinson St., presently residing in Aschaffenburg, Germany, left Friday night for Philadelphia, Pa., to visit relatives before em planing at Idlewiid Airport "Sun day 4or Germany. At their annual Fellowship ob servation, Stewardess Board Num ber 2 of St. Luke’s AME Zion Church presented the Choral Club of the (Jhii’rch, the C6ngregati(»4! Church Choir; the Community Hospital (jlee Club; the Southport Male Chorus; and the Kate T. Bo land Memorial Choir of St. Ste phen’s Church, in an hour of song. Mrs. Bessie Campbell is President of the Board. Dr. A. J. Blake Minister. * Mr. and Mrs. Hairison Dixon ^ Anderson Street announce the marriage of their daughter, Doris, to Elton Jenkins of Suffolk, Vir ginia. The couple are presently attending Allein University, Co lumbia, S. C. Here for the funeral of his father-in-law, Willie Dixon, held recently, was J. W. Foust of Dur ham, Mr. Dixon, a wen respected sen ior citizen and the victim of a car accident, was funeralized from St. Marks P. E. Church with Rev. fidwip E: Kirton officiating. . two'*^ dtiu^- tersi|jl|is, Via^ee M*®- J^sik^ '^m'c^estnut'.^nc^ Joseph Elizabeth D. McKeller;'two adopt- Stewart; and two sons-inlaw, Messers' FouSt and McKellar. Wilfred and Charles Bynum of Kinston were here to attend the Len-A-Hand Banquet held at the Community Boy’s Club, Friday, January 13, sponsored by the local unit of the New March of Dimes, of the National Foundation foY Infantile Paralysis and other al lied diseases. The Community Boy’s Club wofl 1st place in the National Pull-up Contest. One hundred seventy-five Boys’ Clubs participated in the contest representing a tootal of 20,727 boyp. Community Boys Club score was 5.3. The individual scores in the Southern Region were: Midgets: Billy Hooker, Eli zabeth City Boys Club, 30 points; Juniors: Samuel Clemmons, Com munity Boys Club, 35 ponts; In termediates: Norman B’orbes, Eli zabeth City Boys Club, 40 points; Seniors: * Henry Frost, Communi ty Boys Club, 25 points. Community Boys Club won sec ond place in the contest in 1957 fourth place in 1958 and first place in 1960. W. E. Bess is Exe cutive Director of the cliib. Alex A. Maleski, Assistant Program Director of Boys Clubs of Ameri ca, congratulated Mr. Bess on the club's achievements. Out of town relatives here to attend the funeral of Wade H. Chestnut, Sr., prominent business-, man, who died suddenly last Sun day, were: Miss Emma Chesnut York; Harvey Williams, Stamford, Conn.; Mrs. Kathleen Beaver, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Carrie L. Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Spaulding and Rev. and Mrs. A. McLean Spaulding of Rocky Mount; Mmes. Mable and Mattie Spaulding and David Spaulding, Mrs. Vester Solomon, Mrs. Veota Phifer, Mrs. Larkie Shaw and Elery Moore of Whiteville Out of town frends were:' Dr. and Mrs. F. J. Cowan and Mrs. Rebecca McRae, Wilson; Attorney Harvey Beech and M Bynum, Kin ston; Jacob and Hubert Hayfcs, Raleigh; Mr. and Mrs. William E» 'ton, Sammy Howard and Mr. atid Mrs. Joseph Davis, and Mrs. BeS' die of Fayettevill?; Mrs. Maggli Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. C. Chambers, Faison; Mr. aiid Mi's. A. Doles, Weldon; Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Norris, Durham; Mrs, Al- thia Slade, Greensboro; Mrs. Mil dred Armstrong, Miss Victoria Lewis, Whiteyillej and Theodore Sheridan, Elizabethtown. Mr. Chestnut is survived by bis widow, Mrs. Carnell C.' Cliestnilt; two sons, Wade, Jr. and Kenneth; a sister, Mrs. Louis Thompson, a brother, Robert Chestnut; Bar bara, Fannie and Mable Chestnut, neices Robert Chestnut', Jr., ne phew, two sisters-in-law, Mmes. Robert Chestnut Alice C. WQ- liams> and Johnnie Thompson, brother-in-law. . ’ ’ Mrs. M. G. Green, proprietor of, Margaret’iji, ,Fasf)ion^ShojL mo tored to Qhaljlbtte to i«i^tenf th‘e Fashion show of. Nadine Fprmufc to be held in the Colise\An Sun day through 'Thursday. She :was accompanied ^>y her m()ther, JtffS. D. L. Grady, ^d Gaye and Gran ville, her chili^^'en. ~ ^ IroTKOi Ireak Evert in Two League Games FAYETTEVILLE, — Returning to cage wars followings the hoH- tfay* lay-off, Coach P. Saunders and his chargers, still struggling for an upper round in the CIAA ladder this season, took on two conference foes in successive evenings here last week ahd woutd i>p writing a victory and a setback in the record books. Oa Monday evening the home boy hosted the St. Paul “Tigers” from Lawrenceville, Virginia and found it necessary to turji the steam on to push by them 79-77. The “Tigers” were paced by higK-poInt man Tymfc Howell who flipped in 26 markers. Howell was ably assisted by Captain Al fred Moore, Winfred McClellon, and Anthony" Solomon eSch of whom hit in the two-digit column. For the homeboys, however, it was the near sehsatlonal shooting of a pair of freshntan, elongated, six-oot Fredrick “Red” Bibby'who emptied in 16 points and fancy free Samuel Dove Who huStled in 21 to salvage the contest for the Bronco clan. ^ When the fcJlatflng evening Eagle Coach Floyd Brjown tfotttd out on the court hk versatile, six-foot “big boys” afalnst the frosh-studded, homestanding Bron co quint, everybody got set for the kill. But it just was not meant to be that way in this completel]^ pressure-packed. skirihish. The visitors found that it took a comr bination of time, skill. ai|4 the constant pounding of John Jones and James Martin to turn the trick 88-74. The first half was anybody’s game with Captain Percy Arring ton running the show with those “long ones” from away out, and James Mdrtin countering with a neat 27 markers and scoring honors for the evening. When during the final five minutes of play' thie hom|6boys weVikened^ the Eagles quicked their tempo and that was it another game salted away. 0 HARMS CCTMMENTS ON PROSPECTS " Coach Says UnitMi Must Improve Its Defenses Set For N. Y.'s Atiarn Powell nIw YORK —a TsstinKMiai DInhar honoring Rap. Adam C. Powall as th« Incoming chair- niair of fhf Houia CeinniTHiM mi Education and Laiwr was an- nouhead this weak. Tha dinnar will ba hald in main Itallroem of tha Hotel Cemmodora on Sunday avanlng^ Janwiiry'99th at six o'clock. Th4 Abyssinian Baptist Church and a CammlHaa of 1000 cltlxans arl sponsors of the affair, which marks the first tlma that a I gao congressman has hald this post. ' Atty. Arthur J, Goldharg, ena of tha two main speakers an* nouncod, will h« making his first public spaaking appearance as ‘ tha new Saaratary ol Lahor. A iMrtlal list of eenimittaa mambars Include Anglar Biddle Duke, Honorary Chairman; Ma yor Robert E. Wagnar and form er Oovamor Avarell Harriman, i Honorary VIca-CKairmen. LEADS UNION — Bruce Sprag- gins, 6' 5" senior, of Williams burg, Va., is leading the Virginia Union Universiiy basketball team,'in its battle for conference honors. Spraggins taps all con ference-scorers with an average of 29J points per game. He in creased that mark with a 37 point outpu? against North Carolina College in Durham Saturday nikht as the Panthers whipped the Eagles, 117 to 88. 0 [bFCOURSE.^! 60T OWjSt«ty$^^eNBttt —1 ifiaiifis!HIM A Knoxville l)eats Florida A&M tolOXVlLLE, Tenn.— Knoxville College’s Bulldogs set the strings afire in the second-half against Florida A&M’s Rattlers last week to win the hardwood war, 95-89, after losing thr first half battle,' 40-47. A standing room only crowd in the Knoxville College gymnasium roared ’til the final buzzer, as forward Joe Parker and substitute James Lasley led the Bulldogs with 30 and 29 points respectively. Parker hit 13 field goals and 4 free throws, while Lasley got 10 field goals and 9 free throws. Forward Billy Barnes led Flor ida with 35 points, 16 field goals and 3 free throws. Other Rattler ores were Tommy Mitchell, 18; ti.'^mith, 11; Walter Kennedy, 8; itevin Johnson, ' 4; Clifford Bridge, ■4; Wate Bellamy, Theo dore Alletti. ^ each. Other Kno^ille scorers were Center James "Slim” Washington, outstanding rebouiider, 9; John ,Baggett, 6; William Wilson, 11; L. Toson, 6; John Cuntethers and John Owens, 2 each. \ The next KC home gtoe is against Ffsk University, Frioi>^ at 8 p.m. The Bulldogs were at Monday, LeMoyne Tuesday am Alabama A&M Wednesday. S. C. Beats Bethune And Claflin Quints ORANGEBURG, S. C.—The S. fc. State College Bulldogs dropped their first conference game of the season and then went on to win four straights from their oppon ents. Their overall record is 9-2. Bethune-Cookman went down 83- 80 in a close one despite the tor rid pace of G. Humphrey and L. Glover who poured in 31 and 28 points respectively for the Wild cats. South Carolina led 52-40 at half-time with Lindberg Moody, one of the top five leading scorers of the nation firing in 28 points. The arch-rivalg from “across- the-fence,” the Claflin Panthers, bowed on the following evening in Seabrook Gymnasium 58-53. At the half State led 28-16, and despite the slow tempo, Moody accounted for 30 of the total points for the Bulldogs. James Davis was high for Claflin with 16, NCC RESERVE—Junius |««na is the no. 1 reserve on North '4^ Carolina Collage's baski^^ball ‘ fm this season, ^he M sen- from New Yo^k City hds action in all of the Eagles gan to data and shown him self well. v.an V ft*. V Belafdjl^tes Expect Second'Child Late In Aiigust ^ NEW YORK—hWry Belafonte and his wife, Juliis, expect the arrival of their se^d child in late August, it was revealed to day. The famed folk siiger-actor and his lovely wife hVe been married for four years, a>d have a son, David, aged three.' Mrs. Belafonte, the formef'^Julie Robinson, is an ex-dancer, ^ho came out of professional' r^ifre ment, temporarily, last Novemlter, to appear on her husband’s MM- ly heralded television “Special^ The Belafontes, who reside' in ^ large apartment in New YorV City, never allow the , singer’s touring schedules ta separate them for any length of time, keep ing the family intact, and travel ing together, all over the world. Mr. Belafonte ha/ t^o dtugh- ters, Adrienne, 11 and Shari, 6, by a former nurriago. . Coach Tom Harris of Va. Union Univ. is quite satisfied with the performance of his 1960-61 Bas- kelball squad. However, he said a^ter the Johnson C. Smith game an Wednesday night, January 11, that “we must play a better de fensive game if we have hopes of winning a substantial number of games we have left on our schedule. Right now, we are about half-way through our conference contests but, thi* heavy teams are yet to play us.” “He continued, “It is difficult to be optimistic when many of your opponenta are top rated teams in the CIA!a and can play ball.” “Our position is to train our men to be good sports in victory or defeat — if we do a good job here, we can expect to win a few” Coaph Harris made this com ment to the press after the Pan thers ^had turned a 20-point half- time 'advantage into a 107-90 vic tory over J. C. Smith on Wednes day night, behind the heavy scor ing and hefty rebounding’ of two of his. ace players, Warren (Bruce) Spraggins and Jackie (Jumping) Jackson. Both are last year’s NC AA Small College and C^AA stars in scoring and rebounding, res pectively. Spraggins scored 34 points while Jackson picked off 27 re bounds as Union lifted its over-^ all record to 10-2 (conference re cord 8-2) against last year’s CIAA Visiting Champions. The loss dropped Smith’s record to 4-7. Union out-rebouAded the visi tors, 63-31 despite the teriffic height of the North Carolina club. Spraggins had 16, Billy McLean (15); both joined Jackson in con trols of the backboards. '"Ifh addition to Spraggins’ 94 pointa. Union also got 24 from Eddie Simmons, plus another 17 from Jfickson. Smith’s high pointers were Hes ter, Johnson, Bames, Al John son and Neal who pumped in 12, 15, IT, 17 and 13, respectively for a combined total of 75 points. Johnson C. Smith played a tremen dous offensive game in the sec ond stanza and matched Union point for point and then gained three points to outscore the Pan thers. The halftime score stood at 6141. Union has two more home games left in January. — A and T College on January IQ and Lin coln University on January 28. ' What is expected to be the big gest home game for Union will be the Virginia Union Virginia State game to be played at the Richmond Arena on February 10th at 8 p. m. After this game Bill Dogge^t and his group will play for a dance and put on a floor show from 10 p.m. to 2 p.m. O — J. C. Smith Bull Trample Bronco By BILL JOHNSON CHARLOTTE—Great jump shoot- and Freddie Neal carried the ing by sOphOmores James Hester Golden Bulls of Johnson C. Smith (Jn^vendfy to a lopsided 119-69 fclAA basketball victory over Fay etteville State Colege here Satur day night. Hester hit the cords'with eight of 13 field goal attempts and was deadly at the lines with 10 tiee rtirows in 12 opportunities for a gSme high total of 26 points. Neal proved more effective as he stuffed the baskets with 11 field goals in 15 chances and was 1- for-1 at the charity stripe for 23 points. Other JCSU cagers who shot ex tremely well in the contest were senior Clarence Barnes, .sopho more Roy Hinnant and sopliomore Leonard Johnson. Barnes had 15 points #hile Hinnant was shoot ing.. 14 ‘Bnd pulling down IS te- boqpds #nd Johnson was getting 10 points and niife rebounds. The Qolden Bulls have nOw won five and lost three games in the CIAA. Their overall mark is 8-7. Fayetteville’s record is t*o and four in the CIAA and t«o nd'six overall. William Patterson tupped the oncos in scoring With 16 points foikwed hy William llanson who hadi 14 and Willim Powell with