Daneer Declares Negro Artists
Being "Loved to Deatli" by Critics
By OlOPFRtY HOLDiR
Editor's Not*; Tho c«l«brat*d
•etor, p*int*r, »nd dtneor dit-
play* Mm* portonal and parli-
Mnt indignation at way tho
•ecially eontciowt aro*loving tho
Nofro thaator to daalh. Hit com-
Rionta will b« carriod in the
TIMIS in "thraa in»tallm«nt«,
lUrt on* of which appaart b*
low. •
The off-color, on-Broadway, back
of the bus part of this past musi
cal comedy season has now been
officially certified as a disaster
area. It’s the K.K.K. season;
"Kiclis and Co.,” “K'wamina,” and
“King Kong.” Three nearly-all-
Ncgro musicals. No hits. A dou
ble disaster which dragged the
third down the drain before it
got on the boards. Three errors.
The two that deserved to die
killed the one that deserved not
to. (Only the non-musical play
“Purlie Victorious’ showed any
powers of survival, and that' be
cause it didn’t try to belabor the
paying customers.).
The fallout from the flops has
spread nausea among producers,
backers, .audiences, critics, per
formers. In the beginning,, every
body was talking about them. At
the end, nobody was. Fools rush
in from whence the fleeced angels
hive fled. It is necessary, I ihink,
fotr anybody who cares about thea-
telr.to deal bluntly with these dead
ddcks that once flew so handsome
ai^d so high.
iMonths ago, gypsies (a gypsy, in
classic Broadway terminology, is a
sitilled dancer who performs in-
twmittontlv in tho choruses and
ensepibles of musicals.) used to
st^^'mfl in the !»lrcof, ti.llin«
wigd all soon be back on Proail-
way. “So manv wonderful Nngro
shows are coming in.” Well, a
year later, the Sypsjes are ba^'k
on unemployment insurance in
coming Negro Broadway shows
have been called off; Claudia Mc-
Npil and I^n^ston Hughes are
back pn Broadway. This is where
w.e came in.
VARIETY, says “Kicks,” a $400,-
OOOjplus fiasco, which raised some
of its money in a celebrated tele
vision audition fon Dave Garro-
tvay’s adition ^ “Tpday”).
l>^^^«bly "tiiihed that' T>articUItfr
kind of audition stunt for all
time. Others make so bold'as to
redict that the K.K.K. season; ^Jiis
buried the interracial Afro-rt^-
sage musical for all time. If tftaSi
are right, then it’s a bargain at a
two-million-dollar loss^ Fw it is :>
fact, that the rwent African trr>n(l
irl the theater ,has been practically
killed by kindness — a! sort ot
cockeyed cHhrity wbicli^.; ^umeji
naking Kennedy lose the South).
1 spotted the first official sign
f the Afro trend when there was
'>«’''il(>d the d'-cor of the lair of
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, chief
United States delegate to the UN.
nroaiM'ay. the Met, and the City
'>nttr. Instead of being a me-
'ange of all-nations, as might have
Survey Shows
Chemicals Fast
Replacing Hoe
Will chemicals do the same
thing for the hoe as tractors
have done for the mule?
For some crops, at least, it
looks as if the answer is “yes”.
A. D. Worsham, extension
been expected, Mr. Stevenson s of- control specialist at N.
'ice was decorted in what might state College, has just completed
'i»> di«!cribed as Dark Continental: ^ survey which shows how fasv
African masks, African sculpture, j Heel farmers are abandon-
'Vfricr n prints and knickknacks. j jjjg often th«
Stevenson confessed the effect cultivator • for herbicides.
•vns consoiou.sly politiral. “It’s a!l| ^ Here are some highlights of
Africa this year,” he quipped. Ajhis survey: In 1961, North Car-
political seductuarium where un-i Qijng corn growers used her-
■ommittod African delegates to the I bicidfes on 22 per cent of their
'>N could bo woned. wined, and acreage as compared with only
dined. Never mind if the Africans
inisht be as sick of masks ^s I
am and might be more entrariced
bv all-American mink rugs ihan
Afro-leopard ones, more chained
by one of Eisenhower’s, paintings
or a shrunken head of John Wilkes
Booth “It’.s all Africa this y^ar”
was the slogan. ;
I
Among American influentjals,
there are few more influential—
especially with t h e BroadWay
crowd—than Mr. Stevenson. Con
sciously or unconsciously, people
began to take their' cues ftom
him. Confounding the Kremliti' by
being kind to Africans became as
contagious as the Twist. Giving
money to Radio Free Europe or
the Internaional Rescue Committee
wasn’t enough. It was “Love Thy
African Neighbor time.” The poli
tical atmo.sphcre got so thick with
Brotherhood that a Harlem shar-
'’if', iailf'rt earlier fnr nmnine up
a huge tab at the Waldorf by im-
pcrsona'ing an Ethiopian dipio
mat, a"ain bol'^iy emerged frni"
thn Catskill.s, where he was worV
in" as a bu.s bov, posed as th"
UN r'elo'T.fa from Ghana, and
rooked the Hot''! Commodore and
several other slick city operator.*:
With |he wisdom of mother wit
this 1961 con man knew that wher
there are not enough black cele
brities to go aroimd, some of
them have to be invented.
A&T To Get $6
Million For
Improvements
GREENSBORO — Permanent
-tmpfovementa of;xnearly 7 six-
million dolla'rs, requested for A.
and T. College, were appiroved
last week by the A. and T. Col-
in. it "rr™:
praised, and shielled from impart-1 gtructun
tial criticism.
For several seasons, from “South
Pacific” to “Su7ic Wonr.” slant
eyes were in fashion oh Broadway.
The only Negroes working were
those who weren’t too yellow to
play whorientals. The switch ffom
other improvements
to buildings and grounds, new
instructional equipment and the
acquisition of additional land
area for future expansion.
The proposed new buildings
include: a dormitory for men
a student union 'nd a physical
the Asia bit to the Afro was sign- education-gymnasium plant, a*
aled early in the Kennedy era, at one million dolarg each; dormi-
the opening of the new head- tory for women, $600,000; a
quarters for the United States biology building. $870,000, and
delegation to the UN. It didn’t a mathematics and business ad-
make the big splasrti of the Jackie ministration building, $450,000
Kennedy look. It didn’t make Page I Leading the list of improve-
One, like the marriage of Sammy ments are: additions to the
Davis, Jr. (delayed until after the power plant of $113,000 and air
election so a Kennedy brother-in-. conditioning of the library,
law could be best man without $60,000.
7 per cent in 1957, Total corn
'Brea'ted last year reached an
estimated 313,000 acres.
Cotton growers have switch
ed to chemical weed control at
an even faster pace. An earlier
survey showed that only 1 pfr
cent of the State’s cotton acre
age was treated with herbicides
in 1957. Last year, the figure
was 12 per cent.
In 1967, Tar Heel peanut
growers used herbicides on one
acre in 500. Four years later
they were using the chemicals
on one acre in eight.
Worsham pointed out that it
was impossible for agricultural
agents to know the precise
acreage treated within their
county. He believes most of the
estimates are conservative,
however.
Here are some more facts
brought out by the survey:
Small grain acreage treated
with herbicide.s rose from 3 per
cent in 1957 to 7 per cent in
1901. During the same period
treated grain sorghum acreage
■vent from 5 per cent of the
total to 14 per cent.
As for pastures, only one nrre
out- of each 1,000 was treated
with herbicides in 1957. By 1961.
it was one acre out of 100.
Also, during the fnur-ypar
•period between surveys. Tar
Heel farmers began to ues their
first herbicides on such things
rts soyt>eans, hay. and horticu
ltural crops. The percentaee of
treated acreage for tl^ese crop*
is still quite -Jt^ever
Dr. Robert P. Upchurch, pro
fessor of field crops 'at State
College, predicts that 25 per
cent of the State’s cotton acre-
'Jge will be chemically treated
tor weeds this year.
Frankly, Worsham was sur-
nrised that treated corn acre-
iBe is a.e low as the figures re
vealed. “It’s a shame we’re not
'i'!ins> more 2 4-D on corn,’’ Dr.
TIpchurch said. “It’s so ehean
hat everv corn producer should
use to kill weeds '■ especially
bfond-leaved weeds.”
At present, Worsham’s sur-
ev showed, farmers are most
mtrested in addi»ionnl her-
ifide information for soyjjeans
ind horticultural crons. Peanuts,
n*inn fnbaceo and alfalfa rank-
d next on the interest survey.
THE CAROLINA TIM 9
SATURDAY, (MARCH 3. IWJ DURMA**, M.
King's "People to People" Tour ^weeps Delta
ATI+ANTA. Ga. —The three-duy for 8:00 p.m. By 7:00 p.m., the
toor of the Mississippi Delta Couli; church was filled, to capacity,,
try by 8CLC President, Dr. Martin' Most of the la*t day aS; spent
l,iifher King, Jr., was an outstand-*in Jackson, Mississippi. More In-
in| success, according to reports formal talk with plain people
THE FASTEST MAS IN VIR
GINIA—Jimmy Johnson (l*ft),
Viialnia Slat* Coll*8* sprint
er# who won th* 50-yatd dash
in a record broaking tlm* of
5.4 s*c., in tho r*c*nt Phila-.
dalphla Inquirer games, shows
his plaque to Virginia Stat*
College Athletic Diroctot.
James A. Moore. Johnson is
a junior from Cumberland, Va.
Tshombe Has Risen From Obscurity
To Potent Influence in World Events
EOrrOH'S NOTE — When
th* history of the United Na
tions is finally compiled, lew
men may show the impact of
its existence of Katanga's
Mois* Tshombe.
The Congo Wai. the death
of Hammarskjold, Russia's
"Troika" campaign, crisis in
the U. N. and the shape of
emerging Africa itself at* all
eiitwlMwd tB- tW"q«lt~yw»on«
To a pair of reporters. Tshomt>e
had handed a virtual declara
tion of war for delivery to the
rest of the world.
The date .was July 11, IWO,
and the scene was the fi
Belgian provincial gciyi
headquarters in
The Congo crisis
ing; six days earlier, ’
Pubiique” Congolese-
•|*Tn«tfnted. Mot.se Tshbrtibc;'''lon
ality of this African. Now I of an African businessman ot
Tshombe, barred by the State
Department from visiting the
United States, is a threaten
ing issue in U. S. politics. The
story of Tshombe and the
African crisis is told in the
following dispatch by a re-
leran foreign correspondent of
Un|lted Press International
who knows the K«tanga presi
dent peNOMlly and who wit
nessed moti of the Omwo
Tho-dtspateh wto
Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
by HAY J. MOtONEY
It was mid-afternoon when the
two correspondents walked into
the gray-green governor’s palace
No one was in sight. We ham
mered on the French windows
nf the main hall until Moise
Kapenda Tshombe opened up
himself and invited us in.
Tshombe politely poured
The Home Front
Seagram’^
MODERN FABRICS
Homemakers
County have
knowledge on mordern fabrics.
They are studing buymanship,
use and care of today’s fabrics,
how to handle fabrics, and
special fabric finishes.
Miss Mary Parham home
economics agent, , reports the
coffee cold, because' there were
no servants in the house and
over the chill drink disarming-
ly declared:
“You may announce that 1
am declaring Katanga inde
pendent of the rest of the Congo
tonight.”
great wealth and graduate of
an American Methodist mission
ary school, was hardly a name
to conjure head-lines yet.
In the 20 months since then,
Tshombe proved to be Africa’s
most active volcano, the center
of a deadly civil war, and a lot
more:
—Dag Hammarskjold died otj
a flight to plead peace with
Tl^ombe.
I. —A niaT6r crisis of cbnfldence
erupted under the very founda
tion of the United Nations.
—Tshombe even became a do
mestic political i.ssue in the Unit
ed Stages; where serious congres-
.sional'crisicism burst over Presi
dent Kennedy’s firm support of
rr. N. action against “President
T.shombe’s anti-CommunIs
dependent Republic of Katanga.”
•He confronted the U. S.
State Department with a cris^
of sorts by deciding on a|i
American, tour complete with a
Madisf>n Sqiinre Garden rally to
be held in New York March 7.
That plan was satielched a
week ago by the State Depart-
from the area.
Beginning at Clarksdale, Missis
sippi on February 7th, Dr. King
met with twenty ministers from
the surrounding area at his first
itc.p. He then proceeded to Hig-
;ini High School where he visited
IIS clasuooms and chatted inform
ally imh the workers in the
school cafeteria.
Later he made a quick tour of
the campus- of Coahoma Juni'jr
College, stopping to talk with stu
dents and faculty members alonp
the way.
TtiP same day, he was a Kue.sl of
the Baptist Student Union at the
Chapel Hill Baptist Church. With-
oiit st(q;)ping, he went on to the
Iitunactilatc CoU:eption Catliolic
School, where he visited with thi
students and faculty. That eve
ning he Attended a Mass meetin.?
at> th# Centennial Baptist Church,
whWe Reverend Wyatt Tec Walk-
*rj EXtoutive Director of SCLC
the (uett speaker before one
thousand members of the Coaho-
ipa'County Federated Council of
Organlutions. At each of the
4t(^ Dr., ICing and his entourage
were ^eeted with a tremendous
reception.
The s^ond d*y, February 8th.
the group moved on to Jone.x-
town. (Coahoma and Sherarrl, 1j
each of these place.^ Dr. Kinr
made It a point to get off the
beaten paths .and talk to the resi
dents on a man to man basis. i
In Jonestown, he talked to oni’
■'•oiip of farm people who nather
i»d around, staring at him in awe
and unbelief.'Dressed in overalls,!
’infrhans- and worn shoes, they,
listened to the words about regis-
More visits to places off the beat
en path. The day climaxed with a
nonviolent workshop at Tougaloo
CoHefe, directed by Reverend J.
M. Lawson.
5 Students at
MT Get Awards
From Sears Store
GREENSBORO—Five A. and
T. College students were last
week honored at the annual
Sears Roebuck Scholarship
Awards Program.
Presented with freshman
scholarship awards for study in
agriculture or home economics
were; Alexander Dawson, Bel-
haven; Willie Frank Faison,
Clinton; Alice Jean Key, Tar-
boro; James Carlton Kearney,
Tarboro, and McArthur Newell,
Jacksonville. All were top stu
dents in their high school
graduating classes last June. 1^9
awards were presented by Dr.
a. C. Webb, dean of the School
of Agriculture.
The program, held in the
Carver Hall auditorium on
Thursday, February 22, was en
livened with the appearancc of
Lawrence Zoiiicoffcr, a senior in
the University of North Caro
lina School of Medicine, a form
er A. and T. graduate and win
ner of a Scars Roebuck scholar
ship.
Speaking from the subject,
"How The Scholarship Heipod
■Coaches
, One A. and T. Student,” Zolll
'"rin? anjJ votin?, and a-iked in- i coffer told the audience, "There
f'umershle njiestions. Twenty ol ^
is very little more important
this group signed up as volun-, to the college student, in hii
teefg for the voter registration j college experience and those
4-H Trains* For Better Living
By L. R. HARRILL
State 4-H Club Leader
Here.in North Carolina where
Granville' 4.H has firown from an idea into
been gaining the world’s largest rural youth or
ganization, we point with pride to
the imagination and ability of the
pioneers who laid the foundation
for an organization that has cap
tivated the interest of people in
all parts of the world.
Its greatest achievement is re
supplies
have
problem.
raham
agent.
water aya-
type* oi
w to obtain
water
women studied- different fabric the lives of people bet
ter trained; to serve as good citi
zens in their community.
North Carolina can proudly
count its outstanding citizens,
leaders in agriculture, business,
industry, politics and education
who have come from its rural
community. Many of these leaders
have attributed their iwesent im
minence to the start toward lead
ership which they were given in
the 4-H Clubs in North Carolina.
For more than fifty years our
young people through 4-H Clui'
work have been learning by doing,
striving to daily live the 4-H mot
to, "To Make the Best Better,” as
they enjoy play and recreation as
well as interesting worthwhile
work as they join together in
building both personal character
and group citizenship. About one
of every five rurfl boys and girls
eligible foir meihbership in 4-H is
engaged in the varied activities of
this program which has as its olv
Jective “Training Youth
Art of Better Living.”
4-H continues to open new doors
swatches, looked at labels and
learned how to purchase fabrics
and clothing which will be
economical, serviceable and ap
propriate.
FRUITS FOR MEALS
How often do you use fruits
in your menu planning? Mrs.
Ida Hinnant, home economics
agent in Harnett County, has
i>een stressing the importance of
£|et.
loiutration
Meals”
Demon-
ing, the
dish and
ling various
its indicated
y would In-
000 students
nity to participate in 4-H judging
conte.sts, team demonstration*,
public spi-aking, and various other
activities. Through the Wildlife
Coiisirvation Program an oppor
tunity is offer»Ki to learn more
about -wildlife and natural re
sources and to participate in a
State 4-H Wildlife Conservation
Conference.
Through (he medium of state,
regional and national events, 4-H
members arc ofiered an opportu
nity to come in contact with the
outstanding leaders in various pro-
fe.ssional fields. In the health im
provement program every 4-H
member in the state is expected
ta conduct a ht.alth improvement
project. In the farm and home
t,afety and the automotive care
and safety programs they have an
opportunity to participate in pro
grams designed to eliminate traf
fic and farm and home accidents
In the state-wide observance ol
4-H Sunday and in practically all
4-H programs and activities, 4-li
members learn the importance of
spiritual growth and development
in the lives of individuals, com
munities, states, and nation*.
It would be impossibc to de
scribe the total impaot of thi« pro
gram on tho lives of millions of
boys and girls who have partici
pated in the various activitin of
the 4-H program. But so long as
the 4-H program i« geared to fit
the economic, social, physical and
spiritual growth and development
needs of the individual and the
drive.
At Sherard, in front of a coun
try store which had been desi"
nated as the meetinR place, only
one hian showed up. He had walk
ed 13 miles to get there. When
questioned, he $aid that dor.ens oC
others had been notified and
liwiited to eoiire, Twt were itfraid
wiHild be put off the land If
they met with Dr. King
At Mound Bayou, Mississippi,
the all-iV^ro town of 1,200 per
sons, Dr. King met with a group
of community leaders and officials
In the home of Dr. Mmund Bur
ton, the town’s only physician.
then tonrea the town, .slo^
ping oh front porches and along
the road* to talk with the towns
people. ' 'i
That night, King was the
3uost sppaltpr st the "Ti-*«ittl«ll
for Congress Rally” presentin'^
Reverend Theodore Trammell the
first Negro candidate for Cnnfiresp
frnm *h(> r’eUa area since Hccon-
■tructipn. Nearly 300 people vvf-re
unable to get into the First RaptlSt
Church where the rally was held.
The meeting had been scheduled
years which follow, than
academic achievement”.
high
fContlntied from paf* 2-B)
versity (Oxford. Pa.) ■ to Johnson
C. SrtiitH University (Charlotte. N.
C., on the south,'normally recrutt
their athletes from this area.
Already they are facing a. ■hal-
lenge from other “big tlloe”
‘tchools for top flight sports ial-
cnt in this area, which includes
the states of New Yotk, New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania, MtryUnd, Vlr-
,'inia. North and 9>uth Carolina
ind Washington, D. C.
Conferences like the Big T*n.
the Big Eight Skylljie, Missouri
Valley, Yankee and tecifk coMt
schools have been ralaini this ter
ritory repeatedly in th* past (•«
years.
And the CIAA has had to pay ^
big price for this coin^titiMi. fgit
example, I'Big Ten" schools
front North Carolina Wtlter Btrfi-
amy, of New Bern, ex>lndi
kctball star, now wltly the CllfnltD
Packen; B^l Tal«>il,|,6(
Va., fcA-mer Indiana sliiindoi^
with the Siin fiJego Qtergert;
by Bell of 6h^b|r, lunh.
and Manuel Crockett, of Ralefgk,
now enrolled at Minnesota. •
And now Hth dfai-yland Join
ing In the competition, the twHlii'
for top flight talent ii expecMd to
be even sfjinrper.
I^kuated at College Park, Mary
land might nave an addiilMal
selling point for Negro athletes
jn the area who don’t want to gO
too far from homf. On the otHer
hand, the very fact that the school
IS locatcd beib^' the Mason-bixon
line and Is a memb«r of the Ath
letic Coast Conference which hit
teams in South Carolina, ml'ghf^
also work against it.
All young Negro athletes might
not think of themscWei as- latter
day "Jackie Robinaons.” arid mlaht
prefer to go to schools at which
OJ,her main speakers on the the ground has already been broK- ^
program, both of whom gave' en ift integrated sports competi-
speciai emphasis to scholarly at- tion. ' '' ■
tainmcnts, were Dr. Cecile H.! * ' —■
Edwards, professor or nutrition 1 working for civil rightt. Ht ta
and research, and Dr. Howardi | men^ th«
r. Robinson, professor of agrlcu-[ gouthemi Coiifer«nc« EdumUIMf
Itural economics, a] Fund, New Orleans, ■ aouth*
Daniel Godfrey, president of wide lnterr|icJal group working
the A. and T. Agricultural Aa- for integration.
.soclntion, presided. . '((’"J, ’ '1 ’
^ The jjSM|)ldlKiirL |hew homt
y.ff aimM i|[^Mt#d wheh
[WisU bfb|ir, Local of-
IcialsiAald they were looking
L—A
. 3 ttyimmtten otrt WCrS UH*
w find them.
Meantime, Wtit student lead
ers remained in Jail at Baton
Rougfc, 'La., orr charge of crimin
al anarchy, or trying, to over
throw the foVemment by work
ing for integration.
'Integration leaden uked
friends everywhere to contact
the Department of Justice, Wuh^
ingtpn, Di C., atM>ut cttching
the bomhers and releasing the
students engaged in work for
peaceful change.
SHREVKPORT, La.~A home
b^ing built In the suburbs for
■br, and Mrs. C. O. isimpkins,
integration leaders, was destroy
ed by a dynamite bomb recent
ly. The bombing was the latest
in ii series of attacks on integra
tion Ists and their buildings in
thi.s area.
Dr. and Mrs. Simpkins are
iiclive in several organizations
of oMwrtunity for farm boys and "t’cds the community; 4-H wu,
iris and serves to broaden their, tontinuc w serve in helpinr
•;rizo3*. In addition to teaching poople grow into better in
better farm and home practiccs in
sgritulture and. homemaking, 4-H
dividuals in a better community
in a better slate and in a t>ett«r
Kentucky
Gentleman
KiNTueKy tnuiaNT
tOUmON WHItNIV
^crs boys and girl* an opporlu« )rorld.
4/s or.
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