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DEBUT—Gloria Calamee made
her debut as Priscilla Lake on
NBC-TV's "Paradise Bay" day
faylor and Burton Work In Davis Production
HOLLYWOOD Elizabeth
Taylor and Richard Burton,
i/ho could get $500,000 for the
same act, will sing and dance
i>n television for $350 apiece,
».:ale.
The Burtons are doing it for
fheir old friend, Sammy Davis,
Jr., who is coming up with his
uwn television program on
i'BC.
"They are truly wonderful
people," said Davis, who came
nut from New York on his day
"ff from the Broadway musical
"Golden Boy" to tape the Bur
tons.
Beside clowning around with
Sammy, the Burtons will give
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| when she sang "Corcovado" for
a duet on "What Are the Com
mon Folk Doing?", and then
•Richard will sing his famous
number from "Camelot," the
favorite of the late John F.
Kennedy. It will be Elizabeth's
singing debut.
Burton, asked to comment
on his wife's singing, said:
"She has a great voice for
cooling soup."
The Burtons will be on Sam
my's opening show. Whom do
you get to follow that act?
"I've got Sean _ Connery,"
Sammy said. "Also Frank Si
natra."
Both James Bond and the
thin singer will get $320 each,
| Keith Andes, who stars on the
j program as Jeff Morgan.
too.
That's friendship.
Sammy has been trying for
years to get a television show.
As he recalls: "Everyone in
the lower echelons would be
enthusiastic, but then the
whole idea would get pigeon
holed in Madison Avenue.
"Finally, someone at NBC
TV was big enough to realize
that people will watch me as
long as I entertain them, no
matter what my color.
"I didn't think I'd ever get
a show, but I've got, it. And
I'll give it all Sammy Davis
has."
Day Care Center Opens at
Mount Gilead Baptist Church
A new day care center for
children from- 1 impoverished
families opened Monday at the
Mt. Gilead Church parsonage.
40ILDowd St., under the spon
sorship of Operation Break
through. Durham's anti-pover
ty organization.
With Mrs Helen Daniel as
director, the center will serve
25 children, both Negro and ,
white. They will receive cultu
ral enrichment and pre-school
training, as well as group care
while their mothers work.
The new center brings to six
the total of such facilities un
der the supervision of Mrs.
Erika Richey, Operation Break
through's child development
coordinator. In addition to
these six centers, the anti
poverty organization sponsors
a total of 35 underprivileged
children who are attending
private day , care centers in
their wn neighborhoods.
Other churches besides Mt.
Gilead which are operating
day care centers under con
tract with Operation Break
through are: Fisher Memorial,
Mrs. F B. McKissick, director;
Russell Memorial, Mrs. W. C.
Taylor, director; Union Bap
tist, Mrs. Ruth Johnson, direc
tor.
Also part of the day care
program are McDougald Ter
race Day Care Center with
Mrs. Minnie Forte as director,
which is co-sponsored by the
Harriet Tubman branch YWCA,
and Children's House ,a morn
ing pre-school program with.
Mrs. Gertrude Williams as di
rector.
Operation Breakthrough's day
care program is presently serv
ing 240 preschool children
throughout its target areas. Fu-
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CHICAGO Cassius Clay
said Saturday that his next
heavyweight boxing title de
fense will be against Ernie
Terrell.
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ture plans' call for establish
ment -of-centers in- the Crest
St. area and the Lakeview-
Bragtown section of the city.
Justice Must
Be Done In
Tus'gee Slaying
NEW YORK Th a t the
year's first civil rights slaying
should occur in Tuskegee,
•A here .Negroes possess sigr'P
cant political and "where
harmonious race relations have
been traditional, is shocking,"
NAACP Executive Director Roy
Wilkins said of the killing on
Jan. 3 of Samuel L. Younge,
Jr., "21-year-old Navy veteran
and civil rights worker.*
The arrested suspect, a 67-
year-old white service station
attendant, "must not be allow
ed to go free on bond as has
been the practice in other Ala
bama murders. Unless justice
is done in this slaying, Tuske
gee will descend to the depths
of Hayneville and Selma," Wil
kins said. ,
"The just anger and indig
nation of the young veteran's
fellow students at Tuskcgee is
indicative of the explosive sit
uation his murder has sparked.
Only prompt and severe pun
ishment for this crime will
ease the tension in the cdm
" munity," he added.
A member of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Com
mittee, Younge headed the
Tuskegee Institute Advance
ment League, a campus civil
rights organization. sum
mer, ajjpording to James Blake
of Charleston, S. C., a member
of the NAACP national Board
• of Directors, Younge "partici
pated in, the NAACP-sponsored
voter registration drive in
Charleston.
DURING THE FESTIVITIES of
the 33rd Orange Blossom Clas
sic in Miami, Fla. recently, the
F. W. Woolworth Company
sponsored the Annual Coaches
and Players breakfast for the
two participating football
teams. Trophies were awarded
to the individual on both teams
Arthur Spingarn Steps Down
As President of NAACP
NEW YORK—At 87. ArThur |
Arthur B Spingarn pounded
the gavel on Monday morning,
■Tan. 3, to open his 27th and
last annual NAACP meeting as j
president of the National As
sociation for .the Advancement j
of Colored People.
The night before, at tho
NAACP Fellowship Dinner, the j
venerable NAACP leader an- !
nouneed that he would not be j
a candidate for re election to
the office which he had held
since December, 1939. Bishop
Stephen G. Spottswood, chair-
Directors, expressed the sorrow
man of the NAACP Board of j
of„the membership upon Spin- '
SATURDAY, JAN. 15, 1966 THE CAROLINA TIMES
| who had the highest cumuli-
I tive academic average by Wool
worth's national representative,
Robert J. Brown (1), The reci
pients of the trophies were
Eugene Hayes, Jr. (3rd from
left), an Automotive Technol
ogy major at Florida A. and
M. University from Plant City,
.yarn's retirement after so
many years of valiant service.
In his brief farewell message
to the 500 guests, Spingarn
J stated that he Had made this
J decision because he realized
j that the NAACP needs "a
j younger, more energetic presi
' dent." He will be 88 years old
| in March. In good health, de
spite his' years, Spingarn walk
j ed the nearly two miles frori
I his apartment in Gramercy
Park to the New York Hilton
Hotel where the dinner was
held.
"Following his remarks, Spin
garn received a standing ova
' tion from the audience. Text
Fla. and Charlai Randall (2nd
from r.), a Sociology major at
Morgan State College from Bal
timore, Maryland. Looking on
are Jake Gaither (2nd from I.),
head football coach at Florida
A. and M., Adele Proctor, Mi»»
Morgan State and Earl Banks,
head coach at Morgan.
next day, he was unanimously
elected by the NAACP Board
of Directors as honorary presi
dent for life. As he presided
at his last annual meeting, he
received a second standing
ovation and tributes from his
associates in the NAACP.
kklv Leader To Hun
For Sheriff Post
GREENSBORO - Flor
al 11. Hennis. a 43-year-old
house Wrecker who says he is
head of a local Ku Klux Klav
ern. said Monday he would be
a candidate for sheriff in the
May Democratic primary.
Hennis said he would run as
a citizen and "not as a politi
cian or Klansnian," said that
he would ask for more deputies,
including Negroes.
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