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declared thb WOMAN OF THE
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Day observance at the United
Institutional Baptist Church,
Greensboro, North Carolina. Mrs.
Coltrane reported a total ol $231
Runners _ up were Mrs. Alice ;
Wade, second place with $210,
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Here are scenes of the 60th
annual commencement exercises
held at A&T College in Greensboro,
N. C., last week.
Top left ? four persons were
awarded honorary degrees, including
from lelt to right: The
Woman Of The Tear At
United Institutional
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Honorable Daniel A. Chapman,
ambassador from Ghana to the
United States and who delivered
the commencement address;
Paul R. Brown, superintendent
of the State Morrison Training
Schooi at Hoffman, N. C.; John
R. Larkins, consultant, N. C. Department
of Public Welfare at
Raleigh and E. R. Merrick, Durham,
recently retired vice-president
- treasurer of the N- C.
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Dr. W. T. Gibbs, president of
the college, presents the degrees.
Top right ? Dr. E. Luther Cunningham,
right, pastor of the
St. Paul's Baptist Church in
Philadelphia, gets an assist with
Upshaw and Smil
II Years Each In E
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more and Elbert S. Smith, white,
of Madison, and Baltimore; were
both sentenced Tuesday to 11
years for their May 20, robbery
of the Stokesdale Commercial
Bank which netted them $18,426.
Upshaw told the court that he
was deeply in debt and when
Smith suggested the idea of pulling
off a robbery that he more or
less acted on an impulse without
thinking. Looking at the idea of
what seemed to be easy money.
Upshaw further, stated that he
and Smith originally planned to
steal some times but then felt
they couldn't transport the tires
back to Baltimore and therefore
fettled on the idea to rob a bank.
Upshaw was left holding-thebag
when he passed their renI
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his hood from pretty, Felecia
Black, Greensboro,' newly1 elected
"Miss A&T", while Dr. W.
T. Gibbs, president, looks on
from center. Dr. Cunningham
delivered the baccalaureate sermon.
Bottom left ? The President's
Reception for graduates,
alumni and friends took on tin
international flavor as James
Dennis, right, Monrovia, Liberia,
one of a score of African students
at the college, passes
through the receiving line of
from left to right: Mrs. Daniel
A. Chapman, Mr. Chapman, Mrs.
Warmoth ?. Gibbs and Dr. Gibbs.
Bottom center ? Oneal Russ.
Wilmington, N. C. is presented
h Sentenced To
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I dezvous place and Smith wasn't
inere; out even if Smith had
met him they would not have
been able to carry out their escape
plans because Upshaw was
being to closely pursued by the
townspeople of Stokesdale.
Upshaw stated that he was in
a stress for money; that he owed
a Baltimore man about $500 and
that the man was putting pressure
on him for the money telling
him to either pay in money
or truck tires.
He declared that he was disgusted
with himself and his failure
to get ahead in life and for
previous offenses against the '
law. Upshaw had left his home
in Mississippi at the age of 13,
had migrated to New Jersey and 1
then to Baltimore when he fell I
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the Third Army Meritorious
Leadership Award, following his
commissioning as a second lieutenant
in, the Army under the
college's ROTCL program. Dr.
Warmoth T. Gibbs, left, makes
the presentation. Bottom right?
Thurman Ballard, Scotland Neck,
N. C., retiring commander of the
Joint-Air Force and Army ROTC
Group at A&T College, was
commissioned second lieutenant
in the Air Force following his
graduation at the college. He
has his bars pinned on by attractive
Yvonne Brown, Yanceyville,
N. C., a coed friend
from North Carolina College in
Durham.
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Upholds Sentence on
Golf Trespass Case
On June 4, the N. C.. Supreme
Court upheld the conviction last
September of six Negroes who
were charged and sentenced for
tresspassing on the Gillespie
Park golf course.
When the six men were sentenced
in Greensboro last September
they appealed to the N.
C. Supreme Court. But in presenting
their case the defendants
did not give the Court the record
of the civil case in which Judge
Hayes granted 10 Negroes an injunction
to prevent the golf
course being operated in a manner
that discriminated against
them because of their race.
After hearing that the North
Carolina Supreme Court had upheld
the sentence that was given
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Argument Leads Tc
i atal Shooting
The frying ancl mixing room /
of the Griffin Baking Company
was the scene of the crime when
Joe T. Clyburn fatally shot Harvey
Nichols during an alleged
argument about the temperature
of a pot of grease used in making
doughnuts, Wednesday, June 4.
Clyburn shot Nichols twice; once
in the heart and once in the lower
part of his leg. Clyburn stated,
officers said, that he did not
know what made him do it. "J
guess, I just got mad," he was
quoted as saying.
Officers stated that when they
arrived at the scene Nichols had
a slight pulse beat but was unconscious.
Some 15 or 20 employes of thd
baking firm were eyewitnesses
to the fatal shooting. Clyburn
made no attempt to run and
was calmly waiting for the officers
to come and take him into
custody.
The weapon used was an automatic
.25 caliber pistol, which
Clyburn said he had thrown over
a fence in the back yard of the
5rm. Police had searched all of
Wednesday morning without
laving found the gun
Clyburn was taken to city jail
where he is being held without
bond. No date has been set for
his hearing in Municipal-County
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l'OP "AWARD FOR BfciVNjSmT
TEACHER
Top award for sculpture in
the seventh Fine Arts Festival
of Guilford County was won by
James E. McMillian, art instructor
at Bennett College. ;
Mr. McMillan's prize-winning
entry, titled "Pensive Mood" is
carved in wood and shows a
male figure in deep concentration.
For this, he received a
silver loving cup.
The Bennett artist also received
plate merit awards, onefor
a drawing, "Outsider," end
the other for an oil painting,.
"Mother and Child."
All prize winning entries in
music, literature and are were
on display in the gymnasium at.
High Point College from Friday
until Sunday.
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GRADUTES FROM
OTTERBEIN COLLEGE
Miss Margaret Hall, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Hall of
Pleasant Garden, will be graduated
from Otterhein College,
Westerville, Ohio, on June 2
She will receive a B. A. degre*
with a major in speech educaon.