Keep Up With The T Jfu VOL. 17, NO. 24 IBiBti >btBI * ' ^B6BP^ Jip^^^j I fir JBB^^BBBhBBJ^BB^HB^K:M b? MJ&S I JflHB t. ?j^;; declared thb WOMAN OF THE - YEAR in the recent Woman's 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, (Continued on page 4) V , k. - ' r Ik'' iT vi ^ Ji lis? t^ligsK w *""^^Bi^^^^?i8 / *' ' ;;-: .-,- , _ 1 H. < 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 Chnrch P sWlir^H I i i :v- :, . j ' ^ .- t . : - . . i ' . ^ MRS. HELEN B. COLTRANE \ Mrs. Helen B. Coltrane was tries / |tun GREENSBORO, N -wlHi i T College Holds 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 Emanuel Upshaw. a 36-yearOld "NTpcttyi RarKor dn14i ? . - u- ? ? ->? >?>-? AI uiii uain- | 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 ?THE" t 0 ORTH CAROLINA, SATURD^ I mm &SLw 11 :i- - - ::i ; ; i. > ; > * - \ >' , ; C : : : . , 3 60th (oihmencem 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 lank Robbery 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 (Continued on page 4) Read utfi lY, JUNE 7,1958 y jB mM < WjPy ^n < ,r|r, ' I ' Bp I ' *gm m _ M * ~ ^ , eni 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. m r i?AmA I 11. Vy. kjupi CI lit VyUUI L 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 (Continued on page 4) tii The Future Outlook! J Doti PRICE: 5 CENTS 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 Court. 4 ' 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. i, ->r ?;' 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.

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