CIAA TOURNAMENT SET MARCH 2-4 AT GREENSBORO COLISEUM i' >iiiiiiii-u From Page I) cause of Monroe. Also on this team is all-CIAA 6-5 James Reid. After a slow start, he has been the hottest rebounder in the conference during the sec ond half of the season. He is also scoring in double figures. Eugene Smiley was on the CIAA second team. Other Win ston-Salem starters will be Johnny Watkins and William English. Clarence E. (Bighouse) Gaines is the colorful coach of the Rams. He passed the 400 mark in victories this season. Rated the best chance to beat out the Rams in the tourney are the Norfolk State Spartans coached by Ernie Fears. Wins ton-Snlem took the title by edg ing Norfolk State 117-113 in a sensational overtime contest. Top players with Norfolk are all-CTAA James Grant, a great shooter, and Essex Thompson, also a sbnrnshooter. a second team choice. Rounding out the top five are Bobby Dandridse. Clarence Rnrnev and Johnnv MeKinney. {< a speedy high "rori'-!^ quintet. This could be the year for the Howard Bisons. A year ago they were the Cinderella players of the tournament. They have a new coach, Marshall Emery, and two great players, Eddie Taylor, flashy playmaker and CIAA second team choice, and Aaron Shingler, a good shooter. Another surprise could be the Virginia Union Panthers, who were not in the tournament last year. Mike Davis, a freshman with a hot hand, is the reason. He is second in scoring to Mon roe with a 30.2 per game aver age. Virginia Union Is also one of the top CIAA teams on de fense. Maryland State is a strong threat with its one-two punch of Levi Fontuine and Mike Chil dress. Fontaine leads the Hawks in scoring with a 25.2 average. Childress gives the team back board strength with his 16.5 re bounds a game. The Hawks are third on offense in the CIAA. The N. C. A & T Aggies are known as a tournament team. They have won four tourneys in the past 10 years. A & T relies on muscles, especially from 6-6 250-pound Ted Campbell, all- j CIAA, and 6-6 William Gilmer, I both tops on the boards and scoring in double figures. Syl FVF.RFTTS Funeral Home 1011 S. Ashe Street 273-9731 Sotoottflc EntwlKjac FteriU-Dm! to|M. Everett Hargatt, Ovnar vester Adams is the team's ace shooter. Adams and Gilmer made the second team in the CIAA. Johnson C. Smith could tome through under the leadership of two CIAA all-stars, Jackie Wil son in backcourt and Reginald Randolph under the boards. The Golden Bulls gave Winston Salem its toughest challenge this season. Elizabeth City features Fred die Lewis, a solid player and all-CIAA, and Doug Brown, a second team selection. The Vik ings have a high scoring quintet capable of taking on any team in the conference. They must be watched. The Hampton Pirates must be rated a darkhorse entry. Their top players are James Anderson off the boards and Wilbur Allen as a shooter. St. Paul's Tigers, once a per ennial loser, are making their second tournament. Fred Brad ley. second team CIAA choice, and Arthur Wynder. a high scorer, are the team's . chief threat?. BTISS ANNOUNCES NEW YOUTH CONFERENCES (Continued from Page 5) contributions to the nation and its communities. In first announcing the pro gram Chairman Bliss pointed out that a Gallup Poll of last year showed that 39 per cent of the nation's college students are un comitted to either political party. He said, "This represents a vast reservoir of potential leaders and candidates for our party and we must get to them first to con vince them that we want and ned them as active participants in the Republican Party." Bliss has repeatedly empha sized the significance of the fact that the United States rapidly is becoming a nation of young voters. He has cited figures show ing that more than 32 million Americans today are in the 21 to 35 age group and that by 1970 nearly 100 million Americans will be under 25 years of age. "It is a matter of plain, hard fact," said Bliss, "that we mu3t sharply increase support of the Republican Party among young people." The youth program is directed by Dr. John Hunger, Director of 1 the Arts and Sciences Division of the Republican National Com mittee, and his assistant. Howard Phillins. Both men have had wide | experience in working with youth j organizations. Hunger, 33, at tended Duke University and the University of North Dakota and received his Ph.D. at the Univer sity of Indiana. He is the former Director of the Institute of Gov ernmental Affairs at the Unlver sitv of Wisconsin. Phillips, 25, is a graduate of Harvard College. He served two years as chairman of the Repub lican Party of Boston. The program Is sponsored jointly by the Republican Na tional Committee and the Repub lican organizations of ' the states in which the conferences are held. Co-sponsors are the Young Republican National Federation and the College Republican Na tional Committee. Selection of students for at tendance at the meetings is made primarily from nominations by faculty members, deans and recognized student leaders at all of the colleges and universities in the states in which the confer ences are held. However, any student within the state in which a conference is held may apply and participate subject to limita tions of facilities. The following, conferences are included in the new series: April 8 ? The University of Iowa, Iowa City; The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. April 15 ? Brown University, Pembroke campus in Providence, R. I. April 15 ? Ohio, Sheraton Columbus Motor Inn, Columbus, Ohio. April 22 ? State University ot New York at Albany; University ol Texas, Austin. April 29 ? Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota; University of New Hampshire, Durham. May 6 ? Georgia State Univer sity, Atlanta; University of Kan sas, Lawrence. May 13 ? Lewis and Clark Col lege, Portland, Oregon. The New York Conference at Albany, April 22, is for students enrolled in colleges outside New York City. A conference for col leges in the metropolitan area is planned for a later date. Savings Bonds Set 20-Year Record In January Sales of U. S. Savings Bonds, Series E, in North Carolina dur ing January were the highest for the month since 1947. Total E Bond sales amounted to $5,707, 003, an increase of more than 10 per cent over sales in January of last year. Combined sales of both Series E and H Bond were $5, 839, OOf! the largest volume sold in 20 years, and were 10.6 per cent above January of a year ago. The 1967 annual dollar goal as signed to North Carolina is $70, 400,000 ? 33 per cent higher than 1966. Sales in January amounted to 8.3 per cent of this goal. "The needs of the economy, the menace of inflation, the ris ing costs of the war in Vietnam, and, in particular, the import ance of involving more American families in the ownership of shares in their country call for a major expansion in Bond sales this year," said W. H. Andrews Jr., State Volunteer Chairman "To meet these pressing needs the Treasury has assigned the greatest quotas since World War IX; *>nd we know that, with the cooperation and determination of each North Carolinian, the State will achieve its dollar quota." Sales in Guilford County dur ing January were $-179,849, which is 8.4 per cent of the County's 1967 quota of ?5,703,519, accord ing to W. H. Andrews, Jr., State Volunteer Chairman. I You'll go better refreshed with ice-cold Coca-Cola. Coke has the taste you never get tired of. Always refresWnct. That's why things go better with Coke after Coke after Coke. The Best Drink In Town things go better.i ^Wlth Coke ?"*lar ?H? authority of Tha Ooc^Cota Company by, GREENSBORO COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.

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