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VOL. 30, NO. 48
Aggie Basketball: Goin'
To The Promised Land
By Cure ton Lee Johnson
As usual the North Carolina
A&T Aggies have a lot to live
up to as the 1971 basketball
season approaches. Attitudes
among players and coaches are
optimistic and nothing less than
high hopes is expected from one
of the nation's best college
coaches, Cal Irvin.
A&T patched together a rainbow
of talented ball players last
season to record a creditable 248
season record. Most of those
team participants will be back
to help Coach Irvin find the gold
ai tne end of the long season.
"Naturally I'd rather be ranked
seventh in the nation at the
end of the season more than
now," he said contemplating his
squad's top ten preseason rankings
in several sports magazines.
"But nevertheless, I do
feel very optimistic about our
chances this year."
Those returning who will make
coaching less of a chore and
more of an art include guard
William "June" Harris. Labeled
"quick as a cat" and real
tough in one-on-one situations.
Harris was the team's second
leading scorer last year averaging
16.3 points per outing.
A&T can also count on the
services of senior Elmer Austin.
The 6-4 forward cracked the
Aggie starting lineup his fresh
man year and came on to account
for 19.1 markers each
game and lead the team's scoring.
But the playmaker will be 511
guard A1 Carter who averaged
12.9 points. Although an excellent
shot, Carter has sacrificed
himself as a playmaker in
learning to move excellently
without the ball in only two
seasons of play.
Other key players include
senior Melvin Evans, an excellent
shooter (9.2 pt. average),
senior Bobby Parks, a 6-3 forward
and tough under the basket
(9.8 pt. avg.), and Walter
Anderson, 6-7% senior (10 pt.
avg.)
With all this talent, plus the
return of high school All-American
James Outaw, Irvin has a
right to be looking for something
like a national championship.
He will be fielding one of the
shortest teams under his guidance
at A&T "but size doesn't
mean everything," the coach said
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Greensboro National Bank Is
now open for business at the
corner of East Market St. at 100
S. Edward R. Murrow Blvd.
The bank is offering a full and
complete line of banking services.
Services provided are as follows:
personal loans, automobile
loans, business loans, mortgage
loans, ready reserve checking
I accounts, savings accounts and
| certificate of deposits. The bank
HARLEM GLOBE!
OF CITY SUFFER!
Freddie (Curly) Neal, 28, the
Greensboro native and longtime
Harlem Globetrotters drib,
bling master, was showing "conj
tinued improvement" Monday
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pital in. Valpariso, Ind.
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NOVEMBER 5, 1971
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VETERANS ADMI
:IGHTS DRUG Afi
The formal opening of a drug
buse treatment center at Brookyn
Veterans Administration
pspital, recently, brought the
umber of drug rehabilitation
enters operated by VA to 32.1
Brooklyn was the 27th drug
reaimeni unii opened since
une when VA announced plans
or a six-fold increase in its
pecializcd units for veteran'
rug abusers. Five units were
perating in June 1971, at the j
une President Nixon called for
government wide effort to1
eal with drug abuse.
Administrator of Veterans Af- j
sirs Donald E. Johnson noted1
rat as a part of his total attack
n drug abuse, the President in I
is message asked Congress to
lcrease the VA budget by $14,00,000
"to permit the immedite
initiation of this (VA) proram."
With the extra money,
ohnson said, VA has available
l its current budget $17,162,00
for its drug rehabilitation
rograms in Fiscal Year 1972. I
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"This money will be used exclusively
for VA drug treatment
programs, and the highest priority
has been assigned to the
staffing for these programs, and
their maximum possible utilization
by veterans," Johnson
In another step to help veteran
drug users, VA has classified
drug dependence as a medical
emergency for purposes of
admission to VA hospitals. Administrator
Johnson has directed
all 165 VA hospitals to admit
all eligible applicants for hospitalization
and to encourage
those who inquire about treatment
to accept hospitalization.
"If a patient, after admission,
requires services not available
at the admitting hospital, prompt
arrangements will be made foir
transfer to a VA station that
can provide the needed care,"
Johnson directed.
Three additional moves in the
stepped up VA program to help
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