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See JSC Tigers And Alcorn Braves In Grudge Game Saturday Night The Jackson State College Tigers scored in every stanza in their 1962 Homecoming fea ture attraction as they romped to a 61-0 victory over the Ark ansas AM&N Golden Lions. The Tigers scored with seven minutes left in the first quarter when Roy Curry, senior All America Tiger quarterback, i went over from the seven-yard line to climax a 73-yard drive. Curry’s pass to Dan Pride gave the Tigers and 8-0 lead. Min utes later, “Big Ben” McGee, the Tigers’ one-man gang, blocked an Arkansas punt and Willie Richardson covered the ball for the Tigers’ second score. The Curry-to-Pride com bination clicked again to add two points. Louis McRae put back-to-back touchdowns in the record book as he sneaked over from the three and ran 60 yards for his second TD. Curry passed to Al bert Greer for two points after McRae’s three-yard run. Con version following the 60 - yard run failed. Leslie Duncan scored from the seven and Curry’s aerial hit its target, Willie Richardson, Shop and Sava FOX FURNITURE CO. 410 North Fariah St. Telephone FL 2-5463 See Ua For New Livingroora Suitea for two points. Pride blocked an Arkansas punt on the Lions’ one and on the next play Curry handed off to Alonzo Clark for another TD. Jordan converted. Reuben Marshall ran around right end from the three-yard line to end the scoring. Jackson picked up 23 first downs to seven for Arkansas, gained 435 yards to 41 for the Lions. The Tigers had 171 yards passing to eight for Arkansas and 264 yards rushing. -o School Of... (Continued From Page One) by Mrs. Marie Best, instructor, school of pharmacy; “An Insur ance Program for Pharmacists,” by A. W. Sullivan, vice-presi dent, Midyette-Moor Insurance Agency; and “Investment for the Pharmacist,” by William Calder, manager, A. M. Kidder and Company. The second session featured discussions on “Pharmacy and the State Board: New Phar macy Regulations,” by F. A. Canova, executive secretary of the State Board of Pharmacy; and “Prescription Pricing Pol icy — How to Compute the Professional Fee,” by Hurd Jones, professor of pharmacy at FAMU. W. S. Holt, manager of the Eli Lilly Co., Jacksonville Dis trict, spoke on “The Customer and Public Relations” during the third session. The final session was a sym posium on employer - employee relations. The speakers were: Joseph Awkard, head, depart ment of psychology, FAMU; Carl Andrews Jr., FAMU Uni versity Hospital pharmacist; Mr. Holt, and John R. Foxx of the FAM'U school of pharmacy. The seminar ended with a buf fet dinner for the participants in Jones Hall. : call a : ;DOTTY CAB; ' DAY OR NIGHT ; ; FL 2-4494 ! ; RADIO EQUIPPED ; (This Space Reserved) • r—:-—————— THE ROSE STREET NURSERY AND KINDERGARTEN 821 Rose Street Approved By State Department Of Public Welfare Child Division NOW OPEN FOR CHILDREN FROM TWO TO SIX YEARS OF AGE FROM S A. M. TO 3 P. M. DAILY MONDAY THRU FRIDAY Mrs. Frances R. Greene DIAL FL 2-1213 ■—^g———————■ ' ■■ —— ■ ■■ ———— j People, Spots In The News TAPS? No, just heat exhaus tion felled this gallant bugler, 17, as “he crossed finish line in band contest in Rochester, S-CURVE handsomely marks Alpine road and bridge over reservoir in Neufall, Germany. WINNER of three beau ty titles in Europe in three months: Barbara Balestrino of Union City, N.J. ‘ECONOMY HOUSE,’ painted, decorated and finished by owner, is typical of new trend in low-cost housing. This, one of several models designed by Institute for Essential Housing, Wayne, Pa., was financed by Universal C.I.T. Credit Corporation, with lot as “downpayment.” Senate... | (Continued From Page One) dorsed his nomination in glow ing terms. Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.), the highest integrity and abi lity” and that he was “confident that Higginbotham will make an outstanding Federal Trade I Commissioner.” Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1953, the new FTC mem ber a former Mayor of philadel phia, said Higginbotham was “a man of has practiced law in Philadelphia since 1954 specia lize in civil and appellate suits. He has been a special deputy attorney for the state on pro blems of escheat, those cases involving the return of proper ty to a proper claimant. -o United Supreme. (Continued From Page One) 16th, at the Masonic Temple. Representatives from all of the Southern States, and from California, Arizonia, New Mex ico, Haiti, Hawaii and Liberia Africa will attend the session. Divine services will be held at the Pearl Street A. M. E. Church on Sunday night, Oct. 14 with the sermon being de livered by Dr. Charles W. Stewart, pastor of an A. M. E. Church in Buffalo, N. Y. --. Dr. Charles H. Wesley, pre sident of the Central State Col lege, Wilberforce, Ohio, will be the principal speaker at the an nual banquet to be held Monday night. Candidates will be elevated to the 33rd. and last degree at the Monday session at 3 p. m. in the temple building. Presiding will be Dr. John G. Lewis, Jr., sov ereign grand commander, Baton Rouge, La., and hosts will be r 1,1 1 ——— Southwestern Athletic Conff. Round-Up Two Conference games fea tured last week-ends action in The Southwestern Athletic Con ference. The Wiley Wildcats took the measure of Hie Alcorn College Braves as Alcorn made her in itial start in the league. Alcorn jumped in front near the end of the first period on a twenty yard pass play from Jim Davis to Charley Jones. Lonnie Taylor, a halfback, scored the first two touchdowns for Wiley. The first on a 34 yard pass, and the sec ond on a 12 yard run. In the fourth quarter, Bill Henry, and Fred Dotson added touchdowns as the 41st team coached by Fred Long opened Conference MVC Devils Host Grambling Sat Itta Bena, Miss. — One of the nation’s perennially top ranked grid powers will be seen in action here Saturday night when the vaunted Grambling College Tigers invade Magnolia Stadium to clash with the host Mississippi Vocational College Delta Devils. The Devils, who have yet to beat the Tigers in a series dat ing back to 1957, will be out to pull the upset of the year by toppling the Louisiana invaders who are known for their damag. ing display of grid power. MVC mentor Douglas T. Port er will pull out all stops as his Devils will seek to take the mea sure of Coach Eddie Robinson’s G-Men. Porter is reticent about the attack he will use, but ex pressed optimism that his boys will be “up and ready” for this game. At presstime word was re ceived that the Grambling Col lege band, which was slated to share halftime activities with the 101-member Marching MVC Band, will not be able to appear. Halftime will be by the MVC Band conducted by Ruessell Boone and the high school bands on campus for the college’s sec ond annual Band Day. Kickoff is 7:30 p. m. the Council of Deliberation of Mississippi, and the Stringer Grand Lodge of Miss., of whi^i James G. Giliam, Clarksdale is FOOTBALL MISSISSIPPI VOCATIONAL COLLEGE THE DELTA DEVILS vs GRAMDLING COLLEGE TIGERS GRAMBLING, LOUISIANA MAGNOLIA STADIUM ITTA BENA, MISS. SATURDAY OCTOBER 13th KICKOFF 7:30 PJW. GENERAL ADMISSION ...$1.50 STUDENTS.75« —■ ' — , 1 ”m* play with a 28-7 victory. At Southern, 23,000 fans watched Southern dominate of fensive play by poling up a 271-98 total offense edge over C rambling only to lose 14-3. Late in the first quarter, after two field goal attempts had gone haywire, Southern was on the march again when a halfback fumbled when tackled, and J. D. Garrett, Grambling fullback intercepted in mid-air, and raced 47 yards for a touchdown. In the second quarter, Southern turned an intercepted pass into a field goal, and on the attempt ed on-side kick-off, Charles Cook, Grambling End rumbled 61 yards to end scoring for the day. It was hard nose football at its best as Southern had first and goal at least six times only to have Grambling’s forward wall throw them back. It was a great doy for ends and in Non-Conference Games they dominated scoring. At Mis sissippi Vocational, League Champs Jackson State swamped Mississippi Vocational College as Willie Richardson caught eight passes good for 198 yards, and three touchdowns. He added one catch for a two point con version as he took the lead in Conference scoring with 32 points. Jackson State was warm ing up for homecoming Satur day against Arkansas State who crushed Jarvis 66-6 in Pine Bluff Saturday night. Lugene Jones, punt return specialist scored three touchdowns, and All-A merica Paul McPherson two to lead Coach Van Johnson to his first win as Head Coach. Texas Southern University playing under wraps before her Conference game with Prairie View in Houston Saturday night sprung Charles Green for the first score on quartebrack roll out, Matt Batts for a four yard quickie before hitting Warren Wells for three passes of 54, 32 and 8 yards as the big end was determined to make his presence felt. Halfback Scruggs ended the scoring with a 23 yard scamper as Texas South ern downed Bishop 42-6. JSC Tigers la 51-0 Victory Over Arkaesas Golden Lien rnt v i ^ .. Ana it sun ouiie v^ouege Tigers, sporting four decisive victories, journey to Alcorn A&M College Saturday for their third Southwest Conference en counter. Playing on their own reservation, the Braves are ex pected to go into their war dance in an attempt to drum up the most furious attack since General Custer's Last Stand. The Braves lost their first and only game of the season to Wiley College two weeks ago. Tiger supporters believe that the Braves were looking ahead to the Jackson State College en counter when the Wildcats clawed them to the tune of 28 7. The 1961 Southwest champ ions will go into the Alcorn game with the best defense re cord in the conference, an aver age of 69.5 total points per game. Two of their four oppon ents have been held to negative yardage rushing. The Tigers dominate every department in SWAC statistics. In a grudge game such as the upcoming Braves-Tigers clash, they will have to earn any improvement in these figures. The October 13 game is sche duled for Alcorn's Henderson Stadium at 7:30 p. m. In addition, to the two Confer ence games on Saturday, Octob er 6, 1962, Southern journeys to Dillard University to meet a team that downed Alabama St. 48.6. Grambling will be at home to Tennessee State upset by Morris Brown, and Wiley goes to Dallas to play Bishop. STANDINGS Conference W. L PCT G rambling 1 o 1000 Jackson St. Col 1 0 1000 Texas S. Uni. 1 o 1000 r— Wiley College 1 0 1000 Ark. AM&N Col 0 0 000 Alcorn College 0 1 000 Prairie View 0 1 000 Southern Uni. 0 2 000 All Games W L PCT Jackson State 3 0 1000 Grambling Col. 2 0 1000 Texas Southern 2 0 1000 Wiley College 1 0 1000 Alcorn College 1 1 500 Ar/ AM&N 1 1 500 Prairie View 0 1 000 Southern Uni. 0 2 000 DON'T GAMBLE WHEN YOU CHOOSE YOUR NEXT CAR We Stand Squarely Behind Every Car We Sell. Ask Any of Our Hundreds of Regular Customers CRAIGO, MOTORS, Inc. Plymouth - Valiant - Chrysler * Imperial 419 S. Gallatin St. Jackson, Miss. FOOTBALL JACKSON STATE COLLEGE TIGERS CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS VS ALCORN A&M COLLEGE BRAVES ANNUAL RENEWAL OF TRADITIONAL RIVALRY SPECIAL HALF-TIME SHOW AT HENDERSON FIELD ALCORN COLLEGE, MISS. SATURDAY OCTOBER 13TH KICKOFF 7:30 PM GENERAL ADMISSION..$2.50 STUDENT ADMISSION.$1.00