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Open Golf Tournament To Be Held In Greensboro GREENSBORO The first Gate City Open Golf tournament has been scheduled for the Nocho Park Golf Course here on June 28-29 according to an announce ment released by Arthur Lee, Jr. tournament chairman. The affair, sponsored by the Gate City Golf Association, prom ises to bring together some 200 golfers, chiefly from North Caro lina and Virginia and sprinkling from Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. Lee said, in an interview on Wednesday, “We have every reason to believe that this is to be the largest Negro tourney ever held in the south. We base this on the large num ber of entries which began ar riving on each mail early this week. “In fact Lee continued, “It might be necessary for us to limit the entries to reduce the field if the present pace con tinues.” The tournament will be divid ed into two divisions, one pro fessional and one for the ama teurs. The pros will be vieing for cash prizes totaling SI,OOO while the “simon pures” will be shoot ing for 6 attractive trophies and the honors which go with it. The two day tourney will be played low score medal both divisions with 54 holes, 27 on each day. Entry blanks may be procured by writing: Eugene Levette, sec retary, Windsor Community Cen ter, Greensboro, N. C. Committee chairman for vari ous duties in connection with the tournament are: Pairings, C. J. Stewart, Nocho Park pro; finance committee, Dr. G. Alexander; gallery marshall, E. M. Barber; course maintenance, Eugene Le vette; starter, Vance H. Chavis; official scorer, Mrs. O. C. Brown; housing, A. H. Peeler; rules, C. J. Stewart and traffic and parking, Lonnie E. Reynolds, Sr. CANCEL MUSIC FESTIVAL IN PROTEST SEWANEE, Tenn. (ANP) The cancelling of a teaching and concert contract is the latest of a series of repercussions following the refusal of trustees of the Uni versity of the South to allow Ne gro students to attend the School of Divinity at the university. Members of the faculty of the third annual Cumberland Forest Music Festival, scheduled to be held here June 23 to August 23, last week cancelled their teach ing and concert contract. The festival is sponsored by the university and the George Peabody college for Teachers at Nashville. Prior to the action by the fac ulty of the music festival, eight leading figures in religious in struction at the university, an nounced that they would resign their academic positions unless Negro students were admitted to the university’s School of The ology. In a letter sent by Dr. Roy Harris, American composer, who is head of the festival, the fac ulty said that they had taken the action “in protection of civic and professional well-being.” Dr. Har ris later said that the stand had been taken not only because of E. D. DENNIS Miami’s Only Negro Licensed Bondsman Day or Night Service 1041 N.W. 3rd Are. Miami, Fla. Phone 82-0460 Phone 84-1130 Opa Locka, Fla. ■ i— m 1 11 ; I '■ "* m RadlSTmimTandl I CHILDREN’S APPARBL_| Rationally known I IWATajES-JIWEWjJ Althea Gibson To Give Exhibitions In Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE (ANP) Althea Gibson, champion of the American Tennis Association and the first colored girl to play in Wimbleton, England, will give several exhibition matches in Port-au-Prince, the latter part of June. Arrangements were perfected last week by James O. Plinton, the former United States flyer who operates a successful dry cleaning establishment, the Haitian-Amer ican cleaners here. Plinton took ‘he contracts and tickets for Miss Gibson when he flew to New York last week to purchase addi tional equipment for a new laun dry he has just opened across the street from his dry cleaning plant. Haiti has been keen on tennis for many years, and it is expect ed that Miss Gibson will enjoy some interesting matches during her stay here. Giants Sign Brother- In-Law Os Doby NEW YORK (ANP) For signing a New York Giant base • ball contract, 21-year-old Benny Veal, Seton Hall University center fielder, brother-in-law of Larry Doby, got a nice fat bonus. Veal hit .409 this season at college and was top batter on the team. The Giants sent him to Sunbury, Pa., class B team of their farm sys tem. Sunbury is in the Interstate league. the Negro situation but for “free dom for all of us.” In commenting on the action taken by the festival group, the university faculty said that its members “deeply regretted” the action by the festival group, but ‘jrespect their acknowledgement of our problems.” PICTURES FOR ALL OCCASIONS AND IN ALL AGE GROUPS MAGNOLIA GARDENS K&B PHOTO STUDIO Samuel “Sambo” Harrison, Owner * WE MAKE PHOTOSTATIC COPIES JL AND COPIEB OF YOUR OLD iyAa PICTUREB 1891 Wilmington St. PHONE 31316 Opa Locka, Fla. ■ i ■■■■ I ■— - - ' ■ - M # New LOW PRICE m FOR BSI iVrfTTliil j Ilk ii DISTILLED DRY GIN I 9 tl >3.93 4 A QT. T | $2.49 PT. | V* PINT If ' FIRST GIN DISTILLED IN AMERICA • DISTILLED 90PW0F * THE FLEISCHMANN DISTILLING CORPORATION, PEEKSKILL, N.Y. jCeonarul'b FURNITURE STORE 741 N.W. SECOND AVE. mi mu iMsunin n t “tt ‘ “Y” ADULT PROGRAM INITIATED The summer program, which is designed for adults at the Branch YWCA and YMCA, got off to a good start last week. A night of games initiated the program and community singing, square danc ing and swimming highlighted the week. Although a week of activities has passed it is not too late for you to participate. Regis ter daily at the “Y”, 340 NW 13th st. For information call 82-5602. ‘Y’ SWIMMING CLASSES Instructions in swimming for adults are being conducted for beginners and intermediates at the pool of the Lord Calvert Hotel. Here is your opportunity to learn how to swim. Instructions are given daily from 9:00 a.m.— 5:00 p.m., and Tuesday and Wed nesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. Register today at the YWCA, 340 NW 13th st. or phone 82-5602. C&mpanella Catches His First No-Hitter NEW YORK (CNS) When handsome Carl Erskine pitched his first no hitter last week against the Chicago Cubs, his catcher was Roy Campanella who had to call the important pitches. This was the first time in his career, Roy has caught a no hit ter. Last no hit game pitched by a Dodger was in 1948 with Rex Barney pitching and Bruce Ed wards catching. HAD DOPE IN (CE CREAM FREEZER NEW YORK (CNS)—Caught with 116 packages of heroin in the ice cream freezer of her candy store, 23 year old Mary Suarez, was sentenced this week to the maximum jail term of seven and one-half years. Mary was charg ed with selling the dope to school children who came into her “can dy store.” According to Judge Samuel Joseph, “the store wa» a beehive of industry for gangsters and convicts, and such drug rack et figures as Pontiac Jack and Willie Lump use to meet there.” Before getting into the dope rack et, Mary was a dancer and even went to college. MIAMI TIMES. MIAMI, FLORIDA SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1952 TALMADGE TO CUT OFF EDUCATION FUNDS IF SEGREGATION IS ENDED ATLANTA, Ga. (ANP) —ln the wake of the U. S. Supreme court’s decision to hear arguments on the constitutionality of segre gation in education, Gov. Herman Talmadge said that state funds for elementary and high school sys tems will cease in the event segre gation is abolished. The Georgia governor made that statement after the nation’s high est court agreed before it ad journed for the summer to hear appeals from two cases challeng ing segregaton in education. The cases involve Negroes and school districts in Topeka, Kan., and Clarendon county, S.C. Both cases were heard by a special three judge court. In threatening to cut off state funds, the governor cited a pro vision in the present state appro priation law which prohibits the state board of education from paying funds to any school sys tem which fails to provide sepa rate facilities for the races. The general assembly enacted For Meals Like Mother Used to Cook—-Visit • . . VAL’S Barbecue & Case 454 N.W. 17th Street—Phone 3-9530 The Finest Foods at Common Sense Prices WE SPECIALIZE IN . . . OLD FASHION PIT BARBECUE A selected variety of foods for Breakfast —? 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Some form of scholarship grants would then be devised to aid stu dents to attend private schools, which would be segregated. The governors of Mississippi and South Carolina have both in dicated that they too will cut off funds from state schools of segre gation is ended. BETHEL’S Groceries and Sundries BEER WINE ICE CREAM HOSIERY PAGE BOY CHIGNONS—TOILET ARTICLES PATENT MEDICINES Phone 7 r 9469 6828 N.W. 18th Ave. KOMI FURNISHINGS I ELECTRICAL APPIIANCB | pTHESTORI WITH A I ImILUONFRIINDSJ PAGE FIVE