Gate City Open Golf Tournament Planned for Greensboro
The Gate City Open Golf tournament will be held June 28-29 at Nocho Park Golf Course Greensboro with about 200 golfers from North Carolina Virginia and a few from Maryland Pennsylvania and New York. Pro prizes total 1000 while amateurs compete for six trophies in a 54 hole low score format over two days. Entry forms are available from Eugene Levette secretary Windsor Community Center Greensboro.
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Greensboro
Nocho Park
Arthur Lee
Gate City Golf Association
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
New York
Lee
South
Simon Pures
Eugene Levette
Windsor Community Center
N. C
C. J. Stewart
Dr. G. Alexander
E. M. Barber
Vance H. Chavis
O. C. Brown
A. H. Peeler
Lonnie E. Reynolds, Sr
Cumberland Forest Music Festival Cancelled In Protest
In Sewanee Tennessee the Cumberland Forest Music Festival faculty cancelled teaching and concert contracts in protest after University of the South trustees refused Negro students admission to the School of Divinity. The festival, sponsored by the university and George Peabody College, was to run June 23 to August 23. Dr Roy Harris, head of the festival, said the action protected civic and professional well being.
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University
School of Theology
Roy Harris
Harris
Althea Gibson to Stage Tennis Exhibitions in Haiti
Althea Gibson, renowned American Tennis Association champion and the first colored woman at Wimbledon, will give several exhibition matches in Port-au-Prince in late June. James O. Plinton arranged the tour after securing contracts and tickets and expanding his Haitian American cleaners operation nearby. Haiti has long valued tennis, and Gibson is expected to provide compelling matches during her stay.
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Port-Au-Prince
ANP
Althea Gibson
American Tennis Association
Wimbleton
England
James O. Plinton
United States Flyer
Plinton
Miss Gibson
New York
Haiti
Giants Sign Brother In Law of Doby
New York Giants sign Benny Veal a Seton Hall center fielder and brother in law of Larry Doby. Veal 21 hit .409 this season and led his college team in hitting. He received a sizeable bonus and was assigned to Sunbury Pennsylvania in the Giants farm system Interstate league.
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NEW York
ANP
New York Giant
Benny Veal
Seton Hall University
Larry Doby
Veal
Giants
Sunbury
University Faculty Responds to Festival Action
The university faculty expressed deep regret over the festival group's action while acknowledging the group's awareness of their problems. The exchange reflects tensions around civil rights rhetoric and campus events.
Summer adult program kicks off at Branch YWCA YMCA
The YWCA YMCA adult program started last week with games, singing, square dancing and swimming. Registration is at the Y, 340 NW 13th St, or call 82-5602. Adult swimming instruction runs daily 9 AM to 5 PM at Lord Calvert Hotel pool, with Tue and Wed evenings 7 to 9 PM.
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YWCA
YMCA
13Th St
Lord Calvert Hotel
Campanella Catches His First No Hitter
Roy Campanella called the pitches for Carl Erskine as he pitched his first no hitter last week against the Chicago Cubs. It marked Campanella’s first career no hit catching and echoed the Dodgers’ last no hitter in 1948 with Rex Barney and Bruce Edwards.
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NEW York
CNL
Carl Erskine
Chicago Cubs
Roy Campanella
Roy
Dodger
Rex Barney
Bruce Edwards
Woman Held In Ice Cream Drug Ring Sentenced
New York Mary Suarez 23 was caught with 116 heroin packages in her candy store freezer. Judge Samuel Joseph called the shop a beehive for gangsters. She received the maximum seven and a half year term after being charged with selling to schoolchildren.
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NEW York
CNS
Mary Suarez
Mary
Samuel Joseph
Pontiac Jack
Willie Lump
Talmadge Threatens Georgia Education Funds If Segregation Ends
Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge warned that state funds for elementary and high schools would be cut if segregation ends. He cited a provision banning funds to districts without separate facilities and said a special session would remove the constitutional constraint, possibly shifting pupils to private schools. Mississippi and South Carolina leaders echoed the stance.
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ANP
U. S. Supreme Court
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Topeka
Kan
Clarendon County
S.C
State Board of Education
General Assembly
Talmadge
Mississippi
South Carolina
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3Rd Ave
Miami, Fla
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Magnolia
Samuel “Sambo” Harrison
Wilmington St
Fleischmanns
America
Fleischmann Distilling Corporation
Peekskill
N. Y
Bethel
18Th Ave
Val
17Th Street
Wade
Poreh
Bronze Building CO
Miami Ave
Ke Furniture Store
Second Ave
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