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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17
Leaders Tied
In Two C'burg
Bowl Leagues

Friendly Tavern and Baker
Motors are still tied for the lead
in the businessmen's $3.50" bowl
ing league at Gaithersburg Dala-
mar Lanes. Ruth's Beauty Shop
and Hershey's Cleaners are lock-
ed in first place of the ladies
league.
Only change in the individual
honors is a new high spare king,
John Smith with SO. Top spare
roller up until now, Billy CHS
well, has 35. Monk Briggs top
average has been cut to lib.
Friendly Tavern held onto its
high game mark of SIS this week
while upping its high set record
to 1,642.
Ruth's Beauty Shop leads the
ladies league in both high set and
high game scores, with 1,504 and
sic respectively.
Wards Cab continues at the
top of the 1925" league at Dala-
mar. Hun Ambrose and Ernie
Layman are tied for top spare
honors with 80 each. Ambrose
new high average is 113. Charles
Sadtler this week set new high
game mark of 149 and high
strike total of H.
No other individual honors
shifted in the 1925" league.
Epworth Methodist Church No.
2 is leading the giant 16-team
church league at Dalamar. Four
churches are tied for second
Hugh Stup boasts most of the
Individual honors. The st. Lukes
bowler owns high average of
1868, high set total of 351, and
high strike mark of 7. Sidney
Brake has most spares, %. st.
Lukes No. | tops both the high
set and high game columns with
1864 and $50 respectively.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17

ing only the lightest shoulder and
hip pads, no thigh guards, and
loW-cut cleats. 81 did those things
so I'd be faster" explains Steve.
More than one insider suggested
he did them to attract attention.
BagaruS never had another
year like his 1915 season - and
he never did get to play with
the Bears. In 1916 he was both
cred by groin injury. He was
traded to the Cleveland (noW Los
Angeles) Rams at seasons end.
He broke his leg in the second
game of the 1947 season Che adj
mits thigh guards would have pre-
vented the injury and sat out
the rest of the season. He was
back with the Skins briefly in
194S, but clashed with strong-will-
ed owner George Marshall and
babe pro football goodbye.
He sold appliances for year,
then went with Barry-Pate. Il
like selling cars" Steve claims.
GAS you know 1 always liked
freedom. On this job come and
go as 1 please"
Of all his big moments in foot
ball, the most memorable, says
Steve, was the 1913 Redskin-Col-
lege All-Star game. He'd always
hoped to play for the collegians.
Instead he played for the Red
skins!
AS a player and now as a spec
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17
Pick Baseball Heads

The Montgomery County Boys
Baseball Association elected new
officers at its meeting Monday
night. Malcolm w. Jensen re-
places Don Gaynor as president;
E. Evans Buchanan is new vice
president; Charles r. Smith was
chosen secretary; and Charles
Beebe was named treasurer.
A participation report presented
at Mondays meeting stated that
1,475 players played on 20 teams
during the past season. A total
Of 612 games were played.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17
bona Sylvester,
Navy Man, Takes
| Area Net Titles

Navy 1t. Jack McConnaughy
won the mems singles tennis
championship sponsored by the
Washington Grove-Gaithersburg
Recreation Association. He de.
feated two.year defending champ
Philip Winters in the final, 6.3,
60, 60.
1t, McConnaughy teamed with
Holly Callan to defeat Arnold
Solo and Robert Myers for the
mems doubles crown, 6.2, 6.3, 60.
Mrs. Dona Sylvester success.
fully defended her women's sin
giles title, downing Mrs. Cathy
Winters Cd, 81.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17
At Rockville
At Rockville
Grady Motors
Keeps Bowling
League Grown

Grady Motors won three games
from Miller High Life at Green
way Alleys last week in the Mems
District Major Bowling League.
Grady has been in first place all
season. They take on second place
Silent Sales at Rockville this
week.
Bealls ESQ set several new
records in beating Martin and
Boyd last week in the Ladies Dis
trict Minor League. Dollie Var
rington is now tied for high set
with 403. The team set a new
high game mark of 632.
In the Mems District Minor
League the Rockville Center team
lost three games to Chatter Bar
last week and in the Maryland
Interstate League, the Rockville
team won two games from Sykes
vile.
SANKEY'S TaStee Diner contin-
ues to lead the 1855" commercial
league at the Rockville alleys by
a comfortable margin. United
Carburetor is still setting the
pace in the ladies league. Chuck's
Mobile and Martinizing are tied
for the lead in the 1925" COM
mercial league.
Collins Brothers holds the high
game and high set records in the
1855" league with 649 and 1874
respectively.
Tommy Cline is running away
with individual honors in the
1925" league. He has high aver
age with 120.25, most spares, 100,
most strikes, %, and high set,
438. Earl Gooding has best game
ia.
Chuck's Mobile owns both the
high game and high set marks in
the 1925" league, $40 and 1872.
In the ladies league United
Carburetor tops the high game
and high set columns with 54S
and 1,543.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17
Basketball Preview
Coming Next Week

Most Montgomery County
high school athletes are ex.
changing their cIeats and he'll
NETS for sneakers and shorts
this week. Basketball practice
has started! On the sports
page of the Sentinel next week
you will find a preview of all
the COunty's quints complete
with photos, lineups, and limb
hanging guesses by the coach
eS.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17

town Prep; RMHS fell before
win column, smashing Phelps
and Blair had trouble getting
Gaithersburg was leading the
Little Hoyas 7-6 until the last two
minutes of play when Georgetown
Prep fullback Jack Schaefer
cracked over from eight yards out
to give Prep 1877 victory. The
late score followed a bad Gath
ersburg punt that gave the Little
Hoyas the ball only II yards from
the Trojan goal.
Prep drew first blood in the
second quarter when Chick Lea
sure hit Dennis Forester with a
15-yard I'd pass. The extra point
try was no good.
Gaithersburg scored in the third
quarter when Arthur Huerta ran
an intercepted pass 40 yards to
the Georgetown Prep eight, then
on the next play hit pay dirt. I'm
til the Little Hoyas' late score
Bump Kephart's conversion look
ed like the winning margin.
Gaithersburg posted two-win,
five-loss, one-tie season mark.
Rockets Face knights
Saturday afternoons RMHS-
Wheaton game at Blair Stadium
is another intra-County rivalry
where spirit will tell more than
strength. Wheaton, record-wise,
is the County's top eleven. The
Knights have lost only to Har-
pers Ferry and Sherwood. The
Rockets have beaten only Fred
erick and tied Suitland. They
dropped all other games.
LaPlata closed its season by
smashing RMHS 1876 last week
The Rockets scored on a 16-yard
Randolph Boncek to Roger Bride
pass.
Wheaton was shocked 60 by
Sherwood. Irving Cooper gallop.
ed 10 yards for the only tally.
The Warriors had started the sea.
son strong but have been unable
to win in their last four games
They closed their season with a
4-3-1 record.
Blair Shares Crown
Blair moved into a tie for the
lead in the Bi-County League with
Saturdays 1877 squeak past B-CC.
The Blazers and Bladensburg end.
ed their seasons with 81 league
records. Bladensburg defeated
Blair 24-0 early in the season, the
Blazers first loss in two years.
Two early fumbles cost B-CC
last weeks traditional rivalry
Blair recovered two Baron bob
bles in the first three B.CC plays
and scored both times. Joe Zav,
ona and Eddie Ricketts, tailed for
Blair; Harold Sowders passed to
Jim Demasi in the third quarter
for the lone B-CC score. The
Barons ended their year with a
three.win, five loss record. Blair
won five, lost two, and tied one
Carver Wins
Coach John Jones gives his
lines defensive play full credit
for Carver's 27-0 victory over
Phelps J.V 1t was Carver's first
victory of the year. Passes from
Junius Johnson accounted for the
first three Eagle scores. He hi
Douglas Kane and Alex Hariday
with 20-yard losses in the first
quarter and connected with Hari
day again in the third quarter
for a 40 yard I'D play. Carver
fullback Carlton Jackson also tai
lied in the third quarter, Gaping
a 60-yard march with three yard
plunge.
AS insurance, Hariday booted
three extra points in four tries.
Carver closes its season tomor
row, journeying to Manassas.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17
Football


Lab "a took a step closer to
clinching second place in t h e
intra.mural touch football league
by defeating Center Command
1910 last weekend. Naval Dental
School has already captured first
place by completing its nine. game
season undefeated
Should Lab "a lose its final
gridl tilt to Lab % Saturday it
will be tied with the Center Com.
mand for second place. Both
clubs would have Sd season
marks. Medical Center officials
say a playoff game would be ar.
ranged, possibly on Thanksgiving,
VolIey Ball
The center's girls volley ball
team dropped its last game to
the Quantico Lady Marines 29-6
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17

John Hitselberg of the
Farmers Supply team won the
prize i'm the special turkey
shoot" bowling match at DaIa.
mar. Hitselberg's average is
95. In the special match for
the 1920" league he rolled 100.
Second place went to Jim Tap
scott who rolled 1873; his av-
erage is 1917. The turkey
shoot" matches will continue
says Dalamar manager Jim
Wilson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17
Fans Liked OO's Eccentricities, Boss Didn't
SteUe Bagarus

No one could call Steve Baga-
rus lazy" football player. The
Redskins former "O0' could def.
initely be called eccentric" how
ever.
While World War II curtailed
the football careers of many play
ers, it gave Steve's boost. Sta
toned most of the war at an
anti,aircraft gun battery outside
San Diego, Calf, dark, handsome
!, Steve played weekends with the
} San Diego Bombers of the Pacif-
ic Coast League. He took his
leaves during the Redskins ex-
hibition schedule so he could gain
backfield experience with them
And on top of that, he played bas-
ketball with a service quint!
Steve can tolerate only one
boss: Steve Bagarus. While this
trait won him many reams of
newspaper copy and many fans
who still remember his capers, it
possibly cut short a budding pro
grid career.
Away from the glamour of pro
football seven seasons, living in
Bethesda, the father of two boys,
Steve says he's making more
money selling automobiles for
Barry-Pate Chevrolet than he did
on the gridiron. But after Sum-
day afternoon watching from the
stands, Steve thinks, Maybe if l
could lose about 20 pounds and
get back in shape, 1 could play
another year or two"
Steve was born SO years ago in
the shadow of Notre Dame, at
South Bend, Ind. His first for
NAL football experience was in
the backfield at Washington High
School in South Bend. 1t was
natural that he should attend
Notre Dame. And to experience
ed football brain its was just as
natural that the fast and Shifty
runner should play in the Irish
backfield in 1888, 1889, and 1910
under immortal Elmer Layden.
Qn those days Steve was used
mostly on defenSe.)
Steve majored in physical edu.
cation at Notre Dame, intending
to become a coach when his play
ing days were through. Even in
those early college years the half.
back nursed a secret ambition to
play pro football with the then.
kings of the sport, the Chicago
Bears.
But before Bagarus could start
his final year at the South Bend
college the war erupted and he
was drafted.
During the war years the Paci
fic Coast League was kept alive
by servicemen playing on week.
ends. In addition to Bagarus
Wee Willie Wilkin, Jack Jacobs
Fred Guerki, and other pros ex
changed steel helmets for football
y helmets on Sundays. Steve began
= to attract attention on the coast
during the war. He was named
All-League back in 1871, AZ, 43
and a, his years with San Diego
He lead the league in scoring his
first three years and was beat
out by team-mate-by just two
points-the other season.
A San Diego sports writer
George Harris, liked the Bagarus
potential and advised George
Marshall, Redskin owner, to sign
up the youngster. Pro football
teams were scraping the bottom
of the barrel for man power in
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17
3 JOckies HOnOred

Eddie Arcaro, Earl Sande, and
George Woolf are the first three
jockies to win a place in the Rae.
ing Hall of Fame at Baltimore's
Pimlico Race Track. They were
selected in a national poll Of
newspaper, radio, and television
sports reporters.
Arcaro is the only ioctcy .".'.
ored who is still riding. Wooli
died in 1916 as a result of a rae.
ing accident.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-11-17

and 1911. The female Sailors
have a season mark of three wins
and four losses with games re-
naming against Fort Meade and
the Walter Reed Wac officers.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-09-16

tributable to wide variety OF
causes, including steady economic
recovery in the European coun-
tries and the fact that in ten years
the vast majority of the surviving
Jews had had time to re-establlsh
themselves and to share in the
general betterment of conditions.
Barring further catastrophes.
therefore. Rosh Hashonah 57l6
presents picture of continuing
progress toward the day when
the Jewish communities Of West
ern Europe can take over the re-
sponsibilitY for meeting their own
problems. But while in that part
of the world JDC can look back to
ten years of postwar accomplish
ment. elsewhere a realistic stock
taking Of the problems of the
aged. Ill and handicapped in Israel
who are ,JDC's responsibility
through its Malben program.
would show that far more must
yet be done than has already been
done. In Moslem countries what
JDC has done in the battle against
poverty. disease and fear is only
the first skirmish of bitter war.
To the extent fhat the JewrY OF
Western Europe can begin to
stand on ;ts own feet TO that ex-
tent can JDC increasingly channel
its energies into its major areas of
acfivitY-Israel and the Moslem
countries.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-09-16
Savannah, Georgia
West Euro pes
JewFY RebuiIds

of JDC's work may be regarded
as complete.
In ls45 the Annual Report
showed that so percent of the
100000 Jews left in continental
Europe were in need of direct re-
lief from JDC. Today. because of
the vast migration. there are few
er than 100000 remaining in this
area. Of these. about 100000 are
in the so-called Iron Curtain"
countries. for which there are. of
course. no welfare figures. In the
other continental countries there
are approximately 100000 Jews.
Of this number less than 10000
are still listed on Jewish relief
rolls. a figure Of about six per-
cent.
This amazing recovery is at
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-09-16
(Continued from Page 45)

To this there is as yet no final
answer; there is only record of
steady work on JDC's part which,
as the figures show, has resulted
in an amazing improvement.
There remains, however, an i'm
portant job to do before this phase
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-02
ATTACK FEDERAL AID
TO SOUTHERN STATES

Washington, d. c., June 27.-An
attack was leveled Tuesday against
southern states getting larger
slices of Federal appropriations
than the northern states which pay
a heavier proportion of Federal
taxes.
Representative James T. Patter~
son, Republican of Connecticut,
called the Gore multi-billion dollar
highway bill "Dixiecrat move"
to build super-highways in the
South instead of the local roads
needed by his and other states.
Roads In North
He also called the bill sponsored
by Senator Albert Gore, Republi-
can, of Tennessee, an effort by
"unscrupulous contractors, using
cheap southern migratory labor, to
underbid contractors for the build
ing of roads in the north"
Under "Dixiecrat domination -
Patterson charged, $7.75 billion will
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-02
NEGRO TEACHER FIGHTING TO
HOLD Cash AND PROPERTY
LEFT HER BY White aunt

Jackson, N. c., June 26.-More
evidence in a trial contesting the
will of Mrs. L. M. Hawks, a Grays-
burg white widow, who left $4,000
in cash, a farm and other real es-
tate to Mrs. Amanda Peale Horne,
Negro, was heard here this week
by an all-white Northampton Coun-
ty Superior Court jury. Mrs.
Horne is an instructor at Hampton
Institute, Hampton, Virginia, and
holds a Ph.D. degree from Chicago
University.
The documents presented as the
white woman's will and allegedly
signed by her, described Mrs. Horne
as zone l have looked after and
considered my foster daughter
since her birth, and knowing her
to be my brother Charles daugh-
ter"
Contesting the will is Mrs. Lucy
M. Gay of Garysburg, Mrs. Hawks
sister. The former filed caveat
charging that the signature to the
will was obtained "by undue and
improper influence and duress."
A Negro attorney, Charles Will
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-02
Council On African Affairs Plans
To Terminate All Its Activities

New York, N. Y, June 28 -
The Executive Board of the Coun-
Gil on African Affairs, after care
full elaboration, has unanimously
voted to dissolve the organization
and terminate ali it's activities.
In reaching this decision the
Board took into consideration the
developing widespread interest in
the African peoples advancement,
engendered by their mounting
struggles for freedom and high
lighted by the recent Asian-Afri-
can Conference. 1t is clear that
the pioneering work which the
Council performed in making Amer
leans Africa-conscious and rallying
their support for African and co.
lonial liberation is being increasing
ly taken up by other established or
CARNATIONS and institutions of Me-
gro and white Americans. The
arena of struggle for African free
dom is broadening.
The board also took into consid-
GRAFTON the fact that continuing
Government harrassment makes
further impossible. Just as the
State Department has denied the
right of Paul Robson to travel
abroad because, among other
things, of his activity ain behalf
of the independence of the colonial
peoples of Africa (and) the
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-02

hanson of Henderson, testified
yesterday that Mrs. Hawks came
to his office Aug. 20, 1851, and
had him draw the will. He offered
it for probate shortly after her
death on March 7, 1854.
Mrs. Hawks instructed him to
hold the will in his office, William
son told the court, until after her
death. One section of the docu-
ment read: to clear up any ques-
ton, l had this will drawn up out
ct this Northampton county so
no one will attempt to change my
plans and l have left this will in
the care of an attorney in Hender-
son to see that it is properly car
ried out"
The purported will bequeathed
to Mrs. Gay for her lifetime one
half interest in two lots the sisters
owned jointly in Garysburg and
one-half interest in a farm OF
about AGO acres. At Mrs. Gays
death, the purported will stated,
the remainder Of the said one-half
interest to go to Amanda Peale
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-02
School Children
To Get More
Cheaper Milk

Cheaper and more plentiful milk
for school children's lunches was
foreseen here by Acting Secretary
of Agriculture True D. Morse in
announcing changes in the special
school milk program.
Mr.. Morse, appearing in connec-
ton with the nationwide Civil De-
Tense and government evacuation
exercise, issued a statement say
ing three major revisions are plan
ned for the next school year:
1. Schools will be reimbursed by
the government for all milk served
as a separate item"-that is in
excess of the half-pint served as
part of the lunch program.
2. State education agencies will
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-02
State 0ddfelIoWs
ToGet Royal
Welcome At
|vicksburg Meet
Local Committee
Working To
Complete Plans

Vicksburg, Miss, June 28.-It is
predicted that when the Mississippi
Grand Lodge of the Grand United
Order of Odd Fellows convenes
here on Monday, August 8, the Of
ficers and members of that body
will find themselves overwhelmed
with the spirit welcome.
A steering committee, composed
of the top ranking officers Of seven
local branches located here in
Vicksburg and Warren county, is
working diligently to make every
thing delightful, comfortable and
their short stay in this friendly
city.
The committee is urging every
individual and groups of individ-
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-02
PUBLICITY I'm NATIONALLY READ
MAGAZINE LEADS TO CHECK ON
STANDING OF BUSINESS
ETERPRISES OF MOUND BAYOU
PHYSICIAN AND NEGRO LEADER
FIogging Rumor Scotched

Mound Bayou, Miss, June 81
(DSN)-A check on the business
enterprises headed by DR.. T. r. M.
Howard, the widely known local
physician and surgeon, and Negro
leader of the state, following the
widely read article which appeared
recently in the nationally read
OUR WORLD magazine, revealed,
despite the glowing picture paint
ed in Our World, that the doctors
Mound Bayou empire is already
beginning to crumble.
Since his advent into Mound
Bayou as chief medical officer of
the Knights and Daughters of Ia
Dor, the organization with which
he broke after an unsuccessful eff
fort to take over its leadership,
DR.. Howard has organized and be-
come the head Of the Magnolia
Mutual Life Insurance Company,
The United Order of Friendship,
and the Regional Council of Negro
Leadership.
According to reports regarding
the Magnolia Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company the State Insurance
Commissioner said recently that
following the last report of the &C
Invites and business of the COM
pany its license to dc business in
the state would have been discon-
tinued, except for the fact that
it would have given certain people
the opportunity to say that the
company had been closed because
of DR.. Towards activities as
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-02
Southern Has 2291
lin Summer School

Baton Rouge, La, June 81
Southern University, which was re-
Gently listed by the U. S. Depart
ment of Education as being the
largest Negro College in America,
has an enrolment of 2,291 for the
Summer Session.
]. J. Hedgemon, Registrar at
Southern, in his announcements
stated that the enrolment exceeded
some SEQ more than his most am
bilious estimates.
In the statistics on fall enroll
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-02
Toledo School
Gets Negro
Principal

TOLEDO, Ohio, June 20 - A
precedent was established in the
Toledo public school system when
a Negro became principal of Gunc-
KEEL School and a Negro woman was
named to supervisory position for
the first time.
Emory L. Leveretto was elevated
to the principalship after serving
II years as an assistant principal
at Gunckel. Mrs. Louise j. Brewer
was appointed to succeed Leveretto
as assistant principal.
Gunckel is predominantly Ne
gro school with an enrolment of
more than 1,400 and a mixed fac
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-02
NEGRO PROFESSOR APPOINTED
TO LOUISVILLE COLLEGE STAFF

LOUISVILLE, KY, June 27-Dr.
Henry S. Wilson has been APP
pionted to the faculty of Bellarmine
College. Announcement of Wilson's
appointment was made here last
week by the Rev. John T. Lotus,
dean of the college.
First Named
Wilson is the first Negro to be
named to the teaching staff of this
Catholic mems college. However,
Negro students have been admitted
since the school opened in 1850.
The 53-year-old professor was
former chairman of the division of