1D THE CASDUNA TIMES SAT., AUGUST 9,1 I New York Scene

NEW YORK While the record-breakin- g 100 degrees was outside last Sunday, inside at Mikell's Restaurant (97th Street and Columbus Avenue) they were singing "Jingle Bells" around the Xmas tree as the fund-raisin- g campaign opened for the Third Annual Christmas Tree in Harlem. David H. Means, xnior vice president of The New York Bank For Savings and chairman of the Christmas Tree in Harlem Fund Raising Ad- visory Board said this year's drive will raise 59,962 quarters. The next affair, "Chicken, Champagne and Christmas," will be held September 14 at The Mark IV, 147th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.

Sesame Place, the nation's first family play park, opened in Bucks County, Pa. on July 30, with something for everyone, from age three to grownup. Using the Sesame Street, philosophy of combining education with entertainment, Sesame Place provides the kinds of fun that invite active par- ticipation and encourage learning. The park contains a com- plex of more than 100 outdoor play elements and indoor com- puter and science galleries and a family restaurant. The Holcombe Rucker Memorial ITT Summer Basketball League captured four of the five contests from the Camden-Philadelph- ia area, sponsored by the Camden Athletic Associa- tion of Camden, N. J. during games played last weekend at the Nat Holman Gym of City College of New York. South Jersey, n New Yorkers captured only the pre-tee- contest, trouncing the 83-4- 7. Some 800 fans came out to watch the action.

Debbie Allen, star of the Broadway hit, "West Side Story", is helping Tony Brown push his Black College Day '80 marking the March and Rally scheduled for' September 29 in Washington. There'll be competition in the march from bands in three division from the 107 predominate- ly black colleges with cash awards to the winners.

Fashion World Daily, the NYC fashion and beauty newspaper, is celebrating its third anniversary in August and presenting three fashion shows and a party celebration. First fashion show was held Sunday, August 3 at Leviticus.

Bandsman Lionel Hampton is a staunch Republican, and Secretary Wins $25,000 in "Call Johnnie Walker Red" Contest he's smart in the ways of politics. He was delegate to the GOP Rita Porterfield is shown above acepting the $25,000 Grand Prize in the "Call Johnnie Walker Red" Hot he convention, representing the 19th District in Harlem, and Line Contest from John E. Heilmann, left, president and chief executive officer of Somerset Importers, Ltd., was a backer of George Bush all the way. Hamp was also a as "Johnnie Walker" looks on. The presentation was made at the Windows on the World Restaurant on the Nixon man and, as a result, you can now see the Lionel Hamp- 107th Floor of the World Trade Center, New York City. Rita Porterfield is a secretary, who works for the Knox-- . ton Houses inHarlem and on September 7, the opening of the ville, Tenn. school system. While school is closed during the summer, she said that she is "working on a new Gladys Hampton Houses. construction job as a flag girl directing truck traffic." She has never won a contest before. She entered the Johnnie Walker Red Contest through an ad in Ebony magazine. Mrs. Porterfield's winning entry was It's all but certain that Ed Bradley will replace Dan Rather drawn from over 800,000 entries submitted in the contest. Prize winners were selected from entries submit- as1 on 60 Minutes when the latter succeeds Walter Cronkite ted with the correct answers to a question that could only be obtained by calling aEtoll-fre- e number. Nearly evening news anchor on CBSTV news. But don't look for it 470,000 calls were placed by contest entrants to obtain the question. Answer could be found on the labels of until next March. , Johnnie Walker Red Scotch. Second prizes were 500 Johnnie Walker Red decorator telephones. Over 48 of the entries came from point-of-sal- e, which shows that the contest increased consumer awareness and traf- Irv Cross, the ex-jo- ck who has been teaming with Brent fic. Somerset Importers, Ltd., a Norton Simon Inc. company, is exclusive U. S. importer of the Johnnie Musburger, Jayne Kennedy and Jimmy the Greek on The NFL .Walker Scotch whiskies. Today is quitting that show to return to his original broadcast assignment color commentator on various CBS football telecasts. His bosses say it's at his own request, his status isn't being reduced. Friends of Cross say he has grown disgusted Lauch HenryhefrxJfrid with the fluffy format of The NFL Today. He'll now be team- the missingingredient ed each week with Vin Scully. to educate mitaity engineers. Money Jazz pijtnist Eddie Haywood has returned to action with a six-we- teacher-An- ek engagement at Jimmy Weston's East 54th Street spot, Lauchland Henrys a a teaming up with the Tommy Furtado Trio. ..Sarah Vaughan soentist And an engineer He 's gen-unet- y has returned to The Grand Finale for one week. concernhd 'about other people And he has expressed some ofthat "The Birth of a Race," a response by blacks who felt that concern r he pamopaton with the "Birth of a Nation" was racist, was believed to be lost for 60 National Fund for Minority Engineering years. A 60-min- version of the film, originally three hours Students The long, has been located in a private Texas collection. The funds a nonprofit organea-Do- n American Film Institute has preserved a print of the film for attempting to mease the number ofBlacks. Puertolteans. Chicanos. theiational archival collection at the Library of Congress and , will how the film at the AFI Theater in Washington in1 MexKan-Amencan- s andAmerican November. Irxtans enroled in engineering schools. These d 'rnnonties Richard Roundtree is on location in Mexico where they're constitute a nch untapped resource to shooting the film, "Night of the Assassins," U. co hep lil the growing need 'for engineers, production. Pix also has Andres Garcia, Chuck Connors, and a needthat is expected to continue Jorge Rivero in the cast. through the md-1980- s. IBM's sooal'leave program enabled Dr. ABC-TV- Henry to take a 's SUE TIME - The company that produces 's Benson year have to asset series is suing its star, Robert Guillaume for $1 million for the fund. And IBM continued to pay him he full alleged breach of contract, saying he failed to appear for film-- ! salary MA aa a I 1 r . 1 . t 1 The National Fund'for ui ui iicai season s snows... uiaays unigm ana me rips nave Mnonty --sued Motown Records and other for more than $10 million in " Los Angeles Superior Court, for nonpayment and damages. m trunk so Lauchland Henry thinks so. But most important of 6i lots of Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, president of Dillard University in minority engmeemg students enroled at New Orleans, is one of nine new members nominated by the coleges Oxl universities White House to the National Council on the Humanities. Mover the country think so