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68 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
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LEGICN DISTRICT ORATORICAL CONTEST
TO BF HELD SUNDAY AT BEACH HIGH SCHOOL
Photo By Cecil’s Photo Studio
_ Daniel . , Williams,
Jr. (left) winner of the local oratorical
contest sponsored by the William P. Jordan Post No. 500, Amer¬
ican Legion, is shown being congratulated bv Matthew B. Wil¬
liams, Sr., (right) the post adjutant. Young Wiliams will
enresent Savannah in the district contest at Beach Mich
X ££>1 of 2-30 p. 500; m. Sunday. Noble A. Spaulding, Others in the photo are several mem-
# ..dance officer Solomon K. Matthews, Jr.,
and W. W. Law, commander.
T’-ie Win. P. Jordan Post. No.
500, American Legion, will be
host to the district "A” High
School oratorical contest- Sun¬
day afternoon at 2:30 p. m. in
the auditorium of Beach High
school. The public is invited to
attend.
Test Suit of SOI Ousted
Teachers Dismissed
Dist. PTA To Hold
Annual Convention atGuyton
Registrars,
Deans to Meet
In Montgm’ry
MONTGOMERY■ Ala—' lANP-
Tbe National Association of
Collegiate Deans and Registr¬
ars will observe its 25th anni¬
versary when it meets at the
Alabama State college here on
March 22-24, according to an¬
nouncements from J. T. Brooks,
registrar of the Alabama State
college- who is serving as pres¬
ident of this organization.
The theme for the tihree-day
ccn'ab is “25 Years in Retro¬
spect — What are the Next
steps”. Dr. Sadie Alexander,
Philadelphia attorney, will be
the keynote speaker at the pub¬
lic session scheduled for March
22 and will speak from the
theme: "The American Idea”.
Other contributors to the pro¬
gram will include Dr. James M
Nebrit of Howard university;
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Recreation
k'- Institute
_
To Be Held In
Atlanta Mar, 8-11
Atlanta Feb. 22—The Georglf
S’ate Recreation Assoc.atior
through its president W. T
Johnson of Augusta announce?
the place and dates of th<? Fourth
State-wide Recreation Institute
as March 8-11 at University-
John Hope Homes,668 Fair St.-
SW.. Atlanta. Ga.
The objectives of the institute
this year are two-fold. To bring
together all professional and
volunteer leaders interested in
Recreation Activities and to de¬
velop and improve skills ol
leadership in Creative Recrea¬
tion, Dramatics- Community
Singing, playground Activities-
Crafts, Folkdancing. Church
Recreation, teen-age Activities
and Public Administration.
These objectives are to be
brought about through the cap¬
able leadership of Miss Grace
Walker- specialist of the Na¬
tional Recreation Association.
New York; A. N. Moye. Director
of Georgia State Parks; Miss
Virginia Carmichael- Recrea¬
tion Director at Atlanta; Fred
Boswell, Supt. of Fulton County
Recreation Department;; Ralph
Robinson. Executive Boy
Scouts o' America; Clarence
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miamtali
Students, along with Legion-
aires from Thomatville, Quit-
man- Swainsboro and possibly
Bainbridge will be present as
guests of Post 500 for this par-
ticular phase of the Legion
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The seventeenth annual con¬
vention of the Savannah Dis¬
trict P. T. Association will be
held in the Effingham County
Training school- Guyton, March
3 and 4.
The session will begin with
a program by the Future P. T.
A's. of Effingham school at 3:30
p. m. Friday and at 5 p. m. a
Founders Day celebration by
the host schools of the county
will be held to w*hich all work¬
ers of the district are invited.
The day’s activities wiil close
with an elaborate social func¬
tion.
Saturday’s session begins at
9:30 a. m. and will be featured
by an address by State Presi¬
dent Knight. For further in¬
formation call Dist. President
J. A. Brinson.
Civil service is fine for gov¬
ernmental employes if they
will only offer it to the public.
Georgia Truck Farmer Expands His 4-H Club
How Llnr.r 1T1H« Ellis Green, ... one ..... of r /-v______ Geor¬
gia’s leading truck farmers, ex¬
panded a one acre 4-H club pro¬
ject into an $8,000 enterprise is
contained in a report received this
week by the U. S. Department of
Igiiculture from the Georgia
State Extension Service.
The report points out that Mr.
Green, who lives near Savannah,
Ga., became interested in truck
farming about 25 years ago when
, he enrolled in 4-H club
was a
by Benjamin Adams, who had re¬
cently been appointed colored
county agent of Chatham County,
Ga.
Mr. Adams urged him to carry
out a truck project, suggesting
that his vegetables could be sold
in nearby Savannah. Also, the
county agent taught him how to
increase his yield by rotating his
crops and by building up the fer¬
Florance Yets Sch. Observe
•
Elected Secretary
Library Trustees
ALPHONSO E. FIELDS
The Board of Trustees ot
Carnegie Library at its regular
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laved Palmer
7 rom Awful Tragedy
S EDA LI A, N. C. (ANP)—File
unknown origin broke out in the
girls’ dormitory at Palmer Me¬
morial Institute here last week and
aused an estimated $150,000 dam¬
age to equipment and facilities..
Had it not been for a freak turn
of events, the building might have
been saved by the hard-fighting
firemen from neighboring towns of
Gibsonville, Burlington, Oak Grove
and Greensboro.
Fortunately, however, the ap¬
proximately 110 students occupy¬
ing Galen Stone Hall were in
Greensboro at the time, attending
a showing of the interracial film
“Pinky.”
The fire broke out in the senter
of the attack of the 50-room brick
Continued on Seven
CHARLESTON, S. C—(ANP)
—The test suit of Mrs. Pearl
Green Shirer, one of the 801 Ne¬
gro school teachers accused of us¬
ing a fradulent key in the Feb.
1.949 teachers’ state examination,
was dismissed by a three judg^
panel in federal court here las t
week.
In the opinion of the jurists,
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4 to be Observed
As Negro Newspaper Week
Kansas City—The nation will
observe its eighth annual “Ne¬
gro Newspaper Week” from
February 26 to March 4- in¬
clusive, Dowdal H. Davis, pres¬
ident of the Negro Newspaper
Publishers Association and gen¬
eral manager of the Kansas City
Call- announces.
Emphasis this year is being
The veterans of Florance
Adult School helped in the
celebration of Negro
week wit’h the following pro¬
gram:
Monday and Tuesday rights
February 13-14—-Vets classes
discussions and display of
notebooks on Negro history.
Wednesday night Feb 15—
Movies “George Washington”
and “Correct English” were
shown by Mrs. Janette Hayes.
Arthur Dwight principal of
Cuyler High school spoke on
“The Contribution of Negroes
to the World.” Mr. Dwigtit was
introduced by Mrs. Elsie A
Brewton. The response was
made by Mrs. Elizabeth L. Gads
den. Thursday night. Feb. 16—
J. Q. Jefferson, president of the
Hub Club- spoke on “Why Is It
Called Negro History Week.”
He was introduced by Mrs. P.
Roberts Dean Eugene Stan¬
ley ot Savannah State College
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Alpha Theta Chapter of
Phi Beta Sorority. Inc., began
its observance of Finer
hood Week with public
Sunday at First African Baptist
church during the Sunday;
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 1850
Ousted AMG Pastor
Asks $25,000
Mississippi Okeys Equal
Teachers Pav Bill
JACKSON, Miss.—(ANP)— A
bill which calls for an appropria¬
tion of $46,000,000 to equalize sal¬
aries of Negro and white teachers
within the state won the unanimous
approval of the house education
committee here last week. The
measure, sponsored by the Miss¬
issippi Education association, plans
equalizing salaries on the basis
of training and experience only.
The amount requested repre¬
sents an increase of $11,600,000
over that appropriated for the cur¬
rent biennium. About $9,600,000
of this figure is to go toward
equalizing salaries, while the re¬
maining $2,000,000 will be used
to furnish transportation for Ne¬
gro pupils.
The association suggested a sai-
uy scale ranging from $2,400 a
year for teachers with masters de¬
grees down to $400 a year for
teachers with only a high school
education.
placed upon the Negro press as
an original source of informa¬
tion about the 15 million Ne¬
groes wtio e rights are at issue
in the current civil liberties
controversy that has gripped
America.
Unlike in previous years, no
radio network show is being
arranged. On the other hand.
tility of his land with legumes.
Four years later, young Green
had grown to manhood and was
operating a 15-acre truck farm.
“Ten acres belonged to my par¬
ents and I was renting an ad¬
ditional five acres,” says Mr.
Green.
Today, according to the report
he owns 238 acres of which 50 are
devoted continuously to truck
crops in a rotation pattern. Last
ZETAS OBSERVING FINER WOMANHOOD WEEK
Above are the chairman, Soror Esther S. Warrick (left) and
co-chairman, Soror Ola B. Dingle, who are heading the local
Finer Womanhood Week observance of Alpha Theta Chapter of
Zeta Phi Sorority. Soror Warrick is basiieus of the chapter.
D. REID ACCEPTS
V-CHAMPIGNSHIP
OF UNC FUND
Dr. Ira DeA. Reid- chairman
of the sociology department,
Havenford College, Havenford.
Pa., has accepted the national
vice chairmanship of tfie. sev-
ento annual appeal of the Unit¬
ed Negro College Fund Dr. F.
D. Patterson- president of the
Fund, announced this week.
Dr, Reid Will serve with Thom
as I. Parkinson, the Fund’s 1950
campaign chairman and presi¬
dent of Equitable Life Assur¬
ance Society- in guiding the na¬
tion-wide campaign for funds
to help meet current operating
expenses of the 32 private col¬
leges and universities that are
members of the Fund. The 1950
drive is scheduled to open in
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stimulus is being given to mem-
ber papers to secure the co-
operation ot radio stations in
their own_communlties to grant
them public service time for
locally-inspired programs.
Also- schools and colleges are
being urged to arrange exhib ¬
its on the Negro Press, to make
visits to nearby newspaper of-
I year, his products brought him
close to $8,000. He had 10 acres
’ of sweetpotatoes, 10 acres of turnip
greens, five of stringbeans, five
of onions, five of cabbage, two
of tomatoes, and the vest in mus-
j tard, collards, and peas.
Mr. Green takes his products
to Savannah two or three times
a week and sells them on the
wholesale market. For example,
his 10 acres of turnips yielded
school hour. Miss Bettye Mil-
i cr a rec ent graduate oi Beach
ligh . . £Cht>o1 . , and an ardent
worker in tins church was
Coctlnued on Pag* Thr*«
NEW YORK—(ANP)—The 20-
year-old squabble between the Rev.
Charles H. Taylor, who was ousted
from the AME Church in ,May,
1947, and Bishop D. Ward Nichols,
was renewed in Supreme Court
before Justice Peter M. Daly here
last Wednesday. Rev. Taylor is
again demanding reinstatement to
the ministry and $25,000 in dam-
Continued on Page Seven
S.Ct. Asked to End Separate
But Equal Educa tion
Washington (ANP)—The ^u
preme court was asked by the
United States- borough Solicitor
General Phipli B. Perlman, to
revoke its 1896 decision up¬
holding expounding the theory
of "separate but equal” educa¬
tional facilities for Negroes and
whites here Thursday. In a
brief filed as “friend of the
court” in the cases of two Ne-
Continued on Page Six
if ices as a means of enabling the
(students to acquire a broader
| j business, understanding of the publishing
This year marks the 123rd
anniversary of the appearance
of “Freedom’s Journal”, the
first newspaper to be publish¬
ed in America by Negroes.
They were John B. Russwurm
and Samuel Cornish.
about 2,500 dozen bunches which
brought from 60 to 90 cents a
dozen bunches, or approximately
$ 2 , 000 .
“Mr. Adams is still my county
agent,” says Mr. Green. He has
been in the county-since I was a
hoy, and I count on him for ad¬
vice. He has been a lot of help to
me, too, in fighting insects and
plant diseases, and in keeping my
land in good
Second Marriage Institute
To Be Held at College
“Factors Influencing Success-
ful Marriage Family Life in
Our Present Society” will be
the theme of the Second An¬
nual Marriage Institute to be
sponsored at Savannah state
College March 13-14, This was 1
announced by William J. Hoiio- |
way, director.
While declining to reltase
the names o f the consultants,
Holloway did point out that four
committees have been set up to
handle different 'phases of the
Institute. However, he did say
that several nationally known
authorities in the field will
serve as consultants as well as
local authorities.
Committee chairmen are Lo-
rese Davis, program; Maceo!
Horne, hospitality; Dean Janie j
L. Lester, housing- and Charles:
J. Smith, publicity.
The trouble with reformers
that two of them so rarely (
agree. A SO,
M - . ■
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
NAACP Board Approves
Conduct of Mobilization
NEW YORK, Feb 16. -Reject-
ing an appeal made by the New
York branch of the National As-
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People to censure Roy
Wilkins, acting secretary, and to
investigate his handling of the
National Emergency Civil Rights
Mobilization, the national hoard
of directors has given Mr. Wilkins
and the national office staff “a
vote of confidence for their part
in the mobilization.”
This motion was adopted with
only three dissenting votes al the
regular monthly meeting of the
board on February 14.
Claiming that the screening pro¬
cess set up for the accreditation
of delegates to the Washington
conference last month had ruled
out some of its members, the
branch filed charges with the board
against the acting secretary. The
board held that tlie evidence did
not sustain the charges.
The board not only approved
the work of Mr. WiikinR hut also
upheld “the careful screening of
credentials” which it said was
made necessary by the conduct of
the branch. The screening had
Continued on Page Six
24,581 Undergo Pre-Marital
Blood Tests
A total of 24,581 blood tests were
given to prospective brides and
grooms by State and private lab¬
oratories under the pre-marital
laws from August 25 through De¬
cember 31, 1949. Of this total,
1,024 or 4.2% were found to be
positive with sypiiillis indicated,
the Laboratory Division of the
Georgia Department of Health re¬
ported today,
“We have recently received full
reports from private laboratories
making blood tests, Mr, E. L.
Webb, Associate Driector of the
Laboratory Division of the Geor¬
gia Department of Public Health
reported, “and these show that
the private laboratories made
7,336 blood tests, of which 231
were positive.
Those found having a positive
blood test are advised to under¬
go medical treatment. When the
physician is satisfied that adequate
treatment has been given and the
patient is non-infeetious the is-
Continued on Page Six
MT
A comment by Stute Agent P.
H. Stone in the report indicates
hat Mr. Green’s truck farm is
used as a model in training 4-11’-
ers in the Savannah area. Hun¬
dreds of clubbers visit it every
year.
Mr. Green, who is now 42, is
married and has seven children.
When he and Mrs. Green started
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College Women’s Glee
Club To Sing Sunday
Hilliary Hatehett, Director
The Women's gee club ol Sa-
Static coll€ ^’
Continued on Page 7
NUMBER 18
j Again Heads TB A. Board
M M Olise Campbell
The Associate boai\r of the
Chatham-Savannah Tuberculosis
and Health Association held a
very interesting and well attended
luncheon meeting at Stewart
Brothers Cafe on Monday, Feb-
uary 13. The highlights of the
meeting were the election of of¬
ficers and a report on the recent
Continued on Page Threa
NAACP
Turns Down
Legion Bid
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—An Am¬
erican Legion invitation to par¬
ticipate in a national anti-Com-
munist conference was rejected
this week by the NAACP board
of directors in a letter to Na¬
tional American Legion Com¬
mander George N. Craig.
While expressing the Associa¬
tion’s opposition to Communism.
Dr. Louis T. Wright, chairman
of the NAACP hoard, asserted
that the NAACP feels that “the
effective way to combat Com¬
munism is to build ... an Am¬
erica that will he so meaningful
for every citizen that Communist
missionaries will find no converts
willing to listen ... an America
without racial discrimination and
segregation, with complete eco¬
nomic, political, and social equality
for all men.”
Dr. Wright noted that among
the organizations joining the Leg¬
ion’s anti-Communist crusade are
several “who favor the segrega¬
tion of Negro Americans in the
armed services and in veterans’
organizations others who bar Ne¬
gro artists from their properties,
others who oppose equality of op¬
portunity in employment; still
others who favor segregated
schools, lily-white residential areas
ami exclusion of Negro Americans
from places of public accommo¬
dation.” Dr. Wright stated that
the NAACP “cannot collaborate
with those who would maintain
the inequalities of tha color bar.”
Following the conference held
in New York, January 28-29, at
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Atty. Brown
To Make Bid
For Seat in North
Carolina House
FRANK BOWERS.......
DURHAM, N. C.— (ANP)—
Atty. Frank Bower, executive sec¬
retary of the local NAACP, filed
notice of his candidacy for the
North Carolina house of repre¬
sentatives with the Durham county-
board of <eieetions Jiere last week.
Brower, the fourth Negro to seek
a seat in the house, is a veteran
of World War II.
A graduate of the North Caro¬
lina College law school, he is a
Shriller, and information officer
of the Old North State Bar as¬
sociation.