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70 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
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HIGHLIGHTS OF ‘MISS OMEGA” CONTEST—These lovely young ladies were the participants
in the 'Miss Omega of Mu Phi” contest which was a part of the Annual Scholarship Bene¬
fit Dance of Mu Phi, graduate chapter, Omega Psi Phi fraternity, held recently, at the Cafe
Lincoln Inn.
iTop)—Miss Eunice Wright (third from left) won the coveted crown by polling more votes
than any of the other contestants. Votes were sold at $1 each. Miss Wright also received
a cash award of *50. Miss Willie Mae Baldwin (second from left) was second place winner
and received an award of $30, while Miss Vaughn Betty Jean Snype (third from righti received the
third place award of $20. Misses Eloise (extreme left) Delores Perry (second from
right) and Euris Smith (extreme right) were winners of fourth, fifth and sixth places, respec¬
tively, and received especially selected gifts.
(Bottom, left)—John Q. Jefferson, basileus of Mu Phi, crowns Miss Wright, ‘‘Miss Omega o’
Mu Phi” for 1952. Miss Wright was sponsored by President William K. Payne of Savannal.
State College. She is secretary in the office of the president at Savannah State and the
daughter of Mrs. Eunice C. Wright of Waters Avenue and E. streets, Savannah.
(Bottom Right)—President W. K. Payne of Savannah State College presents Miss Wright thi
first place award of $50, as contestants, Misses Betty Jean Snype and Delores Perry look on
(All Photos by Bowensl
RED CROSS DRIVE GETS
0EE TO GOOD START
All-Out Registration Drive
To Get Underway
Allison Post
To Give Chair
To Hospital
Vaajee Allison Post, No. 2933,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
it; auxiliary will make a pres¬
entation of a wheel chair to the
Charity hospital, Sunday, March
9, at 3 :30 o’clock, at which time
Miss Oralecse Campbell, head
nurse, and her staff will have
open house to the public from
3 30 to 4:30 p. m.
The program will be held
outside of the hospital and will
consist of selections by The
Young Men’s Civic Glee Club,
invocation by the VFW District
Chaplain, and also Junior vice
Commander of the Post, Robert
Spencer; remarks by Mrs. Paul
Steele, president of the Ladies'
Auxiliary of Vance Allison Post;
presentation of the chair by the
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CIO DOES
IT AGAIN
A 130-an hour “package in¬
crease will bring an additional
$46,400 this year for the 213
employees of the Kopper Co.
plant at nearby Charleston, ac¬
cording to Edward S. Gerchak,
assistant State director here in
Savannah.
Features of this contract are
safety bonuses, an an escalator
claus and three days off with
pay for death in the family.
Other contract benefits include
a 7c across the board pay in-
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Dr. VVm. >1. Boyd, who is
directing a state-wide regis¬
tration drive.
All of the civic, social, frater-
nal, religious, political, labor
and other organizations
being asked this week to aid in
the formation of an All-Citi-
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Kappas Give
2 Scholarships
The Savannah Alumni Chap¬
ter of Kappa Alpha Psi frater-
I nity announces the awarding
i of two scholarships from the
! scholarship treasury which was
i originated through its success-
ful Kappa Kowboy Kontest,
: staged in the fall of 1951.
One scholarship will be based
i on scholastic achievement, and
! other qualifications. The sec-
i ond will be based on scholastic
j achievement and athletic abil-
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The Negro Division of the
1952 Red Cross Campaign met
last night at the West Broad
Street YMCA and planned a
complete coverage of the com¬
munity.
Dr. N. H. Collier, chairman,
spoke to the assembled workers
and expressed his desire that
all workers work hard and do
a quick and thorough job of
contacting in the community.
Dr. Collier also announced that
the Savannah State college was
the first to pledge $100.00 to
the 1952 Red Cross campaign.
He also announced that O. L.
Douglas, principal of Alfred E.
Beach high school ahd presi¬
dent of the Chatham County
Teachers’ ‘ Association, stated
that the teachers will contrib¬
ute one hundred per cent.
Hunter Leaf and Mr. Hancock
of the over-all committee gave
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JULIETTE LOW TO BE
I HONORED ON TV
PROGRAM SUNDAY
j NEW YORK — The inspired
work of a Georgia woman who
devoted 20 years of her life to
founding the Girl Scout move¬
ment in the United States will
be dramatized over a national
television networx on Sunday.
March 9.
The woman is Juliette Gor¬
don Low who organized the first
Girl Scout troop at her home in
Savannah on March 12, 1912.
Her struggles to establish the
national and international
scout organizations will be fea¬
tured on the Hallmark Hall of
Fame theater over the NBC net¬
work in tribute to the fortieth
birthday of that occasion.
Miss S’arah Churchill, actress
daughter of the British prime
minister, will be hostess and
narator for the production
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1952
3-JUDGE COURT STUDIES \0\-
SEGIIKGATION SCHOOL PLEA
COLUMBIA, S. C., Mar. 3—A
plea by a number of parents of
Negro school children of Clar ¬
endon County that racial seg¬
regation in the public schools
be abandoned was taken under
advisement today by a three-
iudge federal court.
The plea is based on the in¬
equality of facilities in the
Negro schools to those in the
white schools of the county.
Today’s hearing was a re¬
opening of the case, the initial
hearing having been held at
Charleston last May when
Judge J. Waites Waring rend¬
ered a minority ruling, holding
that the state’s segregation laws
were unlawful while the two
other judge;, Judge John P.
Parker and Judge George Bell
Timmerman, okeyed the segre¬
gated school set up.
The case was later heard by
the U. S. Supreme Court which
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Integration Jn Post Office
Is Lagging, Says NAPE
WASHINGTON— Officials of
the National Alliance of Postal
Employees have told John M
Redding, Assistant Postmaster
General in charge of the Bu¬
reau of Postal Transportation,
that high level integration of
Negro employees is not being
effected with the speed which
the Alliance had been led to
exptct.
Conferring with Mr. Redling
were NAPE President Ashby B-
Carter of Chicago; H. C. Gibson
of Chicago, president of the
Chicago Terminal NAPE Branch;
and W. C. Day of Houston, Tex.,
president of District One of the
NAPE. District Superintendent-
at-Large Thomas P. Botnar sat
Says Town’s Beach Not Restricted-
Nine Drop Suit
RICHMOND, Va. — (ANP I —
Judge Sterling Hutcheson of
the U. S. District court, last
week entered a brief order dis¬
missing a class suit by nine
Negroes in Colonial Beach
against the town charging racial
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HOIV THE AMERICAN RED
CROSS HELPS ALL RACES—
Probably the first friends vic-
j tims of disasters anywhere in
America meet are workers from
the American Red Cross. Reliev-
| ing these persons and helping j
them to reestablish themselves
r; U. Firemen Win Suit
RICHMOND. Va. tANP.
Negro firemen on the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad won a five-
year-old discrimination suit
recently in Federal District
court here.
Judge Sterling Hutche;on
signed an oredr last week en
joining the railroad and the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire¬
men and Enginemen from dis¬
criminating in promotion prac¬
tices against Negro firtman in
their employment on steam lo¬
comotives and Diesel engines.
The original complaint was
filed Feb. 14, 1947. It charged
that the ACL firemen on ac¬
count of their race, were arbit¬
rarily denied promotion to an
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in on the conference as a De¬
partment representative.
Specifically involved are the
post as “Confidential Assistant
to the First Assistant Postmas¬
ter Genera), formerly held by a
Negro, Marsden W Cabell of
West Virginia, but which is nuw
vacant. A white employee is i
said to be executing the duties
of this post. Tlie Alliance wants
a member of the NAPE to be ap¬
pointed to the post.
Also on the Alliance agenda is
the appointment of a Negro to
membership on the staff of the
Personnel Administration, wbo
also happens to be chairman
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beach facilities for white people
only. I
The jurist was asked to 1 1L->- j
miss the suit by Martin A. Mar-;
tin. j
Since tlie suit was dismissed j
"without prejudice,” it can be
hrmioht ill) urntn
in a normal life are only part i
of the innumerable activities of i
the Red Cross. uprooted During the 1951, lives' sev- j
eral floods
of thousands of Americans. In
its rescle activity, the Red Cross
helped these persons, regard¬
less of race. The staffs ad¬
tudcc i nr ai cm nip»Q WHO DIED IN KOREA TO BE BURIED THIS WEEK
I’i'c. Tola ml .1. Collier
The funerals of three
soldiers, Pfc. Toland J. Collier,
Pvt. William Benton and Pfc.
Robert Butler, who died in
Korea, will be held here this
week.
Pfc. Collier’s funeral will be
held Friday afternoon 3:30
o’clock from Butler Memorial
Presbyterian church with inter¬
ment in Laurel Grove cemetery.
1 * U! luneral of Pvt. Benton will
held Saturday I p. m. from
’* u ‘ chapel of Sidney A Jones
Funeral Home, interment in
Pineland, s. C., and the funeral
of Pvt. Robert Butler will bo
held Friday 1 p. m. from St.
Paul CME church.
Pfc. Collier, the son of Dr.
and Mr,. H M. Collter. Sr..
Nov. 29 in Korea following a
brief illness, and Pvt. Benton,
Town officials, in answering
the suit, said the one public
vo 1 1 ai‘f and the beach “are open
, () u jj c |tizens, white and col-
ored, without any restrictions
inip()Sed by thf . governing body
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ministering this aid also were
integrated.
The above series of pictures
illustrated typical scenes during
1951 in the aid of numerous
flood victims througnout the
country. Currently thf Red
Cross is in the midst of its 1952
Member Audit Bureau Circulation
Price 7c
Pvt. William lieuton
the sou of Mrs. I Benton of 728
West Boundary street, was
killed in action in Korea on Nov.
27. Pfc. Butler, the husband of
Mrs. Corine Butler of 1423 Rich¬
ard street, was killed in action
in Korea in November.
Pfc. Collier, 22, was a gradu¬
ate of Beach high school and
Savannah State college, lie
was co-partner with William
Atlanta U. Gets Library
Training Scholarships
ATLANTA, February 19—
iantu unviersity has received a
N™ V,«
for scholarships to the School
of Library Service. Details with
respect to the use of the grant
were made public this week by
Atlanta university’s
ti i\ Rufus E. • dementi
The grant, covering a period
dI five years, will enable Atlan¬
ta university to offer fourteen
scholarships in the School of
Library Service each year; four
$500 scholarships will he given
and ten $300 scholarships. They
will be awarded on a basis ol
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drive for its annual budget.
Many of these funds will help
make such scenes as abc"*’
come true again this year when
others suffer from the ravages
of disaster. The scenes above
are as follows
Upper left; Farms, homes,
NUMBER 21
Pfc. Robert Butler
B Haynes in the Collier-Haynes
Construction Comany. In addi¬
tion to his parents, he is sur¬
vived by six brothers, Dr. H. M.
Dollier, Jr., Capt. Charles Col¬
lier, John, Merritt, Harold and
Lucius Collier; one sister, Mrs.
Ruby- Bryant of Philadelphia,
and two uncles, Dr. N. H. Col-
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Fiery Cross
1 >1111^(1, Hal*'
vard Campus
*---
BOSTON, Mass.—'(ANP)—An¬
tl-Negro demonstration last
week invaded the campus of
staid Harvard university. A 6
foot burning cross was found
outside the rooms of nine Negro
students, Del mar Leightin, dean
of freshmen, confirmed.
A daily newspaper said the
cross was lighted by three stud-
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stores, factories all suffered un¬
told damage and destruction,
bringing misery and Hardship
to owners long after the water
had subsided to its normal level
in floods during 1951. Under its
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