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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
SERVICE AWARDERS FETED—In recognition of loyal str- are, lert to rigm: Francis w. Keiiey, manager, industrial rela-
vice, 31 Negro eirroloyees of the Savannah plant of Union Bagtions division, who presented service award pens; T C. Johnson
and Paper Corporation were honored at a service award dinner and V. E. Kelly, following executives the banquet. of the Savannah planit who made
an last Thursday night. In the background of above picture short talks
Thirty-one Negro
of the Savannah plant of
Union Bag ,& Paper
were recognized for loyal
at a service award dinner
at the Lincoln Inn on
Thursday.
At the conclusion of the
quet the service award
were presented by Francis
Kelley, manager of the
Blast Kills 4 at Howard
Sugar Work¬
ers Get Raise
Workers at the Savannah
Sugar Refining Company have
received an additional 4%t
wage increase. This last in-
crease which became
March 17th brings to 10c an
hour the total increase since
the CIO undertook to take a
survey ol the desire for a union
at the Savannah Sugar Refining
Co. The first increase of 5%c
became effective Monday, Mar.
3rd.
With male workers at
National Sugar Refinery getting
a minimum of $1.54 per
most of the Savannah sugar
workers realize that they
still underpayed by as much as
thirty and forty cents an hour;
this, in spite of the fact that
the Savannah plant is one of
the fastest producing plants in
the world.
In addition to higher wages
sugar workers under CIO con¬
tract receive other benefits not
received by the Savannah sug¬
ar workers. For example, the
American Sugar Refining com¬
pany whose employees have a
CIO union gives 10 paid holi-
lays each year (with double
time and a half if worked).
The vast majority of Savannah
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He Made History In
y
When Fleming < Junior i
played shortstop for the
vannah Indians last night
Grayson stadium in their
hibition game against t
Philadelphia Athletics he
play on a Savannah or
play on a Savannah or
white professional baseball
Reedy was loaned to
nah for this particular
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trial relations division, and
j short talks were made by T. C.
Johnson, general
j superintendent of the pulp and
paper division, and V. E. Kelly,
manager of the bag division.
i Leonard Law of the company’s
industrial the master relations of ceremonies. division j
was service]
Those receiving
awards were as follows: 15;
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HEAD SURGEON — Dr.
R j C j iar( j Laurey has been
pointed professor and head ,
the Department of
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Cinci Scores in Fight For
Fair Employment Practices
Boy Scouts Aid
Registration Drive
Boy Scouts are helping
All-Citizens Registration
mittee with the
registration drive, it was
nounced by W. W.
chairman. The Scouts
the distribution of 15,000
lets urging Negro citizens
leaflets are being distributed in
every section of the city and
county.
The distribution of the leaf¬
lets is under the supervision of
M. W. Washington and Cecil
Maddox of the Registration
Committee.
The leaflets being distributed
by the registration committee
| urge citizens o go to the Coun-
| ty Courthouse to register be-
1 tween the hours of 9:00 a. m.
; and 5:00 P m. Mondays thru
; Fridays and from 9:00 a. m, to
j 1:00 p. m. on Saturdays. The
i iast statement on the elaflet
warns that “a voteless people is
1 a helpless people.”
CDCs TO MEET
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
The Citizens Democratic club
will hold its regular meeting
Wednesday night, April 9, at
the Recreation Center, 37 th
: and Ogeechee Rd„ at 8 o’clock.
The president asks that all
members rally to the support of
their precinct chairmen and
^ e j r meetings. He also asks j
every registered voter make !
himself a a committee to see 1
that some unregistered person
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■ year service awards: Eugene
Brown, Floyd Butler, Charlie
Cook ' John Davls ’, John Garrct t
Isaac E Gllliso Robert H .
Hudson, Edward Green, Jr., Ed
Lotson, Joe Lovett. Thomas E.
Nobles, Walter Perry, Willie
Reynolds, James L. Simmons,
Sam Smith. Pete P. Stanfield.
Ed C. Walker; 10-year service
WASHINGTON — (ANP) —
Four persons were killed and
several wounded last Thursday
when two explosions ripped
through the chemistry building
at Howard university.
The dead were identified as
Eugene Gough, superintendent
of the custodial staff; James
Clinton and Clinton Irvine of
the maintained staff, and
Alfonso Smith, custodian.
The blast was caused by ac¬
cidental combination or potas¬
sium chlorate and sulphar
while the custodians were mov¬
ing jars of the chemicals from
the basement according to Fire
Marshall Ray Roberts.
Police claim that another
batch of chemicals stored else¬
where in the basement appar¬
ently exploded first. Hearing
this blast, James K. Williams,
another janitor who was helping
on Seven)
CINCINNATI, March 27 —
This Mid-western city moved a
step closer to carrying out the
spirit and letter of fair em¬
ployment practices this week, as
the Cincinnati branch of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
succeed , in . gaining . . employment __,______.
for Negro bricklayers on a
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A ■
VISITED DERST BAKING
The pupils of Mrs. V. C.
brook’s 7th grade class of Flor-
ance school visited the
Baking Company recently
were extended a most
welcome to this
welcome to this
Savannah enterprise by R. M.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1952
awards: James Covington, Hil¬
liard L. Edwards, Willie Hall,
Harris Hamilton, Sumlin John¬
son, Robert Jones, Frank King.
Fred Robert, Joe Sears, Edwin
Walker, John II. Wesley, George
Woodson, Gus Young.
Jutson Austin, the only mem¬
ber of the Quarter Century
club, was an honor guest.
Howard Jackson, Supt.
College Laundry, Buried
Monday
Howard Jackson, who retired
as superintendent of the laun¬
dry at Savannah State college,
July 1, 1950, after 36 years of
service, died at his residence at
724 East 38th street Friday
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j To Play Here Sunday With Lincoln Against
Savannah , Indians . ,, At . Grayson Stadium
This trio will be seen in
braska, team when they play
hibition game Sunday
■are training here with Lincoln.
They are Fleming
! f vannahian and former member
more (pitcher) of
i [j nco ] n> anc j xonumie Betts
j Reedy and Betts played
of the National Negro
| pi aye d with Winnipeg, Canada.
Seybold, director of the sales
department, and other workers,
{ Many things were learned by j j
1 the children about the way the
well known Holsum products,
are made. This company em-
ploys about 500 people with
j more than 40 percent Negroes.
i They have city trucks and vans
Ask Removal Racial Ran
FromMunicipal Golf Course
A group of nearly one
dred Negro citizens has
'd that the racial ban at
Municipal Golf Course be
moved and asks that its
itie; be opened to Negroes
well as whites.
The petition which was
Friday with City Council states:
"We respectfully ask
mission of your
Body to the formal use of
Municipal Golf Course. As
izens of Savannah, we
chai it is no more proper, as
as expedient to make at
time this request of your Hon¬
orable Body.”
“We sincerely hope that you
will, withuot a dissenting vote
consent to this privilege that
has been granted the Negro in
several leading cities in this
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iETAS TO PRESENT
LEON KIRKPATRICK
n Piano Recital
Monday Night
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.,
will present Leon Gilbert Kirk¬
patrick in piano recital at Al¬
fred E. Beach high school au-
ditorium, Monday night, April
14, at 8 o’clock.
Mr. Kirxpairick has a fine
dramatic sense, large technical
re-ources and an enviable range
of pianissimo shadings. He uses
these to play a program of un¬
usual Interest.
line-up of the Lincoln, Ne¬
Savannah Indians in an ex-,
at Grayson Stadium. They
Reedy (second base), a Sa-
the Savannah Bears; A! Wii-
who will start the game fog
of Atlanta.
season with the Baltimore
Baseball League and Wilmore
Photo By Cecil
cover aDout 72 routes and
deliver as far away as Macon, 1
Brunswick, Statesboro and
charleston, S. C.
We are interes t e d in finding
out how our community works
and lives; therefore we made
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2 Million Voters in South
Is Goal Set NAACP
NEW YORK, March 27—Set
ting a goal of 2,000,000, Waltei
White, executive secretary o;
the National Association for thi
Advancement of Colored People
today announced the launching
of a non-partisan drive tc
double the present number ol
Negro voters in the South be
fore the November election.
According to the best avail
able estimates there are no\
about 1,000,000 Negro voters n
the southern states, Mr. Whit
said in making his announce
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BATTALION CHIEF WIL¬
LIAMS RETIRES
Highest Ranking Negro
Fire Officer
NEW YORK, March 27—Bat¬
talion Chief Wesley Williams,
the highest ranking Negro
fire officer In the country, will
retire from the New York City
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The Huh to Apr J
The Hub, one of Savannah's
leading civic organizations, will
hold its annual installation
banquet Wednesday evening,
April 9, at the West Broad
street YMCA.
This affair will be an out¬
standing event in the history
of this organization which has
played such a, prominent part
in recent years in the progress¬
ive movement of the city’s
Negro population.
The principal address of tho
evening will be delivered by
John Sylvester Stewart, out¬
standing business man of Dur¬
ham, N. C.
Mr. Stewart, a native of At¬
lanta and a graduate of Atlanta
university, Is secretary-treasurer
of the Mutual Building and
Loan Association of Durham,
director of the Bankers Fire
Insurance Company, Durham
Business and Professional
chain, Southern Fidelity Mut¬
ual Insurance Company, Regal
Holding Company and a di
Miami Holds NAACP DAY;
Proclaimed by Mayor
MIAMI, Fla., March 27 — By
proclamation of Mayor Chelsea
J. Senerchla, the City of Miami
celebrated NAACP Day on Mar.
23, in honor of the
anniversary of the National
Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People.
Malcolm Ross, editor of the
University of Miami newspaper,
was principal speaker at a mass
meeting held by the loca)
ACP branch at St. John's Bapt.
church. The program was de-
veloped around the therne, “The
Need to Vote.”
In proclaming NAACP day,
Mayor Senerchia cited the As¬
sociation as “an organization
devoted to the welfare and
civil liberties of minorities
throughout the United States”
and credited the NAACP with
being “in the forefront of activ¬
ities in this community in be¬
half of the Negro citizens of
the City of Miami.”
“I urge all residents and
itors as well,” the proclamation
said, “to thoughtfully consider
those ideals promulgated by the
NAACP and participate In the;
activities of the NAACP on the
Day.” day above set aside as NAACP I j
Member Audit Bureau Circulation
Price 7c
SSC SOLDIER MEET
— During a visit to
the 350th Infantry Regiment at
Truscott, Austria, the
Chief of Chaplains, Maj.
Roy H. Parker (second
from left) meets Pvt. Julian
(center) of Sandersvllle,
The Sandersvllle soldier,
jobn Syrvester steward
Speaker
rector and member of the
executive committee of the
Mechanics and Farmers Bank.
He has been very prominent
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STATE TEACHERS AND PTAs TO
MEET IN ALBANY NEXT WEEK
;
| ALBANY, Ga.— The Georgia
Teachers and Education Asso-
ciation and the Georgia Con¬
gress of Colored Parents and
Teachers will hold their an¬
nual conventions here next
week, the PTAs meeting April
| 8-10 and the Teachers Asso¬
ciation April 10-11.
Indications are that both
j Defies Threat of Suit
Against Homeowners
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27-
Defiance of attempts to force
Wilbur Gorv to move from his
newly-purchased home in Rol-
ingwood through court action
was expressed this week by the
National Associaton for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Citing the decision won by the
NAACP in the United States
Scpreme Court in 1948, making
written restrictive covenants j
unenforceable by law, NAACP
Regional Director F’ranklin H. •
Williams invited the threatened
law suit and said that the As- ’
NUMBER ZS
son or Mr. and Mrs. Mack
Davis, has been In Austria for
the past three months. A grad¬
uate of Savannah State college
with a B.S. degree In business
administration, he is assigned as
a clerk in the Headquarters of
the United States Forces in
Austria. <U. 8. Army Photo)
Press Inst. At
College
April 3-4
The First Annual Statewide
Press Institute will be held at
Savannah State college April
3-4. Luetta B. Colvin, instructor
in Languages and Literature,
Wilton C. Scott, director of
public relations, and J. Ran¬
dolph Fisher, chairman of the
Department of Languages and
Literature at the college are
coordinators of the Institute.
Consultants for the Institute
will be Marlon Jackson, sports
editor, Atlanta Daily World,
Charles J. Smith, Instructor In
Journalism, Florida A & M col¬
lege; William Fielder, manag¬
ing editor, Savannah Morning
News; George Hoffman, man¬
ager, Dixie Engraving company;
William Bowens, assistant in
public relations, Savannah
State college; Luetta B. Colvin,
publications adviser,
Savannah State, and J. Ran¬
Fisher, Savannah State.
| meetings will have one of the
largest attendances in recent
years. The roster of speakers
on the program include some
of the most outstanding edu¬
cators in the country.
The theme of the Teachers
convention will be : “Toward
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sociation would “welcome the
opportunity to reaffirm in the
courts of our state and country
the basic American principle . .
that the courts will not and
cannot use their powers to
maintain racially restricted
neighborhoods.”
Mr. Williams said that if
such a suit should be instituted,
the full legal facilities of the
NAACP would be made avail¬
able to the Gary family and to
the persons who sold them the
property.