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70 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
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TO GRADUATE TONIGHT FROM CUYLER EVENING SCHOOL
Cn Thursday evening, com¬
mencement exercises of the
Cuyicr Evening school will be
held at Alfred E. Beach high
school. There will be selections
by the Cuyler Evening school
glee club, Alfred E. Beach high
school band the Cuyler junior
high chool Girls’ Octette. The
following Chatham county
school officials will be present:
Frank C. Underwood, assistant
superintendent, Thcmas Shea-
rouse, area supervisor of adult
schools, Wilton C. Scott, super¬
Annual Job Clinic to Be
Held at Next
KAPPA MAN OE YEAR
Dr. N. H. Collier
The Savannah Alumni Chap¬
ter of Kappa Alpha P.:i frater¬
nity awarded Dr. N. H. Collier
a plaque designating him as
“Kappa Man of the Year.”
Dr. Collier is a native of Sa¬
vannah and received his educa¬
tion at Savannah State college
and Meharry Medical college.
He is past president of the
South Atlantic Medical society,
past polemarch of Savannah
Alumni chapter, Kappa Alpha
Psi fraternity; past illustrious
potentate of Omar Temple,
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine;
past president of the Frogs
club, past president of the
Brotherhood of the First Afri¬
can Baptist church, and has
served on the educational and
civic committees of the Mutual
Benevolent Society, Inc., for the
past fifteen years.
For the past, ten years he
conducted a free dental clinic
for all school children and gave
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Protest Englewood Ban
On Mrs. Mary Bethune
Motives Show Saturday
For Kiddies
Saturday, May 3rd, from 2 to
6 p. m., will be Children’s Mat- ’
inee at Royal Exposition Shows, i
sponsored by Omar Temple, No. |
21, at the show grounds, East)
Broad Street near Melody The- j
atre.
i
All rides will be 9 cents for
the children, and many other
amusements they will not want
to miss. So bring the children
out and enjoy the many thrills
that await them.
This show is one of the
largest attractions to play here
and many new features are on
the Midway.
Be sure you’re registered by
Saturday, May 3, so you may
vote in the Democratic primary’
May 14.
visor of Negro adult schools.
Nev. P. A. Patterson, pastor of
Butler Prc byterian church, will
give the invocation and the
oonediction.
The speaker will be Dr. Wm.
K. Payne, president of Savan¬
nah State college.
Candidates for diplomas are
Jonathan Alexander, Wilkin
Cutter, Samuel Davis, Thelma
Guiton, William R. Heyward,
Regial Hines, Edgar Q. Lewis,
Walter C. McCoy, Almeta
Odum, Austin Palmer, Nathan-
Woodpile Students To
Participate In Live
Stock Show
A member of the Woodville
judging team was listed as one
of the six boys who will partici¬
pate in the State Livestock and
Poultry Judging contest at
Camp John Hope, Fort Valley,
May 17.
This was the result of the
district livestock and poultry
contest, held a-t Reidsville,
when some of the best bred
livestock and poultry was
judged. This district is com¬
posed of thirty schools in
the southeastern section oi
Georgia. Each of the schools
was represented by a team of
three boys.
The Woodville team was com¬
posed of Frank Moore, Ralph
Drayton and Jake Spaulding,
the latter being the high point
man on the team. Out of a pos¬
sible 500 score, he made 465.
The other contestants who will
participate in the state are
Nesbitt Mobley, James Brown,
Willie Wright, Merrilus Roberts
and A. J. Johnson.
The winner in the state con¬
test will represent Georgia in
the Southeastern Fair in At¬
lanta.
CHICAGOANS IN CITY
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Wood¬
ard and their little daughter,
Nancy Ann, and their sister,
Miss Nilla Daniel, all of Chicai
go, Illinois, arrived in the city
Tuesday morning by motor.
They are the house guests of
Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Trice on
Mills B. Lane Avenue.
NEW YORK, April 24—Action
of the Englewood, N. J., Board
of Education in barring Mrs
Mary .McLeod Bethune from
speaking in the junior high
school “amazed and distressed'
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
Walter White, executive secre-
tray, today informed M. Leslie
Denning, mayor of Englewood.
The famous Florida educator
and Ne\y Deal office-holder
was denied the right to address
a meeting in the school audi¬
torium tonight, following pro¬
test by a group which charged
that she had been affiliated
with organizations on the At¬
torney General’s subversive
list. Upon being barred from
the school, the sponsoring
group, known as Citizens of
Englewood, moved the meeting
to a church.
Mrs. Bethune, the NAACP
executive said in his telegram
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Photo By Freeman
iel Pinder, Jr., Ernest Porter,
Mary Roberts, Charles H. Rob¬
inson, Clyde E. Robinson,
Ulysses Royal, Grantham I.
Smith, Charles A. White, Artis
L. Wilson and Joseph II. White.
The baccalureate services
were held last Sunday at the
First Congregational church,
Rev. A. C. Chrtright, the pastor,
delivering the sermon. Special
mhsic was furnished by the
chorus and girls’ ensemble of
Woodville high school, and the
choir of the church.
The Second Annual Senior
Job Clinic, a regular feature of
Business Institute Week, spon¬
sored by the Department of
Business at Savannah State
college will be held on the col¬
lege campus May 6-8, Professor
Robert C. Long, Sr., chairman,
has announced.
The conference theme will be
“There’s a Job for You in
Georgia,” and its purpose is to
assist graduating seniors and
others to solve the problem of
where to look for job opportun-
mes Jnd"coritacts,'what jobs to
look for, what jobs are best
fitted to match acquired skills,
job opportunities in business
and industry, education, mili¬
tary servee, civil service medi¬
cine, etc., and the proper pro¬
cedure to follow in securing em¬
ployment.
There will also be a special
seminar on how to write a letter
of application, how to act dur-
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Negro Southern Democrats Tell
Party What They Want
ATLANTA, Ga.—(ANP)— Ne¬
gro Democratic leaders from
six southern states meeting in
a recent southwide conference
here, asked the national party
to give the nation “liberal”
candidates. The group, forming
the new Southwide Association
Negro Democrats, said in its
resolutions that it would not
be adverse to a Southerner
becoming the party’s nominee
for president, if he is a liberal.
The Southwide conference of
Negro Democrats was called by
A. T. Walden, president of
the Georgia Association of Cit¬
Democratic clubs, with
the Fulton County Democratic
organization, C. A. Scott, chair¬
man, serving as host.
Because Negroes are
from the regular party
jry in every deep south state,
ind are not members of the'
executive committees
VOICE PLAYING BIG PART
COMMUNITY BETTERMENT
Meeting on last Sunday at |
West Broad Street YMCA,
Women's Voice held an in¬
session with a record
B. J. Mclver and
Costellio, visitors, spoke
the interest of registration
which some of the members
been working and are vi¬
interested. The Women’s
is planning to campaign
this week and get a large
of our people to regis¬
Mrs. Nancy Collier, chairman
the educational committee,
an Interesting report of
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 1. 1952
Patrols
Hold Annual
Parade May 9
The parade of the school
patrols will be held Friday aft¬
ernoon, May 9.
This annual event in which
the patrol units from all the
chools take part, will get going
at 2 p. m. starting from the
police headquarters on Ogle¬
thorpe avenue and after traver¬
sing the principal uptown sect¬
ion will end at the starting
point where ice cream and cake
will be given the paraders.
Among the units participat¬
ing in the parade will be the
Beach high school band and
the Florance school drum
corps.
The parade will be in charge
of Sgt. Robert Funk of the Po¬
lice department, who directs
the activities of all the school
patrols in Chatham county.
NEW YORKERS TO
WELCOME S. S. C.
CAMPUS QUEEN
NEW YORK CITY—Hundreds
of former Savannahians living
in Harlem will welcome the
campus queen of Savannah
State college here Mother’s Day
as the climax to a 3-day cele¬
bration designed to make New
Yorkers aware of the City of
Savannah and its largest edu¬
cational institution.
Campus Capers, the matinee
affair sponsored by the Savan¬
nah State College club of Met¬
ropolitan New York, is expected
to attract 3,000 prominent
guests, including Mayor Vincent
R. Imperriteri and other public
officials who have been invited
to attend the Savoy Ballroom
party by Carl Dunbar Lawrence,
president of the Savannah State
college club.
A contest going on now will
determine the winner of the
Campus Queen role, and ac¬
to information received
from President W. K.
and Mrs. Louise Lautier
faculty advisor to the
a spirited race is
before the contest
May 8.
Entered in the campus race
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allowed to participate in the
party conventions, Negro Dem¬
ocratic leaders in the section
decided to hold the conference
to gain concensus of opinion
and focus attention of the na¬
tional party on the desires of
this unrepresented group .
t
Delegates from the states of
Georgia, Alabama, South Caro¬
lina, North Carolina, Louisiana
and Florida. Walden was elected
president of the new organiza¬
tion, Atty. Earl Amedee, New
Orleans, vice president at-large,
Paul Jones, Bessemer, Ala.,
secretary, and Joseph O’Brien,
New Orleans, treasurer.
Featured speaker at the con¬
ference, New York Assembly-
man Elijah L. Crump, chal
lenged the Democratic leaders
to intensify registration cam¬
paigns to increase the size of I
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her committee which attended
one of the Board of Education's
meetings.
During the month of April,
the Women’s Voice helped
three families in West Savan¬
nah whose homes were de-
stroed by fire by carrying them
clothing, food, money and so¬
licited furniture and mattresses
and other articles that could
be used. They were assisted by
the Famliy Welfare. The Wom¬
en’s Auxiliary of St. Matthew’s
Episcopal church also helped
with donations of food and
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Doctors (o Hold State Meet
Next Week at Macon
Dr. R. E. Nash
President
What promises to be one of
the most largely attended an¬
nual meetings of the Georgia
State Medical Association of
Physicians and Pharmacists will
be the convention which will
be held next week in Macon.
The sessions will be presided
over by Dr. H. E. Nash, Atlan¬
ta, president.
The program covers a period
of three days, May 6, 7 and 8,
and will present a number of
the outstanding physicians and
surgeons of the country.
The public welcome meeting
will be held Tuesday night, May
6, at Tremont. Temple Baptist
church when the visitors to the
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A SON
A baby boy weighing 8
pounds, 3 ounces, was born to
Sgt. 1-c and Mrs. Lovett M.
Corley at Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, on Apr. 6. Sgt. Corley,
the son of Mrs. Carrie Corley,
623 W. 41st street, is currently
assigned to the 82nd Airborne
Division Provisional Military
Police Platoon at Fort Bragg.
Mrs. Corley is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hill of
Laurinburg, N. C.
Peace In Richmond Between
Two Aldermanic Candidates
RICHMOND, Va. i ANP) A
compromise was reached here
last week between the support¬
ers of Dr. W. L. Ransomc and
D. C. Deans, Jr*., who are can¬
didates for the City Council of
Richmond in the June 10 elect¬
ion. Dr. Ransome is endorsed
by the powerful Richmond Civic
Council, and Dean by. the Rich¬
PRESIDENT AND MRS. PAYNE ENTERTAIN BEAUTY CULTU-
RISTS—On Sunday, April 27 at 8 00 P. M., President and Mrs.
W. K. Payne held an informal reception at the Community
House, at Savannah State College in honor of visiting beauty
culturists and their guests. The reception was held following
the initial public program of the beauty culturists in Meldrim
Auditorium during regular Sunday Vesper hour.
Shown in the picture standing, 1. to r.:H. E. Butler, owner
of the Battle Supreme Prouucts Company, a distributor of hair
and beauty preparations, Brunswick; Mrs. Dorothy Williams,
Macon, assistant recording secretary of the Georgia Beauty Cul¬
turists League; Mrs. Ruby Maddox, Chairman, sinking fund,
GBCL, Atlanta; Mrs. Leona Thomas, Augusta, chairman, legis¬
lative committee: Mrs. E M Sherman, Atlanta, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Dovie Johnson, Rome, business manager: Mrs.
Beatrice Latimer, financial secretary, Augusta; Mrs. Rushia
Dean Davis, first vice president, Albany; Mrs. Blanche Collins,
KAPPAs TO PRESENT
VARIETY SHOW
A variety show will be pre-
ented tomorrow, Friday, May
2, at 7 30 by Gamma Chi chap¬
ter of Kappa Alpha Psi frater¬
nity, Meldrim auditorium, Sa¬
vannah State college. Parts will
be taken by various schools,
sororities and fraternities. The
show will be backed by the col¬
lege band.
The participants are Zeta
Phi Beta and Sigma .'orority,
the Omega Psi Phi fraternity,
Woodville high school, Florance
street school, Haven home and
Powell’s laboratory school.
Contestants for “Miss Kappa’
are Misses Jeanetta. Lee, Neta
Staley, Evelyn James, Oretha
Barton, Phoebie Robinson, Ber¬
nice Spaulding and Calheryne
Thomas.
Be sure you’re registered by
Saturday, IVlay 3, so you may
vote in the Democratic primary
May 14.
Young's Candidacy for
Council Nears Climax
NORFOLK, Va.— (ANP)— The
campaign of Thomas W. Young
for a seat in the Norfolk City
pourjcll is heading toward a
climax in a race which until
now has not stirred a ripple in
the pohtial waters of this sea-
P ° rt City ’
frotips „.r-
Some 25 have en¬
dorsed Young’s candidacy and
pledged him their support
morally and financially. No
other Negro candidate for pub¬
lic office in the city ever re¬
ceived as many endorsements
from groups.
While Young, a candidate for
public office for the first time,
makes daily contacts with Ne¬
gro groups and organizations,
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mond Civic association.
Dr. Ransomc first announced
his candidacy, and was immed¬
iately endorsed by the group of
which he is co-founder and
president. He also is on the
board of the Richmond Civic
association, white, which had
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reporter, Atlanta; Nathaniel H. Bronner, Atlanta, State organ¬
izer and public relations director; Mis. Sarah Van Ellison, Sa¬
vannah, vice pesident, Savannah Unit; Mrs. Ruth White, Sa- 1
vannah grievance committee; Mrs. Esther Warrick, Savannah,
English teacher, Cuyler Junior High School; and guest speak-*
er during the vesper; Mrs. B. O. Cook, recording secretary, At¬
lanta; Mrs. Millie M. Shanks, treasurer, Atlanta; Mrs. Classic
Ruff, chairman, ways and means committee, Atlanta; and Wil¬
liam Gordon, managing editor, ATLANTA DAILY WORLD, guest;
speaker during the vesper hour.
Seated: Mrs. Carrie Cargo, president. Savannah Unit and
host to the statewide meet, President W. K. Payne, Savannah
State College; Mrs. Ella R. Martin, state president GBCL, Atlanta;
and Mrs. W. K. Payne. (SSC P-R Photo fc.y Btowens’
The beauticians met in Savannah April 27-29 in their annual
state meeting, the sessions being held at the West Broad Street,
Y. M. C. A.
Member Audit Bureau Circulation
Price 7c
BROTHERS IN THE ARMED FORCES—Pfc. George E. Chisholm,
deft) and Pfc. Willie J. Chisholm, son of Mr. and Mis. Frank
Chisholm, who are serving in the Armed Forces. Pfc. George,
Chisholm, husband of Mrs. Anna Lue Chisholm of 14 Exley
street, is presently serving with the 594 F. A. Bn., in Germany
where he has been for 4 months of his 1,8 months in the army,
while Pfc. Willie Chisholm, the husband of Mrs. Charlottej
Chisholm of 1,1 Exley street, is presently serving with the 39th
F. A. Bn. in Korea where he has been for the past 9 months.
He has been in the service 14 months. Both young soldiers art!
expected home shortly.
Beach High PTA To
Hold Its Final Meeting
Wednesday
The final meeting of the Al¬
fred E. Beach PTA will be held
in the school auditorium on
Wednesday, May 7, at 5 p. m.
N. Elmore, along with the other
senior advisers, will direct the
program. Mrs. C. Ellerbe, Mrs.
Blake, Mrs. Lampkin, Miss
Grant, Mrs. Patterson and P.
Smalls will assist Mr. Elmore.
Music will be under the direct¬
ion of P. Smalls.
Mrs. Brannen, president,
states that this meeting will be
in commemoration of mothers.
O. L. Douglas, principal, will
greet the parents.
ALL CITIZENS REGIS¬
TRATION MEETING
FRIDAY
A meeting of the All-Citizens
Registration Committee will be
held on Friday night, 8 o’clock
at the West Broad Street Y.M.-
C.A., J. M. Gaynor, acting sec¬
announced.
The meeting is being called
to receive the final reports on
the current registration drive
and to determine whether or
not the commltee should be
continued. Workers, unher the
supervision of Rev. R. J. Clif-
fin, are making a door-to-door
check on registration in many
sections of the city.
All members of the committee
are being requested by the
secretary to be present.
NUMBER 29
GETS N. J. POST—Mrs. Artrellc
Harrison Foster, 1951 graduate
of the Atlanta University School
of Social Work, who is now em¬
ployed as Child Welfare Work¬
er with the Children’s Aid and
Protective society of Orange,
New Jersey. Mrs. Foster is a
native of New York City, New
York.
Cuyler To Present
Senior Recital
The Cuyler 9th grade classes
wil lpresent a senior recital orv
May 5, 8 p. m.„ at the First
African Baptist church. This is
the first of what is to be an an¬
nual recital.
The program will consist of
a great "variety of musical en¬
tertainment. There will be in¬
strumental, vocal and choral
speaking selections.