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SCENES FROM SSC BACCALAUREATE—These are scenes from the 67tli Baccalaureate Exert is-
es at. Savannah State College, Sunday afternooh at SSC, leads the procession. Directly be-
Randolph Fisher, associate professor of English at SSC, leads the processional. Directly be¬
hind him are President W. K. Payne (righto and Father Caution (left* and other members oi
thp Savanna*’ State fa'-ultv. Tor>_Some members of the graduating class in the procession.
(Savannali State'P-R Photos .by W. H. Bowens)
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Spingarn Medal A warded
To Late Harry T. Moore
HEADS DRIVE — Connie Wim¬
berly, well known business man,
Who ■ has been’selected to head
the 1952 local NAACP member-
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Samaritans To Meet
At Sandfly, June 9-11
NAACP
Breaks Job
Ban in Philiy
PHILADELPHIA, May 28— As
a result of vigorous intervent¬
ion by the National Assocition
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CLUBS UNITE — As the school
year draws to a close and the
numerous activities about the
school an evaluated, toe but-
tans ana Die Bobbie
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NEW YORK, May 28— Harry
T. Moore, the martyred Florida
NAACP leader who
b/ a* hate-bomb that wrecked
his home on Christmas might.
1951, will be posthumously
awarded the 37t,h Spingarn
Medal, given each year by the
National Association for the
Advancement of'Colored People
to a Negro American whose
achievement is judged the
most outstanding af‘ the year.
Announcement of the award
to the late Mr. Moore was
made today by Dr. Louis T.
Wright, chairman of the NA¬
ACP board of directors, after
a meeting of the Spingarn
Medal Committee. The medal
will be presented on Friday
evening, June 27, during the
43rd annual -NAACP convent-
ton in! -Oklahoma City. Mrs.
Rosa ti. ivfbore, 83-year-olc
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The Independent Order of
Good Samitans and Daughters
of Samaria will hold its 67th
Annual Grand Lodge session al
Speedwell Methodist church
Sandfly. Rev. D. L. Rooks, pas
tor, June 9th, 10th and 11th
under the auspices of J. B
Phillips lodge and Juvenile No
383.
The several local commit-
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so many things in common
that they decided to unite as
brother and sister clubs. They
will meet Jointly on important
p.ojects u me iutuic u .( n d
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SALUTATORIAN—Miss Paulette
Smith, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Smith, 523 W. 39th
St., shared the honor of saluta-
torian at Mather school on
Frdaiy, May 30th. She won a
medal for beng president of the
Stuent Council for two terms
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Cargo School of Beauty Culture
To Graduate a Class of
Three Negroes received de¬
grees last week from Southern
Baptist Seminary, Loui iilo, Ky.
This is the first time colored
persons marched in the 80-
year-old school’s processional.
The Sultans club is composed
of eleven talented young men ]
and was organized one year ago
at Alfred E. Beach high school
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 195*
SSC Graduates 104
-One hundred and four per¬
sons received the bachelor of
science degree and trade cer-
tificates in auto mechanics,
automotive body and fender
repair, electrical maintenance
and installaton, general wood¬
working and carpentry, machine
shop practice, masonry, paint¬
ing, radio repair and shoe re¬
pair at the sixty-seventh com¬
mencement exercises at Savan¬
nah State college Wednesday,
June 4.
Bishop Bertram Wilbur Doyle,
A.B., M.A . Ph.I)., D. D., pre¬
siding bishop, Seonth Episcopal
District, CME church, Nash¬
ville, Tennessee, was the prin¬
cipal speaker for the occasion
which was held in Meldrlm
auditorium.
The baccalaureate services
were held Sunday with the
Rev. Gustave H. Caution, rector
of St. Matthew’s Episcopal
church, delivering tire sermon.
Those receiving degrees were
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MEDICAL TECHNICIAN — Miss
Sadie B. Chisholm, a recent
H "ate of Savannah State
wiai a ma j or hi chem¬
istry, who has returned home
the completion of a M.T.
The Beauty Culture class of
Cargo Beauty school will hold
its graduation exercises Sun¬
day, June 15, at 11 a.m. at the
House of Prayer, 34th street,
west.
Those who will receive diplo¬
mas will be Lucile Brown, Josie
Lee Young, Catherine Walker,
Dorothy Dickerson, Leoma
J. H. GADSON IN
THE CITY
J. H. Gadson, ownor of Gad-
son's Food Market, Corona, I !
Long Island, N. Y., arrived in !
the city Saturday with his
son, Roland. Mr. Gadson is a
former instructor of business
administration at Savannah |
State college.
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Six years ago, Mr. Gadson
opened his food market in
New York and now employs j
five clerks. For the past two j
years this store has been used
as a project in Marketing Re-
search in connection with New
York university. The plan is to
work out factors that will en-
courage small businesses to be
run on a scientific basis. Mr.
Gadson is working towards his
i cm . .i. g e, n, business ad-
ministration at New Yur* uni-
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Masonic Grand Lodge Week to
Meet Here 1 Next
The 83rd Annual Communi¬
cation of the Most Worshipful
Prince Hall * Grand Lodge, F,
and A. M., Jurisdiction of
Georgia will Convene in Savan¬
nah, June 10, 11, and 12. The
Georgia Jurisdiction Is headed
by the Most Worshipful John!
Wesley Dobbs, Grand Master.
The sessions will be held at
St. Philip A. M. E. Church,
Charles and West Broad streets.
Rev. J. S. Bryan, pastor, and
'will begin promptly at 10 a.
in., Monday. Delegates of the
; Prince Hall family throughout
the state are expected in large
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degree at Chicago College of
Laboratory Technology. She
plans to do practical work at
one of the local hospitals. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Chisholm, Sr.
Johnson, Mary Vernell Jordon,
Rosa Lee Lewis, Ellen Kemp,
Addle Odom, Ola Mae Surrency,
Idella Cooper, Leola Wilcox,
Magnolia Smith, Christine Wil¬
iams, Allie Van Brown, Louise
Aulston, Llzze Mae Davis,
Bessie Davis, Cleo Pryor, Jessie
Lee Writtenbery, Mary Alice
Hayes and Gertrude Horne.
DR. WM. FONVIELLE,
GUEST OF HIS UNCLE
Dr. William Gassett Fonvielle
of Rackford, 111., was in the
city this week, the guest of hi.s
uncle, Dr. J. E. Fonvielle.
The prominent Rockford phy¬
a member of the staffs
of St. Anthony hospital and
the County hospital of hi.s home
town, was enroute home from
Talladega college where he at¬
tended his class re-union, after
he visited his mother [
brother at Mobile, Ala.
Miss Johnson Receives
$1,000 Scholarship
Otha L. Douglas, principal of
E. Beach high school,
a a telegram iciegram today lona.y from ironi
St. St. John, John, Jr., Jr„ dean dean of of
university, announcing
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. of the June, 195*4 j
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STUDENTS RECEIVE
BATCHES—The above pictures
show president Jack Lnvy (ex-
treme right* of Levy Jewelers,
InC., US lit presented Benrus!
to the outstanding j
RECEIVE M.D. DEGREE—
Louis Butler, Jr., son of
and Mrr Joseph L. Butler
906 W. 41st St., who will re¬
the degree of medical
at Meharry Medical col¬
Nashville, Tenn., on
9th
A graduate of Beach high
Mr. Butler received hi*
training at Sa¬
State college and Morris
college.
Mr. Buter’s army service con¬
of four years, three of
were spent in Hawaii as
yard master, car dis¬
then as superintend¬
He wits decorated for that
service.
as a senior, his externships
neurology and neuro¬
at Homer G. Phillips
St. Louis, Mo. ,and
at Taborian hospital,
Bayou, Miss. He was also
with the West Ten¬
Tuberculosis hospital,
Tenn.
On July 1st, Mr. Butler will
his internship at the
City General hospital,
2, i” Missouri.
An ardent member of Asbury
church, Mr. Butler served as
school superintendent.
is a member of the NAACP,
S’tudent-American Medical
and the Association
Interns and Medical stud¬
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Member Audit Bureau Circulation
Price 7c
WINS HONORABLE
DISCHARGE OF TWO
NEW YORK, May 28 — The
NAACP Legal Defense and Ed¬
ucational Fund, Inc., announced
this week that it had succeeded
In
from the Air Force for Moses
Cage of New Orleans and
George W. Todd of El Paso,
both of whom had previously
been dishonorably discharged.
Jesse O. Dedmon of Washing¬
ton was retained by the NAACP
t orepresent them in both cases.
Sch. Teacher
Drowns
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. —
(ANP)— Relatives and friends
were unable last week to give
any reason for the drowning of
a school teacher in the Pasquo¬
tank river near here. She had
just returned home from school
for her summer vacation.
The dead teacher was Mrs.
Vashtl Williams, 31), wife of Joe
Williams.
Robert L. Riddick, 29, who
was working near the scene at
the tme, told police Chief W. C. |
Owens that Mrs. Williams
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Y Membership Drive
Now Stands at 226
The third report meeting of
the 1952 Membership Enroll¬
ment program was held at the
West Broad Street Branch Mon¬
day night. The total member¬
ship reported to date is 226.
Many Individuals have not been
contacted for renewal of their
memberships, along with busi¬
nesses, schools, churches, so¬
cial organizations, fraternal
organizations, labor unions,
sororities and fraternities. Re¬
ports from these sources are
expected during the month of
June.
A special committee composed
of S. J. Brown, S. L. White, Sr.,
and J. R. Jenkns was appointed
by Comdr. Frank Spencer to
make further contacts and con-
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students of Alfred E. Beach and]
Woodville high schools at a
luncheon meeting of the Hub
lust week. The watches were
given through the Kiwaius
Raymond Kuhr, president.
NUMBER 34
BLUDGEONED TO DEATH —
Cpi. Robert L. Jinks, 21, of Sa¬
vannah who was bludgeoned to
death Monday in a deserted
barracks at Camp McCoy, Spar¬
ta, Wisconsin.
The real cause of the murder
of the young soldier Is not yet
known, but two theories have
been advanced. One is robbery.
Jinks was known to always
carry a considerable amount of
money on his person. The other
is that he had oniy the day
before his murder reported to
his superior officers that his
locker had been removed, and
he was killed by those who took
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Med Group
Becomes
Liberal
RICHMOND, Va.— (ANP) —
Another Virginia medical unit
has taken a stand in opposition
to the color line in membership
of the parent Medical Society
of Virginia.
The Richmond Academy of
Medicine last week joined the
Northern Virginia branch when
it instructed its 15 delegates to
the society’s state convention in
September to vote in favor of
deleting the word “white” from
membership provisions. The is-
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Photo By Freeman
Reading left to right, in top
photo, are O. L. Douglas, prin-
, of high . Claude
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