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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXXI
To Be
Host To Blue
Ribbon Sports
ATLANTA—A host of
nation’s top-flight public re¬
lations and press representa
tives will converge on Atlanta
this weekend for the 18th an-
nual 100 Per Cent Wrong club’s
banquet. President James
tern of Knoxville college will
address the banquet
night in the University Homes
auditorium.
Representatives from all of
the nation’s top weeklies will
be in town as will daily, wire
service and radio personnel. A
press conference has been ar
ranged for this group Friday
afternoon at 4 p. m. in the re¬
ception room of the Atlanta
Life Insurance company.
The reporters will be free to
fire questions at such blue-
ribbon sports performers as
Pvt. Don Newcombe, Brooklyn’s
great pitcher; Pfc. Willie Mays,
New York Giants star; Althea
Gibson, No. 1 tennis player on
the East Coast; Willie Greason,
vaunted rookie of the Oklahoma
City Indians; Artie Wilson,
West Coast baseball star; Harry
“Suitcase” Simpson of
Cleveland Indians, and Cather-
ine Hardy, olymps star.
Newcombe and Mays will at-
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New Orleans to Wel¬
come
DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT
TO AID COLLEGE
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Friday night, Jan. 30, the
Sa-va-nnah State College Alumni
Association will sponsor a dance
t© raise funds for the college '
athletic scholarships.
This delightful affa-ir will b° !
given a-t the Elks Rest, 568
Minis street, and music for the
occasion will be supplied by the
Symphony Seven. Admission
fee will be 75 cents.
The committee in charge o€
this a»ffa-ir is composed of J. W.
MeGlnekton, president, Mrs. J.
Scssems, secretary; "Mrs. L.
Owens, tre-a-s-urer; L. D. Law,
eh-arrmam, and Frank Thorpe,
e hair man of publicity.
Docker Tells of Squeeze
In Waterfront Jobs
STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Guaranty
Life Insurance Company will
bold at the Home Office of
tfee Company, 400 West
street, Savannah, Georgia, at
p. m., Thursday. lebtuaiy 1
*958.
W. S. Scott, President
A SON
Alfred, Jr. is the name given
to the son born Jonuary 2nd
to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Moore
©f W. Duffy St.
THEY WILL PLAY LEADING ROLES AT TEACHERS MEETING FRIDAY AT BEACH HIGH SCHOOL
NORM VN B. ELMORE, president
jng session.
REGION il TEACHERS TO
MEET FBI. AT BEACH HI
By AVilton C. Scott
Approximately 100 teachers,
principals, supervisors and cit¬
izens from Region 11 of the
Georgia Teachers and Educat-
ional Association will attend
the annual Regional Conference
at Alfred E. Beach high school
with Chatham County Teach-
ers Association as co-host.
Dr. William K. Payne, presi¬
dent of Savannah State college,
has asked numerous faculty
members and students to
make this meeting tops. The
theme is “Implementing Today's
School Program.”
J. C. Reese, president of
Georgia, Inter-scholastic Asso¬
ciation and director of Region
11, will preside at the business
meetings with Norman Elmore,
president of Chatham
Association and an alumnus of
Savannah State college,
siting at the opening session
A the counties partici-
j patin § wlU be Chatham, Bryan,
I Liberty, Long, Wayne, Brantley,
Camden, Pierce, Glynn. Ware,
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NEW YORK CITY—Over 200
Negro newspaper publishers and
executives are expected to
tend the annual Mid-Winter
Workshop of the National
Newspaper Publishers Associat¬
ion which will be held at Dil-
lard university, January 30 and
31, it was announced this week
by NNPA President Louis E.
Martin.
Dr. Cha-rles L. Allen,
dean and director of research
of the Medill School of Journal¬
ism of Northwestern
sity, and Thurgood Marshall,
special counsel of the Natien-al
Association for the
ment of Colored People, are list-
ed among those who will ad-
dress the group.
The workshop will include
four roundtable . discussions ©a
the following suhjeots-: “Cur-
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BROOKLYN—(ANP > — Hard¬
ships endured by Negro long¬
shoremen were cited last week
by a Negro witness in the
Crime Commision investigation
of waterfront racketeers,
The father of four children,
known only as “Joe” for his pro¬
tection, the witness told of ios-
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
i on g er afford the payments re-
quired by shape-ups at “kick-
back clubs” in Brooklyn’s
Bedford-Stuyvesant area and
Harlem.
A Pat Wilson was named by
“Joe as conducting a shape-
up in the basement of his home.
Wilson denied ever taking mon-
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DR. R. GRAM LLOYD, professor
will cen t ai a t'.maulirtUL,
Honor Students at Beach Hi
Lee Runs For
Greensboro
City Council
GREENSBORO, N. C.—<ANP)
—J. Kenneth Lee, 29. local at¬
torney, filed last week for the
City Council race. He is one of
the Negroes recently graduated
from the University of North
Carolina law school.
Lee was the third person to
enter the council race. The oth¬
ers. both white, are William B.
i Burke, 50, assistant
ent of the Cone Mills
ion, and R. Douglas Hay worth,
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BABYLAND CORONATION: Pro¬
ceeding Queen Elizabeth’s coro¬
nation by s-ix months, the king
and queen of Babyland were
crowned with ©omp and
ceremonies recently at, tne West
Broad Street YMCA. The pro¬
gram was conducted by children
of members of the Sauth Atlan-
HONO R STUDENTS AT CUTLER JR. HIGH
The following is a list of
honor students for the third
six weeks of school as released
this week by Cuyler Junior high
school:
7-1—Annette Kennedy, Caro¬
lyn Vinson, Harold Seabrooks,
Shelia Woods
7-2—Ray Capers, Otis Hey¬
ward.
7-3—Earnestine Young, Ralph
J C supervising pnnci-
s-r
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1953
The following students have
made the honor roll for the
third six weeks at Beach high
school:
Blanche Flipper, 12B-5; Bar¬
bara Grant, 12B1; Prince Rivers,
12B3; Florence Bodison, UAl,
Sarah Davis, ]1A1; Edgar Grif-
fith, 12B5; Yvonne Williams,
11B11; James Brown, 12B2;
lie Denson, 10B10; Callle Mor-
rissette, 12B1; William
1363.
Janie Baker, 10B6: James
Wallace Brown, 10B5; Dorothy
Davis, UB3; Lenora Ferguson
10B3; Mildred Gissentanner,
12B5; Joseph Greene, 10B9:
Gerald Haven, 12B4;
McHenry, 12B1; Edward
ers, 10B1C; Emma Tiggs. 12B1;
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tic Medical Auxiliary.
Their royal majesties are
Clifford, IV, son of Mr. and
Clifford Hardwick, III,
Qwen Crispin Yolande,
ter of Mrs. Ethel Jacobs
bell. Other members of
taking part in the
were Crown Princess Beryl
Jenkins.
7-4—Mamie Greene,
Green, Annie Height, Bettye
Pierce, Annette Sanders.
7-5—Flora Braxton.
7-6-- Verdon Miller, Abraham
Jones.
7-7—Samuel Jones, Theron
Carter.
7-8—Janette Beaman,
Mae Ralph.
MRS. LOUSE L. OWENS, Assist,
professor of English. Savannah
State college who will serve as
a consultant.
2 Women
Seated Mich.
Legislature
LANSING, Mich. - (ANPi
Another page of Negro history j
was written here Wednesday;
when two women took their re-
spective seats in the legislative;
chambers in the state Capitol
in very impressive ceremonies
Miss Cora M. Brown, a lawyer,
former policewoman and social
worker, was sworn in as state
senator from the second senat-
orial district in begins Detroit. her Mrs. j
Charline W'liite sec-;
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to im.ay KEY ROLES These
six individuals will play key
roles in the Third Annual Flo -1
rida A and M college Interschol-
astic Press Workshop which;
will be held February G-7. Morei
than 150 high school journal-
ists are expected to attend
MEDICAL CLINIC TO
BE HELD AT FAMCEE
TALLAHASSEE The Twenty-
seventh Annual Clinic and the
Twenty-fourth Annual meeting
of the Florida A and M College
Clinical association will be held
February 3-5 at the college’s
hospital and health center.
The outstanding guest clin-
icans for the various sections
are as follows: medical: U. G.
Dailey, M.D . Chicago; Asa Yan¬
cey, M. D., Veterans hospital.
Tuskegee, Alabama; J. H. Grif¬
fin, M.D., Bainbridge, Ga.; E.
H. Dibble, M. D.. John A. An-
! drew Memorial hospital, Tus¬
kegee; T. M. Smith, M.D.,
Provident hospital, Chicago.
J. T. Givens, M. D., Commun¬
ity hospital, Norfolk; Peter
Marshall Murray, M. D„ Harlem
and Sydenham hospitals,
York city; J. A. Long, M
Palatka, Fla.; E.A.R. Long. M.D.)
Bainbridge, Ga.; Alan P.
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W. BROAD ST. BRANCH
OBSERVING Y WEEK
The YMCA will observe YMCA
week by having five social ev¬
ents for teenagers ond service¬
men.
,rT7‘V‘‘\Tr7 Tonight the Bobby Suxers T" V’ of
Alfred 4 E. Beach high school will
conduct a dance for all high |
and junior high school students. |
Miss Euris Smith will be in
charge.
Thursday evening, the senior
class of Alfred E. Beach
give a social for all young peo-
pie at the “Y.” Prof. McLean is
the advisor.
The “Y” canteen will be con¬
ducted by James Wiley. All
young people including those
who are. “Y” members are
vlted -
The regular USO dance
servicemen will be held
day night. Music will be fur-
nished by James Wiley's
ers All servicemen are
This dance will be sponsored by
J B Burney, 1002 West 37th
street
The dance held Saturday
well attended by hostesses
servicemen from Hunter
and Camp Stewart. That dance
was sponsored by the
Corps League.
The coffee hour will be con-
ducted by the Junior
hour is sponsored by ;,he host-
| esses on the first. f*ird
club 6 00 p. m. Saturday.
.fifth Sundays. All servicemen
are invited.
The “Y” basketball team has
been practicing and will engage
in several games in the
Joseph Brown, a senior at
feed E. Beach high school.
in charge of the team.
The members of the Hub
'very interested in the
of the Butler Street YMCA
Atlanta. Many have
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—Photo by Freeman
nelia Ellis, Princess Vernese
arnes ’ Princess prlincess Carolyn oaroiyn mown Brown
and Prince Solomon Bynes, Jr.;
Over $500 was raised in this
I contesl which is sponsored an-
nua ^ y b y tbe auxiliaiy. Pio-
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7- 9—Luretha Doris.
8- 1—Robert Bush, Albert Gar-
trell, Harriet Brown, Cynthia
Rhodes, Emily Sngh.
8-2—Herchel Burton,.
8-3—Elise Bryant, Laura Gar¬
vin, Louise Young.
8-4—Albertha Jones, Rose-,
rnary Robinson, Mary
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L. M. TRAYLOR, professor
Savannah State college,
will serve as a consusltant.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
receive two days ol concentrat¬
ed training from these and
other outstanding journalists.
Top. left to right, Dr. L. A.
Campbell, director, school of j
journalism, Florida State uni- j
versity; Enoch Waters, execut-
editor, The Chicago Defend - i
Lawyer from Saves Min¬
ister Home Town
DETROIT—(ANP i A fugit¬
ive warrant against the Rev.
Percy Lewis, 42, was dismissed
in Recorder's court last week
by Judge W. McKay Skillman.
Rev. Lewis, former pastor of
St. Mark AME church in Dale-
ville, Ala , fled from his home
town of Dothan, Ala., Nov. 13,
when a white business man who
had loaned him *30 threatened
to kill him for non-payment of
the debt.
Samuel L. Weller, counsel for
Rev. Lewis, introduced a letter
into the testimony that lie re¬
ceived from the minister’s pro¬
bation offcler at Dothan that
read in part as follows:
T have investigated the reas¬
ons for Rev. Lewis leaving here.
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Local NAACP To Discuss
1*11 blic School Segregation
in the public
schools will be the main topic |
of discussion When the Sa-j
vannah Branch,. NAACP, ’ meets! !
B h , ’ Jan ‘ y » oth
8 o'clock at the West Broad !
Street YMCA.
Postal cards have been sent I
out to all of the NAACP mem-
bers and becaU8e thLs is a pres-' nfth
fviday night, +k»’ W. W. Law.
ident of the branch, said that
he is expecting a very large at-
tendance. The public is invited I
to attend
n A group bjuuij i of college students!
have made a very complete
j study of the recent Supreme!
Court case attacking the seg-t
regation of Negro children In)
public schools. The several cases;
j were the argued by attorneys for
NAACP.
This being the first ineetngof)
the year, the newly elected of-1
fleers of the branch will be in-!
stalled. W W. Law is entering!
his fourth term as president of*
the local branch. Earlier this
month, he was re-elected to the'
national NAACP board of direct- { !
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WASHINGTON. D. C -
United States Court of Appeal
last ____,_____, week okeved Jim Crow in
the restaurants of
after more than twelve
deliberation over the
of 1872 and 1873 laws
j of »ng the segregation District of in Columbia
The case was brought to
test by Mrs. Mary Church Ter-
Miss Essie Thompson and
Rev. Arnold Elms who were
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er; and Freeman Jones, editor-
publisher, the Mobile (Ala.i In¬
former-Freeman. Bottom, left to
right, L. D. Williams, editor,
the Nashville Globe-Independ-
ent; Charles J. Smith, III work-
shop director, and Rae O. Wint¬
er, director, school of journal-
ism, University of Florida.
NAACP YOUTH COUNCIL
TO SPONSOR “FREE¬
DOM TEA”
The Savannah Youth Coun¬
cil, NAACP, will sponsor a
"Freedom Tea” on Sunday af¬
ternoon, 4 o'clock at the First
Bryan Baptist church.
A special feature of the pro¬
gram will be a roundtable dis¬
cussion on 'What Is the Recre¬
ation Outlook for Youtli in
Savannah?” Mrs. Jeanette H.
Hall, field director of the Girl
Scouts, Miss T. P. Clifford,
physical education instructor
at Beach high school, Walter
B. Simmons, athletic director
of the Frank Callen Boys’ Club,
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Sandersville Soldier
Promoted * * w “---- To * ---- Sergeant -
Fred L. Gordon, son of Mr.
and Mrs - J D - Goi 'don, Route 1,
Sandersville, Ga., recently was
promoted to sergeant white ser-
ving with the 4Cth Infantry
^vision , . . in Korea. The outfit
arrived in Koiea early last year
intensive field training in
aban
G<,ldon * an assistant squad
, leader in Company E, 244th
* eglmellt ' arrived in Korea last
May ’ Slnce ea t‘ !rin g the Army
in October, 1951, he has been
awarded the Combat Infantry-
man Badge and the Korean and
service Ribbons. He attend¬
ed Savannah State college.
A DAUGHTER
A daughter was born January
9111 1,0 Mr - and Mrs Wm. Wil-
-
banis | iums of Rossignol Hill,
°i Rossignol Hill. Mrs.
Williams before her marriage
was Miss Helen Evans of States-
boro.
f use d service in ^ a Thnmnsnn nompson
i Restaurant Rf , in February
\ 1950
11 ^ was ,dcd a K a i n st the rest-
aurant in the Municipal court
but dismised by Judge Myers,
The case was carried before
thwe courts before it was ruled
on last week by the U. S. Court
of Appeals which rendered a
2 -i decision in favor of segre-
gation in restaur apts in the
District of Columbia.