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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LUU
ttO to bo Awarded
Vocational lid.
Certificates
MAKES PLEA — Although the
American Nurses Association
has made much progress since
the recent dissolving of (lie
National Association of colored
Graduate Nurses, much is still
needed to be done. Miss,Grace
E. Marr is assistant executive
secretary of the ANA in charge
of the intergroup relations
program. At the ANA's recent
meeting in Chicago she out-
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Murray Foundation Awards
$75,000 to NAACP j
Court Awards $20,000
CHICAGO — (ANP) — Some
$29,000 was awarded last week
to a former maid who contend¬
ed she suffered permanent
injurics while working in the
Chicago Housing authoitry pro-j
ject,
Mrs. Marguerite Turner, 38
Left to right' Chas. Brown, Yard Conveyor, Man; Cordy Lewis, Woodhandler; Jule Griffin, Wood-
handler Jas Strickland. Woodhandler (Cable); H. L. Brown, Woodhandler; J. D. Riley, Personnel
Manager Effie S. Richter, Plant Nurse; Cuyler Sanders. Woodhandler; Peter Giles, Wood-
handler; Ben Brown, Jr.. Woodhandler; James N. Reed. Bark Conveyor Man.
WON SAFETY TROPHY—At the the Southern Pulp v Paper
banquet whch culminated the (Safety Association held in the
eleventh annual conference of Hotel John Marshall in Ric£-
eam-u finals speakers —
Bishop Carey A. Gibbs, left,
and Dr Ralph J. Bunche, will
•deliver the baccalaureate ser- |
j The commencement
J of the Vocational Division
) Beach Adult Education
will be hold tonight (Thurs.)
H p. m.
The school, the only one
I its kind in the state, has
| ily grown until it is now
| ing with a huge
! j and with many on the
list.
The “Earn While You
slogan has been the
(of the institution, and
ands of its graduates are
fully employed in leading
I nesses and industries
! out the state. Many are
of private enterprises.
Dean Geraldine Hurd
director of the •School of
Economics at State
college, Orangeburg, S. C.,
bead of the Department
Teacher Trainers of Homo
Economics for the Southern
Region of the National Educa¬
tion Association will be the
commencement speaker.
Tlic main foyer of the school
will be the scene of the many
skill trades taught. Each divis¬
ion will have a display.
Mrs. Dorothy R. Lampkin,
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said she suffered fractures of
two vertebrae and permanent
back injuries Aug. 6, 1948, when
she fell on a stairway at Ida B.
Wells, a predominantly
project. She charged the stair
way had not been
"
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non and commencement
■ess respectively at | lorida
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DELTAS FETE NEW MEMBERS—On last Saturday
the members otf Beta Delta Sigma chapter entertained
new members with a banquet at the home of Soror Willa
Johnson on West 37th street.
The above picture was made just after the main
which was served tov Mrs. Gladys McCray, caterer and her
sistant. *
Reading left to right seated Givens, are Euris Sorors Smith, Mary Ann
Mamie B. Haynes, Annie B (new*,
line Dorothy Taylor (President), Sadie
NEW YORK— (ANP* A last!
1000 grant was awarded
week to the NAACP by the
i Philip Murray Memorial foun-
dation, Waiter White, executive
secretary of the organization,
| announced.
i The grant, to be used for
ucational purposes, was
uled to be formally presented
at the ceremonies at the
national Center of the
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mond, Virginia, on May 3 rd,
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SOCIETY TO PRESENT
SPRING CONCERT SUN.
Thc Savannah State College
j Choral Society nder the direct-
! ion of Colcrdigc A. Braithwaitc
will present its annual spring
concert this Sunday evening at
(six o’clock in Meld rim
J torium on the college
(The program will be open to
the public without charge.
Music to be heard will include
j sacred and secular selections
by American, English and Ger-
j man composers. Both the male
and female glee Clubs will
featured in separate groups.
A highlight of the event
be- the presentation trf.
original opems written by.
0 j, f be m embers of the
society. Nathan Dell, 54.
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Schlitz Makes Gift of
$1500 To Fund
MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The
United Negro College
campaign got off to a
start in Milwaukee when
Jos. Shclitz Brewing
presented the campaign
ers with a check for $1,500
their initial meeting held
at the Schlitz Brown
The presentation was
Dr. James Brawley.
dent of Clark college,
Georgia.
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1VV^Y. » dXllXoUll xl^dLlS
NAACP Membership* Drive
Rev. 1*. A. l*jHcrson
Rev. P. A. Patterson, promin-
( ent minister and civic leader,
| has been named general chair-
j an of the 1954 NAACP Mem¬
bership Drive for the local
|branch. 1 Announcement ol the sclcct-
( ion of Mr. Patterson was made
by J. S. Delaware, chairman of
, the branch’s membership
mittee, who has headed
standing committee on
bership for more than
years
As head of the NAACP mem-
bership drive, the popular pas-
tor of the Butler Memorial
Presbyterian church will
a county-wide canvass for new
members and renewal of last
year’s memberships. Mr.
has pointed out that abou
,on
Quick Thinking School
Board Maid Is
Commended ,
When lire biokc w , 111 th ,
i white Bloomingdale M ll,J
I . ot
building Monday morning
1 l;j„st week the building was
j probably saved from complete
maid, who opened the building
early that morning and t
ered the fire.
| The Pooler Fire Department
was called and arrived on the
I scene in time to confine the
fbe to two rooms of the build-
ing.
The Board of Education, ln
j recognition of the quick think-
: ing and heroic work of Mrs.
williams, has sent her the fol-
i lowing letter of commendation:
-Savannah.
May 5 , 1954
Ml , Willie Mae Williams
Bloomingdale School
Bloomingdae, Georgia
j '• “Dear Willie Mae:
<*x would like to take this
portunity of thanking you
f or y 0U r courageous efforts
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I’lioto By Cecil
steele, (new) Catherine Cooper, (Darien>, Edith Counts, (.Colum-
|bia. S. C.), Julia Bacon, Helen S Riley. Standing left -o
right are Vivian. Walker, Jamie L. Bryant Juanita J Jackson.
i Albert M. Thweatt, M*ozelle Clemmons, Bernita Darby, Willa.
Mae Johnson, Hattie C. Scott, Tallulah K. Cogswell, Gertrude
H. Lark, and Eldora S. Greene.
i The impressive initiation ceremony was held preceding the
j banquet at the home of Soror Gertrude Lark on Johnson Av-
enue.
"It is hard to express how
j much this gift from the Jos.
Schlitz Brewing Company
j means to us right at the be-
ginning of the campaign,” Dr.
Brawley said. “We consider it
a good omen for the future of
our Milwaukee campaign."
Schlitz also contributed $1500
to the 1953 United Negro c ° 1 '
lege Fund, Inc., which was the
most successful so far conduct
ed ln Milwaukee.
__
one hundred volunteer workers
will be needed lo make the cur-
rent NAACP drive a success.
The dates of the drive will be
from May 15 to June 15.
The quota for the local cam¬
paign will be set at a meeting
to be held later this week, how¬
ever, W. W. Law, local branch
president, said that "we will be
compelled to go after at least
thousand members."'
the last two years, the branch
h as come near that goal.
| Rev, Patterson was president
of the Hub, a business and
professional men’s club, in 1952
IIr . j s a member of the board
0{ trustees, Charity Hospital:
, Educational Advisory Commit-
tee to the Superintendent
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Readying Plans For
Summer Patrol Camp
At Dorchester
________________ Chatham County —..... Council
parents and teachers urges
( to yoU r boys and .girls
i Patrol Summqr Camp at
Chester Academy in
County. Any child who is
and H , s eligib i e to attend
Wa de Simmons, a teacher
George DeRenne school,
the direction of Lt. Funk, is
SU p erv isor of the camp
This camp offers such
giving recreation as
at Camp Stewart, soft
* movies and many others
| are planned Home-like for their
tainment.
facilities as well as
! food are all furnished for
j small sum of $10 per week.
churches, fraternities,
rities. secret ordes. civic
social clubs as well as
citizens are asked to sponsor
child who would otherwise
vacation,
1 Application blanks may
(secured from your
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Howard Univ. to Confer
on Three
The Board of Trustees
Howard university has voted to
confer honorary degrees upon
Ambassador Chester Bowles, At¬
torney Thurgood Marshall, and
Virgin Islands Official Roy W.
Bornn. The degrees will be
conferred, pending acceptance
by the candidates, at the Um-
verslty’s 86th
exercises Friday, June 4, at
5 30 p. m.
Other action taken by the
board at last week’s meeting
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RECENT REPUBLICAN APPOINTEES Lt. George W Leo, Memphis, (left*; David E. Longley,
Richmond, Va., (center); and Mallory C. Walker, Portland, Ore., (right*; are three more recent
appointees to high federal positions made by the Eisenhower Administration.
j Lt. Lee has been named to the Administration, Region V, which Tennessee, the Commonwealth
,
I National Board of Field Ad-I covers Mississippi, Georgia, South Alabama, Carolina. Florl-j.. (Continued —---------- Page Seven)
visers to the Business • da, on
LANGUAGE ART FESTI-
AlIKALl.b ATTRACTS
MANY SCHOOLS
tR. statewide High School
L aiJ g Ua o f . Arts Festival closed
State i
schools represented: T J. Elder,
Sndersville; Brooks high, Quit-
j nian; Alfred E. Beach high,
Sava nnah; Ralph J. Bunche
h j gh Woodbine; Collins high, j
Todd-Orant high, Dari-
; fin . (j arv ,, r Heights high, col-
j u mbus, and Cuyler Jr. high,.’
, 3 avanna h.
j A C Carter, instructor in (
masonry, and Dr 7ernon Stone,,
instructor in business at the j
i college, recently visited the
Effingham County Training
j School for the purpose of ser-
; ving a> judges c uring tne Stuo
ent.s Day activities. line
there Mr. Carter, who is is also also! I
an alumnus of the college, j
helped to organize a new chap-
ter of the S avannah Stte Col-
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Member Audit Bureau Circulation*
Price 7c
Williams Again
President
Morticians
LIFE EXPEC¬
NEARING
WASHINGTON—( ANPi— The
expectancy of Negroes still
less than that for whites, but
gap is narrowing, accord¬
to vital statistics compiled
the public, health service of
Department of Health, Ed¬
and Welfare.
Although white persons out¬
non-whites by an aver¬
of eight years, the differ¬
betw'een the two groups j
narrowed since 1900, when ,
persons lived about 15 1
longer than non-whites, j
constitute almost a
the non-whites >.
The expectancy
men is 69.4 years, and 63 *
' e or non-white women.
compares to 66.C .01 white
1 ^ T2§ '..... for white women. |
the figures, oased , on imi
As
rates show, women 01 ,
outlive men.
j 4 Sue Ala. Board For
Refusing Register Them
MONTGOMERY, Ala — i
Four Negroes last week filed
i vote denial suit alleging that
the Bullock County Board
Registrars "wrongfully and 11-
legally failed to register”
Negro applcants. They seek
*50,000 damages. ■
The suit was brought by
Aaron Sellers, J. S. Sellers, Wil- !
. ..
>j other of THE YEAR Over 250 persons attended the An-
nual whfch^Ume 0
wajj presellted , LS Mot ,ner of the Year. THe purpose
this ban q Ue t was to provide an opportunity for the mothers
Qf of female female students students to visit (lie school and observe their
daughters In • their school setting.
The speaker for this occasion tService of Savannah, who is a
was Mrs. Gertrude Greene,
case worker for the Family (Continued on Page Six).
NUMBER U
Osie il. Williams, President
Metter morticians
and Herman
were hosts to the First Ccm-
gresslonal District of
Directors and
e rs last Tuesday,
Tile business session
hein held at Bethel Refhel amf AME church church e
was presided over by ©sie
williams, president. Many
in the funeral
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lie Dorsey and Lorenea Robins
“in behalf of themselves and
all others similarly situated.”
Named aw defendants were
registration chairman S. B. Wil-
Fred W. Chappel and W.
B. Rainer.
Styled as a class action suit,
the complaint asked for a decla-
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