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73 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
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N*iv L. G. t. OFFICERS— Dr. B. C. Turner, second frm
left, president of South Carolina State College, Orangeburg,
elected head of the Conference of Presidents of Negro
Grant Colleges during closing session of the organization’s 52nd
annual meeting in Washington, last week Seen complimenting
Dr Turner is Virginia State College president. Dr. R. P.
who is retiring head of the group. Dr. George W. Gore. Tr..
seen in was elected vice president. Dr. Gode is
College Prexies
II Hear p forownell
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
32nd annual session i- the
Adventists Give $233,000
To Oalcwood College
Attack on Postman
Action
DEAN WHITTAKER DIES
AT VETERANS HOSP.
ORANGEBURG. S.C. — Peter ;
H. Whittaker, Dean, School of ;
Law, South Carolina State col¬
lege. died at the Veterans Hos¬
pital, Tuskegee. Alabama, Oc¬
tober 33, following a brief
iilness.
Funeral services will be held
in the chapel at South Carolina
State college. Thursday, Nov¬ I
ember 4, at 11 03 a m.
Ationey Whittaker served as i
a professor in the Law School
at South Carolina State college
from 1941 to the fall of lf50
when he began serving as acting
Dean o£ the Law School. In
1251 he was appointed full
dean, serving in that capacity
until his passing.
Dean Whittaker received his
bachelor degree frem South
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REIGNED AT HOWARD-FISK GAME—M s, Jew G. mi. n, r
at Howard University in Washington, D. C.. was crowned Grid¬
iron Queen of 1954" at Howard’s Homecoming gam. with Fisk
University, recently. Howard won the game 12-S.
Miss Grant who is a member of the Alpha Kaooa Alpha
Alpha Sorority, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Grant, CIO
West 37 Street, Savannah.
She is the sister of Miss Evelyn V. Grant, a June graduate of
Howard University who is now instructor of music at Savannah
State College. Another sister. Miss Barbara Grant, is a sopho¬
more at Howard University.
Conference of Presidents of
Negro Land Grant Colleges,
.meeting in Washington last
week, received a solemn prom-
ise from 0. S. Commissioner of
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Oct. 28
District of Columbia NA¬
ACP has announced a change
of policy’ the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of
White People following inter¬
vention in a case in which a
Negro postman was allegedly
assaulted by NAAWP Founder
-President Bryant W. Bowles.
A statement issued yesterday
by NAACP Branch President
Eugene Davidson declared that
“the NAACP will use its legal
committee members to protect
the rights of the postman and
to see that Bowles answers for
‘he assault.”
The statement noted that “the
DC branch's policy of ignoring
the National Association for
the Advancement of White
People and its founder-presi¬
dent Bryant W. Bowles must be
changed now in the light of
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dent of Florida A. and M. State University, at Tallahassee,
Others seen in the picture are, left to right. Dr. R. B. Atwood,
conference secretary. Kentucky State College, Dr. C. V. Troup,
assistant secretary. Fort Valley State College, Georgia, Dr. Fei-
ton G. Clark, treasurer. Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louis-
iana. and Dr. F. D. Bluford, North Carolina A. and T. College,
it Greensboro, chairman of the Executive Committee. Each of
the educators is of his institution.
, Education .Samuel M. Browne.:
that their group would have a
greater participating role in
White House conference on
ucation to be held in
Autumn council of the Seventh-
day Adventist church, meeting
in Takoma park here last week
voted to donate $233,CO:, to Oak-
wood Negro college Huntsville,
Alabama.
Major portion of the appro¬
priation was earmarked for
new men’s dormitory. Other pro¬
jects include teachers’
and improvements in the
ence deartment.
This appropriation was
of an over-all budget of more
than $20,OCO,OCO approved
Thursday by more than 610
delegates attending the inter-
national convention.
C. L. Torrey, treasurer of the
denomination, said the large ap-
propriation was made possible
largely by the "faithful tithe-
paying” on the part of Adventist
members. He said the percapita
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MANY PROMINENT COLLEGE LEADERS CALL FOR
—Southern white leaders who
had hoped that leading Negro
educators might lend some
measure of comfort to plans to
defy the Supreme court, re¬
ceived a rude jolt here last
SAVANNAH TOUCH¬
DOWN CLUBORGANIZEP
A group of men interested ir
athletics recently met and or-
"■anized the Touchdown Club o f
Savannah. The officers are
Tester B. Johnson, captain;
Richard Lyles, co-captain; John
Mvles. recording secretary;
Raymond Washington, finan¬
cial secretary; Lawrence Perry,
treasurer: J. Q. Jefferson, pro¬
gram director, and H. Travis,
"eporter.
Th° organization meets ev-
.-y Mandav night at the YMCA.
Lembership is open to any
nie '^sted adult citizen.
T ‘ is honed that the organi¬
zation will be able to stimulate
and promote wholesome sports¬
manship in the community.
W. W. LAW TO ATT END
WARING TESTIMONIAL
Westlev W. Law, president of j
the local NAACP branch and a
member of the NAACP’s nation¬
al board of directors, will at¬
tend the testimonial banquet
in honor of the Honorable J.
Waties Waring. United States
District Judge, retired, on Sat¬ i
urday night, Novemebr 6, at the
Buist School in Charleston. ■
South Carolina. The local NA¬ I
ACP official received an invi¬ I
tation from James M. Hinton,
the militant president of the
South Carolina State Conference
of NAACP Branches, last week.
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1354
oer,
It appears that in the past,
such conferences, as called
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MOSES JACKSON WINS
MAYORALTY CONTEST
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Vne Mayorality contest
tween Deacon Moses
and Leroy Wilson closed
night at the Recreation Cen-
’ ter, Ogeechee Ave. and
street. A spicy progrgam
rendered to an
audience. Both of the contest-
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representa-
tive group of Negro educator,
assembled since the decision
called for complete
with the high court ruling.
The group, which included
presidents of leading Negro
OCAL SSC ALUMNI
H MEET SUNDAY
The Savannah Chapter of the
'avannah State College Alumni
Xssoeiaiion will meet Sunday at
LOO pm. at the West Broad
Street YMCA with R A. Young
president, presiding,
The propose dagenda includes
Homecoming Donations idead-
line for donations is Friday
5>; Committee Re-
ports, (a i Homecoming Com-
mittee, L. D. Law, chairman;
(b» Entertainment Committee,
R. P. Pinkney, chairman; <c >
Public Relations* Committee
Miss C. Hunt, chairman; (dt
Grant-In-Aid Committee, J
Myles, chairman; 'et Program
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NAACP APPOINTS HEW
FIELD SFCRETARY
NEW YORK. Get. 28 — The
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
has announced the appoint-
ment of Charles W. Greenlea of
Atlanta. Ga.. as assistant field
secretary for that state.
Prior to this appointment Mr.
Greenlea worked with the USO
in Georgia, and more recently
with the Atlanta Daily World,
the only Negro daily newspaper
in the country.
Mr. Greenlea has been con¬
sistently active in the Atlanta
branch of the NAACP and the
Georgia State Conference of
NAACP Branches.
Protest Yainaeraw Village
Police Brutal Heating
The legal redress committee
of the Savannah Branch of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP i wrote the Mayor, Al¬
dermen and City Manager of
the City of Savannah last week
protesting the brutal beating < 1
Zeik Anderson, in his home in
Yamacraw Village, by City Po¬
licemen C. Attaway and W. F.
Goldbold on Saturday night,
October 16th.
The NAACP exposed the ' po-
1 lice brutality" case in a letter
signed by the Rev. P A. Patter¬
son, chairman of flic NAACP
1 legal redress committee, and W.
W. Law, the branch president.
I The NAACP requested that tire
j "guilty officers be immediately
dismissed and that the citizens
j | be given assurance that this
type of heartless brutality will
! not re-occur or be tolerated by
| the officialy of this city."
Mayor Clin F. Fulmer has
! stated for the press that if the
two officers are found guilty
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1 n tegratlon A Natter of Time
Says Southern Law Sch. Dean
WILTON C. SCOTT
PRESENTED PLAQUE
Wilton C. Scott, supervisor,
Beach Adult Academic Center,
was awarded a plaque by the
Vance Allison Post of the
American Legion, in recognition
of outstanding services to vet¬
erans in the community. The
award was made by Matthew
Williams, Sr vice commander,
District A, American Legion,
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IMMEDIATE IM^LEMENTA HON OF COURT RULIN',
out that
in a joint statement that *he
decision dramatically distin -
ushes “our way of life in a
democracy from that in totali
.nan countries.”
”T me will prove,” the state-
j nent said, “that our fears Lave
I 10 foundation in fact, just as
ras been proved by the imple¬
mentation of previous court
decisions. Segregation breeds
fear; and when the barrier of
segregation are at last removed,
we will wonder why we feared
at all.”
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(co-eds will be the objects of special attraction at the Savannah
State College homecoming game against Alabama State College
! on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 13.
Several New
Teachers At
Cuvier
Cuylev has five new mm-iV'e-
added to its faculty for thi
year; they are:
Miss Vivian Baker, n nrbiv"
Columbia. S.C., received her
high school training from Bonk
er Washington .High: under¬
graduate degree from Speima*
college and advanced training
in Music Education from Atlan¬
ta and Columbia universities
respectively. She has charge of
8th grade music at Cuyler.
Miss Eloiso Cainion is a native
of Donalsonville, Ga. A gradu¬
ate of Savannah State college
with a Physical Education
major, she has taught at Claf-
lin college, Orangeburg, S. C
and is teaching Health uik
physical Education at Cuyler. I
1 Miss L. M. Dixon is nativ
a
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COLUMBIA. S. C (ANPi
. Integration is a matter of time,
according to the dean of the
George Washington university
law school.
"There can be no hope of
permanent forestalling of in¬
tegration in veiw” of the Sup¬
reme court decision outlawing
j segregation in public schools,
said Dr. John T. Fey.
Addressing a joint meeting of
the State Associations of School
administrators and school
boards, Fey said plans to keep
segregated schools "can only be
regarded as temporary expedi¬
ents.”
The court’s findings are clear,
| only the methods and timing
present uncertainty, he added.
For sale driving, remember
the Golden Rule works on the
streets and highways, too.
without bioodshed and revolu¬
tion was possible because of a
Constitution which guarantees
"quality and justice to all, the
educators said “that to evade
or discredit it is to destroy our
government.”
‘ It is our hope,” they said,
“that, all of the colleges and
universities of the South. Negro
and white, will immediately
implement the spirit of the
court's decision by accepting,
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They are Miss Delores Perry. 1 center > chosen as “Miss Sav¬
annah State.” and her attendants. Miss Elizabeth Jordan, left,
and Miss Frances Baker. They will be featured at the hall
game ceremonies.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
Rites Held Yesterday For
S.
Funeral services for Rev
‘a ksnn S. Striplirfg were held
yesterday (Wed.) afternoon at
Asbury Methodist church. He
tied Mends’ - nv'ui'i v : at hi'
’onr\ 007 W. f8 h street, after
O <* ->(4 >rl illness.
Tile services were conducted
v th° R»v. J. II, Taggart, pas-
l or of tile church, and the eu-
’ogv was delivered hv District
Superintendent W. H Brown,
pro Tram was ns follows:
Processional: selection. "Be
Mv Soul:” prayer. Rev. S.
S. Robinson; selection, "Have
Own Way;" reading, OOUi
Psalm. Sylvanin Dist. ~upt..
Rev. W. R. Lovelace; reading.
14th chapter, St. John, Rev. H.
H. Baxtrum; liymn, Rev. J
Reddick; Rev. J. S. Stripling as i
a Father, Rev. E, N. Graham:
Rev. J. S. Stripling as a layman !
him, D. D. Young; Rev I.
Stripling as a pastor, Rev. D,
SI,375 Added To Fight
For Freedom Fund
YORK, Oct.
ouarters of the NAACP's Fight
for Freedom campagin here has
announced donations totaling
$1,375 during the past week to
aid the fight for full civil rights.
The campaign received a be¬
quest of $300 from the estate of
Miss Eliza F. Wilson, Richmond.
Va., and S160 from New York
locals of the joint board of the
International Handbag. Lug¬
gage, Beit and Novelty Workers
Union, AFL.
In addition to several indi¬
viduals who collectively con¬
tributed $45, seven local NAACP
branches sent a total of $870 to
national headquarters. They
were: Joliet and East St. Louis,
111., $250 each; Weldon, N. C..
Indianapolis, Ind., and Danville,
111., $100 each: Williamsport,
Pa.. $50; and Arkansas City,
Kans., $20.
The Fight for Freedom cam-
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I OCAL OMEGA CHAP.
to C*0 FBRATE
ACHIEVEMENT WK.
M i Phi Chapter of Omega
p ) Phi Fraternity, line., wil
eriei-rat' National Achievement
Week in a special program at
St Matthew’ -, Episcopal Church
on Sunday at (5:00 D.m. A recep¬
tion wUl follow the program
, immediately in the parish hall
of the church.
Grand Basileus John Potts,
i) evident of Voorhees Junior
; colieoe. Denmark. S.C., will be
the sneaker fov the occasion.
Miss Ruby Ridley, an alumnus
of Savannah state college, a
teacher at Paulsen school and a
member of AKA Sorority, will
be guest soloist.
The public is invited to at¬
tend the program: Committee
for the occasion includes Bros.
B T. Griffith, chairman; J. W.
Jamerson, Jr and J. E. Briggs.
J (}. Jefferson is basileus.
Another Congressman
DETROIT, Mich.—When Con- of Iilincn who have been serv-
gress reconvenes another Ne¬ inn for the past several years.
gro’s name must be added to It is that of Charles Diggs of
those of A. Clavtnn Po'wll of Detroit who was elected in
New York and William Dawson Tuesday’s election.
NUMBER 4
R. Cooper; Rev. J. S. Stripling
as a district superintendent
Rev C. W. Prothrow; solo. Mrs.
Emma Bennett; remarks, Rev.
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