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73 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
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FIRE DESTROYS CLAFLIN DORMITORY
York Rite Masons Offer Eighteen ■ J
to Hi School Students (
A. Ult.il U > I icClIIrtU
SCOUTS AID M. of D.—The Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of Troop 47, Asbury Methodist Church
contributed $12.00 to the March of Dimes Campa ign on January 27. The above picture shows
Cub Scout Joseph Jones making the presentation to Theodore Roberts, chairman of distribution
of March of Dimes containers. The group included S. L. White, Sr., scoutmaster; Mrs Mamie
Felder and Mrs. Rosalyn J. Davis, den mothers ; James Holmes, Sr. den dad, and other parents.
SSC Alumni Start Drive For $5000
The 1955 Savannah State Col-
lege Alumni Scholarship Drive
Ernest °s Spikes as general
.chairman. Each alumnus is
askec’. to contribute $10.00 to
4 WEST BROAD ST. PLACES OF
BUSINESS BUTTED BY FLAMES
PENNSYLVANIA TOWN PUTS END
SEGREGATED SCHOOLS
Charge Meat Packers
With Job Bias
DR. WILSON HEADS (
j
YMCA BOARD OF
MANAGEMENT
Dr. J. W. Wilson was elected
chairman of the Committee of
Management for 1955 at the
February meeting of the com¬
mittee at the West Broad Street
YMCV. The following officers
were clecred to serve with him:
p, l. White, vice chairman;
Tellis Ramsey, secretary M. W.
Washington, assistant secretary,
and C. Wimberly, treasurer.
Dr. Wilson appointed the fol¬
iowing committees to work on
all phases cf the “Y” program
for the year:
Finance and Budget — L. D.
Law, chairman; S. J. Brown,
vice chairman; E. A. Bertrand,
O Wimberly, Tohn McIntosh,
TY-ijamin Graham, Jr. Mrs.
Harry Co’.Iier. j
Physical Education — Robert
A. Young, Sr., chairman, Joseph
Greene, vice chairman; Arthur
Dwight, Dr. Charles Collier,
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P-TA Again To Sponsor
Summer
The Chatham County Council
of Colored Parent-Teacher As-
soe rations will sponsor again this
year the summer camp for Ne-
«ro boys and girls.
Last year several civic Organ-
izations, schools, churches and
interested citizens assisted with
donations covering one or more
camperships. The site of the
camp is the old Dorchester
Academy in Liberty County.
The fee as in the past two years
Slip erilimu'
this fund by March, 1955.
Local scholarship committees
include: Scholarship, Norman
Elmore and James Luten, co-
chairmen; John Myles,
CHICAGO — Officers of the
United Packinghouse Workers
of America-CIO last week an¬
nounced a move to force the
major meat packers, Armour.
Swift. Wilson and Cudahy, to
employ Negro office workers in
their general offices.
In an opening move, UPWA
Vice-President Russell R. Las-
iey and District Director Cha'
Hayes announced the filing of a
formal complaint charging Ar¬
mour v Co. with violation of
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Ish Gets
High Post
SPRINGFIELD, 111. —<
Republican Gov. William Strat-
ton announced last week
has appointed Jefferson G.
Ish, Jr., to a post on the
portant Illinois Public Aid com
mission. *
The appointment of the vice-
president of the Supreme Lib-
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will be $10 per child per week.
Any one interested and de-
(.siring (ment to help assist in this move-
to curb juvenile de-
jlinquency is asked to make a
liberal donation to the cause.
1 Further information may be
I obtained by phoning Mrs. Mil-
dred Hutchins, 3-0556. or Mrs
Carrie Moore. 4-3374. Contact
j may also be made through the
(PTA president of the school in
! your community.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1955
Harris. John McIntosh,
George Roberson, Misses E.
Wright, Catherine Hunt and
Edward Greene; publicity, Mrs.
D. Steele, chairman, Miss
WILLOW GROVE, Pa., Feb. 3
—More than a quarter of a
"entury of Jim Crow by gerry¬
mander in the schools of this
eastern Pennsylvania town was
ended this wees with the open-
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Raised in M. of D. Drive
J. E- Jackson, chairman of
the 1955 March of Dimes Cam
paign, states that a total t
S3,£57.67 was contributed t
Negro citizens to the recer
Polio Drive.
The report is as follows:
Mothers' Match, Mrs. Eth
Luten, chairman, $796.73; Phot
contest, Mrs. Thelma William
chairman, t,i,si4,63; Basketba
game. Boys uuub to Beach hig’
school, $50.00; Spiritual Jubile-
WJIV, Frank Freeman, 3523.if
Street sales, Mrs. Maxine Moo:
chairman, $270.00: coin colle
schools, >190 93, business
($80.41, Theo. Roberts, chair
March of Dimes Dance
Gus Hayes, chairman, $200 00
Savannah State college. s!500 A
Savannah State college gtuclen
Council, $25.00; a r ay with cn
companies, report incomplete
Milton Cab Co., $12.01; Women’
Auxiliary. American Legion, Po.:
$38.80: special contribv
tions. $138.02; total, $3,»57 67.
Special mention is made c
contributions given by Haver
Home school faculty and PTA
for a report of $228.26. Mrs. O
j ] L. Mclver, principal, and Cyru
McKeiver, president of the PTA:
i West Savannah school, $140.00
1 Mrs. Ayler Lovett, principal an;
Mrs. Essie, ^resident of the
PTA; Beach Adult school. W
C. Scott. $185.40: Workers of
street sale from East Broad
| school, *300.00. Mrs Lula
Havnes and Miss Lillian Jack-
[son in charge.
Ham and Egg
Shows Set
Schedule
A good hog killing season and
the desire of thousands of Ne-
■’ro farm families to cure their
pork country style have Agri¬
cultural Extension Service
workers looking forward to some
of the best county ham and egg
shows in the 38-year history of
f he events.
K. C. Childers, special Negro
’ounty agent who coordinates
the state ham and egg pro-
gram, this week announced the
schedule for 25 county shows in
iP55. Childers pointed out that
the state has been divided into
three areas for the events this
year.
Ke announced the schedule
as follows:
North Georgia—Feb. 23, New¬
ton and Henry counties; Feb.
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M. Wright and W Scott; big
gifts, L. D. Lav chairman; Nor-
man Elmore, Edward Greene,
James Luten and John Mc-
Intosh.
A Negro poheema# and an
inmate of a roomnig house in
the 400 block cn West Broad
reei probab.y saved- the lives
of eleven occupants of the
rooming house which was gut-
ted Kendov I ° *
, jp .
,o nurm ou the office
of a dry cleaning establishment,
a barbershop and two cafes
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Mrs. The.ma 'Williams, chair¬
man of the Kmg and Queen
contest, reports the following
•oilections from the contest¬
ants with the names of their ;
sponsors in parenthesis:
Queen, Gwendolyn Daniels,
‘Mrs. P. v/, Manen, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Daniels, j
$227.73; Carol Lynette Dais'
(Mrs. Clara Joyneri, daughter i
of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Dais, j
$206.85; Patrina Johnson, (Mrs. j
Beatrice Colvin i, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Johnson.
$199.39; Patricia Henderson
(Mrs. Clema Butieri, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henderson.
$144.93; Chery' Grant, (Mrs.;
Beatrice Ahem daughter of Mr.
and. Mrs. David Grant. $125.61: j
Shirley Green, (Mrs. L. M. Jonesi
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob |
Green, *i04.80; Carolyn Smith
(Mrs. Sarah Bedford), grand-;
daughter of Mrs. Mamie Green.
King, John Henry Powell.
(Mrs. Marian Spaulding i. son j
of Mrs. Louise Powell, $154.52;
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PROMOTED
Word has been received that
.Caesar Alan Walker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Thweatt, 751
East Bolton street, has been
promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant in the U, S. Air
Force. He will attend the school
of Guided MW.es and Electron-
ics at Fort Bliss, Texas, in May.
The Smootn Ashlar Grand
Lodge (F. k A. A. Y. i Masons of
Georgia, has authorized Grand
Master Clim Davenport to make
available eighteen $200 schol¬
arships. All high school seniors
whose parents or guardians are
members of the York Kite
Masns can become eligible.
Those who are eligible have
been invited to submit in not
more than 1.C00 words: an
j , Essay, Short Story, Poem or a
one Act Play, on the subject
"Youth Meets the Challenge of
j Juvenile Delinquency.” The
j deadline for submitting an en-
j ^ April 30th.
! Entry blanks and contest
! rules can be secured from the
j local high school principal’s
office. For additional informa-
tion write Rev. A. S. Dickerson,
Educational Committee State j
250 Auburn Ave., N. I
E„ Atlanta, Ga.
The people of Newfoundland j I
live in 1,300 communities, scat¬
tered along the islands picture¬
sque 6,000-mile coastline.
Deposits of $113,000 Mailt
Yictims
NEW YORK, Feb. 3 — Roy
i Wilkins, administrator of the
I National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
j (the announced following today organizations that so, and far
i individuals “ave made
(totaling $113,500 in the Tri-
j otate able it Bank to expand of Memphis, its loans to en- to
j Mississippi Negro farmers,
j homeowners, business and pro-
I fessional men who have been
| the victims 0 f a "credit squeeze”
j by some white financial insti-
tutions in Mississippi
i
NAACP, $20,000; Metropolitan
i Detroit Mutual Assurance Co.,
s $io 000 AME Pension Fund,
j S10 000 . North Carolina Mutual
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COCA-COLA cnT.il A highlight ol l’ud > 20th Annual
All Sports Banquet and Jrmbor«e wa a piaquc-citation sports given
to the Coca-Cola Company in recognition of us s nport of
and athletics. Above Wilbur G. Kurt Jr The Coca-Cola Com¬
pany, standing right, receives the plaque from Dr. Rufus E.
Clement, president of Atlanta University who made presentation
on behalf of 100 Per Cent Wrong Club d the Atlanta Daily
World - banquet sponsors,
ATLANTA, Ga Some oi the
1 nation’s best known names in
j [week sports to were participate in Atlanta in the 20th last
Annual All-Sports Banquet and
ORANGEBURG, S. C.-Claflln
college's girls dormitory was
razed by a fire early Sunday
morning sending nearly two-
hundred female students scam¬
pering to safety with nothing
but the scant clothing each
could get quickly.
The fire which Is reported
started on the third lioor had
spread to all three floors before
the firemen could arrive. Fire
fighters who entered the build¬
ing were unable to remain be¬
cause of the heat and smoke
They fought the fire through
broken windows of the bulr'Ung
in a driving rain.
The dormitory built in 1906,
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ROffc’Y HODGFS TO
"TAR i 7 ALFNT SHOW
OVER WOAR
I Rock., linages, of \, e c t Coast
I fame, i; in Savannah, having
i been inviti d to rr me here by
Radio Station WDAR to inaug¬
urate a talent show in which
(outstanding I local talent will be
presented to the public.
! The presentation, to be known
the Blue Rhythm Show, will
heard daily, Monday through
Friday, 5 to 0 urn... over WDAR.
The show Rocky will produce
be entirely different from
other such productions and w ill
give these who appear on the
program a fine chance to dem-
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INTEGRATION WORKING IN THE
ST. SCHOOLS
j sx LOUIS, Mo.—<ANPi—This
clty last weefe et;hed its name in
j the history books along side the
, 0 ther metropolises and towns
, Lh a t have taken integration in
| their stride .
j Cne of the most immediate
1 effects of the move was the
j marked relief from overcrowd-
mg m the two hitherto Negro
schools, Vashon and Sumner.
Principal W G. Mosely of
• Vashon whose district once cov-
half the city said his en-
is down to 1.800
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Olhers seen, seated left to ri:ht, are Moss H. KcmMx,
, public relations counselor. The Coca-Cola Company. C. A. Scott,
editor-publisher, Atlanta Daily World, and A. L. Thompson, chair¬
man of the Awards Committee of the 100 Per Cent Wrong Club,
Earlier Mr Kurtz had presented all major trophies, as donated
by Co -a-Cola, for the sports event. Dr Clement was toastmaster
1 for the dinner which was held at Atlanta’s famous Waluhaje
’
Jumboi > < pon’oml by the ID* 1
Per Cent Wrotv.r Club and the
Atlanta Daily World,
The three-day round of events
had its climax on Friday even-
Member Audit Bureau Circulation!
Price 10c
Tv/c Welcomed Vca&Ll Savannahians
Pictured above are the two adorable Japanese-American or¬
phans recently adopted by Dr. and Mrs Henry M. Collier, Jr.,
while in the Far East. On the left is Roberle Evon, age 4, and
on the right, Henry, III, age 3. Vincent, center, is smiling and
quite happ> over his newly acquired brother and sister. They are
very happy in their new home and are a welcomed addition to
Savannah’s little folk. Photo by Freeman
j j Publishers Hold Mid-
! Winter Meet at
j HAMPTON, Va. — Approxi-
i mately 45 publishers attended
i of the
I the mid-winter workshop
j National Newspaper Publishers
Association at Hampton Insti¬
tute, January 27-29, with the
Journal and Guide of Norfolk,
'• Va., serving as host and Hamp¬
ton Institute as co-host.
The sessions were highlighted
by a public address by Thur-
good Marshall, special counsel
for the National Association for
the Advancement oi Colored
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mg when Atlanta’s sports lover-
'ssembled for the Annual Ail
Sports Banquet which was held
in the Waiu Room of the beau¬
,
tiful Waluhape Apartments.
The array of sports talent rep-
esented the top headlines in
the nation.
J. L. "Dusty” Rhodes, batting
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NUMBER IS
Atlanta Host
To NAACP
Reg, Meeting
ATLANTA, G i, Feb. 3 — The
3 j d Annual Conference of bran¬
dies. youth councils and college
chapters of the National Asso¬
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People will convene at
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