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THIS IS NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEEK
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Mississippi Purge Fund
Now Totals $186,619
—
Garden Clubs Making
For Spring Activities
TO LEAD NAACP DRIVE
Lawrence D. iBubber)
prominent htan ' h
has been selected by the
NAACP branch executive
mittee to head the 1955
bership campaign. Mrs. E.
tine Bignon will be the
chairman.
A goal of o^e thousand
hundr ed mem bers has b een
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; Georgia Association of
j Clubs met in tneir spring
. ing March 3rd at which
Attorney L. L. Scott
the charter in a very
ceremony. This being the
offical meeting of the
planning was the specific
ject on the agenda, one of
plans being a scrapbook
between clubs who are
members of the association.
contest is in the
stage, and will terminate on
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SHRINERS ENTERTAIN
rm rKl. CT v lomorrowT \ NIGH
A feature attraction to
off the program for 1955
| be_the ° mar Potentates’ Temple No. ball, 21. given
H M . s „ this this Friday Fr. night
Coconut Grove.
) The affair will be
1 al. and the friends and
j m
wishers will no doubt
in large numbers, clothed
j their hanting evening music, attire. soft lig TTie hts
c an
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THE TRIBUNE IN PICTURES —In observance of National Negro Newspaper Week. The Savannah
Tribune is taking this opportunity to present here and on another page of this issue of the
paper some pictures of The Tribune, its equipment and key personnel. first editor: Major
On this page are shown: Top, left, Col. John H. Deveaux, founder and
Sol C-. Johnson, second editor and owner, who died a year ago, (both are shown in their uniforms
as officers in the Georgia Negro Militia which was disbanded in 1898 1 and M r . Willa Ayers
Johnson, present editor and publisher. editor, who has worked with this
Center, left, seated at desk is J. H. Butler, associate news¬
paper since 191,0. He is responsible for selection of national news and other feature articles
to be used each week.
To the left of Mr. Butler is Mrs. Mary E. Brockington, office clerk and assistant: bookkeeper,
who is placing a copy of the Tribune on the office files. She lias been with the newspaper
since 1924.
Left, bottom, Georg? E. Jenkins (foreground^ and S. D. Bisard, linotype operators. Mr.
Photos Bv Freeman and Cecil (Continued in next column)
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posits of $13,119 last week
brought the total of new funds
in the Tri-State Bank of Mem- !
phis for loans to hard-pressed
Mississippians to $186,619, ac¬
cording to Roy Wilkins, NAACP
administrator.
Rev. Adam Clayton Powell in¬
formed the NAACP that his
church, Abyssinian Baptist in
Harlem, had. sent $8,119 to the
Tri-State Bank. B. T. Bradshaw,
president-treasurer of the Vir¬
ginia Mutual Benefit Life In¬
surance Company of Richmond,
j j ya„ told the NAACP deposited that $5,000 his
company had-
m the Tri-State Bank. Previous
! deposits had totaled $173,500.
j Deposits are federally insured
I up to $10,000.
Callin g for Ie “ tl » n
3500.000, Mr. Wilkins said the
?reat need to make funds aviil-
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; nR Hf|)DLFT0N DIES
IN NEW YORK
Word was received here yes¬
terday that Dr. Clayton C. Mid¬
dleton died Tuesday in New
j York ^ city. His, funeral will be
Dr . ^jeton was a native of
1 h * here he practi c e d
^ mar , y years prjor tQ moving
to New York.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1955
Youth Ind. Ed. Conference
Set For Sav’h State College
nounced that the Georgia Youth
Industrial Educational Associa¬
tion will hold its Annual Con¬
ference and Trades Contest at
Savannaji State college Thurs¬
day and Friday, March 24 and
25. At this time there will be
students from trade schools
and high schools’ trade depart¬
ments from all over Georgia
competing in the following
trades: woodwork, drawing,
masonry, weavng, leather craft,
ceramcs. Students in industrial
trade classes will also be al¬
! lowed to bring handiwork from
their respective schools to be
entered in competition.
Arrangements are being made
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N. 0. SHOWS NO BIAS
TO SO. AMERICANS
NEW ORLEANSC-f ANPI — In
; vestment bankers entertained
more than 200 business men
from Central and South Ameri-
I ca here in New Orleans last
week.
They were housed at the lead¬
ing hotels in the city and feted
i on the Gulf Coast in Mississippi
by the New Orleans group.
Many of the South Americans
i were Negroes and of unmis-
j takable hue. These, along with
! others, were entertained and
| housed without racial discrim-
j ination or segregation.
No local Negroes were invited
1 to be a member of the party.
MAYOR MINGLEDORFF
COMMENDS TRIBUNE
city of savannah,
GEORGIA
Office of the Vlayor |
Post Office Box 1038 i
March 15, 1955
To the Editors of the j
Savannah Tribune: I
During the observance of
Negro Newspaper Week is the |
pleasant and interesting fact
that the oldest Negro news¬
paper in the United States is
the Savannah Tribune, now 73
vears of age and maintaining
its publication upon high level
through all those years.
It is a matter of congratula¬
tion that the Tribune should
have been so steadfast and that
its standard among Negro news¬
papers should oe so high. The
City of Savannah joins the
readers of the Tribune in its
hope for useful service through
its publication and continued
success as a Savannah institu
tion.
(Signed)
W. L. Mingledorff, Jr.
Mayor
j ILA TO OBSERVE
ITS ANNIVERSARY
The International Longshore¬
mans Association Independent,
local Nm 1414, who are celebrat¬
ing their nineteenth anniver-
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BIRTH OF
NEGRO PRESS
Jenkins was an apprentice at
the Tribune while attending
Beach high school. He studied
at Hampton Institute and Fenn
college and returned to the
Tribune in 1950. Mr. Bisard has
been with the Tribune for more
than 20 years.
Top. right, shows a corner of
the composing room with Chas.
A. Simmons, foreman, in the
foreground. Mr. Simmons has
been with the Tribune since
1923. At Mr. Simmons’ left are
Herman Mitchell, apprentice;
I,mold Brown, make-up man
and pressman, and Wesley
Young, pressman.
Bottom, right, is a picture of
the Duplex printing press on
which the Savannah Tribune is
printed weekly with Harold
Brown, left, and Wesley Young
at the controls.
CAMPBELL SOUP PLANT
REVERSES LILY-WHITE
HIRING POLICY
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Mar. 10
-The Campbell Soup Company
here agreed last week to hire
Jegro employees for the first
time in its history, following a
series of conferences with the
local NAACP Labor and .Indus¬
try Committee and Local 857 of
the AFL Cannery Workers.
The Campbell plane which
previously had some 1,700 white
miployees, last week added two
Negro employees.
The two new employees now
ire serving their
period and have been
well received at the plant,
cording to a spokesman for
Sacremento NAACP branch.
IORDAN POST MAKES
DONATION
William P. Jordan Post 500,
American Legion, donated $25
,o the Frank Cailen Boys’ Club
to help them defray their ex-
jenses to the basketball tour-
lament in North Carolina. The
presentation was made at the
February meeting of the board
of directors at the Boys’ Club.
The Post will have a cele¬
bration on Wednesday night,
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Work Started on Big
4-11 Plant at Dublin
DUBLIN, Mar. 16 — Ground
breaking exercises marking the
beginning of construction on
half-million dollar, 500-
capacity 4-H Club Center here
were held early this month.
C. V. Smith, president of the
Citizens Southern National
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MARTIN SPEAKS TO NAACP EXEC. COMMITTEE
—Photo by Cecil's
Loin. E 'hum, editor publish-j of the/, nmah Bunch NAACP irimeu- 'Above) reading clockwise, be¬
Chicago Defender and tive Committee last week at the ginning in the upper left hand
of the Michigan Chroncle, Bethlehem Baptist clvurc, Rev.
addressed a meeting of the Sa- | Li S'. Stell, pastor. In the photo (Continued on Page Seven) j
NUMBER S3
By Armislead Scott Pride
Dean, School of Journalism
Lincoln University
Jefferson City, Missouri
Once again America pauses
to pay tribute to one of the
many institutions that give
bone and sinew. Once again, on
the day after the ides of
the citadel of the world’s de¬
mocracies is reminded of
.existence of a continuing stream
jof news organs that essay
(make American democracy
more democratic.
The Amerian Negro Press
128 years old.
Born on that winter's day
1827 was the weekiy newspaper
heard so much of today. Free¬
dom's Journal was created
combat the forces of evil, to
strike at Slavery, to contend
Negro Freedom.
Its message was uttered where
only it could be spoken in
day of bondage—in the Nerth.
John Russwurm aptj 'Sairiftel
Cornish's paper died just short
of its second birthday. Since
then, almost 3,000
each with a life expectancy of
pine years at the most,
been fathered by Negroes. The
last one, already deceased,
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LAWYER RUNS FOR
CITY COUNCIL AT
FAEYETTEVILLE, N. C.
FAYETTEVILLE. N.
NP>—The campaign to
Atty. Harry E. Groves to
city council moved into
gear last week as an
city-wide
announced Its endorsement
the prominent lawyer for
legislative post
The Citizens Better
ment League, an
of prominent Negro citizens,
nouced support for Groves
ing a meeting last week.
Groves was the first of
candidates to file for the
council primary April 25.
A spokesman for the
said the group would
endorsement of other
ates as soon as the field of
tential couneilmen is
nounced.
Guaranty Life To Increase
Capital To $200,000
The Annual Meeting of stork- March 10, at which time tha
holders of the Guaranty Life following drectors were elected;
Insurance Company was h'eld at i
Home Office, Thursday, j (Continued on Page Seven)
