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74 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
VOLUME I.XXIV
WHO WILL BE MISS JABBERWOCK?
"MISS JABBERWOCK
TESTANTS”—The above
ladies are competing for
title of ‘ Miss Jabberwock,”
annual project' of the
Sigma Theta Sorority.
left to right, top row, are
Atlanta Experiences Third
Recent Home Roinbin^
Florida Maps Plans for
S. C. Court
Mid-Town Chamber of
Commerce
What is considered one of the
most forward movements by Ne¬
groes in Savannah, was the or¬
ganizing, recently, of a Negro
Chamber of Commerce, to he
known as The Midtown Chamber
of Commerce of Savannah. This
would he a worthwhile century if
it were solely for the purpose of
organizing and promoting .Negro
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CROWNED—The above picture
shows Mrs. Inez Williams, (left >,
basileus of the Gamma Sigma
Omega chapter of the Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sororitv. crown¬
ing Miss Ruby Futch as “Miss
Fashionetta for 1956-57" at the
Veronica Owens (Cuyler high
| student), Miss LaVances Frce-
man (Beach High student), !
and Miss Pearl Jackson i Beach
j | High student. Singleton > Bottom left, Miss
Rosa. Lee (Woodville
High studenti and right, Miss
business, but that is just one
among many other objectives of
Ut< nr w oi ^anizat ion, the naliza-
lion of which is set as a goal res-
olutely to he attained.
It should be understood in the
beginning, that this is not a club
of any nature, whatsoever. It is a
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—Photo by Cecil
recent presentation of Shiva-
ram. Hiss Futch is a student at
Cuyler Junior High School. She
won over five other contestants.
tSee pictures inside).
-Photos by Williams and
Freeman
Joyce Batey (Cuyler High stm-
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The Jabberwock has been
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — (ANP)
I — Florida’s top officials, led by
Gov. Leroy Collins, were huddling
this week in . an announced , effort cc .
to find r , means of pit’ defying the .
,, st Supreme Court edict
j j segregation.
>j>| |e i**j or j«| a cabinet went on rec-
j or( j supporting the state attorney
I general’s charge that the Supreme
i shop” Court has ruling made by a ordering “bull in the a china Uui-
versity of Florida to admit its first
Negro student.
The high court’s ruling held that
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N.Y.Times Says Integration
—
Yolk Times said last week that
tx survey of compliance with the
supreme. Court’s desegregation de-
dsion shows that school integra¬
tion “seems inevitable in most
Southern states—perhaps in all.”
The newspaper said that is the
‘over-all impression” gained by
en of its reporters who spent five
Hour of
fo Bus
MR. POWENS RETURNS
7 R0M EDUCATIONAL
MEET IN DETROIT
W. H. M. Bowens of Savannah
State College returned to the
city last week after attending
the National Education’s De¬
partment of Audio-Visual In¬
struction, 1956 Convention at
the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel in
Detroit.
Mr. Bowens was one of the
consultants in the panel on
Audio-Visual Laboratory Tech¬
niques. More than 150.0 educa¬
tors and audio-visual specialists
attended the conference which
had as its theme “Audio-Visual
leadership Faces Educational
Realities.”
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SSC Alumni To Meet
The local chapter of the Sa¬
vannah State College Alumni
will meet Sunday at the West
Broad Street YMCA at 4 p. m.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Till''RSHAY, MARCH 22, 1956
S. C. Bans State Workers from XAAt'P
COLUMBIA, S. C. — (ANP) — j
A bill to ban NAACP members
from state, county and local pub-
lie employment was enacted last |
week by the South Carolina Gen- j
George oral Assembly and sent to Gov. J
Bell Timmerman for his
signature.
Authored by Rep. Charles G.
Garrett of Greenville and 25 oth¬
ers, the measure suid the NAACP
advocates a course integration
not in the best interest of the
peace and tranquility of the state.
Negro school teachers probably
would be the largest group affect-
ed by the measure. There is no I
way of telling how many teachers 1
are NAACP members. The state
NAAl 1 chapter has declined to j
makc public its membership rolls.
Morgan Student
To U. Of Md. School of
Medicine
Baltimore, Md. Elijah Saint j
dors, Morgan State College senior!
honor student, has been admitted
to the University of Maryland
School of Medicine. He plans to
enter in September.
A native of Baltimore, Mr. Saun¬
ders is a chemistry major and is
a research assistant in the depart¬
ment where he has been working
under Clyde K. Dillard of the
faculty on a government research
project. He is also employed part-
time at the Johns Hopkins Hos¬
pital Biological Research Division
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Atlanta explosion early Friday
morning damaged the front of a
Flora Ave. dwelling while the oc
cupants of the house dept.
What appeared to he dynamite
I was set off in the front yard
I j «f the home of Earnest Simmons,
of 200 Flora Ave., N K., police ro-
J tore ported. loose The the early urulerpiniiitf morning bombing of the
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front porch, and shattered , . gla
' <'•
1 " ,, *•>»' Hont door , and . window. . "
] ’''Wt.™ M. W. Blackwell a: erted
| that the Simmons family had lived I
j I Occupants in the dwelling of the only damaged two months. house;
; said they had experienced no pro-
j vious trouble from neighbor.-- and j
that they were in bed asleep when!
the incident occurred.
In other recent house bombings j
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j of Negro-white school integration |
jin 17 states and the District of I
; (Columbia.
Results of the Times survey were
published in a special (ight-page
j section last Tuesday under the
heading “Report on the South: the !
Integration Issue.”
In general, the survey revealed
Sends Contribution
Movement
Nearly one hundred laymen, lay-
women and young people turned
out for the one-hour prayer service
conducted by the NAACP Church
Work Committee on List, Sunday
afternoon at Cornier' Temple Pup
list Church, Rev. W. W. White¬
head, pastor.
The public service was held on !
the day before the opening trial
for it” Negro leaders accused of j
directing Montgomery's lC.-vvec!:-
oid bus boycott. Twenty-five min¬
isters are among those charged
as leaders or active participant -
in the protest acainst egregated
seating on the city buses.
The prayer meeting was led by j
the Rev. F. I). Jaudori,"NAACP
church work chairman and pastor
of the Bethel A.M.E. Church, He
was assisted by the Revs. C. E.
Richardson, R. M. Gilbert. E. P.
Quarterman, and Whitehead.
At the close of the meeting,
those persons present made a con¬
tribution to the legal defen.-e "f
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Mississippi of Jury Acquits
Farmer
Sumner, Miss. (AUP).—An
white Mississippi jury last
another chapter to
chronicle of
when it freed a white
l,o had admitted shooting
a Negro father.
Another white mail and two
T(K . S t,«,k the witness stand
that Clinton Melton,
1 ' unarmed when he was .-hoi
tl
'('.\ that he fired after
shot at hint threetiines.
“1 wasn't sure justice
done,” said Kimbcll, who
cottoii gin in
‘But 1 should have known.”
Lee McGan li, Hie white owner
service station where
took the stand to
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TO SING AT COLLEGE MONDAY NIGHT
ADELE ADDISON
The Savannah State College | In addition to her appearance in
Committe announces the > opera, Miss Addison has been
' ' al ‘ ul< Adele Addison, so chosen seven times as soloist, with
,!l "' ‘| 1 a! "* * " Nl Man ‘ ,| 20, *', a,u at the Boston Symphony under Serge
ompatij, on i ; Keusaevitzky, Leonard Bernstein
111 1 ^ will < ;)^ 1 , lie 1111 open ndiloimm- to the 'and Charles Munch, and has been
pi igram
without (Continued on
to deal with the problem of inte¬
gration by legal means.
“They usually disavow violence
and are afraid of it, although there
still may he sporadic outbreaks,
the Times suid.
“Generally . white southerners
■.< cm more troubled, confused and
ic. entful than rebellious. They
FLANS IN MAKING FOR
SOCIAL WORKERS
INSTITUTE
On Thurday, Mar. 15,
newly organized League of So-
cial Workers met. The luncheon
meeting was held in the con-
fcrcnce room of the West Broad
.Street YMCA. One of the main
points of discussion was the
possibility and feasibility of
affiliating with the Georgia
Conference of Welfare Work¬
ers.
Just recently, Mrs. Mamie
Williams, Mrs. Arthur S Rob¬
erts, Miss Gertrude Lark and
Wilson Hubert attended the
annual Georgia Conference of
Welfare Workers. Mr. Hubert
and Mrs. Williams gave brief
reports on the conference.
According to Mrs. Roberts,
Mi Frankie Adams, Chairman
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! J Rev. King, First of Bus Boy-
cotters to Go on Trial
,
The trial of the Rev. W. L.
Jr., 27, prominent Baptist min¬
ister and the first of IK! Negroes
arrested recently on a charge
of fostering a boycott against
the Montgomery Transit Com¬
pany, ended Its third day to¬
day.
The boycott against the buses
|started lias been on December effectively 5 last waged, and
very
j It has resulted ill great finan-
j cial loss to the transit company
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they make i radical change
their .settled and per/erred
patterns. . .”
Tiie confusion has led the
erners to resi ;t the change by vuri
oils devices to nullify, delay
moderate the impact of
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$1033 REPORTED IN
BAND DRIVE
At the March meeting of
Alfred E. Beach Nigh PTA,
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
High Court Again Refuses
To Review Race Marriage
preme Court Monday refused
review a case testing the
of Virginia's law forbidding
marriages.
The effect of the high
brief order was to leave
a judgment of the Virginia
preme Court of Appeals
the maninge of Chinese seaman
llani Say and his white wife,
Elaine Naim.
The couple married in North Caro¬
lina in 11)52. A year later Mrs.
Naim obtained an annulment on
I lie ground that the marriage was
void under the Virginia law.
The ease first reached the Su¬
preme Court last November, and
the high tribunal sent it bark to
the Virginia court for a more ade¬
quate record. II directed the Vir¬
ginia Appeals Court to remand the
case to the circuit court of Ports¬
mouth which issued the original
decree.
Last Jan. 1H, the Virginia high
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COLLEGE TO PRESENT
CANTATA SUNDAY
The Savannah State OoBvgr
Choral Society will present Theo¬
dore Dubois’ famous cantata, “The
Seven Last Words of Christ"
this Sunday evening, March 25, at
<5 o'clock in Meldrim Auditorium
on the college campus. Dr. Cole¬
ridge A. Smithwaite, the con¬
ductor, will • • )»#/, tYKrtijted by Miss
Minnie Rose JAutw' at the organ.
Soloists will include Miss lie-
lores Grant, soprano, Ernest
Greene, baritone, both of Suvan
nah, Josephon Brown, tenor, of
Columbus, Ga., and Robert C.
Long, Sr., tenor, a member of the
business faculty appearing as
guest artist.
This musical event wjll be open
to the public without charge, and
everyone is cordially invited to at¬
tend.
Fraternity Gives $2,500
To NAACP
( hicago (ANP). Alpha Phi
j Alpha , K) t° fraternity the NAACP lias to donated help in $2,- the
•’
i ^'tfht to obtain first-class citizen-
I' American ,, according
I 11,1 announcement by Frank L.
Stanley, president of the fra-
j ternit.y.
Stanley said
total of $1,023 was reported as,
the first plateau of the $3,000
band uniform and instrument
drive.
The entire organization was
NUMBER 24
FORD FELLOW
STUDYING IN CHICAGO
The combination of youth, beau¬
ty and brains i. typified by Sa¬
vannah, (in., sehoolmarin, Miss
Kuris; Maria Smith, who literally
is captivating Chicago these days.
Mi: Smith, bedimpied and au-
but'ii-ti'e: led, is iii the city on a
Ford Foundation fellowship to pur¬
sue n comparative study in juven¬
ile delinquency.
A visitor at the Chicago Defend¬
er last Thursday, Miss Smith com¬
mented on the significance of Her
work. She is of the opinion that
studies must be followed by action
if the delinquency problem is to
he met effectively. She U residing
at the Wn hington Park YMCA,
j G0t,h St. and Indiana Ave.
The brilliant visitor will be away
from her schoolroom for a year.
Already she ha,, visited New York,
Cincinnati, Indianapolis and De¬
troit. She will be in Chicago for
two more weeks.
Other cities where she will make
observations and conduct inter-
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“shocked at the many violations
j of human decency all over the
I south “and that the fraternity is
i rallying to the cause, not only with
j word , bul with dollars,
He lias is.,tied a call to all niem-
her pf the organization to sup¬
port the move by personal and
group contributions.
-Photo Ceci!
grateful to Mrs. Susan
Waters. Mrs. Lydia B. Mabry,
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