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Savannah Man Mother Die in Florida Wreck
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diaries B. Champen of Savannah, left, and his mother,
Inna Beatrice Champen of Daufuskie Island, S. C., who
tilled Saturday in a car wreck in Florida.
Charles Benjamin Champen,
|34, [mother, of 1018 Wolfe street, and his
Mr$. Anna Beatrice
Champen of Daufuskie Island,
|iS. C., were killed instantly early
JRcollision Saturday morning in a head-on
near Waldo, Florida.
■wAlso fatally injured was David
W. R- Owens, 78, of Youngstown,
Ohio, driver of the other car.
It has been reported that, his
Bwife, Mrs. Celia Owens, died
later from injuries. Others in-
» jj tired were Claude Champen,
jgK21, E Louis of Broadway, 1118 E. 56 street: Mrs. Denny
4: Geneva
If Miller of Daufuskie Island;
Local Mail Killed Near McIntosh
When He Fell From Work Far
Powell’s Secretary Gets
Seven Months: JL Fined 1HVU $9,000
COMPLETES COURSE —
Edythe Althair Simmons
recently completed the
?! scribed course in tailoring
1 the Berean Manual
and Industrial School in
delphia.
Miss Simmons, a native
vannahian, is a graduate of
Alfred E. Beach High
She is the daughter of Mr.
Mrs. Charles A. Simmons,
West Waldburg Street.
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50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY—Grandmaster of the Masons John Wesley Dobbs and Mrs. Dobbs,
center, their children jand their husbands and t heir grandchildren as they gathered in Atlanta
last week. The occasion was the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs which was
held at the Dobbs residence, 540 Houston Street, Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs are thc
parents of six daughters, all
whom are graduates of
man college and other univer-
sities. Three of their
STrilumr
and Mrs. Helen Champen,
jf Charles.
The accident occurred at
on the Santa Fe River
three miles north of Waldo
Highway 301 when Mr.
pulled out into a
zone to pass two cars. He
almost passed the last car
he crashed his north
Mercury into the south
Chevrolet driven by Mr.
pen who was driving bis
to the camp meeting of
;>eventh-day Adventist Adventist
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NEW YORK (ANP) Mrs.
Hattie Freeman Dodson, secretary
to Congressman Adam C. Powell,
was sentenced Monday in United
i States District Court to serve
seven months in prison and pay
$9,000 fine for income-tax evasion.
In passing sentence, Judge Irv¬
ing R. Kaufman said that the
case was difficult because Mrs.
Dodson, the 47-year-old chief, was
an intelligent woman, charged
with important duties.
However, he criticized her for
i failing to be contrite over her
[conviction on May 18 and re¬
marked, “Here is a woman of
good background who found her¬
self enmeshed in a crime of her
own doing, I am convinced, and
never showed contriteness.”
Frederick Block, her lawyer,
' con tended that the government had
singled out Mrs. Dodson for
ccution as a result of a wish to
“get Congressman Powell.” He said
he could recall only one other
case in which a woman was im-
prisoned for income-tax evasion.
Judge Kaufman denied Block's
! motion for a suspended sentence,
j but granted a motion freeing her
: in $2,500 bail, pending an appeal.
Mrs. Dodson w r as convicted on ‘
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, were valedictorians of their
classes while the others were
on the honor rolls.
i j Internationally known among
their daughters is Mattiwilda
Youth ( <mlosses Stubbing Death
17 Soldier to
Va. Elks
$1,000 To
NAACP
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. —
"Daughters and Bills of the
ginia State Association of
Elks” have pledged $1,000 to
NAACP. The action was taken
an annual convention here.
Expressing endorsement of
NAACP s current program,
Elks pledged $500 to the
tion’s “Fight for Freedom”
j !> a ‘gn and $500 for an
Hfe membership
In accepting a $.100 payment
the pledge, W. Lester Ranks
Richmond, executive secretary
the Virginia State
praised the cooperation his
Nation has received through
| years from the Elks.
; Robert H. Johnson of
phia, Grand Exalted Ruler of
Elk. .n.l . ..ember of
I NAACP’s life membership
! nuttee, congratulated the V
Elks for their action. He
that Elkdom throughout the
j, states has contributed more
$43,000 to various units of
NAACP.
The funeral of Amos A. John¬
son who was killed in McIn¬
tosh county Thursday of last
week, was held Sunday night at
St. Philip AME church. The
j services which were largely at¬
tended were conducted by the
pastor, Rev. J. S. Bryan. The
body was carried to Stillwell,
Ga., for burial, Steele Funeral
Home being in charge of the
arrangements.
Mr. Johnson, who was a mem¬
ber of a bridge crew of the
Seaboard Airline Railroad, died
shortly after being run over by
a hand car from which he fell
as his crew was enroute to their
work near McIntosh. He had
worked for the railroad for ap¬
proximately 16 years.
A native of Stillwell, Mr.
Johnson had been a resident of
Savannah for many years, and
was a member of St. Philip AME
church.
He 'is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Inez Dixon Johnson; two
sons, Amos Johnson, Jr., of
Savannah and Gerald Johnson
wbo j s serving with the U. S.
Army in Alaska; six sisters, and
,his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wes¬
ley Johnson of Guyton, Ga.
Ontario has 74,000 miles of
j paved, toll-free, surfaced and
Improved roads. ,
( Dobbs who is acclaimed as a
1 coloratura and who
soprano
i b as been accorded the coveted
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1956
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HELP FIGHT DISEASE— Above
are members of the Atlanta
] Shrine presenting a check for
I *5000 as a deposit in the Citi-
zens Trust Co. to help fight
! tuberculosis and polio,
; Left to right are L. D. Milton,
j p res j d ent of the Citizens Trust
“ r ^ T w ^“f r>obb». o, »rand oe„ B S master and
imperial deputy for Georgia;
Augustus H ogan ° g 7 ’ illustrious “
! Potentate of , Nabor Temple ^ No.
! 128; A McClendon, treasurer,
and Robt. T. Walters, recorder,
The Anceint Egyptian Arabic :
Harass whke Families which
Integration
ARLINGTON, Va. (ANP) —
One white parent who joined in
the NAACP suit against the Ar-
lington school board, said last
week she was going' to stick “it
out” despite the fact she had re-
ceived obscene phone calls.
She is Mrs. Barbara S. Marks,
of Arlington. She joined in the
suit in the name of hc-r two chil-
dren, Ann, 8, and Claire, 18, Ad-
mitting she had been bombarded
by phone callers, she said “Of
course, I’m sticking it out.”
Another white parent who
joined with the NAACP in an anti-
segregation suit found it too great
(a stress on the family and with-
drew after receiving “foui and
vicious” telephone calls.
Jack G. Oi ndorff joint?! the suit
with his wife, in the name of their
son, Eugene, 6, when it was filed
in the Alexandria Federal Court
on May 17. The Orndorff’s joined
they said, because “we want our
child to grow up in an integrated
system.”
On returning Sunday from his
hometown of Winchester where he
consulted with his parents, Mr.
Orndoff said:
“We are withdrawing our names
. . . because of the extremely ad¬
verse psychological effect the foul
and vicious telephone calls we have
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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TO • ! j
BALTIMORE (ANP) —
j Roman Catholic parochial
j in Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s
[ counties will start integration
classes with the beginning of
new school year in September.
The directive from
O’Boyle of the Archdiocese
I Washington, notifying pastois
their parishoners that the first and
second grades would be
grated. was read at all Masses.
The Archbishop's
pointed out that it would he up
the pastois to decide which chil¬
dren would be acceptable for
gration by granting them on their
ability to keep up in their studies
| with the other children.
In 1955 drivers cutting in
killed 150 people and injured
1,070; passing on curve or hill
killed 180 and injured 7,040;
i passing on wrong side killed
Order of the Nobles of the Mys¬
tic Shrine of North and South
America has establihsed a fund
of $127,000 which it has depos¬
ited in the Negro banks
throughout the country ear¬
marked for tuberculosis and
polio research.
A check for $5000 was depos¬
ited last week by the Savannah
Shriners in the Carver Savings
bank, appropria te ceremonies
being held at the presentation.
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STANLEY ROBERTS, former
newsman, appointed Special As¬
sistant to Richard L. Tobin, Di¬
rector of Public Relations, Na¬
tional Citizens For Eisenhower.
Roberts will develop campaign
literature on the Negro voter and
assist in fund raising and organ¬
ization.
In 1955 drivers exceeding the
speed- limit killed 12,700 persons
and injured 702,560; driving
on the wrong side of the road
took 5,300 lives and injured 123,-
260; drivers taking the right-
of-way killed 3,610 persons.
Tuskegee Alumni Sec’y-
To Be Here Saturday
J Henry Smith, executive
| secretary of the Tuskegee Gen-
| oral Alumni Association, will be
in Savannah, Saturday, June
16, to have a meeting with the
; graduates and former students
! of Tuskegee Institute.
Tuskegee Institute is cele¬
brating the 75th anniversary of
j its founding this year and its
i former students are being or¬
ganized to help make this year
one of the best in the history
| of the institution.
The meeting of graduates
i and former students will be
! held Saturday, June 16, at the
home of W. S. Scott, 212 East
| Waldburg Street, at 4 p. m.,
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17-year- old Jonathan Ken-
on who was stabbed to ! |
death.
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Mystery surrounding the stab- j
bing of a 17-year-old soldier, j
Jonathan Kenon. to death Mon-
day night of Wednesday last week night was j
Beared up last
when a 19-year-old ......... youth
walked into the police barracks
and said he heard the police
were looking for him. First he j
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June 17-19
ALBANY — The annual con¬
vention of tlie Georgia Federation
of Colored Women’s Clubs
open its three-day meet Sunday,
June 17 irr Atlanta. Headquarters
for the convention will be set up
at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA
following Sunday’s city and state-
wide mass meeting which will be
held at Wheat Street Baptist
Church at 4 p. ip. Mrs. Mamie B.
Reese of Albany, who retires as
president after four years of serv¬
ice, will preside during the meet¬
ing.
High points of the convention
will begin with Sunday’s meeting
when a representative cross sec¬
tion front the many civic, fraternal
and religious groups will bring
greetings from the Gate City. Re¬
sponse in behalf of the State will
come from Mrs. Rubye Williams of
Macon, State Secretary. The main
address for the mass meeting will
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Local Dentists
Host To
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The 18th annual session of
the Georgia Dental Society met
at Savannah State college this
week with the Chatham Dental
Society as hosts.
According to Dr. Charles F.
Goosby. president of the society,
the purpose of the meetings
to gain knowledge of the
scientific advances and
niques <in dentistry and to
corporate them into practices.
The dentists were
j ! welcome by Dr. Savannah W. K.
president of
! college, after which they
| an address by president Dr. of
; Weichselbaum,
Georgia Dental Association.
The visiting clinicians
| the meeting- were Dr.
O. Banks, Jr.. B.S., D.D.S.,
j professor of Dentistry
chairman of the
of Oral Pathology at
Medical college; Dr. William L
McCrocken, D.D.S., professor
Dentistry at the University
Alabama Medical Center:
Martin L. Walton, Jr.,
| m.Sc Chief Hubbard of Dental
at George
and Associate Professor of
Surgery at Meharry
College School of Dentistry;
and Dr. Henry Wilson,
Assistant Professor of
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
BY UNIVERSITY
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. —
University of North Carolina last
week approved applications by
.-.oven Negro students desiring to
enroll in the graduate school.
Four of the applications are for
the summer term and three for the
tegular full semester.
The university admitted three
Negroes to the undergraduate
school last September following a
court older. These three are still
eniolhi.
I he < Impel Hill school 1ms had .
Negro students since June, l!i5i,
when three North Carolina Ne-
groeg were admitted to study in
the lau !,cll, ’° 1 - 0,le Ne * ro girl wus
also permitted to register in 1951
to work on her doctorate in span-
ish.
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Although ° Bible societies are
J . etling ne w recor d S each year
ln the distrlbutl0n of scriptures,
are havi 6:fncuJty keep-
ing up with world population
increase, reports Dr. Wm. j,
Platt. Last year the societies
circulated 7,830,000 Bibles
portions.
Mrs. LaMoneda Dies Sud¬
After Heart Attack
Following a heart attack, Mrs.
Grich S. Q. LaMoneda died
iuddenly Wednesday morning
■arly at iter residence, 1901
.Vest Broad, street.
She was found dead by her
Lster, Mrs. Mattie S. Busby,
who occupies the apartment
ibove Mrs. LaMoneda’s as she,
Mrs. Busby, was about to leave
.he house for iier work. When
lie opened the door to Mrs.
LaMoneda’s bedroom she dis¬
covered her dead, sitting in a
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(WO NEW PROFS at SSC SUMMER SCHOOL
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two visiting faculty members
for the 1956 summer session at
j Savannah State college.
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Beaches Inte¬
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| BA LTIMOR E—Maryland’s two
j main publicly owned beaches
opened last week for the first time
on an unsegregated basis. No inci-
dents were reported.
Negroes availed themselves f of
the opportunity to use unsegregat¬
ed bathing facilities in only one
of the two areas, however. At San¬
dy Point state park on the Chesa¬
peake Bay about 15 miles south of
here, what was described as a
"handful” of Negroes used a beach
which had formerly been for
I | whites natural only. land The jetty, area is and divided in the by
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”' ie Thc snin11 grou P ot
P alt of crowd oC e
J >’ At " Fort 11 (S- Smallwood Beach just
! south of the city and operated by
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ATTENDING CONFERENCE —
Alphonso E. Fields, well known
real estate broker, civic leadetf
and chairman of Carnegie Li¬
brary Board, who will leave
Sunday morning accompanied
by Mrs. Fields, for Miami
Beach, Florida, where he will
represent the local library at
thc annual conference of the
Amercian library Association
which convenes June 17-23 at
the Fontenbleau Hotel. While
there they will be guests ef
the Empress Hotel.
R. J. Martin
cipal of Ballard-Hudson high
school in Macon, will serve as
j consu it a nt for the Workshop
in Elementary and Secondary
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