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74 | YEARS OF
I CONTINUOUS
- PUBLIC SERVICE
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VOLUME LXXIV
—Photo by Cecil
PRESENTING CHECK — E. C. Blackshear, chairman of the trustee board of Charity Hospital, is
shown presenting check for $13,750 from the Ford Foundation to Dr. M. D. Bryant, superintend-
erat of Charity Hospital. Others looking on lef t to right are Miss Olise Campbell, superintendent
of Dr. I. D. and Mrs. Dorothy B. Taylor, of the board of trustees.
CHARITY HOSPITAL
GETS $13,750 FROM
FORD FOUNDATION
The Charity Hospital and
Training School for Nurses an¬
nounced today that it had
received a check for $13,750.00
from The Ford Foundation, half
of *'ts share of the Foundation’s
$200,000,000 grant program to
assist the nation’s 3500 volun¬
tary, non-profit hospitals to
improve and extend their ser¬
Uni Vo N«C. Admits 2
Freak Accident Kills
Four Children
GETS LOVE JOY AWARD—Dr. Martin Luther King (left), presi¬
dent of the Montgomery Improvement Association, Montgomery,
Ala., reads citation notifying him that he has been named recip¬
ient of the Elks’ ”1956 Lovejoy Award.” Hobson R. Reynolds of
Philadelphia, grand director of the Elks Department of Civil Lib¬
erties, looks on. The award is made annually to persons making
outstanding contributions in the field of civil liberties. Dr. King a
26-year-old minister, is a leader of the seventh-month-old Negro
boycott of Montgomery buses. He will receive the award August
27 at the Elks’ national convention in Los Angeles.— (ANP)
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STEEL CO. GREETS 104-YR. OLD PENSIONER—On the occasion of the Golden Anniversary of
Gary Indiana, and the United States Steel Corporation’s operations there, 104-year-old Nathan
Bibbv second from left, oldest U. S. Steel pensioner, is greeted by E. E. Moore, right, Vice Presi¬
dent and Assistant to the President, U. S. Steel. Locking on are John Vohr, General Superinten¬
dent of the Gary Steel Works, and E. L. Cunningham, second from right, 79-year-old “junior”
pensioner.
vices. The balance of the gift
is expected to be paid in the
near future.
Under the terms of the grant,
final decision as to the use of
the money is left to the hos¬
pital’s governing board. The
only condition made by the
Foundation in its original an¬
nouncement of the grant pro¬
gram last December 12, was
that the funds could not be
used for repaying obligations
or “operating expenses for ser¬
WASHINGTON (ANP). —
When a mother of four children
saw one of her children step off
into deep water, she followed in
an attempt attempt to save him. As she
went after the first child, the oth-
er three followed her, and in the
confusion all were drowned.
Maryland police State police
said that the victims were all wad-
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Probing in Legality ol|
Used
TALAMASSEE, Fla. (ANP).—
A city attorney said last week
that he was studying statutes to
see whether or not it is legal for
Negro boy cotters to operate their
own buses here without charging; j
fares.
As City Attorney James Messer
sought a ruling into the situation,
Services Pending For
Mrs. Sexton
Mrs. Agnes Bell Sexton died
at her residence, 1008 West 45
Street. Wednesday afternoon, :
June 27, after an extended 411-
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currently being performed
by hospitals.”
Dr. M. D. Bryant, adminis¬
trator of the Charity Hospital
and Training School for Nurses,
that in making formal ap¬
plication for the grant, it had
informed the Foundation of
possible uses of the money.
These included: Improve and
modernize present facilities, in¬
operating room, deliv-
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RALEIGH, N. C. (ANP).—Two
Negro students were admitted to
the Consolidated University of
North Carolina last week, setting
a precedent for North Carolina
State College, which never before
in its 67-year-old history has en¬
j rolled a Negro for undergraduate
work.
| The students are Edward Car-
| so,1 > 18, and Manuel Houston
Crockett, Jr., 16, both residents of
Raleigh and both enrolled as fresh-
men in engineering. They are at-
tending the summer session.
A third student has applied
fail enrollment, and University
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 28. 1956
15 Students, Several Teachers
Ousted Because of Strike
ORANGEBURG, S. C., June 27
-According to a meeting of the
board of trustees, several teach-
ers at South Carolina State
College and. fifteen students
will not be back at school when
the fall term starts. They have
been ousted because of the
flare-up at the school several
months ago when the students
staged a strike In a protest over
criticism by state officials of
activities by the National As-
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UNCF Choirs
July Program
The schedule of college choirs to
be heard during the months of
•July and August on the United
Negro College Fund-ABC Radio
Network series was announced to¬
day by W. J. Trent, Jr., execu¬
tive director of the Fund.
The July broadcast will feature
the choirs of: Texas College, Ty¬
ler, Texas, July 1; Fisk Univer¬
sity, Nashville, Tenn., on July 8;
Morris Brown College, Atlanta,
Ua., on July 15; Wiley College,
Marshall, Texas, July 22 and that
of Clark College, Atlanta, Ga.,
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an estimated 500 Negroes attend¬
ed a mass meeting and. expressed
“sympathy” for Cities Transit
coippany in its present financial
plight. At the same time, they re-
affirmed their stand to continue
the boycott until Negroes win
equal rights with white passengers
EMERGENCY FACES HOSPITAL AT
MOUND BAYOU, MISSISSIPPI
llg Irene McCoy (inm<'x
1 m the all-Negro tows «f M-eumi
Bayou, Mississippi, there is a
hospital. Two thousand
five hundred l»bi«s have been
born in that hospital. Twenty-six
thousands patients have been ad¬
mitted for hospital treatment,
Fifty-eight thousand out-l>«tMiHts
have been cared for.
The hospital is owned by the
Mississippi branch of the Taberian
Order, one of the oldest and larg-
est of cole-red Fraternal organi»a-
tions.
Built in 1941, the hospital is a
fine modern institution with a
staff trained at Meharry Medical
College.
Members of the Order receive
hospitalization up .to 31 days, in¬
cluding medicine and surgery if
needed, three meals a day and
nursing care. For this they pay
$2.00 peh quarter dues. Others re-
ceive the same hospital care at
nominal charges.
What makes the hospital unique
is that it gives modern hospital
service at rates almost any Delta
worker can manage. To do this in
Mississippi is a very big accom¬
plishment.
Some of you may remember an
Alabama accident case. An auto¬
on the road near Huntsville
and a man named
j j j . Va. Board to Rule on Coed
j CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —
: (AND.—The University of Illi¬
nois board of visitors is expected
to announce its decision during the
summer on the application for ad¬
mission of a Negro young wotn-
: an to Mary Washington College
at Fredericksburg.
Board members decided to post¬
pone a decision on the matter un¬
til the next regular meeting in
| September or at a special meeting
during the summer. There was a
divided vote on postponing a de-
; eision of ihe Negro’s application.
The applicant, however, was not
| identified.
The application was received in
April, but action at that time was
j deferred until June so that all of
: the student’s records could be
made available.
Federal court decisions in the
, last few years have broken down
all state laws denying Negroes
who are qualified admission to
any white college or university in
the South.
27 In Public
Health Class
At College
The class in Health Educa¬
tion, 305, The Total School
Health Program, began last
week at Savannah State college,
with an enrollment of 27 per¬
sons from 19 counties in Geor¬
gia, Florida and South Carolina.
The class is under the direction
of Walter W. Leftwich, health
specialist and instructor in
Currie, Berrien County; Mrs.
Audrey L. Taylor, Chatham Co.;
Mrs. Julia Collier Butler, Rich-
1)110 a co - Mrs - y M. Waye,
* Physical Sciences at Savannah
State College.
Enrolled -in the class are Mrs.
j Lillian B. Rucker, Elbert Coun-
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on Seven
Dan Speed, head of the Negro
ear pool, said his group had ob¬
tained a bus from St. Petersburg
it had been grounded pending in¬
fer use in providing free rides, but
vestigation of its legality.
Speed said that Levy Thomas,
the driver, was arrested last Sat¬
for
Moore was injured. No Huntsville
hospital would take a Negro pa-
iont. The man died before he
■ould reach Athens, Ala ten miles
away.
I recall a Georgia case. Dean
Juliette Dorricotte of Fisk Uni-
versity, and Fisk Senior Miss Nina
Johnson were injured near Dalton
There was a publicly supported
hospital there, but only for white
■vatients. So an ambulance was
ailed from a town sixty-six miles
eway. It came, but both patients
died.
In Washington, D. C„ a seven-
teen-year-old colored girl suffer¬
ing from a bullet wound was de¬
nied admission to two hospitals.
By the time she was taken to the
third hospital she was dead.
But this sort of thing happens
in the North, too. Mrs. Elizabeth
Price Handy, first wife of the
man who wrote “The St. Louis
Blues,” was taken to New \ ork s
famous Knickerbocker Hospital
with cerebral hemorrhage. She was
left alone in the ambulance for
almost an hour while the hospital
representative debated the color i
question. A little after finally be- ,
ing admitted, she died.
And so, with these and many
other similar cases in mind, when
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Montgomery Studies Bus
Hold
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AND.
—Undecided as yet as to whether
they will appeal a federal court in¬
junction against bus segregation,
city and state officials said last
week they would have to study the
situation before reaching a de¬
cision.
Meanwhile, the Montgomery Im¬
provement Association kept up its
nearly seven-month-old protest
which began last Dec. 5 after a
Negro woman was arrested for
refusing to move to a rear seat.
“We want a definite decision
before we laae action,’ said I)r.
Martin Luther King, 20-year-old
minister who is president of MIA.
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SCH. OF PHARMACY
ACCREDITED
TALLAHASSEE — The school
of pharmacy at Florida A. and M.
University has been placed on the
list of accredited colleges of the
American Council on Pharma¬
ceutical Education, This was an-
nounced last week by university
president, George W. Gore, Jr.
The school of pharmacy was
created by legislative fiat in 1919.
The first, class was admitted in
1951 with two persons receiving
bachelors degrees in pharmacy in
1951. Three young men were
graduated last year and one was
graduated on June 4 of this year.
PTA PATROL CAMP
OPENS JULY 9
The P.-T. A. Patrol Camp at
Dorchester, Center will begin on
u i y yth. The Bus will leave from
Cuyler, Jr., High School on that
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The bus is registered in the
name of St. Peters Missionary
Baptist Church at Claires.
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THEY GRADUATED—Ruth Gilbert. Catherine Perkins, E-Ua D. Boll, Gertrude Cummings, Utina.
Lanier. Rebecca Jackson, Elise Jenkins, Verna Las 8iw.i, 6wa Lee Wynn, Virginia Ware, Ethel
Stewart, Willie Mae Young, Vet dell Holmes, Ewsores Aelewa-irdlej-, Evelena Jennings, Marjorie Cart-
ledge. Dorothy Jones, Carrie Lee Harris, Laura Dell NSel-s^ni. Joyce Chester. Rosa Pearl Stric-slan
d, Ethel Stewart. Inez Martin, Carrie Bell Gold-wire, Ceola Fields. Marie Harris. Margaret Jack
son, Maggie Lee Holmes. —Photo by Freeman
Cargo’s School of Beauty Cul- dressed the importance of | ceremonies, Madam Carrie
ture held its graduation exer- maintaining a pleasing and ac Cargo, director, was presented
clses Sunday at St Paul CME ceptable ceDta pi personality at all a gorgeous gift from the day
e students of the graduating
church. Rev. J. L. Key delivered | times.
a challenging message to the class. The gift was presented by
twenty-seven graduates. He As a part of the graduation f Mrs. Rebecca Jackson.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
NEW
EDWARD H. LAW
President-General Manager
A newly organized business
which will offer to the people of
Savannah, Chatham County and
I nearby communities a service
which is needed, will open Mon-
I day, July 2nd.
Edward B. Law, president and
Tells NAACP Meet of Hope
For Civil Rights--Now
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. —
| (ANP Administration-sponsor-j A hope that Congress i
I will enact
! cil pending civil rights legislation
! was expressed by President Risen-;
hower in message* of greetings 1
a
I to the NAACP’s 47th annual eon-:
vention which opened night. formally j
here last Tuesday
A telegraphed message from the
Chief Executive declared that the
civil rights measures, if enacted,
"will materially assist the govern¬
ment in discharging its responsi¬
bility to safeguard the Constitu¬
tional rights of every citizen in
the country, including the right
to vote.”
“But laws on the statute books
are not enough,” the presidential
message continued. "Patience and
forbearance and wisdom are re¬
quired of all of us if we are to
NUMBER 38
OPENED
L. L. SMALL
Assistant Manager
general manager, stated that the
need for such a service has been
a long felt reality in this and oth¬
er communities and that he proud¬
ly announces the opening of the
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solve effectively the perplexing
problems of this trying period of
adjustment. As you turn your at¬
tention to these problems, I wish
all of you a most successful meet¬
ing."
President Eisenhower’s greeting
noted that sinca 1909, NAACP
members, "both white and Negro,
have been striving to secure for
persons regardless of their
their full measure of Con¬
stitutional rights.”
A telegraphed greeting from
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of
the American Jewish Congress,
asserted that the “label of ‘ex¬
tremism’ placed on” the NAACP
is “a badge of honor won in the
fight against the shameful badge
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