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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME I,XXIV
FLORIDA BOYCOTTERS REFUSE
TO ACCEPT CITY PROPOSAL
WAIF CONVENTION CALLS
FOR ACTION ON CIVIL RIIillTS
YsS
PLANNING COMi til I TEE for
Negro National County Agents
Association Confab. The meet-
ing will be held at Savannah
State College, July 22-24.
Natl County Agents Association
To Meet at 22-24
Two Cops iield-up, Lose
Their (runs and Car
GETS CITATION g rederiok D
Alford, well known
who was recently presented
certificate of award by the
Office Department in
tion of outstanding
TO ADDRESS ALPHAS’ CONVENTION
Branch Rickey
Foremost among the prominent speakers who will
the 50th Anniversary Convocation of the Alpha Phi Alpha
nity to be held in Buffalo, N. Y„ August 6-11. will be
Rickey, head of the Pittsburgh Pirates and long recognized
the man responsible for the entrance of Negro ballplayers
the major leagues, and Robert B. Schnering, president of
Curtis Candy Company.
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Left to right: Augustus Hill,
Assistant Supervisor, Negro
, work, A. S. Bacon, State Agent,
Negro work; J. W. Horne, Negro
County Agent; E. H. Harmoncl,
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ANF)
Tin's city probably has two of
most embarrassed policemen in
state. Not only did they lose
car, but their guns as well.
As a result of this, a
alert has been sounded in
of liO-year-old Alfred Johnson,
tile and marble company
ee who held up two Charlotte
.it gunpoint, took their
and car, and fled.
Police I.t. John G. Newell said
.lie two officers stopped* a
driven by Johnson late
night on evidence of reckless
ing. He said the officers
Johnson under arrest when
found that he had no driver’s
cense.
Johnson grabbed a postol
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LARGE CROWD AT
BUILDING
More than 550 people
| j educational nessed the dedication of
building of
: Bryan church Sunday. Rev.
• ” • Terrell centered his
1 around the history
of
church and its past and
ent leaders.
Immediately after the
vices, the building was
to the public for
Robebrt B. Schncring
Negro County Agent; J. B. Ste¬
vens, Negro Co-unty Agent; Mrs.
L. C. Upshur, representative,
Public Relations Office, Sa¬
vannah State College, and L. D.
Kennedy, Negro County Agent.
The annual conference of the
j Negro National County Agents
I Association will be held at Sa-
! vannah State College, July 22-
I 24.
The General Assembly on
Monday, July 23, will be high¬
lighted by a welcome address
by Mayor W. Lee Mingledorff.
Pr. W. K. Payne, present of
Savannah State College, will
introduce the city mayor. Oth¬
er features of the day's activi¬
ties include a demonstration by
the Gulf Oil Corporation and a
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X.M.V to Fighl to Have Doctors
Admitted Tax 1
ATA To Meet
In Atlanta,
July 29
MONTGOMERY, Al*. (ANP)
WORKING TOGETHER FOR’
OUR CHILDREN IN THIS
TRANSITION CRISIS” will l» thw
convention theme for the 53rd an¬
nual meeting of The American
Teachers Association at Atlanta on
■July 29-30-31.
For the ojiening session *-t Sis¬
ters Chapel on Sunday afternoon,
July' 29, Dr. Hilliard B. Bawmn,
Chairman of the Division af Edu¬
cation at Tennessee Stato Uimvw-
sity, will deliver the key-mete ad¬
dress.
Descriptive presentations of
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28 Drivers
To Lose Thesr Jobs
612 ENROLLED AT
COLLEGE SUMMER
SESSION
| According to Ben
j Registrar at Savannah
| College, the final total
! ment for the first session
J Summer School is 612,
i day and evening students.
figure is broken down as
! lows:
Regular men, 163;
men, 51: Regular women,
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1956
SAN FRANCISCO — With a
registration of 1,000 delegates and
alternates, the National Associa¬
tion for the Advancement of Col¬
ored People today closed its 47th
and largest annual convention. Ne¬
gro and white delegates from as
distant points as Alaska and Flor-
ida assembled here to map the
course of NAACP action on the
civil rights front. Thirty-eight
states, tHe District of Columbia
asuel the Territory of Alaska were
represented among the 1,000 dele¬
gates at the four-day meeting.
In addition to the mass meetings
which attracted 5,000 visitors
nightly and on Sunday afternoon,
a series of workshop sessions were
held during the six-day conven¬
tion which opened in San Fran¬
cisco’s famed Civic Auditorium on
June 20. The Workshops were de¬
voted to study of ways and means
of developing community action
programs to secure desegregation
of all public facilities, accommoda¬
tions and services, to eliminate
housing segregation, and to secure
lew job opportunities.
Also covered by the workshops
were discussions on political ac¬
tion for civil rights and on public
elutions, membership and fund
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White, Negro Synods May
Merge In South
ASHEVILLE, N. C. (ANP)
Members of Mid-South (white)
synod and the Blue Ridge (Negro)
synod are on the brink of con¬
solidating into one, organization.
Both are members of the
hyterian Church, IT. S. A.
The Rev. C. A. Edington of
Asheville, member of a joint study
•ommittee, said last week that the
merger has been recommended to
the two synods.
“We are now on the verge of
'inal merger with the full approv-
NORFOLK, Va. — Sixty-first
Annual Convention of the National
Medical Association to be held m
New York City, August 13-16 will
be noval in several respects. Be¬
sides having a superb Scientific
Program led by Dr. Paul Dudley
White of Boston, one of President
Eisenhower’s physicians, there will
also be much attention paid to tLe
current la ial tuition.
The a sociatioti h** depocitftd
many thousands of dollars with
Colored Building ami Loan As-
.-oriatioM: and Bank, to help coun¬
teract the economic squ-wx* to
which the Negro is subjected in
many parts of the country.
Donations have Ituen rwft/le in
time past to the NAACP and tha
Association w» the first to taka
out a life mini ardiip. This year,
in New York, it is planned to made
a substantial donation to the
United N< pro College Fund and
it is expected that President IWt-
—
The effective seven-months-old
Negro boycott of Montgomery
City Lines buses here added up
last week to the company laying
off 2! more bus drivers and three
other employees, and making pre¬
parations to discontinue the serv¬
ices of more buses. I
Loss of business brought on by
the hard-hitting boycott and mass !
refusal of Negroes to ride the
buses has necessitated a cutback,
according to Manager J. H. Bag- I |
ley, whose assistant was among
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RITES HELD FOR
DR. EBERHARDT
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Funeral services ior Dr.
H. Eberhardt were held
day afternoon at First African
Baptist church. He died Satur¬
day at his residence, 607 West
37th street, after an illness of
several months. Interment was
ih Laurel Grove cemetery. Sid¬
ney A. Jones Funeral Home was
in charge of the funeral ar.
rangements.
The eulogy for the popular
70-year-old pharmacist was de¬
livered by the Rev. Ralph Mark
Gilbert. Other ministers
ticipating in the services were
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1 al of the synods expected to put
l,u_ ! (| l( , union into effect by 1967”
added.
Later, he said, the merger would
probably mean some
of Presbyteries to eliminate over¬
lapping of white and Negro pres¬
byteries.
Mid-South synod includes Ala¬
bama, Mississippi, Tennessee and
Western North Carolina. The Blue
Ridge synod covers much of the
same territory.
jatnin Mays of Morehouse College
in Atlanta, Ua., will he present to
make the aeceirtance.
The drive to open up all tax
supported hospitals to Colored
Doctors will Ire aceentua-L-d. Sup¬
port will l-w given those doctors
who are now engaged in that fight.
Attorney Thurgood Marshall
will addrewd the convention set thn
AWsysinia Baptist Church, August
]4th at H p. m.
The effort to hav« all *w#dir«l
schools accept qualified Negro *p-
plk’ttnU will ha continued and *e-
cwntuated.
Thera is still a great need for
more Colored Doctors in the small
town* and rural ares**. There is
also » great need f nr rmadkal
specialists in the eitw*. In pro¬
portion to the Negro .population,
there should 1st 5,(WW more Negro
I Re-tor* and Socialists. Thrive
■Cartinned ow Pvtee Seven;
Y TO PICNICK AT
STATE COLLEGE
Wilson P. Hubert and A. T.
Pope will serve as co-chairmen
of the picnic sponsored by the
West Broad Street Branch YM
CA on the campus of Savannah
State College, Saturday after-
noon, July 21.
A soft ball, game for men will
be played by the business men
of the community representing
insurance companies, and the
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TALLAHASSEE, Flu. (ANP)
— Tallahassee bus boyc.otters
Sunday turned dawn another
compromise proposal for end¬
ing the bus boycott.
Members of the Negro Inter
Civic Council reaffirmed their
determination to do without
public transportation until they
get fully Integrated seating.
The Tallahassee city commis¬
sion renewed an offer to permit
Negroes to sit where they wish,
an buses except for one three-
passenger seat reserved for
white patrons.
The Rev. David Brooks, a
'eader of the boycott, reported
'he commission offer. He said
he understood Negroes would
not he required to stand while
’he white seats remained emp¬
ty and that If they were occu¬
pied by Negroes before whites
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Baptist Young People to
Meet in
VALDOSTA It wa: announced
here that the annual meeting of
he General Missionary Baptist
Sunday School and Training Union
Convention will hold its annual
ession July 1(1-1!) in Augusta with
he Springfield Bapti I Church
md Rev, It. I). Blossom, pu.-4-or as
•o-hosts.
This convention is dual in na¬
nce, and the S. S. depaituienl is
leaded by Dr. E. (). S. Cleveland
T Savannah, while the BTU di¬
vision is presided over by Rev. J.
L. Lomax, Valdosta.
The meeting will open willi a
lisplay of musical talent on Moil-
lay night, July 16. This will fea¬
ture leading arti.-ls in A(igusta
md surrounding areas. The con¬
vention will officially come to
order, TiTi'alay morOi.er with roll
•all, registration and addle ,scs by j
Dr. L. A. Pinkston, president of
the parent body. Dr.' Will. .fuel. son,
editor of the “Georgia Baptist,” J
and Dr. J. M. Benton, chairman j
of the Trustee Board, Bryant. Scm-
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The above are the participants in the contest for Miss Youth” which will be waged by the
various churches of the city. Temple;
They are 1. Ju lita Moon, St. John Baptist Church; 2. Anetha Brown, Conner’s
3. Eudora Moore, St Philip’s Monumental A. M. E.; 4. Freddie Mae Williams, College Park Baptist
Church; 5 Barbara Maxwell, Mt. Zion Baptist Church; 6. Gwendolyn Davis. Bethlehem Baptist
Church; and 7. Delores Williams, Bolton Street Baptist Church. Not shown above is Maude Hayes
of First Bryan Baptist Church.
The crowning of “MISS YOUTH” will take pi ace at the Youth on Parade musical program
which will be presented by the Young People’s Association of F. A. B. Church on Friday. July 27,
at 8 00 P. M when MISS YOUTH - ' will be awarded a large gold plated trophy. The sponsors of
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the above named contestants will be announce d next week.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
PASSES FLORIDA BAR EXAM
Attorney Alphonso McGee of
Tallahassee, the first male
graduate of the college of law
at Florida A and M University,
recently passed the Florida Bar
examination and is
Mule 'Throws Driver And
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HAMPTON. S. C. (ANP)—The
death of John James, a Negro
farm worker, w», ruled last week
as "an unavoidable accident by a
•runaway mule.’
•lames died from injuries after
being thrown from a mule he was
riding in the field.
The mule had traces and gears
for plowing. When James fell, he
got caught in the traces.
The frightened mule began to
run, dragging the man to his
death. —~
Fla. School
Gets $25,000
TT. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Flor¬
Normal and Industrial Me¬
College today received $25,-
half of a Ford Foundation
to he completed in a year.
R. W. Puryear said it
he added to the endowment
which is expected to produce
annual income of $1,000 to he
for faculty salaries.
NUMBER 40
peunitted to engage in the
practice of law within the
state. He" Is shown receiving
congratulations from Universi¬
ty President George W. Gore,
Jr.— 1 AaM staff photo by C. J.
Smith, III)
RECEIVES FELLOWSHIP—.Miss
D. Jackson received
Westlnghouse Fellowship in,
The fellowship entitles
Miss Jackson to attend the
Institute of
at Cambridge, Mass.
Jackson is the daughter
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jackson of