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75 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
rUBUC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXY
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DUKE ELLINGTON l’Ot-1 WITH .some of the many
on the Savannah State C. Il.-.-e campus after he thrilled the students
with the play in;; of ........ • . . - famous compositions. Left to right;
Prince Wynn, president of the Student Council; Harriet Polite; Dr.
Fla. Police Arrest, Beat
State NAACP Official
Mayor Fires Father Attempting School to
Enter Children in White
Hampton institute Adds
New Girls Dormitory
HAMPTON, Vu. One hundrt-'
forty-two senior girls a: dlampto
Institute moved into an ultra-urn'
ern dormitory overlooking Hum
ton River on lust Friday, Ot
tuber 5th.
A T-shaped red brick structure
in the vicinity of Katherine House,
the dormitory cost approximate!;.
$600,000. It was financed through
a loan from the Federal
and Home Finance Agency.
| The first floor houses a
tion room, switchboard rod
library, beauty shop, laundry
cilities and kitchenette. It
contains a row of students’
and a three-room faculty
■nient. An elevator in the front
fiSSthe-building leads to the roof
CR’/.n. JjThe floors
other three are
•isixely taken up with
boms and hath and laundry
cilities. Each room, which
Bquarter two girls, is
M ly 13.8 by 14 feet. building
The 209-foot long
11 I of cinder block composition on
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DOING SPECIAL WORK
| IN SURGERY IN PENN.
Savannah Srilmnr
ADams 4-3432
EEN-AGERS BURN
:ROSS AT NEGRO'S
IOME
SAN FRANCISCO (ANP).—
attserning their racist move after
movie they saw on the Ku Klux
Ian, seven white teen-agers burn-
d a cross in front of the home
f a Negro radio repairman last
/eek.
Aged from 12 to 15, the seven
een-age boys were booked at the
outh guidance center on charges
f malicious mischief and disturb-
ng the peace.
inspector Tom Fitzpatrick said
e gave the youths a stern lecture.
The inspector said: “I think
hey’re pretty well straightened
iUt now as to the duties of citizen-
hip. We’re satisfied that there
vas no racial animosity involved.”
The worldwide membership of
the Seventh-day Adventists
jver 972,000, with 42,250 workers
n 183 countries, using
languages.
HEADS CHAPTER FOR AID
TO RETARDED CHILDREN
C. A. Braithwaite, Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts; Verm 11
Moore; the “Duke”; Frances Tremble; Margaret Moore arid Dr. H. M.
| Collier, Jr., an alumnus and local physician.
I
CLAY, Ky. (ANP)- —Because
he sought entrance of his two chil¬
dren into the all-white Clay Con¬
solidated School, a Negro father
here, employed by the Mayor of
this city, has been fired from hbs
job.
J. L. Holman, mayor of nearby
Sturgis, Ky., took the action last
week after James Gordon, Sr., had
attempted to enter his two chil¬
dren James, Jr., 10, and Theresa,
8, into the Clay school.
Gordon was a mechanic at the
Holman garage in Sturgis.
Negro spokesman earlier had
charged that Gordon’s job wa;
threatened during the school row
which revolved around his chil¬
dren.
TENN. COURT APPROVES
STATE INTEGRATION
KNOXVILLE, Term ■ ANP i
The last hope of segregationists
to legally interfere with school
integration was buried here last
week when the Tennessee Sup¬
reme Court refused to
with integration of
schools in Anderson County,
site of Clinton High
where recent racial
ces attarcted national
Negro Official Heads
Catholic Youth For
First Time
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ANP).
—What spokesmen believe to oe
unprecedented , . , about , ,
an move came
last week here as Frank Evans
became the first Negro to be
dected president of the San An¬
tonio archdiocese council of Cath-
xlic youths.
Speculation was passed that this
marked the first time in history a
member of the Negro race has
been appointed to such a position.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY. OCTOBER 13. 19!»fi
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 4. — Police
hanassment of NAACP leaders,
now assuming u southwide pattern,
has victimized William A. Ford-
ham, president of the Florida State
Conference of NAACP Branches,
who was arrested, handcuffed and
beaten by police here this week on
a charge of double parking.
Mr. Fordhain, an attorney,
ble-parked his car in front of
local NAACP office to make a
phone call on October 1. While he
was inside the office, police pro-
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CONTRACT COMMITTEE —
ment Contracts presented its
portunity to President
Committee members James
University. Washington, (left),
Committee’s program with the
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
About 208 school districts,
n bolder states, have been
segregated since the opening,
the last school year, according
the Southern School News
week in a report on school deseg ,
i
negation . in ti.u South.
The report said that
mately 319,000 Negroes and
ly two million white students
been placed in “integrated
tions,” meaning that they
i DC TO MEET
FRIDAY NIGHT
There will be a special
ing of the Citizens’
club Friday night, 8
Oct. 12, at the Recreation
ter, 37th and Ogeechee
All mmbers are requested to
present and on time. Leroy
son. president; Mrs. Marie
Davis, reporter.
STIJOENKI USE ( MIS TO
BEAUMONT, Tex.— (ANP)—
Refusing to bow to mob and
picket line intimidation, Negro
students last week descended
upon Lamar State College of
Technology here in cabs and
crashed through a white picket
line.
A white picket, T. W. Sanford,
said one of t'he Negro drivers,
Clarence Mason, beat him on
the hand with a pistol and
‘‘dragged Him” when he grabbed;
the steering wheel in an effort
to step the cab.
Mason, a taxi-cab driver, de¬
fied pickets with a pistol as he
took his step-son to the newly-
’ntegrated Institution. He was
later arrested by Texas Rangers
who also arrested his step-son,
Lonnie D. Flanagan, one of the
26 newly-enrolled Negro stud¬
ents at the school, and also
i ailed Sanford.
The rear window of another
cab was broken by a bottle
thrown by an unidentified wo¬
man picket after two men pic¬
kets stopped the cab. The driver
of the cab, Mansfield Flanagan.
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Whites Bomb Home
n Clarendon, S. C.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4—The home
of an NAACP leader in Clarendon
County, S. C., was burned this
week, tlie NAACP National Office
here has btjen notified.
The ho5>c was that of the Rev.
James W. Seals of Manning, S. C.
a founder of the Clarendon County
NAACP branch.
:>ir. Seals was notified ox' the dis¬
aster, which ocurred on Oct. 2,
while he was visiting relatives in
this city. He has gone back to
Manning to inspect the damage.
M>‘- Seals saiil he has reeeived
various threats because of his
NAACP activities, and also has
President’s Committee on Govern¬
Annual Report on Equal Job Op¬
on October 5.
Nabrit, Jr., Secretary of Howard
George B. McKibbin, discuss the
GAINING IN 60B0ER STATES
either attending mixed schools,
| eligible to attend, or are
in school districts which have be¬
gun desegregation.
It said about 2,400,000
remained, however, in
districts.
The report stipulated that
tax-supported colleges out of
in the southern area are open
Negroes, but all public colleges
Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
sissippi, and South Carolina re¬
main segregated.
NOTICE!
The DEADLINE for news
articles in the Savannah
Tribune is at noon on
t Tuesdays. School news
must be in the office by
noon, MONDAVS, to be
sure of publication. Short
articles are preferable. The
editor reserves the right
to edit all news articles.
Herndon Foundation Makes
Gift of to UNCF
ATLANTA, Ga„ Oct. 5.—The
Alonzo F. and Norris B. Herndon
Foundation, a philanthropic or¬
ganization of this city, has con¬
tributed $2 500 to the United Ne¬
gro College Fund, it was an¬
nounced this week by Dr. Benja¬
min F. Mays, president of More¬
house College and vice president
of UNCF.
The contribution is the largest
single gift made to the Fund's
1956 Atlanta campaign so far, said
Dr. Mays. UNCF is conducting a
nation-wide drive for $1,800,000
in support of 31 member colleges
and universities, six of which are
located in this city.
“We are tremendously gratified
by this generous response to our
appeal for funds,” said Dr. Mays.
“This contribution is another in¬
stance of the increasing support
being given to the Fund by Ne-
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been subjected to economic pres¬
sures for the same reason.
lbe is pastor of African Meth¬
odist Episcopal, churches in Sum-
inerton and Silvers, S. G.
j
TWO WHITE YOUTHS
ENROLL AT LSU
NASHVILLE, Term. (ANP).—
Tennessee State University in*re
has accepted two white students
on the graduate level.
The students began classes at
the start of the semester under
the State Education Board’s live-
year desegregation plan for state
colleges, according to the Tennes¬
see State public relations director,
Dr. W. L. Crump.
Dr. Crump said the two white
registrants are John Shyloek, 28,
and John Seherenius, 30, both
graduates in missionary work
Scarritt College.
The Education Board’s “stair¬
step” integration program, an¬
nounced in June, 1955, called for
mixed classes on the graduate level
at all state colleges last year. Sen¬
iors were to he enrolled on a non-
racial basis this fall, juniors in
1957, sophomores in 1958, and so
on, with freshmen coming under
the 1959 program.
Crump said Shyloek and Seller-
venius are taking graduate courses
in industrial relations. He said
another white student, whose name
he could not recall, took graduate
courses in agriculture at State
last Spring.
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B & P W TO PRESENT
$500 SCHOLARSHIP
AT CONVENTION
NEW YORK CITY, Global —
The highlight of the Business and
Professional Women’s luncheon
Saturday afternoon, October 13th,
at the Hotel New Yorker, will be
the presentation of the $500
scholarship to some worthy stu¬
dent selected from among the ap¬
plicants sent in by the B. & P.
Clubs from all over the country.
This scholarship is made
through the National
Contest conducted by the organi¬
zation.
The thirteen contestants will
as anxious to greet the
of the scholarship as they will
be to greet their winner who will
be crowned Queen as “Miss B.
P. for 1956-57 at the luncheon
Mrs. Florence Madison Hill is di-
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
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•MISS REACH*’ AND HER ATTENDANTS
If
iLii
Delbert Glover, president of the
Alfred E. Beach High School Stu¬
dent Cdtuncil, anntfuijci'd that Miss
Gloria Mosley, a member of the
12-4 class, L. R. Bolden, home¬
room teacher, was elected to serve
as “Miss Beach” for the 1956-57
school year. Elected to serve as
Doctor Delivers Baby
Dead Mother
SELMA, Ala. (ANP). — Dr.
William B. Dinkins proved last
week bis ability to perform medi¬
cal miracles as he operated on a
dead mother and delivered her
child safely here.
The mother., Mrs. Azile Wilson,
had died of a stroke. Her body
was rushed to the hospital that
employed Dr. Dinkins, who had
been her physician for a month
prior to her death.
Knowing she was pregnant, the
Young Chicago Scientist
Becomes A Fellow'
A C of S
CHICAGO (ANP).—The Honor
Scholl Award of the Chicago
Chapter of the American Insti¬
tute of Chemists was given to
Dr. Lloyd A. Hall last week for
his contributions to the field of
science.
The 62-year-old scientist has
been technical director of Griffith
Laboratories here since 1945.
SSC To Present
Robert Joffrey
Dancers
file Lyceum < ommitte of f>«-
vannah State College, announce-
the coming next Thursday eve-
mug, October 18, of the
NUMBER 1
[ her attendant - were Miss Dora
Sanders of the 11-10 class, Mrs.
L. G. Mabry, homeroom teacher
and Gloria Lanier of the 10-10.
These three charming young
ladies will ride in an honored posi-
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doctor pci formed t.h“ operation by
Lite an p 31) ..mind:. aft« her
body arrived.
The Itfiby was two or three
weeks pie-matiiie bui was in "ex¬
cellent” condition. Dr. Dinkins
said. Ti e infant was immediate¬
ly placed) in an incubator.
Dr. Dinkins aid he realized the
operation had to be performed
immediately because an unborn
child will die if not delivered with¬
in eight minutes ufter its mother
dies.
CHURCH OF GOD
BACKS NAACP
NORFOLK, Va. (ANP).—Of*
j ficials and leaders of the Church
I of God in Christ adopted a reso-
I lution here last week in support
of the program of the National
| Association for the Advancement
j of Colored People to have segrega-
j xion wiped out of every area of
j life in the United States. The
i committee was headed by Louie
i Driver of Los Angtdes, Calif.
[dance company on the American
: musicai stage, the Robert Joffrey
Theatre Dancers, With accent on
entertainment, the production will
hringf a new idea in dar.ee pro¬
I grants and promises a combination
0 f romantic ballet, dramatic dance
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