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AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK. NOVEMRER 11-17
75 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
VOLUME LXXV
Reach, Woodville to Play Next
Tillies. Nile for City
RECORD CROWD FXPECTED Al GRAYSON STADIUM
Woodville Beach
The chips will be laid on the
hie thanksgiving night when
teach and Woodville high
.Oiiools battle for the city
•aaimpionship at Grayson Staci-
uin. Both teams have been
vorkiifg toward this contest all
season and no matter what kind
)i record either team has up
,llls game it will count for
fought as this will be the game
>f games and both teams will
:o at each other with hammer
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IPIIAS TO PRESENT DEBUTANTES—The above young ladies will be presented at the annual
■csentation Bali of the Alpha Phi Alpha Frater nity, Thanksgiving Eve, November 21, at the
amingo Ball Room.
Reading left to right, top row, are Miss Mary Erline Neavins, Miss Edith Singleton, Mass Mar-
ret Solomon, Miss Jo Ann Smith. IN CENTER ROW. 1. to r. are Miss Emily Singleton, Miss
irolyn Tucker, Miss Kay Frances Stripling. Miss Julia Johnson. IN BOTTOM ROW. 1. to r. are
Li Ethel Bryant, Miss Minnie Ruth Smith, Miss Jacqueline Tyson and Miss Nathalie Tucker.
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and tong.
Woodville, of course, will be
trying to dislodge Beach from
the city championship which
she captured last year from the
Wolverines in a hectic battle
after the West Savannahians
had apparently had the game
on ice at the close of the first
half. However, tfyey wilted in
the final two quarters while
the Bulldogs played their op¬
ponents off their feet, taking
the game by a 14 to 6 count.
In the five year conflict
Beach has ‘a big edge over
Woodville, having scored four
victories to one by Woodville.
This year both teams have
had their ups and downs, Wood-
; vilie getting off to a good start
and then dropping the last two
games by big scores. Beach,
| on the other hand, looked quite
weak during the October tilts
but in he past hree games they
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, NOV. 17, 1356
—Photo by Freeman
have played heads up ball and
pushed theid adversaries over
by big scores.
It will be interesting to ob¬
serve how the two teams have
fared at the hands of common
adversaries. Beach took on Bal¬
lard and defeated the Maconites
13 to 0 while Woodville came
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SSC HOLDS GALA
HOMECOMING
In a celebration which was
considered one of the best in
the history of the school, Sa¬
vannah State College held Its
homecoming festivities Satur-
day, starting with a street
parade followed by a fooball
game and an alumni dinner at
night.
The parade which was viewed
by thousands as It wended its
way through the city, was spec¬
tacular and received a b’g hand
from the spectators.
In the procession were num¬
erous floats representing the
various departments of the col¬
lege and many beautifully dec¬
orated convertibles conveying
key students.
There were five bands, two of
them from out-of-town schools,
and a drum and bugle corps.
The musical aggregations were
the college band, which led the
procession, Beach and Woodville
High bands and bands from
Tift County High school of Tif-
ton, Ga., and the William
James High school of States¬
boro. The drum and bugle
coups was that of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars.
The committee which judged
the floats chose the one repre-
senting “Cinderella” as being
the best.
The football game following
the parade was a hectic contest
and resulted in a victory for
Clark College over the College
Tigers, 16 tol3 . The game was,
witnessed by about 3,000. The
final event of the observance
was the alumni banquet which
was held at night.
Unfortunately, the timing
between the parade and the
game was bad. The parade end-
ed only 25 minutes before the
scheduled time for the game.
This prevented many who at-
tended the game from getting
to the playing field before
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MANY U. S. TAN
ATHLETES IN
MELBOURNE FOR
THE OLYMPICS
MELBOURNE, Australia
(ANP >—What is perhaps
greatest contingent of
track stars ever to represent
country In Olympic
arrived in Melbourne last
Competition will get
in this Australian city Nov.
This is the 16th Olympiad.
will feature the finest array
tan athletes ever to
in the quadrennial athletic
alry among nations of the
Many of them are
to return with gold
emblematic of their
in their particular events.
garded as probable first
winners are:
Charlie Dumas, high
Rafer Johnson, decathlon;
Jones, 400 meters; Greg
broad jump; Lee Calhoun,
high hurdles, and Arnie
"00 meters.
Other tan members who
the trip hopefully are
Gulbrcath, 400 meters;
Wheeler and Jerome
1500 meters; Charlie
3,000 meter steeplechase;
Stanfield, 200 meters; Ira
chison, 200 meters;
Jenkins, 400 meters; Ira
and Bill Sharpe, broad
Ken Bantunc, shot put.
Also in Melbourne Is
American girls track team.
af the seven Negro girls on
‘cam is Lucinda Williams,
merly of Woodville high
af Savannah, Ga.
The Linotype machine,
revolutionized the printing
lustry, nefigsists of four
iivisions: the Magazines,
embling, Casting and
uting. It is not a
machine, but a line
machine.
Nashville Votes to End First
Grade Next Yr.
Nashville, Tenn.
pulsory segregation of first grade
pupils in this elementary school
.vill end before September, 1957,
he Nashville Hoard of Education
'oted last week.
Desegregation of other grades
vas not mentioned at the time.
Although the board voted 7-1 to
nd compulsory segregation, it did
lot give any indication that it
avored compulsory integration
ind left three clear-cut openings
or the use of parents not willing
o go along with integration.
Under the first grade desegre¬
gation plan,' the board would coll¬
ider transfer applications from
students desiring to go to other
schools. The following are the
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I ROYAL COURT for Savannah State College Homecoming Festiv-
j ities November 10.
L. to R., Mrs. Bcautine W Hardwick, attendant to “Miss
Alumni;” Miss Ruth Mullino, "Miss Alumni," and Miss Catherine
Hunt, attendant to '"Miss Alumni,” Miss Catherine Milton, at-
Supreme Court Kills
Bus Laws
WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 13
—Today the Supreme Court
ruled that state and city laws
requiring segregation on buses
is unconstitutional.
It affirmed a decision of the
special three-judge U S. Court
in Montgomery, Ala., which had
said that enforced segregation
of Negroes and whites on Mont¬
gomery buses was illegal.
Negroes in Montgomery have
conducted an eleven months
iwycott of the city buses be¬
cause of segregated seating and
alleged indignities perpetrated
against them by bus drivers.
In place of using the buses
during the long boycott the
Negroes have been riding cars
used in a car pool which they
formed.
The first National Thanks-
i giving Day was Nov. 26, 1789.
Offer Free Ride to
Teacher Not to Put
Child in White School
RALEIGH, N, C. (ANP)
white eity school official here
j week said he would give the
1 of a Negro school teacher
| transportation if she would
draw a request for the child’s
try into a white school.
Mrs. Joseph H. Holt, the
er. said that Supt. J. O.
made the offer after she had
ten the city school board last
gust requesting that her son
allowed to attend the all
Josephua Daniels school.
conditions:
1. When u while student would
otherwise be required to attend a
school previously serving colored
students only.
2. When a colored student would
other wise lie required to attend a
school where the majority of stu¬
dents in that school or in his or her
grade are of a different race.”
The school hoard currently is
defendant in an integration law¬
suit for which a hearing has been
set Nov. 13-14 in Federal Court
by Judge William K. Miller.
Under the desegregation plan,
Superintendent of schools, Hass,
said that discretion as to grant¬
ing applications for transfers
1 would rest with the hoard.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price l()c
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ARLINGTON, Va. (ANP) A
white woman arrested for sitting
beside a Negro at a meeting last
week has divided to make a test
ease of a new Virginia segrega¬
tion law “as a matter of personal
consolence.”
Miss Faith liissell, a 43-year-old
librarian, was arrested at a Com¬
mittee for Candidates Meeting
here when she sat beside a Negro
at tile meeting where 300 persons
attended.
Miss liissell was jailed, accord
ing lo Policei Chief William Faw-
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Mrs. Holt said she was invited
| to discuss the matter with Sander¬
son anil quoted the school official
[ as telling her “he didn’t think peo¬
j ple were ready to accept Negroes
j in white schools at this time.”
She said: '“He asked me if I
would settle wuu free transporta¬
tion to school, and 1 told him 1
would not commit myself in any
way,”
Free transportation furnished
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The lone dissenting vote for the
was cast by Coyness Ennix,
attorney and the only Negro
member of the board, Ennix said:
segment of the school pop
we would lie dealing with
by putting this plan into effect
with just the first grade is not
enough.
“I am a Negro, and I have tried
view the situation from the
of the betterment of the
whole city. But I question whe¬
ther wc are doing the wise
thing when we take this small
— and these tiny six-
year olds—and make them the
of this change,” he
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tendant to “Mils Savannah State," Dr. William K Payne, presi-
dent; Her Highness, Miss Carolyn P. Beil, and Miss Blanche Filp-
| per. attendant to "Miss Savannah State;" Prince Wmn. president
i of student Couucil, and Mias Marian Anderson, “Alias Clark."
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ATLANTA LIFE
HONORS THE LATE
MR. CAMPFIELD
The late Cyrus Campfield
$ %
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Nelson K. McMillan
This week the Atlanta Life In¬
surance Company is observing the
Cyrus Campfield Memorial Week
in honor of the late Cyrus Camp?
field by commemorating his birth¬
day with the traditionally produc¬
tion drive'.
Mr. Campfield, a native of Sa¬
vannah, was born November 27,
1881, began his insurance career
witli Atlanta Life, upon the recom¬
mendation of Founder A. F. Hern¬
don in September of 1923. His
progress with the company was
steady and benofieient, a member
of the board of directors of At-
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