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7 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
V PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXV
WORSHIPFUL MASTERS—The
brothers shown in the picture
above have been reelected as
worshipful masters of the live
Masonic lodges of Savannah for
1657. Reading left to right, they
are Past Masters E. A. Peacock,
Eureka Lodge No. 1; Alexander
Grant, Hilton Lodge No. 2; J.
H. Jones, Jr.. Pythagoras Lodge
Two Kentucky Towns Ordered
To Get for
Whites liaise $10,000 Bond
For
Boy Scouts Take Part
In Civic Good Turn
BIAS AGAIN HEADS
OMAR TEMPLE
C. If. Bias
At the last meeting of Omar
Temple No. al, A.E.A.O.N.M.S.,
held at Masonic Temple Sun-
day, Dec. 9, C. H. Bias was
elected to head the organiza¬
tion. The election was con¬
ducted by Deputy of the Oasis
W. M. McNeil, assisted by Past
Potentates J. J. Edwards, Rob¬
ert Smith and Advisor D.
Thomas.
Other officers elected were
follows; S. D. Bisard,
rabban; C. Freeman, Asst, rab-
ban; Nelson Brown, high
and prophet; J. W.
oriental guide; Robt.
treasurer; A. E. Peacock;
corder; R. C. Long, Sr.,
tant; 1st Ceremonial
Debro Williams; 2nd
ial Master, William Pleasant;
Marshal, Charlie Fcgle Capt.
Guards, Jchnny Mercer;
Guard, Jake Peterson; Capt
Patrol, Paul Vincent;
tional Director, James
Chairman of
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SPENCER CLASS MOTHERS —
These P.T A. mothers repreesnt
seventeen of the twenty-five
classes at Frank W. Spencer
school. Seated left to right are
Mesdames Rachel Butler,
ADams 4-3432
No. 11; Willie Thomas, Mt
Mariah Ledge No 15, and .7, S
AdkinSi Prlnce K all Lodge No.
! The annual election of offi-
cers of the lodges was conduc¬
ted this month by District
Deputy Grand Master Donald
Thomas.
Local young members of the
Boy Scouts of America partici¬
pated in the Civic Participation
Day program Saturday at the
city hall. The event was de¬
veloped by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce of Savannah in
an effort to promote public in¬
terest in keeping Savannah
clean.
During the ceremonies at the
city hall Mayor Mingicctorf
addressed tile Scouts and Chief
J ! cf Police Barnes held a formal
inspection of the troops.
| After the ceremonies, the
j neatly uniformed Scouts began
picking up litter on the down-
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Bishon Bowen To Speak
Here Sunday
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Bishop J. W. E. Bowen of the
Atlantic Coast Area, will deliver
the Christmas message Sunday
morning 11 00 a. m. at Asbury
Methodist church.
Bishop Bc-wen is an outstand¬
ing figure in the Methodist
Church and has traveled ex¬
tensively, including tours of
Africa, India, Paskistan and
around the world.
Morris, Julia Boston, Bessie
Blake. Aurelia Newsome, Aurel-
ia Williams, Louise Elleby,
Rebecca Jackson, Mattie B
Smith, Etta Mae Thomas, Doris
Baker, Ruth Scott, Sadie Norris,
(frifeur
Final Rites For
Mrs. Nettie Gordon
Mrs. rteuie A Gordon, .re¬
tired public school teacher and
a native Savannahian, died
Saturday morning, December
15, at 510 West 37 Street,
where she had recently moved
into the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Hammonds.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at the fcirst
Congregational Church with
the Rev. A. C. Curtright offi¬
ciating.
Burial was in Laurel Grove
cemetery with the Monroe
Funeral Directors in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Gordon's parents were
the late Margaret Cooper and
Henry Alexander Houston
Three sisters and a brother
preceded her in death.
Mrs. Gordon attended the
local elementary schoo's and
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CROSSETT, Ark. (ANP) —
Twenty-four white residents of
this Arkansas farming community
have raised $10,000 bond for an
aged Negro convicted last week of
slaying a white man.
An attorney for Frank Simmons,
(53, also accused of killing anothei
white man and a Negro woman,
said the bond was raised to permit
Simmons to go to Union County to
live with a son while his conviction
is being appealed to the Aikansa-
Supreme Court,
Simmons, charged with shoot¬
ing the three on a rural road near
here in October, contended that he
fired in self-defense after lie was
cursed, chased and threatened.
His legal fees were paid with
$1,500 contributed by white and
Negro residents of the area.
HALF CENTURY IN
NURSING FIELD
In the spring of 1904, Ella
May Stevens (now Nurse Samsi
of Dorchester, Georgia, entered
the Geoigia Infirmary as a
student nurse. She was gradu¬
ated April 2, 1906, after satis¬
factorily completing the re¬
quired two-year course. During
the exercises for the first three
graduates of the Georgia In¬
firmary Training School, she
was presented bandage scissors
by the hospital. Nurse Sams
treaures these scissors and uses
them daily in her work.
Upon graduation, she did
private duty nursing, in which
field she served many years.
In 1910 she married David
James Reid; she became a
widow in 1920. While doing pli-
vate duty she was the first
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OKLA. CITY GETS FIRST
NEGRO BUS DRIVER
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.
(ANP) — Favorable public re¬
action to integration- of passengers
earlier this year resulted in the
City Bus Company here hiring its
first Negro bus driver last week.
The firm is now accepting appli¬
cations of qualified men without
regard to race.
Bertha Curry and Henrietta
Cain. Mrs. Alma Porter, P.T.A
president, is shown standing as
; she crowns Mrs. Rebecca Jack-
son, Class Mother of the
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 1956
NAALP Branch Official Released From
Prison When Books for Inspection
ATLANTA— (ANPi—'The state
if Georgia was granted a look-
,ee into NAACP records here
ast week by the president of
he local chapter after he
spent two hours in jail by or-
iers of Judge Durwood T. Pye.
Pye had ordered John H.
Calhoun, head of the Atlanta
n'AACP, held without bond in
ail until he produced finan¬
cial records of the civil rights
;roup to state revenue agents.
The Fulton County Superioi
Jourt Jurist handed down the
decision fining the association
£25.000 and imprisoning Cal-
roun at the end of a six-day
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OWEiNoliORO, Ky., Dec. 13
;Public school authorities in Clay
and Sturgis, Kentucky, have been
given until February to bring in
desegregation plans. When Negro
children attempted to enroll in
public schools in these towns last
September, the state militia had
to lie called out to protect them. |
The additional time to bring ii. |
their plans was granted on Dec. |
12 by United States District Judge
Henry L. Brooks over the objec¬
tion of NAACP lawyers James A.
Cvumlin of Louisville York. and Jack The j
Greenberg of New
NAACP suit, filed on behalf of tin
two groups of Negro students,
asked for an order for immediate
integration of the schools in V\ cb-
sler and Union counties in which,
respectively, (.lay and Sturgis arc
located.
Troops were withdrawn from
the towns after the colored chil¬
dren were dismissed from tiie
schools following a ruling by the
state’s attorney general that the
school hoards had not developed a
plan of integration nor been or¬
dered by a court to admit Negro
students.
The names of the Three Wise
Men who followed the Bethle¬
hem Star are Melchior, Bal¬
thasar and Gaspar.
RECEIVES AWARD—“The DeRenne Dispatch," school publication
of the DeRenne Elementary School, was rated the best newsletter
published among the entries from elementary schools at the re¬
cent Press Institute held at Savannah State College. Mrs. Sadie
L. Cartledge, advisor to the school’s editorial staff, is shown re¬
ceiving an^award for this high rating from Dean T. C. Meyers of
C. & S. BANK TO
FETE EMPLOYEES
The C. A S. National Bank
will sponsor its 5th pre-Chrlst-
nas dinner party for colored
employees on December 22nd,
it Bennie’s Supper Club on
Route 17 South. Arrangements
for the party were made by
Tommy Cooper, messenger, as¬
sisted by Bennie Lowe.
The five-year anniversary
; cake will be cut at 8:30 p. m.
I and the cocktail hour will be
i from 9 'til 9 30, at which time
i dinner will be served.
Guest Qf honof wU1 be Na _
thaniel Frazier, an employee of
i the C. ,v S. who has just fin-
j ished two years of milit ary
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Court Refuses to Review
Bus
WASHINGTON. D. C.~ A re- *
ection to review the court ban i
jn Alabama bus segregation
,vas handed down Monday by
the Supreme Court. While the
ruling was limited to Alabama
and Montgomery it established
he law to bp followed by lower
ourts wherever the Issue may
arise again.
Jack Owen, head of Alaba¬
ma’s Public Serv.ce Commission,
hinted after today’s decision
.hat new action may be taken
to preserve the present system
jf separate seating arrange¬
ments for white and Negro bus
passengers.
Owen said at Montgomery
the commission will issue an
order designed to “preserve
reace and harmony” on the
ruses, He declined to go into
0 NUR'E SCHOOLS IN
KY. WITHDRAW
COLOR BAR
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ANP)
The Kentucky Council on Human
(elutions reported last week that
it least 10 of this state's 13 nurses’
raining schools are now accepting
Cop Shot to Death In
Gun Battle Bandit
CHICAGO (ANP) -A 33-year
ild Negro policeman was shot
o death here last week while
mrsulng a burglar on loot,
dements later, the thief was
ipped by other policemen who
iddled his body with 28 ma-
hine gun and pistol bullets.
The dea dare patrolman Os-
oourne Sims, killed by a bullet
of the burglar that penetrated
iis right side and came out
near his heart; ana the burg¬
lar identified as Hector Garcia,
(Continued on Page Fouri
James Wells Heads
Chapter
At the regular meeting of the
Savannah Alumni chapter of
■lappa Alpha Psi fraternity
Friday, Dec. 15, James Wells
vas elected polemarch for the
1957 calendar year. The other
officals elected were Clarence
Desha, M.D., vice polemarch;
John Jones, keeper of records;
Virgil Winters, exchequer; Hor¬
ace Bowers, strategies; B C.
Ford, historian. Members elec¬
ted to the board of
were John Lyons and Roscoe
Riley.
The Savannah Alumni chap¬
ter will cooperate fully with
unergraduates of Gamma Chi
in providing an interesting and
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details but lcit no doubt it
would be an attempt to main
tain separate seating.
Negroes in Montgomery have
for the past twelve months
conducted a boycott against the
city transportation company
which has been most effective,
cutting down the riding patrons
of the company by at least 65
per cent. Leaders of the boy-
ott are gratified at the ruling
of the court and state that they
will end their fight against the
company when segregation on
the buses Is ended.
The high court’s refusal to
reconsider the case brought re¬
joicing from Negro leaders but
left Mayor W A. Gayle of
Montgomery with “no com¬
ment” for the time being.
Negro students.
The Council added I Iml Negroes
have been admitted to seven of
these ten, hut that there were no
Negro applicants at the other
three.
The report said that of a total
enrollment of (ill at the nurses'
schools, 47 are Negroes,
Hold Last Hites tor Hr. Hill,
President of Willierlorcr
WiLBERFORG 1, Ovr.o <
Funeral services mr !*r.
beamier Hill, 69, president
iVilberforce University, were
n the chapel of the university
veek. A similar service was
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PAULSEN HOSTS COUNCIL A brief program was pre¬ —Photo by Freeman
—
The Inter-School Council met sented by Paulsen’s Student Heart," followed by a medley of
at Paulsen Jr. High school Sat¬ Council in which Dianne Harris Christmas carols with Mildred
urday, Dee. 15, in an atmos¬ delivered a prayer. Nona Brad¬ Harris at the piano.
phere that manifested the ley. emcee, extended greetings President James Oobham of
Christmas spirit in every re- to the group, Delores Cannaby Four)
I spect. recited “Christmas in the (Continued on Page
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
ADams 4-3433
Jackie’s Switch To The
Stuns Baseball Fans
NEW YORK — A news Item
which stunned the baseball
world eftme fortn last week
when it was announced that
Jackie Robinson, one of the
most colorful controversial fig¬
ures in baseball, was traded to
Splash Acid on Cars Of
White Ministers & Negroes
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ANP)
_Seven cars were doused witn
acid here last week while a white
minister conducted “brotherhood
services for Negroes- t
The acid-splashing incident up-
parently was directed at the Rev.
Ashton Jones, a white minister
from Atlanta, who represents the
Brotherhood of the World Society.
Rtv. Jones was showing a film
at the home of a Negro pastoi
when the incident occurred.
I His foreign made station wagon
I is decorated with the hands of a
j N< “ n ’ an<1 wh,t ‘‘
j clasped, which i is the symbol of the
| Brotherhood organization. the
The Rev, Jones is staying at
j home of the Rev. of Robert
the white minister an
j Lutheran church who has been
! tive in the bus boycott here.
NUMBER 11
the New York Giants by the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
Robinson was passed over to
the Giants for an estimated
cash sum of $30,000 plus pitch¬
er Dick Littlefield.
Robinson was me first Negro
to get into modern baseball.
He entered the Brooklyn Dod-
ters lineup in 1947 and has
been one of the most out¬
standing players in the na¬
tional game during the past
ten years.
He has compiled a batting
average of .309 over the decade
and has beep one of the main-
sti.ys in the Brooklyn team.
In discussing his going to the
Giants, Robinson said-
"Naturally I’m disappointed,
to leave Brooklyn. I've had
wonderful years in Brooklyn,
received wonderful treatment
from the fans and made last¬
ing friendships with the play-
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Five of the other six cm*
! «««*«• b -V were 'Tfarently
splashed at the same time. The
cars were parked at the intersec¬
tion of Bulloch and South Holt
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,
| Local SSC Alumni
j To Meet Sunday
The regular meeting of the
Savannah State College Local
Alumni Chapter will be held on
j Sunday, Dec. 23, at 4 00 p. in.
| at the West Broad Street
j YMCA. All members are urged
i to be present.
B'inal plans on the Christmas
j party which is to be held on
j Thursday, Dec. 27, beginning at
8:00 p. m in the dining room
of Braboy's on Fifty-second St.,
I Extended, will be presented.