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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXV
CHARITY HOSPITAL BADLY
DAMAGED DY EARLY
lore of undetermined origin
but thought to have started
from a defective electric wire
in the attic, gutted the third
floor cf Charity Hospital Wed¬
nesday morning.
The blaze was discovered
abcut 4 o’clock by a woman
who lives across the street
from the hospital. She looked
out her window and saw smoke
pouring out the third floor
windows.
When the fire companies
arrived on the scene all 39 pa¬
tients in the hospital were or¬
dered evacuated, Ti p removal of
the patients was carried out in
orderly manner. They were
carried to Memorial Hospital.
Ambulances, beth white and
colored, were used in the trans¬
portation of the patients.
Upon the arrival of the fire
fighting equipment the fire had
gotten such headway that the
roof of the building was about
to cave in.
Repairs to ttv damaged
building will begin immediately.
The building was fully insured.
Patents were carried from
the building by members of the
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Local OES Chapters
Joint Installation
Cop Draws
Charges In
Beating Man
CLEVELAND, Ohio, (ANP) —
Charges of conduct unbecoming
police officers will he levied
against two white policemen
brutally heat two Negro men in
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IOTA CROWS FIRST BEAUX
ARTS QUEEN—Ha Chapter, Iota
Phi Lambda Sorority, crowned
Miss Corine Fields the first Beaux
Art Queen at the presentation ball
held at the Flamingo Recreation
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ELMORE HEADS
MU PHI CHAPTER
N. B. Elmore, Basiieus
At the last 1C56 meeting of
the Mu Phi chapter. Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity, Inc., officers for
the year 1957 were elected.
Norman B. Elmore,
of Robert W. Gadsden elemen¬
tary schocl, president of the
Savannah chapter of the Sa¬
vannah State College Alumni
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The five chapters of the Order
of Eastern Star held their annual
joint installation, Thursday night,
December 27, at Masonic rumple.
After a very interesting,
the officers for the year-wen; in-
stalled,by Worthy Patron A. E.
Peacock, and Grand Associate
Matron Lillian Blake, Delicious
refreshments were served to
friends and visitors. The officers
are as follows:
Electa Chapter No. 1—Mrs. Lu-
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Center on December fourteenth.
This affair was the culmination of
Xu Chapter's Beaux Arts Queen
Contest among teen-agers for the
benefit of the scholarship fund,
and proved to be a popular at-
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^^yvgARVS * PARTY FOR TRIBUNE CARRIERS — The Savannah
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Tribune Carriers were entertained with a party on New Year’s day
by the publisher at the West Broad Street Y.M.C.A. A Schwinn-
built bicycle was given to the carrier who sold the most news¬
papers from November 8 through December 29. Cash prizes were
given to boys selling fifty or more papers each week.
TOP PICTURE shows prize winners in the contest with Mrs.
Willa Ayers Johnson, publisher, at the extreme right. Reading
right to left are Paul Courts, winner of the bicycle, selling 719
traction tor the young people of
pur city.
The presentation picture, read¬
ing left to right, shows Miss Air-
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1957
j Fifty newsboys
i half the total number of
I ers for the Savannah
attended the New Year’s
| Tuesday, from 4 to 6 p. m.,
I by the publisher at the
LEA
CAMDEN, S. ( (ANP) — A
group of men Wearing sacks over
j their heads tied and beat a white
] high school band teacher Friday
land warned him to move his fami-
| !y from town by sundown.
The beating, according to the
I hooded men, was because of an
j alleged pro - integration speech
, made by the band director.
Cuy Hutchins, 52, was hospital¬
ized with severe bruises he said
Arrest Couple For Using
White Room
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ANP)
| Hearing on the “disorderly
' duct ease” growing out of the-
of the General Waiting Room
| the Terminal Station by Carl
| bert Baldwin, 36 and his
teacher wife, Mrs. Alexnia
1 Baldwin, 31, was passed last
! nesdc.v in Recorder’s court to
] nesday, Jan. 16.
City Judge Ralph E.
i granted the delay at the
of Atty. Demotjpus C.
counsel for the Baldwins.
- city offered no opposition to
postponement.
The Baldwins purchased
and made reservations for
kee, Wis. on the crack
train, the “City of Miami’' on
; urday. Dec. 22. The train \va
, and they used the nearest
room.
A five-man police detail,
ing to the statement issued by
Baldwins through their lawyer,
peared at the waiting room,
them 30 seconds to “get in
colored waiting, room.” When
—Photo b> Freeman
j each* week; R. 0. Brooks, Robert Richards, Willisjjn Lampkin,!
| Blannie Cartledge and Wilbur Wheeler, all cash prize winners
with sal|» over fifty newspapers each week. Woodrow Brantley
I (not shown) also received a cash prize.
BOTTOM PICTURE shows the group that attended the party, i
Standing next to the publisher at the extreme right is Mrs. Albert 1
M.. Thweatt, writer of the Butterfly’s Trail (weekly column)
Standing fourth from left is Ezra Johnson, assistant to boy the which pub- j
Usher, On the table are souvenir packages for each
Brcac!. Street Y.M.C.A.. Six of
these carriers are from Grecn-
| briar Children’s Center.
Carols were sung, whistled
and hummed to the piano ac-
I companiment of the publisher.
I he suffered when four or five men
tied him to a tree ayd attacked
- him.
Hutchins said he was returning
from Charlotte, N. ('., jiy automo-
j bile when he was stopped ndar this
central South Carolina town of
j 7,000.
Mrs. Hutchins told police that
| her husband had received threat-
to leave town, but tbe family plan-
I ned to do nothing about it.
Baldwins did nol do so, they were
j arrested, charged with “disorder-
j ly conduct,” curried to City Jail,
and released on $160 bond each.
At the postponed hearing Wed-
! nesday, Atty. Newton asked the
judge for an arrest warrant. Ap-
| parently through this procedure he
was trying to nail down the speci¬
fied charges.
Several months hack the Inter¬
state Commerce Commission in
Washington, J). C. ordered the rail-
| road stations and bus terminals
: to remove Jim Crow signs and end
all forms of racial segregation.
Soon after the railroad coin pil¬
led, (’. C. (Jack) Owens, chairman
] of the Public Service Commission
of Alabama ordered the segrega-
, tion signs put back in sight and
| the segregated waiting rooms re-
!opened.
Since that time the U. S. Su-
; preme Court has ruled the Ala¬
bama state segregation laws and
Montgomery bus Jim Crow ordin¬
ances unconstitutional.
BECAUSE OE VIOLENCE
MR. STILES HEADS
MARCH OF DIMES
DRIVE
Jack Stiles, electrician, has
been named chairman of the
1957 March of Dimes Campaign.
Mr. Stiles is a well known re-
habilitated polio patient who
operates a poultry farm con¬
sisting of more than a thous¬
and chickens. Through this he
is self-supporting.
Mr. Stiles is asking Savannah-
ians to help other patients by
sending contributions to the
March of Dimes Fund in care of
him at Postoffice Box 3206,
Station A, Savannah, Ga.
WINNERS IN CHRISTMAS
DOOR DECORATIONS
The fariety Ga'rfiTen Club
sponsoring its annual Xmas
Door Decoration contest an¬
nounces the following winners
Mrs. Alphonso Fields, first
prize; Mrs. F L. Martin, sec¬
ond; Mrs. Geraldine Williams,
third.
Receiving honorable mention
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Court Hits Race Bias
In X. 0. Restaurants
NEW ORLEANS, (ANP) The i
U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Ap- !
peals, in a double decision last
week, backed up lower court ml- ]
ings against racial segregation in
community owned restaurants, i
beaches and swimming pools.
One appeal was on a federal
District Court ruling that Negroes
must be permitted to use the muni¬
cipal beach and swimming pool at
St. Petersburg, Fla., on the same
basis as whites.
The other appeal was on a low¬
er court ruling that Harris Coun¬
ty, Texas, can not lease its court¬
house cafeteria without making
sure Negroes can use the facilities.
The U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals upheld both decisions.
In the St. Petersburg case, the
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Games were introduced by Hor-
ace Green, R. C. Brooks and
Ezra Johnson. Cokes, sand¬
wiches, cookies and candy were
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WINNERS IN THE CAPITOL PRESS CLUB’S "Miss Front Page" contest held in Washington,
D. C., at the club's annual festival, receive the B udwesier trophies from William G. Porter, na¬
tional representative of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. In the photo from left to right, are: Thelma El¬
more, second place winner, a nurse of Newton Falls, Ohio; Porter. Margaret Strother, “Miss Front
Page" of Washington, and runner-up Beverly Briggs of Newport News, Va. The shapely winners
will reign at the Press Club’s annual banquet next February.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
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NUMBER 13
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 2—
Bus service nere was suspended
lor the time being by order of
Governor Leroy Collins.
The suspension of service fol¬
lowed a new flare-up of racial
violence brought about by
whites who objected to Negroes
occupying unsegregated seats
on the city buses.
The latest outbreak of vio¬
lence occurred day before yes¬
terday when rocks were hurled
through the window panes of
the home of a Negro leader of
bus integration. A few hours
after this incident a shot was
fired into the grocery store of
another Negro who has played
a prominent role in the inte¬
gration movement.
The Governor’s proclamation
ordering the spsuension said
that continued operation of the
system under existing condi¬
tions ' may well endanger life,
limb and property of the citi¬
zens residing therein, and will
qause or tend to cause further
breaches of the peace and will
endanger the peace and good
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Winter Term
Underway At
College
Upperclassmen will register in
Meldrim Hall. Savannah State
College on Wednesday, January
2, and on Friday, January 4, with
payment of, late registration fee.
Upperclassmen will not register on
Thursday, January All fresh¬
men will register on Thursday,
January 3. Registration for eve¬
ning classes will lie held on Wed¬
nesday, January 2. Classes will
begin on Thursday, January 3.
Adults desiring informal eduea-
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