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1 f V PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
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COUNTRY’S T WO OLDES T BAPTIST CHURCHES TO HOLD CELEBRATION
Flr.it ’ African Baptist Church,
tcp, and First ■ Bryan Baptist
church, bottom, pastored by the
late Dr. R. M. Gilbert and Rev.
Richard ' M. Williams, respect¬
ively, are having their joint
anniversary celebration for the
sixth consecutive year. The two
churches were organized in
N. C. Business Executive
Estate
Treasurer of ( Imrcli
Credit Union Indicted
MRS. IDA. J. GADSDEN, Assis¬
tant Professor in Education,
Savannah State College, will
serve as consultant at the Dis¬
trict 11 Regional Teachers
Meeting, Beach High School,
January 17.
Readying Plans i or Hobby Show
L. to R.. Dr. Calvin L.
chairman Y Adult Progiam
committee; Mrs. Dorothy Lamp-
kin, Rev. F. D. Jaudon, Rev-
Plans for the Adult Hobby Show
■vvhich will be held at the West
Broad Street Branch YMCA Jan-
ADams 4-3432
1738.
This year the services will be
held in the main auditorium
of the First African Baptist
church. Rev. Richard M. Wil¬
liams of First Bryan Bapttst
church will preside over the
services.
The prinpical speaker this
NEW YORK—(ANP) — A for¬
mer treasurer of the Abyssinian
Baptist Church Credit Union
was indicted last week on char¬
ges of embezzlement.
John H. Harmon. 50-year-old
accountant, has been^ a close
associate of Congressman Adam
Clayton Powell, pastor of the
church.
Harmon was accused of taking
*2,619 from the credit union,
according to U. S. Attorney Paul
W. Williams.
The credit union, which has
a membership of 750 persons,
has assets totaling $100,000, of
Vhich $50,000 is in government
bonds and $50,000 in outstand-
ng loans.
Atty. Williams stressed that
-he credit union’s depositors
will not lose anything because
the amount embezzled is cov¬
ered by security bonds.
January was named after the
beathan god Janus.
Richard M. Williams, Rev. L. S.
Stell, Mrs. Calvin L. Kiah,
chairman, Adult Hobby Show
committee; Mrs. Roberta Col-
uary 30, 31, February 1, point to
the largest Adult Activity that
as adults throughout the nation
l)r. iMelvin Watson, Speaker
year will be Dr. Melvin Watson,
dean of religious education at
Morehouse College. The two
churches will observe their sep¬
arate anniversaries following
the joint services.
RALEIGH, N. C—(ANP) —
Inventory into the estate of
O. Yarbrough, filed last
in the office of the Wake
,y clerk of court, revealed
he assets of the estate
in excess of $97,000.
Yarbrough, who was a
trict manager of Josten’s
ifacturing Company here, died
ma left a total of $97,526.97
lis widow. Mrs. Merca
farbrough; two daughters,
lelyn E. Yarbrough, 12,
Marilyn V. Yarbrough, 11;
i son, William A. Yarbrough,
Properties were divided
follows: stocks and bonds,
125: mortages and notes,
88.68: bank deposits, $3,179.29;
"eal estate, $5,799;
ayable to beneficiaries, $1,435;
urniture, $1,000; and miscel-
aneous property, *3,000.
Yarbrough, a native of Macon.
Tenn., was the son of Dr. and
Mrs. W. S. Yarbrough. He was
a national district director of
the National Association of
Marketing Developers.
Don't forget your contribu¬
tion to the Polio Drive. Give
liberally to the March of Dimes
Campaign.
ley, Mrs. Miiarea jonnson, sec¬
retary. Mrs. Mary McDew, E. C.
Blackshear.
Photo by YMCA Staff
Photographer
has been attempted at the local
Association. Local adults as well
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SAVANNAH. GEORGIA SATURDAY) JANUARY 12. 1957
Miss Lee Retires
From Hodste Nursery
Miss Ida Lee, R.N., has re¬
ared from her position as
Nursery School teacher at the
Hocige Memorial Day Nursery
and Kindergarten after twen-
y-eight years of continuous
lervtce.
Miss Lee has been in charge
of the children at the Day Nur¬
sery ever since the inception of
the agency by Mrs. Henry Wil¬
son Hodge in 1928. During this
time she has never missed a
day frem work.
The Hodge Memorial Day
Nursery and Kindergarten was
started as a private institution
oy Mrs. Hodge in memory of
her late husband. Recently, it
has bcccme a part of the United
Community Services Agency.
Miss Lee, a native Savannah-
ian, finished the local public
schools and Beach Institute.
Her nurse training was received
at the Georgia Infirmary
Training School for Nurses
where she graduated For many
years she did private and public
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Jackie Leaves Baseball
Rhubarb
NEW YORK- (ANP i — Jackie
Robinson, the much - admired
and much-criticized star of the
Brooklyn Dodgers for 10 sea¬
sons, has quit baseball in the
same manner in which he
entered it—amid a heated con¬
troversy.
Robinson announced Sunday
that he has put away his bats
ind cleated shoes to enter priv-
ate business in an effort to gain
security for his family.
The veteran Brooklyn infield-
:r, who broke baseball's color
line when he joined the Na¬
tional League team in 1947,
aowed out amid a controversy
iver the way in which he an¬
nounced his reeirement.
Application
For Loan Co.
Denied
The application of a group of
ocal Negro business men to
establish a new Federal Sav-
ngs and Loan Association here
was denied this week by the
’•’erieral Home Loan Bank
Board.
The applicants for the permit
included Ezra Johnson, real
estate broker and assistant to
the publisher of the Savannah
Tribune; Dr. H. M. Collier, Jr..
Mr. S. M. McDew. Jr., Dr. J. W.
VTlson, A. E. Fields, Adam K.
livers and E. C. Blackshear.
Opposing the application were
he Carver Savings Bank, First
federal Savings and Loan Assn.,
Atlantic Savings and Trust Co.,
Georgia State Savings Bank
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Mrs. Penrose, Former
Savannaliian, Dies In
Fort Devens, Mass.
Mrs. Anne 1., (Lawson) Pen-
-ose, 41, of 139 Prospect Street,
i Leominster, Mass., wife of Lt. Col.
! Charles !!. Penrose, died at the
| Army Hospital in Fort Devens,
i Ayer, Mass., January 3.
Mrs. Penrose was born in Sa-
1 vanriaii, Georgia, May 4. 1915, and
had been a resident of Leominster
for the (last eight years.
She was a member of the First
Baptist Church of Leominster, the
Friendship Guild of the
the Leominster Fortnightly Club,
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Judge Rules Bus Unconstitutional Segregation
Laws in Florida
MIAMI, Fla., (AND A fed¬
eral judge in Miami Thursday
ruled that Florida laws and Miami
city ordinances requiring segregat¬
ed seating on public busps are un¬
constitutional.
Judge Emmett C. Choate made
his ruling on a motion by the city
of Miami to have a suit filed by
the NAACP thrown out of court.
Choate refused to convene a
three-judge court to hear argu¬
ments in the case, which was filed
by Florida branches of the
NAACP last Oct. 12, naming the
Miami Transit Company, the City
of Miami and the individual city
•ommissioners.
The judge said there was no sub¬
stantial question of constitutional
law in view of the recent United
States Supreme Court decision out-
awing segregation on public buses
in Montgomery, Ala.
Choate dismissed the
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MISS BELCHER, YWCA
PIONEER, BURIED IN
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, (AND
! B. Belcher, former national
j secretary of the national YWCA
! and pioneer worker in
YWCA buildings for Negro gill. 1
in the Mid-West and South,
here last Fridny.
Miss Belcher, a graduate
Haines Normal and Industrial
stitute at Augusta, Or., the
of her birth, attended the
sity of Chicago and the
School of Physical Education
Boston between her teaching
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I News of Robinson’s
to retire came from Look
azine officials, who
paid him $50,000 for a
person article in the
issue of the magazine.
The announcement came
than a month after Jackie
been traded by thb Dodgers
i the New Y*ork Giants for
| 000 and pitcher Dick
field.
Brooklyn now must
both Littlefield and the
to the Giants.
Robinson, in the article
‘Why I’m Quitting
writes that the trade had
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CELEBRANTS AT SHRINE CHRISTMAS PARTY
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1
TOP—A portion of the large
group of children and Nobles of
Croat Temple No. 21, A.E.A.O.
j N.M.S., of which C. H. Bias is
111. Potentate, who gathered
around the East Side Theatre
| preparatory to being trans-
| ported to the Masonic Temple
Shriners Give $1000 to
Fund
NEW YORK. — The Imperial
Council of the Shriners last week
gave a donation of $1,000 to the
NAACP Legal Defense and Edu¬
cational Fund, Inc., it was an¬
nounced today by Thurgood Mar¬
shall, director-counsel of the Fund.
Imperial Potentate Dr. Booker
T. Alexander of Detroit, indicated
that in the future stronger finan¬
cial support will lie given to the
work of the NAACP Legal De¬
fense Fund.
"We are fully aware, of the
great need of the NAACP Legal
Defense Fund for money at the
present time,” Dr. Alexander said
The official name of the Shriners
is tile ancient Egyptian Arabic Or¬
der Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
of North and South America and
Its Jurisdictions, Inc.
Mr. Marshal! also disclosed that
(lie Shriners’ donation was the
last sizable contribution to lie re-
reived by the Legal Defense Fund
at the close of 195(1.
He said the Fund would need an
•stimated $375,000 in 1957 to ef¬
fectively carry on its legal work
ind meet the over-increasing dial-
lenges of White Citizens Councils
and other foes of court decisions
vvhieh declare segregation and dis¬
crimination unlawful.
The Beaumont gusher, spout¬
ing oil 200 feet, launched the
Texas oil boom, January 10,
1901; East River tunnel, Man-
hgttan-Brooklyn, was opened
January 9, 1908.
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j j
White Man Hires Negro to
CHICAGO, (ANP)—Two Ne¬
gro men, who were assigned
week in Felony Court on charges
of arson, told reporters how they
were hired by a white man to burn
the home of a Negro family, hut
were not paid after failing to do
a “good job.”
The men, Robert Baker, 38, and
Gerald Smith, 26, said they were
offered $50 each by a white man
to set fire to the rear porch of
Mrs. Jessie Thomas Bui “didn’t do
a good job and weren’t paid.
Baker and Smith are now in the
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Area 5 of the National Alumni
Association of Colleges holds its
annual meeting at Savannah State
College, Friday and Saturday, Jan-
uni y 11 and 12, with Prince Jack-
Jr. Alumni . Secretary „ of Sa-
son,
van nan State, serving as chairman
and Dr. W. K, Payne,
on a Trailway -bus, where a
Christmas party was celebrated
on Christmas Day.
BOTTOM — Some of the stu¬
dents at Paulsen Jr. High school
who participated in the festiv¬
ities: 1. Members of school
chorus, Elaine Mitchell,
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
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FUNDS NEEDED TO FIGHT
POLIO — Jack Stiles, chairman
0 f the 1957 March of Dimes
canl p a jg n a nnounccs that many ;
citizens have responded to his
newspaper appeal for contri-
outions to the current fight I
against polio. He states that 1
the need for more funds is ur¬ !
gent. :
Mr. Stiles will be featured on
a special program over WTOC-
TV, Sunday morning from 9 to
Heg.Nat’lAlumiiiMeet
To lie Held at
Baker, Matilda Bryant, Carrie
Robinson and others; 2. Dan¬
cers, Harriette Bias, Mary Ann
Harris, Pearl Sowden, Gwen¬
dolyn Snowden, Doreatha
Brown, Delorius Bryant, Mary
Canady, Varnell Orr; 3. Mein-
bers of Band, Ann
NUMBER 14
10 o’clock, in interest of tlio
campaign.
Mr. Stiles wants Tribune
readers to know that most of
the Negro bartenders in the
city are among the 100 night
spots cooperating In the special
fund raising campaign as pub-
lished in the daily newspapers.
This project is under the di¬
rection of B. L. Leibowitz.
The method used at the night
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of the College, as host. G. W.
j Conoly, Alumni Secretary for
! j Florida A and & M University, is area
president presiding officer for
the annual
Area 5 comprises colleges in
A1#ba Florida and Georgia. In
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—Photo by Armond
Jarriette Bias. Alto Fudge. Mal-
(om Jones, I*Leal Robinson,
Alexander Gilbert, Lathaniel
Rooinson. . ______ Artier ;1%) y» Maek. 4.-
j Dramatjc c]u players, cast,
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