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75 KF>4#?S OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXV
BOY’S KIDNEY TRANSPLANTED
IN HIS TWIN BROTHER
BOSTON, Mass.—(ANP).-—In
a case that drew a wide-scale med¬
ical attention recently, doctors last
week here performed a successful
kidney operation on Leon Masden,
after his twin brother had do¬
nated young Masden his kidney.
The operation was performed in
Beter Bent Bringham Hospital
here where the 19-year-old ailing
youth was suffering with two
diseased kidneys which eventually
will be removed in separated op¬
erations.
i In the kidney transplant opera-
Lop Leon’s twin brother, Leonard,
wbhnted a normal kidney to his
'stricken brother. Doctors perform¬
ing the operation worked in adjoin¬
ing operating rooms where
group removed the kidney from
Leonard’s body and the
group transplanted it in Leon’;
body.
The identical twin boys are th<
sons of Mrs. Flaggie Masden
Sheperdsvillc, Ky.
Legal procedure was nocossar
before the operation could be
formed and doctors joined the
with Mrs. Masden and the boys ii
requesting permission from the
court. Court litigation in the mat
ter was necessary because
the donor, was a minor and unabk
to authorize .the operation.
DID VOL’ KNOW?
George Washington
noted scientist, was
log Doctor of Science degree
he University of
June 18, 1941.
Students Call; for
Church Race Restrictions
Robber Slays Woman
Refused To Heed
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Program for
July
NEW YORK, N. Y„ June 21— j
1 i.e elioirs , of e Johnson ii C. n South n -.v
University, and Clark, Bcthunc-
Cook man and Wiley Colleges will
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JENKINS APPOINTED
TO “Y” INTERNATIONAL
COMMITTEE
J. R. Jenkins
Joel E. Nystrom, Executive
Secretary of the International
Committee of the Nations:
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HISTORY OF CHARITY HOSPITAL A
FINE ACHIEVEMENT STORY
A Succinct History Of
Kane-Charity Hospital And Train
ing School for Nurses (1894-1957).
History is a great romance. The
tru« and the great ply through
it. Nations are making history ev
cry day. One great lesson historr
teaches is that right will triumph
An African Prince, Dr, Cornel
ius «VlcKane of The Boston P ant
S Medical College, and Dr. Alio
Woodby McKane or the Women’.-
Medical College of Philadelphia
noticed that there were young wo¬
men about the city nursing with-
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La. Clerics Jim Crow Laws
SHREVEPORT, La.
numerous white persons hen
ast week, stunned to see five de
ermined Negro ministers sittting
n the section of bus reserved b,\
aw for whites, could hardly be
ieve their eyes as the
lerics initiated what they
the beginning of integration” in
.his city.
For 45-minutes the
ode through a fashionable
n this city, reading their
n route, as whites jammed
(isles standing up rather than
ng seats next to the
> T o arrests were made even
'olice Chief Harvey L.
eportedly knew of the incident
dvance.
Three white women took seats
•arious times during the ride,
o the ministers. The third worn
in deliberately took a seat
o a Negro minister even
>thcr seats were available in
vhite section.
The Rev. A. L. Scott, a
man for the group said the
woman looked at the empty
) and then took a seat with him.
A white man and a white
J an refused to board the
I Another man stepped into the
saw the Negro ministers sitting
I front and demanded to be let
of the vehicle. He was
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RICHM0NU > Va - (ANP).—A
robbor * as * wce * { slayed a 151-year-
old Negro woman who ignored
his warning that he would shoot
if she screamed.
Killed was Miss Clara Wing¬
field of Richmond. A male com
panion, was lobbed of about $8
AH wore Nc F roes -
According to witnesses on th»
the , , killer ... approached . . Miss
scene,
v.’ingfield and her companion a
they sat in a parked car. He
forced them from it and robbed
the man. Then he ordered Miss
Wingfield to walk to another car
about a half-block away. He warn-
her he would shoot if she scream¬
’d. She screamed and he shot and
killed her.
The killer fled the scene in an
automobile which was believed to
have been stolen.
Meanwhile, police tried to link
he killer, still at large, with the
nan who recently shot and wound¬
’d an elderly white woman in her
home. He robbed the woman of
ier pistol.
7FTAS HONOR AMICAE
\ND NEW OFFICERS
The Alpha Theta Zeta Chapter
•f Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
■ntertained its auxiliary group,
The Amicae, Friday evening,
une 21. The affair was a beau-
iful lawn party at the home of
toror lone Dunmore on Mills B.
.ane Boulevard. The serving table
vas most attractively designed,
entering around the Zeta motif,
The Amicae, or friends of Zeta.
lave just completed their first
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ut
hey started a class , for M
iurses at Liberty and
streets where now stands a
f the Citizens and Southern
\nd after two years of
t developed there that there
o hospital in the city where
Tegro physician could
4oDr Alice Woodby McKane
rested that a hospital be
1 at Flora nee and
■fleets 1 in a five room
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Texas School (iraduates Mixed
lor First Time in
(ANP).—By a 1,700 to 35 vote
here last week, an end to racial
divisions in the Methodist Church
was called for by students of the
Methodist college. At the same
time students urged the abolition
of the all-Negro Central Jurisdic-
mn of the church.
In a resolution adopted by Meth-
>dist College students from nine
tates, each annual conference of
he denomination was strongly
rged to ratify a proposed consti-
utional amendment to eliminate
ace divisions in the church.
The measure stated, “we as dele-
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SEEK TO CURB BAN
ON HOUSING PROJECT
\T NAVAL DEPOT
BABBITT, Nevada, June 20.
“he U. S. Defense Department has
wen requested by , West C o as 1 ,
NAACP office to m i ei lousin
tors provided here for civilian and
nilitary personnel employed at the
nearby naval ordnance depot.
’? ie ' IU< r’. t Wah with*
• a'few^families, , the
mention of all
■•■roes in Babbitt, a
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GREENSBORO, N. C. _
forcing of a New York
,cman to occupy a
! -at in the restaurant at
j airport here this week has
ulted in a lawsuit.
Mrs. Martha S. Brisbane
'%JgSf$8l
BY THE QUEFN
ATXANTA (ANP).-Miss
Edge! Perry, a native of
Ga. am principa o . « *
Girls’ school at Abeokuta,
Nigeria, will receive the order
the British empire for her
j w !4 H girl* in the British colony.
The award, officially
at a reeepiron for Miss
K«ven by Ronald Watts,
Consul, here last Thursday, is
included in the "birthday honor
Hst ” of Q up en Elizabeth.
Its actual presentation will
place later in Washington.
9owdaUr Da K ty
Dte
COLUMBUS Ohio-.ANP.
Death came Friday to one Of
country’s noted • — Negro journal- ' •
ists when Dowdai Davis, general
‘ manager of the Kansas
Call, succumbed to a
attaek here at the home of a
friend whom he was
j Mr. DavLs was 43.
A A leading le-dmg citizen citizen of ot Kansa Kansas
j City* Mo., a member of
(board of police
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, JUNE 29. 1957
VISIT NEWSPAPER PLANT —
The Savannah State College
Journalism Workshop and Jour-
nalism classes studied news-
•:aper production at the Savan-
rah Morning News and Even-
ng Press plant.
Shown left to right in the
composing room are: Wayne J.
HoWes, Hattilyn Slocum, Mamie
Bcrdcn, Betty Stevens, Louis
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G KADUATES AT MICHIGAN —
j., rnes j. Williams, Jr., son of
James L. Williams of 2710 Hop-
| Tins street, graduated June 15
j , lt the University of Michigan,
: receiving a diploma in music. '
Young Mr. Williams is well
known in musical circles in
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Tituted the suit against the
j Greensboro-High Point airport,
members of the airport govern-
| :ng body, the manager of the
airport restaurant and the air-
j port manager.
Conrad O Pearson of
Williams, Charlie Fogle, Lillie
Wright, Daniel Washington, M.
, O. Patrick, District Circulation
Manager, Savannah Morning
News and Evening Press; Mer-
vin P. Jackson, Johnnie L
Mitchell and Harry Nevels.
I Mrs. Luatta Upshur Ls faculty
adviser and journalism instruc-
tor. Wilton C. Scott directs the
journalism workshop.
MM SHk WM H
GETS MED. SCHOLARSHIP -
Charles Hall, Jr., of 1001 West
Victory Drive, who has this
week received notice that he
has been approved for a state
.scholarship to study medicine,
He will matriculate at MaHarry
Medical College in the Fall. Mr.
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legal redress officer of the Na-
tionai Assn, for the Advance-
ment of Colored People, said
rveral New York attorneys,
including N.A.A.C.P. chief legal
; counsel Thurgood Marshall, filed
! the §uit.
, ^ flnd R yeterftn newwer .
Davis wa , attending the
annual meeting of The National
1 -* New ------------- Publishers As-.ocia
; paper
:‘ion when he v/as fatai-y s.rtc-
j ken. He died in the home of Dr.
Harold Weddir.gton where he
was residing during the pub-
Ushers’ meet,
Davis, a graduate the
Un!vsrsity of pr " 8 T
ldeu{ of the RNPA in 1949 and
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Supreme Cl. (Muses
To Review La. Jim
Case
By ANP Staff Correspondent
WASHING T O N (AND.
School officials of Orleans Parish,
Louisiana, were informed this
week that “policy, custom, prac¬
tice and usage" cannot be used as
an excuse for maintaining segre¬
gated schools.
This decision, which was made
by three circuit judges of the 0. S.
Court of Appeals of the Fifth Cir¬
cuit, remains undisturbed by the
Supreme Court’s refusal Monday
to review the ease.
DATES BACK TO 1951.
The case originated in 1951
when Earl Benjamine Bush
brought suit against the board of
education in Orleans Parish on
behalf of himself and others simi¬
larly situated for refusing to al¬
low them to attend the elementary
and secondary public schools in
that Parish.
The suit was brought on the
grounds that the school officials
were in violation of the equal pro¬
tective clause of the 1 lth Amend¬
ment by affording educational op¬
portunities, advantages and facili¬
ties for white children far superior
to those afforded Negroes.
The Board of Education claim¬
ed that segregation of schools
would mean a violation of their
.state constitution.
They claimed that, not only did
their state constitution require th<
segregation of schools, hut. such
is the policy, custom, practice and
usage of Louisiana.
United States District Judge J.
Skelly Wright ruled last year that
i the Louisiana Constitution requir
I ing the segregation of the races in
public schools had been invalidated
i by the Supreme Court ruling in
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SAN ANTONIO, TEX. (AND
A double precedent was set here
last week When the Longfellow
Junior High School not only grad¬
uated its first racially mixed class
in history, but also had a Negro
student presiding over the com¬
mencement exercises as president
of the graduating class.
Two Negro students were grad¬
uated in the exercises. They are
class president Robert Hasson, the
15- year-old son of an Air Force
serviceman, and Don Hill, another
16- year-old students.
School principal George C. Vid-
lirie said thut Hasson was selected
is class president because he is
•‘very popular and he takes pftrt
in all athletics and school events.’
Some 100 students were gradu¬
ated during commencement exer¬
cises.
DID YOU KNOW ?
James Weld an Johnson, out-
tan ding Negro composer, died
of auto injuries in Maine,
iune 30, 1938.
530,702 U. S. Negroes
Enrolled in Catholic Church
WASHINGTON (ANP) -
record 530,702 American Negroes
ire new members of the Roman n
Catholic Church, according to
eport of the Commission for
Catholic Missions Among Colored
People and Indians.
The figure, the commission said,
represents an increase of 90 pci
cent during the past 25 years.
Emphasizing the speed at which
Negroes are embracing the Cath¬
olic faith, the report states that
i they are being converted at the
rate of 1,000 each month, the
largest groups coming from New
York, Philadelphia, Washington,
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BENNETT COLLEGE TO
COLLABORATE WITH
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
GREENSBORO, N. (’.-Agree
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Bennett College . and the w Washing
, „ l)e(rt . of Law „f American
University, Washington, D. ('., for
* collaborative Liberal-Ai-ts pro-
^ as announce eie
Under this program, the Ben*
nett College, student, at the end
of her junior year, will he able
j enroll in the law school. If sut-
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J .H I /IStFlCt W UllltiFS
Announced
Winners in Districts f and U
competition for Negro 4-II Clu'
boys and girls were announce
here this week by the State of fie
for Negro work of the Agrietiltu
cm I Extension Service, Univcrsil'
if Georgia College of Agricultun
Alexander Hurse, Negro sta*
t-H Club leader, pointed out the
senior winners will compete fo
State awards at the State Negr
t-H Club Congress November H
15.
First place district winners b
the senior division, their counties,
ind their projects ure; Betinh
Swint, Washington, painting.
Charles Monday, Walton, poultry
Lester Kennedy, Jr., Hancock-
VBC of home wiring; Willie
sau, Hancock, safety; Joe
lones, Washington,
Wilbert Jackson, Baldwin,
Wilbert Jackson, Baldwin,
estry; William iPeree,
ton, farm and home electric; Ham
my Williams, Burke, soil and
ter conservation; Columbus
son, Morgan, leadership;
Hill, Wilkes, field crops; Olivei
'obb, Buike, tractor maintenance
Doris Butler, Walton, food
aration; Joan Malcolm, Walton
corn meal muffins; Bessie \\
lock, Walton, yeast rolls;
Thomas, Hancock, dress
Betty Cooper, Burke,
Veola Harrison, Jackson, canning
lessie M. Rucker, Jackson,
i improvement; Fay Jackson,
gan, biscuits, and Annie L. Mapp
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I- is the first of its kind in
North Carolina.
The case specifically attacks
si gregated eating facilities at
he airport here but
will be a test of the legality
■gregation at all such
HARMONY PREVAILS AS BIBLE SCHOOL
ACHIEVES INTEGRATION, ACCIDENTALLY
KANSAS U.
ENTER MISS. NEGRO
COLLEGE
WEST POINT, MISS.
j Despite public opinion and
tudes here concerning race, a
! of “ r white ’ students from
1'niversity last week spent
iwo week vacation by
at <i Negro Junior College here
study race relations.
The action caused an
stir among advocates of white
prernaev and gave rise to
fort within the West Point
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ANP).— |
Integration came accidentally last j
week to the Grace Luthern Church
here Vacation Bible School and to !
the amazement of the church’s pas-
tor, not a single incident of dis-
turbance came with it. Negro j
It all happened when 11
; children, reading a sign outside |
;(] ( > church, walked unexpectedly
j n the institution and began va-
cation Bible classes.
yy,,. ]) PV . Henry Kloekley said t
;whole thing happened in about
seconds and he and the school’s
director, ’ Mrs. P. E. Davis decided
on the spot to am , pt the Kvgn ,
children. Since then the church’s .
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
ADama 4-3433
NUMBER 38
POST DENTAL SURGEON—Capt.
Benjamin C. Gordon was notified
last week by the Surgeon General’s
Office that he has been appointed
to the position of assistant post
dental surgeon and that, effective
| August 1, will act as post dental
suregon at Ft. Holablrd, Md., while
the post dental surgeon will at¬
tend school for four months at
Walter Reed Army Hospital at
Washington D. C.
4 Savannahians at NAACP
Meeting In Detreit
W. W. Law, Connie Wimberly,
M'.s. L. S. Stell and Charles
Daly arc in Detroit, Mich,, this
week attending the annual
meeting of the NAACP.
Cross Burned
\t Veteran’s
New Home
SANTA MONK A, Calif, June
’(). —A Negro veteran has defied
he burning of a cross by the home
he purchased in an all-wnit'e sec-
ion of Oxnard, Calif., and has
moved his family into the dwell-
mg, Frank Barnes, president of
he Southern California Area Con¬
ference of the NAACP, announced
here today.
Mr. Barnes said that the vet¬
eran, Clifford Tatum, was “not
the least hit frightened by the
Klan-like demonstration”’ at his
home on June 12 and • moved • into
the house the following morning.
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WINNERS AT MFN S
ROSE SHOW LISTED
The Men’s Rose Garden Club
which recently held Its initial
how of roses, announces its
results, as follows.
Section 1. Horticulture — This
ection featured hybrid teas,
floribundas, climbing roses,
patted roses, and polyanthus.
Awards were received by the
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governing body has to up-
hold the decision. ,
Rev. Klcckley said there hasn t
been a ripple of disturbance and
the s c h o o 1 procedure hasn t
changed. He added that none of
the 39 white children dropped out
of classes and the Negro .eni'oll-
ment has now.reached 17.
The Lutheran Church is believed
to be the first all-white church In
the Louisville area to adopt into-
grated vacation Bible classes,
The Rev. Kleekley, a native of
South Carolina, who came here
four years ago from Georgia re-
fi et . t ed, "the unusual thing about
this is the normalcy of it. ’