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PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVI
Attended Doctors’ Executive Board Meeting
TCP PHOTO, seated, 1 to r: Dr. R, S. Smit.i, Macon; Dr. C. R. Jordan, Savannah; Dr. J. B.
Gilbert, Royston; Dr.; W. G. Reid, Columbus; Dr. W. A. Davis, Macon; Dr. W. L. Griffin, Augusta;
STANDING: Dr. M. D. Bryant, Savannah; Dr. R. Carter, Atlanta; Dr. R. S. Douthard, Jr., Atlan¬
ta; Dr. A. N. Brown, Augusta; Dr, C. W. E, Dyer, MECon, and Dr. E. J. Smith, Savannah.
BOTTOM PHOTO, seated 1 to*r, Mesdames C. W. E. Dyer, J. B. Harris (President), R. B.
Jackson. W. A. Davis, M. P. Sessoms. STANDING: Mesdames H, M. Collier, Jr., W. W. White, R.
S. Smith, S. M. McDew. Jr„ C. R. Jordan, B. T. Wood, S, F. Frazier, E J. Smith. Membors attend¬
ing the meeting who are not shown on the photo were Mrs. M. D. Bryant and Mrs. George Smith.
Doctors Executive Board
Holds Meeting *
The Executive Board of the
Ga. State Medical Association
of Physicians and Pharmacists
convened in Savannah on
Sunday at the YMCA.
Fifteen physicians from At¬
lanta, Columbus, Augusta, Mac¬
on, Royston and Savannah met
to discuss plans for the forth-
ccmir.g state convention to be
Harlemite Kills Twp, Then Ends
His Own Life With Last Bullet
Mrs.Lt 1 . Bates, iXMIF Leader of
Little Hock,to at New York
Church of God In Christ To
Hold Jubilee In
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ANP) —
THc Church of God in Christ, one
of America’s largest Pentagostal
groups, is moving into the final
stages of planning for their 50th
Golden Jubilee Holy Convocation
to be held here in Memphis, No¬
vember 25 thru December 15.
The 20-day meeting will begin
with three days of fasting and
prayer. Services continue at the
meeting for 24-hours, around the
clock.
1 he Jubilee Convocation will ;
honor the 94-year-old founder and j
senior Bishop of the organization,
Bishop Charles H. Mason, who be- J
gan his ministry as a youngster ,
in Lexington Mississippi. Bishop ,
Mason and Mrs. Lillian Brooks j
Geoffey, National Supervisor of
They Graduated Sunday from My ns School of Beauty Culture
FRONT ROW, left to right—Leola J. Becton, Margret Colclough, Agnes Slater, Myrtice L.
Bacon, Mabel Scott, Mrs. Myers, founder of school; Rev. J. S. Bryan, pastor of St. Philip AME
Church; Jannie Walker, Geneva Roper, Dorothy Gaston, Julia M. Greene.
SECOND ROW—.Evelyn C. Stevens, Ruth K. Free, Essie Mae Cuspert, Elizabeth James Parmell
Tugman, Pauline Baker. Gracie Mobley, Lillie Mae Bacon. Cleo Scott, Helen Baker. Madlene Pray
Susie Mae Battle not on picture because of illness. _Photo by Freeman
The Myers School of Beauty
Cutlure held its graduating ex-
Sunday afternoon '. at . St. _.
ercises
Philip AME church at which
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he Ici here durin s the second
.
of June, 1958. Dr. J. B.
Gilbert of Royston, chairman
of the board, presided. Dr. C.
R. Jordan of Savannah is the
state president for 1957-58.
The executive board of the
Women s Auxiliary also met
here Harris simultaneously. of Atlanta, state Mrs. presi-^ J. B. j
dent, presided in the absence
of the board chairman. i
Brief remarks were made by ;
the Women’s Department, will pre-
side,
The services will be under the
direction of a special board of
commissioners selected to assist
Bishop Mason. They include:
Bishop A. B. McEwon, Bishop J.
S. Bailey, Bishop J. O. Patterson,
Bishop O. M. Kelly, Bishop O. T.
Jones, Bishop S. M. Crouch, and
Bishop U. E. Miller.
One of the highlights of the
meeting will be the recently eom-
pleted Publishing House, located
on the campus 0 f the church in
Memphis.
Mmg with the T , seating
12(000) the two . story publishing
holJse; also situated on ^ cam .
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time twenty-five students were
awarded diplomas.
The exercises were held , , im- .
mediately following the morn-
the principal officers concern-
ing the hardships and plight
of the Negro doctors in Geor-
gia. Everyone agreed that an
ail-out drive be conducted to
educate the public along health
lines to encourage more doc-
tors to settle in Georgia to at-
tempt to open up more hospital
facilities to our group, and to
encourage the Negro public to
utilize the services of the Ne-
gro doctors.-Photo by Freeman
NEW YORK, Oct. 24—Mrs. L.
C. Bates of tittle Rock, Ark.,
state NAACP president and a
xey figure in the controversy
over school desegregation at
Little Rock’s Central High
School, will address a public
meeting here on Nov. 3.
Her “Report on Little Rock’’
will be the first such account
of recent happenings in the
Arkansas city to be given in the
New York area.
Also scheduled to address the
NAACP-sponsored meeting, to be
held at Williams Institutional j
Church in Manhattan at 3:30
d. m., are Jackie Robinson, for-
mer baseball player and na-
tional chairman of the Associa- |
tion’s 1957 fund-raising cam-
paign, and Roy Wilkins, NAACP j
executive secretary. :
In addition to her presidency i
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ing services and were largely
attended. The principal address
was delivered by the Rev. J. S
Bryan, pastor.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1957
November
NEW YORK. Oct. 25 — The
choirs of Morehouse and Clark
Colic*ires, two United Negri) College
Fund members located in Atlanta,
Ga.. will be among those heard
durinir the month of November on
the American Broadcasting Net¬
work weekly radio series.
The broadcast schedule for the
United Negro College Fund
choral groups for November fol-
jlows: house College, Nov. 3, directed the choir by of Wendell More-
I
I Whalum; Nov. 10, the chorus of
j Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.,
j ’ under Bergen; the Nov. direction 17, the of Philharmonic Harry von
j deKoven Society of Killingsworth Clark College, directing; with J.
j and on Nov. 24, the concert choir
I of Xavier University, New Orleans,
Lt., under the direction of James
Yestadt.
The programs originate from
New York, Sundays, over WABC,
10:35-11:00 a. m., and are heard
at varying iocai times throughout
the United States and Canada.
They are also heard overseas
through the facilities of the “Voice
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First African Baptist Church Calls
Rev. Curtis Jackson of Atlanta as Pastor
i TALLADEGA LITTLE
, THEATFR TO BE
PDCCpKITpri ‘KLuLIl 1 kU m/am nUV. 14. 14
j The First Congregational
, church will sponsor its annual
presentation of the Talladega
r -.,| P r ittin Theater ‘ ‘ on
vember 14 at Savannah State
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NEW YORK — (ANP) — For
five agonizing hours, Mary
Brown sat in her kitchen,
pleading with a man who had
just shot and killed her hus¬
band and her sister. The crazed.
man was William Worrall,
whose wife Doris was Mary
Brown’s sister.
Some months ago Worrall I
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threatened to kill his wife.
Terrified, she left him, going to
live with her brother-in-law,
George Brown, and his wife,
Mary, in their apartment at 30
Bradhurst avenue.
Saturday morning at 2:30 the j
murderer broke into the apart¬
ment. Hearing the Crashing
glass, Brown went to investi¬
gate. A blast from a .22 auto-
matic sen I a bullet crashing
* luou 8 h dis chest and he
dl °PP ed dead,
His wife, asleep on a couch
in the living room, leaped up.
screaming, trying to flee from
her husban-d. She ran into the
bedroom, but her husband fol-
lowed her, pumping four shots
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The 8th Annual Coastal Empire
Fair, with six days of fun and
frolic, opens Monday, November 4
with ribbon - cutting ceremonies
slated for 7:00 P. M.
The Fairgrounds, just west of
(I2nd street and Montgomery, fea¬
tures a wonderful world of exhib-
I its, rides, shows and good food,
with a large, lighted parking area
near the main gate.
Included on Gooding’s Million
Dollar Midway are the most excit-
i ing, the most thrilling rides to be
| found in America, as well as head-
I liner shows and special features.
According to D. R. Coleman,
; president, the 1957 Coastal Empire
Fair will offer the greatest va¬
riety of exhibits in its history.
School exhibits by children from
15 Coastal Empire counties make
up the “Little Red Schooihouse,”
near the Fair entrance. Nearby
will be two large Industiial Ex¬
hibit tents where Fair visitors will
i see the newest products attractive- j
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The Myers School of Beauty
Cuiture is located at 1806 West
Broad street and Is headed by
Madam Elease Bacon Myers,
owner.
Woman Enroute to Work
Mrs. Sadie Bolden who
was killed on sidewalk by
an automobile S u n d a y
morning.
A 29-year-old woman was
Injured by an automo¬
The Reverend Curtis J. Jack-
son of Atlanta was called to
the pastorate of the First Afri-
can Baptist church Sunday
afternoon in a call meeting, toy (
the officers and members of
the church,
Rev. Jackson holds an AB
degree In —° religion T "‘ ",----- from More- ~
house College, studied toward
the.SD degree, Morehouse Col
lege Graduate School of Re¬
ligion, 1949-1C60-1951. He fur¬
ther studied in counseling, so¬
ciology and education at At¬
lanta University Summer School,
1952-1953-1954.
Rev. Jackson is married and
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Southern Masonic Leaders Hold
Convocation in Va.
BY O. C. W. TAYLOIt,
For Associated Negro 1’rc.ss
RICHMOND, Va. (ANP).
Meeting here in Virginia Union
University, October 20-22, was the
71st convocation of the United Su¬
preme Council of the Sovereign
Grand Inspectors General of the
Thirty-Third and last degree of the
Ancient and Accepted Scotish Rite
of Freemasonry for the Southern
Jurisdiction of the U. S. A.
Sessions were ’-’CrZ presided lXZLZ over by
Maryland, Most Puissant Sovereign |
,,, ,,, u"X*nam W i a .
silted by 0, (;rand Baton! C(Mn" ,
inander John G. Lewis,
Rouge, La., more than 300 mem-
bers were present.
Secretary General Louis W. Roy,! j
Washington, I). C., announced
final plans for the construction of \
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NE.W YORK, Oct. 25 — The
£* JtSMSStt £
United Negro College Fund for
distribution to its 31 member in¬
stitutions, it was announced today
by Mi. F. B. MM. Collect
Fund president.
“™e grant .epresents a 100 per
““ ", ,cr ™^ 1 ° contribution v “‘ of $-5,-
000 , Dr. Patterson said. “E.-:s<»
has been a supporter of the College
Fund since it was organized in
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YMCA MEMBERSHIP ENROLLMENT LEADERS Above are the genera! chairman, section
leaders, division managers of the 1958 Y membership enrollment. Seated, L. to R., Miss Ruby
King. Section Leader. Benjamin F. Lewis, General Chairman; c. O. Ryals, Section Leader-
Standing. Horace T. Scandrick, Miss Louise Milton, Miss Madeline Harrison, Joseph R. Jenkins'
Mrs. Laura Miller. Mrs. Viola Pitts, Eugene Lsaac.
Division Managers not shown on picture are: Mrs. Gladys Warner, Hosea Williams, George 6
Raleigh A. Bryant, Sr,
Coastal
Empire Fair
Opens Mon.
bile Sunday morning 7:30
rial Hospital where she was
employed as a cook. She died j
a few minutes later at the hos- !
pltal in the presence of her
brother, Jesse Crumbley, who
is also an employee of the hos- j
pital and had arrived there
shortly before the accident.
The victim of the accident
was Mrs. Sadie Bolden of 723
Yamacraw Village, who was
standing on the sidewalk at
55th and Waters avenue wait- :
ing for a bus when the car
jumped the curb and struck j
her down. She was rushed to j
the hospital where she died a j
few minutes later of interna) j
injuries, a crushed chest and
a broken arm.
A lX-year-old white youth, j
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MRS. HANNAR HEADS
COCAL RETIRED
TcArilCDC fcALMtlvo A>3n. ACCW
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Pursuant to the call of Robt.
A. Young, president of Chat-
ham County Teachers Associu-
tion, several retired icmm teachers waL-nciB
met at the West Broad Street
Y. M. C. A. October 4, Mr.
Young presiding. The purpose
of the meeting was to interest
the group in forming a local
organization of retired teach¬
ers similar to those In many
sections of the country.
Several of the retired teach-
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Esso Increases l \(T Gift
From to
I Hank Aaron Joins Miller
Co. Sales Staff
, MILWAUKEE „ .ANP.
ry .non Ure Brel s >Ut out-
fielder who this year played a
major role in making Milwau-
^ thC Capito1 cUy 0f th€
, ma j 0r leagues, now Is seeking
to enhance Milwaukee’s repu-
j tation as the beer capital of
j the nation,
Hamerin’ ark has been ap-
pointed a special sports
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
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CENTURY OF OUTSTANDING SERVICE
— Mrs. Ella Reid
century as a professional nurse.
Nurse Sams has the distinct
of being one of the first
nurses of Georgia In¬
having graduated Apr.
1900. She is a product of the
NUMBER 4
R. N., retires after over a half
—Photo by Sam Williams
old Dorchester Academy.
When she received her diplo¬
ma from the Ga. Infirmary she
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motion repreantotlv, or lh.
Milter Brewing Company, the
firm that has sponsored the
Braves’ radio broadcasts for the
five years the team has bcen
in Milwaukee.
Named along with Aaron are
Bob Trowbridge, Milwaukee
hurler, and Joe Taylor, property
manager and assistant trainer,
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