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76 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LUME LXXVI
SEVENTEEN PERISH IN LOCAL AREA FIRES
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DELTAS GIVE CHEER TO HOSPITALS—Top photos were made
at the annual Christmas party given by the Beta Delta Sigma
Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority for the patients at the
U. S. Public Health Hospital (formerly called the Marine Hospital).
In top left, Soror Mamie Haynes, chairman, is shown with some of
entertainers on the program; namely, Samuel Gill, trumpet so-
oist; Miss Ann Myers, pianist; and Albert Bacon. Three patients
in pajamas are looking on. Dorothy B. Taylor, Sadie Jason,
In top right photo Sorors serving bedridden patients. Center
and Hattie Carter are shown
The recent renovation of the of the Delta Sigma Theta So¬
Pediatric Ward at Charity Hos¬ rority.
pital is one of the local projects Several Sorors were present
of Beta Delta Sigma Chapter, it the hospital on Sunday, De
NEW YORK—The ‘National
Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People intends
“to see that no branch offi¬
cer goes to jail (or remains in
custody longer than the time
necessary to arrange bond)”
for refusal to surrender mem¬
bership lists, Roy Wilkins, N. A.
A .C. P. executive secretary, to¬
day assured the presidents of
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our Association’s 80 local units
In Texas.
In a letter dispatched to
leaders of the Association in
Texas, following enactment of
a law requiring the NAACP to
disclose its membership records,
Mr. Wilkins reiterated the N. A.
A. C. P. position against sur-
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Photo by Freeman
photo shows Sorors Juanita Jackson, Hattie Carter and Sadie
Jason preparing refreshments for the patients.
Lower photo was taken when the Deltas made their final
payment for repairs in the Children’s Ward at Charity Hospital.
Left to right are Miss Olise Campbell, superintendent of nurses,
receiving check from Soror Julia Bacon, president of Beta Delta
Sigma Chapter; Sorors Dorothy Taylor, Keren Washington, Al¬
bert Thweatt, Hattie Carter, Mamie Haynes, Eldora Greene, and
Sadie Steele. One of the patients is shown seated in foreground.
cember 8th when the president, j nurses as final payment for the
Soror Julia Bacon, presented a painting and furnishings in the
check for $711.83 to Miss Olise,
Campbell, superintendent of | (Continued on Page Four*
Death of African Prelate Reduces Number
Of Negro Catholic To 23
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss.—ANP
The Most Rev. Ignac Ramare-
sendratana, D. D. first bishop of
Miarinarivo, Madigascar, Africa
and one of 24 Negro bishops
appointed by cope Pius XII
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
since he became Pope, died
in September, 1957, the St. Au¬
gustine’s Messenger, Catholic
monthly published here, re¬
ported. , «|f
Bishop Ramaresandratana
SATURDAY, DEC. 21, 1957
the
weather a number of fires has
occurred in the past few days,
in the local area, resulting in
the deaths of seventeen per¬
sons, twelve of them children.
Ten perished in one family
at Ella bell, Ga. Early Thursday
morning about 3:00 o’clock live
coals apparently rolled out of
an open fire place in the home
of Anderson Mayes, turning the
house into a raging Inferno in
a matter of minutes. Mrs. Mary
Lee Mayes, her father, Pete
Dixon, and seven children were
trapped in the flames, but one
cHild leaped through a window
and escaped. MT. Mayes, suffer¬
ing from third degree burns,
was rushed to Savannah In an
ambulance of the Sidney A.
Jones Funeral Home, where he
died Friday afternoon at the
Georgia Infirmary.
Funeral services for the vic¬
tims were held Monday after¬
noon at Macedonia Baptist
church, Ellabell, Rev. R. Rumph
officiating, and the Sidney A.
Jones Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements.
Friday night Willie Green of
the Shell Road, Thunder¬
bolt, returned to his shack and
discovered that a “hot stuff”
drum he used for heating had
set his place on fire. Throwing
down the box of provisions he
had collected from neighbors,
he rushed into the bedroom to
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Local Contributions toNI^A Lamp
At Fort Total $6,000
Robert A. Young, advisor to
ithe Haven Home New Farmers
o-f America chapter, announces
gifts of $5,000 from Mrs. Mills
B. Lane and Savannah Sugar
Refinery of $1,000, a total of
$6,000 lor improvements to the
New Farmers of America camp
located eight miles from Fort
Valley, Ga.
Governor Marvin Griffin has
allocated $75,000 for improve¬
ments at the camp. Tills grant
is conditional in that the vo¬
cational people raise $25,000
before the fund is granted.
This money is earmarked to
construct seven new concrete
block cottages, repair the din¬
ing hall, construct an infirm¬
ary, improve the water system
and buy new furniture for the
cottages and equipment for* the
cottage.
This is the second grant made
to Camp Hope by a governor
of Georgia. Governor Herman
Talmadge made an equal grant
some years ago which was
matched by the vocational peo¬
ple.
Camp John Hope is located
on a 600 acre tract of land with
a beautiful lake. When comple¬
tion of development it will be
one of the finest camps for
boys and girls in the south.
Conferring with Mrs. Lane
and Sugar Refinery officials
were R. A. Young, agricultural
relative to the contributions
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was one of the two ranking
Negro bishops in the church.
The other is te Most Rev. Jo¬
seph Kiwanuka, bishop of
Mhsaka Jn > Uganda. Bishop
Ramaresdratana had been a
bishop for 18 years.
Consecrated by the Pope
himself in 1939, he was a zeal¬
ous missionary who underwent
great sacrifices to visit his
flock. He introduced teaching
Brothers and Sisters into his j
diocese and built a minor semi-
nary, laregly with funds solicit-
ed abroad, since the diocese is
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Emmett J. Scott, Distinguished
Leader, Dies in Washington__
WASHINGTON, D. C. —IANP)
—4>r. Emmett J. Scott, 84, for
more than half a century a
recognized leader in the poli¬
tical, business and educational
life of the nation and a noted
author as well, died here
Thursday after a prolonged
illness. He had been in failing
health for several years and
required hospital treatment at
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Colleges Accepted
Full Members m SACSS
OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES and Secondary Schools were installed
the annual banquet last Thursday evening, December 5 on the campus of Virginia Union
Richmond, Va. The installation cereremony was held following an address by Dr.
Johnson, president, Howard University, Washington, D. C. From left, Dr. B. R. Bra-
dean, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., past president; Dr. Johnson; Dr. John E. Codwell,
Phyllis Wheatley High School, Houston, Tex., president elect; Dr. James A. Colston,
Knoxville College, Tenn., first vice president; Dr. L. S. Cozart, president, Barber-
College, Concord, N. C., secretary-treasurer, and W. E. Combs, Florida State Department
Education, second vice president.
presidents and high
principals, members of
Association of Colleges and
Schools .were told of
acceptance for the first time
eighteen of their number into
membership in the formerly
counter-part here last
Dr. Donald C. Agnew, executive
of the Southern Asso¬
of Colleges and Second¬
Schools, brought the news to
Negro body during the final
at Union University. The
held its 24th annual con¬
in Richmond, December
3 to 6, its sessions running con¬
with those of the
Association.
The action taken by the pre¬
all-white association had
in debate for a number of
It was approved last De¬
as the two groups met
in Dallas, Texas. Dur¬
1957 a total of sixty-three Ne¬
colleges were studied to de¬
which met the stand-
ards of the Southern Associa-
tion. For a number of years,
the two groups have met in the
city on the same dates.
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Member Audit Bureau Circulationt
Price 10c
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Congressman Powell To
Speak Here January First
The First of January Emanci¬
pation Day celebration promises
to be one of the most elaborate
Freedom Day observances held
in Savannah for many a year
according to an announcement
by the Emancipation Proclama¬
tion Association under whose ex¬
clusive sponsorship the celebra¬
tion is to be held.
President J. C. McMillan of
the association states that the
speaker for the exercises which
will be held at the City Audito¬
rium will be Congressman Adam
Clayton Powell of New York, na¬
tionally known pastor of New
York’s famous Abyssinian Bap¬
tist Church.
Prior to the exercises at the
Auditorium a street parade will
be held.
The Emancipation Proclama¬
tion Association which has been
sponsoring Emancipation Day
celebrations for fifty years is of¬
ficered by Rev. J. C. McMillan,
president; Rev. F. D. Jaudon,
vice president; Rev. R. Richards,
treasurer; Rev. H. F. Grant, re¬
cording secretary; Rev. R. L.
Many Attend Funeral of
Retired Insurance Agent
Funeral services for Dan W.
Thornton, 80, retired agent of
the Atlanta Life Insurance Co.,
were held Wednesday at St. Phil¬
ip Monumental AME church,
conducted by the Rev. W
Brown, pastor. interment was
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NUMBER 11
Adam Clayton Powell
Byrd, assistant secretary; Joseph
R. Jenkins, executive secretary
of the Y. M .C. A.
A detailed account of the
units to be in the parade and
of the program at the auditori¬
um will be published in next
week’s Tribune.
HONOR GRADUATE—Sergeant
j First Class Gustave H. Caution,
I Jr., was selected as the honor
graduate of the Combat Engin¬
| eer NCO course conducted at
the United States Army En-
gineer school in Europe. To be
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