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76 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS m/?s SERVICE of
VOLUME LXXVI
I
PLANS MADE FOR
MARCH OF DIMES
DRIVE
Plans for a $44,900,000 March
of Dimes drive in January pri¬
marily to support a massive re¬
habilitation program for thous¬
ands of disabled polio victims,
Member Brooklyn Negro as
New York’s
Says Congress Should
Reduce Alabama Members
Local OES Chapters I
Hold Joint Installation
HOST—The Rev. A. E. Hooper
Key West, Florida, who will be
host to the 1958 session of the
Board of Bishops, AME Zion
Church, which will meet in the
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Dpscendantof ProudSIave Silting
of Texas Oil Boom
HOUSTON, Tex. — Descend¬
ants of Ino Hudgins, a proud
slave who was brought to
America in chains, are sitting
pretty on top of the hottest o*l
boom the Texas gulf coast has
seen in the last 25 years, it was
reported. descendants
The clan, direct
of Ino who died a freed man
following the Civil War, own
some 300 acres of rich Texas
oil lands in an area known as
• Hudkins’ Settlement ” So rich
is the area in fact, that oilmen
arc offering $35 an acre for
mineral leases to the land,
•which has been divided
among Ino’s heirs. This is be¬
lieved to be a new high for
auannali
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were discussed at the planning
meeting at Tuskegee, Ala., re-
cently.
Mrs. Mildred J. Hutchins, lo¬
cal chairman of the ’Mothers
March’ met with a group of
National Foundation for In¬
fantile Paralysis officials head¬
ed by Mr. Charles Bynum, di-
Monday night, Dec. 23, the
five chapters of the order of
Eastern Star held their annual
installation. Amid a scene of
lighted candles and Christmas
decorations at the Masonic
Temple the following officers
were installed:
Electa Chapter No. 1—Worthy
Matron, Mrs. Leola Dublin;
Asso. Matron, Mrs. Rosa Simp¬
son; Worthy Patron, W. V.
Coleman; Treasurer, Mrs. Dora
McCoy; Secretary, Mrs. Eugenia
Gaynor; Conductress, Mrs. Lena
Flemming; Asso. Cond., Mrs.
Ida Taylor; Warder, Mrs. Louise
Dickerson; Sentinel, Mrs. Ra¬
chel Brown; Ch. Trustees,' Mrs.
Isabelle Coleman; Marshal, Mrs.
Lula Barnes; Points of Star:
Adah, Mrs. Bessie Reddick;
Ruth, Mrs. Mary Ella Tolbert;
Esther, Mrs. Peari Coxon; Mar¬
tha, Mrs. Georgia McDonald;
iContinuer) on page three
oil lands, which normally
for $1 an acre. Under the land-
lease proposition, if oil is struck,
the owner then gets a royalty.
Rich Oil Sands Discovered On
Land
No oil has as yet been
struck and oilmen are still
tight-lipped about the pros¬
pects. But the Houston Chron¬
icle j reported last week that
several weeks ago an oil com¬
pany put down core test drill¬
ings that showed hundreds of
feet of oil sands in the
indicating that the
heirs stand to reap a huge for¬
tune. The Chronicle called
Hudgins activity “the Jiottest
oil-lease play on he Texas
rector of Inter-Racial Activities
f or the March of Dimes along
with volunteer leaders from
throughout the south. Others
attended from Chatham
county included ’ J ack Stiles,
Mrs. Carrie Moore, president of
Chatham County Council of
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NEW YORK—Alabama’s vote
on December 17 to liquidate
Macon County because of its
large Negro population war
rants action by the Congress
“to reduce the number of
resentatives from,
the NAACP declared here to-
day in a comment on the Ala¬
bama balloting.
Secretary Roy Wilkins label¬
ed tthe Alabama vote “an open
confession to the nation that
Alabama will go to any length
in order to prevent Negro cit¬
izens from enjoying their con¬
stitutional right to vote” and
said that while the manipula¬
tion of district lines is well-
known in American poliics, for
the first time in our history
an entire county has been li¬
quidated.”
The Alabama amendment au¬
thorizes the legislature to di¬
vide Macon County and its
large Negro population among
neighboring counSdes. The
amendment’s supporters ,led by
State Senator Sam Englehardt,
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Coast in the past 25 years,
One of the descendants who
stands to benefit largely from
the reported boom is Mrs. Math¬
ilda Scott, 73, who is one who
has leased for $35 an acre.
Another is Ben Alexander, a
cheerful man of 63 and a ne¬
phew of Ino, who has already
received $4,740 for his leases.
He said he will use the money
to fix his house and his barn.
Meanwhile. Mrs. Lily Williams,
Matriarch of the Hudgins clan,
has leased her holdings of 31
acres. Although spry' at 79,
she remarked jokingly that “I’ll
j be dead before they hit oil.’ -
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1958
MRS. EARLINE S.
DIES SUDDENLY
TEXAS
Mrs. Earline Simmons
native Savannahian, died at
xiospital in Marshall, Texas,
i-iiimy, December 27, after a few
nouns’ illness. Mrs.
death came as a snock to
relatives afid mends as she
apparently in good health
lore her sudden illness
occurred at her residence.
The body was brought to
vannah for burial.
were held
2nd, at the First
gregational Church with
Rev. L. L. Scott officiating, as-
sisted by Rev. Father G. H.
Caution, lire P^ska, Rev, A.
Curtright, was ill.
Interment was in
Grove Cemetery with the S.
Jones Funeral Home in
of arrangements.
Mrs. Smith was the
of A. H. Simmons and the
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BROOKLYN, N. Y.
spite inclement weather and
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mursaay. The
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lyn Supreme Court with
P leme Court Justice Louis
r rledman °il ic i at;n S-
Aill0n S those wno joned
P ayin S tnbute to the tirst Ne
gro elected to the City
were Assemblyman Bertram
Baker, 6th AD and State
tor Walter E. Cooke, 10th
leaders of two dstricts
ed by Mr. Diggs, and City
cil Majority Leader Joseph
Sharkey.
Brooklyn Borough
John Cashmere, Col. Paul
NYC Director Selective
and Rev. Gardner Taylor
pastor of Concord
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SCOUT LEADERS TO
PREVIEW PROGRAM
The Boy Scout program
the new year will be
to scouting leaders on
day at the West Broad
YMCA from 3 to 6 p. m.
David L. Liles, Scout
tive of the local council,
present the council
and the divisional program
be presented by James
Thomas, field executive of
council, assisted by key
ional leaders.
The program pre-view
ion will be spiced with
fellowship and plenty of
coffee for everyone.
Dr. Sams Speaks Jan.
Dr. J. C. Sams, president
the Florida Progressive
ionary Baptist Convention,
livered the main address
the annual program of
Emancipation Association
January 1 at the City
torium. Dr. Sams is pastor
the First Baptist church
Jacksonville, Florida. He
accompanied by Mrs. Sams
Mrs. L. Thorpe. All were
guests (ft Rev. and Mrs. J.
McMillan of E. Waldburg
RACE RELATION'S IN
UNITED STATES. 1957
By Roy Wilkins
(Executive Secretary, Nation¬
al Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People)
Three major developments
on the race relations front in
1S67 were of such significance
as to overshadow all other
events of the year in the con¬
tinuing struggle to eliminate
racial discrimination and seg¬
regation. They were (1) the
enactment of the Civil Rights
law, the first such statute to
be passed by Congress in 82
years; (2) the use of United
States troops to sustain a fed¬
eral court decree ordering the
admission of nine Negro chil¬
dren to the previously all-
white Central High School of
Little Rock, Ark; and (3) the
enactment of a New York City
ordinance banning racial and
religious discrimination in pri¬
vate housing, the first measure
of that kind ever enacted into
Va. Pupil Placement Showdown Law Soon
Due For a
By Victor Calverton
FAIRFAX, Va. (ANP)—Vir¬
ginia’s consroversial pupil place¬
ment law designed to circumvent
the desegregation decision of
the U. S. Supreme Court is prob¬
ably headed for a showdown in
the De Fobie case.
Mrs. De Fobia is likely to push
the case all the way to the top
court. In fact supporters of
Virginia's placement law are now
anxious that a clear ruling one
way or the other be made by a
competent court so as to settle
the question once for all.
The plaintiff, a white woman,
has refused o sign the place¬
ment forms because she is op¬
posed to the package of laws
passed by the special session of
the State Legislature last year
in a determination, if possible,
to maintain racial segregaion in
the public schools.
Mrs. De Forbie’s two sons were
expelled ... from frnm school „. hool after alter the t
mother didn’t sign the placement
forms. The State Supreme Court
of Appeals has refused to or¬
der the two boys readmitted to
school, but the court failed to
rule on the avalidity of the place¬
ment law, being content to tsay
that no case of discrimination
was involved.
Albert I. Kassabian, one of
Mrs. De Fobie’s lawyers, said
that after studying the Virginia
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THOUSANDS OF POLIO
PATIENTS NEED HELP
The theme of the 1958 March
of Dimes has been announced as
“Survival Is Not Enough.”
The National Foundation
also announced that all 3,100 of
the organization’s local chapters
will engage in the program of
arranging and financing the ad¬
ditional care of thousands of
polio victims Who need it to
make life worth living.
March of Dimes funds will al¬
so be used in 1958 to continue
and expand important studies in
the field of virus research which
may lead to preventives of many
other virus diseases.
Another objective of the
March of Dimes is to finance
the training of scientists,
and therapists in the care of the
disabled. The organizaion has
assisted in the education of
nearly 7,000 men and women in
the field of polio and related
studies, but the shortage of
skilled hands is still acute.
20th Anniversary
Coinciding witth the opening
of the 1958 fund-raising drive,
the National Foundation cele¬
brated its 20th anniversary on
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law in any American com¬
munity.
There were, of course, other
happenings during the year
which had important bearings
on the course of race relations
throughout the country. Some
of these were positive, con-
tribting to the realization of
the American goal of equal
opportunity; others were nega¬
tive, feeding the flames of
racial strife.
However, the advances made
in 1957 were encouraging. The
Civil Rights Act empowered
the federal government to in¬
tervene to protect the right
to vote and set up machinery
for the execution of this power.
In addition, the law estab¬
lished a bi-partisan Civil Rights
Commission charged with the
responsibility of investigating
violations of the right to vote
and of other civil rights.
When he sent troops into
Youth Held in Florida Jail
Released on Christmas
NEW YORK, Dec. 27—An 18
year-old boy neid incommuni¬
cado in a Lake County, Fla.,
jail for alleged rape since De¬
cember 19 was released on De¬
cember 24, according to infor¬
mation received by Giuster B.
Current, N. A. A. C. P. director of
branches. The youth’s release
followed a conference between
an NAACP attorney and Sher¬
iff Willis J. McCall on Decem¬
ber 23. , _______
t
The youth is Melvin Haw¬
kins, Jr., a relative of Virgil
Hawkins, who is a plaintiff in
a suit to enter the University
of Florida law school.
According to a member of
young Ilawkin’s family, the boy
did not leave (his house the
night the alleged rape took
place. In addition, the woman
who stated she had been at¬
tacked said she had never be¬
fore seen the youth when ask¬
ed to identify him as her as¬
sailant.
Young Hawkins was arrested
by Sheriff McCall, who became
notorious during the Groveland,
Fla., case in which four youths
were accused of raping a young
housewife. Driving two of the
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GIVES CHECK TO GREENBRIAR—Mrs. Ivey Brewton, president, Progressive Women’s Christmas Civic
Club presenting check of $50 to Mrs. Helen Washington, caseworker at Greenbriar for
planning for the boys and girls. Other members in the pictures left to right are; Mrs. Marguerite
Young, Mrs. Lillian Pinkney, Mrs. Florence Weaver, Mrs. Inez Webb, Mrs. Rebecca Deveaux, and
Mrs. Elease Dykes. Not present for the picture was Mrs. Sailie Wilson.
Member Audit Bureau Circulation*
Price 10c
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Little Rock to uphold a federal
court order, President Eisen¬
hower served notice that the
Executive Branch of the gov¬
ernment is prepared to sus¬
tain the federal judiciary in
its desegregation orders. This
was the administration’s reply
to the southern doctrine of
interposition which, if acceded
to, would have meant anarchy.
While the need for such action
was widely regretted, there was
general rcognition that the
President had been goaded
into taking the only stand he
could by the intransigence of
Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkan¬
sas. The Governor had placed
troops of the Arkansas Na¬
tional Guard at Central High
School to keep the Negro stu¬
dents out in defiance of the
court order.
Housing has long been the
most pressing problem con¬
fronting Negro citizens in ur-
Movement Launched For
National “Carver Week”
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—(ANP) —
A colorful program spotlight¬
ing the works of the late em¬
inent scientist, will be held at
Gateway Plaza here Jan. 3 to
the beginning of “Dr.
Washington Carver
Week” observance throughout
nation.
The Pittsburgh observance is
under the auspices of the Na¬
tional Archieves Clubs which
annually sponsors and spear¬
heads the national drive to
honor Dr. Carver. Led by Dr.
Ailma 1 llery, founder and pres¬
ident, the Archieves Clubs an¬
nual conducts campaign to
enlist support of governors of
the 48 states in supporting
"Dr. Washington Carver Week.”
Some 20 governors have so far
agreed to issue proclamation
for the 1958 observance.
Participating in the Pitts¬
burgh program, in addition to
Dr. Ulery, are the Hon. David
L. Lawrence, mayor of Pitts¬
burgh, who will extend the
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ban centers. The limitation on
the Negro’s living space has
sometimes been more severe in
the North than in the South.
Tills denial of freedom of res¬
idence has fostered de facto
segregation in public schools
and in other public facilities,
even n states in which such
segregation is legally banned.
Accordingly, the New York City
ordinance against discrimina¬
tion in private housing is a
measure of vital importance to
every community in which a
large number of Negroes reside.
Earlier legislation in New
York and elsewhere had out¬
lawed discrimination in publicly
aided housing. This has been
helpful but it left the owners
of the vast majority of dwell¬
ings free to refuse to sell or to
rent to persons because of their
race, religion or national origin.
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city’s greetings; Mrs. Robert L.
Vann, publisher of the Pitts¬
burgh Courier, who will read
the proclamation officially op¬
ening the Carver observance in
Pennsylvania; Mrs. Arnetta G.
Wallace, national president of
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority,
the principal address, and Mrs.
W. C. Eichenlaub of the Na¬
tional Archieves Clubs.
WORTHY REFUSES
RESTRICTIVE
PASSPORT
NEW YORK, N. Y.—William
Worthy, Jr., Baltimore Afro-
American newspaperman, has
refused to accept a passport
which bars travel to Commun¬
ist China, the American Civil
Liberties Union said this week.
Worthy visited China and
Hungary in 1956 and 1957, de¬
fying a U. S. government ban
on travel to those countries as
well as North Korea.
The State Department re-
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