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seated. left to right: Mrs. Ophelia Julian, Mrs. O. W. Wilcox, Mrs. Verdese S. Curley, Mrs. M. L
Wilson, E. Shuler, J. Lawson, T. Polite, W. S. Scott, H. A. Oliver, A. L. Davis, c. Bernard Nichols
D. Hunter, G. '
A. C. P.
GUARANTY INSTALLS
NEW MANAGER
After a very enthusiastic
meeting of the Savannah Agen-
cy, Friday, February 28, Star-
Crowd to Attend
Jabberwock Friday
Local Delegates to Attend
Y Conference at
Wilkins Defends Negro’s
Moderation In
Savannah Student
Exceptional Record
At Talladega
Miss Ruth P- Simms,
dega senior, chairman of
Little Theatre make-up com¬
mittee, is traveling with
Talladega College Little The¬
atre on their mid-west trip.
The group will give
ances df Loften Mitchell
play, Land Beyond the River,
in Indianapolis, and Chicago.
Miss Simms has "highest also achiev
ed one of the schoi-
astic averages at Talladega for
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Training Course for Boy
REG. 6, GA. CANCER
SOCIETY MET AT
STATE COLLEGE
IWith President W. K. Payne
serving as general chairman,
Savannah State College was
host last week to Region Six
Clinic of Georgia Cancer So¬
ciety. The counties represent¬
ed at the workshop are Chatham
Liberty, McIntosh, Emanuel
Glynn, and Treutlen.
The group centered its dis-
cussion around the following
arteas: (At Public education
and inspiration: <Bi Education
funds Crusade: (C) Involving
More People: (Di Improved
Leadership; (E) Providing ser-
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aiuronali Iritomr
ling D. Hunter was installed as
the new manager of the Sa-
vannah District of Guaranty
Life Insurance Company,
President W. S. Scott and
Agency Director C. Bernard
NEW YORK—Roy
NAACP executive secretary,
be interviewed on the WARD-
TV program “Showcase” on
article, “Integration Must
Move,” published in the March
issue of The Atlantic Monthly.
The program, a New York tele¬
cast, will be seen and heard
from 1 to 1:30 Friday afternoon,
March 14. Appearing on the
program with the NAACP lead¬
er will be Rabbi Isaac Tobin.
In his article, Mr. Wilkins re¬
futes the charge that the N. A.
A. C. P. and Negroes are “push¬
ing too fast” i nefforts to se¬
cure compliance with the U. S.
Supreme Court ruling against
segregation in public education.
The Negro, he says has
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KNOXVILLE CHURCH
INTEGRATES
KNOXVILLE ,Tenn. (ANP) —
A visit to Knoxville’s first in¬
tegrated church last
the Tennesee Valley Unitarian
Church, was interesting Do
Unitarians Worship?” was the
text of the pastor’s sermon.
“The various definitions for
| into account,” he said A fiank
discussion of what constitutes
j 1 Unitarianism was revealing.
Their new and beautiful
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Adult scouting leaders of the
Chatham division of the local
Boy Scout Council $ill
pate in a training experience,
Saturday, from 3:30 to 8 30 p.
m., at Savannah State
Alexander Grant, divisional
training chairman, is making j
an effort to reach every regis- J j
tered adult leader with a
variety of training experience
; this year.
The training program this
weekend will be centered
around scouting the skills advanced and the outdoor job of j
the troop committee. A period
will also be set aside for a pre-
view of the Easter sunrise ser-
vice to be sponsored by the
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Nichols, officially installed Mr.
riunter . , “ the .. new manager 01 . j
1 the Savannah District. The:
entire agency force being pres-
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"Buildings for Brotherhood”
sponsored by the International
Committee of tiie Young Men’s
Christian Association received a
decided boost from the visit of
Emory Nelson, Associate Execu¬
tive Secretary of the Interna¬
tional Committee and YMCA
World Service. A group of As¬
sociation leaders led by M. O.
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■Johnston, chairman, and L. B.
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Seventh Day Adventist Church in
II. S. Has .'(10,000 Members
NEW YORK SCHOOL
RAISES $1,100
FOR NAACP
NEW YORK—The student
body of Elizabeth Irwin High
school, a private school in
Greenwich Village, today pre-
g en j ec ' j $1,100 to " the NAACP.
The was made at
a student assembly .
Included in the amount were
| checks for an NAACP life
membership for the Irwin
school and a junior, life mem-
|fcership for the Little Red
J j school g cdoo j of House, the Elizabeth the junior Irwin high
system. The money was rais-
ed by the Irwin school’s stu¬
dents at a benefit program on
Februray 23.
Accepting the contribution
on behalf of the NAACP were
Jackie Robinson, Board mem-
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Carnegie Library To
Observe Library Week
Carnegie Library will observe
the first National Library week,
March 16-22.
“Wake Up And Read” is the
theme that will be used in 46
states and overseas Post Libra- j
ries.
National Library Week is*
sponsored jointly by the Amer¬
ican Library Association and
the National jor Book Committee.
The ma objective of this
National program is to focus
the attention of the country on
the rewards of reading.
Carnegie Library welcomes
each and every citizen to join
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1958 ?
NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEEK
The Negro Press which will
be 131 years old on March 17, is
commemorating this historic
event all across the nation by
observing Negro Newspaper
Week from March 16 to 22.
A variety of events is being
arranged, in many churches
the ministers are devoting their
sermons to discussions of the
role of the Negro Press in the
great drama of social change
taking place today.
Tiie theme of this year's ob¬
servance is "The Negro Press:
Lighting the Way to Freedom.”
Two 15-minute radio pro-
grams have been transcribed
for broadcasting over local sta¬
tions ' ° ne of tllese features
Lcna Horne singing “Mood In-
digo: and Ella Fitzgerald sing-
ing “in wind.” A five minute
message by the Rev. Martin
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"A Peep Into Space” is the
of the 1958 Delta Jab¬
which will be presen¬
Friday evening, March 14,
the city auditorium at
Mrs. Gwendolyn S. Brown, the
chairman, states that
usual capacity crowd is
and the usual delight¬
program has been prepared.
tickets will be sold at the
Everyone should
early to select a choice
There will be no reserved
The coronation of “Miss Jab¬
follows the prologue.
one holding a ticket can
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The organization of new I
units of the Seventh-1
Adventist Church was an. \
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Bf.Af If HOSTS A. A. BASKEIBALL TOURNAMENT— (1) Principal Otha Doug- (2) Monroe High School Girls basketball team winners of the State Cham-
las greets hig 7 basketball officials, L to R, Marsha,] Ainold. Atlanta, secretary! pionship: L to R, front row, Francis co-captain; A. C. Searles, coach'
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Joseph Green, athletic dilector. Allred E. Beach High and director of A. A. Evelyn Toney, captain; standing, Olivia Joseph, Flora Robinson, Bernice Wallace,
tournament: Daniel F. David, president; Otha L. Douglas and C. McClarin, prin- Francis Webb. Minnie Anthony, Mhell Cruel, Bettye Wilson, Earnestine Ander-
cipal of S. Fulton High School, East Point. derson and Alethea BY
73) Carver High Basketball j
High School champions of
front row, 1 to r, Robt.
Charles Harnett, captain;
MASS. STUDENT
APPOINTED TO
ANNAPOLIS
BOSTON. Mfess.
Thomas Jackson, 17,
if the Melrose High school
dent Council, this week
'he first Negro ever to be
oointed to Annapolis
Massachusetts.
Young Jackson won the
•ipal appointment to the u. S
Naval Academy on the basis
the score he received in a
trict-wide examination
sored by u. s.
Torbert II. Macdonald,
er Harvard College all-Ameri-
ran football player in the early
10's.
Jackson is active in extra¬
curricular activiiies and holds
letters in football and track
He has been president of his
•lass at Melrose High for the
past three years.
Study to shew thyself ap¬
proved unto God, a workman
that needeth not to be as¬
hamed. — II Timothy 2:15.
Georgia Meet PTA Conference to
at Next Week
The Georgia ________________, Congress of Col¬ „,
ored Parents and Teachers will
hold its 38th Annual Meeting
at the Monroe High School in
Albany, March 19-21. Registra¬
tion will begin at 4:00 p. rn. at
Monroe High school. The first
session will be held at
7:30 p. m. with a welcome pro¬
sponsored by the Dough¬
County PTA Council, Dr. C.
Troup, president of Fort
State College, will de¬
the inspirational address
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of the
1958 official Yearbook,
The 475-page Yearbook,
in 185 coun¬
tries, i ists the new organizations
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Pulling, co-captain; John
back row. Jerome
Raymond Clay, Harry
.Garneil Henry, OtUa
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life
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Angela p; vr Genise H Goodwin ■f and Ronald Bernard Thomas.
Baby Flournoy, age .13 mos
is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wesley C. Flournoy. 1023 W. 38
street. Baby Goodwyn is the
months old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Elton Goodwyn and the
maternal granddaughter of Mr
and Mis. Benjamin Luten, 2129
Florance street. Baby
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Principal Slaps Girl, Her
Father
TOLEDO, Ohio (ANP) -A
white school principal
slapped a Negro pupil was lat-1
er beaten by the girl’s father.
The incident occurred in Ir¬
vin school, which has an all-
white faculty witli more than
Lewis, Lewis Browning, Eddie
Lee Wynn, trainer; not on pic-
ture, A. C. Searles, coach.
(4) inset, the big five of the
Member Audit Bureau Circulation*
Price 10c
Al)anu 4-3433
age 17 months, is the son of
j Mr. and Mrs, Hcnton Thomas,
j 708 Friends Paulsen street.
have responded gen-
erously to this drive from year
to Is year for which the auxiliary j
grateful. This project has
been a means of the auxiliary '
such
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Fishermen
The body of Lucius Harris, 50,
was recovered Monday near the
Vernon View public landing.
He along with Beverly Glover,
55, another fisherman, disap¬
peared on January 31 after
they went on a fishing, hunting
trip. Glover’s body is still miss¬
ing.
Glover and Harris left Pin
Point in a 14-foot bateau pow¬
ered by a 15-horsepower out¬
board motor, bound for the
south end of Wassaw.
A pair of oars and a gasoline
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j Alfred E. Beach High School
basketball team who went to
I the semi-finals to win the con-
solation trophy for the blue |
NUMBER 23
Charity Hospital in the pas!
as the entire screening of tht
ward and the delivery room
1, fche rece „, ““ jmta]lallon taI,aUon of ai
E ectro ' Cardiograph , machirn
rtlo,1 £ with a cash contribution
^luring the time of the 1957 dis-
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FAM-U ENROLLMENT
SET AT 2,466
TALLAHASSEE - Enrollment
for the spring semester at
Florida A & M University show
an incease over the enrollment
figures for the second semes¬
ter of 1957, according to sta¬
tistics released by Registrar E,
M. Thorpe.
Enrollment for the current
semester reached a total of
2,498 as compared with last
year’s 2,466. The first semes¬
ter enrollment for the present
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gold. They are 1 to r, Dor
Evelyn Magwood, Ru
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