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YEARS OF
COSTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVI
SIX OF TEN RUSSWURM AWARD WINNERS
Miss Marian Anderson Mrs. Sarah P. Boyle Dave Garroway
Harry uoiden Mrs. Rosa Keiicr Kev. F. L. Siiuttlesworlh
Associated Publishers Announce
Russwurm Award Winners
iScven persons, one group, and
two organizations iiave been
named winners of the 1953
Russwurin Awards, given an¬
nually by the National
paper Publishers Association.
The citation states these
awards are presented ‘‘in rec¬
ognition of outstanding achieve¬
ment in inmking possible a
richer conception of demon-
cratie principles and in tribute
for upholding those highest
\. 0. Public Schools. Slate
Ask Be
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afternoon
John C. Calhoun, first con¬
gressional district, statewide or-
g an i/or. and secretary of State-
wide registrar
tion drive of the
Citizens Demo¬
cratic Club of
Georgia, Inc.,
will speak here
Sunday, March
23, at 4 o’clock
at the West
Broad St. Y.M. —
C.A. The meet¬ , j. U. Calhoun
ing is being called by Leroy
Wilson, chairman of the First
District. The public is cordially
invited to hear the reports on
registration throughout the
stale.
Mr. Calhoun is a forceful
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ANOTHER RUSSWURM AWARD WINNER
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Jean Brown, one of tfie nine Negro students of Little
M u deck's Central High School, who like the United States
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f America, refused to bock down w the face of the
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traditions considered as the
ideals of the American way of
j life.”
Included i.mong 'this year’s
winners are the nine Negro stu-
dents assigned to Central High
school in Little Rock, Arkansas
“who braved violence, scorn,
harrassment and insults
make a living reality of the
,, t. .. , esegrega ..
pium nu ., ion or
der.”
Five white and two
Nab Nurse Who Killer!
MAJORITY APPROVE
(JN£ F COLLEGE, SAYS W.
J. TRENT, DIRECTOR
NEW YORK, March 21 — A
poll of leading Negro citizens
l m a mid-west city shows them
to be overwhelmingly in favor
of the United Negro College
Fund and its member institu¬
tions. The results of the survey
were announced today by Win.
J. Trent, Jr., College Fund di¬
rector. Eighty per cent of those
polled favored the Negro col¬
leges, and urged greater finan¬
cial support of UNCF cam¬
paigns, Mr. Trent said.
The majority indicated their
approval because the colleges
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individuals were cited.
National Broadcasting
ny and Religious Drawings,
of Waco, Texas were the
organizations. Three
were among those named.
j The winners, determined in
poll of member publishers,
announced by Frank L.
.ley, publisher of the
and chairman of
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CHICAGO (ANP)—A 32 year
old Chicago nurse who killed
her boy friend and then shipp¬
ed h.is body to Memphis, Tenn
in a trunk, was arrested in Cin¬
cinnati last Thursday, police
here reported.
She is Mrs. Marjorie Andrews,
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Dynamite Jewish Centers in Miami,
Nashville and Home in Atlanta
KANSAS SCHOOL
INSTRUCTOR HEADS
TOPEKA TEACHERS
TOPEKA, Kans. — (ANP)
J. B. Holland, 49, a grade
instructor, is the first Negro
head the Topeka Teachers
sociation. He was elected
dent of the body last
getting a majority of the
votes cast. Negro teachers
less than five percent of
teaching personnel here.
The new officer is active
educational and civic
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Irate Neighbors Disarm 2 (bps Who (
Assaulted A Pregnant Housewife
NEW YORK CITY (ANP)— |
Henceforth Patrick T. Kilgan- !
non, 27, and Andrew C. Cas-|
sels, 26 will think twice before
they decide to have “some
in Harlem again.
Kilkannon and Cassels, both
policemen, have been jailed on
felonious assault charges af-
ter Inspector James T. McDon-
aid. commander of the Wash-
ington Heights Uniformed
Force, had listened to five wit-
nesses who reported that the
off-duty officers accosted Mrs.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURUAV, MARCH 22, 1958
NAAtl* WORKER ATTACKED
IN
JACKSON, Miss.,
he refused to move from a
in the front of an
bus as directed by the
Medgar Evers, NAACP field
retary for Mississippi, was
upon by a taxi driver who
parently boarded the bus
the express purpose of
ing the young NAACP
tative.
The attack took place
on the morning of March 11
the Trailway bus was
LOCAL TUSKEGEE
TO PRESENT GRAHAM
JACKSON APRIL 7
a Graham W. {Jackson,
j organist, pianist and
ionist is being presented in
night of music at Beach
Auditorium, Easter
(Continued on Page Seven)
NEW ORLEANS—(ANP)—
attempt to further delay
gration in New Orleans
schools and in Louisiana
University’s undergrad
was seen in the petition
these bodies seeking a
ing in the Fifth Circuit
of appeals which last
turned down an appeal from
decision of the fifth
court that these schools
integrate forthwith.
The appeals court heard
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ATLANTA, Mar. 19—A rash
dynamite explosions occurred
widely separated sections of
South this week, two of
taking place almost
ously.
A Jewish educational
at Miami, Fla., was
Sunday ancj a few hours
a similar explosion
another Jewish building
Nashville, Tenn, with the
suiting damage being
at $6,000.
Monday night, here in
lanta, a Negro home was
namited, Fortunately the
which is in a
Odessa Walker, 37, mother of
six, who is expecting the 7th
child. I
(According f to Mcs. Walker,
of the officers asked «<-•< her
where she was going and then
hit her on the temple with
his fist.
“When he hit me,” she later
told reporters. “I hit him right
back. By this time my son,
had come over and grabb-
him and they grabbed him
and pulled a gun on him.” ;
“John had told them Don’t
out of Meridian where Mr.
had ,gcne aboard enroute to
his home in Jackson. He
returning from Greensboro, N.
C., where he had attended
NAACP southeast regional
ference the previous
When he boarded the bus
Meridian, Mr. Evers reports,
took a seat in the front of
bus. G. V. Shelton, t he
ordered him to the rear.
his refusal, the driver
ed with the ticket agent
with police who were in
bus terminal. Although
ed he was not under
police officers insisted
taking him into the
across the street for a
There he was questioned
his identity and his purpose
refusing to be Jim Crowed
warned that he was
“good race relations in
ian.*
Permitted to return to
bus, Mr. Evers again took
front seat, whereupon the
er, already 45 minutes
drove off. A few blocks
the station the bus was
taken by a taxi from
the driver emerged and
manded entry into the bus.
taxi driver immediately
ed a verbal attack upon
NAACP representative and
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Sacramento Credit Union Has
Assets in Excess oi
SACRAMENTO, Calif—(ANP)
-A representative group of
members of the Sacramento
Branch NAACP Credit Union
gathered at New Hope Baptist
church Saturday for the eighth
annual meeting of the credit
union. Rev. A. Paul Jones is
pastor of the church.
Printed reports of the sev¬
eral committees and the Board
of Directors and manager were
prepared and distributed to the
membership. They revealed an
increase of more than $45,000
in total assets of the credit
union during the year 1957. The
present assets are now $165,548-
52.
The report also showed $127,-
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white neighborhood, was
cant. It was recently sold to
Negroes.
Rev. C. Moss, whose
home is nearby, is said to have
told police that he had heard
it said that if Negroes moved
I into the house it would be dy-
J namited.
The NaJs hviile explosion oc-
cUrrctl at 8 0 ’ C i 0 ck at night and
j just bcfore the blast went off
| Ra bbi William B. Silverman of
the Jewish temple got a tele¬
phone call warning, “The tem-
tionimued on Pa ice rewui
be pulling on my
that. She's pregnant.*
..j kecp getting headaches
from that punch he gave me.
Mrfj talker's S on, ' John re¬
lated fhat a crowd of about 100
, J(?rsons ‘ formed and went af-
ter t hP two policemen and
knockpd onn or thpm down. By
the Ump that a squa , d car ar .
rived both licemea had lost
their g Uns i
Thp '_______ conflicting stonios which
, _
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“MISS JABBERWOCK OF 1953” AND HER ATTENDANTS
raoKI I5Y
“MISS JABBERWOCK” AND HER ATTENDANTS The above photo shows Miss Julia Ann
kins (center) wearing crown and robe after she was crowned “Miss Jabberwock of 1958,’
Miss ouida Claire Moore (“Miss Jabberwock of 1957”) at the annual Delta Jabberwock
which was presented last Friday evening at the City Auditorium. At extreme left Mrs.
Bacon president of Beta Delta Sigma Chapter of Delta Sign® Theta Sorority, is shown
the trophy which was presented to Miss Jabberwock. Others in picture 1 to r are Miss Mary
(3rd Place winner), Miss Rosa Lee Holmes (2nd place winner), “Miss Jabberwock,” Miss Adell
Bachelor (4th place winner), and Miss Judy Wortham (5th place uipner).
Crowd Attends Jabberwock
With the playing of the Star i
Spangled Banner by James Delta J j
Wiley’s Trio, the 1958
jabberwock program was open- 1
Ham Brings $270 At Ft.
Show
FT. VALLEY (ANP)—The 43rd
Annual Ham and Egg Show
was held at the Ft. Valley State
College, last week with judging
exhibits in the college audito¬
rium. The judges were W. J.
Hays, Extension Swing Special¬
ist; M. Y. Dendy, Extension
Poultrynmn, and K. C. Childers,
Special Negro County agent.
A sizeable aggregation of
farmers attended the affair, it
was emphasized that notice¬
able progress has been made in
the areas of meat curing and
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LOCAL SSC ALUMNI
TO MEET SUNDAY
The regular meeting of the
local chapter of the Savannah
State College National Alumni
Association will be held on Sun¬
day March 23, at 4 p. m. at
West Broad Street YMCA. All
alumni and former students of
Savannah State College are in-j i
vited to attend this meeting.
CUM OfSttVK* WESTERN
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A. W. WILLIAMS
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MR WILLIAM 0. WALKER, PRESIDENT
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
P0 BOX 6237 CLEVEe
OURING NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEEK, IT IS A PLEASURE TU JOIN IN THE
OBSERVANCE OF THE 131ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE NEGRO-PRESS.
OUR AMERICAN TRADITION OF TRUTH, CLEARLY REPORTED WITH COURAGE
ANO RESPONSIBILITY, ADOS STRENGTH TO THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY, AS . (
H THE NEWSPAPERS OF OUR LAND CONTINUE TO SERVE THEIR READERS IN THIS
TRAOITION OJR .SOCIETY WILL MOVE FORWARD TO NEW HEIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENT
FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL.
CWIGHT 0. EiSSNHOWERr
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cd last Friday evening at the,
city auditorium with a capacity i
audience in attendance. Mrs. j
Gwendolyn Brown was general I
DRIVE STEADILY
PROGRESSING
The 1958 Y membership en¬
rollment continues to move for¬
ward with Miss Ruby L. King’s
section leading with members
|Benj. F. Lewis, general chair¬
man of the 1958 Y membership
enrollment states that addition¬
al workers will be needed to
carry the campaign to a suc¬
cessful conclusion. He further
states that Charles Gordon,
president of 601 local Union
and George Sawyer, presi¬
dent of 615 local Union Bag
are double quota busters in Miss
King’s section. This means
that they have exceeded their
respective quotas of ten and
have doubled it.
Workers who have been plac-
on the honor roll for first
taking out their own member¬
ships and paying cash for the
same : as as follows
Mrs. Dorothy M. Butler, Charles
Gordon, George Sawyer, Oscar
Greene, Mrs. Mamie M. Hart,
Mrs. Ella Fisher, Arnett Waters,
Ruby L. King, C. O. Ryals,
(Continued on page three.
Audit Bureau
Price 10c
NUMBER
chairman of the program
was presented by Beta
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SCOTT GIVEN
HONORS BY
PRESS ASSN.
Dr. Joseph H. Murphy,
tor of Columbia
scholastic press
presented Saturday a gold key
Wilton C. Scott, director
public relations,
State College, Savannah,
his work as Director of
nah State College Press
tute which attracted more
400 delegates from three
eastern states
numerous Negro schools for
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