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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 SSf-SSB*? 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 8) ANOTHER RUSSWURM AWARD WINNER | Jean Brown, one of tfie nine Negro students of Little M u deck's Central High School, who like the United States - f America, refused to bock down w the face of the 0 j ®oR v SI? §3wnttaJi SHIwju" ADams 4-3432 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 (Continued on page three) 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 (Continued on page three) 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, 'Continued on Page Seven* 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 (Continued on Page Seven) 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 (Continued on Page Three) 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 'Continued on Page Four) 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,- ,'Continued on Page Seven* 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 , _ (Continued on Page Seven) “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 Continued on Page Throe 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 (tried dicawd symbol ceding craw character lbe above by address. a tuitabk O* it pro- 4«- it*' j I UNION A. W. WILLIAMS MD-OIM * The ftb»f KIM (how* in «*» <to m bn* on ulagrema ud day letters u STAN DARD TIMK aw point o' <*«*■ That of i*mpt^.£TANDAKD TIME at t*mt of <iesUnat.cn CT WA105 GOVT NL. P02THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Oi ls 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 ADams 4-3433 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 ‘Continued on Page Seven; 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 (Continued on Page 7)