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BRACKS MIXED RACIAL HOUS¬
ING—Former Illinois Gov. Adlai
}Me. Stevenson, twice defeated
■Democratic candidate for Presi.
dent, hailed the formation re¬
cently of Modern Community
Developers, new national a gen.
cy to develop integrated noos¬
Fisk Race Relations Inst. Asks
Ike to Call Conf. on
Many Features to Highlight
Deltas' Annual Convention
Dr. J. W. HollUy Buried On
State
TO ADDRESS MEN’S CLUB —
Dr. Calvin L. Kiah, chairman,
department of education, Sa¬
vannah State College, will be
the speaker for the Men’s Club
mcc mg of St. Matthew’s Epis¬
copal church Monday evening
8:00 o’clock. Dr. Kiah is a vice
chairman of the board of man¬
agement of the West Broad St.
Ty, .adult program committee,
'and a member of the Southern
Area Council of YMCA’s which
embraces ten southern states.
William Hagins, president, in-
ites members of Mens Clubs
of various churches to attend
the meeting.
KEY FIGURES AT CONVENTION
LAWRENCE II. LIG^TNER, left, will mark his 25th Anniversary
as Supreme Commander of The American Woodmen at the or-
ganization’s national convention to be held in Denver,
10 through 14 At right. Dr. A J. Carey of Chicago Chairman
of President Eisenhower’s Committee on Government
ment Policy, will be the chief speaker at a convention
honoring Lightnet.
Lawrence H. Lightner of
Denver. Supreme Commander of
the American Woodmen- and
Dr. A., J. Carey of Chicago are
both slated to play key roles
at the Supreme Camp Session
of The American Woodmen to
ing. Shown above left to right.
Morris Milgram, builder of Con¬
cord Park and Greenbett Knoll,
president; Jackie Robinson,
board member; Adlai Steven¬
son; Frank Leeseher, chairman,
African committee, American
Friends Service committee, A.
ALBANY, GA. (ANP)
DR. J. W. Holley, 84, founder
and president emeritus of
bany State College died Wed¬
nesday of last week of compli¬
cations after surgery.
A foe of forced racial inte¬
gration, Holley was the author
of “You Can" Build a Chim¬
ney from the Top.’’
A minister, he came to Albany
in 1003 and started a school
for Negroes called the Albany
Bible and Manual Training in-
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White,
Youth Stage
Fight
A near riot involving white
and Negro teenage boya octal-
red Tuesday night in the vicin-
i;y of Anderson and Habersham
Streets. The exact cause of the
disturbance has not been deter¬
mined.
Preston Wise, an 18 year-old
white youth of 1121 Habersham
St., received a scalp wound in
j fighting which required eight
( stitches .^tches to to close close ud up the the wound. wound.
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te told in Denver, August 19
through 14. i
:
LigntT’cr will preside over all
the convention sessions nearly which) 500
will bring together
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Philip Randolph, vice-chairman,
AFL-CIO and president, Bro¬
therhood of Sleeping Car Por¬
ters; and Kivi Kaplan, Boston
patent leather manufacturer,
co-recipient with Robinson of
MCD’s first annual Averill
Harriman Equal Housing Op¬
portunity Award. — 1 ANP 1
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 15
—Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
an international organization
of 20,000 college women, will
hold ils 25th national conven-
Uon at the Statler Hotel in
Washington, D. C., August 17-23.
About 1,000 delegates are ex-
peoted in the Nation’s Capitol
to participate in the
schedule of activities consisting
of training workshops, sympos¬
iums, panel discussions,
luncheons, recitals, banquets
and balls.
Open to the public will be
j five events: a fashion
luncheon, a concert recital,
panel di^*u- ,ion of
and the College
a symposium on
er” and a luncheon
of “The Responsibilities of
Black Bourgeoisie.”
District of Columbia
sioner Robert E.
will extend a welcome to
predominantly Negro
group on the morning of
ust 18, signalling the
, opening to the seven days
| sessions emphasizing public
vices and minimizing the
social aspects of sorority life.
Throughout much of Urn
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Campanella’s
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I
He’ll Walk
Again
Roy Campanelia, the
star catcher who was paralyz*
ed from the neck down as
result of an automobile
dent last January 27, is
dent that he will walk again.
He expresses this
in a two-part article
in the current (July 26 1 issue
of The Saturday Evening
which he dictated from hi
wheel chair at the Rush In¬
stitute of New York’s Bellevue
Hospital.
Although he is still paralyz¬
ed from the waist down, Campy
reports that he now can move
his anns ' and has feeling in
ms cnesl dna some — nation in
his legs. ’
“I have made progress—de-
finite progress,” he says. "My
»pinal cord was not severed.
and I know I’ll walk again. It
wU1 take a long tIme . With
nerves, you can’t rush them,
Bu t i can move my arms, and
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Voters to Meet
Mk\CON, Ga. tANP)— How the
Georgia Negro will vote in the
September 10 state-wdde pri¬
mary election is one of the
questions to be discussed at a
special call meeting of the Ga.
Voters league Saturday, July
26.
President John Wesley Dobbs,
just returned from a trip to
the East, stated that the num¬
ber of registered Negro voters
in Georgia has undoubtedly In¬
creased due to the efforts of
leaders throughout the state.
In spite of registration diffi¬
culties, Negroes are intensely
Interested in becoming first
lass citizens. No candidates
are expected to be offered for
statewide office, but Congres¬
sional and county candidates
in various sections of the state
will receive consideration from
the voters, according to Dobbs.
The regular annual meeting
of the league is scheduled for
October, at which time officers
will be elected for the ensuing
year. Because of the Sept. 10
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The j
adoption or a resolution urging
President Eisenhower to call a
conference for the purpose of
speeding up desegregation cli¬
maxed action taken by dele¬
gates to the 15th Annual Race
Relations Institute at Flak Uni¬
versity Friday night.
Presented by Mrs. Henry Kra¬
mer of St. Paul, Minnesota, the
resolution was unanimously
adopted at the institute's final
session. It said in part:
"It is obvious that the mass¬
ive resistance which has de.
veluped since the May 17, 1954,
decision, makes imperative the
caning of such a conference at
the earliest date possible There
are many patriotic leaders who
would be more than happy to
participate.”
The action represented one of
several recommendations which
grew out of three clinics
which met every afternoon, dur¬
ing the two week human rela¬
tions seminar co-sponsored by
the Race Relations Department
of the American Missionary
Association Board of Home Mis.
sions of the Congregational
Christian Churches and Fisk
University.
On the night before the In-
conuouea on i-age cevem
‘TEDDY” LAWE SAYS TRIBUNE STORY ON
SUICIDE OF YOUNG WOMAN MUCH IN ERROR
EDITOR'S NOTE: Theodore La we wrote the editor-publisher of
the Savannah Tribune a letter last week in which he stated that
the Tribune's reporter was misinformed as to the facts surround¬
ing the suicidal death of Miss Frances Hall according to the article
published in the July 5th issue of the Savannah Tribune. In ail
fairness to Mr. Lawe, the sahent facts in his letter dated July 16,
1958, are being printed below.
1915 Arctic Avenue
Atlantic City, New Jersey
July 16, 1958
"Mrs. Willa Johnson:
I am writing you in behalf of
the July 5 issue of your paper
that I. Theodore "Teddy” Lawe,
! received today. Now Mrs. John-
j j on - a * n quite sure you hap- are
familiar with many things
Pining throughout life and
Frances death was just one that
j happen. . . . Now there is a lot
therc where y° ur P a P er *“ ve
\ *' etn misinform . . . One is that
| Frances have sent money and
wired her mother several times
1 1 have the western union re-
ceits for money order). Two is
that I didn't wire her mother
Mrs. Essie Hail for any money
because in the presence of Sci-
pio Collins I paid Mr. Thomas
Graves of the Graves Funeral
Home at Norfolk on Church St.
and I have a reccit for $208.85
( and ‘ ours
posed _____ to have ,____...... oeen for she and
myself to get married after my
wife had decided to get a di¬
vorce ... I didn’t get her off
of job. She met me by taxi ?.t
B A ______ L______ Club. So
for that I have Mrs. A________
and Mrs. A______ to relate . . .
Another Bomb Damages
Homes In
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Another
bomb exploded here last Thurs¬
day night and did considerable
damage to several homes in a
neighborhood where Negroes
are rapidly supplanting whites.
Three white men have been
charged in connection with ihe
dynamiting. They are H. F. Will-
c/utt, 23; Crawford Neal, 28, and
Ellis Lee, 28, ail or Birmingham.
Lee and Neal were treated at
a hospital after they were at¬
tacked by a group or Negroes
shortly after the explosions.
Willcubt was arrested at his
home after police had question¬
ed the other two men.
Of the tw'o houses which suf¬
fered most damage from the
blast, one was occupied by a
Negro family ancr the other by
a white family. Windows were
shattered in both houses, boards
were splintered and plaster
cracked.
The charge held against the
men could mean a death pen-
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Louisiana Bus Bill Is
Vetoed Governor
IBATON ROUGE, La. (ANP)
Gov. Earl Long last week ve¬
toed a bill allowing bus or
street car passengers to select
their seating partners.
“It looks like this might do
more harm than good,” Long
said in his veto message.
A key measure in the segre-
gation program of the state
legislature, it would have per-
mitted the first occupant—
either a white person or a Ne¬
gro—of a double seat to choose
who could sit next to him.
A federal court order halt¬
ed bus and street car segrega¬
tion in New Orleans and the
governor signed two bills re¬
peating the state’s bus segrega¬
tion laws in an effort to block
the effect of the federal court
injunction.
did you know?
The “York,” first coal-burn¬
ing locomotive in the U. S.,
made its trial run February 19,
1831.
Then too I had been listed by
the federal and local police as
a spiritual advisor and I am
still that. I have never been in
my beginning or now a root doc¬
tor . . . Xmas I was in Nassau,
Bahamas. I have our visas. So
Mrs. Johnson again your infor¬
mer erred by saying I was home
alone because Scipio Collins and
myself was at home and we car¬
ried her to the hospital and I’ll
use the medical examiner, the
detective bureau report and the
F. B. I. Ballistic report to assure
the statement that I am writing
is authentic and that your in¬
former gave you all the wrong
report. So if I am not asking
too much of you will you see
that you ail can e e e
that your informer lied and I
like for your paper to publish
that your report wasn’t aulher.-
ic or shall I say erred because
r am definitely going to open
•this report of yours publicly . . .
for the realization of your
readers and the truth what is
in debt to facts. I trust that
you and Mr. Ezra will do what
is worthy.
Yours truly,
signed) Theodore Lawe” I
.
Nation’s Beauticians to Me«t
At Miami Next Week
NEW ORLEANS—"Miami will
j be tilled with beauticians from
| u -V to August 7 and you
may quote me as saying so"
said Mrs. Katie E. Whickhana,
New Orleans, president of the
National Beauty Culturislts’
League, which jneefcs in the
Florida city along with its aux¬
iliary branches on those dates.
Meeting with the rational
Beauty Culturists’ League will
be the National Institote of
Cosmetology and the national
beauticians sorority Theta Mu
Sigma.
A brilliant faculty has been
announced for the institute.
This includes Mrs. Whiekham,
the president; and D. A. Ju¬
lius, administrator; Carolyn
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Va. Episcopal Laity Against
Youth Confab
CHRISTCHURCH, Va. (ANP) —
The vestry of the Christ Epis-
copal church, led by Lewis B.
Puller, retired Marine Corps
general, approved 9-1 last week
a resolution opposing “the so¬
cial mingling of the white and
Negro races at the youth con¬
ference at Roslyn and Sheine
mountain.”
The resolution, specifically
charged that the decision to
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The summer heat causes Ben Harris’ temperature to rise, so Nurse Holmes, College nurs*, sky®.
NEARLY 4,000 CASES handled
annually. — Mrs. Gertrude
Holmes, full time nurse at the
Savannah State College Infirm-
ary for the past ten years, re¬
vealea today that the Infirmary
Real Estate Brokers To 1
Meet in Atlanta - . 16
ATLANTA (ANP)—Mayor Wm.
B. Hartsfield will be on hand
to welcome delegates to the 14th
annual convention of the Na¬
tional Real Estate brokers when
it convenes August 16.
Sessions of tin* convention
will be held In the Waluhaje
apartments where headquart¬
ers will also be established.
Many of the nation’s top
housing and finance experts, as
well as most of the top offi¬
cials in Atlanta’s $15 million,
program will appear as discus¬
sion leader.
A get-acquainted party will
be held In the Sarah Allen
Dr. John Plummer Buried
Sunday at Raleigh, N. C.
RALEIGH, N. C. — Final tri¬
bute was paid Dr. John O.
Plummer, prominent Raleigh
physician, in impressive funeral
rites held from St. Ambrose
Episcopal church here Sunday.
Dr. Plummer, 78, died at Lin¬
coln hospital, Durham, Friday,
has handled four
cases and examinations from
July 15, 1957, to July 15, 1958.
Tetnus immunizations were
given to one thousand and three j
persons, and X-rays were taken
V
quadrangle, Morris Brown coL
lege, and a dinner in the new
Morehou.se gymnasium, g
More than 300 brokaFS, sales*
men, and their wives are y-
pected to attend the five-day
meeting. (
HOW MUCH TIME DO TQU
SPEND WITH YOUR PAPHK?
Readers of weekly newspaper*
typically .‘•pend about four min¬
utes per page on their news¬
paper. That is just one of a
series of interesting findings on
the weekly press revealed to a
recent survey. The weekly p&paf
is carefully read by all.
July 11. He had suffered a heafrt
attack on June 28.
A native of vVarrenton, V. Cf,
Dr. Plummer had practiced
medicine here for 55 year,* and
specialized in eye, car, nose and
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seven
eight persons. Two thousand
and seventy six caaqs war®
treated. Of this number two
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