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76 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS KFARS SERVICE OF
VOLUME LXXVI
Lett to right Wilton C. Scott, Frank Jacock, city manager;
Alflorance Cheatham at Sol C. Johnson High School
Day Program given at Alfred E. Beach High School.
CHICAGO NEGRO FIREMAN PROMOTED
CHICAGO— (ANP)— Grant
Chaney, a 55-year-old
who has been a fireman
30 years, is the first
battalion chief of the
rnent, a spokesman
this week.
Chaney, who was born
New Orleans and reared
MALI* Freedom Dinner to
Publisher, Opera Manager
SEVEN QUIETLY
INTO KY. WHITE
MISS DOROTHY I. HEIGHT,
.president, National Council of
Negro Women, and active in
national YWCA affairs, ha:
been sworn in by Gov. Harri-
mian, New York, to a five-year
term as a member of the State
Board of Social Welfare.
The 15-memfoer Board of So¬
cial Welfare determines the
overall policy for the state’s
Department of Social Welfare.
Miss Height is a former na¬
tional president of the Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority and has
traveled widely in this country
and abroad.
It is estimated that the rail¬
roads in the United States issue
and distribute approximately
100 , 000,000 passenger train
timetables annually.
Tuskegee Boycott Hurts White
Merchants As Negro Shoppers
TUSKEGEE, Ala.—(ANP)— A
15 -month old boycott of white
merchants by Negroes of this
community protesting their
elimination from the voting
rolls of Macon County through
redistricting of the area, this
week was reported hurting the
merchants and sending some
to neighboring communities in
search of business. At the same
time, Negro merchants from the are boy-j said j
to be prospering
cott. {
The boycott was instituted
after the Alabama legislature.-
at the request of Macon County j
Sen. Sam Engeihardt, passed a j
low which practically elimina¬
ted Nogro voting in Tuskegee,
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Newton, came to Chicago
1917. He was appointed a
man in 1920, two years
tie parsed the civil service
animation.
Until his promotion, he
captain of the somithside’s
and ladder company 11,
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on
CLUB
MUCH
It is gratifying to note the
shown by the public
attending the Garuen Clinic
each week at the Garden
37th Street at Ogeechee
Despite the inclement
on Saturday, twenty
registered,
On Saturday, October 4, the
will sponsor a
Exchange Day” for the
Each Garden Club mem¬
is asked to bring plants
or flowers') to be
all persons in attendance.
The president, Mrs. C.
will give a
in table
Tuesday from 3 to 6
The Civic Club did an
job Last week at the
and the Jonquils will
charge this week. Don’t
to bring in
horticultural
may win a ribbon.
Ribbons were awarded
to the following persons:
Section—Miss
Green and Mrs.
blue ribbons for
lillies which were
Mrs. Grace
a blue ribbon for a
arragnement of
and Mrs. Levi Grant
ribbon for an
of bachelor buttons.
harmony in these two
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the community in which
gee Institute is located.
hardt is a staunch
ist.
Change Town Boundaries
The law changed the
boundaries in such a way
only 10 Negro voters out of
total of 420 who
voted were left inside the
limits. The scheme did not
fect the 600 white voters in
Tuskegee.
In Tuskegee, a city of 6.800
Negroes outnrmber
by approximately 7 to 3.
Macon County as a whole,
Negroes hold a 7 to 1 edge. The
move therefore, drastically
the power of Negrc vot¬
Rev. Martin Luther King
Has Fair Chance to Recover
From Woman
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 — Rev.
Martin Luther King, nationally
known leader of the 1956 suc-
cearful boycott by Negroes of
| Montgomery, Ala., against the
transportation system because
of racial discrimination, who
was seriously stabbed here Sat¬
urday by a Negro woman, is
given a good chance to recover
by doctors at the hospital
where he was rushed following
the stabbing.
Dr. King was attacked at 3; 55
p.m. in L. M. Blumstein, Inc.,
at 230 West 125th street. He was
autographing copies of his re-
■■ently published book, “Stride
Toward Freedom: The Mont¬
gomery Story.”
■The woman was said to be
about 40 years old. The police
raid a fully loaded .32 caliber
Italian automatic was found in
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VERSAILLES. Ky. (ANP) —
Under order of the Woodford
county board of education, 7
Negro students were quietly in¬
tegrated into classes at Ver¬
sailles elementary school on
Monday. There were no on¬
lookers when the pupils arrived
at nine a. m.
They were among 20 to 25
Negro students who registered
earlier for classes at the pre¬
viously all-white school. Ntrs.
Wade George, principal of the
school, said she anticipated
“absolutely no trouble.” The
high school has been integrat¬
ed for some time.
At Madisonville, four Nogro
pupils returned to Pride ele-
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Fisk Alumni
To Hold
Jubilee Day
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Fisk
University alumni all over the
world will synchronize their
watches Monday, Octboer 6, and
at exactly noon (Nashville
time) will pause to speak the
Noonday Prayer in observance
of Jubilee Day.
As they pnay, they will be
in unison with Fisk students
and staff members who will be
assembled in Fisk Memorial
chapel for the formal obser¬
vance of the 87th anniversary
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ers.
However, the scheme did not
curb their purenasing power, as
the merchants learned. As the
boycott proceeded unabated,
Mayor Phil Lightfoot and Pres.
B. D. Cohn of the Tuskegee
Chamber of Commerce were
forced to admit that no end is
in sight.
Try To Halt Boycott
Whites have tried unsuccess¬
fully to halt the boycott. Atty.
Gen. John Patterson trtod to
break it with a court injunc¬
tion, accusing the Tuskegee
Civic Association of fostering
the boycott. However. Circuit
(Continued on Page Seven;
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1958
Students to March in
D. C. For Mixed Schools
WASHINGTON
for a student demonstration
the school issue became
cial Monday with public
nouncement of the
March For Integrated
which will take place
11, in the nation’s capital.
The announcement was in
form of a Call issued
Mrs. Daisy Bates, Mrs.
Bunche, Rev. Martin
Jr., A. Philip
Robinson and Roy
of whom have
serve as honorary
One thousand Negro
students from
through college are
NEW YORK CITY (ANP)
men of distinguished
in the
publishing and the ther
be honored at the
annual Freedom Fund
at the Roosevelt
on November 16, Roy Wil¬
NAACP executive
announced this week.
The guests of honor at
will be John II. Johnson
Chicago, founder and
of the popular magazines
Jet and Tan;; and Ru-
Bing, general
the Metropolitan Opera since
11, 1950.
Bing, a Viennese by
the Metropolitan’s
bar against Negro
in 1954 when he engag¬
Muss Marian Anderson for
role in “The Masked Ball.”
that time other Negro
have sung and danced
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Post Backs
Fired Cook Who Wanted
WASHINGTON (ANP)—In no
terms the editors of
Washington Post told their
that the Alexandria, Va.
board wmn no credit for
or for the city by refus¬
to reinstate Mrs. Blis O.
,a Negro cook fired by
Williams for being a par¬
to a desegregation suit on
of her children.
“It is pertinent,” wrote the
“to invite the attention
Mr. Williams and the School
Board to Section 241, Title 18,
the United States Code which
it a Federal crime for
or more persons t ‘conspire
injure, oppose, threaten or
TV Winners
Put Money To
Good Use
CHICAGO (ANP)—Most Of
Negro prize winners, who
won over half a million
dollars in cash and prizes on
nation’s top television quia
have put their money to
use, according to the Oc¬
issue of EBONY Magazine.
Top Negro winners, Dorothy
Steve Rowland of Los An¬
who won $74,000 have put
money into a trust fund.
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pected to converge on
ton for the occasion.
will come from Eastern
board States in special
sponsored by churches and
ic groups . Already in
York, two churches and
unions have agreed to
buses.
White House First Stop
In Washington the
led by Jackie Robinson holding
the hands of a Negro and a
white child—will first go to the
White House where an
view with President Eisenhow¬
er will be sought. They will
then march down rennsyiva-
nia Avenue to the Capitol where
they will present to six con¬
gressmen their own declaration
in defense of the U S. Consti¬
tution.
The demonstration will cli¬
max with a mass rally of the
students at* Lincoln Memorial
during which the students will
express their own views on the
Irate Virginia Mother Raps
Closing of Public Schools
— —
Virginia has closed one school
in the face of a recent federal
court order requiring the local
school board to enroll Negroes
in the high school at Front
Royal, Virginia, in V/arren
County, where there is a high
school under construction for
Negroes, the first to be planned
for Negroes.
A fateful week also faced
Charlottesville and Arlington
this week over court ordered
school desegregation, and Nor¬
folk faces the same issue Mon¬
day, Sept. 22, unless the school
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intimidate any citizen in the
free exercise of any right or
privilege ,secured to him by
the Constitution or laws of the
United States, or because of
having exercised the same.’ ”
It was further pointed out
that Section 242 made it a
crime to deprive anyone of his
rights on account of his color
or race; section 1936 Title 42,
provided for civil damage
tion.
“If Mr. Williams and
School Board,” concluded
editors, “are not interested in
these longtime provisions
law, perhaps the Department
Justice will be.”
Many Addi-
tions To Ft.
Valley Fac.
FORT VALLEY, Ga. (ANP)
Faculty appointments land
leaves at the Ft. Valley State
College were announced this
week by President C. V. Troup.
Appointed to the faculty are
Miss Wilma J- Anderson, as¬
sistant librarian; Harvey L.
Bannister, Instructor in chem¬
istry; William Beasley, instruc¬
tor in library science, Mrs. Or.
chid L. Brwm, instruoctr in
(Continued on Page 8)
Issue of school Integration.
The March .according to the
official Call, “will prvoide a
way for young people to regis¬
ter their desire for integration
and equality in the public
schools of our nation; will dem¬
onstrate our unity with the em¬
battled children of the south
who strive heroically to defend
democracy in education;
Will enable white people of
goodwill, north and south, to
cast, not a piece of paper mere¬
ly, but a total vote for democ¬
racy; will symbolize the fact
that since 1954 more tran 300,-
000 children have entered inte¬
grated schools; will be a moral
challenge to the small minori¬
ty which is determined to use
confusion, intimidation and
terror to defend the old order."
Maritime experts say that
every ship now afloat in the
world could be anchored in the
San Franciocs Bay’s 456 sq. mi.
UNCF
NEW YORK, Sopt. 19 — The
choirs of Morehouse and Texas
colleges and Xavier and Lin¬
coln Universities will be heard
during the month of October
over the ABC Radio Network’s
weekly choir series. The public
service programs feature the
choral groups of the member
colleges of the United Negro
College Fund.
The October schedule, an-
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Albany State
Names New
Teachers
ALBANY, Oa. — President W.
H. Dennis, Jr., recently an¬
nounced several new faculty
and staff appointments to po-
at Albany State College,
j New faculty appointments in-
i elude Dr. Paul Smith, chairman
of Department of Psychology &
Testing, A B. Saint Augustine’s
College, B. S., L. S. North Caro¬
lina College, M.S. University of
Illinois and Ed.D. Indiana Uni¬
versity; John Harvey, chair-
.Continued on Page Seven)
U. Profs Organize To Aid Educators
Fired For Liberal Views
WASHINGTON (ANP)—In this
period of hysteria when the
nation is fearful of red domi¬
nation and brown mongreliza-
tion many leaders including
University professrs find them¬
selves treading lightly on hot
current issues for fear of los¬
ing their jobs.
Realizing their plight (the
American Association of Uni¬
versity Professors have taken
the bull by the horns and de¬
cided to do something about
this.
FUND TO AID PROFESSORS
The Association announced
this week that they had accept¬
ed a grant from Jerome Levy
j Foundation of “no less than
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Savannah State College Freshmen enjoy themselves .as they chat
at tlie reception for entering Freshmen given at the home of
the President.
NEWARK SITE OF NATIONAL B and P
NEWARK, N. J. (ANP)—The
23rd Annual Convention of the
National Association of Negro
Business and Professional Wo¬
men will convene here at Ho¬
tel Essex, October 9, 10, 1JL
The convention opens form¬
ally on October 9 with the na¬
tional president, Mrs. Marie L.
Harrison of East Orange, N. J.
presiding. The North Jersey
hostess chapters have arranged
a full calendar of entertain¬
ment for delegates and visitors
who will converge on the city
from points as far west as Alas¬
ka and as far south as Teaxs.
PROGRAM
FOR OCTOBER
MYSTERIOUS FIRES IN
ALABAMA KEEP
FAMILY ON MOVE
TALLADEGA, Ala. (ANP)
Calvin Tuck, his wife, and
children seemed to be
witli a series of
fires.
Tuck had moved from
other homes prior to
in with his- father, Otis
After no fires for about
weeks, suddenly the Tucks’
niture, walls, and various
objects began breaking
blazes for no apparent
Tuck and his family moved
destination unknown.
Deputy Sheriff Pat
told reporters, “I just think
whole thing's a mess.
“It’s mighty funny
ever burns down. Just
fires. Nothing really
Earlier Police Chief
Curlee stated that he
someone was attempting
frighten Calvin Tuck into
ing, but added that he had
sufficient evidence to make
arrest.
A state telicloglst
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$5,000 a year,” for a five year
period for the purpose of aiding
professors who are discharged
or suspended without pay in
an apparently clear violation of
principles of academic freedom.
In making the announcement,
Dr. William P. Fidler, AAUP
general secretary said the or¬
ganization recognized that “the
objective and dispassionate na¬
ture of teaching and research
will sometimes be misunderstood
by an excited public opinion, and
that in its extreme form—when
the excitement is about evolu¬
tion, loyalty oaths, or racial
segregalon, public opinion can
become a tyranny.”
Time To Step In
NUMBER 51
A pre-convention cocktail par¬
ty on Wednesday night spon¬
sored by Phillip Morris, Inc., will
be the prelude to a busy three-
day convention program, and
elaborate luncheons have been
planned for Thursday and Fri¬
day by business establishments
in the Newark-New York area.
iHighlghtlng the social calen¬
dar will be a President’s Ball on
Friday night In the grand ball¬
room of Hotel Essex House
which time chapter presidents
from all parts of the Country
will be honored along with the
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MISS C. STEWART — Teacher
of Appling county school sys¬
tem, seeking to become the
most popular lady in the coas¬
tal empire conducted by the
Adult Program Committee of
West Broad Street YMCA.
PAUL ROBESON MADE
HONORARY PROFESSOR
MOSCOW, Russia, (ANP) —
Paul Robeson has been made
an honorary professor of the
Moscow State Conservatory of
Music, it has been announced
here.
If public opinion causes
a college professor to lose his
job it is then time for some¬
one to step in and lend a help¬
ing hand, especially if he is un¬
able to make his own defense
because he lacks money to live
on.
It was for this purpose that
the fund was set up as well as
to help colleges or universities
where a general crisis threat¬
ens the acadeific freedom of
a whole institution and where
faculty members rising to meet
that threat need financial sup¬
port.
The Board of Advisors of the
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