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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVI
FRANK II. HYNES, extreme right, chairman of the United Com¬
munity Appeal Employee Institute which was held last Friday at
me institute luncheon. Shown at the head table along with
Mr. Bynes, are left to right, Dr. H. M, Collier, Jr,, the luncheon
main speaker; Rev. F. D. Jaudon who gave the invocation; Law¬
rence D. Perry, representing the Carver Savings Bank, sponsors
of the luncheon.
MANY ATTEND
NECTION WITH U C A
t)r. Martin L. King Leaves
For Rest
w NEW YORK CITY—(ANP)
jt)r. Martin Luther King,
uthn who was almost fatally
two weeks ago, left
Hospital Friday “completely
covered.” He spent Sunday
his wife.
Hospital official's said
King will spend the next
weeks of his convalesence at
undisclosed place “within
hcur of the hospital,” but
added that they did not
he would have to return
treatment before the end
that period.
Ail dressings were
and his wound completely
ed, the hospital said,
Com. on Teachers Education
Meeting 0 ^ State
DR. TURNER OF HOWARD UNIV.
DENTAL SCHOOL DIES AT 57
UNEMPLOYED FATHER OF SIX OWNS TWO
CARS BUT FEEDS FAMILY POTATOES, ONIONS
DETROIT —(ANP) —
McGore, a 41-year old
ployed father of six, who
two curs, with a monthly
come of $369, from unemploy¬
ment and disabled
whose family has been
on white potatoes and
with lights and gas facilities
out in the home because
non-payment of bills, was
guilty of nonsupport
in Recorder’s Court after h
pleaded guilty.
The complainant, Mrs. Willie
Sue McGore, 41, told Recorder’s
Judge Paul E. Krause the last
support she had from her hus-
band for herself and their six
children, was Aug. 29, when he
purchased a bag of 100 pounds
white potatoes, a piece of
alt pork and five pounds of
Mrs. McGore said their rent
has net been paid in two
months. She said both
lights and gas were cut off
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SUPERINTENDENT EARLY INSTALLS SPENCER’S PRESIDENT
[seen —Dr W A Early, Chatham County School superintendent, is
giving the oath of office to newly-elected school president,
Marcia O'Brien as Barbara Sherman, past president, looks on.
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he will have a post-operative
checkup with Dr. Anbre DeL.
Maynard, director of surgery
at the hospital, before roturn.
ng to A labama.
Fellow patients cheered and
waved to him as he walked
from his room to a waiting
car. He was accompanied by
his wife and a detective who
has been accompanying Mrs.
King during her New York
stay.
Dr. King was stabbed by Mrs.
T&ola Ware Curry as he was
autographing copies of his
book “Stride Toward Freedom”
in a department store Sept. 27
GETS PG AWARD
Dr. I D. Williams
Doctor I. D. Williams comple¬
ted his postgraduate course in
Surgical Technique, September
27, at the Cook County Post¬
graduate School of Medicine in
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DEATH CLAIMS DR. J. II. LEWI®
PRESIDENT. MORRIS RIIOWN
40 Buses Pledged Iron New York
on
IN CON¬
About 65 employees of
ous Savannah firms
an employee institute in
neotion with the United
munity Appeal Friday,
3 rd, at the West Broad
YMCA. The institute which
gan at 9 a.m. ar>d lasted
4:30 pm., was sponsored by
Employee Relations
of United Community
in order to inform
about the programs
by human service agencies
the Savannah area and to
plain the importance of
annual United Community
peal. Frank H. Bynes served
chairman of the institute.
The group was welcomed
John F. Pldcock, president
United Community
j sle P hen L. Nelson,
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WASHINGTON, D. C.— (ANP)
—Dr. John A. Turner, 57, chief
of oral surgery at the Howard
University School of Dentistry,
died this week at the Freed-
men’s Hospital.
Dr. Turner was the first Ne¬
gro accepted as a member of
the District of Columbia Denial
Society.
He had taught at Howard
University for 31 years and was
also chief of oral surgery at
Freedmen’s Hospital, attending
oral surgeon at D. C. General
Hospital.
A native of Washington, Dr.
Turner held degrees from How¬ i
ard, New York University and
Columbia University, and was a
diplomatic of the American
Beard of Oral Surgeons.
He was a member of Phi Beta'
Sigma Fraternity, Chi Delta Mu,
and Omicron Kappa Upsilon.
He is survived by his wife and
two children.
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Funeral services were held at
the Andrew Rankin Memorial
Chapel at Howard University.
DR. MAYS, NEW PRESIDENT, UNCF
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 — Dr,
Benjamin E. Mays, president of
Morehouse College, Atlanta, was
elected president of the United
Negro College Fund at the or¬
ganization’s annual meeting
held here today. He succeeds
Dr. F. D. Patterson, founder of
the College Fund, who has serv-
ed as president since the fund¬
raising agency was chartered
in 1944.
Dr. ’days was among the
small group of college presi¬
dents who met in 1S43, at the
invitation of Dr. Patterson, to
consider a new approach to
college financing. They organ¬
ized the College Fund, a pione-
er venture in cooperative fund
raising for institution-; of high-
er learning. Dr. Mays has serv-
ed as College Fund vice presi-
You are invited to Butler
Presbyterian Church, Laymen’s
Day, Oet. 19, 11:30 a. m.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1958
Howard U. Dean of Women
Dies After Illness
WASHINGTON, D. C— Dr.
Sadie M. Yancey, dean of wo¬
men at Howard University, died
at Freedmen's Hospital today,
following an illness which had
kept her hospitalized for the
better part of more than two
years. She was 51.
A native of Lexington, Ky.,
Dean Yancey joined the stu¬
dent personnel staff at Howard
in 1962. Prior to that time
she had served as dean of stu¬
dents at Florida A. & M. Uni¬
versity in Tallahassee.
Dean Yancey received her
early education in the public
schools at Great Falls, Mont.,
before 'enrolling at Kentucky
State College, where she receiv¬
ed the Bachelor of Arts degree,
summa cum laude, in 1935. Fol¬
lowing graduation she was ap¬
pointed to the faculty of Dun¬
bar High School in Lexington,
a position which she held until
host to the Georgia Committee
on Teacher Education, October
9 and 10. I}r. Calvin Kiah, co¬
ordinator of Teacher Education
at the college, is general chair¬
man. Sixty representatives are
expected from Georgia’s private
and state colleges as well as
from educational agencies and
public school systems.
The conference meets in the
former Powell Laboratory buil¬
ding on the campus. Emphasis
Will be placed on teacner cer¬
tification for middle grades 7th,
8th, and Gith.
There will be two panels
Thursday, October 9, 2:00 p. m.
The panels will feature public
school personnel engaged in
teaching at the middle grade
level. The evening session is
scheduled for 7 p.m. In this
session, the discussion will be
centered around new areas of
certification. There will be sev¬
eral study groups.
The final session wili be Fri¬
day morning, 9 to 12 a.m. Dr.
Calvin Kiah will preside at all
sessions. The research commit¬
tee reports Friday. The report
will bring findings on the study
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dent since 1949.
One of America’s leading
clergymen, Dr. Mays is a for¬
mer vice president of the Fed¬
eral Council of Churches of
Christ in America. Prior to as¬
suming the presidency of More¬
house College for Men in 1940,
he served as dean of the How¬
ard University School of Relig¬
ion in Washington, D. C.
In 1950, Dr. Mays was named
“Alumnus of the Year” of the
Divinity School of the Univer-
stiy of Chicago, where he re¬
ceived his master’s degree in
1925 and his Ph.D. in 1935.
A Kent Fellow of the Nation¬
al Council on Religion in High¬
er Education, Dr. Mays has re¬
ceived honorary degrees from
eight educational institutions.
He initiated the Henry B
Wright lecture series at Yale
in 1952.
Dr. Patterson, who is presi¬
dent of the Phalps-Stokes Fund,
1948. Dean Yancey was grant¬
ed leave during the 1941-42
school year to attend the Uni¬
versity of Cincinnati, which
awarded her the Master of Ed¬
ucation degree in 1942.
Resigning her high school
position In 1948, Dean Yancey
was awarded a Rosenwald Fel¬
lowship to Cornell University
to work toward her Doctor of
Philosophy degree in guidance
and personnel administration.
She was awarded the degree in
June, 1950. She was appointed
to the Florida A. & M. staff the
follbwlng September as dean
of women, and promoted to
dean of students one year lat¬
er.
Dean Yancey held member¬
ship in numerous civic and
professional organizations. She
had served as secretary of the
Southern College Personnel As¬
sociation, executive committee
member of the American College
Personnel Association, Delegate
Assembly member of the Ameri¬
can Guidance and Personnel
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2 | to Graduate Sunday from
Beauty Culture
pi?
Madame Elease B. Myers
Owner
Graduation exercises of the
Myers School of Beauty Culture
will be held Sunday morning
following the regular services
at St. Phillip A.M.E. Church,
Charles & West Broad Streets.
The address will be delivered
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New York City, and a former
president of Tuskegee Institute,
will continue to serve the Col¬
lege Fund as chairman of the
executive committee and vice
chairman of the board of direc¬
tors. Thomas A. Morgan, retired
chairman of the Sperry Corpo¬
ration, was reelected chairman
of the UNCF board.
j In hiis annual leport. W. J.
Trent, Jr., UNCF executive di¬
rector, credited the College
Fund with setting two signi¬
ficant American patterns. It
was the first of the country’s
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TOMPKINS PLAYS
RISLEY THURS. NIGHT
The Tompkins Wolverines will
play Risley High of Brunswick,
state champions, this Thursday
night, Oct. 9, at Grayson Stad¬
ium.
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NEW YORK, N. Y- With the
Youth March for Integrated
Schools still three weeks oiff
(Saturday, Oct. 25), 41 buses
from New York alone have al¬
ready been pledged. This
announced today by Jackie
ison, marshal of the March,
who will lead the children
the Washington demonstra¬
tion. Each bus carries 40
dren and 5
teachers, and parents.
The NAACP is
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ARMY FINED $1,000 FOR
BEATING TIMMIE ROGERS
BONN, Germany—(ANP) U.
S. Army Major Leonard Bailey
of Salt Lake City, Utah has
been convicted of disorderly
conduct for striking entertainer
Timmlie Rogers and fined $1,000
However, Bailey was acquit¬
ted of the more serious charges
of “influencing serious bodily
injury,” assault, and conduct
unbecoming an officer.
Bailey was tried before a
courts-martial of a colonel and
six lieutenant-colonels of the
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GROUND BROKEN FOR MORGAN
MILLION DOLLAR AUDITORIUM
BALTIMORE, —
was broken here Tuesday for a
new million dollar auditorium
at Morgan State College with
Maryland Governor Theodore R
McKekiin turning the first sho¬
velful of dirt
In remarks preceding the
ground-breaking, Governor Mc-
Keldin called nuclear tducalion
important, but he warned
against “excessive expansion’
in the production of machinery
at the expense of the arts.
In addition to serving as
auditorium, the new
which covers 47,000 square
will house the departments of
music and art, and classes
drama.
Dr. Carl Murphy,
board of trustees, and
president, Dr. Martin D.
ins, were other participants
the program.
FUND AIDS 5,403
STUDENTS IN 10 if
NEW YORK CITY—(ANP)
The National Scholarship
vice and Fund for Negro Stu¬
dents lias announced Ural over
a 10-year period it has helped
nearly 5,400 students enro l in
interracial colleges.
The Fund has secured, over
the same period, ana awarded
nearly $1.9 million in scholar¬
ships.
In its 10th report the fund
noted that assistance had been
given this fall to 715 freshmen
entering 314 colleges and the
scholarships totaled $325,775, an
increase of from 15 to 30 per¬
cent over last year’s figures.
Of the total number of Negro
students receiving financial as¬
sistance, only 7 percent left
college over the 10-year period.
Price 10c
ATLANTA—Dr. John H Lewis,
president of Morris Brown Col¬
lege, died in a local hospital
after a short illness. He was 75
years old.
The widely known educator
who was serving his second
term as president of one of the
best known colleges in the AME
i educational system, was a mem¬
ber of the American Associa¬
tion of Colleges and Universi¬
ties. He was serving his second
term at Morris Brown, which
began in 1951. His first term
as president ran from 1920 to
1928. . | - ,
An ordianied minister. Dr.
Lewis filled pastorates of the
AME Church in California ar.d
Arkansas and while in the lat¬
ter state he was also principal
of Dunbar High School in Little
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Tribune Gets
Of
During the week The Tribune
received a most valued tribute
from the Georgia State Cham¬
ber of Commerce and the Sa¬
vannah District Authority.
It, was a plaque as an "Acco¬
lade of Appreciation” which is
given to certain firms in busi¬
ness for twenty-five years or
mme. « >««wu
MRS. JULIA JOHNSON WHO SAW LINCOLN
INAUGURATED DIES AT 106
WASHINGTON — (ANIP) —
Mrs. Julia Johnson who as a
child .played on the Capitol
grounds, attended Abraham
Lincoln’s second Inauguration
To AFRICA — Talented Juanita
F. Jackson of Tallahassee will
be one of the featured perform¬
ers with the Florida A&M Piay-
makers who are to tour North,
Central, East and West Africa
in the fall. The tour ts being
made under President Eisen¬
hower’s Special International
NUMBER 1
TO ATTEND
CONF. IN FRANCE
Dr. Wm. G. Tyson
Dr. Wm. G. Ttyson, member
of the Y Century Club, member
of the advisory committee to
the Board of Management of
the West. Broad Street YMCA
who will leave for Paris,
France, to attend the World
Allergy conference. He will be
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Accolade
standing acnievement In eco-
nomy, citizenship and partici¬
pation In Georgia’s progress.
Among the other local Negro
firms which received this award
this year is the Simmons Mat¬
tress Company of Savannah, op¬
erated by Edward J. Simmons.
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and "almost” shook hands with
President Benjamin Harrison,
died last week.
Last march she marked her
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Program for Cultural presenta¬
tions. She will play the role of
the First Woman In Jeffer’s
Adaptation of Euripides “Me¬
dea” which will be one of the
plays given by the Playmakers
whale on tour. (A*M staff photo
by Horace Jones, Jr.)