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77 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVII
MAURICE RiiDDiCK, his wife and four children visited Savannah State College, Monday, Nov.
24. They were presented at the general assembly and received a tremendous ovation. Flowers
were presented to the family by Miss Teresa Grant, “Miss Savannah State,” senior in elemen¬
tary education from Brunswick, Ga.
Above are shown left to right: Mr. and Mrs. Ruddick, Mrs. W. K. Payne and Dr. Payne.
Mr. Plud-dkk was one of the ider.t William K. Payne, offi- lected by Governor Marvin
coal miners give n up for dead cial state host. Griffin as official host chief
in Nova Scotia when the coal The Ruddicks were well re- state represen tative to help to
mine caved in. He was present-1 ceived by southeast Georgians. ______________
ed to the student body by Fres- Dr. William K. Payne was se-‘ Continued on Page Pour 1
Air Force Policy Hit by
Civil Liberties tJnion
Two Win $10,000 Each,
From U. S. Steel Corporation
FACULTY ADVISER—Dr.
P. chairman of
department of chemistry at
Fl«.k University, was «*
cauMpus q( the FKiierts®.» Jumior
College, Fullerton,
last week advising faculty
groups on their sct#H,se aad
chemistry curriculum.
National chairman of the
Ccmmittce on Visiting Kcien-
tists of the American Chemical
Society. Dr. Massie addressed
athe Fullerton faculty and stu¬
dents, delivered 10 chemistry
lectures and spoke before high
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OBC TICKET
figures of the sale of Orange
Blossom Classic tickets got to¬
gether recently in Miami to
discuss the progress of
ADarns 4-3432
GARY, Ind., Nox. IS — Two
| men, one white, one Negro,
j 1 whose cooperation will add up
to the reclamation of unnum-
1 bered tons of iron, were award-
| ed $10,000 each by the United
; States Steel Corporation here
today. 0?sar M. DansJer and
Salvatore Lumella, both em¬
ployed in the blast furnace di¬
vision of the Corporation’s
Gary Steel Works, have worked
together for more than fifteen
years.
Mr. Gan-ster, a fitreaee keep¬
er, is one of the pillars @>f the
I Negro eomrnunity in Gary. He
| was born m a farm irn Morrell,
1 Ark., in 189?, and was
] IhWI iakrV.fctlia
life! I
J LAS f RITES HELD
j KJg MRS, LOCKETTE
Funeral services for Mrs. Bl-
\ nora Lockett* were held Satur¬
j day morning, Nov. 22, in Mel-
drim Auditorium at Savannah
I State College. Rev. A. C. Curt-
j right, tional pastor, Church, First officiated, Congrega-
’
i Mrs. Lockette was the widow
! of the late J. A. Lockette, for-
mer mathematics instructor at
J I Savannah approximately State College. She
served 20 years
(Continued on Page Four)
sales for the 26th annual
tival to be held in Miami,
13. They are Nathaniel
,, (1), ... Miami Chapter _. , of , .,
Florida A&M University
ni Association; H. R.
NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 19 —
The Air Force’s refusal to
transfer a Negro sergeant from
the Little Rock Air Base after
his six-year old daughter was
required to attend an off-base
segregated school was criticized
today by the American Civil
Libertits Union as contrary to
“the national policy of Inte¬
gration.’’
The Negro airman, Technical
Sgit. James R. Dallas, made the
request after officials at the
Air Base had decided that be¬
cause of Congressional instruc¬
tion a new federally financed
elementary school for airmen’s
children must follow a segrega¬
ted pattern. The ACLU had reg¬
istered a strong protest that
this action was contrary to
•the school desegregation decis¬
ions of the U. S. Supreme
Court. An official of the De-
i Coffi'tiwued on Page Elgnt •
of Late Judge Cobb Is Left to Howard
I.hy Cewi'pa-d Clar.k-
WASHINGTON— (ANP) —M-®st
cf the $340,W#§ estate left by
the late Judge James A. Cobb
will go to Howard University
Law School, and all his per¬
sonal papers and writings were
left to Charles Thompson, a
professor at the University.
His will, filed Wednesday in
District Court, also provides
for some of Cobb’s best friends,
j A&M business manager; and
Henry Weiner, athletic business
manager, T University , . .. of , ... Miami.
FAMU will play Prair.e View
| in the Orange Blossom Classic
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 1958
2 BIG GAMES
STATE PLAYS PAYNE COLLEGE IN AFTERNOON;
BEACH HIGH BATTLES TOMPKINS AT NIGHT
Oni tap for today's (Thurs- verines.
day) sports program are two big
football games, one in the af¬
ternoon and the other at night.
The 2 p. m. game will be
played by the Sa-vannah State
College and tire Payne College
team of Augusta. This is their
annual Turkey Day game and
will be played at the Savannah
State Coilge Athletic field.
The night game will be the
annual Thanksgiving Day tilt by
the Beach high school Bulldogs
and the Tompkins high Woi-
DIXIE PROFESSOR ASKS SOUTHERNERS TO
STOP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST MINORITIES
C.
Fletcher Green, ; professor of
history at the University
North Carolina, has warned
southerners that continued
crimination against Negroes and
other minorities might plunge
the South into another setback
similar to that which followed
the Civil War. He called
responsible leadership in
ing with racial problems.
Writing in the November is¬
sue of the national magazine,
“Current History,” Green ask¬
ed his fellow southerners to
ELLA TO STAR ON
MILTON BERLE’S SHOW
NEW YORK —(ANP) — Ella
Fitzgerald, acknowledged to be
the greatest of all singers in
the popular and jazz idioms,
| will make a guest appearance
with “Milton Berle Starring in
the Kraft Music Hall” Wednes¬
day, Dec. 3, (NBC-TV, 9:00 p.
m. EST).
Ella, who was born in New¬
port News, Va., made her first
public appearance at an ama¬
teur night competition in Har¬
lem in 1C35. following her
shaky performance, bandleader
Chick Webb came backstage
and offered her a job singing
with his orchestra Under his
tutelage she developed into or.e
of the country's most popular
singers. In 1938, while
around’’ in rehearsal one
Eila hit on a nursery
lyric and a simple melody. She
began to improvise on the
Continued on Page Four;
including his law partner for
many years, George E. C. Hayes
and his wife, Louise, Helen
Cuzzens Jefferson of Detroit,
his godchild (Cobb’s i, Judge
Nathan Cayton and to two sec¬
retaries, Daphine Coleman and
Marie Cooper.
The money to the University
will go to the “James A. Cobb
Scholarship Fund” to help law
students, and like bequests
were made of $500® each to
Dillard University in New Or¬
leans and Fisk University in
Nashville.
The HaydS each received
$5,000, as well as the others
MANY SOUTHERN WHITE TEEN-AGERS
FAVOR INTEGRATION, SURVEY FINDS
NEW YORK, Nov. 24—An in¬
creasing number of white teen¬
agers in the South are speak¬
ing out in favor of integrated
schools, a survey in the new
issue of Look Magazine dis¬
closed today.
Based on numerous inter¬
views with white high school
students, writer Fletcher Knebel
reported that “Dixie’s new re¬
bels” are advocating integra¬
tion publicly and “even aggres¬
sively" and that “the impact of
their views could grow with the
years.”
The magazine warned that it
would be a mistake for South¬
ern segregationists and state
officials to shrug off these
youngsters, many of whom have
taken their stand only after
long and tortured thought.
This be a battle for
city-championship and will, no
doubt, be attended by the
largest crowd ever to witness
one of this series of games
which was started in 1951. The
Bulldogs are the cut rent title
holders. Of the seven games
played, Beach has won five and
Tompkins two.
The Beach followers will oc¬
cupy the stands on the eastside
of Grayson Stadium and the
Tompkins fans will be seated
in the west stands.
see
against minority groups is end¬
ed. He said fear of the Ne¬
gro’s new status, which has
“aroused the spirit of white su¬
premacy to a frenizy,” could
only contribute to the setback.
Green said that to prevent
another setback, '“freedom of
thought, freedom of speech and
freedom of the individual must
be safeguarded and preserved.”
He said “every Individual
must not be forced to conform
to any fixed mold or pattern.”
HAMPTON, OXFORD
DEBATERS TO CLASH
HAMPTON, Va., Nov. 21 — A
verbal sparring match will be
held in Ogden Hall at Hampton
Institute when the debate team
of the college matches wits
with itwo members of the Ox¬
ford University debating team,
December 2 at 7 p. m.
Crossing the ocean to do
battle on the subject, “Resolved
That The Further Development
of nuclear weapons should not
Phohibited by International
Agreement,” will be Thomas S.
Griffiths, a student of Magda¬
len College, and Brian Alaslair
Waldren, of Queen's College.
The two English students will
take the affirmative.
Hampton Institute's debaters,
Lonnie Williams, Houston, Tex.,
and Conrad Simon, British
West Indies, will try to out
match their opponents conten-
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named in the will.
The late judge’3 friends in¬
clude members of Epsilon Boule,
and when they held their
monthly dinner meeting on
November 21, Cobb, who died
on October 21, was there in
spirit at the gathering.
The will provides that his
estate pick up the check when
the meeting is over, and for
the occasion the judge wrote:
“It is my desire Chat they have
plenty to eat and drink. I want
them to have a wonderful time
and without sadness."
EpisiLon Boule is a national
fraternal organization of col-
“For some,” the Look
said, “it has meant opposing
the deepseated convictions of
their parents, relatives and
friends.”
St would like wise be a mis¬
take, Knebel cautioned, for
Northern integrationists and
Federal officials to see youth¬
ful rebellion roaring through
the Southern states.
“Rather, the revolt Is a mur¬
mur,’’ he said, adding:
“The young iconoclasts, more¬
over, are divided among them¬
selves: Some of them positively
favor integration .others are
merely willing to accept it,
while still others simply prefer
an integrated school to a closed
school. This last is by far the
largest group.”
“MISS RHOMANIA’’ CROWNED
—During the observance of the
Seventh Annual Rhomania of
Alpha Iota Sigma Chapter, Sig-
Hi School Gives $750 to NAACP;
Philly Church Contributes $500
~
—
students and teachers of Roose¬
velt High School here have
raised $750 in memberships
and contributions for the Na¬
tional Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People.
The student organization,
under the faculty supervision
of Mrs. Mabel Haywood, raised
$350 among the students. The
remaining $400 was received
from the teachers in contribu¬
tions and membership fees.
In a letter of transmittal, H.
Theodore Tatum, principal of
Roosevelt High, told NAACP
executive secretary Roy Wilkins
thau the contributions are “our
tribute to the effective work
(Continued on Page Four)
lege men who have achieved
local and national importance
in their respective communities.
Judge Cobb never married,
and in addition to the law
partnership of Cobbs and
Hayes, in former years there
was a third name in the group
that of William H Hastie, now
a Judge of the Circuit Court
of Appeals in Philadelphia.
CHICAGO’S XI LAMBDA Chap,
ter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fra.
ternity was host last weekend
to the executive committee of
the nutimal body at beadquar-
Price 10c
ADams 4-3433
ma Gamma Rho Sorority, in
which three charming contest-
ants were engaged In a contest,
Miss GMaretta Green won the
UNCF Choirs Radio Program
To Feature Christmas Music
New York,—Two Christmas
concerts will be featured dur¬
ing December on the ABC Ra¬
dio Network’s “Negro College
Choirs” series. The weekly
radio programs present the
choirs of the member colleges
of the United Negro College
Fund.
The December schedule as
announced ft>xijay by director W. of J.
Trent, Jr., executive
(Continued on Page Four)
DEATH CLAIMS
ARTHUR BR0CKINGT0N
Arthur Brockington died ear¬
ly M< inlay morning at his res¬
idence, 3515 Stevens street. He
had been in ill health for sev¬
eral months but had been able
to be up and around even until
the day before he died, the fatal
attack striking him about 2 a.m.
Monday morning.
Mr. Brockington was one of
Savannah’s best known garden¬
ers, serving many of the city’s
leading families for many
years up to about a year ago
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ters in Chicago. Plans were
1 made for the forthcoming 44th
general convention to be held
j in Philadelphia. Laurence T.
1 Young, general secretary, re-
NUMBER 8
contest and was crowned “Miss
Rhomania" for 1958. Miss Arm
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Woman Who Stabbed
Rev. King, Committed
NEW YORK (ANP)—The wo¬
man who stabbed the Rev.
Martin Luther King in a Har¬
lem department store last Sep¬
tember 20, Monday was com-
nUitted to a state hospital where
she will remain until she is
able to face charges against her.
Mrs. Izola Ware Curry, un¬
der indictment for stabbing the
minister who figured promin¬
ently in the Montgomery bus
boycott, was committed to Mat-
teawan state hospital under or¬
ders of General Sessions Court
Judge Charles Marks. He ap¬
proved a Bellevue hospital re¬
port that the 45-year old clean¬
ing woman was “not of sound
mind.”
Mrs. Curry was Indicted last
month on a charge of first de¬
gree attempted murder.
DID YOU KNOW?
Zion Baptist Church, Denver,
I Colorado, is the oldest Negro
I church west of the Missouri
I River.
ported the fraternity in the
best shape, financially and ot¬
herwise, since it was organized
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