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FISK BULLDOGS, tied for a second place in th STAC, get a briefing from Coach Bus
son,, kneeling beside team captain Charles Gera J, forward of. Seaford Del. Bulldogs
are. left to right. Guard Bobby Gilliam of Nasu.ilie, Forward Harold Shaw of Ciicago
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SAM JONES THINKS CARDINALS WILL
BE TOP CONTENDERS FOR FLAG
FAIRMONT, West Va.—(Spe
cial>—Sam Jcnes, the National
League's strikeout king, is quite
optimistic about the 1959 St.
Louis Cardinals.
Jones wintering at his home
at Monogah, West Virginia, says
emphatically he believes the
Red Birds will be “top conten¬
ders’' this season.
The 33-year old right hander
was the second Cardinal signed
to a contract this year. And ac¬
cording to Cardinal general
manager Bing Devine. Jones
was given a “substantial sal¬
ary increase."
As to how many games he
thinks he might personally win
this season, Jones says “I'll be
going for all I can.”
‘I have been working here . . .
driving a truck . . in this way
1 get in a lot of walking which
helps me keep in shape. With
the pitching we got, I can’t s,
many bad days ahead for t!
team."
“Do you see an .mmedi:.
pennant for Mr. Busch <Augu,»i
A, Busch, Jr„ president of An-
heuser-B ;sch, Inc., ana owner!
of the St. Louis Cardinals i?"
Jones was asked.
“I. think we've get as good a
team as the best of them and
I think we ll be a top conten¬
der," he replied immediately.
Sad Sam. who was second in
the league last year with an
earned run average of 2.88,
started 35 games winning 14
and lo ing 13. He would have
had a greater score in the win
column if given stronger sup¬
port and better hitting by his
team mates. (Bf 4'
He beat the strikeout record
of Dizzy Dean by fanning 225.
Dean had held the record since
1933 with T99. It was also the
Joseph D. Hardy, Negro Marketing Research Consultant
Appointed by Cosmetic Firm
Joseph D. Hardy, Chairman of Practical Arts at Jackson Col¬
lege, Jackson, Mississippi, was recently appointed Market
Research Consultant for J. Strickland and Company of Mem¬
phis, Tennessee, manufacturers of Royal Crown Hair Prepa¬
rations.
Professor Hardy, an Associate Professor of Economics, is
perhaps the only Negro in America serving a Multi-Million
$ $ $ Manufacturer in this highly skilled position. Hardy,
always a keen student, had settled 4
his whole life around a variety of'Lawrence Ashby flying to Jack-
activities involving teaching and son for talks with the mild-man-
ganizations being consultant ar.d businesses to numerous or-jnerei, Professor. After several
in and;meetings which followed, Joseph
around Jackson. Until a fewjD. Hardy found himself with a
months ago, he was serenely sat- new title, Special Research Con-
isfied with this pleasant routine ' sultant to J. Strickland and Coin-
then the unexpected happened pany.
Radio Station WOKJ in Jacksonl Hardy's duties are wot confined
retained Hardy and his staff to.te Jacksoa alone, he is constantly
conduct a non-biased study at thi directing tea-ras of researchers in
Jackson Negro Market. The study;important-market areas through-
was designed to supply WOKJ.out the country and working with
with vital information on the buy- profea&ors of eoltegi*. throughout
ing habits of Negro consumers in;the country for Striekland. He is
the market; thus supplying theii^now constantly turning up facts
sales staff with a valuaole selling and data that ie required by a
6° Hardy 0 '- and his (company the size of Strickland,
staff plunged, in order to do a really effective
into the job with real enthusiasm job of selling its numerous prod-
and completed the survey in a ucts in the fast moving and highly
matter of weeks. The radio sta- important Negro Market,
tion. eager to sell the Jackson' He has very definite ideas on
Market to National Advertisers this subject. “Research theories
mailed hundreds of copies of the come and research theories go,’
- completed survey to agencies and says Professor Hardy, “but today,
consumer goods’ manufacturers j more than ever before, Market
throughout America. Research is the key to successful
The immediate results were selling. When a major company
astounding. sponded with Several letters to agencies the station'goes re-j such as out J. Strickland into the market & Company and
expressing interest in the growing!spends the time and money to find
Market, as a result of the study, was’eonsumer out what people really want, the;
The J. Strickland Company can be assured of re .
more than .. just ... impressed. , They ~, . ceivmg . . a „ , be , ter product . at . the ,,
teat their Research Director^lowest possible price. ‘ ^
io : t strikeouts by a Nation'
eague pitcher since 19'i6, wher
"an Lingle Mungo fanned 2’’8
Jones pitched 250 innings
9:8, averaging 8.1 strikeout.*
per nine innings. The bit We.
Trginian had aii o led *h
league in strikeouts in 1C55
98 and in 1956 with 176. H.
l o i.-sued the most hu es on!
■all Jones last year with he'll 107. show j
says up
pring training not more tha,.
wo or three pounds overweight j
>evlne has written to all Car- |
ilnalis warn) 1 g them of exces
weight during the winter lav- <
ff, stating that the spring !
on at F! rida is not to be used
ering into shape j
Jones spends seme of his I
pare time here practicing will,
. , two . boys, ,
>.S one seven and one
vp. re til have nmbitions of
allowing in daddy’s footsteps at
ire,sent.
pirn?f‘eld Hi Defeats
\. R. Johnson
SPRINGFIELD, Ga.—A eapac-
ty crowd witnessed the game
Friday, January 23, in the
when the Spring-
Central High ‘ Panthers” j
A. R Johnson Jr. High j
from Augusta 54 to 50 in i
overtime game.
The girls of Springfield Cen¬
High “The Pantherettes,”
the Johnson girls,
Attraction
Saturday night, Jan. 31, in the
of Springfield
High, there wall be an j
game with the Sa¬
“Jets'’ and the Savan¬
Adult Recreation Center i
On the same billboard
Springfield Panthers play ‘
Joseph D. Hardy frequently burns tHe midnight oil checking, and re¬
questionnaires. Professor Hardy, a man of boundless energy, often
works fourteen hours a day conferring with his staff, working in the field
preparing assignments.
j ro *'! ssor ^ a|, 4y of regularly marketing flies to plans Memphis and the to join analysis company of officials results in the
new survey on
new products being ^Distribution; consumer tested. Left to right: Professor Hardy R W.
. yJer 0lV#etor Fred Shull, National Safes Managen GayUn
Production Manager; and Leonard C. lobin. Technical Consultant,
NEGRO FARM POPULATION DECLINE INDICATES
NEED FOR CHANGE IN FARMING PRACTICES
The continued decline in the
Negro farm population indi-
cates the need for a change in
farming practices, says Calvin
L. Beale, farm population spe-
ciali.st of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
In an amplified version re-
leased last week of a speech he
gave some months ago at Prai-
rie View. Texas, A&M College,
Mr. Beale points out that
gro farm people have been
leaving the farm at a faster
rate than the rest of the farm
population. Since 1940, the
| Negro farm population
dropped from 4,500,000 to an
estimated 2 800,000.
And between 1950 and 1954
the number of Negro farm op-
erators declined by 92,000 leav-
ing only 458,000, However, the
drop was made up almost en-
tirely of tenants and sharecrop-
" 1 Through the years, the
1 umber oi owners has remain-
rd about the ame 182,000 in
1.930 and 181,600 in 1954.
The present tenure distribu¬
tion per 100 Negro farmers is
about as follows, says Mr. Beale:
28 full owners, il part owners,
35 sharecroppers, and 26 ten-
ants other than croppers, or a
total of 39 percent owners and
61 percent tenants and croppers
in the South where almost all
colored farmers live. Only 22
percent of the Southern white
farmers are tenants.
While the number of Negro
tenants has dropped by 40 per
cent, the number of part own¬
ers (those who own part of
the land they farm and rent
l he rest i has increased by 80
percent. i
Part owners, states Mr. Beale,!
are the most prosperous of all
fanners. They operate more
land, use more machinery, and
i raise more acres of cash crops. ■
However, one big handicap,
, to all Negro farmers, according
to Mr. Beale, is their tendency
1 ity Traftic
deaths
5 fecreased
T n 1958
in Savannah, as in
hies, the toll of traffic
'alls mainly on
wd these are mostly the
and the very old.
Seven person died in
incidents in Sa uinah
958, as compared vith 16
-ng 1957. In analyzing
!958 traffic deaths, the
Traffic F ’“Peering
rP P°rted that six of these
t n fatalities were-
^ the aRes ^ere ° f f,ftec children " ™ 0,Uhs
seven years and three
artults 5elween the ages of
and 71 years. Two " 'he
dred died on minor
streets, one when crossing
an intersection and one
playing in the street. The third
nld died on a major residen¬
tial street when crossing at an
intersection.
Of the three adult pedestri¬
ans, two died on major streets
when crossing at the intersec-
tion and the other on a ma-
J° r street away from the in-
the Frank Callen Boys’ Club.
time is 7:30 p.m.
"No use to put your foot
down when you haven’t a leg
to stand on!’’
50UTHWIDE EXT. WORKSHOP ON FURTHER AID
• FOR NEGRO FARMERS SCHEDULED FEB. 15-20
Ways of further improving
the services of extension agents
i to colored farmers will be
j studied by some 60 supervisors
of Negro extension work in the
South at a workshop in Dub¬
lin, Go., February 15-20.
Announcement of the work¬
shop ‘ made this week by
was
P. H. Stone of the administra¬
tive staff of the Federal Ex¬
tension Service of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
The five-day workshop, which
will be held in the quiet of
the Dublin 4-H center near
Dublin, Ga., will take up some
of the major problems which
have arisen as a result of the
changing agricultural situa¬
tion in the South.
Among other things, the su¬
pervisors will study the chang¬
ing needs in agriculture, in ru¬
ral life, and in the opportun¬
ities of rural youth.
The supervisors direct the
work of more than 800 farm
and home demonstration agents
who serve close to 400,000 Ne¬
gro farmers in the Southern re¬
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUN*
to stick to traditional crops of
cotton and tobaccos at a time
when these are in surplus, in¬
stead of raising more of a va-
riety of products,
For example, 86 percent of
! the commercial-scale operators
grew cotton In 1954, compared
with 15 percent of the white
farmers. But Mr. Beale ex-
plains that since the majority
Negro farmers are tenants,
they have little means of shift-
jng to some alternative farm
enterprise as the demand for
cotton and tobacco declines.
Q ne tablet for these farm-
ers suggests, is off-farm em¬
ployment to supplement their
f arm income. The 1954 Cen-
sus of Agriculture shows that
percent of the colored and
48 percent of t he white farm-
ers in the South did some off-
farm work during the year .
g even teen percent of the color-
ed and 33 p erce nt of the whites
worked more than 100 days off
their farm.
As to the future for Negro
farm youth now growing up in
t * ie South, it is estimated that
^ boys are coming of age dur-
hig Dii s decade for every farm
°f medium or large commercial
scale being vacated by an old-
er Negro farmer through re¬
tirement or death. Thus 16
0l 't of 17 farm youths have po
ready-made opportunity to as¬
sume the operation of an ade¬
quate-size farm. j
Mr. Beale points out that!
these problems offer a real 1
challenge to Negro farmers and
to the agencies and personnel
of the U. S. Department of Ag-,
riculture and the land-grant
c0 [j e g es
All small farmers face simi-
lar problems, and it is in an
effort to find solutions to these
problems that the Rural Devel-
opment Program has been initi-
gion.
Workshop speakers will
clude Dr. E. B. Evans,
dent of Prairie View, Texas,
and M College; Director M.
Watkins of the Florida
sion Service; Director W.
Sutton of the Georgia
sion Service; and Dr. Mary
Collings, chief of the
branch of the Federal
sion Service.
Extension leaders making
the program committee of
workshop are: Ross W. New-
some, Virginia State College ;.W
C. David, Prairie View A&M
College; Martin G. Bsiley, Un¬
iversity of Maryland; C. A. Wil¬
liams, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.;
A. S. Bacon, Savannah State
College; and P. H. Stone of the
Federal Office.
FINE MAN IN MEMPHIS
BUS INCIDENT
MEMPHIS—(ANPi—A Negro
who refused to sit in the rear
of a city bus was fined $16
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Fifty one year old Prince Hen¬
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when he conceded there were
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bus. “I just wanted a seat and
tock the first one I came to,”
he said.
A suit challenging constitu¬
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summer, but the U. S. Supreme
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