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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVII
A fourth community ordered to mix schools next week
3RD VA. AREA BEGINS INTEGRATING SCHOOLS
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MARTIN TO
HEAD PRESS PROJECT
IN NIGERIA
CHICAGO— (ANP)—Louis E.
Martin, widely; —
known jBR
papcrman. will' f. J||Pj^ppR 9
leave for West-
ern Nigeria on I
of Africa in* W-A *|1||
April to set U P ^
a West African
news service in fc
Martin is editor IK ^KK
of the Chicago MARTIN
Defender and publisher of the
Michigan Chronicle in Detroit.
* Martin said this week tna
he expected to work directly
with Premier chafemi Awolowe
cf Western Nigeria and that ii
addition to the establishment
of a news service he would set
up several newspapers which
tne Premier expected to estab¬
lish. Awolowe is head of the
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COLLEGE
MEMPHIS i ANP 1 —
college this week received
000 from the estate of an
woman thought by many to
of modest means.
Mrs. Annie B. Love, who
ed the money to the
was the widow of a retired mail
carrier John R. Love. She
84 at the time of her death.
Singer’s
A mong' Plane
Crash Victims
NEW YORK (ANP)—The wife
of one of the members of the
famed Golden Gate Quartet
was identified Wednesday as
the only Negro victim on the
American Airline plane which
crashed into the East river on
Tuesday night.
Fatal Impulse
Because of a spur of the mo¬
ment thought, Mrs. Margorie
Wilson, the wife of orandus
Wilson, was on the ill-fated
luxury liner.
Mrs. Wilson who lived in Chi¬
cago and maintained a home in
New York decided to fly to New
York the evening of the trage¬
dy. As she rushed to the air-
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SUCCESSOR TO M. C. CHISHOLM
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BY L. L. BALLARD
Saturday, January 17, was a big day for Atlanta Life on the Savannah District, The
sion was the retirement of Macon Columbus Chisholm from his systemwide leadership as a debit
manager, and his elevation to a plateau where his outstanding achievements will inspire the
District.
“Mr. Insurance” for forty
some years has been in the em¬
ploy of Atlanta Life during
which time he served as sick
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A third Virginia area started
integrating its schools
when this city bowed to mixed
classes as nine Negro children
were enrolled in three former-
ly all-white schools.
The first state
to integrate schools were Nor¬
folk and Arlington county. In
the former six white schools
threw down the color line Mon-
day of last week and accepted
17 Negro students and at the
same time Arlington did like¬
wise and enrolled 4 Negro stu-
dents in a junior high school
A fourth Virginia area, War-
•en county, has been ordered
by a federal judge to begin
ntegrating its schools Tuesday
f next week. 22 Negro stud¬
ents will be involved in this
rarsacthn.
The integration procedure at
V.exandria followed the same
lattern as that which was
carried out at Norfolk and
Arlington, except that the
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ditional sum ot $1,500 when .sc-
curities owned by Mrs. Love are
converted into cash.
Mrs. Love who dabbled in
j real estate also left rental prop-
erties and $11,000 in cash to
three nieces. Five other or-
ganizations shered equally in the
Love estate.
| Neither Mrs. Love nor her
husband attended
ANNIVE RSARY speaker
S. J. Brown
Speaker
Samuel J. Brown will be the
featured speaker for the Na-
uonal Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
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claim inspector field inspec-
tor. assistant manager. and
debit manager. Atlanta Life
soon learned that the man’s
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A lie HIE GETS NEWS —
Arehie Moore and family
at their San Diego ranch
the light heavy
hears from Atlanta that he
been named ‘100',' Boxer
the Year” by the Atlanta
Frank ('alien Boys Club (o (jet
New
By the time you read this,
bids will have been made and
a contract let for the building
I of the new Frank Cailen Boys
J Club. This climaxes years of
I hard w-ork, planning, studying
J I and worrying . the part
on of
1 Mrs. Irma Cailen, her board of
heart was on selling and that
could no t b e lured into
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) World's 100 Per Cent Wrong j
1 Club. In the background, PR
man Moss H. Kendrix, left and j
Boxing Writer Wendell Smith, I
j Chicago, talk long distance to j
i the Moores. Truman K. Gibson, j
Jr., IBC president and a 100'.;
directors ,and staff.
Besides themselves witn
are the Boys Clubbers
have had to put up with
building that they have
ago worn out. Some of
have passed from boyhood
manhood since the plans
build a new club were
several years ago. To them-
was a dream that always
to come true n n xt year.
hardly believe ’
can that
year is here. WOW!
Happiest of all the
Clubbers are the
teams, that had to play
all of their games on the
Varsity and alumni Jets, find
Citizenship
Clinic Here
Next Week
A Citizenship Clinic for the
First Congressional District will
be held here on Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 20 and 21. The
conference will begin Friday
night at 7:30 at the Butler
, Presbyterian church. Registra-
; tion will begin at 9 a.m. Satur-
j i day. At 12 noon lunch will be
served. At l o’clock the general
I meeting will begin.
The program will give infor¬
mation on how to organize for
registration and voting and
other information of impor-
tance.
John H. Calhoun is secretary
committee and will serve
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honoree, also spoke witih the
champ. Rafer Johnson, out
athlete of the Univer-
of California at Los Ange-
les, was likewise cited by
phone. In the bottom section
of photo are seen several of
... difficult to think in
of practicing and playing
in their own gym. You
plans call for a
to be included, too WOW:
In eight consecutive
of varsity basketball playing,
the Boys Clubbers have
to impose on Savannah State
St. Pius and Beach for
facilities for practice
and occasional home
According to "49’ Simmons,
while he felt that he sometimes
imposed on these people for
j the use of their facilities, Ted
Wright, Joe Greene, nor did
Father Burke and Father H>c-
Donat, who has succeeded
Plans Set For
Morehouse
Concert f ■y .
Music lovers of Savannah
will be happy to learn of the
approaching appearance of the
Morehouse College Glee Club
of Atlanta, who will present a
concert on Sunday evening,
March 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the
First African Baptist church.
The glee club is under the
direction of Wendell P. Whalum,
and a concert of varied select¬
ions will be presented in the
usual brilliant performance
that is characteristic of this
aggregation.
Tickets may be obtained at
the YMCA. Ainutt Music Co , Sa¬
vannah Herald and Savannah
State College. General admis¬
sion, $1.00; students, 50 cents.
TUSKEGEE (ANP) -The Rev.
K. L Buford, acting head of
the Tuskegec Civic association
announced last week that NV
groes would continue a boycott
of white merchants here until
they are "treated as men.”
He pointed out that "Negroes
gerrymandered out of the city
limits had forgotten the town
was there. . . and many of us
will never return.
“I believe all our problem'
would be solved if the race bars
were taken down. We have
no desire to mix solidly, we
lust want to be treated a*
men.”
Dr. Smith A Patient
At Charity Hospital
Dr K. J Smith of 642 West
40th Street to a patient at
Charity Hospital where he !u,
been confined for several days
He is steadily improving and
lopes to be at his office again
NEGRO KOREAN VET
APPOINTED POLICE OHIE
Conrad Clark Pay-1
TRENTON, N. J. AiNP)
ton L. Flournoy, 36, a former!
Pacific and Korean Marine
Corps veteran on Wednesday
was appointed police chief of
Palymra, N. J , at a meeting
of Palmyra Borough Council.
Tiie first Negro to hold this
> the other honorees and parti-
cipants in the 24th annua] All-
Sports Jamboree, sponsored by
the Atlanta daily with the
cooperation of The Coca-Cola
company and the Atlanta Life
1 Insurance Company, both of
Atlanta.
COM. CHAIRMAN
Mrs. _ B. S. _ Adams, . . NAACP en-
tertainment committee chair- . ,
man, is heading the
rangements for the local
brat-ion of the NAACP 50th
Anniversary. The committee is
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these men as principal of St.
| Pius, ever but led welcome him to think these
any w'ay to
( facilities whenever they were
available.
Ted Wright and Savannah
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1 FAMU Credit
11 nit Assets
$ 239,627
TALLAHASSEE — Election of
officers, presentation of reports,
j ^ wo short talks and the decla-
rat - iun of a 6', dividend, were
among the highlights of the
24th annual meeting of the
Florida A&M University Em-
| p’oyees Credit Union held here
| recently.
| The board of directors in
their report, included a recom¬
mendation for declaration of a
6'v dividend and this recom¬
mendation was subsequently
adopted by the full body.
J. R. E. Lee, Jr., long-time
president and a charter member
of the organization, was
elected to a two year term on
the board of directors, and to
the presidency. He was also re¬
named to the credit committee
for a two-year term.
The Credit Union was
lished on the A\M campus in
1935 with some 13 members and
assets of $498.28. As of De¬
cember 31. 1958 the organiza¬
tion had grown to a
ship of 808 and assets of
$239,627.16 During the year. 380
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TWINS RECEIVE LATIN CLUB PRIZE—Henry and Richard
Bryan, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harper Bryan of 45
West Upsal street. Philadelphia. Pa., were awarded the Latin
club prize at the 85th commencement exercises of Germantown
High School a class of 350 graduates. The twins are grand¬
sons of Dr. .and Mrs. H. M. Collier. Sr., and nephews of Dr. and
Mrs. H. M. Collier, Jr, and Dr. and Mrs. Charles Collier and Mr.
and Mrs. John B Collier, all of Savannah. Henry and Richard
entered college last week.
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ELD. CL! V ELAND 10 BE
YMCA ENROLLMENT
vjrvnrir *VICIYUrr ort/VIXEIv CPUAVUB
j;l,|rr **• L Cleveland
B,rlw 11 L. Cleveland, pastor,
Seventh-day Adventist church,
nember I the board of man-
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office in Burlington County,
Flournoy hud been acting po¬
lice chief since the illness of
Police Chief Joseph Rodgprs
last August.
Rodgers died last month, and
since Flournoy has been in of-
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Local Units
Celebrate
Seout Sunday
Local members of the Boy
Scouts of America participated
in a county-wide worship ser¬
vice last Sunday, in observance
of Scout Sunday. The worship
service was held at the Anbury
Methodist church and was pre-
ceeded by an "Onward For God”
parade.
The parade was led by the
| top troop of the Chatham Di-
; vision, Troop 252 of 8andfly.
i Special marching music was
provided by the Alfred E.
Beach High School band.
j The , large audience .. of , , boys,
parents and leaders were tir-
red by the eloquence of Rev
George D. Walker, pastor of the
j host church. Rev. Walke- is a
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