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7 r fBO i YEARS OF
1 CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVII
LOCAL ATLANTA LIFE PERSONNEL ATTEND CONFERENCE
Mrs. E. B. Knight Nathaniel Ilooks S It. Jones
The first three annual conferences to be held in 1959 by The Atlanta Life Insurance Com¬
pany for Managers, Cashiers and Agents with'outstanding 1958 records was held in Daytona, Fla..
Savannah District personnel
Nathaniel Hooks, Agent, center;
All sessions were held on the i
campus of Bethune-Cookman i
College.
NAACP FILES THREE
OOL SLITS IN X. C.
Citizenship Clinic Is Set
Many Receive Awards At
Scouts Court of Honor
LINKS TO PRESENT
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In keeping with its pattern
of sharing opportunities with
others for cultural enrichment,
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NIKS. KATIE WICKHAM, president of the national Beauty Culturists’ League, confers with other,
National Officers as the organization launches its 1959 membership drive for 10,000 new members j
. . . Mrs. Wickham also discusses her 10-Point program which is geared toward accomplishing the j
goal. 1
Seated, left to right are Mrs. Wickham and the Nat. Corresponding Sec’y. Cordelia Jennings j
of Jersey City, N. J. Standing, left to right are the 1st Nat. Vice President Maude Gadsen of I
NYC, Nat. Rec. Secretary. Louise Reaves Chapman of St. Louis, Mo., and D. A. Julius of Miami. ;
Fla., who is the Administrator of the NBCL Institute '
NBCL SEEKING 10,000
NEW MEMBERS
WASHINGTON. D. C.—(Glo¬
bal*- Mrs. Katie Wickham, na¬
tional president of the National
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attending this conference were
and S. R. Jones, Manager,
Among it he many
extended the fifty odd dele-
gates by the college faculty and
was recently held at the First
Tabernacle church for Boy
Scouts of the Chatham Divis-
ion. Robert A. Young, Sr., head
of the advancement committee,
was judge of the court and B.
J. James, advancement com¬
mittee member, served as offi¬
cer of the day.
Troop 252 of the Sandfly
community thrilled the audi¬
ence with two colorful Indian
dances. This scouting unit re¬
cently won the "Troop of the
Year" honors in the Chatham
Division. Herbert H. Kemp is
scoutmaster of this fine troop.
Awards were presented at
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Boys Sentenced in "Kissing' 1 Case
Released From Reform School
Beauty Culturists' League, Inc.,
is to be commended on her 10-
Point Program she is develop¬
ing in interest of NBCL and
the set goal of 10.000 new mem¬
bers for 1959, by National Con¬
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, FEB. 21, 1959
Mrs. E. B. Knight, Cashier left;
student body, were a visit to the
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Everything is in readiness for
the First Congressional District
Citizenship Cflinic which will
be held at Butler Presbyterian
church Friday and Saturday.
The meetings will get under¬
way Friday night at 7:30
o'clock and registration will
begin Saturday morning at 9
o'clock. Large delegations from
throughout the district arc ex¬
pected to attend the clinic, both
adult and youth.
A special invitation' is ex¬
tended to all ministers and
representatives of labor, frater¬
nal, social, political and civic
organizations to be present,
especially at the Saturday sess¬
ions at which John C. Calhoun
of Atlanta, secretary of the
State-wide Registration Com¬
mittee, will be top instructor
at the clinic along with other
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vention time in October in j
Philadelphia. I
Mrs. Wickhams 10-Point Pro¬ j
gram embraces "Bigger and j
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FURTHER INTEGRATION
PLACE IN
FRONT ROYAL, Va„ Feb. 18
—Racial integration today gain¬
ed a further foothold in Vir¬
ginia when the Warren County
high school here bowed to an
edict of the U. S Circuit Court
to enroll Negro students.
This makes the fourth area
in Virginia where integration
has taken place in the schools,
the other places being Norfolk,
Alexandria and Arlington. A
total of 30 Negro pupils have
been accepted in the first three
cities in the previously ali-
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steps were taken this week in
three separate actions to com¬
pel North Carolina school offi¬
cials to operate the public sys¬
grated basis.
In two complaints filed on
Tuesday, February 10. 1959, with
the U. S. District Court in
Greensboro. N. C., attorneys for
the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund sought per¬
manent injunctions restraining
the Greensboro Board of Edu¬
cation from assigning Negro
students to racially segregated
schools.
The third suit was also filed
on Tuesday with the U. S. Dis¬
trict Court in Charlotte. It
sought a similar injunction to
restrain the Mecklenberg Coun :
ty Board of Education from
refusing to admit Negro stud¬
ents to schools nearest to their
homes.
Named as defendants in the
three cases arc the North C aro-
lina Advisory Committee on
Education and the North Caro¬
lina State Board of Education
They are accused of having
counselled with and working in
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CHARLOTTE. N. C—The two
Negro boys who were involved
in the widely publicized ‘ kiss¬
ing'' case returned to their
homes today from a reform
school.
The children, James Hanover
Thompson, 10, and David "Fuz¬
zy" Simpson, 9, were .committed
three months ago to a reform
school after they were alleged
to have kissed a 7-ycar old
white girl.
The mothers who greeted the
return of their boys with tears
expressed their joy at having
them back home and promised
that from now on 'they’ll go
straight.”
World-wide attention was at¬
tracted to the case when the
boys were committed to the
Morrison training school last
November 7, shortly after they
allegedly trapped the seven-
year old white girl in a ditch
and forced her to kiss one of
them.
Governor Luther Hodges re¬
ceived an avalanche of letters
demanding the boys’ release.
The NAACP protested the dis-
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John Thomas Sets World
NEW YORK—(ANP)—Johnny
Thomas, 17 year old Boston
university frosh who more than
a week ago set a new world
high jump record by sealing 7
feet indoors, Saturday settled a
d "P ulcari ' sin ”. from tnc .tap
wnen ne a?a:n cleared tne
height in the New York A. C.
Games in Madison Square Gar
den h ere -
A week ago Saturday the
little tan high jumper first set
the • 7-foot - - record. - -...... He did it
before a huge crowd in the
same Madison Square Garden
in the Millrose games, besting
Charlie Dumas, the Olympic
champion. Dumas also is cred-
ited with a 7-foot jump, but
Montclair B
of E 1st Negro
Member
KNOXVILLE. Tcnn (ANP*
Mrs. Bessie Givens Marsh was
recently appointed to the Mont¬
clair, New Jersey board of ed¬
ucation by Mayor William L
Dill, Jr. Mrs. Marsh’s appoint¬
ment marks the first time a
Negro has been so honored.
Active in YWCA, PTA, and
church work, Mrs. Marsh is
presently president of the Mont-
■lalr YWCA, she has been a
member of the national board
of the YWCA since 1952, and
has served that board as a vice
president of the community di¬
vision and as a member of the
Eastern Region leadership team.
She served on a mayor's com¬
mittee for youth problems and
lervices and on the advisory
ooard of the YWCA at Ohio
State University, and was a
1929 graduate of Knoxville col¬
lege.
HERNDON FOUNDATION
GIVES 110,000 TO YMCA
B. Herndon,
of the 'Herndon Foundation and
the Atlanta Life
Company, announced Saturday
that a $10,000 grant had been
awarded through the Herndon
Foundaton, set up in memory
of his father, Alonzo F. Hern¬
don, to the Metropolitan YMCA
Capital Fund Campaign.
This contribution was made
directly to the Metropolitan
Campaign and was partially re
sponsible for the centennial
fund achieving its total quota
of $3,250.00. recently announced
in the press. Mr. Herndon, in
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, his feat was accomplished out-
1 doors.
j T he fifth man to clear 7 feet,
Thomas, who is being groomed
painstakingly for the I960
Olympics, is, nevertheless, the
only man to scale the height
i indoors.
j After ^e Millrose jump Tho-
mas ’ record was threatened by
| the AAU on a technicality. The
1 the
j AAU charged officials at
meet ’ exclted over Thomas „„ ac
complishment. failed to remeas¬
| ure the height as provided by
j rules. ,
I According ^ to ANP Boston re-
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THE NEW "MISS OMEGA" AND ATTENDANTS—Miss Katie Williams, center, is shown with h< r
attendants, the Basileus of Mu Phi Chapter (L. Law), and several other Good Omega Men after
being crowned the QUEEN OF OMEGA for 1959 in Savannah, Georgia, at a colorful coronation
ball at the Coconut Grove.
Other contestants in photo reading left to right: Misses Elizabeth Jaudon (3rd place);
Frankie Qanaway (2nd place; Lula Bell Chance; Delores Williams; Dora Sanders.
Mu Phi Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., takes this opportunity to thank every one
who helped to make this contest a great success.
j AKA’s Pashionella to Bo
Bresonfed hi. Nitfhl
. Gamma sigma omega Chap-
I ter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
j Sorority will crown ' Miss Fash-
| I lonetta" on Friday evening at
their annual “Miss Fashlonetta
Contest and Dance” in the
Flamingo Ballroom at 9:00 p.m.
Some of the city's most
charming and elite personali-
ties will be represented in the
participating models and con-
testants. Among . - ,
young
models . . will be Mcsdames Ernes „ .
tine Bertrand, Leila Braith-
waite, Albertha Vaughn, Helen
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EV.Y BOSEMAN, Junior at Savannah State College and James Novels, Senior, react scene from
Antigone to be presented at Savannah State College, February 19.
Price 10c
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Tuskegee Alumni Vote
Donation
A good representation
Tuskegeeans In the
Georgia Reglon attended
monthly meeting of
Statexboro Chapter,
Alumni Association, ’ held
day at the Den, and voted ...
make lviq . Ifo an an annual annual rlrmat.wvn donation to r.n
the Charity Hospital.
Miss Nelouise Seabrooks, a re-
ent Tuskegee graduate, now
NUMBER 20
teaching at Florance School,
became affiliated with the local
Alumni chapter,
The group approved a hostess
and host schedule for monthly
j ! meetings 8 as worked ou* uu bv y R.
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Dr. M D. Bryant was given a
rising vote of thanks for his
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