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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVII
Southern llegion Alpha Phi
To Meet Here This Week End
James C. Evans
Public Meeting Speaker
The Southern Regional Con
vention of Alpha Phi Alpht
Fraternity, Inc., will meet her-
this weekend and will
attended by more than 150
egates from seven states.
James C. Evans, civilian
tant to the Secretary of
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6» SCHOOL BO! STUBBED IN GULMID
WARFARE SAID 10 BE IMPROVING
Miss Loadholt, Mr. Wallace
Chosen Miss, Mr. YMCA e* !
The winners of the title cf liam Wallace of Savannah State
Mr. and Miss YMCA World
vices at the West Broad
YMCA are as follows: Miss
CA: Geraldine Loadholt,
ter of Mr. and Mrs.
Loadholt, 619 W. 41 street;
YMCA: William Wall&ee,
the son of Mr. and Mrs.
TS A runts OF THE YEAR— Above are scenes from Savannah
snte C'oiege where the teachers of the year from Savannah and
Chatham County were feted.
Too right Mrs. Sadie D. Steele and Mrs. O. B. Dingle admire
“Tpach°r of the Y"ear" award presented Mrs. Steele.
Ton left Mrs. Steele receives award as Teacher of the Yeai
r.°iwp for Chatham County from Dr. W. K. Payne, "president of the
as D Leon McCormack, superintendent of schools, Chat-
ham 1 County, and Mrs. O. B. Dingle, president of Chatham Coun¬
tv Teachers Association, look on. ;
V Bottom Teachers of the Year for Savannah and Chathan
conntv pose with E. J. Bartlett, president of Chatham County-
Education, and Mrs. O. B. Dingle, president. Chatham :
Board of Association.
bounty Teachers ,
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ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA EXECUTIVES
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Soror Justine Thomas Soror Mayme E. Williams Soror Georgia Schanck
Soror Justine Thomas,
jus of Gamma Epsilon chapter
f Alpha Kappa Alpha, located
an campus cf Savannah Slate
College, has been working clili-
;ently in conjunction with
chapter and -sorors of the grad¬
uate chapter in planning for
College.
Second place winners are Ma¬
rilyn McNichols, daughter of
Mrs. Lillian McNichols, 524 W.
Henry Street; third place win-
J ner ^ Margie Whitehead, daugh-
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the L 59 Regional meeting to
be held in Savannah, Easter
weekend. Soror Thomas is a
resident of Savannah and a
senior at Savannah State.
Soror Mayme E. Wiiliai^j will
be main speaker for the closed
banquet during the Southeast-
An 18-year old boy who was
seriously stabbed Monday af¬
ternoon in a gangland feud at
Beach High school was reported
by Geor gia
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Morehouse Selects 6 Students Fur Awards
CHOSEN AMONG GROUP
After carefui screening of
students with good academic
Seated left to right, front row, Mrs. R. M. Delaware, Frank j
School: Mrs. Lillian Battiste, Harris School: Mrs. Lar-
' i cenia Loadholt. Paulsen; Mrs. O. B. Dingle, president of Chat-
ham County County Teachers Board Association; of Education: E. J Mrs. Bartlett, Steele, president The Systen o I |
Teacher of the Year. Powell Laboratory School; Mrs. Eldon. |
Stevens Greene, East Broad; Mrs. Rosalyn J. Davis, Haven Home
Second row, Mrs. F P. Jenkins, Tompkins High School, Mrs.
Countess Y Cox. Cuvier Jr. High: Mrs. Janie Bowers. Montieth ,
Miss Corine Williams, Hodge School: Mrs. Mary Council, DeRenne
John Law. Beach High: Mrs. Thelma Stiles, Sol C. Johnson 1
Mrs. Kathleen Thomas. Antioch; Mrs. Loraine Pressley, Florance
School; and Mrs. Hattie Jones, West Broad Street School. j
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1953
ern regional meeting of the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Saturday, Mar. 28, on the cam¬
pus ol' Savannah State College.
Soror Williams, 1st supreme
anti-basileus of Alpha Kappa
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IJCS PLANNING FOR
CONVENTION
The Elks of Weldon Lodge
will have a get together meet-
ing on Saturday evening at the
rest, at which time reports from
the project for the department
of education will be made. The
committee will serve the Elks
and their guests a dainty re¬
past.
The Elks annual oratorical
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records, favorable personality
traits, and excellent campus
citizenship records, the More¬
NAACP Seeks
Review of Mrs.
Bates Case
WASHINGTON Contending
! that municipal ordinances of
| Little Rock and North Little
Rock, Ark., requiring the dis-
1 closure of the names of NAACP
members are in conflict with
rulings of the United States
Supreme Court, the Association
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FIRST LOCAL NAACP
LIFE MEMBER
i
,
Dr. Carl R. Jordan
Dr. Carl Rankin Jordan, pro¬
minent physician, surgeon and
Catholic layman, became the
first local citizens to obtain a
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house College faculty
charged with selecting six
dents to receive Charles E
Merrill Awards for travel
study in Europe during
academic year 1959-60 has
nounced its selections at a
cent faculty meeting.
The following students
been selected to receive
covotcd awards of $3000 each:
JAMES W. COMPTON, age
a junior from Aurora,
where he graduated from
East High Schaol. Compton
doing a major Yn history
a minor in education and
tical science. He plans a
in teaching or foreign service
He will study in England
or France.
NELSON K. McMILLAN,
18 year old senior and
admission student from
High School in Albany,
who is majoring in
tics and minoring in German
He is currently looking
to language teaching as a
fession. He plans to study
Austria.
JASPER C. REGISTER. 22,
ONE OF THE APA
PANELISTS
Sidney A. Jones, Jr.
Sidney A. Jones, Jr., promi-
n ent attorney of Chicago who
W11 ... ‘ . w oru 01 f th lne speakers k Fri .
day on a panel discussion
vnicn win ... be of tne
one ou -
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senior and a graduate of Dash-
er High School in Valdosta, Ga
He is a sociology major with a
Leroy Wilson of Savannah
who was one of the award
winners.
minor in religion. lie has cho¬
sen the ministry as a profess¬
ion. He will study in England
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CEMETERY CLEANUP
CAMPAIGN GETS GOING
| The Laurel Grove Cemetery j
I Committee is asking everybody
j to clean up their lots.
If you do not have time to
clean up your lots yourself, you j
| can get there following com¬
mittees to do it for you:
j Roneal's Florist, phone AD:
12-3211, 526 West Broad Street,
: Miss Oneal Bennett: Mrs. Mary |
j E. Flournoy. 1023 W. 38th St.,
' phone AD 3-3289, or Deacon |
| John M. Mines, general chair- j
| man, phone AD 2-3055. I
THE UCLA
Early American missionaries |
] forced the Hawaiians to give up
j the hula because they thought
it was immoral, but the dance
! originally was a religious ritual,
according to the World Book i
Encyclopedia. The hula was ,
part of the ceeremonial rites
i for the goddess of the woods.
ENTERTAINED WIDOWS President and Mrs. Asa T. Spaulding entertain at dinner the Widows
of tlie deceased officers of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Seated froni lelt
to right are Mrs. Ruth W. Lowe and Mothcr^Mrs. J. L. Wheeler, (Vice-President and Assistant
Agency Director)’; Mrs. G. W. Cox, (Vice-President and Agency Director); M%». C. C. Spaulding,
(President). Standing from left to right: Mrs. M. A Goins, (Assistant Secretary); Mrs. D. B.
Martin, (Associate Agency Director); Mr. and Mrs. Asa T. Spaulding; Mrs. W. D. Hill, (Assistant.
Secretary and Controller); and Mrs. R. L. McDougald, (Vice-President). Not shown is Mrs. J. M.
Avery, (Vice-President and Secretary). She is Jving in Chicago, Illinois.
* Parentheses indicate position held by ol’ficcers at time of death.
NEWSPAPER EXECUTIVE AS
LEAVES FOR HIS POSE IN AFRICA
CHICAGO—(ANP)—Chicago
paid tribute to.
Louis E. Martin f
Wed. on the eve | |
of his departure
for Nigeria in |
West Africa |
where he will
engage in a pu¬
blic relations
jroject for the
Western Nigeri-
m Government,
rwo significant MARTIN
events were given in honor of
the retiring editor in chief of
The Chicago Defender in recog-
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Senator Keating Pledges
Civil
NEW YORK (ANP) — -U. S.
Senator Kenneth B. Keating
(Rep. N. Y.) told the New York
City Chapter of the Howard
University Alumni that the
fight for civil rights was going
forward and the efforts of those
who opposed such legislation
were doomed,
“Despite all the emotionalism,
the fruitless clinging to a dead
past, the maneuvers, the fili¬
bustering and even the whipped
up civil disorders,’’ he said,
“the march toward full reali¬
zation of civil rights for all
Americans goes forward.
"Sooner or later there will be
no such thing as second class
citizenship in the United
States.’’
Honored at the luncheon giv.
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Civic Garden Club
The Civic Garden club mem¬
bers proudly throw their chests
out and breathe easy since be¬
coming triumphant in the role
as host to the convention of
the Georgia Association of Gar¬
den clubs on last Sunday. With
palm corsages and Easter eggs
delegates attended from Baxley,
Brunswick, Claxton, Dublin,
Macon, Swainsboro and Savan¬
nah.
Members from each club
made arrangements to be judg¬
ed Including the juniors from
the various schools.
Speakers of the symposium
were Mrs. L. S. Stell, R. A
Young, Mr. Dunlap, A. S. Ba¬
con, and E. B. Porter. From
breakfast at 9 a. m. until din¬
ner at 3 p. m. the president,
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RUSSWURM AWARD WINNERS FOR 1959
Judge David W. Williams
The 1959 Russwurm Award
winners consist of two profess¬
ional baseball players, an actor,
entertainer, educator, house¬
wife, judge, lawyer, prime min*
ister, and housing developer.
Another athlete and a televls-
ion star were given honorable
mention.
NUMBER 25
COMPLETES 46 YEARS
IN BUSINESS
n
Connie Wimberly
Friends of Connie Wimberly,
well known business man and
civic leader, arc congratulating
him this week on the occasion
of his having completed 46
years in business,
Prior to coming to Savannah
with fils wife in 1913, Mr.
Wimberly was employed as a
linesman for the Cumberland
Telegraph Company in -Missis¬
sippi and Tennessee and then
as an installation man for the
same company in Alabama.
A few weeks after arriving in
Savannah he entered the gro-
rry business, opening a store at
533 West Bay street. Later he
moved his business to the south
western section of the city,
Bulloch and 41st streets, where
it was largely conducted by his
late wife while he spent a little
Joseph L. Eichler
These awanfc named for John
Russwurm, tne first Negro in
.America to become an editor
and a college graduate are
| awarded annually during Negro
Newspaper Week by the Nation¬
al Newspaper Publishers Asso¬
ciation. This year marks the
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