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71 r f PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF | VOLUME LXXVII Photo By Freeman “MISS JABBERWOCK” AND HER ATTENDANTS—The above photo shows Miss Marilyn Cole (center) wearing crown are robe after she was crowned "Miss Jabberwock of 1959" by Miss Julia Ann Jenkins (third from right) who was “Miss Jabberwock of 1958.” The crowning was a high¬ light of the annual Delta Jabberwock program which was held at the City Auditorium, Friday evening, April 10. Others in the picture were contestants. Shown left to right are Miss Delores , third Williams, fourth place winner; Mi s Irene Elmore, second place; Miss Barbara Lawton, place; and Miss Minnie Graham, fifth place. Pictures of skit winners are shown on page 5 of this issue. jabberwock audience Tod Ted ‘D/YHotVc! Pollen's ni'oVme'po orchestra opened rmn i the 1959 Delta Jabberwock pro- gram at the city aud. a’ Friday, April 10. with tie p ey¬ ing of the Star Spangled Ban ner. A capacity audience was 1959 Youth March On Set For Mrs. Edwards Leaves Estate To Sister And Niece LOCAL ELKS TO ATTEND MEETING IN FRUNSWICK Weldon Lodge of Elks and Elite Temple. Daughters of Elks, will motor to Sunday to attend the Elks State Convention. They will go by chartered buses, leaving the are invited to go on this trip; 'Continued on Haae Four Leading Newsmen to Take Fart Institute WASHINGTON How the press can further help improve racial understanding will be taken up here by some cf the nation's' leading newsmen on May 2 at the Capital Press Club's second annual national press institute, Miss Fanmc Granton, club president, an- : | __ the communities. A committee that met with Carl Hager, recreational direc¬ tor for the city, reported that the area will be cleared in ap- proximately three weeks This sriht is located between Allen ADams 4-3432 | in : n attendance, * oriovmn r I.annual activity was pre- Isenied by the Savannah Alum- r.ae Chapter of the Delta Sig¬ ma Theta Sorority, Inc. Mrs. Sadie D. Steele is president of In the will cf Mrs. Essie | Monrce Edwards, which was f iled for probate Thursday of last week, her estate was left to her sister, Mrs. lone Monroe Dunmore, and a niece, Mrs. J | Essie Curtright Lopez. airs. Edwards who was owner | operator of the Monroe j Funeral Directors, one of the | ~ est known mortuary estab- j lishments in the state, died Continued on Page Four! ■ nounced this week. The institute will precede club's annual awards dinner to be addressed by Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NA¬ ACP, in the Grand Ballroom of the Willard Hotel. Among those scheduled to take part in the all-day insti- Officers, left to right front row; Mrs. Evelyn Gordon, assist¬ ant secretary; Mrs. Doretha K Wells, reporter; Mrs Hatbie Car. penter. secretary: Edward V. Fletcher, vice president; Mrs. thp the r»hnntpr chapter. Mrs Mrs. Vivian Vivian Walk- Walk¬ er served as general chairman of the Jabberwock with Mrs. Lucille Bryant as chairman of (Continued on Page Five) WASHINGTON, D. C.—As of today, more than 15,000 Negro and white young people, from all parts of the country, have pledged to meet in Washington for a giant demonstration on .Continued on Page Seven' Meharry Woman Student Kills Married Classmate and Self NASHVILLE— (ANP) — Four years ago, a score of freshmen students entering Meharry Med¬ ical College were looking for¬ ward with starry-eyed hope to tute at the hotel are: Douglass i Cater, Washington, editor of the Reporter and author of a new book, "Fourth Branch of Gov¬ ernment,” due off the press in May; Claude A. Barnett, foun¬ der and director of the Associa- (Continued on Page Eight! Lanie Mae Jones, president; Milton H. Brown, Sr., chairman of building committee. Back row-. Herbert Gordon. ___ [Continued on Page Four' Survey of II Sou. States Shows Desegregation WASHINGTON, D. C.—School | desegregation in the South, is "slowly grinding to a halt,” ac¬ cording to the results of an eleven-state survey presented to the Senate Judiciary Com¬ mittee last week. Will Maslow of New York, general counsel of the can Jewish Congress, told a Committee hearing that Feder¬ al action on civil rights is ne¬ cessary to halt what he term¬ ed an “alarming slowdown” in implementation of the Supreme Court decision outlawing seg¬ regation in public schools. Out of 2,018 bi-racial school districts in the South, accord- ing to the American Jewish Congress SU rvey, Study Ways To Speed Up NEW YORK—Hundreds of clergymen were this week urg¬ ed to attend the upcoming South-wide Interracial Confer¬ ence of Religious Leaders, Apr 29 and 30. at Morehouse ColJ lege, Atlanta, Ga., It is under, sponsorship of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People. ! The conference will probe the moral issue of desegrega- tion while seeking ways of or. ganizing white and Negro churchmen for peaceful inte¬ gration. Conference leaders will in- elude outstanding religious spokesmen from a cross-section of denominations, colleges, sem. 1 June 8, 1959, when they would realize their goal—obtaining a diploma which would mark the successful completion of the first phase toward their indi- viual medical careers. Now, with commencement less than two months away, these same students—the class of ’59 are watching the calendar for a different reason. The question is not will they graduate, but how many will be alive to do so. Zeta Phi Beta Boule ‘Wm jmm /> , i lV-'4 ” " Dr. ikborah C. Partridge SAN FRANCISCO — (Global' —Dr. Deborah Cannon tridge, Grand Basileus of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, though quite busy with speaking schedule, is ably sisting Epsilon Phi Zetas Berkeley California and zet as of ^ ci t y m their P be held here in San from August 12th to 15th the Whitcomb Hotel. The of the Boule will center ‘Today’s Youth As l Continued on Page Four) has begun in only 141—-of which 124 are in West Texas, which has a small Negro pop¬ ulation, This is an increase of only 34 school districts in more than two years, Mr. Mas- low said. The eleven states covered were Alaoama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississip¬ pi, North Carolina, South Car¬ olina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The American Jew¬ ish Congress survey was prepar¬ ed on the basis of reports from the various states on their school populations. Whatever progress toward dc. segregation has been made dur. ing the past two years, Mr. Mas- low told the Committee, 'has inaries and agencies concern- ed with race relations. The two-day session will In¬ clude a public mass meeting, plenary meetings and work- shop3 These will deal with role of religion In connec- ^ ori w (th the desegregation struggle; church cooperation with community agencies in prevention of neighborhood ten- sions; and race relations pro. jects for church women and youth groups. The conference is being co¬ ordinated by the Rev. Edward J. Odom, Jr., NAACP national church secretary, anad Mrs. Ruby Harley, NAACP South- east regional secretary. Three Deaths In Two Years j The reason? During the past 1 two years, death has moved j three times among the class and has extinguished the lives I of four of its members. The j medical latest tragedy Institution to rock the famed last | came April 4 when the body of Vernal Roberts, Jr„ was found in the i apartment of Miss Anna L. Jackson; and later the same day, Miss Jacksons body was Dr. Kiah To Head YMCA Delegation Miami i Dr. Calvin L. Kiah, chairman of the board of of the West Broad Street CA, will lead a delegation the 20th annual meeting of Southern Area Council of CAs in Miami, Florida, May Delegates who will Dr. Kiah are Dr. w. K. president, of Savannah i College; 1 Norman B, j vice chairman board of ment ’ and Palpal, strcet School; Sidnc y A Jones V'Century Club I own e r of s ' d ^e y A. J °ne.s ral _ Home; _ L. B. Toomer, man, Buildings for and president, Carver Bank. Visitors v/ho will are J. R. Jenkins, executive ! of the Buildings for hood committee and member j the Y advisory committee. The Gra-Y and i Play Day will take place at ■[Continued on Page Four! bee nalmost wholly confined to border states where the 1954 desegregation decision of the Supreme Court was accepted al¬ most as soon as it was an¬ nounced In Delaware, Ken¬ tucky, Maryland, Missouri, Gk- lahoma and West Virginia, he said, 647 bi-racial school dis¬ tricts have begun to integrate classes, as compared with 525 school districts two years ago. The total number of school dis¬ tricts with Negro and white res¬ idents in these states is 813. Of the eight Southern states that were completely segre¬ gated in 1956—Alabama, Flori¬ da, Georgia, Louisiana, Missis¬ sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia—only 'Continued on Page Four Union Bag-CampPaperCorp. Fetes Veteran Union Bag-Camp Paper poration honored its employees who have ten, fifteen, twenty, and ty-five years of service at dinner Tmd. ay, April 14, at Tremont Club. One hundred and seven eran employees attended Service Awards Dinner an fair held each year by the pulp and paper company. The evening’s program ded congratulatory talks officials of the company, cial recognition of the colored member of the Conunued on Page Four 1 recovered from the wreckage his automobile which had en over a 100-iT embankment. This tragedy has been j .Continued on Page Four) WINNERS, PARTICIPANTS IN THE KAPPA KOWBOY KONTEST—Top picture, 1 to r , (back W. V Winters, polemarch. Savannah Alumni chapter; Mrs. Gladys Banks, Mrs. Marion Mrs. Pate. Front row, Eddie Cheney. Mack Roberts. Jr,, Eric Pate. Bottom picture—W. V. Winters, presenting bicycle to Mack Roberts, Jr., winner of Kontest. Beach Grad On Pilot Exchange ■MP m Miss Toni Cox, a sophomore at Fisk University, was one of six girls selected ts go on a pilot exchange program initiated be¬ tween Skidmore College In Saratoga Springs, New York and Fisk Univruty. Six girls j from Skidmore have already born past the two guests weeks of and Fisk returned for the j along with the Fisk exchang- I Continued -tn Page .''even. 1 Annual UNCF Kick-off To The Annual Kick-off for the United Negro College Fund campaign will be held Thurs¬ day, Apr. 16, at the West Broad Street YMCA. W. C. Ervin, di¬ rector Savannah-Augusta area of UNCF, will be the speaker. Miss Madeline k. Shivery, an arduous UNCF worker, will be cited. Dr. E. K. Williams of Savannah 8taiP College is co¬ director of the Savannah- Augusta area. Miss Bern it a Darby is local chairman of the 1959 campaign; Raleigh A. Bryant, Jr., co- chairman, Mrs. Ella W. f isher, secretary, and Emanuel A. Ber¬ trand, treasurer. Invest in youth through the United Negro College Fund! You can save lives. Give to the American Cancer Society on April 20 when the block crusad¬ er visits your home. Participate In Institute ANJOU N. GERMAN, in¬ in chemistry at Fisk has been selected to in the National Sci¬ Foundation summer insti¬ at the University of North Mrs. German will be o 40 chemistry teachers American colleges and un¬ to benefit from the program aimed at the latest develop- In chemistry to selected POSTMAN ARTHUR T. POPE RETIRES AFTER 40 YEARS SERVICE Arthur T. Pope was honored on the occasion of his retire¬ ment from the Postal service by the Post Office Department and his fellow workers on Tuesday, Apr. 14. During the ceremonies Post- j that master Carrier J. M. Stubbs Pope announced had been | 'awarded a Certificate , o f Hon- ' Recognition by the Post irary Office Department and he se¬ lected retired Letter Carrier Samuel Parker to make the presentation of the Certificate. Following this Carrier Pope'was presented a retirement gift from his fellow employees, which was in the form of a check for cash. In making bis acceptance remarks, Carrier Pope stated that the check would be applied to the pur- (Continued on Page Eight)