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CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVII
w wngnt < L,^ AK Will n ICIP participate , ATE ,N in the P,ANO annual AUDITION—The National Piano above Guild Tournament piano students to be of held Mrs. Alice
Presbyterian Church, Thursday at
and Friday, May 7, 8.
Flr ; st rc >w, left to right: Aubrey Williams, Jr., Judge of 1958 class; Arthtur C. Curgtrieht,
Shelia Clemmons, Josephine Wright; Shirley Cutter, S/lvania; Peggie Robinson, Sylvania; Dale
Glea Alexis, Reta Jo Lacy, Sylvania.
BaC k row : left to ri S h t, Paulette Butler, Albert Bacon, Ann Marie Meyers, who received
nigh • t, school i diploma in Piano last Phillippa Green, Sylvania;
carol Ann Hall, Sylvania; year, La Ronce T. Lacy, Sylvania-
Rose Marie Overstreeh cyivania; Mary Edith Kemp, Svlvanla: Anita
Kelley, Sylvania; and Mrs A. Creecy Wright, teacher of class. Not shown is Renee Williams.
Ai/l>iliiM Ma Y 7-8
riiie annual a*Uorm piam
I id Tournament, lor the t>a
Vhniah area win be head a
Butler Presbyterian cnurcn nex.
week, Tmursday and Friday
May 7-8.
The students of Mrs. Alice C
Wright of Thunderbolt, Mis.
Dorothy Robinson of Liberty
County and Miss Veona Patter¬
son of Screven County will be
auditioned and judged by Mrs.
Iris Daniel Engel of Orlando,
Florida. Mrs. Engel conducts the
Iris Daniel Engel School of
Music in Orlando.
Mrs. Engel, Mrs. Wright, Miss
Robinson and Miss Patterson
are members of the National
Y Awards Day Program
To be Held at Beach
Mass Meeting Monday
On Juvenile Delinquency
American Legion Post 500 will
sponsor a mass meeting on
juvenile delinquency on Mon¬
day night, May 4, at 8.00 p.m.
at the West Broad Street YM
CA. Post 500 enlisted the aid of
several interested persons in
the community and for the past
several weeks they have been
compiling reports which wi 1 be
made at the meeting. All per
sons who are co'.'cerne 1 with
the future of our youth are in¬
vited to come to the meetin?
and share with others their
ideas as to how juvenile de¬
linquency can be completely
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KAPPA KARNIVAL WINNERS—Winners in recent Kappa Kowboy Karnival held at the Flamingo
Left to right Boles C. Ford, master of ceremonies; Sammy “Bat Masterson” White, Miss Julia
‘‘Cow Girl” Crumbley.
Tlae above effort represents an annual project on the part of the Savannah Alumni chap¬
ter, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, to secure scholarship funds for deserving college students. W.
V. Winters is the poiemarch of the Savannah Alumni chapter.
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Guild oi P.'Uno teachers, only
jcudents studying under mem-
jers of tnis organization are
jiigiblc for the audition, Ihe
nuuent’s goal is to become a
member of the National Frater¬
nity of Student Musicians.
National Piano Guild Tour¬
naments, started thirty years
ago in Texas by Irl Allison, are
now held in 650 centers from
■oast to coast where 53,000
players are heard by 200 adjud¬
icators.
All ages of piano student:
take part, from elementary to
professional artists.
Local, D.strict, State and Na-
;ional Certificates; IUg*n School
Collegiate and Artists
mas; the Paderewski Medal
•Dontinker) on t*ne- Four
l CHURCHES SUBSCRIBE
TO NAACP LIFE
MEMBERSHIPS
The St. Philip Monumental
AME church, Rev. F. D. Jaudon,
pastor, made a payment of $50
on a life membership in the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
it was announced by Rev. J. N.
Harris, NAACP membership
drive chairman. During the cur¬
rent NAACP membership cam¬
paign the First African Baptist
church, Rev. C. J. Jack son, pas-
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Mrs. Iris Daniel Engel
Adjudicator
The fifth annual YMCA
Awards Day Exercises of the
West Broad Street YMCA will
be held at the Alfred E. Beach
High School, Wednesday, May
13, 10:25 a.m.
Members and
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Senate Committee Hears Report
On in
WASHINGTON—The repress-
ions, discriminations and terror
under which Negroes live in
South Carolina have been gra-
phically portrayed in testimony
before the Senate Subcommittee
on Constitutional Rights by
two NAACP leaders in that I
Commencement Program of
Beach Adult Center Set
For 'Thursday
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Dr. W. K. I’ayne
Speaker
Funeral of Prof. Grant
Held Friday At Darien
DARIEN, Ga.-Funeral servi
■es for Prof. James Lacklinsor
Grant, widely known educate:
and civic leader and at one
time foremost in the Republican
affairs of McIntosh county,
were held Friday in the audi¬
torium of Todd-Grant high
school. He died Monday, Apr. 20,
after an extended illness.
The funeral was one of the
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1959
FBI Hunts Victim
Of Molt*
POPLARVILLE, Miss.—(ANP)
—'While America grapples in
tlie world court of public opin¬
ion to defend Western democ¬
racy, Mississippi Saturday pro¬
vided the anti-American na¬
tions with damaging propagan¬
da material by conning up with
what was viewed as its second
"lynching” in four years. The
other was the Emett Till lynch¬
ing in 1955.
The victim was Mack Charles
Parker, 23-year-old Negro, who
was clobbered by a mob of from
nine to ten masked white men
and spirited away from the
Pearl River County jail here
early Saturday morning.
Parker had been held in the
jail pending trial Monday on
alleged charges that he raped
a 24 year old white woman near
Lumtoerton, about 25 miles
north of here last Feb. 24.
By Monday, tihe “Parker case”
i was on the Ups of Americans
throughout the nation, from the
highest to the lowest. President
I, continued on page Eight;
Iiisley High Girl Wins
Elks Oratorical Contest
By E. E. McIntyre
The Georgia State Conven-
tion, Improved Benevolent Pro¬
tected Order of Elks of the
World, went into its session
April 18, 19, 20, and 21, In
Brunswick, Ga„ the “City by the
Sea.” Host, Dodge Pride of
Brunswick No. 745 and Ocean
Breeze Temple No. 474, Daugh¬
ters of Elks.
The session began Saturday
with a round table discussion,
State President, Dr. L. W. Wil¬
liams, presiding.
Saturday night the Antler
Guarci was largely attended
Sunday, April 19, at 10:00 a.
in. the meeting of Southeast
state who appeared at a hear-
here on pending civil rights
legislation.
Speaking from firsthand ex-
perience and knowledge, the
Rev. DcQuincy Newman, presi-
dctit of the Association's state
organization, and Billie s. Fle¬
Dr. W. K. Payne, president,
Savannah State College, will
deliver the commencement ad¬
dress to the graduates of the
Alfred E. Beach Adult Educa¬
tion Center on Thursday, May 7,
at 8:00 p.m. Also participatin'-',
on the program will be the
choruses from the Sol Johnson,
Beach and Tompkins High
Schools and the Beach high
•School band.
Members of the graduating
class include Leroy Baker, Geo
Brown, Edwin Chapman, Daniel
Cook, Samuel Davis, Richard
Frazier, Isaac Jones, Eddie Mc¬
Kee, Thomas McMillan, Sinclair
Murphy, Thomas Richardson,
Irthur Rivers, Douglas Small.'
binda Brantley, Univester Smith
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argest seen here in many year
and was attended by many out
jf-town friends of the deceased
The program which was par¬
ticipated in by many political
and civic dignitaries from vari¬
ous parts of the state had as
its principal speaker Father T
P. Martin, vicar of 9t Cyprian
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9 WHITE MEN ACCUSED
OF SHOOTING 6 NEGHO
RICHMOND, Va.—Police au¬
thorities here are busy trying
to fix the blame for the shoot¬
ing of six Negro teen-agers by
several white men who rode
through the Negro community
Sunday night and shot-gunned
the youths as they were walking
down the street from a store.
Nine men have been arrested
on warrants involving them in
the shooting.
The boys told police they were
returning home from a store
shortly before 9:30 p.m. when
two automobiles sped through
the Negro residential area.
District Council, Number 33,
was held, Chief Antler Boze¬
man, presiding. Two Grand
Lodge officers were present,
tihe Hon. Judge Hobson R. Rey¬
nolds and Bro. Albert Betihune,
State President of Florida and
the Bahama Islands. They were
escorted in by Bro. Baisden,
Deputy of Brunswick. Accom-
panying them was Bro. Gonzel-
las o Jacksonville who brought
greetings from tihe Sunshine
State Next Council will be held
n a osita.
The Northern District also 1
held an inspiring session with
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ming, president of the NAACP
branch in Manning, refuted
previous testimony by Governor
Ernest F. Hollins and U. S.
Senator Olin Johnston that all
was sweetness and peace be¬
tween the races in South Caro¬
lina.
Shots boomed and two of the
youths fell, seriously wounded.
The other four were less seri¬
ously hurt.
They said that the shootings
were in retaliation to a white-
Nogro rock fight earlier in the
evening, investigators said they
had been unable to determine
whether any of the six Negroes
had been involved in the rock
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Fine Arts Festival at SSC
The Fifth Annual Fine Arts
will open this Sunday
evening at 6 o’clock in Meldrbn
on the campus of
State College with a
program featuring all
the musical organizations in
Department of Fine Arts.
will open at 5 p.m. and
is cordially Invited to
TWs cnncrrt wlll open wlWl
, el(:eUom by Um . (>me , rl
d!rei; i, ed by Herbert C
Band Director, who has
two numbers by the
composer, Henry Pur-
“Trumpet Voluntary” and
Continued on Page Four’
In testimony presented to the
committee on April 16, Mr.
Newman cited di criminations
in education, voting, transpor¬
tation and employment. The
state, he charged, appropriates
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XAVIER RECEIVES
ACCREDITATION
NEW ORLEANS, LA.— Bister
M. Josephine, S. B. S., President
of Xavier University, announc¬
ed that a communication re¬
ceived from the office of Mr.
•Shelby Jackson, State Superin¬
tendent, Department of Edu¬
cation, Baton Rouge, indicated
the State Board of Education
had approved the accreditation
of Xavier University. The ac¬
crediting was granted under
the new Louisiana Standard for
Accrediting Teacher Education
Institutions.
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GAZING INTO THE FUTURE—
Exchange students from Skid¬
more College, Skidmore, N. Y.,
join Fisk University students in
a good look at the Nashville
campus. The Skidmore coeds
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EAGLE SCOUT Palmer Jackson,
a 16 year old San Franciscan,
represented the state of Cali¬
fornia at the 14th annual Boy
Scout Pilgrimage to the tomb of
Abraham Lincoln In Spring-
field, 111., April 24-27. An esti¬
mated 10,000 Scouts and lead¬
ers from all over the U. S. took
part In the Pilgrimage. A mem¬
ber of Troop 102. young Jack-
son was selected on the basis of
his activities in Scouting, school
and church. A student at Geo.
Washington High school, lie is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer
Jackson, Sr, lANiP Photo)
Civic Leaders To Discuss
It was announced today that
all Negro civic leaders have
been invited to the Interde¬
nominational Religious Meeting,
Monday, May 4, at 12 noon at
the St. Matthew's E/piscopal
The Urban Renewal Program
and lbs effect on thousands of
renters, business and
and church people
ibe disc used.
Plans also will be made for
with City Council, Fri¬
May 8, when the answers
to the 22 questions submitted
by Abram Elsenman are sup¬
posed to be ready, and discuss¬
ion wlll be allowed.
All Negro civic leaders are
urged to attend tills all impor¬
tant meeting, as plans will be
for coordinating thought
and action for all Negro civic
This has been designated as
a meeting of historical impor¬
tance to the welfare of the
Negro people and their future
Savannah.
WELFARE DEPT.
RAISE $8,000
NAACP
NFW YORK Officials and
of the New York City
of Welfare have
a total of $8,145 31 for
National Association for
Advancement of Colored
In a drive conducted
sponsorship of Commis¬
Henry L. McCarthy with
II Allen .serving as
chairman. In 1957, the
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are studying at Fisk for a two
week period. Left to right are
Ml . Ann Hankins Thomas
‘ s ' s > Ro-
zeli . Fisk student council presi-
dent of Gastonia, N. C.; Miss
Price 10c
NUMBER 30
gets go-ahead signal —
Balm Lea veil; editor and pub¬
lisher of The New Crusader,
Chicago weekly which is spon¬
soring the first annual Negro
Business, Culture Exposition in
Chicago during May, recently
received tihe endorsement of
two of Chicago’s leaders. Mayor
Richard J. Daley and Cook
county board president, Daniel
Ryan. The exposition will be
held at the Coliseum, May 14-
19.—(ANP Photo)
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CARNEGIE LIBRARY
OPENS BRANCH AT
HITCH VILLAGE
The Carnegie Library wlll
open Its n#w branch in the
Robert M. Hitch Housing Pro¬
ject May 1.
This new branch library has
been equipped to accommodate
both the young and adult. The
collection at the present time
has over two thousand volumes,
ranging from picture books to
encyclopedias.
Mrs. Florence B. Branch who
had been assisting at the main
library, will be in charge of the
TO FINISH FAMU
STADIUM
TAIJAIIASSEB—A bill per¬
mitting the completion of Flo¬
rida AfiM University’s Bragg
Memorial Stadium at no cost
to the state was passed by the
House and sent to the Senate
the Florida state legislature
here last week. The additional
construction will cost $325,000
and will include dormitory
housing for athletes, lights, a
track, and additional
The stadium was constructed
in 1957 at a cost of $366,000. it
has a seating capacity of 10,753
of steel construction.
An additional $150,000 was
by the State Leg¬
In 1957 for the erection
lights, but the funds were
available after the free ,2
the securing of reve¬
Carol Vandeventer, Miss Carole
Jenkins, Fisk junior frexn Co¬
lumbia, S. C.; Miss Karen
Kramm, Miss Sandra Blair and
Miss Wendy Newfieki.