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FEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVII
Savannah Family Killed in
in Car
ACCIDENT VICTIMS—Top left, Sgt. Decker Warrington McQuil¬
lan, Mrs. Carolyn Stokes McQuillan; bottom, the three McQuil¬
lan children, Wanda Anita, age 3 years; Decker, Jr., 1 year; Helen
Loraine, 4 years.
From
Jail by in-Pearl Mississippi Kiver Mob
Found
Miss Jones Named Asso.
Director, Delta Sigma Theta
ATTENDED MEETING OF
DENTAL ASSISTANTS
Mrs. Everleatha H. Brisbane
Mrs. Everleatha H. Brisbane
attended a two day course for
dental assistants, sponsored by
Professional Practice Programs
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i
Action part in the three act mystery play, “A Stranger in i
The Night” that will be presented in Meldrim Auditorium, Sa-
vannah State College. Monday, May 11, 8:00 P. M.. by The West
Broad Street Y M. C. A Players Guild. Left to right. Mrs.
Farmer Mrs Mamie Williams members of the cast of twelve.
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WASHIGTON, D. C.—Miss
Eloise Avonne Jones, teenage
program director of the YWCA
of Seattle and instructor at the
University of Washington’s
School of Social Work, has been
named associate director of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
Miss Jones will be responsible
for developing the Sorority’s
national public service projects.
These projects consist of dis¬
seminating information on men¬
tal health problems; volunteer¬
ing for community services;
explaining job opportunities to
ninth-grade teachers, guidance
counselors and parents encour¬
aging children to read more
widely in a library project
called “Ride the Winged Horse”
and cementing good relations
abroad by providing tangible
aids under its international
project.
Miss Jones will also edit the
Delta Newsletter, a monthly
publication distributed to mem-
bers of the Sorority.
Her home is Langston, Okla.,
jj (:nnt irmert on Paep Seven.
Five members af a local fam¬
ily were killed Wednesday of
last week in Chateauroux,
France, when their automobile
collided with a truck.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Stokes
of 353 Fellwood Homes said
they were notified by military
officials Thursday of the death
of their daughter, Mrs. Carolyn
McQuillan, 21; her husband,
S-Sgt. Decker McQuillan of
North Carolina; and their chil¬
dren, Helen, 4, Wanda,. 3, and
Decker, 1.
It appears that Sergeant Mc¬
Quillan was driving a privately
owned automobile the day of
the accident. The car appar¬
ently ran into the rear of a
slow moving or stopped truck.
State Law Banning Hiring of NAACP
LITTLE ROCK, Ark (ANP) —
A Negro public school teacher,
B. T. Shelton, last week asked
the Federal District Court In
Little Rock to issue a temporary
injunction to prevent the state
from enforcing a law passed by
the ArkansasLegislature last year
forbidding public agencies from
hiring members of the NAACP.
Resentment mounted against
Arkansas In*addition segregation laws.
to the anti-NAACP
law, the Legislature, harking to
the demands of arch segrega-
tionist Gov. Faubus, passed
POPLARVILLE, Miss. —Inves¬
tigation is said to be going
to apprehend the members
a mob who snatched Mack
Parker from jail ten
ago, shot him and
his body in Pearl river
Bogalusa, La. As of today,
no one has been ar¬
A jury sitting at the Pearl
River County court house ren¬
dered the following verdict:
“Death apparently was caused
by two 1-4 inch high speed pro¬
jectiles that entered the vic¬
tim’s body.”
The bloated, water-bleached
body of the 23-year old Negro
truck driver was found in th
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A welter of committee reports
bearing on juvenile delinquency
in Savannah brought the prob¬
lem vividly before a gathering
of about 100 persons at the
West Broad Street YMCA Mon-
HD CLUBS HOLD
DRESS REVUE
The Home Demonstration
Clubs of Chatham county cli¬
maxed their clothing project
with a dress revue at the YM
CA on Wednesday, April 29.
Winners were as follows:
1st place, Mrs. Peter Donegal
of the Liberty City Home De¬
monstration Club, who made
rnd modeled a tight brown
wool suit. Little Willow Dene-
gal modeled a royal blue spring
coat which was made by her
mother, Mrs. Denegal; 2nd
place winner, Mrs. Sadie Luten
cf the Sandfly H. D. Club who
'made and modeled a green
and brown floral design cotton
sheath dress on a bright rust
3rd place, Mrs.
Ester B. Haggary of Blooming-
uaie club who made and
a multicolor floral
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Both vehicles were traveling in
the same direction.
Sgt. and, Mirs. McQuillan and
their son, Decker, and a Ger¬
man friend were killed instant¬
ly. Helen and Wlanda Anita
died enroute to the hospital.
The bodies are being shipped
to the U. S. and are expected
to arrive in Savannah during
the week. Funeral arrange¬
ments will be in charge of
Williams & Williams Funeral
Home.
Sgt. McQu'llan was a native
of Wilmington, N. C., where he
attended school before enter¬
ing the army. His relatives are
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daiw-
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measure requiring teachers
the public schools and colleges
to sign a “loyalty oath.” Teach¬
ers are also required to list
ganizations to which they be¬
long.
Calls Law Unconstitutional
In the suit, Shelton, who
no bones about holding
bership in the NAACP,
lenged the validity of the
and said he would lose his
if they were enforced.
The laws are designed to
integration by freezing out
teachers and individuals
Elected To
3yr. Term on International
Committee of YMCAvS
J. R. JENKINS
Y Executive Secretary
Joseph R. Jenkins, executive
secretary of the West Broad St.
YMCA, was elected to a three
year term on the Internation¬
al Committee of the YMCAs of
REPORTS REVEAL
YOUTH DELINQUENCY
The meeting was sponsored
by William P. Jordan Post 500,
American Legion, which for
several weeks has been studying
the upsurge of this
Rev. Dinkins Succeeds The
Late Dr.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rev.
Charles L. Dlnxins, Assistant
Secretary and Director of Edu¬
cation of the Sunday School
Publishing Board, National
Baptist Convention, U. S. A.,
Inc., has been elected Corres¬
ponding (Executive) Secretary
of the Board, to fill the unex-
pired term of Dr. A. M. Town¬
send, it has been announced
by Rev. M. H. Ribbins, chair¬
man of the Board.
The election took place dur¬
ing the meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Publishing
Board, held Tuesday, April 28.
Rev. Dinkins began his asso¬
ciation with the Sunday School
Publishing Board in 1943, when
he was elected Secretary of the
Board’s Department of Chris-
Education. In January.
GETS HIGH POST
IN AG DEPT.
WASHINGTON. D. C — A. S.
Bacon, State supervisor of Negro
Extension work In Georgia, has
been appointed to the adminis¬
trative staff of the Federal Ex¬
partment of Agriculture.
Already at work, Mr. Bacon
will succeed P. H Stone upon his
retirement on June 30 as assist¬
ant to the Assistant Adminis¬
trator in charge of the pro¬
gram work of the agency, which
is the educational arm of the
Department.
Like his predecessor, Mr. Ba¬
con will work primarily with
State' Extension supervisors
throughout the South in de¬
veloping more effective educa¬
tional programs to assist the
millions of rural Negro people
in the region.
Providing on-the.farm and in.
the-home Cooperative Exten¬
sion advice are some 900 col-
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j porting the Supreme Court do-
clsion.
Others Balk
However, despite the pressure
brought on by the Legislature,
opposition is growing against
the measures. In addition to
Shelton, two white teachers
have refused to sign the affi¬
davit, and said so publicly.
Others are said to be signing
reluctantly.
Several faculty members at
the University of Arkansas have
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the United States and Canada
at the 20th annual meeting of
the Southern Area Council ,of
YMCAs meeting in Miami, Beach,
Fla., last week. This commit¬
tee is responsible for YMCA
World Services and “Buildings
for Brotherhood” efforts of all
YMCAs in the United States
and Canada.
Locally, the YMCA World Ser
vice Committee is headed by
James E. Luten, Jr., which
sponsors the annual Mr. and
Miss YMCA Worid Service con¬
test. This program is the work
of young people not necessari
ly members of Y clubs and their
parents of this community. The
money raised from this effort
is sent to the National head¬
quarters for distribution to
children of dependent coun¬
tries throughout the world. This
money is used for food, shelter,
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through a number of commit-
tees which have been prying
into its causes commander
Benjamin F. Lewis of Jordan
Post served as chairman of the
1951, he resigned his position
to assume the pastorate of the
First Baptist church of East
Nashville. Since 1953 he has
been a mender of the Sunday
School Publishing Board, Its
Board of Directors and its
Executive Committee. In Janu¬
ary 1957, he returned to the
staff of the Board as Assistant
and Director of Edu¬
Rev. Dinkins has served the
the Board as Editor of the
Sunday School Informer and of
the Sunday School Teacher. He
wrote the Board’s Manual for
Schools, Manual for
Departments of Christian
Education, and several other
the Board's publications. In
1957 he prepared the adminls-
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Joint Slimmer Opening oi
Hilton Head Beaches Set
for Sunda
SPECIAL CEMETERY
MOTHER’S DAY
GESTURE
A special Mother’s Day ges¬
ture is planned for Laurel
Grove cemetery. Owners of lots
there are asked to place a
wreath or floral In them in
'memory of your mother or
other dead to beautify the
grave Friday or Saturday.
If you cannot or do not have
the time to clean your lot
yourself, call AD 2-3055 and
arrangements will be made to
have the Boy Scouts do this
work. Deacon John Mines is
chairman of the committee in
charge of cleaning up the cem¬
etery.
Travelers Insurance Company
records show that In 1968 there
were 7.700 pedestrians killed in
accidents.
FAMU Students Stage Boycott
Protesting Kapiug of Negro
Co-ed Four White Men
TALI AI IASS EE, Fla.—(ANP)
—A massive boycott by some
600 students protesting the
raping of a 19-year-old Negro
coed by four while youths on
the campus Saturday was
staged at Florida AaM Univer¬
sity Monday. , r ,.
The boycott was called fol¬
lowing a meeting of student
leaders In the campus quadran¬
gle Sunday following vesper
services.
As the students rallied behind
student leader Clifford C. Tay¬
lor, president < f the FAMU Stu¬
dent Government Association,
hundreds of them were seen
carrying placards and banners
reading, “justice is all we want”
“silence is not our motto,’'
“remember the golden rule and
apply the law equally.” They
said the boycott and demon
stration wil contiune until “jus¬
tice prevails.”
, nvite world Opinion
Meanwhile, tar srucenls re¬
jected the usual Dixie tendency
to localize the affair. Said
Taylor: ‘I wept, we all wept,
and we will weep again untii
we hear the world is on our
side. ’ He added tudent lead*
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LOC 41
a number of shocking revela-
tion., were di.-.clo < d in the
findin .,, of thf . commi ttees,
amoixg Lhem Ulc fact that th " r
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NAACP GETS $4.M)0
BEQUEST FROM WIDOW
NEW YORK -A bequest of
j $4,111 49 was received this week
by the National Association for
] the Advancement of Colored
People on behalf of the late
Mrs. Mildred Dixon Cools.
The bequest Is in memory of
Mrs. Cools’ late husband, O
Victor Cools, her father and
mother, Daniel and Rose Dixon,
and her sister, Lillian Dixon.
A native of Troy, New York,
Mrs. Cools studied at Syracuse
and New York Universities. She
taught at North Carolina State
College, Tuskegee Institute and
Trenton (N. J.) High School be¬
fore joining the New York City
school system in 1937.
At the time of her death in
October, 1958 Mrs. Cools was
I chairman of the home econom¬
ies department, at Samuel J.
i Tilden High School, Brooklyn.
Price 10c
Dr. IS. [V!. Collier, Jr.
Owner
Collier and Bradley Beaches \
of Hilton Head, S. C., will have j
a Joint opening Saturday and j
Sunday, May 9 and 10.
Hilton Head Beach Is the
Masonic Grand Masters To
Meet In New York
NEW YORK (ANP)—The
inial Grand Masters conference
meeting of the Prince Hall Ma
sons will lie held here May 13-
15 with Amos T. Hall, grand
master, Oklahoma, presiding.
Topics for discussion will in¬
clude: Fight against clandestine
and bogus Masonry; standardi¬
zation of Masonic procedures
and techniques; education of
members in Prince Hall Mason¬
ry; civic, social and economic
development of members of;
Prince Hall and other groups
P. G. Porter, grand master,
Kansas, will also discuss plans!
for the “Order of Pythagoras,”
a non-Masonlc organization
sponsored by Masons for youths
of the land.
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell is
scheduled to address a public
meeting during the confab. At¬
torney Wiley Branton, Little
Rock; Ifulan Jack, borough
president, Mayor Robert Wag¬
ner and Sen. Javits and Kcea-
ton are slated to attend.
Travelers Insurance Company
records reveal that in 1968 14,-
250 persons were killed in col-
llsioh.s with automobiles.
PHOTO BY FREEMAN
“STATE TEACHER OF YEAR” WITH FAMILY—Mrs. Sadie D.
Steele is shown holding the bronze alf which was presented to
her in recognition of her recent honor of being judged tho
“Teacher of The Year for Georgia.” Mrs. Steele was selected out
of a group of teachers representing eleven regions in Georgia.
Left to right in the picture are Mrs. Steele’s relatives: David
Henry Bennett, an adopted son; Mrs. Amelia Christopher, an
aunt; Mrs. Steele, and her husband, Clarence J. Steele.
At the annual banquet spon -1 Georgia Teachers Association
sored by the Georgia State ---------•
Chamber of Commerce and the (Continued on Page Eight)
NUMBER 31
Harold R. Collier
Manager
newest and fastest growing
playground for young and old.
located 35 miles from Savan-
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Mrs. Daisy Bates
Mrs. Daisy Bales, presidi nt
of the Little Rock, Ark, NAA
CP, who will be the principal
speaker at the opening day’s
session of the Georgia State
Medical Association convention
which will meet at Atlanta
May 12, 13 and 14.
Several outstanding doctors
from Emory, Howard and Me-
harry Medical colleges will ap-
pear on the program.
a number of Savannah doc-
tors will attend the convent! ;n.