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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVII
FIVE NEW PRINCIPALS
Arthur Dwight
Mrs. Eunice VV. Clay
According to Superintendent
of Education D. Leon McCor-
mac who recommended them to
the Board of Education, five
new principals have been ap-
4 Negroes Graduate From
V. S. Naval Academy
Publishers To Meet June 25
In Los
LOS ANGELES, Calif. —
20th annual convention of
National Newspaper
Associaton, will convene
June 25, 26, 27, 1959. The
Angeles Sentinel will be the
paper.
This year, the
Editors Award will be given
Plummer Bernard Young,
publisher of The Norfolk Jour¬
nal and Guide, and Ralph
Gill, editor of The
Constitution.
Problems of the Negro
will be discussed in four round
table seminars.
In connection with the con¬
vention, The Los /Ingeles Sen¬
tinel will observe its 25th an¬
niversary in a joint banquet,
4 F Friday, June 26. Representatives
from newspapers ah over
nation will be in
William O. Walker, editor
The Cleveland Call it Pos 1
,
president of the association.
DID YOU KNOW?
In 1958 14,250 persons were
killed in automobile collisions.
SCENES FROM TOMPKINS GRADUATION — Left to right in
ji,bove photo are Carolyn Roberts, Barbara Clements, Richard
Martin. Sarah Wesley, Robert Lee Jones, Airrencr Lee and Caro¬
Tompkins High School pre-
sented a unique
program last Tuesday. Aside
the usual , melodies , .... pre-
from
sented by the chortil group
several seniors dramatized
ill? «aumuwltMtuor
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Joseph Greene
Mrs. Countess Y. Cox
pointed principals in the Negro
j schools of Chatham County.
They are Mrs. Eunice Clay,
East Broad Street; Mrs. Conn-
tess Cox, Tompkins Elementary
Mrs. Rosamac Perrin
Granted Retirement
Mrs. Rosamae Young Perrin
has been retired by the Chat¬
ham County Board of Education
ifter serving as a public school
teacher for forty - eight years,
thirty of which were spent at
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“Our American Heritage.” This
dramatization was participated
<. in by the students shown .
i J in
j Picture above in addition to
j I Artis Thomas.
Malcolm Thomas
i School; Arthur Dwight, Beach
junior High- ’ Joseph Greene,
I Hayen Home a n d Malcolm
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WASHINGTON— (ANP) —For
the first time in history, four
Negroes were among this year’s
784 graduates from the U. S.
Naval academy. They were Wil¬
liam Egbert Powell Jr„ Maurice
Eugene Clark, Malvin Davison
Bruce and William Sylvester
Bush III.
Ensign Powell was married
the folio wing day to Mis Lo¬
retta Mitchell in the little ivy-
covered chapel on the academy
campus. Miss Mitchell is a
teacher of science at RuJflier
Junior High school in her
hometown Norfolk, Va.
Parents Attend Wedding
Powell hails from fndianopo-
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SupremeCt.Voids$l00,000 NAACP
on
WASHINGTON — A $100,000
contempt fine levied by an
Alabama court against the Na¬
tional Association for Die Ad¬
vancement of Colored People
was voided Monday by the
Supreme court.
In an unsigned opinion the
Supreme court said the Ala¬
bama Supreme court was wrong
in stating in a Feb. 12, 1959
opinion that the U S. Supreme
court had erred in Fie case.
Wr. Gay Gets Master’s
degree
Elite R. Gay, formerly of
Millen buit now the County
Agent for Clarke County, 388
N. Bailey Street, Athens, Geor¬
gia, received his master’s de¬
gree from South Carolina State
during the June convocation.
He holds the bachelor of sci¬
ence degree from Savannah
State College. He is the son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexan¬
der Gay of Millen, Georgia. His
wife and children, Mrs. Clara
B. Gay, Clifford and Flora Ann,
motored to Orangeburg to be
present, at the commencement
exercises.
i DID YOU KNOW?
| In 1958 one out of every 61
I Americans was killed or injured
' Uic highway.
on
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Hampton Alumni Assn.
Trustees To Accept
President’s
Hampton, Va.—Meeting in
shadow of l>r. Alonzo G. Mo¬
ron’s offer to resign as presi¬
dent of Hampton Institute the
college’s alumni association
voted, 40 to 45, to “petition the
Board of Trustees to accept the
president’s resignation
delay and to proceed to the
election of the best qualified
oerson available to administer
the affairs of Hampton.”
This action was taken crurlng
the annual business meeting
Saturday afternoon on the col.
lege campus in the 43rd annu¬
el reunion of the alumni as¬
sociation. The attitude express¬
ed in the resolution was in con¬
trast to messages from a dozen
alumni chapters supporting the
current administration.
Other resolutions adopted
called for “the return to the
nhllosophy of the training of
the head, heart, and hand in
a modern atmosphere and that
development of religious and
moral principles be an integral
part of the program of the col¬
lege.”
Also that “members of the
National Hampton Alumni As¬
sociation pledge their unquali¬
fied support to the board of
trustees in this crisis, realizing
that the board is constituted by
competent and dedicated men
and women who will at all
times act in the best interest
of the college.”
Another resolution
subscribed to the policy of
SCHOOLMATES REUNION AT CLARK—When Clark College held
1959 class reunions recently, several alumni of the College from
classes before the turn of the century were on hand to renew ac¬
quaintances. Shown here are 1 to r: Mrs. Constance A. Peeler
of Savannah, Miss Anna E. Hall, of Atlanta, Mrs. Carrie
Jordan of St. Louis, and Miss C. Emma Lewis of Savannah.
Hall and Mrs. Peeler are graduates of the Class of 1892 and Mrs.
Jordan and Miss Lewis are 1889 graduates.—(Clark staff
bv Harold Hamilton),
The $100,000 fir e was levied
by Circuit Judge Waiter B.
Jones in Montgomery, Ala., In
June, 1956, for NAACP's refusal
to turn over to the state Its
memberslhp lists and other re¬
cords
Tire U.S. Supreme Court in a
June 30, 1958 decision said the
membership records were pri¬
vate and could not be subpoen¬
aed. It overturned at that time
ho nnn.t.r-.mnit. iuri-‘fment and
Editor Warns
Of Racial
Catastrophe
NEW YORK — The Union of
South Africa's doctrine of apar¬
theid /he forced separation of
the races — may result in the
worst racial catastrophe in
■ hite history, a magazine editor
declared today.
Writing in the new issue of
Look, Edward M. Korry, the
magazine's European editor,
warned that Africans “are buil¬
ding up a store of resentment
and hate that is bound to ex¬
plode” if Prime Minister Hen¬
drik Verwoerd “and his like” re¬
main in power.
Korry. recently returned from
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SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1959
support of the United
College Fund and
“belief in the broad
al philosophy of Hampton.”
Chairman of the
committee was Henry C.
son, director of the
program at Carver High school
Baltimore, Md.
After welcoming the return¬
ing alumni to the college, Pres¬
ident Alonzo G. Moron answer¬
ed a question about the issues
Involved in his offer to resign
last month.
Dr. Moron detailed the fol¬
lowing: (1) His two and a half
years effort to get the Board’s
support in an effort to raise
funds for improved classroom
facilities. These efforts have
not met with Board approval
(2) He cited the president’s re¬
sponsibility for the administra¬
tion of the college which is in
conflict, in this instance, with
the Board’s feeling that they
have a right to deal directly
with the faculty, staff and stu¬
dents. s !
There were four alumni mem¬
bers of the Board of Trustees
present at the meeting. They
were: Dr. Flernmie P. Kittrell,
Washington; Charles H. Wil¬
liams, Hampton; Dr. Haul M.
Perdue, Baltimore, Md.; and
James J. Henderson, Durham
N. C.
They spoke in rebuttal to
Mloron’s statements, charging
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fine and sent the case back
the Alabama Supreme
for further proceedings.
This led to the opinion last
Feb. 12 by the Alabama Su¬
preme Court that the highest
tribunal was mistaken.
Alabama Supreme
said there was nothing in
record to show NAACP
complied satisfactorily
tones’ order and NAACP
fore was still in contempt.
SAMARITANS TO MEET
AT DORCHESTER
The I. O. of G. S. and D.
S. will hold its
Grand Lodge in Dorchester,
at the Dorchester center
15-1.7.
The delegation will include
large number of grand
officers from various points
Georgia. Delegates will
Savannah Monday
June 15 at 9:30 a. m. via
way Bus, which will leave
Good Samaritan hall, 511
street, at 9:30 a. m.
Wednesday afternoon
of both grand lodge
and national delegates will
held.
The National Grand
will convene in Lynchburg,
August 10-14. The local
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Atlanta Told Schools
Must Be
ATLANTA, June 2 — Atlanta
while not shocked was quite
upset at Me two judge decision
last Friday which ordered At¬
lantia to desegregate its public
schools.
No specific date was set, but
the court instructed that the
integration plan be presented
"within a reasonable time.’’
The city served notice of ap¬
peal immediately.
Hearing the historic Atlanta
school case took only one day,
and the decree was handed
down shortly after the hearing
was concluded.
At the outset, the court held
it is “bound” by U.S. Supreme
Court decisions to hold .school
segregation in Atlanta uncon¬
stitutional.
Atlanta school officials were
enjoined from discriminating
against Negro pupils, iktrller
in Die day Die court declare I
that the city’s segregated
schools were illegal.
The injunction was granted
by United States District Judge
Frank A. Hooper, who said li
would give the c'ty Board o!
Education a reasonable time
in which to submit a plan for
Integration. He said that any
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Bronze Mayor of Sav’h
('oiliest is
Mrs. Louise MLilard Donald¬
son, a member of Lambda
Chapter Y Gradale Sorority of
the West Broad Street YMCA,
will attend the National Gra¬
dale Conference and Young
Adult Assembly at Estes Park,
Colorado, June 27-July 3.
Mrs. Donaldson Is a teacher
employed by the Allied E. Beach
Adult Education Center. She
planned and organized an adult
class at FellwooJ Homes, is a
member of St. Matthew’s Epis¬
copal chi:-eh, the West -tread
Street YMCA, the YWCA, Pan¬
ther Bridge Club, St. Augustine
Guild. Site will be accompanied
by Mrs. Rebecca E. Micthell,
Youth Secretary of the Y.
The local chapter of Y Gra¬
dale was chartered January 17,
1957, by the National Council
of YMiCA.s of the United States.
The president is Miss Hettle
Frazier, a teacher at Moses
Jackson Elementary school. Mrs.
Bessie H. Boyd Ls the advisi r.
The “Bronze Mayor of Sa¬
vannah” contest is picking up
momentum with only a month
to go. At present a Roper four
burner Gas Range is one ol
the prizes in the contest.
Friday night of this wees
Leroy Wilson will offer the gen¬
eral public a pig knuckle and
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RETIRE—Three members of the Savannah State College staff retire. From left to right: Joseph
B. Wright, Assistant Professor of Biology; Richard Bennett, Chef-cook; and Philander S. Moore,
Instructor in plumbing, maintenance plumber, a nd operator of the heating plant. Posing with
the three is Dr. W. K. Payne, President, Savannah State College.
Price 10c
ADams 4-343S
Liberty County High Sch.
Graduates Fifty-five
FI My t vo senior -
diplomas last Tuesday
at Liberty County High
before a large gathering of
rents and friends. Mrs. J. M.
Bacon, county superintendent
of schools, awarded the coveted
certificates of graduation.
Horace E. Tate, irasit president
of tire G T E.A. and currently a
candidate for the doctorate In
education at the University of
Kentucky, was the finals spea¬
ker.
Mannie Roberts, valedictor¬
ian, received the Hl-Fidellity
Club's $200.00 scholarship to .Ik.
used at the college of Ills choice.
A $25.00 U.fi. Savings Bond was
presented to Miss Vendya Lewis
for participation in the District
PTA essay contest by the
school's PTA. A gift of a $25.00
check was made to the class
toward its educational tour to
Washington which begins June
7, by the Rlceboro Elementary
School. The Hlnesvtlle Bank
g a v e a personal plasticized
copy of the diploma to each
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International Impressions
At Beth Eden Wednesday
Mis:; June Wells will give her
impressions of Ada, Europe,
Canada arid Newfoundland, 11-
lu.ilrating with color slides and
International musical record¬
ings on Wednesday evening,
June 17, 8:00 o’clock at Beth
Eden Baptist church (corner of
Gordon and Linroln Streets.
Miss Weils has recently return¬
ed home from Newfoundland.
Due to an emergency land¬
ing in New foundland enroute
home from his American visit
in Janhary with President Eis-
i nhowcr, Russian Deputy Prem¬
ier Anastas Mikoyan and party
spent eighteen hours in the
American hotel where Miss
Wells resided. Miss Wells will
also give her impressions of
this brief stop.
A native Savar.nahian and a
graduate of Northwestern and
Columbia Universities, Miss
Well; is a member of the Chi¬
cago chapter of the National
Junior League and Theta Ome¬
ga chapter of Alpha Kappa
Alpha .sorority, also in Chicago.
A mu ic specialist for schools
of the United States Govern¬
ment abroad, Miss Wells was
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NUMBER 36
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j ft. Valley Prexy Gets
Honorary Degree
At the 74th annual com¬
mencement exercises of Morris
Brown College, held June 3, the
degree of doctor of laws was
conferred upon President Cor¬
nelius V. Troup of the Fort Vul-
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Kendrix Heads
Morehouse Alumni
ATLANTA, Ga.—Mass H. Ken¬
drix, Washington, D. C., public
relations firm head, has bi n
elected president of the Na¬
tional Alumni Association of
Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga.,
succeeding Charles W. Greene,
Atlanta Life Insurance Compa¬
ny executive, who become, pre¬
sident-emeritus of the associa¬
tion.
Other elected offeers are
Dr. Alvin H. Lane, Chicago
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