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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVII
TWO NEW TB BOARD MEMBERS SELECTED
Leonard D. Law
The Chatham-Savannah Tu¬
berculosis and Health Associa¬
tion announces that Leonard L>.
Law and Leroy R. Bolden have
been unanimously selected as
members of its Board of Direc¬
tors.
Mr. Law is Personnel Assist¬
ant at the Union Bag-Oamp
Status of Cl rambling, La.
Changed From “Village"
To “Town"
GRAMBLING, La. — (ANP) -
An officaal gubernatorial pro
clamation issued in Batoi
Rouge May 27 reclassifies th<
“Village of G rambling” int
the “Town of Grambling'’ ac
cording to an annouincemen
Friday by Grambling Mayor E
T. .Woodard.
Incorporated first in 195-
with an official population o
734, the rapidly growing all-
Negro community now boasts ar
official population of 3.288 per¬
sons.
An ordinance adopting thr
new classification for the towr
was passed unanimously by the
board of aldermen in a meeting
Thursday night, June 4.
All-Negro Town
Grambling, one of the few
all-Negro incorporated towns
in the nation, has witnessed
tremendous physical growth,
during the past few years. A
recent survey shows that an
average of 20 permanent dwell¬
ing units are added annually.
Two private construction pro¬
grams in the north section
of town have added over
homes and rental units
in excess of $300,000. Several
smaller housing
tracts are also in
while many individual
also have homes under con¬
struction.
In its Tnursday night meet¬
ing, the board of aldermen au¬
thorized the letting of bids for
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Segregationists Force
Dismissal of Presbyterian
COLUMBUS, Ga. — (ANP) —
Segregationists in the southwest
Georgia presbytery of the Pres¬
byterian Church apparently
were instrumental in fencing
the dismissal of a pastor who
had urged cooperaton between
Negroes and whites as a means
of solving the South’s racial
difficulty.
A commission appointed by the
presbytery last week gave the
Rev. Robert M. McNeill until
RADIO STATION WJIV PRESENTS AWARDS—Radio Station
WJIV has presented trophies to students in Chatham County and
Grounding areas everv vear for the past six years. high Station schools
WJIV through the principals and teachers of the
has selected the “All Around Student” in each high school
anauttalf SHIiiur
ADams 4-3432
Leroy R. Bolden
Paper Ocrp and is active
church, fraternal and civic ac¬
tivities.
Mr. Bolden, a former public
school teacher, is manager of
the new Hitch Village. He is
active in church and masonic
activities.
PRESENTS
Chapter, Omega Psi Phi
two hundred dollar scholarship
Pius X High School as Sister
on.
Annually Mu Phi Chapter,
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.,
presents scholarship awards to
the outstanding male students
m the local high schools who
exemplify the four cardinal
principles of Omega (Psi Phi
Fraternity, Inc., namely: Man.
Cept. 1 to vacate the pa nonage
and find another pastorate in
an announcement which pro¬
voked outbursts of tears from
- ome of the minister's support-
ens. Others stalked the Rev.
Frank C. King, chairman of the
commission, and vigorously pro¬
tested the deoision.
The decision to dismiss the
pastor came after he published
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Integration Moves Forward
In V irginia, Arkansas, and
Illinois
Canning Plant Open
At Woodville School
John Lyten, director, Voca¬
tional Education for Chatham
County, announces that the
canning plant operation is being
conducted at the Woodville
Canning Plant. The canning
plant opened June 15 and will
close on August 15. The hours
are 8 ajm. to 2 p.m. All food
to be processed must be in by
2 p.m.
The basic schedule is as fol¬
lows:
Ellis Kitchens and Roy Ycl-
ton, Monday and Wednesday,
assisted by Mins. Majorie Lee
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Ex-Slave Seeks Education
At 105; Just Wants To
“Read and Write"
Thweatt, Chaplain of Mu
Inc., is shown presenting a
to Norman B. Elmore, Jr., of St.
Donat, O. S. F., principal looks
hood, Scholarship, Perseverance
and Uplift. This award is pre¬
sented to the recipient upon
recommendation of those prin¬
ciples and faculties who have
male candidates meeting the
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U. S. INDICTS NINE
DEPUTY SHERIFFS
WASHINGTON, DX2.— (ANP)
—Atty-.Gen. William P. Rogers
announced recently the return
of 14 indictments by a special
Federal grand jury in Dayton,
Ohio, charging nine defendants,
present and former members
of the Montgomery county she-
riff's office, including a former
lieutenant of detectives, with
violations of the federal civil
righits laws.
Expensive investigation by the
FBI had preceded the depart¬
ment’s presentation of the case
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Photo By Freeman
receive their annual award. The 1959 school year awards were
presented to the following students as they appear in the
picture: (L to R.), Airrener Lee, Tompkins High; Irene Jones,
Pembroke High: Ernest Bruncon, Alfred E Beach High; and
Jones, Carver High, Richmond Hill, Ga,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATITRDAY, JUNE 20. 1959
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(ANP)
— The Nation's spotlight on
public school desegregation cen¬
tered this week on three
states — Virginia, Arkansas and
Illinois.
In Virginia, Negro and liberal
white rasidents of Prince Ed¬
ward County loudly protested
the action of County officials
to withhold funds for operating
21 Negro and white schools
rather than follow the Supreme
Court's order to desegregate.
Here in the Gapital City, Sec¬
retary Arthur S. Flemmings of
Hie Department of Health, Ed¬
ucation and Welfare, said the
Prince Edward County decision
should be reversed, “not in the
long run, but in the short run.”
“Sad Day for the Nation’’
The Secretary continued: “It's
a sad day for any community
when it decides not to provide
adequately for the education of
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— —
James Williams, former Negro
slave bom in Louisville, Ky.
105 yeans ago, an education is
important, even if it must be
gotten late in life.
Williams, who didn’t marry
until he was 60 and took his
first drink at 77, enrolled in a
twice-a-werk night class at
Blake cen'er recently because
he want to learn the funda¬
mentals of education
JACKIE ROBINSON TO
SPEAK AT TUSKEGEE
* - ' ■V ,
Jackie Robinson
TUSKEGEE Inst., Ala (ANP-
Jackie Robinson, formerly Jof
the Brooklyn Dodgers, and now
vice president of Chuck Full o
Nuts in charge of personnel
will be the main speaker on
June 23 at the second anniver¬
sary celebration of the Tuske¬
gee Civic Association’s “Cru
sade for Citizenship.” Rev. K
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I
Services For
Pinckney To Be
Monday
It. V. Pinckney
R. V. Pinckney, retired Rail¬
Postal Transportation clerk,
Tuesday, same i6, in a
County hospital after a
illness.
Mr. Pinckney was a native of
and had been employed
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scad and write, he said. “By
the time 1 get to that, 111 be
ready to die, anyway.”
He is confident if he had
started school younger, he
could have gone right on up
through high school and coi-
lege. He outeiates his teacher
by some 80 years.
| ,
Williams, spry for his age, was
born Aug. 31, 1854.
OCTOGENARIAN
REGISTERS TO VOTE
The above photo shows Mrs.
Minnie Howard, age 81 years,
of 1223 Murphy Avenue, who
was recently seen at the Chat¬
ham County Courthouse regis¬
tering to vote. The Savannah
Tribune congratulates
Howard ana Hopes that her
ribe will increase!
low Is The Time To
Register To Vote
Registered Voters who have
not voted in the past two years
have recently received cards
mailed by the Chatham County
Board of Registrars.
The 9,000 persons receiving
’he cards must take them to the
registration window in the
Chatham County Courthouse
within 30 days of the time the
cards are received. Failing to
do so will mean that their
names will be taken from the
voters list.
Those disqualified for not
voting in the past two years
must re-register and wait the
regular six-month period before
being eligible to vote again.
Have you registered or re¬
registered to vote? If not, the
Savannah Tribune urges you to
do so today.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—(ANP)
—"Florida has maintained its
fine record ol never sending a
white man to the electric chair
for the rape of a Negro.”
That statement by Dr. Joseph
Reddick, former state president
of the NAACP, truly described
how Florida’s (nay, Southern)
tradition prevailed early Sun
day morning when an all-white
jury of 12 men, led by a plan¬
tation owner, found four white
youths guilty of abducting and
raping a Negro co-ed but
saved them from the electric
chair by recommending mere'
The vercuot was rendered at.
12:45 a.m. Sunday after the
jury, which had been permitted
to listen to slanted appeals by
the defense which appeared to
have little to do with the case,
had deliberated about two hours
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PRESENTS SCHOLARSHIP Norman B Elmore, Chairman of the
Scholarship Committee - Savannah Chapter - Savannah State
College National Alumni Association, is ..iiown presenting a one
hundred hundred dollar dollar Scholar Scholarship to Miss Carolyn Roberts, of Sophronia
Tompkins High School, Photo By Freeman
Each year Savannah Chap¬
ter, Savannah State College Na¬
tional Alumni Association, pre¬
sents scholarship awards to
outstanding students in the
VIRGINIA PASTOR
QUITS POST
FRONT ROYAL, Va. (ANP)-
The latest victim of the school
desegregation controversy which
has split this city, Ls the Rev.
Paul L. Stagg. The Rev.
pastor of the 800 member First
Baptist church for the past 12
years, resigned from his
last week.
A native of Louisiana, Rev.
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OCLtA
TRAVELING ALONE
Evon Collier, daughter of Dr
and Mrs. H. M. Collier, Jr., i
shown in the above photo
boarding a Delta Air Line plane
for Rantoul, Illinois. She
on June 10 to spend several
weeks vacation with her god-
Price 10c
ADams 4-3435
NAMED TO U N
COMMITTEE POST
CHICAGO — (ANP) — Atty.
Edith Sampson who once served
as alternate United States dele¬
gate to the United Nations, re¬
ceived another top assignment
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Southern Congressmen Fight
Negroes To Whom They
Owe Positions
local high schools who manifest
good scholarship and will ma¬
triculate at Savannah State Col-
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George Johns Takes Oath
As Civil Commissioner
WASHINGTON — (ANP) —
President Eisenhower witnessed
the wearing in at the White
Hvuoe hint week of George M.
John m as civil rights commis-
sioner. '1 he oath ol office was
administered by Frank Sarnler-
son, executive office of the
Wllilc Ilouse
Mr. Eisenhower was the first
| father, Lt. L.
J his wife, Juanita. herself She felt h 1
(very proud of as - s e
j Midwest travelled she alone. will While visit C^ago, in the*
and other interesting points. |
Roberle’s brothers, Vincent j
and Henry Collier, III, are
NUMBER 37
APPOINTED
AT TUSKEGEE
Miss ({ueen E. Shootes
Dr. Lutheir H. Foster, presi-
of Tuskegee Institute, Tus-
A!a., recently announced
that Miss Queen E. Sihootes
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AUSTIN, Tex—(ANP) - Thir¬
ty member® of the United
States House of Representatives
from Southern states owe their
ixjsitions in Congress to the
Negro population in tiheir re¬
spective states. Yet, these same
Congressmen are the greatest
barriers to Negroes attaining
full citizenship.
T.his view was expressed here
Sunday by Clarence A. Law's,
field secretary of the NAACP.
Speaking at a public meeting
sponsored by the Austin branch
of the NAACP, Laws said:
♦ 'There are 12 Southern
.States which continue to resist
school deisegrogation and citi¬
zenship rights for Negroes in
varying degrees. There are at
present 106 Congressmen from
those states. Of this number, 30
are there as a direct result of
the approximately 9,000,000 Ne¬
groes in these states as of the
1950 census.”
Laws said tiiat because of
this situation many Southern
Negroes riot only suffered from
“taxation without representa¬
tion,” but witli what is imineas-
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to congratulate Johnson and
expressed hope that hi;; work
would be “interesting and pro¬
ductive.”
Notables Attend Ceremony
Among those witnessing the
ceremony wcr< Mrs. Johnson, E.
Frederic Morrow, White House
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Champion Tuesday night,
une 9 th for Baltimore, Md. to
. t wjth relatives Before re¬
they wi]1 vLsi{
Philadelphia,
City and New York City, <