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77 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
VOLUME LXXVII
SCENES FROM TESTIMONIAL BANQUET FOR REV. A. C. CURTRIGHT
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TESTIMONIAL BANQUET—The above photos were taken during
the testimonial oanquet for the Rev. Arthur Cornelius Curtright
which was held Friday evening, June 26, in Adams Hall, Savan-
nah State College.
Extreme rignt photo shows Rev. Curtright holding the silver
tray that was presented to him by R. W. Gadsden (at his
right! in behalf of the First Congregational Church. At the
Approximately two hundred
members and friends of the
First Congregational Church
participated in the testimonial
banquet on June 26 for the Rev.
A. C. Curtright, who retired as
pastor of the church on June
30. Nearly 150 persons were
present at the banquet. Others
contributed toward the gift
which was a large silver tray
with the names of Rev. and Mrs.
A. C. Curtright engraved on it.
Dr. W. K. Payne, a trustee of
Lavender And Beaton Cruise
To Jekyll Island
At extreme right in photo
Thomas Beaton and James
ender standing by their
built cabin prusiers.
James Lavesder of 627
37/th street, traveling in
self-built 18 foot cabin cruisei
and Thomas Beaton of
West 38th street, traveling in
his 16 foot Borutm. built
accompanied by relatives and
friend took off last Wednesday
for Brunswick. They
home on the following Thurs¬
day morning. Traveling on wa¬
ter at moderate speed, the
took them about four hours and
NCNW SAYS NEW ERA
HAS BEGUN
WASHINGTON, D.
gates to the
fourth annual Mary McLeod
Bethune Commemoration Week
Leadership Conference at Be-
ithune-Cookman College in Day-
MOREHOUSE PROF.
ASKS REOPENING OF
SOBELL CASE
Murray Branch, professor of
religion at Morehouse College
in Atlanta, Ga., is seeking a
re-opening of the case of Mor¬
ton So bell. Professor Branch,
shown addressing a meeting of
1.000 persons at Webster Hall
in New York City on June 19,
said: “A fair trial for Morton
So bell and for Julius and Ethel
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the church, served as toastmas¬
ter. The program consisted of
a solo by Mrs. Bertha Doyle,
remarks hy Rev. L. S. Stell, Jr.,
R. W. Gadsden, Mlarion O.
Johnston and Rev. V. W. Doug¬
las of McIntosh, Ga., a solo by
Mas, Helene Douglas of McIn¬
tosh and presentation of a sil¬
ver tray to the honoree. The
soloists were accompanied 'at
t.he piano by Mirs. Wiilia Ayers
Johnson, who served as organ¬
ist of the church during the
twenty-live minutes.
Arriving on Jekyll Island
Beach, they anchored out ana
went ashore for several hours.
They later went in for a bit of
swimming and eating. The trip
offered many water experiences
and was highly enjoyed by all.
They are making plans to take
further trips by water in the
near future.
James and Tommie would
like to advise all small craft
owners that the trip from Sa¬
vannah to Brunswick is not a
difficult run and it is smooth
sailing.
tona Beach, Florida, said that
oio patterns of culture have
j : peen broken and that communi-
UNCF Distributes $69,490 To Seven Georgia Colleges
To Operate YMCA
thrift Mobile
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Miss .Vlettella Maree
Miss Mettella Maree, principal
of Paulsen Dreet School, mem¬
ber of the B:axd of Manage- I
ment and chairman of the USO
committee of the West Broad
Street YMCA has accepted the ;
responsibility of operating the
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PHOTOS BY BOB MOBLEY
extreme left Rev. Curtright is shown making his acceptance
speech following the banquet and presentation of gift. Seated at
tne table are Mrs. Curtright and their son, Arthur C., Jr., and
Dr. w. K. Payne who served as toastmaster. Standing in cen-
ter is the IRev. L. S. Stell, Jr., who spoke in behalf of the local
full pastorate of Rev. Mr.
Curtright until January 1959.
The banquet committee con¬
sisted of Miss Augusta L. Pet-
tie, Mrs. Mamie B. Haynes, Miss
Madeline R. Shivery, and Mrs.
Evan el R. Terrell.
For the past twenty years
Rev. Curtright has served as
supply preacher, part time min¬
ister and full Line minister of
the First Congregational church.
Prior to his pastorate he was
on the faculty at Savannah
LOCAL GOLFERS TO
APPEAR AT NAACP
MEETING ,
The six local golfers who
were denied the privilege of
playing on the city-owned
Bacon Park golf course last
Sunday, will appear at the NA¬
ACP meeting at 4 o’clock on
Sunday afternoon at tne Fon-
viebe Memorial AME Zion
church, 610 West 36 Street. The
public is invited to be present.
The six goiters, Paul S. Dun-
more, A. D. Waters, Dr. J. W.
Jamerson, Jr., James R. Moore,
Deveraux Dixon and John R
McIntosh, will report on their
el forts to obtain full use of the
public owned golf link. At
present Negroes are confined
.o one day of playing—Monday,
which is traditionally known as
“caddy day.”
W. W. Law, local branch
president, states that several
other matters of interest to
members and friends of the
NAACP will be discussed at this
meeting.
cation has begun on a new
basis — the communication oi
equals.
Speaking on a lack of church
leadership, Dr. Will D. Camp¬
bell of the Department of Racial
and Cultural Relations of Nash¬
ville's National Council of
Churches said that our trouble
is not with the 14th Amend¬
ment as with the First Com-
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NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Uni¬
ted Negro College Fund dis¬
tributed $69,490 in grants to
seven member Georgia colleges
last week.
This is the second allocation
to member colleges during 1959.
Georgia members have now re¬
ceived a total of $192,602 dur¬
ing the current calendar year.
The seven Georgia institu¬
tions sharing in the UNCF al¬
locations are: Atlanta Univer¬
sity, Gammon Theological Se¬
minary, Clark, Morehouse,
Morris Brown and Spelman-
Oolleges, all in Atlanta; Paine
College, Augusta.
Bruce Barton, chairman of
the board, Batten, Barton,
Durstine and Osborn, advertis¬
ing agency, and 1959 UNCF
national campaign chairman,
reports the nation-wide fund-
raising appeal for the colleges
as running ahead of last year,
More than 4.200 volunteers are
working in 181 campaign com-
munities coast to coast this
year.
The 1959 campaign to raise
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1959
State College in the department
of Humanities. He was famous
for his course, “Contemporary
Georgia.”
Rev. Curtright comes from a
family of educators. Before
going to Savannah State Col¬
lege he wtas principal of the
Delton High School, Delton, S.
C. He also taught at Morehouse
Cohege. He is a graduate of
Morehouse College and holds
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WOMAN SENTENCED
FOR “CURLING IRON"
HOLD-UP
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (ANP)—
Mrs. Sadie Carpenter, 34, mo¬
ther of an son attending a pri¬
vate school, has been sentenced
to five years in State Prison
at Wethersville, Conn., for con¬
spiracy to commit robbery at
the Hamden branch of the
Prudential Life Insurance Co.
Her accomplice, George As-
mus, 41, white former staff
manager of the branch, who
was implicated by Mr*. Carpen¬
ter after he failed to provide
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School Integration Wins
In Manhattan
By Albert Anderson
(ANP Correspondent)
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Salvos of
j o y resounded throughout
Brooklyn this week when it was
Learned that the Board of Ed-
uicai’Jlon would transfer more
than 1,000 Negro and Puerto
Rican pupils from overcrowded
schools in the Bedford-Stuy-
vesant section of Brooklyn to
the public schools of Queens.
Among the many interracial
groups—public and private—
whose members have insisted
Hampton Institute Accepts
HAMPTON, Va. — Board of
trustees chairman of Hampton
Institute, Arthur Howe, Jr., an¬
nounced Thursday night that
Dr. Alonzo G. Moron., eighth
president of the 91-year-oid
Virginia college, has been re¬
lieved of his duties, “at his own
insistence,” effective June 30.
Howe, who is director of ad¬
missions # at Yale University, ex-
plained that the decision was
reached “following the board’s
refusal to accept the president’s
resignation, tendered March 31.”
Howe said that Dr. William
H. Martin, dean of faculty at
Hampton, “has been appointed
acting president, effective July
; l, and “steps” are being taken
i to establish a committee for
j the naming of a permanent re¬
placement for Dr. Moron.”
“In regretfully acceding to
the President's request,” Howe
stated, “the board obtained
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CAMP O’HARA TO
Camp OHara, the camping
and training center for Boy
Scouts and leaders of the Coas¬
tal Empire Council, will offi¬
cially open for the summer
camp season Sunday at 3 p. m.
Nearly 100 scouits, leaders and
members of the camp staff are
expected to attend.
Miany Improvements have
been made at the camp includ¬
ing a modern swimming pool,
a chapel, a new council ring,
a nature and sonservotlor. area,
a skeet rangr. a 1000-inch rifle
range and a badminton court.
Herbert H. Kemp, Scoutmas¬
ter of Troop 252 at Sandfly, will
Fisk Psychologist Chosen As
Research
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It was
announced today that Dr. S. O.
Roberts, chairman of the De¬
partment of Psychology, Fisk
University, has been chosen as
one of the ten psychologists
who will be members of the
only research participation
project in the field of psycholo¬
gy which is being sponsored
by the National Science Foun¬
dation.
This project has been es¬
tablished in cooperation with
the University of Michigan’s
Department of Psychology for
an eight-week period this sum¬
mer.
DELTAS ESTABLISH
CHAPTER IN ALASKA
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Spec.)
—Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
established in Anchorage today
the Sorority's first chapter in
Alaska, America’s newly-admit-
te3 49th state.
■The chapter, called the Alas¬
ka Alumnae Chapter, was es¬
tablished by Delta’s president.
-Dr. Geraldine P. Woods, both
of whom flew here from Den¬
ver, Colorado, where the Soro¬
rity’s Central Regional Confer¬
ence was held last weekend.
Marking this historic occas¬
ion, which increases Delta's
chapters to 251 in 39 states of
the United States and In the
Republic of Haiti, was a ban-
on the transfer, is the Ameri¬
can Jewish Congress. In a let¬
ter Thursday to Dr. John J.
Theobald, Superintendent of
Schools, Mrs. Beveriy Spiegel of
Flushing, president of the
Queens Womens Division of
AJC, hailed the plan as a
“giant step forward to provide
equal educational facilities for
all of the city’s children.”
Many Groups Work
For Transfer
Brooklyn parents also give
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SUPREME COURT
UPHOLDS FLA. RULING
IN NAACP CASE
WASHINGTON— (ANP) —The
U.S. Supreme court last week
refused to review a Florida law
which permits an investigating
committee to force testimony
from persons brought before it
for questioning.
The case was brought to the
high court by four Miami res-
idents who challenged the au-
thority of the committee to
compel testimony about the
NAACP.
The witnesses declined to an-
swer questions regarding asser¬
tions that Communists were
infiltrating into the association.
They also refused to produce
NAACP membership lists when
the committee was in session
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be director of the program.
Members of the camp staff will
he Benamin Densler, Andrea
Jackson, Ernest Coleman, Ed¬
ward A. Nelson, Sr., Crawford
B. Bryant and Charles Greely
William H. Mobley is camping
chairman for the Chatham Di¬
vision and James M. Thomas,
field executive ts camp direc¬
tor.
A Cub Scout Day is planned
for Wednesday and on Friday
afternoon and evening parents
and visitors will be invited.
Open house and dedication
of tire new swimming pool is
planned for Sunday, July 12.
Participants in this program
will share in two seminars—
one on recent developments in
the experimental approach to
the basic areas of psychology
and another on the latest ad¬
vances in statistical methods
and research designs.
In addition, they will have
/the opportunity to study at
first hand the research pro¬
grams in the Department of
Psychology and the related
behavioral and medical scien¬
ces. Each participant will also
work on a special topic of his
own in collaboration with one
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quet and a radio and television
appearance of Dr. Noble.
The chapter’s six charter
members, all of whom live in
or near Anchorage, are: Mrs.
Willa J. Ewing, originally from
Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Evelyn
Lynn of Philadelphia; Mrs.
Roberta Smith of Temple, Tex¬
as; Mrs. Dolores B. Watson of
Seattle; Mrs. Luella Graham
White of Wilberforce, Ohio;
and Mrs. Victoria Williams
Jenkins of New Orleans.
These members are optimistic
oveir the prospects of increas¬
ing their membership. Reasons
for this optimism are an ex-
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STAFF OF PARAMOUNT RESTAURANT DRIVE-IN
INS WSrim Photo By FREEMAN
The above photo shows the staff of the New Paramount Restaurant and Drive -In which is locat¬
ed .at 2116 Ogeechee Road. Left tp right in front row are L. (Bubber-Rubber) Andrews, chef;
and J. Candler, cook. Second row, 1. to r. are D. Johnson, I. Wiggins, P. Powell. D. Wiggins
and E Davis. Back row, 1. to r., are J. Lawton, Hosea L. Williams, Manager; and H. Daughtry.
Hosea L. Williams, general
mana ger, announces the formal j
opening Friday, July 3, of thf
Paramount Restaurant and i
Drive-In (which is located at
2116 Ogeechee Road (between |
37th and 38th streets). The
public is invited.
The Paramount Restaurant
and Drive-In is sponsored by a
newly formed corporation con- j
Sisting of local citizens. The
Board of Directors consists of;
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N. C. Mutual Ins. Company
Maceo A. Sloan
The North Carolina Mutual's
local office and the Charleston,
S. C„ district office will gather
at Savannah State College this
week for thp ninth school in
agency development conducted
by two of the Company's top
training experts. Maceo A.
Sloan, CLU, Associate Agency
Director, will be in charge ot
the school. He will be assisted
by A. p. Dumas, Assistant to
the Agency Director.
Sloan is one of the few Ne¬
groes holding a Chartered Life
Underwriter’s designation. He
received it in 1S46 from the
American College of Life Un¬
derwriters. He has served in
many capacities with tire N.C.
TALKS WITH PRESIDENT—Dr. Winston E. Burdine, Atlanta
psychiatrist an dnational commander of AMVETS, talks with Pres¬
ident Eisenhower at the White House prior to presenting to Mr.
Eisenhower a group of 1959 AMVETS Memorial Scholarship win¬
ners—all children of deceased or totally disabled veterans of
World War II or Korea.
H. Daughtry of the Disabled
American Veterans; !R. Lyles,
teacher, H. Williams, chemist,,
and T. Boyd, business man and
investor.
The building has been com-
pletel remodeled and redec-
orated. The Paramount offers i
private and public dining areas,
custard bar with loose or bulk
custard and home made ice
cream. The manager plans to
develop Savannah’s largest
Price 10c
NUMBER
A. P. Dumas
Mutual Company. In his pre.
ent capacity as Associate Agen¬
cy Director, he has the respon¬
sibility of giving supervision
and leadership to 14 of the
company's district offices In the
states of Tennessee, Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina and
Virginia.
Dumas entered the service of
the company as an assistant
manager on the Philadelphia
district in 1938, having served
prior to that time as a repre¬
sentative of the Universal Life ■
Insurance Company. Dum s ha .
had experience as an ordinary
assistant manager in charge of
the company’s top sales force
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Drive-In curb service^ along
with round the clock
a ^q private catering ser-
vice
The Paramount will offer a
full course Sunday dinner for
en H re family, served fami-
ly or buffet style. Bubber-
Rubber, the chef is a former
employee at Johnny Harris who
is famous for his barbecue.