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/‘BRONZE MAYOR" CONTESTANTS RECEIVE < IFTS—Upper left: Norman B. Elmore, vice chair-
man of YMCA Board of Management; Edwin Chapman, 1 ^.mize Mayur oi buvaiinun elect; neroy
Wilson, runner-up. Upper right Walter Greene inspecting Roper Gas Range with time clock
device he won in contest. Middle left; Edwin C.iapman, with gifts donated by friends; Edwin
'Chapman, Bronze Mayor of Savannah.” Middle right, Edwin Chapman, presenting .a RCA tran¬
sistor portable radio to Evelyn Williams who supported him in the recent
contest. Lower left; Norman B. Elmore con .ratulating Edwin Chapman on winning title oi
“Bron-.c cf Savannah.” Lower right, Leroy Wilson, runner-up, thanking friends for support.
National Scholarship Service
Awards to Negroes Entering
A few weeks ago an 18-year
old Negro boy named Tommy
Broadwiater, president of the
senior class at Harrison High
School in Blytheville, Arkansas,
received his diploma. The son
of a tenant farmer whose year¬
ly -income for a family of five
is somewhat less than $2,000,
Tommy new has something be¬
sides farming to look forward
to. Next fall he will be a fresh¬
man at Blackburn College in
CarlinviUe, Illinois.
In Cleveland. Ohio, Ronald
Robinson, also 18 and a Negro,
was graduated from East Tech¬
nical High School, where he |
was vice president of Student
Government, president of the
Dramatics Club, and won his
letter in Junior Varsity foot¬
ball. RorvHd, who lives with his |
mother and three brothers and
sisters on around $1,703 a year,
will be going to Oberlin College,
where he will specialize ir, lan¬
guages.
And in Peekskill, New York,
when Offie Wortham, 21, came
home last week from his job I
a.s a journeyman electronic |
technician at the IBM plant in
heard the :
Poughkeepsie he same
sort of good news. Offie, who I
has supported an invalid mo¬ |
ther and father for four years !
-since high school, where he vfcs !
a football and track star, will j
enroll at Ohio’s Antioch Col¬
lege in September and will ma¬
jor in science.
Tommy, Ronald, and Offie
are only three of 75 young Ne¬
gro men aid women this year
who might never have gone on
to a higher education without
the encouragement, custom-
tailored counseling, and finan¬
cial help of an agency called
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State Sunday School And
Baptist Training Union
Will Meet July 21-23
Rev. E. O. S. Cleveland
VALDOSTA — The General
Missionary ’
Baptist S u n d a y
school and Training Union
'osveat.on will hold its annual
es ion in Brunswick next week.
The convention is mede up of j
i member hip representing al-
'
350,090 church members. j
morning sessions will be
mainly to problems of
and instruction in i
leadership training.
evening sessions will fea¬
inspirational addresses and
;
The mc r t!ng opens Tuesday,
21. wltii the Rev. E. S. ■
of Macon delivering the
sermon. Pres. W. H.
of the Albany State Col¬
will be the featured speak- 1
on the youth night program, j
scheduled to address,
Rev. J. L. Lomax
the meeting are Rev. Je s Cook
Marietta; Rev. C. L. Alexander.
Rev. L. M. Terrill, Rev. A. Bell
of Atlanta; Mrs. R. M. Ison
Monroe, and Mrs. R. C. Calhoun
of Augusta.
President E.O.S. Cleveland of
Savannah will be heard in his
annual message, as will Pres. J
L. Lomax of Valdosta, who
heads the Training Union con¬
vention.
The affair will close with a
fate-wide choir contest Thurs-
day night, July 23.
DISASTER CAUSE MYSTERY
No definite cause has been
discovered during intensive in¬
vestigation of the Meldrim dis¬
aster two Weeks ago which has
now claimed 23 lives. A large
number of expensive suits has
been filed in the tragedy.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
I’. S. Solons Flay West Side Tennis Club
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II For Bias II* a t u r and a Jews m
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EMPLOYED B1 ONE
CHARLESTON, s. C.—Samuel
Haber, age 92 years, died Mon¬
day after a completely active
life.
Mr. Faber was born just after
the Civil War in Eutawville, S.
C. His parents were Job and
Susan Faber.
He was employed as a ser¬
vant in the family of the late
Oaipt. Samuel G. Stoney in 1886.
Hits services began at the M'cd-
way Plantation and he came to
Charleston with the family. lie
was a familiar figure at Char¬
leston’s annual St. Cecilia Ball.
Wearing a large silk top hat,
he attended carriages and later
automobiles arriving at the Ball
and ushered guasts into the
Atlanta Told To Produce
Desegregation Plan by
ATLANTA I ANP)—U. S. Dis¬
trict Judge Frank Hooper last
Friday told Atlanta school offi¬
cials to produce a desegregation
plan by next December 1.
The order said the plan should
provide a prompt and reason¬
able start toward integration of
the city’s public schools and a
method of achieving integra¬
tion “with all deliberate speed.”
The jurist's order enjoyed the
Tobias Cites Gains In
NAACP Address
NEW YORK—Despite remain
ing racial discriminations and
oh tael es there is “ample
ground for optimism” based
upon the progress made during
the past half-century, Dr.
Channing H. Tobias, chairman
of the NAACP Board of Direc¬
tors, declared in the keynote
address delivered here at the
opening session of the Associa¬
tion’s Golden Anniversary con¬
vention.
Also speaking at this session
• n the New York Coliseum was
i over nor Nelson A. Rockefeller
if Niw York. The convention
will continue through the week,
closing with a mammoth rally
Fivin Girls
Born To The
Tillerys
Lewellyn Kanaugh and Llare-
'yn Lynette, twin girls, were
born on July 9 to Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Tillery of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Tillery, the former Miss
Lynette McLestcr, is the grand¬
daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. F. B. Pettie of this city.
Scouts Hold
Ct. of Honor
Fri. Night
The Court of Honor ceremony
for the Chatham Division of
the Coasted Empire Council of
Boy Scouts of America will be
held on Friday night at 8:00
o'clock at Camp O'Hara.
The Court of Honor will give
recognition and honor to boys
who have achieved and advanc¬
ed in rank during their parti¬
cipation in the two weeks of
summer camp.
Robert W. Gadsden, Rev. P
A., Patterson and John Q. Jef¬
ferson will make the presenta-
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SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1959
hall.
Mr. Faber was
in forming the Colored
Agricultural and Industrial
Association in Charleston
ty in 1913 and obtained a
ter for the group in 1928.
was first president and
ger df the association
1050 and remained active with
the group through 1958.
The deceased wias a member
of Mount Olive Presbyterian
church and the Prince Hall
Lodge 241, F.vAM.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Ella Murray Faber; a son, Sam
uel Faber, Jr.; a daughter, Mrs.
Susan Faber Wilson; and two
grandsons.
city and the board of education
from enforcing or pursuing ra¬
cial segregation in school ope¬
rations.
Under state law, any school
order to integrate can be irn-
mediately closed. Gov. S. Er¬
nest Vandiver said he may pro¬
pose new segregation laws when
the legislature meets in Janu¬
ary, but favors any changes
that would lead to
in the Polo Grounds, Sunday
afternoon, July 19.
“In this 50th year of our or¬
ganization, we can take justi¬
fiable pride in the notable
progress made towards elimina¬
tion of some of the grosser
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BEAUTY ON PARADE
the male escorts, who can
this is beauty on parade.
occasion was the second
al “Meeting of the Little
models, convention,
by The Shutter-Bug Group
Detroit. The piace: Detroit,
WASHING TON (ANP) - -
Wccf Side Tennis club got a
blasting in Congress last week
for its policy of racial and re-
ligio u s segre g a Uon.
Soon after news reached Cap¬
itol Hill that Ralph Bunche,
UN undersecretary, and his son
bad been barred from member-
snip in the Fore, t Hills club on
the grounds that they were
Negroes, Sen. Jacob Javits ex¬
pressed his protest from the
Si'nate floor
The New York Republican
called it a “shocking and un-
happy reflection of what
pens in the United States.”
Pointing out that Althea Gibson
had won national championship
in both 1957 and 1958, Javits
said:
“The world cannot under¬
stood s.i.-.-h goiih- ’-on. This par¬
ticular affront to the dignity
of one man and to American
Negroes is no le s an affront
to all human dignity and an
affront to the conception of in¬
dividual liberty, for which we
struggle so hnrfl in the world."
Javits declared that the eyes
of the world are focused on
Forest Hi!!, because the nation¬
al championships and Davis
Cup competitions are held
there.
“As a national institution, it
has a responsibility as a cus¬
todian of our national con¬
science, which I sincerely hope
will move them to discharge.”
Wires Tennis Group
The New Yorker sent a tele¬
gram to the U.8 Lawn Tennis
Association, uiging that the
Fit.vis Club challenge rounds
played under its sponsorship be
transferred elsewhere so long
as segregation at Forest Hills 1
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Jamaica Clamps Down Trade
on South Africa
B.v lev Wilbert il'illw...! E. L’ Hemming It____I__
(For Associated Negro Press)
KINGSTON, Jamaica
Africa's hated color
tion policy blew the spittle
in its face this week as
Jamaica Government
on a trade boycott against
African country.
The boycott became
course. The participants as
seen above were; Ixiwer left,
I beautiful Cecelia Cooper, New
York, who won international
“Miss Cannes Festival” title for
1959, is flanked by Great Lakes
Insurance Company executives
Dr. Robert Grcenidge, right, and
Price 10c
A Dams 4-3433
CAPTAIN OF WOMEN'S
WMBKHSm
Lucinda Williams
Miss Lucinda Williams, grad¬
uate of Tompkins High School,
was recently maimed captain
of the United States Women's
Olympic Team by Head Coach
Ed Temple. The above picture
was made during her high
school career.
The women's team Is sched¬
uled to compete against a Rus¬
sian track team in Philadelphia
this week-end. Miss Williams
Will run in the 100 and 200
meter da .lies and will be a
member oi the 400-meter relay
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immediately : ........ _!• l . after a .. ..
of lull Home Rule and threat-
oris to .spread over the entire
Caribbean area, particularly at
the Federal level.
The boycott was imposed be-
cause South Africa denies to
it- colored people all basic hu
man rights and as a result de-
nies colored people all over the
Thad Gailiard, left. At lower
right, Convention chairman,
Detroit Coca-Bottling f Compa-
ny, ' case the Little Foxes.” „ „
Seen in upper , left are Moss TT H.
Kendrix, Washington D. „
PRfinn head, , , Miss ... DeVore „ „ and J
Cooper. The center pan-
NUMBER 41
Receives Master’s Degree
Mrs. Inez Love Griffin
Mrs. Inez Love Griffin was
awarded the master of science
degree in elementary education
recently from South Carolina
State college, Orangeburg, S C.
Mrs. Griffin received the B.S.
degree from Georgia State Col¬
lege, now Savannah State Col¬
lege. She has been a member
oi the faculty of the Effing¬
ham County Training School,,
Guyton, Ga„ since 1938; teach-
(Continued on Page Six)
world every right of normal
j human Intercourse.
Why Should Wc Send Our
j Goods?”
i . . , „ Pn , m
™ ™ ter Nol '~
! man a ™ther Jwho Lsiand Oeneral on the Election eve of
I m ' ade Ule anno uncement of the
j .
Lontiriuea on page seven
j el shows “Lens Queen ’ winners,
1 Bernadine Smith, Eve
center,
Brown „ Modeling , ,. School, _ . , Cleve-
land, . . , 1st . place, , Joyce _ Kelley __ „
(Eve _ „ Brown), . . left „ Cleveland. , , 2nd „ ,
place, , and . „ 3rd . place , wma;*
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