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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVII
TWO LITTLE ROCK HIGH SCHOOLS INTEGRATED
4-11 f ill!) Council Meeting
Attracts 206 Delegates
54 Counties Represented
GROUP ()F 206 4-H CLUB delegates attending 4-H Club meeting recently at State Camp in Dub¬
Under the leadership of M. c.
Little and Mrs. Carrie P. Powell,
the 4-H Club Council met at
the Dublin 4-H Club center,
August 3-8. Two-hundred and
s i x delegates represented a
membership of 45,000.
Several outstanding leaders
participated in the week long
POSTMAN ASKS FOR DAI
El.... 81 FINE
MEMPHIS (ANP) — Marion
Biddle Ford, 33 year old Negro
relief mail carrier assigned to
the Crosstown branch post of¬
fice, totalled up his expendi¬
tures and found it too costly to
get a date with a secretary.
The object of his pursuit was
Miss Betty Little, 23—and white
—employed by Dura-Finish of
Memphis, a furniture uphol¬
stery shop. MSss Little signed
a warrant for Ford’s areest on
disorderly conduct charges.
In court, she told the judge
that a man started calling her
at (the office asking for a
The Hamp on Ed Sullivan’s
Show 16
NEW YORK
Hampton and his
coterie of jazz musicians will
headline the “Ed Sullivan
Sunday, Aug. 16. The
beamed over CBS-TV
from 8 to 9 p. m. EST, will also
include comedian Myron Cohen,
j,A CHEERIOS ALAPHA Chap-
ter of Montgomery, Alabama,
headed by Soror Inez J. Bas-
kin, is setting a new record in
its local community by spear-
heading a most worthy project
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program. Among those who
addressed the group were Rev.
B. D. Edwards, pastor, Wash¬
ington Street Presbyterian
Church, Dublin; Miss Emmie
Nelson, field * representative,
National Committee on Boys
and Girls Club Work; W. H.
Dennis, president, Albany State
date. She could not discour¬
age him. He sent presents—
an expensive monogrammed pen
and a vial of perfume, but
didn’t tell her his name.
Then the anonymous Don
Juan tripped up. He called
and told her he would appear
at the office wearing “a large
diamond ring” that she would
know him immediately because
“Im tall, dark and handsome.”
When he came in, she recogniz¬
ed him as the postman.
On the basis of this, the court
fined Ford $51 and costs. P.
S. He still didn’t get the date.
| singers Teresa Brewer, Jan
peerce and Joe Howard and his
Ison, Joe, Jr.
-.
Goodwill, like a good name,
is got by many actions, and
j lost by one. — Lord Francis
i Jeffrey.
of sponsoring hot lunches for
100 children during the school
year 1959-60, which will ™ n
approrimately $5,000 for the
year. The La Cheerios Chapter
plans to coordinate 129 Social
College; and Wilton C. Scott,
director of public relations,
Savannah State College. •.
In the oratorical contest the
results were as follows: Girls
division —- first place, Carolyn
D. Alexander, District 5, Hous-
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NIGERIA’S NEW SPEAKER —
Alhaja Umaru Gwandu, 46, was
recently elected Speaker of the
Northern Nigeria House of As¬
sembly. The new speaker for¬
merly served as clerk to the
region’s legislature for 10 years,
was assistant secretary in the
administrative service; secre¬
tary to the Gwandu Native
administration council and the
Emir’s court scribe. In 1953 he
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House Judiciary Committee Submits
"Watered Down” Civil Rill
ter ten days of debate behind
dosed doors on the civil right?
bill, the House Judiciary Ccm-
nittee finally reported out s
vatered-down bill.
The House Bill was stripper
arly in the discussion of tht
ontroversial Part III, consid
ered by civil rights proponents
is the very Heart of the me®
;ure. This section would em¬
power the Attorney General tr
nitiate count suits to protect all
-ivil rights including school
rights.
Main Provisions of Bill
As the bill was voted out of
Committee Wednesday it con¬
tained provisions for the en¬
forcement of court orders, tc-
make it a crime to flee to avoid
prosecution after the destruc¬
tion of property by bombs,
extend the life of the Civil
Rockefeller Foundation
Gives $190,500 For
and Savings Clubs in the city
i n its unified goal, and launch¬
ed its project at a mammoth
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1959
CONTRAST OF PEACE
AND VIOLENCE
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Hall
High School was peacefully in¬
tegrated Wednesday, August 12,
when three Negro students en¬
tered classes. Approximately
600 white students were in at¬
tendance.
The Negro students were
Effie Jones, age 17; Est.ella
Thompson, age 16; and Elsie
Robinson, age 16.
There were fifty policemen
on hand for protection in case
of a disorder but no incidents
were reported.
In sharp contrast, two hours
before the Central High School
was scheduled to open that af¬
ternoon an estimated group of
1500 anti-integration demon¬
strators gathered at the state
Capitol.
After hearing a speech by
Governor Orval E. Faubuts they
marched toward Central High
where two Negro students,
Jefferson Thomas and Elizabeth
Eckford, were to integrate.
When Police Chief Gene
Smith heard about the march
towiard Central, he ordered
more policemen to the school.
A line of police met the group
head-on and never let them gel
closer than a block to Central.
Police used their nightsticks
which bloodied the heads of
two men and cracked another
across the ribs so sharply that
he wept. Several persons were
Thurgood Marshall Will
Address Shriners 17
LOS ANGELES, Cal—Thurgood
Marshall who has attracted the
title of “Mr. Civil Rights" to
himself by virtue of his many
legal victories over racial dis¬
crimination, is scheduled to ad¬
dress some 5,000 Shriners here
Monday afternoon, August 17th.
The occasion will be the Public I
Welcoming program of the 58th
Annual Meeting of the Imperial
Council of the Ancient Egyp¬
tian Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine.
Mr. Marshal, who again lash
ed out at opponents to full civ-
il rights recently at the NAACP
convention in New York, is a
member of New York’s Medina
Temple and Director of the Le¬
gal Redress Bureau, which is
supported by Prince Hall Ma¬
sons.
The speech will come on the
second day of Shriner’s conven¬
tion which will have represen-
NEW YORK
Rockefeller foundation has
granted the Institute for
search in Social Science $190.
sent to jail Including four wo¬
men and girls.
Firemen also turned their
hose on the demonstrators by
order of Chief Smith. The
stream of water caused the
crowd to fall back half a block.
But the two Negro students
attended classes at Central
High unmolested and repoj-ted
that nothing “out of the ordi¬
nary’’ happened.
Gov. Faubus in his speech to
the demonstrators before their
march on Central High stated
in part:
“I see no use for you today
to be beaten over the head and
jailed . . .
“This should be used only as
a last resort. The sun is hot out
there where the police are on
duity. This enforcement of an
illegal duty will soon become
burdensome.
“Let us act so posterity will
be justly proud. Let us continue
and never weaken.
“The school board has be¬
trayed the people.
“Make no doubt that this in¬
tegration is by force ... No
force at my command has any¬
thing to do with the force
being used to compel integra¬
tion and the forces at my com¬
mand will not be used. Wc- can
win this battle. The most ef¬
fective way is by use of your
vote.”
tatives from more than 155
Temples in as many cities
throughout the United States
Marshall who has figured in
a majority of the desegregation
decisions since the U. S. Su- j
preme Court’s historic 1954 edict j |
outlawing racial segregation in
public schools, is considered one [
of the most powerful personal¬
ities in the fight for full equal¬
ity by all citizens in the
America’s.
Earlier the convention will be
keynoted by Booker T. Alexan-
der, Imperial Potentate from
Detroit, Mich., when he deliv-
ers his annual address. In
addition to the report on the
growth and stability of the Or¬
der, he can be expected to point
up the Shrine view point on in¬
ternational affairs relating es¬
pecially to the championing for
Freedom by various African
Continued on Page Severn
Commission, to require
dates to preserve their Federal
election records for a given pe¬
riod, and to provide aid for
public education for children
of armed forces personnel.
This was a combination of
provisions taken from the sev¬
eral bills pending before the
House of Representatives inclu¬
ding the Administration’s spon¬
sored bill.
Relates “Policy Decoration’’
On the day before the final j
lecision, the committee cut a
portion from the measure which j
.t considered a “policy decora¬
tion.” This provision recalled
that on May 17, 1954, the
Jupreme Court decided against
public school racial segrega¬
tion and stated that “State and
local governments and agen-
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500 for the study on the chang-
ing position of the Negro in the l
South. The study will be un-
j dertaken within the general in
framework of the changes
the South resulting from urban¬
ization and industrialization. i
CASES ARE
INCREASING WARNS
NMA HEAD
Macon, Ga.,—Polio cases for
first 27 weeks of 1959 are
up 60 per cent over the same
period for 1,958 and paralytic
polio has risen 105 per cent over
1958, according to Dr. R. Still-
rnon Smith of Macon, Ga.,
president of the National Med¬
ical Association.
Dr. Smith issued this warn¬
ing today to aid the polio vac¬
cination campaign of The Na¬
tional Foundation (formerly
“for Infantile Paralysis"), which
is attempting to bring polio pro¬
tection to more than half of the
U. S. population which has not
yet had any Salk vaccine.
“Every person without protec¬
tion from paralytic polio through
the Salk vaccine,” said Dr.
Smith, “is needlessly taking the
risk of lifelong paralysis,
Adults, teens, children and ba¬
bies older than six months
should get their three polio shots
for safety. Pre-school children
under five years have been es¬
pecially hard hit by polio re¬
cently and are therefore urgent¬
ly in need of Salk protection.
“When the Salk vaccine was
licensed by the federal govern¬
ment four years ago this spring,
The National Foundation and
organized medicine began a na-
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DR. JAMES C. WALLACE will
receive the “zone vice-president
of the year” citation when the
National Dental Association
meets in Cincinnati Aug. 16-20.
Leading dentists from all sec¬
tions of the USA are expected
to attend NDA’s 46th annual
convention which will be held
m the Sheratan-Gibson hotel
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INTERIUCIAL GOVERNMENT l
—July 1 marked the governmentj beginning
of an interracial
for Tanganyika in East Africa,
Pictured above with Sir Rich-
ard Turnbull (3rd from left), j !
governor of the territory, are
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A $500 GIFT FOR THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND from
the Detroit chapter of the Frontier Club, National Negro Service
Organization, is presented by Charles Powell (left) and club
president Ernest Brown irlghti. Accepting the check on behalf
of the United Negro College Fund Is John D. Leary, Chrysler
Corporation vice president - Personnel and Chairman of the Mi¬
chigan Fund Drive. The purpose of the Fund is to help meet
operating expenses of 33 private, fully accredited Negro col¬
leges and universities, provide scholarship aid to promising stu¬
dents and assist in expansion and Improvement of education
facilities.
OF IKTEGRATIONISTS
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — State’s
Attorney A. Scott Hamilton, 48,
who gained fame by prosecu¬
ting white integration advo¬
cates on sedition charges, is
dead. He shot himself in the
heart with a pistol at his su¬
burban home here.
Hamilton’s death followed a
series of professional and po¬
litical reverse ; which began
with his pr utlon of the
integratlonistfi . a 1954.
He obtained the conviction
of Carl Braden on a sedition
charge after Braden and his
wife Anne helped a Negro fa¬
mily purchase a house in a
so-called white neighborhood.
However, Braden’s 15-year sen¬
tence was set aside by Ken¬
tucky’s highest court after
Braden had served eight
months in jail and prison.
Hamilton was then forced to
ask for dismissal of all char¬
ges against the Bradens and
five other white persons who
had defended the right of the
Negroes, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
;E. Wade IV, to occupy the
house. This was in late 1956.
One of the persons harassed
was I. O. Ford, 80, who was
kept in jail for six months.
Ford died last year in Califor¬
nia, and friends were con¬
vinced that his death was has¬
the five new members of the
council of ministers who are
also elected members <> f the
legislative council. The minis
ters are ((1-r) S. M. EJiufoo,
health; Chief Abdullah Fundi-
hira, lauds and surveys; A. H.
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tened by the long confinement
at his advanced age.
All aspects of the “sedition"
case were not cleared up until
late 1957, when Hamilton was
compelled to return hundreds
of books he had seized in raid3
on the homes of the Bradens
and the other defendants.
Tb r Rradeni then became
field retarlee and editors t <r
the uthern Conference Eclu-
cat il Fund, a Southwide
inter: ucial organization work¬
ing for racial equality. They
still live In Louisville.
Last spring Hamilton was
campaign manager here for a
candidate for the nomination
for governor in the Democratic
primary. He lost by a record
vote after trying to show that
an opposition candidate was a
left-winger because of his con¬
nection with The Louisville
Courier-Journal, which once
employed Oarl Braden as an
editor.
Political observer* agreed
that this was a reversal from
which Hamilton would never
recover.
DID YOU KNOW?
Georgia was the first state to
require birth registration and
to grant married women full
property rights.
Jamal, Aslan member, govern-
men ^ anc j works; D. N. M. Bry-
ceson European membe r, mines
and and . O. _ G. _ „
commerce, u-
hama, social and coopera* vs3
development.—<ANP Photo)