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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 auanttalt Sriltunf ADams 4-3438 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- Continued on Page Seven > 1 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 .continued on page Eight' 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 'Continued on page Seven) 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- (Continucd on Page Eight) 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- i Continued on Page Eight' 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 Photo) 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 Price 10c A Dams 4-3433 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 i 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. NUMBER 45 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)