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77 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUME LXXVII VETERAN CARRIER MAKES LAST RUN—On October tot, Carrier C. S. (Neali Stripling alter completing approximately forty-two years o service in the Savannah Post Office ment. Entering the postal department May 20, 1918 while a very young man, Carrier has served every business and residential section in the city. Whether it was a circular Xmas package Postman “Neal” or “Strip” delivered it with a smile, and a cheerful greeting. Savannah, and attended the public schools and Georgia State College. Shortly after being employed at the Post fice he was ordained an A. M. E. minister, and has served as as¬ sistant pastor of St. Philip A. M. E. Church, Charles and West Broad streets. He has held lull pastorate at St Thomas AME church. 49th Randolph Supported in Move To Expel Jim Crow Unions from AFL-CIO Nathaniel II. Collier Gray-Y Club Formed at Mrs. Dorothy U. Adams, chair¬ man of the Youth Program Com¬ mittee of the West Broad St. Y. M. C. A announces the organ- ization of the Nathaniel H. Col¬ lier 'Gray-Y Club. This club is composed of boys ages 9-12, and is one of the ten clubs that will be organized that will meet principally at the YMCA. The late Dr. Nathaniel H. Collier, served as Chairman of the Eoard of Management of the West Broad Street YMCA, and left a lasting impression on this community for his ser¬ vice to the YMCA and his un¬ selfish devotion to the cause of ALBANY STATE COLLEGE TO DEDICATE NEW BUILDINGS OCT. 5 Top photo shows the Margaret Rood Hazard Library at Albany State College which will be dedicated on Oct. 5. Innovations include complete air condition- ing, individual study f.ne ar-s room, exhibition ADams 4-3432 - - t of Flipper Ue ls p as 0 r 1 A M. E. Church, 412 Guerard street. He intends t0 deVote his entire time to the ministry, and with some additional civic activities looks forward to a full life ahead. Postmaster J. M. Stubbs ask- ed him how he has maintained in such good youth. The club will have as its pro¬ gram, crafts, woodworking, meetings and recreation for the entire group at the YMCA. Ed¬ ward Williams, Jr., will be the adviser. The officers of the club are as follows: Raymond Cooper president; 'Tommie Williams, vice president; Harry Mobley secretary; Walter Reddick, as¬ sistant secretary; Harry Walker, | treasurer; Ashley Snypes, repor¬ ter; Julius Whaley, reporter. Club members are Freddie Coop- riontinuert on Paee Seven t room, lecture rooms, and j | cious general reading areas The building was constructed I at a cost of $300,000 and has a | 75,000 Bottom volume photo capacity. shows the j Hazard Education Center after so a ployment which has been 1 ried out. in every kind of wcath- i er Carrier Stripling’s was typical of him: “By with God and the Church.” All of the friends and of Carrier Stripling wish him many more years of happy life doing .the things that, ne most desires to do. By Albert Anderson NEW YORK—(ANP)—A Philip Randolph, international presi¬ dent of Sleeping Car Porters and vice president of AFL-CIO, won nation-wide support this week from both liberal whites and Negroes, as a result of his demand that Jim Crow Unions which bar Negroes from mem- bership, should be ousted from the ranks or organized labor. At last week's A PL-CIO an¬ nual convention In San Fran¬ cisco, Randolph sponsored two resolutions, which, if passed, would expel two railway union that exclude Negro workers and order dissolution of Jim Crow locals. The Randolph proposals would give the offen¬ ding unions six months to re- Continued on Page Seven which will also be dedi- | on 0ct 5 The Center j houSPS a laboratory school ’ au _ j ditoriuni , « cafeteria, . division of education, ofiices and class- room space. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1059 I DEMOCRATIC MEET NEW ORLEANS — (ANP) — Young Democrats of Louisiana refused to permit Mrs. Katie E. Wickham Chapman, president of the National Beauty Cultur- ,sts League, Inc., to remain at i breakfast in the Roosevelt Hotel, here in New Orleans, Friday, despite the tact that she had been invited there. The meeting was called to l plan for a visit which U S Senator John F. Kennedy is to make to New Orleans. Her invitation was by tele¬ gram, signed by Russell B .mi,', U.S. Senator; Hale Boggs, U. S. Congressman; Victor Schiio, Acting Mayor of New Orleans; and four local Demo¬ crat leaders. Mrs. Whickham had answer¬ ed the telegram, and accepted the invitation. At the appoin¬ ted time she entered the hotel encountering no difficulty. The meeting was just starting when it was discovered that Mrs. Whickam was a Negro and proceedings stopped. Mrs. Bland Cox Bruns, for- mer member of the Louisiana city Almost Back To Normal r liter Hurricane Passes Thingfc are almost back to normal in Savannah and Chat¬ ham County after the area urvived a beating and drench¬ ing from Hurricane Grade Tuesday. As usual, the worst did not come to pass. Grade had been at one time described as "an extremely dangerous” hurri¬ cane which was expected to slam into Savannah with de¬ vastating fury. Civil defense workers, police, firemen and utility employees as well as the general populace prepared fev- i i'i. h’y for the destruction. But : when the peak winds had sub¬ I j j RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP -Cecil E. Glanville (left), 34-year-old student from Trinidad, British West Indies, receives scholarship pr-e (tiled in behalf of the Schenley Industries, Inc., sales affi¬ liate which markets Long John Scotch in the U. S. by Dr. Leroy E.Burney, surgeon general of the United States. Upon com¬ pletion o! medical studies made possible by the scholarship, which is the first of its kind, Glanville plans to return to Trinidad to practice. Parents Sue for $75,000 in Prisoner-Son’s Auto Death MEMPHIS—(ANP)—7'hf pa- rents of 29 year old Thomas Brewer, a prisoner who was killed Saturday in a flaming car crash while being driven by a deputy sheriff, have filed suit asking $75,000 damages against Shelby county. Ironic¬ ally, the youth had been arres¬ ted shortly before the fatal ac¬ cident because he was report¬ edly involved in a minor traffic accident. Atty. Marvin J, Brode said Deputy Sheriff John F. Edger ley -was driving recklessly and Qn wron g side t he gtreet _ B rode representing the family, said he will make similar char- Legislature, who ls well ac¬ quainted with Mrs. Whickham, advised her that the Commit¬ tee was desirous of her leaving. Mrs. Whickam left under pro¬ test, staling that she had at¬ tended the meeting because the National Democratic Party had assured her and others in Washinfon that such racial dis¬ crimination would be discon¬ tinued. She also stated that she fully Intended to take the matter up with National Dem¬ ocratic Chairman Paul V. But¬ ler; U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy; and chairman of the Ladies Division Katie Loucheim. She also stated that she plans to take the matter uip with the National Beauty Oulturists League, which is holding their 40th annual convention in Phil¬ adelphia, October 4-15. Mrs. Whickam said that the National Democratic Party cannot expect the full support of the Negro vote, If they con¬ tinue to meet In places that are segregated. sided about 1:00 p.m. the city breathed a huge sigh of relief. No casualties and only minor damages were reported. But broken limbs, uprooted trees, snapped power lines and gener¬ al litter were widespread. At Savannah State College which was closed Tuesday, branches and limbs were strewn all over the historic campus and although classes were re¬ sumed Wednesday everything was done on “the little Red .School House” style because current was not yet restored. At Charity Hospital Miss Continued on Page Severn By Alice A. Diinnigaii SAN FRANCISCO—(ANP)- Some 3,000 women atlendln ■ the recent Women’s Convention Auxiliary to the National Bap¬ tist Convention, recently me t ing in San Francisco showed great enthusiasm for their latest project, purchase of the National Youth Camp. The convention voted in Chi¬ cago Last year to give their president, Miss Nannie 11. Bur¬ roughs, full authority to do the thing which has been on her heart for a quarter-century, establish a training camp for young church people. At this year's convention Miss Burroughs reported that an 80 acre tract had been pur¬ chased in Michigan, five miles from Constantine, in St. Jos¬ eph’s county. This camp .lie consists of a beautifully fur nishod mansion, a twelve unit motel, a farmhouse, a modern barn which will be converted Into classrooms, a chicken house and tool house that will also be turned into classroom-. Half of the ranch-land i,. tillable, and the rest is a wood ed section for hunting, picnic¬ king and hiking, except the is acre lake with its picturesque (Continued on page Eight* ges in his suit. The accident occurred when Edgerly was attempting to pass a pickup truck. Impact of the collision hurled the car across a street and over a curb and into a chain-link fence. Brewer who was handcuffed in the rear seat of the squad car, was struck on the head by a steel pipe ripped from the fence. Glen Parks, the deputy’s partner, was shaken-up, but has been released from the hospital. Deputy Edgerley, 55, presently hospitalized, has been charged with involuntary man- Contlnued on Page Seven CONTESTANTS — The abovi photo shows the conic.:an: who participated in the Wom¬ en’s Day celebration at Ever green Baptist church. Readin from left to right ate Mis Jacquelyn Scott, proxy for Mr Annie Mae Capers; Mr.;, itutim M. Wright, Mrs. Flone Hr Auxiliary Buys * Site — fur - National -- - * -- Youth - ~ ONE MILLION NON-FARM WORKERS NOW IN GEORGIA Atlanta, September 25—"Georgia’s non-farm worker ranks now exceed one million!” Georgia’s Commissioner of Labor Ben T. Huiet tells Governor S. Ernest Vandiver. The million mark -was previ¬ ously predicted for September or October of this year. However, the opening of a mammoth shopping center in the Atlanta area, and the usual seasonal gains in manufacturing, trade and government and a large number of temporary workers in whole¬ sale tobacco markets pushed the total beyond the we Mkfawi goal tu AmuttL a toUL td iMiJdu ADains 4-3433 chairman for Women's Day; Mix. Mi;i ry Colley, first place winner; Mrs. Leola David, Mrs. Louie Cooper and Mrs. H. T. drown, runner up. Total amount I'ui i d by each con¬ i'..! ant: Mrs. Annie M. Gapers, ,.125; Mrs. Rttlhie M. Wright, Labor Leader Tells How He Was Beaten and Jailed in Ala. CHICAGO (ANP) — One America outstanding labor leader ; who was recently re * ■ ed from an Alabama pri¬ son where he had been jailed and beaten by police for tempting to organize voters to register, on Tuesday hailed the 24th Convention of the United Elec¬ trical Radio and Workers of America (UE) “the gathering of the true fighters for full equality in the trade union movement.’’ A .bury Howard, internation- 1 vice president of the United line. Mall and Smelter Work- rs of America, independent, Bostonian Reportedly Worth Dies BOSTON, Mass. (ANP) Char It;; J. Shepard, 88, who lived quietly and admired such militant leaders as the late Monroe Trotter .passed away as peacefully as he had lived in Slight Josses in construction, industries and hard good 3 manufacturing were completely overshadowed by these gains. So far, the steel strike has shown little effect on Georgia employment. This informa¬ tion is revealed in the Georgia Department of La¬ bor’s regular monthly report “Wages and Employ¬ ment,* released today by Commissioner Huiet. During the past year, Georgia employers hired 119424 workers through the 35 Georgia State Sto¬ Etomtat Sa ri s s wilias e£ tbl Price 10c NUMBER 53 $83.35; Mrs. Leola David, $106; Mrs. Louise Cooper, $81.35; Mas. Mary COlley, $177.35; Mrs. H. T. Brown, 168.70. With the , white collections a total unount of $800 was raised. Iu-v. i. A. Capers ls pastor of the church. addressed more than 300 dele¬ gates convening here from the United States and Canada. Howard, a towering figure of a man who commands immedi¬ ate attention, told the UE dc- egateo of his beating and frame-up arrest by Bessemer, Alabama, police last year whiie attempting to organize Negro citizens to register for voting. [Howard also told how his son, Atomy Howard, Jr., 30, hud been- brutally oealen when he went to the Bessemer police station to aid his father. “They beat and jailed a son whose only offense was thut he Continued on Page Sever. a local hospital. Reputedly worth $250,000, Mr. Shepherd had had a long career as a realtor, stock broker, and insurance agent, prior to his retirement.