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78 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVIII
COP FREEH AFTER KILLING WAR VETERAN
Queen of Coastal Empire”
Will be Crowned at Flamingo
State 4-H
Champions
Named
Thirty boys and girls were
named state champions in
various 4-H club p ojccts and
activities. These champions
were presented certificates of
recognition and prizes during
the Annual State Awards p 1 o-
grarn which was held at the
Dublin 4-H Club Center, Oct. 30
4-H Club Agents M. c. Little
and Miss Carrie B. Powell
pointed out that each of these
4-Her’s had been previously
declared champions at countj
and dish ict elimination meet
ings earlier this year.
A complete list of this year'.
4-H champions follows:
Gerald Price, Henry county
Achievement; Maxine Williams
Camden county, Achievement;
Don L o u is Crawfo.d, Jr.
Lowndes county, Beef; Lonnk
Johnson, Lowndes county, Boys
Agricultural;
Faye Jackson (individual
Morgan county, breadmaking'
Willie M. Lundy and Sarah
Kelsey (team) Hancock county
Breadmaking; Annette Allen
Newton county, Canning; Lu
cilie Beasley, Car.oil County
Clothing;
Michael ( Smith, Hancoc!
county, Dairy; Justine White
head, Jenkins county, Dair:
Foods; Betty J. Threatt, Bib
county, Dress Revue; Arthui
Brown, J:., B;bb county, Elec¬
tric; Clarence E. Goodman,
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Miss Sock” Crowned
.if
Miss Sheila Woods
Miss Sheila Woods of 1151
51st Street was crowned
Sock’’ over 100 or more
titors at the finals of thfe
talent shows which took
on Friday, October 23,
Thursday and Friday
October 29 & 30, at the
side theater.
This WSOK promotion
open to anyone and
Woman at Wheel;
Own Life
LITTLE ROCK
be it was Providence, but
one .agrees that Mrs. Bernice
Hooks, 37 year old Negro
wife, was mysteriously
from electrocution last week,
Mrs. Hooks w-as saved
she “froze" at the wheel of
car after it struck a 2,300
power pole in North little Rock
The incident occurred as
Hooks was driving along U.
Highway 67 West in the late
ternoon. She attempted to
another car, w r as forced off
road and struck the power
from which electrical power
ttrilmur
ADams 4-3433
Mrs. Lelia Braithwaite
Mrs. Lelia W. Braithwaite, a
nernber of the faculty of Moses
aokson Elementary school, was
assisted by her many friends
n becoming the ‘ Queen of the
yJoasital Empire,” for 1959-60.
She will reign over all YMCA
activities for adults locally, and
throughout the Coastal Empire.
whether amateur or profess¬
ional in order to find a good
vo.ee for future use as a wom¬
an DJ cither on WSOK or a
future Negro beamed station
n the Fisher Broadcasting Co.
chain.
Miss Woods received as first
irize a free trip to the Dolphin
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tod to the transmitter of radio
Nation KARK.
Tlie im p act sheared off
J no j e j us {. a b 0 ve the ground,
The po]p fell and one of the
j three 2.300 volt lines settled
the ear The station went
dead - and Jome 400 houses in
the area tost electrical service.
A<r frr Mrs. Hooks, she sim
cou i{j n ’t move. An attend-
R g physician at University
Medical center, where she
taken, said she suffered no
brolcen b one . s or serious
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She is a member of the Aipm
Kappa Alpha Sorority and o.
S( . Matthew’s Episcopal
As her prize she will
an all-expense paid trip
four days and nights in
sau, Bahamas Islands. She
Continued on Page Three
Boy Repudiates
Slaying Confession
CHICAGO (ANP > —A 17
old Negro youth who early
fessed to the slaying of .a
high school student last
ber 4, repudiated the
and gave police the names
10 witnesses whom he said
testify he was at a party at
time of the slaying.
The boy, Charles Baisden,
accused of knifing
Schwartz, 16, to death as
latter stood on an elevated
form awaiting a train.
was arrested after
traced a pair of
trousers found in a dry
ing store near the elevated
tion. Baisden admitted
rizing the store.
with the trousers, he also
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HIGHLIGHTS of the half ti r.f
during the Savanr ah St
College homecoming gam v.
Ethel Hardeman, at ’o
“Miss Albany State,' Olivia E.
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA
PH (LADELPHIA, Miss.— (AN
Pi—m another demonstration
of Mississippi justice, white
policemen hero shot a Negro
Korean War veteran, battered
his woman companion and were
absolved of any injustice all in
just two days.
It all happened on Sunday,
>et. 25, as Luther Jackson, a
■feel worker with General Mo-
tors corporation, Flint, Mich.,
-at talking in a friend’s car
to Miss Nettie Mae Thomas,
iccording to the young woman.
Mi-s Thomas, a native of the
city, which was also Jackson’s
hometown, gave an entirely
different version of the shoot¬
ing than the policemen whe
slew the war vet. Her story
.il.'.o differed radically
First Ne?ro Alaskan Rep.
Will Address NAACP,
Nov. 11
M- Blanche McSmith of
Anchorage, Alaska, will speak
it a public NAACP meeting
Wednesday night, Nov. 11, at
the Connor’s Temple Baptist
church, Gwinnett near West
1 wi st.. as announced by W.
W. Law, the branch president.
Mrs. McSmith is a member of
*.he first state legislature in the
r ift.:eth state, becoming the
first Negro to serve in the
lid Killed in
Wo Accident
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Henry MeGraw
Enroute to the store to pur-
c '-ase ingredients lor a banana
i pudding, Henry McGraw, age
10 y?ars, was knocked down and
j killed instantly by a motorist
xuesday aiternoon.
I he accident occur: ed on
- 52nd street extension near Ad-
urns avenue about 3.30 p. m.
Witnesses state that
darted into the path of a
driven by Mrs. W. P. Cowart
S i 1 k Hope Farms “without
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Biavtock, “Miss Albany
a: d Oia M Brown,
James Deen, president of
S' ..deni Council, Delores
attendant to Miss
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1959
that of Police Chief Richardson,
whom Miss Thomas said pistol-
whipped her in an attempt to
stop her from talking.
*,/.ved In Chicago
Jackson, who lived in
Chicago before going to Flint,
was idled by the steel strike
and had gone home to help his
mother, Mrs. Claudia Jackson,
harvest her crop. He arrived
Sunday. However, by 10:30 p.m.
that night, he was slain by
Policeman Lawrence Rainey.
By Monday morning, a coro-
jner’s jury, supposedly all-
white, had cleared his slayer,
ruling the shooting '‘justifiable
homicide." This, despite the
.act that Jackson’s family did
Continued on Page Three
Alaska House of Representa¬
tives. She is also president of
the Anchorage NAACP branch.
Before moving to Alaska in
1949, Mrs. McSmith resided in
Los Angeles, Calif. Her husband
conducts McSmith Enterprises,
an electric appliance business
and real estate firm.
The visiting lawmaker has
(Continued on Page Three'
Tremont Chorister
Dies Suddenly
Mrs. Janie J. Horton
Mrs. Janie Mae Jenkins Hor¬
ton who became suddenly ill
Sunday, Nov. 1, while singing
in the choir at Tremont Tem¬
ple Baptist church, was rushed
to a local hospital where she
died Monday morning, Nov. 2,
at 12:20 o’clock.
Mrs. Horton was owner of
the Ideal Dry Cleaners located
at 2404 Florence Street.
A native of Furman, S.
Mrs. Horton came to Savannah
more than twenty-five years
(Continued on page three
I State; Dr. W. K. Payne, presi
! dent of Savannah State
liege; (and Josie Simpson, “Miss
practically hidden is
ette West, attendant to
Tompkins Plans Colorful
Homecoming Parade, Nov, 7
Tompkins High School’s pa¬
rade marshal, Crawford B.
Bryant, announces that the
homecoming parade scheduled
for Saturday, Nov. 7, is to be
the largest in the history of
the school and will begin
promptly at 11 a.m. The theme
of the parade Is “Fashions
Today and Yesterday."
The line of -march of
parade will start on Hull at
West Broad, continuing on
West Broad south to 37th Street
New Orleans Stops
Race Tags on Schools
NEW ORLEANS
Orleans Parish School
which has .always been very
finite in distinguishing
schools used by whites and
groes, has abandoned this
icy and now refers to
simply as members of the
tem.
This week they announced
bond issue planned for
19, 1960, at which time
In the amount of $5,679,660
be floated.
Three schools planned but
designated for Negroes will
constructed. One new
school In the Lawless area
low the Industrial canal at
cost of $2,348,830 and
to two already existing elemen¬
tary schools at a cost of
860 each, the Moton and
schools,
This means that only
130 for construction of the
white schools. Negro
construction In New Orleans
lagged so long that
mogt of the funds
for construction have had to
used on schools for Negro use.
And Negroes still do not
enough schools to
their children. There are
Negro students than whites
New Orleans public schools.
SSC.” Mrs. Lucille Mooring,
j attendant to "Miss Alumni,’
J Mrs. Louise Milton, “Miss
Alumni" and Mrs. Amanda
Cooper, attendant.
Price 10c I
ADams 4-3433
where it will disband.
Leading the parade will be
the Tompkins High School
band followed by the Bo.y Scout
flag and banner bearers. "Miss
Tompkins High of 1959," Matil-
da Wiley, and her attendants,
i Frances Mackay and Mary Jane
Flowers, will ride the leading
j float These wearing fashions ladies of to- all
day. young are
j members of the senior class
find have been selected be-
I cause of high scholastic
JEWELL STANTON, vivacious
young San Francisco model
sex graciously at at the the pool pool of
Miami’s famed Sir John Resort
Hotel to salute two of Miami’s
finest men in blue, Dave Fin¬
cher (left) and Leroy I-’. Rog¬
ers,
Local Omegas Will Observe
National Achievement Week
Mu Phi and Alpha Gamma
(graduate and undergraduate)
chapters of Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity, Inc., announce
plans for the observance of
National Achievement Week,
sponsored annually by the
fraternity.
Pu ti r.s announcing the Na¬
tional High School Essay Con¬
text a: e on display at Pope
Pin Tompkins and Beach
High .Schools. The entries must
be in the mail by November 15.
first prize is a $300 scholar¬
ship with a $200 college scho¬
larship as second award. The
contest Is open to all high
school seniors.
A public program is being
arranged for Nov 15 at Savan¬
nah State College. L)r. Paul L.
Taylor will be the speaker.
Achievement. Week was in¬
augurated in the ninth Grand
Conclave in 1920 in Nashville,
Term., as Negro History and
Literature Week in deference
to Dr. Carter G. Woodson
whose address at thus meeting
stimulated the idea, Abolished
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achievements and charming
personalities. The student
council sponsored an election
for this purpose.
The principal, assistant prin¬
cipal, marshal and other ad-
ministr&tlve personnel will ride
In convertibles. “Mrs. PTA",
yet to be chosen, will ride In
a special automobile. Various
classes and school organiza-
Mons will be featured in the
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Miss Stanton, who poses for
ad agencies on the West Coast,
Is also a bookeeper for a San
Francisco Insurance company.
Standing 5 feet 7 inches, she
is quite a figure study herself,
measuring an eye popping 6-
23-36,
in the 1924 Washington Con¬
clave, the observance w r as re¬
vived at the 1925 Tuskegee
Conclave as the “Negro Achieve¬
ment Week project” to give an
opportunity for presentation of
important current achieve¬
ments of the Negro, many of
which may never find their way
Into the printed pages of his¬
tory. The project has always
been another effort of Omi 1
to live and achieve in accord¬
ance with its four cardinal
principles: Manhood, Scholar¬
ship, Perseverance and Uplift.
The project has tried to de¬
velop manhood by inspiring
race pride. It has attracted
attention to the high scholar¬
ship of Omega men and others
In its literature as well as
public programs. In sponsoring
the Achievement Week Project,
the fraternity has tried to
show how Negroes have perse¬
vered in spite of handicaps;
and, that to succeed, the Negro
must continue to persevere.
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