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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
P UBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVIII
FBB and FAB Churches to Celebrate
172nd Anniversary
FIRST BRYAN BAPTIST CHURCH Rev E. O. S. Cleveland
Anniversary Speaker
FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. It. M. Williams
Pastor, F.B.B. Church
Woman Unable (o Eat or Drink for
29 Years, Cured New York
NEW YORK, N. Y.—(ANP)— released from Montefiore Hos-
Medical circles throughout the pital and able to eat and drink
country were astounded this normally, after a scries of sur¬
week to iearn that a Negro gical operations performed by
woman, 50 years old, who had Montefiore surgeons.
| been unable to swallow any The now-famous patient,
'food or liquid for 29 years, was I who thanked God for her re-
IORED — On December Ki,
and Mrs. Asa T.
were host* to the
bers or the board of direc-
and their wives at dinner
iring Dr. Clyde Donnell in
piition of his forthcoming
ement as Senior Vice-Pres-j
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Ilev. C. J.. Jackson
Pastor, F.A.B. Church
| ident and Medical Director of
lh( North Carolina Mutual
Insurance Company after forty
three yea: s of service. .
Seated from left: Mrs. W J.
Kennedy, Jr., Mrs. E. R. Mer¬
rick, Mrs. Clyde Donnell. Dr.
Duuncli, flic liunoiee, Mrs. D.,
U. S. Notables
At Tubman’s
Inaugural
WASHINGTON — (AiNTi —
"History is being made on the
continent of Africa.” declared
Under-Secretary of State Liv¬
ingstone Merchant Tuesday,
when he presented credentials
to official U.S. representatives
to the independence celebra¬
tion of the Cameroons on Jan.
1 and .the inauguration of
President William V. S. Tub-
man in Liberia on Jan, 4.
The under-secretary spoke
admirably of Liberia, the Af¬
rican republic, which has al¬
ways been so closely bound to
the U.S. by history, sentiment
and friendship.
Among the six persons named
by President Eisenhower as his
pecial ambassadors was Maj.
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr„ of
the U.S. Air force.
included among the State
department delegates were Wil¬
liam o. Walker, managing edi¬
tor, Cleveland Call and Post,
and Val J Washington, Repub¬
lican National committee.
Rep. Charles C. Diggs (D„
Mich.) was one of two Con¬
gressional representatives. The
other is Rep. Steven B. Dcrou-
nian <R„ N.Y.>
The White House delegation
is headed by Henry Cabot
Lodge, U.S. representative to
the United Nations. Others are
J. C. Sattcrhwaitc, assistant
Secretary <Jf State for African
Affairs, and Robert P. Bur¬
roughs, R. P. Burroughs Com¬
pany, Inc., Manchester, N. H.
The other two arc Mason Sears,
U.S. representative to the UN
Trusteeship council who will
represent the President only at
t li e Cameroons ceremonies;
and Elbert G. Mathews, Ameri¬
can ambassador to Liberia who
(Continued on Page Three
Mr. Moton Visits
W, B. March ol
Dimes Headquarters
R. R. Moton, Jr., field represen¬
tative for the National Foundation,
was in the city this week in inter¬
est of the New March of Dimes
Campaign. He visited the West
Broad St. Headquarters and inter¬
viewed Jack Stiles, the local chair¬
man of the campaign.
Mr. Moton is Uie son of the late
Robert Russell Moton, who was
president of Tuskegee Institute for
a number of years.
He was house guest of Mrs. E.
S. Thomas, (121 West 40th Street,
while in the city.
Sunday, Jan. 10, will mark
the Joint 172nd anniversary
celebration of the First Bryan
Baptist and First African Bap¬
tist churches.
Tire program will bf held ut.
First Bryan Baptist church at
3 30 p m. Rev, E. O. S. Cleve¬
land, pastor of St. John Bap¬
tist church, will be the guest
speaker. Rev. Cleveland is pre¬
sident of tlie State Sunday
School and BTU Convention of
the General Missionary Baptist
Convention of Georgia,
Both of these historic chur¬
ches were organized in 1788
and both claim to be the oldest
Negro Baptist church in Ame¬
rica. Nine years ago the idea
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lease during the Holiday Sea-
• on, is Mrs. Virginia Dixon of
New York City, who was
admitted to the hospital about
three months ago. For 29 years,
her only means of nourishing
her body was by chewing food
and spitting it into a funnel
connected to a rubber tube, in¬
serted into her stomach. Al¬
though well nourished by this
method, Mrs. Dixon was most
unhappy she was never able to
;it down and eat with her fam¬
ily.
Swallows Lye Accidentally
Her condition resulted from
an accident when she was 21
in which she accidentally swal-
owed lye and caused a com¬
plete obstruction of her esopha¬
gus very high in her neck just
below the pharnyx. She had
been told by many doctors over
the years that no operation
could be performed which
would enable her to swallow
owing to the fact that the ob¬
struction was too high in the
esophagus. She came to Monte¬
fiore as a result of reading a
newspaper account about a
patient who had h^d a “re¬
vered gastric tube” operation.
A Montefiore surgeon (Dr.
Henry Heimlich) operated on
her about six weeks ago. He
constructed a reversed gastric
tube, bringing the open end of
the tube out in the neck be¬
neath the angle of the jaw
(mandible). The day after
Thanksgiving. November 37. he
joined the open end of the gas¬
tric tube to the esophagus at
the point where the esophagus
originates from the pharynx.
This site was immediately
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iC. Doans, Jr., and Mrs. N. H.
j Bennett, Jr. Standing in the
j same order are, first row: N. H.
Bennett, Jr., E. R. Merrick, Mr.
and Mrs. Spaulding, and Mr.
and Mrs. J. W Goodloe. Last
row: D. C. Deans, Jr., W. J
Kennedy, Jr., C. C. Spaulding,
Jr., and W. M. Rich.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 19(10
NewMardt of DimesHeadquarlers
Now Open oil West Broad Street
Protest
Leaders Fight
Against JC
GREENVILLE, S. C. Mulch¬
ing through sleet and snow and
singing “America The Beautiful”
hundreds of Negroes marched on
the Greenville city airport on
Emancipation Day, January 1, to
protest segregation in the airport’s
waiting room.
The demonstration, planned by
Greenville CORE and the inter¬
denominational Ministerial Alli¬
ance, was watched closely by state,
city and county police. There was
no disturbance though nine men
identified by the police us mem¬
bers of the Ku Klux Klan were
checked personally by officers.
The protest was in response to
the action of airport officials who
ordered Jackie Robinson out of the
“white waiting room” last October
25.
The demonstration begun with
a muss rally in Springfield Bap¬
tist Church. There were 22 speak¬
ers during the program represent¬
ing major civil rights, fraternal,
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THURGOOQ MARSHALL’S REPORT ON DESEGREGATION
In an abbreviated report for
the year 1959, Thurgood Mar¬
shall, Director-Counsel ol the
NAACP Legal Defense and Ed¬
ucational Fund, summed up
the year’s activities as a mark-j
ed step forward toward ending
enforced racial segregation. Of
primary importance is the fact
that, despite uie ties: comomed
efforts of the southern states,
the year showed the end of the
program of “massive resist¬
ance” and a reluctant accept¬
ance of at least token compli¬
ance in the more obstinant
states.
In Little Rock we saw the
federal courts declare uncon¬
stitutional the latest efforts of
Governor Faubus to keep public
schools closed in opposition to
integration. Little Rock also
demonstrated that the religious
and business leaders of the city,
when pushed to the wall and j
faced with the choice of into-
gration or no schools, would
themselves choose token inte¬
gration and insist that the
schools be reopened. Likewise,
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Delta Launches Survey ol College Students
DR. KING DENIES ‘'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE” CAMPAIGN
ATLANTA—(ANP)—Dr. Mar¬
tin Luther King, here for a
joint meeting of the NAACP
and the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, strong¬
ly denied that he was heading
a plot by Negroes to organize
a mass civil disobedience cam¬
paign.
The charge was made toy Alt.
Gen. Eugene Cook that state
investigators had uncovered
the plot which he said would
be aimed at breaking the back¬
bone of racial segregation in
transportation and public pia- j
CCS.
In his denial King did admit j
that he had said that mass
civil disobedience campaign.. j
might tie necessary in certain j
areas where local laws conflict j
with federal statutes on civil
rights.
Wilkins In Atlanta
King, Roy Wilkins, executive
secretary of the NAACP, and
23 other leaders of the two
organizations were here plan¬
ning details of a southslde
drive aimed at registering
1,100.000 Negro voters in time
to participate in the 1900 pre¬
sidential election.
Wilkins said the NAAQP had
less than $ 100,000 to spend on
the program and that most of
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The March of Dimes Head¬
quarters for the I960 campaign
opened officially Monday, Jan.
4, at 704 West Broad St,., and
will remain open each clay
throughout the campaign from
9 a.m. until 5 pm. Through
the combined efforts of the
local chapter personnel and the
planning committee, this much
needed office was established
for the convenience of the vo¬
lunteers.
Leaders lor this year’s cam¬
paign are as follows:
General chairman, J o h n
(Jack) R Stiles, Jr.; Office
Administrator and co-ohuir-
man, Mrs. Arthur Joyner;
Mothers March, Mrs. Lillian
McNichois and Mrs Emily Ma-
1 Continued on Page Six'
public interest. They are mem¬
bers of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority's Yancey Commission
on Undergraduate College Stu¬
dent Concerns, named to con¬
duct a comprehensive survey
of student activities, aspira¬
DELTA’S YANCEY COMi.vilSS-
— The women shown here
just launched a massive
designed to help in¬
the leadership potential
college students to make
contributions to the
Teen-age Heroine Is Mamed One ei
4 The Ten Young Women of l he Yen
Mademoiselle** 1939 Merit Award Winner#, honored for signal achievement during (he
pael year: (1 ) Teresa Berganza, opera linger; (2) Lorraine Hansberry, playwright; (3)
Penny I’iton, skier; (A) Maya Plisetskaya, Ballet dancer; (5) Kliz.abeth Roeiner, astrono-
nter; (toj Mona Rosrl, fashion designer; (7) Gael Greene, newspaperwoman; (8) Ingrid
Timlin, actress; (9) Kli/.aheth Marshall Thomas, author (with one of her two children ) ;
(III) Shirley O'Neil, special award winner ‘"for heroism" (seen here with two of iter
charges at a Catholic iouih Org.tnizaiiou »umcr school^
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Price 10c
NUMBER 14
U. S. Circuit Court
Asked to Rehear
Braden Appeal Case
NEW ORLEANS, La.—All seven
judges of the U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals have been
asked to rehear the appeal of
Carl Braden from a one-year
sentence for Contempt of Con¬
gress. Braden’s lawyers told
the court that his Imprison¬
ment w'ould open the way for
state legislative committees to
destroy any organization work¬
ing for racial integration in the
South.
A three-judge panel of the
court recently held that Braden,
an integration worker, was
rightfully sentenced for refus¬
ing to answer six questions of
the House Un-American Activ¬
ities Committee in Atlanta in
1958.
One , of the questions con¬
cerned possible membership in
the Communist Party. Five
others dealt with Braden’s ac¬
tivities in behalf of civil rights
and civil liberties. He is a field
secretary and editor for the
Southern Conference Education¬
al Fund, an Interracial group
seeking to end segregation.
Braden told the House sub-
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tions and potentials.
From left, they are Miss
Hazel A. Dunnings, Deltas as¬
sociate director; Dr. Hilda A.
•Davis, administrative assistant
to the superintendent of Deia-
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