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years of CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUME LXXVI1I VI IM on First of Voteless LOCAL DENTISTS ATTEND CHICAGO MID-WINTER DENTAL DR. W. J. WILSON Dr. J. W. Wilson and Dr. P. W. Cooper are attending the Chi- cago Mlid-Wlnter Dental Clinic this week. They will return on Friday. | Feb. Is Cancer Education Month in Chatham County The month of February Cancer Education Month in < ham County, Monsignor T. McNamara, chairman of Hie hoard ot directors of the local unit the American Cancer Society, nounced today. This special emphasis placed on cancer education is not a campaign, but a period of time set aside to stress the of detection of early cancer, which in iiiM-.t cases can he cured, signor McNamara pointed out. Dr. J. Randall Winhurn, Jr., Negro History Week Feb. 7-13 Bv VICTOR CLAVEBTON WASHINGTON, D. C. —The celebration of Negro His¬ tory Week Fell. 7 11 is an appro¬ priate time to recall the record of the American Negro in the Oivil War. The centennial of the Civil War, is being celebrated from PJG0 to 1965. Major General U. S. Grant 3rd, grandson of the general who led the Union forces that won the Civil War, and Karl K. Betts, executive director of the Civil War Cciit.cn- Local NAACP Officers to be Installed W. VV .LAW President The officers of the local branch of the NAACP will be installed Sunday, February 14, j it 4 p. m, at the Butler Pit Interracial Ends in NORFOLK, Va. interracial romantic triangle ended in a burst of hate and rifle shots that left two dead here last. week. Willard Bowser, 53 year old Negro who has a home in the rural area nf the county being held here on two counts of felonious assault and killing following the fatal double shooting Tuesday. “Trespasser” Shot 16 Times ! Meanwhile funeral arrange ments were being made lor his AOanui 4-343* Dll. r. IV. COOPER Dr. Wilson lias recently mov- ed into liis new offices at 417 West Bolton street. Dr. Cooper’s jffices are at 1111 West Broad Lreet. ; serving as chairman of the com : mittee in charge of the program ] iu Savannah. 1 The a, ; eas of acUv:Ly xor t, 1 “ s P ec,aI edutatu>n include ] the mailing of cancer literature, | distribution of liteiatuie among clubs and organizations and piv- granis on cancer tnat include a film showing. Plans are being formulated for a medical panel show with doctors participating in a question and | ansWer type program. rial Commi- ion, have authorized A ociated for the Study of Negro Life and History to furnish and co-ordinate information on the Negro’s participation in the Civil War in connection with the cele¬ bration of the centennial of the Civil War. The theme of Negro History Week this year is “Strengthening America Through Education in Negro History and African Cul- (Continued on Page Seven > C. WIMBERLY Vice President byterian Church. A i M-iai program commemo- rat'nu the fifty-first sary of the NAACP will be ren- wife. Carle 46, and Charles j t ry, a 46-year old white whom Bowser shot 16 with a .22 calibre rifle hr found the two together his home. Wh»*n police arrived at home in Dovers Hill in to a call from Bowser, found Mrs, Bowser on the porch suffering from bullet wounds. She was rushed to I hospital where she died MISS ADDISON The appearance here of the great American soprano, AUele Addison, to he pro rented in recital at Savannah State College, Mel- drim Auditorium, on February 16 marks a musical event of rare dis¬ tinction for the college lyceum series under the chairmanship of Dr. Coleridge A. I’raithwaile. The annual re-engagements of Adele Addison in the oto t, dis¬ tinguished concert hall of Amer¬ ica's great cultural centers such as New Yolk, Huston, Washing- Ion, and in major chic : from coast to coast, whether in sulo recital, as soloist vvitn America’s leading orchestras, oi in chamber music, as well as in opera, have, for the past several years, been acclaimed by leading clitics and connoisseurs of the concert and opera world, not only a rare musical event of the season, but of many seasons. And how her singing of the role of Hess in the Goldwyn film of the ^ eat Gershwins heioved and during music-dream, “Poigy and Bess”, the music of which was proclaimed “superb” by Life (June 15, 1959), brings Adele Addison’s (Continued on Page Five) Fire Damages Smith School Vandals set fire to a seventh grade classroom at Pearl Lee Smith School Sunday afternoon, Firemen arrived just in time to prevent the blaze from spread¬ ing to other rooms. Four suspects ranging In age from 13 to 17 years were arrest¬ ed Monday but were freed be¬ cause of lack of evidence to connect them with the case. Mrs. Sadie Cartledge, the principal, said that classes have; continued by the use of double ^ sessions. ' THEODORE A. ROBERTS Vice President dered. TIip officei to be installed are W W Law, president,; dorr A. Roberts, vice president; t after her arrival. j The bullet punctured body Betkey was found on the j of the living room where -hooting had taken place. was dead. j Bowser .sat nearby in a and rifle still in his hand. Found Wife in Betkey’s Lap j Police said Bowser told them he awoke and went into the living room of the house to find his wife sitting in Betkey’s lap. As he turned to go gagk SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA GEOBGLA SATURDAY, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 13, 13, 1960 1960 WASHINGTON, ». C.—“It in I Incredible to me that in I960 men and women must com. here in a democracy and ask for the privi¬ lege of voting." That statement by Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam summed up the feeling of many of the 1,500 persons attending the first hearing of the Volunteer Civil Bights Com¬ mission here on January .'list. Bishop Oxnam and four other members of the V.C.K.C. had just heard the moving stories of 10 Ne¬ groes deprived of the right to register and vote in five Southern states and the Disti let of Colum¬ bia. The stories were told at a mock hearing conducted by the V.C.K.C. in the Asbtiry Methodist Church. The overflow audience heard tales of harassment, economic reprisals, and loss of jobs for citizens who tried to vote in the South. They also heard John MeFerren, a cotton farmer from Fayette County, Tenn., tell how the FBI ‘put me un the hot-dug stand" after he tried to register and vote. At one point MeFerren was so overcome that he had to stop testi¬ fying. This was just after he said: “The FBI came out in the field and investigated me. When he in¬ vestigated me he brought back the report and gave the report to the sheriff . . . immdiately after then my life was threatened.” Stories of long and frustrating efforts to exercise their rights as citizens were also recited by DC Daniel W. Wynn, chaplain at Tus- kegee Institute, Ala.; Miss Fe- dilia JoAnne Adams, Tuskegee In¬ stitute, Ala.; Prof. J. N. Blanken¬ ship, Saline, la.; Prof S. T. Nero, Holly Springs, Miss.; Grafton R. “Sugar Chile” Robinson Reinvests $100,000 Fund Frank “Sugar Chile” did last week with the 000 he got from a trust fund that had been established for him? , No you’re wrong. He set another trust fund for with the National Bank of troit. The first trust fund came from money he earned as a child boggle woggic prodigy. It matured when he was 21 years old, and the probate court turn¬ ed the cash over to him. Was Boogie Woogic Sensation Robinson burst upon the mu- ,sic world as a boogie-woogie sensation of the keyboard DR. CARI, R. .IORDAN Treasurer | C. Wimberly, vice president; I Mrs. Esther F. Garrison, sec- ! rpt.ary; and Dr. Carl R. Jor- dan, treasurer. the bedroom for the gun, he (old police. Betkey pulled hh wife across his lap and attempt¬ ed to Use her as a shield. Bowser returned with the rifle and emptied 16 rounds Into the pair. Police were unable to deter¬ mine immediately how many shots pierced each victim. Betkey reportedly lives on Franklin road in Bowers Hill and is the manager of a service station there. Gray, Tallahatchie County, Mias.; Mrs. Louise Lassiter, Seaboard, N. C.; and Curry P. Boyd, Hay¬ wood County, Tenn. Fruitless efforts to got the vote in the District of Columbia were described by the Rev. E. Franklin Jackson, president of the Washing¬ ton branch of NAACP. Economic efforts of the lack of voting in the district were detailed by Mrs. Jewell Mazique, active in the Elks Civil Liberties League of Wash¬ ington, D. C. Other members of the V.C.K.C. are the Kt. Rev. George W. Baber, Philadelphia, presiding bishop of the A.M.E. Church; Rev. William Holmes Borders, president of the National Fraternal Council of Churches; Philip A. Camponeschi, executive secretary of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commis¬ sion of the City of Baltimore; Dr. Roland P. Mackay, noted Chicago neurologist and editor of the Year Book of Neurology; and the Rt. Rev. C. Evrbank Tucker, Louis- s 1 ,^ n ** * ,u ^op of the A.M.E. Zion (Jhurch. Rev. Bor¬ ders was unable to attend the hear¬ ing. The mock hearing wa3 spon¬ sored by 16 Southern organizations 83 a means of spurring action on civil rights legislation, and ob¬ servers believe that it had that, ef¬ fect. Dr. Charles G. Gomillion, president of the Tuskegee Civic Association, who w'as staff direc¬ tor for the V.C.R.C., summed up proposals to be submitted to Con¬ gress. Among them was a plan for fed¬ eral registration of Voters where the regular local and state ma¬ chinery fails to function. The (Continued on Page Four years The little boy who played with elbows and fists as well as fingers, performed for large and distinguished audiences. Listners loved him. He be¬ came a concert hall rage. Once he played for an approv¬ ing President Truman at a White House correspondents dinner. He also appeared in London’s Paladium. The money rolled in for Sug¬ ar Chile. His father, Clarence 67, and a court Judge arrang¬ ed the trust fund for him. A grateful Robinson explain¬ ed last week that as he became older he became aware of stage and sports stars who failed to save their money. “Not Going To Happen To Me” “I made up my mind this wasn’t going to happen to me,” he said. Robinson is a student at De¬ troit Institute of Technology. Phi Beta Sigmas To Meet Feb. 13 Louisville, Ky—JThp General Board of Phi Beta Sigma Fra¬ ternity, Inc., will meet at the Fraternity’s national office, 1105 Prospect place. Brooklyn, N. Y. on Saturday, February 13, I960 to plan program strategy for the year. Since the Eastern Region¬ al Conference will be held in Brooklyn in April and the 46th Anniversary Conclave of the Fraternity will be held in New York City this year, with mem¬ bers of all Metropolitan Chap¬ ters participating, the Board meeting takes on added signifi¬ cance. Phi Beta Sigma's national of¬ ficers are; Roswell O. Sutton, Atlanta. Oa.. President; Maurice A. Moore. Chicago. III., First Vice President; Isaiah J Wil¬ liams. Ill, Florida N A I Col¬ lege, St. Augustine, Fla., second VIcp President; William E. Doar. Jr.. Brooklyn. N. Y.. Executive Secretary; R A Hester, Dallas. Texas, treasurer; Dr. William H. Pipes, Michigan State Universi¬ ty, Lansing. Mich.. Editor of The Crescent. Director of Bigger H Better Business. Dr. Robert J. HiU. Baltimore. Md.; Commer¬ cial Counsellor. James A. Jack- son, New York City; Director of Education, Dr. Alvin J. McNeil, Orambling College, Louisiana; Director of Social Action, Dr. (Continued on Page Seven’, Miss Blue Revue Contestants On February H6, one of young ladies pictured above he crowned “Miss Blue Revue 1960,” at the Alfred K. Reach School, by Mrs. Ella Fisher, Ipiis of the local chapter of Phi Beta Sorority. The young Indies competing as follows: Miss Ann L. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alston, who is a J u li i o r Beach High School and Is a ber of the school band. She iss member of Beth-Kdrn Church. Miss Shirley Ami Mitchell, (laughter of Mr. and Mi . Hey Atlanta Lite Ins. Co. to Hold HogioiialConlerence A three-day planning and pro¬ gram conference of branch cash¬ iers, managers, and “top agents” from 16 branch offices and sub- districts of the states of Alabama and Florida, will be held by Allan ta Life Insurance Company, be¬ ginning Sunday, February 14, through Tuesday, February 16, at Mobile, Alabama. This instructive, inspirational and enthusiastic conference will project the new i960 theme, ac¬ cording to the agency director of the Atlanta Life, E. L. Simon, who is also chairman of the ex¬ ecutive committee of the National Insurance Association. The pro gramming and training confab will i hold daily session:; at the branch office, 55K St. Francis Street, Mo¬ bile, Alabama, in coordinating the woi k of the district managers and j branch cashiers, as it relates to the continued on Page Seven OFFICIALS of Savannah State | College chat with visiting officials i of Mississippi Vocational College, j ! Left to right, Wilton C. Scott, Director of Office of Public Re-I A Dam. 4-343* ward Mitchell, is a student at lloneli High School and plays in the band. She is a member of Tremont Temple Baptist Church. Miss Charlotte Brown, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Small , is a student of Beach High School and i., a member of Butler Presbyterian Church, Her hob¬ bies are reading and sewing. Miss Mary Clifford Boles, the daughter of Mrs. Kathleen E. Scruggs and Clarence Boles, is a senior at Beach High School and is a member of the Honor Society. Shu is a communicant of St. Mat thews’ Episcopal Church. Mias Sharon Cleveland the Advisory Com. Organized For 1961 March of Dimes Campaign through February 13 for the New March of Dimes campaign terminates this weekend, cer¬ tain of the local volunteer workers will continue their ser¬ vices to the program through¬ out the year. An advisory committee organ¬ ized during the past week will have an integral part in the or¬ ganization and planning of the 1961 campaign. Tills commit¬ tee, composed of key volun¬ teer workers, will spearhead a local county wide survey in an attempt to find the number of birth defective Negro children lation:; & Alumni Affairs, Savan- nah State College, Timothy C. Meyers, Dean of Faculty, Savan- nah State College, Dr, J. H. White, President Mississippi Vo¬ Price 10c 19 daughter of Mr*. Mattie Cleveland, is a student at St. Pius High School and is n member of Bethel A.M.E. Church. Her hobbies are swimming and dancing. Miss Harliet Bias, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, OhJab Bias, is a student at Sol C. Johnson High School. Miss Bias spent two years in Detroit where Ah# attended Dur- fee Jr. High School and Central High School. Thera she gained many outstanding achievements in music. She was soloist for the Cen¬ tral High School concert choir. At Johnson High she I* active in vari¬ ous clubs and the Choral Society. a* the number of children suf¬ fering from arthritic and other crippling diseases. Findings from such a survey will be beneficial to the Nation¬ al Foundation as well as the lo¬ cal citizenry in determining the scope of such diseases as well as pointing up the need for concentrated health education needs, especially among our young expectant mothers and the parents of children suffer¬ ing from any of the diseases. While polio Is not to be dis- ,continued on Page Five) cational College, Dr. W. K. Payne, President Savannah State College and Mr. D. E. Coulen, Director of Public Relations, Mississippi Voca¬ tional College.