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SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1960
PRESIDENT LILLIAN
COFFEY, president of the
man's International
Church of Cod in Christ, will
liver her annual message at
big conclave, set for May 4-8,
Kansas City, Kan. The
vention Musical will be held
day night, May 3. (Associated
gro Press Photo)
Baptist Ministers
The Savannah Baptist
ivers Alliance met Tuesday
the YMCA. Devotions
conducted by Rev. L. L.
The president, Rev. E A.
ers, asked the
secretary, Rev. L. M. Moore,
A read article 2 of the
H«|tio n which stated that the
. Vannah v ann<ah Bffiintist. Baptist Ministers Ministers
liance will not affiliate in
political affair, local or
nr matters that will
the spiritual part of the
ance.
Visitors were Mrs.
and Mrs. Flewellen
ing the Chatham County
sade for voters.
An invitation extended
Alliance by Rev. L. L. Small
'hold weekly sessions at
Home Baptist c'hurcih was
cepted. The body will meet
Happy Home Tuesday, May
at 12 noon. Rev. E. M.
letfp will deliver the
accompanied by Edgar Pless,
piano.
A^^bjryitiqn of $10.00 was
en by tJie Alliance to the
MihG"-;' A.
n.vhi
Connor’s Temple
Sunday School was
ed Bv Superintendent
rjt '^foijtior’s Terrrole. The
sm was reviewed by Rev.
T astor of Abyssinia
c lurch, who also delivered
r lorning worship message.
Jlunior dlioir rendered the
■Sjc. A pew rally was
ft'iiuj by the Usher Board
1{ hr'TKe spring revival
ij poing .held this week.
is Rev. L. T.
ofl Wayeross. On next
evening the communion
will be held at 2'30
•the messages will be
Whitehead. Ijy the pastor, Rev. W.
St. Mary’s AME
j Rev. Charlie Fogle,
(jonducted the Sunday
at, St. Mary’s AME
Sir. and Mrs. David Bush
be* Baptized on May 15.
and Mrs. S. Snipe were
at the church last Sunday.
Union Baptist Usher
Bwfird
Wo Senior Ushers of
m j Baptist church met on
14 with the president.
Smith, presiding.
Johnson of 216 W.
street and Francis Clark
1003 W 50th street were
ported ill. Rev. L. C. Sapp
pruffcok - .
ICFTU Sets May First
For Free Labor’s Boycott
Free labor’s world boycott
Soeftr African exports as an
pression of abhorrence of
South African government’s
heid” racial policies, will
fc 1. It will last for at
two months.
. -Sfnrn*- free labor
like the British trades Union
gress, the German Federation
Labor, the AFL-CIO and the
ional labor organizations of
Scandinavian countries have
ready initiated consumer boycott
action.
The IcyTU, which has 135 or¬
ganizations in 100 countries, call¬
ed upon all those affiliated
gaijjptmffs which have not al¬
ready done so to organize a con¬
sumer boycott in their
countries. At the same time
56 '^bullion-strong
YMCA Activities
The first annual dinner and pro¬
gram of the Savannah Touchdown
Club will be held Friday night,
April 29, 8:00 P.M. at the West
Broad Street YMCA. The princi¬
pal speaker will be Jimmy Brown,
Marketing Specialist for the Pepsi
Cola Company of New York, and
fullback for the Cleveland Browns
Professional Football team.
The dinner will lie .presided over
by Joseph J. Turner, president of
the Savannah Touchdown Club.
Soloist will be Miss Sandra Simon,
a senior at the Alfred E. Beach
High School, accompanied by
Haroid Rosser, a member of the
Omega Hi-Y. club of Alfred E.
Beach High School.
The awarding of the Plaques
will be made by John W. Lyons
Sr., Chairman, Adult Program
Committee of the Board of Man¬
agement of the West Broad Street
YMCA. Plaques this year will go
to the Championship Basketball
team of Savannah State College,
Championship Basketball teams of
the Liberty County High School
(Boys and Girls), the Tompkins
High School Football and Basket¬
ball city champions, and to Jimmy
Brown for outstanding achieve¬
ment. The Savannah Pepsi Cola
Company will furnish the awards
this year and succeeding years for
the Savannah Touchdown club.
Officers for the Savannah
Touchdown club are: Joseph J.
Turner, president; Frank Sim¬
mons, first vice-president; John
Myles, second vice-president; Alex¬
ander Von Speed, secretary;
Raleigh Macon, treasurer. All
male members of the West Broad
Street YMCA are automatically
members of the Savannah Touch¬
down club.
Mrs. Francis J. Johnson has re¬
signed her position as USO Staff
Aide at the West Broad Street
YMCA to go with her husband to
Selfridge Air Base, Michigan. She
will be succeeded by Miss Anne
Jenkins, Senior Hostess for many
years.
The month of May will begin
the fourth annual “Queen of the
Coastal Empire” contest. This
program is an offering of the
Adult Program Committee of the
Board of Management of the West
Broad Street YMCA. This year’s
“Queen” will receive an all ex¬
pense trip to Paris, France dur¬
ing the Christmas holidays. The
contest will close October 26.
The second place winner will
be given an all expense paid trip
to the Orange Blossom Classic,
which will be held at Miami, Flo¬
rida, December 10. She will be a
guest of the Famous Empress Hotel
on Miami Beach. Entries will be
accepted during the month of May
by Joseph R. Jenkins, Executive
Secretary, West Broad Street
YMCA.
The weekly USO dance for all
servicemen will be held Saturday
beginning 8:30 P.M. at the YMCA.
The publicity committee for the
play, "Dark Victory,” which will
be given by the West Broad Street
YMCA Flayers Guild May 13 at
the Alfred E. Beach High School
auditorium, is composed 6f Mrs.
Mamie M. Hart, chairman; Mrs.
Sarah D. Herring, Mrs. Sadie
Steele and Mrs. Maggie Stevens.
The entire committee are gradu¬
ates of Savannah State College.
This committee is urging that
those who wish to make this year’s
play the best attended, to buy
tickets early. Tickets are avail¬
able at the West Broad Street
YMCA, and may be bought from
the various members of the com¬
mittee.
The entire cast under the super¬
vision of J. B. Clemmons, director,
is working hard to give a fine
performance. Mrs. Hart urges
that the general public make May
13 a must on your agenda.
addressed a manifesto to all work¬
ers of the free world appealing for
their support for the boycott.
It was to protest against South
Africa’s racial policies and denial
of trade union rights to millions
of African workers that the
ICFTU’S Sixth World Congress in
Brussels last December decided
upon the boycott. This was in¬
tended to provide tangible support
of free labor’s solidarity with the
people of South Africa and to
exert maximum pressure on the
Government with a view to chang¬
ing its “apartheid” policies and its
denial of trade union rights.
A special manifesto is being ad¬
dressed to the South African peo¬
ple themselves to explain the rea¬
sons which prompted the ICFTU
to organize the boycott.
Free trade union organizations
NAACP Holds
Sixth Mass
Meeting
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ated equal, the Rev, Mr, Jackson
i sab).
W. W. T.aw, the local branch
president, took over the helm, and
| told of a cross being burned in
j his neighborhood. Mr. Law asked
those who were sitting in at Kress
last Saturday to stand; they were
showered with applause.- John Me-
MiHnn, the student who was struck
nt Kress, was asked to address
the audience. Mr. McMillan said
that there was no malice in his
heart for his white brother who
saw fit, to break his cheek bone;
instead, the young veteran said
that he has love in his heart. Mc¬
Millan said that he was confused
to have served in the U.S. Army,
fighting for freedom in Korea,
and to return home to he refused
service at Kress only because he
was a Negro. The audience was
enthusiastic in their applause of
appreciation for the courage of
this young American Negro.
As a climax to his talk, Mr. Mc¬
Millan gave two reasons why the
students were staging sit-ins;
“First, they are tired of second-
class citizenship, and secondly, seg¬
regation is dead.” The young vet¬
eran stated that he was going to
sit in again and again until he
receives first-class citizenship. He
implored the crowd to stay out of
stores on Broughton Street and to
support the NAACP. Mr. McMil¬
lan received a standing ovation
from the audience.
The chairman of the church
work committee, Rev. F. D. Jau-
don, called for new members and
presided over the collection of the
public offering.
Following the public offering,
Mr. Law, the president of the
NAACP, made a plea for addition¬
al persons to serve as pickets.
He called on Mrs. Tina Rhodes, a
lady who was fired from her job
at the Union Bag-Camp Co., be¬
cause of her participation in the
boycott movement. Mrs. Rhodes
made a stimulating, effective and
eloquent plea for assistance on
the picket line, and she indicated
that she was determined to pick at
until she received full citizenship.
Sidney A. Jones, Jr., a candi-
date of the Democratic party in
the Chicago municipal elections
and a native of Savannah, spoke
on the dire need for voter regis¬
tration in order to achieve full
status as American citizens. Mr.
Jones indicated that as a native
of Savannah, he was proud of the
fight for freedom by the Negro
people of Savannah. The speak¬
er also emphasized that the action
taken here is legal and that whites
and Negroes in Chicago were sup¬
porting the effort by picketing
Kress and Woolworth stores in the
Windy City.
Attorneys B. C. Mayfield and
E. H. Gadsden, members of the le¬
gal staff, were introduced and ac¬
claimed by the audience. Samuel
J. Brown read the statement draft¬
ed by the executive committee of
the NAACP to the Mayor which
set forth the position of the or¬
ganization. The statement was
unanimously accepted by the
group. (The full text of the state¬
ment will be found in this issue
of the Tribune.)
Hosea Williams, chairman of the
legal redress committee, gave a
report on the Easter boycott. Mr.
Williams implored the people not
to shop on Broughton Street. He
advised that “if you MUST shop,
shop on West Broad!”
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in each country will, on the
basis of goods imported from
South Africa, decide which of those
goods could be effectively subject¬
ed to a boycott. The following are
the main products which could be
easily boycotted by consumers:—
Sherry, wines and spirits; can¬
ned foods — jams, fruit, fish,
meat, vegetables; fresh fruit —
apples, oranges, lemons, grapes
and grapefruits; and fresh fish.
Rosary Social Club
T o Rosary Social club met
April 20 at the home of Mrs.
Bessie Reddick, 11 East Sixth
street, with the president, Mrs.
Faustine Bigfion, presiding.
Games were played and prizes
won by Mrs. Lucille Bryant,
Mrs. Susie Stephens and Mrs.
E. F. Bignon. Next meeting
will be at the home of Mrs.
Susie Stevens, 609 East Broad
street.
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RECEIVE SCOTT GRANTS —
Shown are the four Scott scholars
for 1960-61 who received Scott
Paper Foundation grants following
a competition on the Howard Uni¬
versity campus last weekend. At
top are Willie, Jean Malone of
Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.,
Omegas Hold
Successful Meet
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — “Your
image of yourself will determine
your destiny,” declared J. B. Itlay-
ton, of Atlanta, Ca., in the feat¬
ured address at the theme session
of the three-day 23rd annual meet¬
ing of the Seventh D i s t r i c>t of
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity ThO:! hf
L. II. Hall Auditorium, ,(A.l G.
Gaston Building), • ... -
Mr. Blayton, grand keeper of
finance for Otnega Psi Phi Fra¬
ternity, is president of M u t u a 1
Federal Savings and Loan 'Assyria Frdfek
tion, Atlanta and Carnegie
sor at Atlanta University. He was
the official representative of tne
Omega Supreme Council at tfoe
meeting.
Introduced by John J. Drew,
manager of Alexander hnd Com¬
pany, Mr. Blayton, a c e r t i f i e d
public accountant, spoke from the
subject, “Your Image and Your¬
self.”
“What you think you can do
you can do. What you cannot
imagine you can do you cannot do,”
declared Mr. Blayton, owner of
Radjo Station WF1RD in Atlanta.
He was one of the first Negro per¬
sons to become a certified public
accountant. Of the 46 Negro CPA’s
in this nation today, 23 of them
were taught and trained by Mr.
Blayton.
For his 36 years of Omega iden¬
tity and service, Mr. Blayton was
presented a citation by the Seventh
District. The plaque speech was
made by Jesse Dandy,' a Birming¬
ham student at Alabama A. & M.
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nett College, Greensboro, N.
who was selected as
finalist. At lower left is
A. Battle, Hampton •
Hampton, Va., with Mary
beth Ellis, S pel man College, At¬
lanta.
College.
Theme of the meeting was “To-
ward Freedom F ulf illment
Through Business and Job Oppor¬
tunities,”
Emory O. Jackson, director of
social action for the Seventh dis¬
trict, presented the National News¬
paper Publishers Association Uuss-
wtirm Award to A. G. Gaston, Mr.
Jackson is a member of the NNPA
board of directors.
Welcome greetings came from
Mrs. Alice P. Allen, assistant to
the president of Miles College; I,.
J. Willie, seerptary to Booker T.
Washington Insurance Company
and S. C, O'Neal, vice basileus of
the host chapter.
Robert Brewster, director of
the Westfield High School choir
played the piano prelude and di¬
rected the Westfield High Choir.
Mrs. Gregory Durr White, direc¬
tor of the IJIlman High School
choir Served as accompanist.
Invocation by James Stone and
introduction of delegates and visi¬
tors by Robert L. Thomas, district
mar. hall, rounded out the pro¬
gram.
Attending the meeting, which
opened Thursday afternoon, April
14, were delegates from campus
and graduate Omega chapters in
Alabama, Florida, Georgia and
Mississippi,
A. L. Green, host basileus, ex¬
tended greetings at the closed
Thursday afternoon session. C. L.
Demand of Montgomery discussed
the theme.
Memorial services conducted by
John B. Pettush of Biloxi, Miss,
and rededication services conduct¬
ed by the Xi Omieron Chapter of
Huntsville, a seminar on sit-ins and
Fine Arts
Festival
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program will consist of musical
lections by the mixed chorus,
ensemble, female trio, concert
and clarinet choir.
An art exhibit will take
in the Fine Arts Building on
day and will consist of a wide
riety of contributions by both
dents in the Department of
Arts and several prominent
bers of the community.
On Tuesday evening, May
the English department of Sol
Johnson High School will
two one-act plays, “The
Duckling,” by A. A. Milne,
“The Devil and Daniel
by Stephen Vincent Benet.
plays are under the direction
Mrs. P. R. Brooks and Mrs. E.
May.
On Wtxlncsday evening, May
the program will consist of
ditions by the Creative
Groups and the Johnson Jazz
of Sol C. Johnson High, under
instructions of Mrs. A. Levy,
B. Harris and R. Dilworth.
The programs on May 2, 3
4, sponsored by Sol C.
High School, will be held in
drim Auditorium each night
8 o’clock.
At. the All-College Assembly
Thursday at noon, the Beach
School Band will be featured
a concert under’ the direction
Samuel Gill.
The final event of the
will be the piano recital on
day evening by the piano
of Mrs. Alice C. W’right, local
ano teacher and instructor of
sic at Sol C. Johnson High
The Elementary Department
der the chairmanship of Mrs.
A. DeVeaux and Mrs. S.
will present, “The May
This annual field day
will be held on May 12 at Sol
Johnson School elementary
from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
first through seventh will
pate.
The homemaking
and industrial arts department
have an exhibition of
projects on May 11, 12 and 13.
election of officers were
features.
In a two-way contest for
trict representative, incumbent
Brooks emerged over Harry
Vander of Jackson, Miss.
In a four-way contest for
district representative Mr.
came out ahead. Others
for the office were Artis Lark
Birmingham and W. A.
In the five-corner battle for
ond vice-basileus, a student
tion, J. B. Williams of
College, Atlanta, Ca., came out
top. Bidding for the office
Percy L. Royster of Miles
Daniel Williams, Clarence
and Edward Carwise.
B. I. Greene, of Biloxi,
was re-elected keeper of
and seal and Dr. J. E. Carter,
Augusta, Ga., was re-elected
er of finance, both without
tion.
The delegates created the
of state representative, one
each of the four states which
up the seventh district.
Piano Guild Auditions, May
Church
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MRS. GERTRUDE L,
Adjudicator ,
Local piano pupils from
classes of Mrs. A. 0. Wright
Miss B. Cobb, Savannah
College, have registered as
dates for I960 membership in
National Fraternity of
Musicians, sponsored by the
tional Guild of Piano Teachers
which their teachers are
This group of young piano
ists will play in the National
Playing Auditions and strive
Pledge, Local, District, State,
tional or even International
which the Mother organization
confer according to the number
standard classic, romantic
modern pieces chosen from
Masters of piano-forte
each student can creditably
form in the presence of an
ed examiner of note from
Miss Sepia Savannah,'
Savannah's bathing beauty
test this year is to be a part
a thirteen city participation in
.State of Georgia. Sponsored
year by Market Service of
Frank Freeman of Radio
WJ1V, will direct the
program to be held at
Inn on Wednesday, May 11th.
Williams, popular M.C. of
York, will bo master of
ies. Mr. Williams is in the
gia area this month making
rangements for the programs
he held in thirteen cities in
gia.
J. All girls eighteen years of
NAACP Assures Looby
Of “Fullest Support”
New York — Roy Wilkins, exe¬
cutive secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, has assured Z.
Alexander Looby, bombed Nash¬
ville NAACP attorney and lead¬
er, of the Association’s fullest sup¬
port.”
In addition to being a member
'of the Nashville City Council, Mr.
Looby is a member of the NAACP
national Board of Directors and is
chief counsel in defense of 153
Fisk, Mcharry and Tennessee stu¬
dents arrested for participation in
sit-in demonstrations. He has a
long record of service in civil
rights cases including participation
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churches, NAACP branches, and
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state.
From coast to coast over 40,000
enthusiastic piano pupils of the
nation will participate in this an¬
nual national piano-playing evir.t
being held in 403 music center*'of
the country and every entrant
worth his salt will be certificated,
given a gold or bronze embossed
pin. a year’s Membership in the
National Fraternity of Student
Musicians and Piano Hobbyist* of
the World.
Begun at Hardin-Simmons Uni¬
versity, Abilene, Texas, in 1929,
national headquarters are still
maintained in Texas, where Rules
and Regulations are available on
request free of charge by address¬
ing Piano Guild, Box 1113, Augtin,
Texas.
The names of the local entrant*,
pupils of Mrs. A. C. Wright, art
Glen Alexis, Grin Luvoid Alexis,
Marian Etla Butler, Paulette But¬
ler, Yvonne Butler, Sheila Mozelle
Clemmons, Arthur Curtright, Gene
Arlene Dobson, Ruth Dale Ford;
Edith Faye Jason, Anita Kelley,
Renee J. Williams, and Shirley
of Annette Cutter.
Entrants of Miss Cobb are:
Dannette Harden, Yvonne Luten,
Harriette Mason and Marilyn
Stone.
Twelve pupils of Miss D. A.
Robinson, Liberty County Training
School, McIntosh, Ca. will also en¬
of ter the audition.
Auditions are private with pupil
and judge. Mrs. Gertrude L. Buyck
of Saint Matthews, S. C., will
se/ve as judge. Mrs. Buyck has
had thirty years of piano teaching
experience and is an accomplished
pianist.
and over are eligible to compete
to become “Miss Sepia Savannah.”
First prize winner for Savannah
will receive an all expense trip to
Jekyll Island and be the guest of
the luxurious Dolphin Motel and
prizes from the WJIV’s sponsor¬
ed stores in addition to take a
part in the finals to be held at
Jekyll Island Dolphin Motel dur¬
ing the week of June 19th.
Entry blanks can be secured at
WJIV’s sponsored stores or from
Frank Freeman at WJIV, 128 W.
Taylor St. For all other informa¬
tion contact Frank Freeman.
(Adv.)
as counsel in the Columbia, Term.,
riot case of 1946.
The text of Mr. Wilkins’ tele¬
gram to the Nashville leader fol¬
lows:
We are deeply distressed and
angered by the dastardly attempt
to assassinate you and your wife.
This plot reveals the bankruptcy
and desperation of diehard segre¬
gationists and clearly protends the
end of their hated system. Wa
hail your courage and leadership
in defense of the students and
whole civil rights struggle. We
are gratified by your determina¬
tion to remain in the fight and
assure you of our fullest support.
Wooiworth is the largest restau¬
rant operator in the country, not
only in the number of units but
also in sales volume. Restaurant
and counter units are the biggest
dollar volume producer for the
company. More than half a mil¬
lion people are served during the
lunch hour at Woolworth each day,
to Carey.