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78 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS TEARS SERVICE OF
VOLUME LXXVIII
Civil Remo in I'.S. Political
MISS MAKY TALLULAH
COGSWELL
f HONOR GRADUATE —
Maty Tallulah Cogswell,
ly of Savannah, graduated
June 3 U with honors from
Tilden High School in Brook¬
lyn, N. Y. She plans to f 1 *
ter Brooklyn ,, , , College _ ,, in the
Mi"; Cogswell is the daugh¬
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward T.
Cogswell, native Savannahians
'now redding in Brooklyn.
Register
To Vote
Thursday!
Be Prepared
For November
Election!
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TIME OUT FOR
in the college public relations
took time out from busy
oi tiie American College
Relations Association annual
vention last weekend to enjoy
reception-open house at The
H. Kendrix Organization in
ington, D. C.
a , Seen during the party which
r held in tiie new offices of
well known public relations
are,-left panel 1 to r, Janies
2,000 Tan Boy Scouts to
Attend 50th International
22-28
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
(ANP) — Au -international, in-
tei racial army of 55,000 Boy
Scouts meets here July 22-28 to
observe the 50th anriiver ary of
the birth of t outing in America,
The occa ii'-n will be a gigantic
jamboree villi Scout" from even
state in the United States and
from 36 foreign countries.
It is estimated that from 1,500
to 2,090 Negro scouts will be here
fiom all-e’gio and ini ed t) o .ps
in the l wj States. These boys
will represent mi’ rovimetely 20 Q.-
000 American i V it, buy 3 who
have been m int rial part of the
movement almost from it3 incep-
tion in 1910.
Although the Boy Scouts was
established in 1910 and lnco1 '
pointed in 1916, very lew troops 1
of Negro boys under Negro
ship ere organized at that time.
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ADams 4-3432
Mr. Hill to
Address
NAACP Meet
Herbert Hill, Labor Secretary
' for the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo¬
ple (NAACP), will be the featured
apeakei . at the mh weekly Sun _
day afternoon (July 24) mass
meeting sponsored by the Savan¬
nah Branch, NAACP.
The mass meeting will be Held
at tiie Seventh Day Adventist I
Church, West Bioad and 41st Sts.,
Rev. F. S. Hill, pastor, and will
begin promptly at 4 o'clock sharp.
Tiie members of various labor
unions and their leaders will be
special guests of the meeting. A
NAACP labor and industry com¬
mittee meeting will be held im¬
mediately following the mas3
meeting.
As tiie NAACP labor secretary,
Mr. Hill conducts a nation-wide
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Ward, MHKO associate for
lion Milk; W. O. Robinson,
son (Miss;) State College;
C. Paige, Edward Waters
Jacksonville, Miss Rosemarie
ler, Carnation Company
er consultant; Burrell E.
Mississippi Vocational
Itta Bena, and Mrs. Reveila
Briscoe, Morgan State
Baltimore.
In upper section, second
from 1, are William Gibson,
^ Among the councils known to
j have organized such units during
! this time were Columbus Ohio, in
j 19,3 «nd Terre Haute, Indiana, in
11911.
j 7 lie first council in tiie South
| to organize a troop of Negro boys
| was Louisville, K'y., in 1917. I here
were, however, several hundred
Negro boys in mixed units in the
I | Mid West and East.
lIndei . th „ k , adprship of Bolton
j j s , llith< a prOTn , nwlt , awyer qnfi
L IjanKer of Memphis, who had long ,
L intyr , vtcd in the wn(falr of
b Negro in America, and Stanley
A Harris, who for a numhei of
years bud been national fi< Id ex¬
ecutive for *h" Scout.-! giving sup-
ivision to t.he fourteen state:, of
the South where the hulk of the
Neg population lived, appiica-
1 tioi , v . a , mafie t0 the Laura Spoil-
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GEORGIA JULY I960
Miss Beckwith Receives
Transfer To Texas
MISS JOSEPHINE BECKWITH
Miss Josephine Beckwith, ex¬
ecutive director of Bethlehem
Community Center and Bethle-
lehein Community Day-Care
Center will leave the city on
August 1. After spending iber
vacation In Kansas City with
her family she will assume du¬
ties on September 1 in Fort
Worth, Texas.
Miss Beckwith who came to
Savannah in 1958 to assist in
f e relocation of the Center at
Prlce and Cordon streets and
to oi ganL?e the group - work
agency now located at 303 W.
Gwinnett street, was recently
transferred to Texas by the Wo¬
mans Division of Christian Ser¬
vice of the Methodist church.
She will be the first Negro to
serve as executive director of
Bethlehem Center in Ft. Worth
in the 22 year history of the
agency. In addition to th«
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nett College, Greensboro, Moss
Kendri i, host; Art Carter,
ing editor, Washington (D.
Afro-American, and Ellis F.
bett, North Carolina A and T
lege, Greensboro.
Center panel shows Sam
Tuskegee (Ala.) Institute, 11.
lor Fitzhugh, Howard
marketing professor and
associate; Mr. Kendrix and
Alan; and H. A. Wilson, luske-
gee.
LPNs Attending
Mental Health Workshop
Dr. W. D. Lundquist, Chat¬
ham County Health Commis¬
sioner, announces a study ses¬
sion for Licensed Practical
Nurses, July 19 through 28.
This workshop is i>eing
sored by the Chatham County
Mental Health Clinic and Lic¬
ensed Practical Nurses Associa¬
tion.
The study topic will be in
the area of Maternal and Child
Care. Emphasis wiii be plac¬
ed on learning to recognize Post-
r? mental rtlsturbance ‘ : - t0
distinguish -------- between those that,
arc serious and t,hos° that toll
within natural limits and how
and where to guide those in
ne-’d of professional help.
Eight - ‘and local consul-
tout;- v ill le; l the di.-cuv.ion
a:- follows: Mis. Barbara Plow,
nutritionist, Chatham County
Department, Public Health; Mrs.
Martha Avery, A ornate Dn-cc-
'Contlmird on Patrc Eight
LOS ANGELES, (ANP) —
Here is the text of the civil-right*
plank of the. 1960 Democratic plat
form.
Regarded aa the strongest ever
adopted by a political party in the
United States, the plank was
approved over the strong objec¬
tions of 10 southern states.
However, unlike in 1948 when
the southern states walked out in
protest of a plank not nearly so
strong as this one, the Dixie states
this year have pledged to go along.
The most unu 3 uai feature of this
plank is an implied endorsement of
tiie controversial student sit down
demonstrations that have swept
tiie South in protest- to jim crow
counters and other forma of racial
discrimination. .Text of the plank
follows:
“The new Democratic adminis¬
tration wiil help create a sense of
national purpose and higher
standards of public behavior.
“We shall also seek to create
an affirmative new atmosphere in
which to dael with racial divisions
and inequalities which threaten
both tire • integrity - of our demo¬
cratic faith and the proposition
on which our nation.was founded
— that ail men are created equal.
“It js our. faitt) JP human dignity
that distinguishes our open free
society from the closed totalitaiian
sooiety of thp Communist . s .
“The Constitution, of the United
States rejects the motion that the
rights of man means tip* lights
of sopie men only. V.'e reject it,
too.
“The right to. vote is the first
principle of self-government. The
Constitution also guarantees to aU
Americans the equal protection of
the laws. .
,
“The right to’vote ir the first
principle of self-government. The
Constitution also guarantees to all
i Lower pane! two, are Charles
LJniith, III, Florida A and M
1 versity, Tallahassee; Miss Beilie
Thomas, Knoxville (Tenn.) Col¬
iege; Mr. Kendrix; T. J. Crawford,!
South Carolina State College, j
Orangeburg; Dr. Granville Sawyer,
Tennessee A and I (/late Univer-1
sity, Nashville, and Bennie J. Cole, I
j Southern In the University, third panel Baton Oti Rouge, j
are 3 N. (
Thompson, MHKO associate foi j
Coco-Cola; Ernest Goodman, Ho-1
i ward Dr.
Frank Fallen Boys’ Chib
Attracts 100 New Members
Since July 1, more than
new members have found
way to and joined the
Callen Boys Club and
1116 boys and S ' 1115 are en
ing themselves
while finding out the
game., and activities that
club has to offer.
Last week volunteer
Earl Robinson and Charles
introduced the kids to
and t»hey took to the game
ducks to water.
also ha; been introduced and
very popular now.
Mrs. Wilhelmina
wife of Rev Edgar P.
man, met with the girls
they are expecting to have
interesting and enjoyable
of it together.
T. J. Polite, the popular D.
of WSOK, visited the club
vveek, saw the need foi
Americans the equal protection
the laws.
“it is the duty of the
to enact tiie laws necessary
proper to protect and
these constitutional right...
Supreme couit ha» the power
interpret these lights and tiie
thus enacted.
“It is tiie duty of the
to see that tfhese rights are
specter. amt the funsirtiumn
laws as interpieted by the
preme court are faithfully
edited.
“What is now required i;
tive in-uni and political
by the whole executive branch
our government to make
opportunity a living reality for
Americans.
"A* the party of Jefferson,
shall provide that leadeiship.
“In every city and state
greater or lesser degree there
discrimination based on color,
religion, or national origin.
“If discrimination in
education, the administration
justice or segregated lunch
ters sve the issues in one
discrimination in housing and
ployment may be piessing
tions elsewhere.
The peaceful
for first class citizenship
have recently taken place in
parts of thl3 country are a
to ail of us to make good at
last the guarantees of our
“The time has come to
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Mr.
NAACP
Charles Ray, North Carolina
e g ei Durham; Curtis Wood.
View (Texas) A. and M.,
11. B. Jordan, Howard
College of Medicine.
While in the city, tiie public
relations delegates were
guests of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman
Briscoe at their beautiful north¬
east residence, while earlier
ward University public relations
head, Ernest Goodman, had enter-
the at lunch.
fcional games and
and so w* will be having a
j Record Hop Monday night.
j y 05 . T. J., of course, will
the host
The boys have Pxpresse d a
de3lre for boxtng> and m the
nf>ar future, boxing will again
i become a part of the club. All
1 we neec ^ are the gloves.
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CDC III 0l*3€rv£
J 4 jJ, Anniversary
Citizens Democratic club will
ob-ervs its f4th anniversary,
Wednesday night, July 27 at 3
o’clock at the West Broad 6 t.
YMCA. This rnee’irig will be
highlighted by a discussion cen¬
tered around law-making bodies
from the hails of Congress In
Wa hlngiJon, through Atlanta.
Chatham County Court House
and to Savannah’s City Hall.
The public is invited.
Rev. Jackgon Named
Cnnidinatnr of CC
Crusade for Voter*
REV. CURTIS .1. JACKSON
Rev. Curtis J. Jackson, pastor
of tHie First African Baptist
Church, was recently named co¬
ordinator of the Chatham Coun¬
ty Crusade for Voters. His re¬
sponsibility will be to give gen¬
eral directions to, precinct and
block workers as well as to as¬
sist In coordinating the pro¬
gram with other religious, civic,
social, county and labor organ¬
izations.
Hosea L. Williams, president
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Addresses 18th
Mass
- Th* The Negroes nf of Savannah Savannah
for the eighteenth Sunday
ternqon In a city-wide N. A.
■Ci 'P. mass meeting at Butler
Presbyterian church on
July 17 . Many challenging
disgusting .events had trans¬
pired during the past week
which made them both happy
and sad.
Disposing of the disgusting
events first, the Negro commu¬
nity was shocked and dismayed
when reports were received con¬
cerning the brick throwing in¬
cidents in two Negro homes by
the Ku Klux Klan and the cross
burning episode at, the home
for Convention
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The 54th Anniversary Conven-
tion officials of Alpha 1’hi Alpha
completing plana for meeting
August 20 - 24th f approximately
900 fraternity men and their wives
at tin; f t eialon-Park Hotel, Wash¬
ington, D. C.
Alpha Phi Alpha is the first and
oldest Negro Greek Letter frater¬
nity in the world and it member¬
ship boa ;ts of outstanding leader ;
in all phases of busmens, profes¬
sional arid social life.
Business of the convention cen¬
ters around the establishment of
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ADum 4-3432
Local Scouts
To Hold
Jainborama
Over 50,000 Roy Scouts and
leaders from every country of the
free world will begin their excit¬
ing stay at the National
Jamboree of the Roy Scout 3
America at Golorada
Colorado. Millions of Boy
in tiie more than 500 Roy Scout
Councils iu the United States,
were not nble to attend the Na¬
tional event will get a sample
the leal tiling this week-end
Scout and leader* in the
liain Division of the Coastal
pire Council will gather at
Pool area
morning to begin a day of
cooking, scoutcraft demonstra¬
tions, scoutcraft exhibits, fellow¬
ship, and fun. The public is in¬
to attend the event, begin¬
at 8 30 P.M.
All units will leave the Tomp-
Pool area at 7:00 P.M.
participate in the “Golden Jubi¬
Pageant" at Grayson Stadium.
Over 4.000 scouts will lake part In
this colorful pageout. The public
is urged to see this extravaganza.
Wendell P. Grisby is chairman
the Jamboroma; William H.
Mobley is activities chairman of
the Division and James Cobham,
Sr. is in charge of the pageant ar¬
rangements.
of Hoaea Williams, chairman ________ of _ »
tttie Crusade for Voters,
btighter side and the
I a,ost challenging event to oc
cur during the last week was
the positive civil rights plank
that was adopted by the Dem¬
ocratic Party In its recent con¬
vention In Los Angeles. If
there is implementation of this
civil rights plank, the Negro in
America will have complete
freedom in America by 1963.
the 100 th anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation.
Rev. P. A. Patterson, minis¬
ter of tiie Butler Presbyteri¬
an Church served as the mod-
undergraduate fraternity houses
on college campuses especially the
northern Universities. According
to President Myles A. Paige, other
matters of inteiest will include
Group Life Insurance.
Burial events will include a
formal banquet addressed by Dr.
A-'iron Brown of the Phelps-
“tokos Fund slid member of Alpha
Phi Alpha followed Ey a dance
1 lie aw at ding of Alpha’s Award
of M ilt to a non-Alpha and the
Award of Honor to an Alpha man,
Reception at the Bheraton-Park
NUMBER 42
Large Attendance
Expected A} NDA Meet
1)R. II. MEDLEY PROFFIT
Dr. Hossa M. Ptoffit of
Arkansas, pissidMit, National
Dental Association, Ins. says that
this 47th National Dsntal Associa¬
tion Convention st the
Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri will be
among the largest in attendance
of dentists.
The scientifis program centered
around “Better Dentistry for Mora
People" includes soms of tiie out¬
standing clinicians in the various
fields of dentistry. “Medical and
Dental Relationships” — Dr. Wai¬
te- A. Youngs, Clinical Professor
of Medicine, St. Louis University;
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er ato r for . tha meeting.
ident W. W Law led the
ing hymn, “We Hhall Not
Moved.” rtav. 8 .ft. Roper
the Invocation.
Rev. Patteraon referred to
notes thrown Into tha homes
Dr. J. W. WJlaon and Dr. S.
McDew and the cross
at Hosea Williams. “They
trying to Intimidate us, but
shall not be moved,” Rev.
terson said. “No Klan
scare us. Our race has come
to a point where we are not
scared of the Klan. We are
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Hotel, also a Smoker, Public Meet¬
ing and Lunch®on-Card party for
the Alpha Wivos.
Pictures here are — seated, left
to right: Kermit Hall, General
Convention Advisor; Bedford V.
Lawson, Local Convention Chair¬
man: Myles A. Paige, General
President; Edward J. Austin,
President — Mu Lambda Chapter.
Standing, left to right: Millard
R. Dean, Director of Public Rela¬
tions; Newman C. Taylor, Presi¬
dent, Beta-Mu Lambda Corpora¬
tion and C. C. House, Local Con¬
vention Co-chairman.