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78 PUBLIC COSTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
VOLUME LXXVIII
ATTV. CULBERTSON TO SPEAK FOR CRUSHDE FOR VOTERS
Police Officer Maynor
Dies of Heart Attack
Oil K l.il JOHN MANOR
John Manor, age 34 years, re¬
cently retired police
uieu Sunday rnght at his
Oft street, luiiowing a
a Hack. -a4»'-w
m
Mr. Manor served as a
policeman lor ten years p
to nis retirement several weeks
ago. He was given a disabil¬
ity pension because ol a
condition.
Funeral services were
Thursday afternoon at 3.3U
o’clock at the Chapel of Bynes-
Royall Funeral Home, Rev.
M. Benton, oriiciating.
Interment was in
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Dee Cee Leaders Picket
Cleii Echo Swimming-
Pool in
WASH INC TON, (ANP) — Im¬
mediately upon his return to
Washington from the Democratic
National Convention Atty. Joseph
L. Ranh, Jr., a District delegate
joined the group of picketers at
Glen Echo Park seeking to end
segregation at the pool.
Ranh, who was a member of the
platform committee said, “Anyone
who worked on a platform
that (the one adopted by the Dem¬
ocratic convention) ought to be
in this picket line.”
Glen Echo, located in Maryland,
just across the District line, has
been under strong pressure for
several weeks to end segregation
in the use of the recreational faci¬
lities at this park.
The problem was carried to
the Montgomery County (Mary¬
land) Council last week. More
than 50 spectators crowded the
NAACP Labor Secretary Thrills 1
Crowd at 19th Sunday Mass Meet
The 19th NAACP Sunday af¬
ternoon mass meeting was held
at the new Seventh Day Ad¬
vent! t Church on Sunday, Ju¬
ly 24. The meeting opened by
W*.W. Law, the president of the
NAACP, leading the throng in
the theme song, “Freedom.”
Alter brief comments, another
favorite hymn, “We Shall Not
Be Moved,” was sung by the
audience Elder George F
Jenkins prayed a moving pray¬
er for freedom.
The choir of the Seventh Day
Adventist church with Miss
Rose Overstreet at the organ
rang Sir John Stainer’s anthem
“God So Loved The World."
Elder Franklin S. Hill, the
pastor of the host church, stated
that his church understood
the struggle for freedom and
the history of the Seventh Day
Advcntl-t Church long before
the Civil War took a stand
against slavery and segregation.
Rrv. Hill told of a visit to
Gainesville, Fla., where his
Negro friends (Went into the
University of Florida Cafeteria
and asked to be served. They
■were served w'ithout incident.
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l' arm 1 our Staged
By Chatham Co. Agent
Monday, July 25, a Farm Tour
was staged by E. II. Ilarmond,
County Agent, farmers of Chat¬
ham County and others interest¬
ed in agriculture.
The Tour, which was designed
to show some of the result demon¬
strations in the county, left the
West Broad Y.M.C.A. at 10:30
a.m. and went directly to the farm
of Austin Palmer on Augusta
Road. Mr. Palmer is demonstra¬
ting 2 acres of corn and a swine
project of 4 brood sow:;, lie crosses
Land-Race sows with Duroc and
Hampshire boars and sells the
first generation, lie explains that
such cross.es produce strong, vigo¬
rous pigs and takes less feed to
grow them to market size.
The group went next to Pervis
Adams, Meinhard. Mr. Adams is
principally a truck farmer but he
is demonstrating 2 acres of cotton
for a bale per acre. The cotton
is in excellent shape and Mr.
Adams reports that not one boll
weevil has been seen in the patch
this year. Mr. Adams is the last
Negro cotton farmer in the Coun¬
ty.
The third stop was at the poul-
i try farm of John Austin, Jr.,
Pooler This is an ullU3Ual projeet
in that young Austin has 729 lay¬
ing hens m cages. Mr. Austin
has all modern conveniences, in¬
cluding lights, to prolong the chick¬
en's day. By prolonging the day,
some chicken- lay 2 eggs per day.
This is a successful project and
;s encouraging to see a young man
so engaged.
The Tour ended at the farm of
Rev. J. W. Derrick, Oakland,
where the group viewed 4 acres of
okra and 1 acre of field corn
grown according to the best Ex-
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chamber to hear testimony by the
several witnesses. Among them
was Laurence Henry, leader in the
park demonstration. He told the
Council members that they could
never have peace in this commun¬
ity as long as Glen Echo Park is
segregated.
J ' at Henry, Howard who university, is a Divinity was student leader
of the sit-in demonstrations which
resulted in the desegregation of
lunch counters in department, var¬
iety, and drug stores in Northern
Virginia.
The swimming pool problem
came into focus when the County
Recreation Department initiated a
program to have recreational sup
ervisors to rent buses and carry
children to swim daily. The white
children were carried to the
amusement park’s pool which does
not admit Negroes and the colored
FIRST “I LY" STUDENTS—Pic
tured at'o six of the first 10
(Friend of Liberian Youth, Inc.)
students from the Republic
Liberia to enroll at Saints
College, Lexington, Miss., under
i program evolved by Dr. Aroma
atty. j. L ULBERTSON
Attorney John Bolt
son, Greenville, S. C., will
the featured speaker at the
lic mass meeting being
sored by the Chatham
Crusade for Voters Friday
July 29. at 8 o’clock at the
African Baptist church,
Curtis Jackson, pastor.
The meeting is being called
stimulate interest among
general public in an all-out
fort to increase the Negro
in this county, according
Hosea L. Williams, president
the Crusade for Voters.
Jackson, coordinator of this
ganization, asks all
and civic minded citizens to
NTERDENOMINATIONAL MINISTERS UNION HIES
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children were carried across the
Maryland line to a pool iri the
District of Columbia.
.Since the children pay their own
admission fee of 35 cents each at
Glen Echo, Raymond Munts charg¬
ed the county of actually using
its offices to bring a segregated
business an income of about $1,000
a week.
Munts is a member of the Civic
Association and the elementary
school PTA in Bannockburn, next
to Glen Echo. The first challenge
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Mallory, president of both the
‘school and FLY, to further the edu-
cation of worthy Liberian youth
in order to fit them for roles as
leaders in their country upon their
return. From left to right are
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, JULY 30, 191.0
tend this meeting.
Mr. Culbertson is one of the
outstanding white liberals of
the South. He Is a na ti ve _ ‘
iborn South Carolinian and a
graduate of the University of
South Carolina.
This prominent Greenville at¬
torney is a former member of
the South Carloina Legislature.
He was once a special agent in
the Federal Bureau of Investi¬
gation and is a former State
President of the Young Demo¬
cratic Club of America.
Although his life has been
threatened, Mr. Culbertson con¬
tinues to courageously defend
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713 West 42nd St.
Savannah, Georgia
July 23, 1960
The following is a copy of a
letter mailed to Mayor Lee
Mingledorff by The Interdenom¬
inational Ministers Union
Mlayor Lee Mingledorff and
Board of Aldermen
City Hall
Savannah, Georgia
Dear Sir:
The interdenominational Min¬
isters Union, in its
meeting, July 19, i960
mously took the following
relative to an incident that
curred a few clays ago. It
pened to involve the homes
two of our most respected
zens. Although no special
nificance is attached
ot this, for the reason that
Abraham Rrown, cabinet maker;
Alease Wiggins; Samuel Holey;
Annie ah, nurse aspirant; Peter
Davis, and Mary Ellen Barber,
all of Cape Palmas, Liberia. —
(ANl* Photo)
Republicans
Nominate
Mr. Nixon
CHICAGO—The
National Convention meeting
Convention Hall Wednesday
nominated Vice President
ard M. Nixon as candidate
the presidency of the
States.
Gov. Rarry Ootdwater of
zona was put in
but he withdrew in favor of
Nixon.
When the roll was
1,321 votes went to Mr.
and 10 (from Louisiana) went
Gov. Goldwater, a
tive of the conservative wing
the delegation. The
of the Arizona delegation
that the nomination for
Nixon be made unanimous.
The vice presidential
date will be nominated
(Thursday). Henry
Lodge is reported to be Mr.
on's choice. Mr. Lodge is
bassador to the United
NAACP
Resumes
Picket Lines
On Saturday morning,
23, the NAACP returned to
Picket line with pickets
ing bffore the Westside
Center and the Traffic
Shopping Center.
W. W .Law the local
dent, reports that Judson
Ford and Robert Nelson
arrested for picketing at the
L. Green Store in the
Circle Shopping Center.
Law stated that they are
ily interested In picketing
with Broughton Street
tion with segregation policies.
The two young men who
arrested. Ford and Nelson,
held on loitering charges.
would have been equally as un-
fortunate, had two of the most
humblest homes been affected.
To us, it seems more than a
mere co-incidence that the
throwing of bricks through the
doors of these homes, and to
which were attached messages
of threats, couched in the vilest
of language, should have taken
place immediately after a pa-
j rade 'by the K. K. K.; particu¬
larly so, since these messages
bore the signature of that or¬
ganization.
It Is difficult for us to
believe that the Klan sponsored
the act, and we have been ex¬
pecting them to make a
denial of It. Unfortunately,
such denial has been made, a
f ac t that does not place It bo¬
yond suspicion. At any
we cannot convince
that what occurred was
prompted by the parade,
was not conducive to, nor
it intended to promote
race relations between the
which has been an
tradition in this community.
We are aware of the
tional provisions of the right
peaceful assembly and
of speech, but we submit
in some cases, such as the one
here, a thing may have legal
sanctions, although morally re¬
prehensible, In which event we
believe the moral principle
should have precedence over
any so-called rights that
inimical to the general
For this reason, we most re-
spectfully request that, in
future, permits to parade in
the streets of Savannah, by this
organization, or any
tion, the tendency of which is
to disturb the tranquility of our
great, city, be denied
It was further resolved that
a copy of this let,tor be ent to:
The chief of Police and
of the various papers of our city
Very truly your.a,
Rev. P. A. Patterson,
Rev. V. W. Douglas,
NEGROES PETITION FOB DESEGREGATED
To Address Crusade
For Voters, Friday Night
W. L. MINGLEDORFF, JK.
Mayor
Mayor W. L. Mingledorff, Jr.,
will speak at the First African
Baptist church, Montgomery
street, Friday night, July 29, at
8 o’clock. This program is
sponsored by the Chatham
County Crusade for Voters, a
Non-Political organization which
Is only Interested in getting all
Negroes registered and getting
all registered Negroes to vote in
every election. The officers
of the voters organization hope
every Negro in Chatham Coun¬
ty will be at First African Bap¬
tist Church Friday night at
o'clock.
WHAT DOES THE MAYOR
OUR CITY THINK OF
VOTER REGISTRATION?
WHAT IS THE NEGRO
TION? WHAT DOES HE
SERVE?
Bring all of your friends
neighbors, LET’S HEAR
MAYOR. ' V
NACWC Expects
1500 Delegates At
Convention Next Week
NEW YORK, N. Y. — Dr. Mor-
dvciii W. Johnson, president-emeri¬
tus of Howard University, arid
the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
King, chairman of the Southern
Christian Leaderhip Conference,
head a list of some one dozen na¬
tional personalities who will be
featured at the 32nd biennial con¬
vention of the National Associa
lion of Colored Women’s Clubs
which begins at the Park Sheraton
Hotel Saturday (July 30).
meeting, which continues through
Align t 5th, i . expected to
some 1,500 delegates of
affiliates in 41 states in the
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Senator Voting
Record on Civil Cited
WASHINGTON, (ANP) -
Here is the voting record of Sen.
John Kennedy on major civil
right; issues in the Senate since
1956. The record has special sig¬
nificance since his selection as
Democratic candidate for the ((res¬
idency to he decided in November.
190U-,Vfotion to limit debate by
invoking cloture on the civil rights
filibuster (two-thirds majority re-
quired). Rejected 42-53 (1) 30-33;
ft 12-20), March 10, For.
1960 Motion to table (kill)
an amendment to civil right; bill
add Part HI, empowering At
torney General to cek injunction
u > protect any civil right. Tabling
to, 55-38 (D 34-28;
R 21-10), March 10. Against.
I960 — Motion to table a
amendment to the hill to provide
foe court-appointed referees or
President'ally appointee enroll¬
ment officers to register voters
after a court has found a pattern
or practice of discrimination. Tab¬
ling motion agreed to, 51-43 (D
(Continued on Page Eight)
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YWCA Worker Resigns
To Accept Teaching Post
MRS. MILDRED W. NEWTON
Mrs. Mildred W. Newton, pro¬
gram director of the Savannah
YWCA Center, has announced
her resignation to become effec¬
tive at the expiration of her
contract, August 31. Mrs. New¬
ton began her work last fall with
the local center.
Superbly educated and thor¬
oughly experienced for her du¬
ties, the Talladega alumna has
also studied at Fisk University
and South Carolina State Col¬
lege. Prior to her intitial USO-
YWCA assignment, Mrs. Newton
was trained by the USO-YWCA
Division at the YWCA Nation¬
al Board in New York city.
While being employed by USO-
YWGA, Mrs Newton has at¬
tended numerous training con¬
ferences planned U> increase
knowledge and program skills of
professional workers.
Mrs. Newton brought to her
new assignment a reservoir of
talent and experience which
were of inestimable value In
meeting the challenges of the
local YWCA Center. Adult
memberships have increased
substantially, and the Y-Teens,
with clubs in five schools, have
more than 175 members.
Through her diligence and the
help of volunteer workers, the
Center program was expanded
to Include Hitch Village and
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Now Orleans Schools Must
Integrate by Sept. Or Close
NEW ORLEANS, (ANP) — have to accept the fact that the
New Orleans public schools will schools will either he integrated or
either be Integrated or closed in closed in September,” Rittiner
September, Lloyd J. Rittuier, pre said, in commenting on Justice
.sident of the Orleans Parish Black’s action.
(county) school hoard said last It was the third denial of a
week. temporary stay.
Riltiner’s comment came p.iiort Gerald A. Rault, special board
ly after U. S. Supreme Court Jus attorney, said the motion for a
lice Hugo Black in Washington delay to Justice Black was the
refused to block the integration “last and final” request that could
order pending another appeal to be made by the board.
the U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Under a law passed during the
Appeal;.. The hoard sought to de- recent legislative session, the gov¬
I lay the order until the appeal i. ernor is authorized to close all
heard. schools in the state in the effective
date of a court order requiting
“The people of New Orleans will | racial mixing of any school.
-Si
IN ACCRA, at ceremonies mark
mg the founding of the new Re¬
public of Ghana, President Kwarae
Nkrumah (right) greets Dr. L. D.
Rcddiik, member of the faculty
at Alabama Btate College, who
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NUMBER 43
A petition by twenty-three Ne¬
gro citizens headed by the Rev.
P. A. Patterson, pastor of But¬
ler Presbyterian church was re¬
ceived by Charles F. Wood, re¬
creation director for the city
of Savannah. Mr. Wood re¬
ferred the petition to the city
council, and in turn Mayor
Mingledorff indicates that the
council referred it to the legal
council.
The petitioners asked for the
desegregation of the following
recreation facilities: (1) Forsyth
Park wth a park extension in
which there are playgrounds,
tennis court, and baseball field;
(2t Grayson Stadium: (3) Daf-
fin Park in which are located
a swimming pool, fshing lake,
playgrounds, tennis court, pic¬
nic grounds and baseball field;
1 4) Memorial Stadium; (5) Mu¬
nicipal Auditorium.
Two days later, on Friday
the 21st, seven Savannah Ne¬
groes petitioned the Bacon Park
commission bo open the 433 acre
recreation facility including the
Municipal Golf Course to all
people regardless of race. Dr.
John W. Jamerson, Jr., a lo¬
cal dentist headed this petition.
The Rev. Oliver W. Holmes,
minister of First Congregation¬
al church is a signer of the
petition. It Is Interesting to
know that Rev. Holmes is a
party to the suit in Atlanta
which paved the way for the
desegregation of the Atlanta
Golf Course.
•ns. Company Drops
’Color” Irom Ads
New York City — The president
of the American Life and Accident
Insurance. Company of 8t. Louis
has informed COKE that it has
deleted the term “color” from all
advertising.
S. fk Hunt, prwifdent of the
Company, indicated on July 15
that American would no longer
use the term. In many cases in
the past Negroes have been forced
to pay higher insurance premiums
than whites for the same coverage.
Marvin Rich, COKE community
i Continued on Page Three
was ousted because of his alleged
approval of student sit-in demon¬
strations protesting discrimina¬
tion in lunchrooms. Dr. Reddick
has since returned to Ameriia. —
(ANP Photo)