The herald. (Savannah, Ga.) 1945-1997, January 05, 1963, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPatrolling The Main Stem By RICK MASON MESSAGE: No idea of what the President’s 1963 program will look like has leaked out as yet. But, indications are that it will be strongly hinged to tax reforms, national defense and health educa tion and welfare. This was indi cated by recent information as to who had been in consultation with the President during his holiday vacation. The actual program will be sent to Congressional leaders while the essence of it is expected to be reflected in his state of the union mssage. Like many other parts of the presidential program these are expected to get more support following the November elections which may add to the chief executive prestige among the law making bodies. National defense will be a big gun in the presidential message due to his successful show of strength in the Cuban crisis. Health, education and welfare expects new gains through the passage of the medi cal bill that gained added support through elections. The fact that both the above proposals will add to the budget shows little likeli hood that the message will offer a tax cut either now or in the im mediate future— It goes without saying that you will pay more postage beginning the seventh of January. Meanwhile your pay for the previous week will already see one eighth cent deduction per dol lar in social security taxes. THE STEMWINDER SAYS: “Its the way you show up at the showdown that counts.” (each year at this time). CUBA: No one could be said to be the principal figure in meeting Castor’s ransom note for refugees released recently following an un successful invasion of their home. The sixty odd million plunked down was made possible by a num ber of corporations engaged in the manufacture or distribution of medicine or foodstuffs used in the swap. The value of these prod- Continued on Page Four March of Dimes Kick-Off Held Wed. Night For Mid-Town Branch The Mid-Town Branch of the New March of Dimes Campaign for 1963 had a big kick-off meet ing, Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. January 2nd in the lounge of Hi Hat Bowling Lanes, announces Al phonso S. McLean, director. Outstanding local civic leaders, Educators, Ministers, Union Rep resentatives and teenage workers will campaign in the 1963 drive. The goal set for this year’s Mid- Term Branch is $4,000. Erving Gardner, Public Rela tions, Director and Disc Jockey, at WSOK Radio related that many new projects will be injected into this years’ campaign. A new March of Dimes Talent Review and show is being planned s>*nM Mqil^ Wb HERALD Vol. 17 NAACP SET TO CELEBRATE EMANCIPATION CENTENARY NEW YORK—Branches of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People (NAACP) throughout the country will sponsor a series of meetings, dinners, pageants and other pre sentations celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation which became effec tive on Jan. 1, 1863. The celebrations which will be gin with the New Year will be continued on appropriate days throughout the year. Other his toric dates on which local NAACP units will observe the Emancipa tion centennial include Feb. 12, birthday of Abraham Lincoln and the NAACP; May 17, ninth anni versary of the U. S. Supreme Court’s school desegregation rul ing; May 30, Memorial Day; July 4, Independence Day; and Dec. 15, Human Rights Day. The programs will be held in re sponse to a resolution passed at the Association’s 53rd annual con vention in Atlanta last summer calling on NAACP units to com memorate the centenary by dram atizing the Negro’s struggle to realize the full promise of Presi dent Lincoln’s Emancipation Pro clamation. The centennial will be noted at the 54th annual NAACP meeting here on Jan. 7 when Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins makes his C | yo»RNewsrm>er^J for the campaign. This outstanding show composed of top local talents will make a tour of Chatham County Schools. Other events scheduled for the campaign which will run through out the month of January are: A “Miss March of Dimes Popularity Contest,” Road Blocks conducted by the teenagers (TAP’S) A Night of Songs sponsored by WSOK, the Annual Mother’s March, a Bowling Tournament and Car Washes at Hi Hat Bowling Lanes. Mrs. Lucile M. Williams is Sec retary for the New March of Dimes for the Mid-Town Branch. West Broad Y.M.C.A. Advisory Board to Meet The first 1963 YMCA Board and Advisory members meeting will be held at the West Broad Street YMCA on Wednesday night, January 9 at 8:00 p.m. The new persons elected to the board and advisory committee will be install ed at this meeting. Mr. Norman B. Elmore, Chairman is urging all old and new members to be present and on time. j SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1963 report to the membership. Theodore Berry of Cincinnati heads a 12-person committee of members of the NAACP Board of Directors which mapped the plans for the observance. Serving with Mr. Berry on the committee are Mrs. Daisy E. Lampkin, Pitts burgh, Dr. W. Montague Cobb, Washington; W. W. Law, Savan nah, Ga.; Earl B. Dickerson, Chicago; Joseph P. Kennedy, San Francisco; Dr. James J. McClen don and Walter Reuther, Detroit; Dr. Nathan K. Christopher, Cleve land ; Alfred Baker Lewis, Old Greenwich, Conn.; and Dr. Ralph J. Bunche and George K. Hunter, both of New York City. The celebrations, Mr. Wilkins said, will be used not only for edu cational purposes but also to stim ulate memberships in and contri butions to the'NAACP. In a letter to all NAACP units, Gljoster B. Current, director of branches, outlined the program and procedures to be followed locally in observing the centennial. In South Carolina, he reported, the NAACP has planned a state wide celebration of the centennial. Celebrate Twenty-Fifth Anniversary I Iw -* WRI Mb jH iMlfc w Hk $ ■ ' HF | • | w -x L 1 * TH I w i V A. ’ 1 - ' Dr. and Mrs. Philip W. Cooper Dr. and Mrs. Philip W. Cooper celebrated the twenty-fifth anni- I versary of their marriage on De j cember 23, 1962 from five to eight I o’clock with an “Open House” at , their beautifully decorated home, r 1929 Mills B. Lane Boulevard. I Their guests included the Frogs, ■ the Links, public welfare work i ers and the medical and dental so ; cieties of which the Coopers are » closely associated, and a few other friends and relatives. Food and Clothes Collections For Mississippians Who Tried to Vote LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Students and older persons have joined in collecting food and clothing for thousands of Negroes cut off from surplus foods for trying to vote in Mississippi. The first shipment of goods was taken to the Delta area of Mis sissippi at Christmas. A receiv ing station has been set up at Fourth Street Drug Store, Clarks dale, Miss., operated by Aaron Henry, state president of NAACP. The local effort was coordinat ed wtih similar action by Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordi nating Committee (SNCC) at Ann Arbor, Michigan. SNCC is one of the organizations sparking the voter-registration drive in Mis sissippi. The Michigan students also pro vided a truck which carried the contributions to the affected area. The Louisville collection was un der the direction of the Student Nonviolent Action Committee (SNAC), an affiliate of SNCC, You’re Not A Real Citizen Until You’ve Registered To Vote! —Photo by W. B. Chisholm Out - of - town guests included Mrs. Jennie G. Anderson, Miss Se questa Williams, Mrs. Louise C. Bing, Mr. and Mrs. Leon F. Gard ner and son, all of Allendale, South Carolina; Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sumter of Florence, South Carolina and Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Anderson, Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio. Prayer was given by the Rev. Continued on Page Four Me Number 31 and the Louisville office of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). University, high school, and grade-school students prepared the way for food collections by passing out leaflets from door to door in many parts of the city. Clothing and money were donated along with food in many cases. The leaflets said: “Whole fami lies are on the verge of starva tion in 18 counties in the state of Mississippi. Thousands have been cut off from surplus foods be cause people are trying to regist er and vote. Their fight is your fight and they are depending on you for help.” Operation Freedom, Cincinnati, is spearheading a major effort to help these people. Principal Dixon's Oldest Sister Passes Resided on the . Family’s Estate Near Sparta, Georgia Mrs. Malvina Pinkston, oldest sister of Principal Wellington G. Dixon and a retired public school teacher, passed last week near Sparta, Georgia, in Hancock Coun ty, where she resided on a portion of the family’s estate. She was Wellington’s teacher when he first entered the Springfield Public School in the early part of the twentieth century. Malvina had just graduated from the Spellman High School in Atlanta (at this time Spellman had no College De- partment) and there were no High Schools for Colored Students in Hancock County. Later she grad uated from the Savannah State College with the Bachelor Degree in Elementary Education. She taught in the state public schools for 35 years before retiring more than ten years ago. Mr. Dixon left the city to join the other members of the immedi ate family to arrange for the fun eral sometime during the week end. These consist of one sister at Waycross and another at Val dosta, both Jeanes Supervisors; another retired sister who lives on the plantation, a sister in In dianapolis, Indiana, two brothers, one who lives in Washington, D. C. and the other on the estate. QaYROLL SAVINGS WILL FEATHER YOUR NEST. Buy U.S Savings I 2_REGtMtY2^|