Constructive VOLUME 29, NUMBER 28 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1959 PRICE SIX CENTS Large Crowd Expected To •ÓM Hear Dr. J. H. Jatan Of -4—1 TO MEET MASON TEMPLE and walks of Negro life, headed by Top Honors A large crowd is expected to as- Prof. B. T. Hunt, Rev. Henry C. semble at Mason Temple, 958 Ma- Bunion, Rev. W. T. Crutcher Knox- son St., to hear Dr. J. H. Jackson, ville and others of the various de- of Ch'oago, president of the five- nominations, Visit To U. St mllllon-membership National Bap-' Mrs. Ethel Venson will head the ■■ tlst Convention, USA, Inc. professional women. Mrs. Eunice WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Sekou Toure of the NriW A world traveler, lecturer and Bruce and Mrs. Rubye Bankhead author, Dr. Jackson, became one are heading the cosmetologists and Republic, of Guinea,,— a key-/ figure ...........in the —cold- war uaHiebi for of the country’s most powerful, business women. Mrs. Collins, pre­ Africa s teeming millions - arrived here Oct, 26 on a'l^ciaV Baptist ministers after being re- sident of the Women’s Auxiliary to state visit. elected as head of the convention I the Tennessee (Reg). Convention, In 1957. He also becamesime oneone„oiij ,of , heads all District women. The Edu- The, 37-year-old -African leader the new African republic. But they the country's mo* controversial]--------’-<M " cation< " Board’s women’s auxiliary and"’his wife were -given the red said there will be no military, as- figures. He is also headd of the Na- 1has1 chosen Mrs. J. C. Austin as its carpet treatment accorded the slstance. .. 214 tlonal Baptist Foreign Mission leader, also the fraternal women chiefs or great nations, including Toure’s tour of the UnUed-fiiwM Board, which Ls director mission­ The youth of all denominations full military honors and a parade wlil include stops at Chiekgd.'iaft ary activities in Africa and other and faiths will have a special part to the White House. Angeles, Wheeling, W. Vsi ;-arid foreign countries. in this mammoth mass meeting. At Toure was met at the airport several cities in North Caroli'rm. WINS REGIONAL SEAT —Miss 7:00 p. m , . under the direction of by Vice President and Mrs. Rich­ v.nlle in Illinois Friday, ha will The meeting here is being spon­ ard M. Nixon. President Elsenhow­ Josephine Merritt, a 20-year-old sored by the National Baptist Con­ Mrs. Inez Brooks. Mrs. Ella'Clarke (■• alcr with Adlai Stevensoh'. Tuskegee Institute junior, was elect­ Williams is reporter. er and the first lady greeted the .-’nether hlginVikt will be. a-rbi*- vention’s Board of Education, said visitors at the White House. ed vice cha’nnan of Region Four Dr. W. H. Brewster, correspond­ Music will be furtshed by inter­ laclal dinner in his honor at Ra- of .the Association of the College denominational choirs,, state Chor­ Eisenhower does not participate • lgli, N. C., Wc.’*.r.e.’’:lay.”itte . is- ing secretary for the convention, in airport ceremonies during the Unions in a Regional conference uses, special singing aggregations, PRESIDENT OF GUINEA VISITS U.S. - Left to a Pan American World Airways Clipper. stav ny here three days and pastor of East Trigg Avenue ■I cool mon’hs - October to May and held recently at North Carolina Baptist Church in Memphis. He is and the National Ensemble, Dr. W right: the Ambassador to Washington and the President Toure visited President Eisenhower Herbert Brewster to charge. U.N. for Guinea, Telli Diallo, looks on as the slight colds forced him and Mamie State College at Raleigh. A Phil­ also associated with the Regular Monday, staying in Washington for three, days. to stay inside the White House adelphian, Miss’ Merrit is the first Baptist Tennessee State Conven­ All choirs, choruses, ushers, eta., United States Chief of Protocol, Wiley T. Buch­ From there he will go to Raleigh, N.C.; Chi­ which are to participate are asked when Toure arrived. But they met woman student of any race to win tion. anan, greets the President of the Republic of cago; Wheeling, W.V., and then return to New the visiting pasty at the door. a seat as high as vice chairman in to be at Mason Temple at 7 p. m., Atianta ; Delega’es from state conventions Guinea, Sekou Toure, as he disembarks from York on November 3. « to- Arkansas and Mississippi are in their various uniform?. For fur­ VISIT FOR 15 MINUTES the’.region, which comprises Negro The Toures were escorted to tho and- white colleges from 11 south­ expected to attend the meeting. ther information call: Wh. 2-2763. The Hostess Committee will be I red room where they visited with Meet School ern end southeastern states. It was the Eisenhowers for 15 minutes. the second Region Four conference composed of Baptist women from 25 LeMoynites Go Memphis and West Tennessee. Afterward they posed for a group attended by Miss Merritt, who with picture in the lobby. A special White Misses Helçn Jennings and Salite Platform guests will be consisted To Mississippi For House dinner was scheduled in the Order Dâtêë Richards represented the Tuskegee of ministers, laymen, business and Workshop, Field Trip Toures honor on Monday night. College-Center-Board. -------- professional leaders of all faiths ATLANTA, Ga.^tSNSl.-r Jr On his arrival here from New Two groups of LeMoyne College York, 'Toure urged Americans to School Board authorities-„bene students were guests of Mississippi help the cause of freedom in Afri­ Oct. 26 revealed -they plan to pre­ $20,000 Goal Instruirons this week. ca. He said “millions in Africa hope sent a desegregation formula.-for Eighteen members of LeMioyne’s MIAMI (UPI)—The city manager Tuesday ordered all Miami I “There is.no use of pussyfooting that America will help them live Atlanta public schools by the Deo. Christian Fellowship left Memphis parks and swimming pools desegregated. around," said Willard. In freedom and forget famine, hun­ 1 federal court deadline, Tuesday evening by train for Piney ger and the hardships in their The statement by Board- BriaT.. The order, effective immediately, will affect about twenty Miami has operated . six white Woods School in Piney Wloods, and one Negro swimming pool. lives.” dent A. C. Latimer put to.an.^pd Miss., to conduct a four day work major parks, seven public swimming pools and dozens of He said he was speaking for all speculation that the board might All will be desegregated under seek to extendable deadjlllte., Im­ camp They are scheduled, to re­ small neighborhood playgrounds. the new policy. The policy will the emerging nations of Africa as turn Saturday of this week. cover tennis courts and any other well as his own small nation of posed by the federal courtabwe.;«.- It does not afteot public beaches segregation of city recreational fa­ 2,500,000 people whloh became in­ Any desegregation plan would be Eight members of Bette Kappa in the Miami area. They all are recreational facilities owned by the for Chi, honorary scientific organiza­ cilities had been delayed long city. dependent of France last year. unlawful under existing state'Ujjjà C. ARTHUR BRUCE AND BLAIR group with an overall program operated either , by Dade County or enough. Willard turned to city at­ The court has said, the General a$> raising Ithe $20,060. He is serving tion, left early Wednesday morning WILL GIVE ECONOMIC AID T. HUNT WILL SERVE AS the dty of Miami Beach. torney William L. Pallot to ask The city’s only publicly-owned sembly would have -a chdftc&’tii as coordinator of the drive. Others for Tougaloo Collège at Tougaloo. CO-CHAIRMEN OF DRIVE golf course was desegregated last Nixon told Toure that with him change the necessary laws, tamaite appearing on the breakfast pro­ Miss., to witness She dedication of Miami City Manager Ira Willard if there was any legal reason he April. So are the city’s libraries. lie “the hopes and aspirations of the Atlanta plan cdnform?‘"C'? SS The annual campaign .fw the gram were Dr. Peter Cooper of the Tougatoo’s new Science Building. issued the, order after a confer­ could not issue the desegregation The Miami Transit System oper­ the people of Africa under the Meanwhile, Gov. Ernest Vàh'àFver Unted Negro College Fund irrMem- LeMoyne faculty and Dr.-Hollis F. They returned Wednesday night. ence with the Rev. Theodore Glb- order. Pallot said there. was none. ates buses without enforced segre­ leadership you arid others are de­ repeated again his intenton WMifr ph's.and Shelby County will have I son, local president of the Natlon- Price, president of. the college. Those making the trip to Piney “In other words," said Willard, gation and there is one public a goal of $20,000, it' was decided r-_ __ 2 -• — - veloping." force segregation laws WW ttlh' Jesse H. Turner was named trea­ Woods are: Dorothy Bllbrew, Nesby al Association for -the Advance- “I have no choloe but to grant school in Miami, Orchard Villa statute at a breakfast Saturday, morning . -,U. S. offciaJ^. said, before Toure s surer of tile campaign, O. L. Bran­ Blanchard, John Ray Burityn, Mil­ ment of Colored. People. L. tteir request?”..paUot .sakU^that Elementary, with- toMFlntegrat- thé - at LeMoyne College. ' • arrival that the United States was "Georgia law requires don and Dr. peter Cooper, auditors, dred Coburn, Ray Cax.Cox, iiaryCrobk-^MakrCrbck- Oibsori tolii. the,City manager de- ■was true. _ , . • . Opening date iar- the campaign ion. - —te I prepared to grant economic aid to of any ’taclally-integrttèd school," and Robert Ratclffe,.