wim CoasMin VOLUME 29 NUMBER 46 ' T.MF■WF..'" “s NEW YORK CITY -- Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel for the NAACP. took the south to task, with emphasis on North Carolina, for its seeming complacency In the fight for complete integration, as he addressed the 48th Grand Conclave of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Monday morning, at the New Yorker -Hotek------ — ----------- -------- -— . ..—-— -----— The NAACP lawyer told the dele- many places, and thereby were go- gates that the failure of Negroes Ting to find if difficult to meet the to stand up in the struggle was ser- standards of living when they fin- iojisly hampering tli'eTuIT prtigraJfr 'TSfieiT“school. He sympathized, to -ot-lntoyrAUan-Hiuchided-tlip..penpin .some extent..with people who felt of North Carolina for accepting the dependent, upon the mores of their Washington - (upi) - civil rights, revision of tM; federal “Asignment* Program" and ’’’he-, communities for livelihood, but told moaned the fact that if it is per- the leaders that it was their respon- minimum wage law, and federal aid for school cankt^ctl^ teftted to continue that there are sibility to chart a program that shaped ..up Soturday as major battles of the election-year. Con­ children in school now who would would aid their unfortunate bro- gress which convenes Wednesday. ' i never get the benefit of integral- thers. Wai ion. -------------------------............— Civil Rights wHl pit the » He called upon Negroes , to take against the South;; minimum '1 their cases to the court and not to rMfA will pit labor ag^lhst bu^tw;' wait upon any body else to take the j .■ f the Eisenhower sdnuntstration. initial step. He said that Negro : the Democrats will lock horns <i families should ask that their chil- -i.' j all-out struggle over the fed dren be transferred to the schools *■ government's rote’ in meeting­ that offer the best facilities for national class room shortage. "GOOD SPEECH" said George W. Lee, left, to are Lee's daughter, Gilda; and Dr. W. Herbert education. The matter-of transfer- | Lawmakers, Anxious to avoid Hobson Reynolds, who. was the main speaker Brewster, who was master of ceremony. At ing one or two children was not . - l other major controversy ttf an e at the New Year's Day Emancipation program right are James Kerwin, who Introduced Rey- the answer and the process was too ition year, were hoping that Si at Ellis Auditorium. Between Lee and Reynolds nglds, and A. Maceo Walker. slow. "All the Negro children in in- ■■ and steel management/WlrM ferior schools should apply and then K . !, J«! their differences, thereby avuG the persons in charge would find j demands on Congress for dn themselves face to face with the „ strike legislation. • issue," said Marshall. \ Midway in the session, <pe He was mindful of the fact that too many Negroes were willing to accept make shift programs and the proper au- thority that separate schools were ’ ''' not only morally wrong, but con- stitutlonally wrong. He deplored w the fact that Negro children were j® not being educated to meet the S needs of an expanding economy, in jHJ|S|r3'UMO After nearly 100 years we have CRACKDOWN ON not completely achieved freedom in America, but thank God we are HTTERBUGS on our way, said Judge Hobson R. Reynolds while* he delivered the main Emancipation Proclamation Day address at Ellis Auditorium in the. evening of New Year's day. Reynolds of Philadelphia who. is assistant to the Commissioner of Federal Housing Administration in Washington, urged his audience of an estimated lM,toireg|Ster and vote, Hisaid. "In ;|v c. this country we must stress thé COMMISSIONERS PROMISED were; Assessor Joe Hicks, Juvenile TO WORK IN HARMONY Court Judge Elizabeth McCain and CBy Coum-Judges John P._Coltan, Beverly Boughe, and William B, In­ gram Jr. —Mayor Edmond Orgll! started the ceremonies by rapping for order REV. D. 8. CUNNTNOfljÄ^ iWAUOWXmilH-HnrVIr- niifh ginla Dixon, 50, enjoys a glass of water in New York after an operation restored her ability to swallow. Her esophagus had been completely flocked by an accidental dose of lye Membersof the local Board of when she was 21, and from Education are scheduled to be that time she was fed by a sworn in today (Tuesday) at 3 p. m. rubber tube inserted in her at Ellis., Auditorium. Judge Harry stomach. Reversed gastric M. Adams wil lidteiniateir the oath tube surgery corrected defect of office to the Board members. Expected to take oaths are Wal­ ter P. Armstrong, Jr., president; Julian B. Bondtiraht, vice-president; Also attending were: Miss Hat­ Mins. Lawrence. Coe; Mrs. Arthur N. tie Dotson, Ernest Bradley, Miss Seessel, Jr., and John T. Shea. (Continued on Page Six) HALF CENTURY ENDS Greenville fort. Bias 50 Years Of Progress,1 Protested But The Road Remains GREENVILLE, 8 C. — (UPI) — A group of 300 Negroes marched through chilling tain A snow and. sleet'to the Greenville airport Fri­ day in a “pHatest * pilgrimage’ against segregation at the facility. The protest on New Year's Day, traditionally observed by Southern Negrofe as emancipation day, was htrected*against the airport mana­ Of Freedom, gement. An incident last October when former major league baseball »¿r .Tackle Robinson was asked to RICHMOND, Va. — (UPI) — In- itol Building. A resolution protest­ leave the white waiting room tegation leader Dr. Martin Luther ing the closing of the schools to cir­ brought on the protest. B3nr Jr; told 2,700 'persons who cumvent a federal desegregation or* ¿3®«terminal was under heavy state der was read; poiliiej watch. Some 50 uniformed capitol Friday that they "(oust not Goy. J,.Lindsay Almond was out and ¿plainclothes officers were s^Bir birthright of freedom for of town, spending a quiet holiday present,' including State Law En­ a biess of segregated pptt^e.” •' ? in his hometown of Roanoke, - . forcement Division Chief J. P. <iS I«’- . King? featured sptel^r 'at a pro­ Kingsgate "Never underestimate Stromj Greenville Police ; Chief1P. test' rally against the closing of what youare doing today. I can as­ Oakes and Detective Chief L.vW. » Prio^Edward CQMtytya. pub- sure you. it will have far reaching Jfammond. At least two members J MUU AW of ttie Oreenville city council were ."There is nothing more sublifne," makeshift he add, "Sian Individuals willing to The Negroes left an automobile fœ twin- suffer in h great cause.” ' caravan half a telle from the air­ He,Wl the group, which sang port and marched to the terminal hymne aim heard other Negro lead-, Airport Manager 0. L. Andrew! era denounce che closings, '‘America barred further entrance to the ter- today is a split personality divide (Continued on Page Sli). nr. su> 2 • jtortlS taO • Wednesday, Jànuary 6, 1960 i; t .. ’ ■ *.... ' ■' ..........’............................................................................................................'/■“-'Gj" :■ $8 Mi State Highway Completed Ten Tennessee Highway con­ struction .: projects. ..totaling ¿.844 Are the Hamilton Wildcats as other game scheduled for Wed­ cbtopleted and ire good as some people say.they, are? nesdaybesides : the Hamllton- ready to be"'accepted by the state, Can anybody really be justified in Douglass duel, Lester will" take on D. w.: Moulton, Tennessee High* predicting they will cop the Prep Bertrand at Lester, "We haven’t y m< • ma 1 > League title? t »osl but two games and we are“by - Moulton 'said the projects were nn means_out qf_this championship O1 I h • >1: «£ >' rut cats, because of their experience race,” said Lester’s Coach Jake Of il'.nr * and to’: a-r-i-* will sill* c«81’* Peacock. “And we intend to stay The completed roqds are. locat- the championship. But even these in it.” C » FRIDAY’S GAMES NOW THAT 1959 is six days :in head cage coach,.: an answer to prognosticators were forced to sit Principal Conley's report, “Oh back In embarrassment as the ■ Friday night’s games will pit Ma­ the record biteks, it-might be good In Shelby County — Grading, nassas against Hamilton at Manas- . to-poiht out some of the highligbts- Yeah?" A. D. MILLER, Douglass Wilton cte « r HeaM the drainage and the construction of- first night of the. LeMoyhe College sas and Lester against the Warrlors- •rof year before coming up with head grid coach — the footoall four bridges on the southeast sec- championship at ionglast. Holiday high school tournament, at Booker T. Washington. ■customary absurdities as to what <■ "t . > < i, > r ■ tlal Inter and to Woodstock’s so-so Aggies by Melrose, coached by Frank Lewis, rt® "d TUF BENCH area ‘RUDOLPir""WimMffi, BTW state Route No. 511, beginning ap- halfback — A fortune tete. It'e •t i. o' i.. , t Per a score of 61-50. came close to winning a second Jiajm ui > >e nW year, , •»“I guess the- long' laspe between conseeutiveLeMoynetourneylast One god-thing, 1 a59 saw the end no sense-iri-ldttirig-a -haircut.dike kj 1 near nah Creel his go to waste; WALTER HALL, their last League game and the week but couldn't. keep up with of Melrose football domination and and extending to approximately holiday game got them out of powerful Lauderdale Training Bookero.T. Washington .basketball BTW quarterback, an article on the 0.4 miles south of Park Road; Fr. Bertrand game, “Memories Arie total length — 2,821 miles; con­ shape,” explained fan Robert School of Ripley, Tenn., and bowi control.' It was about, as unexpected Honeysuckle. “I. had a feeling they ed to the buttermilk-bred boys by HS anything else that happened dur- Not Made of This.” tract amount $1,881,542.40;—C. WAYS-ANDMEANS— ------- were„gblhfnto lose .that one, but a score of 63-58.