Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 50]

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Eroes. i aad to their voting
rights despite increased pressure from many sources to rebea -them from the registrars~
a survey by the Southern

Rev onal Council shows.
Current~y, ttete ~2re an estimat-d 1,226,488 Negroes on voting rolls in eleven Southern
States. commared to 1,238,000 ret ted by. the SRC in 1956. The
~est. f gures, repr:.g iting 25
per cent cf Negroes of voting
Age are contained in a prelim

_ Gastern Star Honors Mrs.
_; Minnie Thomas

~ibe Chapter No. 26 O. E.
S. King David and Queen Esther
Affiliation, held,their Annual,batiquet Monday * night at 114
~Erskine Street. A delicious turkey dinner followed a short program. Participants on program
were Mr. John Mann, principal
speaker, Mrs. Dorcthy Winn, soloist. Mr. Alfred Harrison was
dramatist; others ~ppearing were
Mr. Essex Ross, Mrs. Hazel Tate

rpresided as Mistress of Ceremon: (1

ies. Four tables were beautifly

decorated with white and yellow}
haby mums gleaming silver and

tall white candles. Mrs. Minnie
Thomas, honoree, was. seated zt

~Ithe guést table. She was contest

winner. Her co-workers shared

the table with her. Mrs, Mary ~

Ann Jones, who was second place
winner, and her
hostesses to the winning group.
Beautiful gifts were awarded to
Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Jones.
Presentations were made by Mrs.
Myrtle Taylor. Words of greetings and thanks were given bet
the chairmans, Mrs. Cornelia
Townsend and Mrs. Eleanor
Caine.
was Mrs: Alvia Motley, Mrs. Lillian Hornbuckle, Mae Blackman,
Rosa Trice, Elizabeth Clarke.
and Odessa Johnson. Servir- =
hostesses were Mrs, Emma He.
lem, Ophelia. Sykes, Murthle
Hall, Ethel Clemons, Ionia Tate,
and Margie Adams. Mrs. Murtle
Pacely, W. M., Mrs. Mary L.

at

| the Eyes

A new type.of wood slat window shade is open to light but
tlosed to sight.~ Glaring sunlight and vision into the interior
are barred, while Eeneantly diffused light and fresh air.

are admitted. o

Here~s how: the new shades
ere formed of a series of thin
basswood splints with precisionbeveled edges that are woven
together so their edges overlap.
The carefully spaced -beveled
Splints diffuse sunlight, and at
the same time prevent seeing
through the shade from eye
level. Since the shades are furnished with the bevels slanting

~ dither up or down from the inside of the room, the homeowner can choose the angle of.visicn desired ~ something he

| finish,

cannot do with ordinary woven
wood shades... The new shades, called Temlite Loomwood, are niade by the
Aeroshade Division of Consolidated General Products, Inc.,
24th and Nicholson Sts., Houston, Texas. They are available
in many decorator colors;
special tones to match any
decor can also be furnished, the
maker says.-They can be
cleaned with a damp or dry
cloth, vacuumed, or washed
without harming the decorative

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FOR DINNER? ~ NO,

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The dinner committee}

since the earlier. SRO
was made, have brought.
ed racial tensior in the
passage of the federal
rights legislation since R
struction, a long ligt of federal
court decisions to speed the Negro toward full legal equality
and new state laws to delay
change in racial patterns.~

In some-states the number of
Negro registrants rose appreciably between. 1956 and 1958 but | ee
these gains were largely offset | ture
hy sharp drops.in other states
jue to purges ard statewide reregistration.

In Arkansas, Florida, Georgia
and South Carolina, where official figures show a decline in
Negro registration, the number }.
fF qualified white voters also
dropped. The lower registration
sf both races in South Carolina
was attributable thainly to the
~otal re-registration this year, as
~s required every 10 years~in the
state.

Registration increased among
both white and Negro citizens

In Lowisiana, the white registration increased while Negro
registration fell from 151,410) to
130,000 in the past two years,
due_in large measure to widespread purges in several parishes. Pro-segregation groups in
that state have made a concerted
effort to strike Negro voters

'.ffrom the rolls. ~ ~

Library's 0.1
Helps Many

DETROEI~Like to get $10,000
~or 75c? The Detroit Public Lirary makes no promises, but:
ye operrtor cf a sinall local) ir
~ustry, through research, locat
da 7&e pvblication of the Of
~ice of Technical Serviees which
olved a problem that had plag
~ed his business and which
aved him an grinaed SA n00

year,
A a a / ~ i: Ey ific
ind industriat reports published

by the Department of Com.
merce~s Office of Technical Ser.
ices is the latest research

| source to be added to the vast

collection of the Detroit Public
uibrary~s Technology DepartSince 1946, all unclassified | research reports by firms engaged
in government contract work
have been examined by OTS to
xee whether the information uncovered could be useful to private industry or individuals; and
~~ so, these reports were listed
and abstracted in a monthly
oublication.

For some time. eopies of the
original reports could be purchased only as photostats or on
microfilm; but now those judged
most valuable are- printed, and

I copies sent to the Technology

Department, at the rate of about
a hundred a month- The Detroit
Public Library is the third pub~ic library in the U.S. to be chosen as a depository for this imyortant research material, based~
nm Det: it~s status as a leading
zenter 01 dusiness and industry.

sin The NAACP

WILLIAMS
_ A FREE NEGRO OF KEW YORK, ~
was RIDHOTED 81 BY Ase Lemme JURY

WHEN ASKED TO SURRENDER HIM,
GOVERNOR MARCY OF NEW YORK

| RULED THAT WILLIAMS. couLD NOT
BE ountry< oF FA CRIME i~ TUSCALOOSA

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> As in all other matters, a lit
4, > c ~ & and pro- Prothe two-bilHeu-aots ene industry,
re thal bits will rae ay
plastics Lwtedie t manifacturing
methods and ~~ and ma
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Make Sure Sanfa~s
Gifts Arrived Safe

DETROIT ~ Santa Claus will
soon be around with his gifts
and good wishes. But along with
his loads~ of good cheer he will
bring disappointments also.

This is because -people~s accomplishments ~are sometimes
not equal-to their good intent.
They shop diligently, spend lavishly, and remember everyone.
Fhen they promptly undo much
of their fine work py careless
packaging and improper addressng.

The value. of items lost
through inadequate preparation
varies from a few pennies to
hundreds of dollars: The value
of the sentiment involved is bevond calculation.

~What ~Sorts of things do post
_iffices find loose in the mails
yecause of inadequate preparation or undeliverable and unre-urnable~ because of inadequate
iddress?.Just about everything
~Hat canibe sent through the
ails: Matches, money; costume
ewelry, tedicines and vitamin
nills, clothing, faney work, hos.
~ery, stationery, i supplies,
seeds, ete,

/Obeasionaily, & lost item is deivebed- through @.-clue found-in |
sidé ~the parcel. In most intances, however, neither the adJressee. nor the sender can be
dentified, so~ the lost item is
aeld at the local post office for
30. days and thén sent to one of
the 15 dead parcel post branches
for: disposal by auction. Recovery may be made by either sender. or intended recipient, upon
presentation of proper identification, at any time prior to the
actual atiction, This obviously
does _ not. include _perishables,
which ifittst be disposed of
promptly.

tle ~bit of prevention is worth a
great deal of cure. If. Aunt Agnes puts your Christmas present
or birthday present in a flimsy
package or is careless with the
address, either one of you can
make recovery if you are aware
of the loss. But why not start
with a little~ better box, or a little better wrapping paper, or a
little stronger twine, or a. more
complete and more accurate ad
are advertising to o~ They
dren in some_of the white
public schools of New Or
~|ieans, Parents of the Lake
view public soa say their

| need isto ge re p=pils..
They report a averre of 17
children to the room. The

maximum load in. white|.
schools is 33 chiidren per
class.

They are on the contrary complaining in Negro segregated
schocls. about the number of
children in a room and the number of Negro children.-.reed to.
get only one half-day cf school~ng. In some sschool as many as
2,000 Negro children are on halfday classes..

Courts have decreed that New
~Orleans should be integrated as
to schools but there has not been
one step made towards this end.

vsed at. all.

Lite pation would aiso elite

tte the necessity of bussing: ldren cetoss town (wh'te chil- }

Yen) in order to fill. some
schools and_ bussing other chil
lren (Negro children) in order

~9 keep,them from attending the

| school nearest their home.

There are more Negro childret in Néw Orleans~ public
schools than whites. They report
~6,000 Negro children and only
41,000 white children. The- number cf white schools, however

|ctittnumber those for Negro chil
dren eight to five.

Another oddity in New Or.
leans publie schools is that the
training of Negro teachers is

said to outrank that of whité

teachers. ~

NEW YORK CITY~Mrs. Betty- Granger Reid, well-known
New York society columnist and
managing editor of the New York
Age, this week announced that
she is filing a $250,000 libel suit
against newly-elected Congressman Adam Clayton Powell for
slander.

The newspaper woman chargad that Powell, a Democrat had
slandered her by declaring she
had contacted members of his
staff before the election and sa~d
she wanted to see him because
there was $50,000 available for
him.

Powell alleged that the $50,000 had been offered by the Republicans if he would support
Nelson D. Rockefeller Jr., Republican. candidate for the Governorship. of New York.

Mrs,. Granger emphatically denied that she had ever contacted
Powell or any of his staff members in connection with the $50;

-+000 offer.

Editor Sues Rep. Adam C. |=
~Powell For $250,000

In addition to Mrs. Granger.
two otner persons have announced they would sue Powell.
They are Harlem Republican
Leader Harold G. Burton and
Attcrney Gloria E. A. Toote, ~GOP
Assembly camera in t"> 12th

~AL OD.

Both claim has were also
slandered by~ Powell because he
claimed they. were involved in
the $50,000 offer.

Powell had claimed that former baseball star Jackie Robinson
had been present when he confronted Mrs. Granger after hearing she had approached members of his (Powell~s) staff.with
the money offer.

Mrs. Granger denied she had
seen Jackie Robinson ~since the
baseball season.~

Robinson was quoted as say
ing however that he, Posvell and
Mrs. Granger had met briefly on
a Harlem sidewalk and that he
remembered some mention of
money. being made.

GRANT TO

A total of $3,339, 610 in gifts
and grants. was contributed to
Wayne State University durin:
~the fiseal year. 1957-58, O!'n
Thomas, vice president for finaneé, has announeed...This is
~he larvest amount in, the University~s history;

Contracts with department
and agencies of: the federal govrnment accounted for %2.071.752 cf the total. The remainder
came: from _ industry, private
foundations, other private. organizations and individuals.

More than 47 per cent cf the
total was earmared for researc!
in. the various colleges and
schools of the University. Funds
contributed for research increas.
ed from $280,000 in 1951 to $1,
Urge Ike To Call
Violence Confab

NEW ORLEANS ~ The Sou
thern Conference _ Educational
Fund, Inc. has joined other
national organizations in urging President Eisenhower to
call a national conference to
consider the Food ghee of mount
dress, ~

~

ing violence and _ lawlessness,

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WAYNE;

SET RECORD HIGH

605, 590 in the fiscal year 1957
58. i

Theh University marked | its
development into a major anr
graduate -education and researc

pinstitati on last week with publi

cation cf tis first Ann~al Report
cf Research <Activit~ees.

Grants to support research ir
~medicin2, physics, chemistry, bi
olozy, and betany, education anc
mathemsties were among the
largest contributions to the University during this year.

Bias Faces Ex-Gls

JACKSON, Mics.~~~No self-re
specting Negro -would tolerate
the insults of the discriminating
organization in its dealing with
~eolored veterans,~ said the Mis
sissippi State Branch NAACP ir
objecting to colored ex-GIs join

ing American Legion Posts in the |.

Magnolia State.

Only Talk ~Rights~

WASHINGTON ~ The President~s Commission on Civil
Rights.last week held a discus

sion on problems in housing
discrimination with irter-group
advisers from eight FHA zones

~ indicating more Federal action in

this direction could be in the
making.

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