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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
New York Girl
Picked AS Miss
Brown Frame"

NEW YORK-Miss Evelyn San
ders, a 17-year-old entrant from
Freeport, N Y, was crowned Miss
Fine Brown Frame of America" in
the national finals of maestro
Buddy Johnsons Fine Brown
Frame" contest at the Golden Gate
Auditorium in Harlem.
Miss Sanders, an added starter in
the contest, qualified for the finals
by winning special preliminary
honors and went on to win the
coveted crown by popular applause
of the audience present.
Runner-up honors went to Miss
Dorothea Bagley of Durham, N c.,
while third place was captured by
Josephine Williams of Philadelphia.
Miss Fine Brown Frame of
America won a $500 cash award,
a silver loving cup, screen con-
tract with the. Associated Producers
of Negro Motion Pictures, and
series of theater engagements with
Buddy Johnson and his band, max
ing her debut the week of Jan. 3 on
stage of the 125th Street Apollo
Theater in Harlem.
In the Miss Fine Brown Frame"
contest sponsored here by promoter
W. J. Miller and maestro Buddy
Johnson when he brought his band
to the Colored Skating Rink, some
months ago,Miss Jessie Mae Will
liams, daughter of Mr.. Jesse Will
liams of Paris Cleaners was select
ed as first prize winner.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
B. A. Blackburn
New Scout Leader
To Train in N. ].

Ben. A. Blackburn. Negro field
Scout executive for the Andrew
Jackson Council, who succeeds the
late Leonard M. Parker, pioneer
Negro scout executive, will attend
the National Training School for
Scout Executives in Mendha, N. j.,
which opens Sunday.
The school will provide intensive
training for new men in Scouting
and is conducted by the National
Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Attendance at the school is a pre-
requisite to employment in Scout
ing.
Employed after interviews by To-
cal and national personnel, leaders,
Blackburn, a graduate of Jackson
College and a coach and school
man known throughout the state,
had a number of recommendations,
including that of Rev. John Long,
president of Southern Christion In
stitute, chairman of the Inter-Racial
Scouting Committee of the Andrew
Jackson Council.
The Andrew Jackson Council,
with the largest number of Negro
boys of any council in the country,
rates 10th in the nation in the
number of boys actually enrolled.
With Richard B. Harris serving
the negro division of the Jackson
District, Blackburn will continue to
serve the territory covered by Leon
ard M. Parker.
Scout Executive Harry Maxfield
said with this team and the con-
tinued interest and cooperation OF
the white and colored leaders
throughout the council, 1947 will
bring continued progress to the
work of the council among Negro
youth.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
Substitute
Teachers Needed
In Local Schools

The local public schools find
themselves short of teachers to
supply or substitute where regular
staff members are absent for duty
.occasioned by illness or emergen-
cies, and an appeal went out today
for persons who are qualified in
either elementary or junior high
or senior-high-school work to make
themselves available John c. Bate,
chairman of the board of education,
said Friday
The return to work following the
holidays found approximately Is
teachers absent on account of ill
ness or accident. and the limited
supply of substitute teachers prov
ed inadequate to meet the need, it
was learned. With inclement wealth
er and the usual incidence of cold
eqidemics and influenza it is fear
ed that principals of the schools
will be hard put in having a full
staff of teachers available every
day during the next few months.
X A Walker, superintendent Of
schools, stated that persons who
hold teaching license and who have
had two or more years of college
training could be qualied for sub
stitute work.. and urged that such
individuals telephone 2-35l2 where
further information can be obtain
ed regarding qualifying for substi-
tute work in the Jackson schools
OF the staff of approximately 325
teachers in the white and coIored
schools there are usually two or
three teachers absent somewhere
in the system each day. he added
in normal times, and considera-
bly, larger number during the win
| ter months.
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Prentiss Institute
Among School
Given Materials

Washington-( = Six Negro
colleges are included among the "a
education institution in the South
granted approval for the use of
surplus government owned build
ings and equipment to facilitate en-
rollment of veterans under the CT
Bill of Rights, it was announced
here last week by EVA officials.
The six school are Prentiss Nor
NAL and Industrial Institute, Prem
tiss, Miss, A. and T. College of
North Carolina, Greensboro; State
College for Colored Students, Dow
err, Del, Meharry Medical College,
Nashville. Okolona Industrial
School, Okolona, Miss, and Rust
College, Holly Springs, Miss. APP
proval of the requests made possible
under the Mead Act, Veterans ed
ucational facilities program, was
given by Maj -Gen. Phillip B. Elem
ing, federal works administration
Prentiss Institute is to receive
surplus structures for conversion
into cafeteria. shoe shop, laundry
facilities, laboratories and class
rooms, for the accommodation of
900 students, $50 of whom are ex-
pected to be veterans. Current en-
rollment fthe school is placed at
600 students, rs of who mare vet
Grams.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
Funds Sought
For Simpson
County School

A recently organized committee
Of --egro citizens are seeking to
raise funds for the building of a
high school for Negroes in Menden-
hall, Miss. Letters from the COM
mittee are being sent to certain
persons in all sections of the State
requesting contributions toward this
worthy project. The public is also
being asked for contributions.
The letter addressed to whom it
may concern is as follows:
I'VE do not have a Negro High
School in Simpson County and we
are now trying to build one in Men
denhall We have a number of
students who are taking high school
work and have no buildings for
them.
We have about 800 students in
the Mendenhall Vocational Colored
study hall. The white people in
School and need six more rooms and
Mendenhall have given us several
hundred dollars and we are taxi
ing this opportunity of asking you
to help us in any amount that you
see fit to give us. We are paying
all we can as we move along.
We assure you that we will con-
duct our school in such way that
you will be proud to have had
part in it. Send any donations to
the Peoples Bank, Mendenhall,
Miss, or to either of the Trustees
Of the school Again thanking you
we are Sincerely yours, Hugh
Davis. John Rankin, ]. B. Simmons,
James Smith, S. L. Walker, w. C.
McCaskill, Trustees. i,
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
Negro Soldiers
Aid in Rescue of
Flood Victims

FORT -LAWTON, Washington
Five Negro enlisted men stationed
at this installation were among the
many persons who volunteered to
aid in the rescue of more than 100
farmers and townspeople who were
stranded by flood waters during
storms in Western Washington in
the middle of December.
These combat amphibious driv-
ers assigned to the 3362nd Truck
Copany stationed here drove Army
ducks" a 215ton amphibious veh-
icle, from 10 p. m. one night until
Q o'clock the following afternoon
without relief.
Working with the American Red
Cross, Army units fought the swift
currents and driving rains which
continued to swell already flooding
rivers which were inundating sew
eral hunderd acres of fertile farm
lands.
Following are the soldiers who
aided in the rescue work:
First Sergeant Jaes D. Ziegler,
San Antonio, Texas, Technical Ser
geant Henry c. Jackson. Savannah,
Georgia; Technician Fifth Grade
Verley Gross, New York City: Tech
nician Fifth Grade Glen Burton
Kansas City, Missouri. and Corporal
Elvin Leigh, Houston, Texas.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
LOCAL INFANTILE PARALYSIS
FUND DRIVE ON; NEGROES
URGEDTO GIVE LITERALLY
Negro Polio Patients
Receive disqualification
Right Here in Jackson

New York, ~ Y.-Negro victims
of infantile paralysis receive hos
pitalization and medical care in
their home states through funds
contributed to the March of Dimes,
annual campaign of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
according to Charles H. Bynum,
director of Interracial Activities
for the Foundation.
During 1916. my field activities
took me into every state with a
population of 10000 or more Neg
roes," stated Mr.. Bynum, and it
was comforting to learn that local
chapters of the National Found
alton are providing disqualification
for Negro polio patients in their
home communities and at hospit-
ais in nearby communities.
Typical of such service is the
Mississippi Emergency Hospital at
Jackson, Mississippi, which not
only provides disqualification for
Negroes but employs Negro profess
sional personnel Mr.. Bynum dis
closed that during the 1874 e6pidem-
ic local chapters of the National
Foundation in 80 states exhausted
their funds and said that there is
more urgent need for generous sup
port than ever befoe to the 1947
March of Dimes.
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Jan. is Deadline
For Filing OF
Tax Declaration

Eugene Fly, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Mississippi district,
reminded federal income taxpayers
today that January Is is the dead
line for filing, amending and pay
ing 1916 Declarations of Estimated
Tax.
In issuing this reminder, Collec-
tor Fly cautioned taxpayers not to
confuse the January Is tax date
with the usual March Is deadline
for filing final 1916 income tax re-
turns. However, he pointed out
that if a taxpayer files and pays
his final 1916 tax return Ton Form
1O4O) by January Is, it will serve
both as his return and as any de-
claration or amended declaration
which would otherwise be due from
him on that date.
The Collector estimated that only
about one out of every five tax
payers in his district are required
to file anything January Is, since
this date concerns only those tax
payers whose tax is not substant-.
tally paid up by withholding from
wages. In other words, the average
wageearner, who gets his entire in
come from wages subject to with
holding, is not required to file a
declaration and need only file his
final return before March Is.
The principal groups concerned
with January Is filing are farmers,
business and professional people
generally, and certain wage earn
ers.
Wage earners who should file be-
fore January Is are:
a. Those who, in addition to
their wages, had more than
$500 income from other sour
ces (for instance, income from
rents, dividends, sale of pro-
perty, etc..
b. Those whose wages, even
though subject to withholding,
exceeded $1,000 plus $500 for
each exemption except their
own (for instance, $4,000 for a
man with wife and one de-
pendent child.
/ These whose wages were NOT
subject to withholding dor in
stance. domestic servants, farm
laborers).
Taxpayers needing assistance in
the preparation of their returns
are urged to seek it as soon as pos
sible in order to avoid a last-min-
ute rush on January Is.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
STATE BUILDING COMMISSION
ALLOTS $64O,O5O 1912
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF STATE
80 CoIored Schools
To Receive Aid In
Building Construction

State assistance in the amount of
$500, $4,000 for construction purposes
was given AZ public schools in %
Mississippi counties this week by
the State Building Commission.
The State aid is out of a $3,000,-
600 fund set up by the 1916 legis-
lature for improvements and add
itions to the states white and coll
ored school system.
This was the nature of all bus
mess transacted by the Commission
during the first day of its three day
session Other business will be
considered by the Commission dur
ing the remaining two days
Colored school and the amount
of state aid received are as follows:
Wren, Monroe County, $2,4O0; An
guilla, Sharkey county, 1900; Bel
zoni, Humphreys, 10000; Booker T.,
Stone county $500; Zion Hill, De-
Soto CO., $1,750; Cowan, DeSoto
Co., $1,750; West Point, Clay county,
$4,000; Davis Chapel, Jackson
county, $4,000; Oak Clark, Jones
County, $1,000; Sand Hill, Perry
County, $4,000; Cathey DeSoto CO.,
$1,750; Aberdeen, Monroe county,
$4,000: Wickland, Adams county,
$1,000; Taylor, Tallahatchie county,
$500; and ten colored schools in
Sunflawer county, $4,000.
Additional schools aided by the
Stage Building Commission were:
Robinson Chapel, Madison County
$4,000; Andrew Chapel, Madison
County, $4,000; Baldwin, Prentiss
county, $4,000; Union Grove-Spiv-
ey, Huphreys county, $4,000; Solo
mon Chapel, Tallahatchie county,
$4,000; Bay Springs, Jasper county.
ST.. 500; Jasper Agricultural High,
$4,000; Picayune, Pearl Riber
county, $4,000; Quitman, Clarke
county, $4,000; and Mckay, DeSoto
county, $4,000
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
Seven Negro
Colleges in u. S.
Have R0TC Units

WASHINGTON, d. C-.Seven
Negroes colleges in the United
States have Senior Reserve Officer
Training Corps units. it has been
announced by the War Department
In addition, at collebes in the coun-
try where Negro students are adj
mitted and those colleges have
ROTC units Negroes are members.
The War Departments postwar
policy concering the ROTC also
makes provision for military train
ing in Junior ROTC at approx
mately the secondary school educa-
tional level.
Also in effect at two of the Ne
gro colleges is an Army Air Forces
ROTC program, designed as in the
case of the Army Ground Forces
program to provide the AAF with
steady flow of collegetrained Of
ficers.
The Air Forces ROTC program
got under way this fall at Howard
University, Washington, D. c., and
at Tuskegee Normal & Industrial
Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. AT
both of these intitutions Negro
Air Corps officers. many of them
with brilliant records made in
combat overseas in World War II
are in charge of training.
There are also Infantry ROTC
units at Howard and Tuskegee. AT
Howard military instruction in both
Air Corps and Infantry subjects is
under the overall direction of Col
onel T, W. SWEET, while at Tuske-
gee Lieutenant Colonel H. A. Bar
row is in charge Both of these
officers were appointed by the War
Department and hold the office of
Professor of Military Science and
Tactics at the schools.
Following are the other Negro in
situations having Army Ground
Forces ROTC units and the officers
who are assigned as Professors OF
Military Science and Tactics:
Wilerforce University, Wilber-
force. Ohio. Lieutenant Colonel j
A. Nichols; West Virginia State Col
lcge, Institute, West Virginia. Maj
or p M. Barnett; Agricultural &
Technical College of North Carol
ina, Greensboro, North Carolina
Major EaC. Johnson; Hampton In.
stitute Hampton, Virginia, Colone,
R. H. Grinder; Prairie View Univ.
ersity, Prairie View, Texas, Colon
ell West A. Hamilton.
The Senior ROTC program ncst
" conducted at the college leve
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
R. c. Increases
Negro Staff In
Germany

WIESBADEN, GERMANY-Four
additional Aemrican Red Cross
Negro women workers have arriv-
ed III Germany where they were as
signed to Red Cross clubs
serving Negro troops in Hersfeld.
They are
Josephine Adams, 1863 Goodwin
Ave.. Paterson, ~ j., previously
assigned to the Pacific Area, who
attended Howard University, WASH
ington, D. c.; Mercedier de Freitas,
$685. South Wabash Ave, Chicago,
Ill, who attended Lincoln Univer-
sity, Jefferson. Mo-, Amanda Gar
rison, $50 Putnam Ave, Brooklyn,
N. Y, formerly in the Pacific Area.
and Elizabeth Green, 1855 Monticel-
10 ST., Pittsburgh. Pa.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
Wives Join
ServiCenlen
In Italy

LEGHORN, ITALY-Five wives.
dependents of Negro officers sta
toned here arrived on the transport
SIS Thoas H. Barry, late in Novem-
Der to swell the growing colony of
Amy wives who have come here
to join their soldier husbands.
The new arrivals were Mrs. Cath
crime J. Knox, 1915 Page Blvd, ST.
Louis, Missouri, wife of Captain
Woodrow w. Knox assistant sup
ply officer of the 49th Quartermast-
er Group; Mrs. Earnestine E. Biv-
ems, 1927 West 22nd Street, Jack
sonville, Florida, wife of Captain
Woodrow B. Bivens. commanding of
ficer of the 4069th Quartermaster
Service Company; Mrs. Margaret
L. Erwin, 202l Brooklyn Avenue,
Kansas City, Missouri, wife of Cap
tain Darby D. Erwin, commanding
officer of the 480th Port Company.
Also Mrs. Hatties L. Browne, I'll
South Perry Street, Dayton, Ohio,
wife Of First Lieutenant John A.
Browne, Jr., commanding officer
of the Viareggio detachment of the
Goth Military Police Company, and
Mrs. Dorothy Van Zandt, 3642 Pra-
irie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, wife
of First Lieutenant Elliot C. Van
Zandt who is on temporary duty
with The Special Service Section of
Peninsular Base Section as coach
of the Buckeyes" Base Section
football team. Lieutenant Van
Zandt is assigned to the 1872 nd
Engineer Petroleum Distributing
Company.
All the units mentioned above
are component parts of the PENN
sular Base Section, U. S. Army
Forces in thcs Mediterranean Theat-
err.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
Prentiss News

Mrs. Fanny Marshall OF TuSkegee
Institute, Alabama, spent the holt
days with her nieces, Mrs. Rutha
Dillon and Mrs. B. L. Johnson She
is over 100 years old, travels un-
accompanied-can read, write, sew
and thread a needle without the
aid of glasses. Her memory is re-
markable, can recite many interest
ing things tina happened before and
after the Civil War. Her people
were born near Sontag and lived
with the Walden family until the
close of the war. Her home is in
Wesson but she is now living with
her daughter at Tuskegee.
Many former students and gradu-
ates were campus visitors during
the Christmas holidays-Archie Nc
tInnis of Ft. Worth, Texas, Jonah
Richmond and Earl Lucas of Ten
nessee State College; Moody Walk
er. Reading, Penn, automobile deal
err: Atty. o. W. Johnson, Chicago:
Elmo Lucas, M. /. College, Holly
Springs; DR.. A. M Hall, Jackson;
c. ]. Page, Pullman Service, Chi
cago; Raynor Paige, vocational
teacher, Monticello; Mesdames Eva
H. Harris, Jeanes agent, Brookhav-
Len; Rosetta West. Church erganist,
Oklahoma b. w. 5ohnson and chill.
dren, Chicago; Erma Robinson
Brown, Eva Dawson and family,
Houston, Texas, and Misses Ruth
M Jones, M. I. College, Holly
Springs; Lille A. Sims, Henderson
Business College. Memphis; Mars
eta Polk, Wayne University, De-
troit; Evelyn Stewart, teacher al
Brookhaven; Velma Turner, Tuske:
gee Institute; Rosa Turner, Alcorn
Yvonne Lucas, SCI, Edwards.
The annual Farmers Conference
will convene at the Institute chape
Friday, January 10. The farmers
and their wives are urged to attend
The Bible Training School ha.
begun its work at the Baptist church
with Rev. SeWelT as dean and Revs
L
Spann Wood, and Lowery serving
as instructors.
VIM. v. Crosby, who completed
the junior college here in 1916, has
entered Tennessee State College te
|persue his studies.
During the holidays the Johnsons
enjoyed having their three chill
dren and six grandchildren in {
family reunion. Mr.. and Mrs. r. M
Dawson, instructors in the public
ischools of Houston, Texas; Barbar;
Jean Dawson of Fisk; Eva Carol O.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
Locol Druggist Carries
Large Stocks; SpecioIizes
i'm MuiI Orders

1t will doubtless prove interest
ing and re-assuring to the families
living out of the city to realize that
their drug needs can be accurately
and Immediately filled from the
large stock of the Harding Drug
Company of Jackson-at any time
--both day and night.
This old established drug firm
does both a wholesale and retail
business, and consequently carry
large stocks ready for any emer-
gency.
From the laboratory of this pro-
gressive firm have come many noted
cemedies-one of the most popular
being Harding'S Ajax Tonic, pre-
paration of proven merit tina, has
filled tremendous demand for
those who need a general system
purifier. 1t costs only $100 and is
sent anywhere prepaid at this price
Summers end find many of us
with a complete let-down feeling,
and in need of safe, reliable tonic
that will tone up our systems-the
answer to these symptoms are found
in Harding's Ajax Tonic.
This noted remedy is especially
helpful to those with disorders of
the stomach, liver and kidneys 1t
will assist those suffering with in
digestion, constipation, nervousness,
loss of appetite, headaches and dig
6iness. It cleanses the system mild
~, gently and effectively.
Harding's Ajax Tonic costs only
$l-00 per bottle and is on sale at
Harding Drug Company, 500 East
Pearl street. Jackson. If you live
out of the city demand this tonic
from your favorite druggist, but if
not carried in their stock it will be
sent direct prepaid at this price, :.
Harding Drug Co.,
SOP Z. Pearl 81 or call 3-24Al
Jackson Miss.
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consists of two parts, the elemen-
tary course and the advanced course.
the latter including summer camp.
Whereas the Junior ROTC and the
elementary course of the Senior
ROTC is of specialized branch type
designed to qualify selected students
for reserve. commissions in the sew
eral branches of the service, such
as Infantry, Field Artiller. and 9TH
ers. For example, Hampton Instit-
ute in the only Negro school that
teaches Anti-aircraft subjects, while
West Virginia State College special
ICES in Field Artillery training. Sum-
mer camps will also be of special
lied branch type.
The advanced course consists of
minimum of five hours of formal
instruction per week for two acad-
emic years of 80 weeks each. The
summer camp period will be of
eight weeks duration.
Land Grant colleges which have
required with the War Department
encouraging and assisting However,
all students will not necessarily be
formally enrolled in the ROTC and
eligible for its proposed emoluments
unless they meet prescribed require
ments.
The War Department is seeking
passage of enabling legislation to
increase the emolumentS to students
in the advanced course from sc
cents to SIPS per day. The advan-
ced students would be required to
buy their own uniforms. I1stitu-
! ttions desiring to provide dis
tinctive type of uniform or individ-
ually tailored uniforms for the Jun
ior ROTC of the elementary Senior
course may draw Communication in
lieu of issuance of Government un-
iforms in an amount set by the
Quartermaster. Students at ROTC
summer camps will be furnished the
necessary field-typc uniforms.
| Minimum requirements for re.
serve commission includes the sue.
cessful completion Of four years ed.
ucation at the college level anc
the successful completion Of the
Senior ROTC course. The student
also must have reached the age 81
p before he is granted commits.
sion. For q commission as a First
Lieutenant in professional branch
such as the Medical Corps, ths
candidate must have received his
professional degree.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11
Jackson College
Gets B" Rating
From So. Assn.

Announcement that Jackson Col
lege has been given a "B' rating
by the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools at a
meeting of the association held in
Memphis, Tennessee, was received
with enthusiasm by students of the
College who viii DOW he eligible.
for admission to the leading col
leges and universities without en-
trance examinations.
Graduates Of the college will also
compete with graduates of other
colleges on an equal basis for
teachers salaries
According to President Jacob l..
Reddix, the college has ade apple
alton for accreditment by the Am
erican Association of Teachers Col
leges which will meet in February
in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-01-11

Houston: Atty and Mrs. o. w. John
son of Chicago; Moonyeen, high
school student, and o. w., Jr, pub
lie school; Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. john
son of Prentiss, Joyce and AL Weth-
ers. Many social affairs helped to
att to their Christmas festivities.