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Special Meeting Of Boad Of Trustees
OF General Missionary Baptist State
Convention Vote To Relieve DR.. Calvin
Perkins As Pres. Of Natchez College
Say President Too Busy To Properly
Look After The affairs of the College
Deposed President Calls Action Hastv. Unfair

Vicksbure, Miss. June s.
(DSN)-Dr. Calvin Perkins, wide
ly known educator, who was last
week granted state aid for further
study at the University of Indiana
was relieved last Friday as Presi-
dent of Natchez College, leading
educational institution of Missis-
sippi Negro Baptists where he has
served as president for the past
few years.
DR.. Perkins was relieved as Pres
ident of the college in a special
meeting of the Executive Board of
the General Mississippi Baptist
State Convention and the Board of
Trustees of Natchez College held,
here last Tuesday at King Solomon
Baptist Church, Rev. B. A. Thomas,
Pastor.
The special meeting was called
by Rev. II. H. Hume of Greenville,
President of the General Mission
airy Baptist State Convention and
chairman Of the Board of Trustees
Of Natchez College.
According to reports, after
discussion Of the affairs of the
college which lasted for more thar
two hours the Board voted to re-
lieve DR.. Perkins as president of
the college effective Immediately
after special committee takes an
inventory of the college property
and inspects the college records.
In relieving DIR. Perkins as pres
ident of the college the board also
voted to pay his salary for the
months Of May, June and July.
Following the dismissal of DIR.
Perkins, Prof Edward Derring,
who was elected dean for the 1901
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New York-Actor's Equity mag
azine has released high tensioned
survey in its June issue on the
Indignation of the Negro into the
American theatre, written by Fred
erick O'Neal of "Anna Lucasta"
and "Pinky" fame.
The report stated that, during the
past year number of organiza-
tions had been set up to explore
and correct the situation regard
ing unemployment among Negro
performers. Among members on
those committees were many of the
most famous personalities in the
entertainment field, including Cor
nelia Otis Skinner, Langston
Hughes and Sidney Kingsley.
At the beginning of the present
season to March Is the survey re-
vealed the following:
During the above period 40 plays
reached Broadway which employed
approximately SOP performers ex-
GLIDING understudies. e..
OF these 692 actors employed
only Is were Negroes. Of the 13
Negroes used, only three could be
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Bunche, Tobias
Will Address
African Meet

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio-Two not
ed Negroes will be among the prin-
cipal speakers at the North Amer
ican Assembly on African Affairs
which meets at Wittenberg college
here June 1926.
They are DR.. Ralphe J. Bunche,
director of the Trusteeship Divi-
sion of the United Nations, and
DR.. Claiming H. Tobias, director
of the Phelps Stokes fund.
More than 300 delegates are ex-
pected to attend the conference
which probably will be the most
representative gathering on Afri-
can affairs held in North America
during the past 10 years. The AS
sembly will bring together repre-
sentatives of at least five African
governments, leaders of 30 major
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Academic Freedoms Must Be
Maintained" Harvard Scientist
Tells Morehouse Graduates

Atlanta, Ga. June 6 DIR.
KIRTLEY F. MATHER, distin-
guished Harvard University scien-
fist, lecturer, author, and popu
larizer of scientific knowledge, told
the graduating class of Morehouse
College, on Tuesday, June 8, that
"only so long as men can think
and express the result of their
thinking will our country remain
the home of the free and the land
of the brave" And he counseled
his listeners that the only way to
meet fear is by being courageous.
Speaking at the 85th commence
ment exercises of the famous lib
eral arts college for men, the cele-
brated Harvard geologist declared
that there is an increased demand
for intelligence in our times. He
said that while the role of science
and technology in modern living
is of great Importance, it has not
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Funeral Rites
Held For
Henry S. Jones

Funeral service was held at
Pearl Street AME Church Monday
afternoon, for Henry S. Jones, of
1853 Deerpark Street, for % years
an employee of the Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and President of Local 35l1
of the Telephone and Telegraph
Workers Union.
He was an active member of the
Pearl Street AME Church where
he was a member of the Board of
Trustees and the Mems Bible Class.
Mr.. Jones died at local Hos
pital last Friday afternoon follow
ig an illness which had confined
him to his home for a period of
about five weeks before he was
moved to the hospital.
His survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Thelma Cobb Jones, only
daughter Of the late Thomas Cobb,
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DR.. WALKER May BE kEFAuvER
Delegate TO DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL CONVENTION

Memphis, Tenn, June 8 Especially
1t is quite certain that the four
delegates selected to go from Mem
phis to the Democratic National
Convention in Chicago will be
Kefauver men. The regular democ-
ratio machine led by Gov. Gordon
Browning and Boss Ed Crump
have indicated they will support
favorite son Sen. Estes Kefauver.
1t is regarded as likely that the
quarter may even include a. rep,
resentative Of the Negro voters. In
this connection the name Of DR..
J. E. Walker is being mentioned.
DR.. Walker who heads the Uni
versal Life Insurance company has
been gradually shifting his bust
ness responsibilities onto the
shoulders of his son Maceo.- He is
a strong Kefauver man.
Learning his politics in the ranks
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6. 7. & L. Assn.
Set July Meeting

Natchez, Miss, June 9 = The
cleaners, Tailors and Laundry
Association of Mississippi will hold
its annual meeting, July 1914 in
Yazoo City.
The recently organized group
states its purposes as being %
to protect the trade in price con-
troll (2) Sponsors Dry Cleaning
Clinics, 90 study employees
problems (4) create credit for its
members, 90 study problems Of
plant maintenance.
The annual membership is $500
and all persons engaged in the
trades are invited and urged to be-
come members Of the organization.
Those interested in attending
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Local Negro
Citizens Asked For
Blood Donation
Of $50 Pints
Donations Can Be
Made At Parish Street
Baptist Fri. Afternoon

Negro citizens Of Jackson will be
given the opportunity to contribute
blood for defense when the Amer
lean Red Cross bloodmobile visits
the Parish Street Baptist Church
Friday, June Is. Although Negro
donors are welcomed at all opera
'tions Of the bloodmobile, Red Cross
officials in cooperation with local
Negro leaders have arranged a spe-
cial all-Negro blood donation day.
A blood donation committee head
ed by Professor M. J. Lye)ls has
been making arrangements for the
visit and has been recruiting blood
donors.
Members of the committee are:
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BAPTIST FIRE NATCHEZ COLLEGE PRESIDENT
Two Local Women Fall Dead Here On Same Dav
Congressman Case To Present
Spingarn medan AT NAAcP Meet

NEW YORK, June 5 = Repre-
sentative Clifford P. Case (R., N.
j., author of an ti-lynching bill
and bill to safeguard members
of the armed services against
bodily attack, will present the 37th
Spingarn Medal posthumously to
Harry T. Moore on Friday eve
ming, June 9th, at the forty-third
annual convention of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People in Oklahoma
City. The medal will be accepted
by Mrs. Rosa Moore, the 83-year-
old mother of the Florida NAACP
leader who was killed with his
wife in a hate-bomb blast on
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Ex-Judge Is
Delegate To
Democratic Natl.
Convention

DETROIT - Among the II
Michigan delegates-at-large select
ed last week in Grand Rapids at
the Democratic State convention
to attend the Democratic Nation
al Convention in Chicago was
former Recorders Judge Charles
w. Jones.
In a battle over Negro represen-
tation on the delegates-a t-large
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Continued Existence OF Slums
Poverty, Racial And Religious
Discrimination Fertile Ground For
Communist Propaganda Fisk
University Graduates Are Told

Nashville, Tenn, June 8 -
Especially - At the Seventy-eighth
annual Fisk Commencement, DR..
Harry J. Carman, Moore, Profess
sor of History and Dean Emeritus
of Columbia University, spoke on
the subject. whittier in Chang
ing World"
"Instead of the one world that
Wendell Wilkie envisaged, we have
two worlds each Numerically OPP
posed to the other. The United
States with it's basic emphasis upon
freedom and human worth Of the
individual faces Russia, citodial OF
Tynonican statism and regimenta-
ton with its appeal to unite force
and its threat to individual liber-
ty," said DR.. Carman as he ad-
dressed the members of the Class
of 1852.
He emphasized the need Of more
people with humble minds and
upright characters who are more
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Detroit Police
Save Wanted Man
From Alabama

DETROlT-The local police de-
partment rescued south-bound
fugitive last week from southern
deputy sheriff who came here and
grabbed his prisoner without con-
quilting the Detroit police depart
ment.
Gerdis Hiss, %, Of Birmingham,
Ala, who is wanted in the Ala
bama city for jumping $500 bond
and heading north, had been hand
cuffed by Special Deputy Sheriff
Grady Boston of the jefferson
county sheriff's department. He
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Negro College
Used As Polling
Place Dynamited

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. = Dy-
Mantle exploded here last week
in what appeared to be threats
taken against the idea of Negroes
voting in last weeks Florida sec
ond primary.
A small hole was blown in the
roof of Walter Vocational college
which served as a polling place in
the Democratic primary election.
Two sticks of dynamite also
were found on the porch of David
H. Dwight, president of the Dubal
County Alliance, a Negro politi-
cal group. Dwight's home is about
a block from the school.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-14
5 Die As Auto
Hits Bridge

Chicago, Ill.,, June 6 - Especially
Five persons, four of them
Chicagoans, were killed, Monday
when their automobile struck a
concrete bridge abutment on high
way as, l and one-half miles north
of Humboldt, Coles county. Five
others, two of them Chicagoans,
were injured. All the victims were
Negroes.
. Killed outright were Mrs. Della
Pittmon, q, of Kennett, Mo-; and
Miss Marjorie Davis, 90, of 500
w. seth st. Taken to Jarman
Memorial hospital at Tuscola,
Douglas county, where they died,
were Mrs. Betty Davis, 10, and her
son, James, Jr., 2, of $40 fremont
ST., and Miss Davis brother-in-law,
Sylvester Davis, Is, of the seth
st. address.
The injured, all taken to the
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MISSISSIPPIAN FIRST NEGRO
TO GRADUATE AT LSU

Baton Rouge, La.-Charles Ed
ward Harrington proved to white
people of the state that a Negro
can match wits in the best college
in the country, especially the
South.
Harrington, SO, from Magnolia
Miss, was the first Negro ever to
march in a graduation ceremony at
Louisiana State University here
Monday, June 2.
History was made in the state
when the native Mississippian was
handed his Masters of Education
Degree in Supervision and Admin
istration this week.
Harrington, 1941 graduate of
Southern University, enrolled i'll
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Deny Robson
Chi Hall, Sings
Outdoors

Chicago - Responding to the
blasting of loudspeakers and the
footing of horns from more than a
score of poster plastered automo-
biles, more than 5000 persons
gathered in Washington Park Sun
day, June 1, to hear the controver-
sial Paul Robson sing and talk.
The occasion was the 54th birthday
of the noted singer-actor. Robson,
world famed baritone highly crit
icized for his left wing views, was
forced to perform in the public
park for free when no local hall
would rent him space.
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Christmas night, 1851.
Congressman Case has an out
standing record on support Of civil
rights since his election to the
Seventy-ninth Congress in 1914.
He has opposed the poll tax, segre-
cation in the armed services and
power of the House Rules Commit
tee to block civil rights legislation
and has voted in support of FEPC
and aid for underdeveloped areas
of the world Point w. His anti
lynching bill, H. R. 1916, was in
troduced in the Eighty-first Con-
gress and again in the Eighty
second Congress, and his bill to
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New Play Stars
A Mixed Cast

NEW YORK "The House of
Flowers" a new play being COM
pleted by Truman Capots, author
of the recent "Grass Harp" sue
cess, will employ mixed cast of
white and Negro performers. num-
bering about 30.
Capots, new and bright pros
pect in theatrical circles, left Tor
Italy last month and promised to
return with two new plays. GLOW
ers" is the first and will have
many of the cast from his previous
play.
The action takes place in Haiti
with production activities expected
to get underway in September.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-14

DR.. A. Franklin Fisher, of At
lanta, Georgia, received the hon
orary degree of Doctor Of Divinity
conferred this week by Selma Uni
versity. DR.. Fisher is Dean of
the National Baptist Sunday
School and B. T. U. Congress meet
ing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June
1922, 1852, Pastor of West Hunter
Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga. DR..
Fisher received his ALB. Degree
from Howard University, Washing
ton, D. c., and BID. Degree from
Union Theological Seminary, New
York. The general theme of the
Congress is Laying Foundations
for Christian Living" The 1852
STANDARDS For A Chris
tian Society by Dynamic Adult
Christians"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-14

PRESIDENT RELIEVED: DIR.
Calvin Perkins. above. who was last
week relieved as President of
NatcheZ College, at a Vicksburg
Meeting of the College Board, and
the Board of the General Mission
AIRY Baptist Convention. DIR. Per-
kins had Just been awarded Grant
from the State Board for InStitu-
tons of Higher Learning to con-
tinue studies at the University of
Indiana.
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Narcotics heft
Charged To
Albany State
Prexy's Son

ALBANY, Ga.-Four r,en-one
Of them the son of the president
of Albany State College-Friday
were released on bond for narcotics
thefts charges.
Placed under a $4,000 bond was
Karl Brown, son Of DR.. Aaron
Brown, the college head. Bond of
81 900 was posted for William E.
Reese, 10, and Robert West, IS, in
a hearing before a U. S. commits
isioner.
Another suspect, Lee Strawder,
is being held in Jail pending the
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LSU's school of education in the
fall semester of 1851. s-z----
A four-year World War ii Army
veteran, he majored in business ad-
ministration while at Southern
University. Upon completion of his
studio sat Southern, he worked in
an administrative capacity there
for a while.
A native Of Magnolia, Miss,
where he finished high school, HaI-
ringtOn spent one summer studying
education at New York University
before matriculating at LSU.
When asked about relations at
LSU, Harrington very happily re-
piled, 81 think the relationship was
most wholesome.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-14
New Farmers Of
America Hold
State Convention

Alcorn, Miss, June 6.-The 14th
annual convention of the Missis-
sippl Association of the New Farm
ers of America was held at Alcorn
A. & M. College on June 2-5. Four
hundred students of vocational ag-
riculture and their advisers attend
ed the convention which had as its
theme "Enriching the N. F. A. Ac-
tivity Program Through Sound
Planning"
Main events of the convention
on the morning and afternoon Of
June Ord were the livestock iudg-
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NEGRO EDITOR WINS SECOND
PRIZE FOR EDITORIAL WRITING

sponsored by the Pennsylvania
Society of Newspaper Editors.
The award, in the form of a
scroll, cited Mr.. Mackay for his
editorial, Flag of Rebellion"
which severely condemned the Con-
federate flag fad among teenagers
and other groups.
The presentation was made fol-
lowing a banquet at Penn State
college. Samuel Hoskins, editor,
Philadelphia Afro-American, also
attended the three-day conference.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-14

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Cliff
W. Mackay, editor, The Afro-Am-
erican Newspapers, was awarded
second prize for editorial writing
at the annual Press Conference of
the Pennsylvania Newspaper Pub
fishers Association here Friday
night.
A total of 200 newspapers, in
Guiding Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh dailies, submitted editorials
in the ''better writing" competition
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-14
Dawson Praised
For Work On
Hoover Report

WASHINGTON Supporters for
reform in the federal government
las recommended by former Presi-
dent Herbert L. Hoover this week
praised Rep. William J.. Dawson
d., Ill., for his action on bills rec
commended by the Hoover report.
Johnson commented:
"No single development in the
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE:
DIR. w. H. Pipes, above, former
President of Acorn College, was
being prominently mentioned here
this week as a candidate fer the
Presidency of Natchez College, a
position made vacant by the action
of the Board which relieved Presi-
dent Perkins last week.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-06-14

PatrOniZe Our Advertis.
ers - Their Advertising
in this paper shows that
they appreciate your
trade.
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AIRPLANE
CONTINUED from Page One)

the early thirties, BECAUSE it was
at the base of Kill Devil Hill, from
the level beach, that the first flight
was accomplished.
Hatteras Has Role
Another epochal event of avia-
ton took place at Hatteras village
in 1928. 1t was from an improvised
flying field on the open beach
there, that airmen under the COM
mand of General Billy Mitchell
conducted operations which were
later to prove that surface craft
were vulnerable to bombing at
tacks from airplanes. On Septem-
Der 5, 1923, General Mitchell
and his airmen bombed two decom-
missioned war craft, the New Jer-
sey and Virginia off Cape Hatteras
and sent their hulks to the bottom.
North Cardinals Archives and His
tory Division have been asked to
place a marker at the site of the
Hatteras landing field and it should
be eerected by September 5, 1858,
the 30th anniversary.
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COLUMBIA
Continued from Page One)
PLANS MADE BY COLUMBIA
WOMAN'S CLUB LEADERS

The Executive meeting of the
Columbia Woman's Club was
held Friday at the Club House,
with seven members present.
Mrs. William Charles Cohoon,
vice-president, presided. The pro-
ject chairmen agreed that each
chairman select four members
to work with her on the individ-
ual project she represented.
Those selected would also act as
Hostesses at the meeting when
their program is presented.
Mrs. w. E. Bateman, Welfare
Chairman, announced that an
Eye Clinic would be held at the
Columbia Schools on December
End and 3rd, one day at the white
School, and one day at the Negro
School. She also announced that
her plans were to hold Health
May Day Program at the School
next spring.
Names of eight new members
were submitted for membership,
all were accepted. A list of mem
bers of last year who are in ar
rears in payment of dues was
voted to be given to the president
for collection.
Mrs. VIM. Chas. Cohoon, Dance
Chairman, announced that Evans
Studio were sending Mrs. Iris
Etheridge of Edenton to hold bal
let and tap dance classes this
year. Her plans were to have
some sort of recital or minstrel
next April, using the talent in
the dancing classes.
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Maggie Lee, Mrs. Sue Ballowe,
Mrs. Mildred Holton, Mrs. Tracy
Ward, Mrs. Margaret White, Mrs.
LESSEE Davis, Mrs. Anita Jessen,
John D. O'Neal. Elizabeth City:
Mrs. Margaret Scitt, Mrs. Bessie
Farmer, Mrs. Susie Bunch, Mrs.
Dixie Bundy, Mrs. Essie Carter,
Mrs. Mary Stanley, Mrs. Bessie
Harris, Mrs. Florence Smith, Mrs.
Lillian Brinson, Mrs. DOME Brick
house, Mrs. Estelle Temple, Mrs.
Louise Williams, Mrs. Eta Owens,
Mrs. Sally Whales, Mrs. Nellie
Owens, Mrs. Clara Parker, Mrs.
LESSEE Meads, Mrs. Ganelle Roach,
Mrs. Evelyn Sawyer, Mrs. Mary
w. Harris, Mrs. Eleanor Wood,
Mrs. Kathleen Freeman, Mrs.
Jarvis Seeley, Mrs. Virginia War
rem. Scotland Neck: Mrs. Mae P.
Jennings. Raleigh: Mesdames JOS
ephine Thomas and Laura john
son. Winston-Salem: Mesdames
Marguerite Funk, Irene Sapp, Lu-
la Brandon. Swan Quarter: Mes
danes Mary Swindell, Queenie
Boomer, Lillian Smith, Alma R.
Dunbar, Melissa Sadler, E. E.
Hodges, Claudia Creole, Evelyn
Swindell, Macon Creole, Olive Ca
hoon, Dell Berry, Kathleen Cur
ganus, May Hodges, Malcolm Ma
son, Katie Cahoon, Virginia Will
liams, Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Bon
ner, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Bishop,
Misses Mildred Spencer, Marjorie
Gibbs and Iona Bonner.
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REBEKAHS
Continued from Page One)

National Convention. The State
Vice-President and State Warden
spoke briefly about their work and
their appreciation for the delight
full visit at Swan Quarter. Sew
eral other visitors also expressed
their pleasure at being present
The Elizabeth City Lodge put
on a Memorial Service" in mem
DRY of two members of their lodge
who have passed away.
Mrs. Queenie Boomer presented
gifts to the officers. All officers
and guests were presented cor,
sages at the opening session. Miss
Marjorie Gibbs of the Swan Quar-,
ter Lodge acted as Outside Guard
ian during the meeting.
The meeting adjourned to NEE
with the Elizabeth City Lodge il
the spring.
Those attending from Manteo
Mrs. Rosa L. Drinkwater, Mrs. Ly
dia Midget, Salina Midget, Mrs
Ann Basnight, Mrs. Katherin,
Kennedy, Mrs. Clara Harrington
Mrs. Dell Saunders, Mrs. Ingel
Lewis, Mrs. Ella Cox, Mrs. Loi!
Midget, Mrs. Grace White, Mrs
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MRS. HARRIET NEWBERRY
CELEBRATES s0th BIRTHDAY

Mrs. Harriet M. Newberry, who
celebrated her Both birthday on
Nov. /, in Columbia, was enter
tanned at birthday dinner, Sat-
urday at $50 P. M. by her niece
with whom she lives, Mrs. c. Earl
Cohoon.
The home was decorated with
bronze chrysanthemums, love
apples, autumn leaves, and gras-
ses. The Halloween motif in
napkins and place mats was used.
The table was conferred with an
arrangement of bronze, white,
and deep orchid chrysanthe-
mum, dwarf holly and flock, in
terspersed with tall thin tapers
of yellow and green. The Buffet
was arranged with a silver fruit
bowl, topped and interspersed
with Tokay Grapes and ivy
leaves, thanked by Sterling Can
delabra containing light green
tapers.
The guests were met by Mrs
George G. Martin of Norfolk
daughter of the honoree. Before
the guests were seated a lovely
white iced Birthday Cake, dec
Grated with yellow and greer