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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

to beat the boss out OF the time he
pays for. We gave our time but
tried to use 1t to the best advant-
age.
A lot OF water has gone under
the bridge in the past forty years.
When we started a newspaper, Me-
groes were DISTINGUISHED in Okla
hona. City government legally
passed segregation ordinances,
and although the ratio of the
black population to the white was
just about as 1t is today, the state
was rife with the talk of 'black
domination" Poor whites all over
Oklahoma were fed propaganda
that taught unless you keep the
black man down he will like John
son grass, overflow the entire So
cial picture. Perhaps the only time
in our forty years as publisher
we actually felt we had sold our
people out was the day Ed Sea-
mans, who was then the Demo-
cratic state chairman, sent an
other man to the Black Dispatch
to purchase 10000 folio copies Of
the Black Dispatch. We received
5000 for that sale OF papers, but
did not know we were selling them
TO the Democratic party until
time came for delivery and we had
our last money tied up in 1t.
Some idea OF how viciously pre-
JUDGE worked during that period
can be gotten out of the fact the
Democrats wanted that particular
issue in order to scatter an editor
ial down in Little Dixie, in which
this writer had very vitrolically
expressed views about jim crow
cars. This was the type of inflam-
atory stuff fed poor whites dur
ing the early days of statehood,
We have in our office safe at the
present time one of those folders
gotten out by the Democratic
State Central Committee, caption
ed, "Shall This State Be Black
or Winter" which included the
editorial in the $4,000 copies pur-
chased by Ed Seamans together
with lot of slush calculated to
incense every white person who
lived South OF Purcell, on TO Red
River.
And then there were the days
when Governor Bob Williams call
ed the special session of the leg
islature TO write the states regis
tration act. The governor was a.
shamed to actually tell the people
he was calling the legislature to
pass legislation to take the place
OF the grandfather law. so ne was
Intellectually dishonest and said
he was calling the legislature to
amend the gambling and usury
laws. It was then we wrote two
editorials and had the pages place
them on the desks Of every MEM
Der of the legislature. One of those
editorials was captioned 'Usury"
and the other Gambling" In the
first editorial we sought TO show
the legislature 1t was costing the
Negro citizens too much to live in
Oklahoma and under the other
caption we told of the constant
gamble in constitutional rights TO
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

the fight was on between an early
day group Of politicians and the
late DR.. Inman E. Page at Lang
ston university, we wrote all of
the copy in the Gazette at that
time published by the late c. N.
Moran, and in screeching headlines
we denounced Melvin Chism. who
had been brought here from Balti-
more to head the fight to GUST DR..
Page. We have in our safe at the
present moment one of those pink
extras gotten out by the Gazette
editor, and which startled the peo-
pie Of the state and angered Edi-
tor Chism. who had just started
the publication Of the Tribune.
which was denouncing DR.. Page.
On The Saturday afternoon of
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

the week that extra hit the streets
your humble servant was passing
down Second street Immediately
west of where the Aldridge thea
tire is now in company with Editor
Moran, when we came face to face
with Editor Chism, who instantly
squared himself and with one
mighty solar plexus felled Editor
Moran to the ground. He assumed
he was shifting the man who had
written the articles in the Gazette,
but although Chism Is long since
dead, our readers win pardon us
when we say we did not attempt,
while Editor Chism was violently
exasperated to a point where he
was willing to slaughter another
publisher to correct his thinking
and identify the real author of the
copy that appeared in the Gazette.
Those early day publishers may
have assumed they were getting
something for nothing, but so far
as we were concerned, we were at
tending the only school of Journal
ism we knew how to get into and
we believe a lot Of young people
today would get farther in life If
they would consider the jobs
where they are forced to labor as
a ladder up which to climb higher.
Too many young people consider
the job they have at the present
time as a place where they SOL
der" and do not even mark time.
They in fact go backward trying
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26
FORTY YEARS AGO
Ry RnScna nuuuea

With this edition OF the Black
Dispatch, the states Oldest Negro
weekly enters its fortieth year of
publication still going strong des-
pite the fact many predicted the
early day venture we launched in
1914 would not last forty months.
1t is a peculiar thing. but most
new ventures among Negroes
start off in the midst OF dis
couragements rather than in an
atmosphere of inspiration and en-
enlargement, and thus it was
most of our intimate friends, back
in the days that are gone, who
wished us well, thought we were
doing precisely the wrong thing to
launch our journalistic craft on an
uncharted sea.
And we can see some justifica-
ton for the belief that the Black
Dispatch would be a failure for the
reason the folk who trembled for
the effort knew the editor only as
a turnip peddler, and did not know
that for a decade we had been CIV
ing of our spare moment TO every
one who ran Negro weekly in
Oklahoma City, trying to master
the mechanics of writing. What
we had actually been doing for ten
years prior to 1914 was using the
other fellows investment for our
kindergarten. We'd start out first
Of all writing newsnotes, and as
soon as we had gotten the conf
dence of the fellow for whom we
worked gratis, we would extract
from him his viewpoint on public
questions and then prepare COM
ment rejecting his opinion on
such subjects. 1t was not long be-
fore we were writing his editorials,
and it was then we learned the
other fellow would always use you
II you stayed in the background |
and let him do the fronting.
We recall on one occasion, when |
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26
Oklahoma Black Dispatch
Editor Dungee Cogitates
On 40 Years As Journalist

The Oklahoma BLACK DIS
PATCH founded 40 years ago by
Roscoe Dungee and still edited by
him recently had a birthday.
Roscoe Dungee lived during his
boyhood in our state of Minnesota.
His father was the first pastor of
Bethesda Baptist church In Min
neapolis.
No other single force has been
as important to the progress of
the Oklahoma Negro as has Dun
gee and his paper. The influence
of the Oklahoma BLACK DIS
PATCH has reached far beyond
the confines Of that state and his
editorials are widely read all
over the nation. He has been a
real fighter for justice for his
people.
Rejecting over his 40 years
struggle for survival as a militant
newspaper editor and his constant
battle for Negro-Americans Of
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

which black men must constantly
submit in the new state. II was
then we received a letter from
Governor Bob" in which, among
other things, he said, you remind
me Of man walking around with
a chip on his shoulder trying TO
get someone to knock II Off" and
although the governor intimated
at the outset that we were some
one TO be ignored, he in actually
complimented us with a two-page
single spaced letter,
Those were the days whenever
anything happened. instead Of the
Negroes moving on the city hall
or the state capitol building. they
usually gravitated to the Black
Dispatch with committee which
admonished us TO be silent and not
have anything to say about the
wrongs visited upon Negroes,
Forty years from the beginning of
this journalistic effort we are
proud of the fact those committees
never come any more. At long last
most Negroes have decided that
the right of petition is just as
much theirs In the realm OF citi-
zenship as anyone else, regardless
of their color.
While there are many Negroes
today who will speak out for the
things that ought 10 be, there are
still large group of blacks in this
city today who make circles a
round the Black Dispatch office
IL they plan to present a program
OF living to existing authority.
There are still a few who whisper
the Black Dispatch is radical and
viii get somebody hurt. We re-
call the day when Cappy Reeves,
jumped over several benches in
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

An early leader OF American
Negro population was Frederick
Douglass whose birthday Is the
22nd day OF February. Douglass
escaped from slavery to become a
leader OF tho Abolitionists. He was
one OF the greatest platform ora
tors the world has ever known.
Douglass published one OF the
earliest Negro newspapers. His
paper was hated by pro-slavery
whites and his house In Rochester.
~ Y. was buried to the ground
destroying twelve volumes of his
paper.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

the city hall alleging he was going
to beat this writer up during the
course of segregation fight, and
II was then a few of the timorous
decided this writer was not the
proper individual 10 lead a delega-
ton to the city hall.
But through IL all there has
has never been time when we
have sought TO make white men
angry. All we have done In try
to make them think. Always we
have sought to appeal to their ra-
tionality and do IL donned in the
fun dignity OF black manhood We
have always spurned the garb of
an Uncle Tom and always will. and
we have always sought govern
ment by law and not by comprom-
ise.
We believe in our fortleth year
we can see blossoming some OF the
fruit on the trees OF citizenship
we have religiously cultivated.
When we first started fighting
segregation In Oklahoma City,
Negroes could not live north of
Second street. Today 10000 black
men live unmolested all over this
municipality. The right to Occur
pancy and ownership has been full
ly established. When we started
publishing Negroes were denied
the right 20 vote Mt the Walnut
street fire station. and we remain
ed in jail two hours In defense OF
that right. We recall very wildly
after getting in Jail fighting for
the rights of Negroes, IL was a
white man, Frank p. Johnson. who
came down and got us out OF Jail.
This is one OF the refreshing fen
lures that has stemmed from our
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

Minnesota Negroes in 1853 In
vested 100000 in savings banks,
building and loan firms and insur-
ance.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

Minnesota Negroes have the
largest percentage OF home owners
of any other state in the union.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

his state, Dungee, Jan. 80, had
this to say:
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

Sound pitched by
used for cleaning and mixing Minneapolis
Regulator Companys Hopkins
Lewis OF 9s Malcolm s. f., Honeywell physicist
the ultrasonc bath mmersing
that has been agaed pitched ocyces
hearing is about 20 kocyclcs Lewis
1852 He graduated degree University
received Ms degree University two
graduate study al College
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26

civil rights struggles. Never have
we been in a fight for citizenship
when a liberal-minded white man
or woman did not join in the
struggle. This Is one OF the beacon
lights IN struggle which has al
ways given us hope.
When we started publishing a
newspaper Negro teachers had 10
spend their inadequate salaries TO
go out OF the state TO secure grad
uate training. The past year al
most 1000 attended the University
A. 4 NJ. college, clothed with all
of the opportunity of any other
teacher in this state, and hun
dreds OF them have gotten their
degrees at an annual saving OF
moro than a quarter OF a million
dollars, Differentials in white and
Negro teachers salaries have been
completely eliminated.
x~--<~-vu 49, S-s4
Forty years OF struggle In civil
rights have proved that there Is
nothing impossible in a demo-
cracy, This is a nation or high
ideals, and while progress is a
snail, we have been moving for
ward and upward. We believe
blacks and whites are nearer
brotherhood aud the Golden Rule
because Negroes have had the
courage to protest, for ms Ella
Wheeler Wilcox said long time
ago. The human race has climbed
on protest"
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-22
LEGAL NOTICE

David Wickwire, whose last
known place of residence is
Battles Court, Chardon, Geauga
county, Ohio, and whose pre-
sent place of residence is un-
known and cannot with reason
able diligence be ascertained,
will take notice that on the 18th
day of March, 1854, the under
signed, Agatha Wickwire, filed
her petition against him in the
Court of Common Pleas of &C.
auga county, Ohio, praying for
a divorce, custody of the minor
children, alimony and support
and other relief, on the grounds
of gross neglect and extreme
cruelty.
Said cause will be for hear
ing on and after the 10th day
of May, 1854.
Charles H. Hall,
Attorney For
Plaintiff,
Agatha Wickwire,
6c18.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-22
News from Claridon

met Friday, April 16, with
Mrs. Carrie Ladd. Mrs. OIL a
Berry was in charge of h G
program which was in keeping
with Good Friday. She a IS C
told of their trip to Florida in
1858.
Janice Grosvenor spent sew
eral days last week with Dor
india Dimmick in Bellevue, o.
Nancy Nelson of Buffalo, N
Y. spent last week in h e
Margaret Wilmot home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Pollock
and Danny arrived home last
Thursday from a visit in Hol-
lywood, Fla, with Mr.. an d
Mrs. James Rowley.
ClariSSe Krum was h o m e
from st. Luke'S hospital for a
weeks vacation last week.
Mrs. Harlan Krum and three
daughters were in Mayfield to
attend wedding and reception
of Mrs. Krum's niece, Shirley
Lorenz in the Methodist church
Wednesday night.
Easter news reported
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kel.
logg, Mrs. Della Kellogg and
daughter, Patsy, were guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Allen in
Conneautville, Pa, and attend.
ed church there. In the after.
noon, Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Kellogg with Mr.. and Mrs
Manville Rose of Burton, call
ed in the same home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vern w S
entertained their children and
grandchildren at their home
Sixteen were present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Wilmot
spent a day with their daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Mr.. an d
Mrs. Joe Temple in Chardon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Starr
were in Berea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Pol
lock called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Phillips in Mentor last
week. Mrs. Phillips has return
ed to the home of their son,
Harold, after being in the hos
pital for several days and is
slowly improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Wells at
tended the funeral of a rela-
tive in Cortland last week.
Sympathy is extended to Mrs.
Ralph Randles. Both her moth
er and grandmother died last
week.
The spring meeting of Ply
mouth Rock Association of the
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-22
Method1sts
Welcome 43
NewMernbers

On Maundy Thursday eve
ming, April Is, in the Chardon
Methodist church, preceding
the communion service, tn
following Chardon people join
ed in membership with n e
church, on confession of faith:
Ronald Robert Prussia, David
Alden Price, Edward Charles
Wingenbach, 3rd, James Thorn
as Thornburgh, Theodore How
er Haueter, Roger Leonard
Ishee, Thomas David S "a ge,
John Allen Erb, Marilyn Kay
Pildner, Karen Lee BunduS,
Sandra Lynn Jackson, Connie
Thrasher, Doris Jean Steare,
and Peggy Ann Brainard.
Dorothy Irene Johnson, Beth
Marie HofStetter, Dixie Lee
Rarick, Mr.. Robert william
Schneider, Mrs. Robert will
liam Schneider, Mrs. Clarice
Parker Magill, Mr.. Benjamin
Brisco Davis, Mrs. Ella Maude
Wolfe Davis, Miss Annie By
ler, Suzanne Dale Thornburgh,
Helen Grace Mansfield, Robert
Dean Ishee, Mr.. Elmer John
Heikkila, Mrs. Mildred Mae
Heikkila, Mrs. Beryl Marie Is
hee, Mrs. Dolores Slupe Tay-
lor, Mrs. Margaret Knickrehm
NellS, Leslie Allen Nells, Glenn
Clark NellS, and Mrs. Uxa
Phillip Knickrehm, received in
obSentia.
Coming into the church by
letter of transfer were:
Miss Grace Albaugh, fr m
Mayfield Methodist church; Mr..
Robert Louis McKim, from Cen
tral Congregational, Madison;
Mr.. Robert Nugent from North
Hill Methodist, Akron, ohio;
Mrs, Catherine jolly Mug ent,
from Peninsula Methodist, Pen
insula, o; Mrs. Doris Doan
Wingenbach, from South Euclid
Methodist church; Mrs. w. L.
Harrison, from Norwood Pa,
Methodist church; Mrs. Gladys
MathewSon Vaughn, from Fow-
ler's Mills church; Mr.. Arbin
Millard Vaughn, from Lomax
Christian church, Lomax Hi
noiS; Mrs. Reita BoSWorth
Whitright, from Wickliffe
Presbyterian church; and Miss
Judy Marjorie Johnson r m
Chardon Pilgrim Christian
church.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-22
Happy Birthday

The Geauga Record wishes
the following many happy re-
turns Of the day. Send in the
birthdays of your relatives or
friends and they will be rem
embered in this column.
THURSDAY, APRIL 22
Dick Post, Chesterland.
Dolores Hill, Chardon
Donald Farinacci, Chardon
Robert E. Whitney, Munson
Donald Judd, Hambden
Miss Mona Fowler, Chardon
Claude Shaw, Chardon
FRIDAY, APRIL %
Miss Shirley Winchell, Char
don
Clarence White, Chesterland
SATURDAY, APRIL "a
Gary McAnaney, Chardon
Dana Trask, Chardon
SUNDAY, APRIL rs
Richard Snedden, Chardon
Mrs. Nevada Strong, Chardon
Mrs. Jay Barber, Chardon
Thomas Henry, Chardon
MONDAY, APRIL 26
Betty Jean Hanna, Chardon
TUESDAY, APRIL "a
A. B. Carlson, Chardon
Mrs. r. L. Denton, Chardon
Kaye Garfield, Chardon
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
Sally Kaye Rossbach, Char
don
David Kovach, Chardon.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-22

News by Mrs. Howard Ensign
Telephone East ClaridOn 66217
The regular Grange meeting
was held last week Tuesday,
April 13, with pot luck sup
per. Two candidates were OBJ
ligated in the first and second
degrees. Mrs. Orrin Valentine
was in charge of a political
program of fun and facts. There
will not be any meeting h
fourth Tuesday in April, but
Wednesday, April %, Claridon
Grange will give a half-hour.
program in Montville. Auburn
will also have a half hour
program at the same meeting.
The AS You Like 1t circle
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-22
LEGAL NOTICE

Harry M. Dilley, whose place
of residence is unknown and
cannot be ascertained, will
take notice that on the 18th
day of April. 1854, the plaintiff,
Thelma L. Dilley, filed a petit
ton against him in the Court
of Common Pleas of Geauga
County, Ohio, for divorce and
equitable relief, and that the
said cause will be on for hear
ing on or after the 28th day
of May, 1854.
Thelma L. Dilley,
BY ThraSher & DinSmore,
her Attorneys.
6c20.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-22

women's group will be held ir
the Congregational church Fri
day, April 80.
Rev. Hostetler plans to at
tend the annual Minister'S Con.
vocation in Oberlin Wednesday
of this week.
One permit was issued by the
Zoning Board for the month Of
March.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-09
LEGAL NOTICES

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT or THE
10TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT N AND
FOR MONROE COUNTY. FLOR
IDA. IN CHAECERY.
Case No. l3-0O7
GRENDLE d. HlNKLE,
Plaintiff,
WoNDA ]. HINKLE,
- NOTICE ny PUBLICATION
TO: WONDA j. HINKLE
12S9 North Woodford
Decatur, Illinois
you ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
that suit for divorce has been filed
against YOU herein and you are re-
Qutred to serve q copy OF your An.
swer on Attorneys for Plaintiff and
file the original thereof on or be-
fore the 18th day of January. 1854.
otherwise Decree Pro Confesso will
DO entered against you.
DATED At Key West, Florida, this
nth day Of December. 1853.
(SEAL) EARL r. ADAMS,
Clerk. Circuit Court.
By: (sd) Herman Cereso.
Deputy Clerk.
NEBLETT q YOUMANS.
Attorneys for Plaintiff,
419 Southland Street.
Key West. Florida.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-09
Bandits OF
Corsica Is
Film

Against the suspenseful back
ground q treachery, suspicion and
open warfare, the dramatic tale of
Identical twin brothers at cross
purposes with the other Is told ID
Bandits Of Corsica" which opens
Sunday Il the Islander Theatre.
Starring Richard Greene. this
swift moving action romance echo
Is with the clash of steel IS sword
crosses sword as enemies meet in
the story of peoples battle for
liberation against tyrant who has
taken over nineteenth century Cor
sica for his own.
For the dashing Greene, it's q
dual acting assignment as the
Franchi brothers who personal
duel becomes a hghlight Of the
bloody fracas. One brother is a
man Of high resolve, anxious only
10 lead the citizens to happy vic
tory. The other brother, a misfit,
seeks only personal profit in
plotting the death Of his blood kin.
There are fights a-plenty as the
Corsicans rise in wrath to down
a usurper, while the brothers
eventually meet IN hand+o-hand
combat from which only one can
emerge.
Bandits Of Corsica" Edward
Small production for United Artists
release, was directed by Ray Ma
zarro.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-09
NAL OFFICIALS FELT
lContinnec froru eaee Or,

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missioaers and NAL officials would
be invited for the purpose Of dis.
cussing the issue in hopes Of ar.
irving at solution.
Chamber officers exrlained
That their interest in rho matter
was primarily aimed 81 securina
more frequent flights between
Key West and Miami. particular
w during This current Tourist sea-
son. u was poinfsd out that this
winters tourist business is bound
10 be affected by shs evrfaiImens
cf NAL service between the Two
cities.
Members Of the county con- mis-
sion accepted the offer to sit down
again with Nationals representa-.
tives for the purpose of reopen
ing the discussion at a chamber
sponsored meeting. In a phone
conversation with John L. Morris
Friday afternoon, Tuesday was SET
as the date for this confab, &C.
cording to Chamber manager Har.
old r. Laubscher.
Later in the afternoon, Laubs.
cher said he was telephoned by
Morris who said he had talked the
matter over with other National
officials and after further consid.
Grafton they declined to attend
such meeting in Key West. Al
the same time, National extended
an invitation for the commission to
come to Miami for any further dis,
cussion of the problem.
Laubscher stated: II told Mr..
Morris that it would certainly be
easier for two or three Of their
people to come to Key West than il
would for half a dozen county Off,
Gals to travel to Miami. / also
pointed out that the Key West
chamber was sponsoring the meet.
ing as a third party in the dispute,
and that in this particular case
neither of the principals, the
County or NAL, would be coming
to each other.
"This reasonong seemed to have
little effect and asked Mr.. Nor
ris for an explicit reason for theil
not wishing TO make the trip te
Key West.
"Mr. Morris stated that he and
n. P. Foreman felt they wert
pushed around a little during theil
meeting with the commission here
last week and they had little desire
for o return bout.
st told Mr.. Morris that the meet
ling we were trying 70 arrange
would be a Chamber sponsored
meeting and that one was coins
to be pushed around. He refused
ito yield, however"