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The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
New Mt. lions Pre- Easter
Revue At College Park Club
House April II; General
Public Is Cordially Invited

Jacskon - When the Matron's
League of New Mt. Zion Baptist
Church present its annual Pre-Eas-
ter Revue at College Park Club
house on Sunday, April IL, between
the hours of and p. M, fashion
wise Jacksonians will be treated
to the very latest in spring and
summer styles to be worn by the
best dressed of all ages.
The opening scene will feature
the following youngsters:
Beverly Ann Stampley, Barbara
Ruth Gibbs, Carolyn Hodges, Eve
lyn Harion, Beverly Jean Bibbs,
Olevia Edwards, Norma Jean Gibbs,
Marvin Henderson, Alfred Scott,
Frances Ruth Gordon, Stella Louise
Hogan, Eunice Hodges, Dorothy
Jean Edwards, Almeldia Anderson,
Mary Lee Comes, Aaron and Larry
Turner, Robert Earl Lewis, Patricia
Bakes, Sam Baker, Jr., Yevone HoI-
mes, Emmitt Edwards, Percy Lee
Covington.
In the second scene will be shown
Jackson's' pretty debs, wearing the
lovely Easter finery as follows: Jer-
aldine Ratliff, Mary Allen, Eliza
Bell Henderson, Edna Earl Edams.
Leslie Mae Johnson, Elizabeth Bo-
vie, Bertha Stevenson, Shirley Lip
scomb, Johnnie Pearl Carter.
Milday's fashions will be shown
by Mesdames Inez Jones, Blanche
Lee, Emma Day, Ao-(cmfwyplu
Gibbs, Henrietta Owens, Odessa Lee
Emma Day, Winnell Tard, Almedia
Holden, Jean Wells, c. A. Lewis.
What the best dressed man about
town will be wearing comes spring
will be shown by Mr.. Ernest Day
and Mr.. w. H. Penry.
A musical program, high in en-
tertainment has been planned, with
numbers being rendered. by Mrs.
Charlie Mitchell, Miss Catherine
Tussell, the Young Peoples Choir
and Mr.. Henry Nelson, pianist.
The general public is cordially
invited to be present.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
South Central Regional
Conference Of zeta Phi Beta
Sorority Convenes Here
April 1917; Dr.. Maggie
Daniels Is Featured Speaker

Alpha Delta Zeta Chapter of the
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc, will be
hostess to the South Central Re-
gional Conference which includes
Chapters in Arkansas, Alabama. Ten
nessee and Mississippi on April To-
II, 1854. Parish Street Baptist
Church viii be the headquarters
for this conference.
The meeting will be presided over
by Mrs. Pauline Allen, Columbus,
Miss, Regional director. Mrs. AL
len will be assisted by Mrs. Pinkie
Parr. Little Rock. Ark, Associate
Director of the South Central Re-
gion and State Director of Arkan-
sas, and Mrs. Bernice Galloway, the
state director of Tennessee.
DR.. Maggie Daniels of Alabama
State College will deliver the key
note address at the public program
on Friday evening, April 16, 7:30
p. m, at Parish Street Baptist
church.
Other features of the Conference
will be Forum on the Conference
Theme-"Accepting Our RESPONSE
bilities for the Present Day Issues"
by the undergraduate chapters of
Lambda Beta, Jackson College. and
Nu Beta of Tougaloo College.
The Conference will be climaxed
with eta workshop led by such
outstanding Zetas as K. G. Dur
van, Elizabeth Hardy, R. E. Chris
tian and DR.. Maggie Daniels.
Alpha Delta Zetas- the hsstess
chapter and Mu Sigma Chapter of
Phi Beta Sigma fraternity along
with other Greeks in the city are
putting forth every effort to enter
tain the delegates royalty during
their stay in Jackson.
The public is cordially invited
to the program on Friday evening,
April Is, 7:3O p. M, at Parish st.
Baptist church.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
Tennessee State
Starts 2O-Game
Schedule

Nashville For the first time
since 1949, Tennessee State Uni
versity will start a 20-game base
ball schedule April 9.
Coach Lawrence Simmons, in his
first year at Tennessee after two
years at South Carolina State Col
lege, had so candidates for the ini-
tial baseball practice. Coach Sim
mons reduced his squad to 80 mem
bers at the end of two weeks drill
ing. The squad will be cut to play
ing strength April 5, four days be-
fore their first game. OF the 30
man squad, IA are out for their first
college sports participation.
The Tigers mentor Simmons feels
that if he could improve the weak
ness at short stop and third base
he could field a better balanced
team. The Tigers showed power at
the plate in its first preseason game
against the Negro American Lea
que members in Nashville, (condi-
tioning before reporting to their
respective squadsl with 1913 vic
tory. First baseman, George Alt
man, converted basketball player,
$50 1T. grand slam homer, topped
the 15-hit attack. Shortstop Charles
Foster collected two doubles and
single to account for three runs.
Tigers Schedule for 1854:
April 8 and 10 Morristown Col
lege, at home.
April Is and IA, Alabama A. and
M. College, at home.
April l6 and II, Central State
College, at home.
April 26 and 27, Alabama A. and
M. College, Normal. Ala,
April 80 and May I, Morristown
College, Morristown, Tenn
May 6, Morehouse College, Allan
ia, Ga.
May 7. Alabama State College,
Montgomery, Ala
May 8. Tuskegee Institute. Tusk-
egee, Ala.
May 13 and "A, Alabama State
College, at home.
May IS. Wilmington College, Will
mington. Ohio.
May 20, Cedarville College, Ce-
darville, Ohio.
May 81 and %. Central State Col
lege. Wilberforce, Ohio.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
Sigma Gamma
Rho Gives Sl00 To
State Health
Program

Interest in the medical correction
program of the State Board of Heal
tn reached a new high today as DR..
Agnes Burt Caraway, health officer,
with the county health department,
announced receipt of gift of 500
from the Sigma Gamma Rho Soror-
ity. These funds are to be used
for corrections for handicapped un-
derprivileged children. This splen-
did response to our appeal is most
gratifying" DR.. Caraway stated,
land the members of this civic mind
ed organization are to be commend
ed for their interest in the welfare
of the city's needy children"
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
City Files Suits
To Buy Site For
New Negro School
Here April 2l-22

The city Saturday filed eminent
domain proceedings to acquire two
blocks Of land in Northwest Jack
son as the site for new Negro
elementary school.
The new school would serve the
Shady Oaks and Christ College
area east of Delta Drive near the
northwest city limits.
City Attorney E. w. Stennett
said the two suits filed Saturday
in Kinds County Court were for
blocks and 5 of old Christ College
subdivision owned by Willie and
Rebecca Kendrick.
The Board of Trustees of the Jack
son Municipal Separate School Dis
trict had for some time been try
ing to buy the site so the school
can be ready for use in September.
Stennett said. the land was sub
divided a number of years ago, but
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
Musical Program
AT Tougaloo Will
Present Opera
Trained Singer

The first negro singer to be train
ed by the Metropolitan in the Big
House itself, Robert McFerrin, bari
tone, will be ehard at Tougaloo Col
lege at 7 p. m. Sunday. He will join
with Geraldine Overstreet, soprano
in a varied classical program spon-
sored by the Tougaloo College Ly-
ceum Committee in Brownlee Hall.
The highlight of the joint recital
will come when the two vocalists
sing the Nile scene from Verdi's
Aida. This may be preview of
history making Metropolitan de-
but, for McFerrin is being groom
ed for the role of Amonasro at the
Metropolitan's own training school.
Unanimously voted the male win
ner of the Metropolitan additions
OF the Air in February, 1858, Nc
Ferrin was awarded a scholarship
to the Katherine Long School,
where he is also being coached
for the roles of Rigoletta, Valentin
in Faust" and Germont in LA
Traviata'.
Born in Memphis. McFerrin made
his broadway debut in the revival
Of The Green Pastures, has ap-
peared in Kurt Wells Lost in the
Stars, and was the first Negro to
sing Rigoletto in this country. He
performed that role with the New
England Opera Company. He was
discovered by Boris Goldovsky, who
sent hi INTO the Opera Department
at Tanglewood. Before that he at
tended Fisk University and the Chi
cago Musical College, where he was
a classmate of Miss Overstreet's.
Following her debut in Chicago's
Kimball Hall In 1916, Miss Over
street appeared as soloist with the
Chicago Symphony the following
year. Substituting for Dorothy May
nor at the eleventh hour, she was
cheered by an audience of 5000
persons in Minneapolis. The ori-
ginal Yum Yum in the Swing Mi
kado", she turned from Gilbert and
Sullivan to grand opera, singing
aida" with the American Negro
Opera Company.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
DR.. Bethune
To Be Feted
April 23rd

New York - A testimonial BAN
quet honoring DR.. Mary Mcleod
Bethune will be held Friday, April
%. in the Hotel Capitol, citing her
for more than half a century of
service. The dinner will at the
same time mark the 50th anniver-
sary of Bethune-Cookman College.
of which she is founder.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
Golf Group Sponsors Wake
Up Campaign For Support

jackson - n group Oh young men,
World War ii veterans and members
of the West End Golf Club are spon-
soring a WAKE UP CAMPAIGN
among the Negro citizens of jack
son and ask the full support and
cooperation of all organizations,
social, civic, fraternal and religious.
Among the problems and condi-
tions discussed by the group in
their meeting as needing immediate
attention are:
/. More ecreational Facilities for
Negroes parks, Fairgrounds. and
the right to use the city-operated
Golf Park.
2. Negro policemen in every sec
ton of Jackson.
g. A fire station in the George
town section of the city.
The group has provided a ques-
tionnaire that asks: Do You Know
That: We have here in Jackson,
many registered voters, property
owners, members of churches, social
and civic clubs, fraternal organi-
cations, World War / and 2 Vet
erans, Korean veterans who are pay
ing taxes like other citizens, but
who are not receiving the same
benefits from those taxes as other
citizens.
Do You Know That: If you live
in Georgetown, Virden Addition
and yoru house catches fire. while
the fire department is coming such
a long distance your home may be
completely destroyed
Do you know that: Many of your
children have to travel over four
miles to College Park for SWIM
ming and other recreations.
Do you know that: Members of
the West End Golf Club, who are
registered voters and Veterans of
World War II, will be coming a.
round to you soon, asking you to
sign petition to be presented to
the City Council, asking for con-
sideration on all the matters men
toned above?
The officers and members of this
club have also decided to publish
the names of both signers and the
non-signers, in an effort to let the
public know just who is pulling
for or pulling against First Class
Citizenship for Jackson Negroes.
Members of the West Enc Golf
Club, further states that all per-
sons concerned in their efforts to
secure something of the things for
which Jackson Negroes are pay
ing and not getting, are local cit
liens, desiring to solve their own
problems. They urge that Negroes
will support the Boy and Girl
Scouts, the YMCA, and YWCA and
all organizations for the purpose of
bettering the Negro's condition in
Jackson and Mississippi.
Wake up now before it's too late.
Signed:
Clarence Seaton president. Bilbo
McHuley, vice president, 1911
Banks st.
Phone 5-1750; Harry Bates, sec
retary, 836 Dalton, phone 5-2347,
and the members of the West
End Golf Club.
Membership is solicited and any
one interested is asked to contact
one of the above
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

N. o. MOTHER SUES HER SON
FOR BUSINESS"-New Orleans -
Hearing was scheduled in Civil Dis
trict Court before Judge Frank J.
Stitch on Friday in the case of Mrs.
Cecilia Guyet Labat, who brought
suit against her son, Emile Labat,
Jr., charging that he took over
their jointly owned undertaking
business and property, refuses to
make an accounting with her and
gives her only small amount of
money on which to live. The busi-
ness referred to is the Emile Labat
Undertaking Company, 1915 Philip
St, left jointly to her in 1916 at
the death of her husband.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
LITTLE JUNIOR PARKER AND BILL JOHNSONS
ORCHESTRA TO PLAY DANCE AT STEVENS ROSE
ROOM SUNDAY, APRIL IL; ADMISSION, s13O AT DOOR

Jackson, Miss. - T. Y. Sims and
Edward Lee, Jr., will bring to
Jackson the sensational Duke Re-
cording Star, LITTLE JUNIOR
PARKER and ORCHESTRA play
ing for Dance at Beautiful Ste
vens Rose Room. SUNDAY, APRIL
IL.
Plan your party now and come
out early - Doors open at 7::30.-
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

NEGRO ELECTED CITY CON-
MISSIONER" - Nowata, Okla. -
John H. Morgan, a plastering and
cement contractor defeated three
white candidates to win the post of
city commissioner by majority of
SO votes. Morgan will serve in the
city's predominantly Negro ward.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

Dance starts at 8. Reserve your
tables by calling, 5-4287 or 5-4384.
COME EARLY DINE AND
DANCE to the music of LITTLE
JUNIOR PARKER AND ORCHES-
IRA - He's ben packin' 'em in
throughout the west you'll not
PARKER - ADMISSION AT door
$1.30 Tax included. NO ADVANCE
TICKETS.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

END OF WEST POINT BIAS
VICTORY FOR CONGRESSMAN
POWELL'-Washington Repre-
sentative Adams Clayton Powell,
ID. N. W claimed victory this week
in his two month campaign to have
segregation abolished in the cadet
mess attachment stationed at the
U. S. Military Academy, West Point,
N. Y. Mr.. Powell had charged that
all the dish-washing, glass-washing
and waiting on tables had been
done by Negro members of the
1902 Special Regiment who worked
from 6 a. m. to $50 p. m. daily
and were quartered in all-Negro
barracks.
Mr.. Powell's original complaint
had been isued to Secretary of De-
fense Charles Wilson on February
"a. The Army acted promptly, and
on March 81, T. A. Young, special
assistant to the Secretary of the
Army wrote Mr.. Powell that the
Army IN the future, would include
and increase the number of white
personnel qualified to perform such
duties in the personnel ALLEGATIONS
of the military academy
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

was never developed, and is now
largely open farm area.
Additional suits are to be filed
for adjoining property as soon as
ownership can be determined, he
said but the greatest portion of
the site is owned by the Hendricks.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
H. D. Agents To
Hold Workshop

Jackson, Miss. - Miss Bonnie
Dale Samson, Specialist in Home
Management, State College, Mis-
sissippi, will be in workshop
with Home Demonstration Agents
of Southwest Mississippi at Col
lege Park Clubhouse. April q and
%.
The meetings will begin at $50
A. M
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
Geo. Jefferson
Qualities AS
Candidate For
School Board

Vicksburg = A Negro. George L.
Jefferson, has qualified as a candi-
date for the Warren County School
Board. The election for the board
created under recent school legis-
lation, will be on May 4.
Jefferson is a member of veal
thy Vicksburg Negro family. He is
in the undertaking business, and
is leader in the NAACP.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
JACKSON WELCOMES DELEGATES 10oAS SOUTHWESTERN ce april

Thgood Marshall To Be Speaker Annual Meet OF Regional Council
Negro Leadership In Mound Bayou Friday MaY Will Amonish Hearers
On The Sane And Peaceful Course To Pursue Regardless OF Decision
Handed Down Supreme Court On School Segregation Suits Now Pending
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

"AIR CRASH IN ETHIOPIA FA-
tai TO COLONEL ROBINSON
Ababa, Ethiopia - Col.
John c. Robinson, the Brown Con-
dor" died last week Of injuries he
received in an airplane crash here
The death Of Robinson, a colonel
IN the Ethiopian Air Force. brings
to an end one of the most coIorfuI
personalities in the early Negro
aviation. Many Jacksonians will re-
call the time that Col. Robinson
was brought to Jackson through the
joint efforts of The Mississippi En-
terprise, Willie ]. Miller, and Songs
of the Souls, Prof. A. ]. Finch,
director.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

Jackson, Miss. Already plans
are well underway for the annual
meeting of the Regional Council
of Negro Leadership to be held in
Mound Bayou, Mississippi, Friday.
May 7, at which time Thurgood
Marshall, New York, Chief Coun-
selof of the NAACP, is expected
to give a complete explanation of
the anti-segregation school suits
to the estimated 1000 persons who
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

JACKSON - The general public
is invited to attend the educational
program of the Southwestern Re-
gional Conference of Iota Phi
Lambda Sorority at Campbell Col
lege, Friday. April 8. at 7:3o p. m.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

VIII be IN attendance.
Attorney Marshall nationally
known as 'Mr. Civil Rights" head
ed staff of $50 lawyers and re-
searchers when the final phase of
the famous school suits was argued
before the United States Supreme
Court last year.
The Supreme Court is yet to
hand down decision on the suit,
however, Mr.. Marshall, one of the
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10
Blind Students
From Louisiana
To Present Play

Jackson - Students from the
Louisiana School for the Blind will
render a Play al the Mississippi
School for the Blind located on
Capers Avenue here in Jackson,
Friday. April l6. at 8 p. m.
A small admission Of adults, Csc
and children l5c will be asked. The
general public is cordially invited
and urged to encourage these young
people by your presence at this
play.
Mrs. Martha Foxx is principal.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

nations most outstanding consti-
tutional lawyers, will admonish his
hearers on the sane and peaceful
courses to pursue regardless of the
decision handed down.
DR.. T. r. M. Howard. Mound
Bayou, Miss, president of the
Council, has stated that already
more than 256 letters from promi-
.nent persons throughout the South
requesting home and hotel reser-
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

Easter Seals used today win mean
help for a crippled child tomorrow.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

Lick an Easter Seal and help
crippled child lick his handicap.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

the conference will be Soror Alma
I. Mackey, Southwestern Regional
Director of Dallas, Texas.
National president of Iota Phi
Lambda Sorority is Soror Jeanne
S. Scott.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

You can buy happiness for Grip
pied children by using Easter Seals.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1954-04-10

Soror Alma |. Mackey
Guest speaker will be Soror Lola
M. Parker, founder and president
emeritus of Chicago.
Presiding will be Soror Sarah M.
Harvey, president of the hostess
chapter, Alpha Pi. Presiding over
Evening star., 1954-01-17
EIGHT WEEKS TO LIVE
Continued from page ttcenty-eigM

To his doctors the failure was
significant. Within day or 50 the
Senator began to draw more and
more mental blanks. The cancer
had reached his brain. He lapsed
into brief periods Of coma.
Word was sent to his family that
the end was near. Mrs. Wuhder
gently told her old friend Mrs.
Taft that her husbands condition
had taken a grave turn for the
worse. Martha took it so calmly
that the family decided she had
probably suspected the real nature
of his illness for a long time.
II didn't think Bob could fool
Martha" they told one another.
.sThcy were too close. She was
just playing the game the way
he wanted It,"
On July % a chartered plane
carried Martha Taft. the Senator's
sister, Helen Taft Manning. Jack
Martin. Taft's able administrative
assistant now on the White House
staff, and others of the family, from
Washington to New York. Taft
was only half-conscious. A nurse
said, Mrs. Taft is here to see you"
NgAxtha's Last Visit
AN AMAZING change came over
the Senator. Doctors in attendance
were startled. He raised himself on
an elbow and called out strongly,
Crank up the bed! Get me an
extra pillow! Here. help me sit upw
It was a mighty effort. When his
wife was wheeled into the room. he
said, well, Martial" He leaned
forward and put both arms around
her. He kissed her and laid his
cheek against hers. He told her he
was glad to see her looking so well.
The visit lasted Is minutes.
Martha Taft's last glimpse Of her
husband showed him sitting up.
waving cheerfully and smiling his
famous. win-or-lose. campaign grin.
A few minutes later he collapsed.
He closed his eyes and slid into a
coma from which he never really
emerged. He was unconscious all
the next day and he died on July
81 at 1l:30 am.
An autopsy was performed a few
hours later and the hospital report
finally revealed the hiding place of
the mysterious "parent" cancer. 1t
was lodged IN one of the branches
Of the air tube leading to the lower
half of the right lung. 1t was about
the size Of the rubber tip Of an
ordinary lead pencil.
UmlimisheA Business
Evening star., 1954-01-17
Ln,sd Ms View

$A0l t1ly oA(AA NOAeAAAS&lAAs
Lileed She View
lHE weather was uncomfortably
warm now and the hospital put its
distinguished patient into a room
that boasted a window-sill air con-
ditioner. Taft had it removed at
once. He said it spoiled his view.
He liked to look out at the tug
boats and barges cruising up and
down the East River.
The exploratory operation took
place on July 8. An incision was
made IN the abdominal cavity and
the organs and tissue thoroughly
examined. But although the can
Ger was widely distributed there
was no indication whatever Of the
place where it had started.
The Senator was calm about the
failure Of the operation. He had
not allowed himself to hope too
much. When one of the surgeons
visited him the next day and COM
planned that he had mislaid his
glasses, Taft clapped a hand to his
belly and chuckled, Goodness, l
hope l haven't got them!"
He recovered from the surgery
faster than anyone thought he
could. General Albert Wedemeyer
visited him. Taft clutched his arm
and told him. I've got to snap out
of this in a hurry now! Eisenhower
needs me-"
a ElooA q Letters
IAfr liked to read the mail that
came flooding in from the public.
Nearly everyone recommended
cures. He was advised to rub him.
self with camphor oil, drink sea
water, 60 on a diet OF rice and
watermelon. Dozens Of baskets of
fruit and flowers arrived daily and
he sent them, to the children's
wards. Many offered to give blood.
He grew restless and homesick.
His condition seemed to him to be
stabilized. Once more he began
saying impatiently, 'sWhat am l
doing here? j ought to be hack
at work. I'm much too well!'
His doctors used every kind of
persuasion to keep him where he
was. A young resident physician
was very successful = he involved
him in long political arguments.
The two covered. point by point,
all the major issues around which
the Senator's long political life had
revolved. When they ran out of
rebuttals. they worked at cross
word puzzles.
One morning Taft was unable to
complete the puzzle that appeared
in one of the three newspapers he
read each day. He was hurt and
bewildered.
why, / know those words!" he
protested. Il just can't seem to
remember them!'
Evening star., 1954-01-17

On July fourth he few back to
New York. Checking back into the
hospital he paused long enough to
tell the press that he had advised
Mutual Security Director Harold
Stassen to prepare to submit to the
next Congress a program to wind
up foreign aid. Thus he cleverly
drew a veil of political and Journal
istic excitement over his now cru
cial physical condition.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-02-15

the sand dunes where we built our
own fires and cooked our own food.
On these two nights we each had
turn to tell of our life and our sur
roundings. This was just our own
tent group of seven.
Each night we had vesper serv-
ice, most of the time up on vesper
dune, which is large hill of sand
overlooking Lake Michigan and the
sunset. After the vesper service was
over, program of varied events
was carried out. One night we had
a dance, another we sang, one night
each tribe had party. Still another
we had council circles where differ
ent persons gave skits to count on
their tribal paints for the tribal
shield.
This being the first time l was
ever that far away from home for
that long I enjoyed it very much
and would like very much to do it
again.
1 think this camp and all the 700
people that were there is one of the
best things in the world for the
American youth. It's wonderful.