Ban Only Start Negroes Told at Tuskegee Graduation
Tuskegee graduates heard Dr. Lester Granger warn of dangers after the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation. He urged reconditioning social and educational outlooks across the South and urged active implementation while cautioning against intimidation and passive acquiescence. He emphasized restraint to avoid provoking violent responses and to study opponents to find openings.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Supreme Court
Lester B. Granger
New York
National Urban League
Granger
Negro College
High Court
South
Navy Blimp Sets Endurance Record Over Water
The ZPG-2 airship Nan type with 14 aboard stayed aloft for about 200 hours to set a world endurance record. Cmdr Marion H. Eppes leads 12 Navy crewmen and one civilian observer as the blimp prepares to land at Boca Chica Naval Air Station near Key West Florida after its Miami patrol.
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Key West
Fla
Boca Chica Naval Air Station
Florida Keys
Navy
Cmdr
Marion H. Eppes
Pinson
Ala
Lakehurst
N. J
Naval Air Station
Miami
Eppes
Mor gan County FTA Council Reviews Local Work
At Priceville High School the Morgan County Council of Future Teachers of America met with Miss Doris Tapscott presiding. School chapter reports were presented including a Priceville record book to be filed with the county superintendent. Officers were elected from member schools Eva president Union Hill vice president Austinville secretary treasurer. Forty members and sponsors attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County Council of Future Teachers of America
Priceville High School
Doris Tapscott
Cecil Timberlake
FTA
Priceville Club
O. N. Williams
Clarence Pettey
NEA
Miami
Aschol
Eva
Union Hill
Austinville
Not as a Stranger and Other Top Fiction Best Sellers
A listing of current best selling fiction includes Morton Thompson Not as a Stranger Norah Lofts Bless This House Kenneth Dodson Away All Boats James A Michener Sayonara John Masters Bhowani Junction Norman Vincent Peale The Power of Positive Thinking Elmer Davis But We Were Born Free Emily Kimbrough Forty Plus and Fancy Free Gene Fowler Minutes of the Last Meeting The Mind Alive Bonaro Overstreet H A Overstreet.
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Morton Thompson
Norah Lofts
Kenneth Dodson
Sayonara
James A. Michener
Bhowani Junction
John Masters
Norman Vincent
Elmer Davis
Emily Kimbrough
Gene Fowler
H.A
Bonaro Overstreet
Graduation Exercises Set Thursday Evening in Austinville
Austinville High School plans a 7 30 PM graduation with Louise Hamilton delivering The Force of Knowledge. Torch bearers include Thomas Holland and Carolyn Guyse, with Virginia Miller giving the salutatorian address and Patsy Mitchell delivering the valedictory for Bascom Scott. Diplomas and awards will be presented by principal S M Dollar as students and faculty participate.
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Austinville High School
Louise Hamilton
Thomas Holland
Carolyn Guyse
Virginia Miller
Robert Maner
David Sparks
Bobby Brown
Patsy Mitchell
Bascom Scott
Mary A. McAbee
S. M. Dollar
E. G. Hamilton
Wheeler HDC salad hints and recipes shared at May meeting
Twenty three members and two visitors attended the Wheeler Home Demonstration Club May gathering at the club house. President Curtis Gordon led the session with devotions by J W Hines and a hymn lesson. A salad demonstration by J W Fudge and Curtis Gordon followed, with recipes shared. Lunch, hostesses, and a business session concluded the meeting as plans were made to clean the yard and sew pajamas for District 1 Sanatorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Keyes
Gay Barnes
Wheeler Home Demonstration Club
Curtis Gordon
J. W. Hines
R. E. Phillips
J. W. Fudge
Olin Looney
George Owens
W. Haney
C. V. McKee
W. S. Lamon
C. M. Hightower
Gay Thrasher
Dinner Takes Off Windsor Pheasant Crashes Window
Mrs. Raymond Pare of Windsor Ontario planned to eat a pheasant she found in her kitchen after it crashed through the window. The bird then escaped back through the broken pane after flapping its wings.
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Windsor
Ont
Raymond Pare
Robert Taylor Weds Actress Ursula Thiess at Jackson Lake
Jackson, Wyoming. Movie actor Robert Taylor and actress Ursula Thiess wed semisecretly aboard the Wort cabin cruiser on Jackson Lake yesterday. Taylor, 42, and Thiess, 30, met two years ago and will fly to Los Angeles today after the ceremony.
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Jackson
Wyo
Robert Taylor
Ursula Thiess
Los Angeles
Jackson Lake
Jess
John Wort
Taylor
Wyoming
Worts
Teton Mountains
Thiess
First Baptist Church Sets Saturday Concert in Decatur
The First Baptist Church of Decatur will host a Saturday concert at 8 p.m. with Wilbur Held of Chicago as organist and Jane Sieck Mandigoe of Chicago and Birmingham as contralto. Held directs at Trinity Episcopal Columbus and heads Ohio State organ studies. Mandigoe, new to the South, has Middle West training and has sung across the region. Norville Hall will accompany, pairing previously with Mandigoe in Chicago programs.
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Wilbur
Chicago
Jane Sieck Mandigoe
Birmingham
First Baptist Church
Decatur
Wilbur Held
Mr. Held
Trinity Episcopal Church
Columbus
Ohio State University
Frank van Dusen
Marcel Dupre
Andre Marchal
Paris
American Conservatory of Music
American Guild of Organists
Mandigoe
South
Middle West
Andrewas Fugmann
Rockford College
Rockford, Ill
Emerson Abernathy
Busch Conservatory
Garrett to attend no segregation talks before July meeting
Alabama Attorney General L. Garrett says he will meet again with state solicitors in July and does not plan to attend other conferences on school segregation until then. He had been invited to a Southern attorneys general meeting in Atlanta tomorrow, postponed to after a governors conference in Richmond June 7.
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Montgomery
Roosevelt Jr. says segregation not a regional problem
FDR Jr. Franklin D. Roosevelt III tells a Birmingham audience that segregation harms national and international relations and is not limited to the South. He urges goodwill and criticizes U S policy toward Arab states, praising Israel as an example of freedom in action.
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Fdr Jr
Birmingham
U. S
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
D-Ny
Roosevelt
South
United States
New York
Yam Fig
Spring Hill College Leader Applauds High Court Ruling
Very Rev Andrew C Smith president of Spring Hill College praised the Supreme Court decision on school desegregation as a forward step toward equal justice. He urged orderly transition to non segregated schools and cooperation to implement race relations within American law. Enrollment at Spring Hill is about 1000 with few Negro students in off campus night classes.
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Andrew C. Smith
Spring Hill College
South
Smith
Birmingham Businessman Zachary P. Smith Dies in Mentone
Funeral services are set for Zachary P. Smith 69 a Birmingham businessman and civic leader who died in his sleep while visiting friends in Mentone Alabama. A Memphis native he ran Zac Smith Stationery Co since 1915 and captained the 1902 Auburn football team. He served as president of the National Stationers Association in 1951-52. Surviving brother Carlton P. Smith of Birmingham.
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Birmingham
Zachary P. Smith
Smith
Mentone
Ala
Memphis
Tenn
Zac Smith Stationery Co
Auburn
National Stationers Association
Carlton P. Smith
Elephant tusks Reach Nine Feet and Hundred Pound Weight
Indian elephant tusks may grow up to nine feet long and weigh about 100 pounds each. Researchers note the size and weight highlight the animal’s impressive tusk development.
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