Florida PTA Congress Ends 25th Session In St Petersburg
The Florida Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers completed its 25th annual meeting at Second Bethel Baptist Church St Petersburg February 14 16 with a jubilee theme Major Contributions To Twenty five Years of Progress. Highlights included addresses by Mrs Ethel Kight and Dr D E Williams plus workshops sections and awards totaling three $25 War Bonds. Officers and chairmen were elected and the convention will reconvene in 1953 at Daytona Beach Florida.
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Florida
Congress of Colored ‘Parents and Teachers
Second Bethel Baptist Church
St. Petersburgh
PTA
Elizabeth Espy
Perrine
E. Stuart
Ethel Kight
Georgia Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers
Georgia
Congress
William Love
Gibbs Student Council
Samuel Johnson
St. Petersburg
Henry S. Baynard
Samuel Cohen
Florida State Teachers Association
D. B. Sanders
D. E. Williams
Negro Education
Florida Pta Congress
Gibbs High School
O. B. McLin
Chas. L. Williams
Ethel W. Kight
Maxwell Saxon
Euclid High School
Deland
W. E. Combs
State Department
Margaret Blake
Tampa
C. L. Harper
Jacksonville
Shirley Curtis
Clearwater
la Grange
Gibbs High Gymtorium
J. A. Bond
Mary Blocker
E. B. Baker
Tallahassee
A. Howard
Larry Steele Benefit to Aid Soldiers at Hines Hospital
Larry Steele and his revue Smart Affairs of 1952 staged a benefit performance at Hines Veteran Hospital last week. Critics hailed it as one of the best revues of our times before a Regal theater stand in Chicago for a week. The show tours nationwide ahead of a London engagement.
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Chicago
ANP
Larry Steele
Hines Veteran Hospital
Regal Theater
London
England
Negro Market Gains Page One Spotlight in Wall Street Journal
New York reports the Negro market’s rising importance to U S business after the Wall Street Journal highlighted facts on its page one. Clyde Hunt cites a 15 billion dollar income. firms like Hormel Whitehall and British Overseas Airways are cited for targeting Black consumers. Dean Milk Co. used store pictures of a Negro consumer talking to a dairy maid, boosting Chicago sales. Ebony magazine warns advertisers to respect the audience, avoid patronizing tone, and not rely on stereotyped references.
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NEW York
CNS
Wall Street Journal
Clyde Hunt
Amsterdam News
George A. Hormel and Co
Whitehall Pharmacal Co
British Overseas Airways Corporation
Ebony
Philco
Morton’s Salt
van Camp’s
Nunn-Bush
Magic Chef
Ebony Magazine
Joe Louis
Jackie Robinson
Turpin seeks rematch with Sugar Ray Robinson
New York based report says Rand y Turpin sent manager George Middleton and promoter Jack Solomons to arrange a return bout with Sugar Ray Robinson. Turpin recalls the American purses and agrees to fight anywhere, London or New York, to get another chance. Middleton prefers the U S venue to showcase the real Turpin.
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New York
Local Custom Guides Courtesy in Conversation
A terse instruction advises addressing a person personally if he is interested in sports and to match his preferred salutation Mr or his first name, reflecting local etiquette and social nuance in discussions.
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Douglas Anderson
W. K. Harper
Harry Roundtree
Hallandale
Daisy Murrell
Mary Bradford
Mary F. Johnson
Belle Glade
Webster
Ida Williams
Daytona Beach
Dorothy Holmes
Maxwell E. Saxon
Sylvia Aldrich
Ft. Lauderdale
Astaire Leggett
Art Department
Ernestine Norville
Art
Fila
Fred
2Nd Ave
Ritz Theatre
Fred Martin
F.H.A
Modern Homecraft CO
23Rd Street
McQueen
N.W
14Th St
5Th Ave
Cigers Cigarettes and
Val
17Th Street
Turpin
Sugar
Benjamin B
62Nd St
Miami, Fla
Jackson
Robert Jackson
Harry Markowitz