Virginia Farmer Switches To Truck Crops
Virginia farmer John S. Everett, 56, of Nansemond near Suffolk, quit cotton and corn 15 years ago to start truck farming. He now earns about 12 000 a year from potatoes and peas, beans, corn, hogs, and soybeans on 90 acres. During war years Mrs Everett and three of their 20 children ran the farm. he helped build ships at Norfolk Navy Yard before returning to farming after VJ Day.
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Johns
Everett
Nansemond
Southhampton
Suffolk
Mr. Everett
Norflok Navy Yard
Mississippi Has 57 Licensed Physicians
Jackson report shows only 57 of 1 391 licensed physicians in Mississippi are Negroes about four percent The Mississippi health department disclosed the figure with a 1948 death tally noting 40 physicians died that year Heart disease led deaths with cancer next Jackson lost two physicians last year one colored and one White
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi Health Department
Mississippi
Jackson
Richmond Sexton William Mealey Honored for 35 Years
In Richmond Virginia the White Tabernacle Baptist church honored William Mealey at 75 for 35 years as church sexton. The event featured Rev Jack R Noffsinger and gifts from congregants. Dr Sparks W Melton former University of Richmond trustee and long-time friend recalled their boyhood days in Fluvanna County with a light hearted exchange.
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Richmond
RNP
White Tabernacle Baptist Church
William Mealey
Jack R. Noffsinger
Mealey
Jack
Sparks W. Melton
Freemason Church
Norfolk
University of Richmond
Baptist General Association of Virginia
Melton
Fluvanna County
Sexton
William
Sparks
Beauty Operator’s Home Wrecked By Bomb
An unoccupied two story colonial home owned by Rosa Torrance a 50 year old beautician was wrecked last week after she was advised not to move in by two White men who visited the site. The house sits in a White neighborhood amid racial tension as Negro families move in. A nearby White couple suffered minor injuries when a blast sent a plank through their window.
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Atlanta
ANP
Rosa Torrance
NBC Honors Mary McLeod Bethune
NBC presented a half hour tribute on March 15 to Mary McLeod Bethune founder of the National Council of Negro Women. The program featured associates colleagues from education government and civil rights including A Phillip Randolph Gertrude Jackson and Lucy Miller Mitchell. It involved 23 national organizations and 83 metropolitan councils in a campaign to recruit 100 000 new members and bolster civil and human rights efforts.
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New York
NBC
Mary McLeod Bethune
National Council of Negro Women, Inc
Lucy Miller Mitchell
Boston
Mass
Sadie Mills Franklin
Cecelia C. Smith
Washington, D. C
Charlotte Ford Clark
Leroy Bazzell
Albert McLeod Bethune
Bethune
Daytona Beach
National Broadcasting Company
Negro Women’s
National Council of Negro Women
Council
Famcee Choir Omits Miami In Tour
Florida A and M College famed choir leaves on March 24 for Florida cities Gainesville Daytona Beach Fort Pierce Stuart and West Palm Beach with recitals in Alabama and Missouri afterward. Directed by J Harrison Thomas with Grace Gray-Johnson and George M Hall Jr as accompanists the group features sixty five voices.
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Talahassee
Florida
Florida A and M College
Alabama
Missouri
J. Harrison Thomas
Kansas University School of Fine Arts
Columbia University
Grace Gray-Johnson
Howard University
George M. Hall, Jr
University of Illinois
University of Florida
Gainesville
Daytona Beach
Fort Pierce
Stuart
West Palm Beach
College choir broadcasts on regional and national networks
The student group of the college has aired performances on WMBR in Jacksonville and Gainesville WRHP and WTAL in Tallahassee and via CBS national hookup, expanding their reach beyond campus audiences.
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WMBR
Jacksonville
Gainesville
WRHP
WTAL
Tallahassee
CBS
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E. J. Paczah
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Esther
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Chas. Rhodriquez
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2Nd Avenue
2Nd Ave
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