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asy 3' 3b1' s ' : I SHEDDING LI ' For A GROWING RACE SIXTEENTH YEAR, EDITIO PTi ????????rA IrovingI - about CA'LINAl ? ? . By John H. McCray, Editor The Lighthouse and Informer ? ? ; Staging- Store Boycott Bennettsville ? Angry citizens here are in the midst of building up an effective boycott against a i local grocery store because of several arrests recently on what , is said to be false charges of' shoplifting. Some very prominent people are involved . . . Jonas Kennedy and his charming wife, Dett, arrived home Thursday t'.4- from New York City, but plan a take-off this week for Miami and a bU more vacationing. Lucky. 5 Minister-Organist Cheraw?We didn't know that Rev. J. M. Ellis,* pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cheraw, is an accomplished organist. He played for the NAACP meeting Sunday aftemoon . . . We think John S. Cole has a charming wife . . Mrs. H. L. Marshall sings beautifully . . . Van Buren Long, Mrs. S. W. Deas and several others are chuckling over that Lighthouse story some weeks back hinting Toot" work may have figured in the resignation of a former pastor here . . . V Rev. James Levy of- Camden is the new pastor of Pee Dee Union ' ' Baptist Church . . . Faithful as ever is Mrs. G. W. Long, whose i: ... husband, the late president at Coulter Academy, is buried on P&& the campus here. - > Vesalr! We Dan It!! Darlington ?1 Everytime we iViis. Mabel Robtnaon of thej Chicken Shack on the Florence-] Darlington highway, she tells of 'somebody new writing or calling ?* ' about her beautiful motel. That just goes to prove we "duzz" it . . . Dr. and Mrs. R. N. Beck like to move around together after his busy day. Living now in Florence, the doctor is originally from Georgetown . . . Heh heh! Saw ' Adard Allston's station wagon in the yard, didn't have time to stop. Ditto schedule trouble: W. J. . ? ? 2 A Cop Gets Revenge Sumter ? Revenge is so sweet! Policeman Burns of the -Sumter force got even with us Monday. His pal. Officer Gailliard, and we were chuckling over a yarn this column spun two weeks ago, saying Mr. Burns caught the flu as he tried to outrun a fleeing suspect. He came to the car and put * on a grin then, "suddenly got in fRSnt of our car, blew his whistle and waved both arms vigorously for us to get going. That mean look?he had it. Somebody had pulled up behind us. As we turned the corner, he chuckled: "I _ sufe fixed you." . . . The H. H. Butler Science Hall at Morris College is to be ready by May . . Thomas Ivey cracks his sides o* ? *? lnln RnHor Hol nrmo V CI nv*Vv Jaiv. ??v-? ^ proved his point that our folk would vote in primaries after a senator had spoken to him a bit rough before courts open Democratic primaries. He got the senator's goat . President O. R. Reuben is thinking about a new Chrysler . . . Steve Bradford of Do Drop Inn stillv pines for his old friend, Osceola E. McKaine, who's still in Belgium . . , "Duke" Brown at Morris is fretting lest his Hornets get pasted out of the ' possible SEAC basketball title in the closing weeks . . . Registrar Charles Mitchell (a fellow.^Lincolnvillian), is beginning to look ^ like n grown man . . . The little , secretary to the President at the college here is Mrs. Carr, Who is th? former MTss Walker of Man-' V ning. Oh Them. Delta Ladles! The lovely Mesdames Roy Campbell and J. T. McCain had Manning Avenue to themselves taking ads for the Delta Jabber SEE PAGE ft' '.?< '' ' 4 % ' V * ' *? *" i ' -f '* v ' : ? " "w ?? ' ...... r>jji CL _ j N NUMBER 34 Court East Yr. Fight; By John Sumter?A three year ' United States?three years sacrifices?have ended in th student at Morris College hei arship. The 19 year old ambitiou; young man, whose sacrifices t get to America and education i Jaswant Singh Sihra of Nairob Kenya in British East AfricJ who arrived by plane on Febru ary 4, 1953 at )tbe Airport i Columbia, penniless and disillus ioned, and who managed to nego tiate the 45 miles here. Robbed In New York A somewhat ironic, but never theless educative .experience we Mr. Sihra's greeting on arrivin in New York City on Februar 3 from Nariobi, a distance c approximately 8,000 miles. He ha< BISHOP J. A. GREGG DIES OF ATTACK I Jacksonville. Fla. ? RisV op J. A. Gregg, 76, presidin bishop over the 11th Epfsct pal District of the Africa Methodist Episcopal churct which is the State of Floridr I succumbed here in the Brew To Attend Funeral Led by Bishop Frank Madison Held, Indications early on Wednesday were that many el r Sftatt Carolina's AMC leader; I plan to attend the funeral ol Bishop Gregg, expected to b? held on Friday this week. ster Hospital Tuesday aftei noon following an illness tha had hospitalized him for fiv weeks. Funeral services were ir complete late Tuesday, but i is expected that these woul< be conducted by weekend. Bishop Gregg had sufferer a heart attack five weeks ag in Key West. He failed to re 9over ana lapsed into a com; several days befoi*6' his pass ing\ Mrs. Naomi Cherot," hi daughter, w h o is a schoc teacher in Kansas City, Mo. had remained at his bedsid during his last hours. Only last week the denom ination buried former Bisho] Monroe H. Davis of the 2n< and 8th Episcopal District in Baltimore, Md. Hinton Sees 'Forw Supreme Court Wi Greensboro, N. C.?Condemn ation by the Supreme Court o "scparate-but-equal" school faci 11 ties for Negroes would be i Hi H * 1 James Ilintoa "straight forward move," Rev. , M. Ilinton, president of the Soul Carolina State Conference of tf NAAQP, declared at Bennett Co lege Friday. { Reverend llinton was the ke] hit - *s Puni :ari Win : Ax Morrh H. McCray thirst for an education in the filled the heroic skimping and te arrival of an East African *e, on an all-expense-paid scholi s laid his top coat on the back o o a seat while petting informatio s at the desk for the remainder c i, his trip to South Carolina. Whe i, he returned, his coat was gone and so was his last penny?$60.01 n ?with whic hhc had hoped i; i- start his American education. "It was a shock to mo," ho said i "In our country, no one woul lever think of taking .somethin .. which wasn't theirs.'' is Honesty of his people is prl g' mary, he said. Why if you shoul< y lose a dollar bill, or anythin, if I even on a public thoroughfare d ; natives would see it, walk ove " ] it and let it lay there until th owner returns to claim it. Luckily, however, he had hi j plane ticket to Columbia and be I j ing not only a stranger in a ra ther unfriendly city (when yo are a stranger), Mr. Sihra was stranger in the country. He say . "I nearly froze to?death?tha g' night. It was very cold and .[chattered and shivered miserabl; n:as the biting cold whippe j I through me. I slept on a bene' ' | in (the park, and after gettinj f'_ directions to the airport, I walk ^ ea about miles to tne airpoi j the next morning and, here I wa before long in kind South Caro Una." 1 ! Visions Of Helping Race Mr Sihrn is an* Indian, born t ' East Africa. His parents live e bout 350 miles from Kenya. Hi * search for education in the Unit ed States dates back to 195 * when he met a native Afriean 0 , the colored group, with whom h j ' ? SEE PAGE 8 'e! . -JOE BLACK ESTOPS HERE dj Joe Black, Brooklyn Dodger O star pitcher, passed through (- Columbia Tuesday of this week a enroute to spring training camp i-J of the Dodgers at Vera Beach, B f la. >1 Persons who talked with the former Morgan State athlete el said but for the fact that he wasn't attired for the occasion -j Joe would have addressed the pt Allen University student body. 3 Joe said he expects his best S] season yet in 1953, he was re| ported to have said. ard Move' Should pe Out Racial Bias - linn Conference of Youth Coun f note speaker at the North Caro . oils and College Chapters of th< a NAACP which convened at Ben nett On February'6-7. Discussing what he called pos sible declsibns which the Su preme Court could render or civil rights cases now being re viewed oy that body, Reverent IHinton said that condemnatior of the "sepnrnte-but-equal" doc trine is the logical answer. Tie pointed out, however, tha | white opposition to such a deci | sion would be strong, and tha the transition to non-segregatei schools would be very slow evei ;if the Supreme Court rules ii favor of the NAACP?sponsore tight for abolition ?f segregate' educational facilities. Youths from throughout Nort Carolina attended forums durin the two-day * conference at Per | man Rights." The forums wer | conducted by Herbert L. Wrigh v> variational ycuin secretary for th ie NAACP in New York. Kell j Alexander, N. C. State yout [chairman, also spo\e~at the meei Ming. IN] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1953, CO! is lies An J k. ^ * iv , J^| 8 Kt W K'f*' '?)t* k I ifc..r.^ it, E. R. Crow, right center, chairman. S is ulates J. H. Kilgo, left center, principal of ; made available at the school by the two n 0 day night. Looking on are E. C. Dunn, lef 1 '*j James ^landing, right, superintendent of e: business education room, one of 20 classr ' Culbertson Heard CHUF dn Address For i MOR> Mullins NAACP By John Mullins?John Bolt Clubertson, j Sumter?Tho< Greenville attornev-at-law. held!Rlvc young pe( la packed NAACP audience spell-1 because of sort* bound in Ebenezer AME Church m morals ar^ sti --here Sunday afternoon as prin- wronR trpe was cipal speaker for the ^^ullins NA* our conversation ACP branch during its Febru- R Howard, v( ary meeting. Church clergym -I- Mr. Culbertson, a former mem- night. Di\ TIowz j bee Of the Oeneral Assembly of i well supplied ai ?South?Carolina, chastised Negro-|r.TTy, gnt into 1 es who are failing to give fullest. our recalling a support to a prorgam of equal-! delivered at V ttv of opportunity, and pointed Church in the to numerous problems Sojfh]ville on Chil< Ca linians would do well to many years age eliminate. a sprite of a y Mark Tolbert, presidnst o' thoj time, he had ce "! Greenville NAACP branch, and^for comdemnine " several other Greenvillians, ac- in1 >n effect "1 " romnnniffl him. A ciim of $1f?h P '1 1 going tc 'was collected for the NAACP The eminent {Defense Fund. smiled \vistful!\ James A. Hodge Is president of ^nt, he said. the Mullins branch; George H. "" ' t'UM' ^t( ' . . who are condor Chism is secretary. ^ ^ j ^ 1 onC(> did. thirn : WHERE -TO "TV T1 Dr. Howard t ?BlIY BOOK Persons wishing copies of Dr. drawn years at J McMillan's avidly discussed :,nd ifsearchors ^ i book, "Negro Higher Fduoat1 ion in the State of South Car- m,,m V 1 n i . . . w?tre certain .! olina, may make purchases at . i the following places, he told The Lighthouse and Informer , Tuesday: ''l|(^ Columbia, R. I.. Hryan i o., ' ' "V * Wook Kt4?r?t <ountx ( " ' '' n lj Drugstore, Stuart's Drugstore. 11 or ^ulxTay Orangeburg, College Soda That was ihf C 1. .... * ? -wr mm I -i n (T mDrln in j I ouup, i ?r. lcwis rv. me aaiuan, * vq S. f State A & M College. H toward took t Charleston, I>cgerton's. tion, how these * - Other outlets will he reported l''(" Krow shortly, he said. The research (n](-'i' ?'?e.d contin retails at five dollars. jbegun b v their - clition, found i I * V IfacrB FORMER LUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLNA ti-j imcr c 1 a ?:4 L B|| |k Vyx;::-v ^ 2 * ?? |T^* I ?$ ^wSSRRK^VPfllHK^HBPSiKM tate Education Finance Commission, congratLincoln High School, on the new facilities tw wings during openhouse there last Thurs- , chairman of the City School Board, and Sumter City Schools. At bottom is the new (oms in the new south wing. ? (Photos by E. C. Jones Jr. and K. McNeal) tCHMAN DEFENDS MJTY OF YOUTHS II. McCray of their own conception. ;e who so often He recaUed lhat many of those loudest in condemnation of young >p e 0 e OgS| p00p]0's frolics and behaviour - seeming decline wore, in^heir own young days 1! barking up the ?-? ? _ _ gEE pAQB , the substance of with Dr. Arthur >teran Methodist an here Monday ir?d. seated in his( j id appointed lib- I 111!' subju t uporr^^B sermon he had Lesley Methodist town of Lincoln- I dren's Day many er. At the! nsured the elders, and-, say-1 peo-; i the lender: y^P # disturbs penr same thing they ,- "" ^ISe*'. < \ js they are now!. ^ ^iL.'Nt. pnhle of doing." >ai(i his attention which h'e advo-* consistently, was : cam,, across an W.-.&J i had beon buried fl upon writings students ' DIRECXS BROXHERHOOI decipher. mln Smith of the Post Chapla aid, the writings, wlU direct an Interfirroup Cho H. C\. were trans- observance of Brotherhood substance read: February 22, four o'clock, ln t go to church <ated at the Corner of Blandinji 5V>hr?/d" * Kcenlr Interest oil to Iwtet ~same charge be-i Sm*th n -**?duate of the Unl his day and Dr.' Among others on the progi ? look at civilize 1 01 St. Paul I.ntheran ehi same young peo- Grnber of the Tree of Lit? 8 n up and taken Benedict College, the Rev. Frt nod improvements School of Theology. Allen Univ elders and in ad- J of St, Joseph's Parish, Chaplain inie to add some son and the Rev. R. O. Bass, p? f r r V-:\ 'f >Vv , *?S-'1<1 1 1 1 1 1 " i I, WH i, . i mmmmrm*' Ml I ,. >w Pai <t (8 Given 3( Richmond, A 30-day jail sen rC fpnPP and n fino urns noilad'n out last week by the Virginia'o: Circuit Court of Appeals to the a3 eight parents who refused- to c< send their children 20 miles out- n i side of the town of West Point to a jim-crow high schooL lp The cases eame before the Clr-'V cuit Couft as a resuflt of ap- j w peals filed by the NAACP law-|N yers in behalf of the parents af- tl J ter the Trial Justice Court of t< West Point found guilty and con- S victed the parents of violation |W laws" of Virginia. They were then a fined $200 each. - J b The briefs were filed with' the $150,0001 Lawyer? ? The appearance of Attorney H John W. Davis of New York City fc 1 in the state over the weekend t> ressurected speculation which p ! has been rampart for almost a c( year. The noted constitutional law- . i yer was hired by Governor Byr- n nes to represent the state before the U. S. Supreme Court last De- r cember when appeal arguments ls l**VIU MiC Vl?l CAAUVU WVU1II/ 1UU" 1 segregation school suit were made. While no definite fee has been announced by the Govern- C1 or*s offic, eatimateee of what * During the national convlave 8 of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity 21 in Philadelphia the hitter part of d December, both Judge J. Waties b Waring (retired), [ formerly of 0 ! Charleston and the South Caro- ^ lina Eastern Division of federal t court, and HAACP administra- s< tor Roy Wilkins said the fee was n 1150.000. ' w However, in South Carolina on a two-day visit with John H. g McCray, editor of The Lihthouse and Informer, Cliff MacKay, edi- \ tor of The Afro American news- jpapers, said the fee actually is $ $150,000. The $50,000 previously v ' mentioned was only a retainer, i Mr. MacKajr sald. s It I c c 1| I h ^m 1 i I I * HHP^^a. ^s^i I ( I 5 1 > WfcFK CHOIR: Pvt. F. Benja- , Ins Office at Fort Jackson,above, , lr, which will furnish music for , A Week here Sunday afternoon, j< the Central YWCA building, lo- \ : and Bull streets. " j Itowp t homl work here, Pvt. VOTitj of Kentucky, i_ ram fire: Rev. P. William Brandt, arch, Mel via Bsrris, Rabbi David ynagogue, The Rev.'t. E. Riiey of ederick C. James, Dean of the eraity; Rev. Father Allen Jeffords : (CM.) W. a Am Of Fort Jaekistor of Sydney Park CMF Curch. ' s'*v- & T. i j 1 : I OW THE TRUTH 1 It Shall 1 I 1KE YO U FREE 1; " ~ PRICE 10 CKNTB iii" i 4 ' i jl rents - --A . . ?. vsjw " I Days, ircuit Court of Appeals On Jaaary 9 by the NAACP attorneys n behalf of the eight parents :jjj Pter they had been arrested and invicted of keeping their childsn, all under 16, out of school. The action on the part bf the ; arents, which was called "the lest Point strike," came about Lt*. i ? _-l - * ? a* lira me scnooi Doara closed toe fegro high school and ordered le parents to send the students > the Hamilton-Holmes High < chool, located some 20 miles aay from the town of West Point nd completely out of the school card's. jurisdiction. Instead, the parents sent their hildren to the all-white West oint High School for enrollment. They were bluntly refused n the grounds that to accept mem would be violating the sag-. ;gation laws of the State of VirInia. Rather than the students le distance to the Hamilton- :4 olmes High School .the parents A ept them st home. Hoc suss of " us action, the State claimed the : Jjj avents violated die Virginia!;/.; >mpulsory attendance laws. In its briefs appealing the eon- ' ~7j intjrtn? NAAfCP stated thit - -ot only toe attendance law was ivolved but also the state's segregation law. which was in vio- j ition of the 14V Amendment Under cross exa*Hination at the easing of th? appeal in the C4r? ait Court, the lone vrttness for j \e school board. W. I^Qarber, Jjk aperlntendcnt of school adchool was superior to th# . r? high school and had been fvr B years. The school 'superitneu- ' ^ ent also admitted that the school- ^ oard was aware of the objection f the Negro parents to send jelr children 20 miles out of own to another segregated chooL The Town of West Point lade no effort to provide an equal but separate" school for regro children, the parents'cfaared. NAACP lawyers, Spottswood V. Robinson, in, and Oliver W. [ill, stated in their argument hat it was the state of Virginia /hich had violated the law, not he parents. -The court, in handing down its uling, suspended the fines and entence of two of the parents tecause they had enrolled their hildren into segrated: schools lutside of West Point and the ting Wniioma NAACP lawyers indicated that hey will appeal the conviction o the Virginia Supreme Court. .. ' aSts Proposed Amendment As Ducking Issues New York?The NAACP this veek denounced as e "delaying actio" the proposal of a group )f southern senators to abolish he poll tax by a constitutional imendment, and called for direct congressional action or a federal itatute banning this discrimina-' Afy vMirtg requirement. A statement adopted by the MAACP board of directors St its egular monthly meeting on Feb- * ruary 9 and released today by * Dr. Channing H. Tobias, chairnan on the board .asserts that if thirteen states should neglect to g ict on ratification of such an imendment during the time limit set, it would be defeated end "the opportunity of securing congress ional enactment of such a mea? STiFe hopelessly impaired.1 * fa If your subacrtptioa is in at- flu* I^JL.fta-JUiA-ea yodr address label Is earlier thaa Feb. ti, your copy el fti .paper will be dKiiieillaimd promptly. Please nam ea time. , ' A