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*?LIGHTHOUSE ?nd INFO ? xi Boalg ." * ON A REPORTER'S BEAT I * . ' * . \, ' -' ?v 4 MISS Margaret Bowling of the Ijprrlfl College faculty at Sum ?er, left Tuesday for New York where she will enter summer 4ohool. By the way,, her close friend, Miss Thompson of Haskell Avenue, left ahead of her. 1... -?-WHAT was that J. C. Artemus, Sr. was grumbling about the *her afternoon asi he waveti at this sleuth passing his home? - SOMEBODY remarked the other day that Wilburt Ford ? <mght-io do one of twothings; -Buy a laTger Jeep, or reduce. REV. Axhur H. Fisher was really going to town* fhe other morning ouside of Suart's Pharmacy as he propounded st mcj idnd of theory with gevtu^res,' nc.. before a fellow minister. | ? E. C. Jones, Jr. of Sumter wasl a popuialler tin Columbia tatej Wednesday. Wonder why thcf Mistress remained in the car? TO Doghouse Junior Stewart: The folk keep telling us to find i out, so to accomodate them, we' i*V "Is You Is or Is You Ain't" ?married? friTmnr Mro PfMiToKofVtl ..... ?" I Bates-Turner was threatening to :ut our noses off upon arriving ' . tn town last Friday. Everywhere r 4he turned, shi said, people were! discussing her reported marriage j vhile on a recent trip to Louisi-'^ uia. She nearly died when they J told her they had read it in this x>lumn. But while talking, she^ let out that last name now is St. | CLASSIFIED POSITION WANTED Position wanted by experie^c d Elementary teacher. Cla=s ill, Grade B. Honor graduate. Worktag toward Masters. Write Teach <sr, c/o Lighthouse and Informer, 1507 Harden Street. WANTED VIOUNG WOMAN to work Mn Hecord Shop Evenings only. for further information apply: T317 Harden Street. X. DAY HPRSKEy OAlT 'g^Efifr mjRSERY open for children three months to four years. Vei*y special rates _J. June 26-30 for the first 10 chil-, iren. Wonderful opportunities tor working mothers. Call 2-9969 '"'tor information or apply 116 Oak Street. Registered Nurse in iharge. _i., COMPLETE JOB PRINTING PLANT ? FOR SALE Consisting of: 1 Linotype Machine, 2 Job Presses, 1 Stitcher,1 <0 Caces of Type and Starts, - ? Gectrie Motors- Make-up ' etc.; including paper and rr?. tfy}iaaeous stock oh hand. CW' ospected Monday through Tjjjjiirday. Write or wire: tin. Bettie Roach, 1206 Columbia, S. C. Phone LICENSED REAL ESTAv^ iGlWT - NOTARY PCB^for buying or selling property ??f?? * me help you. (" T. J. SULLIVAN, Sr. (306 Oak St. , Phone 2-8419 I _ _ J FOR COLORED ? Ar tew beautiful 'tmllfllrtg lots" ~ on Farrow Rd. just above I Colonial Heights and4ust_flvef blocks out of city limits. &i? - W? JT. SUMTER 1818 Main Street ' L1 Moto 1951 Chrysler New Yorker Club Coupe, Radio, . 1951 Chrysler Windsor Club Coupe, radio, $2395 heater . ^ 1950 Chrysler. New Yorker fcf 4-door radio, heater, low ? $1995 mileage . 1 1949 Chrysler Windsor 4- j door Sedf' $1595 radio, heater . -rp 1 ^ I *\ ?4947 Chrysler Convertible^ Bt s rt0' $1095 | t941 Chrysler -4=door-J radio, S450 1 r. nea-.er T I OLIVER M L" ! CHRYSLER ? ** I COR. MAIN A ELMWOOI1 p ? T"f * > 4 ?., ' ' .> i A , - *\ -f . * RMER, COLUMBIA, S. C. Cyr, pronounced "Saint Sir" and that the knot was tied in June? but caching herself, she shut up "before I read that in the paper." But she's a wonderful lady and everybody is wishing for her and hers the happiest and most prosperous of voyages along that sea. . . ^ C. B. Hancock says that anybody who talks about him, especially .guys like Joe Ruff and Joe Counts, doesn't worry him. "I expect them to give me the devil", ^ chuckles. WE see by The Minneapolis, (Minn.) Spokesman that President .T- A Qacoat* was a speak-' er on June 22 in that midwest city. Dr.^JBacaata,-u-? guess, wasj way up out there talking in be-j half of Benedict College. My,] how they \york these college j presidents to death. And just think how so many people have the nerve to say now and then that all they do is sit at a de>k, read their mail and dictate a letter or two. City officer George Eleazor; poppfed' into Hop's Dining Ro-'n^ Monday- ?fttrrnoon, ~"""hl9 shirt, dampened with perspiration,' which was also flowing from hi* | brow, to remark: "Mrs. Hopkins, I am starve*} almost to death.! Please mam fix me some din-' ner". SOMEBODY says that if Rev. Tally" Addison doesn't watch where he's gain# when in the middle of the street, they're gonna put that last clean shirt on him. HAVE you heard the joke around town about- Rev. W. R. ; Bowman? They say that one day h?b walked up to the man who' stands on the knoll before Stuart's drugstore every day and preaches, to ask why was he always out there. The man, a re-j ported - follower of "Bishop"j Johnson (Philadelphia radio preacher) glared at him and' said "Why, I'm waiting here for Jesus. Haven't you heard He is going to pass right by here?" To that, the story goes, Rev. Bowman took off real quick. ' < NAACP CALLS 1 co; Carolina; Topeka, Kansas; and end of the year, the Topeka and South Carolina cases, after low-' i j*r courts upheld segregation in each, were handed for the Su-' prune Court, and the Delaware case was ponding in the lowvr: court. (Early this month the high tribunal agreed to hear the eases, which will he?scheduled for argument in the October^ term of 1952.-The Delaware case! which wa- decided in favor of the NAACP in April, 1952, is be-j ing appealed by the state, with a cross-appeal by the NAACP^ asking a direct ruling that segre-. gation in public schools is per se unconstitutional! Poor Civil Rights Year in Cong. "On the"TrglsTalive front," the NAACP report assert-, "the year looked gloomy from the start. After the 81st Congres- dis-olved with a do-nothing record on civil rights, convening of the 82nd Congress offered no prom-i im -of improvement. The reste-jration of life-or-death power over legislation to the House rules Committee, together with i I' 1951 Plymouth Cranbrook 4 door, radio, heater I ?-r usm1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe 4-door <C19Q'^ radio, heater | 1950 Plymouth Special Deluxe, 4-d o o r , radio, heater. Clftnn l! 1949 Ford Custom 2-door, i $1195 ; 1946 Pontiao Sedan, radio, heater - 196t For<T"CTuh Coupe, radio. | . So'0" $l8r?? OTOR CO. PLYMOUTH pi . > 1 \ . X Saturday, July 5, 19bi No Civil Contnued from Page One to give up the prestige and pow er they now enjoy. They knov that Republicans like Taft woulc give the South only the crumb: from the patronage table. Forunately, the NAACP exe cutlve pointed out, there are "in telligcnt northern Democrats leaders like Senators Huber Humphrey "?f Minnesota- an<c Herbert Lehman ol New York who don't frighten easily anc who place principle above ex. pediency, having awakeped tc the poker game the conservative South Ras?been playing." If the Democrats "want tc commit political hari-ltari," lie warned "let them nominate Richard Russell, Robert Kerr or any other anti-civil rights can. didate for either place on the ticket or pussyfoot on the plat, form plank on that issue. Should the Democrats nominate either a southerner or a 'northerner whose recod is bad on civil i ignis, vney can kiss me iNegro vote. good-bye. And a lot of other votes as well." Th^ NAACP ^jiUuke^iivan---+??. pressed "shock," at General Dwight 13. Eisenhower's views rn Civil rights and other issues "which at pres( nt place him to the right of even Taft and Ru-sell." Deaths at Mullins MRS. THELMA LEE McBRIDE MULLINS ? Mrs. Thelma Leo MeBridc', wife of Howard Me. Bride, died June 13. at the Mullins Hospital. FunoVal services were .held June 18 from Mt Olive BaptistChurch. CHARLES SWINTON r-l r.r. C I i i _ / ^inivo owiuiuii, iiusduiim 01 Mra. Nester ^winton, died June 22, at -his home on -6hrpway St". Funeral service- were held June 29, from Mt. Carmel Church. MRS. NANCY CONSTANCE Mrs. Nancy Constance, mother of Mrs. Early, died June 22, at 951 YEAR OF NTINUED FROM PACK 1 President Truman's appointment of former Governor Millard F. Caldwell of Florida a-- Dir-ctor of Civil Defense, all seem-d omens of appeasement of the Dixiecrats." Among the reropied achievements of the Association in the legislative field was the mobilization of its branche- and outside organizations for the defeat of the Winstead Amendment. which would have permitted inductees to serve in segregated units if they chose. The NAACP also called together a group of organizations for a civil rights meeting in Washington in May, plaeccT its views before majority and minority leaders of the Senate and House, and was able to bring about open hearings on a change in Senate rules to prevent filibusters. Many?ArrasIn addition to covering the year's highlight^ the NAACP annual report relates ' in detail the activities of the national office and branches in the courts, in houhing, the armed services, education, the area of legislative activity, the Atlanta convention membership, public relations, youth work, the regional offices, POLITICAL AD jf}&Qr)nnnnr>fir)Of)fninf)Qr,ntion % I T. ALE] Candidate f< 1 - Sheriff Riri Your Vote and Si ^ooooooo^ooooooooaoooo s I M \ ?-L--'" ! I Texas Has More 1 Race Than Any 0 CHICAGO, III?Fabulous Te: as, of tin regarded as the lax of miracles, can boast of anothi extraordinary a ccompdishmer _ when it begins tabulation of i' / colossal achievements. 1 Here in this giant state?whei s the Nt^ro is still confronted wit segregation, poll taxes and di: crimination?there are more gro millionaires than anywhei ; else in the union! t This "miracle", so to speak, ) 1 revealed for the first time in th . lead article in the current issu . of EBONY Magazine, leadin Negro publication in the world. The amazing story of how y number of Negroes accumulate ; great wealth in the state of Tex as has never been told befoi" now. "The reason far tiEIs T > quite simple, they wantM t stay out of the limelight becausi they were fearful of rethibutio] from jealous whites." Some of the old-timers stil insist on slaying out of the lime light, so much so that they stil live rather frugally with thei millions. But the younger Texa millionaires live just like an; other mllionaires, wearing thei wealth for the World to sec "Wealty cowboy scions oftci wrestle steers__ whi1^_ weann, huge diamond rings, $50.00 Stct son hats and $200.00 handmadi boots," says the magazine. 1 EBONY tells about 81-ycar ! old Mrs. Pinkie Taylor, wh< ! owns over 60 oil wells, yet en i joys doing menial work as hire< Confab Notes OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Roscoe Dunjee .veteran and mil itant editor of The Black Di> patch, was giv n a t -timonia Vduring the week in tribute 1 his 37 years as an editor and hi , 15 years as a frtVmber of the NAACP B ;ir? 1 of Directors t * Edward H Du ili v, Amcri .. Ambassador to Liberia. v. . < <t the most .-.ne-hi oft > attending the NAACP c :i. vonti'n. Spvtnung b.ie!! v 11. program on winch th S: : .u .-vr M dal was awarded po.-c.kuc ously to Harry T M oiv wo. was bla-tcd t .v. 'h la Chri-t. mas Eve night, Mr. Dud'oy, ; former NAACP lawy.-r. s"".cl th' native of Liberia' and Afri.t follow with intent interest ri. 1 cial incidents in this couc.trv. . . James M. Hinton, stat NAA CP presi-'cfnt for South Car lino, captivated the aucuonc< Thursday with a comprrh n !v< report of the work and progran in hi* -ditto. Ho reviewed lega and Jh r o- nferenre fights nvc the last ten years: 0 0 0 ... _A. J Clement. Jr.. presid- n of the Charleston, S. C. chapter pre-ided over the session of th< NAACP convention which 'leal with civil rights cases and tech niques for handling civil right pr hi ins. her h -mo on W-st Lahrol St Funeral services weiv hold Juni 26, at Nnzarene Baptist Church ?^ klijott hi nt Elliott Hnut, died June 2lJ, .i . itui h-nm ^ liWry Cwaatycral servicewill be h Id Jul; 3, at Martin Chap 1 the rol- of the church, fund raising, and the Cri-is magazine Copies of the 86-page report "1951 The Year of Hate Bomb,' may bo obtained from the NAA CI' national Oftioe, 20 West 40tl Street, New- York 18, N. Y., fo 2f>e apiece or $20.00 per nundred VERTISKMENT < * i HEISE >r Re-election iland County lpport Appreciated cn>otyoo o a o <x> o o ooo o o o ?x - . ^ -? Millionaires Within ?lther State In Union | k- hand. icl There is the rich and politic-, !r ally powerful Bellinger family,' regained a> tlu- most influential, Negro family in the southwest. | They publish a Negro weekly inj 'e Texas. Whik??many Nt*gro Tamtlies inj' s" Texas are rich because of In- 1 " heritancc of oil-rich lands, othe ers have made it as a result of their own pioneering efforts, is such as Leo D. Fontinenot, one 1 c of the biggest rice growers In 1 c America. More than 30 years a-' 1 g go he purchased five acres of 1 land at $35.00 an acre in Jeffer-i A a son Oounty. Now, Fontcnot C d owns hundred-, of head of cat-i - tie, over 3,000 acres of Tich farm t fej land and oil wells?with the land J 3 now worth $150.00 T75 $2.00 ZOT7T 0 acre. ~ a PJ There is Leon Fisher, \vh ; mi-' s 11. grated to Overton, Texas 26 a years ago from the north, mar- C 1 ricd a member of a rich oil fam-j ily and then started hi* own|C 1 laboratory to produce waxes f rj from crude oil. He madoa for- t 3 lune oui 01 *.nc inooratorios and a V to-lay i> regarded a-- tlv most \ ri brilliant Negro businessman in j Texas. <n And finally there is Major a EL Kennedy, typical of the min.'f lonaires. Kennedy, at the age of 2 70, owns over 72*oil well-, ho i * large herds of thoroughbred cat-~c - tie and owns the. all-Negro town j0 of Easton. r f 1 Saluda JVews i c SALUDA ? Correction from a 1 j story "In-last week's papers: Miss* * j Mcrcia Culbreth of Meharry ^ ! Medical . Coilege, in Nashville, "t Tenn., spent a week with hi r pa- u rents, Mr. and. Mrs. Will Cul- n breth. L Mrs. Zoar S. Wright "f C'laflin d C !! gi- in Orangeburg .spent, 'he- *' weekend with her brother, Robi 11 S. Logan and family. q ' \M L?r!s Band To "e Organized ? ; At A ? T CoMere I CTfrTTNS'nrTRO. N r ? Am -n a'l-girls' band. tlv- .first ueh i ........ . i - . yujLiii -u u 4?i h tijj/.en nx a gro colic.! . will bo sot ii'p at A. & T. College beginning in Sept mbor according to an nn-*~. nouncctn' nt relea-ed recently by ! \V F. Carlson, director of bands " at the North Carolina in*',it"/ n. T'res nt plan- call for ;ia initial - organization about 30 ni < .- v-!'h incrcas.s to follow through the yea:. 'We expect to ntroduc*th girl- at our first or second 1 football ganv said Mr. Carlon in an interview early this week This means that the la-st, ies should mak< their first np, pearanee either n th * night of l>! September 20 when the Aggies t engage Central State Colleg.* of _| Wilberforce, Ohio in the season's s opener or on 'he following week- j end when th v take on Allen - University of Columbia, S Notices have been TTtfrtfcd out to a numb' r of band ^ and applications have begun arriving in -uch quantity that of fn ials are a surcd of 'he mini. c ' mum requir. monts for th. initial organization "* Tile band is "wide open" ae; ' cording to Carlson and it will - he ccpn?flwi?- of ?nil? _ ditions and by r-"commendations ' of high school band directors and , principals. The girls' band will bring to j - a total of seven bands a' A & T > College. The o'hors include: the i popular 120 piece Senior March-I ing Hand; Heginn-rs band; Intermediate Hand: S nior Svm.! ^ ^ H . d^y^^ P( )TC | i PHC |!^ Flowers Foi I J ? I A ?? ? lYInny Farm Meeting / ORANGEBURG ? Many fwui tures of special interest to farm-' ers, farm womenn, rural workers, farm women, rural workvocational agriculture and home( economics, agricultural and home extemior; agents, teachers | of institutional-on-farm training for veterans, and any persons, interested in farm and home living will be include! in the program of th^ Third Annual' farm and Home Week and Rur.j il Ministerial Conference to be1 held at South Carolina State1 -XgricultCiral and Mechanical College August 4. to 7, 1952. The conference is sponsored by 1 ho Schools of Agriculture and lome Economics of South Caro-J ina Stiltt! Culhge-?the Cooper-^tive Extension Service, Divi-j ;ion cf Vocational Agriculturend Home Econmi^s and the soil Tonscrvation Service. Thu purpose of this confernce is to acquaint ministers, armors and farm women with ho importance and utilization of igricultural services offered by he-national, state and communtv organizations with the idea >f elevatig the social, religious ind economic status of rural >eopre. ? -t The program will consist of xhibits by manufacturers and listributors of modern farm and lome equipment^tours and denonstrations .classroom lectures,! ield meetings, main addresses by outstanding Speakers at general i-semblies. Wholesome enterainment and recreation will be >rovided for tho conference' roup. "fhcconference is being sched- J led b-twecn the close of sum-} ter school and opening of the ill sesV.on while the college etunts will be away from the ampu-. ~ ] T)il> will make available adeuat.? facilities for housing and icals for^ farmers, farm women nd rural ministers' who live at . istance from the college. All teachers of Home Econolics and Voctional Agriculture, vff.ncinn ncpnt? nnd others in I AND and the Army ROTC land. RO VING T ONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 E and a New Yorker a certain dil r owns. Put up, Buddy, or hut up. COLUMBIA: Thauks to A. J. -i rncnt, Jr. of Charl.iton and antes M. H'inton for the infer-j nation both were kind enough o s. nd us from the NAACP con-j a ntr n in Oklahoma City. la^U ceek. LAKE CITY: We understand hat for ene or another reason, he mass meeting scheduled by he local NAACP people in the W-hv Mehodist church has icon suddenly m- ved to a Rapist Church a few mile- out f own What the troubi--, Id.ks:, itill scared thewhite f >1 k "might ;howyu bel >ng to NAACP? CHERAW: Whi Un r it is gen rally known or not, the Negro voters here constitute the bal-, power for all of Chostcrild county. Whoever thcv support Tuesday will almost ccrainlv get elected and whoever hey oppose, is aim M certain to ose. College Flower Shop ii 1509 Harden Si. PHONE 9680 Night Phone 2-841i 1 > ANNOUNC] $ ' % *7 TUE! 2122 (iervais Street KD COLEMANV II l I > Use Qui m )NE 3-6382 r The First 50 Lad) y~J tcrested in life, *re to enroll mflnisteM ? and farrr people to register for the cOn. ference / ^-x? Shriners Program Cairo Temple 1-25, Ancient Egyptian Ariabic Or?i)er Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North and South America and its Jurisdicions, nc. will present a publie meeting at 8:30 p. m., Friday, July 11 in the Allen University Auditorium. Noble Booker T. Alexander^ CAROLINA NOW thru ! Sugar Ray ve T _ _ -m Ijoey jv champions 9 4 Starting LOUIS (Satchmi and his trim "GLORY j CAROLINA ESQUIRE ( CLEANING ? PRE! Service ? Style Phone 4-2837 v & : - visl I CITY A U' *10 Gerv; | Coiumh I Better U I Your Satisfaction, 1PEARCE AUTO Two biff lots foil of all ma "A Little out of the 2361 and 33U I Phones 2-90 Columbia, S< 4 SEE KING P I 1950 Ford Custom 2 doo heater, I 1941 Pontine 4 door sed* I 1951 Pontine Chieftain E Hydramatic, radio, 1949 Ford business coup I 1911 Pontiac Streamlinei I 1948 Chevrolet convertib I ' We have from 50 to 6(1 at a . < I AmKING F 1 W 1925 MAI ING THE QPENIN 'M/aveilcf * 2HAV _ TITT V Q 11 jLf/i i ? ti u lj i c, 1; jigner ^ LCH c. Flowers For A ft 17c -> 1 NIGHT - SUN f Customers 7 to 9 l \ ' . A *T' J ' ' ? w JH I ' " ; JH | _will present the Shrineprogqi^^BI through lecture end a zn^H picture. The public is invftflH there's no admission charge. J W. C. Donnelly is IllustriotpPj potentate of Cairo Temple j, E. Dickson Imperial Depulflfl of tbe Desert. , CHARM CKHIkR REAlift J SHOP Summer Bates, |Ut op Mrs. Viola Melvin, Mrs. Lucile < f'Brown; Mrs. E. R. Brown, Mgr. j 58% Calhoun St. Cha'n, S. C. ! CLOSE UNTIL SEPT. I For Registration or Infurnmilan, '1 write: Mrs. E. R. Brown PALMETTO BEAUTY SCHOOL 1 153.55 Coining Strtei ' 1 _ THEATRE. 1 1 SATURDAY I I nAnrsTn^T IVUDli^flUJ> >) ARMSTRONG HiH theatre i i :leaners 11 3sn^ttof rrpairs 19 ro SALES jl rsed Cars I ? Our LiTeUhortd'* jT^B - ZACHRY I J SALES ikes of New and Used Cars I ay ? But less to pay" ?8 Main Street I >uth Carolina J 0NT1AC FIRST! II r sedan, radio and in, radio and heater $295 H?| deluxe "8" 4 door sedan, and heater $2295 Wm e, radio and heater $895 % radio and heater ... $295 1 '1 le, fully equipped .... $995 ^ B I pood used cars on our lot 9 'ONTIAC ^ 1 N STREET J wk W. *UAt ifl Columbia, S. C. llfl *ETTA~iONftfr, -AwiaUng *H casions i| DAY 3-9862 jl