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. By John H. McCray, Editor
The Lighthouse and Informer
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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.
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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.
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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
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Court
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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
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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]
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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
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-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
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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.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1953, CO!
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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
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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
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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
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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-;
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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