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New Pittsburgh Courier from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 30

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THI riTTSIURCH COURIER Oct. It 0 lev, sr 1A. I It ty VISITING COLONEL Col. commandant of tha Air Fore ROTC program at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, paid a visit to A. and T.

College. He chats with Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, president, and Mai. Fred L.

Allen, professor of air science, in charge of the ROTC detachment at the college. Mrs. J. H. Jackson of Chicago was in town to visit her daughter.

Dr. Kenny Jackson, who Joined the Tennessee AAI State University faculty this tall. While In the city Mrs. Jackson wai guest of the W. A.

Flowers and tha W. S. Davises. The Ardent Gardeners met with Mrs. C.

Treherne and heard Mrs. J. K. Petway speak the Jump on Spring Plant Roses This Kail." Other club members participating on the evening's program were Mrs. P.

Crump, Mrs. J. F. McClellan, and Mrs. H.

L. Burley. Arrangements of dried materials and driftwood were displayed by the club members. Dr. and Mrs.

E. Perry Crump motored to Tuskegee Institute to participate In the medical meeting held at the hospital there. Arthur R. Croley, organist, Klsk University, gave the dedication recital tor the Holtkamp Organ which was installed In the Flsk Memorial ChapeL Drs. Carl M.

Hill and Herman Long spoke to the Agora Assembly on science and human itJes, respectively. The meeting was held at the home Ot Dr. G. D. Holloway, A.

C. William, promotion consultant or radio station WDIA. Memphis, was a re vnt visitor to the city to participate In the Welcome Home Olympic Champions. Charleston The Minister's Wives Alliance celebrated Its annual birthday party recently at Reld Center. Mis.

J. fc. James welcomed the guests and games were conducted Jty Mr. G. C.

Brown, assisted by Mrs. 11. Vanderhorst. Mrs. A.

J. Murray was the outstanding prize winner. John 11. Wiighlen. executive secretary of the Progressive Good nows for asthmatics So dleor now wkti loir lor bronahlal uitM lufmn q.j! llv roilx chaktrur.

eothtlur. ted do It without us oi tntrnJ dru or flalul InlMtoM. So you Or Croa Mountain la ith.r diufllct compound form lta ut Brocrtpuoa. your druul for It. John C.

Robert! r. left, assistant Looking In And Around Nashville By IVAN ETTA IL DAVLS Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Grlder left the city to join other members of the Harlem Magicians (basketball team at Sands Spring, Oklahoma of which Mr. Grlder is co owner and co manager Morris Goddard, teacher, Memphis spent the week end visiting his sister and brother in law, Mr.

and Mrs. George Hughes Sr. Mrs. Samuel W. Williams, formerly Carrol Kean, is studying at the University of Tennessee (school of social work) and her husband is a freshman at Me harry Medical College William D.

Cox, speech and drama department, Tennessee AAI State University, is doing graduate work toward the doctorate at Indiana University. James K. Davis of the Health Department, Memphis, was in the recently visiting relatives. Mrs. Rafael (Mary) Hernandez was the charming hostess" to the Iris Bridge Club.

The members met at the beautiful home of the Hernandezes where they were served cocktails before enjoying a delicious dinner. The ladies played three rounds of bridge with the lovely towel sets going to Mrs. Blanche Ennlx, Mrs. Marjorle Meadors, and Mrs. W.

S. Davis. Mrs. W. Ewell was guest by the Sea Democrats of South Carolina who is also a lawyer, in a letter to the editor of a daily paper, outllnned the following ways in which Negroes might achieve their goal of civil rights: secure good paying jobs, use money wisely, organize their own banks, depart merit stoics, super markets, housing developments and lending agencies.

If those goals are attained, the fight for civil rights will be a thing of the past. He feels a group with money can demand respect from anyone. U. S. BERRY, probation counselor of the Juvenile Court says lhat 75 of delinquent children are Negroes.

Reasons given: low moral standards, parents too lax on demands on children. $.. Federated Wooinieiru's Clubs at 'ManTest Festival' CHARLESTON, S. C. The South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs held their annual fall meeting at the Wilkinson Home for Colored Girls, Cayce.

The Wilkinson Home, since its organization in 1909, has been one of the main purposes of the South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. The six acres on which the home is built were a gift of the Upper Diocese of the Episcopal Church of South Carolina under the administration of the late Bishop Klrkland G. Findlay. Through 50 years of earnest federation leadership this project has grown to become a licensed institution with a capacity for 20 girls from broken homes. The Harvest Festival, originated during the depression years.

Is the occasion for federated clubs over the state to increase the pantry supplies of the Wilkin Educators, Social Aides At Phelns Stokes Confab Phelps CAPAHOSIC, Va. Twenty four educators and social workers attended a three day confer ence here, Oct. 7 9, sponsored by the Phelps Stokes Fund under the direction of its project di rector, Dr. Aaron Brown. The conference, which dealt with "evaluation, inter group re lations and pupil was held at Holly Knoll, the scenic and spacious riverside home of the late president of Tuskegee Institute, Dr.

Robert Moton. Consultants addressing the conference were: Dr. Daniel Schrelber, co ordinator of' the Higher Horizons Program spon sored by the board of education in New York City; Dr. Kenneth E. Brown, U.

S. Office of Edu cation; Albert A. Edwards, ex ecutive director, St Philips' Community Center, New York City; Mrs. Carrie Young, co ordinator of Special Services for Sheltering Arms Children's Service, New York City; Thomas J. Pugh, Interdenominational Theological Seminary, Atlanta, and Dr.

Samuel E. Duncan, president of Livingstone College. working mothers leaving children without supervision, and teen agers too often having no chape rons on dates, to name some of the causes. A seven acre tract of land fac ing Knightsvllle Rd. near Sum merville, S.

has been purchased by an Interracial group. Additional funds are needed to build a home for the aged on the land. A SEVEN ACRE tract of land facing Knightsvllle Road near Summerville, S. C. has been pur chased by an interracial group.

Additional funds are needed to build a home for the aged on this land. The Planning Committee of the Dorchester County Rest Home Inc. are: Tom Smith, chairman: Cronston Pincky, vice chairman; Mrs. M. S.

Almand, recording sectary; Mrs. Rebecca Low, assistant secretary. Mayor L. Hayden Doty has helped in the planning of the 'Home, Sidney B. Jones is legal advisor.

MB, AND MRS. Jacob Honor, New York, City celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary recently at their residence. Out of Jown guests were Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Robinson, parents of Mrs.

Honor; Mrs. Masella Magwood and Sly via Avery, sister and nelce of Mr. Honor; Mrs. EUa Dunnmeyer, aunt of Mrs. Honor and Mrs.

Dorothy Zelgler, a fi fend. aii ef dwrieaton, son Home. Boxes of canned goods, staple supplies, clothing and household linens, were brought to help fill the pantry shelves and meet other needs. The highlight of the convention this year was the presentation of the first yearbook to be published by the federation. Sincere express sion of appreciation was made by the president, Mrs.

Mamie E. Fields of Charleston to Mrs. T. B. Stackhouse of Columbia, counted, she said, among our very best friends," for her help in compiling and publishing the yearbook.

Plans were made for expanding the program of the federation. especially along the lines of conv munity development and citizen ship. Leadership training for clubwomen was stressed. THE PRESIDENT reported that $1,153.50 in cash had been HERVING as officers of the conference were: Dr. Aaron Brown, dean; Lionel B.

Ftaser of Jackson State (Miss.) College; Cecil G. Couke, of the Phelps Stokes Fund; Dr. Charles W. Orr, dean of Alabama College; Robert M. Ratcllffe, of LeMoyne College, and Dr.

Cohen T. Simpson, dean of Talladega College. High school principals participating were: Dr. Ira B. Bryant, Kashmere Gardens High School, Houston, S.

E. Burford, William Penn High School, High Point, N. W. H. Coston, Laboratory High School.

Alabama State College; Chester Cowart, Douglas Anderson High School: Jacksonville, R. C. John son, Parker High School, Birmingham, R. J. Martin, Ballard Hudson Senior High School, Macon, Edwin L.

Phillips, Lucy Addison High School. Roanoke, A. H. Richardson, Archer High School, Atlanta, and B. Rutherford, Booker T.

Washington High School, Columbia, S. C. Others participating in the conference were: Edward Lumley, of Brooklyn, N. Walter Washington, president of Utlca Junior College. Utlca, and William A.

Waters, dean of Rust College. Holly Springs, Miss brought In from the various clubs over the state for the support of the Wilkinson Home. The district presidents, from the Coastal, Marion Blrnie Wilkinson (Central), Pee Dee, and Piedmont Districts, were riven large boxes of remnants to take back to their respective clubs. These were donated by the Horsman Doll Company of Columbia. From them doll dresses will be made and sold for the benefit of the Wilkinson Home.

Among the several trophies presented, was one given to Miss Bessie Conyers of Sumter County. This young student of State College, Orangeburg, won third place in the national contest of Colored Women's Clubs for making and modeling a costume. Mrs. McDonald, junior adviser, accepted the trophy for her in her absence. Beginning In 1960 the Wilkin son Home became an agency of United Community Service.

rimr vtAss or hosress F. M. Youngs Fete Silver Anniversary i COLUMBIA, S. CDr. jnd Mrs.

F. M. Young, in a festive fiower ladened setting, celebrated their 25th silver wedding anni versary in their home, 1320 Lyon last Saturday evening. Guests were presented by the Rev. and Mrs.

G. J. Odoin. The guests' register was kept by Mrs. Mary R.

Hardy, a niece. who was assisted by Misses Pris cllla Martin and Marie Williams. Mr. and Mrs. John Simons, cousins, received guests, who were served by Miss Irene Young, a niece, and Mrs.

M. Harris, a cousin. Mrs. O. C.

Finley, ja sister; Mrs. T. F. Marsh. Mrs.

Wll helmina Martin and Mrs. Lula M. Lloyd kept the gift register and handled these Items. Among close relatives present were the Young's daughter, Mrs. Rose Evelyn Dykes of Los Angeles, and their son and daughter in law, Mr.

and Mrs. An drew J. Ryal of Nashville, Term. Another son, Harry J. Ryal, and another daughter, Mrs.

Louise E. Bell, also of Los Angeles, CalLL, were unable to be present Dr. Young, for many years pas tor of Friendship Baptist Church, is prominent in religious and civ lc affairs in South Carolina. 'SILVER ANNIVERSARY Dr. and Mrs.

F. M. Young of Columbia, S.C., who celebrated their silver wedding anniversary lait Saturday eveiMflfv.

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