The Informer and Texas Freeman (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 28, 1946 Page: 3 of 12
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THE INFORMER, Saturday, Dec. 28, 1946
Page.
| Henry Swain Presents First
i BTW Coin To President Truman
WASHINGTON, D. C. —Presi- committee. Icoin is being enthusiastically re-
dent Truman was presented five Presentations of the Booker T. ceived by the American people,
sets of the first run Booker T.'Washington coin were alaa made Three months before the issuance
Washington Commemorative half at this time to John W. Snyder, day, 50,000 orders had been filed
denars at the White House at secretary of. the -reasury by with the Booker T. Washington
11 a. m’ on Monday. The presen-Judge A. H. Hopkwr. Circuit Judge Birthplace Memorial which is dis-
tation was made by 90-year-old of Franklin Cou -ty, Va., where
Henry Swain ut Franklin Coun- Booker T. Washington_______
ty, Va., a childhood friend of to Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Boss, direc-
Booker T. Washington. Accom-
tributing the coin, and banks
was born: throughout the nation bought one-
half million dollars worth the
tor of the mint by Mrs. Portia previous the
panying Mr. Swain were Mrs. Por- Washington Pittman and to Con- week previous to the
- *=--- ----- - .. **- O on The general public may secure
gressman White chairman of the these coins by making application
tia Washington Pittman, only liv- U_______________..__
ing child of Booker T. Washing. Contage, Weights and Measures
ton; her daughter, Mrs. Fannie division, by Mrs. Fannie W.
Pittman, 8. J. Phillips, president man, granddaughter of Booker T.
Washington.
Pitt-
issuance.
to the Booker T. Washington
Birthplace Memorial Rocky
Mount, Va. those minted.at the
Philadelphia and San Francisco
mints cost $1.00 each. Those mint-
ed at Denver cost $1.50 each .plus.
10-cents postage.
The Booker r. Washington epins,
presented to President Truman
were paid for out of a fund ere.
ated through contributions of
students in 3500 schools of Amer"
ca who participated In BookerTe
Washington Memorial Week, No-
vomber 10 through 16. Similar
presentations to Governors of the
forty-eight states and other na-
tional leaders are provided for out
of the same fund.
When you awaken on
New Year’s morning may
you awaken not only
to a day of happiness,
but to a whole year of
happy days. We welcome
the New Year and take
this opportunity to
greet all our friends.
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew
Peoples & Mother
3225 Cleburne Street
Houston 4, Texas
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TYLER - Dean o. w. crump
of the College of Liberal Arts and
Science at Texas College, ‘Tyler,
Texas was recently elected presi-
dent of the Texas Negro State Tea-
cher’s assoc lation, and was formal-
ly inducted into tiie office at the
session which closed recently in rt.
Worth. Dean Crump is recognized
as one of the most scholarly and
efficient administrators in the na-
tion. He is shown here at his desk
in his office at Texas college as ne
dictates correspondence to his sec-
cretary. Miss Luberta L. Hill. As
president of the Texas Negro
State Teachers’ association, Dean
Crump has outlined a very com-
prehen ive and progressive pro-
gram for the association. One or
the major objectives of the asso
elation is that of bringing about t
equalization of educational oppor-
tunity for Negroes in the Lone
Star State. Under his deanshanip at y
Texas college, the institution has
greatly increased its enrollment
and takes a higher place in the
educational realm.
--Continental Press Photo
HERE’S TO
YOUR
HAPPINESS
JHello Everybod
HAPPY NEW YEAR -
10
THESE UNITED STATES
KENTUCKY STATE COLLEGE
STUDENTS WINS STATE ESSAY
CO X TEST
chest from the service revolver of
M-Sgt. George F. Yates, white MP
and native of Birmingham, after
FRANKFORT. Ky.— (ANP) — he swung a chair at Yates, who
had drawn his pistol on a white
Chester Archer Higgins of Lex-
ington, Ky .
29-year-old veteran
and journalism student
lucky State college,
at Ken-
won first
place in a statewide essay contest
for college and university students
sponsored by the Committee for
Kentucky. Writing on the contest
subject "What Can The Committee
For Kentucky Do To Improve
Conditions In Our State? Higgins
won $150 in bonds and a silver
trophy.
WHITE SAILOR SHOT
CHICAGO — (ANP) —A white
sailor was shot Friday evening by
an MP in Fred Harvey’s union
Station restaurant here in pro-
testing a slur against a Negro sol-
dier and is now in a critical condi-
tion at the County hospital.
Charles W. Gustafson, 21-year-
ol navy man and native of Brain-
i rd, Minn., received a bullet in his
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soldier for protesting the MP’s re-
marks to a Negro soldier in the
group. DesPlaines police were told.
4-PERS PLANT 10,000 TREES
AT SOUTH CAROLINA CAMP
SITE
Helping to establish a recrea-
tion camp, 108 4-H club boys
from 27 South Carolina counties
planted 10.000 trees on the 265-
acre camp site near Elloree, S. C.,
recently.
PRESIDENT TAKES CHARGE
LYNCHBURG, Va. — (ANP)-
The Rev. M. C. Allen, who began
his duties as new president of Vir-
ginia Theological Seminary and
college here on Tuesday, Dec. 10
found the faculty and student
body at their posts and the change
in administration was carried out
with “fine’’ cooperation of students
and instructors, an ANP represen-
tatives was told during a visit in
Lynchburg Friday. President Al-
ien spent the first day with routine
executive duties including direct-
ing charges for the smooth opera-
tion of the college.
MAINE STUDENTS INCENSED
OVER HOTEL’S REFUSAL TO
SERVE
WATERVILLE, Me.—(ANP) —
Irate students of• Colby college
gathered in a mass meeting here
last Wednesday to protest the act-
ion of a Waterville hotel in re-
fusing to serve a fellow student,
because of his color.
NEW YORK MAYOR WEL-
COMES KAPPAS
NEW YORK — (ANP) — All
plans are ready for the 36th An-
nual Grand Chapter meeting of the
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity
which convenes here, Dec. 28-31,
and which will bring some 300 Out
-of-town delegates.
The welcome mat in out for
Kappas, with Mayor William O’
Dwyer already extending his “best
wishes for the success" of the
conclave. In a letter to James
Egert Allen, well-known civic
leader and Kappaman, the mayor
wrote.
DETROIT CIO FIGHTS STATE
ACTION VOIDING FEPO PETI-
TION
DETROIT— (ANP) — Richard
T. Leonard UAW-CIO vice presi-
dent, chairman of the UAW Fair
Emplo-ment Practices committee,
and the union’s PAC director Mon-
day promised a “fight to the fin-
ish’" against State Atty. Gen. Foss
O. Eldred’s ruling that the thou-
sands of petitions collected to ini-
tiate a Michigan fair employment
practices law are invalid.
DEMAND DISMISSAL OF WHITE
COP
CINCINNATI— (ANP) — Three
organizations are demanding the
dismissal of a white Union Termi-
nal policeman here for the recent
brutal beating of a Negro passen-
ger, who arrived here in a stupor.
ARCHBISHOP CICOGNANI HOST
HENRY SWAIN
of the Booker T. Washington
Birthplace Memorial in charge of
the presentation ceremonies, and
T. C. Cottrell, a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Memorial,
and John McBride, clerk of the
Coinage, Weights and Measures
ENNIS
Deaths
The funeral of Gray Smith was
held at the Church of Christ, Sun-
day evening. Interment in Ennis
cemetery. Mr. Gray died while on
his job at the S.P. shops He leaves
a widow and other relatives.
American College of Surgeons, is
a member of the hospital’s staff.
PAUL D. WILLIAMS REELECT-
ED
ATLANTA, Dec.— Special—Paul
D. Williams, businessman of
Richmond, Va., has been re-elect-
ed president of the Southern Reg-
ional Council.
Your friendship
and our success are
i closely interwoven.
‘ We hope, in 1947,
to strengthen still
further these bonds
of friendship.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO AU
HOLMES
CLEANERS
2317 Pierce
or 1947
The Spotlight is on our
new arrival and we, as
one of the welcoming
committee, hope 1947
will be a joyful and
beneficial addition to
your life.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
DERRY’S
SERVICE STATION
AND GARAGE
2820 SCOTT ST.
NEW ORLEANS. LA.
• As 1947 moves in we want to say
"hello” to everybody in this section
and to wish them a very Happy
New Year. At the same time we want
to express our deep appreciation
of your friendship.
WASHINGTON, D. C.— Special
—Members of the Catholic Inter-
racial Council here were guests at
the Interracial Mass offered this
morning by the Most Rev. Amleto
Giovanni Cicognani, Archbishop of.
Laodic a and Apostolic Delegate to
the United States, in his private
chapel at the apostolic delegation
here.
HOSPITAL ADDITION BEGUN
NEW YORK— Special— Work
has bee 1 begun on a $1,000,000 ad-
dition to St. Catherine’s General
hospital, conducted by the Fran-
ciscan Sisters here. Dr. Peter Mar- .
shall Murray, one of the first Ne-
groes admitted as a Fellow of the
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