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Christian Hospital Receives Gift—
“l have always looked with sympa
thy and grave concern upon the
lack of hospital facilities for Color
ed people here,” Wednesday declar
ed Mr. L. L. Brooks, president o
the Greater Miami Colored Research
and Improvement Association, an
interracial organization of property
owners, as he presented a check for
five hundred ($500) dollars to Mrs.
Elmer Ward, president of the La
dies Auxiliary to the Dade County
Academy of Medicine on behalf of
his group to be used to purchase
equipment for the Christian Hos
pital. “I hope,” continued Mr.
Brooks, “that this gift will inspire
others to make donations to this
worthy cause.”
In her acceptance speech Mrs.
Ward declared that the members of
her organization are proud of the
pift and will use the same towards
the purchase of two instruments for
use at the Christian Hospital. One
of the Instruments will be used for
the treatment of cancer, and the
other, an electric dynamo, to pro
vide light for the institution during
hurricane periods.
This gift from the Greater Miami
Colored Research and Improvement
Association is but one item of a
planned program to improve condi
tions in the Miami area.
In the photograph above (partial
membership) reading left to right
are: Mrs. Mary I. Williams, Mrs.
R. H. Portier, Mrs. W. A. Patter
son, Jr, Mrs. I. p. Davis, Mrs. .
W. (Hawkins, Mrs. Elmer Ward,
Mr Brooks, Mrs. Prances R. Jolli
vette, (treasurer); Mrs. W. W. Wel
ters, Mrs. W. A. Patterson, Sr.,
(secretary), Mrs. T. L. Lowrie.
It is reported that the two instru
ments referred to will cost thirteen
hundred dollars (sl,BCk)). Seven hun
dred dollars of which lias been rais-
Persons and organisations wish
ing to assist in making donations to
complete the balance of the five
hundred and twenty-five dollars
needed will contact any member of
the Ladies Auxiliary to the Dade
County Academy of Medicine.
This group is interested in assist
CITY CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN BEGINS MONDAY
BY C. A. IRVIN I
The members of the Friendship
Garden and Civic Club are going
forward with plans for .their 13th
Annual Health Program 0n T>ade
County, today announced Mrs. A.
M. Coleman, president of the or
ganization. The effort will begin on
Sunday, April 3 and extend through
Monday, May 16. Mrs. Coleman re
ports that her group in the past has
received the Good-Will and coopera
tion of city and coufrity officials,
religious, social, civic and fratern
al groups as well as from business
and professional men and women.
TOWN MEETING SERIES BEGINS
The Negro Citizen's Service
League, through a Citizen’s Com
mittee has devoloped a series of cul
tural programs to be called the “Pan
African” Town Hall Meeting. The
public is invited to attend these pro
grams which will be held at the
Negro Service Council, 34# NW 13th
at., beginning April 3, from 4:00 to
5:00 p.m. First subject for discus
sion is: “Can Our School System
Really Do Better by The Negro?”
To discuss this subject are: Atty.
L. E. Thomas. Rev. Edward T.
Graham, pastor of the Mt. Zion Bap
tist Church and Miss Florida Mur
ray. Case Worker, District Board of
Social .Welfare.
ing in every way possible, the mem
bers of the Medical Profession and
the Christian Hospital in increas
ing its facilities and instruments.
They give freely of their time to the
Community Chest, the Red Crow,
and other Community Enterprises.
She says that her club is there
fore anticipating an even greater
response this year from its sponsors
than it has in years before. Mr?-
Coleman states that she is solicit
ing of the United States Department
of Health, the National Negro
Health Movement, the National
Clean Up-Paint Up- Fix Up Bureau
Ministers, Teachers, Newspapermen
Radio Station Officials and all
others who are interested In making
Dade County the cleanest communi
ty in the nation in which to live.
The theme of this year’s Negro
(continued on page 4)
Americans Won’t
Get Brown Babies
LONDON Britain has decided
against sending 31 Somerset county
children to America for adoption.
Negro families in the United States
had agreed to adopt the children,
bom of wartime romances between
Somerset county British girls and
Negro soldiers.
The home office ruled Tuesday
that there would be no change In
children’s laws which prohibit them
from going.
PRICE TEN CENTS
VOL. XXV, - NO. 30
Dade County Teachers Active In State Meetint
Dade County Wins
Musical Contest
By Charles C. North
The Dade county delegation of the
Florida State Teachers assn, reports
one of the best meetings of the
FST association in many years. The
group held its annual convention
in Daytona Beach at Bethune-Cook
man college campus, March 24-26.
The state-wide musical contest was
won by the Dade county choral
group, directed by Linton Berrien,
music instructor at Goulds, Jr. high
school.
The general theme of the con
vention was “Present Problems in
the School Program of Florida.”
Attack Suspect Returned
Robert Lee Kemp, 2S-year-old,
charged with raping a White woman
in Liberty City last December 19,
was returned to Miami from Ocala
Friday.
Kemp was picked up on a va
grancy charge hi Ocala and his
identity was revealed by an FBI
fingerprint check.
Kemp is alleged to have been a
Commissioners Stay
On Job At Perrine
The (ate of the Perrino munici
pality has been placed In the hands
of the State legislature. Meanwhile
the disgruntled city commissioners
have agreed to stay on the Job tem
porarily.
Mayor R. P. Barfield said Wed
neaday that he and Commissioner
J. A. Brown had agreed to keep the
city going temporarily but that
neither wanted their fid* perma
nently.
“We tried to run the city right
and didn’t get any help from the
efttsens,” charged Barfield. “Seme
people are dissatisfied and all 1
want to do is get out of this tangled
was.” *
Tempore Mutantur Et Nos Mutamur In Illis
Miami. Florida, Saturday, april 2, 1949
Participating in the general discus
sioos by members of the Dade
county delegation were:
Miss Frances Osborne and Mrs.
Marlon Shannon on the subject
Commercial Teachers Face their
Persistent Problems.” Mrs. Ruth
Polite on “Persistent Problems of
Florida’s Exceptional Chldre n.”
Gussie Dobbs Joined |n the
round table discussion.
Mrs. Gladys Robinson, sixth grade
teacher, Dunbar elementary school.
Slave some demonstrations in “Tech
niques for Teaching Social Studies
in the Intermediate Grades.” Linton
Berrien, Goulds Jr. high. Miss Ber
nice Blache, Dorsey high. Timothy
Bh*age, BTW high school all join-
pa*tner to the raping along with
Attdrew Harris, Jr., who was cap
tured. Harris was tried and found
guilty on March 21. He is now serv
ihg a 40 year prison term in Rai
ford.
Harris contended throughout his
trial that he held the woman and
tpat Kemp attacked her. /
April Ist Wa*
Tax Deadline
A'
If you missed paying your city,
'Oounty and state taxes yesterday.
Pou’re probably in for a penalty.
{ E Nichols, head of the city
tax and license division, said there
would be no penalties on failure to
pay real estate t&xee until June 1.
But a one per cent penalty will be
levied after April Ist against failure
to pay personal taxes.
County Tax Assessor Earnest
Overstreet, whoee office on the
courthouse’s first floor also hagdles
states taxes, said a three ped cent
Penalty will be levied on failure to
P«y real estate taxes and one per
cent on personal property after
April Ist.
ed in the topic discussion on "De
velopment of Musical Festivals as
a medium for bettering music in
Florida schools.”
Samuel Cohen. BTW, spoke on
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Agnes Rolle, sixth grade pupil of
Mrs. Edna 81ms Hall at Dunbar
Elementary is the champion speller'
in the county's elementary schools.
Agnes won the honor is the annuel
SIXTEEN PAGES
“Relationship BetweOa the School
and the Attendance Assistant."
Mrs. Genevieve Lockhart and Mrs.
Verne Reed discussed “Persistant
(continued on page IS)
spelling bee sponsored by the Inter
mediate Teaoher* Association. She
Is shown holding the trophies she
won, and not looking very happy
over her newly aeqalysd honor.
Congressman
for
those
years. Since the
war, of
t critical
shortage o 1
building materia'
the federal gov
ernment has en
gaged In no fed
era! building pro
Jecta.
quentlv, many
localities which
hare grown In
else during the
past several decades now have press
ing needs for larger federal facilities.
For example. In Miami many agen
cies of the government have offices
In this city, but there is not ade
quate room for them to properly
serve the public and. further, they
are required to be housed in many
different buildings throughout the
city.
Now located In Miami are the area
headquarters of several government
agencies such as the Immigration
and Naturalisation Service and the
weather Bureau. In addition, the De
partment of Commerce, the Bureau
of Internal Revenue, the FBI, Abe
Veterans Administration and others
have offices there, as does the fed
eral judge.
For some years 1 have pointed
out the tgcessity for a large feder
al building In the Miami area, and
there Is now some possibility that
the first step toward eventually ac
quiring such a building ha* been
taken. There Is a bill before Con
gress. H. R. .1019, ‘ which would
authorise forty million dbllhrs for
com prehen alve planning and site ac
quisition for federal building projects
throughout the country. If passed
this legislation would permit the
Federal Works Administrator to
prepare plans for necessary federal
buildings and. if necessary, to ac
quire the site for such projects. One
of the projects which the Federal
Works Administrator has on his
list for possible consideration Is a
$7,610,000 federal building in Miami.
This legislation, moreover, would
be & timely move to create a bul
wark against a possible depression,
rs an economic recession should
again require extensive federal pro
jects. the necessity for such expen
ditures would be immediate. Unfor
tunately, It takes from a year to
eighteen months to prepare plans
and acquire sites for such projects
and, therefore, If we do not plan in
advance, It could easily happen that
*he commencement of such projects
would lag twelve to eighteen months
behind the time such projects should
he Initiated. If H. R. 1019 Is enacted
Into law, the Federal Works Admin
istrator will be able to prepare thee#
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