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WE WISH YOU A VERY MERRfCHRISTMAS
6 Certified Under
Regional Education Plan
GAINESVILLE, Dec. (Special)
Certification of six Negro applicants
from Florida for admission to Me
harry Medical and Dental School In
the fall of 1950 under the Regional
Education plan was made in a re
cent meeting of the Florida Board
of Control.
Already enrolled this year are 16
Negro students from Florida in the
Meharry Medical School and seven
Florida students in the Dental
School under Regional Education.
Along with certification of the six
applicants, the Florida Certification
Committee algo announced that
deadline for making applications to
the medical and dental school has
been extended to January 14, 1950
for admissions next fall.
The deadline for applications for
regional schools of veterinary medi
Your Congressman Says ..
By Congressman George Smothers
This year on Christmas Day the
White House will be empty and de
serted. Because it is being renovated
it stands as a hollow, gutted shell
with all Its interior removed —a
mere skeleton of its former self.
But it has not
always been like
that. The first
president to oc
cupy the White
House was John
Adams and h o
and his family,
which included
his grandchild,
Susannah, man
aged to have a
cherry and mer
ry Christmas
celebration in
the old New England style. Since
then every President has celebrat
ed the Tuletide along with the rest
of America and the White House
has been aglitter with lights and re
sounded with the laughter of child
ren and guests.
Probably the first person to bring
a lively social air to the Executive
Mansion was Dolly Madison, the
"tovemtor” of ice cream. As hostess
Mm
cine is April 15, 1960.
Applications to the Florida Certi
fication Committee must be filed
with the secretary of the commit
tee, w. F. Powers, Board of Control
office, Tallahassee. These applica
tion blanks, a letter of recommen
dation from the college where the
applicant did his pre-professional
study, an official transcript of
grades from the college, and letters
from three individuals (such as
ministers of public officials) testi
fying that the candidate is a bona
fide resident of Florida.
MIXED COMMITTEE
The Florida Certification Commit
tee for Regional Education which
recommends the applicants to the
Board of Control consists of Dr.
John S. Allen, vice president, Uni
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for both her husband and for the.
widower Thomas Jefferson, she
proved to be a g/eat entertainer
and was the social leader of her day.
It Is said that President Andrew
Jackson and some of his young
guests had a snowball battle in the
rose room one Christmas morning;
some say the snowballs were not
real ones. When “Teddy” Roose
velt first went to the White House
he was such an avid believer in con
servation that he refused to have a
Christmas tree. Later on, however,
he was convinced by conservation
leaders that the cutting of trees
for Christmas was not damaging to
the conservation program, so a tree
was set up in the Whits House.
President Franklin Roosevelt with
his large family probably made the
most of the Christmas celebration.
People and parties, laughter and
noise, made the White House ring
with gaiety. Then, too, there was
the President's annual custom of
reading aloud to his family Charles
Dickens’ immortal “A Christmas
Carol.”
During recent years it has become
the custom to decorate a large corn*
’iranity Christmas tree on the White
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VOL. XXV, NO. 16
BE CAREFUL, FELLOW!
Traffic Total Set
At 435
If the National Safety Council Is
right in its predictions, 435 people
will die in traffc accidents over the
three-day Chrstmas holiday.
Ned H. Dearborn, council presi
dent, said: "We are forced to make
this estimate by mathematics. It
certainly is a terrible thought for
the Christmas season. But our hearts
tell us the toll will be lower that
the American people will not permit
such a tragedy. I hope our mathe
matics is wrong and our hearts are
right.”
If you drive, don’t drink. If you
drink, don’t drive. Gas and alcohol
never did m lx well.
House lawn and for the President
to be on hand for the ceremony of
‘‘lighting the tree.” This year the
President will light the tree by re
mote control from Independence,
Missouri, at about 5:15 in the after
noon and will give his Christmas
message following carols and music.
The ornaments which had deco
rated the community tree in past
years were badly damaged last year
when the truck which was remov
ing them from the White House
caught fire. So new ornaments will
adorn the tree and it is reported
that when the tree biases into light
it will sparkle with multi-colored
lights constructed to give the im
pression of burning candles at a
distance.
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That night, across the nation
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Christmas trees will shine forth,
symbolizing the spirit of Christmas
and good-will among men. It is my
sincere hope that all o< wou will be
enjoying a Marry Christmas.
The Times Are Changed And We Are Changed With Them
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY DECEMBER 24, 1949
i llrUa Armas (Eljr &nnm |
g O Christmas, merry Christmas,
It is really come again, JS
ap With its memories and greetings, fit
2? With its joy and with its pain! M
wjf i There's a minor in the carol
And a shadow in the light
8# And a spray of cypress twining
With the holly wreath tonight. Js
St And the hush is never broken
By laughter light and low, 0
S As we listen in the starlight 0
X To the ‘‘bells across the snow.” 0
» O Christmas, merry Christmas, «
sr ’Tis not so very long M
I Since other voices blonded n
With the carol and the song!
If we could but hear them singing, &
As they are singing now, S
If we could but see the radiance jS
Os the crown on each dear brow,
There would be no sigh to smother, 0
No hidden tear to flow, 0
As we listen in the starlight 0
To the “bells across the snow.” 0
O Christmas , merry Christmas,
This never more can be; jS
We cannot bring again the days
Os our unshadowed glee,
But Christmas, happy Christmas, 0
Sweet herald of good will, 0
With holy songs of glory ®
Brings holy gladness still. 0
For peace and hone may brighten M
And patient love may glow Jj
As we listen in the starlight j§
To the “bells across the snow.”
—Frances Ridley Hevergal 0
TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES
Prisoner Held After
Teen-Age Attack
LOUISVILLE. Ga. (INS)
Sheriff James Hubbard said Thurs
day night he will continue to hold
a 'White Georgia state prisoner
charged wth attacking a young Ne-
Sro school girt, but a leading state
official has ordered the convict’s re
turn to the Georgia prison.
The Jefferson county (Louisville)
sheriff said he will release the life
termer. Pete Coleman, when and if
his innocence is established.
saw
J. G. Hatchett, assistant director
of the state board of corrections, has
ordered Coleman’s return to Tatt
nall state prison in Heklsville, Ga.
Doctors said the girl’s skull wrf
crushed by a blunt instrument du?
ing the attack.
Coleman, allegedly attacked the
teen-ager as she waited for a school
bus. He was operating a scraping
machine along the road where the
girl was standing.
He received his present sentence
for the 1947 murder of Bertha Mehr
ens, of Savannah. Ga.. who had been
known as the "Good Samaritan.”
Burglar Convicted
On 4 Counts
Willie D. Copeland. 97, accused of
shooting it out with police who sur
prised him and two other men dur
ing a burglary here last May, was
convicted Thursday In Criminal
court on four counts of breaking
and entering.
Judge Bea C Willard postponed
sentencing Copeland until Tuesday,
when he will be tried on a sth count
of breaking and entering.
Copeland’s companions, Green
Clayton Williams. 99 and Titus
Walters, 41, were sentenced resent
iy by Jgtige Willard to U years
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BoIRa Test Case In
Supreme Court
TALLAHASSEE Methods of
identifying bollta tickets in Miami
<3ty court cases are under teat in
a case argued before the state Su
preme court.
The case, relatively unimportant
in itself, according to Assistant City
Attorney olavi Hendrickson, is that
of Fred Noble who was booked on
charges of possessing and selling
lottery ticket*.
The arresting officer testified that
he bought ‘Two pieces of single 4”
which he identified as Cuba endings
Long Xmas
Ahead For
Joe Walcott To Fight
Harold Johnson
Feb. 8 't*
PHILADELPHIA Harold John*
son. Philadelphia light-heavyweight,
boaton only once In SI bouts, Thun*
day signed for his moat important
flffht a 10*rounder against heavy*
weight Jersey Joe Walcott.
The pair will meet at the Arena
P«b. 8 under the promotion of Har
ry Steinmann, Walcott will receive
40 per cent of the receipts and John*
son 20 per cent.
The fight originally was annoamo*
ed for Peb. 15 but John (Ox) DaOro*
«a, newly appointed to the State
Athletic Commission, objected on
the grounds that it was too near
tbe proposed Sugar Ray Robinson*
Oeorge Costner nod-title fight date,
tentatively set for Peb. 11.
Johnson is rated one of the beet
light heavies to come out of Phiia*
delphia since Tommy Loughran. He
has been beaten only by Archie
Moore and holde a decision ever
Jimmy Bivins.
This will be Walootts fire! en
gagement since he whipped OUe
Tanberg in Sweden last summer.
There w ui be 14 yearn difference
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for a drawing the succeeding Satur*
da?. W
Jack Kehoe. attorney for Noble,
argued that the tickets were not
sufficiently identified as lottery
tickets for a live, future pay-off.
A time element, arising because
Noble was booked May 17 and charg
ed with selling the tickets May 18,
also wag argued but this is secon
dary, Hendricks said, to the impor
tant question which the city hopes
to sustain that of sufficiency of
identification of bohta..
Week-end
Miamians
When moet Miamians punch ths
dock at fivs today thsy will begin
celebrating a long Christmas week
end.
Most businesses jrtil be closed un
til Tuesday morning'since Christ
mas fails on Sunday and the legal
holiday is Monday.
The downtown shopping district
is literally a madhouse with store
clerks pulling their hair out by the
handfulla, trying to handle the mob
of last-minute shoppers.
The brightly lighted and gaily
decorated streets make Flagler a
veritable Christmas fairyland.
Christmas carols can be heard
above the warm exchangee of "Mer
ry Christmas" greetings between
friends.
The Christmas spirit is in the air
Many children and grownups who
might not have had a very merry
Christmas are having one through
efforts of organisations who never
forget the underprivileged during
this season. The Square Circle
Sportsmen Club, the Loyal Buddies
and the Herald Fund
«>ly aome who distributed
Christmas baskets and toys.
The Christmas spirit was even
exemplified in the city jail. Special
taenns am being prepared and some
ItßSky prisoner* will be released
".«r- to k> homo with the
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