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County HighlSchools Ready
For Career Week March 24
Mr. George R. Williams, chair
man of the steering committee of
the Dade County Career Week
Conference revealed today that
the four high schools in Dhde
county are ready for their career
week activities.
After two months of careful re
search and planning, final plans
were submitted to each school
and cooperating organizations.
The theme for this gigantic af
fair will be “Plan and Prepare
for the Future,” the conference
will point out changes in racial
employment patterns and their
meanings for both the Negro stu
dent and the school.
Through the tireless effort of
the committee the program has
been approved by the Dade county
Board of Public Instruction.
The four high schools in the
Dade county area will feature
many outstanding figures, along
with many local ones, during the
county-wide career week which
will begin on Monday, March 24.
All of the fields of interest will
be covered when the need is
found and the interest is certain.
IPilllfiv it*
MR. HUBERT M. JACKSON
Racial Relations Officers
Public Housing Administration
Atlanta, Ga.
All of the local clubs and fra
ternities in the Greater Miami
area are cooperating. In addition
to the Dade County Guidance
Council, Mrs. N. McAdams, di
rector and the three DCT pro
grams, who are spearheading the
move, the Greater Miami Urban
League, the Delta Sigma Theta,
Phi Delta Kappa, Zeta Phi Beta
and Alpha Kappa Alpha sorori
ties and the Phi Beta Sigma Kap
pa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi and
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternities are
co-sponsors.
The Jaycees will assist with
making these out of town visitors
social affair to assist.* The assis-
tance of all of Miami will be
needed to make this effort a suc
cess.
Among the consultants for the*
conference are: John A. Hawkins,
AFL organizer, Atlanta; James
C. Evans, civilian assistant to the
Secretary of Defense, Washing
ton, D. C.; G. L. Holland, liason
officer, Veterans Administration,
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Tander Carter, 149 S. Dixie Hy.,
receive final instructions concern
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Con
gressman frpm New York and by
all accounts heir to his father’s
political career exchanges tips
Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Nora
Tucker, labor economist, Dept, of
Labor, Washington, D. C.; Major
Claude C. Clark, Florida A and
M Sollege, Tallahassee; Dr. G. B.
Simmons, dean, department of
education, University of Fla.; W.
B. Stewart, President Edward
Waters College, Jacksonville;
Continued on page 13
ing their coming Air Force and
Army life from Sgt. Bob Ray
mond and Cpl. “Dub” Thornton
of the Miami Army and Air
Force Recruiting station.
with County Commissioner Harold
I Turk who is up for reelection to
the County Commission from the
fifth district.
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VOL. XXVIII, NO. 28
PRICE TEN CENTS
Shoots Wife; Battles
Cops; Tear Gas
Causes Surrender
Odell Wilson 28, of 2340 NW
153rd st., Opa Locka, shot and
seriously wounded his wife, Ver
die Mae, 25, and then held off
officers of seven law enforcement
agencies in a gun battle, before
finally surrendering after tear
gas bombs had been thrown in
his house.
Three . small children of the
couple were in the house as Wil
son and the officers exchanged
shots, with officers shooting high
to avoid hitting them.
Wilson and his wife argued over
money Wednesday morning. That
afternoon, returning home from
work, she got off a bus at 22nd
ave near home when Wilson shot
her with a shotgun.
With wounds in the stomach
and legs, the wife was taken to
che Magnolia Clinic.
Deputies Dozier Hicks and
Adam Williams were fired upon
as they went to Wilson’s house to
ques.ion him. Reinforcements
were called for.
Officers from the county road
patrol were first on the scene,
but soon others from Opa Locka,
Miami Springs, North Miami, £1
SLAYER FREED
ON UNWRITTEN
LAW
Willie Howard 48, of 665 W.
23rd st., Hialeah, was acquitted
of a murder charge Tuesday by a
Circuit Court jury. Howard was
charged with the fatal 9tabbing of
Raphael Richardson, 54, on Jan
uary 12.
Howard said that he returned
s o his home on the night of the
incident to find Richardson sitting
on the bed talking to Howard’s
wife, who was in the bed. An
argument followed between the
two men. A fight followed in
which both men drew knives.
During the tussle that followed
Howard stabbed Richardson, who
died shortly after.
MIAMI, FLORIDA, MARCH 22, 1952
Portal, Miami and the county
police forces swarmed over the
place.
While Wilson was intent on
shooting from a front window
officers sneaked to the back
where tear gas bombs were!
thrown through a window. Soon
Wilson came out with gun above
his head, gasping.
Officers entered the fumed fill
ed house and brought the child
ren to safety.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The !
$1,400,000 Forest Hills Correc
tional School for delinquent col
ored girls, state owned, and situ
ated near Ocala, which has never
been put into use and operation,
was cited by Former Chief Jus
tice of the Florida Supreme
Court Alto Adams of Fort Pierce,
as “a glaring example of waste
and mismanagement in state
government.”
He added that Duval County’s
State Senator, Wayne E. Ripley
(Jacksonville), joined forces with
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RUDOLPH SYMONETTE
State Senator Walter E. Sturgis i
of Marion County (Ocala), in <
whose district the project is lo- i
cated, and with State Senator
Verle Pope of St. John County (St.
Augustine) staged a big fight on
the floor of the Senate during the
1951 Legislature, to keep the op
position to the home from strik
ing the appropriation for equip
ping the institution from the
budget.
They were successful in gain
ing the appropriation, Adams
said, but the huge and expansive
MIAMI BARBER
DIES SUDDENLY
Rudolnh * “Chink” Svmonette
widelv known harber. *ho noer
a*ed the Peoples FL Shop,
1031 NW 2nd ave.. died suddt. ’*
at his home, upstairs over his
barber shop Mondav night. Sy
monette had been sick for some
time, but his family did not re
gard his illness as very serious.
His Dassing was a shock to his
family and friends.
A long time resident of Miami,
where he lived since his child
hood days. Symonette is survived
by a wife, three sisters, one
brother, and several other rela
tives.
Funeral services, under the di
rection of Francis Funeral Home,
will be held Monday afternoon at
2:30 at the former Pharr Funeral
Home Chapel.
plant lies idle and useless, be
cause the governor vetoed an
appropriation for its complete
furnishings, and because a few
hostile Senate and House mem
bers towards the project, wished
it that way.
The Forest Hills School was
built several years ago and was
intended to fill the crying need
of delinquent colored girls in all
of Florida’s 67 counties who are
now being committeed to prisons
where they are subject to the
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SIXTEEN PAGES
AWARDED HONOR
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Mr. Baker M. Hindman, assis
tant director of instruction in
charge of Negro schools in Dade
county, will be awarded a special
honor Wednesday, March 19. 1952.
Mr. Hindman will travel to the
Bethune Cookman College at
Daytona Beach and will receive
a special citation presented by the
Board* of Trustees, faculty and
s udents of that institution.
The occasion is the Honors
; Convocation held in connection
i with the annual Trustee Board
Meeting, which takes place in the
college auditorium ai 8:00 p.m.
Each year the executive com
mittee of the Board of Trustees
at Bethune Cookman selects one
or more persons who have made
outstanding contributions to the
growth and progress of education
for Negro youths. The person does
not necessarily have to be an ed
ucator and is not always a Flo
ridian.
Mr. Hindman was selected for
his efforts and contributions in
the field of education and human
relations.
The guest speakers scheduled to
appear are Dr. Ludd M. Spivey,
president of Florida Southern
College in Lakeland, and Mr. Earl
M. Bunting, managing director of
the National Association of Man
ufacturers in New York City.
The Dade county schools now
have an enrollment of 12,557
youths, which are housed in two
high schools, two elementary-Jr.-
Sr. high schools, and 12 elemen
tary schools. These schools have
a total of 499 teaching and office
personnel.