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PAGE 4 TKMrOKA MITUTI H RT NOR MIT A Mt'R IN KLI.IS “Th<« Ttm<»a Ar* Chiiafcd And We .Are Chnnjreri with Them'* Offlre el IMt N.W TWrrt A venae, Miami. Florida—Telephone PR t-l*S« riant nt «740 N. W. 13th Avenue—Telephone I*l. «-«l«g F.alered aa Neeand t’lnna Mailer, Anßaet I. I»t7, at the P<*M Offla at Miami, FlarlUa under the net of March S, IMt H. R. BIOIB.MUND KKKVKB, Rdltar OAKTH C. RRRVRM, Avaodate Rdltor and Ruelnese Mounter Member es the National Newspaper FaMlehere Aeeoelatlon Member of the Aaaeelated Net re Frees BUBNCBIPTION BATES t ONR TRAB |4.M • SIB MONTHS |I.H - THREE MONTHS ll.St “CREDO OF TIIR NRORO PRESS'* FHE NRORO PRESS—believes that America ran beet lead the world from rad a I and national antatonlame when It accords to every man retard *sse es rare, color or creed, his human and letal rlfhts. Ilatlnt ne man, fear- Int ne man—the Netre Press strives to help every man In the firm belief that all men are hnrt as lent as anyone Is held back. YE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK WELCOME BAPTISTS This week we welcome to our city the Florida East Coast Baptist Association, the Rev. J. H. Dolphus modera tor. The Association is holding its 54th convention at the Mt Neibo Baptist Church, South Miami, Rev. J. E. Mur ray, pastor. The Woman’s Department holds its sessions at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, South Miami. Prominent speakers were present to greet the Associa tion at its opening meeting on Wednesday. The sessions close on Sunday evening. Another convention held in our city last week was the Seaboard Baptist Association, the Rev. W H. Ed wards, moderator. This association met at the St. James Church, Coco nut Grove closing its 26th meet on Sunday. Next week we will have the Atlantic Coast Baptist Association, the Rev. L. A Thompson, moderator. The three-day meeting opening Wednesday at the New Mt. Zion Church. Homestead, is also the 26th convention. DEDICATION Bethel Temple, Apostolic Faith, 2310 NW 58th st., will conduct a two-week dedication program opening on Feb. 18 and closing March 3. Elder Doris R. L. Akins, pastor. A number of sister churches will participate. The Miami Times extends greetings and best wishes for these churches at their conventions and also in the future. FORMER PRESIDENT VISITS Former President Hairy S. Truman, accompanied by Mrs. Truman, is visiting Miami and the Florida Keys. The Trumans arrived on Sunday and are living at Islamorada Mr. Truman was speaker at the combined Jewish Appeal banquet at Miami Beach on Tuesday evening. The former president also met with newsmen. He thinks the country is on a sound financial basis. He believes the Middle-East tension “can be eased.*’ Nor did he fail to mention the integration question. Mr Truman, who during his administration, did much in the Civil Rights cause said: ‘Southerners must understand*’ that integration is in evitable. He said peaceful solution of the problem is endanger ed by “demagogues taking over.” ‘THE PEOPLE DO NOT SPEAK” The program, “The People Speak” carried over sta tion WMBM, sponsored by St Agnes Church with the Rev. John R Culmer as moderator, has been dropped. The broadcast was a Saturday feature and had many listeners Prominent speakers in and out of the city w ere heard and national and local problems interestingly discussed. The broadcast began over station WFEC and had been going on for more than three years. JUST BROWSIN’ BY PAUL R. HENRY The Stale erf Georgia has taken another backward step. The state senate an Thursday unanimously passed a bill to prohtwi racial mixing in baseball and other sport events. ■ <a Dr. Elmer Ward, retired phar macist, is building on hfc proper ty at the comer ors 6Eth terrace unA lib ate. The building is one story with five stores The Hewn SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1957 Geller Construction Co. is the eon tractor. County health officers are seek ■>.c regulation of mirseria? on a >ta e-wide has*; whereby there would be uniform authority for nspertioo and higher standards for the nurseries. Florida Products Festival began .xi Feb. 14 and will continue through Feb. 23. emphasizing Florida grown and made products of which there are more thar 7500. —— - ,# The most serious automobile ~ .Jp£k, 'wSF m f n; j^ The graduating class of Cox Kinder garten of 1753 NW 4th ct., was invited by Officer Alex McDowell to visit the police precinct on Friday, Feb. 1 where a session of court was heard by the class. Follow ing, Judge Johnson spoke to the children Unveil Bust f 1* n^Bml m Dr. Harry Sweeting, D.D., 2148 V W 4th st., Fort Lauderdale, will unveil the bust of the late Hen rietta Walker Sweeting on the Sweeting’s estate Sunday, Fob. 24 at 3:30 o’clock. Dr. Anthony of New York City and Rev. W. B. Miller of Jacksonville will of ficiate. Mrs. Thelma McPhee of Miami will be guest soloist, with. Charles Weir, organist, of the St Agnes Episcopal Church, at th< organ. Dr. Sweeting asks the presence of all friends and citi zen?. F 23 accident in Dade County occurred on Sunday when a father’s car (white) went into the Hialeah Gardens canal, drowning his wife, five children and a 12-vear-old boy, a friend of the family. The father is being chargrd with man slaughter. He knew his car’s hrak<*j were no good. Gasoline price is down again. Will it remain, or take another jump. D. A. Julius who own? the Sun light Beauty School, was taken ill while at church on Sunday, but has recovered. At the Miami Beach Auditor urn on Wednesday night Joe Brown, lightweight champion, won a TKO over Bud Smith in the 11th round. Sugar Ray Robinson is visiting Miami. Robinson, who gave up li; crown to Gene Fullmer, wui try to regain it in a re-match on April 24 in Chicago. In basketball Northwestern Hi defeated Mays Hi on Wednesday nigh: by the score of 65-51. The Rt. Rev. Henry I. Loutitt, bishop of the Diocese of South Florida spoke to more than 500 Episcipaliane on Monday even ing at the Church of the Epip hany in Hialeah. The occasion waa a Deanery Dinner meeting discussing the $770,700 develop ment fund campaign for church work in the Diocese. The City of Miami's 4.000 em ployees have asked the City Cam mis-aan for a 10 per cent raise in salary tor the find year be g.nr.-ag July 1. Social Security to Disabled Children A new type of monthly social security benefit to disabled child ren over age 18 will be paid for the first time the first week in February, Charles I. Schottland Social Security Commisioner. announced on Feb. 5. A 1956 amendment to the Social Security law authorized these benefits. Commissioner Schottland ; raid nearly 3,000 applications for dis abled child’s insurance benefit: hav: already been processed by the Bureau of Old-Age and Sur vivor? Insurance for the month of January. Checks certified early in January are being delivered thr fi r st week in Fobruarv: other: arc scheduled for mailing later. More than 20,000 disabled soir and daughters of qualified work ers are believed to be eligible for these benefits during 1957. They may receive benefits back to Jan uarv 1957, if they apply through their local social security office be'ore the end of Jan., 1958. After this date, benefits will not be paid retroactively for more than 12 months. The amendment provides for payment of benefits for disabled children of retired or deceased workers after the children pa c s age 18, if the disability is such that the child is not able to work Under the old law, benefits ceas ed for all children at age 18. Richard V. Keys, 29, of Colum bus, Ohio, is one of the fi rt per son to receive this new type of social security benefit payable to disabled children over 18. Mr. Keys has had cerebral palsy since birth and has never been able to work. His father died in 1960, when he w'as 22 years of age. At that time, his mother received a lumpsum death payment based on the father’s social security ac count, but neither the son nor widow was eligible for monthly benefits because the son was over a?e 18 and the widow was under age 65. Under the recent change in the law. Mr. Keyes and his mother may now receive benefits totaling $132.80 a month. His payments may continue as long as he re mains disabled and his mother’s will continue as long as he re ceive- benefits, and she has not remarried. As an important part of Mr Keys’ application for disabled child’s benefits, his name is be ing referred to the Ohio office of Vocaticnci Rehabilitation to de termine if that agency can help him overcome his handicap and A PE aSd E freedom Feb 17-24 % 4 on “Good Behaviour,” then the kiddies were shown through the precinct. Stand ing with the class, left to right, Mrs Sara Gaines, teacher; Officer McDowell and Mrs. B. E. Cox, supervisor. Photo by Johnson of Miami. >ll pill |J ■ M ./mb ’-W m £ \ : sw? William V. S. Tubman Jr., son of the president of the Republic of Liberia, i in his so homore year at Rutgers Univenity where he is preparing for a career in law. Young Tubman, knowm as “Shad” to his Rutgers classmates, wull specialize in corporation law*. He completed his fre hman year at Harvard Univcr.ity before transferring to Rutgers last fall » Sugar Ray Here Sugar Rav Robinson is the latest celebrity to leave the win try blasts cf the North and :eek the warm Miami climate for a bit of fun in the sun. The dapper boxer, who w on the world midd! .weight title three times, arrived here Wednesday in time for the Joe Brown-Bud Smith title fight at Miami Beach Auditorium. Bay will be here three woeics before returning to New York to begin training for his April 24 rematch \yith Gene Fullmer. He * ;S expected to play in the North and South golf tournament at Miami Springs this month. prepare for and find suitable wmrk. Since Social Sedbritv records are confidential, Mr. Ke\ s and his mother, Mrs. Mary V. Keys, gave permission to release the facts in their case.