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sHbwr Artzntt^prtbtm? Isf Year, No. ii MISS PEGGY BELL IS CROWNED CARNIVAL QUEEN Story & picture page 5 Tanner Chapel Choristers /) j i W■ • J 'x* 1 This choral group of Tanner AME Church presented a musical program based on the theme of the American Negro's contribution to the world of music. ‘A Song is Born* featured outstanding vocal arrangements under the director ship of Mrs. Rachel Ward. Pictured above, front row: Harold Carriger, Juanita Scott, Evelyn Warren, Donna Sue Ward, Maxine Johnson, Roberta Lewis, Katherine Drum. Back row: Alexander Wright, Cecil Scott, Marvaulene Croomes, Cleo Moorehead, Erma Bowen, William Miller, Rev. Pir’%ard, Charles Wheeler. REMEMBER IT'S YOUR VOTE THAT COUNTS! Back To School In another troubled Arkansas community—the town of Van Bur en where thirteen Negroes with drew from the high school after being jeered and threatened by striking white students a differ ent kind of solution was put for ward by a Federal judge last week. Judge John E. Miller put the school board on its honor to see to it that integration was peaceably resumed. The tactic worked. This Monday, eight Os . the Negroes returned to class. There were no demonstrations a - them, only a few harsh ■ looks. Three's A Crowd Young hula hoopers pause from their mad whirls, l to r Gwendo lyn, Elizabeth, and Lincoln, Jr. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln J. Rags dale, 1606 W. Thomas Road. Veterans News Any disabled veterans desiring hospital care or needing assist* ance with his claim should call Clovis Polk, local Post Service officer of V. F. W. Post #l7lO. Phone numbers BR 6-2401 or AL 2-0719. Pictorial Weekly Friday, October 3, 1958 Major Convicted KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany, A court martial of seven colonels convicted Maj. Leonard V. Bail ey of disorderly conduct and fined him SI,OOO for striking Negro entertainer Timmie Rogers. Don't Get Tied Unordered ties are being mailed into the Valley area by the Neck tie Workers Organization of St. Louis. Recipients are under no obligation to purchase or return the merchandise. This group solicits sales under the guise of supplying work for handicapped persons. New Town Residents of Allenville, a Ne gro settlement two miles south of Buckeye, Arizona want to be come incorporated. Anyone own ing property or knowing of pro perty owners in this area should contact Clovis Polk, local real estate salesman for the William and Jones Realty Company. KKK Nest Discovered MOBILE, ALA—Sheriff’s of ficers cracked down on a Ku Klux Klan nest with headquarters in the Saraland police station and linked arrests to the ambush slaying of the small town's may or and a series of antibus-inte gration cross-burnings. Mobile County Sheriff Ray D. Bridges said seven men had been arrested, including Saraland Po lice Chief N. W. (Pat) Patrick. More arrests were expected. Saraland is 10 miles north of here. “We have evidence the town’s police station was a center for a good portion of the Ku Klux Klan activity in Mobile County, *’ Bridges said. But he added there was no connection, yet, between the Klan and the Aug. 6 shotgun killing of Saraland Mayor Oscar L. Driver. 10 Cents Sims Honored -a- * I lb* - • • J •* V. .1 Mr. Carl Sims, Sr., Democratic legislator from District 7 for eight years was the hon ored guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Les- ter Irving, 809 W. Magnolia St. A delicious four course dinner was enjoyed and Mr. Sims re ceived the good wishes of his staunch friends who worked so untiringly during the recent cam paign. Mr. Sims defeated three contenders for his seat in the Arizona Legislature. He is vir tually elected before Nov. 4 be Arkansas Student Enters Los Angeles School LITTLE ROCK, ARK.—One of the eight Negro pupils to com plete a year at Central High School left last Saturday for Los Angeles. Terrence Roberts will live in California and enter school immediately in order to finish his senior year without further delay. His father stated his son would return to Central if it was opened to Negro students again. He will send his daughter to California if schools are not opened within Goldwater, Mac . To Share Forum Senator Goldwater (R -A r • .) and Governor McFarland have accepted invitations to appear on a television forum.from 3:30 to 4 p.m. Oct. 12 on Channel 10. The two are opponents for Goldwater’s senate seat. The invitation was issued by the Phoenix League of Women Voters. Boy Loses Eye Ronnie Strickling, son of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Strickling, 1140 E,. Yavapai St. was struck in the eye by a rock thrown by another boy. The accident oc curred in front of Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, 17th and E, Mad ison St. Ronnie’s eye was re moved at Memorial Hospital. He is a student at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School. Phoenix, Arizona ' cause he does not have a Re publican opponent. Pictured above; 1 to r: Miss Ada Jean Boykins, sec’y: Messers. Aaron Cochran, Carl Sims, Sr. James Haley and Lee Thompson; standing behind Mr. Sims - Mr. and Mrs. Lester' Irving. three weeks. Mr. Roberts said that Ter rence and Ernest Green, Central High’s first Negro graduate worked in New York City during the summer at a garment fac tory. Terrence plans to become a doctor and he hopes that his decision to enter school in Cal - ifornia will not cause him to lose any of the scholarship funds es - tablished by several groups for him.