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«i.i «si.i>ii.i. .11 .■M. 'i . . .***. ■. ../rj^A*f»»f*mnm.\SSfj*.f * » mt ii.s.is»'WiirslrrT^JcmAmm*******]/******* *mi^^r^. is ii i sn ii i. , . tt leiMSMessTi mm 9**pmmmmmmrmaaamaamaa*~*^^ ■MM: mm 'V.i-^rf ..-"'«':-'-' . . JOBLESS PAY HIKE Story On Page 3 • 5 THE OHIO S ENTINEL *• VOL. 7* No. 21 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER S, 1955 SENTINEL STAFFERS COP AWARDS First prize awards were won by two members of The Ohio Sentinel's editorial staff during last June's 17th annual convention of the Nat'i Newspaper Publishers Ass'n in Kansas City, Mo. Announce ment of the awards was formally made last week. The Sentinel staffers were John B. Combs, managing editor, and Nina M, Redd, former city editor now associated with the Dept. of Journalism at Lincoln university, Jefferson City. Mo. Combs took top honors- in the "General and Local Stories Division" with a series of seven articles, appearing in July, August and September. 1954. editions of The Sentinel, entitled "Jim Crow in Ohio." The judges de- -clared that, in "Their opinion, "these stories are as good or even better than some Pulitzer prize stories (we) have read." Miss Redd walked away- with first place in column writing, "Humor arm Local." for "the rollicking column, 'Chicago Dateline—This is the City'," which she wrote for The Sentinel while on leave of absence attending the University of Chicago. Other prizes won by The Sen- tincl: Third place for "Government and National Stories," for a series of three stories by John B. Combs "exposing discrimination against Negroes for jobs in state agencies." Third place (tied- with Pittsburgh Courier* for Washington and national affairs columns This award was also won by Combs for "the column. 'Speaking of Politics,' which is devoted to Ohio politics, politicians and political issues." According to the judges' evaluation of the col. umn. "His (Combs') readers certainly should be well educated voters." Second prize in the "Features" category went to William Mirt Wood, for a camera study of JOHN B. COMBS Wood's son made at a YMCA camp, which was published in The Sentinel. "The picture," said the judges, "is simplicity to the extreme, a boy-row Ing a boat; but the expression on the boy's face tells a story that truly no thousand words could convey." " . For "Public Service Programs,"' The Sentinel received third prize "for a series of articles aimed at building healthy interests among boys and girls in Ohio by sponsoring a Halloween block party, by encouraging sponsors to pay expenses of delegates to Boys' State good government 'encampment, and by sponsoring youngsters for sn annual soap box derby.- These ventures have proved factors in diminishing delinquency among juveniles in the Columbus area." ". "Best Examples of Promoting the Negro Newspaper" also brought The Sentinel a third prize award "for its several promotional projects designed to enlist the support of a variety of people in its subscription efforts and to call attention to its years of service to community life." In the "Mechanica* Production" division the judges gave special mention to The Sentinel "for the quantity of work that went into its 80 page fifth anniversary edition." You Can Help Serrtinel Newsies To Win Prizes IF SOME young newsboy knocks on your door and asks you to subscribe to Ths Ohio Sentinel for one year. chances are he's entered In Tbe Sentinel's big football contest and is ont to win oae of those Genuine white night and day footballs. Don't tarn him sway, for he's entering upon s career as a young bnsinessman snd your NINA M acceptance may be .the on* to send him on the road to success. Incentives such ss this contest help spur him on to doing s bigger and better Job. For each one year subscription, the Circulation Dept of The Sentinel is giving sway free, a genuine regulation night snd dsy footbsll to the lucky boy or gin bringing in the filled certificate found elsewhere In this edition. Not only that but the boy or girl msklng the biggest Increase In sales In on* week ts awarded s free ticket to ths next Ohio SUte home game. Winners to date have been Peter McKlnnoo. Ronnie Ervin and George Taylor. Among early winners of the football wss Henry nick*, 1451 Eastwood av., sen sf Rev. nai Mrs. H. B. nicks. Paxey's Par-ertfs' Ass'n Elects Current Officers Officers for Parents' Ass'n of Paxeys Play school, Columbua, were elected during a regular meeting Friday. Prior to the olfaction, remarks on -the association were heard from Mrs. Helen Paxton, director of the school. > S e r v ing for the new year will be Mrs. Nellie Binns, president; Mra. Frances Thurman, vice president; Mrs. Ed* die Laududal, secretary; Mrs. \\ A. Davenport. £j V . j jan. 29 assistant secre. '' J**~13- tary; Mrs. Ger- Mrs. Sudderth aldine Lynch, corresponding sec- porter; Mrs. Gay Reid, chip- lain, and Mrs. V. D. Robinson, treasurer. Installation was conducted by Mrs. Charlene Sudderth. assistant director of the. school. , . Parents' Ass'n sponsors tho seventh annual project, an edu- cational tea, at Beatty Center* Guest'will be Mrs. James Parrish, who will show pictures oil retary; James V.. Robinson, re-!her recent trip abroad. Washington • st Conclave Speaker Val J. Washington, director of m i n o r i ties. Republican Nat'l Committee, will be one of the principal speakers at tho Ohio* Republican campaign conference at the Neil House hotel, Columbus, Nov. 14-15, it was announced this week by GOP State Chmn. Ray C. Bliss. Washington, who has served on the .Nat'l GOP Committee since 1949, will discuss "Minority Groups" at the two day closed meeting. Other prominent Republican leaders on the program ' arre Leonard W. Hall, chairman ol the Republican Nat'l Committee; Murray Chotiner, attorns/ of Beverly Hills, Cal.; L. Judson Morehouse, chairman of N. York State Republican Committee* John Feikens, chairman. Republican State Committee of Michigan, and John M. McElroy, ad* ministrativ* assistant to Sen. Bricker. . ■ i* • ■^kwrn'm.'- m '■ «S»ls-5*» »'JI%sl*w,.'-■ Woman Story On Page 2 OHIO STATE UU3EUU LIBRARY i5T8*.*%. mm stv^ COCUMBUBi OHIO ■ ■ • 5 THE OHIO get ENTINEL VOL. 7, No. 22 TWO sections THIS ISSUE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1985 *c32L? ow.^"£iVi_r& *?srs. rmt 0MW*' COLUMBUS. OHIO IN PUBLIC FACLITIES FIRST NEGRO HIGHWAY PATROLMAN Associate, Is Death Victim I CINCINNATI—P e r c y Williams, onetime business associate of the late Melvin Clark, was killed" here Thursday when his car went out of control and was wrecked. Williams, who operated the .popular Play Bowl restaurant, was found- pinned by the steering whoel, suffering from a skull fracture, crushed chest and fractures of both'legs. I I* j ■ ■ ' * _§ ANDREW O. FREEMAN, RIGHT, and Rev. C. J*. Jenkins, ' not pictured, are members of Citizens' Committee for Health Levy, supporting proposal on which Columbus people will vote Nov. 8 to provide increased public health protection. Freeman is shown discussing levy with Charles H. Campbell, left, executive secretary of Hilltop Business Ass'n and Central Ohio Academy of Pharmacy, and Charles A. Jones, center, of Columbus Hospital Federation. According, to Campbell, Columbus must provide more funds if it Is to keep up good health protection M ths city grows. Without the tax levy, he said, many important services of Dept. of Health will have to be reduced. Already, Campbell reports, Columbus only has ons-fourth of the fr******* -. - . . . ■. ... TAKES SOME DOING to •dd glamor to a.picture of a young lady engaged in such a simple task as tying a shoe ... but then all young ladies don't (or can't) look as giant* esroua as Pat Hodges. . He died while being taken to Cincinnati Gen'l Hospital. Police said he apparently fell asleep while driving to his home. A native of Cleveland, Williams came to Cincinnati about 18 years ago. Hs reportedly gave Clark his first chance in the numbers racket here several years ago. Clark was slain in Newport, Ky., last July when a war broke out for control of the numbers racket here and m northern Kentucky. I. 'Hi ! GOV. LAUSCHE WARMLY congratulates L. O. Sharp of Columbus, first Negro In history to be appointed to State Highway Patrol. Story, other photos of history making event on Page 2 Jury Refuses To Indict Accused Kidnapers Of Till GREENWOOD, Mias. — A Leflore county grand jury Wednesday failed to indict Roy Bryant and his half- brother, J. W. Milam, for the Aug. 28 kidnaping of 14 year old Emmett Louis Till. Bryant and Milam are aew entirely free ef charges they kidnaped the Chicago bey, killed hint aad threw his weighted body hi the Tallahatchie river. An all-white jery acquitted them of the murder in September and. under Mississippi law, they cannot be tried fer It again. * Moses Wright, great-uncle of the slain boy who fled the south after testifying at .the murder trial, had returned for this latest hearing. So did Willie Reed, 18 year old surprise witness. When first arrested. Bryant and Milam said they were the men who took Till at gunpoint early one morning. They denied killing him, saying they released him unharmed. Till was reported to have made indecent overtures at Bryant's wife while buying bubble gum at a grocery store in Money, Miss. Since the murder trial, the half-brothers have been free under t^.OOQ bond. * Had thv-y been indicted, they could have been tried under one of two Mississippi kidnaping laws. One provides death for suspects found guilty, the other, up to ten years. In prison. Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of the dead boy, haa said she would file lawsuits against the two men, seeking $200,008 damages. I ' *- A WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORES Cecil Mitchell right, Chattanooga, Tenn., and Margaret Fields, center, Columbus, receive certificate awards snd congratulations from Dr. Milton 3. J. Wright, left, head of Dept>of Economics and Political Science and advisor to YM€A, altar they had *"•>•*■ titles of "Mr. YM" and "Miss YW" at the Ohio institution. Mitchell solicited 18 members, while Miss Fields secured M new coed mens* bers for YWCA. Both were crowned at special ooronstk—
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Text Transcript | «i.i «si.i>ii.i. .11 .■M. 'i . . .***. ■. ../rj^A*f»»f*mnm.\SSfj*.f * » mt ii.s.is»'WiirslrrT^JcmAmm*******]/******* *mi^^r^. is ii i sn ii i. , . tt leiMSMessTi mm 9**pmmmmmmrmaaamaamaa*~*^^ ■MM: mm 'V.i-^rf ..-"'«':-'-' . . JOBLESS PAY HIKE Story On Page 3 • 5 THE OHIO S ENTINEL *• VOL. 7* No. 21 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER S, 1955 SENTINEL STAFFERS COP AWARDS First prize awards were won by two members of The Ohio Sentinel's editorial staff during last June's 17th annual convention of the Nat'i Newspaper Publishers Ass'n in Kansas City, Mo. Announce ment of the awards was formally made last week. The Sentinel staffers were John B. Combs, managing editor, and Nina M, Redd, former city editor now associated with the Dept. of Journalism at Lincoln university, Jefferson City. Mo. Combs took top honors- in the "General and Local Stories Division" with a series of seven articles, appearing in July, August and September. 1954. editions of The Sentinel, entitled "Jim Crow in Ohio." The judges de- -clared that, in "Their opinion, "these stories are as good or even better than some Pulitzer prize stories (we) have read." Miss Redd walked away- with first place in column writing, "Humor arm Local." for "the rollicking column, 'Chicago Dateline—This is the City'," which she wrote for The Sentinel while on leave of absence attending the University of Chicago. Other prizes won by The Sen- tincl: Third place for "Government and National Stories," for a series of three stories by John B. Combs "exposing discrimination against Negroes for jobs in state agencies." Third place (tied- with Pittsburgh Courier* for Washington and national affairs columns This award was also won by Combs for "the column. 'Speaking of Politics,' which is devoted to Ohio politics, politicians and political issues." According to the judges' evaluation of the col. umn. "His (Combs') readers certainly should be well educated voters." Second prize in the "Features" category went to William Mirt Wood, for a camera study of JOHN B. COMBS Wood's son made at a YMCA camp, which was published in The Sentinel. "The picture," said the judges, "is simplicity to the extreme, a boy-row Ing a boat; but the expression on the boy's face tells a story that truly no thousand words could convey." " . For "Public Service Programs,"' The Sentinel received third prize "for a series of articles aimed at building healthy interests among boys and girls in Ohio by sponsoring a Halloween block party, by encouraging sponsors to pay expenses of delegates to Boys' State good government 'encampment, and by sponsoring youngsters for sn annual soap box derby.- These ventures have proved factors in diminishing delinquency among juveniles in the Columbus area." ". "Best Examples of Promoting the Negro Newspaper" also brought The Sentinel a third prize award "for its several promotional projects designed to enlist the support of a variety of people in its subscription efforts and to call attention to its years of service to community life." In the "Mechanica* Production" division the judges gave special mention to The Sentinel "for the quantity of work that went into its 80 page fifth anniversary edition." You Can Help Serrtinel Newsies To Win Prizes IF SOME young newsboy knocks on your door and asks you to subscribe to Ths Ohio Sentinel for one year. chances are he's entered In Tbe Sentinel's big football contest and is ont to win oae of those Genuine white night and day footballs. Don't tarn him sway, for he's entering upon s career as a young bnsinessman snd your NINA M acceptance may be .the on* to send him on the road to success. Incentives such ss this contest help spur him on to doing s bigger and better Job. For each one year subscription, the Circulation Dept of The Sentinel is giving sway free, a genuine regulation night snd dsy footbsll to the lucky boy or gin bringing in the filled certificate found elsewhere In this edition. Not only that but the boy or girl msklng the biggest Increase In sales In on* week ts awarded s free ticket to ths next Ohio SUte home game. Winners to date have been Peter McKlnnoo. Ronnie Ervin and George Taylor. Among early winners of the football wss Henry nick*, 1451 Eastwood av., sen sf Rev. nai Mrs. H. B. nicks. Paxey's Par-ertfs' Ass'n Elects Current Officers Officers for Parents' Ass'n of Paxeys Play school, Columbua, were elected during a regular meeting Friday. Prior to the olfaction, remarks on -the association were heard from Mrs. Helen Paxton, director of the school. > S e r v ing for the new year will be Mrs. Nellie Binns, president; Mra. Frances Thurman, vice president; Mrs. Ed* die Laududal, secretary; Mrs. \\ A. Davenport. £j V . j jan. 29 assistant secre. '' J**~13- tary; Mrs. Ger- Mrs. Sudderth aldine Lynch, corresponding sec- porter; Mrs. Gay Reid, chip- lain, and Mrs. V. D. Robinson, treasurer. Installation was conducted by Mrs. Charlene Sudderth. assistant director of the. school. , . Parents' Ass'n sponsors tho seventh annual project, an edu- cational tea, at Beatty Center* Guest'will be Mrs. James Parrish, who will show pictures oil retary; James V.. Robinson, re-!her recent trip abroad. Washington • st Conclave Speaker Val J. Washington, director of m i n o r i ties. Republican Nat'l Committee, will be one of the principal speakers at tho Ohio* Republican campaign conference at the Neil House hotel, Columbus, Nov. 14-15, it was announced this week by GOP State Chmn. Ray C. Bliss. Washington, who has served on the .Nat'l GOP Committee since 1949, will discuss "Minority Groups" at the two day closed meeting. Other prominent Republican leaders on the program ' arre Leonard W. Hall, chairman ol the Republican Nat'l Committee; Murray Chotiner, attorns/ of Beverly Hills, Cal.; L. Judson Morehouse, chairman of N. York State Republican Committee* John Feikens, chairman. Republican State Committee of Michigan, and John M. McElroy, ad* ministrativ* assistant to Sen. Bricker. . ■ i* • ■^kwrn'm.'- m '■ «S»ls-5*» »'JI%sl*w,.'-■ Woman Story On Page 2 OHIO STATE UU3EUU LIBRARY i5T8*.*%. mm stv^ COCUMBUBi OHIO ■ ■ • 5 THE OHIO get ENTINEL VOL. 7, No. 22 TWO sections THIS ISSUE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1985 *c32L? ow.^"£iVi_r& *?srs. rmt 0MW*' COLUMBUS. OHIO IN PUBLIC FACLITIES FIRST NEGRO HIGHWAY PATROLMAN Associate, Is Death Victim I CINCINNATI—P e r c y Williams, onetime business associate of the late Melvin Clark, was killed" here Thursday when his car went out of control and was wrecked. Williams, who operated the .popular Play Bowl restaurant, was found- pinned by the steering whoel, suffering from a skull fracture, crushed chest and fractures of both'legs. I I* j ■ ■ ' * _§ ANDREW O. FREEMAN, RIGHT, and Rev. C. J*. Jenkins, ' not pictured, are members of Citizens' Committee for Health Levy, supporting proposal on which Columbus people will vote Nov. 8 to provide increased public health protection. Freeman is shown discussing levy with Charles H. Campbell, left, executive secretary of Hilltop Business Ass'n and Central Ohio Academy of Pharmacy, and Charles A. Jones, center, of Columbus Hospital Federation. According, to Campbell, Columbus must provide more funds if it Is to keep up good health protection M ths city grows. Without the tax levy, he said, many important services of Dept. of Health will have to be reduced. Already, Campbell reports, Columbus only has ons-fourth of the fr******* -. - . . . ■. ... TAKES SOME DOING to •dd glamor to a.picture of a young lady engaged in such a simple task as tying a shoe ... but then all young ladies don't (or can't) look as giant* esroua as Pat Hodges. . He died while being taken to Cincinnati Gen'l Hospital. Police said he apparently fell asleep while driving to his home. A native of Cleveland, Williams came to Cincinnati about 18 years ago. Hs reportedly gave Clark his first chance in the numbers racket here several years ago. Clark was slain in Newport, Ky., last July when a war broke out for control of the numbers racket here and m northern Kentucky. I. 'Hi ! GOV. LAUSCHE WARMLY congratulates L. O. Sharp of Columbus, first Negro In history to be appointed to State Highway Patrol. Story, other photos of history making event on Page 2 Jury Refuses To Indict Accused Kidnapers Of Till GREENWOOD, Mias. — A Leflore county grand jury Wednesday failed to indict Roy Bryant and his half- brother, J. W. Milam, for the Aug. 28 kidnaping of 14 year old Emmett Louis Till. Bryant and Milam are aew entirely free ef charges they kidnaped the Chicago bey, killed hint aad threw his weighted body hi the Tallahatchie river. An all-white jery acquitted them of the murder in September and. under Mississippi law, they cannot be tried fer It again. * Moses Wright, great-uncle of the slain boy who fled the south after testifying at .the murder trial, had returned for this latest hearing. So did Willie Reed, 18 year old surprise witness. When first arrested. Bryant and Milam said they were the men who took Till at gunpoint early one morning. They denied killing him, saying they released him unharmed. Till was reported to have made indecent overtures at Bryant's wife while buying bubble gum at a grocery store in Money, Miss. Since the murder trial, the half-brothers have been free under t^.OOQ bond. * Had thv-y been indicted, they could have been tried under one of two Mississippi kidnaping laws. One provides death for suspects found guilty, the other, up to ten years. In prison. Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of the dead boy, haa said she would file lawsuits against the two men, seeking $200,008 damages. I ' *- A WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORES Cecil Mitchell right, Chattanooga, Tenn., and Margaret Fields, center, Columbus, receive certificate awards snd congratulations from Dr. Milton 3. J. Wright, left, head of Dept>of Economics and Political Science and advisor to YM€A, altar they had *"•>•*■ titles of "Mr. YM" and "Miss YW" at the Ohio institution. Mitchell solicited 18 members, while Miss Fields secured M new coed mens* bers for YWCA. Both were crowned at special ooronstk— |
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