Word: savannahs
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...John's Episcopal Church in Savannah, founded in 1840, is the largest and richest parish in the diocese of Georgia, which encompasses the southern half of the state. It has also been steadfastly segregated. But the Episcopal Church's Canon 16, as amended last October at the General Convention in St. Louis, bans the exclusion of any member from worship in any parish on racial grounds. Rather than obey the ruling, St. John's is leaving the Episcopal Church...
...Resign." Georgia's Bishop Albert Rhett Stuart tolerated St. John's segregated worship until the revision of Canon 16, which by last January led the other six white Episcopal churches in Savannah to open their doors to Negroes. Hoping to forestall a struggle, Bishop Stuart in March summoned Risley to his office, urged him to yield, suggested that he could lay the blame on Stuart. "I'll resign as a minister before I'll allow Negroes in St. John's," answered Risley...
...Webb man who headed for top management and got there is Edward Teale ('34), president of New York Shipbuilding Corp., which built the nuclear-powered ship Savannah. Owen Oakley ('37) is director of preliminary ship design for the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships, where John Nachtsheim ('47) is chief naval architect. J. J. Henry ('35) heads his own top firm, lately designed the naval icebreaker Glacier, and helped develop a fleet of ships to take liquefied gas from Algeria to London and from the Persian Gulf to Tokyo. Several Webb alumni, including John Parkinson...
Even in Mississippi. Similarly, Negroes were admitted to previously all-white hotels and eating places in Savannah, Thomasville and Warner Robins, Ga. In Texas, Dallas' Piccadilly Cafeteria, a motel and lunch counter in Longview, restaurants in Palestine, and Austin, and a Beaumont drive-in were integrated. Thirty-three Memphis restaurants, including one of the city's largest downtown cafeterias, opened their doors to Negroes. Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the Memphis-based Holiday Inns motel chain, noting that he had instructed his motels to obey the new law, said: "The alternative is eventually anarchy, chaos and destruction...
Author Richard Jessup, a former merchant seaman from Savannah who once worked as a dealer in a gambling joint in Harlem, tells a cool, good story. His language is as spare as the language of the men he is writing about, but his work has the topography a novel needs...