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I Ada Sipuel Passes Okla. Bar OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (ANP)—Mrs. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, the young woman whose court suit broke he color line in the state’s segregated white col leges climaxed her fight for a proper education last week by passing the Oklahoma State Bar examinations. With this achievement Mrs. Fisher enters a new phase of her life. Her new life fias been made possible by action begun Jan. 16, 1946 when she sought entrance into the University of Oklahoma , Law school. Since that time she has been married, had a baby, and also at tended school and been graduated. Discussing her future with Roscoe Dunjee, editor of the Black Dis patch, she said: “I plan to get right into my life’s work in a few months, as soon as my baby is old enough for me to give more time to my profession. “I have had three offers al ready from law firms to become a member of their firms, but I’m anxious to get into a firm where I can plunge into a practice cov ering the civil rights field.” Since those dark days of five years ago when the school dared not let in a Negro student, the university and other white schools have now opened their doors to hundreds of colored graduate students. $ Cite Police For Preventing Race Riots CHICAGO (ANP) — Some 50 law officials attending a 12 day seminar -on polio work and • race problems last week heard how alert action by police in two cities helped prevent an outbreak of violence. The seminar is in ses sion on the campus of the Uni versity of Chicago. Edward J. Kelly, superintendent of the National Capital Parks, dis cussed a tense situation in Wash ington in 1949, and David Mc Candlses head of the Southern Po lice Institute, Louisville, discussed a threatening situation in Louis ville. Kelly described how Washing ton prevented a race riot from re sulting from admitting Negroes to previously all-white park pool. Immediately, incidents occurred and reluctantly J. A. Krug, then secretary of the Interior, ordered the pools closed. But in 1950, with Oscar Chapman as secretary of the Interior, the pools were re opened. “We told the police to be alert for trouble," Kelly recalled. “After trouble in Anacostia Park, we called in Joseph Lohman for advice. We knew we would have to stop any more trouble be fore it started. (Lohman is H member of the faculty at the Uni versity of Chicago). “We contacted individual citi zens, civic and philanthropic groups and made our plans known through the press and on the ra dio. By the time we finished ev eryone knew our policy." Here was the policy: The government held recreation essential to the welfare of the people; it was going to protect all law-abiding people, regardless of race, color or creed; it was the citizen’s responsibility to see that this was enforced. Although attendance at the pools dropped 34 per cent in 1950,' (Continued on Page 2) ADA SIPUEL 4 Doctors Named Advisors to Planners Of Negro Hospital MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ANP) — Four Negro doctors have been se lected to act as advisors to offi-1 cials on plans* for a proposed col ored hospital here, it was an nounced this week. They are: Dr. B. E. McCleave, president of the Bluff City Society; Dr. W. A. Bisson, medical society secretary; Dr. R. W. Shelby, and Dr. W. O.1 Speight. Commenting on the appoint ment of the doctors, Mayor Wat kins Overton said: “These four prominent Negro I physicians will act as an advisory j committee in working out plans and prompting the new Negro hospital. The state hospital advisory committee last May allocated $508,615.” in state and federal aid for construction of the Negro hos pital. Original plans called for aj (Continued on Page 4) I---1 Seven-year-old Karen Blechc enacts 1952 polio precautions recommended by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. ; When polio is around, the National Foundation cautions parents to watch for these signs: headache, fever, sore throat, upset stom ach, tenderness and stiffness of neck and back. A person showing such symptoms should be put to bed at once, away from others. Then, call your doctor and follow his advice. If polio is diagnosed, call your local chapter of the March of Dimes for advice and amittance, including needed inanciai help. j--. * V <$>'< S gg N*0 . / meeting JN, M i s s.— (ANP) — * persons from four states wiv. address sessions of the 49th annual convention of the Ameri can Teachers Association which meets at Tougaloo and Jackson college here, July 27-29. Mrs. Beulah Whitby of Detroit, a member of the mayor’s inter racial committee and also of the faculty of Wayne university, will speak at the public program at Jackson college on Sunday night, July 27. Dr. R. O’Hara Lanier, president of Texas Southern university and former minister to Liberia, will address the public session at the College Park Municipal audito rium in Jackson on Monday night, July 28. Bishop J. A. Gregg of the A.M.E. Church and a former president ofj the ATA will address the life members banquet at Tougaloo col lege on the final night, Tuesday, July 29. Walter N. Ridley, chairman of the department of Psychology at Virginia State college and first Negro to enter the graduate school at the University of Virginia, will give the eulogy to deceased mem bers at the opening memorial service on Sunday afternoon. “Earmarks of Teaching as a Profession” will be the theme ol the convention. Emphasis will be given, to the breadth of aspects oi a real profession toward which teachers aspire. A feature of the Monday eve ning session will be the presenta tion of the 14th annual contribu tion to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. C. L. Har per of the ATA executive com mittee will make the presentation Quinn Chapel Women s Day Is Sunday July 27th ANITA SMITH ---_^_ which is expected to be about $1,600. Within he past 13 years, the ATA has contributed a total of $10,091.50 to the NAACP legal fund. This year’s contribution will thus represent a start on the sec ond $10,000. Officers of the ATA include: Dr. Robert C. Hatch, state de ■ partment of education of Alabama, L president; Dr. H. Council Tren • holm, president of Alabama State 1 college, executive secretary, and Dr. Howard H. Long, Central State 1 college, treasurer. £ ATA was organized in 1904 as 2 the National Association of Teach £ ers in Colored Schools an< 1 changed and changed to its pres lent name at the 1937 convention ■ held in Philadelphia, Pa. ; President’s Fair Jobs Group Meets WASHINGTON— (ANP) —The • President’s Committee on Govern ment Contract Compliance held a two-day conference here, last week with officials of 12 states | having anti-discrimination legis-, lation and commissions governing employment? industry. The purpose of the conference was to initiate a program that might insure better compliance with the federal contract clause forbidding discrimination by em ployers with government con tracts. Dwight R. G. Palmer, chairman of the committee, said at the close of the sessions on July 15-16 that state representatives described the functioning of their respective laws. They covered a wide range of problems involved in their ef forts toward eliminating discrimi natory and segregatory employ ment practices. The state officials, at the com mittee’s request, also gave sug gested how to gain stronger com pliance with the federal non-dis crimination clause, enforcement of which is the primary responsibil ity of the head of each federal contracting agency. The participating states were; Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, In diana, Massachusett, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. The committee has previously held two closed conferences, one on June 9-10 and another on June' 16-17, with 19 organizations rep resenting various veterans, labor, race relations, religious and social welfare groups. Delegates from those private agencies appeared in closed ses sions to cite their experience in < Sunday, July 27th, is Women’s Day at Quinn Chapel A.M.E. church. The Theme for the day is “CHRIST IN YOU AND IN THE HOME IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS." Morning speaker will be Mrs. C. F. Farmer of Omaha, Ne braska and Mrs. Lenora Letcher will be guest soloist. In the after noon Mrs. Anita Miller will be guest speaker. At 3:30 p.m., The Minister’s Wives will lead devo tionals. Mrs. Frances Robinson will give a reading. A Fried Chicken dinner will be served from 1-4 p.m., under the chairmanship of Mrs. Willa Jean Davis. Committee chairmen are: Mrs. Agenese Adams, publicity; Mrs. Leona Dean, Mrs. Edna Page, Mrs. Aliner Kelley, decoration; and Mrs. Anna Newton, Finance. Mrs. Dorothy Lewis is general chairman of the day. I George Witter Dies ! George Clifford Witter, 68, of 12854 S, died Thursday of in juries suffered in a motor scooter ' car crash Wednesday. ■ Mr. Witter, superintending en l gineer at the main postoffice, re ceived internal chest Injuries and j several broken ribs when his southbound scooter was in col jlision with a northbound vehicle driven by Herman O. Wacker, 38, of 204 So. 11th at 9th and P. Police said the accident occurred when Wacker made a left turn to go west on P after signalling for a turn by opening his door. He said he did not see the scooter at any time. Mr. Witter was on his way to • work at the postoffice when the accident occurred. f He had been employed as su perintending engineer at the post office since Sept. 16, 1923. He was organizer and first president of State Branch 16 of the National Association of Postoffice Me chanics and attended national conventions of the group. Surviving Mr. Witter are his wife, Mary of Lincoln; a son, Lin ford of Lincoln; a daughter, Mrs. Isbel L. Frieson of Kansas City, Mo.; a sister, Mrs. Josephine North of St. Petersburg, Fla., and eight grandchildren. dealing with discrimination in employment and to give their views on the committee’s assign ment. The contract compliance com mittee was established by Presi dent Truman on Dec. 3, 1951 un der an executive order in line with federal government policy to eliminate the practice of discrimi nation in connection with federal government activities. The com mittee is concerned mainly with the operation of a government contract clause which has been a standard part of practically all government contracts and sub contracts for nearly 10 years and forbids discrimination because of ace, creed, color or national jrigin.