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'TPT? TF=a k1 * 101 U»9 ’1¥U mioos 1»01»01*IH 91Yl!; 1 VoL 3, No, M Lincoln 3, Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper Thursday, August 18, 1949 1 Willi111 illll HIM ,, Urban League of Denver Will Highlight Conference With Press Party The Entertainment and Events Committee for the National Urban League Conference, which will be held on the University of Denver Park Campus from September 4th through 9th, met at the home of Dr. Caleb Gates, Jr., chair man, Tuesday, August 9. This Committee is planning enter tainment for three to five hundred oift-of-town delegates from 57 Urban League affiliates and the National and Southern Field offices. Mrs. Nelle Kigh and Elliot A. Draine are Associate Chairmen. One of the entertainment high lights of the Conference will be a Press Party Sunday, Sept. 4, at | the home of Gifford Phillips, a member of the National and Den ver Board of Directors. Vincent Dwyer and Robert Perkin of the Rocky Mountain News are co chairmen of the Press Party. In vitations will be sent to members of the local press and prominent news representatives throughout the Rocky Mountain Empire, and visiting members of the press from New York and the east. The Committee revealed that on the evening of the same day a Chuck-Wagon Dinner will be held on the university campus for the delegates, members and friends of the Urban League. A mountain tour has been ar ranged. The Denver Urban League will be hostess at a luncheon for visit ing Guild members on Tuesday, Sept. 6, at the Tiffin. At this time they will formulate plans to fur ther aid in popularizing the Urban League program nationally and locally. For the three public meetings, some of the best local talent rep resenting the various ethnic groups in Denver has been secured. The opening session at ft a. m. Monday, Sept. 5, at the University Chapel will be the first public meeting. Other public meet ings will be Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 8 p. m. at East High School, and Thursday, Sept. 8, at 8 p. m. at the University Chapel. Dr. Gates says “we hope to for mulate profound decisions in an aura of fun and friendly relation ships.” PICTURE: Reading left to right: Mrs. Nelle Kigh, Dr. Caleb Gates, and Elliot A. Draine. Bunche Offered UCLA Job LOS ANGELES. (ANP). A chair in political science at the ♦ University of California at Los Angeles was offered to Dr. Ralph J. Bunche when he was here last week as honor guest of the UCLA Alumni association, Clarence A. Dykstra, provost of UCLA, said last week. According to Dykstra, Dr. Bunche has not indicated whether or no* he would accept such a post. — J. Brooks to End j Series of Sermons A series of sermons dealing with character and personality will be climaxed Sunday, Aug. 21 at Quinn Chapel AME church by the Rev. J. B. Brooks, pastor. Rev. Mr. Brooks used as a gen eral theme “Man a Candidate for Personality.” His closing message is entitled “How God Commu nicates With Man! He has em phasized the importance of man’s ability to apprehend God relative to man’s redemption. Rev. Mr. Brooks is making a special appeal to the youth of the city. Appointed Head Of Evangelism The Rev. William A. Greene,, pastor of Newman Methodist church has been named head of the Evangelistic work of the Topeka District and of the gen eral church. Rev. Mr. Greene has outlined a chart illustrating the importance of the evangelis tic work and rules for procedure. His recommendations will be presented to the national board which will meet in St. Louis in October after which an all out campaign will be launched in each district. Rev. Mr. Greene also serves on the board of temperance and the admission of ministers. U. S. Cafeteria Ends Jim Crow WASHINGTON. — Racial dis crimination in the nation’s capi tol received a new blow last week when segregation was ended on ‘ Monday, July 25, in the cafeteria j of the Government Printing Of | fice, as a result of efforts by the National Association for the Ad j vancement of Colored People, | Congressman Adam C. Powell, jr., i and local newspaper reporters. Spearheading the fight within the agency was Reverend Percy Jernagin, a veteran employee of the GPO. Colored employees of the GPO boycotted the restaurant following the exclusion of persons from the outside_^ublic. To Reopen Pool In Washington; No Segregation WASHINGTON, D. C—J. A. Krug, secretary of the interior, announced this week that the Anacostia Park Pool, recent scene of interracial disturbances, “will be reopened as soon as possible and the department of the inter ior will make every possible ef fort to insure that the majority of citizens anxious to make use of our public recreation facilities may do so without either mob interference or surrender to vici ous prejudice.” This announcement was contin ued in a letter to Clarence M. Mitchell, national labor secretary, NAACP, who had urged Secre tary Krug to hold firm in his previously publicized policy of non-segregation^ Mr. Krug re affirmed “that non-segregation remains the firm policy of the National Park Service and the interior department: that there will be no backward steps of any sort; and that there will be con stant forward steps.” As to assignments of park land, Secretary Krug declared that none will be offered to the Dis trict of Columbia Recreation board “without complete assur ance and a clear stipulation that all areas now operating on a non-segregated basis would re main non-segregated.” The operation of recreational facilities in the National Capital Parks system in the District of ! Columbia are based on two car dinal principles, it was pointed out by Secretary Krug. First, that recreational facilities which are primarily used for local and neighborhood recreation should be administered by the local rec reation agency in accordance with the Recreation Act of April 29, 1942. Second, that all possible prog ress, with no backward step of any sort, should be made in ef fectuating the President’s Civil Rights program not only on park lands administered by this de partment, but also in all public recreation facilities throughout the city of Washington. Negro Life is Depicted DURHAM, N. C.—A musico dramatic production, “Shall We Inherit” historically depicting Negro life in America, was pre sented at North Carolina College’s B. N. Duke Auditorium last Wed nesday night. Emergency Service Available To Insure Doctor at All Hours “I must have a doctor!” That familiar call for medical aid will bring prompt assistance, under the emergency telephone system now being used by the Lancaster County Medical so ciety. Designed chiefly for transients or others who have no regular physician, the system is for emergency use only. If a family cannot locate a physician in a crisis the "service .will provide them with one. The plan operates in this fashion: If ail other attempts fail, a telephone call is placed with the society at 2-5453. The society keeps available for urgent calls four physicians. They are local general practi tioners who have agreed to par- ‘ tic i pate in the p4aa. Once the physician has been sent, the relationship between him and the caller becomes sim ilar to all other doctor-patient relationships. The physician bills his patient and payment is made directly to the physician. Dr. John A. Brown, secre tary of the Lancaster county so ciety, said the Lincoln service was developed thru the efforts of the board of trustees of the so^ ciety and other Lincoln physi cians. ‘There are probably few cases in a town like Lincoln when such service should be necessary,” Dr. Brown said. He might have added, how ever .that it is comforting to know that it is available. —Canny LtstoSs Jourast, Aa». IS. First Time in 103 Years: A.M.A. Will Seat Negro Physician Will Be Seated With Delegates at Next Convention DETROIT.—For the first time since its founding, 103 years ago, the American Medical Association will seat a Negro physician in the House of Delegates. The physician, Dr. Peter M. Murray, New York City, will take his seat in the House of Delegates for the first time at the annual meeting o£ the American Medical Association in San Francisco in June, 1950. This was made pos sible as a result of Dr. Murray’s election to the house by the New York State Medical Society. The A.M.A. House of Delegates is the policy-making body of the American Medical Association and is composed of approximately 190 physicians from the United States and its territories. Dr. Murray’s election to the house was made public by Dr. George F. Lull, Chicago, secretary and general manager of the Amer ican Medical Association, who, this week, addressed the conven tion of the National Medical Asso ciation, composed of Negro physi cians, dentists, and druggists. “Dr. Murray’s election to oar House of Delegates is a forward ANNOUNCES DRIVE The grand president of Delta Sigma Tbeta, national interra cial women’s sorority, Miss Dorothy I. Height, announced last week a nationwide fund raising drive through the Proc ter Sc Gamble company's novel “profit-sharing Joint Collection Plan.’—(ANP). step in American medicine,’' Dc. Lull said in making his an nouncement. “This action will serve notice to the socializers who are attempting to besmirch American medicine for purposes of political gain that medicine recognizes no bound aries except the scientific skill and abilities of those who are admitted to its practice. Dr. Mur ray is a magnificent example of v/hat a physician can achieve un der o\^r present system of free enterprise, despite its admitted imperfections and injustices. Prog ress is still in the making, but this is a significant milestone.” Dr. Murray is 61 years old and a native of New Orleans. He was graduated from the Howard Uni versity School of Medicine in 1914. From 1918 until 1920 he was as sistant surgeon-chief at Freed men’s Hospital, Washington, D. C. Dr. Murray is presently director of the department of gynecology at Harlem Hospital, New York, and associate director of obstetrics and gynecology at Sydenham Hos pital, New York. He is also a trustee of Howard University, member of the Co rnitia Minora (executive commit tee of the Medical Society of the County of New York), president of the National Medical Associa tion from 1930 to 1931, fellow of the New York Academy of Medi cine, diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecol ogy, fellow of the American Col lege of Surgeons, and fellow of the International College of Sur geons. Charles Goolsby Serving as Lt. Charles M. Goolsby, graduate student at the University of Ne braska, left Wednesday night, Aug. 10, for Fort Dix, N. J„ where he will assume duties as a lSeutenant until school opens m September. Mr. Goolsby has done com mendable work as associate edi tor of “The Voice" for the past year, and has contributed much to the cultural, social and spirit ual life of the community. Our Honor Roll The following is a list of those who are New Subscribers or have Renewed their subscription to the Voice. How does your Subscription Stand? 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