___ Thursday, January 11, 1931
Formed
State Medical
Association
Holds Contest
Dr. Charles Sheets, Cozad,
president of the Nebraska State
Medical Association, announced
today that the association’s wom
an’s auxiliary is sponsoring a
state-wide essay contest with:
total prize money of almost .$600. ;
In making the announcement,'
Dr. Sheets said that this is the j
first year the contest has been!
held but that the associaion1
planned to continue it in future j
years. He said Mrs. R. E. Gar
linghouse qi Lincoln is the chair
man of the auxiliary committee |
conducting the contest.
The essays are to be written on
the topic, “Medicine’s Role in
Preserving thee American Way of
Life.” Each of the state medical
association’s 12 councilor dis
tricts will offer prizes of a $25
bond for the first prize; $10 cash
for second prize and a certificate
of honorable mention for third
place, Mrs. Gailinghouse stated.
Winner of the state contest,
whose paper will be selected from
the 12 councilor district winners,
will receive a $100 bond, plus an
expense-paid trip to the 1951 an
nual meeting of the association in
May at Omaha. The second and
third place winners will receive
$50 and $25 bonds, respectively.
Mrs. Garlinghouse said the
contest is limited to junior and
senior high school students. She
emphasized that all 11th and 12th
grade students, except sons and
daughters of physicians, in any of
the state’s high schools are
eligible to enter the contest. It
was pointed out that the essays
must not be over 1,500 wards.
All entries in the councilor dis
trict races, Mrs. Garlinghouse
added, must be submitted to the
judges by March 15, 1951. She
said that infoimational packets
will be sent to every high school
in the state.
‘Our auxiliary feels that this
contest wlil encourage a lot of
thinking by high school students
about what constitutes good,
sound Americanism. We hope it
will also stimulate them into in
vestigating w?hat other profes
sions and businesses have done to
preserve the American way of
life.”
Leaders to Seek
Conference With
President Truman
NEW YORK—(ANP)— A con
ference between Negro leaders
and President Trun^an at a date
in the near future was planned
here last week at a meeting in
the Hotel Theresa,
In discussion of the national
emergency at a special meeting
Negroes met to talk over imme
diate problems - affecting the
American Negro during the pres
ent world crisis. ~
Result of this meeting was a
proposal to seek a conference with
President Truman at the White
House at an early date. A cross
section of American Negro lead
ers are ot attend this meeting:
First Negro
Admitted To
Royal Society
Among Youngest
Of Orga n iza tion
By A. E. Villiers
COLON, PANAMA—(ANP) —
Ashley Bertrand Spence, 26, a
Panamanian, last week was an
nounced as the first member of
his race from Latin America to
be elected as a fellow of the
Royal Statistical Society of Lon
don, England.
He received the following an
nouncement from an official of
the society last week:
“I-have the honor to inform you
that at the ordinary general meet
ing held on Nov. 22, 1950, you
were elected a fellow of the Royal
. Statistical society, London.”
Only a week earlier, Spence had
been elected a fellow of the
j American Statistical association
with offices in Washington, D. C.
He is one of the youngest mem
bers of either organization.
Bom here in Colon, Spence is
I the son of Gordon Spence. He was
! graduated from the Calabar high
‘ school in Jamaica in 1942. The
following year he became a fellow
of the Institute of Bookkeeping
while attending the Durham Col
lege of Commerce.
He enlisted in the Royal Air
Force and went to the rank of
lieutenant. Following his dis
charge he studied economics under
Prof. Eric Patterson, now pro
fessor of economics at the Uni
versity College of the West In
dies in Jamaica.
Spence then went to work in
the collector general’s office in
Mother of Dr. L.
Goolsby Passes
COLUMBIA, Missouri — Mrs.
Mattie Goolsby passed Thursday
morning, Dec. 14, 1950 in Colum
bus, Ohio, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Vinella Clark. Fu
neral rites were held in St. Paul
A.M.E. church, Columbus, Ohio,
Sunday, Dec. 17. Dr. A. Sidney
King delivered the eulogy. Body
was taken to Macon, Ga., Mrs.
Goolsby’s home. Funeral rites
were held in St. Paul A.M.E.
church, Macon, Ga., Tuesday,
Dec. 19. Dr. J. H. Lissimore de
livired the eulogy. Burial was in
the family lot beside her husband,
Mr. Johnson Goolsby.
Surviving are son, Dr. L. S.
Goolsby, Columbia, Missouri; two
daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis,
Macon, Ga., and Mrs. Vinella
Clark, Columbus, Ohio; two
daughters-in-law, Mrs. L. S.
Goolsby, Columbia, Mo., and Mrs.
Rosa Goolsby, Cdlumbus, Ohio;
two sons-in-law, Mr. Ulyses Cur
tis, Macon, Ga., and Mr. Benja
man Clark, Columbus, Ohio;
eighteen grandchildren, four
great grandchildren; two sisters,
one brother, other relatives and
many friends.
Jamaica. In 1948 he returned to
his native Panama to work with
Young and Young, certified pub
lic accountants. Letter he worked
as office manager and accountant
for the Butler Construction com
pany.
Last year he accepted a position
with the Pacific Steam Navigation
company in Cristobal.
Being elected to the two great
statistical societies is one of the
greatest honors ever bestowed
upon any American.
‘Greeks’ Hit Filibuster, Call For
Truman To Establish F.E.P.C.
Identical resolutions calling upon
the U.S. Senate to abolish the
i filibuster and calling upon Presi
dent Truman to establish by exec
utive order an FEPC commission
were adopted by the 1,800 dele
gates attending the Kappa Alpha
Psi, Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha
Kappa Alpha national conventions
here December 27-30.
Delegates to the three Greek
letter conventions voted unani
mously in their separate organi
zations to ask the “members of
the Senate to make a revision of
its parliamentary rules the first
order of business in January 1951,
so that the power of willful prej
udiced minority to frustrate the
j action of the majority by filibus
ter may be curbed.”
“Although enactment of Fair
employment and other civil rights
legislation was a major promise
in the national platforms of both
the Democratic and Republican
parties,” the resolution reads, “the
81st Congress adjourned without
passage of a single civil rights
bilL We call upon the members
of both parties In the 82nd Con
gress to join together on a bi
partisan basis and speedily enact
these important measures into
law.”
In the resolution pertaining to
the FEPC, the Greek letter dele
gates said that “The present crit
ical national emergency demands
■->*
the full mobilization of our na
tion’s human as well as physical
resources. Unfortunately our gov
ernmental leaders have not recog
nized this sufficiently to take the
necessary and proper action to
date.
“We, therefore, call upon Presi
dent Truman to establish by
executive order a Fair Employ
ment Practice Commission similar
to that in existence during World
War II so that contractors pro
ducing defense materials will not
dismriminate in hiring or upgrad
ing on the basis of race, religion,
or color.”
Other resolutions adopted by
the three conventions dealt with
housing, federal aid to education
and federal appointments.
The Housing and Home Finance
Agency was called upon to “step
up its program and to adequately
insure that full participation will
be accorded Negroes and other
minorities in all new housing
made available directly or indi
rectly through government funds.
Representing their organizations
from Lincoln were Roland W.
Young, 1215 No. 23rd, Kappa Al
pha Psi fraternity; Misses Jeanne
Malone and Florentine Crawford,
[ University of Nebraska, Alpha
Kappa Alpha sorority; and George
Riley and Charles Goolsby, Uni
versity of Nebraska for Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity.
Dr. Laase To Head Drive For
Noil-Discriminatory Hiring Act
Ministers
Honored By
Their Wives
Saturday evening the ministers’
wives gave their first in a series
of social affairs for their hus
bands. The party was given at
the home of the Rev. and Mrs.
R. E. Edwards, 2420 P Street,
with Mrs. William I. Monroe and
Mrs. Edwards in charge of ar
rangements.
The 21 persons present enjoyed
an unusual fellowship which re
sulted in testimonials, to the ef
fect, that such meetings should be
a regular feature among the min
isterial group.
The entertainment consisted of
games with prizes being awarded
to winners.
Those present were: Rev. and
Mrs. W. I. Monroe and their
! nephew, Van, Mt. Zion Baptist
1 church; Rev. and Mrs. J. B.
! Brooks, Quinn Chapel A.M.E
I church; Rev. and Mrs. T. O. Mc
Williams, jr., Christ Temple
Church of Christ (Holiness), Rev,
and Mrs. Charles Williams, Church
of God in Christ; Rev. and Mrs
H. A. Simmons, C.M.E. church
Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Nathan, New
man Methodist church; Rev. and
Mrs. J. L>. Humbert, A.M.E.
church, Hastings and Grand Is
land; Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Shake
speare; Mr. George White and
Mrs. Henrietta Bell, wife of the
late Rev. Riley Bell; Rev. R. E. j
Edwards is assistant pastor of
Quinn Chapel.
The wives are scheduled to
meet the second Friday in Febru
ary at which time they will form
a permanent organization.
Only One Negro
Lynched in 1950
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE—
(ANP)—The annual report on
lynchings compiled by the depart
ment of records and research at
Tuskegee institute, lists only two
lynchings for the year 1950, one
of which was that of a Negro.
It also reports that seven lynch
ings—six in the south and one in
the north—were thwarted. Of
this number, four Negroes were
the intended victims.
Records of the past five years
show the same number of lynch
ings occurred in 1950 as in 1948.
Figures for the five year period
are: 1950, 2; 1949, 3; 1948, 2;
1947, 1; 1946, 6, making a total
of 14 for the period covered.
The Negro lynch victim was
Jack Walker, alias Jack Kendall,
alias Clinton Walker, 40-year-old
laborer from Gay, Ga. His body
was found last August in a creek
near the Flint river. He had been
shot by three men for whom he
worked. His crime? Knowing too
much about illegal whiskey traffic.
The white victim seems to have
been the “wrong man,” since there
was nothing against him. He was
killed on Feb. 22 by a band of
unmasked men. His 19-year-old
son was wounded in the fracas.
Girls State Planned
For Summer in Ark.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—(ANP)—
A Negro Girls State will be con
ducted in Arkansas next summer
One of the more difficult piecds
of legislation to get passed in the
Nebraska unicameral since 1944
has been a law which would set
forth the public policy of the
State supporting the right of all
its citizens, regardless of religion,
race or nationality, to have equal
opportunity secure employment in
any field of endeavor where there
are jobs available, for which they
are prepared. The fight for such
legislation got off to its sixth year
of campaigning last week with
i formation of a statewide organ
ization to mobilize Nebraska opin
ion behind this outstanding action
for domestic tranquility, the com
mon good, the pursuit of happiness
and all the other truly American
ideals of a democratic society.
At a meeting Saturday, Jan. 6,
at the Hotel Lindell, more than
forty representatives of organ
izations and individuals interested
. in equalization of job opportuni
. ties for all, founded the Nebraska
. State Citizen’s Committee for Fair
• Employment Practices. A prelimi
, nary committee reported to the
. group the results of a conference
i with Governor Peterson during
. the holidays during which he
; promised his consideration of the
- legislation. The committee con
i j sisted of representatives of the
/ Omaha and Lincoln Urban
I Leagues, the Americans for Demo
cratic Action and the Anti-Defa-#
mation League.
Elected to head the group was
Dr. LeRoy Laase, chairman of the
department of speech at the Uni
versity of Nebraska. Other offi
cers named wersr
Vice-chairman: Rev. John P. Markoe of
Creighton University. Omaha; Arthur B.
McCaw, Omaha; Mrs. E. S. Munson. Lin
coln, and Mrs. A. C. Mattson. Holdrege.
Secretary-treasurer; Harold Prichard,
Kalla City.
Executive committee: Joseph F. Kauff
man of the Nebraska Anti-Defamation
League, Omaha; Clyde W. Malone of tha
Urban League, Lincoln; Ted Sorensen,
Lincoln; M. M. Taylor of the Urban
League, Omaha; Frank Cronin of the
C.I.O. state council, Omaha, and Miss
Ruth Campbell of the T.W.C.A., Omaha.
The committee expressed its
purpose as supporting passage of
legislation affording equality of
opportunity. The resolution, unani
mously adopted, read:
“The present state of emer
gency requires that there be a
complete use of our national man
power, and the principles of
American government require
that all persons have an equal
opportunity to work regardless of
race, color or creed.”
State Sen. John Adams, Omaha,
who introduced the ill-fated L.B.
117 into the last Legislature, is
preparing a similar bill for the
hopper before the end of the 20
working days allotted for the pres
enation of the new bills.
under the sponsorship of the state
Negro Democratic women, it was
announced here last week.
Girl delegates from all sections
of the state, or at least one girl
from e^ch county is expected to
attend. Plans call for the selection
of the most outstanding girl
camper by both counselors and
campers at the close of the session.
The prize will be a fcur-year
scholarship to study political sci
ence at a university specializing
in such work. The scholarship
will be given annually.
