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Tm? TF3 TFD Ifil !£□ i£a Vol. 5, No. 13 Lincoln 3, Nebraska Official and I* »| Newspaper Thursday, January III. 1931 Nurses Group to Disband Jan. 26; Much of Goal Has Keen Achieved NEGRO NURSES GROUP TO DISBAND JAN. 26 NEW YORK. (ANP). The Na tional Association of Colored Graduates Nurses, after 42 years of working for the integration of Negro nurses, will officially dis band Jan. 26, it was announced this week by Mrs. Mabel K. Staupers, national president. This is believed to be the first time an all-Negro organization has closed down operations be cause much of its goal has been NACGN probably will be trans ferred to the American Nurses association. Official termination of activi ties will take place at aspecitl meting Jan. 26. That night, the NACGN wil hold its last official activity—a testimonial dinner honoring individuals and organi zations “who have helped further democracy in nursing.” The NACGN was founded in 1908 to do something about dis crimination against Negro nurses found in the following statistics of that era; Of 1,200 schools of nursing, only 42 schools including 28 for Negroes only, admitted Negroes. Some 17 state associations of the ANA refused to admit Negroes1 and few hospitals integrated j colored nurses on their staffs. Today, largely because of work done by the NACGN, the picture is not perfect, but 330 schools admit nursing students regard less of race, and only five state associations still refuse Negro members Colored nurses still may join ANA, however, even if the state does not admit them. Today, Negro nurses also have been integrated into the staffs of hospitals, public health agencies, military and veteran services to a large extent. Mrs. Alma Vessells John, exe cutive secretary of |he NACGN, said the testimonial dinner will be held at the Essex house, 160 Central Park South. The follow ing persons will be honored for their work in bringing demo cracy to nursing: Rep. Frances P. Bolton, Miss Martha Franklin, RN, Miss Belle Davis, Miss Alma Haupt, RN, Mrs. Hortense Hilbert, RN, Miss David Levy, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Elmira B. Wicken den, RN, Mrs. Jackie Robinson, RN, Mrs. Ruth Logan Roberts, ana Miss Katherine Faville, RN. A total of 23 organizations will be honored at this dinner. John D. Rockefeller Jr. Heads National Council NEW YORK—(ANP)—John D. Rockefeller jr., will serve as chairman of the National Council of the United Negro College fund for the 1951 campaign, it was an nounced this week at fund head quarters here. Under Mr. Rockefeller’s chair manship, nationally prominent business executives and men and women active in civic and edu cational affairs will be re cruited to serve on the national council for the current year, to aid the fund’s program in support of its 32 privately financed col leges and universities. The fund will seek to raise approximately 10 percent of the combined educational budgets of its 32 member colleges in 1951, to supplement the other 90 per cent provided by income from tuition, endowment and annual church board grants. W. O. SWANSON Crippled Children W. O. Swanson, state president, will head the Easter seal sale of the Nebraska Society for Crippled Children. He will be assisted by I Oscar D. Mardis, executive vice president. The dales are February 25, to March 25, Easter Sunday. Funds raised will provide reme dial, educational and rehabilita tion services for handicapped children throughout the state. More than 463 were helped last year. Stressing the increased number of calls, Chairman Swanson asked for more generous gifts than last year. He emphasized the coordi nating function of the Easter Seal Society in furnishing a variety of services which no other agency is equipped to give. “Though the state now provides schooling for the handicapped, there are frequently no funds for equipment, for auxiliary aides such as thereaptists, matrons, clin ical secretaries, or to pay for transporting the crippled children to and from schools and clinics,” he pointed out. Future plans, dependent on the returns from the 1951 seal sale, call for a mobile clinic, replete with all diagnostic and consultive facilities, to tour out-state dis tricts remote from medical cen ters, to provide some of the serv ices available to the crippled in larger cities. The Society will also aid in promoting a new building for the Dr. Lord School and Therapy Center. This is sponsored by the Society in cooperation with the Omaha Board of Education’s special service, headed by Don A. Warner. There are now 77 children reg istered at the Dr. Lord School, nearly double last year’s figure. The Dr. Robert Bruner consulta tion clinic, held one day a month under the auspices of the Crippled Children’s Society and the Par ents’ Council on Cerebral Palsy, will be extended to two days this month, to care for the new case load, according to S. Orson Per ! kins, Executive Secretary. Campanella Burns Eye in Accident BROOKLYN. (ANP). Catcher Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers suffered a burned right eye last week when a water heater exploded in his face. The burns were not serious, however, and Roy will be recovered before spring training begins. No per I manent injury will result, accord | ing to surgeons. Anny^ U. L. Membership P Meeting January 31 S. Breaks ' Color Line Admits Two DALLAS, Tex. — (ANP) — An other school in the deep South broke the color line last week when Southern Methodist univer sity announced that twc Negroes had been admitted to its Perkins School of Theology. The school did not announce the name of its two student pioneers but it did reveal other facts about them. One is a graduate of Samuel Huston college in Austin, Tex., and the other a degree from Jurvis Christian college, Hawkins, Tex. They will be the first of their race to study here for credit. Other colored students have I taken courses at the SMU theo logical school, but none have ever received credit for their work at the institute. This action, approved by the university’s board, does not mean, however, the whole school is open to Negroes. Dean Eugene B. Hawk of the seminary said: “We are trying to do something Christian for Negro students. The school can and should provide a service to the leaders of a great group of people that will go far toward saving them to the church and from the inroads of commun ism and other false and subtle philosophies.” Equal Salaries Granted Negro Health Nurses ATLANTA, Ga.—Negro Public Health Nurses employed by the city government, were granted equalization of salaries with white nurses last week whe nthe city adopted its budget for the year 1951. City Council finance committee, which finally acquiesced to the demands of the Negro nurses after several years of petitioning, recommended the parity to gen eral council upon the urging of Mayor William B. Hartsfield, who last summer won his election by a slim majority supplied by Negro voters. The new salary schedule for the 33 Negro nurses and 35 white nurses will .be as follows: Two Negro supervisors will be raised from $175 to $224 per month to bring them to a par with the white supervisors; 21 nurses will be raised from $126 to $175 per month and 10 graduate nurses will be raised from $125 to $147 per month. Sam Jethroe Hurts Throwing Hand ERIE, Pa. (ANP)— Outfielder Sam Jethroe, rookie of the year of the Boston Braves, hurt his right hand here last week as he closed the door to his garage. Although his hand is broken, Dr. Michael Skovron, attending physician, described the injury as “not serious.” He said Jeth roe’s hand will be in a cast for about three weeks. A small bone in the hand is broken. Jethroe throws with his right hand. Dr. Scrugg, President of Lincoln U. To Be Speaker Detroit Honors l Ralph Bunche l DETROIT. (ANP). Dr. Ralph a J. Bunche dashed in and out of '■ Detroit for a few hours Wednes day evening to be honored by his c home town. £ Mayor Cobo and the city ( council presented a framed tri bute to the director of the Uni- 1 ted Nations trusteeship council. ( In flying to Detroit Dr. '■ Bunche broke a pledge that he 1 would not leave his desk until the world crisis had been solved. It seeme that he had cancelled all engagements but the Detroit one. He was back on the UN job the next morning. Dr. Bunche, winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize, declared once more that hopes for world peace lay in the UN. He said: If the United States with drew from the UN it would be an act of suicide. We may cry to be free of the troubles of the world, but we are in an inter national age, and that cannot be changed. An overflow audience of ad mirers heard Dr. Bunche in the auditorium of the Detroit In stitute of Arts. Councilman Mary V. Beck presented the tribute to Dr. Bunche. It read: “The citizens of Detroit are proud that the early years of Dr. / JBunche’s life were spent in a I city famed for assisting in the f emancipation of his forebears, and in an environment which in spired him to achievements re sulting in international distinc tion.” NAACP Counsel To Defend GI’s In Tokyo, Japan NEW YORK —(ANP)— Thur good Marshall, special counsel of NAACP left here Thursday by plane on the first lap of a 7,000 mile flight to Tokyo, where he will undertake the defense of ac cused GIs of the 24th Infantry. He was scheduled to arrive in Japan on Jan. 14, and was to begin immediately an on-the scene investigation of the cir cumstances surrounding, the court-martial convictions of 36 Negro enlisted men and officers who have appealed to the NAACP for such assistance. Mr. Marshall is to be in Tokyo for about a month and plans to confer with General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, the inspec tor general and other top offi cials of the Far East command concerning the court martialing of the GIs. Prayer Services to Pre cede World Prayer Day Looking forward to the observ ance of the World Day of Prayer February 9, the Lincoln Council of Church Women has established a number of prayer “centers” about Lincoln where numbers will gather for prayer meetings. Prayer services will be held January 19th, 26th and February 2nd, at Newman’s parsonage, 2263 S Street, from 10:00 to 10:30 A.M. This announcement was made by Mrs. Osceola B. Nathan, wife of the Rev. R. G. Nathan, pastor of Newman Methodist church. The public is invited to j attend. The Annual Urban League lember^bip Dinner will be Wed esday, J.anuary 31, 1951, at 7:00 .m. Dr. Sherman D. Scrugg, resident of Lincoln University t Jefferson City, Missouri, will e the guest speaker. Dr. Scrugg is recognized as one f the nation’s leading educators nd through his leadership, Lin oln University is now recognized is one of America’s highest ac aedited Negro Educational In ititution. Dr. Scrugg was a mem jer of a special committee under :he auspices of UNESCO which was sent to India to study the social and educational conditions of that country. Dinner music will be furnished by a University of Nebraska String Ensemble and entertain ment by local and Nebraska Wes leyan University students. Since reservations can be ac cepted for only 225 persons it is advisable that reservations be made at an early date. Call at the Urban League office for res ervations or call 2-2392 and we will mail you tickets. For fur ther information call the Urban League Office. Mrs. Roberta Molden is general chairman of the planning commit tee. ' Couple to Make Home With Son Mr. and Mrs. William Davis, elderly parents of Mr. William Byron Davis, 820 C Street, arrived here Friday (by ambulance) from New Bloomfield, Missouri, to make their home with Mr. «iiu. Mrs. Davis. Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis are crippled. Mrs. Davis, 74, was taken directly to St. Elizabeth hospital for a couple of days ex amination. She has been bed fast for six weeks since suffering two strokes within a month. Mr. Davis has been a semi invalid since a polio attack as a child. Besides their son, Mr. Davis, they have a daughter here, Miss Virginia Davis. The couple made the 400-mile trip in a Umberger ambulance. W. Va. State Selects Two For Scholarship INSTITUTE, W. Va.—(ANP) — West Virginia State College stu dents are among the four state students nominated for^ scholar ships under the Fulbright plan to study abroad, the state Board of Education announced last week. They are John Evehmonde An derson, 21, and Carl Stephen Hundley, 22, both seniors with najors in French. Anderson spent the summer in France under the sponsorship of the Cercle Francais of the college and the International Student or ganization. He plans to study French literature in France. Hundley plans to study the French language in Belgium. The other two candidates are white students. The 'Board of Foreign Schol arships of the State department will make the final selection of an unannounced nurpber from the four allowed each state some time during April.