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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.
