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Prayer Day February 9th
A World Day of Prayer, em
bracing an estimated 17,000 com
munities in America and more
than 90 other nations, will be
observed in Lincoln Friday.
The Lincoln Council of
Church Women will sponsor lo
cal day of prayer observances
at First Presbyterian church at
10:30 a.m. in co-operation with
40 Lincoln churches.
Local meetings will coincide
with similar programs through
out the world for this 64th an
nual observance. Women of
more than 80 Protestant de
nominations will join nationally
to sponsor the day of prayer on
the first Friday of Lent.
Mrs. John Wichelt gen
eral chairman for plans and
arrangements in Lincoln an
nounced, that the theme of the
program is “perfect love casts
- out fear.” -
Rev. William Paul Barnds,
president of the Lincoln Min
isterial association, will give
the special address at the morn
ing service. Benediction and
grace at the close will be offered
by Dr. C. Vin White, pastor of
the host church.
At 1 p.m., Mrs. Wichelt will
preside at a worship service
with meditations and silent
prayers. Mrs. Gordon Schroe
der, Mrs. C. E. A. MfKim, Mrs.
P. R. Stevens and Mrs. James
Pelley will speak. The service
is based on the “call of prayer.”
Worship leaders at the
morning service will be Mrs. C.
B. Remington, Mrs. Otto Hack
man, Mrs. M. C. Leonard, Mrs.
Elmer Birkman and Mrs. A. R.
Marquardt.
Special music will be given
by Mrs. Murray Spurgin and
Mrs. Clyde Malone, soloists, and
a trio composed of Mrs. W. B.
Boucher, Mrs. Vernon Hungate
and Mrs. Russell Trott. Organ
ist will be Miss Grace Finch.
Mrs. William Hastings will di
rect the ushers.
Missionary projects for offer
ing collections will be presented
in brief talks by Mrs. C. L.
Brehm, Mrs. Henry Frisbie, Mrs.
Benjamin Rieger, Mrs. A. B.
Nebelsick, Mrs. Arthur Dahl
quist, Mrs. James ^ Thorp, Mrs.
Louis Horne, Mrs. E. F. Bechtol
and Mrs. William Bryon Davis.
Program committee mem
bers for the observance include
Mrs. Arthur Taylor, Mrs. Gor
don Schroeder, Mrs. W. N.
Brainard, Mrs. Gus Pedersen
and Mrs. James Hudson. Direct
ing publicity are Mrs. P. C.
Swift and Mrs. Monroe Usher.
Mrs. Lawrence C. Newell is
president of First Presbyterian
women’s group. Mrs. H. H.
Whitlock is prayer group chair
man.
All women of the city are in
vited to attend the service, Mrs.
Wichelt says. She asked those
who attend to bring their own
sandwiches for lunch at noon.
A nominal charge will be made
for coffee.
Business and professional
women will gather at First
Christian church at 6:30 p.m. for
dinner and worship service. The
planning committee is composed
of Mrs. Roberta Molden, Miss
Charlene Houts, chairman, and
Miss Margie Wilson.
Yogi Berra of the Yankees was
the top American league catcher
in double plays last season. He
figured in 16. He also made the
most passed balls, committing
seven.
Courtesy Lincoln Journal
_MRS. WICHELT
Lincoln Boxer
Will Compete
At Los Angeles
A former Lincoln Golden
Gloves middleweight is cleaning
up on the west coast.
Nolan Davis, former member
of the Urban League boxing team
here, copped the middleweight
event at San Diego’s Golden
Gloves tourney last week and
: will represent San Diego in the
Los Angeles meet next week.
The 160-pound Lincoln prod
uct flattened his quarter-final
opponent in 16 seconds at San
Diego to register his tenth con
secutive knockout victory.
Davis held down a halfback
berth on Lincoln high’s 1948
grid eleven. He is stationed at
Coronado, Calif., naval base.
Broadcast to Cite
NegroHistoryW eek
NEW YORK—The 25th an
niversary of Negro History Week
will be observed Sunday, Febru
ary 11, on the American Broad
casting Company network. The
United Negro College Fund and
the National Urban League will
present a special discussion in
honor of the occasion on the
“Negro College Choirs" program
heard at 10:30 a.m., EST, on
ABC stations.
Featured on the anniversary
program will be James E. Allen,
treasurer of the New York As
sociation for the Study of Negro
Life and History, and Dr. Dan
Dodson, a director of the Center
for Human Relations Studies,
New York University. Mr. Allen
and Dr. Dodson will cite some of
the outstanding events concern
ing the Negro in American his
tory, and the significance of
Negro History Week. The choir
of Fish University will also be
featured.
Mr. Allen is presently District
School Community Relations
Counselor of the Board of Edu
cation of the city of New York.
He has been active in Boy Scout
work and is a member of the
National Council of the Boy
Scouts of America. Dr. Dodson
is editor of the Journal of Edu
cational Sociology. He was form
erly executive director of the
Mayor’s Committee on Unity,
New York, N. Y.
230 Attend Annual Meeting at
Lincoln Urban League Jan. 31
Rev. Kelly New
Administrator
Douglas Hosp.
KANSAS CITY, Kansas. —
The administration committee
of Douglas hospital met Tuesday
and named a business adminis
trator for the institution. He is
the Rev. Eugene H. Kelly, jr.,
who held the pastorate of St.
James A. M. E. church ir. Topeka
until his new appointment this
week.
The young minister succeeds
the Rev. C. A. Williams, retired
A. M. E. minister, who is resign
ing effective Feb. 15, because of
poor health. He took over the
post upon the resignation of Earl
W. Beck, business manaager, a
few months ago.
The Rev. Mr. Kelly will in ad
dition to his hospital work serve
as pastor of St. Luke A. M. E.
church at 12th and Ann. He
will also take some hospital ad
ministration courses at Univer
sity of Kansas hospitals.
A graduate of Western univer
sity and Wi.berforce university
and seminary the new officer is
secretary of the Kansas Coun
cil of Churches and chairman of
the Kansas Citizens Planning
committee.
Before attending Wilberforce
the Rev. Mr. Kelly was registrar
at Western Baptist college in
Kansas City, Mo. Another posi
tion held was that of agent for
parole division of Kansas.
The medical staff at Douglass
is headed by Dr. W. R. Peterson.
Lts director is Dr. William H.
Dyer. Roosevelt Butler is com
mittee secretary and holds the
same post for the board of di
rectors.
Acting chairman of the ad
ministration group is Fred
White. Bishop D. Ormonde
Walker serves as chairman when
he is in the city.
Committee members are: The
Reverends S. M. Pointer, George
F. Martin, E. B. Childress, A.
McCoy Ransom, Carl F. Flipper,
Atty. Myles C. Stevens and Mr.
Butler, secretary.
U. of Md. Okays
Negro for Campus
BALTIMORE. (ANP). The
University of Maryland, citadel
of keeping Negroes out of white
universities, finally has agreed
to admit a Negro undergraduate
to its campus in College Park,
just outside of Baltimore.
The new students will be
Hiram T. Whittle, 20, of Balti
more, who will transfer from the
Negro Morgan college to the uni
versity to study in the engineer
ing school.
Whittle had filed suit in a
Circuit court demanding his
registration at the white school.
He will be admitted in Septem
ber, thus becoming the first of
his race to be an undergraduate
student on campus.
He is not the first Negro to
attend the university,^ however.
Several have attended the law
school in Baltimore and to other
divisions in this city. One grad
uate student recently won the
right to attend school on campus.
India-Pakistan Situation
Topic of Sherman Scruggs
Whitney M. Young, Jr.,
Biographical Sketch
Whitney M. Young, jr., was
born on July 31, 1921, at Lincoln
Ridge, Kentucky. He received
his elementary and high school
training at Lincoln Institute, Lin
coln Ridge, Ky., and his Bachelor
of Science Degree from Ken
tucky College in 1941 at the age
of 19. For one year, Mr. Young
was coach and assistant princi
pal at a high school in Madison
vilJe, Ky. At the end of this year,
/ Mr. Young enlisted in the United
States Army, serving four years,
two of which were in the Euro
pean Theatre as a Combat En
gineer. While in the Army, Mr.
Young was sent to Rhode Island
State College and Mass. Insti
tute of Technology to do ad
vanced work in electrical engi
neering. Upon returning from
Service, he enrolled at the Uni
versity of Minnesota and re
ceived his Masters Degree in So
cial Work in 1947. Throughout
his academic career, Mr. Young
has consistently been in the up
per tenth of his class and almost
without exception was elected
president of each class. While at
the University of Minnesota, he
was appointed assistant instruc
tor and made vice president of
the Student Social Work Associa
tion. Mr. Young was employed
for three years by-the St. Paul
Urban League as Industrial Sec
retary and, during that period,
was instrumental in getting Ne
gro citizens placed in over eighty
new industries heretofore closed
to them. Notable among these
positions were chemists, engi
neers, architects, sales girls, tele
phone operators, stenographers,
etc. He was the second Negro to
be accepted in the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce in the United
States and the first to be made
a member of the St. Paul Y’s
Men’s Club. He was appointed
Executive Secretary of the
Omaha Urban League in Febru
ary, 1950.
Mr. Young’s father who lives
in Lincoln Ridge, Ky., is the
State Supervisor of Negro Edu
cation and President of one of
the State Schools. His mother
was the first Negro woman post
mistress in the United States.
Mr. Young is married and his
wife, Margaret, has her Masters
Degree from the University of
Minnesota in Educational Psy
chology. They have one daugh
ter.
Two hundred thirty people at
tended the Annual Meeting at
the League building, 2030 T
Street, January 31st, to hear Dr.
Sherman D. Scruggs, president
of Lincoln University, Jeffer
son City, Missouri, talk on India
Pakistan situation.
As a mefnber of UNESCO’s
American education conference
to India-Pakistan, Dr. Scruggs
had the opportunity to talk with
India’s premier, # officers, educa
tors, and people during a 10
week meeting in that country
last summer.
The new Indian republic is
“sensitive about the dignity of
the human individual,” the
speaker said. “There Is a mis
giving that the West regards the
people of India as expendables.
“While there is no desire in
India to enter into any relation
ship with Russia, there is a feel
ing that if another man wants
to embrace communism, that is
his right.”
However, India does not con
done any “nation that would
force its doctrines upon an
other.”
But Premier Nehru, with his
belief in non-violence, is seek
ing to negotiate the problems in
a peaceful way, if possible, the
/ educator asserted.
He stressed firmly the impor
tance of Americans giving af
firmative action to their demo
cratic beliefs—abroad as well as
at home.
Transmit Ideas
“We must transmit our ideas
in such a manner that the F*r
East has confidence in our ef
forts to develop a ‘one world’.”
The speaker said that about
18,000 Indian students are study
ing in this country. The com
mittee’s work was seeking ways
and means of facilitating ex
change of students, scholars,
books, research material, and
culture.
One of the problems is a tariff
restricting the free movement of
books and scientific apparatus to
India, he concluded.
The league’s treasurer, Dr.
M. F. Arnholt, reported that the
league received $15,585 during
1950, of which $11,115 was from
the Community Chest.
Three new members were
nominated to the board of direc
tors. They are Miss Ann Smrha,
Mrs. Ritha Banks, and Robert
T. Malone.
Dale Weeks, the board’s presi
dent, introduced the speaker.
Clyde Malone is the executive
secretary.
Rev. P. R, Stevens gave the
invocation; Rev. R. G. Nathan,
the benediction. Nominating com
mittee report was by Mrs. Ro
berta Molden.
Methodist Women
Back FEPC Bill
OMAHA, Neb. — The Omaha
Council of Methodist Women
Wednesday passed a resolution
favoring the adoption of LB 69,
the Nebraska fair employment
practices bill.
The women, meeting at the
First Methodist Church, branded
discrimination in employment ^as
“un-American, undemo crata- 5
unchristian and subersive."
