VOL. 5, NO. 28_Lincoln 3, Nebraska Official an* Thursday, May 3, 1951
Beta Beta Chapter to Observe
24th Anniversary This Sunday
Sunday, May 6, at 3:00 p.m.,
Beta Beta Chapter of the Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternity will cele
brate its 24th year on the Ne
braska campus with a public pro
gram at Quinn Chapel A.M.E.
church, according to an an
nouncement made by Howard
Bean, president of the University
of Nebraska group.
“Alpha Phi Alpha,’ Mr. Bean
explained, “was founded at Cor
nell University in 1906 by seven
students. These founders have
come to be called “Jewels” by the
more than 10,000 college men who
have followed them. Today there
are undergraduate chapters of the
fraternity on 108 campuses and
graduate chapters in over 112
cities.
“Beta Beta chapter,” he con
tinued, “was organized at the
University of Nebraska on May
7, 1927 and has had a continual
existence except during World
War I when there weren’t many
men in college.”
Joining in the observance will
be fraternity brothers from other
campuses—Creighton and Omaha
University, and members of the
chapter of graduates in Omaha.
The program on Sunday marks
the beginning of twenty-five
years at the Cornhusker school
—
Oregon Passes
Bill Outlawing
Bias in Schools
SALEM, Ore. -1 (ANP) — The
Oregon legislature last week
passed a bill outlawing discrim
ination in admission of students
to school in the state on the
grounds of race, religion or na
tional origin. If signed by Gov.
Douglas McKay, who has said he
approves it, the bill will become
law.
This action was taken because
it was found that bias in profes
sional, vocational and trade
schools in the state had hampered
fair employment operations. It
was initiated by the Fair Employ
ment Division of the State Bureau
of Labor.
According to Edwin C. Berry,
executive secretary, Portland
Urban league schools of cosme
tology (beauty culture) were a
chief target of this bill. These
schools have refused to train col
ored operators on the grounds
that they were not equipped to
operate on Negro hair and skin
Unbiased scfiools, however, said
they were so equipped.
Other schools affected will be
those of modeling and business
and commercial training.
Cornhusker Council
Has Annual Meeting
In company with Lynnwood
Parker, executive secretary of the
Lincoln Urban League, scout ex
ecutives of Cornhusker Council
Troop 60, motored to York, Ne
braska for an annual meeting and
planning conference. The meet
ing was held Sunday afternoon
and evening, April 22nd.
Johnnie Reed, Scout Master, re
ceived the progress award for
Troop 60. Among others making
the trip were Jewell R. Kelley,
jr., and Hobert Bradley.
W. G. “Bill" Fulton is the new
Scout Executive for Cornhusker
Council. He filled the vacancy
left by Frank M. Chase who has
assumed responsibility as Scout
Executive of the Central Indiana
Council with headquarters at In
dianapolis, Indiana.
and according to Charles Goolsby,
Regional Director, it looks like it
is going to be one of the biggest
and best of them all for the col
legians.
Ushering for Sunday’s program
will be done by the Sphinx Club,
an organization of college men
sponsored by the chapter. The
speaker for the occasion will be
Mr. Marion M. Taylor, Industrial
secretary of the Omaha Urban
League and president of the
graduate chapter.
ROTC Program
New at Drake U»
DES MOINES, la. (Special).
Men students at Dake University,
Des Moines, la., next fall may en
roll in a newly granted Air Force
Reserve Officer Training Corps
program, Dr. Henry G. Harmon,
Drake president, announced to
day. Drake has just received
word of its selection as one of
the universities in the nation to
be given such an Air Force train
ing program. The program is'
open to all undergraduate stu- j
dents now at Drake, incoming
freshmen, and students transfer
ring to Dake from other colleges.
“This is an excellent opportunity
for young men to receive a col
lege education and at the same
time train for a reserve commis
sion in the Air Forces,’ Dr. Har
mon said “By enrolling in the
Air Force R.O.T.C. program at
, Drake a young man can prepare
himself for greater effecttiveness
to his country both in time of
peace and in war.”
There are two parts to the Air
R.O.C.T. program at Drake. The
first is the basic course for fresh- I
man and sophomore students.1
Students with a good record may
enter the advanced course which
will be given in their junior and
senior years.
Advanced Air R.O.T.C. students j
receive monthly pay, in addition j
to the uniforms issued free to all
students in the program. Upon'
completion of the advanced
course and upon graduation, stu
dents will be commissioned in
the rank of second lieutenant in
the Air Force Reserve.
“Drake University considers it
a real honor to be elected as one
of the few schools in the nation
eligible to receive a new Air
Force R.O.T.C. unit,” Dr. Harmon
stated.
First classes in the new R.O.T.C.
program at Drake will be on
Sept. 17, when all classes in the
University officially begin. Drake
registration dates are Sept. 12-14.
Students wishing more infor
mation about the Air R.O.T.C.
course at Drake are urged to
write the Admissions Counseling
office, Drake University, Des
Moines, la.
Calendar of Events
Quinn Chapel A.MJE. Church
Mother’s Day breakfast, May
13.
Sunday School Rally Day pro
gram, May 13.
Revival—Mrs. Versa Flynn
Pierce, speaker, May 14-27.
District Conference at El wood,
Kansas, May 9 and 10.
Lincoln Urban League
Membership Drive, May 15 to
June 1.
Clean Up Campaign, May 14-19.
Boys Town Concert, May 17.
Annual Duke and Duchess Re
vue, May 25.
Annual Memorial Day picnic,
May 30.
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Digg iirtends University
No. Carolina Med. School
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Conference
To Include
3 Speakers
Three speakers of national re
putation will speak on education,
youth problems, and social wel
fare as they relate to “Social
Planning In a Troubled World”
at the forthcoming Nebraska Wel
fare Association Annual Confer
ence May 3, 4, and 5 at the
Comhusker Hotel in Lincoln.
The Conference program will
offer major addresses by Dr.
Eduard Lindeman, Professor
Emeritus, New York School of
Social Work; Dr. Allison Davis,
Educator from the University of
Chicago; and Judge Philip B. Gil
liam, of the Denver Juvenile and
Family Court. The meetings will
be open to the public.
Tied in closely with the Con
ference will be an all day
“Workshop for the Aging” spon
sored by the University of Ne
braska Extension Division on
May 3.
Inquiries concerning the Con
ference or Workship should be
addressed to Nebraska Welfare
Association, 226 South 10 th
i Street, Lincoln.
Illinois Town
Hires First
Negro Teacher
MOLINE, 111.—ANP)—The city
of Moline last week hired its first
Negro teacher in the town’s his
tory. He was William A. Jenkins,
who soon will have completed:
work for a doctor’s degree in edu
cation ta the University of II-,
linois.
Jenkins was hired just as any
other teacher, according to Supt.
Alex Jardine. He also was the j
first Negro ever to apply for a
teaching job in Moline.
He will start work in Septem
ber as an English instructor at
the junior high school.
,A native of Pennsylvania, he is a
graduate of New York university
and holds a master’s degree from
the University of Illinois.
Jardine said he informally told
the board of education that he
had received an application from
Jenkins. The board, he said, told
him that if qualified any appli- ,
cant should be hired, regardless
of creed or race.
Wilber force State Changes
Name to Central St. College
WILBERFORCE, O. (ANP) — i
There no longer are* two schools
with the name, Wilberforce, in j
their title. The State College of
Education at Wilberforce is now
officially Central State college, j
Last week the 99th general as- .
sembly of Ohio passed the Dan- j
ie is-Finke-Bowers bill, renaming
the state school, and placing it,
on a par with other state insti
tutions of high learning.
This bill also authorizes the
state school to award the bachelor
of arts degree, and to appoint
its business manager. It also re
duces the number of trustees
i from nine to seven.
This whole action is expected
to end, for good, the controversy
between the state of Ohio and the
African Methodist Episcopal
church.
Through the years, the two j
bodies had jointly operated the
old Wilberforce university which j
became a great school. In recent ■
years the state and the church
split up the schools following a
controversy over administration.
Since the split the church had
operated what was known as Wil
berforce university, and the state
operates Central State college.
All ties between the state and
the church are now ended.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. (ANP). The University of
North Carolina last week announced that it had approved
the application of a Negro student to attend its Medical
school.
To be admitted is Edward O. Diggs, 30, a pre-medical
student who will graduate in June from A&T college in
Greensboro, N. C. Diggs plans to enroll at the UNC med
ical school in September.
The university medical school’s admissions committee
voted 6 to 1 to admit Diggs, thus making it the first school
below the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi to
voluntarily open its doors to colored students.
State Senate
Kills Illinois
FEPC BUI 29-22
SPRINGFIELD, 111. (ANP) —
The state senate of the Illinois
General assembly last week killed
a proposed fair employment prac
tices law for the state by a vote
of 29 to 22.
A senate committee originally
voted 9 to 3 to recommend that
the bill be defeated.
Sen. Christopher C. Winbish,
only Negro member, led the fight
for the FEPC bill, along with the
Democratic members. Only two
Republicans voted for the action.
Sen. Wimbish told fellow solons:
“FEF’C will stop your problem
I of housing and unemployment
Keep your hate if you must, keei
your prejudice if you must, bul
don’t deny the right of an Ameri
can citizen to earn a living.”
Sen. Edward P. Saltier, one of
the two Republicans for FEPC,
told his colleagues:
“I am perplexed and bewil
dered. I don’t understand how
good Americans and good Chris- |
tians can vote to refuse to give
other Americans their fullest
rights because of their color.”
Speaking for the opposition,
Sen. Merritt Little, Republican, |
argued:
“Some day a similar but differ
ent bill will be acceptable to the
public. At present, this bill puts
a heavy burden on one class —
employers—and threatens them
with punishment for doing what
they must do to stay in business.
Almost every senator from Chf
cago voted for the bill, and nearly
every senator from downstate Il
linois voted against it.
Literal translation of the word
“mortgage” is death pledge.
Joseph Sweeney invented the
banjo, so called because he was
dubbed a one-man-band.
The first southern school to
taKe this step, however, was the
University of Arkansas which ad
mitted a woman student to its
medical school several years ago.
Approval of Diggs came three
weeks after the university board
of trustees voted to admit any
student to a graduate or profes
sional school “without regard to
race or color” when the state does
not provide separate facilities for
minority races.
At that time the trustees of the
162-year-old institution said the
university could not longer defy
the “supreme law of the land”
as established by recent U. S.
1 Supreme court decisions.
Diggs has not yet received his
letter of acceptance, but he said
upon learning of his achievement,
“I am glad I was accepted.”
A gradaute of Winston-Salem
i Teachers college in 1938, Diggs
/ taught school before going to the
' service during World War II. He
is the father of three children and
a part-time postoffice worker
I while attending school.
About her husband’s comment
upon hearing, the news he had
been accepted at the school, his
wife said: “He was just too ex
cited to say anything else. Isn’t
it wonderful? You don’t know
how much suspence we’ve been
through.”
Later Diggs stated he had been
accepted by the University of Chi
cago Medical school and Meharry
Medical school in Nashville but
he preferred the University of
North Carolina because he intends
to practice in the state.
“I feel that training here would
be more valuable than in sorfie
other state,” he declared.
In rating him, the admissions
committee considered him “com
petitively qualified.”
Arkansas Gets
1st Negro Deputy
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ANP)—
Pulaski county last week ap
pointed a Negro deputy sheriff,
believed to be the first one of his
race in the state of Arkansas. He
is Charles Bussey, 32.
Bussey was sworn into office
Saturday April 14. Bussey also
will work with the Negro junior
deputy sheriffs.
To Hold Revival at
Quinn Chapel A.M.E.
Mrs. Versa Flynn Pierce will
open a revival at Quinn Chapel
A.M.E. Church May 14 to con
tinue through May 27. Mrs. Pierce
is from Casper, Wyo., and has
held previous revivals at Quinn
Chapel.
Prior to the beginning of the .
revival there will be a week ot
cottage prayer meetings, May
7-12.
Rev. J. B. Brooks is pasta* erf
Quinn Chapel.