BOOKER WASHINGTON
BIRTHPLACE, Va.—According to
information received from Assem
blyman Leroy J. Simmons of the
Wisconsin Legislature, Virginia
Lamar Phillips, salutatorian of the
Class of '51, Palmer Memorial In
stitute, Sedalia, North Carolina,
entered the School of Journalism
of the University of Wisconsin
under a Legislative Scholarship.
He further stated that because of
Virginia's unusual record, she has
been granted permission to take
sophomore subjects although she
is in her Freshman year.
For the past three years, young
Miss Phillips has had varied ex
perience in working in the Public
Relations and Publicity Programs
of the Booker T. Washington
Birthplace Memorial. On the basis
of this experience, she has excel
lent background for the field
which she has chosen.
BOOKER WASHINGTON
BIRTHPLACE, Va.—According to
a story which appeared in The
Ann Arbor News, leading daily of
the Michigan city, Bettye Jeanne
Phillips of Booker Washington
Birthplace, Virginia, is one of the
four new staff members who was
added to the Perry Nursery School
for Children of working mothers,
located in Ann Arbor.
Miss Phillips is a graduate in
Child Development of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, and has had
Nursery School experience at the
Chicago Commons Association,
Chicago, 111. She states that she
is interested in the conditions
which provide for good environ
ments for children, together with
their mental, social and emotional
behaviors which affect their de
| velopment.
D.C. to Integrate Negro Firemen
WASHINGTON—(ANP)— Dis-j
trict commissioners last week re
affirmed their new policy of in
tegrating Negro firemen into
white companies of the Fire De-j
partment despote vigorous pro
test from a Firemen’s Union
Committee, and three dixiecrat
members of the House District
committee.
Meanwhile, two civic organiza
tions have announced their sup
port of the integration move.|
They are the District League of1
Women Voters and the District
branch of the NAACP.
The dixiecrats who protested
are representatives John L. Me- (
Millan of South Carolina, James (
C. Davis of Georgia, and Howard
W. Smith of Virginia, all dem
ocrats.
However, only 14—instead of
16—of tlie District’s Negro fire
men will be transferred to white
units, Fire Chief Joseph A. May
hew disclosed. The number orig
inally planned has been out be
cause one of the men scheduled
to be transferred this week has1
gone AWOL and another plans to
resign.
Reason for the transfers is that
Negro units are overmanned,
while white units have 26 va
vancies. Chief Mayhew said that
in the future men will be assigned
without regard to whether they
are white or colored.
The League of Women Voters
in a letter to Chief Mayhew and
Commissioner John Russell Young
stated the plan: “is not only mor
ally commendable and just, but
. . . will make for more efficient
and economical operation.”
The NAACP commended the
commissioners for ordering the
move and also wrote Rep. Davis
urging him to “revise” his opposi
tion to the {dan.
Capt. C. E. McGhee, chairman
of the Segregation Committee of
Local 36, International Association
of Fire Fighter, A.F.L., declared
the move would bring a flood o
requests for thansfer and man)
resignations from white firemen
The committee presented a reso
lution ‘‘imploring” the fire chief,
the commissioners, the taxpayers,
and Congress to continue the de
partment 30 year old policy of
segregation.
Commenting on the situation,
the Washington Evening Star in
an editorial said:
“Firemen who qualify under
Civil Service regulations are cer
tified to the District Government
without regard to whether they
are white or colored. That is as
it should be.
- “Up to this time the practice
has been to assign the white fire
men to companies that are made
up of white men; to assign colored
firemen to the colored companies.
Members of toe State Historical Society at
tending toe organization’s anneal meeting in Lin
coln, Saturday, October 20, will get a chance to see
the progress being made on toe construction of the
Society’s new betiding. The strectare, an architect’s
sketch of which is shown above, is being built at
15th and R Streets, just east af the University’s
Student Woe. The front entrance will face the
frost entrance of the State CapfttoL Construction
was begun August 25th and completion Is scheduled
for March, 1953. When completed, the building will
house the Society's library, museum, and admin
istrative offices now in the State Capitol. To be
built of Indiana limestone, the building will consist
of two stories and a basement. The first story, espe
cially designed for museum purposes, will have no
; windows.
Louisiana zrare U. Rejects A
Former U.S. Army Corps Nurse
Dr. Colston to
Be Inaugurated
j KNOXVILLE, Term.—(ANP)
—Dr. James A. Colston, widely!
known educator, will be inaugu
rated as the ninth president of
Knoxville college on Saturday,
Nov. 3 during homecoming week
lend.
Besides the inauguration cere
monies, a gridiron battle between
Knoxville and Albany State col
lege, a homecoming parade, and
a special worship are scheduled
for the three-day festivities.
Herbert Gunn, business man
ager of the college and chairman
of the inaugural committee, said
that under Dr. Colston, Knoxville
college had experienced a broad
expansion of i£s facilities and
programs.
Before assuming the presidency
of Knoxville college, Dr. Colston
was heajl of the department of
education at A&T College,
i Greensboro, N. C. He was presi
dent of Georgia State college
from 1947-49, and of Bethune
Cookman college in Daytona
Beach, Fla., from 1942-46. From
1946-47, the directed public rela
tions for Hampton Institute oi
Virginia.
l! Dr. Colston received his Ph.D
fj degree in education from Nev
r York university where he recently
was a lecturer. His M.A. degree
.'was earned at \tlanta university
'and his B.S. at Morehouse col
, lege.
He is a member of the Ameri
can Teachers association, Ameri
can Association of School Ad
I ministrators, National Education
association, North Carolina State
| Teachers association, and Phi
Delta Kappa. His fraternal or
ganizations include the Masons
and Alpha Phi Alpha.
Extension Courses Offered
CAMDEN, Ark.—(ANP)—Col
lege extension courses will be of
fered for Negroes here at the
Lincoln school, according to
Homer Anderson, Ouachita county
school supervisor._I
BATON ROUGE, La.— (ANP)—A former US Army
Corps nurse with a brilliant World War II record has filed
suit in the Eastern District of the Federal court here, to
force the School of Medicine. Department of Nursing Edu
cation at Louisiana State University, A. & M. College, to
accept her application for enrollment.
The nurse, Miss Daryle Foister, plaintiff in the case,
alleges through her attorney, A. P. Tureaud, that the state
operates no other college or school where she can “do work
in nursing education to the same extent, and on equal level,
scholarship and intensity as in the School of Medicine, Dept!
of Nursing Education at LSU A. & M. College.”
Friendship Acres
To Help Hungry
People Overseas
An even dozen “Friendship
Acres” in Buffalo county will
furnish corn this year to help feed
hungry people overseas who have
been left homeless and destitute
by the ravages of war, famine,
and drouth. That is twelve
people’s contribution to making
democracy work.
Eleven Buffalo county farmers
and a Ravenna businessman have
pledged an acre of com each this
iyear to the Christian Rural Over
seas Program. The farmers
pledged to give an “average acre’1
from their fall harvests, and the,'
businessman promised to match 1
an “average acre.”
William Heusel of Gibbon, first!
Buffalo county farmer to join'
- ^CROP'S “Friendship Acres” proj
' .eci, sparked the idea through the
r Evangelical United Brethren,
“ church. He was joined in turn by!
Henry Heusel and Gerald Heusel,!
both of Gibbon; John Hehner ofL
iShelton; Herman Link, Herberl
Heusel, William Heusel. O. J.
| Bashett and Merle Urwiller, all cd
St. Michael; John Knerl and Don
ald Muhlbach of Ravenna; and
Ravenna businessman Henry
Wiebe.
Corn from the dozen “Friend
ship Acres” will go with the regu
lar Buffalo county CROP contri
butions of food to be distributed
free overseas through church
agencies of Catholic Rural Life,
Church World Service, and Lu
theran World Relief.
Figured at last year’s average
corn yield of 38.9 bushels to the
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The requirement for admission
to the LSU Dept, of Nursing Edu
cation in the School of Medicine,
is an approved four year high
school course, registration in some
state as a graduate from a state
accredited school of nursing, and
transcripts of the applicant's high
school credits and basic nursing
course including six months to
one year of experience in surgical
nursing.
Miss Foister attended public
school in Somerset, Pa., graduat
ing from Somerset High School.
She was later graduated from the
Mercy-Douglas Hospital School of
Nursing, Philadelphia, both insti
tutions being accredited by the
state.
The former Army Corps worker
is registered, having 10 years of
nursing experience, five of which
were in the army as a staff nurse
with a rating of 1st lieutenant.
She also has served as director of
nursing at Flint-Goodridge hos
pital of Dillard university since
11947.
I The petition further alleges that
'only white students are admitted
to the University’s Department ot
Nursing Education.
J The plaintiff in her petition
; states that she applied for admis
sion Sept. 7 by filing and making
appropriate application on the
form provided for admission. She
said she was advised that she
could attend classes in advanced
surgical nursing at the school, but
that she would have to first reg
ister and pay her fees for the
course through the Negro Xavier
university, a private institution
maintained by the Sisters of the
Blessed Sacrament in New Or
leans.
To this suggestion Miss Foister
objected, and she was informed
that she could not attend classes
unless until she complied with
this procedure. Sept 18, the plain
tiff demanded that she be ad
mitted and registered as a student.
Receiving no reply after several
days waiting, Miss Foister, Sept.
25, wrote Dr. William W. Frye,
dean of the medical school, re
peating the demand.
Sept. 26, the dean answered, and
advised the plaintiff that her ap
plication could not be considered
because of her race, it being “con
trary to the policy of the Board of
Supervisors of LSU to admit Ne
groes to the School of Medicine.”
Previously, the board had told
Miss Foister that because of her
race she would not be considered.
Tureaud alleged in the petition
that the refusal to admit the
plaintiff is “illegal and arbitrary,
and a denial of the equal protec
tion of the law."
He asked further that the case
be heard at an early date, and
that a temporary order be granted
and in due time a permanent in
junction issued.
The case is to be heard this
week before Judge Herbert W.
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