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▼OL. 6, No. 10__Lincoln 3. Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper December 27, 1951
Mr. and Miss Qu:
To Be Crowned ^ oer 28
The crowning of Mr. and Miss
Quinn Chapel will take place at
the church on Friday, December
28th, at 8 p.m. The popularity
contest closed Sunday, December
23rd.
The girls competing are: Miss
Betty Lou Bradley, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bradley,
Miss Shirley Conrad, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Conrad, Miss
Vonna Finley, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Finley, and Miss
Mattie Sue Nevels, daughter of
Mrs. Mattie Nevels.
The First Ten club is sponsor
ing the contest. The Rev. Melvin
L. Shakespeare is president of the
club.
After the crowning ceremonies,
refreshments will b« served in the
church basement with the mem
bers as hosts.
Mr. Quinn Chapel will be de
termined by the girl winning the
contest.
The public is invited to attend
the ceremony.
Griswold Files For
Senate Short Term
Former Governor Dwight Gris
wold, Gering banker, filed re
cently for the short term, United
States Senator post, vacated by
the death of Kenneth S. Wherry.
A three-term governor of Ne
braska, Griswold is a past state
commander of the American Le
gion, a past president of the Ne
braska Press Association and after
retiring as governor he spent six
months in Germany and a year in
Greece as a civilian administra
tor.
He is a graduate of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, and after serv
ice in World war I published
a newspaper in Gordon until
elected governor in 1940.
He is a lifelong resident of
western Nebraska, 58 years of age.
In 1949 he moved to Scottsbluff
and in March of this year became
president of the Gering National
Bank.
L.U. Faculty Members
Contribute Articles
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Fa.—
(ANP)—Dr. Horace Mann Bond,
president of Lincoln university
(Pa.), and two members of the
faculty recently made literary
contributions on subjects of in
terests to thinking minded per
sons.
Dr. Bond is co-author of an
article appearing in the Nov. 30
issue of Nation Magazine, entitled
“Jim Crow in Education.”
The two members of the faculty
are Dr. John A. Davis, professor
of Political Science, now on leave
on a Ford foundation fellowship,
and Dr. Walter A. Fales, profes
sor of philosophy.
Dr. Davis is the author of “Re
gional Organization of the Social
Security Administration,” re
leased by the Columbia Press, and
Dr. Fales is the editor of the vol
ume, “Collected Letters of Johann
Pestalozzi,” published by a Zu
rich, Switzerland concern.
Dr. Bond’s article reviews re
cent progress in obtaining educa
tional equality in the south. It
also describes the persistence of
I
Dr. Charles S. Johnson
NEW YORK — (ANP) — The
world’s biggest history writing job
(will be tackled by 1,000 scholars.
The six-volume extravaganza on
[mankind to cost $600,000 is
{scheduled for publication in 1957
by its sponsors, the United Na
tions Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization. Its tenta
tive title is “A History of Man
kind.”
Dr. Ralph E. Turner, professor
of History at Yale university, has
been selected as chairman of the
editorial committee. The author
of a two-volume history, “The
Great Cultural Traditions,” he
recently made a 15-month world
tour as a Rockefeller Fellow
studying cultural conditions.
A panel of 75 scholars known
as correspondenting members and
another group of 35 equally emi
nent authorities to serve as con
sultants will be chosen.
The historian members of the
editorial committee and the seven
author-editors will meet in Paris
Feb. 11-18. They will map plans
for the writing of the history and
nominate scholars to cooperate in
the task. Teamwork will be
stressed.
Dr. Charles S. Johnson, Presi
dent of Fisk university, author of
several books on sociology and a
member of the U.S. group on the
i International Commission for a
[scientific and Cultural History of
Mankind, is expected to be chosen
as one of the corresponding mem
bers from the representatives of
32 countries cooperating.
The history is expected to elim
inate as far as possible misin
formation and national biases fre
quently found in history texts
over the world in as far as it
is possible. Its emphasis will be
[upon interrelations and aehieve
Iments that have shaped the ex
istence of common men and
[women. It is hoped that it will
help the peoples of the world to
understand each other better.
After completion of the six
volumes, UNESCO will publish
a single volume of less than 700
pages, liberally illustrated, par
ticularly for the man on the
street, whether in Chicago, Paris
or Bagdad.
discrimination in northern states
through residential segregation,
illegal separate schools, and the
quota system by which minority
groups are restricted in profes
sional and graduate schools.
Armed Forces
Honors Four
CHICAGO. (ANP)—Four Ne
groes were among members of
the U.S.A. Armed Forces who re
cently were singled out for recog
nition for their outstanding serv
ice to the Army, Navy, and Air
Force.
They were First Lt. Dayton
Ragland, Kansas City, Mo.; Sgt.
Thomas L. Jones, St. Louis, Mo.;
Sgt. Willy Murphy, Chicago, 111.,
and Navy hospitalman, George A.
Murray, Jr., St. Louis, Mo.
Lieutenant Rayland received for
having downed a Communist
MIG-15 jet plane in Korea. The
former Lincoln university (Mo.)
student received his jet pilot
training at Selfridge Air Force
Base in Michigan He is 22 years
old.
I Sergeant Jones has received the
| Bronze Star Medal, for “excep
tionally meritorious service in Ko
rea. A reservist, he was called to
active service in August, 1950,
and has been in Korea for a year.
He is married and has two chil
dren.
The Silver Star Medal was
awarded posthumously to Mrs
Maxine Murphy, the widow oi
Sergeant Murphy, who was killec
when he ran his ammunition true!
into an enemy stronghold in Ko
rea.
A veteran of Korean Naval ac
. tion, Navy hosfpitafanan Murra
. has been selected Bluejacicet-oi
the-Week” at the Naval Air Tech
nical Training Command at Jack
sonville, Fla. He served in Koreai
water aboard the U.S.S. Toledo.
College Holds Last
Forum on Minorities
DURHAM, N. C.—(ANP)—Th«
final number in a forum series on
“Integration of Minorities in
American Life” was held Iasi
week in Duke Auditorium al
North Carolina college here.
Participants in this forum in
cluded I. G. Newton, professor of
political science; Dr. Charles
King, professor of sociology, and
Dr. J. Neal Hughley, professor of
economics.
Among the speakers who have
led the forum, since it was started
Proposal Receives Committee A pproval
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — (ANP) —
A proposed amendment to the
Day Law to allow parochial and
other non-public schools in Ken
tucky to admit Negroes recently
received the approval of the
Mayor’s Legislative committee.
If the proposal receives final
approval, it will be drafted as
an amendment to the Day (segre
gation) Law for submission to the
1952 session of the General As
sembly. The Rt. Rev. Felix N.
Pitt, secretary of the Catholic
School Board, submitted the mea
sure.
Mark Ethridge, former chair
man of the Federal FEPC, is
| chairman of the Mayor’s Legisla
tive committee.
According to Patrick Kirwan,
chairman of the groups’ subcom-'
mittee on education, the amend-1
ment “would permit the manage
ment of non-public schools, at its
own discretion, to admit children
Negro History Week To Use
‘Great Teachers, 4s Theme
Memorial Offers
Scholarships
DURHAM, N. C.—Some $3,200
in scholarships now are available
for 16 North Carolina Negro high
school pupils, the James E. Shep
ard Memorial Foundation an
nounced this week.
The scholarships will be
awarded in amounts of $200 each
to pupils with superior scholar
ship and character records. Eli
gible applicants must pass quali
fying examinations. Only those
persons in the upper 10 percent
of their class will be considered
for the examinations.
In addition to announcing the
scholarship grants, the foundation
also announced plans for con
structing a statue of Dr. Shepard,
late founder and first president of
the college for whom the founda
tion was named.
The statue will be unveiled at
the college’s next Founder’s Day
celebration, Nov. 3, 1952.
First to Register
NEW IBERIA, La.—(ANP)—
Abraham Roy, 69, last week be
I came the first Negro to register to
' vote in Iberia parish since the
■ Reconstruction days.
Roy, a native of Vermillion per
- ish, but a resident of New IbeTii
y since 1911, registered and wil
- vote in £*recinci 3 of Ward 6 o
- New Iberia. He registered as i
- democrat.
Oct. 8, were David A. Burgess of
the North Carolina State CIO of
fice, and James C. Evans, civilian
assistant to Robert M. Lovett, sec
retary of Defense.
Another event held on the cam
pus last week and designed to
help students integrate themselves
into American life, was the senior
placement clinic.
Purpose of the clinic, under the
auspices of M. S. Johnson, execu
tive secretary of the North Caro
lina college alumni association, is
place college graduates in posi
tions as teachers, stenographers 1
secretaries, business executives 1
laboratory technicians, and othei
fields. ’
of all races on all levels of educa
tion.”
Originally, it was proposed r.o
extend the same permission to
pubic schools, the races in public
schools,” Kirwan said.
The Day Law, which was
passed to prohibit white and
Negro pupils from attending the
same classrooms, last year W3S
amended to allow the boards of
trustees of Kentucky colleges to
vote to admit Negroes to their
schools. The present proposal
wrould extend this privilege to
the managements of non-public
and parochial schools.
Commenting on the new pro
posal, Father Pitt explained that(
the Day Law works an economic |
hardship on school boards m
many localities wh^re there are
only a few Negro students.
“It is financially impossible to
set up completely equal educa
tional facilities for only one or^
two Negro students,” he declared.
WASHINGTON — (ANP)—Dr.
William M. Brewer, acting editor
of the Journal of Negro History,
announced this week that “Great
Teachers” will be the theme of
Negro History Week to be cele
brated February 10-16, 1952.
Program suggestions featuring
12 great teachers in various fields
of education, are now being pre
pared by the Association for the
Study of Negro Life and History,
to be distributed for use in schools,
churches and other organizations
throughout the country.
The famous teachers to be
memorialized are:
Maria Baldwin, teacher and
principal of the Agassiz Public
School from 1881 to 1922. This
school was attended by children
of Harvard professors and other
notables in Cambridge, Mass.
John W. E. Bowen, teacher of
ministers, profound theologian and
1 eloquent orator.
Benjamin Brawley, teacher and
writer who made the difficult
study and learning of English a
pleasure.
Nathaniel Dett, teacher and
musical composer whose inter
( pretations add beauty and deep
, meaning to the Negro spiritual.
J Charles Drew, trainer of sur
Jgeons and opener of wider hori
a zons in medical education,
tl' John Wesley Gilbert, teacher ot
,fj Greek and German at Paine eol
a lege, minister and missionary to
j Africa.
j Charles Houston, teacher ot
j lawyers and crusading pioneer in
the advance of civil and human
rights.
Lucy Laney, teacher and edu
cator who achieved fame in work
among children and youth at Au
gusta, G a.
Lucy Moten, teacher, educator
and disseminator of rarest culture
among young women at Miner
Normal School, now teacher’s col
lege) in the Golden Age of the
institution.
Joshua Simpson, teacher of in
corrigible rigor that inspired a
generation of Virginia Union men
who have made marks of distinc
tion.
Charles H. Turner, teacher
whose pathbreaking researches in
animal behavior won international
recognition.
Carter G. Woodson, teacher, his
torian and educational reformer
who founded a new school of his
tory.
Inter-Racial Week
To Be Celebrated
February 17-24
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — (ANP)
—The annual celebration of Inter
racial Justice Week in more than
175 Catholic colleges and univer
sities in the U.S.A. will be held
concurrently with the celebration
of National Brotherhood Week,
Feb. 17-24, 1952, it was announced
this week.
During the observance, many
activities will be initiated on col
lege campuses to implement the
work of inter-racial justice. They
include forums, workshops, dis
plays* and prayers.