March 6, 1953
Municipal Auditorium
Opened In New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS—ANP)—An
nouncement was made this week
by Mrs. Alma Hobbs Peterson,
director of vocal music in public
schools of the city of New Orleans,
that the annual Music Festival of
the Negro Division of the public
schools would be held in the mu
nicipal audittorium on May 13,
1952.
This announcement reveals that
the long-established precedent of
not permitting Negros to use the
auditorium or to occupy the
downstairs floor has been broken.
The festival will bring together
musical talent from all of the six
public high schools and the 26
public elementary schools, and
will include probably 2,000 par
ticipants. An audience of 5,000 in
addition to the participants may
be accommodated as the entire
auditorium is to be used.
O. C. W. Taylor, principal of
F. P. Ricard school was selected
as chairman of a committee whose
duty will be to prepare a program
for the festival.
Others on the committee are
E. W. Sorrell, principal of Cohen
high; Charles B. Rousseve, prin
cipal of Jqhnson Lockett; William
Houston, itinerant teacher of in
strumental music; Mrs. Bernice
Durden Franklin, teacher, Lafon
school; Mrs. Gladys Jones Hill,
vocal music teacher, Booker T.
Washington High school; Mrs.
Beatrice D. Gurley, teacher,
Booker T. Washington High; Miss
Lucile L. Hutton, ambulatory
teacher of music in the public
schools; and Mrs. Deborah F.
Cochrane, secretary of F. P. Ric
ard school.
The festival will reflect the
music training in the public
schools in rhythm bands, folk
songs, bands, choruses, and folk
dancing.
Globetrotters Prepare
For Cage ‘World Series’
CHICAGO — (ANP) — It soon
will be time for the third annual
“World Series of Basketball.’* This
is the cry among the fabulous
Harlem Globetrotters as they are
completing this season’s regular
season schedule.
The Trotters who have lost only
two games this year will meet the
1952 College Stars in a 15-game
series that will take the two teams
across the nation in two weeks.
Opening March 30 in Madison
Square Garden in New York, the
series will end April 13 at the
Coliseum in Indianapolis.
In the first two series, the Trot
ters defeated the collegians — and
hope to make it three straight this
year.
Top men with the Trotters will
be the usual reliables — Capt.
Marques Haynes, recently honored
as the “greatest dribbler in
basketball history,” Goose Tatum,
the Trotters’ most fabulous point
maker and ball handler, and Bill
(Rookie) Brown. New stalwarts
will include such men as Josh
Grider and Clarence Wilson.
Rockefeller Heads Council
NEW YORK—(ANP)—John D.
Rockefeller Jr. has accepted the
chairmanship of the national
council of the United Negro Col
lege Fund for 1952, K was an
nounced this week.
The council serves as an ad
visory board for the fund, an
organization that raises money to
aid some 32 member colleges and
universities.
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—Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
DR. RALPH BUNCHE
Resigns Position
At Harvard Uni.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — (ANP)
|—Provost Paul H. Buck of Har
vard university announced this
week that the famed university
has acepted with deep regret the
resignation of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche
as Professor of Government.
Dr. Bunche resigned the Har
vard appointment which he had
held on leave of absence since
j 1950 because of continuing heavy
! responsibilities in the United Na
: tions Trusteeship Council,
i In accepting the resignation on
[ behalf of the Harvard Corpora
tion, President James B. Conant
expressed his “personal disap
pointment” that the scholar
diplomat could not take up his
work at Harvard. He voiced the
hope that Dr. Bunche might be
able to join the Harvard faculty
at some future date.
“Much as we regret your de
cision not to come to Harvard,”
Conant concluded,” we must all
be glad that you are so effective
in your present important work. I
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Dedication Srvice* Held
In New Church Building
OMAHA, Neb.—The dedicatory
services of the Mt. Zion Church
of God In Christ was held in the
new building at 31st Street on
Que Sunday afternoon with
Bishop A. B. McEwen as guest
speaker. Theme used for his dis
course was “Time and Season For
All Things.”
The original church started as
a house to house prayer meeting
led by the late Elder W. D. Smith
in 1925. In the summer of 1951
Elder L. I. Wright, contractor and
pastor made plans for the new
church building. Comments were
made by Bishop McEwen of the
finance of the church, praising
the pay-as-you-go plan used by
the organization.
The state hostess committee en
tertained the bishop with a tea
in the afternoon. Members of the
committee are: Mrs. Basilia L.
Bell, president; Mrs. Mable But
|ler, Mrs. Willie Reed, Mrs. Willie
Stevenson, Mrs. Lillian Rife, Mrs.
i Jeanette Smith, Mrs. Am a Ed
l wards, Mrs. Texanna Williams,
Mrs. Norene Givens, Mrs. Alice
'Clinkscale, Mrs. Sara Tarpley,
Mrs. Crystal Hall, Mrs. Louise
Ransburg, Mrs. Ollie Mae Taylor,
Mrs. Carrie Mitchell, Mrs. Lillian
Dorris, Mrs. Jessie Gauff and
i Mrs. Dimple Jackson.
Nation s Leaders Endorse
Red Cross Fund Campaign
Male Nurse At
Michael Reese
| CHICAGO—(ANP) — Patients
at Michael Reese hospital here
soon will be telling their troubles
|to Marcus Walker who will be
graduated March 9 as the first
Negro registered male nurse in
Illinois and possibly in the coun
try.
The 22-year-old, 162 pound
Walker will be graduated from
famed Alexian Brothers Hospital
School which train: some 84 male
nurses annually. Walker majored
in nursing psychology. When
asked about the opportunities for
Negroes in this field, the pioneer
ing Walker said:
“The field of male nursing for
colored men is unlimited. I have
had offers for a job from several
different hospitals. There are
more vacancies on hospital staffs
than there are trained male nurses
I to fill them.”
| Among the hospitals which
^have offered a job to Walker are
ithe French hospital, San Fran
cisco; New York City hospital;
; Miechael Reese, Chicago, and
| Homer G. Phillips, St. Louis.
He said that he chose Michael
! Reese because it is still a grow
ing hospital. Because of this, he
said, there would be greatei
chance for advancement and ex
I perience.
I A native of Chicago, Walker
| first became interested in nursing
while a student at Northern II
! linois State college. Pursuing a
: course in education, Walker
realized that he was not particu
larly interested in the usual
teaching jobs.
Unable to make up his mind
about his future, he sought the
advice of his psychology teacher.
After discovering that he had
once worked in a hospital and that
his mother was a practical nurse,
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AFRICAN MINER AWARDED FOR SAVING A LIFE—Sumanu
Wan gar a, a miner at the Konongo Gold Mines in Ashanti, Gold Coast
in Africa, recently was honored for saving the life of a fellow miner.
He was one of an interracial group of three miners who risked their
lives to save Cardoe, a fellow worker.
It took five hours for the rescuers to save Cardoe who was
trapped in a slide of loose rocks. At all times during the rescue
they were in danger of being trapped, themselves.
In the above picture, Wangara, left, is accepting his award from
iW. H. Beeton, chief commissioner of mines in the Gold Coast.— (A^P)
Campaign For $95,000,000
WASHINGTON, D. C. (ANP) —
Many of the Nation’s top govern
ment, business, religious, labor,
and civic leaders last week un
aimously endorsed the 1952
American Red Cross fund cam
paign, which began Mar. 1
throughout the conutry.
Among those supporting the ap
peal were Dr. Ralph J. Bunche,
UN official, educator and states
J. Finley Wilson
Ruled Elkdom For
Nearly 30 Years
WASHINGTON, D. C.—ANP)—
J. Finley Wilson, 72, grand
exalted ruler of the Improved
Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks c-f the World died at his
home, 181*1 Vernon Street, North
west, at 8:30 o’clock Tuesday
morning, February 19.
Serving longer than any other
grand exalted ruler in the history
of the E1ks, Mr. Wilson’s admin
istration of the order covered the
period of its greatest growth in
membership, finances, acquisition
of property, and community in
fluence.
He was elected grand exalted
ruler at the annual convention ir
Newark, New Jersey, in August
1922, and served continuously a
such for nearly thirty years.
Robert H. Johnson, of Phila
delphia, grand esteemed leading
knight, succeeds Mr. Wilson aj
acting grand exalted ruler. He
will serve in an acting capacity
until the next grand lodge session
in Atlantic City in August.
Funeral services for Mr. Wilson
was held ar Metropolitan Baptist
Church m 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb
ruary 23. The Rev. E. C. Smith,
pastor, officiated. There were both
Masonic and Elk services. Mr.
Wilson was a thirty-third degree
Mason.
man; Dean Acheson, secretary of
state; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
Warren R. Austin, chief U. S.
representative at the UN; William
Green, president of the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews; and Allan B. Kline, presi
dent of the American Farm
Bureau Federation.
This years campaign is for
$85,000,000 to finance what the
Red Cross believes will be the
heaviest responsibilities ever faced '
except in time of all-out war.
Dr. Bunche’s individual en
dorsement stated that “the Red
Cross is an indispensable organi
zation rendering an indispensable
service to mankind.”
Red Cross first aid training
throughout the country jumped
more than 200 per cent in 1951,
according to E. Roland Harriman’,
national president of the organi
zation.
The 1,478,880 cert ificates
awarded to persons completing
Red Cross first aid courses was
the gi eatest number in any year
since 1943 and more than tripled
1 the 465,100 certificates granted in
1 1950.
Graduates of Red Cross first aid
courses have less on-the-job ac
cidents, Hattiman pointed out. He
cited as an example one large
•> company where only 7 pei cent of
s its accidents happened among
j first aid-trained employees; the
i °ther 93 per cent were among
%i men who had not taken training.
sj With the outbreak of way in
! Korea, the 71 year old Red Cross
'i organization was faced with new
.responsibilities. Among them were:
j To provide promptly food and
medicines for American prisoners
of war in Korea; to supply an
average of 300,000 pints of blood
a month to replenish supplies de
pleted by demands of the Korean
campaign, with a goal of 2,800,000
pints to be reached by July 1952,
for the Armed Forces.
In line with Its campaign to
raise blood for the Armed Forces
in Korea, this year’s observance
of national “Brotherhood Week'’
stressed the need for civilians to
donate a pint of blood to the Red
Cross blood bank.
William T. Patrick
Of Grand Gland Dies
William T. Patrick, 66, of Grand
Island, doorman at the Yancey
Hotel in Grand Island for the past
20 years, died in r Lincoln hos
pital Wednesday, February 27.
Mr. Patrick
had been in
ill health since
last Decembei
He was a mem
ber of the
M e t hodist
Church in*
Grand Island.
Born at Au
rora, he lived >■ f*
On a farm near Courtesy Lincoln Star
there for 46 W. T. Patrick
there before moving to Grand
j Island.
Funeral services were held on
Saturday at Umbergers with the
Rev. R. H. Powell officiating. ML
iZion Baptist choir furnished
music. Burial was at Aurora.
He is survived by a brother,
James A. of Li rln and a daugh
ter, Mrs. Edr A Jachaon Of Los
| Angeles.