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VOL. 6, No. 34 i
Pool Boycotted
At Conference
LAKE JUNALUSKA, S. C.
(ANP)—Because a Negro girl was
refused permission to swim here,
most of the delegates attending a
Methodist leadership conference of
college students refrained from
swimming themselves.
Despite an appeal by Miss
Vivien Tostell, Lakeland, Fla., the
lone colored girl, urging the group
to reconsider its decision, most of
' |
the delegates stood by their deci
sion.
The group previously had
adopted a resolution by a vote of
250-12 not to use the Methodist
Assembly’s swimming facilities
until the ban on inter-racial swim
ming was lifted.
Assembly officials probably will
not take any official action on the
resolution since rules an regula
tions here are laid down by the
church.
In attempting to get the dele
gates to take advantage of the
facilities during the 90-degree
weather, Misi Tostell said:
“It would be a shame for you
to deny yourselves swimming
privileges just because of me, and
besides, I can’t swim.”
The resolution said in part:
“The regulation is a source of
embarrassment to us, especially
when the youth of other countries
meet with us to study Christian
beliefs and world brotherhood.”
Owen Troy Is
First Negro Th.D.
From U. of S. Calif.
LOS ANGELES—(ANP)—Owen
Austin Troy of Pasadena, western
official of the Seventh-day Ad
ventist denomination recently re
ceived the degree of doctor of
theology at the 69th annual com
mencement of the University of
Southern California.
He did his concentration in
the field of church administration,
preaching and pastoral counseling
under the faculty of the School of
Religion of USC. His doctoral dis
sertation was on “The Financial '
System of the Seventh-day Ad
ventist Church: An Evaluation of ’
the Factors Entering Into the
Adoption and Practice of Tith
ing.”
A member of th e Pi Epsilon .
Theta graduate scholastic fra
ternity, Dr. Troy obtained his
master’s degree from the Univer
sity of Chicago, and did his
undergraduate work at Pacific
Union college.
Dr. Troy is the sixth candidate '
and first of his race to receive the '
Th.D. degree from USC.
As departmental secretary of !
the Pafcific Union Conference with ‘
offices in Glendale, Dr. Troy’s '
field of responsibility includes ‘
California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah
♦ and Hawaii. He is a member of
the board of trustees of the River- (
side Sanatarium and Hospital at
Nashville, Tenn., and the Oak- .
wood College in Alabama.
A native of California, he is ‘
married to the former Ruby Bon
temps, a daughter of early Cali- ’
fornia settlers. Mrs. Troy is a for
mer school teaqher and sister of
the noted author and librarian of 1
Fisk university, Arna Bontemps.
The first oil pipe line was of !
wood construction, five miles long,
and had a capacity of 800 barrels
daily.
Ether is produced by distilla
tion of alcohol with sulphuric acid.t
Nurses Gi Be Ausr. 17th
MISS MARTHA J. HAMMONDS
Joseph Burden,
Boilerman, Dies
Joseph Burden, 68, of 840 No.
25th, died Wednesday, possibly as
a result of excessive heat.
A boiler maintenance man at
Nebraska Light and Power, Mr.
Burden died in a locker room
there. He reportedly had not felt
well and was preparing to go
home when he was stricken.
Deputy Sheriff Mark Meyers,
acting as coroner, said that death
apparently was from overheating.
Mr. Burden had lived in Lin
coln since 1914, being employed
by Nebraska Light and Power
since 1918. He was born near Dor
chester.
Surviving are a son, Herschel
of Lincoln; three brothers, Frank,
John and William, all of Lincoln;
and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Davis
of Lincoln and Mrs. Martha Pick
ens of Pasadena, Calif.
Funeral services were held Mon
day at 1 p.m., at Quinn Chapel
Negro Nurses’ Problems
Have Not Been Solved
ATLANTIC CITY (ANP)—The
\merican Nurses Assocfation
vhich has proven one of the fore
nost national professional organi
sations in standing for human
•ights, is still battling to raise
he status of Negro nurses.
In its annual meeting in At
antic City recently, despite the
fact that the ANA was engaged in
arranging the merger of the four
national organizations in nursing
nto only two groups for the fu
ture, it found time to consider the
;mployment difficulties faced by
^egro nurses.
Establishing a precedent which
s being slowly followed by the
\merican Medical Association
md to a lesser extent by the
\merican Dental Association, the
\NA in 1946, adopted a program
vhich removed all racial barriers
;o membership in the association.
Fhis was followed two years ago
ay the disbanding of the separate
National Colored Graduate Nurses
\ssociation because Negro nurses
now may join the ANA no matter
vhere they live and practice.
PROBELMS UNSOLVED
The fact that they have been
idmitted to membership, how
ever, has not solved all of the
problems of the Negro nurses. In
nany areas they have not been
accepted in municipal and state
jobs on any basis which could be
called equal. Neither have many
private hospitals broken down the
nans completely.
I Dr. Dan W. Dodson, director of
research in human relations at
New York University, praised the
group, saying that the spiritual
forces which had raised nursing
from a charwoman’s task to the
high status it holds today cannot
be strangled by walled-in segre
gation.”
Dr. Dobson said nurses were
learning this lesson faster than
many others because, first, they1
had better teachers and second,
they had back of them a great
humanitarian tradition. Nurses
have learned long ago, he said,
that there is no difference in the
cry of misery which rises from
the lips of the white and that of
the Negro. He said nurses’ regis
tries and schools should be as
sisted in “integrating all groups
in such a fashion as to make in
tegration really successful.”
REP. BOLTON SPEAKS
Rep. Frances P. Bolton of Ohio,
one of the foremost patrons of
the nursing profession in America
and a financial supporter of the
program of Negro nurses, spoke
at the convention. She paid a
tribute to the pioneers in public
health at the closing meeting of
one of the merged organizations,
the National Organization for
Public Health Nursing.
Active at the meeting was Mrs.
Estella Massey Osborne, assistant
professor of nursing at NYU and
the only Negro member of the
board of directors of ANA.
I The Voice is happy and proud
to announce that among the 17
'seniors to be graduated from
| Bryan Memorial Hospital School
of Nursing August 17th, are Miss
Ada E. Coffey and Miss Martha J.
Hammonds, who entered the school
on scholarships provided by The
Voice Newspaper.
The scholarships were made
possible by the sale of the Voice
Cook Book.
It was in the fall of 1948 that
the Voice Cook Book got under
way and The Voice nursing schol
arships were announced. Lincoln
housewives, sixty of them, con
tributed their favorite family
recipes. After hours of compila
tion and editing, the first books
were ready for Christmas. The
idea of getting something for your
money and at the same time help
ing a cause caught hold. The
profits went into a special schol
arship fund. It ended up being a
real co-operative community ven
ture.
Thus it is with a good deal of
appreciation to a progressive com
munity spirit on the part of pri
vate citizens, churchmen, busi
nessmen and the Bryan Memorial
hospital administration that we
can look forward to a future
where deserving girls, without re
gard to race, may learn together
to serve all mankind through the
administration of the healing art
of nursing.
Miss Coffey is the daughter ol
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Coffey Sr.
I of 1518 North 7th St., Kansas City
I Kansas.
Miss Hammonds is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ham
monds of 2517 Parker Street,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Church with the Rev. J. B. Brooks
and Lebanon Masonic Order Num
ber Three officiating.
MISS ADA E. COFFEY
GOP Convention
Workers Named
WASHINGTON—Operating the
Republican National Convention
on a broadened policy of racial
integration, Walter S. Hallahan
announced last week the appoint
ment of one assistant doorkeeper
and one assistant sergeant-at
arms.
The assistant doorkeeper is
James T. Sutton of Maryland anc
the assistant sergeant-at-arms is
Tomlin Campbell of Pennsylvania
Mrs. Lena Washington of Lo
Angeles established a “first” b;
, being named to a fourteen-membe
staff of assistant secretaries at th
Republican National Conventioi
which opens on July 7.
Announcement of the appoint
ment was made by Mrs. Katherint
G. Howard,-secretary of the con
vention and secretary of the Na
tional Committee.
In previous conventions “hon
orary” titles have been awarded tc
Negroes. But in Mrs. Washington’s
case, ”it calls for active work
every day,” according to Mrs.
Howard.
“She will be on the platform
with me,” Mrs. Howard ex
plained with enthusiasm, “and
read motions or do any other
secretarial work that might be
needed.”
Mrs. Washington was recom
mended by California’s National
Committeeman McIntyre Sayre.
Our Honor Roll
The following are some of those
who are new subscribers or have
renewed their subscription to
THE VOICE.
HOW DOES YOUR SUBSCRIP
TION STAND?
Miss Gertrude Beers
Rev. Richard D. Nutt
Miss Ruth JShinn
Mrs. Clyde Coulter
Mr. A. E. Simms
Mrs. Jean Stevenson
Mrs. Otis Washington, Beatrice,
Nebr.
Mr. Arthur Patrick
Rev. R. H. Powell
Mrs. Lenora Letcher
Mrs. James Fuller
iClr. Harold Stith, Oakland,
Mr. Earl Dyer, Jr.
Mr. Forrest Shores, Greeley,
Colo.
Mr. John C. Miller, Nebraska
City, Nebr.
Mr. O. M. Travis, Montrella, Ky.
Miss Mary L. Jeffery
Mrs. J. B. Bonds
Mr. R. T. Malone
Mrs. L. W. Horne
Mrs. G. B. Evans
Mrs. Virginia Beck, Grand Is
land, Nebr.
43rd Annual
Convention of
NAACP Held
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.
(ANP)—A stepped-up legal fight
against segregation on transporta
tion facilities and recreational sites
was revealed last week as the ma
jor area of concentration for the
NAACP for the next year.
Speaking at the 43rd annual
convention of the NAACP which
met here last week, Thurgood
Marshall, special counsel for the
association, said, however, that
this shift in policy does not mean
that suits will not be filed in other
areas where violations of civil
rights occur.
Besides Marshall, other notec^
.persons who addressed the week
long meeting, were:
Walter White, executive secre
tary of the NAACP; Clarence
Mitchell, director of the NAACP
Washington bureau; Roy Wilkins,
NAACP administrator; Walter
Reuther, president of the United
Auto Workers Union, CIO, and
Kenneth Morland, an anthropolo
gist at William and Mary college.
Marshall said the NAACP in
tends to rest for the time being
on public school cases pending in
the courts and on other precedent
test cases. He had reference to
i two school cases—Topeka, Kan.,
. and Clarendon county, S. C. —»
3 which the U. S. Supreme court
r has agreed to review. Both were
r appealed by the NAACP.
5 The shift of emphasis in the
> fight against segregation from
school systems to the recreation
■ and transportation fields came
i after a meeting of the association's
legal staff.
On the eve of the convention,
White had accused both Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen.
Robert Taft, leading candidates for
nomination for the presidency, of
hedging on civil rights. He also
said that only W. Averili Harri
man of the Democratic candidates
had taken a‘ strong stand on civil
rights. He indicated that Adlai
Stevenson, governor of Illinois,
might be acceptable to the
NAACP.
Reuther in discussing civil rights
at a press conference, said that a
presidential candidate running on
the Fair Deal platform, with hard
hitting civil rights planks, can win
the fall election.
He told newsmen such a civil
rights program should provide for
federal enforcing powers that will
tell the world America believes in
equal opportunities for all of its
citizens.
The union leader, a member of
the NAACP board of directors,
presented a $5,000 check to the
organization from a special civil
rights fund of the UAW. He also
presented $1,000 from a Commit
tee of 100, a group which aids the
NAACP financially in court cases.
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Fisk University Plans 9th
Race Relations Institute
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The
ninth annual Race Relations
Institute, conducted by the Race
Relations Department of the
American Missionary Association
at Fisk University, will be held
June 30 through July 12.
The concern for these two
week seminar and workshop dis
cussions will be “Human Rela
tions in World Crisis,” in which
one hundred community leaders
from thirty - three state* and
thirty - seven lecture - consultants
will participate.