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of rue Votes. —Pah.
National Newspaper Week
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PAPER WEEK—set apart each
year by America free democratic
journalism.
It is dedicated this year to
YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW.
It’s chief purpose is to inspire
better Journalism so that you may
be better served by your news
paper.
Our people will remain free so
long as they are adequately in
formed with unshackled sources of
information.
Individual freedom would per
ish if freedom of the press should
die.
They must never forget that
freedom of information is NOT
Some sort of special privilege con
cocted primarily for newspapers,
but that it is the instrument by
which every man and women IN
DIVIDUALLY may know the facts
of human affairs and thereby live
intelligently, and in freedom.
They must remember what is so
true-that those who would cripple
and destroy our freedom of infor
mation would, by the same token,
intellectually-hobble and politic
ally-enslave the people.
They must keep in mind with
references to punitive and restric
tive measures, from whatever
source they may arise, that quite
as much as the newspaper, it is
the readers individually and col
lectively-whose rights are inspired
whenever freedom of information
is obstructed by any one-in any
manner-in any degree.
Did you ever stop to think of
the empty spot in your own life
if you could not welcome THE
VOICE in your home as a regulaar
visitor?
NEWSPAPERS MAKE NO
CLAIM TO INFALLIBILITY
They expect, even welcome,
from their readers honest dis
agreement and constructive criti
cism.
They would be exceedingly dull,
and fall far short of their function,
if they did NOT arouse contro
versy.
But they like to think that ex
pression of difference of viewpoint
Arves to find the way to reas
soned action and public welfare,
not to invite unthinking condem
nation and crippling obstruction
of an instrument of enlightenment
created for a democratic society.
Knoxville Hospital to
Have Negro Nurses
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (ANP)—
Knoxville General hospital, mu
nicipally owned, is to have five
additional Negro nurses, bringing
the total number to nine.
Three years ago, by agreement
reached between the hospital offi
icals, city government on the one
hand, and Negro physicians on the
other, qualified Negro girls who
were to be sent to Meharry Medi
cal college, all expenses paid, for
training.
This was done as'a compromise
to drop proceedings of a plan urg
ing their training at the local hos
pital. All nurses thus trained are
under obligations to serve in the
local hospital for not less than
nine months.
PROCLAMATION
The first Amendment to the United States Constitu
tion setting forth the basic freedom of the press has been
one of the pillars of our free government. This amend
ment was founded upon firm resolution of men who had
suffered from denial of this basic right of free men.
Time and time again in our history, and even at the
present moment, the freedom of the press is threatened.
Our survival depends upon the free flow of information.
Consequently, the American people must fight constantly
to preserve a free press. Similarly, the press must strive
constantly to fulfill its responsibility to this great her
itage.
THEREFORE, I, Val Peterson, Governor of the State
of Nebraska, proclaim the week of October 1 to October 8,
1952 as
National Newspaper Week
in Nebraska, and urge all Nebraskans to renew their re
solve that this constitutional guarantee shall be held
inviolate.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Nebraska
to be affixed.
Done at the Capitol in the City of
Lincoln this 22nd day of Septem
ber, in the year of our Lord, One
Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty
Two.
(Signed) VAL PETERSON
BY THE GOVERNOR:
(Signed) JAMES S. PITTINGER
Secretary of State
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h IAMBS C. OLSON, SufxrinttndtM
•TATI lISTOlICAt SOCIITT
Nebraska Counties
Boyd County was created out
of an area of approximately 670
square miles transferred to Ne
braska from Dakota Territory by
'Congress in 1882. When Nebraska
had been admitted to the Union
in 1867, the northern boundary
had followed the Niobrara Riverj
from its mouth to the mouth of
the Keya Paha, and that stream
to the 43rd parallel. Through the
efforts of Senator Alvin Saun
ders, and after a rather prolonged
debate, Congress was persuaded
to extend Nebraska’s northern
bonudary to the point where th%
43rd parallel crosses the Mis
souri River.
At the time the area was trans
ferred to Nebraska, the Indians
still had title to the land. The In
dian title was extinguished in
1890, the area was opened to white
settlement, and in 1891 most of
it was organized into Boyd County
:—the remainder ultimately going
to Knox and Keya Paha counties.
The county was named after
James E. Boyd, who was gover
nor at the time.
While the early progress of
many Nebraska counties was
hampered by the hard times of
the seventies, Boy County suffered
from the hard times of the nine
ties as part of its early growing
pains. The year 1894 was par
ticularly hard. The winter of
1893-94 had been dry, and the
drouth continued through the
summer of ’94. One early settler
told of sod corn, planted in 1894,
which failed to come up that year,
but which came up in 1895 and
produced a crop. Others dug po
tatoes in mid-cummer which had
been planted in the spring but had
failed to sprout. Most of the set
tlers would not have been able
to stay through that year had they
not received outside assistance.
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White Teachers Cannot Work in
Negro Schools, Counsel Advises
WASHINGTON (ANP)— White
teachers are prohibited by law
from teaching in the colored
schools of Washington according!
to Corporation Counsel Vernon
E. West.
This decision, made last week,
was based upon a review of the
District of Columbia school sys
tem, dating from 1862, stated
West. He claimed that the organic
act of 1906, under which the pres
ent school system was organized,
clearly indicated that congress in
tended a separation of teachers of
the Negro and white races.
A legal interpretation of the
law requiring the separation of
teachers in District schools was
requested by School Supt. Hobart
M. Corning last July.
This request was made after
Atty. Walter N. Torbine, a member
of the Board of Education, had in
quired as to whether white per
sons could teach voluntarily in
Negro schools. His question was
raised in a personnel committee
meeting in which Supt. Corning
had reported a shortage of Negro
instructors and a surplus of white1
teachers.
West’s opinion further inter
preted the statute as requiring the
assistant superintendent in charge
Since the organization of the
county Butte has been the seat
of government. The failure of
the county’s only railroad—the
Northwestern—to make connec
tions with Butte would have been
disastrous in some counties so
far as retaining the county seat is
concerned, but Butte, in spite of
being outdistanced a -little by
Spencer in population (635-623),
withstood this disadvantage.
The highest population Boyd
County has shown since it first
appeared in the censes returns
in 1890 was in 1910 when the
county returned 8,826. Since then
there has been a steady decline
and the census of 1950 shows only
4,921.
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of Negro schools to be a Negro
who is given sole charge of all
teachers, classes and schools in
which Negro children are taught.
The act of congress further pro
hibited the promotion of Negro
teachers from one classification
to another except with the ap
proval of the Negro assistant su
perintendent, stated West.
The ruling pointed out for the
first time, that the 1906 law pre
scribed the establishiment of two
boards of examiners, one to ex
amine white teachers before their
appointment to white schools, and
the other to process Negro instruc
tors for assignment in Negro
schools. He stated that all later
legislation is entirely consistent
with the provisions of the 1906
act, requiring separation of
teachers.
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