VOL. 7, No. 3_ a 3, Nebraska—Official and Legal Newspaper November 20, 195S
Automobile Assn. Stuuy
Inadequate Highways
WASHINGTON, D. C.,—Follow
ing months of planning with in
dustry leaders, J. Saxton Lloyd,
President of the National Auto
mobile Dealers Association, has
announced the launching of a pro
gram by new-car dealers to stim
ulate state and local action lead
ing to solution of the problems
existing throughout the Nation
because of inadequate highway
and parking capacity.
Located in every community in
the United States, the association’s
more than 34,000 new-car dealer
members are being mobilized be
hind the program. Through special
state highway committees, dealers
will seek the support of, and
closely assist, members of State
Legislatures, State and Local
Highway Authorities and other
public officials in state and local
programs developed to bring
about vitally needed increase in
highway and parking capacity.
The dealer highway committees
will work with appropriate public
authorities in helping to determine
realistic community, city, county
and state needs, and in publiciz
ing widely such information.
Mr. Lloyd points out that, “Ap
proaches to individual solutions
will vary from state to state and
community to community as a
natural outgrowth of the widely
divergent problems that must be
met.”
Recognizing that automobile
dealers alone cannot work out
complete solutions to the multiple
problems to be faced, Mr. Lloyd
adds, “We recognize that new-car
dealers, already key community
members, are obviously able to
shoulder important leadership.
Our intent is to bring the ex
perience of our membership and
organization to the problem and to
offer every possible support.”
Crystallization of plans have
been hastened by extraordinary
conditions that must be faced im
Dillard Helps
Solve Shortage
NEW ORLEANS, La. (ANP)—
The Division of Nurse Education
at Dillard university here fast is
becoming the hub of Negro nurs
ing training in the five-state Delta
area of the Southwest.
Organized some 10 years ago,
the program already has gradu
ated nearly 100 registered nurses.
It is the only approved collegiate
basic nursing school open to Ne
groes in the states of Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Mississippi, according to Miss
Rita E. Miller, chairman of the
Division of Nurse Education. It
serves a population of more than
3,500,000 Negroes.
The course requires iVz calen
dar years to complete. Miss Mil
ler explained the way in which the
program is carried out. She said:
“After two years of intensive
training and preparation student
nurses begin to work with pa
tients at the university’s 100-bed
Flint-Goodridge hospital. Here. . .
our student nurses obtain their
experience in surgery, diet ther
apy and out-patient duties.
“Following this period, our
student nurses then go to the
3,300-bed New Orleans charity
| hospital for additional work in
medical, obstetric, pediatric, psy
mediately. Most dramatic is the
fact that the mileage of highways
constructed since the last war
would not accommodate, bumper
to-bumper, the new motor ve
hicles manufactured in the same
period.
Careful research has been
underway for a long period and
the national dealer association has
published an analysis entitled:
“The Case for Increased Highway
and Parking Capacity.”
TO LEAD 25,000 IN FEAST OF PRAYER—Biship C. H. Mason.
(right), senior bishop and founder of the Churches of God in
Christ, will bow with 25,000 followers in three nights of prayer
in Memphis, Tenn. The occasion will be the first three days of
the 45th Annual Convocation of the Churches of God in Christ,
during which delegates will pray and fast. The Convocation will
be held Nov. 25-Dec. 15 at Mason Temple, 958 S. Fifth st. in
Memphis.
One of the most important days of the meeting will be Bishop
Mason Day, Dec. 7 in honor of the 87-year-old church founder.
Pictured above with Bishop Mason is Bishop A. B.j McEwan of
Memphis. Bishop McEwan is the host prelate.—(ANP).
Question of Enforcement
Qf Anti-Jimcrow Raised
Today^s Thought
Scripture Reading for the week
j—submitted for use by the Rev.
R. G. Nathan, pastor of Newman
Methodist Church, 23rd and S
Street.
And it came to pass, while they
were slaying them, “ and I was
left,” that I fell upon my face,
and cried and said, Ah Lord God!
wilt thou destroy all the residue
of Israel in thy pouring out of thy
fury upon Jerusalem?
chiatric and communicable disease
training. At the Isabella Hume
Child Development Center they
obtain nursery school experience.
They also train in public health j
nursing through the New Orleans
city health department.”
Prior to the establishment of the
present nursing program at Dil
lard, training was carried on by
the university’s Flint-Goodridge
hospital.
Diabetic Exam
Still Available
As the fourth annual state-wide
Diabetes Detection Week neared
its final stages Thursday, Ne
braska citizens were reminded
again by the Nebraska State
Medical Association to get a free
diabetes test from their family
physicians before Saturday.
| The one-week drive, aimed at
finding the unknown diabetics in
Nebraska, ends Saturday. It is
being conducted by the Diabetes
Committee of the Nebraska State
Medical Association. Nebraska’s (
detection program has been co-1
ordinated with national Diabetes
Week, November 16-22, which is
held annually in an attempt to
fight diabetes on a national scale.
Dr. Morris Margolin, Omaha,
Chairman of the medical associa- J
tion’s Diabetes Committee, stated
that Nebraska doctors “are co
operating fully” in the program.
He recommended that “all Ne- j
braska citizens go to their family i
physicians before Saturday for a
free diabetes test, if they have not
already done so.” This is essen
tial, he asserted, if many of the
state’s unknown diabetics are to
reiceve badly needed medical care.
To aid Nebraskans in recogniz
ing diabetes, the following symp
toms were pointed out:
Itching
Increase in thirst
Frequent urination
Changing vision
Loss of weight in spite of good appetite
Pains in arms and legs
Doctor Margolin was quick to
warn, however, that quite often
none of these symptoms are pres
ent. He also listed types of per
sons who are more apt to have
diabetes:
Relatives of diabetics
Fleshy persons
Those over 40
Persons feeling "below par"
Patients recovering from an acute illness
“Diabetes is apt to strike any
one, refardless of age, race or sex. i
The degree to which the diabetes'
may live a normal life, and even
the length of life, depends on
early diagnosis and treatment.
That is why we are striving to
find all the state’s unknown, un
treated cases. A visit to the fam
ily doctor will confirm or rule
out diabetes for every citizen,”
Dr. Margolin declared.
Re-Elect Davis |
To Ohio Senate;
On GOP Ticket
t
CLEVELAND (ANP>—Harry E.
Davis was re-elected to the Ohio r
senate as a republican. Davis was c
one of three Negroes who rode the 5
GOP tidal wave to victory.
The two others are A. Bruce
is
McClure, Cincinnati, and Frederick f
1 1
Bowers, Dayton, both re-elected to j
second terms in the Ohio house of I
representatives. j1
Along with the successful Negro t
candidates was Mrs. Frances t
Payne Bolton, who was returned 1
to U.S. congress for another term, i
Her re-election, along with that of
her son, marked the first mother- i
son team in the history of con- 1
gress. <
Rep. Bolton is considered a li
beral by Negroes. She is a trustee
of Tuskegee Institute, a member1
of the board of Booker T. Wash- '
ington Institute Kakata, Liberia,
and a staunch* supporter of
Karamu House here.
She also is remembered by Ne
groes for her support of the Na
tional Association of Colored
Graduate Nurses. She was the
author of the cadet nurse bill
! which proved a boon to student
nurses during World War II.
Houston Funeral
Held Saturday
Funeral of Otis Houston, 52, of
712 No. 22nd, was held at 2 p.m,
Saturday at Umbergers, with the
Rev. Ralph G.
Nathan offici
ating.
Further serv
ices and burial
were held Mon
day at Brook
field, Mo.
Mr. Houston,
a native of
Memphis,
Tenn., lived in Courtesy Lincoln Journal
Brookfield be- Mr. Houston I
fore coming to Lincoln about 10
years ago. He was a Burlington
Railroad worker.
Show to Observe
Founder’s Day
RALEIGH, N. C. — (ANP)—
Daniel W. Perkins, prominent
lawyer of Jacksonville, Fla., will
be the Founder’s Day speaker at I
Shaw university, Fariday, Nov. 21,
when the 87th anniversary of the
institution will be observed. The
student body, faculty and staff,
members, as well as alumni and
friends, will pay tribute to the
memory of Dr. Henry Martin
Tupper, founder and first presi
dent of Shaw.
The Founder’s Day services will
begin at 10 a.m .with memorial i
services at Tupper’s ^rave. The
traditional wreath will be placed j
on the founder's grave by Miss
Gloria Moore, a junior of Laurin-j
burg, who was elected “Miss
SHawf’ for 1952-53. The annual;
exercises will be held at 11 a.m.
in University church.
WASHINGTON — (ANP)—Le
gally, jirncrow in interstate travel
is dead. The United States Su
preme court last week upheld a
lower court ruling that the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad in
separating Negro and white pas
sengers placed an unconstitutional
burden on interstate commerce.
While many Negro leaders were
rejoicing over the decision, many
others were looking for the an
swer to this question: “Will this
ruling be enforced? When?”
Two principal forms of racial
segregation may be affected by
this action—bus transportation
and railroads. The cattle cars be
hind the engines for colored
people has been a basic part of
the South ever since Reconstruc
tion days. The cur.tains on buses
have been typical since the auto
mobile became popular.
Most colored leaders feel that
Negroes will have to file lawsuits
to really halt jirncrow on south
ern railroad lines.
Commenting on the ruling in
Parmelee, Chance said:
“It is a matter of right that the
court should rule that Negroes
should not be required to ride in
separate coaches on passenger
!trains. I believe that jirncrow of
j train riders in the South is an in
i justice.”
i -Chance explained that the inci
dent occurred when he was on his
way home from the 1948 Republi
can National Convention in Phila
idelphia.
| The NAACP has announced
that it is “prepared to take neces
sary legal steps against all of the
southern railroads” wherever
there is jirncrow in interstate
travel at the end of 1952. Thur
good Marshall, chief counsel of
the NAACP, praised the Supreme
court action as forecasting “the
early removal of all jirncrow
transportation.”
The high court decision, how
ever, does not affect intrastate
transportation such as city bus
and street car lines and railroad
and bus trips within the states.
This little boy remains today,
■even year* after the war, a chal
lenge to the Christian compassion
of America. 'He is peering Into
the mysteries of a garbage can in
Camp Schaflfhof, Nuremberg.
He is symbolic of the life led by
most of Europe’s twelve million
homeless refugees—seeking only
to scratch out a miserable exist
ence, and existing on the cast-off*
and charity of others.
Through gifts to CROP. Amer
ica’s farm families will help again
this yeah to feed homeless children
the world ’round. The Christian
Rural Overseas Program is a di
vision of the Central Department
of Church World Service of the
National Council of the Church** *
of Christ In the U S A