—Official and -Legal Newspaper April 9, 195J
ACS Invites All to '
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The buddy system is the Army’s
affirmative answer to that age-old
question, “Am I my brother’s
keeper?”
How about our own answer?
April, when the cancer crusade
is under way, is a good time to
think about that question. If ever
a brother needs our help, it is
when cancer strikes.
For many years the American
Cancer Society has been teaching
the public cancer’s seven danger
signals and persuading men and
women to have regular physical
examinations.
How many of the danger signals
can you name? One would be
about average and two would
make you unusual.
How about a physical examina
tion? Have you had one lately?
Periodic check-ups are more ad
mired and less practiced, more
honored as idea and less tarnished
with use, than almost any sensible
rule you can name.
Would it be possible to put the
buddy system to work in the fam
ily? To memorize the cancer
“Litterbugs”
And “Yandalbugs”
It has remained for the Port
land, Oregon chapter of the Izaak
Walton League of America to pro
pose a campaign against “litter
bugs” and vandalbugs.” Sam
Moment oi the Portland chapter
points out that no picnicking, go
hunting, no fishing and no tres
passig signs are becoming more
frequent and reducing areas for
recreation.
He says, “The twin menace to
outdoor America has been well
known for years but nobody has
yet done enough about it. The
litterbug, wherever he stops or
travels by car, still leaves his trail
of eggshells, watermelon rinds
worn-out Kleenex, beer cans
broken pop bottles or even un
mentionables. The vandalbug
still is at large in great numbers.
The hunting vandal still aims his
rifle anywhere for fun, shoots
holes in farmers’ milk cans, makes
signs unreadable, shatters power
line insulators, and spreads
wreckage across the country from
broken windows to dead prize
bulls. Other vandals still set for
ests on fire with a flip of a cigar
ette or with a deliberate match
Many families still go wild once
they get out-of-doors. The cul
danger signals, not for our own
protection, but to be sure we knowj
when mother or father or brother'
ought to have medical help? Why
not make certain that everyone
else in the family has a physical
examination this year?
The buddy system in cancer
control would save many we love.
Beyond the family: let’s make a
generous contribution to our unit
of the American Cancer Society.
Perhaps the threat of cancer can
make us all act like brothers.
Now, for those who couldn’t re
member cancer’s seven danger
[signals, here they are:
1. Any sore that does not heal.
2. A lump or thickening in the
breast or elsewhere.
3. Unusual bleeding or discharge.
4. Any change in a wart or mole.
5. Persistent indigestion or dif
ficulty in swallowing.
6. Persistent hoarseness or
cough.
7. Any change in normal bowel
habits.
They don’t always mean cancer,
but if one of them develops, go at
once to your doctor.
down wild flowers and shrubs,
and write initials happily on the
walls of rest rooms and public
grounds . . . The highways and
roadsides have become the waste
baskets of the automobile users.”
Mr. Moment suggests that auto
mobile manufacturers, the auto
mobile accessory industry and pe
troleum companies can well con
sider selling low-priced waste
containers for cars which can be
emptied at approved places along
highways, in public parks, and at
gasoline stations.
Special Discussion
Croup for Adults
Topic: Life Under Communism.
The Lincoln Public Schools are
participating in an experimental
discussion project, directed by the
Fund for Adult Education (Ford
Foundation). The purpose is to
help evaluate specially prepared
essays and long playing recordings
for discussion purposes on the
topic: Life Under Communism.
You are invited to participate in
this special offering in adult edu
cation.
Place: Public Schools Adminis
tration Building, 720 South 22nd
Street, Room 100.
| Time: April 8 is the date of the
Todays Thought
“Life up your heads, ye
sorrowing ones, and be ye
glad of heart;
For Calvary day and Easter day,
Earth’ saddest day and gladdest
day,
Were just one day apart.”
NVGA Elects
Negro Trustee
Miss Ann Tanneyhill was
elected a trustee of*the National
Vocational Guidance Association
at the organization’s annual con
vention held at the Conrad Hilton
Hotel in Chicago on Wednesday
(April 1st). She is the first Negro
to achieve a high post in the voca
tional guidance field. Miss Tan
neyhill is director of vocational
guidance of the National Urban
League.
Born in Norwood, Mass., she is
a graduate of Simmons College,
Boston, (1928). She received her
M. A. degree in 1938 from Teach
ers College, Columbia University
in the field of vocational guidance
and personnel administration.
. Miss Tanneyhill has been with
the Urban League movement
since 1928, and has served in a
number of capacities with the
League. She has been responsible
for the promotion of the League’s
Vocational Opportunity Campaign,
a week-long annual nation-wide
program highlighting the day-by
day activities of the League’s
work with young people, advising
them to make wise vocational
choices. The VOC focuses atten
tion upon the responsibility of
employers and trade unions for
widening job areas for qualified
youth.
Since 1950, Miss Tanneyhill has
been in charge of the League’s
career conferences held on a
number of Negro college cam
(puses. Consultants from industry,
labor, the trades and professions
gather together on the campuses
to give college students advice on
employment and requirements for
jobs that are becoming increas
ingly available to Negro youth.
The Urban League’s vocational
guidance director has served for
a number of years in various of
fices of the New York Branch of
the National Vocational Guidance
Association. Miss Tanneyhill is
now on its Board of Trustees and
also a member of the Public Re
lations Committee of the national
organization.
She is the author of: “Guiding
Youth Toward Jobs” (March,
1938) published by the National
Urban League; “Program Aids for
the Vocational Opportunity Cam
paign” and five bibiographies in
vocational guidance, Negro history
and industrial relations.
New officers elected were:
Clarence C. Dunsmoor, director of
the Board of Cooperative Educa
tional Services and director of the
BOCES Guidance Center, North
ern Westchester County, Katonah,
N. Y., president; Clifford Freehlich,
associate profressor of education,
University of California at Berke
dey, vice-president; and Clarence
Failor, associate professor. of ed
ucation, University of Colorado,
treasurer.
The other two trustees elected
with Miss Tanneyhill were:
Blanche Paulson, supervisor, bu
reau of Counselling Services,
Chicago Public Schools; and Wil
liam C. Cottle, professor of educa
tion and assistant director, Guid
ance Bureau, University of
Kansas.
first meeting. There will be 10
meetings on Wednesdays, from
7:15 to 9:15 p.m.
|CD Chief Reports
IU.S. Unprepared
PHILADELPHIA — Val Peter
son, federal Civil Defense Ad
ministrator, says the United States
is presently unprepared should
Russia launch an atomic attack
“at this very minute.”
Mr. Peterson made the state
ment on “Junior Press Confer
ence,” a nationwide television
program, and he hinted that it
would not be “adequate” until
1955.
I
“Our civil defense organization
is not adequate to the problem of
atomic attack,” he said, “but it
is not a- failure, when you consider
the newness and complexities of
the problem and the very short
time America has been prepay
ing.”
Mr. Peterson said that if Russia
should attack probably seven of
10 planes would crack America’s
defense net.
“They (the Russians) can put
one or more atomic bombs in1
every high priority industrial area
in America at one time," MrJ
Peterson told an interviewing
panel of four college students. I
YWCA to Hold
Pre-Natal Clinic
A course for expectant mothers
will be repeated at the Lincoln
YWCA beginning April 20. The
seven-week series will be taught
Monday afternoons from 2:00 to
4:00.
| Classes are to be taught by doc
tors and nurses, and are a joint
project of the YWCA, the Red
-Cross, the Public Health Nursing
Service, the Lancaster County
j Medical Society, the State Health
Department and the obstetrical
departments of the three hospitals.
There is no registration fee for
the classes which are provided as
I a service to parents.
The course titles and instructors
include: “The New Baby and His
Needs,” Mrs. Ellen McGrann;
“Life Begins,” Dr. Mary Bitner;|
“Nutrition,” Dr. Ruth Leverton;^
“Hygiene of Pregnancy,” Miss
Clara Schlecht; “Labor and the
Baby’s Birthday,” Miss Clara
Schlecht; “The New Mother and
Her Needs,” Dr. Janet Palmer;
“Baby Meets the Family,” Mrs.
Ellen McGrann.
All mothers-to-be interested in
attending the course should con
tac Dorothy Greene, Young Adult'
Director at the YWCA, for ad-[
vanee registration.
The Voice Style Show
Mark your calendar for Sunday,
evening, April 19 at 7:30. This is
the day of The Voice Charities
Style Show. Members of the La
I Follets club and the staff of The
Voice, are busily engaged in mak
ing the final arrangements.
There will be many treats in
store for those attending the af
' fair.
Some models will present some
(of their own creations, that they
have been styled and made byj
them. Others will model from
[their personal wardrobes.
There will be in-between-scene
|entertainment, and fun galore fori
everyone.
Press Photo Competition
Taken by Sagniaw News
Kent, Ohio
The Saginaw News of Michi-[
gan has won the newspaper ex
«hibit class in competition at Kent
'State University’s 12th anpual^
short course in press photogra
>hy.
The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
Scientists
Help in Polio
Research
Editor’s Note: (This article was
taken from the Pittsburgh Cour
ier). .
* • *
PITTSBURGH — Three Negro
scientists are playing an import
ant role in what is believed to be
one of the most important dis
coveries in the never ceasing fight
to find a preventative for the
dread polio virus.
Working as assistants to Dr.
Jones E. Salk, 38-year-old scient
ist, are Rudolph Riley, research
assistant; Miss Estelle Jones,
laboratory assistant, and Leroy
Hall, research assistant.
Salk is credited with having
found a way to turn polio against
itself in a vaccine that protects
the human body from all three
crippling viruses.
The vaccine, still experimental,
but far beyond the mere test tube
stage, is being produced in the
University of Pittsburgh’s Virus
Research Laboratory.
The three Negro assistants have
been credited with working tire
lessly in aiding Salk and others in
this all-important experiment.
Observers are convinced that
the vaccine will work after study
ing 161 persons (4 to 40) inocu
lated in a series of experiments.
What scientists call “safe suc
cess” was seen in ninety persons.
Results of seventy-one other
persons were considered “spotty.1*
They were inoculated with a vae
i cine prepared with only one or
the other of the viruses mixed
with water instead of the emulsi
fied mixture of all three.
New Bill By
Sen. Butler
Senator Hugh Butler (R-Nebr.)
has introduced a bill in the Sen
ate to free state and local public
power agencies from unnecessary
Federal red-tape in the con
struction of hydro-electric plants.
The bill will exempt such local
governmental units from the ne
cessity of securing a license from
the Federal Power Commission in
order to construct such power
projects. It will also repeal the
present provision of law under
which the Federal government
takes over possession and title of
such locaUy-owned power dams
fifty years after their construc
tion.
"I believe this measure is es
sential to make our locally-owned
public power projects independent
of Federal domination,” Senator
Butler said in introducing the bill.
"Under the present procedure, lo
cal public power projects must go
through almost endless Federal
red-tape in order to build up or
expand their operations. My bill
will repeal many of these re
strictions.’'
"It is important to recognize
that this proposal is not involved
in any way in the controversy
between public and private power.
It applies only to locally-owned
public power projects,” he con
cluded.
finished second, and the Los An
geles Examiner was third, with
honorable mention going to the
Battle Creek (Mich.) Inquirer and
News and the Dayton (Ohio)
Daily News.
The four-day course, attended
by more than 250 photographers
and editors from 25 states and
Canada, ends March 27.