Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1953-06-19 James H. Purdy, Jr. MEMPHIS WORLD AMERICA'S STANDARD RACE JOURNAL The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 164 BEALE — Phone 8-4030 Entered in the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn., as second-class mail under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE W. A. Scott, II, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager JAMES H. PURDY, JR........... Editor MRS. ROSA BROWN BRACEY............ Advertising Manager The MEMPHIS WORLD is an independent newspaper — non sectarian and non-partisan, printing news unbiasedly and supporting those things it believes to be of interest to its readers and opposing those things against the interest of its readers. 67 Isolated Physicians The Alabama State Medical Association is the organization of Negro physicians The current session here at Carver High School is the yearly reminder that there isn't any except that the white medical society has not yet completed action to admit Negro physicians to membership. The Southern trend is admittance of colored physicians by their white colleagues. For example, last July The Louisville Courier-Journal editorialized: "The Kentucky State Medical Association acted according to the best professional lights in voting to admit Negro physicians to membership. Without regard to race, creed or color, the profession is dedicated to healing. There must be a general sharing of experience and knowledge, a general participation in every forum where advances and discoveries are charted..." On Dec. 10, 1952, the AP reported from Charleston, S. C.: "For the first time in the segregation history of South Carolina medical groups, five Negro physicians have been admitted to membership in the Charleston County Medical Society." About the same time from Macon, Ga.: "The Bibb County Medical Society has voted to accept five Negro physicians as members with full privileges." March 3, 1953: "The Pulaski County (Little Rock, Ark.) Medical Society broke precedent last night by electing four Negro doctors to membership." The situation in Alabama is that the state body recently acted to leave admittance up to county societies, but to date, no Negro physician has been inducted. There are 67 Negro physicians in Alabama, not including VA physicians. Their business, like that of white physicians, is the world's most blessed work—the prevention, alleviation and cure of human sickness. Vital to their effectiveness in this noble work is the exchange of ideas and counsel. Medical discoveries and the refinement of techniques come with spectacular swiftness in our time. But new discoveries and new techniques mean nothing at all to the afflicted until their physician has awareness and mastery of them. As it is, our Negro physicians are considerably isolated from the main currents of medical progress. The Negro doctor's exclusion from the stimulation and enlightenment of the white society's proceedings is a penalty on his patients. There is, of course, nothing a layman can tell a doctor about this. The white doctor fully comprehends the need of the Negro doctor for these professional contacts, as we see every spring when our white M. D's troop to Tuskegee for the John Andrew Clinic. Simply, the rump session of the Negro M. D's is a reminder of their isolation and the fact that the inevitable progress towards absorption has not been as fast as it might have been. REVIEWING THE NEWS By WILLIAM GORDON Managing Editor "Daddy why do we have to drink from separate water fountains when we go shopping?" This question is perhaps familiar to every parent, living in the land of "separate but equal." It is also one of the most difficult questions to give an adequate answer, unless however, you can become content with telling your child how different he is from other people, and that because of this difference, he must lead a different role in life from that of other human beings. You must also be very careful when you tell him about his difference for fear of branding him with a feeling of inferiority. There is simply no vantage point from which one can give a real answer, for the whole practice is irrational, void of logic and certainly has no place in modern democratic society. But how can you explain this to your youngsters? The same difficulty is present when you try to explain conditions of a similar nature. There is the story of the white woman who stood at the head of the line waiting to be served in a dining car. She was holding a small child. The complete story of disgust could be read through her eyes for her face revealed the rigors of pain and humiliation. There were two available tables. I occupied one of them. A large curtain separated these tables from the rest of the dining car. There I sat, "a prize customer," sitting and eating while women and children of a different color stood in line. I knowsome of these children must have asked the same question. "Mother why can't we sit at one of those tables?" Then there is the story of the woman passenger who tried to purchase a ticket at the bus station in Atlanta. She almost missed the bus because clerks were slow in giving her a ticket. When she pleaded with the cashier to let her have a ticket because her bus was leaving in five minutes, she received a reply that, buses are always leaving." There was no apology made for the filthy surroundings at the terminal, the long wailing line and smokefilled waiting room for Negro patrons. Many of these patrons, even though they paid the same rate of fare, would have to stand back and wait for bus to be filled to a certain portion before being told to enter. You can never explain to your child why you have to stand in line at railroad stations waiting to buy your ticket through an iron cage. The premises here are just as deplorable. Rest rooms and food counters are disgusting to observe. It seems fantastic that the health department would allow these places to operate. In light, of sanitation conditions, these places are a menace to health and a focus of infection to all the people. We could go on and on relating incident after incident growing out of conditions based on the theory of separate but equal. There is a saying however, that if water falls on a rock long enough the rock will eventually disappear. In light of this, we should have started our fight against the separate but equal theory generations ago. The Humiliation of Separate But Equal By WILLIAM GORDON Managing Editor "Daddy why do we have to drink from separate water fountains when we go shopping?" This question is perhaps familiar to every parent, living in the land of "separate but equal." It is also one of the most difficult questions to give an adequate answer, unless however, you can become content with telling your child how different he is from other people, and that because of this difference, he must lead a different role in life from that of other human beings. You must also be very careful when you tell him about his difference for fear of branding him with a feeling of inferiority. There is simply no vantage point from which one can give a real answer, for the whole practice is irrational, void of logic and certainly has no place in modern democratic society. But how can you explain this to your youngsters? The same difficulty is present when you try to explain conditions of a similar nature. There is the story of the white woman who stood at the head of the line waiting to be served in a dining car. She was holding a small child. The complete story of disgust could be read through her eyes for her face revealed the rigors of pain and humiliation. There were two available tables. I occupied one of them. A large curtain separated these tables from the rest of the dining car. There I sat, "a prize customer," sitting and eating while women and children of a different color stood in line. I knowsome of these children must have asked the same question. "Mother why can't we sit at one of those tables?" Then there is the story of the woman passenger who tried to purchase a ticket at the bus station in Atlanta. She almost missed the bus because clerks were slow in giving her a ticket. When she pleaded with the cashier to let her have a ticket because her bus was leaving in five minutes, she received a reply that, buses are always leaving." There was no apology made for the filthy surroundings at the terminal, the long wailing line and smokefilled waiting room for Negro patrons. Many of these patrons, even though they paid the same rate of fare, would have to stand back and wait for bus to be filled to a certain portion before being told to enter. You can never explain to your child why you have to stand in line at railroad stations waiting to buy your ticket through an iron cage. The premises here are just as deplorable. Rest rooms and food counters are disgusting to observe. It seems fantastic that the health department would allow these places to operate. In light, of sanitation conditions, these places are a menace to health and a focus of infection to all the people. We could go on and on relating incident after incident growing out of conditions based on the theory of separate but equal. There is a saying however, that if water falls on a rock long enough the rock will eventually disappear. In light of this, we should have started our fight against the separate but equal theory generations ago. Unauthorized Play Spaces "To most youngsters," said Tom A, Springfield, chairman of the Tennessee Safety Council Board of Directors outlining the Council's suggested summer program for Child Safety, "the end of school means chiefly the beginning of a wonderful three months of outdoor freedom. "To parents, teachers, playground supervisors, and municipal authorities, however, summer vacation presents the problem of where the kids may play safely." Each year, the safety chairman pointed out, hundreds of children die from accidents incurred by playing in unsafe places. In Tennessee, he stated, statistics compiled, by the Tennessee Department of Health show that accidents-kill an average of 309 children each year, and maim or permanently cripple many others. Places especially dangerous to youngsters seeking summer adventure, Springfield said are excavations, building, and industrial construction sites, abandoned gravel pits and mines, isolated creeks or ponds, railroad tracks, waterfrontareas, dumps and junk yards, as well as always — dangerous streets and highways. Around all ditches, excavations, or piles of dirt from digging operations," he explained, "is the danger of cave-ins, falling over-hang, and death by suffocation or crushing. Falls into excavations account for numberless broken bones; children playing on dirt piles run the risk of rolling down into or under digging machinery." Around any construction work or industrial property, the TSC chairman pointed out, "youngsters are only on hazardous ground, but are illegally trespassing. Special construction-site hazards he listed were falls from ladders, scaffolds, or the building itself; falling planks, bricks or tools; injuries from trucks, elevators, cranes, concrete mixers, or bulldozers; explosives and dynamite caps. "Youngsters should be especially warned to stay away from high fences surrounding industrial property," he continued. Those fences are built to keep people from hurting or killing themselves on dangerous equipment or machinery, often high-voltage electrical installations. High-spirited kids often take them as a dare, and up they go, risking arrests for trespassing, serious falls, nasty cuts from barbed wire across the top of the fence, and possible shock, as some protective fences are electrically charged." The old swimming hole also pads the toll of accidental deaths, he added, in advising parents to caution children not to swim in unfamiliar creeks, lakes, or gravel pits, where, hidden currents or submerged rocks or stumps are particular hazards for inexperienced paddlers. — Abandoned wells or cisterns should be securely walled over, and for greater safety, have a guard-rail or fence around them to prevent falls and possible drowning of smaller children. "Railroad tracks and right-ofway," Springfield continued "have always fascinated kids as candleflames do moths, frequently with the same fatal consequences. Across thenation, approximately 150 children under 16 years old are killed every year while trespassing on railroad property. An additional 200 to 300 more are maimed or crippled. Parents should impress on their Children, first, that all trespassing is illegal. Aside from that, there is the danger of falling under car wheels when stealing rides on freight cars; being hit by a train while walking on the track or right-of-way; and falling off or getting trapped by trains on trestles or bridges." Other dangerous play spaces the TSC chairman advised parents to warn children against are waterfront areas, dumps and junk yards, empty houses, old quarries, sawdust and cotton-seed hull piles. "Besides the danger, of a small child's suffocating in a sawdust pile or seed-hull heap," he concluded, "there is the fire hazard.. Though the outward form of the pile re-, mains the same, burning without flame may be taking place under neath, and any pressure could cause it to collapse and perhaps burn children playing on or around it." CHRIST FOR ALL-ALL FOR CHRIST The World Of God Thy Word is sle my feet, alight my p "Whatsoever a man soweth, trat shall he also reap. Galations 6:7." Maria Holley NOW 6 YEARS OLD NOW SIX 6 YEARS OLD BOTTLED IN BOND JAMES E. PEPPER ESTABLISHED 1780 BORN WITH THE REPUBLIC KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY AND JAMES R. PEPPER STRAIGHT KENTUCKY BOURBON, 100 PROOF, BOTTLED IN BOND © 1952, JAMES E. PEPPER & CO., INC. LEXINGTON, KY. JAMES E. PEPPER NOW SIX 6 YEARS OLD BOTTLED IN BOND JAMES E. PEPPER ESTABLISHED 1780 BORN WITH THE REPUBLIC KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY AND JAMES R. PEPPER STRAIGHT KENTUCKY BOURBON, 100 PROOF, BOTTLED IN BOND © 1952, JAMES E. PEPPER & CO., INC. LEXINGTON, KY. MEALTIME MELODIES! BY GRACE WATSON It has been said that little girls are made of "sugar'n spice and everything nice.' Add eyes filled with Stardust, and a head filled with golden dreams and you have a June bride. But, behind the Stardust and the veil of dreams is a sincere and earnest desire to create a happy home, to learn the many smallthi that will please the "man if her choice." mail things like tarching his just stiff nough; brewing coffee not o ong, not o weak, but ust right; and es, even leaning to make a biscuit to please his discriminating palate. It's always hard to say what your "best man" considers a good biscuit because tastes vary. Some like small, flaky, well-browned biscuits. Others say perfection is a big moist white biscuit, barely browned. So start with a good basic recipe and be prepared to vary it to please his taste. For a flakier biscuit, remember not to mix the flour and shortening too finely. If you want a moist biscuit, use slightly less flour and more liquid. Handle the dough lightly and work with cold shortening and milk for tenderest, biscuits. New brides will find that the versatile can perform many les in her menus. It is super served plain - fresh from the oven, with lots of butter, Leftover biscuits are "better than new" in many pinins, when they are split, read with butler, and toasted in the broiler. Biscuits are obliging toppings for all sorts of meats, poultry and pies. Or, let this good bread serve as a base for creamed vegetables, seafoods or egges. "Dress up" plain biscuits by adding bits of parsley, cheese or crumbled crisp bacon to the dough. Biscuits and tart fruits get together to make, hearty, nourishing desserts. Here is a basic biscuit recipe you can rely on whenever your recipe or menu calls for biscuits. Vary the ingredients as we have suggested to get what, you or he considers a perfect biscuit, and then experiment a little with the recipe for Honey Pecan Tarts I know you'll like them. 2 cups sifted enriched flour 1 teaspoon salt 2-3 to 3-4 cup milk 3 teaspoons baking powder 1-4 cup shortening Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cut or rub in shortening until dough is crumbly. Add milk to make a soft dough. Turn out on lightly floured board or pastry cloth and' knead gently 30 seconds. Roll out 1-2 inch thick. Cut with floured biscuit cutter or sharp knife. Bake on ungreased baking sheet in hot oven (450 'F) 10 to 12 minutes. Makes about 12-1 3-4 inch biscuits. 1 recipe Basic Biscuits 2 tablespoons sugar 1 egg yolk, beaten 3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons honey 1 egg white 1-2 to 3-4 cup pecan halves Sift sugar with dry ingredients in biscuits recipe. Add yolk with milk. Roll out about 1-4 inch thick. Cut with 3-inch biscuit cutter and fit into 2 1-2 inch muffin cups. Cream together butter and honey. Add egg white and mix until, well blended. Spoon into biscuit "tarts". Place 3 pecan halves in each tart. Bake in hot oven (425 "F) about 15 minutes. Makes 12 Honey pecan Tarts. BASIC BISCUITS BY GRACE WATSON It has been said that little girls are made of "sugar'n spice and everything nice.' Add eyes filled with Stardust, and a head filled with golden dreams and you have a June bride. But, behind the Stardust and the veil of dreams is a sincere and earnest desire to create a happy home, to learn the many smallthi that will please the "man if her choice." mail things like tarching his just stiff nough; brewing coffee not o ong, not o weak, but ust right; and es, even leaning to make a biscuit to please his discriminating palate. It's always hard to say what your "best man" considers a good biscuit because tastes vary. Some like small, flaky, well-browned biscuits. Others say perfection is a big moist white biscuit, barely browned. So start with a good basic recipe and be prepared to vary it to please his taste. For a flakier biscuit, remember not to mix the flour and shortening too finely. If you want a moist biscuit, use slightly less flour and more liquid. Handle the dough lightly and work with cold shortening and milk for tenderest, biscuits. New brides will find that the versatile can perform many les in her menus. It is super served plain - fresh from the oven, with lots of butter, Leftover biscuits are "better than new" in many pinins, when they are split, read with butler, and toasted in the broiler. Biscuits are obliging toppings for all sorts of meats, poultry and pies. Or, let this good bread serve as a base for creamed vegetables, seafoods or egges. "Dress up" plain biscuits by adding bits of parsley, cheese or crumbled crisp bacon to the dough. Biscuits and tart fruits get together to make, hearty, nourishing desserts. Here is a basic biscuit recipe you can rely on whenever your recipe or menu calls for biscuits. Vary the ingredients as we have suggested to get what, you or he considers a perfect biscuit, and then experiment a little with the recipe for Honey Pecan Tarts I know you'll like them. 2 cups sifted enriched flour 1 teaspoon salt 2-3 to 3-4 cup milk 3 teaspoons baking powder 1-4 cup shortening Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cut or rub in shortening until dough is crumbly. Add milk to make a soft dough. Turn out on lightly floured board or pastry cloth and' knead gently 30 seconds. Roll out 1-2 inch thick. Cut with floured biscuit cutter or sharp knife. Bake on ungreased baking sheet in hot oven (450 'F) 10 to 12 minutes. Makes about 12-1 3-4 inch biscuits. 1 recipe Basic Biscuits 2 tablespoons sugar 1 egg yolk, beaten 3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons honey 1 egg white 1-2 to 3-4 cup pecan halves Sift sugar with dry ingredients in biscuits recipe. Add yolk with milk. Roll out about 1-4 inch thick. Cut with 3-inch biscuit cutter and fit into 2 1-2 inch muffin cups. Cream together butter and honey. Add egg white and mix until, well blended. Spoon into biscuit "tarts". Place 3 pecan halves in each tart. Bake in hot oven (425 "F) about 15 minutes. Makes 12 Honey pecan Tarts. HONEY PECAN TARTS BY GRACE WATSON It has been said that little girls are made of "sugar'n spice and everything nice.' Add eyes filled with Stardust, and a head filled with golden dreams and you have a June bride. But, behind the Stardust and the veil of dreams is a sincere and earnest desire to create a happy home, to learn the many smallthi that will please the "man if her choice." mail things like tarching his just stiff nough; brewing coffee not o ong, not o weak, but ust right; and es, even leaning to make a biscuit to please his discriminating palate. It's always hard to say what your "best man" considers a good biscuit because tastes vary. Some like small, flaky, well-browned biscuits. Others say perfection is a big moist white biscuit, barely browned. So start with a good basic recipe and be prepared to vary it to please his taste. For a flakier biscuit, remember not to mix the flour and shortening too finely. If you want a moist biscuit, use slightly less flour and more liquid. Handle the dough lightly and work with cold shortening and milk for tenderest, biscuits. New brides will find that the versatile can perform many les in her menus. It is super served plain - fresh from the oven, with lots of butter, Leftover biscuits are "better than new" in many pinins, when they are split, read with butler, and toasted in the broiler. Biscuits are obliging toppings for all sorts of meats, poultry and pies. Or, let this good bread serve as a base for creamed vegetables, seafoods or egges. "Dress up" plain biscuits by adding bits of parsley, cheese or crumbled crisp bacon to the dough. Biscuits and tart fruits get together to make, hearty, nourishing desserts. Here is a basic biscuit recipe you can rely on whenever your recipe or menu calls for biscuits. Vary the ingredients as we have suggested to get what, you or he considers a perfect biscuit, and then experiment a little with the recipe for Honey Pecan Tarts I know you'll like them. 2 cups sifted enriched flour 1 teaspoon salt 2-3 to 3-4 cup milk 3 teaspoons baking powder 1-4 cup shortening Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cut or rub in shortening until dough is crumbly. Add milk to make a soft dough. Turn out on lightly floured board or pastry cloth and' knead gently 30 seconds. Roll out 1-2 inch thick. Cut with floured biscuit cutter or sharp knife. Bake on ungreased baking sheet in hot oven (450 'F) 10 to 12 minutes. Makes about 12-1 3-4 inch biscuits. 1 recipe Basic Biscuits 2 tablespoons sugar 1 egg yolk, beaten 3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons honey 1 egg white 1-2 to 3-4 cup pecan halves Sift sugar with dry ingredients in biscuits recipe. Add yolk with milk. Roll out about 1-4 inch thick. Cut with 3-inch biscuit cutter and fit into 2 1-2 inch muffin cups. Cream together butter and honey. Add egg white and mix until, well blended. Spoon into biscuit "tarts". Place 3 pecan halves in each tart. Bake in hot oven (425 "F) about 15 minutes. Makes 12 Honey pecan Tarts. LETTERS TO THE To The World Editor: We of Support Company in Korea are writing to request your help on a matter of grave importance: It is often spoken that marines "overcome all obstacles" but here we are trying to pick the girls we'd like most to support without publishing names, pictures and addresses: We, the marines, Would feel deeply in debt of the World Papers if you would help us on a delicate matter as such any girls (17 to.25) who are interested. I feel you will not let us down, and so in closings we thank and wish the staff the very best. Send pictures, names, etc. to: CPL. JOHNNY ELDER, III, 1265856 Sup. Co., 1st Ser. Bn. 1st Marine Div. FMF, c/o P. M., San Francisco, Calif. Marines Want Pictures Of Young Ladies, 17-25 To The World Editor: We of Support Company in Korea are writing to request your help on a matter of grave importance: It is often spoken that marines "overcome all obstacles" but here we are trying to pick the girls we'd like most to support without publishing names, pictures and addresses: We, the marines, Would feel deeply in debt of the World Papers if you would help us on a delicate matter as such any girls (17 to.25) who are interested. I feel you will not let us down, and so in closings we thank and wish the staff the very best. Send pictures, names, etc. to: CPL. JOHNNY ELDER, III, 1265856 Sup. Co., 1st Ser. Bn. 1st Marine Div. FMF, c/o P. M., San Francisco, Calif. Cancer Society Expresses Thanks To Advertising Mgr. Mrs. Rosa Bracy Memphis, Tennessee Dear Mrs. Bracy; On behalf of the officers and Board of Directors of the Memphis and Shelby County Unit of the American Cancer Society, I wish to express our sincere appreciation and grateful acknowledgement of the important services you and your workers rendered in our annual campaign for funds. It was through the cooperation of you good women who worked so faithfully and efficiently on the Women's Crusade May 1 that we were able to attain the quota assigned to us for this year. Through your efforts the Crusade totalled $24,359.96, or almost one-half of our quota of $52,500. Please be assured that we speak not only for ourselves but also for those hundreds of unfortunate citizens of our community who will benefit through the services available at the West Tennessee Cancer Clinic. From our hearts we say, "Thank you." Sincerely yours, CHARLES C. KING, M. D. President. Memphis, Tennessee. LAST CALL! No other words can describe the tremendous response to this Gigantic money saving SALE! NOW IT'S GOING, GOING, GOING! SOON IT WILL ALL BE HISTORY. COME BRING THE FAMILY EXPECTING THE BUYS OF YOUR LIFE! NO LIMIT, NO RESERVE! FIRST COME FIRST SERVED! Entire Stock including all our first quality undamaged merchandise from our warehouse consisting of Dry Goods, Ready to Wear, Clothing, Furnishings, Lingerie, Beddings, Linens, work Clothes and Shoes Sacrificed! FIRE - SMOKE - WATER - DAMAGE ACROSS THE EDITOR'S DESK A public meeting to consider a plan to reduce the number of fund-raising campaigns in Meridan each year was held in the Lamar hotel Thursday under the sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce directors and the civic improvements committee. Two men responsible for establishing a successful "United fund" in Baton Rouge, La., who explained the plan were Fred Grace, executive committee member, and Myron Folk, executive director. Sponsors stressed the point that it has become increasingly difficult in recent years to raise the needed funds for the various, agencies through separate drives. Some campaigns have failed to meet their goals on numerous occasions. A single drive; a representative said, will conserve manpower, reduce the expense of conducting campaigns and eliminate repealed calls on employers and employes by solicitors. An unusual number of Greater Little Rock cats are sick, a survey of small animal clinics indicates yesterday. The tabbies, or most of them are suffering from ferine enteritis — a sort of cat typhus fever. The veterinarians interviewed said the disease Was peculiar to members of the cat family only and humans were not endangered. They were unable to say, whether the disease had reached epidemic proportions. They said the disease could prove fatal if the cats were not treated. Symptoms are a high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, listlessness. The disease runs its course in about five days. It is of virulent, origin and infections. In other words, a sick cat can transmit the disease to a well cat. Tennessee municipalities will get their first allotments in August of revenues from one cent of the state gasoline tax as authorized by the last legislature, state highway officials said yesterday. W. M. Leech, state highway commissioner, said the first of the funds will be mailed out about August 10, and monthly thereafter to incorporated cities. The 1953 legislature passed an act setting aside one cent of Tennessee's seven-cent a gallon tax for use by incorporated municipalities in the construction of city streets. Two prosecution witnesses testified Tuesday they saw Lorenzo Wadley, 35, accused of killing a fellow prisoner in the city jail wash his hands in the dead man's blood. This testimony came in the Jefferson circuit Court trial of Wardley, charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Albert Tatum, March 5. Wadley is accused of bludgeoning Tatum to death with a brick pried loose from the wall of the cell. The witnesses, Jimmie Lee Jackson and Allen Hutton, were fellow prisoners in the city Jail at the time of the slaying. They told the jury they saw Ward ley bent down and soak his hands in a puddle of blood after the body of Hutton was carried from the cell. Wardley's court-appointed defense lawyers, Wilton Steed and K. W. Brockman, Jr., entered a plea of insanity. TO COMBINE FUND RAISING DRIVES A public meeting to consider a plan to reduce the number of fund-raising campaigns in Meridan each year was held in the Lamar hotel Thursday under the sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce directors and the civic improvements committee. Two men responsible for establishing a successful "United fund" in Baton Rouge, La., who explained the plan were Fred Grace, executive committee member, and Myron Folk, executive director. Sponsors stressed the point that it has become increasingly difficult in recent years to raise the needed funds for the various, agencies through separate drives. Some campaigns have failed to meet their goals on numerous occasions. A single drive; a representative said, will conserve manpower, reduce the expense of conducting campaigns and eliminate repealed calls on employers and employes by solicitors. An unusual number of Greater Little Rock cats are sick, a survey of small animal clinics indicates yesterday. The tabbies, or most of them are suffering from ferine enteritis — a sort of cat typhus fever. The veterinarians interviewed said the disease Was peculiar to members of the cat family only and humans were not endangered. They were unable to say, whether the disease had reached epidemic proportions. They said the disease could prove fatal if the cats were not treated. Symptoms are a high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, listlessness. The disease runs its course in about five days. It is of virulent, origin and infections. In other words, a sick cat can transmit the disease to a well cat. Tennessee municipalities will get their first allotments in August of revenues from one cent of the state gasoline tax as authorized by the last legislature, state highway officials said yesterday. W. M. Leech, state highway commissioner, said the first of the funds will be mailed out about August 10, and monthly thereafter to incorporated cities. The 1953 legislature passed an act setting aside one cent of Tennessee's seven-cent a gallon tax for use by incorporated municipalities in the construction of city streets. Two prosecution witnesses testified Tuesday they saw Lorenzo Wadley, 35, accused of killing a fellow prisoner in the city jail wash his hands in the dead man's blood. This testimony came in the Jefferson circuit Court trial of Wardley, charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Albert Tatum, March 5. Wadley is accused of bludgeoning Tatum to death with a brick pried loose from the wall of the cell. The witnesses, Jimmie Lee Jackson and Allen Hutton, were fellow prisoners in the city Jail at the time of the slaying. They told the jury they saw Ward ley bent down and soak his hands in a puddle of blood after the body of Hutton was carried from the cell. Wardley's court-appointed defense lawyers, Wilton Steed and K. W. Brockman, Jr., entered a plea of insanity. CATS TYPHUS FEVER PREVALENT A public meeting to consider a plan to reduce the number of fund-raising campaigns in Meridan each year was held in the Lamar hotel Thursday under the sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce directors and the civic improvements committee. Two men responsible for establishing a successful "United fund" in Baton Rouge, La., who explained the plan were Fred Grace, executive committee member, and Myron Folk, executive director. Sponsors stressed the point that it has become increasingly difficult in recent years to raise the needed funds for the various, agencies through separate drives. Some campaigns have failed to meet their goals on numerous occasions. A single drive; a representative said, will conserve manpower, reduce the expense of conducting campaigns and eliminate repealed calls on employers and employes by solicitors. An unusual number of Greater Little Rock cats are sick, a survey of small animal clinics indicates yesterday. The tabbies, or most of them are suffering from ferine enteritis — a sort of cat typhus fever. The veterinarians interviewed said the disease Was peculiar to members of the cat family only and humans were not endangered. They were unable to say, whether the disease had reached epidemic proportions. They said the disease could prove fatal if the cats were not treated. Symptoms are a high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, listlessness. The disease runs its course in about five days. It is of virulent, origin and infections. In other words, a sick cat can transmit the disease to a well cat. Tennessee municipalities will get their first allotments in August of revenues from one cent of the state gasoline tax as authorized by the last legislature, state highway officials said yesterday. W. M. Leech, state highway commissioner, said the first of the funds will be mailed out about August 10, and monthly thereafter to incorporated cities. The 1953 legislature passed an act setting aside one cent of Tennessee's seven-cent a gallon tax for use by incorporated municipalities in the construction of city streets. Two prosecution witnesses testified Tuesday they saw Lorenzo Wadley, 35, accused of killing a fellow prisoner in the city jail wash his hands in the dead man's blood. This testimony came in the Jefferson circuit Court trial of Wardley, charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Albert Tatum, March 5. Wadley is accused of bludgeoning Tatum to death with a brick pried loose from the wall of the cell. The witnesses, Jimmie Lee Jackson and Allen Hutton, were fellow prisoners in the city Jail at the time of the slaying. They told the jury they saw Ward ley bent down and soak his hands in a puddle of blood after the body of Hutton was carried from the cell. Wardley's court-appointed defense lawyers, Wilton Steed and K. W. Brockman, Jr., entered a plea of insanity. GAS TAX ALLOTMENTS STARTS IN AUGUST A public meeting to consider a plan to reduce the number of fund-raising campaigns in Meridan each year was held in the Lamar hotel Thursday under the sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce directors and the civic improvements committee. Two men responsible for establishing a successful "United fund" in Baton Rouge, La., who explained the plan were Fred Grace, executive committee member, and Myron Folk, executive director. Sponsors stressed the point that it has become increasingly difficult in recent years to raise the needed funds for the various, agencies through separate drives. Some campaigns have failed to meet their goals on numerous occasions. A single drive; a representative said, will conserve manpower, reduce the expense of conducting campaigns and eliminate repealed calls on employers and employes by solicitors. An unusual number of Greater Little Rock cats are sick, a survey of small animal clinics indicates yesterday. The tabbies, or most of them are suffering from ferine enteritis — a sort of cat typhus fever. The veterinarians interviewed said the disease Was peculiar to members of the cat family only and humans were not endangered. They were unable to say, whether the disease had reached epidemic proportions. They said the disease could prove fatal if the cats were not treated. Symptoms are a high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, listlessness. The disease runs its course in about five days. It is of virulent, origin and infections. In other words, a sick cat can transmit the disease to a well cat. Tennessee municipalities will get their first allotments in August of revenues from one cent of the state gasoline tax as authorized by the last legislature, state highway officials said yesterday. W. M. Leech, state highway commissioner, said the first of the funds will be mailed out about August 10, and monthly thereafter to incorporated cities. The 1953 legislature passed an act setting aside one cent of Tennessee's seven-cent a gallon tax for use by incorporated municipalities in the construction of city streets. Two prosecution witnesses testified Tuesday they saw Lorenzo Wadley, 35, accused of killing a fellow prisoner in the city jail wash his hands in the dead man's blood. This testimony came in the Jefferson circuit Court trial of Wardley, charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Albert Tatum, March 5. Wadley is accused of bludgeoning Tatum to death with a brick pried loose from the wall of the cell. The witnesses, Jimmie Lee Jackson and Allen Hutton, were fellow prisoners in the city Jail at the time of the slaying. They told the jury they saw Ward ley bent down and soak his hands in a puddle of blood after the body of Hutton was carried from the cell. Wardley's court-appointed defense lawyers, Wilton Steed and K. W. Brockman, Jr., entered a plea of insanity. SLAYER WASHED HANDS IN BLOOD OF VICTIM A public meeting to consider a plan to reduce the number of fund-raising campaigns in Meridan each year was held in the Lamar hotel Thursday under the sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce directors and the civic improvements committee. Two men responsible for establishing a successful "United fund" in Baton Rouge, La., who explained the plan were Fred Grace, executive committee member, and Myron Folk, executive director. Sponsors stressed the point that it has become increasingly difficult in recent years to raise the needed funds for the various, agencies through separate drives. Some campaigns have failed to meet their goals on numerous occasions. A single drive; a representative said, will conserve manpower, reduce the expense of conducting campaigns and eliminate repealed calls on employers and employes by solicitors. An unusual number of Greater Little Rock cats are sick, a survey of small animal clinics indicates yesterday. The tabbies, or most of them are suffering from ferine enteritis — a sort of cat typhus fever. The veterinarians interviewed said the disease Was peculiar to members of the cat family only and humans were not endangered. They were unable to say, whether the disease had reached epidemic proportions. They said the disease could prove fatal if the cats were not treated. Symptoms are a high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, listlessness. The disease runs its course in about five days. It is of virulent, origin and infections. In other words, a sick cat can transmit the disease to a well cat. Tennessee municipalities will get their first allotments in August of revenues from one cent of the state gasoline tax as authorized by the last legislature, state highway officials said yesterday. W. M. Leech, state highway commissioner, said the first of the funds will be mailed out about August 10, and monthly thereafter to incorporated cities. The 1953 legislature passed an act setting aside one cent of Tennessee's seven-cent a gallon tax for use by incorporated municipalities in the construction of city streets. Two prosecution witnesses testified Tuesday they saw Lorenzo Wadley, 35, accused of killing a fellow prisoner in the city jail wash his hands in the dead man's blood. This testimony came in the Jefferson circuit Court trial of Wardley, charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Albert Tatum, March 5. Wadley is accused of bludgeoning Tatum to death with a brick pried loose from the wall of the cell. The witnesses, Jimmie Lee Jackson and Allen Hutton, were fellow prisoners in the city Jail at the time of the slaying. They told the jury they saw Ward ley bent down and soak his hands in a puddle of blood after the body of Hutton was carried from the cell. Wardley's court-appointed defense lawyers, Wilton Steed and K. W. Brockman, Jr., entered a plea of insanity. Mays, Scott of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A.; Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, president, Morehouse College, Atlanta; Dr. Alonzo G. Moron, president, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.; C. A. Scott, editor of the Atlanta Daily World. P. L. Prattis, executive editor, Pittsburgh Courier; A. Philip Randolph, president, International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Atty. Edith Sampson, Chicago; Mrs. Ella P. Stewart, former president, National Association of Colored Women, Inc.; Julius A. Thomas, director, department of industrial relations, National Urban League. Also De. Charles H. Thompson, dean, the graduate school, Howard university; Dr. Channing H. Tobias, Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York; Dr. Robert C. Weaver, John Hay Whitney Foundation, New York; Carter Wesley, editor, The Informer, Hous ton, Texas; J. H. Wheeler, president, Mechanics and Farmers Bank, Durham, K. C.; and Walter White, executive secretary, NAACP; Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, UN trusteeship director, may attend. The Aaronsburg story started as an effort toward better racial and religious understanding. Today it has captured the imagination and faith of people in all fields. A Jewish immigrant, Aaron Levy, provided the land for the town, located in the heart of file Alleghmountains in Centre county, Pa. was founded in 1786. Levy's action was commemorated on October 23, 1949, when 30,000 people gathered on a hillside in Aaronsburg for the Salem Lutheran Church's 150th anniversary. Among the noted persons who participated in that event were Dr. Bunche, and Dr. Tobias. The assembly to be held June June 19-21 is the first in what is hoped to be a series of annual Aaronsburg Assemblies. HOWARD U. DEAN of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A.; Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, president, Morehouse College, Atlanta; Dr. Alonzo G. Moron, president, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.; C. A. Scott, editor of the Atlanta Daily World. P. L. Prattis, executive editor, Pittsburgh Courier; A. Philip Randolph, president, International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Atty. Edith Sampson, Chicago; Mrs. Ella P. Stewart, former president, National Association of Colored Women, Inc.; Julius A. Thomas, director, department of industrial relations, National Urban League. Also De. Charles H. Thompson, dean, the graduate school, Howard university; Dr. Channing H. Tobias, Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York; Dr. Robert C. Weaver, John Hay Whitney Foundation, New York; Carter Wesley, editor, The Informer, Hous ton, Texas; J. H. Wheeler, president, Mechanics and Farmers Bank, Durham, K. C.; and Walter White, executive secretary, NAACP; Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, UN trusteeship director, may attend. The Aaronsburg story started as an effort toward better racial and religious understanding. Today it has captured the imagination and faith of people in all fields. A Jewish immigrant, Aaron Levy, provided the land for the town, located in the heart of file Alleghmountains in Centre county, Pa. was founded in 1786. Levy's action was commemorated on October 23, 1949, when 30,000 people gathered on a hillside in Aaronsburg for the Salem Lutheran Church's 150th anniversary. Among the noted persons who participated in that event were Dr. Bunche, and Dr. Tobias. The assembly to be held June June 19-21 is the first in what is hoped to be a series of annual Aaronsburg Assemblies. AARONSBURG ASSEMBLY of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A.; Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, president, Morehouse College, Atlanta; Dr. Alonzo G. Moron, president, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.; C. A. Scott, editor of the Atlanta Daily World. P. L. Prattis, executive editor, Pittsburgh Courier; A. Philip Randolph, president, International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Atty. Edith Sampson, Chicago; Mrs. Ella P. Stewart, former president, National Association of Colored Women, Inc.; Julius A. Thomas, director, department of industrial relations, National Urban League. Also De. Charles H. Thompson, dean, the graduate school, Howard university; Dr. Channing H. Tobias, Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York; Dr. Robert C. Weaver, John Hay Whitney Foundation, New York; Carter Wesley, editor, The Informer, Hous ton, Texas; J. H. Wheeler, president, Mechanics and Farmers Bank, Durham, K. C.; and Walter White, executive secretary, NAACP; Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, UN trusteeship director, may attend. The Aaronsburg story started as an effort toward better racial and religious understanding. Today it has captured the imagination and faith of people in all fields. A Jewish immigrant, Aaron Levy, provided the land for the town, located in the heart of file Alleghmountains in Centre county, Pa. was founded in 1786. Levy's action was commemorated on October 23, 1949, when 30,000 people gathered on a hillside in Aaronsburg for the Salem Lutheran Church's 150th anniversary. Among the noted persons who participated in that event were Dr. Bunche, and Dr. Tobias. The assembly to be held June June 19-21 is the first in what is hoped to be a series of annual Aaronsburg Assemblies. Book Probers "The Commission will inevitably weaken laws against obscenity." He explained that distributors will feel free to sell every book ex those which the Commission specifically condemns. The Rev. James P. Wesberry, chairman of the Commission, told Abram that his message should, have been delivered to the General Assembly when the bill establishing the literature group was being considered. Wesberry said the Commission was now operating and it was the duty of its members to fulfill the law. Abram said he found "it is inconceivable that three men can examine in 30 days the thousands of books that are distributed in Georgia" annually. The Commission gets paid expenses for only 30 days annually. Abram said that censorship would do no harm to good books. Speaking specifically to Dr. Wesbe who is an Atlanta Baptist miter, Abram reminded that Roger, Williams, founder of the Baptist Church, was persecuted because of a religious book he had written. Abram said the legislature apparently had some misgivings in granting a small group of people censorship power, since the General Assembly specifically exempted newspapers, television, motion pictures and textbooks. He argued that all activity carried on against obscenity should be done under laws created in 1867. The Commission, in a statement following the meeting, claimed that articles printed concerning the Commission were in "varying degrees incorrect." FULFILL THE LAW "The Commission will inevitably weaken laws against obscenity." He explained that distributors will feel free to sell every book ex those which the Commission specifically condemns. The Rev. James P. Wesberry, chairman of the Commission, told Abram that his message should, have been delivered to the General Assembly when the bill establishing the literature group was being considered. Wesberry said the Commission was now operating and it was the duty of its members to fulfill the law. Abram said he found "it is inconceivable that three men can examine in 30 days the thousands of books that are distributed in Georgia" annually. The Commission gets paid expenses for only 30 days annually. Abram said that censorship would do no harm to good books. Speaking specifically to Dr. Wesbe who is an Atlanta Baptist miter, Abram reminded that Roger, Williams, founder of the Baptist Church, was persecuted because of a religious book he had written. Abram said the legislature apparently had some misgivings in granting a small group of people censorship power, since the General Assembly specifically exempted newspapers, television, motion pictures and textbooks. He argued that all activity carried on against obscenity should be done under laws created in 1867. The Commission, in a statement following the meeting, claimed that articles printed concerning the Commission were in "varying degrees incorrect." SMALL GROUP "The Commission will inevitably weaken laws against obscenity." He explained that distributors will feel free to sell every book ex those which the Commission specifically condemns. The Rev. James P. Wesberry, chairman of the Commission, told Abram that his message should, have been delivered to the General Assembly when the bill establishing the literature group was being considered. Wesberry said the Commission was now operating and it was the duty of its members to fulfill the law. Abram said he found "it is inconceivable that three men can examine in 30 days the thousands of books that are distributed in Georgia" annually. The Commission gets paid expenses for only 30 days annually. Abram said that censorship would do no harm to good books. Speaking specifically to Dr. Wesbe who is an Atlanta Baptist miter, Abram reminded that Roger, Williams, founder of the Baptist Church, was persecuted because of a religious book he had written. Abram said the legislature apparently had some misgivings in granting a small group of people censorship power, since the General Assembly specifically exempted newspapers, television, motion pictures and textbooks. He argued that all activity carried on against obscenity should be done under laws created in 1867. The Commission, in a statement following the meeting, claimed that articles printed concerning the Commission were in "varying degrees incorrect." st believed to have died from suffocation while playing.