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The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16

ham, Alabama, will enter the
University of Illinois where
she will continue her studies
in the field of Mathematics.
She is one of four Tougaloo
students selected to appear in
the 1866 edition of Who's
Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Uni
versities.
Miss Maurice Fits, who
lives in Bessemer, Alabama,
will also study at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, where she
will do graduate work in the
field of Social Science. She
was secretary of the Student
Government Association at
Clark College, and associate
edlCor OF the College Year
book, "The Panther"
All three 1856 FIorina
Lasker Fellowship winners
were enabled to go to college
through scholarship aid, of
which a large share was made
available to their colleges by
the annual financial assist
ance provided by the United
Negro College Fund. All three
maintained honor averages
throughout their four years
of college study.
Awarded annually since
1851, the Florina Lasker Eel
lowships for women were mi
tiated by the trustees of the
late social workers estate
who established a $4,000
fund from a special trust
designated by her will to be
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
In And Around Roanoke J

making problems for school
systems and personnel, and
| believe that any public
school system would do well
to look into both.
A Plug For Teachers From
Former Teacher
The first is the advisable
ty of closing schools for
three months of the year. /
do not profess to know the
answer, but it seems to me,
that the physical plant could
certainly be used for recre-
alton or something and there
are many teachers who would
like to me employed Qike
most other folks) for certain
ly II of the IL months annu-
ally.
Perhaps Roanoke could be
a "first" again by coming up
with workable plan.
The other is the wholesale
"emptying" of most of the
work into the laps of the
teachers to be done. Did you
know that most tests given
by authorities in "Tests and
Meas" must first be graded
by the teachers? Did you
know that most Special tea
cheers" really do very little
teaching? (Heaven help mel
I'll probably bring down upon
my head, all the wrath of the
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16

used for social, civic and edu-
cational purposes. The fell
lowship fund is administered
by the United Negro College
Fund.
Candidates for Florina Las
ker awards are chosen from
among the women graduates
of the 81 private, accredited
colleges holding membership
in the United Negro College
Fund. Nominations from each
college are made by a faculty
committee. Final selection is
made by a committee of
judges which includes Miss
Loula D. Lasker, Mrs. Chaun-
cey L. Waddell, associate
chairman of the UNFC Ma
tional Council; DIR. Constance
Warren, president Emeritus
of Sarah Lawrence College;
DR.. Violet Barbour of the De-
partment of History, Vassar,
and DIR. F. D. Patterson, preSi-
dent of the United Negro
College Fund.
Prior to her death in Sep
TENDER, 1949, Florina Lasker
was active in many philan-
thropic and social organizar,
tions, including the American
Civil Liberties Union, the Ma
tional and New York Con-
sumers Leagues, and the Ma
tional Council of JEWS
Women. She was a sponsor
of the Greater New York
Women's Division of the
United Negro College Fund
from it's inception in 1914.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
ROANOKE BRANCH
NAACP TO HOLD
FATHERS DAY
MASS MEETING AT
HIGH STREET, SUNDAY

Reuben E.. Lawson, presi-
dent of the Roanoke Branch
NAACP, announced that on
Sunday, June II, 1856, at
3 p.m., at the High Street
Baptist Church, the Roanoke
Branch of the NAACP will
hold it's first annual Fathers
Day Mass Meeting.
The featured speaker will
be Atty. Elwood Chisholm,
Assistant Special Counsel for
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People of New York, New
York.
At this meeting a report
will be given to the member
snip on It's annual member
ship campaign, as we'll as a
report on the progress to-
ward Indignation on buses,
trains and other facilities.
Special music will be rend-
cred by the Senior Choir of
the First Baptist Church, un-
der the direction of Mrs. H. II.
Penn; the Eureka Singers,
under the direction of Mrs.
Elizabeth Macklin; and other
singing groups will also be
included.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16

teacher needs a secretary or
clerk to help her with re-
ports after school. Instead of
the work getting lighter for
the teacher, as it has for the
the white collar worker,
miner, the factory worker,
it is steadily becoming more
involved. The average tea
cher has no time for herself
until the week end and some
times, not then. 1t is my
thought, that school systems
would have less trouble find
ing qualified teachers if we
"emancipatel' the class room
teacher.
P. S. to parents - If you
will simply multiply all of the
problems which you encount-
err with your own Jack or Jill,
by the 30 or 40 which each
teacher has, you will honestly
admit that teaching school is
no "lollypop".
/ repeat, how about eman-
cipating the teachers?
r
Speaking of teachers A
heart warming story was
brought to my attention last
week. The fifth grade class
of Harrison School, found out
that their teacher, Mrs. Mat
tie Taylor of Gilmer Avenue,
N. w., was having a birthday,
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16

Especial teachers" but truth
is truth and none can deny
it, | am not really speaking
of Roanoke schools, now. l
am simply generalizing. l
really couldn't, because / am
not familiar enough with
your school system to know.
| can speak, with a bit of au-
thority about r i C h m O n d
schools. There, the special
teacher comes to your class,
takes a seat whether it be
art, music, or what have you)
and listens to what the grade
teacher has done. / for one,
have often wondered-Why
the special teachers?
III they are better prepared
in a specific field, which they
certainly have a right to be,
if they are specialists, then
it seems to me that the child
rem, (who are still the point"
for schools) would get the
better instruction from those,
best prepared to teach it. The
grade teacher could then fol-
low the specialists sugges-
tons for development. | can
not now, nor never shall be
able, / fear, to understand
why the class room teacher
is expected to know every
thing. Too, it is not to be
minimized, that the average
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16

company's analysis of the ex-
pected growth in the states
population and in family in
come = without considering
other important e con O m i c
trends at work - points con-
vincingly to higher levels of
prosperity in the future.
Passenger car registrations
by 1866, he said, should total
more than 1,311,0OO, a So per-
cent increase over the $4,000
now registered.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16

The finance company Of
ficial also forecast a popula-
ton gain of about 10 per-
cent, or more than $4,000
persons, by 1865. This would
bring the states population
to more than 4,327,OOO. As
for families, he forsaw a gain
of 10 percent, raising the
total to more than 100000
as compared with about
100000 families now.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16

20 percent, respectively since
the end of 1854.
Pointing out the signifi-
canoe of old-age and survivors
insurance under social securi-
ty as a floor of financial pro-
lection for the aged, Hollo-
man said that in the nation as
a whole today, over half of
the non-working aged people
are eligible for monthly bene-
fits under the social security
program and that in the
years ahead the proportion
will steadily increase. This,
he said, will result primarily
from the extension of cover
age under the 1854 amend
ments to approximately 10
million more working people
including most of the ma
tion's farm population.
Children made up a large
group of beneficiaries in the
Roanoke area in 1855; 1909
of them were receiving
monthly b e n e f j t s totaling
$118,358 at the end of the
year. Most of them were sur
vivors of an insured father
or mother who had died, but
some were the minor children
of retired workers receiving
old-age benefits. ,.f
If the child of a retired or
deceased person is entitled to
monthly payments, the child's
mother may also be entitled
to benefits regardless of her
age. In the Roanoke area at
the end of 1865, 883 widowed
mothers who were caring for
child beneficiaries were re-
ceiving $37,021 per month.
$49,525 went to aged widows,
aged dependent widowers, and
aged parents of deceased
workers in December 1866.
Lump-sum also payable, total
ed 1867, 900 in the State of
Virginia in 1866.
The nation wide total of
monthly and lump-sum bene-
fits paid under the old-age
and survivors insurance pro-
gram in the year 1856
$4,S55 million-exceeded the
total amount paid in the 111s
CONTINUED on page 81
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
454 900 Increase In Automobiles
Forecast In State Of Va. By 1865

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS pop
ulation of registered passen-
ger cars will increase by more
than $4,000 and there will
be a gain of 174,000 families
in the state by 1865, accord
ing to a study by the nations
largest independent automo-
bile finance company.
Dwight B. Ferguson of
Richmond, vice-president in
this area for Universal CIT.
Credit Corporation, said his
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
WANDERING PUP

Lakewood. Calf. = On January
l. 1854. Prince. pet collie dog owned
by David Martinez. 8. vanished. On
May 4, 1856, Prince limped home,
walked into the living room and
took his favorite spot by the win
dow. There he lay down, rolled over
and went to sleep. A veterinarian,
who examined the dog, said Prince
appeared to have walked hundreds
of miles," but was in good condition
otherwise.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
Old Age Benefits z 500 a Day in SIS

aa y
Old-age benefits under Fed
eral social security were
awarded to more than $500
of the nations newly retired
workers a day during 1866.
In the Roanoke area alone,
which comprises the counties
of Roanoke, Botetourt, Rock
bridge, Craig, Floyd, Mont
gomery, Carroll, Grayson,
Franklin, Wythe and Pulaski,
and the cities of Buena Vista,
Radford, Galax and Roanoke,
2161 more retired workers
were receiving old-age
monthly benefits at the end
of 1866 than at the beginning
of the year, according to fig
ures just released by V. B..
Hollomon, district manager in
Roanoke.
At the end of 1866, 1884
retired workers in the Roa-
noke area were gettin g
monthly old-age benefit pay
ments; in addition, 1890
people in this area were re-
ceiving monthly benefits as
dependents of old-age bene-
ficiarieS or as survivors of
workers who had died. In the
country as a whole the num-
Der of persons receiving old
age and survivors insurance
benefits increased by nearly
IL million in 1866. 16 per-
cent more than at the end of
1854. Nationwide, there were
almost four and a half million
retired workers receiving old
age benefits at the end of
1865 and an additional three
and a half million dependent
and survivor beneficiaries-
wives, husbands, children,
mothers, aged widowers, and
parents.
In the Roanoke area, re-
tired workers were receiving
$388,697 monthly in social
security payments as 1866
came to a close, Hollomon
said. Dependents of old-age
beneficiaries or survivors of
workers who had died were
getting $265,551 a month in
the Roanoke area at the end
of the year. These amounts
represent increases Of "a and
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
ELWOOD HI. CHISOLM
Biographical Sketch)

One of the staff counsel of
the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund. Regu-
lar assignments include liti-
cation connected with schools
and school teachers. Joined
staff in 1851.
Born in Washington, D. c.,
January /, 1916, and attended
public schools there. Suisse
quently, he attended Howard
University and earned the
following degrees: BIS. Go
36), MS. (1937), LIB. (19-
SOY. Has also studied at Yale
and Harvard Universities.
Prior to employment with
NAACP Legal Defense Fund,
was a member of the faculty
of Howard University Law
School and engaged in private
practice in Washington, D. c.;
a member of the staff en-
ployed for the Carnegie-Myr-
dial Study of the Negro in A
merica, and member of the
staffs of Congressional Com
mittees investigating ~ pub
lie relief administration and
(2) labor union activities on
public works programs.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16

so Beverly Keeling suggested
that the class give Mrs. Tay-
lor a surprise party; and they
did.
Twenty one kids gave of
their allowances to give their
Continued on page two)
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
Discouraged

Maybe we should have known all
about those flying saucers by this
time If they had been able to find
any place to park.--Arkansas Gaz-
cite.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
Too Young Or Too Old

One Of our friends defines the
awkward age in girls as "too old for
teddy bears and too young for
woiyes.'-Mason City Iowa Gaz-
ette."
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
BY Florence Fields-Wood

Hi-Well, this week marks
"finis" to two activities
which have held our interests
the Councilmanic Election
of Roanoke and the closing
school session everywhere.
l have only one comment
to make regarding the cleo
ton. My observation reveal
ed three types of individuals
during the campaign - Those
who stopped to dig dirt;
those who said they wouldn't,
but did; and those who re-
fused to stoop or dig, and
because of it, came out shin
ing as bright lights against
a dark horizon in higher
realm of thought and useful
living. In which of the classes
are those of us who partici-
pated.
Speaking of schools - the
kids are out, the teachers
are free for a little while (if
they are not studying some
where) and, except for the
readying Of the school build
ings, they are closed. / do
not know that l can do any
thing about it, but there are
two major factors, l believe,
which lend themselves to
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
Out of Earshot

"Giraffs Do Talk, She Says
headline. But what they may be
saying remains considerably over our
heads. Chicago Daily Tribune.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1956-06-16
LETTER TO Elk CTS
515 West 143rd Street
New York City
June 9Th, 1866

Dear fellow EX-GPs:
/, your former Red Cross
Club Director, stationed in
Corsica, France and Italy dur
ing World War II. Later in
postwar occupied Germany,
/ was in Schwanawiede near
Bremen, Germany. l would
like to hear from each of you.
Please write to me and tell
me what you are doing and
all about your families. What
has happened to you during
these past IL or 13 years since
you left the army and over
seas? / am still the old lady
that tried to mother you when
you were that far away from
home. Remember?
Inquiringly yours,
Mrs. Alice B. Shaw
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18

lima; Eleanor Wood, Ohio; Mara
Ign Turner. Oregon; Betty
Cherry, South Carolina; Stella
Wilson, Tennessee: 10 Dodson,
Texas; Cheryl Brown, Utah, and
June Svedin, Washington.
Another special award went
to Marina Orschel of Germany,
who was judged Miss Photogenic
by the photographers covering
the contest. Her popularity with
the photographers was based
firmly on her 1.-the figure, which
measures 36-22-34.
Miss OrSchel figured in an in
cident earlier in the day that
sounded a Earring note in the
international harmony that is
supposed to prevail at the con-
test.
When a photographer tried to
pose her with Israel's represent
alive, Sara Tai, Miss Tai re-
fused. pointing out that her
family had been sorely mistreat-
ed by the Germans during the
war.
Miss Tai explained that there
was nothing personal in her feel
ing, however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
Miss u. S. to Be Chosen
Today in Beauty Contest

LONG BEACH, Calf, July 16
R.-Miss United States will be
selected today from among 16
girls chosen as the outstanding
American beauties at the Miss
Universe contest.
The stage was set for heI
selection when the original list
of 43 American girls was whitfield
down last night by the panel
of judges.
Whoever emergeS from the
test tonight will be pitted against
29 girls from foreign countries in
the competition to pick Miss
Universe. The final selection
Will be made Friday night.
Still in the running after
paradlng past the judges, first
in flowing formal gowns and
then in bathing suits, are:
Malta BertulSon, Arizona
Nancy McCollum, Arkansas:
Karen Keeler, Colorado; Carol
Morris. Iowa; Charlene HSlt,
Maryland; Barbara Sias, Michi-
gan; Shari Lewis, Nebraska;
Dolores Winfield, New Jersey;
Shirley Bagwell, North Caro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18

research workers and their
methods and materials.
The program also helps stimu-
late the students into finding
new facts and aids them in
selecting careers for which they
are suited.
Young Dix mother said her
son hasn't yet decided what
career he wants but this should
help him decide"
Orchids for Sale
The youth said. For three
years I have done individual
work with cultivating wild
orchids. such as studying habita-
ton and growth of the flowers
but I also raise some green house
varieties for commercial use.
have about 80 varieties of these
orchids.
Then, down in the basement
of my parents home. have a
small colony of silk worms which
i keep in cardboard boxes. ]
sell these worms in a preserved
state to biological companies
and in a living state to various
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
Franco Sees Gain
For FuIunge Purty

MADRID. Spain. July Is up,
Gen. Francisco Franco told
the Falange Party National
Council yesterday the party will
improve and grow in Importance
1t is the only party permitted
in Spain.
He said the multi-party sys-
tenn was not for Spain because
it sowS seeds of disunity.
The generalissimo spoke on
the goth anniversary of the out
break of the Spanish Civil War
in Spanish Morocco. He devoted
most of his hour-long speech
to a violent attack on COM
munism.
In his only mention of foreign
affairs. he said American finan-
cial aid would facilitate greatly
SPANS economic recovery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
DC. Youth Seeks Secrets
OfConcer in Summer Job

A 17-year-old Washington
student is spending the summer
working in cancer research at a
Maine laboratory as one of 81
promising high school students
in the apprenticeship program
there.
Michael Dix, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Dix, of 300 r
street NV. who collects wild
orchids and raises silk worms in
the basement OF his home here,
will enter George Washington
University in the fall on a four
year District scholarship, His
work will be in biochemistry.
The youth, who was graduated
from Western High School in
June, is working with cell
growth in mice under the spon-
sorship Of DR.. George D. Smell,
research associate at the Roscoe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18

IB. Jackson Memorial Laboratory
in Bar Harbor, Me.
so Strains of Mice
The laboratory is research
institution, where more than
20O.0 900 mice. representing some
go different strains. are used for
research in such diseases as
cancer, muscular distrophy and
heart diseases.
MY project involves watching
cell development in the mouse, =
he said. II am mainly concerned
with the lymph nodes-watch-
ing certain cells spread through
the body to see if they enter
these lymph tissues"
The aims of the apprentice
ship program involve finding
scientific ability in promising
high school students and bring
ing them into direct contact with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18

commercial houses for eultiva-
ton purposes" he said.
Dix, an Eagle scout, has
always been interested in such
things, his mother said.
His studies at the laboratory
involve attending lectures by
staff members followed by lab
oratory periods which permit;
him to observe physical char
acteriStics of the mice and the
part genetics plays in develop
ment of these characteristics.
The youth is a District native
as is his father, who works in the
Navy Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
Italian Town Shaken
By Recurrent Quakes

SANTA SOFIA. Italy, July IS
P).-Numerous earth tremors
brought terror again yesterday
to this mountain village shaken
by quakes of and on for more
than a month. No damage was
reported.
Most of the 5000 inhabitants
of Santa Sofia. located in the
North Central Apprentices. have
been sleeping out of doors since
the earth started trembling in
NAV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
Israel Honors Kuye

JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector,
July 10 (R.-Movie star Danny
Kaye, touring Israel for the
second time in three months.
yesterday was made a freeman
of Flat. That town is Israel's
new port on the Red Sea. Mr..
Kaye was promised a plot OF
land in the Eilat region. He
said he plans to build a hat
There
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-18
Poles Jail 7 Priests

VIENNA. July 10 R.-Seven
Polish Roman Catholic priests
were sentenced to prison for al
legged participation in the Poz-
nan workers uprising, the Vienna
Catholic New Service. KathpreSs.
said yesterday. Thirteen others
were released after questioning,
KathpreSS added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13
Foct-Finders Set to Study
Westinghouse Strike

HARRISBURG. Pa, Feb 10 lTwo labor experts appoint
board by Gov George M Leader OF Pennsy-
prepared study the disputed issues in the l2oday
old Westinghouse strike.
Gov Leader Governors Of four other States
named the Acknowledgment experts to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13

the action are Cows. Averell
Hartman of New York. Robert
Meyner of New Jersey. Abraham
Ribicoff of Connecticut ano
William C. Marland of West
Virginia. All, including Gov
Leader. are Democrats.
Has Two Purposes
Gov. Leader said the boards
purpose will be:
/. To investigate the facts Of
the dispute which erupted into
a strike October II by IUE
members and eight days later
spread to the UE.
2. To determine the unresolved
issues of the strike that are
responsible for this long drawn
out dispute and present them to
the general public. to labor, to
management, and to myself and
the other Governors whose States
are involved and who are CO.
operating in this action"
Both management and labor
blamed each other for the with
drawal of the Federal mediator
Both unions went on strike to
back up demands for a l5-cent
hourly pay boost for workers
who previously averaged $2.l0
an hour. Other issues in dis
pute are length of contract and
company time studies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-13
KenneICIub
Accepts Breed
With CowIick

The Rhodesian Ridgeback. q
critter with a dorsal upswept
hairdo, has made dogdom's So
Icial register.
The American Kennel CluE
has recently decided to recog-
IniZe the courageous breed be-
llieved to have antecedents dat
ing back to the 18th century
Bloodhounds. which Euro
peans took to Africa to track
down criminals. as well as grey
hounds, great danes, retrievers
mastiffs and terriers were prob
ably all crossed with Beers
hunting and farm dogs to pro-
duce the Ridgeback.
The cowlick ridge on the ami
mails back is believed a throw
back from native African dog
Only one other known breed
the Phu Quoc of the island Of
Phu Quoc in the Gulf Of Siam
sports this strange dorsal strip
I About 400 Of the unusual dogs
are now in the United States
1t is the first new breed recog.
Inized by the Axe studbook ir
a decade. 1t follows the black
and tan coonhound as No. II:
on the list.
Ridgebacks are used in Africs
as lion hounds. A fearles.
fighter. four or five Of them car
clear a farm of balloons anc
wild pigs.