THE O REG O N MIRROR Pag* 2 New Orleans Drops Racial Bors Job Hunting course Jfe OREGON MIRROR Established in March 1959 - Negro Weekly Circulated by Mail - Newsboys - Businesses Wodnoiday, M a y 13 1962 In First Grade of Public Schools Open Free To All NEW ORLEANS. The New Orleans school board, responding to heavy pressure by the federal courts, has voted to drop racial bars in the first grade of all public schools in September. The board currently is under a federal court order to desegregate the first six grades but has filed an appeal. Persons with employment prob­ lems are invited to attend a short course in Job hunting and job train­ ing at Portland Community Col­ lege, Labor Commissioner Nor­ man O. Nilsen has announced. The course is free of charge, and is held every Tuesday evening from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in room 8 of the Technology Division of Port­ land Community College, 049 S.W. P o rter St., near the west end of the Ross Island Bridge. Nilsen said that the course helps people find their own jobs by show­ ing them where to look for work, how to prepare an employment resum e, how to sell their services to an employer, and how to train for a good job. Nilsen said that four out of five people who have attended these classes have found work within three weeks. The course has been at ranged by George C. Henriksen, D irector of Portland Community College, as a pilot program to help meet the vo­ cational needs of w orkers and in­ dustry in the Portland area. The class is conducted by Ray Ziegler, D irector of the Senior Worker Division of the Bureau of Labor. For fu rth er information, call M r. Ziegler at the Bureau of Labor, CA 6-2161, extension 421; or, come to class any Tuesday evening at 7 p.m ., room 8 of the Technology Division, Portland Community College, 049 S.W. P o rter St., Port­ land. Published Every Wednesday 4617 N. Williams Ave. AT 4-4551 PUBLISHER - J. Marcus Wellington, 111 MANAGER fit EDITOR - Don Alford Under the board’s decision last _ „ , _ _ week all children entering the first c:ty s J*?11]3.11 Catholic grade in Septenioer will be per- schools are scheduled to be deseg- mitted to attend either the white regeted in September, by order of or Negro school for their district, Archbishop Joseph Francis Rum- whiehever they choose. me‘* _____ ___ This action cancels the pupil kJ placement plan for the first grade, w C O P O I Q JM W T S C S but that system of assignment re- q q mains in effect tor the second and | # f * O p K O C C k 5 € II* S , , ., ... , third grades. In the pupil place- DETROIT —The nresi- JUGGLING STATISTICS ul to the Negro race. Statistics do mPnt plan, Negro children who Qf American Nurses As- Fifty years ago the college gradu- not have the final word. We must al- „¿pjy for transfer to white schools sociation announced last week that ate heard little or nothing about ways give attention to what the sta are individually screened by the Georgia s ta te Nurses Associa- statistics, while today it is threaten- tistician wants to pro ye and eleven school board. tion had quietly removed its racial ing to run away with the field of times out often he will prove just The board action was by a 3*0 bars on membership, mathematical sciences. that. vote Two members, including Miss Mathilda Scheurer said the Today nothing is “ proved” that Is A few years ago with the large in- Fmde Wagner, outspoken oppon- cjoofgia group had taken the ac- not proved by statistics. one cidence of high blood pressure elv* Negroes now attend first group verified the announcement as to prove that he is not superior, had “ proved” the correlation be­ and second grades in six ptevious- of the elimination of racial bars. lt all depends upon who is manipu- tween cholesterol and high blood I* all-white public schools as a and said some Negro nurses had lating the statistical figures. pressure. result of W right’s original deseg- already become members of the The most recent “ Race and Rea- Only a few days an authority on relation order of May, 1960. GSNA. son” the latest in a series of publi- the subject from Great Britain dis- cations designed to “ prove” once puted the whole assumption that and for all that the white man is there is any correlation between superior, is loaded with statistics of high blood pressure and cholesterol, FOR THE FINEST OF FOODS one kind or another, and the average He used statistics to “ prove” his AND ENTERTAINMENT reader does not take time ‘o exam- his point. ine and question what is “ statistical- There is just now a race on ly” rented as a fact. among the physicians of today to pro- Whnt we need through here is a ve statiseally how wrong were WASHINGTON— Clar- wider interest bv Negroes in “statis- the physicians of yesteryear. What V isit ence*Clyde Ferguson jr., professor tical” proofs. We must not abdicate statistics proved was true yesterday of law at Rutgers University was this field for exploitation solely and statistics are proving untrue today sworn in today as general counsel mainly by the whites with specious and so it goes, of the U. S. Commission on Civil designs. There is currently going on in the Rights. He is believed to be the The real point of this release is to Twentieth Century world a great first Negro ever to serve as the exhort Negroes not to he overawed controversy over whether there is chief legal officer of a Federal bv the numerous statistical "proofs" any correlation between cigarette agency. Ferguson, 37, Is a graduate of that the white man is superior. It smoking and lung cancer. A group of FRIENDLY -COURTEOUS AND EFFICIENT SERVICE Harvard Law school and a mem must always he remembered that scientists has been arraved for the white men are manipulating the sta- affirmative and a group for the ne- Massachusetts and New tisties and it is up to Negroes to re- gative. And a statistical battle royal York Bars. Oregon Mirror Twist Contest Every Tues. Before becoming a member of manipulate these same figures after in the offing. the law faculty in 1955. he served such fashion as to make the Negroes’ In England the scientists have as an assistant U. S attorney 3 SHOWS NIGHTLY 2125 n . V a n c o u v e r a v e . virtues stand out even as the white spoken "statistically” and they are ( 1954-55», assistant counsel to the man's statistics make his vices to positive that there is that correla- Moreland Act Commission to In­ stand out. tion. vestigate Harness Racing (1953 With our faculties hursting at the In America in general and Vir- 541 and as counsel to Baltimore. senms with men and women of ginia in particular where is located Paulson and Canudo. a New York high degrees, it should be relatively the cigarette manufacturing capital ^ l,v law m At Rutgers, from which he is easy to find those capable of mani- of the world, scientists are scientifi- pulating statics in such wav as to onllv controverting bv statistics what now on leave, Ferguson taught throw light on the virtues of Negores in England is statistically estab- federal procedure, bankruptcy and creditors rights. A native of Wil­ The burden of manipulating statis- lished mington, N. C., he wps an honor tics to give a true picture of Negro And the fight goes on between the graduate both at Ohio State and life is on the Negroes themselves statisticians using the same body of at Harvard I .aw school where he and not the %4hite man. statistics. This is written in the won the Amrs prize for the best There is little need for the Negro hope that Negroes will not get too oral argument, In America, it's the to quake and tremble before the excited over the numerous attempts privilege of choosing “ statistical'' findings casually flung to establish statistically that the Ne- B altim ore Gets 1st N e gro around iu ways that are detriment- gro is inferior. the church you want EDI TORI AL By Dean Gordon Hancock ot school Civil Rights Appointment Believed First X/ THE COTTON CLUB BUD MEADOWS SAYS... W HAT'S FREEDOM OF CHOICE ? Baltimore Passed Up Because of Discrimination BALTIMORE. — The American Association of Univer­ sity Professor« nas decided not to hold its 1964 con vent ion here In th« absence of legislation banning racial discrimination in public places. Such legislation failed In the Maryland General Assembly and has been pending in the Baltimore City Council. Bentley Glass said last week that the Association'« council had ad­ vised him to decline invitations to hold the meeting here. These were received from Gov. J. Millard Taw#« and Mayor J. Harold Grady. Postal Superintendent N o m in ate A riz o n a n as A m b a ssa d o r to G h an a WASHINGTON.— -C on- ’ troversial Ghana is to get a new American ambassador. He is Wil­ liam P. Mahoney, a 45-year-old Arizona lawyer who was nominat­ ed for the post by President Ken­ nedy last week. Mahoney will succeed Francis H. Russell, who has resigned because of illness and is now in a Wash­ ington hospital. in Mahoney was Arizona campaign manager for President Kennedy. In 1958 he was defeat­ ed by Republican John 1« Rhodes in a race for Congress. Mahoney holds a law dcgi°e from Nbt re Dame, where he coached track and taught English for two years after graduation. BALTIMORE.— —Dallin E. Wicks, assistant superintendent since 1950 at the Druid Hill S ta­ tion Post Office, has been appoint­ ed superintendent of the Arling­ ton Station by Postmaster Wil­ liam F. Laukaitis. The promotion of the veteran ol 26 years postal service makes him the first of his race ever to head a Post Office Station in Baltimore or to reach the GS-10 rating in the post office. Arlington Station is the base for approximately R5 letter carriers serving Zone 15. Wicks. 54. is a native of Balti more. He attended Douglass High and College Center here. He re­ sides with his wife. 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