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r.drtytoteNegro School Has Health Week ProgramLast week, the local school joined the other Negro schools in America in observance of the twenty-sixth annual National Negro Health Week.Monday, Miss Ruth Musgrove, a white missionary to Belgian Congo, spoke to the group on “Life in General.”Other high points on our program during the week were: A lecture by Dr. C. U. Franklin, practicing Negro ! physician of Sherman, and a book review, “Up From Slavery,” an autobiography of Booker T. Washington, by Mrs. D. S. Boyd.Winners of the health essay contest held Friday were as follows:| Eighth grade, James Smith; sev-‘d enth grade, Joe H. Conley; sixth ’•• grade, Evelyn Dellis; fifth grade, •d Collene Hamilton; fourth grade, Cathron Freeman.The likeness of Booker T. Washington, along with thirty-five other famous Americans appeared on a ten-cent postage stamp April 7, at all 2r I postoffices in America.1_ | This is the first time that a Negro has ever been honored in this way. ,n i It should be remembered that e* Washington was the originator of t, | Negro Health Week and the Founder and president for many years of ?c 1 Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.• M. D. Boyd, teacher.ifidV.Ii-«yAittoi-
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Whitewright Sun
Whitewright, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 11, 1940
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