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Newspaper
Miami Times
Location
Miami, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1951
Page
3
Cab Calloway declares in Ebony that many gifted musicians have turned to morphine heroin and opium and warns the jazz world risks destruction by a marijuana driven habit. He urges immediate action and medical rehabilitation with press support to strip the habit of glamour.
In Huntsville Alabama ANP reports the Agricultural and Mechanical Institute dormitory burned after Christmas holidays. The converted World War II barracks housed 70 male students who returned to campus to find no place to live. Only two students were present during the blaze and the fire’s origin remains undetermined.
Bertrand Spence a 26 year old Panamian earns fellowships from the Royal Statistical Society of London and the American Statistical Association making him among the youngest in both groups. Born in Colon he studied in Jamaica and Panama before a career in accounting and finance with Pacific Steam Navigation.
Gamma Zeta Omega chapter distributed gifts to Silver Oaks School in Kendall as part of Christmas cheer. The chapter marked its 42nd anniversary at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with a panel on New Horizons in Human Relations featuring Delta Sigma era Omega Psi Phi Phi Delta Kappa Alpha Phi Alpha Zeta Phi Beta and Kappa Alpha Psi. Soror Mayme Williams was re elected Southeastern Regional Director at the Kansas City Boule and Gussie Dobbs attended as Basilous. Fashionetta promotion aired promising a bigger event this year.
The final report on the 1950 United Negro College Fund campaign shows a $50,000 exceedance of the 1949 total. William J. Trent Jr., executive, released the figures noting the fundraising drive surpassed the prior year.
U S Census report shows about 350000 persons attended 426 Negro conventions in 218 locations 138 in the South 66 in the North 18 in the West Chicago and Washington D C host 14 each Philadelphia 13 Kansas City 12 Atlanta 11 New York Nashville Tuskegee Richmond 10 each 224 organizations sponsored these events with total membership 10188773 Religious and general fraternal groups led the conventions educational groups next More gatherings occurred in June than other months followed by July and August.
Director Trent noted that the amount raised, 1,200,113 dollars, represented the largest contribution to the fund in any one year since its establishment in 1944.
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