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TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATIONS ANNOUNCE ANNUAL ESSAY CONTESTS IN SCHOOLS The 1950 tuberculosis essay contest in Junior and Senior High Schools in Louisville and Jefferson County is again being sponsored by the Louisville Tuberculosis Association, and City and County Boards of Education. Rules and reference materials for the contest are being distributed this week to the school advisors. The Louisville Tuberculosis Association is offering an award to the writer of the best essay submitted from the County schools, an award to the best submitted from the Catholic schools, and also from the Louisville Public Schools. These school winners will be entered in the County-wide contest where the association is offering a first prize of $25, second of $15, and a third prize of $10. Duplicate prizes will be offered in cases of tie. The County-wide winners will be entered in the state-wide contest where prizes of $50.00 for first, $25.00 for second, $10.00 for third, and three honorable mention prizes will be given. Winners in both contests will be announced in May. The Association will select five judges who will grade the essays submitted from all county schools and the Kentucky Tuberculosis Association will appoint judges to select the state winners.
Mrs. Carrie Anderson Taylor Passes Away 
Mrs. Carrie Anderson Taylor, one of Louisville's most prominent women in the educational, civic, fraternal and business life of the race, passed away at her home, 604 S. 18th Street, last Sunday morning.
Mrs. Taylor retired as a teacher in the Louisville public schools in 1921, and became active with her husband, Spencer Taylor, in the Spencer Service Station, 1601 W. Chestnut. 
Mrs. Taylor taught at the Phyllis Wheatley  and Mary B. Talbert schools, and over the years she was a leader in several organizations. She served as Worthy Matron of Zorah Chapter of the Eastern Star; Past Royal Matron of Cecilia Dunlap Grand Chapter, and Past Most Noble Governor of the Household of Ruth. 
Mrs. Taylor was secretary of the Cecilia Dunlap Grand Chapter; secretary of the local chapter of Isis and District Grand Most Noble Governor of the State of Kentucky at the time of her death. She is survived by her husband, a foster son, Larry Talton, and a sister, Mrs. Mattie Anderson. 
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Church of Our Merciful Saviour, Rev. G. A. [Stams?] officiating. Burial in Louisville Cemetery, J. B. Cooper Funeral Home, undertakers.
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Despite All the Tricks and Blunders, If People Will Keep Up Pressure
Says Young Negro in Danger of Second Lynch Attempt in Louisiana
NEW SCHOOL PROJECT HELD UP; BIAS CHARGED Hopkinsville, Ky., Feb. 16.--Superintendent Barton Fiser of the Christian County School announced late last week that the awarding of a contract for a new elementary school for colored people at Crofton, Ky., had been held up pending a conference with a committee representing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which charge racial discrimination in elementary education at Crofton.
A petition signed by 15 parents of the school was presented to the Christian County Board of Education by Louis P. McHenry, attorney and president of the NAACP State conference, which protested against discrimination in school facilities.
McHenry told Fiser and the board that his organization could be expected to take additional action after the construction of the proposed new building unless "equal education opportunities" are furnished by the new building and its facilities.
Fiser said that the board was unwilling to award a contract until the petitioning group had an opportunity to study the plans to determine if the new structure will meet the wishes of the patrons.
He said the board did not want to construct a building that might not be acceptable after it is erected.
MAKING GOOD IMPRESSION [Photo]
Jesse M. Lawrence
Race member of the Kentucky General Assembly from the 42nd Legislative District, Louisville, who according to all reports, is making a good impression on members of the law-making bodies, and on Frankfort generally.
No Furore Created by Integration of Race Students in East St. Louis
INDICTMENT DISMISSED IN SHELBYVILLE.  Shelbyville, Ky., Feb. 16. Special Judge Rufus Lisle, presiding in the Circuit Court here last Wednesday, dismissed an indictment which charged Henry Davis, colored, with detaining a woman last December, on a defense plea that no Negro served on the Shelby County grand jury that brought the indictment.  Judge Lisle sustained the motion for dismissal filed by Walter B. Smith, Louisville attorney for Davis, through an affidavit, signed by O.D. Todd, C. Boyd Green, W.W. Jesse and Victoria Green, which stated that no Negroes had ever served on a grand jury in Shelby County.  Judge Lisle continued the case to the May term of the grand jury and ordered Davis held on failure to post a $5,000 bond. Since his arrest Davis has been held in Louisville in the Jefferson County Jail for safekeeping.
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