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...young Negro doctor, fresh from Nashville's Meharry Medical College, learned what he was up against as soon as he started to practice in Sanford, in the heart of Florida's orange-grove country. His first emergency was the case of a woman suffering from what he decided was a ruptured ectopic (outside the womb) pregnancy. When he arrived with the ambulance at the hospital, the head nurse, a white woman, demanded scornfully: "Who told you that you could make a diagnosis...
Depression Years. That was in 1927. This week Dr. Starke, 52, a veteran of 24 years' practice in Sanford (pop. 11,700), opened a new $50,000 clinic (about half the cost came from his savings, the rest from a bank loan). Meantime, he had established a solid record of helping his race, and some white folks too. During the depressed 19305, Dr. Starke formed a team with Seminole County's overworked public-health nurse, Mrs. Frances McDougal. Together they toured the county, treating hookworm and giving inoculations. Though he never offered his services to whites ("I didn...
...carpet industry, said James D. Wise, president of Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., Inc., last week, "has been shackled to a sheep for too long." And the sheep has given the industry a rough ride; in six months carpet wool prices jumped from 85? a lb. to as high as $2.30. In an attempt to keep up with soaring raw-wool prices, U.S. manufacturers priced their carpets right out of the market. As sales dropped and inventories piled up, three big price cuts in carpets failed to pull the industry out of its worst slump in years; production was headed...
...high, and many a wool user, such as men's suit makers, who had been threatening price rises, now considered cuts in their lines for next spring. U.S. carpet men, loaded with big inventories, have cut prices 20% since spring, and last week the biggest of them, Bigelow-Sanford, announced a third-round 10% slice...
...committee was appointed at Tuesday night's election meeting after charges of vote buying and unfair election practices had been levelled against leaders of the club by Sanford J. Langa '51 and John Gregg '52. Gregg and Langa, leaders of a faction within the H.Y.R.C., were dismissed from the club on a charge of vote buying...