Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 227, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 25, 1955 Page: 7 of 28
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Young Negro Nurse Is Center
Of Orange Segregation Battle in Criminal Reform
OHANGE, Tex., Sept. 24 UP>—A .schools, wrote a letter to the city | concerning the way in which we
hard-working young Negro regis-j commission and attached a printed |,avc been falsely used. We want
tered nurse is the storm center list of 11 names, purported to be ■ „„uu,. ,lf r„„„
of this Southeast Texas cdmmuni-< white nurses working at City lios- , 1 . .
ty's first brush with the "race | pitai. ' 'y '° k,low that these 'the opinions
problem" in recent years and so letter contended "all of the ot the Citizen's Council) are nol
far she Is getting almost solid . nurses on the night shifts at City ; our sentiments.
backing from the white citizens. Hospital have expressed their re- \ "As a group we have respect
She is 22-year-old Barbara Ver- : sentment of a Negro nurse who ! for Barbara Verdun's ability and
dun. an attractive, light-skinned
n4|re of the city who graduated
from the local Negro high school,
earned her nurse's cap at a St.
Louis, Mo., hospital, and came
back to her home town.
She was first employed fulltirne
by the city-county health unit and
worked only among members of
her own race. Then the health
unit's rnoney began lo run short
and the director, Dr. H. 11. Key,
employed her only two days a
week
Wi supplement her $125-a-month
salary from the parttime job. Miss
Verdun applied at Orange City
Hospital. There is a critical short-
age of registered nurses and the
superintendent, Mrs. Bess Scho-
field Negro ward at the hospital
and on the other two nights she
takes over lor the white registered
nurse in charge of the maternity
ward.
Mrs. Schofield says she lalked
ibAiiiatter over with white prac-
tice and student nurses who would
be supervised by the Negro nurse
and ran into no objections.
A few days ago the Orange Citi-
zens Council, set up originally lo
oppose integration in p u b 1 i c
supervises them during their night; training as a registered nurse."
Two days later County Commis-
shiff houn
Mrs. Schofield toid reporters she
assigned Miss Verdun to the super-
visory position two nights a week
because of a critical shortage of
registered nurses. She declared
Miss Verdun had exeellenl train-
ing and was a "well-qualified and
professional nurse."
The next day at a
sioner Ernest Walles asked that
Dr. Key be called in before Com-
missioners Court for a hearing on
the matter. Dr. Key brought along
Dr. Prctz. Ealh defended the ar-
rangement.
The upshot was an agreement by
I the county eominis.iioueni that the
meeting at- j decision be left to tin.' board of
tended by members of the Citizen's I direciais of tlv !.•
Council, city officials, heads of the group unanimously
hospital and Dr. E. C. Pretz, presi-
dent of the Orange County Medical
Society, Mrs. Schofield repeated
this and vigorously defended her
action.
Everyone ai the meeting agreed
except the members of the Citizens
Council.
The council's president, Van
Hare, 24. told the assembly in the
presence of a reporter, "If I were
sick I would rather die than be
waited on by a Nigger nurse."
Two days later eight white prac-
tical and student nurses whose
names were included in the list of
11 attached to the Citizen's Council
letter, handed a reporter a state-
ment saying "We have a mutual
feeling of outrage and injustice
jlUi unit That
approved con-
tinuation ot tlv lwo-clay-a-weok ar-
rangement with Miss Verdun.
Walles, dissatisfied, announced
he would ask the court to cut oti
the county's $41 a month contribu-
.IBESSUP, Md., Sept. 24 The
age-old idea of making the punish-
ment fit the crime is all wet, at
least in Maryland. As proof of its
conviction, the state has embarked
on a 10-million-dollar gamble near
here called the Patuxent Institu-
tion.
Believed to be the only place
of its kind in the nation, Patuxent
is the testing ground for what its
director. Dr. Harold M. Boslow,
describes as a "new, dynamic
concept" in the handling of a
special type of criminal.
He is the unpredictable criminal
who, because of mental deficiency
or emotional unbalance, poses a |
constant danger to society. Defec- j
tive delinquents, penologists call i
them.
At Patuxent the key to the
handling of defective delinquents
is the indeterminate sentence. In
effect, it means that a man whose
delinquency has led him lo commit
a relatively minor crime and
might later lead him to commit
a serious one cannot return to
tion to the health unit salaiy ioi j socje[y until his condition has been !
the rest of this year
Walles said, "I certainly think
we need a Negro nurse in this
community, but 1 don't think any-
body can work around the clock
and slill do her best work." He
insisted the race issue was not
involved.
Miss Verdun has kept her own
counsel, politely declined to com-
ment to reporters and gone on
working 5G hours a week, appar-
ently without ill effects.
remedied
"Instead of making the punish-
ment lit the crime," say Boslow,
"we make it fit the personality of i
the offender."
One offender at Patuxent is a j
wounded war veteran with a long
record of molesting children. Sev-
eral prison terms failed to dissuade
him from repeating the offense, j
Another is a young man with an j
extensive history of progressively j
worse crimes, many of them com-
mitted after escapes from juvenile
institutions. He is not an insane .
criminal and therefore cannot be
placed in one of the special wards ,
for such persons at the various
plate mental hospitals.
Like a child, he simply still has
to adjust to the basic laws of man.
"If a man who is normal—men-
tally, at least—robs a bank, he is
likely to get 10 or 20 years in
prison," explains Boslow.
"But if a dangerous psychopath
steals a loaf of bread, he is likely
to get 10 or 20 days in Jail. And
when he is released, he may kill
the first who crosses him."
Patuxent was built to examine i
such criminals, treat and rehabili-
tate those found to be defective
delinquents, and to shield society
by permanently confining those
who never respond to treatment.
The law creating Patuxent speci-
fies that examination be given |>
only to those suspected of being
defective delinquents after they are
convicted and sentenced to prison
for certain crimes.
The crime may be a felony, a
misdemeanor involving a peniten-
tiary sentence, a crime of violence
any second crime punishable by
imprisonment, or a sex crime in-
volving force, violence, disparity
of age. or acts of "uncontrolled
or repetitive nature."
The trial court, state's attorney,
Department of Correction or the
convicted man himself may rev
quest the examination.
11< is then sent iu Patuxent's
diagnostic center and, if found to
be a defective delinquent, he is
kept there under an indeterminate
sentence.
He will remain until the mental 1
or emotional kinks which make
him ,i menace to his fellow men
are ironed out through psychiatric .
thei apy
Sweetwater Reporter. Texas, Sunday, September 25, I95S
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En Route Freedom
Following Release
HONG KONG •#. Three Ameri-
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 227, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 25, 1955, newspaper, September 25, 1955; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth284550/m1/7/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.