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PUBLISHED WEEKLY “Dedicated to the of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people__ Melvin L. Shakespeare fubtianei and . Business Address 2226 8 Street Box 2023 '2-40*6 It No Answer Can j-76i’. Kuoit .v snaseapeare . Advertising and Business Managei Dorotny Green . Office Secretary Mrs oe «reen . Circulation Manager Member of he Associated Negro Press m.d Nebraska Press Association _ entered as Secono Class Ma'ter (une 9. 1947 a* the Poet Office at Lincoln. Nebraska indei the Act of March 3. 1871 I year tubscriotioa J? 50 Single copy .10e Out if State 1 Vea- Suoscriptlon $2.60- Single Copy 10c I uitcd Nations News UNITED NATIONS. N. Y (ANP) — A sum of $300,000 has been set aside by the Belgian Government for the construction of a naval base in the Lower Bel gian Congo. With the addition of $100,000 remaining from last .'ear’s budget for the same pur pose. the new appropriation brings the total sum, available in 1952 to $400,000. The special budget for 1952 of UN Trust Territory Ruanda Urundi provides for credits total ing $1,366,540 which will be used to finance the following project: (1) Final repairs, Nynabarongo Roadway, $30,000; (2) Completion of Astrida-Shangugu Road, $ 190,-j 080; (3) maintenance and repair of road equipment, $60,000; (4) asphalting Uvira intersections, < $180,360; (5) housing for Euro- ' peans (whites) in Usumbura, $619,040. (6) construction costs of Usum-| bura telephone and telegrapn^ serv, $15,100; (7) asphalting and sidewalk construction in Usum-,1 bura, $129,100; (8) electricity and;: water supply for Astrida and Ki-j gali, $22,960; and (9) equipment: purchases for geological and hy-j drologieal research, $76,900. * * * In the 15-month period ending March 31, 1952, 65 counties re ceived technical assistance from the United Nations, according to a secretariat report to.the current session of the UN economic and social council. The report de scribes last year’s work in the field of technical assistance as “round two” — when government requests were mainly for aid in carrying out project recommended by earlier missions. African countries which have received UN technical assistance administration has commented that currently the main problem has been finding properly quali fied experts who were willing tc take an assignment. Last year, n< asserted, requests were few sine: Gillett Poultry 7RESH DRESSED POULTRY QUALITY EGGS Phone 2-2001 528 No. 9th LATSCH BROTHERS OFFICE SUPPLIES GIFTS — CARDS PENS & PEN REPAIR LUGGAGE Achievement Mirror of the World What happened to the series of arrests in the Ku Klux Klan flog ging cases in southeastern North Carolina's notorious Horry County, that came to light earlier in the year? Answer No. 1 came last week from the Columbus County trial j in Whiteville . . . Answer No 2 has come out of! the trial held this week in Wil-i mington, in Federal Court before. Judge Don Gilliam . . . Answer No. 3 will come in the disposition of four other Ku Kluxj Klan flogging cases in which men, have already been arrested. These, will be tried in North Carolina j courts ... < All this adds up to a first-rate ] North Carolina and federal gov-/ ;rnment effort to deal with a vi- ] nous crime wave. It is highly en-jl xmraging. Back of it is the de- 1 plorable fact (as printed) that in 1 this one county of Columbus some1' 1,500 suckers were induced to join < he Ku Klux Klan ... / Yet there is now strong hope ( hat the back of this lawlessness/ ind violence is broken. There are / signs that the reign of terror has i ended. There is evidence that the ; air is cleaner, that men and women are unafraid, that even the dupes who paid up and pa raded in search of some outlet for their emotions know (as some of them have testified) that this is essentially a violent outfit which | feeds upon its own violence. This ; is an achievement of which North I Carolina is entitled to feel proud, j—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. governments were not fully aware I of the program. BEAL'S GROCERY Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Meats 2101 R Tel. 2-6933 1122 N ST. 2-U2I I SMITH Pharmacy 2146 Vine Prescriptions — Drugs Fountain — Sundries Phone 2-1958 by IAMES C. OLSON, Superintendent lUTI HISTORICAL IOCIITT I One of the great bottlenecks on 'the overland trail was the Kanes ville crossing between the present ; cities of Omaha and Council I Bluffs. Kanesville, forerunner of Coun cil Bluffs, was developed by the Mormons into an important out fitting center for Utah-bound emigrants. In addition, the early 1850’s saw Kanesville increasing in importance as a jumping-off place for California-bound gold j seekers. As a result, the facilities 'at the little village often were j crowded beyond capacity. Especially the ferries. The Mormons had a ferry up the river, at the site of old Winter Quarters (now Florence), and an other one operated down river at the Council Bluffs Agency (now Bellevue). There was no good landing directly across from Kanesville (now Omaha), and while ferries of a sort were avail able there, they gave very poor service. The situation* can best be de scribed by those who had to put up with it. E. W. Conyers, who was at Kanesville in May, 1852, wrote: “Some one of our camp makes daily trips to the different ferry landings to see what chance there will be for us to cross the Missouri River and resume our trip across the continent They report that there are but two small scows that are now ferrying. Two wagons make a load for either! scow, and they are propelled by two men using oars, and they :harge $4 per wagon, and we swim our cattle. Only think of it! Two small scows to transfer this great emigration across the Missouri River , . . The current is very swift in the river and acci dents happen every day to one or the other scows...” John T. Kern, at Kanesville about the same time, wrote: “Their way of ferrying here is very poor indeed. Their boats are old-fashioned flats. It was, or is a dangerous undertaking for any one to cross in these boats. One man was drowned and several more barely escaped with their J lives. The current being very Please Ask For UMBERGER’S AMBULANCE 2-8543 Umberger’s Mortuary, Inc. DONLEY-STAHL CO. LTD. 1331 N St. DRUGS—PRESCRIPTIONS SICK ROOM NECESSITIES WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE 1% I FREADRICH j I BROS. 1 ' • • • • Since 1902 The Best Place To Trade | After All—1316 N Street | Thomas Accepts Appointment As Member on President’s Committee NEW YORK, N. Y.—Julius A. Thomas, director, Department of Industrial Relations of the Na-( tional Urban League, has accepted appointment as consultant to the President’s Committee on Govern jment Contract Compliance, it was [announced this week by Lester B. Granger, executive director of the League. While serving as a con-| sultant to the Committee, Mr. Thomas will carry on his regular duties in the National Urban League. • * The Committee was established! by Executive Order 10308 issued by President Truman last Decem ber 3id but was not appointed until January 10th when Dwight R. G. Palmer, chairman of the General Cable Corporation, was appointed chairman of the group. Other public members of the Committee are: James B. Carey, secretary-treasurer, CIO; Dowdal H. Davis, general manager, “Kan sas City Call”; Irving M. Engel, chairman, Executive Committee of the American Jewish Committee; Oliver W. Hill, Richmond, Vir ginia, attorney; George Meaney, secretary-treasurer, American Federation of Labor. Committee members representing government procurement agencies are: Russell Forbes, Defense Materials Pro curement Agency; Michael J. Galvin, Under Secretary of Labor; strong, it requires great care in being safe.” Whenever possible, steamboats stopping at Kanesville on their way up the river, were pressed into service as ferry boats. It is not surprising that before long some enterprising citizens devised a means of improving the ferry service. That occurred in 1853 when the Council Bluffs and Nebraska Ferry Company was or ganized. The company procured a new steam ferry boat, the General Marion, and soon cornered most of the ferry business across the Mis souri at Council Bluffs (as Kanes ville was renamed that year). j Everett L. Hollis, Atomic Energy Commission; and John D. Small, chairman, Munitions Board of the Department of Defense. 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