Volume 1, Number 8Lincoln 3, Nebraska November 29, 1946
Negro Press Plays Vital Roll
George Randol, Soloist
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George Randol, former vocalist
of “The Green Pastures,” will be
guest soloist for the December 29
Christmas singfest at St. Paul
Methodist church, sponsored by
Lincoln Ministerial association
and Women’s Division of the
Chamber of Commerce. These
sings are held each Sunday even
ing in December, open to people
of all denominations and creeds,
and are now on their fifth year.
For the opening sing this Sun
day (December 1) at 8 o’clock,
Jfe«bbi Meyer H. Marx of South
Street Temple will preside, and
Miss Teresa McKenna, executive
director of the Y. W. C. A., will
give the 10-minute meditation.
The Lincoln Men’s chorus will
sing, and Dayton Smith will lead
singing of familiar carols. Camp
Fire Girls are to usher.
Charles Thompson
Taken by Death
Charles Thompson, 76, of 2137
R St., died Wednesday morning at
St. Elizabeth Hospital. He had
been taken to the hospital a week
ago after receiving a broken leg
as a result of a fall at the Carver
Nursing home.
Mr. Thompson was born at
Sugar Tree, Mo., October 11, 1870,
he moved to Norborne, Mo., as a
child and resided there until three
years ago when he moved to Lin
coln. He was a farmer until 1935.
He is survived by a daughter,
Miss Katherine Thompson, Lin
coln; four sisters, Mrs. Emma
Duncan, Norborne, Mo., Mrs.
Adeline Triggers, Richmond, Mo.,
Mrs. Lucy Marshall, Norborne;
Miss Alice Thompson, Los Angel
es; California; three brothers,
Nathaniel and John, Norborne,
and James Richmond, Mo.
Funeral and burial will be on
Saturday at Norborne.
PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW
REV. C. L. CARHEE
Rev. C. L. Carhee, new pastor
| at Christ Temple Church of
j|: Christ (Holiness) 26th and Bur
dette Streets, Omaha, Nebr., will
be the guest speaker at Christ
Temple 2149 “U” Lincoln, Nebr.,
December 8th at 3:00 p.m. Rev.
Carhee will be accompanied by
his choir and congregation from
Omaha.
Rev. Carhee formerly pastored
at Conway and Pine Bluff, Ark.,
And for the last year he has fill
ed the pulpit of Bishop E. W. But
ler D. D. Presiding Bishop of the
Southwestern Diocese of the
church of Christ (Holiness) who is
filling in at the Mother Church in
Jackson, Mississippi. Rev. Carhee
made much progress pastoring
Christ Temple Cathedral at Little
Rock, Arkansas.
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University of Illinois
Praised For Racial
Equality
CHICAGO—(ANP)— The trus
tees, president, and administra
tive officers of the University of
Illinois have been commended by
the Illinois Interracial commission
for providing “equality of oppor
tunity” for all races, creeds and
colors in registering its peak en
rollment this fall. In a statement
issued here last week, tfie Com
mission declared that it had
viewed with alarm the current
rise in racial and religious ten
sions in the state of Illinois, in
cluding the University of Illinois.
“We have noted with satisfac
tion,” the commission said, “the
constructive efforts of Park
Livingston and the other trustees
of the University of Illinois and
of Dr. George Stoddard and his
administrative associates in coun
ter-acting these tensions and in
emphasizing the ideal of demo
cracy in our foremost state edu
cational institution.”
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Army Turns Down
Natural Caves For .
Storage Use
WASHINGTON—(ANP) — The
Kerford limestone quarry i n
Kansas may be the first and last
natural storage plant for govern
ment supplies, if the army has
its way about it.
Army engineers ruled that the
natural caves are not satisfactory
for use as future government
storage houses for food and war
materials, however the Kerford
quarries were scientifically mined
with long corridors cut and rooms
opening off each corridor as the
stone was removed, government
inspectors discovered. Huge
rooms had been cut into the solid
limestone, which later proved to
be what the department of agri
culture needed to store lend
lease foods.
The government’s leasing of
the mines for storage purpose is
reported to have caused wide
comment when high federal offi
cials discovered the property was
owned by Negro businessmen.
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In Race Relations, Says P. L.
Prattis
ATLANTA — (ANP) — P. L.
Prattis, managing editor of Pitts
burgh Courier, took the view that
“the chief function of the Negro
newspaper, along with forces in
Negro Life, is to fight for first
class citizenship and full oppor
tunity for growth of Negroes,” in
an article entitled “The Role of
the Negro Press in Race Rela
tions,” appearing in the third
quarter issue of Phylon, official
organ of Atlanta university.
Negro newspapers are primar
ily concerned with the promotion
of the welfare of Negroes and the
fighting of their battles, he said,
pointing out that the first Negro
newspaper, published in 1827, was
born in protest against slavery.
Every Negro newspaper publish
ed during the 19th century ac
cepted the challenge either to
fight slavery or the restrictions
which limited the Negro’s devel
opment as a free man or a first
class citizen.
Calling attention to the fact
that Negroes are as yet only
“second class citizens," he declar
ed that people of both races ad
vance the opinion that the Pri
mary function of the Negro pa
pers is not improving race rela
tions. They advocate employing
the “principles of Christianity,
the resources of the social scien
tists and the arts of the diplomat.
They see the Negro press
launch an attack apparently in
different to the effect upon friend
or foe. They deplore the lack of
finesse and temperance. They are
frightened by the unbridled force
of the attack. Often the attacks
seem stupid and insensate. These
persons who pursue good will and
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