The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195?, May 26, 1949, Page TWO, Image 2

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PUIIUSIIEI) WEEKLY _
"Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual
life of a great people
Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare
Publisher and Editor
Business Address 4225 o Street Phone 5-649 '
U No Answer Call 5-/506
Ruble W. Shakespeare--Advertising and Business Manager
Charles Goolsby_i-K. Hnnoclcrta Lditor Y.M.CA.
Lynwood Parker___Associate Lditor on Military Leave
Rev. I. B Brooks---Promotion Manager
Mrs. loe Green____Cliwulatton Manager
Member ol the Associated Negro Preee and Nebraska Press Association
Entered as Second Class Matter June 8. 1947 at the Poet Oflice at Lincoln
Nebraska under the Act ol March 3, 1879 __
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EDITORIALS
Hie views expressed in these columns
are those ot the writer and not necessarily
a reflection of the oolicy ol The Voice.—
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fOITONIAL
ASSOCIATION
Sports Questions and Answers
By Alvin Moses (ANP).
Q. Dear A1 Moses: Southpaw
Gene Bearden, Cleveland Indians
“trouble shooter” is a knuckle
ball pitcher of rare ability.
Would you venture a guess as to
how many knucklers Gene throws
in facing nine batters? What
other pitch is he famous for?—
Parker Woods, Sewickley, Pa.
A. This would have to be a
guess—pure and simple—but I'd
say Bearden throws four knuck
lers to any two other pitches in
his kitbag. He has a beautiful
“slider” but his knuckle ball
actually—waltzes-in-the-breeze.
Q. Who would you consider
the most promising American girl
tennis player from all you’ve
seen or heard on the new crop of
tennis players?—S. H. L., Prairie
View Club, L. I.
A. Maureen Connelly, San
Diego, Calif., a 15-year-old West
coast marvel.
Q. At their best, I would rate
Ray Dandridge, Jud Wilson,
Bingo DeMoss, Johnny Beckwith
and Blainey Hall with any play
ers the majors have raved about
since baseball came into exist
ence. Would you agree on this
point?—Lou Walters, Jersey
City.
A. Beckwith and Jud Wilson,
tremendous hitters and all
around ballhawks, bow to no
other players at their favorite
position—I can tell you that
much. DeMoss wras a “tan Eddie
Collins,” so let it go at that, eh
Mortimer.
Q. Sick in this hospital for
weary months, I am getting my
nurse, Miss Jones, to write this.
Name some of the Negro ball
players who have had big league
tryouts this season—Lawrence
Johnson, NYC.
A. Hank Thompson, Jersey
City; Orestes Minceo, Cleveland;
Artie Wilson, San Diego; Lucius
(Luke) Easter, San Diego; T.
Crowe, Boston Braves; Ford
Smith, Jersey City; Luis Mar
quez, Newark Bears; Frank Aus
tin, Newark; Monty Irvin, Jer
sey City; Jim Pendleton, St.
Paul; and one or twro more I
can’t recall just now.
Q. Read your recent brilliant
story on Negro jockeys, “Real
Vanishing Americans,” and
thought it was definitely “top
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drawer-stuff,” Alvin. What does
a race horse weigh? How long
did Stymie race? “Powder"
Horne, Morgantown, W. Va.
A. About 1,100 pounds. He
is usually eight feet long and
moves about 54 feet per second.
Stymie was a most durable horse,1
lasting seven years. He was a
great finisher and was seldom
(if ever) pushed at the start. He
was through in ’47 when he lost
his finishing kick.
Q. Mel Allen is a favorite
sportscaster of mine as well as
members of my large family. He
is my idea of an American who
gives due credit to all with no
regard to race, color or religion.
Could he be from the south as
I’ve been told?—George Tate,
Richmond, Va.
A. Back in 1935, Mel Allen
wa« a senior at Alabama Uni
versity’s law school—believe-it
or-not! He is a real great guy
in my book and I am proud to
enjoy his confidence and friend
ship.
Q. What year did Ike Wil
liams slaughter Bob Montgom
ery? What was the final round,
the approximate number of fans
in attendance, the battleground?
—Robert Tydings, St. Paul,
Minn.
A. In 1944 Ike Williams j
snapped Montgomery’s winning j
streak of 33 wins by halting the |
“bobcat” in 12 rounds at Philly. J
Actual ring figures list 14,807 at
the scene.
Q. Who holds the shotput I
record?—Percy Little, Jackson,
Miss.
A. Chuck Fonville.
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• TATI HISTORICAL SOCIITT
Of all the caravans to toil their
weary way through Nebraska’s
Platte Valley prior to the build
ing of the railroad, none were
more strange and perhaps none
endured more suffering than the
Mormon handcart, expeditions of
the years 1356-60.
Jay Monaghan, the well-known
western author, describes these
expeditions in the current issue
of Nebraska History. The story
he tells is one of suffering and
hardship seldom equalled in the
annals of the West.
The handcart caravans were or
ganized by Brigham Young, the
famed Mormon leader, as a means
of getting converts, too poor even
to afford wagons, from the Mis
souri River to Salt Lake. The
vehicles used in the caravans were
light, two-wTheeled carts. A pair
of shafts were attached to a cross
bar, long enough for three or four
people to walk abreast and push.
There were a few traces in front
for pulling.
A loaded handcart weighed
about 500 pounds and was to be
pulled by five people. Brigham
Young estimated that once accus
tomed to walking the emigrants
would make between 25 and 30
miles a day—considerably better
than the average for heavily
loaded ox-drawn wagons.
The principal outfitting place
for the handcart caravans was
Florence, formerly the Mormon
Winter Quarters, and now a
suburb of Omaha. From there
they followed the Mormon Trail
u estward across Nebraska along
the no-th side of the Platte.
During 1856, the year in which
the hardcart plan was inaugu
rated, a total of five expeditions
left Florence for Salt Lake. The
early ones, enjoying good weatnei.
covered the distance to Salt Lake
in record time, to be met by a
brass band, a military escort, and
high officials of the Mormon
church
The last two companies, how
ever, got started so late from Flor
ence that they ran into snow and
heavy weather in the mountains.
Both reached Zion during the
month cf November,, but of the
>00 who left Florence in the fourth
company, 67 perished along the
way. In the fifth company of 576
persons, probably 150 died along
the way—accounts do not agree.
In any event, the handcart com
panies suffered under a mode cf
traveling that made those who
went west in covered wagons ap
In Civil Service
JOYCE WILLIAMS
Miss Joyce W’illiams, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wil
liams of 2224 R street, has re
cently received an appointment
as clerk typist in the depart
ment of Child Welfare at the
capitol. Miss Williams was a
commercial arts major at the
University of Nebraska. She
has been working part time as
clerical assistant to Dr. E. Z.
Palmer, Department of Business
Research at the university, and
part time Voice stenographer.
I She was placed by competitive
, examination.
Senate Would Aid
States Program For
Pupils Health
WASHINGTON. (ANP). The
senate passed a bill last Friday,
which will provide federal aid to
assist the states in making more
adequate provisions for the health
of school children.
The bill guarantees the same
health services for children at
| tending public schools maintained
for minority races in a state which
maintains by law separate public
schools, as are provided for chil
dren m other public schools in
the state.
The bill was passed by voice
vote and referred to the house
committee on interstate and for
eign commerce.
It declares, “In order that no
American child shall come to
adult life with physical or men
tal defects or conditions which
can be prevented or corrected at
an early age, it shall be the na
tional policy to provide as
sistance to the several states to
enable them to improve health
services for school children for
the prevention, diagnosis, and
treatment of physical and mental
defects and conditions of school
children, with special reference to
the correction of defects and con
ditions likely to interfere with the
normal growth and development
and educational progress of chil
dren.”
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