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TDd© W®h(s© r_PUBLISHED WEEKLY "Dedicated to the promotion oj the cultural, social and aoiritual hie n1 a great people Rev. Melvin L Shakespeare Publisher and Editor * Business Address 2225 5 Street Phone 5-649) U No Answer Coil 5-/508 Ruble W. Shakespeare—,-Advertising and Business Manager Charles Goolsby......., —-Associate Editor, y.M C.A Lynwood Parker - --- . ..Associate Editor, on Military Leave Rev. f, B. Brooks------- , ..Promotion Manager Mrs. |oe Green.-—....Circulation Manager Member ol the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, rune 9. 1947 at the Past Otfice at t iry^|g Nebraska under the Act ot March 3, 1879 1 year subscription-$2.00 Single copy .. EDITORIALS The rlews expressed In these columns are those 01 the writer and not necessarily ,3 .enaction ot the policy ol THe Voice.— Pub. Summertime Is . Visiting Time In Alliance, Nebr. By Beatrice Motley. Mr. Dan Meehan of Omaha was a recent visitor of Ed Mee han who has been confined at St. Joseph hospital for the past three months. Mr. Ed Meehan has been released from the hos pital recently and is now the ward of Mr. Jenkins Butler. Misses Marie and Coleta Wil liams of Omaha and Mr. David Batt motored to Alliance for a week end visit as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Woodlee. Marie Williams is a clerk's sec retary in Sidney and is being visited by her sister Coleta. Mrs. Thomas Hall and chil dren, Joyce, Dale and Ronald of Denver, Colo., were guests at the home of Mrs. Minnie P. Motley the past week. Mrs. Hall is the former Janet Emanuel. Mr. A1 Matthews, Johnny Mc Williams and Johnny Harding of Sidney motored to the city Sun day. Mrs. Grace Harris was the picnic hostess in the city park Wednesday. Her guests wrere Mrs. Thomas Hall and children, Pauline Rochelle and Joseph Harris. Mr. Joseph Harris of Los An geles, Calif., is visiting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Harris, Sr., of Alliance. Joseph Harris has been working for his doctor’s degree in Cali fornia. Mr. James Shores who grad uated from Boys Town high school last Sunday, June 19th, is visiting in Alliance at the hopne of Bill Darnell. James was- the mayor of Boys Towrn last year. Mrs. Mills Lear and Barbara Sue Butler have returned from a short visit in Canton, Mo. FEPCBoardNamed OLYMPIA, Wash. (ANP). Gov. Langlie named five persons to the new State Board Against Discrimination in Employment to administrate the state’s new FEPC law. Board members were selected for one, two, three, four and five year terms. Membership will be alternating with a new member appointed each year. The five members selected are: The Rev. Jerome L. Toner, Olympia, one year; the Rev. Fountain W. Penick, pastor, Peoples Institutional Baptist church, Seattle, two years. Mrs. Robert M. Jones, wife of a King county superior court judge, Seattle, three years; David E. Lockwood, president-manager, University Federal Savings and Loan association, four years; and Negroes Enroll At Kentucky U. Without Incident LEXINGTON. Ky (ANP).— Last week 12 Negro graduate students enrolled at the Univer sity of Kentucky summer school without incident. Dr. Maurice F. Seay, dean and registrar, said most of them are teachers doing advanced work in education. These students will attend the same classes as white students although Dr. H. L. Donovan, uni versity president, said a “maxi mum of segregation consistent with equality of educational op portunity” wrill be maintained. A recent decision by Federal Judge H Church Ford in a suit filed by Lyman Johnson, Louis ville high school teacher, opened the way for Negroes being ad mitted to the university. Richard W. Axtell, specialist in labor law, five years. Rev. Mr. Penick is the Negro member of the board. DON'T FORGET THAT YOU'LL FIND GREAT VALUES DURING JULY ■ SALES AT GOLD'S. BAR GAINS IN EVERY DEPART MENT. Come Early! Save! h YANIS C. OLSON, SufitrinUnJtmi •tatb ■ IITOBICAl socibtt The grand and glorious Fourth always has been enthusiastically celebrated in Nebraska, and the records of Nebraska’s j>ast are replete with accounts of Inde pendence Day festivities. Though some of the early celebrations may lack a little glamour in the eyes of today’s generation, it is tr^e nevertheless that those pio neer Nebraskans, dependent upon their own resources rather than commercial entertainment, actu ally had as good a time (if not a better one) on the Fourth than do we of this generation. Without a doubt, the Fourth of July was one of the most im portant occasions of the year in old Nebraska. Celebrations fol lowed a somewhat established pattern, and the program, the big dance and the dinner were reg ular features. Celebrants came from miles around, frequently beginning their trip on the third and arriving home the fifth. Occasionally x enterprising pro moters used a Fourth of July celebration as a means of adver tising and selling town lots. Lots in Omaha were advertised that way in 1854, and the same de vice was used at Decatur. In the latter instance, “dodgers” were sent out through the county promising free meals and “sur prise” amusements. The “sur prise” was to consist of a war dance by Indians from a neigh boring Agency. The Indians, how ever, decided to do a little sur prising on their own and swooped down upon the gathering as if they were attacking the assem bled whites in earnest. As a re sult, every last visitor packed up and fled, leaving the local citi zenry with great quantities of food and town lots. The Indians weren’t much interested in the latter, but they did help dispose of the food. Indians also figured in the first celebration at Fid Is City, in 1857, ' but their war dance on that oc 1 (-union was strictly according to ! schedule. General Jim Lane, the noted Kansas Jayhawker, was the principal orator of the day, and a fife and drum furnished the music. One of the smallest celebra tions on record was that at St. Edward in 1871, the year the town was laid out. Only four men were present, but “speeches were made, songs sung and the Declaration of Independence re peated from memory.” The first recorded* celebration in Lancaster (later Lincoln) took place in 1882. It began simply as a gooseberry hunt, but before the day was over Elder Young and a group looking for a site on which to colonize arrived, with the result that a regular patriotic I The i First National Bank of Lincoln 10th A “O” St. Member F.D.I.C. TYPEWRITERS ANY MAKE SOLD RENTED REPAIRED Nebraska Typewriter Co. 13# Ns. 13 th 84. Phase 1-2IS" Un(*li. Nebr. 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