Creeks < 1VO",0*5,M ,m8 eave
Belmont nomes Wrecked;
Red Cross, S. A. Give Relief
The old quip about Nebraska weather (which isn’t
any worse than any place else) is that if you don’t like
it, wait five minutes and it will change. The change to
rain and plenty of it, on Friday afternoon, July 8, brought
three creeks in Belmont, North Lincoln suburb, over their
banks and sent torrents of silt-laden water up to five feet
deep over some 32 blocks of the residential area.
The flood was described by Mrs.,
Corena Williams, 938 Saunders as !
“twice as bad” as the inundation
to two years ago when her home
also i'ell victim of a Salt creek
flood. Mrs. Williams, her grand
daughter, Patience Riley, and the
family of William Brown were
the only Negro families washed
out as some 200 persons were
made homeless and damage
in the many thousands of dollars
was done to homes and gardens.
Mrs. Williams and Patience were
dragged to safety by three un
named heroes of the disaster when
water from Flounder creek, near
her home, had cut them off from i
escape.
Emergency facilities were set
up in the Belmont community
center under the direction of Joe
Fenton, local Red Cross disaster
director. Firemen and policemen
gave their aid too in helping Red
Cross workers rescue people ma
rooned by highwater and swift
currents. The Red Cross also fur
nished, food for a number of fami
lies until their homes were acces
sible The Salvation Army and
the Community Emergency center
aided the Red Cross in furnish
ing clothing to families that lost
everything in the sudden high ,
water.
Rainfall in the Belmont area
was the highest for any city area
with 3.19 inches for the day re-j
ported at the airport. Downtown
Lincoln received 2.40 inches, Col
lege View 2.30 and University,
Place 3.00 inches. Cause of the |
flood was said to have been the |
inability of the large amount of
water to pass under the bridges
at 9th and Nance, 9th and Bel
mont and 10th and Cornhusker
Hiway. Water began backing up
there and spread northward.
• Grand Lodge To
Meet July 20-22
The Grand Lodge of Prince Hall
Masons for Nebraska and jurisdic
tion, will hold its 31st session in
Omaha July 20-22. The sessions
are scheduled for the Masonic
hall at 26th and Blondo streets
according to Mr. Clayton P. Lewis,
grand master.
Card of Thanks
We would like to thank the many
well-wishers who sent cards, flowers and
gifts to help during the illness of Mrs.
Emma Anderson while she was In Lin
coln.—Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie ^ones.
Bishop Walls,
Dr. B. Mays At
World Council
CHICHESTER, England. (ANP).
Bishop W. J. Walls of the AME
Zion church and Dr. Benjamin E.
Mays, president of Morehouse col
lege are among 90 members of the
Central committee of the World
Council of Churches meeting here
July 9-15.
This committee is responsible
tor all World council work be
tween the general assemblies held
every five years. It receives re
ports, makes statements of policy,
and determines future action. This
is its first meeting since the
founding assembly meeting in
Amsterdam last summer.
Co-operating in this worldwide
church movement are 154 Protes
tant and Orthodox church denom
inations in 44 nations. More than
30,000,000 Americans are repre
sented in the council.
One of the aims of this meeting
is to discover a church man’s basis
for “The Responsible Society.”
Also the status of religion be
hind the iron curtain and outside,
too, will be discussed.
Univ. of Colorado
Recognizes Two
Negro Alumni
Two alumni of the University
of Colorado have been given j
recognition by their alma mater
for the good work they have done, j
They are Lucius H. Henegan, in
formation specialist with the ;
Farmers Home Administration j
who was cited in the “Colorado j
Alumnus” last March and An
thony Ray, music major.
Henegan, who graduated from
the university’s college of jour
nalism in 1930, entered govern
ment service in 1942 as an infor
mation specialist with the Farm
Security Administration. Though
Henegan says he misses “the
pungent odor of printer’s ink, the
roar of the press room and the
metallic chatter of the linotype
machines,” his work has the
“challenge offered by doing a job
for and serving a lot of disadvan
taged people through the facilities
of government.” A resident of
Washington, D. C., he served last
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HOUSING BILL PASSES
New York Gov.
Lauds Anti-Bias
Commission
ALBANY, N. Y. (ANP). Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
praised the work of the State
Commission Against Discrimina
tion on its fourth birthday, July 1.
Speaking of the commission’s
work, he lauded it for the cases
it has taken care of to date, and
praised labor and management for
accepting the law. He said:
“To me the most encouraging
section of the report is the state
ment that there has been almost j
universal acceptance of the law by
all concerned—by employers, la
bor unions, and employment agen
cies alike.
“As a result thousands of de
cent, honest citizens of our state
who otherwise might have been
deprived of gainful employment 1
because of prejudice, are now tak
ing their rightful places among j
hardworking men and women of ,
our Empire state.
July 17 To Be
Dr. Bundle Day
In Los Angels
LOS ANGELES. (ANP). Sun
day, July 17, has been proclaimed
Ralph Bunche day in Los Angeles
by Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Dr.
Bunche will be here to receive the
Spingarn medal at the 40th annual
meeting of the NAACP, now in
progress here, July 12-19.
For the convention, the Down
town Hotel Men’s association as
sured Thomas L. Griffith, for 15
years president of the local branch
NAACP, there will be no racial
bias in downtown hotels.
Decision^ To Wait
Till 5th Month On
Fate of Twins
LOS ANGELES. (ANP). A de
cision to separate the month old
Siamese twin daughters of Mrs.
John Jones cannot be made until
they are five months old, Dr.
Phoebys Berman, medical direc
tor of General hospital, said last
week.
He said at this time it will be
known whether the babies have
separate circulatory systems or
not. They are joined together by
their heads, but have separate
bodies. Their names are Gladys
Yvonne and Mary Yvette.
If they have a common breath
ing system, an operation to sepa
rate them will pose an extreme
surgical problem, Dr. Berman said.
Congressmen Powell Ana
Dawson Split Over Issue Of
No-Segregation Amendment
BY ALICE A. DUNNIGAN
WASHINGTON. (ANP). The federal housing bill
passed the House by a vote of 228 to 185, and was sent
into conference to iron out the slight differences between
the House and Senate measures. The bill passed without
the anti-segregation amendment which was introduced
from the floor by Rep. James G. Fulton (r., Pa.).
The two Negro congressmen were divided in their
opinion of such an amendment. Cong. William L. Dawson
NC Nurses Are
Integrated Into
One Association
RALEIGH, N. C. (ANP). Negro
nurses and white nurses in North
Carolina will work together from
now on in one integrated organ
ization. Last week the North Caro
lina State association of Negro
Registered Nurses at its 27th an
nual meeting voted to dissolve so
that its members could join the
previously white North Carolina I
State Nurses association.
Nine months ago, the white
group voted to admit Negro nurses
to the organization. The Negro
group’s action was taken in the
light of this action.
Mrs. Marie B. Noell, executive
secretary of the white group, said:
“Since all citizens of North
Carolina need adequate nursing
care and since the. professional
nursing organizations are to a
great degree responsible for such
care, I believe that the action
taken this morning by the N, C.
Association of Negro Registered
Nurses, Inc., to dissolve its state
organization of 27 years’ standing
and to associate itself wholly with
the N. C. State Nurses’ association
will be a great asset in promoting
nursing services for all North
Carolinians."
Saperstein Wins
Over Des Moines
Team For Name
DES MOINES, la. (ANP). A
court order by Federal Judge
Charles A. Dewey last week en
joined a local sports promoter
from using the term Globe Trot
ters in any way in connection
with Negro professional basket
ball team.
Bobby Grund was told that he
could no longer use the name
made famous by the Harlem Globe
Trotters owned and coached by
Abe M. Saperstein of Chicago.
Saperstein originally filed suit
for $50,000 damages against
Grund. He got all he demanded
except the $50,000.
ta., in.; was one of the 168 who
opposed such an amendment
while Cong. Adam C. Powell (d.,
N. Y.) was among the 130 who
favored it.
Mr. Fulton’s amendment stated
that “There shall be.no discrimi
nation against any persons be
cause of race, color, religion or
national origin in the rental or
occupancy of any housing con
structed under the provisions of
this act.” He suggested that a
vote be taken on it so that the
people could see where every
body stands. He said that this
same amendment has been
(adopted in the 1949 Housing acts
in Pennsylvania on a bipartisan
basis. If it can work in Pennsyl
vania he said he saw no reason
why it should not work nation
I ally.
He could not understand, he
continued, why the Democratic
organizations asks Congress to
vote against one of the principles
the party stands for. “Here is
your chance to get both the prin
ciples—housing, with no discrim
ination.
When a division vote was asked
on the amendment, the G. O. P.
side of the house began to yell
for Roosevelt. “Where is Roose
velt?” they asked while young
I Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., voted
along with the majority of the
Democrats to defeat the amend
ment. Only 12 Democrats and the
one American Labor party rep
resentative voted along with the
Republicans to include such an
amendment in the bin.
Except for a few minor differ
ences that must be take care of
the bill as the joint house-senate
committee look it over calls 1or:
1. Federal contributions up to
$308,000,000 a year for 40 years
toward the construction of 810,
000 public housing unit at a low
cost rent.
2. Five year slum clearance
program with the federal gov
ernment providing one-third of
the cost and the local units the
other two-thirds.
3. A $265,000,000 farm housing
program especially for loans to
farmers who cannot get credit
elsewhere.
In
DELEGATES AT 44TH ANNUAL SUNDAY SCHOOL-BTU CONGRESS—Part of the 10,000 delegates who attended the ^th Annual Sunday^“STwho
Memphis, Tenn., last week. The group assembled in front of Ellis auditorium following an address by the Congress' ^***en*> ® * ***
can be seen in the center of the first row, «vith hand on sign. (ANP)
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