VOL. 5, NO. 29 Lincoln 3, Nebraska
Paul Meadows To Be Speaker
At Conference on Mf* *ies
Paul Meadows, professor at the
University of Nebraska, has been
selected as speaker for an opr
meeting to be held
Y.M.C.A. Monday, May *
p.m. The meeting, plan*
the committee who sponsor*,
conference on minority atitu
held at the Cornhusker Ho .,
will seek ‘techniques on actions
in the community to eliminate
discrimination.’
This conference is the out
growth of resolutions passed ask
ing for a permanent organization.
The idea of a name, constiution
- and persons to act in an execu
; tive capacity will probably be
matters for consideration.
Dr. Leroy T. Laase, director of
speech at the University of Ne
braska will preside; Willard Gea
dert is chairman. The meeting
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MRS. KATHERINE PETERSON !
Mrs. Katherine Peterson, 334
No. 23 Street, has been selected
by The Voice staff as Mother of
the Year. She, is the wife of
Harry W. Peterson and the moth
er of two children, Donna, 8 and
Jerry 3.
She is a member of Quinn
Chapel A.M.E. church where she
is a member of the senior mis
sionary society and sponsors the
Allen Stars, a girls group.
In the community she is Matron
of Eiecta Chapter No. 14 OES; a
member of the Young Married
Couples Club and leader of
Brownie Ttoop No. 17.
Mrs. Peterson moved to Lincoln
with her family five years ago
from Brookfield, Missouri, where
she completely her elementary
education. She completed high
school in Columbia, Missouri and
took her college work at Lincoln
University at Jefferson City, Mis
souri. She taught school three
and one-half years before com
ing to Lincoln. She is regarded
as an ideal mother and home
maker.
Clean-Up! Pick
Up! Paint Up!
Campaign Begins
Now that the Sun has begun
to shine, the grass begun to grow |
and the trees turn green, the
clean-up campaign can logically
take shape.
Shaggy yards, broken fences,
shoddy and unpainted buildings
can be made to look like new and
our sense of community spirit en
hanced.
The clean-up committee is com
posed of the following hard
working, enthusiastic mmbers:
Messrs, Beulah Bradley, J. B.
Bonds, I. B. Colley,; Mr. C. O.
Shepard and the Reverends Le
Count Butler. Melvin Shake
speare, chairman.
Marian Anderson
On 20-Concert Tour
NEW YORK (ANP)—Marian
Anderson, noted contralto artist
embarked on a two month tour of
Central and South America last
week, with her opening engage
ment set for Havanna, Cuba on
May 26.
She will do 20 concerts in seven
countries, ending with a June 19
date in Mexico City.
Wm. and Mary
Accepts First
Negro Student
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.—(ANP)
—The College of William and
Mary, the nation’s second oldest
university, announced last week
that it had accepted its first Ne
gro student.
The new student will be Hulen
L. Willis, a teacher in Norfolk and
a 1949 graduate of Virginia State
college. He will do graduate work
in physical eduaction. A veteran
of World war II, Willis is a native
V of Pittsburgh.
In accepting a Negro student,
William and Mary is following a
policy recently announced by its
board that it would admit quali
fied Negroes for graduate work
in fields not offered at a state
supported Negro school. The
board established this policy after
a federal court decision opened
the University of Virginia law
school to a colored student.
Willis will enter school in June.
Final Concert For
The Hub of Harmony
The Hub of Harmony Chorus, '
under the direction of Frank W. j
Hale, jr., will appear in a final j
concert Tuesday evening, May 29.
The concert will be held at the
Lincoln High School Auditorium.
Featured on the program will be
Samuel DeShay, talented pianist
from Columbus, O.
It will be the final city-wide j
concert given by the Hub. of Har- j
money, because most of the per- j
sonnel will be leaving upon gradu
ation.
According to Mr. Hale all bene- ,
fits will go to Allon Chapel.
Through hard work, organization
and youthful zeal, Allon Chapel
youth have raised nearly $6,000
in less than two years; $800 will j
finish paying for the church and
they hope to raise this at their
final concert.
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Calendar of Events
Quinn Chapel A.M.Ii. Church j
Mothers’ day breakfast, May 13. J
Sunday School Rally day pro- I
gram, May 13, 3:30 p.m.
Revival—Mrs. Versa Flynn
Pierce, speaker, May 14-27.
Lincoln Urban League
Membership drive, May 15 to
June 1.
Clean Up campaign, May 14-19.
Boys Town concert, May i17
Annual Duke and Duchess Re
vue, May 25.
Annual Memorial day picnic,
May 30.
Membership
Campaign To
End June 1st
The Lincoln Urban League
membership campaign is in full
swing. Mrs. Joseph Lytle, the
energetic and tireless chairman
of the Committee, stated that we
have a lot to look forward to.'
Since we have had so much in
the past, the future should be
more encouraging.
By supporting the Urban
League Program, you are not only
making a place for recreation,
meditation and education for
yourself, but a place where your
children can go and participate in
group activities and grow.
What more can one ask for?
If it doesn’t meet with your ex
pectation, then make your mem
bership count by participating;
and making it what you want it j
to be.
Only by pulling together can
we win in this struggle of life.
Recognition of this fact is long
over-due. Lip service is not;
enough. Lets be known by our
j deeds—“Like little children, they
came.” L. P.
Fotball fields are called grid
irons because the white lines
crossing the field resemble a grid
iron.
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Sweetest Voices ever J4eard
With a borrowed $90 and five
boys, two from the juvenile court
and three homeless waifs, Father
Flanagan’s Boys Home was
founded at Omaha, Nebraska in
December, 1917, by the late Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Edward J. Flanagan.
In the 33 years which have since
passed, more than 7,000 home
less, abandoned and neglected
boys have called Boys Town
their home. The Boys Town
Choir which appears here May
17th under the auspices of the
Lincoln Urban League, repre
sents Father Flanagan’s Boys
Home and schooL
Boys Town is a home and
school for boys without a home.
There are no barriers of race,
creed or color. Boys from every
state in the nation, from the Dis
trict of Columbia, Hawaii, the
Canal Zone, Costa Rica, the
Philippine Commonwealth and
Canada have been citizens of
Boys Town.
“Our program at Boys Town
Wegner, director, says. “We
strive to give the boys a good
education, both academically and
from a trade standpoint. Our
school system, which is accredited
by the state of Nebraska, starts
with the fifth grade and con
tinues through a four-year highf
school curriculum."
Teaching of Americanism is the
primary aim. This is .accom
plished through a self-govern
City Election Winners
Mayor
School Board
.
Victor Andenon
Robert Venner
Mrs. Roscoe Hill
Ciiy Councilmen
C. W. D. Kinsey
Pat Ash
Rees Wilkinson |
The election Tuesday, May 2,
brought out a record vote for a
city event—19,874 by unofficial
count and with absentee ballots
swelling that total. The former
top of modem time was the 17,
690 vote in May, 1941.
Victor E. Anderson retains his
| merit program which is conducted
under adult guidance. Since 1937
Boys Town has been an incor
porated village, and the boys
elect their own mayor, city
councilmen and commissioners
every six months, and actually
conduct their own government.
Boys Town has been called a
miniature democracy, a city of
little men, where boys regardless
of racg, color or creed are given
opportunities which are right
fully theirs, but which were de
nied them before they came to
Boys Town.
The Boys Town philosophy is
based on the' belief that every
boy deserves encouragement, re
ligious guidance direction, love
and care. The spiritual welfare
of the citizens is a primary con
sideration. Catholic students re
ceive instruction in their faith
and classes in character training
are conducted for non-Catholic
boys. Attendance at religious
services is a requisite. Boys of
the Jewish faith attend services
in Omaha.
Audiences who have flocked to
hear the Boys Town Choir rep
resent people from all walks of
life, for their appeal is the sweet,
universal appeal of boyhood.
Whether on the concert stage
or on their playgrounds at Boys
Town, these young singers are a
living testimony of Father Flana
gan’s immortal belief that “there
is no such thing as a bad boy.**
-—Courtesy Lincoln Journal-Star.
| seat as mayor to which he fell
I heir when appointed to succeed
Clarence G. Miles, resigned.
The new council:
Mayor: Victor E, Anderson.
Holdover council members:
Fern Hubbard Orme, John H.
Comstock, Roy Sheaff.
New councilmen: Pat Ash, C.
W.'D. Kinsey.
Newly elected but completing
a four-year term: Rees Wilkinson.
The voters reaffirmed confi
/ dence in their school system in
j two ways: by approving the
I board-sponsored $6,000,000 bond
issue and by re-electing, by sub
stantial margins, Mrs. Roscoe Hill
and Robert C. Vainer.
The school bonds were ap
-i proved convincingly by a better
! than 2 to 1 vote on basis of the
unofficial returns, 12,866 for and
6,143 against. The money is to
be used in connection with a
ten-year program to purchase
sites and build schoolhouses, also
to pay for additions and repairs
and to furnish the necessary fur
niture and apparatus.
The bonds will be issued from
time to time as may be deter
mined by the board and become
due at such date as the board
may fix but not exceed 20 years,
optional at any time after five
years. The bonds to draw not to
exceed 3 percent interest.
Dr. A. Davis
j.' or n euare
The “right” and “wrong” side
of the tracks are not fictions—
they are social realities which de
termine the basic opportunities
and life chances of tens of mil
lions of children and adults, a
University of Chicago educator
believes.
He is Dr, Allison Davis, pro
fessor of education, who ad
dressed a meeting of the Nebraska
Welfare association at the Cora
husker. The association has con
cluded its three-day meeting.
One of the keynote speakers
at the white house conference on
children and youth, Dr. Davis
said social scientists have classi
fied American society into three
socio-economic groups: IfeHOT'
middle and lower.