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Flood Control
Held at Cornhr ' ^
A bevy of national expert*
flood and erosion control here
urday were giving Nebraska a.
Kansas publishers and editors
their views on how to cope with
flood-waters and soil losses which
have wreaked havoc in the mid
dlewest.
Soil conservationists - empha
sized the part that complete soil
conservation can play to alleviate
flood damage. A corps of army
engineer speakers emphasized the
role of large dams and reservoirs
in coping with flood control prob
lems.
Both agreed however that a
complete flood control program
includes both soil conservation
and dams. The degree each plays
in an effective flood control pro
gram was the only important dif
ference in their opinion.
More than 275 people were at
tending the one-day conference at
the Cornhusker hotel to discuss
what newspaper editors and pub
lishers can do to help speed up
effective flood erosion control.
The conference was called by
The Lincoln Journal which last
year sponsored organization of the
Salt-Wahoo Watershed association.
The Salt-Wahoo association is re
garded as unique in the manner in
which it has co-ordinated efforts
of the army corps of engineers
and the soil conservation service
in the planning stage.
Had a complete program of soil
conservation been in effect during
the recent devastating flood in
Kansas, floodwater and sediment
damages would have been reduced
$41,650,000.
That is the estimate given in an
investigative report of the Kansas
flood area, just published by the
U.S. department of agriculture
soil conservation service.
Raymond A. McConnell, editor
of The Lincoln Journal, in an
opening speech said “conservation
is the primary element in effec
tive and efficient flood control.”
He listed the basic elements of
control programs as “conserva
tion, co-operation, and co-ordina
tion.”
Joie Chitwood
Dare Devils at
’51 State Fair
Wednesday afternoon and Fri
day evening during Nebraska
State Fair Week, Sept. 2-7, are
expected to be busy periods at the
1951 edition of Nebraska’s great
est show, according to Ed Schultz,
Secretary of the Nebraska State
Fair Board.
Those are the days that Joie
Chitwood and Aut Swenson are
scheduled to bring their auto
thrill troupes to the Nebraska
State Fair Grandstand for two
hours apiece of spine-tingling
motor stunts.
The Joie Chitwood Auto Dare
Devils will take over the State
Fair race track Wednesday after
noon when they stage the stu
pendous thrill-packed show for
which they have become famous.
Smashing and crashint, automo
biles and motorcycles through
solid walls of fire and flame; de
liber itely rolling cars and end
over end; leaping both motor
cycles and autos over elevated
rampways and into space hoping
to land on other rampways; and
driving brand new autos on one
and two wheels in the ultimate
perfection of precision driving are
*•> -—I
~pt. l-8th
“The Voice
Appreciation
Week
Watch For It
Miss Winston
Guest Soloist
For Singfest
Miss Winifred Winston, soprano
soloist at Quinn Chapel African
Methodist church, sang two great
religious numbers at Sunday’s
singfest at Pine wood bowl in
Pioneers park.
The program
began at 7:30
p.m. with an
organ concert
by Dale Under
wood, organist
at Vine Con
gregatio nal
church. .
Miss Winston
sang Gounod’s
“A v e Maria”
and Mozart’s
I “Alleluja," a a Winston
well as one other selection.
Eugene Kufper, assistant choir
director at First Plymouth Con
gregational church, led audience
singing. The meditation was
given by Rev. John D. Clyde of
Westminster Presbyterian church.
Dr. Harold Sandall of Grace
Methodist church gave the bene
diction.
The program:
Priere a Notre Dame............ Boellmann
Communion . Purvis
Aria . Peeters
Fountain Reverie . Fletcher
Evensong . Johnson
Meditation . Shurges
Dale Underwood, organist
Invication, Dr. Harold Sandall
Congregational singing, led by Eugene Kuiper
Ave Maria ...Gounod
Winifred Winston, soprano
Congregational singing % %
Offertory Prayer .Dr. Harold Sandall
Let Us Break Bread Together
Arr. by William Lawrence
Winifred Winston, soprano
Meditation: “Three Attitudes,” Rev. John D.
Clyde .
Alleluia . Mozart
Winifred Winston, soprano
Benediction . Dr. Harold Sandall
Postludc• “Jubilate Deo”. Dale Underwood
Ushers: Veritoss, Mrs. Rae Cameron in charge
—Courtesy
Journal-Star
only a few of the stunts included
in the thrilling Chitwood pro
gram.
And then on Friday evening,
September 7, glittering an array
of auto and motorcycle daredevils
such as has been seldom as
sembled before will be on hand in
frant of the Grandstand as the
Aut Swenson Thrillcade presents
its maiden aprearance in Lincoln.
Thrillcade is thrilldom’s newest
and one of its most exciting pro
ductions. Men and women who
have held starring roles in many
other fields of dare-deviltry to
gether by Swenson, himself a vet
eran of a quarter-century in the
thrill and speed show business.
These two great shows, each of
which features the use of brand
new stock automobiles, will add
greatly to the entertainment fea
tures planned for the 1951 Ne
braska State Fair Visitor. *
Pastor Offers
Program For
Miss. Schools
BY JAMES B. LaFOrRCHE
JACKSON, Miss. — (ANP) — A
bold step designed to equalize
public school education in Missis
sippi was offered the public here
last week by the Rev. H. Brent
Schaeffer, pastor of Trinity United
Lutheran church here.
The recommendations were
contained in a letter addressed to
“Candidates for Governor and the
Legislature, and All men of “Good
Will.”
They are: (1) “Remove any
division in our education system
such as white section and colored
section and have one adminis
trator including white and col
ored leaders. ’Let there be no dis
tinction as to teacher require
ments, school term, courses, sal
aries, etc. (Until. . . accredited
Negro teachers are available, sub
standard teachers would have to
be employed temporarily.)
(2) “Qualified Negroes should
serve on administrative and con
sulative boards and committees.”
(3) Sufficient funds should be
appropriated to assure the quick
est possible development of equal
ity:
(a) It will take $50 to $60,000,
000 to bring school buildings and
equipment equal. Through au
thorization of bond issues, by
economizing in many less press
ing areas of activity, by taxation,
this fund should be made avail
able.
(b) All teachers become fully
accredited at least $3,000,000 more
of education funds will be re
quired annually to equalize sal-,
aries.
(c) At least $5,000,000 should
be made available at once to in
crease training of Negro teachers
and providing loans for qualified
prospective teachers of at least,
five years of service in state
schools.
(d) $500,000 annually is ap
prpropriated for transportation of'
Negro school children. It will
ATLANTA U. PRESIDENT, WIFE SAIL—Dr. Rufus E. Clement,
president of Atlanta university, and Mrs. Clement boarded the
S.S., America, Saturday for Europe. On the continent they will
combine work for the church, vacation as tourists, and a visit to
their son-in-law.
Officially, Dr. Clement is a delegate to the African Methodist
Episcopal Church to The Methodist Ecumenical Conference, a
world conference held every 10 years. Dr. and Mrs. Clement will
attend Aug. 28-Sept. 7 in Oxford, England.
While visiting the Scandinavian nations of Norway, Denmark,
and Sweden, Dr. Clement will study the cooperative movements
there, and seek ways in which they may help Negro communists,
rural and urban, in America.
In Austria, the Clements will visit their son-in-law, Capt.
Robert J. P. Foster of the army medical corps in Salzberg.—(ANP)
North Side Council to
Serve the Present Need •
Dee pF reezeW oman
Leaves Hospital
CHICAGO—(ANP)—Mrs. Dor
othy Mae Stevens, Chicago’s
“Deep Freeze’’ woman, last week
left Michael Reese hospital after
six months of treatment for in
juries she suffered when she was
found half frozen last February.
Mrs. Stevens was taken to a
convalescent home on the south
side of Chicago. Medical treat
ment will continue under the di
rection of Michael Reese doctors.
A benefit was given recently to
raise money for artificial legs for
her. However, the artificial legs
have not arrived. The legs cost
$700, and the benefit contributed
$300 toward them.
When Miss Stevens was found
frozen stiff with an unbelievable
body temperature of 64 degrees,
her vital functions had all but
stopped.
Her breathing rate was three to
five times a minute compared
with a normal 18 to 22.
Pulse was 12 compared to a
normal of 70-80. Her blood pres
sure could not be recorded.
However, her brain and kidneys
survived the ordeal without dam
lage.
ultimately require $3,000,000
more.
()4 “Accept without animosity
prejudice or opposition entranc<
of any qualified applicants lntc
our graduate and professional
[schools. Everywhere our white
students have been far ahead of
political education leaders in ac
ceptance of men on their merits
without regard to color.”
To illustrate the urgency of his
recommendations, Pastor Schaef
fer cited recent court decisions on
admission of colored students to
graduate schools in the South and
South Carolina court decision or
dering that state to equalize school
facilities.
Several weeks ago a group of
Lincoln Citizens gathered around
a table and organized, what ia
now, the Northside Council.
This organization sprang into
being mainly
because the
housi n g situa
tion was even
tually to be
come a major
part of lives of
people of Lin
coln — particu
larly the Negro.
The organiza
tion will serveM. L. Shakespeare
in whatever field the need arises
whether it be housing, jobs, or
wages, the Northside Council sets
out to oppose injustices where
ever this serpeant lifts its head.
(The (proposed) Credo and
Pledge of the Northside Council is
as follows:
*■ As members of the Northside
Council we firmly believe that:
All members of the One Human
Race, have been equally endowed
by the CREATOR, with the fol
io w i n g fundamental Human
Rights:
1. The right to live a full and
complete life to the greatest ca
pacity of attainment.
(a) The right to choose the
best means to living the fullest
and most complete life possible.
(b) The right to be recognized
as a member of the Human race.
t
» (c) The right to be integrated
, into the solidarity ot the humao
race.
I 2. Every rig'at has a corre
sponding responsibility and ob
ligation on the part of others to
respect that right. Therefore, we,
the members of the Northside
Council consider as unjust every
violation of the above mentioned
rights, and most specifically.:
(a) Every form of Compulsory
Segregation.
(b) Any and All forms of Dis
crimination against individuals
because of color only.
(c) The estimating of some
members of the Human Race as
essentially inferior human beings.
The Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare
is temporary chairman of the
Council.
Mayor Impelliteri
Hailed Robinson
NEW YORK — (ANP) — A
1 fighting man has come home to
i Harlem in the person of the fistic
ambassador of good-will Sugar.
Ray Robinson who lost his title to
an Englander. Robinson was met
with a heavy motorcade, escorted
to City Hall, and awarded a scroll
by Mayor Impelliteri for “dis
tinguished and exceptional public
service.”
Mrs. Edna Mae Robinson, the
fighter’s wife, and his mother
were on hand to witness the cere
monies. So was the young son of
the dethroned middleweight
champ.
Robinson presented Mayor Im
pelliterri with a Rosary as a gift
from Pope Pius XII in the Vaticn.
Walter Winchell, chairman of
the Damon IiVinyon Cancer fund,
was on hand to laud Robinson for
I his huge contributions, both phys
ical and monetary to the cancer
fund and drive.
