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Tib® ^©d®© PUBLISHED WEEKLY "Dedicated to the ^promotion of the cultural, social and spiritua life of a great people.*" •\ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor Business Address 2225 8 Street 2-408 It No Answer Call 6-7608 Ruble W Shakespeare.Advertising and Business Manage Dorothy Green.....Office Secretar; Mrs. Joe Vreen.Circulation Manage Member of .he Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter. June 9. 1947, at the Post Office at Lincoln si Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 187t I year subscription.....$?.50 Single copy.loi ‘ _ Out of State 1 Year Subscription I2.50-- Single Copy lOe h t EDITORIALS The views expressed in these co'rmm i. are those of the writer and not £■ necessarily a reflection of the policy of The Voice.—Puh. a March of Dimes Tops 1951 1 In spite of poor crops in some areas and higher taxes generally, the people of Nebraska have this year set a new high in voluntary giving to the March of Dimes to ■fight polio (infantile paralysis), , it was announced today by Uni versity of Nebraska chancellor, R. G. Gustavson, state March of Dimes Chairman. f It is now evident that when all reports are filed, the 1952 cam-^ paign total for Nebraska will ex ceed $500,000, the Chancellor| said. The final total for 1951 was $475,175. Fifty per cent of these funds will remain wtih Nebraska county chapters of the National Founda-j tion for Infantile Paralysis to pro vide needed medic '1 care for local polio patients, the State .._A.._ Chairman said. The other 50 pei cent, he stated, will go to supporl the national program of scientific i research, training of professional personnel in research and medi cine, and for emergency epidemic aid in major epidemic areas. Chancellor Gustavson said that Nebraska county chapters of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis paid, or obligated them selves to pay, over $307,000, in March of Dimes money in helping Nebraska polio patients during 1951, a year during which there were only seven individual weeks when no new cases of polio were reported to the State De partment of Health. The State Chairman expressed profound gratitude to all who tiave helped to make this fine re port possible. Scholarship Rules Are Announced i DURHAM, N. C. (ANP — The James E. Shepard Memorial foundation this week announced rules governing competition for $3,200 in scholarships to he dis tributed during the 1952-53 school year. Dr. Albert E. Manley, chairman of the foundation’s scholarship committee, said that 16 scholar ships of $200 each will be awarded competitively qualified students % j 1124-26 O St. 2-6838 who plan to enter North Carolina college. In addition to passing a com petitive examination, applicants also have to qualify in the follow ing four categories: (1) Need; (2) Scholarship; (3) Extra-cur ricular ' promise; and (4) Citizen ship. The examination will be held at North Carolina college. * Full details may be obtained by writing to Dr. Manley at North Carolina college, Durham. Spe cial application forms are avail able. Applicants must be nomi nated by special faculty commit tees in their high schools. April 1, 1952 is the deadline for receiving applications. High schools with enrollments of 100 students or more may nominate not more than two can i didates. All other schools will be limited to one candidate. BEAL'S GROCERY Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Meats 2101 R TeL 2-6933 s ; h IAMBS C. OLSON, SuptrinUndent l STATS HISTORICAL SOCISTT Nebraska’s Senators (2) ’ When John M. Thayer and B Thomas Weston Tipton appeared in Washington as the first United States senators from the new state of Nebraska, they drew lots i to determine the length of the 1 terms they would serve. Mr. Thayer drew a four year term, and Mrs. Tipton came out with only two. Tipton served longer, however, because while Thayer was defeated when he came up for re-election, he (Tipton) was re-elected in 1869 to a full term : of six years. Thomas Weston Tipton was 1 colorful, vigorous, and unpredict able. He was elected to the United 1 States Senate as a Republican. Before the Civil War he had been a Whig, as many had been who became Republicans during the war years. In later life, however, he became a Democrat, and in 1880 was the unsuccessful Demo cratic candidate for governor. His transition from the Republi can to the Democratic party was made through the Independent Republican movement led by Horace Greeley in the Grant Era. He voted for Greeley for presi dent in 1872, and by 1876 was supporting Samuel Tilden, the Democratic candidate. Senator Tipton was born in 1 Cadiz, Ohio, August 5, 1817, the,, son of a Methodist minister. He , attended the common schools, be- , tweeny periods of farm work, un til he was 17 years old, when he entered a “select” school, after which he took four years of col lege work. Upon graduation from college he spent four years teach ing and reading law. He was ad mitted to the Ohio bar in 1844. That same year he campaigned actively for Henry Clay for presi dent, and the following year he was elected to the Ohio legisla ture. 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He left the Methodist church to become a Congregational minister, and it was as president-elect of the short-lived Brownvill College that he came to Nebraska in 1858. He stayed on in Brownville to or ganize a Congregational society. During the Civil war he served as chaplain of the First Nebraska Infantry. As senator, Mr. Tipton was identified with the extreme “radi AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING WRECKER SERVICE 2-4295 HARVEY'S GARAGE 2119 0 St. IDEAL Grocery and Market Lota of Parking 27th and F Streets Where Your Furniture Dollar Buys More 1S32 O Street Shurtleff's Furniture Co. t .■■■■ i i —m —isrii - - TTT ■ Flowers By Tyrrell's D. L, TyrreWt Flotcers W357 1133 No. Cotner •Qw_ cal” wing of the Republican party which stood for the policy of “harsh” reconstruction in* the South. s Along with Senator Thayer, he cast his vote for con viction in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Senator Tipton died in Wash ington, D. C., November 26, 1899. FREADRICH | BROS. 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