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VOL. 6, No. 29 Lincoln . • * Legal Newspaper May 29. 1952
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Courtesy Lincoln Star
CHURCH WOMEN INSTALL OFFICERS—New officers of the
Lincoln Council of Church Women were formally installed at a
ceremony in the Westminster Presbyterian chapel. They are, front
row, from left, Mrs. ftay Becker, treasurer; Mrs. L. L. Belknap,
president, Mrs. Carroll Lemon, first vice president; back row, from
left, Mrs. John Wichelt, second vice president; Mrs. H. J. Hauschild,
recording secretary; and Mrs. Ralph Johnson, corresponding sec
retary.
Merit System
Examinations
Now Scheduled
The Nebraska Merit System an
nounces examinations for a num
ber of clerical positions in the
State Departments of Assistance
and Child Welfare, Health and
Employment Security. These po
sitions include stenographers, typ
ists, machine operators and some
classes of clerks. The jobs are
located in County Welfare Offices,
several State Employment Offices
and also in the State Capitotl. Sal
aries are being increased. Employ
polyment in these State agencies
gives opportunity for careers with
promotions and social security
benefits. The examinations are to
be held in several centers through
out the State on June 21. Appli
cations must be in the Merit Sys
tem Office by June 7. Detailed
information and application blanks
may be secured in County Wel
fare Offices, State Employment
Offices and at the Nebraska Merit
System, 1306 State Capitol, Lin
coln 9, Nebraska.
Jackie Father
Of Third Child
NEW YORK — (ANP)—Jackie
Robinson passed cigars last week
celebrating the arrival of the
couple’s third child—another boy.
This makes two sons and one
daughter for the famous baseball
player. He says it is the couple’s
plan to have four kids, equally
divided as to sex, he hopes.
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Attend Annual
Urban League
Memorial Day
Picnic
Friday, May 30, 1952
ANTELOPE PARK
I
2:30 P.M.
Everybody Wedcome
Church Women
Hold Discussion
Women’s role in the spiritual
security of the family was dis
cussed at a meeting of the Lincoln
Council of Church Women at
Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Fred Deweest, Mrs. Rex
Knowles and Mrs. Sara Walker,
members of a discussion group
stressed the importance of unity
of theories and practices.
Dr. C. Vin White of the First
Presbyterian Church, spoke on
I “Spiritual Security for Today’s
I Families.”
I New officers were installed in
| a special religious service. Mrs.
j P. C. Swift conducted the service,
jand Mrs. John F. Wichelt led the
devotionals. Representatives of 34
churches attended.
KuKluxKlan Chief
Gives Up to Police
FLORENCE, S.C.—Thomas L.
Hamilton, imperial wizard of Ku
Klux Klans in eastern United
States, surrendered to police here
Saturday on charges of conspiracy
'to kidnap and assault.
The surrender was reported by
Ge'orge Keels, Hamilton’s attor
ney.
The plump, bespectacled Klans
man gave himself up about 20
|hours after warrants had been
! sworn out against him by North
I Carolina officers in connection
with two floggings in Columbus
county.
The warrants were the latest
| development in a series of anti
iklan moves taken by federal, state
Whitney Young Lynnwood Parker
URBAN LEAGUE EXECUTIVES ATTEND CONFERENCE—
Lester B. Granger, not pictured, Executive Secretary of the Na
tional Conference of Social Work, has given a detailed outline of
exhibits and films to be used during the conference. Whitney B.
Young, jr., executive secretary of the Omaha Urban League and
Lynnwood Parker, executive secretary of the Lincoln Urban
League are attending, the conference at Chicago.
■< Veep to
’ " a dress Phi
Delta Kappas
CAMDEN, N. J. — (ANP)—
“Freedom Through Education”
will be the theme of the North
East Regional Conference of the
National Sorority of Phi Delta
Kappa, which will convene here,
May 30-June 1, with Eta Chapter
as hostess. Commemoration of
the Chapter’s Silver anniversary
will be observed at this time, also.
More than 300 delegates and
members of the 18 chapters in
this region, extending from New
York through Virginia, will at
tend. Among the National of
ficers expected are:
Mrs. Marian H. Bluitt of Wash
ington, D. C., supreme basileus;
Mrs. Olivia S. Henry of Phila
delphia, executive advisor and
parliamentarian; Mrs. Helen W.
Maxwell of Brooklyn, north east
regional director; Mrs. Kathryn
R. Thomas of Washington, su
premepistoleus; Miss Gwendolyn
A. Brown of Chester, Pa., supreme
tamiouchos; Mrs. E. Theresa Mc
Ivor of Catonsville, Md., supreme
tamias; Mrs. Grace H. Racker ol
Brooklyn, national program direc
tor and Mrs. Lillian Goings Burns
j of the hostess chapter, national
I publicity director.
I Mrs. Vivian Carter Mason ol
, Norfolk, Va., vice president of th<
; National Council of Negr<
i Women, will be guest speaker a
I the public meeting, Saturdaj
afternoon, May 31, at the Naz
arene Baptist Church.
Mrs. Mason, a graduate of the
University of Chicago, has trav
1 eled extensively in Europe, the
West Indies and the United
States. She is a writer and the
author of many articles on condi
tions in other countries.
Mrs. Helen W. Maxwell, Re
gional Director, will preside at the
meeting.
A series of Educational Work
shops will feature the professional
aspect of the conference. In
cluded will be workshops on:
1. UNESCO; 2. Art, with Mrs.
Arsie R. Kennedy of Philadelphia,
as consultant, and 3. Interpreta
tive Dancing, with Mrs. Rebecca
B. Prout of Moorestown, N. J.,
^s consultant.
and county officers starting last
February.
Social Work Conference
Holds 79th Annual Meet
Theme—Helping Achieve
Democracy’s Promise for All
The 79th Annual meeting of the t
National conference of Social5
I
work convened in Chicago May 25
and will last through May 30th. '
President Lester B. Granger ,
stated the aim and purpose of the',
conference as follows:
There is especial need for 1
thoughtful consideration of social ]
welfare problems this year. How ]
the American people will support <
R. C. Sorensen
To Leave NU
Robert C. Sorensen, assistant
'professor of legislation at the Uni
versity of Nebraska College of
Law, has accepted a position with
the Johns Hopkins University re
search office
at Washington,
D. C.
Sorensen has
been a member
of the univer
sity staff since
1948. His main
i n terest while
. at the univer
sity has been'
: investigation of
• how social sci-^'°lir,esy Lincoln Journal
e n c e research R. C. Sorensen
techniques are applied to policy
making in legislatures.
He will take up his new position
on June 15. Before coming to the
university here, Sorensen was a
lecturer in sociology at North-1
western University in 1948 and”
director of the pre-legal division
at John Marshall Law School in ;
Chicago in 1947-48.
Presently working on his Doc
tor's degree from the University;
| of Chicago, Sorensen is a native'
, of Lincoln. His father, C. A. Sor
ensen, is a former state attorney
general.
—
| Virginia AFL Reelects
5 Negroes to Board
| NORFOLK, Va. (ANP)—Some
60 of the 400 delegates attending
the annual convention of the Vir-'(
ginia State Federation of Labor
here last week were Negro trade
union leaders in the state. A high
light of the three-day meeting was
the re-election of all five Negro j
executive board members-at-large.1
The Negro board members are
David Alston, of Norfolk, inter
l national vice president of the In
ternational Longshoremen’s Asso
ciation; S. M. Leak, Alexandria;
Nathaniel Jordan, Franklin; O. J.j
Shaw, Petersburg, and A. J. Mon
roe, Richmond. „
Thomas W. Young, president of
the Journal and Guide and in
dependent candidate for City
Council in Norfolk, in a welcome
address to the delegates referred;
to Norfolk as a city “with an
awakened conscience. He men
tioned the progress being cur
rently made in slum clearance,;
(new school buildings, and the
bridge-tunnel link between Nor
folk and Portsmouth as evidence
of forward strides.
Three out of four traffic acci
dents on
dry roads.
social welfare depends upon their
mderstanding of its place in es
;ablishing a sound democratic so
:iety. Our Conference in Chicago
s planned for the greater welfare
>f each American community and
or increasing professional com
petence. We will bring to you
he best speakers and resource
people we can recruit. With your
lelp this annual meeting can be
ntally important to social wel
’are.
Section meetings on services
vill include: 1. Individuals and
families. 2. Groups and individ
jal in groups.
Nationally known figures will
ae speaking on broad topics. They
too will use the conference theme,
Helping Achieve Democracy’s
Promise for All People.
“The goal of social work in a
Negro community must be the
obliteration of Negro communities
—the breaking down of the ghetto
and every vestige of arbitrary,
unjust and dehumanizing racial
segregation.”
Striking this keynote, Dr. Ken
neth B. Clark, board member of
the National Urban League, and
associate professor of psychology
of the College of the City of New
York, told the 79th annual meet
ing of the National Conference of
Social Work, Tuesday, May 27th,
at the Conrad Hilton Hotel, that
“we cannot be complacent until
racial segregation is not only
dented but destroyed.’’
Speaking on “The Psychological
Impact of Race Upon the Negro
Community,” Dr. Clark, who is
also associate director of the
Northside Center for Child Devel
opment, said that during the past
fifteen years, the problem of re
lations among-peoples of different
races and religious has become an
increasingly intense and acute
one.
Church Presents
Music and Poetry
Of Negro Life
NEW YORK (ANP)—The Com
nunity Church and its Concert
Committee presented a unique and
colorful program of Music and
Poetry of the Negro.
Serving as narrator was Lang
ston Hughes; at the piano was
Margaret Bond, and'vocalist was
Daniel Andrews, a member of the
Church’s choir.
Hughes read his Rhythms of
Tears and Laughter, Memories of
a People, and Negro Heroes and
Heroines Prelude to An Age.
Andrews sang John Henry,
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot ar
ranged by Bond and Dorsey’s Four
and Twenty Elders.
Miss Bond played Coleridge
Taylor’s Loko Ku Tu Ga (Africa
Folk Melody) and Bamboula and
her own arrangement of Peter Go
Ring dem Bells and a Group
Dance based on Spiritual theme,
Wade in de Water.
After the intermission Andrews
returned to sing Songs to the
Dark Virgin, arranged by Flor
ence B. Price, Harry T. Burleigh’s
Ethiopia Saluates the Color; How
ard Swanson’s two compositions
“Joy,” and Night Song, Harper
Johnson’s Dust; Road and the Ne
gro Speaks of Rivers.