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Tib® V@a®® PUBLISHED WEEKLY “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people.”_ Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher end Editor Business Address 2225 8 Street Box 2028 2-4085 U No Answer Can j-75Ob Runic A Shakespeare .. Advertising end Business Manager Dorothy Green ... Office Secretary Mrs, .oe treen .. ...Circulation Manager ^ Member of .he Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Seconu Class Matter lune 9. 1947. a* the Poet Office at Lincoln. Nebraska indet the Act of March 3, 1871 I year subscription. J? 50 Single copy. .Mg __ _ Out of State 1 Tear Subscription 92.50—Single Copy 10c aOITORIAIA Tbs views expressed in these columns are thoee of the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the policy of me Voice.—Polk. Civil Service Worker Retires WASHINGTON (ANP)—Aftei completing 34 years of service ir the department of navy, John M Brent was presented a scroll Iasi week by Navy Secretary Dan A Kimbell. The presentation was made at the Pentagon building upon the occasion of Brent’s re tirement from the civil service. The retiring employee served as messenger to the Secretary ol Press Club Honors President Truman WASHINGTON— (ANP)—Presi dent Harry S. Truman was pre> sented with a bronze plaque in the Rose Garden of the White House last week by a committee from the Capital Press Club. The club’s top honor award | went to the President this year because of his continued forth-j right stand on civil rights. According to the inscription on! the plaque, the tribute was made to the President because he: “Unequivocably and with valor Utilized his presidential powers of informing the people and molding public opinion to insist that the nation believe in and live by the Christian ideal of brotherhood and the constitutional principle of human equality.” The presentation was made by the club’s president, Oscar Haynes. Other members of the delegation consisted of Ernest Humbles, vice president; Miss Revella Clay, secretary; A1 Sweeney, chairman of the speak ers bureau; and Dr. Arthur P Davis, substituting for the treas urer, Sherman Briscoe, who wa: out of the city. Jess Williams Spring Service 2215 O Sjreet Lincoln 8, Nebraska Phone 2-3633 Two Locations Wally's Used Cars GUNS SHELLS 150 No. 20 1719 N St. 2-5797 2-5615 Open 9 to 9 AUTO PARTS MOTOR REBUILDING MOTOR EXCHANGE BEN’S NEW WAY AUTO PARTS 2018-2024 “O” St Ph. 2-7039 “9 out of 10 your beat bet ta Ben'* ' Navy for the past 24 years, work l ing under six secretaries. ,| Guests at the ceremony included t John L. Sullivan, who presented .'Brent with the Navy’s Meritorious >1 Civilian Award in 1948, and James ; C. Evans, special assistant to the ■ 'secretary of defense. I Brent was born in George : County, Va., in 1886 and received his education at the Dunbar high | school in Washington. He enlisted in the U.S. naval reserve in 1918, serving nearly a year and a half. Upon release from the navy, he began his civil service career as a messenger in the navy allotment office, bureau of supplies and ac- ; counts. After 10 years in that ' office he was transferred to the 1 office of the secretary of navy. ; The Maritorious Civilian Serv- < ice Award which Brent received' four years ago stated that: J “Throughout his career Mr.1; Brent has applied himself to task 4 in a manner which has contrib uted materially to the orderly op-' eration of the offices to which he was assigned. He has been a loyatj willing, cooperative worker, and is1 richly deserving of the Navy’s Meritorious Civilian Award.” For Everything in HARDWARE Baker Hardware 101 No. 9th 2-3710 | * ♦ a t II °Lo SKA h lAMEt C. OLSON, Superintendent • TATI ■(•TOUCH fOCKITT Nebraska’s Senators (5) Alvin Saunders served Nebraska as territorial governor as well as United States Senator. I discussed his earlier career some time ago in connection with his service as governor of Nebraska territory from 1861 to statehood in 1867. Governor Saunders was elected to the Senate in 1877, defeating Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock after a struggle described as “the most bitter and 'hottest ever known.” Hitchcock, while a Re publican had been elected by a coalition of Republicans and Demo crats and this made him most un popular with a large segment of the Republican party which felt that with a clear majority among the voters of the state and in the legislature, the Republican party had no need to collaborate with the Democrats in choosing a United States Senator. At the time of his election, Sen ator Saunders was 59 years of age. He w;as a large, portly, preposses sing man, with snow-white hair and beard. In appearance, he ooked every inch the United States Senator as Americans of lie 19th century were prone to Junk of him; in action, he was an ible representative of the interests >f Nebraska and the Northwest. As was true of most western senators, Mr. Saunders took an ictive interest in Indian and terri-1 orial affairs. He feli, with justi . SKYLINE ICE CREAM STORES 1433 South St. Phone 3-8118 1417 N St. Phone 2-4074 1845 R St. Phone 2-8122 5400 So. 14th Phone 3-226» “En«f* Your Que*t For the Be*tn | Skyline Farms So. 14th St. Since 1871 . . . The First National Bank of Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation I ! t r First in Furniture Appliance and Rugs its 108 North 10th St. Just 27 Steps North of 10th & O Street fication, that his wartime service' as governor of Nebraska territory qualified him to speak with some authority on both subjects. His colleagues recognized his wealth of experence with the result that Senator Saunders’ voice on west ern matters was one of consider able influence. Of particular interest to Ne braska was his effort to secure 'correction of the state’s northern boundary line, whereby Nebraska acquired about 60Q,000 acres in present Keya Paha, Boyd and; Knox, counties. He also worked actively for increased appropria tions to improve navigation on the Missouri River. Mr. Saunders sought re-election at the end of his first term in 1883, but in the long contest be-' fore the legislature, in which a' number of strong Republicans sought the prize, he was defeated,’ the office finally going to Charles F. Manderson. Senator Saunders’ last public service was as a member of the Utah Commission, a non-partisan board created by Congress in 1883 to supervise the suppression of polygamy in Utah. Senator Saunders was active in real estate and banking in Omaha,1 devoting all of his time to those pursuits in the later years of his life. He ^ras an active promotor! of the great Trans-Mississippi Ex position in 1898. He died Nov. 1, 1899. Hodgman-Splain MORTUARY 1335 L Street Lincoln, Nebraska Gilmour-Danielson Drug Co. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS I 142 So. 13th 81. 2-1244 | VINE ST. MARKET GROCERIES & MEATS ! * r> ► 22nd and Vine 2-4583 — 2-6584 | BRIGHAM’S . . . for cleaning . . . 2-3624 We give W&F Blue Stamps 2216 O St CLEANING and SANITATION SUPPLIES All Types Brooms—Furniture Polishes Mops—Floor Seal and Wax Sweeping Compounds Mopping Equipment Kelso Chemical 117 North 9th St. 2-2434 THE HOME OF COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE 13th and O Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska MEMBER F. D. L a PARRISH MOTOR CO. The home of cleat? cars. 120 No. 19 St. The Real Voice | of America Ann is talking to Louise—Fred is call ) ing Joe—Jones is telephoning Smith s ... Americans freely talking about busi ness, politics, social affairs without ■I fear. This is the real ‘’Voice of L America.’* Record these conversations 7} and ship them behind the Iron Curtain —what a way for people there to hear ' the real sound of freedom. . s The Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Co.