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Lincoln 3, Nebraska—Official and Legal Newspaper August 7, 1952
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EXCHANGE TEACHER IN SCOTLAND—Miss Doris M. Dob
bins of Florence, N. J., is sailing across the Atlantic ocean for Scot
land. There she will De an exchange teacher at the Whitlotts school
in Ayr, the birthplace of the famed poet, Robert Burns. Miss
Dobbins will replace Miss Margaret Kennedy of Scotland with Miss
Kennedy coming to Florence, N. J., to teach third grade at Florence
School No. 1.
Both teachers are exchanging roles under a Fulbright grant.
Miss Dobbins at home is recording secretary of Pi chapter, Trenton,
N. J., of the national sorority oi Phi Delta Kappa, a teachers group;
vice president of the Florence Township Teachers association, a
member of the Trenton Branch NAACP, and active in other com
munity projects.—(ANP)
GOP Woman Awards Gen.
‘Ike’ Scholarship to
Barbara Williams
NEW YORK — (ANP) — Mrs.
Gerald L. Thompson, former Re
publican national committee
woman from New Jersey, who
lives at Matwan in that state, last
Friday presented a $1,000 Eisen
hower scholarship to Barbara
Williams, a 17-year-old girl who
has been accepted by Cornell uni
versity.
The presentation took place at
a meeting of the United Women’s
Republican Club of Monmouth
County at the home of Mrs. S. W.
Schanck. Mrs. Thompson said she
hoped her action would start a
series of such awards for worthy
colored students.
Miss Williams who lived on
Tindall Road, Middletown, scored
an average of 92 at Middletown
Township High school. She had
been accepted at Cornell, but was
unable to go because she didn’t
have funds.
When Mrs. Thompson heard of
Barbar’s plight, she immediately
put the thousand dollars at the
girl’s disposal both as an ob
servance of her own 80th birth
day and to honor the Republican
presidential nominee.
Entries Accepted for
Lincoln U. Contest
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —
(ANP) — The Lincoln university
(Mo.) School Journalism now is
accepting entries in its 1953 Na
tional Scholastic Essay contest.
“I am Going to be a Responsible
Citizen Because.is the
subject of the contest. Prizes will
total $250 in cash.
Any high school student may
compete by writing 1,000 words
on the subject and sending in the
entry to the Lincoln university
School of Journalism by March 1,
1953.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lytle
Return to Lincoln
Mr. and Mrs. Josph Lytle have
returned to Lincoln after an
absence of a year. The Lytles,
who were in the printing business
at 2021 O Street, moved to St.
Louis last July. He is now em
ployed with Joe Christensen.
To the religious and civic life
of Lincoln the Lytles are valued
citizens. They are members of St.
Paul Methodist church where they
participate in various organiza
tions and members of the Lincoln
Urban League and the NAACP
where their contributions are in
valuable.
They are at home at 230 South
10th Street.
Mrs. Lytle’s sister, Mrs. Mable
Clark, will be at home with the
Lytles after a short visit with
relatives.
Racial Bias Gives
U. S. A. Bad Name,
Says Mrs. Roosevelt
POUGHKEEPSIE — (ANP) —
Race tensions and prejudices in
this country are “giving democ-(
racy a bad name abroad,” Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt*told the week-|
end conference of Christians and
Jews at Vassar college.
She said that Americans need
moral and spiritual backbone to
make democracy work. She told
her listeners that to further the
cause of community living, every
citizen of the United States must
assume a responsibility for making
the world a more tolerant place in
which to live.
“We can’t allow tensions and
prejudices to ruin democracy,” she
said. “We can overcome this only
by becoming better neighbors here
at home and showing the rest of
the world that democracy really
works.”
Arabia is sometimes referred to
as Araby. I
C. C. Spaulding Dies in
Durham, North Carolina
[NAACP Halts
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Attempt to
Bar Family
OMAHA, Neb.—(ANP)—A re
buke from the national office of j
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
last week halted a movement by
17 Negro petitioners to keep a.
white family from moving into
their neighborhood.
A telepgram from Thurgood
Marshall, special counsel of the
NAACP, denounced the an
nounced intentions of Negroes
who signed a statement protest
ing the intentions of the white
family to move into a predomi
nantly colored area.
The petitioners had appealed to
Joseph M. Lovely, public de
fender of Omaha, asking legal aid
to keep white people out. In his
to keep white people out. In his
telegram, also addressed to
Lovely, Marshall declared:
“The legal staff of the NAACP
offers its consultation and as
sistance to the white family seek
ing to exercise its constitutional
right to occupy a home in any
neighborhood of its choice.
I “Our Association is opposed to
segregated housing and condemns
any group which seeks to bar
residents from a neighborhood on
basis of race or color."
In complaining against the
white family, Mrs. Luella Black
son, who delivered the message
for her 17 co-signers, had said:
“We don’t have anything against
them. It just wouldn’t work out.
Everything has been peaceful and
quiet and we want it to stay that
way. We don’t want to live fight
ing all the time. There are too
many children in the neighbor
hood."
After backing down on the pe
tition, Mrs. Blackson commented
that they get along fine with
white persons living nearby, and
they were sorry about the whole
incident.
Speaking for the Omaha Urban
League which opposed the peti
tion, M. M. Taylor, industrial sec
retary said:
"Wc do not subscribe to this sort of thing.
It is our purpose to fight discrimination, not
to promote it.”
Marshall expressed this philosophy in hi*
telegram as he wrote:
‘The misguided Negro residents of that
neighborhood who are reported in the press
as signing a petition opposing the entrance
of a white family Into the area are doing
irreparable damage to the democratic ideal
of equality of all Americans without regard
vtace or color.
j ^“Negroes generally do no wish
tg be identified with those hate
groups which in many sections
of Jme country have acted to pre
ven Negro Americans and other
nonwhites from purchasing and
occupying property in keeping
with their ability to pay and their
standards as citizens."
Motors to North Carolina
Leaving on a motor trip on Fri
day for Greenville, N.C., were
Mr. and Mrs. Lynnwood Parker.
Mrs. Parker teaches in Greenville
and studied at Omaha University
earlier this summer. Mr. Parker
is executive secretary of the Lin
[coln Urban League.
Dies on 78th Birthday
DURHAM, DURHAM, N. C.
(ANP)—C. C. Spaulding, pioneer
financier, died on his 78th birth
day, Friday, August 1, at Lincoln
hospital here following a month’s
illness.
Born on a
farm in Colum
bus county,
N. C., the aged
financial genius
was founder
president of the
North Carolina
Mutual Ins ur
ance Co. and
the Mechanics Spaulding
and Farmers Bank, both of Dur
ham, N. C.
The insurance now extends over
nine states, with assets of more
than $131,000,000. Holdings of the
Mechanic and Farmers Bank
amount to more than $5,000,000.
Spaulding came to Durham a1
an early age in order to bettei
his educational opportunities
After he was graduated in 1891
from the public schools of Dur
ham, he secured a job as man
ager of a colored grocery compan;
which had just been organized.
While the grocery busines
never grew to large proportion:
it nevertheless, gave him invalu
able experience in business.
About the time Spaulding wa:
looking around for another busi
ness to absorb his managerial
ability, two citizens of Durham
—Dr. A. M. Moore and John Mer
rick—conceived the idea of es
tablishing a life insurance com
pany for the benefit of, and
owned, managed and operated by
Negroes.
Merrick’s obligations as a bar
ber and Dr. Moore’s as a practic
ing physician prevented them
from devoting full time to the
new venture. They were looking
for just such a person as Spaul
ding.
Spaulding was made general
manager, a position he held until
the death of Merrick in August
1919, when he was elevated to the
position of secretary-treasurer.
Upon the death of Dr. Moore in
1923, he was advanced to the po
sition of president, a position he
held until his death last week.
He won the Kappa Alpha Psi
fraternity’s highest honor, the
Laurel Wreath, in 1946.
In recognition of his outstand
ing ability in the management and
direction of business activities,
the first Harmon Foundation
Award for distinguished achieve
ment in business was presented
to Spaulding in 1926.
In recognition of his contribu
tion to the race and nation in
thought, vision, Christian char
acter and foresight, the honorary
degree of master of arts was con
■ ferred on him by Shaw university,
t Raleigh, N. C., and later the hon
• orary degree of Doctor of Laws
■ was conferred on him.
7 Besides personally directing the
activities of the insurance com
s pany, Spaulding devoted time to
t, serve in the following capacities:
Chairman, board of trustees,
Whtie Rock Baptist church; chair
; man executive committee and
treasurer, Shaw university; presi
dent of Mutual Building & Loan
Association, Durham; president
Mortgage Company, Durham; vice
president, Bankers Fire Insur
ance company, Durham.
Also member board of trustees,
John F. Slater Fund (now merged
with the Jeanes Fund under the
title: “Southern Education Foun
dation, Inc.;” chairman, National
Emergency Advisory Council for
Negroes; chairman, executive
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WASHINGTON, D. C.-—One of Liberia's highest honors, the
Grand Band of the Order of the Star of Africa, was presented to
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Chairman of the Firestone Tire and Rubber
Company by Ambassador Clarence L. Simpson. Upon accepting the
award. Firestone said it was with a deep sense of gratitude, that he
received it not merely for himself, but also for all his associates in
the Firestone organization. To him it symbolized the mutual respect
and high esteem which havs characterized their joint endeavor. 1
Firestone's relationship with Liberia was conceived in 1924 and
became a reality in 1926. Down through the years their working
agreement has brought them closer and closer as the bonds became
stronger. “Today," Firestone said, “we are bound together by ties
of personal friendship, mutual respect and humanitarian interests
which are far more important to both of us than any contracts, agree
ments, leases or arrangements." , M
Mr. Firestone went on to say that his organization and Liberia
have become co-workers in undertakings that widely transcend the
original commercial objectives. Acting together, they have succeeded
in improving the health, the working conditions, and the standard of
living of many of the Liberian people. Together, they have made
Liberia so well known to the peoples of other countries that she
has been able to attract new capital to help develop the natural
assets of the Republic and, thereby, bmg even greater benefits to
her government and her people.^
