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VOL. 6, No. 34 Lincoln 3. Nebr* -Official and Legal Newspaper September 25, 195S
Reception for Rev. and Mrs.
Brooks to Be Held Sept. 29
Edith Sampson
Again Named to
Represent UN
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(ANP)
—Mrs. Edith S. Sampson, a Chi
cago lawyer, is one of ten men
and women President Truman ap
pointed last Friday to represent
the United States at the forth
coming United Nations General
Assembly at New York.
Mrs. Sampson will serve as an
alternate delegate to the U.N. for
the second time. She received
such an appointment in 1950, but
was succeeded in 1951 by Dr.
Channing H. Tobias, who served
as an alternate delegate at the
General Assembly session in
Paris.
A member of the executive
board of the United Nations Asso
ciation of Chicago, Mrs. Sampson
has been keenly interested in ac-j
tivities of the United Nations ever
since its creation and visited Lake1
Success several times as an ob
server.
As a member of the World
Town Hall of the Air (a radio
program developed from Amer
ica’s Town Meeting of the Air)
panel of leaders of citizens or
ganization, Mrs. Sampson visited
more than twenty countries in
1949, participating in the open de
bate on current political questions
with leading citizens in each
country visited.
The delegation of which Mrs.
On Monday, September 29 th,
the Trustee Department is spon
soring an all church appreciation
reception in honor of the Rev. and
Mrs. J. B. Brooks and family who
will leave in the near future for
California.
The program will begin at 8
p.m. followed by refreshments.
The public is invited to attend.
Sampson is a member, will be
headed by Secretary of State Dean
Acheson. The delegates include
Warren R. Austin of Vermont,
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt of New
York, Senator Theodore F. Green,
Democrat, of Rhode Island, and
Senator Alexander Wiley, Repub
lican, of Wisconsin.
Besides Mrs. Sampson, the al
ternates are Ambassador-at-Large
Phillip C. Jessup, Charles A.
Sprague, publisher of the Oregon
Statesman, Salem, Oregon; Benja
min V. Cohen, and Isador Lubin.
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A GREAT AFRICAN SEAPORT—A city that has earned the title
“Most Ancient and Loyal” is that of Freetown, Sierra Leone in
Africa. The top picture displays the port facilities of this metropolis.
The port, itself, is not deep enough to take the largest ocean liners,
but a deep water quay now is being built.
The bottom picture illustrates Freetown’s ancient architecture
which makes it one of Africa’s most picturesque areas. Universal
tin roofs protect the homes from the heavy deluges in the rainy
season. Tile roofs just do not stay dry.
These roofs usually have an unusually dingy appearance be
cause the sun flakes the paints off the roofs. Freetown has its slums,
too, but generally it is considered a highly cultured center which is
beginning to influence and bring progress to the interior of Sierra
Leone.—(ANP)
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C Rowan Earns
Hillman Award
NEW YORK—(ANP)—Carl T.
Rowan, reporter for the Minne
polis Tribune, a daily newspaper,
earned $500 from the Sidney Hill
man Foundation for a series of
newspaper articles dealing with
race relations in the South.
Rowan toured the South for his
newspaper and wrote a series of
articles entitled “How Far From
Slavery?” dealing with southern
race relations. He revisited his
native southland, to report on Ne
gro life and the changes which
have taken place since his boy
hood.
Although first appearing in the
Minneapolis Tribune, the articles
were later elaborated and madfe
into a full-length book which now
is on the book stands. Its title is
‘‘South of Freedom.”
The Sidney Hillman Foundation!
was created in 1947 in order to
keep alive the late labor leader’s
ideas of enlightened^ labor-man
agement relations, race relations,
world peace and related interests.
Other awards were made last
week in recognition of outstanding
1 magazine reporting and for the
I mit.ct.n nding work of non-fiction
Presentation ceremonies
ade in the Music Room ol
I the Biltmore hotel here. *
I Judges who made the award;
were:
Lewis Bannett, book editor
New York Herald Tribune, Wil
liam L. Shirer, novelist and for
mer foreign correspondent and ra
dio commentator, and Bruce Bli
ven, chairman of the editorial
board, The New Republic.
Rowan has been a member of
the Minneapolis Tribune news
staff since November, 1948. He is
a general assignment reporter. A
graduate of Oberlin college, Ober
line, Ohio, Rowan received a mas
ter of arts degree in journalism
at the University of Minnesota in
1948. Before joining the Tribune
staff, Rowan was a reporter for
the Minneapolis Spokesman, the
St. Paul Recorder and the Balti
more, Md., Afro-American.
A veteran of World War II, he
served as communications offi
cer on two ships with the Atlantic
fleet and now is a lieutenant (jg)
in the naval reserve.
Milwaukee Gets First
Negro Public Accountant
MILWAUKEE, Wis.—(ANP) —
Mrs. Elvera W. Taylor who bore
the distinction of being one of only
itwo colored women to hold a cer
tified public accountant’s license
| in Chicago has located in Milwau
kee She opened a branch of the
Theodore A. Jones & Co., Chicago
accounting firm with offices at 623
North 2nd street.
| Mrs. Taylor, a long time asso
ciate of the Theodore A. Jones Co.,
has been elected to partnership in
the firm.
She became a resident of Mil
waukee recently when her hus
band, Corneff Taylor, was ap
pointed executive director of the
Milwaukee Commission on Human
Relations.
Nelson Jackson Guest Speaker
NCC Graduates J
Receive Honors si
DURHAM, N.C. (ANP) — Two 0
graduates of North Carolina col- F
lege, the Misses Borlio Ray and &
Carolyn Smith, both natives of v
New Born, N.C., recently received
academic honors. n
Miss Ray, a 1952 graduate of I
NCC and a dramatics major, has j
received a fellowship in the de- \
partment of drama at Western Re- t
serve university, Cleveland, Ohio, c
She will concentrate her work at >
the university’s famed Karamu j
House which specializes in music, (
drama, art, and the dance. ]
At NCC, Miss Ray was an out
standing player with the Thespi- .
ans, NCC dramatic group An
honor graduate, she is a member
tof Alpha Kappa Mu, dramatics
honorary, and Delta Sigma Theta
sorority.
Miss Smith received her mas
ter’s degree from Boston univer
sity on last Aug. 16 having main
tained a straight “A” average dur-|
ing her matriculation. In addition,
she worked as a graduate assistant
Iand was initiated into Pi Lambda
Theta, national honorary society.
She was graduated from NCC in
June, 1951. She is the grand
daughter of the late Dr. James S
; Shepard, founder and first presi
dent of NCC.
Life in Parsonage
Program Planned
The Rev. Ralph G. Nathan, pas
tor of Newman Methodist Church
at 23rd and S, announces what he
describes as a “rich hour of hu
mor and happiness” is scheduled
at the church at 4 pjn. next Sun
day.
At that hour a program will be
presented in which the wives of a
number of Lincoln ministers will
describe life and experiences in
personages. The program is open
to all. Mrs. Vera Powell will be
mistress of ceremonies and par
ticipants will be:
Mrs. Everett Sabin.
Mrs. T. H. Leonard.
Mrs. E. T. Streeter.
Mrs. C. L. Shubert.
Mrs. Ward Conklin.
Mrs. Harold Sandall.
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Wilberforce U. Alumni
Plan to Donale $6,000
In Books to Library
WILBERFORCE, Ohio (ANP) —
The alumni of Wilberforce have
on foot a plan to contribute $6,000
worth of books to the library of
the university, it was announced
last week by John F. Morning,
president of the National Alumni
Association.
Wilberforce is one of the oldest
Negro institutions of higher learn
ing in the United States. To give
the university greater support,
the Alumni Association was re
cently reorganized and geared to
a more extensive program.
Dr. Charles L. Hill, president of
Wilberforce University, said last
week the gift would be of great
help to the university in furnish
Nelson C. Jackson of New York,
lirector of community services for
National Urban League, arrived
n Lincoln Monday for conferences
m race relationships, including
>lans for housing of minority
[roups in connection with reacti
vation of Lincoln’s Air Base.
W. H. Burton of Lincoln, chair
nan of the Lincoln Urban
Hague’s Housing Committee,
oined Jackson during an inter
riew with Max Kier, chairman of
.he City Council’s Air Base Co
ordinating commit tee. Jack
iVeeks, another committee mem
ber, and Mrs. Sarah Walker,
executive secretary of the Urban
League, were present.
The meeting with Kier, Urban
League representatives empha
sized, is to be' but one that will
be held early next week with
groups in Lincoln to acquaint
Jackson with the matters of race
relations in Lincoln.
Jackson, a former professor at
the University of Atlanta, was
quoted in comment that “Omaha
has moved much faster than many
other communities in the matter
of race relations.”
Following a meeting of his
Urban League Housing Commit
‘ tee Friday, Burton issued a state
• ment terming the situation ‘'tragic,
because of the disregard on the
part of the City Council and
mayor, because of their attitude
on housing, and because of the
influx, shortly, of hundreds of
Negroes who will be coming into
the city, which will increase the
problem greatly.”
“Something must be done soon,”
t Burton told the press in reporting
his committee’s meeting, “or it
will be hard to handle the in
flux. It is hard to predict what
the results will be.”
Mrs. Walker said she called the
committee together because she
was unable to find homes for two
Negro families who are among
32 families who will have to move
from Huskerville because of Air
Base reactivation.
Soloist Returns
TULSA, Okla. (ANP) — Mrs.
Cleo Ross Meeker, dramatic
soprano returned last week from
New York City where she at
tended Columbia University Sum
mer session.
Mrs. Meeker was selected to
sing in the 150 voiced choir at the
famed Riverside Church in Rocke- #
feller Center.
The choir was interracial and
inter-denominational. Many of the
choir members were vo<!al stu
dents and artists attending school
in the New York City area.
Mrs. Meeker, a teacher at Dun
bar Elementary school is soloist
of the Tulsa Civic Male chorus
and director of the senior choir at
Vernon AME church.
Last spring she appeared on the
local television station, KOTU.
ing additional source material for
class work and supplemental read
ing and research.
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