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Omaha Public Power District Signs New Contract With Hydro Electric Power Districts MAKES POSSIBLE NEW GENERATING STEAM PLANT CONSTRUCTION AT BELLEVUE A new contract with the three Tydro Electric Public Power Dis tricts was signed today by the O maha Public oPwer District. An nouncement of the approval of the contract had been made by the Board of Directors on December 20, 1946. The new contract cancels com pletely the contract of December 28, 1944, between Nebraska Power Company and the Omaha Electric Committee and the Loup River Public Power District. It also ■B mmmr: At one time or another most of us be come upset and jittery due to over wrought nerves.This makes us irritable, restless and wakeful. You can’t do your work weil the next day, if you toss and tumble through the night and don’t get the rest you need. 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The signing today of the new contract marks the completion of negotiations. It is the feeling of the Board of Direc tors of the Omaha Public Power District that the negotiating com mittee has successfully completed a fine job. The new contract is fair and equitable to both parties,” said Mr. J. M. Harding, President of the Board. “To the Omaha Public Power District, one of the most import ant features of the new contract is that under it they regain complete control of their generating facilit ies an dare now free to expand their own plant in the future, should necessity arise,” Mr. Hard CLEO’s Nite & Day BARBQ 2042 North 21st St. ALL KINDS OF DELICIOUS SANDWICHES ‘OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY” Deliveries Made—Small Fee Charge for the sam®. 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It provides for maxi mum* use by the . Omaha District of the hydro elec tric power so essential to the devel opment and existence of irrigation in the state The growth in the use of elec tricity all over the United States has been atonishing, even to the most optimistic utility men. Be cause of the inability of the Oma ha District, due to the war, to pro vide additional generating capac ity to meet these growing needs, it has been difficult at times to meet the demand for electric pow er. The new contract makes it pos sible for the Hydro Districts to start immediate construction of a new 60,000 kw steam plant at Bellevue, which they anticipate will be ready in early 1949. The 1 power generated there will be us ed by Consumers, the REA Dis tricts, and the Omaha District. “We will be glad to see the con istruction of these new generating facilities started,” rM. Harding said. Omaha Public Power District, under the new contract, agrees to purchase from the Hydros 35,000 kw of electric power capacity in 1947 and to increase that amount year by year to 50,000 kw in 1952. As the total power requirements of the Omaha District’s customers today are approximately 125,000 kw, it is apparent that in 1947 the District will be purchasing a little over 25 percent of its requirements from the Hydros. This ratio will remain about the same as the Dis trict’s load increases and its pur chases increase year by year. The remaining 75 percent will be sup plied from the District’s own gen erating plants at 4th and Jones Streets and South Omaha. To the Hydros, the new contract offers, in addition to their share of the benefits of interconection, an immediate market for power to make possible the economical and efficient operation of their propos ed new plant, which is an adjunct to the hydro plants and much need ed to insure service to their rap idly growing business. To irrigators in Nebraska is pro vided further assurance of Oma ha’s cooperation with their plans for development. As to the cost of purchased pow ed to the Omaha Public Power District under the new contract, there will be no immediate change! However, the more favorable op erating conditions and more equit able distribution of operating eco nomies should bring about savings as the years go on, Mr. Hardine stated. 6 CURRAN DECLARES THERE IS NO WITCH HUNT IN NATM MARITIME UNION; DENOUNCES ATTEMPTS TO SPLIT UNION OVER RACIAL AND POLITICAL DIFFERENCES New York, Jan. 30—Joseph Cur ran, President of the National Maritime Union, sharply repudiat ed efforts by reactionary writers and others to transform current internal issues in the union into a witch hunt designed to “oust from the union officials and members because of their political beliefs.” In a statement issued last week Curran asserted: “I am against and will always be against any type of repression, dis crimination, or any brand of witch hunt in our Union or any other un ion.” The leader of the 90,000-man NMU denounced “the Woltmans, Peglers, and other writers for the reactionary press, and in some cas es stooges and agents of the ship owners, (who) have attemped to create out of this internal situat ion which exists in our Union, con ditions which do not exist.” He charged that these elements, with in and outside the union, “have tried for years to destroy us by pit ting one group against another.” Curran reiterated his opposition to interference in the internal af fairs of the union and his determ ination to work for an achieve “the broadest type of unity of all seamen.” •R PRESCRIPTIONS Free Delivery Duffy Pharmacy —WE-0609— 24th & Lake Sts. •For Greater Govern ere Advertise in The GUIDE To Head Clubs, Organizations In Red Cross Campaign Drive MRS. JOHN T. ASHFORD, 521C Burt Street, has been named com mittee chairman of Clubs and Or ganizations for the 1947 Countj Red Cross campaign, according tc E. C. Schmidt, general chairman. *** ON E SIXTH OF RED CROSS FUND FOR DISASTER AID Approximately one-sixth of the $60,000,000 sought in the current national Red Cross fund campaign will be used for emergenecy reliei and rehabilitation in disasters such as those which rendered 25,50C American homeless or in the need of aid during the first six months of last year, Ford Bates, chairman of the Douglas County Red Cross Chapter Disaster Committee, said today, In the event of widespread disaster, the chapter will receive additional funds from the Red Cross national organization. Disaster service is one the Char ter obligations of the Red Cross, Bates pointed out. Every Red Cross Chapter in the country is re quired to have a committee and a plan ready to operate at a mo ment’s notice in case of a threat ened disaster in its jurisdiction. "We are now tit the beginning of the ‘disaster season,”’ Bates point ed out. “Floods, tornadoes, and other havoc-wrecking outbreaks, of nature occur with greater fre quency during the spring and early summer than at any other time During the first six months of 1946 floods, fires, and tornadoes alone destroyed 3,816 buildings in the i United States- The over-all pic ture shows that 214 persons lost ! their lives and 1,255 more were in jured in disasters during that per iod. "The Red Cross plan, by estab lishing year-round preparedness, whievh enables advance warning and speedy evacuation in the event of disater, is the most economical yet devised for mitigation of disa ter-caused sufferin,” Bates poined out. “Through mass shelter and feeding, forexample, the Red Cross MID-WEST STATES GET PRIORITIES FOR 117,675 NEW HOMES AND APTS. Priorities for 117,675 new homes and apartment units were issued in nine middle western states dur ing 1946, with more than three fourths of the units for owner occupancy. Regional Expediter Cdharles J, Horan of the National Housing Agency announced today, About two-thirds of the structures will cost more than $6,500 each, Horan said. The nine middle western states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wiscon sin Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, representing approximately one of the nation’s population, starting only about one-eighth of the na tion’s homes according to these figures, Horan pointed out. The national total of priorities for homes and apartments was 927,621, for the period from Jan uary 15 to December 23, 1946. “Heavy emphasis must be plac ed on rental housing for 1947,” Horan said, “since figures indicate that less than one-fifth of the units built in 1946 in the ^middle west were for rental. For the nation as a whole, figures show that, 23.8 percent of non-commercial building was rental housing. Min nesota is the only state in the Mid dle West in which priorities indi cate that an appreciable volume of rental housing was built in 1946 There, out of a total of 15,632 pri orities issued, 4,612, or approxi mate 30 percent, were for rental housing. Runners-up to Minnesota were North and South Dakota with 25 percent, and downstate Illinois, wit^ 24 percent of priorities for rental housing. The 19 counties in the Northern district of Illinois in cluding Chicago anA Cook County, and extending as far south as Kan kakee, lagged far behind southern Illinois, with less than 17 percent of priorities issued for rental hous ing." Total priorities issued for new homes and apartment units, listed by states, with approximate per centages of rental housing, are as follows: TOTAL PRIORITIES bk.z a Total Priorities Percentage for Rental Illinois 36,259 . 19 Wisconsin 14,739._. 20 Indiana 17,540 . 15 Iowa 8,619. 13 Minnesota, 15,632 . 29 Missouri, 17,723 . 17 Nebraska, 3,945 . _..,22 North & So. Dakota 3.218.25 The middle western states are in general, trailing states of the west coast which are leading the nation in building activity, Horan said. TRAFFIC SAFETY Signs protect you. If you don’t want to be safe, others do. We insist the other driver must ob serve the signs while we ignore ’em The last milestone is your tombstone. STILL THEIR BEACON | 23L, ». Thousands of S£rv/c£ /if* sr/u J X sHHH /« TRAINING jsmr1 wewwF1, i itt *? 11 * Dunc% Jot USO—Keith Temple, Ncic Orleans TimcsPicayune ■' -——-*- - - - -- NY State Discrimination Law A Great Success.. Says Carter MEMBER NEW YORK STATE COMMISSION "The apprehensions and fears of dire happenings, that were felt by opponents of the New York State Law against Discrimination at the time of its passage, have not been fulfilled,” declared the Honorable Elmer A. Carter, a member of the New York State Commission A gainst Discrimination, as he ad dressed the 29th Annual Meeting of the Columbus Urban League held on Tuesday, anuary 21, at the Girowold YWCA. Members of the Urban League, including repre sentatives from every conceivable walk of life in Franklin County, listened to the Commissioner as he pointed out, that instead of ac centuating racial prejudice; in stead of driving business out of the state; and instead of creating fric tion; where none existed as had been predicted by the opposition, there had been voluntary compli ance with the law by many em ployers to an extent that is highly significant. “After a year and a half of operation,” the Commission er continued, "there has not been a single case taken to court, nor has there been one public hearing on I the matter, even though the Com mission has the power to do either of these things if there is discrim ination solely on the basis of race, creed or color- There have been upwards of 600 cases filed, and, wherever probable cause has been found, unlawful practices have been eliminated by conferences, conciliations and persuasion.” Mr. Carter stated that the great mass of employers seem to want to com ply with the law, for such a law permits a man, who wants to be fair and good a chance to do the right thing without condemnation. He pointed out, that most employ ees and employers came from the streets of New York, and that they were subect to the same cultural conditioning; attended the same schools; read the same literature; and, had the same motion picture and radio heroes—thus, there is no cultural shock, but only the shock of color, which they get over when they find that all races, creeds and colors can have the same likes and dislikes. In cities in the north, the matter of integration of young col ored people into the American in dustries and commerce, can be done without shock 99 out of ’00 times, according to the Commiss ioner. The Commission carries on a strong educational campaign which has as one of its objectives, to persuade management to keep a man. not because he is black, but because he is an American. He felt that of all of the laws ever passed since the Emancipation Pro clamation of Abraham Lincoln, no single bill has been passed that is so effective an instrument in bet tering race relations. Attorney rtooert w. ixewion, u. S. Commissioner, was reelected President of the Board of Directors for 1947; Rev. N. L. Scarborough was reelected Vice President; C. C. Guthrie was reelected treasurer Othr officers elected were: James A. Maddox, First Vice President; Geneva Free, Third Vice President; Velma M. Davis, Rec ording Secretary; H. M. Appleman, President, Emeritus. Members of the Board of Direc tors elected to serve a term of three years were: Robert W. New lon, Mrs. Velma Davis, ames A. Preston, Loren R. Lunsford, Dr. J. J. Carter, Miss Alene Boyenton, Percy I. Lowery, Mr. Orville C ones. Music for the program was fum ished by Miss Margaret Blaney who sang “Die Allmacht," by Schu bert, and “Russian Nightingale,” by Alibeff. She was accompanied by Miss Helen Carter. The Eas temaires, local trio, who are heard on “The Tenth aMn" program ev ery Saturday at 12:45 over sta tion WHKC, sang “I’ve Got a Robe N. B. Allen is the Executive Sec retary of the Columbus Urban League. Commends Chicago Tribune Exposing of Mississippi’s Disfranchisement Liberal Newspaper Says “Mis*. Representation Should Be Cut Down According To Allowable Voting Statistics” The Rev. W. Louis Petty com mended the Chicago Tribune Jan. | 20 for exposing disfranchisement in Mississippi and for leadership in pointing to the remedy of cutting down congressional representat ion in states thus violating the Constitution. The Rev- Mr. Petty who was elected president of the Chicago Baptist Ministers confer ence, addressed 1,200 persons at* the installation of officers in St. Luke’s Baptist church, 37th street and Indiana ave., Chicago. Other new officers are the Rev. S. A. Grayson, first vice president; the Rev. E. W. White, second vice pres ident; the Rev. R. E. Eddington, secretary, and the Rev. D Z. Jack son, treasurer. “Regardless of the outcome of the Bilbo contest’’’ the Tribune pointed out in an editorial publish ed Dec. 30, 1946, “congress has a duty to bring Mississippi and some other southern states into conformity with the Constitution. Mississippi is not the only state in which many Negroes are disfran chised- Aside from the particular demerits of a Bilbo, this condition calls for remedy, and it is to be found in articles XIV and XV of the Constitution. "The first specifies that ‘when the right to vote at any election’ on candidates for federal and state of fice is denied inhabitants of vot ing age in any state, or is other wise abridged, the representation of the state at fault shall be pro portionately reduced in congress. The following article provides that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on ac count of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and that congress shall have power to en force this article by appropriate legislation. "Inasmuch as no denial is enter ed by the southern states that large numbers of citizens are re fused their constitutional privilege to vote, it is incumbent upon the incoming congress to reduce their representation in the house and therefore in the electoral college, also, in proportion to the number of citizens actually represented. The cure for Bilboism is explicit and it shomd be administered.” NEGRO CREDIT UNIONS NUMEROUS IN CAROLINA in uie pasL uve years mere nas been an upsurge of activity in the cooperative movement, particulary among Negroes. Great strides have been made, and especially in North Carolina- At the present time there are 75 credit unions in the state which have been organiz ed by Negroes; one of these include both Negro and white members and officers. Those credit unions have over $500,000 in assets. No losses due to theft or defalcation have been en countered- Losses due to bad loans have been few and far between. This record is superior to the ave rage in North Carolina and to that of the average in the United States. The first credit union organized Negroes in this country was in Ro wa#i county .North Carolina, in 1910. In 1919 three more were organized due to the encourage ment of Thomas B.Patterson, coun ty agent. Here the farmers placed their small savings and as a result of this pooling of their funds, they provided their own credit in time of need. # Church groups, government wor kers, educational foundations, the press, the Cooperative League, the Federal Credit Union Division, and the Credit Division of the State De partment of Agriculture have tak en part in promoting cooperatives, of which credit unions are an inte gral part. There is probably more activity in credit unions among Negroes in North Carolina than in the other forty-seven states put together. This is due in part to the fact that North Carolina was the first south ern state to become intested in credit unions through the spirit and influence of John Sprunt Hill of Durham. He showed that crop loans cost the farmer 50 per cent where credit union laons would cost 6 per cent. His interest resul ted in the credit union law passed in 1915. Besides saving the funds of its members credit unions have helped their members by making loans for purchase of farms, homes, furniure ferilizer, farm equipment, seed, food and automibiles. They have helped their numbers to pay for ed ucating their children and them selves, to make repairs on homes, to pay for medical expenses, insur ance premiums, and for other pro ductive and beneficial purposes. Many members have been rescued from the clutches of loan sharks The North Carolina Council of Credit Unions and associations has been organized to strengthen and further credit unions and coopera tives in North Carolina. An educa tional workshop will be in opera /■ DIGEST ARTICLE RECOUNTS BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S LIFE AN ACCOMPLIMENTS “In the long climb upward of our common humanity, few have done more to help so many on their way than that man of good will, Booker T. Washington.” In these words O. K. Armstrong concludes a six-page article on the late Negro teacher, in The Reader’s Digest February issue which is its 25th anniversary number. Armstrong’s articles records the early life of Washington, thediffl culties of his elementary school education, his appointment to the faculty of a Negro school at Ham pton, Va-, his call to Tuskegee and his long uphill struggle “to lift the veil of ignorance from his people.” Arriving at Tuskegee, Booker Washington found no school. “Un dismayed,’’ the article says, “he decided he would build one.” Meanwhile he obtained permission to use a small Nego church. On July 4, 1881, the newly founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute opened with a student body of 30. Over these students' head was a roof- that leaked so badly that umbrellas were raised on rainy days. How Washington fought deep seated prejudices, won friends, fi nancial support, and eventually the the nation’s recognition as thfe spokesman of his race, is told in the Digest article. At his death in 1915 Tuskegee Institute had be come so stronly established that it could carry on without him. To day it has a staff of 310, a student enrollment of2000, 133 buildings and 3550 acres of campus and farms. Seventeen similar industri al schools for Negroes have been founded by Tuskegee alumni. New honors signify the geatness of Booker T. Washington, the au thor says. The National Educa tion Association included him in & list of ten who have contributed most to education in America. Last year his likeness was placed in the American Hall of Fame at New York University tion at the Bricks Rural .Life sc hool from Janaury 6, to March 1, to help rural communities in co operative efforts of all types. Reverend R. E. Check of Shaw University is the President of the Council. 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