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“Events and Happenings of Social and Local Importance” o IjSocial-Local News i P| Just Call HA-0800 to publish your local news 'Ji your Newspaper—The Greater Omaha GUIDE. -11—: IE- 11=-' =i =11-=C FRIENDLY 16 BRIDGE CLUB ' The Friendly Sixteen Bridge ! Club met at the home of Sam ! Wead, 2123 North 28th St. Meet- I ing was opened by the pres. Busi- ! ness of importance was discussed j everyone was looking forwards to having a successful bridge and whist tournament. We were also glad to have Nels Rutledge as our guest. Three four hand changes of bridge were played. John Davis won high score. A delicious re past was served by the host. The meeting adjourned to meet with Cletus Willis 2025 Ohio St. Emmett Avant, President, Otto Pruitt, Reporter. 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Musical numbers will be given by some of the former Long School students Social Hour will follow. EASTER PROGRAM GIVEN BY THE MIDWEST ATTHLETIC CLUB A colorful program was given by the iMdwest Athletic Club on Easter Sunday, April 6th. 1947 at the Near Northside YMCA. Sev eral hundred guests were present. Mr. Harry Rutledge was Master of Ceremonies. Miss Geraldine McKim gave a beautiful rendit ion of ‘.Bowl of Roses”. A mag ician from the main branch of the YMCA performed many acts with the strange arts of magic. Mr. Leo Bohanon's speech on ‘The Responsibility to One’s Self” was educational to the many young men and women who were pres ent. His speech was a psycholog ical talk on how to discipline ones self, which will develop the indiv idual into a better man or woman. Mr. William Kyles sang an inspir ing song "Crucifixion” which was enjoyed by all. Mr. John Butler, introduced the officers and mem bers of the Midwest Athletic Club. The Imperial Choral Group under the direction of Mr. Walter Bell sang "Summer Time”, "Star Dust” “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ and “Certainly Lord’. There were four honorary mem bership cards given to the men who had been helpful to the de velopment of the club. The Hon orary Members are Mr. Leo Bo hanon, rM John Butler, Mr. Jim mie Jewell and Mr. Linwood Par ker. Refreshments were served at the end of the program. There was a large and enthus iastic gathering for a fine and well planned program. The Club members had its weekly bowling last week. The $members will continue to bowl to perfect a competitive bowling team. William Wynn, Reporter. HOLD PROGRAM FOR NAT'L NEGRO HEALTH WEEK AT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Dr. Herbert Wiggins and Dr. D. W. Gooden, Co-Chairmen of The Omaha National Negro Health Week, planned and held a pro gram for The Negro Health Week at the Zion Baptist Church on Wednesday, April 9th at 7:30 pm. The following program was rend ered: NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK PROGRAM ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Wednesday, April 9th. 7:30 P. M. Presiding ..Dr. Herbert Wiggins or ..Dr. D. W. Gooden (1) Lift Every Voice and Sing. ... Audience Mrs. Alice Wilson. Piano (2) Invocation ....Rev. F. C. Williams Zion Baptist Church (3) Remarks and Aeknowldgements .. .by Presiding Officer (4) Film .."Dorothy Maynor Speaks” Singing by Dorothy Maynor and a one and one half minute talk on Tuberculosis. (5) Introduction of Principal Speaker , .. I*r. D. W. Gooden (6) "Problems of Health and Sanita tion in Omaha” Dr. L. L. Fatheree |=i "makes 3 BETTER MEALS”... DO THIS ABOUT Now you can give drab, unattractive gray hair the rich, natural-looking color that makes you look younger. And your friends will approve, for Hollywood stars have shown that hair coloring is as important a beauty aid as lipstick or rouge, so look your best... 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Childress St. John’s Methodist Church ADJOURNMENT. * YWCA Notes For variety, the Timekeeper's Club held a rather enoyjable din ner meeting at the Cozy Grill on Wednesday, April 10, 1947. The food was most appetizing and the president regrets that more girls were not present. *** The Trojans are holding their own for the Spring session of the YWCA year. The week of March 28th was Social Meeting. Many delicacies were contributed to the Dutch Treat by the members who had a very gay evening among themselves. On April 1, 1947, in observance of National Negro Health Week, March 30, April 6... the Club joined the Mother's Coun cil at a movie which proved to be very educational and interesting. During the same evening, Cap tain Cheeks gave a few high lights on health in Africa. His personality and facts made this a rare treat for the entire group. Quack Club members are work ing diligently in preparation for their Teen-Age Style Review which wall be held April 12 at the YWCA, Northside. Everyone is invited to come._ CIVIC LEADERS GATHER TO HONOR CITY WIDE CHAMPION BASKETBALL TEAM AND RUNNERUP A group of the Near Northside civic leaders and friends on Tues day April 8th at 6 p. m. attended a banquet given in honor of Re creation Center No. 1 Champion City-Wide Basketball team coach ed by Mr. Kelly of this center and the runnerups Recreation Center II basketball team under the coaching of Mr. Joshua Gib son. A very splendid dinner was serv ed by Mrs- W. Peebles director of Center No. 2, her staff and young assistants. After which Rev. J, B. Brooks of the Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, Master of Cerem onies, introduced some of the lea ders present. The following re sponded by rising when introduc ed by Rev. Brooks. Mr- Oren of the Housing Project, Mr. Alt house of the Brotherhood of Sleep ing Car Porters, Commander John Fleming of the American Legion, Post No. 30, Mr. Ralph Under wood Mr. M. Taylor, Industrial Secretary of the Omaha Urban League, Mr. J. Gibson, coach of the runnerup basketball team, Mr. Buddy McCrea of the Recrea tion Department Father Moylan of the St. eBnedict Church, Mr Travis Dixon, coach of the YMCA team, Mr. C. Dickerson, Dr. Peebles, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Culla Mr. Kelly of Recreation Center No. 1 coach of the Champions. Mr. M. Devereaux, Jr., represent ing the Omaha Guild- Commend ation of praise were given by the Rev. Brooks to these community leaders and the organizations for the various contributions made to the Recreation Center No. H. Songs of welcome and of good will were sung heartily by all present. Remarks were made by the following. Father Moylan who expressed hope for more and better recreation on the Near Northside, rM. Kelly expressing thanks to such a fine runnerup team in Recreation No. 2, and Mr. M. Taylor said that we should not only think in terms of field ing teams for athletic contests, but think also in terms of field ing and coaching teams in the problems of economic security. Mr. Althouse expressed future sup port of his organization of Recrea tion Center No. 2, Mr- Fleming said to the winers and runnerups that to enjoy the game and get | the most out of it, one must get into the game and Mr. Travis Dixon commended the winning team highly in their victory and the fine team work. He further expressed to Father Moylan, his earnest hope that the St. Benedict School gymn will be available this fall for at least two nights a week for Near Northside Comm unity use for the City Recreation Department as a staff member. He extended an invitation to Mr. Kelly and his boys to field a Sen ior and Junior Softball team this spring. YOUR BEST BUY TODAY IS A SAVINGS BOND. SO BUY SOME TODAY! * -i—.- -ir— ■■■■■ =11 . ~ i' Plays Lead - ——i PlaYS LEAD IN DELTA PLAY SIRS. MAMIE SMITH CARET an in structor at Dunbar Junior School of San Antonio. Texas, played the role of Annabelle West in ' The Cat and (he Canary" Wednesday at San Antonio’s Library auditorium. The three act play was presented to a capacity crowd by Psi Sigma chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. (AXP) 23 Boys and Girls Win Liberal 4 Year College Scholarships Awarded Specifically To Negro 1 outh By The Pepsi Cola Scholarship Board I - WINNERS WILL RECEIVE FULL TUITION, $25 A MONTH AND TRAVELING EXPENSES FOR FOUR YEARS; MAY SELCT THEIR OWN COLLEGE AND COURSES OF STUDY UNDER TERMS OF SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Chosen from among 1,662 can didates elected to represent 549 Negro high schools throughout the South, twenty-three boys and | girls today received word that | they had been awarded the four year college scholarships, includ ing full tuition, traveling expens es and a $25-amonth allowance, which are being granted this year b ythe Pepsi-Cola Scholar ship Board to outstanding seniors of the southern colored school ' systems. Announcement of the awards was made by Mordecai W. John son, president of Howard Univers ity and a member of the Scholar ship Board, who stated that 635 [ boys and 1,027 girls from south- J em Negro schools participated in 1 this national contest, which is fi nanced by the Pepsi-Cola Comp any as a public service. In the northern states, Negro and white i students compete for the same I scholarships. Forty-four boys and fifty six girls from the South’s colored schools who were finalists in the competition received certificates of merit, each of which carries a fifty dollar award payable when 1 the winner enters college in the fall Highest-ranking student among the 1,662 seniors who participated in the contest is 17 year old Wil lie Lucille Barnes of Bruce High School in Dyersburg, Tennessee, with Lincoln Robert Best, 16, a student at DuBois High School in Wake Forest North Carolina, a close second. A total of 38,364 white and Ne- | gro students from 9,157 high schools throughout the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puer to Rico participated in this pro gram, according to Floyd W. j Reeves, professor of administra- I tion at the University of Chicago \ and president of the Pepsi-Cola Scholarship Board of which Mor decai W. Johnson is a member. One hundred and twenty six schol arships and 640 certificates of merit were awarded this year, | Professor Reeves said. All scholarship winners will have their full tuition and other required fees paid for four years at any accredited college they wish to attnd. In addition, they -]t—afji -BEATRICE L. MORGAN Dramatic Studio • ATTRACTIVE TEACHING METHODS. • RECITALS. U STUDENTS ALL AGES. 2537 Patrick JA-0559 | 'I ii—- ir== ir= - —-=11= - E) ROSE Beauty Salon Now located at 2219 Maple Street | -PHONE: JAckson 7610 Open from 10 A. M. to 6 P. M. Each Week Day. 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Any student who does unusual ly distinguished undergraduate work may also be awarded one of the three or four year fellowships of $1,050 a year which will be granted annually The winers for 1947, who were first elected by their senior class mates as “the ones most likely to make an important contribution to human progress,” took a schol astic aptitude test, prepared and scored by the College Entrance Examination Board, in February. On the basis of the scores made in this test, six finalists were sel ected for each scholarship to be awarded (more if there was a tie and following a. review of the school record, leadership ability and linr.ncial r.ccd of each of these finalists, the Scholarship oard selected the 126 winners throughout the United States and territories. At least two scholarships were awarded in each of the forty eight states and in the District of Columbia, and ore each in Alas ka, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Twenty-three additional scholar ships were given to Negro stu dents in those states which have separate educational systems for the colored. To the runnersuD for each scholarship, the Board gave fifty dollar certificates of merit to help defray initial col lege expenses. There were 640 of these. Described by Piofessor Reeves as the largest scholarship project outside of that sponsored by the government under the G. I. Bill, the Pepsi-Cola scholarship pro gram is the only commercially financed scholarship plan which is completely controlled and ad ministered by educators themselv es. The Pepsi-Cola Scholarship Board is an incorporated non- ] profit group composed of promin- | ent school administrators, college presidents, and university deans and professors. The active direc tor of the program and the Board’s Secretary-Treasurer is John M. Stalnaker, dean of stu dents at Stanford University. The administrative offices are in Palo Alto, California In addition to Professor Reeves and Dean Stalnaker, the Board member are Herman L. Donovan, president, University of Kentucky Milton S. Einsenhower, president Kansas State College; Paul E. j Elicker, executive secretary, Na tional Association of Secondary School Principals; Alvin C. Eur ich vice president, Stanford Uni versity; Henry T. Heald, presid ent, Illinois Institute of Technol ogy; Mordecai W. Johnson presi dent, Howard University; Walter S. Mack, Jr., president Pepsi-Cola Company; Marjorie H. Nicolson, professor of English, Columbia University; and Paul A. Rehmus, superintendent of schools, Lake wood, Ohio. This is the third consecutive year the Pepsi-Cola awards have been made. A Broadway piayooy naa a clos er shave than he bargained for in a local barber shop recently. His manicure girl was very beautifnll, and the play boy suggested dinner and a show that evening. "I don't think that I ought td‘‘, saind the girl demurely. "I am married." “Ask your husband," suggested the playboy. "I'm sure that he would not mind." “Ask him yourself," said the girl ‘He's shaving you " | The Omaha Guide || + A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER JL. I Published Every Saturday at 2420 Grant Street OMAHA, NEBRASXA—PHONE HA. 0*00 Entered as Second Class Matter March 15. 1927 at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 C* C- Galloway,_Publisher and Acttng Editor All News Copy of Churches and all organiz ations must be in our ofiice not later than 1:00 p- m. Monday for current issue. All Advertising Copy on Paid Articles, not later than Wednesday noon, proceeding date of issue, to insure public ation SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN OMAHA wL ONE YEAR . $4 00 Jf SIX MONTHS .. $2.50® THREE MONTHS $1 50 B ONE MONTH .50cft SUBSCRIPTION RATE OU1 OF TOWN f| ONE YEAR.. $4.50M National Advertising Representatives— m INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, IncM 545 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Phone:— JSI MUrray Hill 2-5452, Ray Peck, Manager. M I HAWKINS Talking 1 REGIONAL AAU. BOXING NOT PROFITABLE FOR N SIDE BOYS The Regional AAU. Boxing Tournament held last week did not prove too profitable for the Northside boys. The show was one of the best that has been held this year. The boys who par ticipated were some of the best in the country. Conditioning and training stood out because it was plain to see that the boys were really in there. Harold McDonald Midwest 126 pound champion won one and lost one- Harold had plenty of compet ition in both fights. As a feather weight McDonald has fought his last fight, due to the reason that he has to lose from 10 to 15 lbs. to make the weight which is not good. Sam Williams won one and lost one. His last fight being a knock down and drag out affair. Both boys being down three times. therefore Williams being last to go down, lost. Joe Glass couldn’t get going in his fight. Midway in the second round Glass received a cut lip. therefore losing on a TKO. Herbert Gray lost a decision to flyweight champion Art Brown in his scrap Gray tied up his more experienced rival most of the time but not all of the time. James Motley proved to the public that he was a fighter and not a bum in winning the heavy weight championship and a trip to Boston. o o o IN THE GROOVE In the pro world of fighting, little Speedy Moore of Omaha is back in the groove.in KC. last week Speedy lost a fight, but in doing so won for himself a lot of HOWARD, GEORGETOWN U. TIE AT CHESS Washington, DC., April 7 —A stiff battle between the chess clubs of Howard University and Georgetown University held' at the Founder’s Library on the Howard Campus here, ended in a tie: 2 1-2 to 2 1-2. Dr. Mordecai Johnson, President of Howard University, personally greeted the Georgetown men. A return match at Georgetown is being planned. WILLIE FRANCIS GETS ANOTHER STAY OF EXECUTION Parish Jail, New Iberia, La. April 3, 1947 EDITOR: fHE OMAHA GUIDE, Dear Sir: I am having a hard time answ ering all the people who want to know about what happeed to my case. The date of the hearing was changed and now my lawyer Mr. Bertrand De Blanc of Lafay ette, La., told me that the hearing before the Pardon Board in New Orleans, La., wall be on April 18th He is asking that the sentence be changed from death to life in prison. Thank you sir for your interest in my case. WILLIE FRANCIS. MAN HELD IN STABBING; WOMAN 31, IN HOSPITAL Rosalie Bums, 31, of 2616 Bur dette street was taken to Doctors Hospital Saturday night suffer ing from a stab wound in the ab domen. Being held for investigation by police is Robert Dixon, 39. Police said an argument in her home led to the stabbing. friends and a return trip back. Next week April 14th Speedy tak es on Johnny Squires recently from New York. Squires is a pretty classy boy who has fought some tough guys, but not one like Speedy. Speedy will take a lot to give one a vicious left hook to the body. o o o JOE STILL THE MASTER They are still trying to find a suitable opponent for Champion Joe Louis. Louis is so far over his class that it makes it kinda hard to find somebody who can stay in there and take his stuff. He has to be pure in heart and have a willing mind to climb thru those ropes. There has only been three men who have enjoyed climbing in th same ring with Joe They are the announcer, the ref eree and the undertaker. o o o DIFFERENCE IN COLOR It looks as if England or Great Britain is trying to get that way about the difference in color. It used to didn’t be that way. World war II in a lot of cases did not help in a lot of ways. o o o BODYGUARD GREGORY James Gregory it is rumored is bodyguard to a couple of local bigwigs downtown.Gregory is the 126 pound boxer who raised We All Want GOOD Tavern Operators YOU want competent, care ful men to operate the taverns in your town. So do your neigh bors. The brewing industry, too, wants its product sold by men who conduct their places of business in the public in terest. To obtain this result, the law empowers local authorities to examine, under oath, those ap plying for license renewals or a new license. 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