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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Vol. 29 No. 20_Friday, July 15, 1955_ 10c Pe7l5ep7
4-Cs To Meet
At Northside
YMCA
The Centralized Commonwealth
Civic Club will have their next
meeting, Sunday, July 17, 4 P.M,
at the Near Northside YMCA.
President Harold A. Mason, ad
mits that on the agenda are sever
al matters of importance to be dis
cussed and acted upon.
He also stated that all members
are urged to be on hand and that
any members not having paid their
annual dues, only 10 more days re
main to do so.
Mrs. Marie Wright
Returns From Trip
Evangelist Marie Wright of 2426
Erskine, has returned after a two
weeks stay in Chicago. She left
June 16 and returned July 1.
“The people were very nice to
me and their help enables me to
go on,” she said.
While in the windy city she was
the house guest of her niece, Rose
Lee Williams and a friend, Aman
da Beggins. She further admitted
attending numerous dinners with
other friends.
Evangelist Wright delivered
messages at the Church of the
Living God on State Street and at
the Seventy-Eighth Street church.
This week she had planned to
be in Oklahoma City, but she had
to cancel the trip. Mrs. Wright
further stated, she loves Evangelis
tic work and like very much to go
to places where she could do some
thing.
Ruling Of
Judge Stuns
Virginians
Norfolk, Va." (CNS) The state of
Virginia was taken completely a
back by the ruling of District
Judge Walter E. Hoffman that the
state cannot continue racial seg
regation at Seashore State Park
near Virginia Beach whether the
park is operated by Virginia or
under private lease.
The scope of the opinion was
so broad as to apparently block
any attempt the state might make
to sell or lease its public schools
to private operators to avoid the
Supreme Court’s desegregation
order. At least, this is the opinion
of leading legal minds.
Wrote Judge Hoffman: “The
judgment of this court is not ren
dered without the full realization
of the impact of this decision on
the State park system in Virginia..
The contention that a normal less
or-lesse relationship should be per
mitted in leases of public property
must give way to the constitution
al right of the citizens as a whole.”
Virginia officials had expected
the court to go against it by ruling
admission to the park by Negroes.
But the scope of the ruling took
them completely by surprise. For
the state did not expect that it
could not lease or sell public
parks and if it did, “the lease
must not directly or indirectly op
erate so as to discriminate against
the members of any race.”
Completely speechless by the
whole thing, Virginia General J.
Lindsay Almond, Jr. said he did
not know whether the state would
appeal Judge Hoffman’s decision.
Five Governors Extend Greetings To
Negro Tourists In Magazine Story
Governors of five states and'
the President of the Board of
Commissioners, District of Co-;
lumbia, have extended greetings
to Negro visitors in the current
edition of “Go-Guide to Pleasant
Motoring.”
“Go-Guide to Pleasant Motor- ■
ing” contains over 2,000 hotels,
motels, tourists homes and re- >
sorts in the United States, Can
ada, Alaska and Mexico where 1
Negroes are welcome as guess.
“Go” is distributed by Auto
mobile Clubs, Amoco gasoline
service stations, members of the
Nationwide Hotel Association,
Post Exchanges, libraries and at
publication headquarters, 918 F.
Street N. W. Washington 4, D. C.
Negro travelers are becoming
more numerous each year. It is
estimated that at least 40% of he
two million Negro families with
autos will take vacations this
year. They will travel an aver
age of 3,000 miles and expend at
least $250.00 per family per
week. The majority of Negro
families will vacation during
August. A conservative estimate
of total expenditures per week is
($125,000,000.00) One Hundred
and Twenty-Five Million Dollars
This is important money to state
treasuries and accounts for the
interest shown by progressive
governors.
Governors G. Williams of
Michigan, William G. Stratton of
Conn. George M. Leader of Penn,
and Robert B. Meyner of New
Jersey, all welcome vacationers, j
also Govenor Averill Harriman!
of New York, encouraged tour
ists but his statement didn’t make
the Current issue of “Go.”
Fishermen
Enter Storz
Contest
Fisherjnen from six states
have registered several outstand
ing entries in the $2,500 Storz
fishing contest. The contest,
which just passed the halfway
mark, closes August 15.
In Zone One —Nebraska, Mis
souri and Kansas —Clifford G.
Bonney of North Platte, Nebr.,
landed a 6 pound 12 ounce small
mouth bass which was 2114 in
ches long. The world’s record
smallmouth bass catch is 10
pounds 8 ounces and 2214 inches
long.
Paul F. Gustafson, South Sioux
City, Neb., caught the largest
j bass ever pulled out of Crystal
j Lake. It weighs 7 pounds 7
I ounces. But Thomas J. Kinsella
Jr., 5502 South 32nd St., Omaha,
is leading the Zone One Large
1 mouth Bass division with a fish
weighing one more ounce.
In Zone Two— Iowa, Minnesota,
: and South Dakota —Ralph Fred
erick of Rapid City, S. D., hauled
in a 29 pound 8 ounce channel
catfish from Tysdale Lake. It was
36 inches long.
Another Rapid City resident
j Guy Seidel, caught a 15 pound 10
! ounce brown trout in Canyon
I Lake. *
The Zone Two Northern pike
leader is Fay Parker, Sioux Falls,
S. D., whose catch weighed 22
pounds 6 ounces and measured 34
inches.
Arthur Hartsell, Altamont, S.
D., caught a bullhead in Lake Al
ice weighing 3 pounds, 11 ounces,
measuring 1714 inches.
Arthur C. Storz, vice president
of Storz Brewing Company of O
maha, said that competition is
open to anyone over 21 years of
age. No entry fee is required.
Entry blanks may be obtained
from any Storz retailer.
Three grand prizes totaling,
$225, will be awarded for the
three most outstanding fish
caught in the contest. First grand
prize is $100. In addition, ident
ical prizes in each of 10 specie
[ classifications in the two zones
j will be awarded.
Zone prizes are: first, $50; se
j cond, $25; third, $15; fourth, a
-12.50 casting rod; fifth, a $12.50
casting reel.
The 10 specie classifications,
Accident Victims
Return To Omaha
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The four Omahans injured in a
car accident in Missouri on June
25th are back in Omaha.
Mr. LeRoy Jameson of 3212 No
21 Street, is currently in the Vet
erans Hospital convalescing with
fractured ribs and fractured hip.
Mrs. Castella Barker of 2525
Bristol St. is at University Hospit
al. The extent of her injuries was
learned.
However, it was learned, that
Mrs. Barker’s daughters, who came
home last Sunday aren’t hospital
ized.
Mr. Jameson, who is an em
ployee at Armour’s Packing house
was brought to Omaha, July 1.
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Peck Heads Star
List Appearing In
V.A/s Purple Plain
Little-known, exotic areas of
India, Burma, Ceylon and Pakistan
were the location sites for the
filming of THE PURPLE PLAIN,
now playing at the STATE THEA
TRE through United Artists.
A Technicolor adaption by Eric
Ambler of the best-selling novel
by H. E. Bates, THE PURPLE
PLAIN stars Gregory Peck as the
embittered RAF officer who seeks
death in the steaming jungles of
Burma, and introduces Win Min
Than, 21 year old Burmese beauty
in the role of Anna, whose love
for Peck redeems him from a life
of futility and self-destruction. The
large featured cast is headed by
Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Lee,
Maurice Denham, Lyndon Brook
and Ram Gopal.
A presentation of the J. Arthur
Rank Organization, THE PURPLE
PLAIN was produced and directed
by Robert Parrish. The screen
adaptation of the Bates novel was
written by Eric Ambler. The mu
sical score was composed by John
Veale and conducted by Muir Ma
thieson. Geoffrey Unsworth was
chief photographer.
Gregory Peck, who enjoyed star
the same for both zones, are:
largemouth bass, smallmouth
bass, rainbow trout, northern
pike, blue gill, channel catfish,
bullhead.
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Discussing the forthcoming East
vs West Negro Baseball Classic
on Sunday afternoon, July 31, at
Chicago’s Comiskey Park, are
two out standing baseball men,
Frank Lane, general manager of
the Chicago White Sox and Dr. J.
B. Martin, both of Chicago.
Dr. Martin is president of the
sponsoring Negro American
League. The teams which will
furnish the playing personnel are
the Kansas City Monarchs, Memp
his Red Sox, Birmingham Black
Barons and the Detroit Stars.
The latter two will form the
East squad, which trails in the
long series, eight victories to 14
for the West. Kansas City and
Memphis will make up the West,
which has won the last three years.
NAACP Check Notes
Progress In Desegregation
New York — Under impact of
the United States Supreme Court
rulings in the public school cases,
the once solid wall of segregation
which separated colored and white
school children throughout the
South is beginning to crack in
local communities from Virginia
to Texas, an NAACP check re
vealed last week.
Following the first decision of
May 17, 1954, scores of communi
ties in the border states of Dela
ware, West Virginia and Missouri,
as w«ll as such cities as- Washing
ton and Baltimore started the pro
cess of desegregation. In many in
stances the schools were complete-1
ly integrated by the end of the
school year of 1954-55.
Since May 31 last, a number of
other cities, which had been a
waiting the Court’s decree on im
plementation of the earlier de
cision, have already met the
Court’s primary requirement by
making “a prompt and reasonable
start toward full compliance” with
the May 17 ruling.
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In some cities, as in Lexington,
Ky., the color bar was lowered for
the summer sessions; in others
such as Charlotte, N. C., the local
school board has expressed the in
tention to comply and authorized
a committee to study methods of
carrying out the Court’s edict.
In at least 11 of the 17 states
which previously required separate
schools for the two races, there is
indication that the barrier has
been or will be cracked in some
measure by the time school opens
thisT fall. Only in Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Missi
ssippi and South Carolina
does the segregation wall „ in
public elementary and secondary
schools appear to be uncracked as
of the firt week in July.
Meanwhile, units of the NAACP
throughout the region are acting
on instruction to file petitions
this summer asking their local
school board to initiate desegrega
tion with the opening of the
schools this fall.
billing from his very first picture,
ten years ago, may well be the
most popular screen star in the
world today. The passage of the
years, instead of diminishing his
popularity, seems to have added
to it. A recent poll of movie
house owners across the country
named him overwhelmingly as
“top box-office attraction in the
nation,” and Louella Parsons
claimed that his current perform
ance should rate him an academy
award.
N. C. GETS AROUND
ALL NEGRO BANNING
Raleigh, N. C. (CNS) .. .Because
Judge Wilson Warlick, a federal
judge, had ruled that construction
of an all-Negro school was illegal
since the Supreme Court’s decis-;
ion, North Carolina school officials j
got around this by not designa
ting schools as such. Thus, plans!
to continue building segregated
schools were not hampered so far.
Della Jones, 60
Died Monday
Mrs. Della James age 60 years of
2234 Lake St. expired Monday,
July 11, 1955 at home. She was
an Omaha resident for one year.
Her survivors include: two sons,
Andrew Thomas of Los Angeles,
California, James Allen of Ogden,
Utah; two daughters, Mrs. Fannie
Jones of Weleetka, Okahoma, Mrs.
Vera Lee McGee of Omaha; two
grandchildren, Aundra Leigh
Thomas of Newark, N. J., Edith
Mae Jones of Omaha.
Funeral arrangements later.
Myers Brothers Service.
Phil: “Why is a baseball game
like a buckwheat cake?”
Jill: “I don’t know.”
Phil: “Because its success de
pends on the batter.”
200 4-H'ers
Attend Courses
At Lincoln U
More than 200 young people
with their club sponsors, leaders,
County Home Agents, and parents
participated in the three-day
Eighth Annual 4-H State Short
Course at Lincoln University (Mo.)
last week.
The program is cooperatively
projected by the University of
Missouri, College of Agriculture,
U. S. D. A., and the Departments
of Home Economics and Agricul
ture of Lincoln.
Arrangements for campus facili
ties were in charge of Dr. J. N.
Freeman, head, Department of
Agriculture, Lincoln University.
Nebraskans
Got Much Of
Race Purse
Nebraska horsemen who raced
their thoroughbreds at Ak-Sar
Ben this year enjoyed a record
popular Omaha track’s 35-day
grab in purse winnings at the
meeting.
James P. Lee, chairman of the
Ak-Sar-Ben racing committee,
said Nebrarka owners collected
more purse money at the Omaha
track .this year than they have
ever before won at an Ak-Sar
Ben meeting. The ninety-one
Nebraskans who campainged at
Ak-Sar-Ben shared purses total
ing $198,900, or 32 per cent of
the total purse distribution of
$625,000. Last year Nebraska
owners won purses totaling
$160,474.50
“The fine showing made by
these horsemen is a definite in
dication that each year they are
realizing greater profits through
breeding and racing better caliber
horses against some of the best
horses in. the country both here
at Ak-Sar-Ben and at other
tracks,” Mr. Lee said.
For the second straight year
the White Spot Farm of Omaha
had its red and white colors in the
money often enough to leaid all
other Nebraskans with $16,962.50.
Top performers in the Omaha
stable were Nymph’s Price,
Reighoma and Bienville. Ed Lu
ther the veteran Wisner owner
trainer who was second last year,
took down second place honors a
gain this year with purses total
ing $12,255. George Becker of
Norfolk, who was fifth last year,
finished fourth with $11,460.
Completing the top twelve
stables, in oi-der, iC. L. Sisson,
Ewing, $7,320; A. S. Hans, Oma
ha, $6,902; W. A. Davidson, La
mar, $6,740; D. W. Frank, Oma
ha, $6,385; M. H. VanBerg, Col
umbus, $6,050; Mrs. Sadie L. Fol
ey, Hay Springs, $5,820; F. H.
Bruning and L. O. Snyder, Brun
ing, $5,505; R. C. Gilmore, Ulys
ses, $5,505; R. C. Gilmore. Ulys
Ashland, $5,225.
Minister's Recital
The women of the New Era
State Convention will present
the Ministers of the New Era
and guest ministers in recital
July 21, at Pilgrim Baptist
Church, 8 P.M.
This promises to be a unique
program, it was learned. Some
thing different. Everyone is
encouraged to come out and
hear the recital.
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Nebr. Prince Hall Masons^
To Hold Thirty-Seventh
Communication July 20-21
Tri-State Bank
Deposits Exceed
$200,000 Mark j;
New York — Recent deposits
in the Tri-State Bank of Memphis 1
for the purpose of expanding its ]
capacity to make business loans i
to victims of the Mississippi “eco-j'
nomic squeeze” have brought the |:
total to $268,319, Roy Wilkins,
NAACP executive secretary, an-i'
nounced this week.
A fraternal organization, a local!
of a trade union and a married i
couple are among the new deposi- j
tors. The American Woodmen j
with headquarters in Denver,
Colorado, made a deposit of
$10,000 in the bank as did Dodge
Local No. 3 of the United Automo
bile Workers, CIO, Hamtramck,
Michigan.
The third deposit amounting to
$1,700 was that of Dr. and Mrs.
Lee Lorch of Nashville, Tenn. Dr.
Lorch, a university profesosr,
cashed his U. S. Savings Bonds to
make the depoist “for the purpose
of letting our dollars work for
democracy b y helping relieve
some of the economic pressures
put on those fighting against seg
regation_”
Legion
Elects
Its Officers
Theodore Roosevelt Post No. 30 j
American Legion had its annual j
election of officers for the fiscal
year July 7, and the present in
cumbents were largely re-elected.
The installation of the elected off
icers will be sometime after the
State Convention. With a very fine
program already outlined. The
Post is ready to step forward and
is making every endeavor to in
crease the popularity of the Hall.
With a cooperative executive
board and the wonderful spirit of
the membership surely great j
things can be done and new veter
ans coining into the Post.
Every elected officer has pled
ged to do a better job and see per
sonally that the best interest of the
Post is their only aim.
Remember our sick in VA Hos
pital and at their homes. It is re-!
ported that comrade Ralph Under
wood still is confined to the hos
pital here. Pay them a visit or |
send a card. It is the firm aim of I
all to build the Post to a promin
ent position equal to any in the'
land. It is also our firm resolve
to better help our needy veterans,
orphans and widows. Our service
officer will be near and more
ready to serve those that need his
special services. This is our high
lighted promise to every keep our
oath and sacred obligation to the
American Legion cause and still
ever ready to serve our God, our
Country and our FelloWman.
J. L. Taylor .Commander
Burns Scott, Adjutant
N. H. Comans, Pub. Officer.
The Most Worshipful Prince Hall
jrand Lodge of Nebraska and Jur
sdiction will hold their Thirty
seventh Annual Communication
ruly 20th through July 21 at Grand
Island, Nebraska as a guest of
rrue American Lodge No. 6 F. &
V. M. Isaac Ford, W. M.
The following elected Grand
..odge officers are expected in at
endance, Clayton P. Lewis, Most
Worshipful Grand Master of Lin
:oln, C. C. Dudley Right Worship
lul Deputy Grand Master, Leonard
/. Turner, Right Worshipful Grand
senior Warden, Henry Washing
on, Right Worshipful Grand
Junior Warden, Grand Island,
Ueorge Althouse Right Worshipful
llrand Treasurer, J. H. Andrews,
Et. W. Grand Secretary.
On Tuesday evening elected
jrand Lodge Officers will be guest
of R. W. Grand Junior Warden
Henry Washington at a steak din
ner at the Masonic Hall 1103 East
St. The meetings will be held
in the Municipal Auditorium. Wed
nesday luncheon at Yancey Hotel,
in the evening a picnic at Isaac
Walton Park.
Thursday luncheon at the Strat
ton Hotel and dinner at the Ma
sonic Hall.
Prince Hall Masons throughout
Nebraska and its Jurisdiction are
expected to attend this meeting.
Under the eleven year leader
ship of Most Worshipful Grand
Master Clayton P. Lewis of Lin
coln, the Jurisdiction has made
tremendous progress and it is
hoped that the reports for 1954-55
will be the best since the incep
tion of the Most Worshipful Prince
Hall Grand Lodge of Nebraska.
TEXAS U ADMITS NEGROES
Houston, Texas .. (CNS).. The
Texas Board of Regents has al
ready moved to admit Negroes to
its entire University of Texas by
fall of 1956. The Regents voted to
end segregation in the University’s
Graduate School at Austin this
fall but it will end it in all under
graduate courses next year. Ne
groes had been attending graduate
classes only if the same program
of study was not available in Ne
gro institutions.
Stevens Named
To Judge Post
Governor Averell Harriman,
democrat of New York appointed
Harold A. Stevens, 57, to serve on
the State Supreme Court Bench,
last week.
Previously Judge Stevens sat on
the bench of the court of General
Sessions in New York County. He
took the oath of office last Wed
nesday.
Judge Stevens’, appointment fills
a vacancy although his $30,000
salary is unchanged. In November
he will run for election to the 14
year post.
The Magistrate is a democrat, a
native of South Carolina and a
graduate of Boston University
Law School.
Omahans recall that Gov. Harri
man campaigned here when seek
ing the presidency on the last na
tional election. He was defeated
by Mr. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois.
Baptist Sunday School Congress H olds Golden Jubilee
Atlantic City (ANP) .. The Na
tional Sunday School Congress and
Baptist Training Union celebrated
its “Golden Jubilee” here last week
bringing together the largest gath
] ering of religious followers our 1
group has ever assembled at At
lantic City.
Dr. W. H. Jemagin of Washing
ton, D. C., president of the organi
zation for the past 29 years is
shown delivering the annual presi
dential address in the Atlantic
City High School where sessions
were held.
The training school phase of
the week long meeting were par
ticularly impressive, bringing
teachers and students from all
over the country in a sustained
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program of Bible study.
Officers elected for the new
year besides Dr. Jernagin, includ
ded:
Dr. O. Clay Maxwell, New York.j
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Vice President; Mrs. Bessie Es
tell, Ala., Secretary; Mrs. Wil
helmina Scrotchin, Ga., Assistant
Secretary; J. C. Oliver, Chicago,
Treasurer; Dr. E. C. Esteli, Texas,
Director-General; Dr. A. Franklin
Fisher, Ga., Dean; Dr. Horatio S.
Hill, N. Y., Assistant Dean; Rev.
A. McEwen Williams, Tenn., Assis
tant Dean; Miss Lucie E. Camp
bell, Tenn., Music Director and
Robert Bradley, Assistant.
