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- READ THE OMAHA GUIDE - Lawrence Winter Tops Opera Star Set I Lawrence Winters, a native South Carolinian, a graduate of Howard university and a Phi Beta Sigma, who turned his ideas into a narration (opera) in song, is the leading baritone and main stay of New York City Center’s Opera Company. The star along with others in title roles will open the 24th season on October 5. Winters will be heard in “Car men,” “Love For Three Oranges,” and Cavalleria Rusticana and other operas not yet announced. Other tan opera stars on the New York City Center Opera Company’s rooster are Adele Addi son of Springfield, Mass., soprano Betty Crocker Announces An Ed. Contest Minneapolis, Minn. — Educa tional scholarships totalling $100, 000 will be awarded in the second Betty Crocker Search for the A merican Homemaker of Tomor row, it was announced this week by General Mills. This is a $25,000 increase in scholarships awarded in the 1954 55 program when 187,463 high school senior girls from 8,040 schols sought the All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow title which was won by Deloris Arn ette of Enterprise, Ala. In addition to a $1,500 scholar ship to each state winner, there will be a new award of $500 to the homemaker rating second in each state. The scholarship of the national winner, who will be announced April 12 in Phila delphia, will be $5,000. Test Will Determine The basis for selection of win ners will be test scores in a written homemaking knowledge and attitude test developed by Science Research Associates of Chicago. The test will be given in all participating high schools on Dec. 6. The project has the endorsement of the national con test and activities committee of the National Association of Sec ondary School Principals, a de partment of the National Educa tion Association. “The enthusiastic endorsement of thousands of educators, reli gious leaders, civic leaders and parents throughout the nation and the extensive participation of students in our first year pro ject have made General Mills pleased to renew this worthwhile activity and increase the scholar ship funds,” declared Charles H. Bell, president of the company. President Continues “We believe in sponsoring pro grams which contribute to a bet ter way of living for all. We are happy to assist public, private and parochial high schools in train ing girls for successful family life after marriage, and we arc equally happy to focus public at tention on the fine work these schools are doing. “We have faith in the Ameri can teen ager of today. Given the opportunity, the guidance and encouragement, this teen ager will become the type of Ameri can homemaker who will assure the health, happiness and security and Conductor Everett Lee, of Cleveland, Ohio and New York. Joseph Rosenstock is General Di rector. (ANP) of our communities and nation in the years ahead.” All 12th grade girls in the na tion’s public, private and paro chial high schools who will gradu ate in 1956 are eligible to partici pate in the Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of Tomorrow. They must be en rolled by their school not later than Oct. 31. Study Material Available Study materials for use in teaching many subjects will be sent to participating schools. The girl with the highest test score in each school will be named Homemaker of Tomorrow for that school. She will receive a pin designed by Trifari of New York, her school will receive a copy of the Good and Easy Cook Book and her test paper will be en tered in the competition for her state. The school of each state Home maker of Tomorrow will receive a set of the Encyclopedia Britan nica. Each state winner and a female faculty adviser will be in vited to participate in an expense paid educational tour of Wash ington, D. C., Colonial Williams burg, Va., and Philadelphia April 8-12. I Miss Arnette, the first year na tional winner, is using her scholarship at Judson college in Alabama. Lucy Belle Booker Miss Lucy Belle Booker, CO years, 2916 North 24th Street, expired Sunday morning Septem ber 18th at a local hospital. Miss Booker was a teacher at St. Bene dict’s School. Prior to this she had taught in the Kansas City, Kansas public school system. Miss Booker was a graduate of Drake University. She had taken graduate work at Creighton and Rutgers College, New Bruns wick, N. J. She was a member of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Y.W.C.A. and taken an active part in civic and community af fairs. She is survived by one sis ter, Miss Gertrude Booker, Oma ha, two brothers, Mr. Ellis R. Booker, Waco, Texas, Mr. Hor ace J. Booker, Fair Haven, N. J., fou» nieces, Mrs. Nannette Hutch ison, Waco, Texas, Mrs. Georgia Ruth King, San Diego, Califor nia, Mrs. Gertrude Bolden, Waco, Texas, Mrs. Gertrude Bolden, Springfield, Ohio, four nephews, Rev. R. T. Booker, Flint, Michi gan, Artemus Booker, Los Angel es, California, Horace J. Booker, Jr., U.S.A. Army in Germany, Howell E. Booker, San Francisco, California, sister-in-law, Mrs Gladys Booker, Fair Haven, N.J. Funeral services were held 22nd from Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Monsignor Joseph Osdick officiating, assisted by John J. Kiloren. Honorary bear ers, Mr. P. Foxall, A. Dailey, Jack Lewis, <C. Cain, F. O’Niel, Andrew ,Brooks, active bearers, Mr. Marvin Hale, Richard Lecoq, Earl Van Foot, H. Russell, M. R. Smith, Victor Metoyer. Inter ment was in the family plot at Forest Lawn Cemetery with ar rangements by Thomas Mortuary. Whitfield Clarke Mr. Whitfield Clark, 87 years, 2716 North 28th Avenue, passed away Wednesday September 21 at a local hospital Mr. Clarke had been a resident of Omaha forty years and was a retired Swift and Company employe. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Sadie Smith, two granddaughters, Mrs. Thresa Johnson, Mrs. Sarah Brown, of Omaha, two grandsons, Everett Jones, U.S.A. Army in Germany, Johnnie Jones, U.S.A. Navy. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at ten o’clock from Thomas Mortuary with the Elder M. Bradford officiating, assisted by Elder, W. Coleman, Elder, James Douglas of Kala mazoo, Michigan. Pall bearers, Mr. James Rhodman, T. S. Phil lips, William Henry, Wallace Rosebaugh, Ben Smith, James Rhodeman. Burial was at Graceland Park Cemetery with arrangements by Thomas Mortuary. WARN DIXIE DISTRIBUTORS ROY WILKINS URGES ESSO New York,—Roy Wilkins, ex ecutive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has written the ESSO Standard Oil Company urging the company to make a survey of its southern territory “in an effort to discover whether or not your employers are par ticipating” in campaigns of eco nomic reprisals against Negroes who demand civil rights and an end to public school segregation. Previously, the NAACP execu tive Jiad written to the company about efforts of an area distribu tor in Orangeburg, S. C., to have the franchise of the Sulton Broth ers, a Negno-owned ESSO station, revoked because they had signed a petition to the Orangeburg school board asking^ for desegre gation of the schools. Informed by J. A. Miller, gen eral manager of ESSO’s market ing department, that the Sulton Brothers art served directly by the company and not through an area distributor, Mr. Wilkins re sponded that “it does not allay our concern over the attitude re ported to be exhibited by your a it a distributor, or the possibility that other ESSO area distribu tors in other sections of the South may be engaging in activities af fecting -Negro filling station op erators who are not served on a direct basis but must depend on the distributon.” “It is inconceivable to us that the ESSO Standard Oil Company would tolenate for one moment this type of activity,” the letter concluded, “and therefore we urge that an appropriate mem orandum on company policy be sent to the sensitive areas.” “KENTUCKIAN” STAYS 2ND WEEK AT STATE Burt Lancaster has done a fine thing in his debut as a motion picture director with “THE KEN TUCKIAN,” iCinemaScope Tech nicolor printed film which con tinues for a second week at the State Theatre through United Artists release. He has taken a(n action-packed, swashbuckling fragment of frontier history and infused it with a warm, rich story and peopled it with lovable char acters. Lancaster himself stars in the film as Big Eli, a hunter who with his son, Little Eli, finds Kentucky too confined and tame for him, and heads for Tex as—“where a man has room to move about.” Lancaster’s feminine co-stars are two extremely attractive young women of different types. The rather demure, conservative schoolteacher of a small frontier town is played by Diana Lynn. She falls in love with Lancaster but realizes it would be cruel to tie him down and so loses him to the more wild, impulsive back woods’ girt, played by Dianne Foster, whose nature and inter ests are similar to Eli’s. Ten year old Donald Mac Don ald, who plays the appealing role of Lancaster’s motherless son, turns in a performance that will endear him to all audiences. 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