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I V4 I This Is Your Newspaper H ■ f What you are doing is news. Mbrnm I Please Phone Your News To I _ _ | HA 0800 % /JUSTICE/EQUALITY HEW TO THE I INF \ | THE°OMAHA guide I... EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ,,f : .;_.; .. ...... _ _^^1 Vol. 29 No. 36Friday, November 4, 1955_10c Per Copy __ C. of C. Approves Spending $20 Million For Schools The Board of Directors of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce yes terday put their stamp of approval on the proposed $20-million bond issue for Omaha schools. In conjunction with the Board’s action, Chamber President A. V. Sorensen issued the following statement: “Omaha wants to provide the best possible education for its young people. Certainly the first step in this direction is adequate classroom facilities. “We are faced with an estimated expenditure of $27,600,000 to provide buildings, equipment and sites for future schools for our grow ing population. Many of our present schools have been in use for over 30 years and are in need of modernization and enlargement. Our public school enrollment of 39,000 will be increased to 51,000 by 1964. We must face the issue of providing the necessary facilities in time to meet the demand. “While the pay-as-you go principal has many advocates,” Mr. Sor ensen continued, “the fact remains that the additional levy required under this plan would cause increased taxes that would be a heavy burden on all property owners. “We believe that the proposed bonds can be sold at a favorable rate, and with the provision permitting redemption as funds accumu late from the present levy, the total cost should be reduced to a reas onable figure. “The bond issue will enable us to act now to meet this challenge, to anticipate possible increased costs, and to provide in ample time the facilities needed by our growing community.” Board members also heard final plans for the Chamber’s annual membership drive, scheduled November 14 to 18, which will seek to enroll 1,100 new members to the Chamber roster. The report on campaign plans was presented by Ralph R. Moser, general chairman, who also reviewed the organization of the separate teams which will conduct the drive . Seven such teams have been formed to obtain new members for the Senior Division of the Chamber, while both the Junior & Women’s Divisions will have separate teams contacting prospective members. The entire organization numbers nearly 500 workers, Mr. Moser said. Following the Board meeting, members of the Chamber’s special Revenue Committee met to begin their activities for the membership campaign. The committee—made up of Chamber officers, directors and campaign leaders—will seek increases in subscriptions from the larger members firms of the Chamber of Commerce. Reports were made to them by Mr. Moser, Chamber Vice Presi dent M. Cooper Smith, Daniel W. Campbell and Oliver W. Roberts, Chamber general manager. Basketball Planned For 7 • S Grades The Youth Activities League will hold its first Basketball Or ganization meet at Kellom on Wednesday, November 9, at 7:30 p,m. This league will be for boys in the 7th and 8th grades who have not reached their four teenth birthday and for boys 14 15. Interested tfeam represena tives and players are requested to attend this meeting. The YAL has promised to furnish suits for all teams. WOMEN BASKETBALL In pre-season efforts Offutt WAF outlasted Omaha Merchants 24-23 and the Florence Lions gave Medical Students Wives a 30-12 lesson on Women Basket ball action at Kellom Thursday night. In what could be a pre-view of the Women’s champion play off in February, the WAFS from the Omaha Merchants were at it again. Both teams displayed strong defensive and clever offen sive patterns in a game that was only decided in the last 30 seconds of play by Mary Newton’s pot shot. In the last 2 years these same two teams have met 5 times with the winner never having more than a 5 point margin of victory. City - Wide Youth Night November 9 Sigma Gamma Rho sorority is sponsoring a CITY-WIDE YOUTH NIGHT Saturday night, November 19, 1955 at the Near North Side Y.M.C.A. The program for Youth Night will be a panel discussion follow ed by a social hour. All high school juniors and seniors are special guests. All youth are in vited. Youth is becoming more and more delinquent they say. Would you like to know how a dults can help youth? solve their problems? Would you like to know in what areas youth needs help? These and more questions will be discussed. See next week’s issue for more infor mation. Woodrow Allen Mr. Woodrow W. Allen, age 38 years, formerly of Omaha, ex pired Thursday October 27, 1955 at Chicago, Illinois. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rosa Allen; daughter, Karen of Lake Forrest, Illinois; son, Square Dances Are Popular At Kellom More than 50 boys and girls are having a grand time in the newly organized Kellom Square Dancing Club. Instructor John Favors has annonced that while the club is restricted primarly to those interested in square dancing, members will be given a chance to do Folk and Modem Dancing. Mrs. Wilson Is Organist On Progam The director of the Woodson Center in South Omaha, Mrs. Alice Wilson, will play the organ on the “National Achievement Week” program Sunday Novem ber 13th at the Calvin Memorial Presbyterian Church at 24th and Wirt Streets in Omaha. The program is being sponsor ed by the Beta Upsilon Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. The Reverend iCharles E. Tyler Piaster o[f Calvin M e morial Church, and Milton D. Lewis, In dustrial secretary of the Omaha Urban League will speak on the program. The theme for “Na tional Achievement Week” is “Desegregation, A On e-W a y Station: Integration, Our Desti nation.” The program will start at 3:30 Sunday afternoon, Novem ber 13th. This program promises to be both informative and in spirational. The public is in vited to attend. Important Difference Customer: “What kind of pie is this, apple or peach?” Waitress: “What does it taste like?” Customer: “Glue.” Waitress: “Then it’s apple. The peach tastes like putty.” Kirk of Omaha; sister, Mrs. Anna Belle Buck of Venice, California;1 5 brothers, J. C. of Detroit, Mich igan; Malcom G. and Odell of Los Angeles, California; Jack of Chicago, Illinois; Foch P. of New York, N. Y. and a host of aunts, uncles and other relatives. Funeral services were held Wednesday November 2, 1955 at 2:00 p.m. from the Cleaves Tem ple C.M.E. Church with Rev. A. Ralph Davis officiating. Inter ment was at Forrest Lawn Ceme tery. Pallbearers were Messrs. Willis Rlice, Lysle Lawson, Patrick Golden and Norman Gray. Myers Brothers Funeral Ser vice. Waters, Belafonte on CBS-TV Ethel Waters and Harry Bela fonte will star in the General Elec tric Theater production of WIN NER BY DECISION, the heart-rip ping story of a boxer with a killer instinct who dislikes fighting and j has only been led into it to gain the comforts he wants for his fam ily. The show will be aired over the CBS-TV network Sunday, Nov. 6th at 9 P.M. (EST). Air Force Baseball Players Win Trip Home 1 Yankee southpaw Tommy Byrne gives Series pointers to Airmen Fred Williams of Milwaukee, Wis., and James “Jet” Douglas of Char lotte, N. C., winners of the “Most Valuable Players Award” contest conducted by the U. S. Air Force in the United Kingdom Air Force Baseball League and sponsored i by Phillip Morris Inc. Both air men are former pro ball players and are based in England. They were flown to New York where Philip Morris presented them World Series Tickets and acted as Ihost during their stay. Safety Awards Due Jan. 31 It’s time to begin thinking a bout the Omaha Safety Council’s OSCA awards again. They are due January 31st, at the Council office, but they take a lot of work and perhaps you should oe thinking about them now. You will remember the win ners last year were KFAB, The South Omaha Sun, and The Flash (O.P.P.D.). Maybe you will be among the winners this time. But only if you submit a good en try . . . and that means a display of materials to show what you have done in the safety field with the medium at your disposal during 1955. Hope to be hearing from you about the end of January. Sincerely, Harry Hatcher Proud Father—I want our Wil lie to be a politician. Friend—Why ? f Father—He’s so big and strong. I’d hate to have him ruin his physique by working. % Robert To Attend Meet In Wisconsin 0. W. Roberts, general mana ger of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, will leave the city tomorrow to attend a three-day conference of Chamber managers n Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The meeting is the annual con ference of American Chamber of Commerce Executives, which is attended by some 600 (Chamber managers from throughout the nation. Matters of organization, operation and procedure are con sidered in the conference. Mr. Roberts serves on both the Auditing Committee and the j National Firms Committee of the j ACCE. Valerie K. Parker Mrs. Valeria King Parker, age 36 years, of 958 No. 25th Ave. was killed early Monday morning October 31, 1955 in an auto ac cident at the intersection of Highway 75 and 36 just south of Sabetha. Kansas. Two other O maha men were seriously injured in the accident. Kansas State Highway Patrol men said the car went out of con Smith Wins Hinky Dinky Shopper Tilt Paul L. Smith of 2814 North Twenty-fifth Street today was re vealed as the winner in the cur rent Hinky-Dinky Mystery Shop per contest. Mystery shoppers hired b y Hinky-Dinky inspected all 34 Hinky-Dinky Food Stores in Ne braska and Iowa to determine what PAUL L. SMITH [clerk is the friendliest and most efficient. The honor went to Mr. Smith, who works at the Hinky-Dinky supermarket at Twenty-third and L Streets. Commented the Mystery Shop per who nominated Mr. Smith for the award: “Mr. Smith made a very good im pression by his courteous and friendly manner while sacking our order He was very careful to pack each item properly_” Mr. Smith joined Hinky-Dinky only last August. In an article in the Hinky-Dinky News, newspaper for Hinky-Dinky employes, supermarket manager Nate Chase praised Mr. Smith for his ability to tackle varied assign ments, ranging from stocking to friendliness to shoppers. Mr. Smith originally was hired as porter, but has taken over broader duties. Polio Heads Met Wednesday Omaha—March of Dimes vol unteer leaders and chairmen of National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis chapters from a five-state area will converge on Omaha November 2 for a two day conference with Basil O’Con nor, National Foundation presi dent, and other national leaders in the polio fight. The group will spend one day discussing the polio patient care program and rehabilitation and and one day planning for the 1956 March of Dimes campaign next January; Mr. O’Connor, volunteer leader of the March of Dimes since its inception in 1938, will report on the National Foundation’s Salk vaccine program and outline the work remaining to be done in the fight against polio. The National Foundation has announced that its goal in the coming March of Dimes will be §47,600,000. More than half of this will go for direct patient aid for polio victims. An esti mated 68,000 patients will be in need of continuing assistance at the close of 1955. Volunteers attending the Oma ha meeting will come from Neb raska, Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, and southern Iowa. Na tional Foundation speakers in ad dition to Mr. O’Connor will in clude: Joseph F. Nee, director of fund raising; George P. Voss, director of chapters; Miss Doro thy Ducas, public relation dir ector; Miss Ejlaine Whiltelaw, director of Women’s activities; Burr Gibson, assistant fund raising director; James T. Eding ton, assistant to the fund raising director and Miss iCleste Luckett, national volunteer Teens against Polio (TAP) Chairman. trol and struck a highway divi der. It careened across High way 36 and ran up a high em bankment before stopping. She is survived by her hus band, Leon Parker; father, Evert King; uncle, Sampson Browh all of Omaha; 2 aunts, Mrs Edna Robinson of Omaha and Mrs. Vera Thomas of St. Paul, Minne sota, and a host of other relatives. Myers Brothers Funeral Ser vice. Captola Renfrow Mrs. Captola Renfrow,, 60 years, 2410 North 21st Street, passed away Tuesday morning November first at a local hospit al. Mrs. Renfrow had been a resident of Omaha thirty-six years. She was a Deaconess of Zion Baptist Church and on the Mother's Board.. Mrs» Renfrow is survived by her husband, Mr. Thomas . Renfrow, Omaha, five daughters, Mrs. Jacqjueline Smjth, Omhha, Mrs. Flortfiine Dugas, St. Paul, Minnesota, Mrs. Ruth Allen, Ocola Renfrow, 0 maha, two sons, Mr. Thomas L. Renfrow, Mr. Harvey L. Ren frow, of Omaha, aunt, Mrs. Mary C. Willis, Jackson, Mississippi, uncle, Mr. Robert Clark, cousin, Mrs. Marie Branch, of Omaha, seventeen grand and two great grand children The body is at Thomas Mortuary. Kids Anticipate Toy Harvest Three aspiring entrants in the Rin Tin Tin Toy Roundup contest, David, Donald and Kathv Pitman, study the floor plan to Macy’s top department in New York hoping they will be among the youngsters selected to carry out all the toys they can get their hands on in five minutes. The hectic windup of the contest, sponsored by the National Biscuit Company, will be telecast on NBS’s “Today” show on Ne vember 25th. Children enter the national contest by coloring the picture of Rin Tin Tin, Rusty and Captain Rip Masters on the back of a box of Nabisco Shredded I Wheat. I - Grants Of $40/000 To Creighton Research gifents totaling $40,375 were awarded to the Creighton University School of Medicine by the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Dr. Frederick G. Gillick, dean of the Creighton School of Med icine, said the grants cover the period from September 1, 1955 to August 31, 1956. The awards were made to as sist the following men in their research: Dr. Leo P. Clements, professor of anatomy, $4,787 for study of Mesenchyme in the Middle Ear; Dr. Richard H. Webber, assistant professor of anatomy, $6,805 for study of the Sympathetic Trunk and Connecting Rami in the Sac ral Region; Dr. Victor Levine, professor of biological chemistry and director of the department, $4,853 for study of the Micro determination of Carbonyl-Bear ing Compounds. Dr. Charles M. Wilhelmj, pro fessor of physiology and direc tor of research, $9,200 for study of Nutritional Basis of Hyper tension; Dr. Jeno Kramer, as sociate professor of pediatrics, $10,130 for study of Capillary Resistance and the Endocrines, and Dr. Alfred W. Brody, assist ant professor of physiology and pharmacology, $4,600 for study of Airway and Tissue Resistance. Hear about the Chinaman who always dated his dentist for the same hour: Tooth-hurty. Lengthened Shopping Hours Begin This Week This Thursday night and every night until tne nouaays me Downtown retail stores will be open until 8:30 P.M. It is the usual schedule followed in Omaha for the holiday season. Predictions are that retail sales in the coming weeks be fore the holidays will reach and result in an alltime high. Ec onomists and buyers who have been studying the trend feel fhat the demands of consumers will total up to a new mark for retail sales Local buyers have been preparing for this up surge in business for some time and wide, fine selections in Omaha stores are assured. Store owners noted last week that actual buying of holiday items already began. One furniture dealer said, "The date didn't surprise us—but the amount of interest did. However, we can anticipate that if this is to be a record year all over the country—some people will start earlier than others. It is good, for the stores will have a better chance to handle the demands if a good number of people jet started now." Mrs. Ella Hunter Mrs. Ella Hunter, age 75 years, of 2811 Miami St., expired Sat urday October 31, 1955 at a local hospital. She was an Omaha resident 50 years and was a member of Shaeffer Chapter No. 1 O.E.S. Mrs. Inez Murrell, Worthy Mat ron and Zaha Court No. 72, Daught of Isis, Mrs. Bessie Brookshire, Commandress. She is survived by 2 Nephews, Henry and Orville Webster of Omaha; 2 nieces, Mrs Alma Clark of Omaha, and Mrs. Mildred Clark of Santa Monica, Cali fornia. F uneral services were held Wednesday November 2, 1955 at 10:00 a.m. from the Myers Broth ers Funeral Chapel with Rev. F. C. Williams officiating and un der the auspices of Shaeffer Chapter No. 1 O.E.S. Interment was at Forrest Lawn Cemetery. Zaha Court No. 72, Daughters of Isis, held services Tuesday evening November 1, 1955 at 8:00 p.m. from the Myers Broth ers Funeral Chapel. Pallbearers were Perlcell W. Baugft, Charles Thornton, S. L. Chambers, Otis Johnson. Kellom Rifle Club Meets Wednesday The Kellom Rifle Club meets at 7:00 p.m. every Wednesday night. , After a brief club meeting a bus carries the boys to the Fon tenelle rifle range when they are given a chance to fire .22 rifles. The Kellom B B Gun Club will hold its second meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November Rev. Brown Is Bethel's New Pastor Rev Curtis A. Brown, born at Clearview, Oklahoma, where he received his elementary and high school training. A graduate of the Oklahoma School or Religion, Langston, Oklahoma, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Theology. Has also done fur ! ther study at Langston, and Tul | sa Universities in the field of sociology. In college was highly interested in Dramatics. Was very active with the Dust Bowl Players of Langston University, and the Mt. Sinai Played of the Oklahoma School of Religion. He was active in the Student Christian Association, and A.M. Johnson Lyceum. Rev. Brown is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and is now serving as President of the Alumni Association of the Oklahoma .School of Religion. He served in World War VI in the United States Army in the South 1 west and Mid-Pacific Theatres. His ministry includes: Student Pastor of the Oklahoma School of Religion, Langston, Oklahoma, Minister of Christian Education and Pastor’s Assistant at the First Baptist Church North Tul sa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Will assume his duties as Min ister of the Bethel Baptist Church, 5318 So. 30th St. on November 13, 1955. 10, at 2311 Charles. Boys 13 to 15 who wish to join the rifle club and boys 12 and un der who would like to join the B B Gun Club may still do so by contacting either Mr. Bob Radin or Josh Gibson, at the Center, JA. 1116. Industry Leaders To Exchange Experience On Job Equality ■» The top executive of five of the nation’s leading industrial firms are scheduled to lead a full scale discussion of both successful methods and problems that have been encountered in the elimination of dis crimination in employment. The discussion will be one of the princi pal events on the schedule of the National Conference on Equal Job Opportunity, Eisenhower's Committee on Government Contracts. Vice President Richard Nixon, who is Chairman of the President’s Committee, will preside at the Conference, which will be held in the Treaty Room of the Executive Office Building. More than 65 of the nation’s most important industrial leaders have accepted the Vice President’s invitation to attend. Plans for the Conference, which the President’s Committee has been developing since last spring, were approved by President Eisen hower in August, and discussed with him again in Denver by Vice President Nixon. The purpose of the Conference is to study methods by which American business and industrial organizations have been able to reduce discrimination in employment opportunities. The Conference will open at 2 P.M. and continue until 5 P.M. It will be concluded by a dinner meting at 7:30 P.M. at the Shoreham Hotel. Reuben B. Robertson, Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense, in the absence of Secretary Wilson who is in Europe, will address the con ference on “Equal Job Opportunity in Military Procurement,” after the opening greeting by Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks. Sec retary of Labor James P. Mitchell, who is also vice chairman of Presi dent Eisenhower’s Committee, will speak next on “Using Community Resources for Equal Job Opportunity.” Fred Lazarus, Jr., president of the Federated Department Stores and a member of the President’s Committee, will serve as moderator for the panel discussion on “Successful Experiences in Developing an Equal Job Opportunity Program in Industry” following Secretary Mitchell’s talk. Participants in the discussion will include: John L. McCaffrey, president of International Harvester Company; Walter H. Wheeler, president of Pitney-Bowes, Inc.; Gwilym A. Price, president of Westinghouse Electric Corp.; Thomas Roy Jones, pres. of Daystrom, Inc.; and General David Sarnoff, chairman of the board of the Radio Corporation of America. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will be the speaker at the dinner meeting. In addition to members of the Cabinet who will speak at the Con ference, the following will also attend: Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., Post master General Arthur E. Summerfield, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion B. Folsom. George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor who is the only member of the President’s Committee unable to attend, has designated Bert Seidman of the AF of L national staff to repre^ sent him.