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Who Sends The FBI Where?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
lias addressed an important and explosive question to Attorney Gen
eral Brownell. The question involves the fate of two children; it also
involves the issue of equal justice.
The inquiry arises out of the strange contrast between the FBI’s
prompt intervention in the feared kidnaping of 3-year-old Stephen
Damman, at East Meadow, L. I., and its total failure to act in the
Mississippi kidnaping of a 14-year-old Negro named Emmett Louis Till.
On August 28 young Till disappeared while visiting relatives at
Money, Mississippi. Members of his family immediately charged he
had been kidnaped by three white men.
For more than three days Till was listed as missing. But the FBI
never entered the case.
On August 31 the mutilated body of Emmett Till was found float
ing in the Tallahatchie River.
Things have been different so far on Long Island. We pray there
will be a happier ending.
Within 24 hours after the Damman child vanished, the FBI was
on the scene to aid frustrated local officials in the search for the miss
ing child.
The NAACP’s question remains unanswered:
Why was the FBI present on Long Island and absent during the
three crucial days in Mississippi? Till’s life might not have been
saved; but the FBI might have amassed irrefutable evidence against
bis killers.
* • •
Technically, the justification for FBI entrance into a kidnaping
'Case is the supposition that the victim has been transported across
state lines.
Actually this becomes a matter of discretion for the Justice De
partment and the FBI. In virtually any kidnaping there is reasonable
basis for the theory that an interstate crime may have been com
mitted. Certainly public opinion generally supports the widest use of
the FBI when a child’s life is at stake.
Who decided that Mississippi was off-limits for the FBI in the
Till case? Why?
News From Around Nebraska
Albion held a Pancake Day a week ago and served an esti
mated 16,500 pancakes, according to the Albion News. Somebody
on the News staff did a little figuring and came up with the con
clusion that if all the pancakes were stacked on top of each other
they would make a pile as tall as Albion’s water tower.
In the lingo of the waitress at Blairs restaurants, that could
n’t hardly be termed a “short stack.”
The big project required 1000 pounds of pancake flour, 400
pounds of sausage, 192 bottles of syrup and 760 bottles of cream.
In case you are still hungry, don’t forget Blair is having a
pancake day today so you have the opportunity of filling up as a
.guest of the Blair Merchants.
* * *
The Ainsworth Legion Post has announced a novel and useful
Christmas project. The men are collecting used toys which they
are rebuilding and putting in shape for distribution to under
priviledged families in the community. They did the same thing
last year and furnished toys to 78 families in Brown County. The
post collects the toys in a porch light campaign and then does the
rebuilding in evening sessions. The Ainsworth Star-Journal fea
itured the story last week.
• • •
New construction completed or started in Chadron and the
immediate area during 1955 will amount to more than a million
dollars, according to the Chadron Record which ran a total on
the work last week. The building includes 20 new homes.
Coming in 1956 will be a boys’ dormitory at the Chadron
State Teachers College which will cost $304,000 plus a lot of
«idewalk laying and a water extension program which will cost
$136,000.
* • •
The largest com yield heard of this year is claimed by an
Ord man. He raised 125 bushels of com per acre on a 28 acre
.field.
He farms along the North Loup river two miles north of Ord.
The 28-acre patch is right on the river bank and is sub-irrigated
from the river. Even in the driest weeks, the farmer told the
Ord Quiz, he could scuff off some of the top soil and see moist
earth.
Because the yield was so unusual, the farmer has been pick
ing a row and then measuring it. The checks have indicated
yields as high as 210 bushels per acre but it was estimated the
yield would level off at about 125 bushels per acre.
The field had been fertilized lightly last spring.
* * *
Minden stores closed at 4:30 last Friday to permit the busi
ness men and their employees to drive to Cozad to see the Minden
Cozad football game. Apparently the Minden men follow the team
quite closely.
• • *
City and county authorities had to move in at Ogallala last
-week to apprehend high school students and adults who took part
in so-called “Halloween pranks”. Three adult men were arrest
ed after it was discovered they were responsible for punching
itoles in the radiators of cars and a truck and the throwing of
arid on upholstery, in one instance the men not only punctured
tbe radiators but they punched the heater, cut electric lines,
broke oil lines and did other damage.
One high school student was under arrest when he allegedly
threw acid on the rug of a home when he was told he was “too
large to play tricks or treats." Damage to the rug amounted to
$500, the Keith County News said.
• * *
In an unusual switch of affairs, the teachers at Aurora play
ed hosts to the business men there last week. They returned the
hospitality of the Aurora Chamber of Commerce who had them as
their guests-a year ago. The meal was served in the school’s cafe
teria. During the evening, school was discussed and there was a
greater understanding of school problems between the men and the
faculty.
The Cedar County News, printed at Hartington, revealed last
week that there are 55 boys and girls who are residents of Cedar
county who are attending high schools in other counties. As a
result of this wholesale trek away from home, Cedar county is
going to have to pay over $20,000 in Free High School Tuition
funds to other counties, the News pointed out Towns receiving
the money are Crofton, Bloomfield, Yankton and even Wayne.
• * *
There was more extensive Halloween damage at Bassett last
week, the Rock County Leader revealed. Vandals, under the
guise of Halloweeners, wrecked a drive-in theatre to the extent
of several thousands of dollars. They wrecked the big outdoor
screen, tore up the posts and wiring which holds the speakers,
cut holes in the fence and left the place in a shambles.
I * * *
Tax collections in Holt County at Atkinson are tied up in a
lawsuit A group of tax payers have gone together and filed
suit against the County Treasurer and other county officials, claim
ing that a reappraisal of property values which has just been
completed there, is unlawful.
The suit is the third one of its kind which have been filed in
Holt County protesting real estate valuations which were arrived
at by the appraisal firm of E. T. Wilkins Associates.
* * *
A swimming pool made out of steel is being considered for
Curtis, Nebraska the Curtis Enterprise revealed last week. The
big tank would have a concrete bottom but the sides would be
made of steel sheets.
Principal advantage to that type of construction is lower up
keep and lower building costs.
There is one other steel pool in the state at Pilger, the Cur
tis newspaper revealed, and the pool being considered would be
patterned after that one.
* • •
And here’s a parting thought that will leave you shivering.
A deep sea diver, operating off a barge in the Missouri River,
spent much of last week checking the oil pipelines of the Champ
lin Refining Co. at Ponca last week. He walked along the bottom
of the river, uncovering the line where necessary, to see what
its condition might be.
Br-r-r-r. Why didn’t they do that in July?
Alaska
Holds Many
Opportunities
Anchorage, Alaska — An Alas
kan NAACP Coordinating Com
mittee has been established here
by Franklin H. Williams, the As
sociation’s West Coast secretary
counsel. The committee, under
chairmanship of Mrs. Zora Banks
of Fairbanks, will coordinate the
NAACP program throughout the
Territory.
Following a seven-day tour of
major Alaskan communities, dur
ing which he established the com
mittee, Mr. Williams called Alas
ka “truly a land of opportunity for
all Americans who are seeking
communities within which to pur
sue their professions or obtain em
ployment opportunities.”
“The Territory,” he continued,
“wants and can use many qualified
Americans, regardless of color, to
teach or provide professional or
skilled services for its growing
populace.”
The NAACP singled out the
Electrical Workers Union in Fair
banks and several other “major
unions” as “the one area within
which discrimination of a most
vicious type continues.”
Army Life
Has Effect
On Security
The report of the Workers De
fense League, underwritten by the
Ford Foundation’s Fund for the
Republic and presented to the Pen
tagon authorities on Thursday by
Norman Thomas and its author,
j Rowland Watts is, on its face, a
serious indictment of the Army’s
security procedure in relation to
draftees. Documented with sum
maries of forty-eight specific cases,
the report charges widespread and !
flagrant miscarriages of justice, i
These have come about, it states,
because the personal opinions, the
associations and the activities of
draftees before their induction are j
made a major factor in the kind of
discharge each one receives after
he has served—irrespective of his
record in the Army. For example,'
cases are cited of draftees who \
have been stigmatized because of
their political opinions and associ
ations in earliers days, or those of j
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relatives as far removed as grand
parents, step-fathers or in-laws.
More draftees run into such diffi
culties than might be supposed
because most of those about whom
questions are raised are inducted
before the final answers, if any,
are in hand.
Those who receive an “undesir
able discharge” find it almost im
possible to get a job. Even those
whose security record is not con
sidered serious enough to warrant
the stigma “undesirable” and who
get a “general discharge” are giv
en certificates stamped to show
security charges have been in
volved—even though unproved.
The report further asserts that
the Army has, in effect, assumed
political and social censorship of
every man between the ages of,
roughly, 15 and 30. Before induc
tion he fears the consequences,
when drafted, of nonconformity or
association with nonconformists.
He also knows that his conduct
during the six years he is in the
Reserve, after his period of active
service, will affect his final rating.
Had these charges been made by
some irresponsible or suspect
agency they might well be ignored;
but this is not the case. The
Workers Defense League has a
notable record of opposition to
both communism and fascism and
devotion to the cause of civil lib
erties. The report deserves most
careful study by those in the Pent
agon responsible for draftee se
curity procedure. It calls either
for disproof or action to curb the
abuses it reveals.
Without passing judgment on
the merits of the survey, it seems
obvious that the kind of discharge
a draftee gets should be based en
tirely on his service in the Army.
After all, if the Army has reason
able doubts that a man will be a
loyal soldier it shouldn’t draft
him in the first place. To force
him into the service and then dis
charge him with a document that
will deprive him of a fair chance
to make a living is neither just
nor conducive of good Army
morale.
SAN DIEGO NAACP RAISES
QUOTA ON HOLIDAY SEALS
San Diego, Calif. — The San
Diego NAACP branch has set
$1,000 as the quota for its 1955
Holiday Seal drive, it was an
nounced here by Mrs. Ruth Green,
president.
Mrs. Green said the NAACP
unit has added $400 to the original
quota because of “the drastically
increased cost of fighting racial
discrimination throughout the na
tion.”
Proceeds from nationwide sales
of Holiday Seals provide funds for
local and national work of the
Association.
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Real Estate
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Six University of Omaha stu
dents comprise one of the most
unique classes in the country.
So unique in fact that their
professor, C. Glenn Lewis, is go
ing to tell 100 Real Estate pro
fessors from all over the country
about them at Columbia Univer
sity later this month.
Lewis’s Real Estate Lab class
consists of three men from Oma
na and three from Council Bluffs,
Iowa.
Each Monday they sit down in
one of the University’s classrooms
and talk over the week’s happen
ings. The educational term for
this is “seminar.” It’s as far
away from a “bull session” as
you can get.
At these Monday meetings
the students discuss their jobs.
Each one works for a real estate
firm. Some do sales work, others
are in the financing end of real
estate and one is an assistant of
fice manager.
These six future realtors work!
from 10 to 20 hours per week.
Besides the weekly seminar, they
have assigned reading in text
books and periodicals. Both the
employer and the professor grade
the students. The students also
write two papers that help in the
final grade: one deals with the
work correlated with theories
learned in the seminars; the other
is a self analysis paper.
The six in the class are: James
Blake 5702 N. 16th, assistant of
fice ’manager for Tegtmeier
Reality Co.; Owen Giles, 825 N.
48th, salesman for Fitzgerald Co.,
and Charles Stillwell, 701 S. 22nd,
real estate finance with Nebras
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maha; and Muril Hibbard, 98 4th
St. salesman for Winn-Phillips
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307 N. 7th St. salesman for Home
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