. W-.J. t * - w V" I ! ^ l gmmm • ^ * • This Is Your Newspaper n the YWCA for the fun and fellowship of clubs, sports, dances, | (lasses and Conferences. The YWCA offers activities for wo men and girls of all races and creeds. YWCA facilities serving the public include activities at the main building. 17th and St. Mary’s Avenue; Northside Branch, 28th and Miami; Residence for girls at 2016 Cass; and year round facili ties at Camp Brewster, 78th and Bellevue Blvd. Y-Teen Clubs for Teen-Age girls are sponsored by the YWCA in each of the six public high schools with Councils, Conferen ces and dances held at the “Y” and Camp Brewster. Young wives and mothers may take classes and sports at the main YW three mornings a week with train ed nursery care for all pre school children. Young adult gToups have clubs and classes as well. Membership in the YWCA is 50c per year for teen-age girls of 12-17 with a $2.00 membership for all women over 17 years of ?ge. A goal of 1,400 members has been set for the month of March. Fourteen Captains will lead their workers with a goal of 100 mem - I bers for each of the fourteen groups. Each Captain is hoping her group will succeed in topping the 100 mark. A huge PROGRESS BOARD in the lobby of the “Y” has been set up to chart results daily. Captains spearheading the activ ities for the fourteen teams are: Mmes. A. L. Bennett, Thos. Beck, Alfred Geary, James Henderson, Gonzella Henry, Wesley B. How ard, Fred Hill, Henry Kleinkauf, M. E. La Bounty, George C. Mit ! tauer, K. Patrick Okura, W. W. | Peebles, C. Phillips and the Misses Betty Legge and Esther Park. Any woman or girl wanting to join the fun and fellowship of VWCA membership is welcome and urged to join without delay. Further information may be se cured by calling JA. 2748. Join the YWCA TODAY! Emma E. Johnson ■ Mrs. Emma E. Johnson, 76 years, 3032 Pratt Street, passed away Wednesday morning Febru ary 22nd at a local hospital. Mrs. Johnson had been a resident of Omaha twenty eight years and was a devoted member of St. John’s AME Church and the Court | of Calanthe. Mrs. Johnson is , survived by one daughter, Mrs. Edna Peery, and son-in-law, 'Mr. Brummel Peery with whom she1 made her home, sister-in-law, Miss ( Leola Johnson, Kansas City Mo., ■, and other relatives. Funeral ser- , vices were ’ held 10:30 Friday j < morning from Thomas Mortuary’! ^ with the Rev. S. H. Lewis officia- i ■ ting. Pall bearers were Mr. j ( Burns Scott, Malcom Scott, Bert Fowler, William Davis, Bruce Johnson, and Russell E. Reese. Interment was at Forest Lawn Cemetery. i Clay To hton Meeting S. J., president of Creighton, said today that he had received an ac ceptance from General Clay. The banquet at which the general will speak will be held at the Hotel Fontenelle Saturday, March 24. The convocation speaker on Friday evening, March 23, will be His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York. General Clay is noted for his service as military governor of the U. S. Zone in Germany from 1947 to 1949 during which the Berlin Air Lift was in operation. He was also in command of the Normandy base in 1944 during the Allied invasion. He retired from the Army in 1949. He is now chairman of the board of directors of the Contin ental Can Company. General Clay’s last visit to Omaha was in October, 1952, when he participated in the plan ning of construction of the new' Continental Can Company plant. Mrs. America Contest May Be Held In Omaha — Omaha will be considered to morrow (Thursday) as the pos sible location for the Nebraska ‘ Mrs. America” contest scheduled next fall. j Theodore G. Miller, chairman of j the Convention Bureau of the | Omaha Chamber of Commerce, j said Dale Johnson of the Metro-! politan Utilities District, will! represent Omaha in negotiations ; at the Thursday meeting of the State Committee in Lincoln. The contest committe will con- j sider the bids of several Nebras ka cities for the “Mrs. America” competition, which is sponsored j by all utility firms in the state. The contest reguires facilities j that will provide stoves and other j kitchen appliances, since entrants : are judged primarily on their abilities as homemakers. _ Mrs. Roxie Pettis Mrs. Roxie Pettis, 51 years, 2504' Charles Street, expired Monday norning February 20th. Mrs. Pet ;is had been a resident of Omaha ufteen years. She was the mana ger of the Walker Hotel. Mrs. 3ettis is survived by her husband, j Mr. Alva Pettis, three sisters, Mrs. Cleopatra Mitchell, Omaha, Mrs. Mamie McNealey, San Francisco, j Calif., Mrs. Ida Belle Lewis, Seat Je, Washington, brother, Mr.1 Fames Ross, St. Paul, Minnesota, lephew, Mr. Robert Mitchell, )maha and other relatives. Fun :ral services were held two I >’clock Friday afternoon February j 55th from the Morning Star Bap-! 1st Church with the Rev. Z. W. ( iVilliams officiating. Pall bear- j ;rs. Mr. Charles Wilson, Andrew j 3edford, J. W. King, A. Holmes, j A Henderson, and D. C. Cowen. j 3urial was at Mt. Hope Cemetery , vith arrangements by Thomas t Mortuary. < Post No. 30 | Looks To New Development Theodore Roosevelt Post No. 30 American Legion with a good head start in great preparations for its future development is meeting the challenge with firm resolve. As has been stated before the Execu tive body is functioning 100 per cent as is the main body and all the officers. The Ladies Auxiliary is com bining its forces with that of the men in an earnest endeavor to help all they can. All we need now is the support of outside of the Legion. Veterans to come on in and join up as the cry and plea for new members is city-wide on both radio and television. All eligi ble veterans and old Legion bud dies pay now your 1956 dues and j enjoy the great benefits of being ! a member of the world's greatest service organization. Ever equal to the task and never failing is that group of Legionaires who weekly visit all veterans sick in V.A. Hospital, headed by stal wart Frank Payne and others. They report the following sick in Hospital: Nathaniel Watson, John Pierce, Ralph Underwood, Henry Toland, John Freale, Clifford Fos ter, Geo. Barber, Wilbert Brewster, Walter Williams. Those recently released are Will Calhoun, Willie Bell, Wm. Cullens, Chas. Corbin, Wilkerson Harper, Herbert Byas. As we endeavor to increase our service and enlarge our desire to keep high the mighty principles the Legion thereby we pledge our alligence to God, our Country and our Fellowman. H. D. Stewart, Commander H. L. Embry, Jr., Adjutant N. H. Comans, Pub. Officer. tWh fMfTIVTHS Africans Qualify As Physical Training Instructors ■ Chatting together at the Army School of Physical Training at Al dershot in England, are two mem bers of the Royal West African Frontier Force who have just pass ed out as fully qualified physical training instructors. On the left is Company Sergeant Major Add ingi of Nigeria, and (right) is Ser geant Adjoi Monsa of the Gold Coast. Both C.S.M. Addingi and Ser geant Monsa joined the School just over a year ago. They became great friends, took their training together and were awarded their certificates at the same ceremony. They will shortly be leaving Brit ain to return to their own coun tries where they will teach physi cal traning to men of the Royal West African Frontier Force. (As sociated Negro Press) Mrs. Marvel Tells Of YWCA Importance The importance of the YWCA in the world of today was ably brought out by Mrs. Archie Mar vel, the Brotherhood speaker on Sunday. She said, in part; “It would be much easier to talk a bout what ought to be done in Alabama, or Africa, but in the WCA we talk about ourselves,— which is much harder, and we be gin with ourselves. We are com mitted to make the ideals of Brotherhood an integral part of our lives. We must live out what we say we believe.” Her talk was a good spur to the beginning of the annual Member ship Enlistment of the Omaha WCA. Several persons who had never been members of the YWCA signed application cards. Enthusiasm was heightened, also by the spirit of one of the pioneer members, Mrs. Hurmey Hand,— known to all as “Mother Hand”— who became the first to pay her membership in this years enlist ment. Mrs. Hand has done this for many years, and she is a real challenge to younger women of our city. There will be a Kick-Off Luncft eon for the membership enlist ment workers, 57 of them, under the direction of Mrs. Thomas Beck, Membership chairman. The luncheon will be held on Satur day afternoon, at 1:00 p.m. Ar rangements are in charge of Mrs. Ernestine Speese and Mrs. Dora Green. Speakers at the meeting will be Mr.Neil Danberg. of the National Conference of Christian and Jews, and Mrs. Alyce Wilson of Wood son Center. They will stress the importance of intergroup reia tions—Mr. Danberg from th« world and national viewpoint, and Mrs. Wilson from the local view point. The ministers of the North side area have been invited to be ! special guests at this time. Sun day, March 4 will be YWCA in the churches. At this time local pastors are asked to help inter pret the WCA to their congrega tions. Mrs.Beck is arranging for speakers in the various churches, where it is possible. HI 11 Ip |HELPJCBimM Heroine Of The Night Heroine of the night for victims f a tragic church supper fire near laltimore, that left ten dead and mndreds injured, was Mrs. Edythe I. Coleman (in truck in top left ihoto), night vice chairman for the olunteer motor service in the Dis rict of Columbia, American Red 'ross. Shown with Mrs. Edward J. Moore, motor service chairman, Mrs. Coleman drove 200 pints of whole blood and 100 pints of ser um to Baltimore TOP RIGHT: Tender care is given to a tiny vie-, tim of the raging Naugatuck River by Mrs. Richard Loomis, volunteer Red Cross nurse of Hartford, Conn. I BOTTOM LEFT: San Jeaquin Coun- j ty was one of many California counties hit hard by Christmas week floods. One of disaster suf ferers is shown receiving needed supplies from Miss Bernice Gallo way of Los Angeles Red Cross chapter. BOTTOM RIGHT: Ameri can Red Cross Volunteer Gray Lady, Mrs. Emma H. Pendergrass, plays a game of scrabble with two* patients at U. S. Air Force Hospital in Nouassour, French Morocco*. The servicemen are A/2c Robert K h'artzell of Nu Mine, Pa. (left) iand A/3c Francis B. Arthur of New ; Brunswick, Canada. Miss Pender grass is a graduate of Howard Uni versity. (Associated Negro Press)