The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, March 23, 1956, Image 1
f—pr* — This \, xour Newspaper ■ ohma ; What you are doing is news, I W' ■ ^ V S* ; Please Phone Your News To ■ fl I ■ HA 0800 ■ ■ ■ M ■ - What you are do _ or send it to _ Please Phone Your News To THE OMAHA GUIDE __ — ^ P8.00 im 2420 Grant st /JUSTICE / EQUALITY ALL THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS[jj jOjltj HEW TO THEUnTN the'omaha guide EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ^ ^_2420 Grant st ^ Vol. 30 No. 4 Friday, March 23, 1956 _•__10c Per Copy Kef au ver's Food Stamp Plan Would Ease The Plight Of Urban and Rural Negroes Senator Estes Kefauver in mid west speeches, this week, proposed amendments to the farm bill which would directly affect the Negro city dweller who is feeling the piu-h of unemployment and high food prices. Under his overall farm program, the Negro stands to profit most through the consideration given the family-type farmer. Carryirg his bid for the Dem ocratic presidential nomination in to Iowa, the Senator declared: “I am sick and tired of hearing the Secretary of Agriculture moan a bout ‘overburdening surpluses’ and blaming the farmers’ woes on them.” This is significant in view of the many areas where Negroes are applying for relief to meet the bare necessities of subsistence— food and clothing ” The Senator does not believe we car afford to classify these food surpluses as a burden, since there are many ways they can serve to relieve suffering at home and make friends abroad. Under the Senator’s Food Stamp Plan, the Secretary of Agriculture Would be authorized to issue food stamps through regular state wel fare agencies. Such stamps would be redeemable for food on the sur plus list at stores participating in the plan. he says. “Any of those who are receiving benefits or assistance under the program of old-age as sistance, Federal Old-Age and Sur vivors Insurance Benefits, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and aid to permanently and totally disabled will he eligible for food stamps.” The Urban Negro is particularly aware of the need for the distri bution of suiplus food in a manner which will reach the thousands who are on the rolls of the agen cies listed. These statements by the Senator will be met by opposition in many quarters. However, the Senator has the evidence to refute the op timists who claim that everyone in our nation has plenty to eat. He cites as an example a member of a group which operates a center for assisting the needy in Washington. “He brought along some of the letters that they receive daily— grubby, grimy, written on torn pieces of paper with pencil,” the Senator said, and quoted from the letters: ‘Will you please send me a food order. My children haven’t had anything to eat all day long and wdl you send some food please be cause I have five children.’ ‘W’ill you please send me some fool. I have six children. I will appreciate anything you can send me Thank you.’” The Senator concludes: “We cal culate that there are about 18 million persons in the United States who would qualify for use of the food stamp plan.” On the other side of the surplus food problem, the Negro farmer stands w;*h other farmers. The Senior included in his speeches the following statements which di rectly affect the Negro farmer. “I intend to propose that we have a 100 per cent price supports from those farms showing revenue of $7000 or less; 90 per cent on in come between $7000 and $20,000; 75 per cent up to $50,000. This graduation will give the major benefit to the family-type farmer instead of the big ones. “Right now hogs are selling, I bel’eve, at around 53 per cent. If we set the minimum level at 90 per cent, then we would be say ing, in very rough figures, that the income of the hog farmers would be increased by around 30 per cent. I think that’s the kind of vital as sistance you need.” The keystone of Senator Kefau vers farm proposals is aid to the family-type farmer. YWCA STARTS Spring Classes Spring class enrollments are be ing accepted at the YWCA for the groups beginning April 2. Includ ed is a variety both in the after noon and evening for adults. Classes scheduled are: Ballroom dancing, sewing and tailoring, trim gym, badminton, golf, tennis, bridge (beginning and intermedi ate), painting and sketching, bowl Manuel Caldwell Manuel Caldwell, age 65 years, of 2423 Binney St., expired Tues day, March 13, 1956 at a local hos pital. He was an Omaha resident 43 years. Funeral services were held Thursday, March 22, 1956 at 2:00 P.M. from the Myers Brothers Fu neral Chajjel with Rev. F. C. Will iams officiating. Interment was at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Harding Asks Return To a.P.P.D. J. M. Harding, president of the Omaha Public Power District, has filed for re-election to the utility’s Board of Directors. Mr. Harding has been president of the Power District since it took over the properties of the Ne braska Power Company on Decem ber 2, 1946. He was appointed a director by the late Governor Dwight Griswold and elected presi dent by the original Board of Di rectors. He is the sole remaining j dir ector of the original Board still serving the utility. Mr. Harding was re-elected to a second six-year term in 1950. The post of presi dent of the utility pays $150 per month. In the investment business in Omaha, Mr. Harding is a native of Wisner, Nebraska, and a graduate iof Yale University. He was as sociated with the Harding Ice Cream Company, 1910-1937, and served as president, 1929-1937. He is a director and member of the executive committee of the Pull man Company. Active in civic af fairs, Mr Harding has served as 1 trustee of Creighton Hall, director of Defense Funds, Inc., and has participated in activities of the I Omaha Industrial Foundation, the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, and the Community Chest. Commenting on OPPD’S contri butions to the influx of new indus try to this area during the past several years, Mr. Harding said that adequate electric power supply at low rates has been a highly in fluencing factor. “No industry has side stepDed Omaha and lo cated elsewhere because of lack of low-cost electric power,” he said. OPPD’S industrial rates are the lowest of the ten major industrial cities in the Midwest. Under Mr. Harding’s leadership since 1946, the Power District has reduced electric rates, amounting to $l,250,00t annually; increased total assets from $42,000,000 to $121,000,000; and stepped up gen erating capacity from 116,000 kilo watts in 1946 to 290,000 today, with further additions scheduled for 1957 and 1959 that will bring gen erating capacity to 490,000 kilo watts. During the years of Mr. Harding’s presidency, customer use of electricity throughout the Dis trict has nearly doubled. Regarding future developments of the Power District, Mr. Harding expressed optimism. He stated that growth of the Omaha area as an industrial center will continue to bring new demands for elec trical energy, ing, judo, and swimming. Children’s classes included this spring are: Tap and ballet, swim ming, and painting and sketching. For teenagers: a special ball room dance rlass is offered on Sat urday afternoons. For additional information call the YWCA, JA 2748. Press Workshop Scenes More than 75 students attended the sixth annual Florida A and M University interscholastic press workshop held recently. Some of the scenes from the event are a bove. Top right, two students show their certificates of attend ance t0 workshop consultant Eric 0. Simpson (right), editor-publish er of The Florida Star in Jackson ville. At the right a group of students surround James K. Bay lor, instructor in presswork in the department of printing, as he op erates the university printing press on which the four-page work shop newspaper, “The Workshop per” was printed. Bottom photo shows the consul tants with President and Mrs. J George W. Gore, Jr., with whom they had lunch on Friday at their home, Sunshine Manor. Left to right, C. J. Smith, III, workshop director; Wesley W. South, public relations-director, Johnson Publish : ing Company; President Gore; Mar ion E Jackson, sports editor, The Atanta Daily World; Eric 0. Simp son, editor-publisher, The Florida Star, Jacksonville; Mrs. Gore; A. K. Knight, radio station WHRC, Jack sonville; Samuel E. Russell, co-or dinator, Trade and Industrial Edu cation, School of Engineering and Mechanic Arts, A & M; and Robert M. Ratcliffe, national news editor, The Pittsburgh Courier. (A and M starf photo by James Walden). Annette Hamilton Mrs. Annette Hamilton, age 75 years, of 3027 R St., expired Sat urday evening, March 17, 1956 at a local hospital. She was an Omaha resident 21 years and was a member of the Deaconess Board of Mt. Olive Bap tist Church. She is survived by her husband, Dave Hamilton of Omaha; daugh ter, Lovie Hamilton of Omaha; son, Dewitt Hamilton, U. S. Army, Ft. Bliss, Texas, sister, Mrs. Bell Breakfield of Omaha and a host of nieces, nephews and other rela tives. Funeral services tentatively ar ranged for Saturday, March 24, 1956 at 30:00 A.M. from the Mt. Olive Baptist Church with Rev. J. 0. White officiating. Myers Brothers Funeral Service. Girl Scouts Sell Cookies To Aid Fund Again this year the Girl Scouts will be selling cookies from April 11th, Wednesday, through the 23rd, Monday. This is a worthy cause and they are looking for promotion al support. Anything you can do in your windows, in stores, or giving them sales room in stores will certainly be appreciated by them. The World Herald and neighborhood newspapers will be given cuts should anyone want to promote the event in their ads. If the mat is too large a few lines in the ad vertisements may help get the job done. In a juvenile delinquency panel discussion the other night it was pointed out that very, very seldom is a member of the Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts in trouble in town. By supporting activities of this nature we are helping develop our future citizens as well as our present com munity life. Anv support you can give certainly will be appreciated. Yvette Butler Yvette Denice Butler, 2 month old daughter of Blonzine and Na thaniel Butler, 3233 Willis Ave., expired Monday evening, March 19, 1956 at a local hospital. She is also survived by two sis ters. Roxie Ann and Carmen De lores; two brothers, Gregory and Nathaniel, Jr. all of Omaha. Committal services were held Wednesday, March 21, 1956 at Graceland Park Cemetery. Myers Brothers Funeral Service. jr Writer Says Negroes Ready For Trouble As Price Of Justice And Freedom i _ Arthur Montgomery Arthur Montgomery, 71 years, 2508 M Street, expired suddenly Saturday morning, March 18th. Mr. Montgomery was a retired Union Pacific Railroad employee. He is survived by a brother, Mr. 1 Alfred Montgomery, Vicksburg, Mississippi. The body is at Thomas Mortuary. Ad Taker Is Incapacitated Mrs. James W. Allen who has been taking care of the Classified ad department for the Omaha Guide the past month, sprained an ankle Monday and hindered her from being at the office the most part of the week. But hope to give full time from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. starting Monday, March 26th. Will appreciate calls for ads and apart ments. HA 0800. Brandeis Gives Holy Week Service For the second year, J. L. Bran deis & Sons v'ill provide television time for a series of Holy Week religious services and programs. A “Festival of Faith”, including Catholic, Protestant and Jewish ob servances. will be seen on WOW TV on March 29 and 30. Opening the series will be the traditional Holy Thursday service, I “Consecration of the Oils”. It will be telecast direct from St. Cecelia’s Cathedral on Thursday morning, March 29. from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Narration of the service will be done by Rev. Michael Kelly, as sisted by Ray Clark of WOW-TV. On Thursday afternoon from 2:30 to 3:00, “The Passover Seder” will be presented. Beth El Syna gogue Children’s Choir will per form a model “seder” or festival banquet, which opens the Jewish observance of Passover. Rabbi Myer S. Kripke and Cantor Aaron I. Edgar are supervising the pro duction. - i The American Negro is prepared for trouble “if that is the price” in his fignt for “justice and free dom”, a prominent Negro writer said today. Prize-winning reporter - author Carl Rowan described “What Ne groes Really Want” in an article in the new issue of Look Magazine. “From illiterate cotton pickers to college presidents,” Mr. Rowan said, “I heard the same story.” “The Negro wants his children to grow up free from the scourges of illness, ignorance and poverty. “He wants the opportunity to work at the best job for which his intellect and training qualify him. “He wants to live in a society where individuals are free to as sociate whatever their race or background. “The Negro wants a voice in the government that shapes his life. “Perhaps most of all, the Negro wants the dignity to which free men are entitled. He wants to be judged on his individual merits as a first-class American citizen, and not as a savage whose tastes ‘re main close to the caterpillar and cockroach,’ as Judge Tom P. Brady of Brookhaven, Mississippi, put it.” “The Negro is confident,” Mr. Rowan said in Look, because, “There is a new Negro in the land. He is better educated, economical ly stronger, and he strides toward freedom with a determination bol- i stered by the knowledge that the' major forces at work in the world today are on his side.” A Good Friday service, conduct ed by the Omaha Council of Churches, will conclude the “Fes tival of Faiths” series. It will be telecast on Friday, March 30, di rect from the Omaha Theater, starting at 12:30 p.m. “Festival of Faiths” is presented through tie courtesy of J. L. Bran deis & Sens, as pert of their com munity service program. Brandeis also provided television time for a series of holiday programs dur ing the Christmas season. In announcing the “Festival of Faiths” schedule, Karl N. Louis, vice president and general man ager of Brandeis, said, “The pur pose of these programs is to put emphasis on spiritual values and religious ideals—the things that bring strength and happiness to our community.” Effie Land Mrs. Effie Washington Land, age 56 years, of 2807 Franklin St., ex pired suddenly Wednesday, March 14, 1956 at her home. She was an Omaha resident 56 years. She is survived by her son, Elm er Washington of Omaha; sister, Mrs. Hattie Myers of Omaha; three grandchildren. Funeral services were held Monday, March 19, 1956 at 2:00 P. M. from the Myers Brothers Fu neral Chapel with Rev. L. A. Park er officiating. Interment was at Graceland Park Cemetery. Pallbearers Messrs Wilson, W. Thomas, H. Blackson, A. Brown, A. Beene and C. V. Dodson. I Legion Meet Draws Big Attendance Theodore Roosevelt Post No. 30 American Legion held at the Legion Hall on last Thursday night the 15th one of the most well attended joint meetings in its history. The men were there in large numbers as well a very fine attendance by the Legion Ladies. The essence of the meeting was mostly promotional procedures for the good and welfare of the Post. Already wonderful financial pro gress is being made as all commit tees reported progress in their re spective fields and missions. In this way the Post is bound to come to the front again as several brand new young Legionnaires were pres ent ar.d pledged full support of the program of the American Legion. The following sick veterans are in V. A Hospital: Raplh Under wood, Clifford Foster, Richard Johnson, Water Williams, Robert Smith, Gene Freels, Edward Beas ley, Nathaniel Watson, John Pierce, others not reported in time to go ! to press. The self appointed sick committee is as ever on the job and continues to do a very fine work. Let’s all join them and go ourselves out to see a sick buddy. Lest we forget the Ladies served a very fine and tempting repast at the aforementioned joint meeting such a fine cooperation and genu ine exhibit of American Legion spirit makes us know the truth and that our aim is to do our best and so doing we serve our God, our Fellowman and our Country. H. D. Stewart, Commander. H. L. Embry, Jr., Adjutant. N. H. Comans. Pub. Officer. Senator Asks Continued Segregation New York, Senator Sam J. Ervin (Dem., N. C ) today called upon the South to organize a “system of voluntary school segregation,” to get around the controversial Su preme Court decision on that is sue. Senator Ervin also attacked Chief Justice Earl Warren and his as sociates for their decision on school desegregation in an article in the new issue of Look Magazine entitled, “The Case for Segrega tion.” Senator Ervin, known as a Southern moderate, asserted that if the philosophy of the Supreme Court prevails, “the Constitution will be reduced to a worthless scrap of paper, the American sys tem of government will perish, and the states and their citizens will be come helpess subjects of a judi cial oligarchy.” Claiming in his Look article that voluntary school segregation is sanctioned by the Supreme Court even under the ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education, Senator Ervin cited an opion of Chief Judge John J. Parker of the U. S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit. Judge Parker said, “Nothing in the Constitution or in the decision of the Supreme Court takes away from the people freedom to choose the schools they attend. The Con stitution, in other words, does not require integration. It merely forbids discrimination. It does not ■ forbid such segregation as occurs as a result of voluntary action.” Voluntary school segrega t i o n “would afford moderate Southern ers of both races an opportunity to solve the South’s racial problem in an atmosphere of good will, pati-' ence and tolerance,” the North Carolina Senator continued in his article. Senator Ervin, acknowledging his belief in “racial segregation as it Southern Writer Urges Caution On Promotion Of Compulsory Integration Dr. Jones To | Speak On Easter Dr. Laurence C. Jones, the “Little Professor”, and founder of Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods, Mississippi, will be one of the speakers at the Bald Knob Easter sunrise service near Alto Pass, Illinois Sunday morn ing, April 1 at 6 o’clock. Dr. Jones has become world famous by starting a school for Negro children on a log under a pine tree near his home and build ing it into a thriving institution. Recently the public contributed more than $700,000 to endow his school following his appearance on a national TV program. British Seek Negro As A White Slayer A statement appearing in Lon don today announced that more than one thousand detectives were ordered last night to find out where every colored man in Lon don, England spent Saturday af ternoon of last week. Area cover ed by this order is seven hundred square miles of the Metropolitan police area. Search is to find the killer of Mrs Selma Schwartz fifty-five year old white woman from Vien na, Austria who came to England as refugee from Nazis persecution. She was found strangled in her basement flat at Bayswater, Lon don where there is colored popula tion. Was well known as friend of [scores of colored peoples from Jamaici, Trinidad, West Africa, America, etc. had them as regualr visitors. 1 I ——__________________ exists in the South today,” denied that it “is based on any theory of racial superiority or racial inferior ity.” Segregation “results from the ex ercise of a fundamental American freedom—the freedom to select one’s associates.” the U. S. Sena tor wrote in Look. “It is recognized by the vast majority of Southern ers, both white and Negro, as an acceptable way of life for both races.” At the same time, Senator Exwin denied that the system has robbed Southern Negroes of major eco nomic opportunities. “In many Southern cities they operate banks, insurance companies, public trans portation systems and other sub stantial business enterprises,” he said. Senator Ervin’s article in Look presented the Southern viewpoint | as part of a survey in the current issue of the magazine on the sub i ject of, “The South vs. the Supreme Court.” Anna Welch Mrs. Anna Welch, 81 years, 2433 Caldwell Street, passed away Sun day evening, March 18th at a local | hospital. Mrs. Welch had been a resident of Omaha sixty-six years. She is survived by one brother, Mr. Jasper Brown: sister-in-law, Mrs. Roxie Brown, of Omaha; seven nieces, Mrs. Harriett Brown, Blan- i chard, Iowa, Mrs. Rossetta Welch, Oskaloosa, Iowa, Mrs. Beaulah Price, Mrs. Viola Taylor, Mrs. An na Stewart, Mrs. Iola Holliday, of Omaha and other relatives. The Rosary was recited 7:30 P.M. Tuesday evening at the mortuary, New York — Mississippi’s Nobel Prize Winning author, William Faulkner, today warns the NAACP and ail the organziations and groups which would force integra tion on the South by legal process to “stop now for a moment.” “Vou have shown the Southern er what you can do and what you wiH do if necessary; give him a space in which to get his breath and assimilate that knowledge; to look about and see that (1) nobody is going to force integration on him from the outside; (2) that he himsell faces an obsolescence in his own land which only he can cure; a moral condition which not only must be cured but a physical condition which has got to be cured if he, the White Southerner, is to have any peace, is not to be faced wich another legal process or maneuver every year, year after year, for the rest of his life.” The Untenable Middle Faulkner, writing in the current isue of LIFE Magazine, says that he is against compulsory integra tion from principle and because he doesnt’ believ compulsion will work. He describes his views on integration as being those of “a comparative handful” of Southern ers who are "present yet detached, committed and attained neither by Citizens’ Council nor NAACP.” He says that those holding this "mid dle” position will be trampled by “any incipient irrevocability” on integration and forced to abandon their position “where we could have worked to help the Negro im prove his condition.” Faulkner writes in his "Letter to the North” that the Southern moderates were drawn to the Negro’s side by “the simple human instinct to champion the underdog,” but that this “un derdog” status will disappear if l forced integration advocates per sist. At that point, Faulkner says, his group would “have to make a new choice” and side with “that embattled White minority who are our blood and kin.” Faulkner likens this choice to that of many Southerners, includ ing Robert E. Lee, in 1860 who chose civil war rather than accept alteration of racial condition by mere force of law or economic threat. He states that the North erner has failed to recognize this lesson of the Civil War and that he still does not know the South. “He can’t know it from his dis tance. He asumes that he is deal ing with a simple legal theory and a moral idea. He is not. He is dealing with a fact: the fact of an emotional condition of such fierce unanimity as to scorn the fact that it is a minority and which wil go to any length and against any odds at this moment to justify and, if necessary, defend that condition and its right to it.” League To Aid Youth Guidance I _ Mrs. Kathryn Favors chairman of the Urban League’s Vocational I Guidance Advisory Committee, an nounced today that the League will sponsor a VOCATIONAL GUID ANCE INSTITUTE for youth in grades through twelve on Saturday, April 21, 1956. The Institute will be held at Kellom School and Rec reational Center. Mrs. Favors stated that around two hundred youths are expected to attend the Institute. Subjects to be covered by the Institute are: “Recent Developments in New and Extended Job Opportunities for Minorities”, “The Challenge of ‘Blue Collar’ Jobs”, and “Basic Facts which Parents and Pupils should Have about Vocational Guidance.” Social and Civic organizations are again being asked to sponsor the attendance of youths who they feel can benefit from participation in the Vocational Guidance Insti tute. with Father C. Kerr, in charge. Funeral services were held 8:30 Wednesday morning from St. Bene dict’s Catholic Church with Father John Kiloren, S. J. officiating : Pal1 bearers Mr. Charles Martin George Bryant, Richard Lecoq, Joe Smith, James Owens, Cliff Ham . mock. Interment was in the family .Plot at Forest Lawn Cemetery