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' Vol. 30 No. 12 Friday, May 18, 1956 10c Per Copy
AMEZ 35th Quadrennial Delegates
Delegates to the 35th Quadren
nial session of the African Metho
dist Episcopal Zion church pose
for official photograph between
meetings in Pittsburgh. The bis
hops of the denomination are seat
ed in front. During the meeting,
| the AMEZ’s elected three new
bishops and announced new as
signments for all of the church's
12 bishops. The group also pass
ed a resolution calling on states
:o comply with racial integration
rulings. (Associated Negro Press)
Pentecost Is Theme Of
May 20th Lutheran Hour
Speaking on the theme of Pent
ecost. Dr. Oswald Hoffman will
address his audience on The
Lutheran Hour in his May 20
broadcast on the topic. "The
Spirit of God Talks.”
Dr. Hoffman will say that the
story of Pentecost “must be very
upsetting to the secularist and
the naturalist. It assumes a
startling fact, which a secularist
cannot admit: that God is per
sonal, and that He comes to peo
ple personally.”
The Lutheran Hour speaker
will tell his audience on the Mu
tual network and affiliated sta
tions that “people are perfectly
willing to toy around with God,
to discuss Him philosophically,
but they don’t really want to find
Him.”
He will add. however, that
“when the Spirit turns people to
Jesus Christ, He is creating a fel
lowship which includes all be
lievers in Jesus Christ.”
Dr. Hoffman will point out that
the founding of the Church at
Pentecost was done in a remark
able way, “as a living illustration
of the fact that the Gospel of
Jesus Christ cannot be restricted
by the boundaries of nationality
or of language,”
“Wherever the Gospel of for
giveness in Jesus Christ is
preached, there will be Christians
whose lives have been created
anew by the Holy Spirit of God,
giving them power to live as they
would not be able to live under
their own power,” Dr. Hoffman
will conclude.
Legion's May
9th Program
Was Good
Theodore Roosevelt Post No. 30
American Legion gave a very out
standing presentation at Tech
High Auditorium last May 9—
headlined by the All American
Quartette from Arkansas and very
ably assisted by the Zion Baptist
Men s Chorus. A very good crowd
was present and the affair was one
never to be forgotten and was
thoroughly enjoyed by all. The
Legion committee headed by com
rade J. C. Stewart is to be highly
complimented in presenting this
stellar affair to the public. The
morale and spirit of the Post is
made better and the fine support
of the Ladies Auxiliary combined
makes our Legion strive for great
er achievements.
Let us all not forget our needy
veterans and surely keep in our
minds and hearts the sick veter
ans. Those now in V A Hospital
arc: Richard Murrell, Ralph Under
wood, Wm. J. Coffey, Steven Brid
ges, Thos. Linton, Robert B.
Smith, Harry Peterson, Virgil
Goalsby, Norman Bradley, Hiram
Bryant, Harrison Robinson, Will
Calhoun. Pay these veterans a
visit and some cheery flowers
would help them to get well a
gain. It is now time to pay your
dues for 1957 and all eligible vet
erans come on into the Legion, as
the next annual convention spon
sors some mighty fine things for
the American Veteran. All to
gether for God and Country and
our Fellowman.
H. D. Stewart, Commander
Gerald McKinley, Adjutant
N. H. Comans, Finance.
Twenty-seven percent of all
drivers involved in fatal auto ac
cidents in the U. S. last year were
under 25 years of age.
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SUGAR ROBINSON
USING MILK AND HONEY
AND BEEF BLOOD TO
WIN OVER OLSON
San Jacinto, Calif. (CNS) Sugar
Ray Robinson has so varied his
diet that if he loses to Bobo Olson
come Friday, it won’t be because
he hasn’t eaten the best of foods.
Sugar switched to milk and honey
in his training diet for the first
time and he also added squeezed
beef blood—to build stamina.
“I want insurance in case Fri
day’s fight happens to last the full
15 rounds. But in case I can’t
take him over, I want to be sure
I’ve got enough stamina to go the
distance at a good pace,” so rea
sons the 35 year old Robinson.
Banquet
Is May 29
Boys Town, Nebr.—The annual
Boys Town athletic awards ban
quet will be held Tuesday, May
29, at 6 o’clock, at the Boys Town
high school dining hall.
Paul W. Brechler, athletic dir
ector at the State University of
Iowa, will be the principal speak
er.
A limited number of tickets, at
$1.00, are available. Tickets
may be obtained from the Boys
Town athletic department. No
tickets will be sold after Friday,
May 25.
"AUTHERINE LUCY STORY"
FOR FILMS
Hollywood, Calif.A feature
production is in the works which
will parallel the famous Autherine
Lucy story in Tuscaloose, Alabama.
John O. Kellens, who has written
“Young Blood” will do the screen
play and the whole film will be
produced at a cost of $200,000 —
a modest budget. Titled “Incident
on the Campus” the man behind
the production is Albert Black, a
television producer.
Rock 'N
Roll Artist
Here Sat. i
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Bernice Gooden, rock ‘n’ roll
artist, will be the guest at CBS
Radio’s "Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance
Party’ Saturday, May 19 at 9:00
9:30 P.M., EDT. Miss Gooden
will sing “What Did I Do To
You?” and “I Just Want To' Be
Near You.”
Rock ‘n’ Roll King Alan Freed,'
the program’s emcee, will present
Count Basie’s orchestra in three
instrumentals, “Bases Loaded.” j
‘:‘Mambo Inn” and “16 Men A
Swinging.”
Joe Williams, Count Basie’s
vocalist will sing “Stop, Don’t”
and “Everyday,” the first song
Williams recorded with Count
Basie’s orchestra, which hit the
best seller lists overnight and re
mained there more than six
weeks.
“Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party is
produced and directed by Lou
Melamed. This program will be
broadcast through the facilities
of CBS Radio, Hollywood.
More than 41% of the deaths
and more than 35% of the in
juries due to motor vehicle acci
dents last year occurred on Satur
j days and Sundays. -
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Mrs. Eisenhower Helps Celebrate Savings Bond Birthday
Among those who helped celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Seri js E Savings Bond on May 1
were Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower and nine-year-old Marilyn Miller, Washington school youngster. They
are shown here in the White House just after the First Lady sliced into the four-foot, 300-pound cake
made in the likeness of a $100 E bond. Mrs. Eisenhower is honorary chairman of the National Women s
Advisory Committee for Savings Bonds. Marilyn was selected for the honor for her outstanding achieve
ments in the School Savings Stamp Plan. The huge cake, decorated in four colors, was baked and do
nated by Clement’s Pastry Shop of Washington as a contribution to the Savings Bond Program. Sales
have exceeded $80 billion since E bonds were first offered on May 1, 1941, and today over 40 million
people own more than $40 billion in E and H bonds#
Mack McCollum Golf
Tourney Near An End_
St. Louis, Missouri — Golfers
from all over the mid-west terri
tory are arriving to tune-up for
the Fifth Annual Mack McCollum
Tournament, which is to be play
ed Saturday and Sunday, May 19
20, over the Forest Park 18-hole
course. Tournament Dir e c t o r,
Cliff Evans, announced yesterday
that he has received entries from
all of the cities in the Central
States Golf Association. J. Leon
ard Taylor and his Denver, Colo
rado mates left home last Sunday
headed for several practice rounds
on the Forest Park lay-out. The
nine hundred miles they will tra
vel to get here will probably earn
for them the medal for coming
the longest distance.
from ail indications tnis wui ne
the finest event the local Para
mount Golf Club has ever sponsor
ed. President Nat Jordan stated
he was looking forward to a very
colorful tournament. Ted Rhodes,
who was here to play in the Carl
ing Open last week, will be on
hand to look over the proceedings.
He probably will team up with
some of the top amateurs for an
exhibition round. Another color
ful performer who has entered is
Eddie Young, St. Louis, one-arm
golfer who shoots in the low 80s.
In fact, the regular troupers who
follow the tournament trail will
be here. They will be coming
from Minneapolis, Kansas City,
Chicago, Evanston, Milwauk e e,
Memphis, Indianapolis, Louisville,
Nashville, Springfield, Decatur,
Peoria, and many other mid-west
cities.
The Ladies Too
There will be three flights of
ladies in the tournament. A real
battle looms in this division among
Patton, Siler, and Walker of St.
Louis, Mallory and Reynolds, of
Kansas City, Roach, Armstrong,
Philpot, Simons, and Elligan, of
Chicago, Jackson, of Detroit, Scott
of Peoria and Clift, of Memphis.
In addition many newcomers to
the Mack McCollum affair will be
trying to shoot their way into one
of the top positions.
The tourney will get under way
Saturday at 7:00 a.m. Sunday play
ers who were unable to qualify
Saturday must tee-off between 6:30
and 7:30 a.m. The regular final
round will begin at 7:45 a.m.
The Paramount Clubhouse, 4438
Easton, will serve as headquarters
for the tournament. Players may
register at the clubhouse, begin
ning Friday after 4 p.m. The
phone number is FRanklin 1-8530.
Says There
Are Differences
Among Negroes
Mr. Schuyler points out that
the white ‘one drop’ perfection
ists, who have always refused to
admit color differences among
the Negroes, are partially re
sponsible for the current Negro
disinterest in light skins.
“Those with light skins, better
manners and a little literacy
(mostly gained as house servants
for white planters who were not
i n f r e quently their relatives)
could not escape to the white
groups, as in Latin America. They
were compelled to identify them
selves with the swarm of black
field hands and proletarians.
They supplied the early Negro
leadership.”
Mr. Schuyler concludes that
“for better or for worse, two dis
tinct, centripetal and endoga
mous societies have evolved in
America. They seem to be as
mutually exclusive as the Wal
loons and Flemings in Belgium,
the Moslems and Hindus in India
and the Jews and Arabs in Moroc
co. Both now have a vested in
terest in their integrity. Few
whites want to be black and few
Negroes yearn to be white. Melt
ing pot is, to say the least, dim
and remote.”
About 70 percent o* the rub
ber we use today is synthetic,
made from crude oil or natural
j gas.
Corinth
Noted Day
Of Prayer
It was announced by the Rev.
J. Andrew Thompson that Thurs
day, May, 17 would be observed
as NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
as set by the National Baptist
Convention U.S.A., Inc.
This date was set as a special
day of prayer to give thanks to
God for the great and historical
decision outlawing segregation in
public schools as handed down by
the Supreme Court of the United
States, May 17, 1954.
A special service was held at J
8 P.M. with many local citizens j
taking part in the program. Dr.
Coleman W. Kerry, Correspond
ing Secretary of the Educational
Board of the National Baptist
Convention and of Dallas, Texas
As Campy Goes
So Go the Dodgers
New York (CNS) Roy Campanel
la didn’t win the “Most Valuable
Player Award” last year for noth
ing. .. .Just to get the record
straight this year, Roy has been
out of the Dodger line-up for four
games. In their last nine games,
the Dodgers have dropped seven,
won only two — while Campy was
suffering a sore thigh.
Just before Roy had to get out
of the lineup — he led the team in
RBIs with 12. Despite th; layoff,
only one teammate has caught up
with him— Gil Hodges, with 13.
Roy’s substitute, Rube Walker, got
only 3 hits in 14 times at bat and
they were singles. Once Roy re
turned to the line-up they’ve been
winning which all proves how val
uable the roly-poy guy is, that’s
all.
Yessirs
Name Six
To Council
Six new Council members have
been elected to three-year terms
for the Tribe of Yessir of the O
maha Chamber of Commerce, and
another has been re-named, ac
cording to Richard T. Billig, Tribe
secretary. Terms for all of them
begin July 1.
The six new members: W. D.
Alf, manager District Commercial
office, Northwestern Bell Tele
phone Company; Ray Beselin, own
er of Beselin’s (tobacco and candy
wholesalers); Robert Kiplinger,
general agent, Guarantee Mutual
Life Insurance Company; Thomas
J. McGrath, assistant cashier, O
maha National Bank; Ernest Tan
ner, vice president, First National
Bank; and James Zimmerman, as
sistant cashier, United States Na
tional Bank. Continuing on the
Council is Charles Schmidbauer,
resident manager, Falstaff Brew
ing Corporation.
The balance of the 22-member
governing body of the Tribe, is
made up of hold-over members.
Those retained include E. F. Agee,
Jr., Wayne Avery, Emmett Curry,
Robert Farley, Ralph Foral, Clive
Heckenlively, John Koutsky, Fred
Miller, John Moats, Jack Shelton,
Carl (Winkie) Smith, Rolla Smith,
Einar Viren, Jack Wright and V.
B. Elseffer.
Council members retiring this
year: Leonard Bergman, Walter
Conrey, Frank Frost, Charles Mar
tin, William McKain and L. C. Mc
Vea. All have served as Big Chief
(chairman) of the Trib of Yessir
except Mr. McKain.
Einar Viren currently is serv
ing as Big Chief. John L. Koutsky
is Little Chief; L. C. McVea, treas
urer; and Mr. Billig, secretary.
New officers for the Tribe of
Yessir will be elected at a meet
ing of the Council June 7.
was guest speaker.
Rev. Thompson expressed the
hope that the prayer life of the
citizens of our nation will be
strengthened to the extent that
every day will be a special day of
prayer because more miracles are
wrought by prayer even in our
day than the world ever dreams
of.
More than 766,000 persons were
injured in weekend traffic acci
dents last year.
Poll of New Orleans Doctors
Challenges Statements That
Integration Dangerous
New Orleans—Four out of five
New Orleans psychiatrists and
neurologists participating in a
poll thought racial school integra
tion would be either beneficial
or of little effect upon the child
ren.
The poll was conducted by the
Medical Advisory Committee of
the Southern Conference Educa
tional Fund, Inc., in cooperation
with a comittee of the New Or
leans Medical Association.
Fifty-six questionnaires were
mailed to New Orleans psychia
trists and neurologists: 21 replies
were received. The key question
was:
“From a professional point of
view, how would you characterize
the pshchiatric effect of racially
integrated school on white and
Negro children?”
Seventeen doctors—81% of
those replying—thought integra
tion would be either beneficial or
would have little effect. Ten
termed it beneficial; of the seven
believing it of little effect, three
qualified their answers with “in
the long run.”
Four considered there were
harmful possibilities in the end
ing of segregation. Two of those
thought both races would suffer;
one believed that whites would
be harmed while Negroes would
benefit.
The poll was undertaken fol
lowing the filing in the New Or
leans Parish School case of affi
davits from eight physicians and
Continued
I
Prosperity
Seen Here
Continuing good business ac
tivity for the Omaha area is con
firmed by Rand McNally’s “Map
of Business Trends” for May.
M. L. Woodburn, manager of
the Business Research Bureau of
the Omaha Chamber of Commerce
said the report shows that April
business here was eight percent
i above the same month a year
ago.
January, February and March
increases this year, as compared
to the same three months of
1955, were seven percent, three
percent, and seven percent, he
j said.
Rand McNally divides the Unit
■ ed States into eight areas of
j economic unity in compiling its
I report, with each area repre
! senting a small region in which
I business conditions depend on the
! same basic factors.
Omaha is in the area which in
I eludes the states of Nebraska,
Iowa, North and South Dakota,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois.
For the first four months of
! 1956. Omaha’s gains have been
; higher than the area average, Mr.
, Woodburn said.
“A small town’s a place where
a fellow with a black eye doesn’t
have to explain to people. They
' know!”
CHURCH OF TODAY
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< READY-MADE HOUSE OF WORSHIP It this prefabricated church manufactured by United Statet Steel Heme*, Inc, the hom
ing subsidiary of U. S. Steal corporation, at itt ultra-modern plant in New Albany, Ind. Many of the churches already have
been erected in various localities of the nation. Du* to mass production technique.), the churches are erected speedily
and economically without loss of strength or quality. All are expendible and, due to penalization, floor plans may be
varied. The church pictured above was designed by William M. Cooley of Chicago,^!. A..
three psychiatrists intended to
show that integration would con
front the community with a
health hazard and would be a
“psychiatrieally traumatizing to
the children of both races."
Following are some of the com
ments appended to the question
naires by the New Orleans
specialists. In the words of one
doctor:
“There can be little question
of the detrimental effect on the
psychic development of any dis
criminated-against group by a
system which teaches them that
they are inferior. The psychic
effect on master groups is equal
ly, but more subtly, detrimental.”
Another doctor envisaged the
emotional transition that will take
place with the coming of inte
gration:
Initially there is likely to be
some reserve and suspiciousness
on the part of both races. Espec
ially in the upper grades the
children will first try to remain
separate and associate only with
their own color. Some, inflamed
by their elders, may become in
volved in fighting.
“Gradually it can be expected
that the children will come to ac
cept the individuals of the other
race according to each one’s
worth as a human being. The
over-all effect on mental health
should be salutory.”
Among those medical men who
thought that integration would
have little effect “in the long
run,” the reservations expressed
were largely based on their
doubts about adult behavior in
the situation.
A doctor who considered that
integration would be harmful to
both races qualified his answer
by adding “under present set
ting.” The one respondent who
believed that Negroes would
benefit and whites lose, added
comment: “Probable lessoning of
health standards or levels for
; white race.”
ine most comprenensive anaiy
! sis of the dispute was appended
j by one psychitrist:
“The fears that any mixture of
the races will lead to increases of
disease, significant lowering of in
telligence, or psychiatric diffi
culties in either race are, to my
view, unfounded. These seem to
be rationalizations to attempt to
show just cause why the status
quo should be maintained, and to
seem to give a scientific medical
basis for views which otherwise
would have to be termed biased,
undemocratic and Unchristian
Rationalizations of this sort also
attempt to remove the cause for
such views as a racial prejudice
from the individual to a larger
external scientific and social
causation.
“These methods of rationaliza
tion are common in history. They,
in one form or another, have been
used to give a pseudo-logical
scientific front for action that has
motivations other than the stated
ones. Hitler used them effec
tively in Germany, except the pre
judice was primarily against the
Jew rather than the Negro. Per
haps it is forgotten that one of
the reasons we fought so hard in
World War n was to- assert that
racial intolerances were not com
patible with freedom and democ
racy."
Republicans Say
They Have The
N. Y. Negro Vote
New York (CNS) The Republi
cans of New York feel already
that President Eisenhower will
win the Negro vote of the nation’s
biggest city. According to Thomas
J. Curran, New York County Re
publican Chairman, it’s the Negro
vote that will cause Ike to win
“by a handsome majority” in the
predominantly Democratic city of
New York and will help him sweep
the state and the nation “by land
slide proportions.”
Curran held a conference with
I Negro district leaders and candi
dates and he told them the Repub
I lican record on civil rights would
swing the race into the GOP
| column.