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Vol. 30 No. 21 Fridayr July 27/1956 10c Per Copy
Harriman Would Push
South to De-Segregate
Candidate For President
Would ‘Push Firmly’
New York — Gov. Averell Har
riman as President would “firm
ly” use the top office to push
southern states toward de-segre
gation.
The Democratic presidential
hopeful expressed his civil rights
views in a letter to P. L. Prattis,
executive editor of a Pittsburgh
newspaper.
In a direct reference to Presi
dent Eisenhower, Harriman said
the tragedy of our times is that
the Chief Executive “has not
lived up to' his obligations or
seized the great opportunities”
possible on civil rights.
Harriman said many tensions
over the color problem in the
South could be eliminated if Mr.
Eisenhower asked persons of
good will “to work together un
der the inspiration and leader
ship of his high office.”
Harriinan in his letter answer
ed “yes” to the all-important
election year question: “Would
you use the power ... to induce
the leadership in so-called recal
citrant states to steady and pro
gressive program of compliance
(with de-segregation) rather
than defiance?”
He went on to answer that
"the leadership in all our states
should take action to comply”
with the recent Supreme court
decision outlawing segregation
in school along color lines.
The general assembly in Ashe
b<ro, N. C., where Harriman will
make on Saturday his first of
ficial bid for southern support in
his campaign, is planning to act
on a series of bills July 23 de
signed to prevent the mixing of
colors in public schools.
Four C's
Club Has
An Outing
An old fashioned basket picnic
was held by the Four C’s Club
Sunday afternoon, July 22nd, at
Carter Lake. Mrs. Rowena Moore.
President . was in charge of ar
rangements. Games were held
for the children. Officers of the
Club and of the Four C’s Credit
Union, which is sponsored by the
Club, addressed the gathering.
These included Amos Pearl - Pres
ident of the Credit Union; George
Robinson - Treasurer; Ted Cobb
- Credit Committee Chairman;
James Cole - Credit Union Board
Members; and Lawrence King
Andy Wright, John Davis, and
- Club Secretary.
All speakers stressed the value
Mrs. Mary Nickson
Mrs. Mary Nickson, age 89
years, of 2520 Ohio Street Monday
July 23rd at home. She was an
Omaha resident for 12 years add
is survived by 2 sons, Sam and
Buddy Daniels of Omaha; sister,
Mrs. Alice Morrow of Los Ange
les, California; 6 grandchildren,
7 great grandchildren. Her re
mains were forwarded to the
Rowes Funeral Home at Ft. Smith,
Arkansas.
Myers Brothers Funeral Ser
vices.
Investigate
Death of
Man, 34
Police are investigating the
death of Otther Austin Russell,
34 years, of 2211 Ohio Street. He
was found in an alley Sunday
noon near 2013 Grace Street by
Harry Lewis and Edward Ellis.
They said he ask that they take
him to his home and put him on
his lawn. They did so and then
left. Residents of the apartment
building where Mr. Russell lived
carried him to his room. When
they discovered he was dead they
called police. Mr. Russell is
survived by his wfe, Mrs. Eliza
beth Russell. Alderson, Va., one
son, Delbert, two daughters,
Sandra, Allie Rose Russell. Oma
ha; father, Mr. Walter B. Russell,
Nash, Oklahoma; six brothers,
Walter,. Nash Okla.; Willis, Wich
ita, Kansas; Harold and Delbert,
Omaha; Cash, Los Angeles, Cali
fornia; Brownie Russell, Chicago,
Illinois and other relatives. The
body is at the Thomas Funeral
Home.
of the Credit Union in raising the
economic standards of the com
munity. Serving as a medium
for both saving and obtaining low
interest loans, the Credit Union
performs a vitally important
service. Members present were
challenged to help the community
and themselves by stimulating
new members to join and by en
couraging members to save regu
larly through the purchase of
shares. Membership headquart
ers are Cole’s Sundries - 2001
Lake Street; and James Cole, Pro
prietor, serves as Club Member
ship Secretary.
The group expressed apprecia
tion for the community service
I rendered by Ted Cobb who is
| leaving for Chicago to take the
i
Civil Rights
Stand Hurts
Harriman
New York, July 23 — Gover
nor Averell Harriman’s strong
vote if he runs for President, a
stand on civil rights will c st
him the great middle-of-the-road
poll of Republican leaders in six
key states indicated today..
Though the New York governor
is conceded the vote of minority
groups, he is pictured in the new
issue of Look Magazine as the
Democratic figure Republicans
are most confident of defeating.
Harriman’s refusal to be moderate
on civil rights as well as other
key issues sets him apart from
all other serious Democratic can
didates, and could possibly cause
a party-splitting rift with South
ern Democrats, the Look article
reported.
Nevertheless, Harriman is de
picted as firmly committed to the
application of the Supreme
Court’s decisions. His position
the article said, is that the North
ern liberal wing is the party and
that Southerners can fall in step
or leave.
Always at his best when deal
ing with small groups, Harriman
is seen making a major effort to
win converts when he encount
ers convention delegates at Chi
cago.
To rig for diving in a modern
submarine, the crew must conduct
225 individual operational and
equipment checks.
If you want to beat your neigh
bors with beans anr corn, make a
small planting of each a week or
10 days ahead of the usual “safe”
date for your area. Make deep
furrows with hoe or wheel plow,
sow seeds in bottom and cover
only a half inch with soil from
the south or east side of the fur
row, leaving the other side as a
protecting bank.
If frost threatens after the
plants are up, cover them with oil;
they’ll grow through it. Fill in
the furrows completely when the
plants are tall enough.
Refresh with milk. Milk pro
vides the protein, calcium and
other essential food elements that
restore the body to peak perfor
mance in a hurry.
position of Community Relations
Director for the Chicago Urban
League.
Mrs. Rowena Moore announced
I that the Four C’s Club will be co
j sponsor with Local Labor Unions
| in presenting a musical fiesta this
fall.
A voluntary collection was
’aken for Maggie King, youthful
I high jumper, to start a fund for
her expenses in the Olympic try
outs. Additional contributions are
1 welcome and may be made at
j Cole’s Sundries- 2001 Lake Street.
Set "Equal Job Opportunity" Week
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Mayor M. E. Sensenbrenner
(seated) of Columbus, Ohio, is
sued a proclamation setting the
week of April 22-28 aside as Equal
Job Opportunity Week. ^
With the mayor are, left to
right, Charles MacLennan, Re
gional Director of the American
Friends Service Committee; L. M.
Shaw, Director of Industrial Re
lations for the Columbus Urban
League; and Seymour Gorchoff,
Regional Director of the Anti j
Def ablation League of Bt,al'
B’rith.
Job Bias Can Be Ended, Committees Agree
Washington, D. C. — The two Presidential
Committees charged with carrying out the Gov
ernment's policy that there shall be no discrimina
tion because of race, religion or national origin
on work paid for by Federal tax funds agreed in
recent joint meeting that “there is continuing
overall progress in the elimination of discrimina
tion,” and that “with continued vigor and deter
mined efforts, discrimination in employment can
be eliminated from the American scene.”
The President’s Committee on Government
Contracts and the President’s Committee on Gov
ernment Employment Policy issued the joint
statement. The Committee on Government Con
tracts is concerned with elimination of discrim
ination in work done under Government contract
and the Committee on Government Employment
Policy seeks the end of racial and religious dis
crimination in Federal employment.
Vice President Nixon is Chairman of the Con
tract Committee and Mr. Maxwell Abbell is Chair
man of the Employment Policy Committee. They
acted as co-chairmen of the joint meeting.
The Committees’ statement pointed out that
“more and better jobs are being opened to quali
fied members of minority groups. The increase
in opportunity for apprenticeship training and on
the-job training which has been made available
for qualified candidates is noteworthy. Leaders
of industry, Government and organized labor have
cooperated in achieving this objective.”
The Committees also agreed to hold additional
joint meetings, both in Washington and in other
areas throughout the country, in the future.
Ak-Sar-Ben
Premium
List Out
The premium list covering 4-H
entries in the twenty-ninth an
nual Ak-Sar-Ben Live Stock
Show, to be held in Omaha Sep
tember 21 to 30, 1956, is being
released this week to county ag
ricultural agents and 4-H Club
leaders in Nebraska, Iowa, and
surrounding states, according to
Harry B. Coffee, a Governor of
Ak-Sar-Ben, and chairman of the
big stock show.
More than $15,000 in premiums
will be awarded the youthful ex
hibitors in all divisions of the
show As in former years, the
Extension Services of the Ne
braska College of Agriculture
and Iowa State College, will as
sist in supervising the many ac
tivities of the exposition. More
than 1,000 exhibitors are ex
pected to participate in the week
long show, Mr. Coffee estimates.
Ak-Sar-Ben will again be host
to the Nebraska State Hereford
Show. Nearly 200 head of Ne
braska’s finest Hereford breed
ing cattle are expected to be on
display in the livestock pavilion
during the final week in Sep
tember. Many of the state’s top
Hereford breeders will compete
for the $4,000 in prize money to
be offered.
The Ak-Sar-Ben World Cham
pionship Rodeo will be held
nightly from September 21 to 30,
and many of the most talented
cowboys in the nation will be in
the scramble for a major share
of the $15,000 in prize money
to be offered. Highlight of each
performance will be the famous
movie cowboy, Gene Autry, with
Annie Oakley and the Cass Coun
ty Boys.
Bike Tests
Last Saturday
Knowledge of Safety rules and
skill in riding a bicycle will pay
off for two youngsters . . . and
their parents . . . Saturday morn
ing, July 21.
The final contests in the Oma
ha Kiwanis Bike Safety Rodeo
will be held at 9:30 a.m. at the
Municial Stadium, 10th street
and Bert Murphy Drive.
The winners of the current
contests in the city’s parks will
compete for a variety of prizes in
three age groups. The top prizes
include a round trip to Kansas
City and a major league base
ball game for two children and
two parents. All participants
the final contest, along
their parents will set * p^yland,
ner and an evening a
among other Prl“ Pledge gained
“The rodeo is of more
in **£ than the prizes,” em
Walt Morgan, chairman
of the Bike Safety Rodeo, “but
Kiwanis is glad that Laurence
TO GERMANY—Mrs. Joan Curl
Elliot, an assistant professor of
German at Florida A and M Uni
versity, sailed last month from
Montreal for Munich, Germany,
where she is studying for a six
[
week period at the University of
Munich. While in Europe she
will visit England, France, and
Switzerland. (A and M staff photo
by H. Jones, Jr.)
Grand Lodge 38th Annual
Open Session Was July 18
Entertain
At Picnic
The Most Worshipful Prince
Hall Grand Lodge Nebraska Ma
sons were entertained at Carter
Lake with a picnic by Nat Hunt
er’s Lodge No. 12, of which B. A,
Austin is Worshipful Master.
Dallas Phillips was chairman ofj
the arrangements. Id
The final session "off;.
July 19th and tb***“£* Wor.
cers were e^^ster, Robert
shipful Gran a Adkins Deputy!
Hams, J#aater; Henry Washing
®”n^rand Sr. Warden (re-elect
ed/; Kenneth Moore, Grand Jr.
Warden (re-elected); I. S. Mc
Pherson, Grand Treasurer; Jim
my Jewell, Grand Secretary;
Hughie Embrey and Robert Hill,
Grand Trustees.
—-1
Youngman and Sid Starnaman
saw the need for such awards as
the trip to Kansas City.”
The Most Worshipful Grand
Lodge of Nebraska F. & A.M.
P.H.A. opened the 38th Annual
Communication at the Masonic
Temple, 26th and Blondo Street-'.
Omaha, Nebraska Telegrams •'nd
letters of congratulatio”-' were
received from the
dictions as H r.**
a tvira ohl° and Georgia.
Visits "ere: Mrs- Gussie Mc
P^erfon. G.W.M. O.E.S., Viney
I waiter. Associate G.W.M., J.
Henry, Grand W. Patron; J. R.
Kelly, Associate G.W.P.
M. W.G.M. Clayton P. Lewis,
presided over the session and in
the Grand Master’s address he
emphasized the Youth Movement
and a closer relation with the
civic body.
More than six million tennis
balls are sold every year in this
country, and today, the newest of
these are made with oilbased
nylon or “Dacron” in their covers.
Judging the new ball by its “mir
acle” fiber cover, it promises to
be one of the best yet manufac
tured, giving longer and more
uniform wear.
I
Race Problem Seen More
* «... ^ ■" j
Important Than A-Bomb
Or Juvenile Delinquency
-— I
David A. Brown
Mr. David A. Brown age 74
years, of 2418 Ohio Street expired
Friday July 20, 1956 at home. He
was an Omaha resident for over
40 years. He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Hattie Brown of Oma
ha; brother, Johnny Brown of
Muskogee, Okla.
Mr. Brown had been employed
with the Crane Plumbing Co for
48 years.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday July 24, 1956 at 2 P.M.
from the Zion Baptist Church
with Rev. F. C. Williams officiat
ing. Interment in Forest Lawn
Cemetery.
Myers Brothers Funeral Ser
vices.
Monarchs
vs Memphis
At Omaha
The Kansas City Monarchs and
the Memphis Red Sox of the Ne
gro American League will show
their class at Omaha in Muny
stadium August 4th at 8:15 p.m.
This will be the first Negro Amer
ican league game to be played in
Omaha this season. A good turn
out is expected to witness these
two teams perform. The teams in
the Negro American league have
all been able to sign up some very
promising young players at the
start of the season. This means
that there will be real lively bat
tles between all the teams in the
league. Every team in the league
has been blessed with some fine
recruits, so the result is their
_games are played with intense
rivalry. The Monarchs and Mem
phis Red Sox will be playing a
few games in the middlewest
area, their league scheduled
games. The new owner of the
Monarchs, Ted Rasberry has whip
ped up a fine club, and Ted says
that the Monarch tradition will
continue to be a continued super
team. On the monarch roster is
Moroto, Pride and Floyd on the
hurling staff, along with the sen
sational youngster, Hal Jones.
Jones is only 18 years old, but he
is considered a top star with the
team already. It is hoped that the
fans will turn out for the Mon
arch-Memphis game, as it will be
a red hot battle, and also see if
Omaha wants more Negro Amer
ican league games in the future.
There will be no advance sale.
Adm. will be adults $1.00 and
children 50c.
The two teams have August 7th
and 8th open for league games
yet, any towns interested in
having these two teams play can
contact Mat. Pascale at 5615 No.
29th St. Omaha, Nebraska. Phone
Kenwood 2802.
Taylor and
Walker In
Baseball
Chicago, 111.—(Special) —- Je^y
Taylor, of the famed **nsas city
Monarchs, and JesS,e Walker, of
the Birmin^''"' Black Barons,
have added to the staffs
which will lead the two squads in
,he 24th annual East vs West Ne
gro Baseball Classic on Sunday
afternoon August 12, here in
Comiskey Park.
Both Taylor and Walker will
serve as assistant managers and j
coaches at the Classic, which will
see players from the Kansas City
Monarchs and Memphis Red Sox
form the West and the Detroit
Stars and the Birmingham Black
Barons the East.
Taylor will aid Homer Curry,
the Memphis manager, who’ll lead
the West, while Walker will do
likewise for Ed Steele, of the De
troit Stars.
With the exception of big
Steele, a former outfielder in his
regular playing days, Curry and
Taylor and Walker are making
their first All-Star starts as either
managers or coaches. Steele pi
loted the East last year when they
dropped a 2-0 decision to the West
for the latter’s 15th triumph as
The race problem, a recently
completed national survey dis
closes, is considered more im
portant by the American public
than the atom bomb, interna
tional hostility, juvenile delin
quency, or any other problem.
It is the most frequently men
tioned problem in the U. S. to
day. *
In the second of a series of
articles based on the first na
tional race problem survey, the
July Catholic Digest reveals that
North and South, negroes and
whites combined, the Negro
White problem is viewed as most
important by 45% of those inter
viewed. Juvenile delinquency
trails far behind with only 36%
considering it most important,
while 32% regard the atom bomb
as the big problem.
While more than half of the
northern whites and negroes of
both sections think of the prob
lem in terms of white prejudice,
fear, and hatred, (and the re
sulting discrimination and in
equality), only about one-fourth
of southern whites would accept
a definition along these lines.
Nearly half the southern
whites think that the real prob
lem is desegregation. In re
sponse to the query “What would
you say seems to be standing
most in the way of solving the
Negro-White problem today?”,
prejudice is the obstacle named
by most people, even among
southern whites. But, in the
opinion of negroes and northern
whites, the southern whites
themselves are the second most
serious obstacle.
Among southern whites, si
thought 24%. see “prejudice” as
the major difficulty, 14%. think
desegregation blocks a solution,
and 10%. say it is “agitation and
publicity.”
Most people also, the Catholic
Digest survey shows, think the
race problem a difficult one to
solve. The definition “hard
problem” was given by 86% of
northern whites; 88% of south
ern whites; 81% of the northern
negroes, and 72% of southern
negroes.
Negroes, however, are much
more inclined than whites to
think that progress is being
made towards a solution. About
! one-third of the whites inter
viewed think the problem will
never be solved. But only one
tenth of the negroes take so
'sombre a view.
j Asked how long they thought
'it would take to solve the prob
lem, northern whites estimated
t27 years as compared with the
southern white estimate of 16
years. Northern negroes esti
mate a solution may be arrived
at in 23 years while southern
negroes believe solution will
come in 10.
Additional material gathered in
this first nation-wide survey of
attitudes towards the Negro
White problem will appear \n
subsequent issues of the O'^olic
Digest. The survey ™ade
for the Digest by -n independent
opinion-research nrm
j affgi„st only eight defeats.
j Dr. J. B. Martin, pres;dent of
the four-team Negro American
Baseball League which sponsors
the Classic, and chairman of the
player screening board, announ
ces that the rosters of the two
squads will be revealed shortly.
Club owners, managers and coach
es, who help nominate the All
Stars, however, have until August
3, deadline day, to file the names
of their playing personnel.
Tickets for the Classic, scaled
at $2 for box seats and $1.50 for
grandstand, are now on sale at
two offices in Chicago. Out-of
town fans can obtain them at the
league office, 100 E. Erie St., Chi
cago, Room 204. Those seeking
tickets by mail are requested to
send a self-addressed, stamped
envelope and also enclose a check
or money order for the amount of
tickets wanted.
Use two pails when wall-wash
mg time arrives. Fill one with
soapy wash water and the other
with clear rinse water, to save
steps for extra water. When wash
ing walls, work from the bottom
up. Water which trickles down
over a soiled surface leaves
streaks of concentrated dirt that
are difficult to remove.