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READ THE OMAHA GUIDE From Around Nebraska A large-scale cattle feeder near Wisner did something un usual last week. He had a huge circular silo filled with feed and needed some manner of pushing the ensilage over to the feeding chute. He bought a small tractor, hired a huge crane and hoisted the tractor to the top of the silo where it was deposited on top of the ensilage. It will work it’s own way down as the feed is used up. The West Point Republican showed a picture of the tractor on its way to the top. • • • Work has stopped on the new school being built at Papillion because of a shortage of steel. The shortage is blamed upon the steel strike. Lack of steel door and window frames are current ly holding up the work. • • • Bank deposits in Cedar County (Hartington) total over $9 million, the Cedar County News has revealed. That’s over $2 million more than there is in the banks of Washington County. • • • —* The employees of the Goodall Electric Co. of Ogallala who were forced into a vote relative to joining the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, rejected the union by a vote of 382 to 127 the Keith County News has revealed. Goodall has long been known for its high pay and top-ranking employer-em ployee relationships and the effect of the union to establish itself there was readily rebuffed by workers who realized they were already well treated. • • • The County-operated hospital at Chadron is experiencing some difficulties on collections, the Chadron Record has revealed. In five years time the hospital has accumulated uncollected debts of $15,127 and *an effort is being made to get these collected. The Oakland Independent told a story last week which we don’t contest-but find it hard to conceive. A couple from there went fishing in Canada and found the big Northerns biting excep tionally well. The Independent showed a picture of the fishermen with a 44-inch Northern which weighed 24 pounds. The 8 and 10 pounders were so plentiful they were just thrown back into the lake, the news item said. Yes indeed! Fishing MUST have been good. • • * Thurston county is having trouble with the Crime Rate among the Indians on the reservation. Costs of law enforcement and prosecution among the Indian tribes has reached a new high, the Pender Times has stated and the newspaper is urging its readers to write Washington and other high places in an, effort to get more law enforcement money made available for the area. • * • Home building is booming in South Sioux City, the Dakota County Star has revealed. 32 homes have been built in the town since January, the paper stated last week. The free bridge across the river has done much to attract Sioux City workers to the area to live, it is believed. ., _» • • • At Pawnee City the merchants have formed a company and have purchased the Pawnee Theatre which recently closed. The newly-formed organization hopes to operate the show on a co operative basis, hiring a manager and keeping the show going as a drawing card to town. $100 shares are being sold in the company, the Pawnee Republcian stated. • • • Work of building a surfaced highway west from the Decatur Bridge to connect with Highway 20 which comes through Norfolk, has been started, the Onawa Democrat reported last week. The new all-weather route would tap the traffic from the northern part of the state and furnish a fast, direct route into Omaha. • • • Authorities at Ogallala are trying to solve the motive and source of a quantity of dynamite recently found cached in an old unused car in a weed patch. The dynamite, plus a quantity of wired caps were discovered by a man who was seeking a used part off the car. Police moved the explosives to a powder maga zine and are now seeking the owners. _I ySummertime Is Picnic Time mm SUMMERTIME IS PICNIC TIME. Family picnics are fun, but there are times when the small fry like to go off on junkets of their own. Whether it is an outing with a best friend or just a walk alone through country meadows, youngsters love the feel ing of independence a solo trip gives them. . This feeling of independence can be fostered, too. by letting the kids make their own picnic lunches. A handy can of inex pensive, high protein sardines from Maine provides a hearty sandwich which the youngster can make herself. The keyless Iquarter can opens easily and smoothly and there is no danger ■of cutting little fingers. The young chef can add sliced hard cooked eggs or cheese if she wishes, or just a dab of mayonnaise. An apple, a handful of cookies, and the simDle meal is complete. Gets Expert Assistance Georgia Clark, a Florida A and M University coed from Fort Laud erdale, receives some expert ad vice in the art of marble shooting from Walter Brooks, New Jersey state champion, and quarter fi nalist in the national meet which 1 was held in Tallahassee recently Looking on is James Newbon (left, of Bloomington, Indiana, the Indiana champ, and James Thorn of Tallahassee, the Florida champion. (A and M staff photo by'C. J. Smith, HI) Witnesses Meet Here August 2-5 A veritable volunteer “army”] of Jehovah’s Witnesses will as sure pleasant surroundings and accommodations for all mem bers of the group when it meets at Civic Auditorium, August 2 to 5. o “Volunteers with experience in a particular phase of activity are assigned to specific duties”, said John H. McLaughlin, Convention Chairman. McLaughlin, also a volunteer, has taken two weeks off from his duties as president of a construction corporation in Lincoln, to aid in making the convention a success. Witnesses volunteering their services are screened through a Volunteer ! Service Department, headed by Robert Badertscher, 3311 Charles St., Omaha.” “More than 6,000 hours of free time have already) been devoted by witnesses seek-. ing rooming accommodations, as • well as by office personnel hand ling the many details,” said Bad ertscher. McLaughlin was lavish in his expression of thanks to the color ed residents of Omaha, who have opened their doors to incoming delegates. “It appears as of now that we have ample room for thei arrival of our colored brothers from out of town”, he said. Eugene R. Smerchek, Man hattan, Kansas, is in charge of cafeteria to be set up in the audi torium. He has handled similar conventions in Seattle, Washing ton and other cities in the Northwest. He announced that he will devote the coming week to purchasing of foodstuffs, pas tries, and refreshments. More than one-half ton of chicken will be on his grocery ^>st. Serving trays, * cutlery and other equipment will be shipped in from various depots in Dubu que, Denison and Newton, Iowa: Kansas City and Mexico, Mis souri: Topeka, Kansas: Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Lincoln, Nebraska. Paul Anderson, 2006 No. 69th St., Omaha, is in charge of In stallation and Engineering. He will work with engineers of Civic Auditorium in setting up the stoves, walk-in coolers and ’ 500 hundred feet of tables to be; used in the cafeteria. Another volunteer witne s s j from Omaha, Roy Johnson, 1713 ( Monroe, has charge of convert ing the boxing ring in a setting; more in harmony with the Chris-( tian Assembly. He has an-j nounced that the addition of j wings at either end of the ring will compliment the speakers’ platform. A scenic back-drop, aporopriate to the theme of the convention, “Christian Enjoy Peaceful Living Now and For ever”, is being constructed. Albert Proudfit, 6787 Emmett, Omaha, is donating his talents in the field of draftsmanship to the creating of signs. He stated that 160 signs will be displayed atop cars throughout the metropolitan area. Another 300 cards will be used in buses traveling in the 0 maha-Council Bluffs-Ralston area. “Past experience at similar conventions has proved the love and consideration the witnesses have for each other”, said Mc Laughlin. “And we are all de lighted to be able to make our brothers comfortable.” Robert W. Wallen, former O mahan, now affilliated with the Watchtower Bible and Tract So ciety, is the featured speaker. His discourse, “Why Permanent Peace will Come in our Day” will be delivered Sunday, Aug ust 5, at 3:00 P.M. Leadership School In Kentucky Frankfort, Ky. — Negro and white women from Illinois, Indi ana, Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky attended the Lincoln Leadership Training School of Christian Ser vice here at Kentucky State Col lege, July 1-7. This leadership training project was sponsored by the Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service and the Wesleyan Service Guilds of the Kentucky and Louisville Conferences of the Southeastern (white) Jurisdic tion and the Lexington Confer ence of the Central (Negro) Juris, diction of The Methodist Church. “Using Channels and Resources for Understanding Our World’’ was the theirs of a ark .hop con ducted by M Marg ret Bender, New York: fit ;i Miss Eva Shipstone, a i la, thr» Isa bella Thoburu t liege Lucknow, India. A second v sh -p wag held on an integrated b k for young people under the ^ -ship of Mrs. Nettie Alice O' ■ •• .nd Mrs. Ward Rees, MillerijSh*;, *?'y. Instructors for tie fee ait cour ses included Mrs. J .nes H. Touchstone, Chicago, fill.; Mrs. Earl Douglass, Cass City, Mich.; Miss Theresa Hoover J New York City; Miss Sallie Lou McKinnon, Nashville, Term., gad Miss Ola Lee Barnett, Ashe'iHe, N. C. Mrs. G. W. Hammel, Madison- j Loretta Young Chooses Werle's Creation Of Cup O' Gold Eyelet Organza —1 **"■ .v.wwif .- — - -■ ____ ■ - - LORETTA YOUNG, star of NBC-TV’s “Loretta Young Show.” wears a Werle govern designed especially for her weekly Sun day night program. The Cup O' Gold linen top has a stand away portrait neckline and is trimmed with large, blacket velvet buttons. The yellow eyelet organza skirt, with black velvet belt, is extremely full to allow for Miss Young's famous whirling entrance at the opening of her half-hour TV stanza (ANS) — ville, Ky., was the dean and Mrs. W. H. McCallum, Detroit, was the associate dean of the school. Crafts were taught by Mrs. W. B. Owsley, Morehead, Ky., and Miss Grace Thatcher, Madisonville, Ky. Pastor Asks For Negro Aide By Samuel P. Perry Jr. BOSTON, Mass. — (ANP)—The Rev. Clayton Brooks Hale, who last week submitted his resigna tion from the Second Unitarian church, following a furor among church members when he request ed that a qualified Negro be ap pointed assistant minister, said that he made the proposal be cause he was “confident beyond a doubt” that his congregation was ready for such a stepu So far, the churd^ staudk,? committee has dec''me a to accept the resignation which was to be effective July 31, 1957. Rather, a special committee has been ap pointed to stud} the matter dur ing the summer and then to con fer with Dr. Kale. It has been reliably learned that the majority of the standing j committee acceded to Rev. Hale’s request for a qualified Negro. This fact notwithstanding, there, were “indications of resignation threats” and “harsh words.” For his part, Rev. Hale revealed in the ctuirch calendar his view point: I would not have made such a proposal if I had not been con fident beyond a doubt of this congregation’s readiness to put1 their Christian convictions into practice. “That I misjudged my people ha i become too obvious to ignore j for it is not easy to lose one’s j f’iends no matter how justifiable may seem the cause.” “After the letters came in con- ] taining the resignation threats, both material and administrative, after the harsh words were spoken by people I have grown to love quite sincerely, after the most gratifying and encouraging letters flooded my mail, after the Stand ing Committee favorably passed my proposal, I escaped to Deer Meadows (his Maine Summer home) for a period of introspec tion and self-analysis.” After retreating to Maine, Rev. i Hale reached the decision not to appoint a Negro as minister to j students, even though 70 per cent of his congregation and the | Standing Committee, controlling body of the church, were in favor of his proposal. “I could never subject him,” he explained further, “to the heart- i breaking experience which has been mine.” He chose the 1957 date as the j time of resignation because the “advance date” would give both the congregation and him “op portunity for another year of j thinking and working together,” as well as to ascertain if “either the minister or people have un justifiably wronged each other.” Rev. Hale's church was found ed in 1649 and he is its 20th minister. ^ ^ ^ - CHALLENGE VALIDITY OF UNION PACIFIC COOKS CONTRACT - The tactics of “Divide and Rule” which have been denied but continued by the Union Pa cific Railroad and its conspira tors, some officials of the Cooks Union Local No. 372 since the writing of the 1935 contract. As a result of the Bread and the Meat status of the Negro cooks has been sorely affected. This condition has continued to grow and has now reached formidable proportions which can4>t$y be de tcc/jgd through it? subtle' opera tion. Op<* reading the contract without analyzation could never discover the vicious under cur rents through which these men are only permitted to work a few months a year thus remaining unemployed and unable to meet their obligations the rest of the year. The “Gimmick” in the contract is the alphabetic system whch is outmoded and has been discon tinued by all Railroads except the Union Pacific. This system is a vicious destructive practice of rank discrimination. This prac tice of years standing has re mained intact and uninterrupted only by suits filed in his and others similarly situated in be half of Thomas E. Hayes. However, the Company Officials have done their work well in co operation with the officers of Local No. 372 by threatening co ercing and misleading their frightened, uninformed victims which prevented them from act ing and fighting for the rights rightfully theirs through their own labor. They have been lulled into silence and apathy through the company officials and opportunities which are lullaby of threats to run them off the road if they joined Hayes in suing the company for their in alienable civil rights to work ar.d be treated equally as employees. These foolish victims though con tinued to be without job security and seniority while their younger i white co-workers continued to ; work and accumulate more sen iority. After seeing their plight d | that they have nothing on which 1 they can depend for support and | happiness for their families, >ome courageous ones are joining with Thomas E. Hayes in filing suit against the Union Paei-ic to challenge the validity if the existing working agreer-ent. Seein' Stars By Delores Calvin New York . . (CNS) . . STARS 1 CRN WRITERS: Both Billie Hol iday and Eartha Kitt have their lives out before the public in print. Billie’s has already arrived via the popular book firm, Doubleday and Co. and called: “Lady Sings the Blues.” It has solid impact, a certain quality of absolute honesty about her whole past so that it’s sure to be a best seller. In fact, Lady Day may be able to retire on the earnings from this likely winner, which is being talked about for movies. E a r t h a’s biog, “Thursday’s Child” is a bit behind—for it’s not due until October. It's com ing from the firm, Duel, Sloan and Pearce. Maybe not as color ful as Billie’s, still the advance notices say it’s very, very inter esting. With the stars turning to writing, they have hit on a very good additional income possibili ty. Nat King Cole doing standing room only at the Sands in Las Yegas. He’s top billing at the night spot and handles it so . . Pearlie Mae Bailey doing some clever advertising for “That Un certain Feeling” which co-stars her for Paramount. Pearlie Mae’s proving she’s big time for the movies, which could certainly use her in its battle against TB. Maurice Rocco is a name crop ping up in the news these days. Maurice has been an astonishing pianist back in the ’40s. That playing the piano while standing up act sought of wore thin and his popularity waned. We see now he’s on a few fairly good dates so that this could be the beginning of something interest ing. Eartha Kitt reported not as good as could be in Glasgow, Scotland. The star seems not to be so fitted for this vaudeville excursion. Prices were raised for her appearance so that it’s a little disappointing for her not t'i catch afire as was expected. Eartha’s far from laying an egg. Just a bit tired from her London ■•rpearance. . . Meanwhile, she’; heading on to Sweden for a month of engagements. , Billy Shaw’s death has not stop pod his agency, which makes most of its money from Negro talent. Shaw’s son, widow and other members of the family plan t carry on. Their biggest client is Dizzy Gillespie-now a hot item - along with a string of minor names as fill-ins. New youngster, Richard Wil son, has already cut sides for Columbia records. He’s about to get the build-up treatment. Dor othy Donegan was rushed into tb* “Blue Note” in Chicago when Ri iard Powell and Clifford r*>wn were killed in an auto ae cVimt on their way to the Chicago d, e. . Muriel Smith left for Washing ton, D. C. to do the revived ver i«i n of “Carmen Jones” on tour. Mi riel’s planning to return to Europe just as soon as she can got back. hye Warns Independent As chr>maa of the Douglas County Ri publican Organization j I wish to ake note of last Sun day’s newspaper article to the effect th't some Republicans are considering an Independent Can didate t)r Congress. The ight to run as an Inde pendent is, of course, the same as the right to run as a Republi can or Democrat. But when such persons have been closely iden ified previously with the Rejviblican or Democrat Party the consequences of running as ar Independent or campaigning i<: an Independent may not be v hat they expect. Experience has indicated that an Independent Candidate is us ! ually unsuccessful and by taking votes from his former Party’s' Nominee he often succeeds in electing the Candidate of the very party whose principle he has sworn to defeat. Here in Douglas County the backbone of our campaign or ganization is the Ward Chairman and the many volunteer workers who co-operate with them. The Ward Chairmen represent a cross section of Republican op inion. Before the Primary, as is entirely normal they were divided in their opinion of the candidates. Since the Primary Election, however, they have be gun the work of organizing their Wards with the same spirit and determination as in other elec tion years, and—this I want to make perfectly clear—are solidly behind Glenn Cunningham and all other Republican nominees on the November ballot. Charles A. Nye, Chairman Douglas County Republican Central Committee Letters to the Editor Following is a letter received this week from the Inter-Civic Council, Incorporated, Tallahas see, Florida. July 20, 1956 Dear Editor: Our City Transit System on June 30, 1956 committed suicide, this we lament if it is really dead. We are profoundly positive that there is nothing wrong with our bus system that a good dose of DECENCY, CHRISTIAN LOVE and REAL DEMOCRACY will not cure. Seventy percent of the cities bus riders were Negroes. We have suffered chronic humiliation at the hand of bus drivers and local segregation statutes. Our collec tive cups of humiliation were forced to overflow on May 25. We did not seek to destroy the bus system, we simply sought justice, this was flatly denied us. We must now provide transpor tation for our people. We plan to use 9-10 station wagons (four door), full time drivers, a full time secretary and combination maintenance-dispatchers. We hope that our efforts have been enlightening to our brothers in other areas of oppression. If you are able to favor us through efforts (individually or collective ly) that will aid us financially, you may rest assured that your least effort will be highly appre ciated. We must contnue to pro vide or set up permanent trans portation for our people. This done we must prepare for a long legal battle to make our victory complete. Sincerely yours, THE INTER-CIVIC COUNCIL INC. President M. C. WILLIAMS, D. D. S. Secretary HARRIMAN TO RECONSIDER SENDING MAN TO ALA. NEW YORK. — (ANP) — Gov. Averell Harriman, who has signed extradition warrants for three Ne gro chain gang fugitives that he would reconsider his decision to send Clarence Crenshaw, 42, back to the Alabama road gang on which he had been serving a life term for the murder of a white man. The governor directed his coun sel, Daniel Gutman, to hold a hearing here Wednesday on Cren shaw’s petition that Harriman withdraw his signature from a warrant he signed January 16. After he was picked up here by the FBI last December, Cren shaw, who had spent nearly 24 years on the road gang, protested that he would be killed as “a Ne gro who killed a white man" and then escaped. Crenshaw was convicted at 18 of killing a white man who was beating Crenshaw’s 9-yesr-o 1 d brother. * The city CIO Industrial Union council and other labor and civil rights groups had appealed to the governor to withdraw his extradi tion order. Harriman’s office said that Wednesday’s hearing had been requested by Edwin W. Tucker ot Brooklyn, Crenshaw’s attorney, and by “others interested in the case.” The statement also said that an unnamed New York resident had asked Alabama Governor Folsorr. to drop the extradition and that Folsom’s legal advisor, Frank E. Long, had replied that “Harriman was in better position to investi gate and reach conclusions con cerning Crenshaw. Phone Your News To HA0800 _____ it
