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This Is Your Newspaper WTiat you are doing is news. Please Phom^Your News To THE°OMAHA GUIDE \ __ 242°.GranTtTsyi _\ /JUSTICE/EQUALITY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY VQ^SO No. 27___*"_Friday, September 7, 1956__10c Per Copy Consider These GOP Points Read this and then put on your thinking cap: Contrary to a popular misconception, 62 per cent of the total $7.4 billion for Republican tax sav ing eent to individuals; only 38 per cent to corpor ations. Under Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben son, a new plan is now under way to develop a per manent and profitable agricultural system in the Great Plains area. Despite the continued heavy demands of the cold war, government spending is now $10 billion lower than the Truman level of fiscal 1953. Government spending is now taking only 19 per cent of the national income in comparison with the heavy 25 per cent cut recorded in fiscal 1953 under the Truman administration. The balancing of the 1956 budget, plus a $2 bil lion surplus, has been achieved on top of a tax re duction of $7i/2 billion. Reason for satisfaction is found in the news that spending in fiscal 1957 will be reduced to $388 per capita, $81 lower than the last Democrat fiscal year of 1953. Created in 1953 in the first year of the Eisen hower Administration, the Small Business Adminis tration, in three years, made over 6,500 loans total ing $175 million, nearly 4,000 of which were for re habilitation in disaster areas. All businesses have been helped under the Eis enhower Administration by ending the excess profits tax and the extablishment of new deprecia tion rules to foster expansion. Approximately $2 billion has been appropriated under the present Administration to the Army En gineers for public works improvement. Prepared bv the Public Relations Department Republican National Committee 1625 I Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C. Big Labor Chooses Officially The executive council of the AFL-CIO ha* voted, despite pow erful dissent, not to. remain of ficially neutral in the coming campaign. Having made this de cision it voted by a larger major ity to endorse the Stevenson-Ke fauver ticket. Endorsing the Democratic candi dates but not the party may seem to some like a distinction without a difference. It is not. Many, especially in the AFL, hold to the old Gompers doctrine of main taining party independence while endorsing individuals. The AFI^ CIO's president, George Meany. emphasized this point. There may be a new signifi cance in the fact that in spile of the AL's numerical predominance j In the merged organization its council voted to take sides, but hardly new significance in its choice of ticket. For labor has long leaned Democratic. One need not search far to find one of the fundamental reasons: Unionists believe they see more of their friends among the Dem ocrats, and more of their bargain ing opposites—the employers— among the Republicans. Who chose which side first is a question ir relevant now. Its answer lies too far back in history. And it j is evident the Eisenhower im partial but friendly attitude has not yet thawed labor's official hostility. The influence of this union council's endorsement s h o uld neither be over nor underestimat ed. Union leaders themselves know they cannot "deliver” a lab or bloc. Mr. Meany was only recognizing a historical fact when he «iid, "We make no pretense of controlling anyone’s vote.” But he noted the politicians try hard for such endorsements. Why? Because they are aware of the massive political fact that although union members account for no more than a^fourth of the labor force and a tenth of the pop ulation. a great many other citi zens think and feel, if not as unionists then as employees— as "little fellows." Against this tendency the Ei senhower popular appeal to all economic levels is also a massive political fact which may have comparable effect to the Taft appeal in Ohio in 1090. Mable Sheppard Mrs. Mable Sheppard, 46 years, 2431 Spaulding Street, passed away Friday afternoon, August 24th at her home after an extended ill ness. Mrs. Sheppard had been a resi dent of Omaha sixteen years and was on the Usher Board of Zion Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband, Mr Arthur Sheppard; two daugh ters, Mrs. Jean Marie Jerry, Diann Alice Sheppard; one son, Keith Richard Sheppard; . parents, Mr, and Mrs Dan Lee Scott; one broth er, Mr. Alonzo Lee, Omaha; four uncles, Rev. J W. May, Mr. Thom as May of Omaha, Mr. George Lee, Mr. Issah Lee, Delhi, La.; two aunts, Mrs. Lula Mae Scott, Mrs. Corrie Collins, Omaha; two cous ins, Mrs. Millie Montgomery, Mr. Shaw Coilins, Omaha; two nep hews, Willie Otis Lee, U. S. A. Air Force, Alonzo Lee, Jr. U. S. A. Army and a host of other relatives. Funeral services were held Wed nesday afternoon, August 29th from Zion Baptist Church with the Rev F. C. Williams officiating, as sisted by Rev. A. Washington, Rev. Lecil Crawford, Rev. William Hart so, Rev. James Foster. Honorary bearers Mr. Robert L. (Bud) Greene, Mr. John Barber, active pall bearers Mr. Otis Johnson, Chas Thorton, Willis Porter, Ed Smith, Joe Smith, Jack Hall. In terment was at Mount Hope Ceme tery with arrangements by the Thomas Funeral Home. JIC ISSUES NEW READING LIST New York - A reading list of books and pamplets on human rights has * been issued hy the Jewish Labor Committee. The more than 50 publications includ ed in the bibliography were se lected for their appeal to- union members. The list twas prepared under the guidance of Mrs. Dorothy Kuhn Oko, Labor Education Spec ialist of The New York Public Library, and includes a special section on Unions and Civil Rights. Copies are available, free of charge, from the Jewish Labor Committee, 25 East 78th Street, Fred Cuming Mr. Fred Cuming, 67 years, of Clay Center, Nebraska, passed a way Friday, August 31 at a local hospital. There are no known survivors. The body is at Thom as Funeral Home Sifford Won Pro-Golf Crown _ —_i____** ___ GOLFPOM’S B I G THREE — Shotmaker Charlie Sifford, left foreground, Philadelphia, is con gratulated on having won fourth consecutive United Golfers Associ ation pro division crown during last week’s 30th annual UGA tour nament played over Philadelphia's Cobbs Creek and Karakung Cour ses. Extending wishes are, left I to right, Moss H. Kendrix, who presented trophies for the Coca Cola Company; 1956 UGA ama teur champion Gordon Goodson, and Joe Roach, amateur medal ist, who was for three years king of the UGA amateurs. In top panel watching finishing golfeks are, left to right, Mr. Kendriac; UGA president Frank Lett, De troit; Mrs. Paris Brown, Washing ton, D. C., whose Wake Robin Golf Club will host UGA 1957 tournament, and Chris Conner, The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottl ing Company. Coca-Cola has con tributed trophies to UGA for past four years. | _ Eisenhower Bandwagons Are Ready By Stafford Derby New York — Let there be no doubt—"Eisenhower band wag ons” will be out in force equip ped with every device to beguile the eyes and ears of voters when the presidential campaign starts in earnest in September. Already basic training has: been given the crews who will! man, and the chiefs who will direct, the six 32-foot, 30-ton semi-trailers which arc. in fact, j band wagons. Invasion plans will send these1 electioneering into every section; of the United States with the support of the national and local Citizens for Eisenhower groups. And, indicating the thorough ness of the planning, a precise schedule of events has been < drawn up which must be follow-1 ed by every band wagon director | as his outfit arrives in a com munity, unloads its equipment, j and makes its pitch for Eisen-, hower support. Slogans Tell Sto;y How this will be done was dis-( played under spotlights amid the glare of TV illumination at the | Madison Square Garden here, where the band wagon school has been held, and in the arena’ where the most brilliant sports, and theatrical shows usually are staged. Assume that the time is Sejv tember and that an Eisenhower band wagon’s long white form has rolled along until it arrives at a city square. On its sides are j blazoned campaign slrgans: “Bal anced the budget”—highest proa j perity in history"—“stopped Kor can fighting”—“halted inflation", and the like. ("Stick with Ike” advises a bumper sticKer.j On lookers may well know the purpose of the visit, but when j the side doer opens and outj come a barrage balloon with its helium gas cylinders, “Bikes for Ike," and gay red-and white "Ike” j inscribed dresses for the "Ike” j girls to wear, the roles these trappings will play is only hinted For from the rear, other doors will open and disgorge an Elsen hower jeep and an Eisenhower ranch wagon before closing to form a projection screen upon which sound movies will be shown giving the high lights In the historic career of General: and President Eisenhower While all this is going on, the schedule calls for the band wag on director to meet with the local Citizens for Eisenhower workers! who will supply part of the cast in this political drama. Full Ballyhoo Spoctaclo The publicity director will be calling on the editor of the local paper in order to give him infor mation for “a front page editori al” and pave the way for a “front page picture" of the band wagon festivities, according to C. Lang home Washburn, director of band wagon activities, who made a name for himself in the lfh2 campaign with only one band wagon in operation. Meanwhile, the spectacle of the band wagon project has been unfolding. Chief actor is a bar rage balloon (war surplus) which will be inflated with about 2,000 square feet of precious helium by a professional crew accompany ing the band wagon, and soar above the display to attract an audience. Then comes some campaign oratory followed by a street pa rade with all the traditional pomp and ceremony. Bands will blare and drum corps shrill as a motor cade wends its way up and down the streets of the cities, towns, and villages. Toy balloons with the legend "Stick With Ike” adorn the au tomobiles while pretty girls cos tumed in the "Ike” dresses perch on fenders and hood to throw "Ike” buttons to the watching crowds and generally create a be guiling and happy attitude toward the GOP champion. All of this—and more, too— was to be seen in the garden. Watching this closing of the "band wagon and barrage bal loon” school were top figures of the Citizens for Eisenhower move ment. Representatives from coast to coast were on hand. This would be a major effort of the Citi zens” movement, and its success would lie in the hands of the local groups to a large extent. What had been accomplished so far was to erect the facade of What had been accomplished probably the most important— was the hoop-la of the campaign itself. But that will come—no doubt of that. no arone unturned Its significance, from the view point of the Eisenhower support ers, was made clear by John Ueed Kilpatrick, chairman of the Na tional Citizens for Eisenhower Committee, who said: “We intend to leave no stone unturned, spare no effort to elect the President and a Congress which will support his princi ples. . . . We are a voluntary, in formal organization much like a business.group. . . One thing we have which is different, that is a a man. . . Our country needs his leadership. . . The world needs his leadership, integrity, and dedi cation. . . . Since September 1955. more than $3 million in assistance has, been giypn by 60 national Red Cross societies in response to 12 international relief appeals from disaster • stricken countries thruoughout the world. -» Arrests Again In Bus Fight Tallahassee, Fla., — the leader of Tallahassee’s Negro boycott a gainst city buses was arrested for ! the second day in a row for driv ing a car pool automobile without a “for hire” tag. The Rev. C. K. Steele was taken to a police station and was released on $100 bond, pending a hearing. Steele, president of the Negro Inter-Civic Council which sponsor-; ed the 3-month-old boycott, regis- j tered a strong protest against his ' arrest. State Attorney General Richard W. Ervin ruled recently that auto mobiles operated in the car pool must carry "for hire” tags since they are primarily engaged in transporting passengers. The boycott was called May 28 in protest against segregated bus seating, required by state law. Albion Band To AK Contest Omaha, Nebr. —- Thanks to the co operation of its neighboring city, I Rhoda Sheppard Rhoda Faye Sheppard, two years old, 2017 North 31st Street, pass ed away Friday morning, August 31 at a local hospital. Rhoda is survived by her par ents, Mr, Eugene and Mrs. Beatrice Sheppard; five brothers, Keith, Frankie, Ronnelle, John, Stanley; two sisters, Beatrice, Myla; grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Porter John son of Omaha and a host of other relatives. Services were held two o’clock Tuesday afternoon, September 4th from St. Mark’s Baptist Church with the Rev. E. Ross officiating, assisted by the Rev. E. D. John son. Burial was at Mt. Hope Ceme tery. Bus Tokens Good Till September 19 The Omaha Transit Company urged passengers to use up their unused bus tokens ( before Septem ber 19th. Under the new rate in crease, bus tokens will not be sold after September 4th. Thru Sep tember 18th, passengers may use tokens already purchased. After that date, unused tokens can be redeemed at either of the two bus garages—25th & Burt or 26th and Lake—or the Company office in the Aquila Court Building. The Company pointed out that both adult's and children’s tokens should be redeemed since both will be discontinued under the new i fare system. The Company gave additional in formation about changes which will be in effect with the new rates: 1. The 2c transfer charge for a dults will be collected at the I time it is issued and will be1 good for subsequent transfers.1 2. Children and school fares will be issued transfers free. 3. Students will be required to show their identification card when they pay their fare and when they use the transfer. 4. Council Bluffs lines will dis continue the use of the Omaha tokens and will use the larger, Council Bluffs tokens exclus-1 ively. These tokens are not good on Omaha lines. j ... Neligh, the Albion High School Band will be able to compete in this year's Ak-Sar-Ben Midwest Marching Band Contest. The contest is one of the fea tures of the Ak Sar-Ben World ! Championship Rodeo and Live Stock Show, to be held in Omaha September 21-30. * . | The only date available for the 1 Albion Band this year was Friday evening, September 28. But the school was scheduled to play its athletic arch-rival, Neligh, in foot ball that evening and the band was needed. A quick call to Neligh by Albion Superintendent G. L. Sims solved the problem. Neligh agreed to move the football game up to fhursday, September 27th. San Francisco, California Dr. H. J. Fields, Laurel, Mississippi, al ternate delegate to the Republi can National Convention, proudly displays his “Ike and Dick Sure to Click" campaign button, as he ---^———————— makes use of his Remington-Rand shaver on the floor of the eonven tionhall at the close of the ses sions, to catch up with a needed shave. ... . . M Wilkins Says Republican Plank Shade Better Than i The Democrats' Offerings Albert Ware Mr. Albert Ware, 71 years, 5211 South 28th Street, expired unex pectedly Tuesday morning, August 28th. Mr. Ware had been a resi dent of Omaha forty years and was a retired employee of Armour and Company. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Geneva Marks; three sons, Mr. William Ware, Mr. Mose Ware, of Omaha, Mr. Harvey Ware, Chicago, Illinois; sister, Mrs. Mary Lou Clopton, Kalamazoo, Michigan; 4 grandchildren and other relatives. Funeral Services were held, ten o’clock Saturday morning from Thomas Funeral Home with the Rev. J. C. Wade officiating assisted by Rev. G. B. Ballard of Barber ton, Ohio. Pall hearers Messrs L. Blow, Al fonsoe Ledbetter, Jeffie Newman, Albert Hodge, G. Donaldson, Mack Rolling. Interment was at Forest Lawn Cemetery. YWCA Is Registering For Fall Registration for the YWCA Fall program begins September 5th at the Central Building, 506 South 17th Street. Included this fall in the after noon and evening classes, begin ning the week of September 24th, are: Painting and Sketching, Mrs. Stanley Davies; Adult Beginning and Intermediate Ballroom Dance. Frank Fochek; Bowling, Mrs. Ann Vajgert; Swimming, Beginning, in termediate and synchronized, Mrs. Barbara Anderson, at YMCA pool, Mrs. Mary Volce.k at J.C.C. pool; Round Dance, Mrs. Grace Smith; Trim Gym; Sewing and Tailoring, Mrs. Clyde Minteer, Mrs. Robert Nakadoi; Beginning Bridge, Mrs. ] Lee Nelson; Ceramics, Mrs. Ralph Mason; Leathercraft, Mrs. William Linsley; Intermediae Bridge, Mrs. G. G Holeman. Program for girls include Satur day Swim and Tap and Ballet classes. A Saturday morning teen-age Ballroom Dance class is open to boys and girls twelve and over. Mr. Frank Fochek is the teacher. For a folder with complete de tails call the YW — JA 2748. See New Period of Lawlessness I^ong Beanch, Calif. — South ern defiance of the Supreme Court decisions on school segregation and attacks upon the NAACP “have ushered in a new period of violent lawlessness which will seriously weaken the whole fabric of American democracy and great ly endanger the organized labor movement,” an NAACP official told 1,500 labor delegates here to day. Addressing a convention of the California State Federation of La bor, NAACP Labor Secretary Her bert Hill maintained that “defi ance of the law by southern states is spreading far beyond that re gion alone and is debasing the na tional morality from one end of this country to the other.” He ci ted recent cross burnings before the home of Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Supreme Court and i several U. S. senators. He warned that White Citizens Councils leaders are anti-labor as well as anti-Negro, pointing to re cent violence against trade union organizers in the South.” The trade union movement, Mr. Hill warned further, “will pay heavily unless it joins with the NAACP and the Negro community in a vigorous battle right now for enforcement of the Supreme Court decisions in the school cases and for full civil rights for Negroes in the South.” “The AFL-CIO will not be able to organize workers in the South ruled by trigger happy sheriffs and violent mobs,” he added. “It does not make much difference whether these mobs are led by the Ku Klux Klan or the White Citi zens Councils. The effects are the i NEW YORK, Aug. 24—The Re publican platform appears “a shade better than that of the Democrats on the subject of civil rights.” Roy Wilkins, . NAACP executive secretary, said in a statement issued at Association headquarters here today. However, the civil rights au thority cautioned that “the dif ference between the two plat forms is basically so slight" re garding civil rights that “the vo ters may have to decide which candidate or candidates will do the best job.” Mr. Wilkins advised voters to “watch carefully how the candi dates, National, state and local, and of each party, express them selves and make pledges in the civil rights issue.” In judging the two parties’ civil rights statements the NAACP offical called the “major” civil rights issue at present implemen tation of the Supreme Court de cision on public school segrega tion. On this subject he noted that the Republican civil rights plank ‘accepts’ the Supreme Court de segregation opinion and that the party ‘concurs’ in desegregation ‘with all deliberate speed.’ “Unfortunately,” Mr. Wilkins said, “the Republicans weakened their statement on the Supreme Court by declaring that segrega tion should be eliminated ‘pro gressively.’ This has the same meaning as gradualism and could give the Republican blesiing to any plan stretched over any num ber of years from one tc 50. Much of the Republican advantage over the Democrats on the Supreme '’ourt decision language is lost by this concession to gradualism.” The Democratic statement on the Supreme Court decision, the NAA.CP spokesman asserted, “a mounts to nothing more than a mere statement of the obvious and promises to do nothing to bring about desegregation.” Aside from the question of im plementing the Supreme Court school decision, Mr. Wilkins criti cized the Democrats for their lack of a specific pledge on sponsor ing federal civil rights legislation. “The Republican plank,” he pointed out, “promises to try to pass legislation embodying the civil rights items recommended by President Eisenhower and in cluded in HR 627 which was passed by the House at the end of the 84th Congress but not acted upon by the Senate.” Mr. Wilkins took the Republi cans to task for not mentioning a provision of rules in the Senate and House which “have blocked civil rights legislation because in the Senate a filibuster could be waged and not choked off.” The Democratic promise to take action on the filibuster at the be ginning of the next session of Congress was called by the NAACP official “perhaps the one outstanding point in the Demo cratic platform." Lucille Vance Mrs. Lucille Hall Vance, 44 years, 1911 Binney Street, passed away Sunday evening, * September 2nd at a local hospital. Mrs. Vance had been a resident of Omaha seventeen years and was a member of the Pleasant Green Baptist Church. Mrs. Vance is survived by her husband, Mr. James Vance; moth er, Mrs. Fannie Grifford; one brother, Mr. Elbert Ross, Jr., of Omaha; three aunts, Mrs. Rachel Harrison, Kansas City, Missouri, Mrs. Cora Williams, Omaha, Mrs. Jennie Bailey, St. Louis, Missouri; uncle, Mr. Frank Mayfield, Kansas City, Kansas and a host of other relatives. Tentatively funeral ser vices have been set for Thursday after noon from the Pleasant Green Bap tist Church with the Rev. J. H. Reynolds officiating with arrange ments by Thomas Funeral oHme. same.” Mr. Hill urged organized labor I to join with the NAACP in a ! “vigorous struggle" for enactiment 1 of civil rights laws. He also call led for “more vigorous" civil rights programs by unions.