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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.