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_— ' ~ - - = National Advertising Representative W, N ewspaper Representatives/inc 1 New York • Chicago • Detroit • Philadelphia 1* A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Thursday, Dated Friday Branch office for local news only, 2420 Grant St, Omaha 11, Nebr. Second-class mail privileges authorized at Omaha, Nebraska. C. C. GALLOWAYPublisher and Managing Edita " (MEMBER) CALVIN NEWS SERVICE * GLOBAL NEWS SERVICE ( ATLAS NEWS SERVICE ' STANDARD NEWS SERVICE This paper reserwes the right to publish all matter credited to these news services. _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Om Meath -I Three Months _— _l-®6 Six Months _2.06 One Year _4.00 OUT OF TOWN SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Month_$ -60 Three Months _,_1-6® Mx Months _2.60 One Year_AW ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON REQUEST Ike and Adlai - Return Engagement Both the Republicans and Democrats have decided to stay with their top vote getters. The nomination of Eisenhower was, of course, a mere formality, once he had indicated a willingness to run. After all, what party would argue with success? And there never was a more successful candidate than Ike. (1952 — 33,938,285 votes.) In Adlai Stevenson the Democrats have a man who polled by far the highest total of any losing candidiate, and also came within a hair’s breadth of the best showing ever made by Franklin Roosevelt in winning. (Adlai had 27,312,217 in 1952; FDR scored 27,476,673 in 1936.) The repeat performance of Ike and Adlai is the fifth time in 43 presidential elections that the same major candidates have faced each other a second time. John Quincy Adams won over Andrew Jackson in 1824, and then lost to Jackson in 1828. In 1836 Martin Van Buren defeated William Henry Harrison, but Harrison reversed the re sults four years later. The same thing occurred between Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, with the latter winning in 1888 and losing in 1892. William McKinley was the only candidate to defeat an opponent twice in succession, the loser being William Jennings Byran. That was in 1896 and 1900. What will the 1956 pattern be? A reversal of Eisenhower or a second smashing kayo? For detailed answers to these absorbing questions, get in touch with us on November 7th. Not So Hot Despite the fact that the Soviet Union has what is virtually a professional track team to compete in the 1056 Olympics at Melbourne, the Russians don’t look so hot. Their recent tryouts in Moscow did little to threaten or even approach most world marks. Yet, the best Soviet athletes are allowed, and “encouraged”, to spend most of their time in training. And they don’t have to worry about where their biscuits are coming from in the meantime. But the poor showing of the Russians shouldn’t make our own athletes feel over confident. There will be terrific competition from other sources, England, for instance, has some of the world’s greatest runners in the middle dis tance races. However, it’s comforting to find out that not ALL the Russians are supermen. A Guy Named Joe After the nomination of one Joe Smith of Nebraska, for Vice President, last week, at the GOP Convention, Western Union reported that it had a whole sheaf of telegrams from Joe Smiths all over the country, accepting the nomination. Anyway all the Joe Smiths of America, had their day at the convention, and all the other good Joes throughout the country enjoyed it with them. Such is life in the far West, and the East, and South and North. Taking The "Pledge" Unless the International Olympic Committee drops its plans to re quire athletes to sign the anti-pro pledge, some of the best U. S. competitors may withdraw from the Games. The pledge, as you know, requires an athlete to swear not only that he is really an amateur, but that he intends to remain an amateur after the Olympic Games are over. America’s Avery Brundage, who heads the IOC, is staunchly backing the pledge. But it just doesn’t make sense. What right has the Olympic Committee to try to control a competitor’s affairs after the Games are over? "I don’t think that’s in the spirit of the Games at all,” said Brutus Hamilton, who was head Olympic coach in 1952. “It’s a foolish thing to ask a boy to do.” We agree. The IOC is going to such ridiculous extremes in the quest of Amateur "purity” that it’s making a joke of the whole thing. Aside from the fact that it might be objectionable for an athlete to immediately turn profession al and cash in on Olympic performance (as Sonja Henie did some years ago) it simply is none of the IOC’s business what the competitors do after the Games are over. Dollars Aren't Like Minutes This country’s gross national product—the money value of all goods and services produced has passed the 400 billion dollars a year mark, almost double the 1945 figure. v However, as the Portland Oregonian points out, reaching this “magic” level “is not as sensational as the announcement some months back, that man finally had broken the four-minute mile." The reason is that a minute is a constant measure—it doesn’t stretch or shrink from time to time. The dollar is something else again. Today's dollar will buy a little less than 70 per cent of what the 1945 dollar would buy. Therefore, a 400 billion gross national product, adjusted to 1945 prices,comes to only about 300 billion dollars. That is what inflation has done. Cool and Confident Elephant The San Francisco Convention just naturally suggests contrasts— with the Democratic meeting and with the Republican conclave four years ago. Both physically and Mentally this convention is cool. The other two meetings were warm in every sense — warm in ways which even television cannot convey. Even the convention speakers are making comparisions with the Democratic shindig. Surely also close in the thought of many a dele gate must be the contrast with the Republican Donnybrook of 1952. Then the GOP elephant was hungry, jumpy, pulled two ways, full of internal conflict, uncertain about leadership. Today, with leadership chosen, victory tasted, and internal troubles muted, he moves confi dently. This was very evident in Governor Langlie’s keynote. It could not _if purposely designed—have been in greater contrast with Governor Clement’s declamation at Chicago. Quiet, almost conversational in tone, it appeared aimed at persuding listeners outside the Cow Palace, whereas, the Democratic keynoter was orating, rousing the party stal warts in the convention hall. Governor Langlie added to the current Republican slogan— "Peace and Prosperity" — a significant word, “Progress.” He also gave much more attention than is usual in these exercises to the “moral and spiritual drives which shine through and inspire our grow th and progress.” In these days of complacent satisfaction with “good times” he struck a welcome not with a sober challenge: “Have we the moral and spiritual fiber to live with the prosperity we have created?” i Yet neither in the keynote nor in platform planks so far examined is any specific and galvanizing new program for progress visible. On the most warmly debated domestic issue—civil rights— the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People rates the GOP position as only a “thin shade” ahead of the Democratic. On this question platform promises have less meaning than action, and posi tions in the campaign still could be sharply modified by action from the White House. The Republican foreign policy plank shapes up well in general, but discloses no imaginative plans for the future. Indeed its foreign trade section even takes a backward step. Both parties go much too far in trying to make partisan profit out of foreign policy. For both know that it must have continuity and bipartisan cooperation. That does not mean that there should not be active discussion of dangers visible and invisible today—such as Communist penetration in Asia, NATO’s threatened disintegration, Suez, unsolved problems in Germany and Japan. Indeed the great temptation of the day— particu larly for the GOP elephant, as representing the “ins”—is just to point with pride and “stand pat.” We trust that presidential leader ship will soon make it clear that such complacency isn’t good enough. News From Around Nebraska Big news in most of the newspapers around the state the past week was the local county fair and the opening of school. Other activities were quiet. Most county fairs, a survey shows, were better than usual, but a few newspapers admitted their show this year was not up to par. For the most part, however, county fairs showed a sharp upturn in popularity this year. • • • In Dakota County last week a woman was fined $50 for speed ing. The patrolman who made the arrest reported she was driv ing 100 miles per hour when he finally caught up with her. The fast ride was at night, too! The Dakota County Herald reported the incident. OgaUala, in an effort to better regulate traffic, has served notice on motorists that they must not cross the street and park their cars against oncoming traffic. All parked cars must face the direction of the flow of traffic at the point where they are parked. Another bit of business at Ogallala last week was the pur ^ chase of a new street sweeper. The sweeper will have a number of gadgets the older models don’t have. There will be an hour meter, a speedometer and a travel meter. • • * Missouri Valley is struggling with the mosquito problem which has settled on almost every community in Nebraska. City workmen have been fogging the community in an effort to kill the pests. Each time the city is sprayed it costs $350, the Harrison County News reported. The mosquito infestation is blamed on the increased use of irrigation in farm lands, Mayor M. M. Kirlin, of Missouri Valley, stated. • • • Stock car races are quite popular at Franklin, Nebraska the Sentinel reported. During the county fair, 23 cars raced before a crowd of 1400 fans. • • • Big news at Fairbury last week was an unusual cattle sale which was held at the Fairbury Livestock sale barn. A record number of 2300 head of cattle were sold in a sale which started at 10 A.M. and lasted for twelve hours. The Fairbury Journal termed it the biggest cattle sale in the history of the Fairbury livestock pavilion. • ‘ • • Football fans at Fairbury will have an opportunity to see the game with Hastings. A special train is being run between the two towns for the benefit of those who plan to go. The Fairbury Hastings game is one which always draws much attention as the towns are rivals of long standing. • • • Osceola school children are coming to school in five shiny new buses this year. The buses are part of a consolidation move which has been effected with outlying districts. Enrollment in the Osceola schools will be up considerably as a result of the consoli dations. • • • Most stores at Albion have adopted a 9 o’clock closing hour on Saturday nights, the Albion News reported. The new hours start next week. Several drug stores will remain open until 10 P.M. The need for extra shopping hours is less throughout the fall and winter, the merchants point out. • * • Schuyler is another of the growing list of towns along the Union Pacific which will have a steam locomotive for their park. As the railroad retires the old engines, they are given to various communities so that future generations may see what the old steam locomotive actually looked like. Most roads have either ' already changed over or now concede that they will do so in a ! short time. Schuyler will build a spur track from a rail siding to the park to transport their museum piece. • • * Schuyler is one of the few towns in the state to celebrate Labor Day in a big way. Again this year, a three-day celebration 1 was held. It started Saturday and ran through Sunday and Mon- j day. Included in the show is Schuyler’s Fall Festival, a hobby i show, band concerts, street parade, floats, bands and the whole ; works. • • » One of the special features of the Cuming County Fair was a big parade through the streets of West Point. The West Point Republican estimated there were 125 floats in the big parade plus a number of other exhibits. The parade idea in connection with the county fair is something out of the ordinary. • • * Pawnee City dedicated some new street lights last week with a big street celebration. A free square dance was one of the feature events. As many as ten squares were dancing at a time, reported the Pawnee Repu'oiu^tn. The dance was so popular that it was decided to hold one each month next summer as a matter of com munity entertainment. • • » The Ponca State Park, which dedicated a new swimming pool in June, took a tally of the traffic on Sunday, August 26, and found that there were 2,318 visitor* in the park on that day. A count of the cars revealed that 1,000 came and went during the day and that 509 persons used the swimming pool. The park is one of the top recreation spots of northeast Nebraska. • • • A historical cabin in the park at Ainsworth was visited by 582 tourists the first 27 days of August, the Ainsworth Star-Journal reported. The visitors came from 24 states and Canada. In view of the fact that the spot is not nationally known or that Ainsworth is not on a major tourist highway, the interest is considered ex ceptionally high. * • • Arapahoe has a new athletic field with lights for night games. Steel and wood bleachers will be used. • • • A golf championship playoff is going on at Central City, the Republican revealed last week. The title holder, Jamie Eoff, has held the crown for fifteen consecutive years-a record which is probably outstanding in any community. • • • Boy Scouts at Lexington wanted to make some money for a special project last week so they roped off a block of pavement and went into the car washing business. They washed 40 cars $1.00 each, the Dawson County Herald reported. MONK’S ACCIDENTAL pert. FIND IS IMPORTANT “I believe they are 20 thousand , , —- . years old,” the expert reported, i London — A young French___ ‘ i monk who chased a rabbit into NEGRO BUS DRIVERS an island cave has stumbled up- - on one of Britain's tnost impor- New York (INS) — Four Negroes tant finds of prehistoric animal —believed to be the first ever ein bones. ► ployed as drivers with any msjor Brother Marie-Jacques v a n interstate bus line— have been Nedervelde cleaned the relics hired as drivers by the Greyhound and sent them to a museum ex- Bus Lines’ Eastern division. Plight of Negroes Is Improving Washington, D. C. — The Fed eral Government’s programs to eliminate racial and religious discrimination i n employment are beginning to produce chain reactions which improve econ omic prospects for Negroes and members of other minority groups throughout the Nation, ac cording to the President’s Com mittee on Government Contracts. The Committee was establish ed! by President Eisenhower in August 1953 and ordered to do what needed to be done to ex tend the principle of Equal Job Opportunity throughout Ameri can industry. The Committee works with the principal con tracting agencies of the Federal Government to obtain compliance with the nondiscrimination clause in Government contracts, and dew^Iops and conducts broad educSuonal programs for indus try, labor and the general pub lic. Spokesmen for the Committee cite a wide range of examples in which a single action by that body set up a chain reaction of events whi.ch improved employ ment conditions over a broader area than that directly affected by the original action. One of the results of this de velopment is that the Committee is unable to keep fully informed of the progress that is made as a result of its work, spokesmen say. Extension of thp principle into the oil industry was cited by the Committee as an example of the chain reaction developments. The Committee received a complaint charging discrimination was be ing practiced in a Shell Oil Com pany refinery in Houston. The Committee investigated the com plaint and after discussions be tween the company and the Com mittee, the company adopted a j new personnel policy which pro vided for a single training, sen-' iority and wage system for all. employees. Since the Shell Oil Company case, the policy adopted by that i company has been spreading in wider areas of the oil refining industry. As an example of chain reac tion in the field of public re sponse to its program, the Com mittee pointed out that the re' cent series of special Equal Job Opportunity Week meetings throughout the country were car ried on without national direc tion or sponsorship and that; they were “the result of what' happens when the responsible ( members of the community pick up an idea and develop it.” Representatives of the Anti-' Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith and the National Confer-' ence of Christians and Jews in January suggested to the Com * mittee staff that the two agencies might assist thq Committee’s pro gram by arranging for a few premiere performances of its new motion picture, “Commence ment.” Out of that informal suggestion grew the program that saw special Equal Job Opportunity meetings and premiere showings of "Commencement” in 20 slates,1 public expressions of support from eight governor, the Com-( missioners of the District of Col umbia and nine mayors, and aj National Broadcasting Company telecast that was carried by 95 stations in 38 states. The Committee credited the national and local officers of the American Friends Service Com mittee, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, the Na tional Conference of Christians j and Jews and the Urban League for the success of the programs. The governors of Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska and Oklahoma and the Commis sioners of the District of Colum bia issued official proclamations setting the week of April 15 through 21 aside as Equal Job Opportunity Week. Similar pro clamations were issued by the mayors of Baltimore, Chicago, Columbus, Denver, Grand Rapids, New York, Norristown, Pa Phoenix and Tucson. The NBC telecast, featuring Vice President Richard Nixon, chairman of the Committee, and the Committee’s film, “Com mencement,” was carried in every U. S. city of one million or more people and in all but four of the nation’s cities of 500,000 or more. Cities in this size which did not carry the program were Boston, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Pittsburgh. The attention attracted to “Commencement” by the special programs and the television showing has resulted in a sharp increase in the demand for the film, both from those who wish to borrow it, and from those who wish to purchase a print, the Committee said. The impact of the television showing was illus trated in Baton Rouge, La., the Committee said. Although civic groups in the city previously had shown very little interest in the picture, its telecast over Station WBRZ there on April 22 stimu lated several immediate requests for special showings. Another example in which the chain reaction principle operated to advantage was the recent series of investigations of dis crimination complaints in Chica go, the Committee said. The Bureau of Jewish Employment Problems reported to the Com mittee that several Chicago em ployers, including some who held Government contracts, were dis criminating against Jews there. The Committee investigated the charges and as a result of its, work, employment opportunities were improved for members of all minority groups. The top executives of 55 of the nation’s largest manufactur ing companies came to Washing ton last October 25 to attend an Equal Job Opportunity confer ence called by President Eisen hower. Since that meeting, when these men frankly exchanged views and experiences in estab lishing Equal Job Opportunity in their own companies, several of them have taken further action to improve economic opportunity for the minority group workers among their employees. The Committee points out that when a major industrial organ ization adopts Equal Job Oppor tunity as a company-wide policy, the impact is felt in many parts of the country, wherever the firm has a branch, a factory -or a subsidiary. The adoption of an Equal Job Ooportunity policy in a company also means that every future vacancy in the firm is opened to the best qualified worker, regardless of his race, religion or national origin, the Committee pointed out. The Committee is working to ward a better reporting system which will give it more up-to-date knowledge of these increased opportunities for minority work ers. Spokesmen point out that it would be impossible to keep track- of the individual place ments of minority members, but that information regarding the opening of new areas of employ ment to minority workers would be useful to the Committee in its work. 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