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National Advertising Representative EWSPAPH PLpP.ESENTATIVES, INC Chicago • Detroit • Philadelphia I A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published Every Thuredey, Dated Friday _ roach office for local news only, 2420 Grant St, Omaha 11, Nebr. ooad-elaaa mall privileges authorized at Omaha, Nebraska. ^ C. GALLOWAYPublisher and Managing Edita (MEMBER) CALVIN NEWS SERVICE ' GLOBAL NEWS SERVICE ! ATLAS NEWS SERVICE r STANDARD NEWS SERVICE This paper reeervvea the right te publish all matter credited is thaae aews servkoo. __ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Three Months _ I-®* Rtx Months _Ml Oas Year ___ . ,. , ____ ... . —T -—-4 ftC OCT OF TOWN SUBSCRIPTION RATBS One Month_• three Months _-_1-*® Ri Months _ Oas Year_AR® ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON REQUEST_ Integration Can Work While some southern cities fiercely resist school integration, an organization which has made great strides toward equal educational opportunities for all described major advances on two fronts in its Annual Report for 1956-57 issued this week. The organization is the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students with headquarters in New York. The report was made by Richard L. Plaut, Executive Vice-Chairman of the NSSFNS Board of Directors of which Dean Emeritus Harry J Carman of Columbia College is Chairman. The report states that during the last nine years NSSFNS has helped almost 4,600 Negro students, including many from the deep South, achieve an interracial college education and it procurred for or directly awarded students a total of $1,550.00 in scholarship aid. NSSFNS also has found places for nearly 200 students, mostly from the South, in northern preparatory schools. It was noted in the report that the year’s headlines, however, were not made by the basic program but rather by the significant pro gress of its newer campaign for "much earlier identification and edu-, cational development of able students from all enomically and cultural ly deprived groups regardless of race.” There were there major developments in implementing this ver tical and horizontal NSSFNS program extension. (1) Successful completion of the first year of a six-year demon stration project in Junior High No. 43 in Manhattan. The project co sponsored with the New York City Board of Education and the College Entrance Examination Board is serving as a laboratory for develop ing methods of spotting and encouraging children with college potential long before they read the final years of high school when it is often too late. (2) Publication of a handbook, BLUEPRINT FOR TALENT SEARCHING by Richard L. Plaut, written to assist communities in setting up their own talent searching programs. Made possible by a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education of the Ford Foundation, the booklet was distributed to 40,000 leaders in educa tion, government, industry and labor, and has received nation-wide attention. (3) Launching of COMMUNITY TALENT SEARCH (CTS), a NSS FNS program aimed specifically at helping selected American com munities identify and develop their able children from less priviledged groups regardless of race and creed. The first CTS project will start soon in Hartford, Conn., co-spon sored by the Hartford Board of Education, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and NSSFNS. Discussions regarding possible pro jects in other localities are now being carried on between community officials and NSSFNS staff members. The Project Director of CTS is Dr. Franklin J. Keller, recently retired principal of Metropolitan Vocational High School in New York City. The NSSFNS basic program hit a peak in the year just ended when it helped enroll 549 freshmen in 250 colleges, with over $250,000 in scholarship aid. The record number was a source of pride but spotlighted the need for additional funds for direct scholarship aid. "Although a great number receive aid,” says the report, “many who were eligible on the grounds of both merit and need did not be cause of lack of available funds. .. the problem was not one of less money but of more qualified candidates.” A study of the academic progress of students enrolled in College with the assistance of NSSFNS shows them to be markedly above the national average. Sixty percent of them averaged B minus or better grades. Only six percent withdrew from college for academic reasons and about nine percent for other causes. This contrasts with about a forty per cent icidence of dropouts in the whole college population, population. DEPARTED FRIENDS By William Henry Huff for ANP I hope that I, beyond the veil. Will meet again those whom 1 love. 1 don’t believe this hope will fail Because there is a God above Unseen, but deeply felt within. Who tells me in a still, small voice That I, by keeping faith, will win And, yet, He leaves to me the choice (Huff) i -0O0 BARTOW. FLA., DEMOCRAT: ‘Today the trend of many peo ple to assume that the federal government should furnish the money... your money and my money.... for the financing of our schools, for furnishing subsidies to farmers for building roads and in other ways supplying us with things which early citizens once considered their personal obligations is already breaking down the rights of states to maintain a normal degree of sovereignty, which was a cardinal prinicpal among gifted men who wrote the Constitution of these United States .... too great a leaning in this direction can only bring about socialization.” EAST WEYMOUTH. MASS., GAZETTE: “The Post Office Depart ment is the biggest business in the country and spends about $3,000, 000,000 a year. It ia, of course, a socialistic enterprise and there ia no competition so there is no real pressure for efficiency or elimination of waste.” News . «m Around Nebraska The Sheriff of Arthur is probably the busiest sher'ff in ail Nebraska according to the Keith County News. He has fifteen jobs some acquired before he became sheriff and some afterwards He is also probably the only sheriff in all the forty-eight states to have graduated from h*"4' school last year. He is custodian of the Arthur County High School and that ia what put ideas into the Sheriffs bead. He had completed grade aehool but had never attended High School. In-as much as he bad to attend aehool •’ every day in the line of duty, as a custodian, be reasoned he might as well get a high aehool education Ha completed the four year course in one year. He is 31 years old and the father of five children. • e • rmAmr i-«fc— at Cedar Bluffs was sold at auction Sunday and It brought $21,900 The lakes have been well known around the Wehoo area an a hunting *o<1 fishing resort Negro Feeling In North Exercised By Boycotts By BILLY YOUNG I New Yark City—(Calvin News Service)—There is nothing un usual about the TRUTH! The North, behind the curtain of fa cile smirkishness, practices its Negro-hating calumny to the last degree. The festers are on the long arm covering the miles be tween the border-line state’s and grow with rottenness the further North one goes. New England is a cesspool, in sections of hate, and violence is evident more of ten than the Press exposes it and more openly intimidated than *s > good. Churches are as guilty as any or all of the rest of inhuman practices such as not speaking to Negro worshippers. All of the back patters who ran tell you a bout what “we" do to welcome eveybody are liars right through their teeth, false or otherwise. Many Negroes enjoy "freedom" such as it means, but a classic example of what actually exists is evident in a Negro school teacher who bought a home in a: : Jewish section of Boston and then signed a petition, along with the Jewish signers, to keep a 01 from buying a house in the same block. He, of course, being a colored American. Her reason: "I have arrived and I just can't crusade for the rest”. This is the reverse of Southern fear. This is the cpi I tone of race hatred, exercised by ; small groups and practiced with ' the steel sharpness of a bull’s goring horn. Negroes, all over the North, are literally gerrymandered into slum or nearly slum-rundown sec tions. True, they own fine homes and are the first, some lime to get into housing projects, because they light the lamps along the way and go out to search for the same man Diogenes was trying to find. They make not much of beatings inflicted on their child ren since Courts of Law exist 0:1 • proof.” Bias, Northern style, is hardly definable, except when hunting, for a house to live in one do; covers ”11 isn't me. you know, it is the people next door,” or such. Sound similarities arc the same. Results in discouragement are the same and travel through many small, medium and large com , munilies shed an entire light of j dazzling hue on the whole sub-) ject and reveal that even whore it occurs in youth, and most as surdly has been coached, if not instilled, by elders, we are in a new generation of color approach and need not lull ourselves into any concept that the North is a haven. Not even ' poor white trash" can hope for that. , Those who consider themselwv “Isoiated Cases" and proof of the exception, are fooling nobody. They live at the expense of hund reds of others who dare not. LKh er nqjpey or some type of prest ige make the allowable octui. Sometimes even public opinion of a type. The rule is a vast people; those who rot in the stench of eo-k roach-infested and rat-ridden buildings; those who live in buildings that collapse because repairs are made without build ing permits or consent of the lo cal building inspector; those who teem inside of areas with faulty water mains and out-dated gas piping; in filthy streets with al leys and lurching porches rotting away in God's sunlight; and those who breathe brick-air and never smell green grass, freshly cut, not even in the produce markets Generalities may be dangerous, at times. Albeit, the truth stings where one never likes it to tio so. One generality that is self evident and has been denied time and times again by bringing up examples of this and examples of that is the factual poll one would get in a cross-section ques tioning of Northerners. In an area from Cleveland, Ohio, east ward and from Vanceboro. Maine, Southward, one would be quite surprised at the honesty of the common man. They just don't like Negroes. Reason is not ira portant. Ail fits like the acorn to an oak. It has been a growing disease for years and denials of it only prove its certainty, since without it there would he noth ing to deny. Or The Widows They say no auditorium has ever been built large enough to hold a convention of the daughters of the Mexican revo lutions. A recent survey of $*5,000 homes in the Chicago area show ed that the average home con tained over a half ton of glass. Sold at auction were 90 acres of land including ten lakes, a restaurant, large modem dining room and dance floor, 42 ft. house trailer, 6 three room cabins, a boat house, 3 storage build ings, a fish truck and a tractor. Other features of the lakes were three-quarters of a mile of river frontage, over 1,000 bales of prairie hay to cut each year and graveled roads. Over 500 , persons attended the auction. • • • \ Frank Ringquist, according to the Oakland Independent, in his motor boat “vitae” plowed through the billowy waters of the Logan from Oakland to Lyons and back last Sunday, thus establish ing a record. It was probably the first time that anyone traveled by water between two of the inland Burt County towns. Yes, it happened in Oakland, 45 years ago. • • • It was a busy place at Oakland Memorial Hospital at 10:50 A M., September 24th. For that was the hour, minute ano second when two baby girls entered the world simutaneously. This is the first time that a dual birth has occurred at the Oakland Hos pital according to Mrs. Arlene Schroeder, superintendent. In fact, she said, it is a rare occurrance wherever it happens. • • • Along with all the taU com stories comes a giant size squash story. The squash is pictured in the Crete News. Called a bana na squash, it is now grown longer than the width of a corn row (42 inches) and its weight is estimated over 40 pounds. Mrs. Ator, head cook at Doane College saved the seed from two which she served students at Doane cafeteria. The pair—one small and one large—served 265 students, neither were forty pounders. They came to Doane from a wholesale house. Wondering how they would grow in Nebraska she saved a handful of seed. This was the result. They are listed as a banana squash and are yellow in color. The second annual B-B Gun tournament sponsored by the Pierce Rod and Gun Club will be held October 13th. Last year’s event drew 84 sharpshooters. The youngsters are listed in three age groups, “midgets” nine years and under, “Juniors” nine ten and eleven years of age and "Senior” twelve through fourteen years. Girls are eligible this year but will be given no handicap and must shoot in competition with the boys. • p • A run away buffalo will give no more trouble to its owners, states the Schuyler Sun. The buffalo purchased last year from Ft Niobiara Game Refuge was corraled on the Wagner farm until it escaped a month ago. Since then it has been roaming islands on the Platte and mingling with cattle in pastures adjoining the river. After deciding it was too much trouble to catch and keep the animal corraled, Wagnor called a Deputy Conservation officer to kill the animals. The Safari located the animal grazing with some cattle in a pasture. It was tame enough so they could drive within fifty yards of the animal. One shot from a .270 dropped him. The animal was bled where it dropped and after a half hour of kicking it was hoisted into a truck by a wrecker and hauled to Schuyler where it tipped the scales at 960 pounds. • • • Utica Grange No. 410 has been selected as one of the ten finalists in the tenth annual Nation-Wide Community Service- Con test sponsored by the National Grange and the Sears Roebuck foundation. This selection entitles Utica Grange to a $1,000 cash award and an opportunity to compete for a $10,000 award provided the National Contest winner. • • • • • • According to figures compiled by the Dixon County Farm Agent, farmers in the county will receive over a million dollars mure for their crops in IBS7 than ISM. In dollar values, last year's crops were figured at last year’s market price in mid Sep tember supplied by grain brokers. This year’s crops were figured at thia year s market price at tbu at.'U. time, fa all cases market prices were lower this year than last, but this handicap waa over come by the big jump in output e e a One grocer in Arapahoe sold over 39 tone of watermelons this summer He stales melons mu*, nave become a pretty sUple item of diet. To lop off the season, the grocer is putting on • ft** watermelon feed Saturday at his store-lie figures the consumption will have gone up another ton by the time the day is over. A Letter From Mrs. Edna Winston _ Dear Friend: A man sits in prison to lay lie has been there close to two years. He faces six more years. Wnile his physical movements are re stricted to a federal prison at Terre Haute, Indiana, each time I visit him I see his keen mind travel afar, following every skir mish in the great battle for con stitutional liberty, integration and full citizenship for his people. Last year it was Clinton, Tennes see. and Sturgis, Kentucky, now Little Rock and Nashville. This man, Henry Winston, a Negro, is my husband. He has de voted all his mature years to the battle for democracy. He is a good man. Born in Hattiesburg Mississippi, to a life of Jim Crow, he early began to seek a way out of the humiliation and injustice suffered by his people. Because this search ied {fin. as it did tens of thousands of oth ers, Negro and white, to the Com munist Party, he is now behind prison bars. - I ask no agreement with my husband's political concepts. 1 wish, however, that you could read, as I have, the record of his trial under the Smith Act. I am! sure that it would convince y 'u that Henry Winston was not cot.-! victed for "conspiring to teach and advocate overthrow of our government," but rather for teaching and advocating an enci to the violence against his peo ; pie and a peaceful and better i life for all mankind. No overt acts were cited against my hus-! band. Even the charge of having ] organized the Communist Party m 1945 evaporated, because in 1943 my husband was fighting in the1 United States Army where he re-1 oeived a "Certificate of Merit” \ in “recognition of conspicuously meritorious and outstanding per formanee of military duty." Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas frit that the conviction of my husband and his colleagues was a serious in these words: “Public opinion being what it is, few will protest the con viction of these Communist petitioners. There is hope, however, that in calmer times, when present pres sures, passions and fears sub side this or some later couit will restore the First Amend ment liberties to the high preferred place where they belong in a free society.” The recent sessions of the C. S. j Supreme Court did in part fulfill the prophecy of Justice Black The convictions of a number of defendants tried under the same law as my husband with an al most identical* show of evidence,' were reversed. And in Connect. cut, Denver, and Pittsburgh, the federal courts have either rever sed or granted new trials to si»n Why then does Henry Winn on ilar defendants. remain in prison? I know he has committed no “crime"' but that of political unorthodoxy, and the so-called crime of guilt-by-asso ciation. But has not our Amenta grown strong precisely because it welcomed and encouraged its non-conformists? Tom Paine, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, are they to be honored or re viled? Our nation’s name today is being dragged in the mire by the white supremacists who call out troops to prevent little child ren from going to school. Does it improve the reputation of our na (ion to keep a man in prison who in his early youth pioneered in the Southland against Jim Crew and aegregation? President Eisenhower cou'd set my husband free tomorrow. I believe, he would if he knew that thousands of Americans dis approved v/hat in view of the fi bove can only be palled political vengeance. I believe, the Presi dent wiii act to grant amnei y in the traditional Christmas spir it if you and many others will write him asking him to grant amnesty for Henry Winston in the American tradition of justice and fair play Of course, I want my husband home. And our young children j Larry 10, and Judith, 7, need him at their side. But as urgently as we need him, America needs even mote to know that it is "cruel and unusual punishment" to Keep a man in prison because his ideas are different. I pray that you will write to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The White House, Washington,; D. C, asking him to grant amnesty to Henry Winston. And if you will let me know that you) have done so, I shall be doubly gratified. „ Very Sincerely Yours, EDNA WINSTON —-—. Ain't It Set Office holdin' has get to be so worrisome, said Uncle Ebon, dat it looks lika a man was doin' us populace a real favor, even to try to hold a Government jok, Mrs. Fannie Green Mrs. Fannie Green, age SO years, 2631 Parker Street, passed ( a.vay Thursday October 3rd at a local hospital. Mrs Green had been a resident of Omaha seventy years. She was a former member oL the Mt. Calvary Community Church. Mrs. Green is survived! by one sister, Mrs. Lillian Kim-] sey, Omaha; three cousins, Mrs. Lottie Snodgrass, Mrs. Fannie j Taylor, St. Joseph, Missouri. Mr. Charles Smith, Minneapolis, Min nesota and other relatives. Tentatively funeral services have been set for two o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Thomas Funeral Home with the Rev. R. W. Johnson officiating with interment at Mt. Hope Cem etery. Mrs. Rener Patton Mrs. Rener Patton, age 65 years, of 5620 So. 14th Street, expired Sunday morning October 6, 1057 at a local hospital. A native of Dallas, Texas, she came to Omaha in 1914. She is survived by her bus band, Albert Patton; brother, Arthur Phillips; "nephew, Roscoe Secret; 3 stepdaughters, Edith Powell Ruth Ewing, Jessie Jack son all of Omaha. Funeral services were held Tuesday October 8, 1957 at 2:00 p.m. from the Myers Funeral Chapel with Rev. L. A. Parker officiating. Interment was at Graccland Park Cemetery. Pallbearers Messrs J. M. Tani ar, C. Jordan. T. Relford, C. Dio las and C. Garland. Myers Brothers Funeral Ser vice. Robt. G. Jackson Robert G. Jackson, age 68 years of 2101 Locust Street, ex pired Friday October 4, 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin while vis iting his sister, Mrs. Nellie V. Johnson. A native of Lawrence, Kansas, Mr. Jackson came to Omaha a bout 1921. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Nellie V. Johnson. Milwau of Lawrence. Kansas, Mrs. Alice kee, Wisconsin, Mrs. Anna Irving Harding of Lawrence. Kansas, and Mrs. Mary Pittman of Omaha; brother, James Jackson of Law rence, Kansas. Funeral services tentatively arranged for Thursday, October 10, 1957 at 10:00 a m. from the St. John A.M.E. Church. Myers Brothers Funeral Ser vice. Middle Age— That time in life: when one wishes there were some { other way to start the day than( by getting up. FOR WO MEN By Betty Cook For Associated Negro Press AN IDEAL AUTUMN DESSERT With packaged coconut pie filling mix, today's homemaking can turn out a beautiful and de Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority News The first of this month Det i Epsilon Omega Chapter of Alpua Kappa Alpha Sorority held theu initial meeting of the year at the Northside branch of the Y.W.C.A. The meeting was hon ored and the Sorors Inspired with the presence of the Regional director of this area, Soror Esthei B. Pnyne^of Kansas City, Mu. who presided over the cere mony of the installation of offi cers. The program for the year was presented. New Sorors to the city were welcomed into the chapter. The evening wss pleas antly brought to a close with a social hour. Officers for the year. Sorors: Juanita Ann Hanger—Basileua, Nadine Forrest—Anti Basilcus, Clara Persons—Granmateus, Bar bara Davis—Anti Grammateu1, Hilda Chue—Treasurer, Ernestine Starks—Ass’t Treasurer. ' Ruth Thomas—Parlimentarian. lone W. Hanger—Iy Leaf Reporter. •saprjS pajiofi atfl ui sasanoa R08 ass's aasM ajaqi 0E6I ui licious pic m no time. Especially flavorsome, this Banana Cream Pie is sure to become a fall fav orile with the whole family. The delightful filling, rich with coconut, is prepared with two cups of milk and cooked until it comes to a boil. After it has cool ed for five minutes, it is layered in a pie shell wPh sliced bananas and garnished with puffs of whip ped cream, additional banana slices and maraschino cherries for a pay touch of color. 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