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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.
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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.
BANANA COCONUT CREAM PlB
1 package Coconut cream pud
ding and pie filling mix
2 cups milk
2 bananas
1 baked B or 9 inch pie shell
’i cup cream, whipped
METHOD: Place pie filling mix
in saucepan Add milk gradually,
blending well. Cook only about S
minutes, stirring once or twice.
Slice bananas and arrange in pic
shell Cover with the filling.
Chill. Garnish with whipped
cream additional banana slices
and maraschino cherry halves.
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