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NPA Obs< h Year
Peterson, Griswold Praise
Work Done By Newspapers
The Nebraska Press Association met in Lincoln March
17-19 to celebrate its diamond jubilee. More than 250 pub
lishers, editors and newsmen attended the confab and ex
changed trade notes and stories of how the members of
the association have been bringing Nebraskans news, quick
ly and accurately, for the last three quarters of a century.
At a Friday luncheon former
Governor Griswold, back from
directing the aid-to-Greece pro
gram, told that the Greeks were
very thankful for the ECA (Eco
nomic Cooperation Administra
tion) but that he felt that fuller
production was- the answer to
their problem. Correspondents
there try very hard to report the
news as news, but the Greek
government exercises very close
supervision over reports from
their country.
Friday afternoon the Associa
tion elected Warren Wood, Ger
ing, to succeed Guy Ludi, Wahoo,
as president for the coming year.
Gen. Wood is well remembered
for the excellent job he did with
the state national guard during
the winter blizzard before the
5th Army moved in to take over
Operation Snowbound.
At a dinner Friday night Gov.
Val Peterson praised the work of
the Nebraska newspapers, pre
dominantly weeklies, for the
good work they have done in
covering the news effectively and
completely during the past year.
The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben were
hosts on this occasion.
Granville Coggs
Elected to Pre-Med
Honorary Group
Mr. Granville Coggs, 2052 S
Street, added one more leaf to
his scholastic laurels when re
c e n 11 y he was among those
elected to Theta Nu society, pre
medical student honorary at the
University of Nebraska.
Along with Kenneth Sato and
James Ramsaran, he is believed
to be among the first students of
color so recognized. Coggs has
twice been named at Honors con
vocation and last spring won a
Regents scholarship. He plans
to enter Harvard medical school in
the fall.
Ohio State Society
Drops Color Ban
COLUMBUS. O. (ANP). A 37
year-old rule restricting member
ship to “white males” was dropped
recently by the Bucket and Dip
per, junior men’s honorary of
Ohio State university. The 18
members voted unanimously to
change the constitution to “all
male students” as the qualifica
tion for admission.
“The members,” President Herb
Floyd explained, “felt the clause
had no place in an honorary.”
Marva Doing Okay
After Operation
CHICAGO. (ANP). Marva Louis,
ex-wife of retired heavyweight
champion Joe Louis, telegraphed
relatives here that she was doing
all right after her operation in
Mexico City last week.
Mrs. Louis, however, reported
that she would have to cancel a
number of fashion show engage
ments she had scheduled fof
Texas and the southwest.
Minnesota Great
;
CECIL E. NEWMAN, editor of
the Minneapolis Spokesman and
St. Paul Recorder, was voted one
of Minnesota’s 100 living greats in
a poll taken recently by the Min
nesota Junior Chamber of Com
merce. More than 10,000 ballots
were cast in the voting, which was
taken in connection with the
state’s centennial celebration.
Newman, a native of Kansas City,
Mo., came to Minnesota in 1922.
He is a member of the Governor’s
State Mental Advisory board and
the, Minneapolis Mayor’s council.
Elois Finley Is
Winner on Local
Amateur Show
Miss Elois Finley, 237 South
20th street, walked off with the
grand prize on Hardy’s Talent
Show at the Varsity Theater last
Monday, March 14.
The young songstress, whose
thrush-like notes immediately
won her audience, won out over
a field of amateur contestants
with her renditions of “Too Soon
to Know,” and “Someone to
Watch Over Me.”
Among the many prizes which
were awarded by Hardy’s, she
received a beautiful table lamp,
string of Victoria pearls, two
large boxes of stationery, a can
teen make-up kit, three leather
billfolds, a compact, two cologne
sets, a combination cigarette case
and lighter, another lighter, 3
pipes, a plastic automatic pipe
filler, a baby doll, skirt hanger
(automatic type), a small cos
metic set, a quilted plastic gar
ment bag, 2 plastic whisk brooms,
a safety razor set, and a man’s
traveling kit. (Looks like there
are gifts for her dad too.)
Winning first place on the
show automatically gives Miss
Finley a chance to compete in
the finals which will be held in
Omaha in the next few weeks.
She has also been invited by the
Capitol Theater to participate as
one of their best acts of the year
for their “Oscar.”
“Lopy,” as Miss Finley is
popularly known, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Finley. He
is a cement finisher for the Ro
kahr Construction company.
Town Meeting to
Hear Municipal
Candidates
The Y.W.C.A. Public Affairs
committee and the League of
Women Voters of Lincoln are
again sponsoring a city Town
Meeting on Monday night, March
28 at 8 p. m. at the Lincoln Y.W.
C.A. The speakers will be the
candidates who have filed for the
City Council vacancies and the
office Qf Mayor. This meeting
is given as a public service to
the community to help acquaint
the people with their candidates
for office so they may more in
telligently vote in the coming
election April 5. The meeting is
free, and the audience will be in
vited to direct questions to the
candidates following their talks.
Mrs. Brevy Miller is a member
of the sponsoring committees, ac
cording to Miss Gladys Callender,
Special Projects chairman. The
public is invited to attend.
Repair Work At
Quinn Chapel
Proceeds Apace
Members of the congregation at
Quinn Chapel have been pitching
in their services this past week
to accomplish the redecoration
of the sanctuary. The hallowed
walls have had loose paint scraped
away and damaged plaster re
moved. According to Mr. Wyatt
Williams, chairman of the im
provements committee, the men
of the church are doing the job
“right” and hope to have the
project nearly completed next
week. Rev. J. B. Brooks an
nounced that persons wishing to
assist in the work may volunteer
at the church.
N.M. Senate Passes
Skeleton FEPC Bill
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. (ANP).
The New Mexico state senate
passed a skeleton Fair Employ
ment Practice bill last Thursday
after several days of debate in
which many compromises were
made on the proposals in the bill.
Predicts Way of the Diamonds
What will soon be happening on the major league diamonds was
discussed by baseball’s best liked second baseman, Jackie Robinson
of the Brooklyn Dodgers and CBS Sports Director Red Barber, on
“Red Barber’s Club House’’ program before Jackie left for the Dodgers
training camp at Vero Beaeh, Fla. Jackie predicted big diamond doings
i —naturally fur the Dodgers. (ANP)
V.O.C. at Urban League Brings
| Experts To Advise Youths
Friday, March 18, the Lincoif
Urban League and seven other co
operating organizations sponsored
a Vocational Opportunity Cam
paign at the League. Its purpose,
to make available to Lincoln
young people, experts to advise
them on their choice of vocations,
on what preparation is expected
and on some of the difficulties in
volved. The program was part of
a national campaign of the Na
tional Urban League to provide
business, industry, the crafts, and
the professions with trained young
MRS. MAUDE COGGS.
. . . VOC general chairman and
one of the recipients of the Na
tional Urban League’s certificate
of merit.
Postal Clerks
Bid Truman
Meet Speaker
The Nebraska Federation of
Post Office Clerks, of which
Kasper Actmeier, Lincoln, is
president, has set the dates of its
I state convention to be held in
Grand Island as May 5, 6 and 7.
According to Mr. Robert H.
Powell, Lincoln, the Federation
has extended an invitation to
President Truman through Con
gressman O’Sullivan to address a
public meeting, but as yet no an
swer has been forthcoming from
the White House.
people to carry on the nation’s
work.
On hand to give counsel were
Miss Kady Faulkner, Joseph Isha
kawa, Edward Madison, Ernest
Taylor, Mrs. Dorothy Glenn, Mrs.
Helen Randol, Mrs. Frances
Greene, Mrs. Mary Thelmon, Mrs.
Maude Coggs, Stanley Cooke,
Jewell Kelley, Granville Coggs,
Mrs. Eugenia Brown, Howard
Molden, R. Bertram Cooke and
Miss Charlene May. Rev. W. I.
Monroe offered the invocation.
Following the conferences, a
movie telling how to find one’s
best qualifications was shown.
Clyde W. Malone, Executive
Secretary of the Lincoln Urban
League, presented three certifi
cates from the National organiza
tion citing Lincolnites for out
standing individual achievement.
They were received by Miss Flo
rentine Crawford, Omaha, U. of
N. music school junior; Miss
Jeanne Malone, U. of N. arts jun
ior, and Mrs. Maude Coggs, mem
ber of the experiment station
staff. Mrs. Coggs was general
chairman of the job seminars.
Langston Hughes
On University of
Chicago Faculty
CHICAGO. (ANP). Langston
Hughes, one of the leading Ameri
can Negro poets, is serving as
resident poet this quarter on the
University of Chicago laboratory
school staff, it was learned here
recently. Hughes, formerly a
member of the Atlanta university
faculty, is working with students
and faculty members. He is what
is technically known as a “re
source person.”
Nances Have Rare
Family; Seven Girls
Beats Famous Cantor
Eddie Cantor has long been
famed as the papa with five good
looking daughters, but Mr. and
Mrs. Sherman Nance, Huskerville,
have gone him two better, when
March 10 they became the par
ents of their seventh daughter.
Considering the rarity of families
with seven children in this day of
the small house, laws of proba
bility show that only one family
in 144 families of seven children
will be all girls.
Governor Hastie Returns
To Islands Optimistic
About Congressional Bills
ST. THOMAS, V. I. (ANP).
Gov. William Hastie, who re
turned from the U. S. over the
week end, told the press that he
was highly optimistic that con
gress would act favorably on the
many measures now being con
sidered in the legislative program
for the Virgin Islands. He said
that in addition to the deficit ap
propriation for the islands con
gress was considering a bill which
would provide $700,000 for needed
improvements.
African Physician to B«
Deputy Medical Head
LAGOS, Nigeria, W. A. (ANP).
Dr. Samuel Layinka Ayodeji
Manuwa, one of the best known
of the African medical men here
has just been appointed deputy
regional director of medical serv
ices in Nigeria. This is a signi
i cant appointment.