The Omaha guide., 1942-05-02

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quainted. OF course, you know
them all? Alonzo Jackson is the
Captain. Winefred Freeman the
Junior Captain. Jasper Cole, Man
uel Cook, Harry Speed, and Kittse
Hudson, privates. And Robert
Green and Clarence Davis, chaue-
feurs. Say, G. G. isn't there some
kind Of a local election on the 18th
Of May? With n Of the issues
being the Restoration of Pay TO
these firemen, as well as to the pol
ice? b hope they get it, don't you?
CEN
Strolling by the Court House, I
believe it was, 1 was attracted to a
crowd watching some jumping aero
bats but became still more interest
ed when | saw a colored band in
attendance. I met the director, one
George Bryant, and learned, what
you already know, that the sixteen
bandmembers were but part OF the
Federal Projects Band and that
they play quite frequently on all
public occasions. They rehearse in
the Urban League Building at 2213
Lake Street, I believe.
CEN
Met a chap, Leroy GUIDE, he said
his name was, and learned that for
nineteen years he mas been on one
job. w.. butcher lat the Swift
Packing Company, 1 DOM imagine
that's news to you however for dur
ing your forty-two years in Omaha
you must have become acquainted
with men who have been on one Job
longer than that. But to a rolling
stone, like myself. nineteen years in
one spot Is quite a record. I've
been all over the Western Hem:s-
phere in that time and imagine that
the only time I'll be nineteen years
in one place will be when a tomb
stone is holding me down.
-CCM-
Say, c. c. 1 can't begin to remepl-
Der all the people I've met. One Of
the most intereting however, was
J. Westbrook Mcpherson. I believe
he is a clerk in one of the County
Judges office but in his talk with
me he seems very much stimulated
in his NAACP. work. 1 think he
said he is chairman of the Educat-
ionaI Committee and he is greatly
enthused because he believes that
his committee was at least instrurn-
entail in helping to place the first
regular colored school teacher in the
system here. The lucky teacher he
ing Eugene Skinner, Physical In
stuctor at Long School. + under
stand that heretofore colored teach
ers were only in the substitute
grade. Mcpherson believes that a
great many other qualified teachers
will now be placed. He also says he
is working on a plan leading up 70
the placement of a number of reg
ular teachers to continue the work
now being lone by the WPA. night
schools. I wish him and his com
mittee luck, don't you c. c.?
--CCM.-
BY the way G. G. a real live journ-
alist was in town. He is Ray il.
Gillespie of Columbus, Ohio. I've
read his stuff for years. And we
know hundreds Of newspaper work
ers back east. We spent an hour or
two recalling old acquaintances.
I'm not sure what brought him to
Omaha but I think he was after
something in the Wor Department.
He stopped with Mcpherson, writ
ten of above, while here.
-CCM-
Speaking Of jobs, @. @. what il
that stenographer's name that has
the wire from Washington? When Il
she going? Do you know? And then
there's Estelle Ratliff, of 1922 f-2
Erskine ST., who has been in BROOK
Ign and who is now in Omaha TO
take up a good job al the old Omaha
University. Did you know that c.
@?
Among the visitors in town whom
I met, C. c. are: Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Swayne, Of Oakland, California.
Are YOU acquainted in Oakland 81.
iC? Years ago, while living in Yves
tern Conada, I used to spend The
winters in Oakland.
Oh yes, MI. and Mrs. AL Hopkins
are in town, too, from Oakland, Cal
~ifornia.
Dorothy Boswell, recently of Sal.
mas, Kansas, is being introduced by
her charming friend Ethel Davis.
And the soldier boys up from Fort
Riley, Kansas. were seen every
where. An excited bunch of young
girls passed me Saturday night, all
agog, over the entertainment they
had planned at the dance that night