St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-02-03
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdown"
BY BAILEE THOMAS


in any magazine for many a day
The center figure in a group il
brown-skinned Miss Iowa Stat,
University. II year old Dora lie,
Martin from Houston. Texas, VIII,
won ,De campus queen title in {
race with other Iowa goods.
While Georgia Tech student!
were chasing Gov. Marvin Griffin
around the capital for suggesting
that the school not play a bow
game with Pittsburgh because the
team had a Negro player, the
University Of Iowa was selecting
a Negro girl coed from Texas as
Campus Queen.
Iowa "U" has $50 Negro
American students out OF a total
enrolment of 5000. Hope the
SATURDAY EVENING POST
has a few readers down Dixie way.
That beautiful color picture
with those beautiful American
faces may be good for some of the
things which give the south the
aches and pains.
The picture in the POST, by
Ivan Dmitri, an Upper Midwest
boy who attended the University
of Minnesota is worth the price
of a years subscription to the
POST. If you don't want a sub
buy a single copy at
Shinder's in Minneapolis or
Courtesy News in St Paul
Ann Harris, the Minneapolis
business woman is headed for the
altar with Leo Brown, a railroad
err Friends of Jim Williams
and they are legion, are happy
that he won his bout with pneu-
monia It's remarkable how
the sepia boys who box under the
Partnership and coaching OF Harry
Davis continue to carry away
Mill City Golden Glove champion
ships.
There was a jazz concert at the
Lyceum last Sunday night, but
practically nobody knew about it,
. If Shelton CTony) Granger APP
pears to have a large smile on
his face, it's because his wife pre-
scented him with a boy baby last
week. The other three prior chill
dren in the Granger family were
all girls!
II you want a real belly laugh
get A. B. Csssius. the Twin
Towns top raconteur to tell how
he used to brighten football play
ers on the opposing eleven when
he starred for Mechanic Arts.
Then get John Patton to tell how
he kept Cassius from breaking UP
a touchdown play during an an
nual intercity game by grabbing
and holding his feet,
Bailee watched the Winter Car
nival parade Saturday on the
street as long "s he could, finally
succumbing TO the temptation of
the warmth of the St Paul Audi
forum Too bad, the SANITY
City Aframerican community
doesn't sponsor a queen in the
Winter Carnival race Same
thing should be considered for the
Minneapolis AquatenniaL With all
the pretty, talented personable
girls we have in these Twin Cities
we should come up with a worthy
contender for the queen crowns.
The BOSNIAN proudly passed a
note from Mrs. " r Mikkelson
Of Minneapolis who wrote she
wouldn't be without this paper for
anything. Nice thoughtful senti-
ments from a nice lady.
Civil Rights, Party Headache:
On the political party civil rights
front the Eisenhower administra-
ton is continuing TO build its
fences. Pennsylvania Republican
Congressman Hugh Scott il CO.
operating with Democrat Adam
Clayton Powell in plans TO bring
the administration civil rights
proposals 10 the floor Of the
House.
Senator Hubert II. Humphrey
Of Minnesota, warned Democratic
leaders in Congress last week,
The Democratic Party is spelling
its own long-terIn doom unless II
does something Our party ought
10 be the champion Of equal
rights-it's morally right and It's
politically night II this admin
lstration IL sincere. they'll gel
my full support"
Democratic national chairman
Paul Butler told a group % Negro
Newspaper publishers IN wash
ington recently that Democratic
congressional leaders had tod
him ina; they I'D not plan 20 pres
Tor civil rights legislation A r..
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