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The Omaha guide., 1956-12-28
Minnesota
Team Bids
Cage Lead

Omaha, Nebraska, December IL
-Runner-up to Western Illinois of
Macomb in the first NAIA Zip
Off basketball tournment here a
year ago, Gustavus Adolphus col
lege of st. Peter, Minnesota, will
make a second straight bid for the
championship with a team built
around sophomore stars.
Coach Gus Young lost four
starters by graduation and the g.
foot, 7-inch Bill Patterson, Negro
forward sensation, through schol-
astic difficulties, but he is conf
dent he has another winner in
the making.
A year ago he stamped Owen
Wallin, a ga forward. and D. L.
Smith, 6-2 guard, as two of the
best freshmen I've ever coached" "
They will be starters this season.
Rounding out the first five will
be veteran Harvey Goldberg, 6-3
senior, with Wallin at forward;
Phil Bellefuil, an outstanding
freshman prospect, with Smith at
guard, and Bob Freund, CT GEN.
ter who led Minneapolis Roosevelt
High to a state title last spring.
Two other lettermen are on the
squad, pressing for starting assign
ments. Pat Sweeney is an ex-all
slater from Minneapolis Wash
burn, and Paul Youngdahl, soph-
omore, has rebounding strength
in his 6-foot, 5-ineh frame.
Young, one of the most colorful
of NAIA coaches, has monopolized
honors in small-college competi-
ton in Minnesota the last three
| seasons, and team spirit was at
higher pitch at the st. Peter
school.
We VIII play SIX games Defore
we head for Omaha and I hope
we'll be able to correct some OF
our errors before the tournament
opens" Young said "This is a
young team, but it has much
promise"
Gustavus will make its annual
trip to Dayton University and
Western Kentucky, December |
! and December 3. The team then
will play Beloit In the home open
er, December 8. before engaging
st. Mary's. Manchester and Augs-
burg in conference tests prior to
the Tip Off" event.
The Omaha guide., 1956-12-28

ez; Tigers Herbert Moss; Ell Dor
ados N. Adkins; Crosstown Dra-
gons Jack Childs and Old Timers
Eugene Skinner.
Topeka Teams To Invade Omaha
Plans have been made for the
Annual Topeka-Omaha clash Of
basketball teams on Saturday,
December 8, when teams from the
Carver Branch of the YMCA, will
bring their two representative
teams to Omaha. The first game
starting at 7 PM, will bring to-
gether the Carvettes Girls Team
against the Omaha Trotters Girls
Team. The second game starting
at 8 PM, will pit the Carver
Dons against the Omaha Travellers.
The Travellers will have such
players as Mickey Bowman, Bill
Harmon, Anthony Wright and
Bob Rose. A social will follow
the games with the public being
invited.
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alloeations or such funds will re-
vert to the Federal Government.
In previous comments I have
attempted to set forth the sources
of state revenues to the highway
agencies of our state. At this time
would like to quote to you the
figures of federal revenues which
are available to Nebraska under
the Federal Highway Act of 1856.
During the period of July /, 1856
to June 30, 1859, Federal Funds
alloeated during this period for
our Primary System total Seven
teen Million Nine Hundred Thous-
and Dollars, to our Secondary
Road Fund Seven Million Seven
Hundred Thousand Dollars, to the
Interstate System Seventy Two
Million Two Hundred Thousand
Dollars. Of the above amounts
state revenues must be provided
by our State Highway Department
on ratio of $3.50 basis on the
Primary and Secondary monies.
OF the Interstate Federal Aid they
must be matched with State Funds
on a 90ea Federal and 10ao State
basis.
In addition to the foregoing
monies there is also made avail
able under the act the following
ALLEGATION to counties of Federal
Aid Secondary funds in the sum
of Eight Million Seven Hundred
Thousand Dollars and to the cities
under Federal Aid Urban Funds
In the amount of four Million Nine
Hundred Thousand Dollars which
monies must be matched by the
counties and cities on a $3.50
basis.
Again | say, there Is an urgent
need at the present time to find
a way in which these monies may
be matched by the counties and
cities. For if they are not then
as | stated before, we the people
of Nebraska will forfeit these
funds not matched to some other
state, this we surely cannot afford
to let happen.
OF our present State Highway
System | believe we must strive
and make it our goal to dustless
surface all our highways and bring
them up to present day standards
The Omaha guide., 1956-12-28
Highways
Are Short
BY OWEN ]. BoYLEs, Seerefarl
of Highway Commission

Under the present division of
our Highway Users Revenue there
are only sufficient revenues a.
vailable to our Highway Depart
ment to match primary and state
secondary funds, there being a de-
ficiency in the matching of inter-
state monies. The counties and the
urban areas of the state have not
in the past taken full advantage
of the Federal Secondary and
Urban Funds and the past year
the Highway Department was for
tunate to have had monies to
match these funds or, otherwise.
we the people of Nebraska would
have lost sufficient revenues un-
der those ALLEGATIONS. Now with
the accelerated program under
the new Federal Act, the counties
and urban areas must find some
way to take advantage of their
The Omaha guide., 1956-12-28

mately 100 Hi-Y boys attended
the sessions and this years rated
the best. Members of the Hi-Y
Club are, indeed, grateful to all
who assisted in this effort. The
purpose of the Hi-Y Club is to
create, maintain and extend
throughout the school and com.
munity, high standards of Chris
tian character. The following boys
are the officers of the Yergan
Club: Richard Nared, president;
Harold Butler, vice president;
Joseph Watson, secretary; Donald
Towns end, treasure; Arnold
Daley, sgt-at-arms and Chester
French chaplain.
Senior Basketball League Gets
off To Good Start
The Senior Basketball League,
composed Of six teams, got off to
good start on November 13, at
the Near North Branch YMCA
and all indications point to an out
standing basketball season at the
"Y". The following is the stand
ing as of November 20, with Boys
town Alumni and Crosstown, tied
for first place, the Old Timers and
Tigers, in second place, and the
Latin Americans and Ell Dorados
in third place. The following are
the teams and managers:
Boystown Alumni Bob Rose;
Latin Americans Charles Martin
The Omaha guide., 1956-12-28

Tolerance is the quality that
keeps new bride from reforming
her husband right away.
The Omaha guide., 1956-12-28

and in SO doing will ultimately
accomplish the following
1. Reduce our traffic deaths
due to the hazards now en-
countered on our present
dirt and gravel roads.
2. Reduce maintenance cost
which in turn will make
more monies available for
more construction and i'm
provement.
3. And for the economic values
and your convenience and
driving comfort.
Today it is my belief that we
are on the threshold of some i'm
pressive doings in the highway
field. Each year with the excep-
tons of war years, the pressure
has built up for realistic pro-
gram to correct the ever mounting
deficiencies on our streets and
roads. Since World War Il the
Better Road Movement has been
greatly stimulated by the unpre-
cedented growth in the automo.
bile and truck population. More
and more vehicles have been
crowding our "horse and buggy"
roads and our narrow and highly
inadequate city streets, the re-
suit being a great loss of human
lifes and an economic loss which
runs into the billions of dollars.
The Omaha guide., 1956-12-28


There is a need at This time at
the Veterans Administration Hos
pitsI, Omaha. Nebraska. for per-
sons qualified for fhe position OF
Dental Assistant, S3175.00 per
year.
Employee benefits include sick
and annual leave privileges, low
cost life insurance, an excellent
retirement plan, standard 4o-hour
work week, and periodic pay in
creases based on satisfactory
service.
Persons interested in any of
these positions should get in
touch immediately with the Civil
Service representative at tn local
Post Office for application blanks
and further information.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09

Decisions on Indignation
Due Within Few Weeks

against Norfolk and Newport News
before him.
The Arlington Charlottesville and
the Norfolk Newport News cases are
related in this manner:
Judge Hoffman indicated that he
would be guided by the Fourth Cir
cult Court Of Appeals ruling on
certain legal points that have been
raised in the cases pending before
him.
That was taken to mean that II
the Circuit Court upholds the APP
peals by Arlington and Charlottes-
vile, Judge Hoffman might dismiss
the Norfolk and Newport News suits
on similar grounds.
On the other hand, If the Circuit
Court upholds the District Court
decisions in the Arlington and Char
lottesville cases. Judge Hoffman in
dicated he could then consider
Virginia's new school legislation
which has been introduced as evil
dence in those cases.
On November IA, District Judge
Sterling Hutchinson In Richmond
heard arguments in the Prince Ed
ward County case which was one
Of five that brought the original
Supreme Court decision. He gave
the State until November 20 to file
an additional brief. The questions
before him are motion by Negroes
that Prince Edward schools end
segregation by September, 1857, and
two motions by the State to dismiss
the action. His opinion. too, could
come at any time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09

When and IL the less pretentious
b25 million office building scheduled
for Annapolis is ever built. the rela-
lively small Game and Inland Fish
Department and Water Pollution
Control Commission are to be trans
ferred to it from Baltimore. An
napolis boosters have wondered
aloud whether the State ever in
tends TO get around to constructing
the Annapolis Office building. The
money has been available for
more than four years now-but the
Department Of Public Improvement
insists 1t will open bids early next
year
Actually. 1t makes little difference
now when the State builds the new
Annapolis structure.
The mere beginning Of construc-
ton Of the Baltimore ONCE building
apparently spells defeat for the
Annapolis campaign 70 WOO the
State government back. Once most
Of the some IS State agencies now
housed In rented quarters all over
the city Of Baltimore move under
one State-owned roof. Il will be
virtually impossible 10 dislodge
them.
The gradual transfer OF State
goyernment from Annapolis 70
Baltimore started back In the 1905
not 80 much by the actual moving
OF departments from one city TO
the other, but mostly because viz
tually all agencies created since
that period have been put IN
Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09
DISTRICT
By HECTOR MCLEAN

Is o. Roy Chalk going to lose his
shirt or is he riding a gravy train?
He himself can't be sure of the
answer. but the question is fascin-
ating to any student of District
affairs.
Mr.. Chalk's October financial
report, filed Wednesday with the
District Public Utilities Commits
sion, indicates he may be on the
gravy train.
While most transit companies
have been losing an average of Z
per cent of their riders across the
Nation since World War II, Mr..
Chalk's D. c. Transit System
showed an upturn Of 1.8 per cent
for October, as compared to the
report made a year before by the
old Capital Transit Co.
While this figure Is not entirely
dependable (there were five low
passenger week ends q year ago
and only four this year,, the re-
port indicates a normal decline"
in passenger riding of only IL per
cent since Mr.. Chalk bought out
etc last August Is.
Long Term Decline
This comes at time when tram
sit industry observers are wonder
ing how much longer the passenger
decline can go. on. Since World
War II, transit companies all over
the country have been losing pas
sengers at an average rate of per
cent. etc, before the strike which
led to it's demise, was losing be-
tween 5 and per cent.
Immediately after the strike, the
losses ran up to is per cent, reflect
ing not only new riding habits Gear
POOLS, but resistance to the fare
increases which helped end the
walkout, plus the normal decline"
Despite all this, it seems logical
that the bleeding away of the life
blood Of transit must stop some
where, for not everyone can afford
to use his own automobile.
Now the question is: When is the
bleeding going to stop? Two indi-
cations that it is nearing an end
have come from New York and Chi
cago, where subway and elevated
rail systems are reported finally to
be holding their own.
Thus, Mr.. Chalk may have gotten
into the transit business at the
bottom of the industry's ride down
the toboggan. which has been fore
ing it into self-defeating fare in
creases and cuts in service. Now,
perhaps, there is no place to go
but up.
Another fact working in Mr..
Chalk's favor is that Louis E. Wolf
son. his predecessor owner, taught
the City of Washington the hard
facts of life in the industry, al
though he lost his franchise in the
process.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09

ognizes the Importance to the city
of successful mass transportation
system"
The Advisory Board gave quail
fled approval to the nine-point pro-
gram which Mr.. Chalk has been
making a whirlwind campaign to
put across in the District.
Obviously. it is this kind of top
level support upon which Mr.. Chalk
is relying to support his public
battle with Traffic Director George
E. Keneipp. former automobile
association executive.
At issue is whether, as Mr.. Chalk
fatty requests. mass transit vehicles
should have preference from the
city government because they hold
a congressional franchise and can
use streets more efficiently for NOV
ing people than can private auto
mobiles.
If this issue is ever firmly de-
cided in favor of Mr.. Chalk, he may
come out of the Washington
transit mess with not only his
shirt, but a suit and coat besides.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09
MARYLAND
MARYLAND
Now Annapolis Has Its Little Fling
At Being the Capital Of the Stote
BY GENE GOODWIN

Annapolis soon will get its an
nual fling at being the Maryland
capital in more than name only.
When the Legislature moves into
town, as it will for 80 days begin
ming January 2. it's just like old
times in Annapolis. Even Gov. Nc
Keldin stays in town.
And so many State department
chiefs will be roaming around the
corridors of the State House that
one easily forgets unless he notes
the waiting limousinss outside)
that all but a handful of State
agencies are located in Baltimore.
But after 80 wonderful days of
playing Capital. Annapolis must
adjust once again to this reality:
Little Annapolis has the State
House. but big Baltimore has the
State Jobs.
BY the latest count. there are
some As State agencies in Balti-
more employing more than 4,500
persons. This does not include the
Baltimore branches Of the Univer-
sity OF Maryland.
Hoped for Swing Book
Annapolis has nine State depart
ments, employing about 500.
Annapolis boosters had been
promised that this imbalance would
be improved a little by the transfer
Of the relatively large departments
Of education and welfare from
Baltimore 10 the capital city.
This transfer was 10 take effect
when new State Office buildings
we're opened in both Baltimore and
Annapolis. But 1t came to light last
August that the Board Of Public
Works had voted way back in
April, 1855. to cancel this move.
The board consists Of Gov. Nc
Keldin. State Controller j. Millard
Tawes and State Treasurer Hooper
S. Miles.
Now the plan Is for the education
and welfare departments, along
with all but four or Eve Of the
State agencies In Baltimore. to
move into the fancy new l5-story
state Office building soon to be
erected IN that city.
Bids for the Baltimore State
Office building, and an adjoining
siX-story headquarters for the
State Roads Commission. were
opened Thursday II the bids are
reasonable. construction Of the es-
timated Sis million project prob
ably win start soon after January / +.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09
Signs of Change

Yet a closer look at the general
scene shows signs of significant
change everywhere. First of all. the
physical violence which many hot
spurs predicted and many sober
Southerners feared has not deyel-
oped except in isolated cases. The
most extreme actions of the new
Citizens Councils fall far short OF
the outright reign of terror UNDER
taken by the Ku Klux Khan
generation ago.
There have been shocking ex-
amples Of denial of such basic civil
rights as the franchise. yet even in
the Deep South the participation Of
Negroes in the recent election was
the greatest in history. 1t was. in
fact, so, great that most observers
give the Negro voters credit for
cracking the solid Democratic front
in such states as Louisiana and
Tennessee. Here, then. is new ana
important political leverage being
employed by Negroes in their own
right.
In the meantime, the great out
migration Of Negroes from the
South continues. literally changing
the complexion of the region year
by year. Every Southern city has
grown steadily whittier In recent
years-while every major nom
Southern city has witnessed sharp
and continuing increase in the pro-
portion OF its Negro population. IL
/ had TO cite the single most signif-
icant fact in American race rela-
tions today / would say that 1t Is
the fact that the city Of Chicago
today contains more Negroes than
the entire Confederate State Of Ar
kansas-and that this vast change
has taken place in single genera
ton.
Inside the South and out Of It,
the Negro has come BY q long and
tortuous road 10 the point reached
before him by previous generations
OF immigrants. He Is set apart as
we're the Jews. the Poles. and the
Irish before him-huddled into the
worst housing. assigned 10 the most
mental jobs, beset BY his own IN
ferior background.
lie Is stlll In his time Of hOri-
zOntal migration, from farm TO
city, and from South 10 North.
But his vertical migration Is be-
ginning, and II will accelerate;
he. too, will break out Of his ghet-
tOs and gain greater acceptance
~ his improved opportunities en-
able him 10 earn II.
In many ways his problems are
special The walls Of prejudice are
perhaps harder 70 scale than those
that confronted any Of the other
minorities who found their place IN
this conglomerate Nation Of ours.
But time is working on his side.
and the lsw--and the moral force
which has made him = burden on
every white Americans conscience
throughout our national history
The dilemma Il real The horns
are sharp. But is resolution Is 80
least a. certain ~ the survival 81
the democratic concept In q Hation
which has never attained its goal
but has never considered abandon
inG Il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09
BY PHIL YEAGER and
John STARK

Are the courts really as jammed
up as everybody says they are? If
so. is anything being done about it?
Or is the situation just one of those
chronic evils about which everyone
complains but nobody does any,
thing?
II you have had to go to court in
recent years as participant in
civil trial, you are doubtless aware
that court dockets are truly crowded.
For years." says Henry P.
Chandler, director Of the Admin
istrative ONCE Of the United States
Courts, ut has seemed that trial
courts in the United States. not
only Federal but State, have been
In q long dark tunnel, getting black
er all the time"
Here are q few graphic ilustra-
tons Of the court trend as disclosed
by Director Chambers latest annual
report:
In 1941 there were 1877 Federal
district Judges in the United States
who were being asked to handle
about $4,000 cases per year. Today
$50 district judges are being faced
with $4,000 to $1,000 cases per year.
In other words. while the number
of judges has increased by ~ per
cent, the cases being brought have
jumped So per cent. And the back
log of cases has climbed 116 per
cent.
Moreover, the median time re-
quired to dispose Of Q case in Fed
eral district court is now over 10
months. while 10 years ago it was
about nine months.
In the II Federal circuit courts
Of appeals, the trend Is less dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-09
Jam in Courts Sets Off Search
For Devices to Ease the Load

cernible. The number Of appeals
taken annually remains more or
less constant at about $500 per
year. However, the backlog has
gradually increased during the past
IS years by about 80 per cent, and
the mediSn time required to dispose
of a case at this level is now be-
tween seven and eight months. In
some circuits the time required
may run as high as Is or IA months.
Roughly. the picture in State
courts is similar.
Here are some of the major sug-
gested solutions:
!. Cutting down the diversity Of
citizenship" cases in Federal
courts.
This idea was being worked on
by the late Justice Robert H. jack
son at the time of his death. In a
lecture he was preparing but which
was never presented, Justice jack
son suggested that Congress might
make a great contribution to the
administration Of justice If it would
abolish the jurisdiction of the Fed
eral courts in most diversity"
cases.
The suggestion is a novel one
in which lawyers are beginning to
express real interest, especially
since this type of case accounts for
about a third of all Federal civil
cases.
The problem stems originally
from the Judiciary Act of 1889
which gave the Federal courts
Jurisdiction when a citizen of one
State wanted to sue a citizen of
another-providing the plaintiff
wanted to exercise the option.
The purpose was two-fold: to
protect out-of- State litigantS from