FEBRUARY, 1948
THE HARRIS HERALD
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A KOVAL CANADIAN AIK FOKCE plane, working with American ATC planes from Goose Bay, Lab
rador, rests on the ice at Makkovic after answering a call for help from the small fishing settlement, which
was partially destroyed by fire. Falling parachute at left was dropped by American planes carrying food
and medical supplies. The community wilt be supplied from the air until summer. (International Sound-
photo).
YOU'RE TELLING ME!-
By WILLIAM BITT-
Central Press Writer
SOMEBODY has suggested that
Charleston, S. C., may have been
(he site of the Garden of Eden.
What’s he trying to do — start a
war with California?
Why wait in awarding the art
prize for 1948? Lets give it now-^
to that cartoonist who refrained
from depicting the New Year as a
nude baby garbed only in a ribbon.
Restaurants announce they will
drop eggless and meatleSs days.
However, this doesn’t mean that
in ham sandwiches the accent will
once more be on the ham.
Under a new ruling, it is now
possible to sue the British crown.
Sue King George? What for? —
we’re not even mad at him!
Bees giving less honey, says an
item in a farm journal. Well, now,
that’s not very sweet of them!
! A Los Angeles bank teller drove
off a robber by tossing silver dol
lars at him. Hereafter, we bet,
that crook won’t be so eager to go
after, hard cash.
THE MONTH
several years the able and popular
manager of Paul Doggett’s Dun-
brick brick yard and he has done
a fine job. There are a large num
ber of employees under his super
vision and Mr. Carpenter has
shown himself to be every bit a
foreman and business leader. Mr.
Carpenter is also a well-to-do farm
er of the “Carpenter Section’’ and
is a member and official of Wells
Springs Methodist Church, B'orest
City.
! A New York night club is fea-
’ luring a corps of violinists in its
floor show. With all those bows
sawing back and forth ringside
table occupants had better learn
I to duck — and we don’t mean
(he check, either. ^
• A Yale gridiron star has signed
to play pro football. Even an Old
Blue appreciates that long green.
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FROM PAGE ONE
this association is doing for the
uplift of the Negro and other min
ority groups criticize it. However,
a close study of it’s aims and ob
jectives will show that this or
ganization has done, and is doing
more for Negroes than any other
group has ever done. Negroes all
over the United States should join.
Full information about this asso
ciation and the many benefits to
it’s members can be obtained by
writing To N. A. A. C. P. 69 Fifth
AiVe, New York, Nr'Y.
It is always a pleasure to meet
and chat with Rev, W. R. Bomar,
the popular and successful pastor
of New Bethel A. M. E. Zion
church. Forest City, According to
ail reports Rev. Bomar is one of
the best pastors ever to serve New
Bethel.
Dr. George Washington Carver
has been honored again, this time
by the post office department of
the United States. A series of
postage stamps has been issued in
his honor. A representative group
were present at Tuskegee Institute,
Ala. recently attending ceremonies
honoring the late famed scientist.
Dr. Carver is the second Negro to
be so honored by the Post Office
dept, with a stamp. Dr. Booker T.
Washington was the other one.
MORE MORE MORE
G. V. Carpenter has been for
Recent reports state that Joe
Louis has been heavyweight champ
ion of the woi'ld longer than any
other fighter in the history of
American boxing. The report also
said that he has made over $3,-
000,000 since entering the ring. All
of us should be glad of the re
markable record that “Joe” has
made and we are also glad of his
outstanding sportsmanship that he
has exhibited in and out of the
ring. He has certainly come a long
way from the “Alabama cotton
fields” of his youth. How much
money do you think Joe would
have had he remained in the cot
ton fields of Alabama?
W. C. Bryant, an official and
member of St. John A." M. E. Zion
Church, Rutherfordton, N. C. was
a delegate to the recent annual
conference at Asheville. Mr. Bry
ant has been elected a delegate to
the general conference of the A.
E, M. Zion church which convenes
at Broadway Temple Church,
Louisville, Ky. 1948.
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OBEYING THE RULES
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NATIONAL CAPITAL
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occupied by colored families. The
Negro had moved out, and white
had moved in. We know of no con
dition and happening like that
any where in the country.
In most of the North, white
families are no longer happy and
contented, once one or more Ne
gro families move into a block.
The “for sale” sign usually soon
goes up on the other houses in
that block, and once a residence
is rented to and occupied by Ne
groes, it is from that time on
never considered by whites fit for
them to occupy. We found strange
residential contrasts in Pensa
cola. When asked about race rela
tions in that city; Rev. J. E. Mc
Call, pastor of Talbert, A. M. E,
Zion Church and the presiding
Elders Rev. C. C. Hunter declared
it to be the best they have known
in any city they had served.
Mr. and Mrs. Singleton, mem
bers of the A. M. E. Zion Church
there have the largest and most
lucrative business establishment
among colored people, and are ev
idently the most wealthy family
of the race in Pensacola. In addi
tion to an Ice Cream factory,
which we understand furnishes
many of the retail dealers there
and near by the Singletons have
a large modernly equipped Cafe
teria at which everything in that
line is served.
A new and well furnished drug
store had recently been opened
and a Negro Taxi Service with
a good fleet of well kept cars was
in evidence.
burial expenses) of a World War
II Veteran or other person in
sured under the law. An official
of the governmental unit, author
ized to receive such payments,
may file claim for the amount
due.
“Lump sum payments are made
where a wage earner is insured
under the law and no monthly
benefit is payable,” Mr. Lambert
explained. “When a wage earner
dies, his relatives, or other per
sons who pay funeral expenses,
may be entitled to a payment. Vet
erans of World War II are in
sured for three years after dis
charge regardless of employment
record.”
THOMPSON
BROS. FUNERAL
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INDUSTRIALIST Lewis H. Brown told
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee in Washington that the Mar-
shaD Plan would fail unless the
American, British and French zones
of Westem Germany are integrated.
He urged that the aid program be
administered by, a separate agency
and headed by a person of cabinet
rank. . (International Soundpholo)
Social Security
Payment of Burial
Expenses Explained
Where no widow, child, or other
person is entitled to the Social
Security payment, and the county
or other local governmental unit
pays the funeral expenses of a
wage earner insured under the
Social Security Act, reimburse
ment for payments made can now
be obtained by the county, it
was announced today by D. W.
Lambert, manager of the Ashe
ville field office of the Social
Security . Administration. The
amount to be paid will depend on
the limits established by law.
It was explained that such pay
ments may be made, for example,
where the county welfare depart
ment pays the burial expenses
(or any governmental unit pays
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