Miami Severage Bond Issue Sought for Bay Pollution
Miami property owners are urged to approve a 16 million dollar bond on May 27 to build an underwater sewer across Biscayne Bay to Virginia Key, a treatment plant there, and outfalls. An 11.1 million dollar addition funds interceptor sewers and pumping stations to halt 47 million gallons of raw sewage dumped into the bay amid rising health danger.
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T. E. Cato
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Rickenbacker Causeway
State Department of Health
Cato
Dade County Medical Association
Virginia Key
Carol Brice Night Draws 15000 to Chicago Coliseum
More than 15,000 people filled the Coliseum last week to hear contralto Carol Brice at the 34th Quadrennial Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Chicago. Wabash Avenue near 1500 South saw heavy traffic as streetcars, cabs, and parking filled up while police managed the congestion.
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Chicago
ANP
Carol Brice
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Wabash Avenue
Sewage Interceptor Plan Aims to Clean Bay
Maurice Connell of a local firm outlines a city wide system sending sewage through a six foot diameter main line to Virgina Key where liquids and solids are separated. Aeration reduces bulk before chlorine discharges, officials say the plan prevents epidemics and economic loss from bay pollution.
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Virgina Key
Maurice Connell
George N. Shaw
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ADA Repeats Stand On Civil Rights
Washington ANP Seven hundred delegates from 40 states draft policies guiding the ADA through the 1952 campaigns. The convention calls on the Democratic party to strengthen its 48 civil rights plank by adding support for a majority cloture rule in the senate. Francis Biddle opens with a report as Humphrey delivers the keynote. Truman speaks at the banquet with aspirants Harriman Kefauver and McMahon present. Notables include Wilkins Weaver and Campbell Johnson among attending civil rights leaders.
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ANP
Americans For Democratic Action
Statler Hotel
ADA
ADA National Board
Democratic Party
Senate
Francis Biddle
Statler
Hubert H. Humphrey
Harry S. Truman
W. Averell Harriman
Hubert Humphrey
Brian McMahon
Estes Kefauver
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
George L. P. Weaver
CIO Committee
F. McLaurin
The
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
AFL
Sadie T. M. Alexander
Philadelphia
President's Commission On Civil Rights
Col
Campbell Johnson
Selective Service System
Stassen says mild FEPC can pass under GOP
Harold Stassen, Republican hopeful, argues the party should support a compulsory FEPC with mild teeth to pass Congress. He warns against fusing with Dixiecrats, noting strong risk to key Northern states and the party’s core principles. He doubts southern support and favors gradual steps to enforce fair employment rules.
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Stassen
Washington
ANP
Harold Stassen
U. S. News and World Report
Minnesota
Congress
Republican Party
Five UNCF Students Among Opportunity Fellows
Five students from United Negro College Fund member colleges are named among 53 Opportunity Fellowship recipients announced by the John Hay Whitney Foundation. Fellowships of 1000 to 3000 dollars support study in 28 fields. ages typically 20 to 27. Recipients include Matthew Burks Tougaloo College Samuel Du Bois Cook Morehouse College Yolande Hargrave Chambers Hampton Institute Martha Zenia Flowers Fisk University and M Carl Holman Fisk University.
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New York
United Negro College Fund
Opportunity
John Hay Whitney Foundation
The
Matthew Burks
Tougaloo College
Samuel DuBois Cook
Morehouse College
Yolande Hargrave Chambers
Hampton Institute
Mar.ha Zenia Flowers
M. Carl Holman
Fisk University
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