Clarion Defender_1967-11-30

I haven't seen any performance this year that surpasses ney Poitier's "To Sir With Love" and "In The Heat of The Night". If he doesn't win his second Academy Award Oscar, it will be be- '; cause of his paint job •.• Speaking of paint jobs, the damn 1 Do-Gooders 1 in the Civil Rights field who are criticizing the all-Negro cast "Hello Dolly" starring Pearl Bailey got a good "whuppin'" in People, Places &. Faces by Major Robinson, who along with Eric Hoffer, and Lee Ivory the great personality of show biz, will becomes regular contribu– tor to .the greatest Negro Newspaper in the Northwest The Clarion Defender. • . Beautiful Lena Horne is booked for appearances on KGW ch. 8 next week. Miss Horne will make a return visit to "The Dean Mar– tin Show" on Nov. 30 at 10 p.m. -- Say Dick Wright how about a ad for the Plug? • • The Oregonian critic of the all Negro version of "Hello Dol– ly" in New York, forgot write a brief description of the play be– cause ~e used up most of his space roving about Pearl Bailey as "Dolly".. • How about that newly licensed nite spot on N. Williams and what you name street--every weeRend they have been selling "fire water" to minors. Where were the boys in blue?? hmmmm--Williams will tell you dont use a woman's leg depilatory for male face shaving tactics. Ecch! ••. Meanwhile wasn't that the Defender's Jimmy 'Bang Bang' Wal– ker and pretty Miss 'Bright Eyes' going into the Hoyt Hotel the other A.M.?? ••• Sammy Davis Jr., now playing Harrah's in Reno, refuses to take telephone calls before 5 p.m. That goe& for his secretary, Murph, too. • • One of the Brothers best friend Morris Rogoway was cleaned out of all his Jewlery, watches, diamonds etc., the other day. When two grey cats derrick his fine jewlery shop at 837 S. W. Broadway. Morris went right out and got $800,000 of those keep– sake for his pre-Christmas sale, and said he will beat any deal in town--well get your dea l and go in and see!!! Jeanette Rover is in San Francisco and been going to all those really big to do's A downtown bachelor we know recently received a fancy pair '\>f mauve pajamas .•. A Seattle 'Lover' is about to be hit with a divorce suit. He is a "leg man" for the post office ••• The Tannette's have nothi~g but high hopes for "One More Once" fashion show and dance. The fashions are from the one and only Jacqueline's downtown and Lloyds stores, and wigs style from the Wig Diggins 3030 E. Burns ide. Miss Tan Portland '66 Carolyn Randolph, Ira Superchief, and Ruby Edwards will be the Me's at the River Queen, Sunday Dec. 17, 5-10 p.m. Be there! .It's the happening! ! •• Remember Otis Grant formerly of Jack Chev Corner? Well now he is a car salesman for Sagner Motors 1836 N. E. Union. If you are looking for a special deal on a T-Bird, Otis is the man to see, by gum! Have you dug the three new brands of cigarettes? They are being sold at Rich's Cigar Store, "Cancer, LSD, and Pot", brand smokers of course, they are just tobacco but they sell for a buck a pack. • More and more people are showing up with those credit cards (bogus of course) for call girls. They're real ice breakers Bob Hayward the great singer is also Portland's best gumbo cook. • • Jim Ben ton and the Del tones is more happening. • • Sunday, Dec. 3 I will be with the Queens and the B.eauticians Cultural Club at there Scholarship Benefit Tea working for old 'Bang Bang' from 2-6 p.m..• Frank Madrid, appearing at the Hut, has a hit for Laurie RE– cords, "It's Grooving and "Won't You Co~p.e Back". You can get them at Bop City or House of Sound ••• The Black Brothers in our town still need the NAACP!! Why the hell he don't support it? .•• I think Abraham Lincoln 1 s remarks on "10 things you cannot do" are most appropiate today. His words are: You cannot bring aboutt prosperity by discouraging thrift.. You cannot strenghten the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help strong men by tearing .down big men. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the-wage payer. You cannot further botherhood by encourag– ing hatred in classes. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help the man to estab lish strong security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. ' : : ·'" For Us, The Living By Mrs. Medgcn- Ivers With William. Peters · THI! LATE MEDGER EVERS is seen making a· speech in a ~issiS.S.ippi church . during his career as a freedom fighter. Installment II MEDGAR EVERS: HIS EARLY YEARS TlfERE was nothing on the surface in Medgar Evers' childhood and fam– J. ily to account for the sort of man he was when I met him. But the ex– James Evers, did not seem an! unusual man. Quiet, stern, hardworking, he was a Baptist, a deacon of his church, a man who believed in work almost as an end in itself. The family lived in a frame house on the edge (}{ town in a Negro section of Decatur, 'Mississippi. They had enough land to farm, and James Evers kept cows, pigs, chickens, and a pair of mules for plowing. He grew vegetables for the table and cotton for cash. But, like most Mississippi Ne· g;roes, he could not survive on what he made from one job. He worked at times ill a sawmill ant\ at others for the railroad. Over the .years he built two small ho~UieS on his property to rent out. Even before that, his wife, Jessie, rented a room. in the main house to teachers to bring in additional income. · James Evers wu paid on Saturdays, and with the money he did the week's shopping for. staples in Decatur on Saturday night. It was a ritual on these trips for him to buy a big, round peppermint stick to be broken up at home and divided among the children. Medger loved these, trips to town with his father, but the candy was only a secondary reason. It was the obvious respect of the townspeople for his father and the way his father accepted this respect as his dU:e that made those weekly trips really mem– orable. It was more than a custom, it was unwritten law that Negroes leave the sidewalk of ·Decatur for approaching whites. James Evers was one of the few Negroes that refused to do it. On the contrary, he behaved as though he had never heard of such a custom. 'He stood up and ·was a man," was the way Medger put it years later. But there were limits to what any Negro could do and get away with. It hurt Medger to hear his father called "boy" by white men, and as he grew older, he began himself to experience racial incidents. For years he went with his mother on occasional days to the home of the white.family where she worked. He played with white children both. there and on the fringes of the neighborhood where he lived. As he grew old~J.', the white boys played less and less w.ith him, and in the end the:re wa,s a day of racial insults and the rupture of all friendly childhood relationships. RACE A· CONSTANT FACTOR Race was a constant factor of Medgar's life; it was not something he had to ask his pa.rents about. The only thtngs to learn were the boundaries within which your race restricted you, and you learned these early and well from W!).tching those around you. .. It may have been the example their father set that led Medgar and hfs brother, Charles~ constantly to test these boundaries, to pmm against th~ to attempt to widen them, for there is evidence that they both did. There was the time that Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo, perhaps the most vicious racist of modem times to serve in the United States Senate, spoke in Decatur. Medgar and Charles went to hear him. The speech was given in the town square, and the two boys, sitting on the grass at one side, were the only Negroes in sight. In the course of his usual racist speech, Bilbo warned the local whites of the da.n,gers of educating Negroes, '(){ associating with them, of letting dewn even slightly the bars of complete segregation. As he warmed to his t~eme, he pointed to Medgar and Charles at the edge of the crowd. "If we fail to hold high the wall of separation between the races," he shouted, "we will live to see the day when those two nigger boys right there will be ask· ing for everything that is ours by right." The crowd turned to stare at Medgar and Charles. The two boys stared right back. They remained at the edge of the crowd until the end of the speech. Within the la.rger world dominated by an obsession with race, though, was the smaller world of Me~gar's family, and here was a world of warmth and closeness, of discipline and family pride. Medgar and Charles were especially close, and they spent much of their youth together. They built scooters from skate wheels and boards, hunted squirrels and rabbits and possum and coons, went fishing in the many creeks and streams near the Evers' farm. Medgar learned to swim · when Charles pushed him into a swimming hole far over his head. W HEN he was old enough for high school, Medgar .left the one-room elementary school and began walking twelve miles each way to the Negro high school in Newton. James and Jessie Evers were both strong believers in education, and while many of the Negro children of Decatur never went beyond the small grade school, the Evers' pushed their chil– dren to stay in school as long as possible. In the end, Elizabeth had ~me high school before s he marrie d, Mary Ruth finished high school, and both Charles and Medgar finish.sd college. It was an unusual record for Negro children in Decatur. The long walk to Newton was something Medgar resented, knowing as he did that the white children of Decatur had their own high school right in town. There was, of course, nothing he could do about that, but by working summers at cutting lawns and painting for white families, Med– gar saved the ~oney for a bicycle that made the long trip easier. Medgar was 16 and a sophomore at Newton High School when the United States entered World War II. Within a year he had quit school and followed his brother, Charles, into the Army. Eventually he wound up in a segregated port battalion that saw service in England and, after the Nor· mandy invasion, at Le Havre, Liege, Antwerp, and Cherbourg. BACK TO MISSISSIPPI There were many times. during Medgar's army service when he felt how impossible it would be to return to Mississippi and settle down to the life he had known before the war. For if Mississippi hadn't changed, he had. He had a whole new vision of what life could be like, of the way it was lived in other places by other pe<Jple. The simple fact that he had helped earn money that had done so much to improve his parents' home was an indication of the possibilities of life outside his native state. And yet, when the war was over, back to Mississippi he went, along wth Charles. In the fall of 1948 Medgar entered Akorn Agricultural and Meehan· ical College as a freshman majoring in business administration. He was not at Alcorn long before he had made a name fur himself on the campus. He was a member of the debate team, the college cb.oir, and football and track teams. For two years he was the editor of the campus n~wspaper, and in 1951 he edited the yearbook. As a business major, he .joined the busi– ness club on campus, and through his activity in the campus YMCA he had an opportunity to travel to Millsaps College, a white school in.Jackson, where every month campus "Y" groups from the tw,o schools met t()gether· for paneU:lisc:ussions on wodd affairs. By the time: Medgar was a s~or, his leadership on the Alcorn eampus was such. t;Qat :tie had been_clrosen for . listing in: .the annual .publication of "Who's Who iJi. American . Colleges,~· Receiving his just rewards is Chess Records-starring blues quite an honor for a .rural Mississippi Negro at a ~·segregated MisSiSSippi- singer Little Milton Campbell, the 'new' King of the Blues. Mil- college. . . ~ ~ ~ ~ . ton has had nothing but trouble since he ·won the title from B. B. I, Excerpted from the book FOR us, THE LIVING. Copyright(c) K~ng earlier this year in a three-day battle in Chicago-area clubs . l96'Tby-~yrlie-B.Evers. an.dWilliamPete~. · Pu.bllshedbyDoubl&- Hls latest record, "More and More," has been described as "psyche- 1 .: day& -Cm:r~pany,Inc. de lie blues," and L_i ttle Mil ton has been officially crowned·. Mar- ; ; ~ ~ "" ~ lene O'Reilly (left) and Jackie Sutton, of Galaxy Artist Manage- · ~~~K: MO~ BAYOU ment, both give the sensational recording artist resounding smacks ll••••••••••~eD~f$:";:o,ilw.,~~&;al\\fiiiWi'.J.'a\\!MtrnlliliJ r 'UllllE on the cheeks. Briefing The News Ann Morrison, Reporter. The Harriet Tubman Club met Wednesday evening in the home of Mrs. A. T. Randolph. Business was discu$sed preceding the social hour. Light refreshments were served by the hostess. *-;'r -tr-;( ;'(lr -J<t'r Mrs. Maudella Ramsey was hostess Sunday evening s~ 5:30 p.m. for the monthly meeting of the Senior Us h er Board of Bethel A. M. E. Church. Sempler Fidelis Club held their Annual Benefit Tea Sunday Nov. 19, l-5 p.m. in the home of Mrs. John Wiseman. Guest were greeted at . ·the door by Mrs. Beatrice Ellis president of the Club. All the member : · were dressed in Pink dresses and dainty white Tea aprons. The tea table was very tasty with a center piece of Autumn flo– . wers enhanced by candlelight. Ladies served drinks and etc. Club colors are: Pink and white. Club flowers are: Carnations ; and Snapdragons. ** Oklahoma Club's Annual Party was held Saturday evening Nov. 18 ·The party was held in the main ballroom of the Quay Club in Vancou– ver, Washington, Over five hundred guest were out to enjoy the affair. Dancing was interest for the evening. ** *-;': "lC"'J'< ;'r·'k The Potentate~Bale was an outstanding event 6f the Autumn Sea– son took place Saturday evenin Nov. 18 in the Ballroom of the Hol– iday Inn. Shriners of Mimci Temple were the hosts for the occassion. .. Mr. Vernon Butler, Potentate of the . Sbriners and his committee mem– bers went a~l out to make the evening a one long well " remembered. ~ I I ** *;':, ";':-/: "';'( Mr. &. Mrs. Ther. Washington recent newly ~eds are back from their honeymoon and are telling about the fun that they had during their visit in Las Vegas Nev. -k-x '!rl: Miss Logan and Miss Moore of South Carolina are spending a few days visiting our fair city. ** '1:-1< "id: -{~': Rev.'&. Mrs. R. Rogers entertained Sunday afternoon honoring their parents Mr. &. Mrs. Jones who are visiting them, with an "Open House" to meet the people of our city. ** ;':'"!: "'i'n': ·k·k Last rites were held Tuesday Nov. 21 at 2:p. m. for Mr. Wal– ter A, Johnson in the House of Prayer of All Nations, He was buried in the Willamette National Cemetery. Ilaiiiilton Furs PRE-CHRISTMAS SALE! Wise shoppen can now select from one of the West's largest stock o( beautiful furs at HAMILTON FURS and be assured that they are buying at GUARANTEED JANUARY SALE PRICES. Shop and compare and you will buy HAMILTON FURS. Only HAMILTON'S offer the creations of the ten most famous designers at no higher than you would pay for furs. Your choice will be held 'til wanted and beautifully gift wrapped free. DYED MINK BOAS••••••••• , •• $25 DYED PROCESSED AMERICAN BROADTAILJACKETS ••••••• S16S NATURAL MINK STOLES••••• $125 DYED ALASKA SEAL MINK COLLARED COAT • , •• $995 DYED WHITE BEAVER COAT. 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