Portland Challenger_1954-04-23

Page Two An Independent Newspaper WILLIAM A. HILLIARD TED BURGER Editor and Publisher General Manager HENRY CREAL Advertising Manager 4617 North Williams Avenue, Portland 11, Oregon MUrdock 4092 10 Cents per copy SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.50 per year PuJ:>lished every other Friday in Portland, Oregon. The Chal– lenger IS not responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or photographs. Tough Fight Ahead A few weeks ago Thurgood Marshall, the very capable at– torney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was in Portland to speak in honor of the 40th anniversary of the NAACP at First Presbyterian church. Mar– shall pulled no punches in letting the people know just what had to be done if true racial equality was to be accomplished in this country within the next ten years. There was much to be gained from the speech by the NAACP attorney. He rapped the Negro, the Caucasian and– of all things-the segregated churches. Certainly there is a long, rocky road ahead for this civil rights business and the fight is going to get tougher all the time. Perhaps results will come quicker but the work to be done will be hard. Education will play a large part in this hassle for racial equality. Negroes will have to undergo a drastic change if the job is to be hastened. Such terms as "our" will have to include all the people, not just the Negro. Competition will have to be with all the people, not just the Negro. Thoughts will have to turn to the individual, to the one man that is an American first. It is all well and good to talk this freedom but to go around in circles will never accomplish the desired end. It is foolish to talk democracy and turn right around and look for a Negro community, give segregated scholarships, form segregated clubs and fraternal organizations, seek a Negro for this and a Negro for that and all the rest of the stupid paradoxes that are so apparent in these rapidly changing times. There is one thing that is paramount if America is to have a truly democratic society-people must be accepted on their own individual merits. This will mean in the long run that Negro everything will just have to go-and rightly so. It has been proven time and time again that color has noth– ing to do with a man's qualifications. The sooner the Amer– ican, both black and white, forgets the color of a man's skin– and this can work both ways~the better off this country is going to be. This paper will continue to frown upon and lash out at abortive attempts of racial injustices, be they segregated scholarships, churches, societies or even selfish businessmen with a desire to get "on top" by capitalizing on the "racial pride" and ignorance of a sleepy segment of American society that has allowed itself to shuffle along on the accomplish– ments of others. Protestant Youths Select Rev. Mr. Dasher Chairman New officers were selected re– cently to head the Protestant Youth association, a coordinating agency for church recreational– sports in the Portland area. Rev. Olin Dasher was selected as new general chairman, Rev. C. E. Brickwedel as vice chair– man, Jim Spassov as treasurer and Ernie Sigafoos as secretary. The association will begin talks with the United Fund concerning the funds necessary to under– write the administrative expensE's of the PYA. Each church will take care of the cost of its own program. Programs will develop denom– inationally through their own committees, set up for this pur– pose. The director and sufficient clerical help will take care of all administrative work, supply the coordination; help both with acquiring facilities and in over– all planning, where most inter– ested leaders meet too many, tough problems. The great majority of the Prot– estant ministers have officially endorsed the PYA, either through their denominational organiza– tions or through separate church action. Though every church wants to bear the cost of its own pro– gram, it was felt that to turn to the community for this coordin– ation expense is not out of line, according to PYA officials. In using the facilities of the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp– fire Girls, Park Bureau and the YMCA, as some churches do, they are accepting community-spon– sored help. The intention is to continue to better use more com– munity agencies and facilities, if possible. PORTLAND CHALLENGER Friday, April 23, 1954 • Portland NAACP Seeks Measure ~ws tn BY WILLIAM WRIGHT At its regular meeting Sunda;v at the Williams avenue YWCA the Portland branch of the Na– tional Association for the Ad– vancement of Colored People went on record as urging the next meeting of the Oregon state leg– islature to consider the creation by law of a state commission against discrimination for the purpose of administrating Ore– gon's civil rights statute. Staff Columnist, Portland Challenger In Portland visiting her daughter and son, Mr. and Mrs. Ord– way Tyler, 205 N. E. Tillamook street, is Mrs. T. C. White of Texarkana, Ark. Mrs. White arrived in time for the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Taylor March 25. The daughter, Felicita Yvette, weighed six pounds. eight ounces. President Otto Rutherford o! the Portland branch said the as- sociation is definitely in favor of a separate commission set up for the express purpose of en– forcing the. civil rights law. He explained that under a commission set-up, an aggrieved person could file a complaint with the commission and it would investigate the charges and tak~ proper action. The present provisions of the law, Rutherford said, require that a person segregated against hire an attorney in order to bring civil action against propri– etors of public places of accom– modation who refuse service on the basis of color. Rutherford said he knew o.: two alleged discriminatory prac– tices based on color that went' unreported because the aggrieved persons could not pay the filing fee. Members of the branch took time out at the Sunday meeting for eulogies to the late Dea':'l William Pickens, ex-field secre– tary of the NAACP, and the late Harry Kenin, ex-Portland attor– ney who was active in interraci– al progress in Oregon. Good Samaritan Collection Large More than 300 tons of cast off clothing, shoes, underwear, old furniture, electric appliances and other unwanted items of a like nature have been donated to Good Samaritan Charities, lnc. in the past six months. ' DeCicco Pledges Wild Life Support Harold M. De Cicco, in an– nouncing his candidacy for state 1epresentative from the seventh district, Multnomah county, has pledged to support the preserva– tion of Oregon wild life and nat– ural resources. De Cicco said he also believf's in the full de)Velopment of onr water power, controlled lumber– ing and reforestation with bette: roads into inaccessible timber areas, more industries for our state, adequate old age pensions and children's aid and a square deal for labor which will ben– efit all. De Cicco is associated with his father, Mike M., as a distributor HAROLD M. DeCICCO Seeks legislative office. A comparative newcomer in for Gillette rubber products. the non-profit charitable field. They own their ovirn buildings Good Samaritan charities, was or- and distributing plant. He i;; ganized by a group of public commander of American Legion's spirited Portland business men Rome Post 82, member of Scottish under a plan which not only Rite and AI Kader, 40 et 8, helps the needy but makes use Elks, International Footprinters, of the handicapped in the salvagl:! Italian Businessmen's club and of items donated. Ex-Newsboys' association. Women's dresses for 35 cents, He attended University of Ore- children's underwear for a dime, gon and is a member of Delta a pair of shoes for a quarter or Upsilon fraternity. He was an in– fifty cents, bedding, dishes, fur- ' strument flight instructor in the niture and other items at a frar- air corps during World War II. He tion of their worth are sold in was later transferred to the fer.:y three Good Samaritan stores now I command where he had 1000 in operation at strategic points I hours. He also served three years in the city. as a pilot in the Burma-India- Revenue from these stores goe'S I China area. · to pay the handicapped employed , He lives with his wife, two at the warehouse and disinfecting · sons and daughter at 2906 S.W. plant and those hired to make Corbett drive. telephone solicitations from Port- Supporters of De Cicco say he land homes. A truck is sent out has well demonstrated his capac– when donations are offered and ities for service and has proved even old newspapers, magazines his initiative as well as his well– and rags are picked up. Items that trained business sense and is a cannot be reclaimed are sold to logical candidate in the eyes of the junk men. a major part of the Multnomah A' number of religious organl- electorate for the post to which zations as well as the Sunshine he aspires. They point to the gen– division of the Portland polic~ eral sentiment that younger men department have been authorized of ideas and strict integrity are to send destitute and emergency needed in our state legislative cases to Good Samaritan for im- bodies. They say De Cicco is a mediate attention without charge. man of this type. All officials of the group serve without pay and expenses a-re kept to a bare minimum. Stores are located to: 6061 S.E. 92nd avenue; 8132 N. Denver avenue and at 3d avenue and Madison street. The warehouse and plant is at 2435 S. W. 1st avenue. Those We Can Sell It _For quick, satisfactory results why not use the Portland Chal– lenger classified ad column. We Keeping Mrs. White busy with rides, dinner engagements and other forms of entertaiment have been Mr. and Mrs. S. Q. Broadus. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Broadus, Mr. and Mrs. William Paxton, Mrs. Nealie Owens and Mrs. TramP.!. A six pound boy, Keith A., was horn to Mrs. Henry Creal, 2939 S. E. 17th avenue, at Emanuel hospital April 11. Mother, son and Father Henry are doing fine. Sam Wilkinson Vaughn is still in F.t. Lewis in Uncle.. S I p am s army. Vaughn is slated home w i t h i n the next two weeks. Minor surgery has kept him in the army a little over his two-year hitch time. Home recently on leave fro·m the air corps was Bob Cole– man. He is now stationed at Butte Falls, Mont. Coleman was overseas in Japan and Korea for 30-plus months. He is due for discharge within the next six months. Mrs. Alfonso Kendricks is at home resting following a stay at St. Vincents hospital where she was confined with pneumonia. . : Jackson Winters was married to Marilyn Whaley in a Brockton Mass. ceremony recently. Jack: son's mother, Mrs. Newt Win– ters, went back to the New Eng– land city for the marriage . . • Jim Winters, brother of Jack, is expected home from army duty in Korea. Meleanie Holiday motored back from Amite, La., where sh~ attended the funeral of hE:r mother, Mrs. Alice Williams. Her brother and sister:,_in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Williams accom– panied her on the drive back as far as Los Angeles. Cauthel Lamberth is engaged to Roland Allen . . . Richard Winslow is now working out of Hood River. Winslow is a field representative of the Oregon Un– employment Compensation com· mission. Another Portlander back from a cross-country junket is Miss ~anet Brown, 1411 N. E. Williams court. She was called back to Buffalo, N.Y., because of the death of her uncle, New– ton Sinclair. On her return home, Miss Brown stopped over in Chicago to visit with Mrs. Cornelia Montgomery, sister of Portlander Theresa Jenkins, ani! in Cleveland for a short stay with Mrs. Jean Greene. Indiania·Woman To Seffle Here Miss Joyce Mitchell, attractive chiropodist from Gary, Ind., is a newcomer to Portland currently staying with Mr. and Mrs. Her– man Plummer. She is a graduate of Illinois College of Chiropody. A member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, Miss Mitchell is in Portland to eventually set up a chiropodist business of her own. She sees tremendous potential in the northwest area for the busi– ness or professional person. Miss Mitchell decided to come to the west coast because the dean of her school and various chirop– odist organizations recommended it as a fertile territory. What does she say about Port- ! land? "Portland is nice, a lovely =============;:::: city." can sell it for you! desiring to make donations are asked to call CApitol 5177.