Portland Challenger_1953-04-03

Page Two An Independent Newspaper WILLIAM A. HILLIARD TED BURGER Editor and Publisher General Manager -=---- 3300 North Williams Avenue, Poriland 12. Oregon MUrdock 4092 Published every other Friday in Portland, Oregon. The Chal-1 lenger is not responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or photographs. I SUBSCRIPTION RATES 10 Cents per copy ~ 26 $2.50 per year Individual Freedom Oregon's proposed civil rights law, Senate Bill 169, is at present in the House Committee of State and Federal Affairs. Already the Senate has passed the bill by a vote of 21-9. In order to get a "do pass" from the house committee, a commit- ' tee of seven, the measure \ffiUSt have four votes. Reports from Salem are hot very encouraging. Oregon's try at basic civil rights legislation is traveling a rocky road. This civil rights business is going; to have rough going and it is going to take the work of all qecent minded citizens to see it passed. ) It is a sorrowful thing when a \democratic society lets itself sink to the depths of having to legislate and actually enforce fundamental human rights. Legislators who try to maintain segregated practices under the clo<:~.k of "individual freedom" are as dangerous to the Americar( society as all the Alger Hisses the House Un-American Activities committee can dig up. \ This fight for civil rights isn't just a fight here in our own back yard. This is a fight staged all o~er the country and the world where darker peoples have bee suppressed by whites for centuries. Such suppression is dan erous beyond imagina– tion to the cause of world peace. Every man has the basic right of i~dividual freedom. He seeks and deserves the right of recogn tion, the respect of a human being. No law-making body has the moral or humani– tarian right to relegate him to second-cl ss citizenship because of color, be it the legislators of Oregon r the Congress of the United States. Race prejudice can certainly be abat d when a law on the statute books affords fair treatment to II of the people. The mere fact that people will be allowed toi 1 associate with friends of their own choosing, not those of the roprietor of a restau– rant, a tavern, a skating rink, etc., will as a matter of habit lessen race prejudice. A really FREE sobety involves no dis– PORTLAND CHALLENGER Porlland Singer To Join Choir Leaving soon to join the Wings Over Jordan choir is Miss Juanita Reese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ~ Jim Reese, 9945 SE Ash street. She will join the famed spiritual group in Huron, S. D., April 8 in time to start the 1953 nation– al tour. A graduate of -Girls Polytech– ' nic high school, Miss Reese has spent two years at Portland Conservatory of Music. She studied under Boris Bellos– tozky, now concertising; Auriel Rubenstein, voice coach and piano teacher; and Curt Sternheim voice teacher and composer. ' She sang in "Finian's Rainbow" and with the Portland Civic Opera association in "Aida" and "Carmen." A concert here has been post– poned until a later date. Vancouver News BY BERTHA C. BAUGH Challenger Correspondent Miss Barbara Johnson of New York became the wife of Mark A. Smith, Jr., March 24, at Boise, Idaho. Mrs. Smith is a former clerk in the accounting depart– ment of the New York telephone company. Mark Jr., an Oregon State college student, will con– tinue his studies. The couple will live in Corvallis. • • • The Vancouver branch of NAACP will postpone its next regular public education meet– ing which is scheduled for April 26. In lieu of the meeting, we are planning an excursion to the Northwest Area Conference.to be held April 25 and 26 in Seattle. • • • Mr. and Mrs. William Baugh became the proud parents of a baby boy, Gerald Donald, on March 21, at the Northern Per– manente Foundation hospital in Vancouver. crimination and creates a minimum of $ocial friction. The conditioned state race prejudice ' in the United States House Wavering makes it necessary that we constantly/ wage battle for our O c· . 1 R. h fundamental freedoms. Oregon citizenslcan well be proud to n lVI lg Is sanction Seiiate Bill169. They can best)show their thankful– ness for a free society by writing lette)rs to members of the House of Representatives and asking f~r their support of a measure so needed if we can boast aliy semblance of our much-talked and little-practiced democratic way of life. Civil rights belong to all of the citizens. It is r:'ot a right to be cher– ished by some and used as a weapon ini'denying it to others. 'Open' Golf Tourney Held SEATTLE, Wn., April 2-Robert "Bob" Wright and Wilbert Ponder, members of the Fir State golf club of Seattle, both carded 71s in the first city-sponsored 1 links tournament in which non-white golfers were allowed to participate. The tourney, a so-called "wide open" sweepstakes, was the city's answer to sharp criticism of the Fir State club turned out from non-white golfers and sports editor Royal Brougham of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, for al– lowing city and county golf tour– naments to be held on city courses and disallowing the com– petition of non-white golfers. For years the city courses have refused membership to non– whites in city clubs. The city maintains that these clubs are in fact private organizations set up by interested persons. Although Negroes · and other non-whites were allowed to play in the tournament, some Seattle golfers felt the tourney was an "out" taken by city park authori– ties to stem the tide of resentment from interested sportsmen who desire to see discrimination elim– inated from city-owned courses for the unlimited field of com– petitors. Wright and Ponder topped th,~ Fir State entrants, but Ben Beasley carded a 76. Reverend Honored I The R~verend Lee 0. Stone, pastor of St. Philips Episcopal church, ~eft Sunday to conduct the ann~al Religious Emphasis Week program at Lincoln uni– versity iil Jefferson, Missouri. In– vited by 1 •university president, Dr. Sherman D. Scruggs, Reverend Stone returns Friday morning. The affair, participated in by the faculty and students, is held in observance of Holy Week. Cus– tomarily, a minister is invited, as campus g1_,1est, to conduct the services. Reverend Stone deliv- entirely. More than two dozen members ered a series of lectures. The present status of the pro– posed civil rights ordinance is "touch and go," according to Bill Berry, member of the Oregon Committee for Equal Rights. Berry says that at least three of the members of the state and federal affairs committee are op– posed to the bill and desire to kill it. Four of the committee mem– bers are willing, providing the bill is not killed, to sanction it with the' stipulation that a refer– ral clause is added. The committee hearing will probably be held Monday or Wednesday of next week. The hearing will in all probability be a small informal one, not public. Citizens' Action Urged The OCER enlarged its mem– bership to 72 local and state or– ganizations during the past week with the admission of Oregon State League of Women Voters, City of Portland League of Wom– en Voters and Oregon Farmers Union. Berry urged all citizens to write to members of the House of Representatives, especially the 27 that are opposed or uncertain to SB 169, and ask for passage of the equality measure. He stressed that a rocky road lies ahead for the bill and things are very difficult in regards to its passage at present. Berry said that actions taken this week by Oregon citizens may easily make the difference. Friday, April 3, 1953 --------~·----------------------------------------- News In Brief \ By William Wright Challenger Staff Writer -----"----------~--------------------------------~--~ Of to South Carolina where he will be stationed with the air force is Lt. Charles Duke. Making their home in that southern state with him is his wife Becky and daughters Benita and Lolita. The Dukes made a stop in St. Louis where they spent some time with Mrs. Duke's brother, William Aoernathy. Lt. Duke was morrow program over radio sta- this city's first Negro police of- tion KEX March 21. ficer. He was active as an army pilot in World War II and re– turned to active duty when his reserve unit was reactivated. He just recently finished a tour of duty in the Korean theater. Miss Dolores Casanares has been confined to her home re– cently with an aggravated throat "soreness • • • Back from Korea is Bruce Webb ••• Wait– ing for a return to civil service duty following his stint with the army is Robert "Bob'~ Full– er. son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Henson, 7120 NE Union avenue. Fuller was a referee for basket– ball games at Sunnyside Meth– odist church during the past cage season. While in the service he obtained the rank of sergeant . . . Sam Wilkinson Vaughn, stationed with the army at Camp Roberts, is now a Pfc. . . . This note was found in our outgoing copy box: "Belated news has reached this office concerning the engagement of popular young man about town, Richard Parker, to a mid– dle-west belle from Springfield, Illinois, a young Miss Frances Meriweather. Tentative wedding date is set for late August. Con– grats!" Stanton Duke returned home this week from a journey to Chi– cago. Gone three , weeks, Duke was in that city for the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Martha Burton. ... Miss Frankie WilJ_iams is re– covering from an operation in University State TB hospital and is expected home April 16. John Minor Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Minor, 3105 SE 29th avenue, is teaching the 6th grade in Alameda, Calif. Minor is also working on his master's degree. He graduated from San Francisco State. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Boyd report their new son is doing nicely. Born February 25, he is named Micheal Steven and weighed six pounds seven ounces at birth. The Boyds have two other ~ons, Gary Allan and Mau– rice JL·. Mrs. John Ellis, wife of the Ellis Cleaners' proprietor, left Monday for Ft. Smith, Ark., where she will visit for three weeks with her grandmother, Mrs. Johnson and son Leonard Earl . . . Little Miss Beth Ann Linear celebrated her first birth– day Sunday, March 22, in the company of her parents, John and Ester Linear, 42 NE Tilla– mook street ... Little Ruby Ov– erton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Overton, 1437 N. Ross avenue, sang on the Stars of To- Players to Hold Tryouts for Cast Casting tryouts will be held Wednesday, April 8, at 8 p.m. for the newest St. Philips players drama, "Mumbo-Jumbo," at the Parish hall, 120 NE Knott street. Anyone interested is invited to attend. It is expected that there will be a shortage of male players. Directed by Mrs. Geneva Franklin, the play is a three-act mystery farce, written by Jack Barnard. The comedy utilizes a large cast. Married in Los Angeles March 25 was the former Miss Claudette Irwin. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Irwin, 102 NE Hassalo street, and James Butts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Turman Butts of Raleigh, N. C. The Rev. Arron Richardson of Los Angeles officiated at the wedding. The couple will be at home at l08lf2 W. 58th street in Los Angeles. Mrs. Butts, 18, a i t e n de d Washington high school and plans to attend the University of Southern Califor- nia·. Visiting her daughter, Miss Ruby Brock, in Berkeley, Califor– nia, is Mrs. Asa Brock, 734 NE Shaver street. She plans a visit of two weeks. Miss Brock is a school teacher in Richmond, Cali– fornia, and was recently chosen a Kappa sweetheart in that area. A new member of the Portland Alpha Delta chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi is Emmett Williams, a recent graduate of the University of Oregon. Following the initia– tion ceremonies, the chapter ban– queted in his honor at the New Tokyo restaurant. Pvt. Eddie Builer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Butler, 62 NE San Rafael, is taking his basic training in San Diego, Calif. He attended Benson high school and Clark Junior college. Pvt. Butler has already passed the written and physical examina– ation for officer's training and is awaiting word on becoming an officer candidate. His ad– dress is: Pvt. Eddie Builer Jr., 1372415, lsi Recrut Training Bn., A Company, Platoon 55, M. C. R. D., San Diego 40, Calif. The J. Harold Joneses are the proud parents of a seven-pound, two-ounce boy, J. Harold Jones III, born March 27 ... Mrs. No– vella Donaldson, 7516 NE Everett street, is in Roan Mountain, Tenn., where she plans to stay with her ill mother, Mrs. Mary Webb until early fall. Mr. James A. Chrysler spent a week visiting Mrs. Della Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Arville Rae. Chrysler works with the Seattle public schools and decided to spend his spring vacation in Port– land. Mrs. Seleta Johnson, an ex– Portlander who now makes her home in Los Angeles, California, visited the City of Roses last week. She visited her daughter, Mrs. 0. T. Taylor for a few days. Sigma Sorors Bill Kiddies' Program The third annual Rhomona, a children's fashion show entitled "Kiddies on Parade," will be held Sunday, April19, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Williams Avenue YWCA. The program is sponsored by Beta Eta chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho, it was announced by Mrs. Marjorie Marshall, basileus. About 60 children are expected to participate in the affair which will also feature a silver offering tea. The proceeds are to be set aside for a scholarship fund ad– ministered by the sorority. Frogram chairman is Miss Mar– celine Casey. Everyone is invited.