Portland Challenger_1952-05-30

ifS Oregon Association of Colored Women Year's Theme, 9 Clubs Participate Under Meeting; Our Goals." Hold Annual "Achieving By Kathryn H. Bogle S.o<iial Editor,, The Challenger The Oregon Association of Colored Women held their 35th annual meeting on May 22, 2:.; and 24 at the Williams Avenue YWCA. Mrs. Bernadette Plum– mer, president, opened the ses– sisions Thursday morning and heard reports from nine partici– pating clubs. Theme this year was "Achieving our Goals." An exhibit of the club women's han– dicrafts was judged Thursday morning and was open to th~ r;ublic thereafter. Thursday afternoon, a panel o: eight members discussed, "Wh<1t do you want to get out of club work?" Moderator was Mrs. Ear~ ::vlorrison. Views and commentc from the floor were livel.Y and spirited. Thursday evening's meeting was given over to the scholarship department headed by Mrs. Phil Reynolds, who worked in coop– eration with Mrs. Nina Jackson. Miss Dolores Harris won the scholarship awaro.. Gives Annual Message In the presidents annual me<;– fage given Friday morning, Mrs. Plummer paid tribute to member clubs who have worked during the year with community wel– fare organizations such as Red Cross, Community Chest and the infantile paralysis drive. Freak Mishap Injures Eye 01 Local Girl Sadie Grimmett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Grimmett, _ ~~ N Mnnrne stre<>t, faees thf' possibility of losing the sight in her left eye following a freak mishap in Eugene, May 16. Special mention was give?'! to communit.Y activities cited by the work of one club group who Mrs. P~!ummer were: sewin~ worked with the TB survey mo- clone for Boys' and Girls' Aid So– bile unit stationed in the Boi5~- ciety by one group; financial Holladay school districts. Other oupport by another, to the Lew· ONE of the clubs represented at the fifth annual meeting of :the Oregon Association of Colored Women held at the Williams avenue YWCA was the Kwdanzans. Front row (1. to r.) Mrs. Wilbur Marshal.l Mrs. Clifford Jackson, art chairman; Mrs. Booker Burnette. Second row (1. tor.) Mrs. Olandus Webb, Mrs. Huron Smith. secretary: Mrs. Leon A. Johnson, president; Mrs. Lawson Jones, Mrs. Webster Rand. Back row (1. to r.) Mrs. Benjamin Robinson. co-art chairman: Mrs. Fred Williams, Mrs. Roy Fuller, treasurer; Mrs. DeNorval Unthank. and Mrs. Clarence Countee. (Clarence Countee Photo.) is and Clark college library; and colored women and girls. Our continuation of giving campships association offers ideal oppor– for girls, by other clubs. tunities both to serve and be Mrs. Plummer commend~d served.", Mrs. Nina Jackson, state super- Gives Fashion Show visor of the Association of Col- F'riday evening, a fashion ored Girls; Mrs. Edward Smith; ~how, arranged by Mrs. Evelyn and Mrs. Julia Shelton, whom Allen as a money raising project she termed "guiding forces" in for the association, was held in I the association's youth program. the YWCA auditorium. At the The president reported that ,the close of the fashion show, Mrs. Oregon association, itself, had Ellen Webb, chairman for the CJwarded a scholarship and had association's art department, C'ontributed toward the building presented awards to the clubs fund of the YWCA. whose handicrafts had been Supports National judged best in the art exhibit. Of support to the National The next general meeting cf Association of Ore~on, Mrs. the association, to be held L-1. Plummer said, ''Oregon has coil- May, 1953, will elect officers for tributed, but not to her best.'' a two-year period. She called for more local sup- Mrs. Plummer released the port, saying, "The National Asso- new slate of officers who will ciation of Colored Women is guide the Oregon Association of growing into an increasingly ef- Colored Girls during the next fective world force. Our women vear: Billy Williams, president; are traveling into new countries Joyce Care.Y, vice-president; Eth– :md talking our organization. We el Manlove, secretary; Rochelle have clubs in Hawaii and Haiti Dawson, assistant secretary; Ma– and are considering adding them xine Elliot, treasurer; Mary Ann in other countries. We must do Fuller, sgt.-at-arms; Marie Par– our share for national headquar- ker, chaplain; Adeline Olden, pi– ters so that it will be an inspira- anist; and Betty Searcie, art tion to those who visit it and chairman. use it." The president concluded b,Y recommending "that our club– women continue in the same co– o]jerative spirit, loyal 9upp01 t and with greater determination to build a large association of NAACP Read Speaks Here; Vole Essential Gloster B. Current, nationC<l director of NAACP branches, made a crowded stop-over in Portland last week and in an address to local NAACP mem– bers at the Vancouver Avenue Baptist church, said that he sees r10 <:andidates acct-ptable tu th:' Negro on either one of the m:t– jor party tickets. He based this acceptance to the Negro on the candidate'..; ~tand on an enforced FEPC bill, . one with "sharp teeth." · The spirited Miss Grimmett was out picnicking along a stream in partial celebration of her recent signing of a teaching c-ontract when the accident oc– (:urred. VOL. I, NO.3 PORTLAND. OREGON, May 30, 1952 PRICE 10 CENTS Noting that his organization is a non-partisan political body working daily to influence and change legislation, Current em– phasized the fact that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can go into the November elec– tions ignoring the civil rights is– sue and expect to win. According to her mother, the:: group of girls she was with had been scaling rocks across the c;tt·eam when they decided to wade. One of the girls, a close friend of Miss Grimmett, took one last fling at throwing. See– ing that the rock would hit Miss Bethel's AME Minister Returns From ChicagoMethodistConfah By Richard Bogle Associate Editor, The Challenger Grimmett, she yelled, "Sadie, Sa- die, duck!" Reverend Jesse L. Boyd, Bath- Warning Too Late el AME pastor, has recentl.Y re- Her warning was just a sec- turned from the thirty-fourth {jnd too late. Miss Grimmett y_uadrennial sessions held m turned to heed the warning anrl Chicago's mammath coliseum. received the rock simultaneously According to Rev. Boyd, the on the ball of the eye. sessions serve two broad pur- Doctors are skeptical of the poses. The first is to review the chances of saving the eye and previous four years work and, offer no definite promises, but secondly, to plan the program for report Miss Grimmett to be rest- the coming four years. To do ing well. this there were approximately The 21-year-old Oregon grad- 1086 delegates present. This fig– uate finished her work on a B.A ure includes: Bishops, general in English Literature in March. officers, college pres-i.dH.ts, She will receive her diploma Deans of theological schools, next month and had just recent- ministers and laymen. ly signed. 7 contract to teach in Election of Committees the Portland public school sys- One of the most important tern. important pieces of business was She was attending Oregon. the election of the Episcopal working toward her master's de I committee. This body is col'r'– gree. posed by 34 ministers and 3 i A member of Delta Sigma The - la.Ymen. Ministers and laynten ta sorority and Oregon's French have equal voice and vote in honorary, Miss Grimmett wa~ this, the most powerful commit– the first Negro girl to room with tee in the general conference. Hs a mate of her choice in a univer- :!uties are to first review t.J\e sity dormitory. work of each Bishop for the fom She did her junior college years past; secondly, it del 'Jes -work at Portland State. While into the Bishops' health recor d judicial body which handles charges brought against Bishops. Rev. Boyd stated that it Js a dramatic moment indeed when the Episcopal committee files in the general conference. All bus- •.. back from Chicago there she was chosen secretary determining his fitness for iness stops and complete attei:– of the student council. At Ore- another four-year term. Also. it t;on is given the committee unt1l gon she served on the executive recommends to the general con·- its report has been delivered. committee and was a representa- ference how many Bishops Bishops Retired ti'-·e of that school in the recent fhould be elected. It then assig'ns This year the committee re- Willamette mock political con- Bishops to their districts. tired two Bishops, W. A. Faun- vention. 1 Within this committee is d ta in, and Reverdy C. R ans ;;rr. and,also granted another, Bishop Monroe H. Davis, a four year leave. Three new men were ele .. vated to the Bishopric: H. Tho– mas Primm was sent to West A..frica; Rev. F. b. Jordan wJs assigned to the 17th Episcop;,J district in South Africa; a:1d Rev. E. C. Hatcher went to the 15th district, also in South Af– rica. One of the most important events of the conference was the forming of the judicial council. It will serve as a bod.Y of final appeal, higher even than the strong Bishops' council. This ac– tion has been interpreted, by those in the know, to take away all judicial power from the Bishops. AnotHer highlight of the con– ference was the speech of former Federal Judge J. Waites Waring who opened the South Caro~ina p:rimaries to Negroes. He Je– nounced segregation. graduai– ism and called upon the AME church to take the lead in the fight for civil rights. S!ork Visits Simpsons The stork visited Oscar and Florence Simpson (formerly known as lorence Bird) last week at the St. Vincent's hospit– al. The gift was a 14 pound baby boy. "The NAACP is interested in men and measures, not Demo– crats or Republicans as such. Fight For What's Right ''The men in both parties wor– thy of public election, should go to the national convention armed with a desire to fight for what is right," said Current. Terming himself a "burned-out jitterbug, formerly a musician," the youthful Current outlined a program of seven points that delegates to the national conven– tion should sanction: (1) a filii– buster curb; (2) FEPC; (3) anti– lynching legislation; (4) protect the rights of citizens to vote; (5) no discrimination in the armed forces; (6) eliminate segregation :n Washington; and, (7) elimin– ate segregation in housing. .Current said that the Negro voter is a balance of power in many states. "The influence and potenc.Y of the Negro is impor– tant to the politician,'' stated the branch head. Negro Votes Intelligently According to the Roper poll, said Current, one-half of the Negroes questioned were influ– enced by the NAACP. "The N·~gro voter tends to vote as a bloc; they listen and vote in– telligently when their rights ar~ involved,'' he averred. "Until the Negro is accorded all rights and privileges, we cannot call the United States a democracy," continued Current. -\ \