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About Portland challenger. (Portland, Oregon) 1952-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1953)
Eliot Elementary School to Be Two Story Building New Eliot Plans Laid By Board Construction of the New Eliot school, for which bids are now being called, is ex pected, by Dr. Paul Rehmus, superintendent of Portland schools, to begin about the first of March. It is anticipat ed that the building will be ready for use bv September, 1954 . The site selected for the new school is bounded by North Flint and Gantenbein a v e n u e s , Page street and three-fourths of the block south of Page. This area is adjacent to the park between Page and Russell streets which will be utilized as the main play area and only a small portion of the school site will be used as a playground for kindergarten chil Above is the model of the new Eliot elementary school which avenue, the building will consist of two stories end will be built dren. was designed by Portland architects Burns, McNeil & Schneider. of reinforced concrete with brick veneer. It will have eight The two-story school is to have To be located between N. Gantenbein and Page streets on Flint classrooms. (Oregon Journal picture.) facilities available during the summer for use in conjunction with the park at all times. This will include locker and shower room privileges. Earlier plans for a one-story structure covering a Slated to speak Friday, Feb larger plot were turned down by ruary 6, at the First Methodist the school district because of ex church, S. W. 12th avenue and cessive costs. Taylor street, is Bayard Rustin, Although it is estimated that 80 noted peace worker. He is also per cent of the pupils will be scheduled to appear before the Negro, as is the case at Holladay Portland City club the following school now, it is anticipated that the new structure will accommo Friday. has just returned from I date many pupils who now at VoL I, No. 20 Portland, Oregon, Friday, January 23, 1153 PRICE 10 CENTS a Rustin tend Holladay, Irvington and summer in "Europe and Africa Boise l where he observed first-hand the The schools. new building will house I struggle of the people. In Africa lti classrooms and special rooms I he visited the Gold Coast, Nigeria for home economics, industrial | and French West Africa. arts, kindergarten and a standard His trip and lecture tour were sized gymnasium. There will also sponsored by the American be included a combination audi | Friends Service Committee in co- and cafeteria. Under the chairmanship of E. J. “Bill” Ireland, Molalla I operation with Fellowship of Rec- torium Tentative boundaries for the businessman, the Oregon Committee for Equal Rights, suc | onciliation. ne wschool’s districts be Un In March, 1949 Rustin was sen ion avenue, Holladay will cessor to the United Committee for Civil Rights, is drafting a street, the tenced by the courts of North river and either Graham, Stanton proposal relating to discrimination by places of public accom Carolina to serve 30 days on the or Morris streets. odation, resort or amusemnt because of race, religion, color, road gang for disobeying south Much opposition to the site se or national origin for presentation elude or apply to any institution,1 ern Jim Crow laws during a bus lected was raised earlier on the to Oregon’s 1953 legislature. trip two years previously. A re- grounds that the area it will serve fide club or place of accom Included in the equal rights or bona | port authored by him, “Twenty- is in a process of transformation modation, resort or amusement, I ganization is the NAACP and Ur which two Days on the Chain Gang,” from a residential to an industrial is in its nature distinctly ban league. The group is still in | was published during August of neighborhood. A subsequently the process of organizing and Penalty for distinction of an ! that year and resulted in prison conducted study showed that al more support is expected from ! individual because of his race, j reforms in that state. the groups and agencies that sanc- though the neighborhood was be In 1951 he spent five months coming tioned the Committee for Civil| nationa! origin, religion or color; industrialized it was at a in Chicago working on the after- rate slower Rights which was active in Port- I that, lea?s to discrimination in a| than that of the city BAYARD RUSTIN , math of the Cicero riots. land in 1949 during which time P^bnhc Place wlllun o tb e 1ess than as a while. The is now clas Pacifist to speak here He is a graduate of City College sified as being area predominately the city council passed a civil| ing to the present than provisions *500\ _aC™ d of / .\ | of New York and Wilberforce "light industrial.” rights ordinance which was later the bill. j university, Ohio. rejected by the people. A sub-committee of seven law His First Methodist address i 3 Sec. 34.85 (e), P. L. & R. Passage Favorable yers, George Dysart, Shirley slated to start at 8 p.m. U. S. POSTAGE If the state of Oregon passes Field, Kenneth Kraemer, Sidney PAID the proposed civil rights legisla Lezak, U. G. Plummer, David Meier & Frank company, one PORTLAND, OREGON tion, it will become the 19th state Robinson and Don Willner, drew of the largest department stores Permit No. 816 to enact such laws insuring equal up the proposed bill. Plummer is on the Pacific Coast, recently ity to all its citizens. John Holley chairman of the NAACP legal re hired Josiah J. Nunn, married of the Urban league said, “As dress committee. and the of two children, pects for passage appear to be Vice presidents of the Oregon as a part father time clerk. is cur A substantial financial dona- i good, providing enough of the Committee for Equal Rights are: rently stationed on the Nunn main floor tion to the Portland Urban lea- I fair-minded citizens make their Bishop Benjamin Dagwell, Father in the men’s furnishing depart guc by Wentworth and Irwin, 1 Thomas Tobin, Rabbi Julius No- wishes known to the legislature.” ment. Portland auto firm, has helped del and Dexter Fairbanks. He noted that the Oregon Com A member of Delta Alpha chap to eliminate a 1952 deficit and Secretary of the committee is mittee for Equal Rights is com ter of Kappa Alpha Psi frater ' is aiding the league in getting I posed of organizations all over Otto Rutherford. Attorney U. G. . nity, Nunn graduated from Lew underway projects which have ! the state. Plummer is treasurer. ® A? > O c- • is and Clark college. He holds a been proposed for 1953, according The bill itself will require full and equal accommodations, ad INSIDE—Turn to page 4 for master’s degree in Administration to officials of the Urban ktaguo j o v \ . t to vantages, faciilties and privileges a page full of pictures of the from the University of Portland office. O • of any place of public accommo Christmas and New Year's hol and has done work on his Ph. D. In a letter from Charles W. i . £• O A Ç dation. reSbrt or amusement, iday activities and relive the at the University of California. Wentworth, an executive of the •o ”*V *-y without any distinction, discrim happy spirits of these gay, easy Nunn formerly worked at Lip- auto company, a member of the o sr ination or restriction on account going days. It's another first— man Wolfe department store as Urban league, the firm expressed its support of the tenets of the of race, religion, color or national a feature of the Challenger— an assistant buyer. Although he is a part time em origin be accorded any person the Northwest's bi-monthly Urban league and commended within the jurisdiction of the state serving 5,000 readers with a ploye at Meier & Frank, he has the league’s work in the field of of Oregon. newspaper that is meant for the full benefits of a full time race relations. The letter asked worker. He has been in Port that the amount of the donation Private Clubs Exempted them. The proposed bill does not in- iHIHllUlllllllllllUIUIllHlllitlilillllllllllllllltlllllttllllllllll!lll![llllli;illi III! land since 1945. be withheld. B. Rustin Slated For Talk Here Committee Plans Equal Rights Action Meier & Frank Hires J. J. Nunn Donation Helps Urban League / ß S