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Page Two Friday, A pril 3, 1953 PORTLAND CHALLENGER ttHvttgttr P o r t ; lexn d ) An Independent Newspaper Editor and Publisher WILLIAM A. HILLIARD General M anager TED BURGER 3300 North Williams Avenue. Portland 12, Oregon MUrdock 4092 Published every other Friday in Portland, Oregon. The Chal lenger is not responsible for the return of unsolicited m anuscripts or photographs. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 10 Cents per copy 26 $2.50 per year Portland Singer To Join Choir N ew s In B rief 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 “Carm en.” A concert here has been post poned until a later date. & Mn By William Wright C h allen ger S t a f f W riter 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, program over radio sta William A bernathy. Lt. Duke was morrow tion KEX M arch 21. this city’s first Negro police of ficer. He was active as an army M arried in Los Angeles pilot in World War II and re March 25 was the form er Miss turned to active duty when his Claudette Irwin, daughter of reserve unit was reactivated. He Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Irwin, 102 just recently finished a tour of NE Hassalo street, and James Oregon’s proposed civil rights law, Senate Bill 169, is at duty in the K orean theater. Butts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Turman of Raleigh, N. C. present in the House Committee of State and Federal Affairs. Miss Dolores Casanares has The Rev. Butts Arron Richardson of Already the Senate has passed the bill by a vote of 21-9. In been confined to her home re Los Angeles officiated cently w ith an aggravated wedding. The couple will at be the order to get a “do pass” from the house committee, a commit at throat soreness . . . Back from home at 1 1 8 */a W. 58th street tee of seven, the measure must have four votes Korea is Bruce Webb . . . W ait Reports from Salem are not very encouraging. Oregon’s try Los Angeles. Mrs. Butts, 18, ing for a return to civil service in a t t e n d e d Washington high at basic civil rights legislation is traveling a rocky road. This duty following his stint with school and plans to attend the civil rights business is going to have rough going and it is the army is Robert "Bob" Full University of Southern Califor er, son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian nia. going to take the work of all decent minded citizens to see it Henson, 7120 NE Union avenue. passed. Fuller was a referee for basket Visiting her daughter, Miss II is a sorrowful thing when a democratic society lets itself ball games at Sunnyside M eth Ruhy Brock, in Berkeley, Califor odist church during the past nia, is Mrs. Asa Brock, 734 NE sink to the depths of having to legislate and actually enforce BY BERTHA C. BAUGH cage season. Shaver street. She plans a visit fundamental human rights. Legislators who try to maintain C hallenger Correspondent two weeks. Miss Brock is a segregated practices under the cloak of “individual freedom” Miss Barbara Johnson of New While in the service he obtained of school in Richmond, Cali the rank of sergeant . . . Sam fornia, teacher are as dangerous to the American society as all the Alger York became the wife of M ark Wilkinson and was recently chosen stationed with a Kappa sw eetheart Hisses the House Un-American Activities committee can A. Smith, Jr., March 24, at Boise, the army Vaughn, in that area. at Camp Roberts, is Idaho. Mrs. Sm ith is a form er dig up. clerk in the accounting depart now a Pfc. . . . This note was A new mem ber of the Portland in our outgoing copy box: Alpha Delta chapter of Kappa This fight for civil rights isn’t just a fight here in our own ment of the New York telephone found “Belated news has reached this Alpha Psi is Emm ett Williams, a back yard. This is a fight staged all over the country and the company. M ark Jr., an Oregon office concerning recent graduate of the University State college student, will con of popular young the m engagement world where darker peoples have been suppressed by whites tinue an about of Oregon. Following the initia studies. The couple will town, Richard Parker, to a m id for centuries. Such suppression is dangerous beyond imagina live in his Corvallis. tion ceremonies, the chapter ban dle-west belle from Springfield, queted in his honor at the New • • * tion to the cause of world peace. Illinois, a young Miss Frances Tokyo restaurant. The Vancouver branch of M Every man has the basic right of individual freedom. He NAACP will postpone its next eriweather. Tentative wedding Pvt. Eddie Butler, son of Mr. seeks and deserves the right of recognition, the respect of a regular public date is set for late August. Con education m eet grats!” and Mrs. Eddie Butler, 62 NE human being. No law-making body has the moral or humani ing which is scheduled for April Rafael, is taking his basic tarian right to relegate him to second-class citizenship because 26. In lieu of the meeting, we are Stanton Duke returned home San training in San Diego, Calif. planning an excursion to the this week from a journey to Chi He attended of color, be it the legislators of Oregon or the Congress of the Northwest Benson high school Area Conference to be cago. Gone three weeks, Duke and Clark Junior Pvt. United States. held April 25 and 26 in Seattle. was in that city for the funeral of Butler has already college. passed the • * * Race prejudice can certainly be abated when a law on the his aunt, Mrs. M artha Burton. written and physical examine- Mr. and Mrs. William Baugh . . . Miss Frankie W illiams is re ation statute books affords fair treatment to all of the people. The became for officer's training and parents of a covering from an operation in is awaiting word on becoming mere fact that people will be allowed to associate with friends baby boy, the G proud erald Donald, on University State TB hospital and an officer candidate. His ad of their own choosing, not those of the proprietor of a restau March 21, at the N orthern Per- is expected home April 16. dress is: Pvt. Eddie Butler Jr., rant, a tavern, a skating rink, etc., will as a matter of habit m anente Foundation hospital in 1372415, 1st Recrut Training Bn„ John Minor Jr., son of Mr. A Company, Platoon 55, M. C. lessen race prejudice. A really FREE society involves no dis Vancouver. and Mrs. John Minor, 3105 SE crimination and creates a minimum of social friction. 29th avenue, is teaching the R. D„ San Diego 40, Calif. 6th grade in Alameda, Calif. The J. Harold Joneses are the The conditioned state race prejudice in the United States Minor is also working on his proud parents of a seven-pound, makes it necessary that we constantly wage battle for our master's degree. He graduated two-ounce boy, J. Harold Jones fundamental freedoms. Oregon citizens can well be proud to from San Francisco State. III, born March 27 . . . Mrs. No sanction Senate Bill 169. They can best show their thankful The present status of the pro Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Boyd vella Donaldson, 7516 NE Everett ness for a free society by writing letters to members of the posed civil rights ordinance is report their new son is doing street, is in Roan M ountain, Tenn., House of Representatives and asking for their support of a “touch and go," according to Bill nicely. Born February 25, he is where she plans to stay w ith her ill mother, Mrs. Mary Webb until measure so needed if we can boast any semblance of our Berry, m em ber of the Oregon named Micheál Steven and early fall. for Equal Rights. weighed six pounds seven ounces much-talked and little-practiced democratic way of life. Civil Committee says that at least three of at birth. The Boyds have two Mr. Jam es A. Chrysler spent a rights belong to all of the citizens. It is not a right to be cher Berry the members of the state and other sons, Gary Allan and Mau week visiting Mrs. Della Williams ished by some and used as a weapon in denying it to others. federal affairs com mittee are op rice Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Arville Rae. posed to the bill and desire to Chrysler works with the Seattle Mrs. John Ellis, wife of the public schools kill it. and decided to ' Four of the com mittee m em Ellis Cleaners’ proprietor, left spend his spring vacation in P ort are willing, providing the Monday for Ft. Smith, Ark., land. SEATTLE, Wn„ April 2—Robert “Bob” Wright and Wilbert bers bill is not killed, to sanction it where she will visit for three Ponder, members of the Fir State golf club of Seattle, both with the stipulation that a refer weeks w ith her grandm other, Mrs. Seleta Johnson, an ex- Mrs. Johnson and son Leonard Portlander who now makes her carded 71s in the first city-sponsored links tournament in ral clause is added. The com m ittee hearing will Earl . . . Little Miss Beth Ann home in Los Angeles, California, which non-white golfers were allowed to participate. be held Monday or Linear celebrated her first birth visited the City of Roses last The tourney, a so-called “wide open” sweepstakes, was the probably W ednesday of next week. The day Sunday, M arch 22, in the week. She visited her daughter, city s answer to sharp criticism of the Fir State club turned out hearing in all probability be company of her parents, John Mrs. O. T. Taylor for a few days, from non-white golfers and sports for the unlim ited field of com a small will informal one, not public. and Ester Linear, 42 NE Tilla -1 editor Royal Brougham of the petitors. W right and Ponder mook street . . . Little Ruby Ov Citizens' Action Urged Seattle Post-Intelligencer, for al topped the Fir State entrants, but erton, of Mr. and Mrs. i The OCER enlarged its m em Reuben daughter lowing city and county golf tour Ben Beasley carded a 76. Overton, N. Ross bership to 72 local and state or avenue, sang on the 1437 nam ents to be held on city Stars of To-1 ganizations during the past week courses and disallowing the com with the admission of Oregon petition of non-white golfers. State League of Women Voters, t The third annual Rhomona, a For years the city courses have The Reverend Lee O. Stone, City of Portland League of Worn -1 children’s fashion show entitled refused mem bership to non- pastor of St. Philips Episcopal en Voters and Oregon Farm ers “Kiddies on Parade,” will be held whites in city clubs. The city m aintains that these clubs are in church, left Sunday to conduct | Union. Casting tryouts will be held! Sunday, April 19, from 4 to 7 p.m. fact private organizations set up the annual Religious Emphasis | Berry urged all citizens to Wednesday, April 8, at 8 p.m. for a* ^ e W illiams Avenue YWCA, Week program at Lincoln uni w rite to members of the House the newest St. Philips players The piogram is sponsored by Beta by interested pci sons. Although Negroes and other versity m Jefferson, Missouri. In of Representatives, especially the | drama, “M umbo-Jumbo,” at the Eta chapter of Sigma Gamma non-whites were allowed to play vited by university president. Dr. 27 that are opposed or uncertain j Parish hall, 120 NE Knott street. Rho, it was announced by Mrs. in the tournam ent, some Seattle Sherman D. Scruggs, Reverend to SB 169, and ask for passage of | Anyone interested is invited to M arjorie M arshall, basileus. golfers felt the tourney was an StonC returns Friday morning. the equality measure. attend. It is expected that there About 60 children are expected "out" taken by city park authori The affair, participated in by He stressed that a roekv road will be a shortage of male players. to participate in the affair which will also feature a silver offering ties to stem the tide of resentm ent the faculty and students, is held lies ahead for the bill and things from interested sportsm en who in observance of Holy Week. Cus- are very difficult in regards to Directed by Mrs. Geneva tea. The proceeds are to be set desire to see discrim ination elim tomarily, a m inister is invited, as its passage at present. Berry said Franklin, the play is a three-act aside for a scholarship fund ad inated from city-owned courses campus guest, to conduct the that actions taken this week bv mystery farce, w ritten by Jack ministered by the sororitv. services. Reverend Stone deliv- Oregon citizens may easily make Barnard. The comedy utilizes a Frogram chairm an is Miss M ar entirely large cast. More than two dozen members ■ ered a series of lectures. the difference. cel ine Casey. Everyone is invited. Individual Freedom Vancouver News House Wavering On Civil Rights Open Golf Tourney Held Reverend Honored Sigma Sorors Bill Kiddies' Program Players to Hold Tryouts lor Cast
