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Pag« Two PORTLAND CHALLENGER Wednesday. May 20. 1953 NAACP Regional Held in Seattle P q _> T l C U d j N e w s In B r ie f The Vancouver branch of the By William Wright C h a llen g e r S t a f f W r it e r National Association for the Ad vancem ent of Colored People was well represented w ith 14 dele An Independent Newspaper Back form a two-year tour of army duty is Harold Wash gates at the N orthw est Area con ington. The former Washington high school student spent 17 TED BURGER WILLIAM A. HILLIARD ference of the NAACP which met G eneral M anager Editor and Publisher in Seattle A pril 25 and 26. Mrs. months in the quartermaster’s corps in Korea. Washington was discharged as a corporal and plans to enroll in Lewis and 3300 North Williams Avenue, Portland 12. Oregon MUrdock 4092 Terea Hall Pittm an, field sec- retary of N orthern Califronia Clark college this fall and major in music. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Area, and Mr. F ranklin H. Will- Sunday, April 5, a surprise baby shower was given in honor 10 Cents per copy -«S»- 26 $2.50 per year iams, west coast regional direc- of M rs. Bob Herndon Jr. at the tor, directed workshops on or- home of Mr„ M ari_ RlirW„ 2126 Peared as a bride modeling gowns ganizatibnal structure of NAACP, NE Rodney avenue by ¿ e “L^ in the June issue of Ebony mag- m em bership and fund raising. Noviss club Mrs Herndon is the a z in e ‘ Tom H art was Pictured in _____ A dinner m eeting was held Sat- club’s adviser. the May issue of ° ur World m The recent burning of a cross on the lawn of the newly-pur- urday evening at which time del- Home on a ten-day leave from an articIe 0X1 the Ne£ ro in Alas- c h a s e d h o m e of Charles Gragg, his wife and small son, in eSates and friends received a Camp Roberts recently was Cpl. ka^. Rev. Jo h n D. Reece, 132 NE the Parkrose Heights district should serve as a primer for corcbal welcome form Mayor Al- Melvin Dykes. While in Portland Monroe street, died Saturday, . , . . ., .. , , . , , lan Pomeroy of Seattle. Mr. Wil- he stayed at the home of Mrs law enforcement agencies of the community to be quick and iams gave the main speech of the Ida rHa TJ lo„ 91in M Vlir,t May 9, at St. Vincent’s hospital. Lesley, 2110 N Flint avenue. He is survived by his wife Gladys just in their investigations of the peace offenders of the evening denoting th e progress Mrs. Bernice Freeman, wife A. Reece and sister, Mrs. Naomi Graggs’ civil rights a n d the community. made by NAACP in accomplish- of John Freeman of University White, and brother, M erchant of Portland fame, is up from Citizens and law enforcement agencies should respond im- ments and memberships. Reece. Funeral services were held San Diego, Cal., with their four- mediately to this un-American terroristic, Ku Klux Klannish M IIc statt“d thdt ev£jn tbou^ b the month-old W ednesday at Allen Temple ME daughter, Brenda church. Interm ent will be in practice and let the world know that Oregon will not tolerate s tjji bas mucb work to do to Joyce, visiting Freeman's par Houston, Texas. this disregard of the basic civil rights of the human being. m aintain w hat he has gained and ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Free O. D. Johnson had to leave S at man. The former Pilot star is Investigation by the Multnomah county police point toward to m ake democracy a reality, urday for Oklahoma due to the bigots and not pranksters. If such be the case, the police should D inner music was furnished by now in the San Diego Naval death of his father. Mrs. K. L. hospital recuperating from a conduct a thorough investigation of the incident and they M erctdes Walton, radio and TV knee injury sustained while Culp was m arried to Robert W ill ie rns recently. should receive the cooperation of every Parkrose Heights citi- Jones Fo]lowing the dinner playing football. A ttending the Pentacostal Sun- z en in s e e in g t h a t th e g u ilty p a r ty o r p a r tie s a r e b r o u g h t to meeting, delegates and visitors - . ju s tic e a n d g iv e n th e fu ll p e n a lty fo r th is u n w a r r a n te d a n d were entertained at the home of day schot)1 convention held re- T / a f l f i A l l v r p f " r l n ^ t scam D ish s tu n t Mr. and Mrs. Issac Edwards. cently in Tacoma were Mr. and f a i l U U U V C I A A U a t P , , . , Mrs. Edw ard Barno, Mr. and Mrs. Portland has seen little race violence. Negroes and other y was kheyn?fed Henry Freem an, Mrs. Bernice non-whites populate all but one of the city’s 60 census dis- P[tt* an £ Jh^h S"emphaized f ? eman’ and Mrs. Charles for all tricts. In the Parkrose Heights area, census takers found 34 the necessity for branches to JohnbUn and fam dy and Rev- and A surprise is in store „Q cni. Act Disgraceful To NAACP Meet n o n -w h ite fa m ilie s . I h e P o r tla n d p r e s id e n t of th e N A A C P , a lifelong r e s id e n t of Portland, can recall only one race incident in th e c ity in v o lv in g h o u s in g . In th e c a se of th e Graggs, w h e re th e y h a v e b e e n o s tra c iz e d fro m th e b e g in n in g b e c a u s e th e y are a s s u m e d to b e Negroes irom me o tg in n in g u e ca u sc mey are a s s u m e d to o e iNegroes - -how m u c h N e g ro m a k e s n o d iffe re n c e — b y so m e o f th e i r n e ig h b o rs , th e s a m e o ld f a m ilia r p a tte r n o f ra c ia l s e g r e g a tio n is fo llo w e d a n d is im m e d ia te ly lin k e d w ith a c o lo r a n d ju d g e d a c c o rd in g ly . work tow ard b etter housing and to strengthen em ploym ent and 1 ivil rights laws- Ske t<dd of the threatening ¡T o lom^ de'felo? ing the cotton belt Qf California and how sim- ilar the situation is to th a t which exists on Southern plantations. Reports of com m ittees w ere given after which officers for the It's lush time the American people practice the tenets of the Cn™‘nB year ''ected' ported a hospitable welcome from Mrs c h a rlo tte Harriss of th a t city. Mrs. Ju lia Fletcher and daugh- ter, Linder, are in W ashington, D c ., vacationing for a month, Mother- and daughter traveled via United A ir Lines j. Sidney Bowman, 27 NE Cook street, held a lucky num ber in a draw ing . . _ .. V ,.,, , , Offiers are: Mr. W illiam H. Un- A m c t lean C o n s titu tio n , a d h e r e to th e B ill o f R ig h ts a n d re c o g - derwood, Vancouver, president; n iz e th e w o rth a n d d ig n ity of the in d iv id u a l. There is n o room Mrs. Thelm a DeW itty, Seattle,’ fo r th e p re ju d ic e d , th e r a b b le ro u s e r, th e r a c is t o r th e b i t t e r vice-president; Mrs. M argie Un- in America. Here is a great country, still somewhat divided— in p r a c tic e —on th e v e r y b a sis of o u r d e m o c ra c y , t h a t m e n a r e . . c re a te d e q u a l. It may bo a very bitter pill for many of us to swallow, but race pride and all the superfluous feelings that one associates with such pride must of necessity disappear. The American will have to live as an individual in his society. He cannot possibly attain the equality of man in his democratic society if he continues to think in terms of Negro, Chinese, Indian, Caucasian, etc. It is the individual that counts in America, not one’s race, creed, color or religion. ..................... Charles Gragg is an American first. He is a law-abiding citi- zen and deserves the respect and rights of citizenship. We be- lieve firmly in the principles of American government and have confidence in the American people. Democracy will con- tinue its victorious ways and the Parkrose Heights district will serve as another example of American democracy at work. Time will tell. Youth Sets Example America’s y o u th c o n tin u e s to lead th e w a y in re a l d e m o - . . * T, , . , . . , . , — tp c ra tic p ra c tic e s. 1 h e re c e n t s tu d e n t b o d y e le c tio n a t J e f fe r s o n high school serves as further proof of young America’s belief in th e worth of th e in d iv id u a l. For the second tim e in its his- tory Jefferson w ill h a v e a Negro student body president, Lewis Montague will s e rv e ns leader of some 2000 students d u r in g th e 1953 fall term. ( onsidctubly less than one-third of these students are NcRro- Portland public schools are known breeders of American democracy. Portland students have elected many non-whites to honorable positions. Cleveland high school nominated a Chinese Rose Festival princess in 1946. Benson had a Negro student body vice president and a Negro student body secre tary in 1945. Lincoln high school students elected a Chinese student body president in 1944. Jefferson students elected the firs, N,«ro student body president in the history of Port,and just three years aKo. These are just a feW of the outstanding accomplishments made by Portland’s spirit«! and democratic-thinking voung people. The Portland adult can well take note of the practices of his off-spring. m onthly meeting of the Vancou- ver branch of the National As- sociation for the A dvancem ent of Colored People, according to Mrs. B ertha Baugh, m em ber of the branch. The m eeting will be held May 24 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the V ista Room of the Vancouver Housing A uthority. !?“t rc5Sntly at ,one 01 5?rtl!u;d's . The progr* m Fred M eyer stores. The for- tunate Bowman w alked off w ith a deluxe model General Electric autom atic washing machine. derwood, Vancouver, secretary; Jim Winters, the ex-Univer- sity of Portland basketball Mr.s ‘ B arnett, K lam ath Falls, as- sistant secretary; and Mrs. Lotta guard, is on the front line in Korea. Winters recently miss Ellis, treasurer. ed a patrol that eventually was wiped out by the Communists. . . . Dr. Carl Vickers, brother of Tom Vickers and former Portland dentist, was featured in the March issue of Color magazine in an artcile on pro fessional men in Flordia. To the Editor: Imogene Fatheree Neusom ap- T , . . . . . . . 1 have ju st finished reading the anniversary issue of The C hallenger and thought it highly Letters To the Ed. "»> be announced, instead the chap- ter is inviting everyone to share in its ‘’Surprise Program .” The program is planned to be inform- ative as well as fun. There will be aud ence participation and decisions of the judges will be final. W e Are Late Tardy publication of this is sue of The Challenger is due primarily to a shortage of help in the print shop. Our regular publication day is still Friday.' —The Editors Eagle, Sentinel Hold Tight In LA 'Newspaper Fight' fitting that I should write you oonRratutating you and your staff on tkc a ( h ie \rm en ts of the >ear. Two of California's top Negro its happenings are not of our ching your your pro- pro ha\e been wa.ching newspapers, the California Eagle making, but merely our preroga- gress all along and you can be lieve me when I say th at I am definitely proud of the fact that you are a graduate of this de- partm ent. N aturally I am also proud of the fact personally th a t 1 had something to do w ith your training and preparation. Your paper is dignified in its approach to all issues and in my following of the paper through the year, I have felt th a t your fairness was far above w hat one could norm ally expect of a staff possesed of your youthful vears. and the Los Angeles Sentinel, both Los Angeles weeklies, re- cently published editorial attacks aSains* each other. The Eagle m aintains the Sentinel is waging a f‘«ht against the civil rights of the N^gro. It has published stories of com m unity groups, church organizations and the Los Angeles branch of the National Association oi Colored People de- ^ ie Popces tbc Sen- tincl. The Sentinel, in a front page Anyway, congratulations to all editorial it its May 7 issue, term- of you and may the good work ed the Eagle “an unethical rival” and called its attacks “continu continue. ing. vicious and unw arranted.” In answ er to charges by the Eagle that under the editorship of Dora Moore the Sentinel has openly campaigned against FEPC: has CLIFFORD P. ROWE Journalism Dept. Head Pacific U niversity Forest Grove. Oregon To the Eidtor: Congratulations on the neH on firct* x 'l *r eom- ' k tive to report on. Sensationalism and m anufactuered ills play no part in Sentinel’s makeup. Sfand Not Altered . . . This is w hat we stand for, and the feeble bleatings of a fast- folding rag don’t alter our stand.” The fight for recognition be tween the two papers reached a high point ,ast week w hcn the cditor and pi]bi}sber 0 f tbe gen t jnel, Loen H. Washington, pick- eted his own plant. The Sentinel said W ashington's own actions were coaxed by ¡.taff m em bers of the Eagle. W ashington has been unable to edit his paper because of a stroke which cost him the use of one arm. and left him blind in one eye W ashington m aintains th a t he is m entally capable of run- done its best to undermine the ning his own newspaper but has NAACP and discredit it: has deliberately been shunted aside L i n , th e p L lL * You .re doing » fine job and we arr a11 ,ook‘nR foward to many .®f suc^ sfu1 endeavors in , £ , ’ J* SrCHON Peterson-Schon Engravers ,ial .egregaton. the Sentinel had thjs to say: . . . the Sentinel is a balanced newspaper, publishing the news objectively and in good taste, re- membering that the world and alomi itW ^ tl'tS ¡n Los Angeles in advertising circulation and community good- win. Publisher of the Eagle is Loren Miller. Los Angeles at- tomey.
