REFLECTING
ACHIEVEMENTS,
VOL. 11 NO. 1 5
Cadet Payne
Returns
To Academy
1st
Classman
Cadet Isaac
S. Payne, IV, 3on of Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac S. Payne of 3946 N. Borth-
wlck left Portland, to retrun to
U .S .A . F. Academy, Colo, after
completing a 2 week tour of duty
of O fficers Training on the job
at Portland International Airbase.
Cadet Payne was appointed to the
A ir Force Academy by Congress-
woman Edith Green. June week
at the Acadamey* Payne was pro
moted to 1st Classman, he w ill
graduate in June, 1963, then gr
into training as a pilot.
Plan Fight
On Gradual
Desegregation
Of Parks
MEMPHIS, Tenn.
-N eg ro leaders said .hey w ill
take to the U. S. Supreme
Court their attempt to immedi
ately
desegregate Memphis
parks and recreational facili
ties.
The U S. Sixth Circuit
Court of Appeals in Cincinnati
Tuesday upheld a gradual
plan for desegregation o f the
facilities. The plan was first
approved by federal district
Judge Marion S. Boyd here
last June 15.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs
said the decision would be ap
pealed “ as soon as the w rit
ten opinion of the court has
been received and studied.“
FOUND PROPER
The appeals court ruled in
tegration of the city’s park
facilities was proceeding prop
erly and legally.
“W e have before us a pro
gram of desegregation that
has been carried out, is being
carried out at the present
time, and w ill be carried out
in the future until all o f the
city's parks, playgrounds and
recreational facilities are de
segregated," it said.
Attorneys Russell B. Sugar-
mon. representing the plaint-
INTERESTS
PO RTLAN D, O REGON
Clerical Worker
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' abi.no
Negotiations between the Com
pany's personnel manager and the
Urban League's industrial rela
tions director, Jim F ra zier, have
resulted in the employment of
Delores M itchell as office clerk
in the sales department of National
Biscuit Company in Portland. This
is a " f i r s t " fo r a Negro worker.
Miss M itchell graduated from
David Douglas High School in 1961
and is presently attending North
western School of Com merce. M r.
F ra zier states that she possessed
very good skills in shorthand and
typing and came highly recom
mended by her schools.
Commendation is due Nabisco
fo r this progressive step and to
M iss Mitchell fo r her high qual
ifications.
U.S. Refutes
White Rule But
Backs Britons
U NITED N A TIO N S, N. Y.
— Although the United States
backed Britain in its attempts
to stall debate on Southern
Rhodesia Tuesday in the UN
Assembly, U. S. U. N. Ambassa
dor Adlai Stevenson declared
that the U.S. w ill work for an
orderly rapid decolonization in
Africa.
However, the British l o s t
the move as the Afro-Asian
lineup supported by the 11-
nation Soviet block including
Cuba and three other Latin
American nations, voted 62-
26 to air the issue o f white
supremacy in Southern Rho
desia.
Stevenson stated t h a t the
Rhodesian issue where a new
constitution would permit rule
by 200,000 white settlers over
3,000,000 Africans, w ill affect
the whole future of Africa. He
tried unsuccessfully to get the
debate postponed until fall.
The Afro-Asian nations de
clared that white settlers in
the Rhodesia are setting up a
South Africa style apartheid
regime to perpetuate t h e i r
rule. They insist that the new
c o n s t i t u t i o n discriminates
against the Africans and a
racial upheaval is in prospect
if the constitution is n o t
changed.
The British on the other
hand declared that this is not
so; that no debate was neces
sary because the constitution
cannot go Into effect until af-
elections. They also said that
as a result of the debate, ra
cial animosities may be un
leased.
iffs, said he knew of no other
decision “ which has upheld a
gradual desegregation plan in
the field o f public recreation. ”
WILL NOT STAND
Another attorney, H. T.
Lockard, said “ the decision
w ill not stand.”
The gradual plan, which
calls for desegregation o f all
such facilities by 1972. was
praised by city officials and
park rep
jntatives.
Meharry Gets
$140,000 Grant
For Building
N A SH ILLE — The Health
Research Facilities of the Na
tional Institute of Health has
awarded $140,812 to Meharry
Medical college toward the
constructing and equipping of
a new science research wing.
Meharry’s
president,
Dr.
Harold D. West, received t h e
notice of the grant from Dr
Dale R. Lindsay of the Nation
al Institutes of Health.
‘‘The grant will assist in M e
harry’s research activities by
providing for additional space
for our present faculty mem
bers and for new research spe
cialists who w ill be joining the
staff shortly,” the President
said.
Dr. West said that in a 10
year span, grants and funds
supporting research at Meharry
have grown from $53,635 in
1952. to a current figure of
$450,147 yearly.
“ Such growth demanded ad
ditional space to accommodate
our expanding research p r o
gram, Previously,” continued
the president, “ we had run out
of space long before reaching
our research potential.”
He said that architectural
plans and specifications h a v e
been drawn for the three-story
wing which w ill consist of six
ultra-modern research suites
and w ill be situated over the
northwest wing of the medical
college.
N IH officials announced that
the funds were given to Me
harry on a matching basis with
$129,335 given for construction
and fixed equipment, and $11,-
457 for movable equipment.
The remaining funds for con
struction and equipment will
come from the fund-raising
campaign which is currently
underway.
Plans 75 Year
Celebration
MOUND BAYOU, Miss. ----
This small all-Negro town is
currently preparing to cele
brate its Diamond Jubilee from
July 12-15.
The seventy-fifth year will
be marked by many outstand
ing events.
Several railroad companies
have planned special excursion
rates to and from this colorful
event. Church and civic groups
from all over the country have
planned special programs for
the Jubilee.
14-Year-Old Girl W ins
1st Prize at Science Fjir
S A N DIEGO. Calif.
A
14-year-old girl with an inventive
mind and unusual skill with quad
ratic equations was voted first
prize winner in the eighth annual
Greater San LMego Science Fair
lftst week«
She Is Miss Lauren Jones. O’ F ar-
rell Junior High school student,
who took top hor.jrs in the eonti-st
by constructing a machine on
which she computed quadratic
equations, utilizing the principle
of balancing torques.
A large number of candidates
were entered In the science con
test, t.eld In Balboa Park.
AND
PROGRESS
Wednesday, June 27, 1962
Local 1404
Five Cents
N A C W C O ffers
Land F o r
Elects N e g ro
Business
Agent
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Douglass H om e
W ASH ING TO N. D. .C. —
The Cedar Hill estate of Fred
erick Douglass, noted 19th
century abolitionist and Negro
leader, has been offered to the
federal government by the N a
tional Association of Colored
Women’s Clubs for the estab
lishment of a national memor
ial
The Douglass Home, located
on a 10-acre estate in the Ana-
costia section of Washington,
has been operated jointly by
NACW C and the Memorial
and
Historical Association.
Bills for its establishment as a
national memorial have been
introduced in the Senate by
Sen. Hart and in the House of
Representatives by C o n g .
Charles C. Diggs, Jr., (D.
Mich.).
A t the recent hearing 'Sen.
Hart called for the establish
ment of the home as a memor
REV. Sylvester McCullumn of
1760 N. Ross Ave. was elected
last week as Business Agent for
Local 1404, Ship Scalers and Auto
Painters Union. The Election of
Rev. McCulumn as Business Agent
marks the firs t time In Portland
a Negro has been elected to serve
6a an agent fo r the union. Rev.
McCullumn stated that he beat his
closest opponent by 30 votes In the
race fo r Business Agent. Rev.
McCullumn Is pastor of Morning
Star Baptist Church, and very
active in civic and community
affairs.
His duties as Business
Agent will be to hire employees,
dispatcher, correct all dues, and
serve as delegate at business
meetings and conventions.
SAFE W AY
HIRES
ANOTHER
ial in time fur the 100th anni
versary of the Emancipation
Proclamation in 1963.
Sen. Hart said that a Doug
lass Memorial would be a
symbol for the history of hu
man freedom throughout the
world. Dr. Johnson asked not
only for the establishment of
the home as a shrine but for
extensive renovations of the
present site.
Dr. Gragg, whose organiza
tion has spent nearly $250,000
on the maintenance of the
Douglass Home since 1916,
said that NACW C financial re
sources are no longer adequate
to maintain the home in a
manner befitting Douglass.
The NACW C president also
called for the restoration of
the home and for the erection
on its grounds of a monument
which will bring international
attention to the importance of
Douglass to the freedom of
Americans.
The Douglass home, where
the distinguished leader re
sided following the Civil War,
is located at 1411 “ W ” Street,
southeast, Washington, D. G
Atlanta Theatres
Desegregating
CHECKER
Safeway, Inc., has hired another
Negro grocery checker, in the
person of Arthur Shepherd, who
began work on May 27 at the
Lloyd Center store on N. E. Broad
way.
This brings to four the number
of Negro checkers currently env-
ploy*xl by Safeway stores. Two
women are working In their Union
Avenue stores and another is at
Interstate and Mason.
Shepherd la a graduate of Benson
Polytechnic High School and has
attended Lewis and Clark College
and the University of Oregon. He
was referred to Safeway by the
Urban League,______________
ATLANTA.
The A t
lanta Journal said last week that
downtown movie theatres have de
segregated under a “ two-a-week"
plan negotiated in secret bi-radai
talks.
Small groups of Negroes were
admitted to at least two of the
four big theatres with no signifi
cant incidents reported, the news
paper said.
Managers of the four largest
theatres named in the Journal ar
ticle declined comment.
Under the reported agreement,
the film houses were to admit two
Negroes each week until June 1.
A fter that dn?e. there would be
no restriction on Negro patrons.
A similar plan would become e f
fective June 1 (or the numerous
suburban theatres, the Journal
said.