Oregon Advance Times_1968-03-21

The Oregon Single Copy 10~ ADVANCE Few File For Board Positions Only 11 candidates have filed letters of intent for the 21 vacancies on the Board of Directors of the Albina Citi– zens War on Pove r ty Commit– tee. Those who are re-filing are Walter Morris, an area resident, and Mrs. Helen Stoll, 11000 s. W. Collina. New candidates who have filed a r e Mrs. Helen McDaniel, Calvin Toran, Rev. Edgar Jackson, Mrs. Odis Williams, Robert Cochran, Edgar Mitchell, J ac– quelyne McClain, Blake Byrne and Daryl Griffith. The retiring board mem– bers are Rev. George E. Car– ter, Jr. who served two and a half terms as chairman, Wil– liam Daw, Mrs. Hazel Hays, Rev. John Jackson, Rev. Sanmel Johnson, Dr. E llis Jump, Mary C. Roland, Don C. Vann and Mr s. Virginia Roberts. The deadline for filing let– ters of intent was Monday, March 18. However, nomina– tions may be made from the floor of the annual meeting which will be held Friday evening, 7 p.m., March 22 in the Knott Street Community Center. This year, for the first time, three board members will be elected who are 18 to 21 years old. All the others are 21 or older. Of the 38 members on the board, two- thirds must be residents of the area and 12 members must come from outside the area. One-third of those elected must have incomes which are termed "poverty level." All residents of Albina are urged to attend this meeting. (Continued on Page 8) Maior Plan On Jobs Set A vast new employment pro– gram with an annual budget .of about $2.3 million for city– wide operation is to go into effect July I. It will be known as the Con– centrated Employment Pro- 1;ram or CEP. The program is under the Department of Labor's Bureau of Work Training: Programs and its local sponsor is ex– pected to be the Portland Metropolitan Steering Com– mittee which directs the War on Poverty programs. Final plans have not been made but Richard Collins, coordinator with the Steering Committee, said roug:hly 500 persons would be involved at one time, receiving skill training, pre-vocational coun– seling, orientation for job edu– cation, as well as health serv– ices, transportation, family counseling and, if needed, basic literacy help. Programs will be set up to go out and find jobless who need help but who do not know how to go about getting it, and also to provide an analysis of the reasons why some per– sons are unable to get jobs. A joint planning effort will (Continued on Page 12) Dig Swahili? Yeah, Mani Ever yearned to learn Swahili, one of the major languages in Africa? Swahili is one of the three new classes now being offered by the Albina Art Center, 8 N. E. Killingsworth. The Swahili class will be held Tuesday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. Creative writing and crea– tive stitchery are the other new classes. The creative writing class will cover four fields of writing: Poetry, fiction, drama and essays. The class will be held on Wednesday nights from 6 to 9 p.m. Peter Kenyanjui, a )!raduate of Portland State, will teach the Swahili class. He is presently teaching ceramics at the Albina Art Center and arts and crafts at the Knott Street Community Center. Albina Gets Teen Center A teen center for Albina, run and operated by teen– agers, is at long last about to become a reality. Na than Proby announced this week that the building has been se– cured and teen-agers were being organized to form work crews to set the teen center in operation. The building is located on the west corner of Knott Street and Williams Avenue. A two-year lease on the building has been acquired for $50 a month rent. He is going to pay for the first month's rent himself so work can begin on the building. Monthly dues will be paid thereafter by the teens who wish to use the building and this money wil1 be used to pay the rent and utilities. Proby said that he hopes this will be a community project. Merchants in the area will be asked to help support the teen center and teen-agers themselves have volunteered to work on the building and make repairs and renovations. Most im– mediate needs, Proby said, are t\vo windows, some paint and insurance for the build– ing. "Al" Laviske, general manager of McDonald's has offered his full support of the project. It is hoped that the teen center will be set up and operating within a month. It will offer recreation, movies and dances every weekend. It is planned to (Continued on Page 8) An Invitation Your Oregon Advance Times carrier will be call– ing on you at the end of this month to invite you to be– come a paid subscriber. Your paid subscription helps support this non-profit com– munity project and also in– creases your carrier's earn– ings. NOTE: Always ask your carrier for a receipt. Portland, Oregon The wonder of a child and nature, seen here as 6-year-old Antone D. Smith examines the exciting, mysterious things to be found under a tree in a park ••• acorns, leaves, puffballs, cones, twigs • • • on a day when spring seems almost at hand and life has a touch of magic about it. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Smith, 6126 N. E.15th Ave. Mr. Smith, a photographer, took this picture. Mayor Told: Parks Don't Meet People's Need City parks do not meet the needs of the people, Mayor Terry Schrunk was told last week. Representatives of the Northeast and the Southeast districts met with the mayor and told him they we re op– posed to having a summer program in the parks im– posed on them without having any voice in what was being done. The group asked not only for a voice in what was planned but for a change in the Park Bureau's hiring practices. Robert Nelson, chairman of the School Community Action Committee, was spokesman for the group. Representatives of south– east Portland and Albina, united in their opposition to having a summer program in the ·area parks imposed on them, met with Mayor Terry Schrunk at 10:30 a.m. March 14. Spokesman for the group was Robert Nel– son, chairman of the Shoo! Community Action Commit– tee. The group met with the mayor to ask for a voice in planning the summer park program and to request a change in the Park Bureau's hiring practices. Nelson told Mayor Schrunk, "We asked for this meeting because we are not pleased with the attitudes and pro– grams of the City Park Bureau as evide'hced by the actions of Miss Dorothea Lensch at recent community gatherings." He went on to say, ''Lately in Portland, the city admin– istration has talked a great deal about citizens' partici– pation in decision-making and in programs. Progress is evident." He then asked the mayor to "reaffirm his intention for citizen participation to in– clude the planning and opera– tion of summer programs in the parks." Nelson told the mayor, "If your administration insists on the present format of em– ployment and the disregard of the grass roots commu– nity, you are, in effect, per– petuating rather than solving problems." Nelson summed up his pres– entation by saying, "This is a new time, requiring new, creative, imaginative and courageous approaches to these times." Mrs. Lizzie Sheppard, a member of the school-com– munity action committee and an employee at the Neigh– borhood Service Center, also gave a report to the mayor. She said, "The require– ment by the Park Bureau to be a college graduate or go– ing to college is another way of segregating our children and others in the low eco– nomic field. We have met this stone barrier through Miss Lensch every summer and in communication in try– ing to get recreation facili– ties to the youngsters in the neighborhoods. Many adults could be included in many park programs, but, as usual, we are the last to know about anything that will benefit our children or any programs that they could participate in. After getting the same brush– off with a neat, tight smile from the Park Bureau for so long, many just gave up (Continued from Page 12) Links To Hold Arts Festival The Portland Chapter of nese Art Studio and the M– Links, Inc. , a national or- bina Art Center also will ganization of Negro women take part in the program. dedicated to public service, Janice Poe, author of the will hold its sixth Arts Fes- Soul Assembly recently held tival at Portland ·state Col- at Jefferson High, will give lege Sunday, March 31, from a five-minute report of the 3 to 5 p.m. event. The Dukays from The Arts Festival in the Jefferson High will be in– College Center is open to eluded on the program. the public. Mrs, Samuel Brown, Jr., Paintings and sculpture is president of Links, Inc. from schools and colleges Co-chairmen of the Arts throughout the Portland area Festival are Mrs. Richard will be featured. The Chi- Bogle and Mrs: William Law. March 21, 1968 Police Work Ideas Sent To Officials Recommendations for im– proved relations between police and the community were given this week to the Police Bureau and to the mayor's office. A meeting Sunday - prompted largely by dis– cussions following the wound– ing of a young man some 10 days ago by a special police officer - resulted in the rec– ommendations' being drafted. Robert Nelson of the School Community Action Commit– tee said, "The police are ready to listen. City Hall is ready to listen." Nelson, Mrs. Lizzie Shep– pard and Nathan Proby, a police officer, led the dis– cussion. Resentment against the police was voiced. One boy said, "At McDonald's, the police are always breathing down your back." He agreed that if there were trouble, the police would be needed but that the police shouldn't be there all the time. Proby asked, "If there were no police atMcDonald's, would the teens behave7" Several teens answered at once, ''No.'' Mrs. Sheppard asked the teen-agers if they felt the police should carry guns. Again, several boys said, '' No. Billy clubs are enough." Al Laviske, general mana– ger of McDonald's, said, "No one knows when something will happen. We use police only to protect the staff and the customers and not to harass anyone." Several said the greatest (Continued on Page 5) Residents Seek Places Negroes are seeking places on the Portland City Council, Portland School Board, Mult– nomah County Commission and the State Legislature. Filings for the May 28 pri– mary election closed at 5 p.m. Tuesday and these were the candidates from the Albina area: Portland City Council: C. Donn Vann, owner and operator of Vann' s Mortuary, filed for Position No. 4, held for 29 years by William Bowes. Bowes is a candidate to succeed himself. William T. McCoy Jr. filed for the position that has been held for 16 years by Stanley Earl. Earl is running again. Portland School Board: Al– vin Batiste, who is one of the three candidates endorsed by the School Citizens Committee to fill the three vacancies on the board. Multnomah County Com– mission: James "Shag" Thomas, seeking the seat now held by Larry Aylsworth who is running for re-election. State Legislature: Oliver Smith, seeking Democratic nomination to the House of (Continued on Page 8)