Clarion Defender_1968-02-01

WOODEN NICKELS MR. TOM WILSON, DIRECTOR OF JOB COUNSELING AND PLACEMENT FOR NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER, AND MRS. HAZEL HAYS, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT OF THE MODEL CITY PROGRAM, HAVE PREDICTED MORE SU~MER RIOTING THROUGHOUT THE NATION BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF NEGRO DIGNITY AND ECONOMIC SECURITY. WE ARE AWARE OF MUCH DISCRIMINATING, BUT IT IS NEITHER RIGHT NOR PROPER TO LAY ALL OF THE CHAOTIC ILLS OF PORTLAND ON THE DOORSTEPS OF LAKE OSHEGO. SPEAKING OF NEGRO DIGNITY AND ECONOMIC SECURITY, AS THE RESIDENTS OF LAKE OSWEGO WELL KNOW, THEIR OWN MUTUAL FRIENDS, ~R. TOM WILSON AND THE REST OF THE ESTABLISHNENT ARE TRYING TO INSULT OUR INTEL– LIGENCE. WHY DON'T THEY GO DOFN TO THE BUREAU OF LABOR AT THE STATE OFFICE BUILDING AND TALK TO THEIR FRIENDS DOWN THERE ABOUT ENFORCING THE LA\I!S AGAINST DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT? (THIS MIGHT HELP A LITTLE WITH OUR LIVING CONDITIONS AND THE CREDIT SITUATION BESIDES.) MR. WILSON HAS SAID THERE WILL BE OPEN REBELLION 1t!HERE DOES HE GET HIS INFOR~·1ATION? hTHO DOES MR. WILSON SPEAK FOR? AS ONE OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE ALBINA SERVICE CENTER MR. WILSON SHOULD BY NOW REALIZE THAT MANY BLACK YOUTHS HANG ONTO HIS EVERY WORD. IT IS THEREFORE INCUMBENT UPON HIM TO SPEAK AT ALL TIMES WITH RESTRAINT OR AT LEAST SOME CANDOR. LAKE OSv.rEGAN HOUSEHIVES HAVE ROUGHT OUT TVO GUN SHOPS AND IF INNOCENT BLACK PEOPLE ARE KILLED IN LAKE OSWEGO THIS SUMMER -- THEIP BLOOD WILL BE ON THE HANDS OF MR. TOM WILSON AND HIS FELLOW BLACK AND WHITE EXECUTIVES, FOR ALLEGATIONS WITIIOUT THE REAL AND WELL-KNOWN TRUTH CAN ONLY LEAD TO A FURTHER POLARIZATION OF THE RACES AND AN EVER-WIDENING SCHISM. Thad Spencer says Sonny Liston will be his first championship fight, after he beats Ellis. for Joe Much's facts on the big fight. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ' . t 1 Po ster Pa g e = 1 I CAROL LA BRIE I . ' . .... Miss Carol LaBrie started out as:- a high fashion model in tJew York on the "Price is Rir:rht" 0 T.V. show, met the late Otis Redding when she went to L.A. to dance at Whiskey A'Go Go. She danced there for eight months. While there she danced at Hulabaloo and cast parties. After she left the Whiskey A'Go Go and moved to Las Vegas where she had an act at the Tropicana Hotel; danced with such rhythm and blues greats as Joe ~ex and Otis Redding. Presently on tour with John True Review at Portland's Club Venus. ·- 10¢ 0LD£ST NEGRO PUBLlS· H~R IN THE NORTHWEST VOL. 7 NO. 220 I iVIain Office 1323 N. E. Fremont, Portland, Oregon .Ph. 284-1289 Thursday, Feb. l, 1968 Patricia Ann Bradford, 21, dau~hter of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Bradford, 54f 'T E. Stanton Street, recently was ~raduated from Continental Airlines' hostess training school at Los AnFeles. She has been assigned to Denver. A native of Portland, ~iss Bradford is a 1964 graduate of North Catholic Hi~h School and attended Portland State College. Before joininf Continental she was a dance instructor and choreographer for the Portland Recreation Department. a. PUARRY'S TOO INCONSISTENT TO WIN San Francisco -- "Jerry Puarry is too inconsistent and too inexperienced to heat r:1e," says Thad Soencer. ... Spencer adds that it takes more than one or two years to turn a rank amateur into a world class heavyweight contender. "quarry needs a teething ring and they're feeding him raw meat, 11 states Spencer. "Quarry fought a fev1 peak rounds against Patterson, but fought even more weak and sporadic rounds," states Spencer. ''I'm a faster and stronger fi ghter than Floyd," says Thad, "and I'll be able to stand off the few good rounds that Quarry is capable of puttin~ together. ''In the meantime, I'll be blasting him Nith my O'-'m artillery." Spencer has broken camp in Southern California and is now training in the Bay Area. Veteran fight observers confide that Soencer is in the best shaoe of his career. Spencer and Quarry meet on Saturday, Feb. 3, in the Oakland Coliseum in the second semi-final fight in the WBA tourney to name a successor to Muhammad Ali. Jimmy Ellis, Ali's former sparring partner, has already earned the other final berth. The championship fight will be held in the Houston Astrodome in May or June. Thad Spencer is sure that he'll take it all. poSE CITY-PIEDMONT PHARMACY ·:... ~ .... 31.11 N£. UNitJII AY£-NATLANb tPHlJNG U/-3967 PRESCRIPTIONS GOV. ROCKEF'ELLEP AND ~INOPITY JOBS By Jackie Robinson A Nepro author who has earned some prominence by writin~ a hi~hly acclaimed novel about the Harlem ghetto, said on television recently that Jackie Robinson is Governor Rockefeller's "house Ne.r,::ro.n I have never met the .r::entleman and that is a cross I am willing to continue to bear. A second black writer, who edits a magazine in Harlem from whose editorial board Ossie Davis and James Baldwin recently withdrew, changing anti-semitism, went even further than the author. He not only called me f·.~r. Rockefeller's "house nigger" but mis– quoted me as havinf. admitted being same. I don't know him ei tl 1er. I do know me. And knowing myself quite intimately, I am secure in the kno·~1ledge that -- even j f I aspired to he an Uncle Tom -- I would not be capable of becoming one. I have to live with me and sleep with me and I am having no problems in that area. In a previous column, J had ~ore to say about the dangerous name game which is being played by some of the so-called "black militants." I am not the only tar~:,et and I believe an examination of this name p:ame and its authors mipht be helpful in really under– standinp; some of the "divide and conquer" influences at work in the black community. Now, however, I would like to make some brief observations about New York's Governor and the historic action he has taken to guarantee fair and equal employment opportunity to the Negro and Puerto Rican peoples. Unlike so many other public officials, Governor Rockefeller ACTED rather than talked. He issued a blunt, no-nonsense, unequivocal order to the heads of all departments in the State to make arrangements NOW to employ more minority group members in all possible categories. He set a Jan. 15 deadline for the department heads to notify his Executive Offices of the number and nature of jobs available. The Governor is not foolin~, nor nlaying netty politics. He has acted with bold and firm deter– mination after Sitting down with civic-minded community people who had complaints and did not bite their tongues in voicing them. Thus, he passed with flying colors, one of the acid tests of real statesmanship -- the willingness to listen. By his action, he demonstrated that he has the perception and sensitivity to be responsive to legitimate appeals and the courage to go all the way in command– in.r:: and demanding ungimmicked justice. In my view, it is now up to the grass roots leaders within the black community to spread the word -– especially to the young -- that the doors are now open in service to the State -- open as they have rever been before. Let our Urban Leagues, our NAACPs, our churches, our societies and clubs, our organiza– tions, nationalist, social -- organizations of all kinds -- join in a mighty recruitment drive. Th~s time, let's make sure it cannot be said that the opportunity was provided for us and we failed to respond. I shall continue, next writing, to speak of people 111ho indulge in the name r-ame of caJ ling others Uncle Toms. (ANP Feature.) ARMY AID TO FAMILIES INCREASES An increase of 28 percent in the numbers of families helped was re~istered in 1967 over the previous year by the Salvation Army Family Welfare Bureau, accordin~ to Mrs. Marian Basso, director. In 1967, there were 2,532 families totalin~ 10,001 'persons aided by Army's Welfare Bur~au. In 1966, the totals were 1,982 families and 8,318 individuals. The Family Welfare Bureau offers material assistance to those not eligible for aid from ot~er welfare organiza- tions. Mrs. Basso said that the increase was due to many factors. The increase was all year long, with all months showing a gain in requests for aid.