Teacher Job Promotion Chance Eyed Portland has few 1',egro school teachers and those few have little chance of moving into administrative positions. These points were made last week to School Supt. Melvin Barnes by a group of concerned citizens from the Albina area, They asked for change. Barnes said r-.egro teachers' interest in advancement to administrative posts would get special attention. Those meeting with him were Mrs. Lizzie Sheppard, Walter Morris, Shelley Hill of the Urban League and John Gates of the N/IACP, Hill said Negroes often do not apply to Portland for teaching positions because they feel they cannot move up even though they have an educational background in administration. He said Portland has lost many p;ood teachers because of this an<.1 he nruned a number who hqve left Portland and gone to other school systems where they were rewarded with better jobs, The names of some Neg.. roes with master's and even doctor's degrees who were shunted into grade school teaching were cited. Committee members said that until a few years ago a Negro teacher was not employed in the Portland high schools, even when qualified. Barnes said this was no longer true. The only Negro now employed in an administrative position in Portland schools is Mrs. Martha Jordan - and she is not a school district employee ·but rather is part of the federal Head Start program. Mrs. Jordan is in charge of the Early Childhood Education Program. There are now about 82 Negro teachers in the Portland public schools, an increase from 68 employed last September, Barnes said all can be considered for advancement but they need to make it known that they are interested in moving from classroom work into administrative position~. Barnes was asked to outline the ways th~ schools go about recruiting NP.gro teachers. He said two personnel officers - both of whom are white - are charged with recruiting all teachers. In addition to these two, former Portland teachers frequently send in the names ,of prospective teachers or encourage them to apply. He said the Urban League has sent in a number to be interviewed. Barnes J;aid a Negro teacher applicant has a better chance of being employed than does a Caucasian applicant because so few Negroes apply. The Oregon ADVANCE Vol.1,No.10 7141h N. E. Alberta, Portland, Oregon Thursday, April 4, 1968 Gov. McCall Visits Albina Gov. Tom McCall visited in the Albina community last week. He called on Boise Elementary Sch·ool and invited the children to visit him in the capitol in Salem. He also called on a number of agencies in the community. M,·Call visited the offices of the Advance Times and complimented the ,staff on the good job it is doing. With him 011 his visits was Cecil Walton and Chalmers Jones from the community. Southeast Uplift Set Southeast Portland, which has many of the povertyproblems of Albina, but is largely white rather than largely Negro, is going to get its own locally developed program of help which may be much like Model Cities. The City Council approved the idea Tuesday, And the chairman of the Portland Development Commission, Ira Keller, said that if the council told it to, the commission would make the necessary survey of jobs andotherprob.. !ems. The program grew out of the insistence on the part of the people of Southeast Portland that they should not be left out of planning for improvement. They tried io get the Model Cities boundaries changed so they would be included, When that failed, they sought a plan of their own, locally developed and handled. Commissioner Francis lvancie led the proposal in the council meeting for what is being called Southeast Uplift. Portlander Wins Date With 'Moms' Floyd N. Booker Jr,, whose picture was displayed in last week's issue of The Advance Times as a contestant on the TV show Dating Game, turned out to be the winner of The Big Date, Booker won a four-day vacation at Acapulco, Mexico, with ·a beautiful lady companion, of course accompanied by a chaperone, The date turned out to be with "Moms" Mahley, famous TV and night club entertainer, Bill McCoy Says Action Possible Powerful Dramatic Event Presented by Modus Quan Bill McCoy, a programdirector for Providence Child Center, has filed for city commissioner Position No. 1. "It is time that we face t!1e problems of an urban community and act," McCoy said. "And that's why I'm in the race, to bring attention to the problems and to show that a course of action is available,'' McCoy is the chairman of Citizens for Better City Government, the sponsoring organization of the initiative petition to limit to two the number of terms that can be held by elected city officials. He is also a member of the Ad Hoc Committee to Establish a Police-Community Relations Program, a memb-er of the Linnton Community Center board of directors, a member of the Oregon Social Welfare Association, the American Veterans' Committee, NAACP, Christie School Board, North Branch YMCA Board and past chairman of the Advisory Board, Catholic Family Services. McCoy, his wife Gladys, and their seven children reside at 6650 N. Amherst. His wife has a masters degree in social work from Portland State College and is employed by the Vancouver Public Schools. ''Man has captivated me. Man is so weak and man is so funny and man is so lovable. There is so much I want to give to man, not because he knows me, but because man needs so much to be given to him • • • If there is something to be given, it should be given." These were the words of Aaron Dumas, artist, musician, writer and orator. A young man who passed through Albina last week with his dramatic ensemble, ''Modus Quan." ''Our theatre exists autonomously. It is its own structure," Dumas explained about the integrated company of dancers, musicians and actors who provided an intense evening of Black Culture for the Albina community. They are not professionals. They have ''love for their art, but not so much love as to starve for it," their spokesman observed. Seventy-five percent of the troupe is affiliated with the university in one way or au.o r, but none is majoring in art. Dumas, at 22, is the oldest of the group and the most committed to finding his own creative voice. "l want to write and write and write ••• I'm an artist and 1 love the arts. The reason I give myself to art is I want to give all of myself to people. We are all Pre-School Cooperative Considered Nex Yea 1·he Albina Art Center is contemplating a cooperative pre-school for the next school year, involving the toddlers and parents of the community, A special planning meeting will be held Wednesday, April 11, at 7:30 in the Centzr to develop interest and itieas for the pre-school. Tentative plans describe ~ school staffed by one volunteer co-ordinator and at least three volunteer teachers on a regular basis, plus the rotating assistance of at least 20 mothers (or fathers) willing to give one morning or afternoon each week to the nursery. Working mothers who could not contribute their time could contribute a small amount of money for milk and snacks. One schedule discussedwas a combination of two twohour sessions, 9:30 to 11 :30 a.m. and l to 3 p.m. The children whose mothers worked would stay through both sessions and bring their lunches, Interested working mothers could arrange for babysitters before and after school hours. The non-working mothers could send their children to as many of the IO weekly sessions as they wished, but their children would e:o home during the noon hour, At a previous meeting, mothers, teachers and an AAC board member agreed that a cooperative pre-school would be advantageous as a way of involving parents, especially mothers, in, their children's early education and socializa- ~ion; it wr,uld create the opportunity to draw on a wider range of activities, ideas and materiala; it would give work ing mothers a chance to turn babysitting into a more creative and enriching exp.!rience for the child, Redditt to Head Group for Teens Sam Redditt Jr. is president of the Youth Activities Coordinating Committee, the group sponsoring the new Seven of Diamonds Teen Club. Other officers are Vollie Manning, vice president; Robert Nelson, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Lizzie Sheppard, assistant secretary-treasurer; and Nathan Proby, James H, Mitchell and Paul Knowles, directors. This is the group that will help direct the teen center proposed by Proby, He will be the director. Among the current needs is money to help meet the costs of the center so it will be able to interest young people, insignificant, but, as long as somebody cares for us, we stay." "Modus Quan" - the phrase is Dumas' invention - cannot be easily defined, but has to do with personal expression, "compassion and, at certain times, love." As a theatrical event, Modus Quan was intense, involving and descriptive of the beauty and power of black people. Dumas has contributed poetry he describes as "one hundred percent me," and his plays depict characters "one hundred percent themselves as I see them." The white liberal, the black militant, the Negro moderate, are treated with satiric but not unloving care. Dumas draws many details from the local and national landscapes, using references - to Jefferson High School, model school program, Birmingham - that are (Continued on Page 8) Women Bill C-Cap Head Frank Fair, director of Operation Contact of the Community Action Program, and two young men from Youth Opportunity School will be the featured speakers April 10 at a Portland League of Women Voters meeting, The meeting will start at 10:30 a,rn. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, N. E. 16th and Hancock. The morning program under the leadership of Mrs, Hardy Myers, Jr,, will cover the Model Cities Program, an updating of civil rights legislation and a summary of the President's Commission on Civil Disorder report. A special briefing for unit reporters will be held at 9:30 a,rn. on the long-standing study items of the Portland League, Mrs, Gerald Cogan will update fluoridation, Mrs. Dale Barker will discuss Home Rule for Washington, D, C,, and Mrs, 0, G, Rogers will speak on the Liberty Amendment. Chairman and moderator of the briefing will be Mrs. Jack O'Halloran. Members of her committee are: Mrs, SheIdon Sp1e1man, Mrs. Susan Fergison, Mrs, William Williams, Mrs. Marvin Hines, Mrs, Brooks Gunsul and Mrs. Lorenz Schultz, City Hull Will Come To People The Portland city admirustration is going to hold a series of neighborhood meetings so citizens can tell their troubles .vithout having to go to City Hall and try to find someone to listen. The meatings will be set up by Russell Peyton, executive director of the Portland Human Relations Commission, at the direction ofMayor Terry Schrunk. Peyton said the basic idea behind the meetings was this: "There ought to be a place where the people can meet with representatives of the executive branch of their government." The first meetings are expected to be held in the city's southeast district, perhaps Brooklyn, where there are many poverty problems. Art Stubbs of the Portland Action Committees Together (PACT) has been asked to arrange the meetings. Peyton said representaLives of the city administration are to be on hand ·to hear the people tell what they want and don't want, then to have a second meeting later at which city representatives would report on what was being done to meet the people's requests. Peyton said he expected the people would talk about such things as police protection, the help from the Sunshine Division, garbage collection, rat control and other problems of dally life. Stubbs said he. thought the mayor and the councilmen ought to attend so the people would know they actuallywere reaching the ears of the people who can do something about the problems. Peyton said he woule1 try to arrange for the City Hall representatives to be someone who can see to it that people charged with providing city services actually do them, Peyton, who has no staff to assist him in setting up the meetings, said the fundamental problem probably was this: "The citizens have lost the abllity to be heard. After a while, they don't even try," The neighborhood meetings, sometimes referred to as "little city halls," are aimed at giving citizens assurance that they can be heard.
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By carrier, 40¢ per month (voluntary) STATEMENT The Oregon Advance/TIMES goes to press weelcly to serve residents of the North-Northeast Central area of Portland with news about the life of our community; information on the opportunities before us; discussion of the social and political issues that confront us. The Oregon Advance/TIMES gives to our community a newspaper which factually reports the news of our area and aggressively seeks the full rights of our citizens. It will provide a forum for community expression and help people become more conscious of their obligations to themselves and their community. In all this, the truth, as we see it, will be consistently presented. Page 2 Vol. 1, No. 10 April 4, 1968 An Ancient Repo,t To our Patrons In presenting our first number to our patrons, we feel all the diffidence of persons entering upon a new and untried line of business. But a moment's reflection upon the noble objects, which we have in view by the publication of this Journal; the expediency of its appearance at this time, when so many schemes are in action concerning our people - encourage us to come boldly before an enlightened public. For we believe that a paper devoted to the dissemination of useful knowledge among our brethren, and to their moral and religious improvement, must meet with the cordial approbation of every friend of humanity. We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has the public been deceived by misrepresentations, in things which concern us dearly, though in the estimation of some mere trifles; for though there are many in society who exercise towards us benevolent feelings; still (with sorrow we confess it) there are others who make it their business to enlarge upon the least trifle, which tends to the discredit of any person of color; and pronounce anathemas and denounce our whole body for the misconduct of this guilty one. We are aware that there are many instances of vice among us, but we avow that it is because no one has taught its subject to be virtuous; many instances of poverty, because no sufficient efforts accommodated to minds contracted by slavery, and deprived of early education have been made to teach them how to husband their hard earnings, and to secure to themselves comfort. We shall also urge upon our brethren, (who are qualified by laws of the different states) the expediency of using their elective franchise; and of making an independent use of the same. We wish them not to become the tools of par:ty. It shall ever be our desire so to conduct the editorial department of our paper as to give offense to none of our patrons; as nothing is farther from us than to make it the advocate of any partial views, either in politics or religion. What few days we can number, have been devoted to the improvement of our brethren; and it is our earnest wish that the remainder may be spent in the same delightful service. The above words may sound like the reaffirming of the editorial policy of the Oregon Advance Times except that they are more colorful. There is a good reason for this since it is the editorial policy of the ' 'Freedom's Journal,' ' the first Negro paper published in the United States. Its first issue was published March 16, 1827, in New York City, 141 years before our publication was on the streets. The publishers were Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm. A Good Suh1idg The Advance Times has received scores of compliments on its appearance and on its content. The encouragement, to a volunteer staff, has been most helpful. After nine weeks of publication there are a lot of people who have a better grasp of what is involved in publishing a newspaper. The Advance Times is a responsible, carefully edited newspaper supervised both as to editorial policy and purpose by a group of Negro men and women whose collective judgment reflects a cross-section of the community's interest. Free expression in "The People Speak" column offers those with something to say, a place to say it. Oddly, we heard someone say, ''Well, it isn't so tough putting out a paper when you have a government subsidy." Where does such wild talk get started? The Advance Times gets its only revenue from adve.rtising and subscriptions. And its only subsidy is the e,1ergy and interest and countless hours invested by its volunteer workers. A pretty good subsidy, we thlnk! The Albina community does not have a single voice. Each person has ideas that are his own and many groups speak only for their members. This new~paper in i~s.editorials says what its editorial board bel 1eves. But ~t 1s only one of the voices of Albina. You, too, have a voice. And you can speak out by writing letters to the editor. Our pages are small and our space is limited. So please speak about things here at home. If we do not have room for all letters those' that are about national and international affair~ will have to be set aside in favor of letters that talk about the special problems and hopes of people here at home. And keep them short. If they run over 250 words, we probably will have to shorten them. WHO UNDERSTANDS? To the Editor: Black Power, what is it and who understands it? The young intelligent Black or Negro is beginning to understand its concept, but he also knows that integrated, educational and green power is better. Black power, like many other terms, has been misused and used to the hilt by a few to get personal gain and attention. Some even brag about their shadybackgrounds to get notice. Let the great Black Power advocate show me how to compute it in a machine and get a job and money out of it which is a feat I would like to see. PROGRESS CAN BE MADE To the Editor: Here is where it could do the trick, have a little money get to every community so they can have a place to work and something to work with. H there · was ever a time when a community needed help, the time is now, and here. Lend a helping hand to the man in charge, team work is needed; so people on the home front can get some help, start at the grass roots, so to speak, if we have 10 problems solve 10 problems. Some years ago you may remember when they talked about the people on the other side of the tracks, good workers lived there too; they could not afford to live on the other side. Here there is much to do and it seems like we are running out of time, There is nothing better than to have everything in good shape all the time. So I believe we should get help and money sometime. Fred Krzmerzick 828 N. E. Emerson Black History Negroes Defend America By . CHARLOTTE RUTHERFORD Last week Alfred Williamson issued a statement as to why he would not be inducted into the armed forces. He stressed the injustices done the black man within his own country and questioned the reasoning which would have these same men fighting for the freedoms of people thousands of miles away when he could not enjoy these same freedoms in his own country. Black men have been defending America and the spirit of democracy since our nation began. The first person to die in t'1e American Revolution in 1770 was a black man named Crispus Attucks. He was an escaped mulatto slave of about 47 when killed, He led a mixed group of Bostonians against the British soldiers and was the first fired upon. He has been hailed a hero for dying for his country. But if Attucks had returned to the plantation in Massachusetts where he had been enslaved no one would have connected his valor with true freedom. Negro soldiers fought throughout the Revolution. Tiiere were Negro minutemen and there were Negro heroes, if you choose to use the term. Negroes were at There has been nothing but a lot of talk by a few about our educational and social ills but none of them have come forward to help with a cure. They will go all over "speaking" about"ourproblem," but to come and stay in the area and really do something is too "strenuous." There was a meeting for an election of new board members for the Albina Citizens War On Poverty board. Our first choice for a site was a local church, but a few loud ·•advocates' • said no one would go, so we tried Knott Street Center and merely a handful showed. CHRISTIAN VIEW Lexington and Concord, The so-called Black Power advocates were nowhere on the scene to have a voice in the neighborhood. Yet, they are the ones yelling about a "hot summer." The caucasian thrives on violence (read his history). To speak to him about your injustice only ma,kes him feel remorse at that particular time. To talk his language (violence), how can you win? The local armory is proported to have your equalizer. You have a better chance now for educational power than ever before. Grab it before it's too late. You long winded speakers, speak about cures and stop talking so much about ills. About brutality, go to Emanuel Hospital and you will find more black people entered through the emergency ward because of black people than the police ever dreamed of doing. You are accusing the wrong faction. When the black man stops stealing, cutting and killing each other, then he will be ready for any kind of power in its finest sense. Sincerely yours, Walter Morris, Jr. 3232 N. Michigan HELP FOR TEENS To the Editor: A group of youth have gotten together an organization for the main purpose of helPing the youth of Albina. We have secured a building for our teen club at 2703 N, Williams. We need your support and help in getting the equipment we need, Sincerely yours, Lesley Dennis, president Konnie Jenkins, secretary Demetrias Browning, treasurer P.S. All donations to the Seven of Diamonds Teen Club can be sent to the director, Nathan J. Proby, 3927 N. Michigan. To the Editor: Many men gained notable What does Black Power recognition, Peter Salem, mean to a Christian Black Salem Poor, Lemuel Hayne:,, person? I am sure that such Primas Black, Prince Hall, a statement will come as a Cuff Hayes, and many others shock to my Black friends, were acknowledged as great Christian and non-Christian. men and soldiers. However, I feel that this subject has to be dealt with sometime. The Christian Black person is supposed to be free of hate and envy toward everyone (this is also true for the Christian white person). He is dedicated to building, not destroying, His outlook is to have faith and trust God to make the future better than the past. His behavior is to be respectful in all manner of conduct. Most of his life is to find its fulfillment in Jesus Christ, not Black Power, Now, this may not strike you as having very much to say about what Black Power means to Black Christians, but I can assure you that it does one thing. It lets the Black Power advocates know what the Black Christian's attitude is. Rozell Gilmore STUDENTS GET VIEW to the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank both you and your staff of the Oregon Advance Times for your participation in a National Honor Society statewide conference held at Portland State College on March 15 and 16. This conference entitled "Disadvantaged People - Challenge to a Nation'' was designed to expose a broad cross section of Oregon high school students to a number of the problems facing economic and/or social dePrivation. The field visit to your office facility as well as other key agencies in Albina helped focus what, for many of these students, was an abstractidea into real terms. With warm regards, Matthew A, Cohen Associate Coordinator Student Personnel Services Portland State College' After much arguing and many debates Washington issued an order in 1775 barring all Negroes, slave and free, from serving the confederacy. The heroes' rewards were being turned out of the service, But under duress Washington had to reverse this decision. Britain had guaranteed freedom to any black man who would fight for them. Many slaves ran away and joined the Eng 1 is h, Washington's troops grew thin and out of necessity he welcomed free black mt,n as soldiers. By the end of the American Revolution some 5,000 black men, both slave and free, had fought for American liberty. These men served as infantrymen, sailors and spies. Even black men came from Haiti to join the American ranks, More than 100,000 Negro slaves received their freedom as a direct result of the war. Some merely left the plantation and never returned while thousands of others left with the British. Some were formally freed by their masters because of their valor in war. A large number of the escaped slaves hid in the swamps and made guerrilla raids on their former masters. These raids continued as late as 1786, Slavery in the north was slowly dying. With the Declaration of Independence and the Rights of Man issue, several slaves were awarded their freedom through legalities as slavery was gradually abolished, The south remained the stronghold of slavery.
April 4, 1968 Oregon Advance/TIMES Page 3 Roving Reporter Hostile Kids Know What They Say About Nothing to LoseI had the pleasure of interviewing Mrs. Jessie Varner who resides at 3016 N.E. 9th. She is the interim director of C-Cap. Mrs. Varner began her career as a volunteer by visiting homes to encourage parents to send their 4-yearolds to C-CAP0 s preschool program. As a staff member in her early career she found some startling information about unwed mothers and homes without proper superv1s1on. I was amazed as she related statistics. Mrs. Varner said, ''When the hostile kids say, 'man I don't got nothing to lose,' they mean just that because they have nothing to lose. They have never seen their parents go to work in the morning nor return in the evening with the feeling of another day's accomplishment. They have never felt love or the desire to be wanted, just another mouth to feed. GET READY for SPRING! 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There is no real supervision in homes. l:ly the time he is in school, he is doing many things only married people are doing. How will the educational system get to a child who has a background like this? You understand he should have been a part of certain things, acquainted with childhood, but he has already experienced most of the harshness of life. There is no excuse for a child not learning the basics of an education. "Traditionally we think of a family, a father, mother and children. We think of food, a comfortable home, and time to enjoy each other. This is ideal but not realistic. If there is a one-parent home it is labeled already. Our society must reshape its images, as to what it must come up with as a pattern, we must fijce the facts. "We must not place our ideals beyond our actual experiences. These are homes that are going to be included in our society. They have much to contribute. They have experiences that must he told; they know we have forgotten about them. They are uncomfortable in every social structure. We must understanJ them when we do, we will not be too quick to criticize. "I return to our fundamental facts every one wants to be recognized as a human being. This is a right we all should have. ·'In order to redeem Stacy-Adams sets the pace ... so do the men who wear them The vamp is genuine lizard from squar ed top to squar ed toe ... . the supporting parts are smooth calf with stretch tops . .. the ~tvle is casually correct for. all his leisure living. Made of the finest materials on the finest lasts in the world. Style 604, brown calf with brown lizard vamp. Style 605, black calf, $ 5() 00 with black lizard \'amp. . . . . . ... . .........•. . .. .. 113 N. RUSSELL ST. at Vancouver Ave. rejected people, we are going to have to give up our customs, traditions and ideals that separate us from our brothers. We are too selfrighteous and in most cases we ar~ losing our own souls. We set our hypocriticalselves on pedestals and will not condescend to help. Our youth today will not buy this. Most adults will get hung up on what they did years ago, and will stand in the way of progress.'' My second interview was with the Rev. Samuel Johnson who has returned from a three weeks' seminar at the Urban Training School in Chicago, Ill. The Rev. Mr. Johnson hopes to motivate the ministers, neighborhood groups, fathers, and men of our area to step out and lead our children instead of letting them commit genocide on the streets of our communities. "From what I have seen and heard in Chicago," he said, ''we are at the cross-roads of our life. "We can unify ourselves and be successful in our fight for freedom or we can be contented and be destroyed by those who do not have. One think we must realize, that is with freedom goes a responsibility for ourselves and our homes and most neglected, our community. There is a cry for unification of the Negro people. "It is important for the pastors to realize it is not enough for them to serve on committees or organizations representing their people, but it is time for f?{ery pastor to involve his membership in the struggle for building a bener community. It is also time for self help more than ever. For in this struggle FOR ONLY REV. SAMUEL JOHNSON for freedom, many federal funds will be cut off and many liberals will withdraw their help. "Therefore, the pastor and churches must begin to prepare themselves so they can pool their resources and use them in their own community.' It is hoped that church groups or non-profit organizations will take advantage of this opportunityto build decent housing in our community and at the same time our people will be making a great start and at the same time remaining control of our properties in this area. "Education is how one ir.ust sustain life," said the Rev. Mr. Johnson. "Negroes must learn how to sustain life in his owu community. 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Page 4 Oregon Advance/TIMES April 4, 1968 Evangelical Association Establishes local Branch A local branch of the National Negro Evangelical Association was established in Albina last Saturday. This organization will work with the churches in Albina to make the Christian life Alameda Theatre 3000 N.E. Alberta 284-9448 •••••••••••• Admission: ••••••••••• Fri. -Sat. 7 p.m. Sat. & Sun. Matinee 12:45 more practical. The Rev, Aaron Hamlin, field worker for the national work stated the need this way: ''The time hs come for the Negro Christian to take a stand and demonstrate to the world that Christianity is a living and dynamic force for good in these days of hate, prejudice and frustration. The Negro Christian must take the leadership position in the area of need. He must be willing to sacrifice for his brother outside.'' Headquarters for the work is located at 3905 N. Vancouver. The Rev. Charles Williams is the local field worker. The executive board consists of Ed Mitchell, Russell Smith, Charles Williams, Rozell Gilmore. Soldier Home Sp/4 Edward D. Lowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Lowe, 7102 N, E. 9th recently returned home from Cu Chi, Vietnam. Edward, a signal specialist. was assigned to Company B 36th Signal Bn. Now on 30-day leave Lowe will be reassigned to the 21st -----------' AG Repl Bn in Germany. Now Free 25c Flower Seeds · ·t·ZrJZ. BLUE"'BELL THREE BAGGER IN EACH BLUE BELL BOX FRIBERG ELECTRIC co. 288-5161 Esquires Give Gala Affair Fine Foods Pin Team Gets 1st Fred's Fine Foods bowling team placed first in the San Antonio Fun Bowling Welika Goodman. The team will leave Friday for San Antonio, Tex., for international competition. Oth~r Portland teams accompanying Fred's are the Lov-Lee Ladies beauty shop and Coast Janitorial, the Esquires presentation of another. gala affair, The Men's Fashion show, held in the Roaring 20' s Room of the Hoyt Hotel, was a smashing success, according to attenders. Frank Rasher, 107year-old senior citizen (and I might add, one of the oldest in Oregon) was accompanied by his daughter, Leona Pierce. Of the show, Mrs. Pierce said, she liked it just fine, and that men's clothes are getting to be as fabulous as women's. Mrs. Pierce also said, "Pop enjoyed the fashions with the tails 'n' hi hats, they reminded him of the old days." It was easy to believe he really did enjoy this show; as he scurried away he quipped, "Shucks I enjoyed it." I think this sums it up for all who came. Seven Weeks Of Scouting by CHARLES CREWS After three weeks of work in professional Scouting, l am amazed at the misconceptions and misconstrued, and misinformed people we have in our area who think they know about Scouting, No, Scouting is not for middle class white folks, for people with a lot of time on their hands, or for just a select group of people in our area, or for PTA's or churches, who are concerned about boys or places to send our boys for an hour or so to get them out of the house. On the contrary, Scouting is to HELP boys find their place in this world. Scouting is to help OUR BOYS. In the next seven weeks you, as parents, will read how this program came into being and what it is trying to do for our boys, Some of you parents will be receptive to these reports; others will not, but I say this: those who don't respond will have no one but themselves to blame. And to those parents that do respond, you will see the fruits of your labours flourish. Your child will become a self-sufficient man. Remember, bring up a child in the way you will have him and he will not go astray. Next week, I will speak on the mechanics of Scouting. The wires taken from fresh vegetables or pipe cleaners may be used to keep bags tightly closed, (Better than rubber bands and easier when storing in freezer.) 0 D lsERVICE n "Food Stamps Accepted" League. Team members are Jackie McClain, captain; Leola Harris, Mary Ann Jackson and Fashion Household Distributors 70 N.E. Broadway lil ..ff.ARBOR Furnace Oil Gasoline Discount 282-2517 They're Bigger and Better at the Bun-' n-Burger Delicious Hamburgers 25c Sizzling Fries - Cool Mal•s 230 North Killingsworth 1' Grenfell's F d M I M [ MBfR ~~ N.E. UNI~~"' l l :-\ } Weekdays 9 A.M. to 6:30 P.M. Sun. UNITED GROCERS. INC Your Friendly Corner Grocer
Apr II 4, 1968 Oregon Advance/TIMES Page 5 Team Uniform Object ol Show Little League Christian Center Young People Support Orphan Programs ADC Mothers Dinner Easter is the focus of a benefit Talent and Fashion Show to be held Sunday, April 7 at the Cotton Club. The girls (from 5 to 13) at the Mallory Avenue Baptist Church. In her project to uniform the team, she has received the cooperation of John Knauls, Cotton Club owner, Arlene Henderson from Hattie Porter's Beauty Salon, Lavetta Whitt, a cosmetologist, and the mothers of the drill team members. However, the critical support will be the community"s. purpose is to raise enough money to outfit a community drill team with uniforms in time to enter the Rose Festival Parade or Junior Parade. Members of the team will provide both the modeling and talent, under the supervision of team director and show coordinator-com men ta tor Darlene Easley. Everyone is encouraged to support the team and enjoy the fashion show for the donation of $1. Mrs. Easley, a professional model and a graduate of Bassist's, has been coaching the 40-member team of r----------------...... \ I Miss Batiste Has Lead ! PORT CITY i I i ; INCOME TAX SERVICE i ~ I Miss A 11 is on Batiste, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Batiste, danced the lead in the Portland Public Parks Bureau's an nu a 1 spring pageant, "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp," March 29 and 30 at the Oriental Theater. Her role marked the first time in recent years that the lead in a pageant has been played by a member of a minority group. I 288-2475 · 1 \ i I 2843 N.E. UNION i I \ ~--------------..J ' In an era of mass production and mass marketing and when many companies are more conscious of sales volume than the individual product, Pendleton continues to maintain the quality that has been traditional in all Pendleton products • • • four generations of tradition. For quite some time, Pendleton has been a respected name in quality woolens to consumers throughout America. To maintain this reputation, we choose only select Northwest wool and process it in our mills and garment factories. When the Pendleton label is finally sewn on the finished garment, it represents our guarantee of lasting satisfaction. In styling, color, fabric textures and coordination, Pendleton is as current and "modern" as today; but in offering honest value we are still true to the pioneer heritage on which the company was founded. For we believe that Pendleton is more than quality woolens, it is a Western way of life. Pendleton Woolen Mills ,_, Sportswur by the Wool People .., EVERS & Sons CONTRACTORS • NEW BUILDING REMODELING • • • .. CONCRETE ASPHALT EXCAVATING PHONE 282-6188 PORTLAND, OREGON Tryouts Held Tryouts for the Sportsman's Little League got und'!r way Saturday. Samuel Jackson league president, said he.expects to have at least 10 teams this season. There were approxir:1.ately 150 boys at Saturday's tryouts. These boys range in age from 9 to twelve years. Jackson said he wanted to have the 8-year-olds involved but couldn't because of lack of money but he is hoping for better financial support next year. Jackson said the games will be played in Farragut Park. Jackson is looking for support in other areas. He needs seven more sponsors who could be business agencies or private citizens. He also needs contributions and if you can spare a dollar send it to him. Lastly he would like parents to visit the games and support the youth. To contact Jackson his residence is 4805 N. Commercial Ave., phone 281-8598. The board of directors for The Community Christian Center young people support a Korean orphan. At Christmi.r they sent him a gift, and they write him from time to tme. They hope to bring him to America for schooling when he gets older. They also pay to beam Christian radio programs in<.o hard-to-reac~ villages in ,\frica. They arl.? planning to contribPt:e to help beam Christian radio programs behind the bamboo curtain. They have also ._ontributed money for a wdl to be drilled at Brainerd Indian School and have sent used clothes there. During vacation times, Christmas, spring, and summer they hold half nights of prayer. The high school and junior high school teams won trophies in the Golden Ball League. The high school team won two trophies. the Sportsman Little League The tiny tots' Easter proInc. are all Albina residents gram will be held Saturday whose main interest is to help evening, April 13. at 7:00 the youth of the area. p.m. Grant High P.T.A. Plans Rummage Sale This Week The Grant High School F'f A rummage sale will have many "goodies·' for sale April 5 and 6. Toys, lamps, bicycles, dishes, baby items, buttons, holiday decorations, books, chairs, typewriter, pictures, electrical appliances, shoes, radios, hats, linens, and clothes, clothes, clothes. Buy your new spring outfit or clothes for the entire year for all members ofthe family. Look in the "Treasure Shop" for antiques, silver, old picture frames, cut glass, jewelry and white elephants. Writing Class Opens April 3 Join now if you are interested in creativewriting. Classes will be offered every Wesnesday beginning April 3 at the North Branch YMCA for 10 successive weeks . Mrs. Kay Snow, the founder and former president of the V.. illamette Writers Association, is the instructor. Mrs. Snow is a graduate of San Jose State College, where she majored in English and creative writing. She ha& written several radio series for KNBC in San Francisco, articles for avarietyofmagazines including the Ladies Home Journal, Nature Magazine and others. Her specialty is in children articles and stories. Remember the classes begin April 3 at the North Branch YM( ·A. For class please call Psychic Reader Gives complete life reading had devoted her life to help humanity. She has God given Power to lift all problems, she will tell you why you have failed in life. marriage or business a:,d help you overcome it. She can tell you of changes you should or should not make. In fact she has successfully helped others where many others have failed. Bring your problems to me, I will help you solve them. Satisfaction Assured Mrs. Aldridge 7182 Martin Way Olympia, Wash. * 357- 8771 The snack bar will be open the entire shopping day. Relax with a hot cup of coffee or a cool soft drink between shopping sprees. The time, Friday, April 5, 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 6, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Just one and a half blocks north of Sandy, 1937 N.E. 42nd Ave., in the Hollywood area, serviced by the Sandy, Beaumont or Thirty-Ninth Street busses. Good parking space for cars. New Brownie Troop A new Brownie troop has been registered at Vernon School. Troop No. 264 will be led by Mrs. Samuel Swofford and Mrs. Barbara Smith. 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Page 6 Oregon Advance/TIMES April 4, 1968 A Matter of Opinion: Names, Freedom and Other Topics by CHARLES DEEMER receive. But many make the It is ironic that at a time mistake of equating the dollar when many Americans are alone with freedom, as if to prohibited from enjoying the be free were no more than full benefits of their citizen- to be an unrestricted conship, other Americans volun- sumer. The example of the tarily are disowning the ad- Flower Children and of anyvantages they have by birth- one who voluntarily gives up right. By "dropping out," the advantages associated for example, a Flower Child with "middle-class" life, gives up the very economic suggests that the dollar is no security and opporturtity that lasting panacea to our ills. many a black man strives Most Flower Children do for. The irony renews a not come from the ghetto but complex but necessary ques- from families and traditions tion: Freedom for what? that in earlier years would Let no one deny that proper have inspired their entrance housing, food, clothing, em- into well paying jobs and three ployment, education and op- bedroom homes. Yet they portunity are the prereq- choose to abandon these opuisites to a full enjoyment of portunities, the very ones the rights all persons must many black men strive to atNEED A JOB? Need a Job or a change of Jobs? Attend the Job Search Class any Thursday nite at 7:30 at Albina Neighborhood Service Center, 59 N. E. Stanton - free. We won't find a job for you, "but we wi II show you how to find one. Sponsored by the Oregon Bureau of Labor Remember By Law You Have To Keep Records . ... Harvey L. 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Only one answer, however, is relevant to the important question raised by the exodus of many youth from the mainstream of society: Freedom for what? In a sense it is ·a deceptively simple answer and no answer at all: Flower Children desert their "middle-class" opportunities because THEY CHOOSE TO. And this, I suggest, is something any man should be permitted to do, for choice is the essence of freedom. The example of the Flower Children does more than illustrate the nature of freedom: It reveals that many people choose to abandon the normal "middle-class" style of life for an alternative style. And here lies the importance of the question, "Freedom for what?" Too often the realities of our social climate, as controlled by the power structure, pervert "freedom to choose" into a pre-defined "freedom to become middleclass." "Middle-class" admittedly is a fuzzy term, but it does have a cultural range of import: ''being middleclass" often means to have the values of life-style of a white-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant. This is precisely the objection Stokely Carmichael and others make to "integration." Integration in the past has meant "becomingmiddleclass" or, as Carmichael has put it, "becoming white." It is no accident that a neighborhood becomes officially "integrated" only when black people move into a white area, and not vice-versa. Thus, to get a decent home, a black man often has to move into a white neighborhood. Such a move has significant cultural consequences: sometimes it means being around people who prefer Lawrence Welk to 8,8, King. THAT CHOICE, l submit, should not have to be made by a man who merely wants a decP.nt house! Freedom for what? Only one freedom counts, the free - dom to choose to live as one prefers. In the house of free - dom, all doors must be open. Indeed, a black man may prefer the white "middle-class" style of life, but if one does Words to Live By Things pec1iliar to white America: 1. Apple pie 2. Lynchings 3. Motherhood 4. Slavery 5. The Flag 6. Church bombings 7. Baseball 8. Ku Klux Klan 9. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness 10. Negroes Real Estate - Insurance Where one stop will fill most all of your insurance needs. From Home-owners, Auto, Marine to Bonds etc; Financing available on all Insurance Plans. 4944 N. Williams 288-6359 Authorized Agents ii·---. Rep. Hartford Insurance Co. and many others not, there is no reason this choice must bring with it a denial of the rights of citizenship. A change of culture should not be prerequisite to an enjoyment of these rights. Yet often it is so, and this is a subtle prejudice that weakens the foundation of "the possibility of America" Why Negro? by CHARLOTTE RUTHERFORD Semantics is defined as the argument over the meaning of words or terms. Many Negroes are finding it difficult to accept the terms black or Afro.-American. The whole argument against the term Negro stems from the fact that the race Negro does not exist. No other language has a comparable word. People of color are merely called black or brown with no malintent. The word Negro came from megro in Spanish, meaning black. If we are to be called Negro, conversely white folks should be called blanco, i.e., Spanish for white. The term Negro designates no geographical origin. There are specifically designated Caucasoid and Mongoloid regions of origin but no Negroid area. Therefore, Africa was the beginnings of our heritage so the term Afro-American should not be distasteful to Negroes. By using the term AfroAmerican you acknowledge a geographical origin. LatinAmerican, Gerrpan-Ameri cans, Italian-Americans, etc., etc., have existed without argument or shame for years. The Negro is the only ethnic group which has allowed and even sanctioned the elimination of his origin. He has allowed himself to be called by a nonexistent name. Even Webster had trouble trying to define the word. If you notice, a great many "Negroes" do not fit the specified characteristics. But the die-hardf that feel degraded when, being referred to as black ("My skin is not black I") will die Negroes at heart, refusing to admit that in actuality they do not exist. The ' hope lies with the young people who are not ashamed of the basic color of black. Black is a unifying word. lt encompasses all people of color being used as the base of all variations. As long as Negroes exist as a frame of mind the idea of a united colored peoples will be difficult. But once the Negro admits his background as Afro-American and his color as black, the greatest obstacle we have to overcome within the movement will be solved: The emergence of racial pride, nationalism. 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