The Oregon ADVANCE PORTLAND,OREGON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1968 Model Cities Plan to Affeel ·38,000 Community Newspaper Makes Bow This is the first issue of The Oregon Advance Times, a weekly newspaperowned and written in Albina by Albina residents. Its purpose is to report the news of the black community: to tell what the people are doing, what their problems are and their hopes and what can be done about them. It will report news of clubs and churches and schools as well as tell about activities of community improvement groups. It will report what is going on in stores and industries that might mean jobs for Albina residents. It will report weddings and deaths andother happenings that affect the lives of the people ofthe community. I t This Year Is For Plans And People Have Right To Say What They Want It was announced last November that Portland was one of 63 cities in the United States to receive money to plan a Model City. Portland has proposed that Albina be the core of its Model City area and this was accepted by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. However, the federal agency (HUD) said there would have to be more meaningful participation by the residents and it said boundaries should be changed to take in only 38,000 residents instead of 41,000 planned in the application. HUD then gave Portland $143,000 to prepare its plans. This was less than half the amount Portland had requested. What has happened since then? What is being planned? What has the community said? These questions are answered below in separate columns. The one on the right outlines what has been going on; the one on the left explains what the Model ~ities program is not. WILL THE MODEL CITIES PROGRAM SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS? THE PROGRAM STARTS WITH APPOINTMENT OF A DIRECTOR. It will tell the city administration why it should think about Albina and its problems. And it will report what 1the city officials have to say. The Advance Times also will talk to landlords of decayed property and ask what they plan to do about the buildings. It will tell the people what they say. These are the tvp µeoplc m the Model Cities proyram. Seated at left is Paul ~chuize, the director, and next to him is Ellis H. Casson, deputy director. Standing at left Is Mrs. Hazel G. Hays, administrative assistant, and at right is Richard McDevitt, part-time in researcho - Photo Courtesy Oregon Journot Of course not. But it can help. Model Cities is a kind of experiment. The federal government will give cities money to try new solutions on old problems. For years the cities have been crying: "If we only had enough money, we could solve unemployment, poor housing and education, crime in the streets and all the rest!'' On Dec. 20, the Rev. Paul J. Schulze, director of the Church - Community Action Pre.gram for the Portland Council of Churches, was appointed by th~ rnay<)r.::s o!f:.£'.! - and the City Council to coordinate the Model Cities plan. The appointment met with the disapproval of some people who felt "a black man should have been named to the job." It will encot: rage all the residents of Albina to make the district a more pleasant place in which to live. - Chance Opens for Negroes To Get Fire or Police Jobs Most of all, it hopes to tell the people just what is going on in their community and encourage them to take part in activities, whether dealing with business, schools, clubs or churches. The Advance Times was started because several people who had been thinking about what a really good newspaper could do for the community, got together and Do you want to be a fireman? Or a policeman? There aren't many Negroes in those jobs in Portland but a committee headed by Chalmers Jones is working to open the doors for more of them. Jones is director of the State Employment Service in North Portland. He was named recently by Acting Mayor Stanley W. Earl to be chairman of a committee to help Negroes qualify for those jobs. started talking about it. A planning committee got In early October a meeting together and decided that one was held in the home of the of the reasons many men are Rev. Samuel Johnson, a disqualified is because they (Cont. on Page 3, Col. 1) have had some minor police record in childhood. Then Men in Military Can Get Free Copies Is your brother, husband, father in military service? He'd like to know what's happening at home while he is gone. The Advance Times wants him to have a free subscription so he can keep up with the news. Send us a postcard or letter giving his name and mail address. We'll do the rest. You can either mail it to the Advance Times at 714-1/2 N.E. Alberta, or stop by and leave it. And when you do, why not give us a little news about him: Has he been promoted recently? Written you about some battle he has been in? Sent you a picture of himself and his buddies? We'd like to print it so his friends here at home can keep track of him, -too. when they become adults it is held against them. If a teenage boy stayed out after curfew and was picked up or shoplifting a pack of bubble gum and was taken to the police station, this went down on his record and he was likely to be disqualified for city jobs when he became an adult. The committee thought this was not fair and it told the City that juvenile offenses and misdemeanors should not be the deciding factor in qualifying an adult for police or fire department examinations. The city administration committee agreed with this. Jones' committee also suggested that Negroes who want to apply for places in the fire or police departments should have a chance to prepare for the examinations - should get instruction on how to fill out the application forms and get advice on how to prepare for the examinations. 'Ibe city administration committee agreed to this, also. There is a tremendous need for Albina community men to serve in the fire and police departments. The record shows that there is not a single black city fireman out of the 600 serving the city. There are only 8 Negroes on a police force of 700. The city's excuse has been that "Negroes just don't apply." There is no need for this. You can apply if you will have passed your 21st birthday by March 1, 1968, and if you are not over 26 years of age. (If you are a veteran of military service the top age limit is 31.) You must be at least 5 feet 7 inches tall and have graduated from high school or have completed the GED test. The examination will be held March 16. If you are interested in applying for a job with either the police or fire departments, call the Albina Employment Office at 288-6967 or visit it at 3620 N. Vancouver. Members of the committee who worked with Jones in considering how best to open the doors to community men were Rozell Gilmore, director of the Albina Neighborhood Service Center; Tom Wilson, job placement director at the center; James Brooks, Urgan League; Samuel Johnson, C-CAP; Calvin Tro ain, Youth Opportunity Center; and Sam Redditt, Albina Neighborhood Improvement Project. Now Portland has a chance Program Changes Told to Council to get the money. It won't The Portland City Council be enough money, but it's was told this week that an better than none at all. Albina citizens' group wants the Model Cities program changed in this way: A governing board would be in charge. The director would work under the board and not under the City Council. The board would be made up onethird of members appointed by the city and two-thirds chosen from the Model Cities area. Larry Lakey and Al Batiste presented the plan to the council. Paul Schulze, director of the Model Cities, said he agreed with the over-all idea that when he makes his recommendations to the city in mid-February they will include most of the things proposed by Lakey and Batiste. Lakey told the council: "This is an opportunity for the residents of Albina to become operators, not just cooperators.·' Now it is up to city government and the people to put that federal money to work in the best possible way. Portland has just eight months to develop a plan for the first action year (1969) of a five-year Model Cities program. If the federal government likes the plan and thinks Portland has the talent and energy to make it work, we'll get action funds for 1969. IS THIS JUST ANOTHER URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAM? If you mean, "ls this going to be like the downtown urban renewal project?" the answer is no. Whenever the Portland Development Commission is mentioned, people immedi- (Cc:>nt. on Page IO, Col. 1) No Kidding! All those who objected stressed· that they thought highly of Schulze personally but that he could not "speak for the black community." Schulze agreed with their point, stating that he did not speak for anyparticulargroup but he was committed to full citizen participation in Model Cities planning. A resident meeting, headed by the Rev. Larry Lakey, met Dec. 29 and agreed to ask Acting Mayor Francis lvancie to remove Schulze from the post. They asked that the entire program be turned over to a citizens' governing board. Ivancie later said Schulze would not be removed but promised full ~onsideration to residents' proposal on citizen participation. On Jan. 4, a temporary committee of 22memberswas (Cont. on Page IO, Col. 3) Watch for an announcement that will be made by Commissioner Frances Ivancie during the week of Feb. 5 or Feb, 12. The announcement will give the date that Ivancie will present to the Portland City Council the revised proposal on Portland's model city program. This will include the model city boundary changes and the role to be played by citizen participation. They Want to Go to School Ivancie is in Washington, D. C., this week and could not be reached before this paper went to press to determine the exact date. It is understood, however, that his office will present the revised proposal to the City Council by Feb. 13. Who would expect to see children clamoring at the school door to get in on a Saturday morning? It happens every Saturday at Boise school from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The children are third and fourth graders who are meeting their tutors from Lake Oswego High School. On Saturday, Jan. 20, there were 23 youngsters and just as many tutors, all volunteers, enthusiastic and anxious to begin their morning. Since !1'.etting acquainted when the program started in December, the tutor-pupil pairs have found mutual interests. They work on plans they make themselves. Activities include games, reading, arithmetic, listening to story records plus some time in the gymnasium. The library is kept open with an aide to help with books, filmstrips and records. Each week the children and their tutors plan for the next Saturday's activities. At Christmas they enjoyed a party together. After the children leave at 11:30, tutors meet with a teacher - supervisor to help evaluate and share suggestions.
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These are i~s members: Rozell Gilmore is the executive director of the Albina Neighborhood Service Center. He prev~ously was the director of job counseling and placement at the center. Gilmore is the pastor of the Berean Baptist Church. He is a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeoSamuel Johnson is a youth counselor and co-ordinator for the work program at C-CAP's Operation Contact. He worked formerly for the Urban League and the u. S. Post Office• dent of Portland since 195?.. He is the treasurer of St. Philips Episcopal Church and a member of the Bishop's committee. He was an original member of the Albina Citizens' War on Poverty Committee. He is presently a member of the Challengers' Bridge Club, the Urban League, National Association of Colored People, and the 1'.ational Association of Accountants. Mailing Address . • .••....•...•.... Post Office Box l I274 Subscriptions: By mail, $4.50 semi-annually, in advance. By carrier, 40¢ per month (voluntary) Newstand, single copy, 10¢ STATEMENT Portland, Ore. 97211 pie and is presently serving on the credit committee for the NAACP Credit Union. He is chairman of the board of directors of the Christian He was an original member of the Albina Citizens' War on Poverty Committee and now serves on the executive board of this committee. He is an executive boardmember of the Portland Education Program, is chairman of the advisory board of the Highland Education Program and was the former president of the Mailhandlers' Union, Local No. 87. He served ten and one-half years in the u. s. Army and was stationed in Japan, Germany and Korea. He and his wife, Vessie, have two children and six grandchildren. Emile Summers is a member of the executive committee of the Albin/I Citizens War on Poverty and holds the post of second vice chairman for that group. He is an alternate member of the Portland Metropolitan Steering Committee, and the present president of the North Portland Democratic Forum. He is a member of the NaThe Oregon Advance/TIMES goes to press weekly 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. 1 February 1, 1968 Model Cifg: A 8/uep,inf The federal government announced Nov. 16 that Portland would receive $143,000 to plan a model city. The first enthusiasm ended quickly as people began to fear houses would be torn down, people be uprooted, boundaries be changed and - most of all - that the white power structure of City Hall had made its takeover in filling jobs. Much early oppositiondeveloped because too many people didn't really know what the Model City was. _ __ First, it was not a poverty program; the money came from Housing and Urban development, not from the War on Poverty funds. Second, it was not an Albina-only program and never was planned to be. Third, it was planned to serve all the people, both white and black, within the boundaries. Ellis Casson, deputy coordinator for the program, described it recently at a meeting of the Albina Neighborhood Council as being like a family planning to build a house. The family calls in an architect and tells him to plan the kind of house the family wants. The family decides the size, the number of rooms, the number of closets. It tells the architect and he draws the plans to fit what they want. The architect and the family meet frequently, talk things over, and make changes needed to fit their budget, city fire laws and all the rest. Paul Schulze was named coordinator of the plan; he is the architect. The people 6f Albina - and the other areas to the north and · east that are inside the boundaries, - correspond to the family building the house. They have a lot of talking to do to come up with a plan that comes closest to meeting the wishes of all the people. There have been bitter protests from Albina that the people did not have a choice in picking the Model City coordinator. They felt they were like a family forced to take an architect someone else chose. They did not have That is true; but few a choice. object to Paul Schulze himself. jection is to the selection. Most obmethod of Like it or not, the fact is that Paul Schulze is the coordinator. He has picked an excellent assistant in Ellis Casson. He has picked other good assistants from people within the Albina community where Schulze lives and where he has worked for a long time. There will be no bulldozers this year. This time is only for planning. If the plan looks good, the federal government will provide money to carry it out. If the plan does not look good, the plan will be discarded, there will be no money and the Model City will be only a blueprint. What this community needs now is for the people - all of them - to get together and work with the Model City staff so that when the final plan is done, the people's ideas will be in it. Good ideas will bring good planning. Get your ideas into it. Let's get to steppin' and the Model City can be for real. Few Neg,o Hippie1 There are few Negro hippies, a Reed College professor, Mason Drukman, told the Portland City Club recently. He said this is the reason: Negro youths have given up all hope of coming to terms with white society; they look forward to guerrilla warfare in our cities. This is cause for great worry both in white and black communities. But we see no indication that white society is going to do anything about it. It can' t even cope with its own young people. So if there is going to be a solution to the problem of angry, restless, frustrated Negro youths, the black community is going to have to find it through building an image of a proud, vigorous black people who hold their heads high. But getting young people to identify with this kind of a proud, effective, friendly black community is going to take time and work. Each family had better get started. Day Nursery. Gilmore served for four years in the U. s. Air Force. He received his B. A. degree from Cascade College. He and his wife, Beatrice, are parents of four children. Hazel G. Hays is administrative assistant in the Model Cities Program. She is on loan from the Portland Development Commission as a neighborhood advisor. Before coming to Portland, she was a staff member of the Urban League and the American Friends Service Committee in Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Hays is the present first vice-president of the Portland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and is chairman ofthe NAACP Labor and Industries Committee. She serves as the recording secretary for the executive board of the Albina Citizens' War on Poverty Committee, is chairman of the Kaiser Advisory Committee for the Comprehensive Health Services Program and is on the Community Relations committee for the American Friends Service Committee. She is a member of the Portland Metropolitan Steering Committee. Mrs. Hays is the wife of Chauncey O. Hays and mother of three daughters. Rufus Butler was originally from Arkansas. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. His graduate work was done at the University of Arkansas and at Washington State. He is a psychologist by profession. For the past three years, Butler has served as the managing director of the Albina Art Center. 0 Johnson is a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League and the Albina Art Center. He is married and the father of three children. Mrs. Curtis Stiggers was formerly employed by Tektronix as an Inspector and by Lipman-Wolfe and Company as a Credit Analyst. She is presently a housewife and extremely active doing volunteer work for the community. tional Association Advancement of People. for the Colored Summers is married and is the father of two children and the grandfather of seven children. Kay Jernigan is the direcMrs. Stiggers is the tor of special services for the Columbia River Girl Scout Council, She was previously employed by Multnomah County Public Welfare as a caseworker. Director of the Highland Education Program and is the Director of the Women's Aid Society for C-CAP Youth. She serves as the Sunday School Superintendent and ChoirDirector at St. Peter' s Community Church and is a Licensed Missionary for that church. She is the wife of Curtis F, Stiggers and is the mother of four children. Alan z. Bowens is the secretary-treasurer of Coast Janitorial Service, Inc., which operates the Coast Janitorial Service and the Eastside Bookkeeping Service. He was originally from Wilson, Ark., and attended Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock, Ark., Multnomah College and Portland State College. Mrs. Jernigan graduated from Washington High School in Portland and obtained her degree from the University of Portland, where she majored in sociology. She and her husband, Roy Jernigan, are the parents of a two-year-old daughter, Stacey. \ Staff for This Issue This issue of the Oregon Advance/TIMES was written and edited by the following: Dan Hayes, Larry Lakey, Evelyn Crews, Beverly Nicholson, Jackie McKenzie, Ben Bowens served three years Clark, Geneva Jones, Linda in the U. s. Air Force, two Woods, Fredrick Beasley, years of which he served as Benita Duke, Thomas Haya court reporter in Anchor- den, Mike Stockman, Colden age, Alaska. He worked for Brown, William Hilliard, 12 years for the State of Charlotte Rutherford, Jane Oregon and was a staff ac- Van Cleve, Samuel Johnson, countant for the state for Betty Payne, Dick Floyd, six years. Gordon Macnab and Duane Bowens has been a resi- Youngbar. OF"f°ICE OF THE GOVERNOR STATE CAF'>ITOL. SAL.EM 97310 January 19, 1968 •'ir .. {OZPll ... 1ilrr,0rP. Chairman of the Board Tne Oregon rtdvance Times 2746 ~- t. Union Avenue ?ortland, Oregon Jcar i<..ozei.l: n S a for:-1e.::::r 11e·11s:r1an, I a:n interested in any Jcvelopm8nt in tne media field, es£?eciall~, in Ort=gon. Thus it was witn ~leasure that I notea the launching of a new weekly ncwspa~er to serve residents of a sizea0le section of Portland. Tne mission of sue~ a ~uJlication is significant--and I ~o~e the writers covar events impartially and accuratelJ, backed by penetrating editorials, so ti1at the influence of this fledgling will grow each successive weeK. I \vish tfic Oregon Acivanc2 Times success in every way. Sincer el y , IrrrlA Governor 'l'i'-t : W
Newspaper Makes Bow (Continued from Page l) worker intheC-CAP(Church- When the community beCommunity Action) program, comes familiar with the newsThose present, in addition to paper, a small charge will the Rev_. Mr. Johnson, were be made so the carrier boys Rozell Gilmore, executive can be paid. Until then, they director of the Neighborhood too, are volunteer workers. Service Center, Albina'sprin- While this planning was cipal agency in the War on going on, a group of young Poverty; Mrs. Hazel Hays, men and women began regular Mrs. Curtis Stiggers; and the evening meetings to plan how Rev. Paul Schulze. to get the news of the AlAll of these live in Albina bina community and how to and all except the Rev. Mr. write it and get it put into Schulze are Negroes. type, They asked two outsiders Richard Floyd of The Oreto attend: Mrs. Averill Geus, gonian and Duane Youngbar of who worked with the summer the Oregon Journal joined crash program at the Albina Gordon Macnab of the AsNeighborhood Service Center sooiated Press in making this past summer and Gordon themselves available for adMacnab of the Associated vice when the staff wanted it. Press who would be able to Mike Stockman of the C-CAP help with technical problems. Opportunity School staff volAt their meetingthey agreed unteered to help with the that an Albina weekly news- photography. paper was possible. Th~yde- The early work of the staff cided that with the help of was directed by Larry Lakey more members of the com- as acting editor. When he munity they could form an found other interests preeditorial board to plan iL At vented spending the great a later meeting, Emile Sum- amount of time needed, he mers, interim director of the resigned from the position Albina Neighborhood Service and Dan Hays was appointed Center, accepted an invitation to take over as editor, with to join the board, as did Rufus Lakey as assistant editor. Butler, Alan Z. Bowens and I-le has as his staff a group Mrs. Kay Jernigan. Rozell of Negro volunteers who are Gilmore was elected chair- residents of the Albina ares. man. The Rev. Mr. Schulze It is this staff that put toresigned from the Boardwhen gether the first issue. he was named coordinator of the Model City program. Advice and help in getting the paper underway has been given by Karl Lind ofCascade Publishing Company on Northeast Union Avenue. He also advised on distribution and as a result, every family in a broad Albina area will receive the early issues of The Advance Times without charge. It took 5,000 years to progress from the sail to steam; 130 years from steam to gas, electricity, etc.; 40 years from gas, electricity, etc•• to the atomic age; 12 years from the atomic age to the space age. Note that the time span decreases as progress increases. did you know? by S8llluel Johnson That three states, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana - had impressive rosters of black officials in the highest offices. The following list, by no means complete, suggests thevariety and scope of black officialdom in these states, in past history. South Carolina: Francis L. Cardozo, Secretary of State (1868-1872); Treasurer (1872-1876) Samuel J. Lee, Speaker of the House (1872-1874). J. J. Wright, Justice, Supreme Court (1870-1877). Mississippi: James Hill, Secretary of State. John R. Lynch, Speaker of the House. T. W. Cardozo, Superintendent of Education. Rev. J. J. Evans, County Sheriff. Louisiana: Oscar J. Dunn, LieutenantGovernor. P. G. Deslonde, Secretary of State. Antoine Dubuelet, State Treasurer. W. G, Brown, Superintendent of Public Education. (Historical Facts About Negroes) Mathew Alexander Henson was the first man to set foot on top of the world (the North Pole.) Dr. Daniel Hole Williams performed the first successful heart operation. The earliest recorded invention created by a Negro was a seed planter patented October 14, 1834. One of the two partners in the great chain of Sears and Roebuck Stores was a Negro. February 1, 1968 Oregon Advance/TIMES Page 3 Gov, Tom McCall, center, meets with group to talk about employment problems and aPpointment of Tico Walton as assistant to Marko Haggard, the governor's top man on the War on Poverty. Pictured here in the governor's office are, from left, John Dozier, Samuel Johnson, the governor, Walton and Haggard. Dan Hayes, Editor, Is Federal Illustrator Dan Hayes, editor of The Advance Times, is an illustrator for the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife. He also has been editor for the past three years of the Portland Department of the Interior's weekly newspaper. He thus comes to The Advance Times with experience in newspaper editing and with the skills of an artist in making it attractive. Hayes is 35 years old, a native of Fresno, Calif., who attended classes in the art museums of Fresno, San Francisco and Portland and graduated from the Advertising Arts School in Portland. He lives in Albina with his wife and their five sons. He has been active in the Portland Jaycees, the Boy Scouts, and the Bonneville Power Adm in! str at ion's Toastmasters Club. Visit H.R. High Members of the C-CAP Opportunity School recently paid an exchange visit to the students of Hood River High School who had previously visited them here. This is the way one C-CAP student viewed the trip. Auditorium Rental Fee Set at Center The Albina Child Development Center Advisory Board decided at a Jan. 22 meeting that the auditorium at the center, 58 N.E. Morris St., will be available for community use. Any OEO-related projector group can use the auditorium for $2.50 an hour. An informal or neighborhood group can use the room for $3.34 an hour and an outside group will be_ charged $5.00 anhour. All requests for use of the building and auditorium should be directed to Sam Granate, program director. WELCOME TO PORTLAND'S NEWEST NEWSPAPER... THE OREGON ADVANCE/TIMES . t
Page 4 Oregon Advance/TIMES February 1, 1968 Land of the Free Textbook Tells of Negro Contributions by Elizabeth J. Ingersoll A comparison of the textbook "Land of the FreeA History of the United States (Benziger Brother, Inc., New York, 1966) with similar social studies textbooks shows that this book does integrate our American minorities into the "stream of liberty." Without undue emphasis, and with appropriateness, we find for the first time in a text book the shame we as a nation should have for intolerance, bigotry and slavery, as well as contributions made by some of our minorities. The book is being used in several Portland elementary schools in seventh and eighth grade history studies. Page three of this book acknowledges that American practice has not always measured up to the ideal of government by pe0ple ••• Indians were treated as though they were children and were not allowed to vote; no Negro slave ever voted, and more than 100 years after the end of slavery, many Negroes were barred and discouraged from voting. "Relatively few women or Indians or Negroes have been elected to office and other groups have had little representation • . • " In many ways the nation still had unfinished business towards becoming the ideal, and we are still in a stream of liberty which is one of the underlying themes of this text book. "Land of the Free" notes as early as 1800 free Negroes in Philadelphia petitioned that Congress end the slave trade. Whereas, other similar books rarely, if ever, mentioned the fact that not all slaves were docile or pathetic, this book does, and even "some slaves were so desperate that they cut off their own hands or committed suicide." For the first time students using this book become aware that Abraham Lincoln's original amendment would have produced a gradual phase-out of slavery in the 1870's, and various compromises were effected. Also they learn about the growth of Jim Crow and the Black Codes. What is there about this book which has aroused so much controversy? Is it because such radicals as W. E. B. DuBois, Eugene, Debs, Sacco and Vanzetti are mentioned? Is it that the section on the growth ofour cities includes slums and tenements, child labor abuses, poverty in the midst of plenty or our American history of intolerance and pr ej u dice towards minorities, and her treatment of the Indians? Or is it because our past foreign policy of isolation, the Monroe Doctrine, Open Door and Intervention have at times been of shameful rather than a prideful nature? American evils are not ignored in this book, but anyone can see that our reform measures through the years have been admirable-shame and pride, both of which flow in the stream of liberty towards the Land of the Free. "Land of the Free" is written by John W. Caughey, John Hope Franklin and Ernest R. May. Remember when civilization used to stand at the crossroads and wonder which way to turn? These days it has to find the right cloverleaf at 60 miles an hour. Congratulations to the Oregon Advance/TIMES BURNER REPAIRS STAMPED METERED DELIVERY 281-1161 3246 N.E. BROADWAY PROMPT SERVICE Herbert Amerson Is the man of the Opportunity Line. That Is a special service program seen on KOIN-TV, Channel 6 each Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. It is to provide information on jobs and job training In the community. Medics Decide Which Patient Treated First During the heat of the summer, Emanuel Hospital, situated in the heart of the Albina area came under sharp criticism from some area residents. The main complaints were lodged against the Emergency Room and School of Nursing. Robert Steed, personnel manager at Emanuel, said that the emergency room is operating on a completely unbiased basis. He said patients are waited on in order of severity of the injury or illness. Black patients lodged the complaint that they were forced to wait while white patients were being taken before them. This same com- ~ ·~· t. .• - r- • plaint has come from white patients who have had to wait while black ones were admitted. Emanuel has three fulltime practicing physicians who decide which cases should take priority. Objections to a questionnaire given before patients are admitted were also voiced. The Questionnaire is to provide the doctors with as much medical history about the patient as possible and to provide the hospital with the neeessary information concerning payment. The second area of criticism was the Emanuel Hospital School of Nursing. No black woman has ever graduated from or attended this school. Applications have been made but none have ever been accepted. No figures were quoted as to the number of applicants. Since the criticisms were made, the hospital now has a joint recruitment program with Good Samaritan Hospital in effect. Under it the hospital hopes to have black students' admitted to the School of Nursing. Those who will be admitted will have to _rank highly within the group of applicants. Emanuel offers two trainee programs: Nurses Aide and Ward Clerk classes. These programs are federally funded. There are 1,079 people employed at the hospital. Of those, 125 are members of minority groups, 100 being black. Of these, there are three registered nurses, 19 technical and 79 non-professional or unskilled employees. The non-professionals include licensed practical nurses, clerical workers, nurses aides, orderlies and janitors. DELTA AUlO WRECKER~ Good used parts, to get your . shape at a reasonable car in price. We've Got E'm. Also J -::_. Photo Cou~t;s! Orego~rnal TOP PRICE PAID for CARS This combo, The Passovers, is shown playing to attract attention to X-ray survey aimed at combattlng tuberculosis. The disease is said to have a stronger hold in Albina than In most other areas of the state. The Passovers were appearing at the Cotton Club. wrecked, or Junk Cars $$$. Adults, Children Work In Community Services DElTA AUTO WRECKERS 1404 W. Schmeer Rd. Opposite Portland Meadows, under Freeway. 289-0627 A group of men from Lake Oswego, who have met several times with the Community Service staff at the Albina Neighborhood Service Center, has indicated a desire to become involved in a program to better human relations and understanding. ,Mrs. Verna Shepherd and other citizens of the area have started a series of "living room" dialogues with the Oswego group. These discussions have been informative and will be enlarged in the future to include a mutual exchange of personalities, ideas and problems. Children of the Lake Oswego area and children from our area formed a group and called themselves theChoraleers. Under the leadership of Ira Mumford, the children entertained at three Christmas parties in the area. The children and Mumford enjoyed the experience and are going to continue to sing together. During January, the Community Service workers at the center attended a threeday training session at Portland State College. Theworkshop was designed to instruct case aides, program aides and Community Service workers to work more effectively in the community. The workshop was sponsored by the Northwest Training Center and was conducted by Robey Eldredge and Lynn Patterson. Looking for new and interesting programs for your club or group? Contact Mrs. Verna Shepherd for a program on Negro history. 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February 1, 1968 Oregon Advance/Times Page 5 Where Young People Can Look for Jobs Highland United Attracts Young People and Leaders The Youth Oppo1·tunity Center is to help young people, ages 16 through 21, to find jobs. It is located at 25 N. E. 11th Ave, and every young person - in that age group is invited to visit it. lt has nothing else to do except (ind jobs, But the staff there can't perform miracles. The person who wants a job has to be able to do the· job. Most of those who call there for the first time learn that they will not be sent out immediately to work - either they are not ready for the jobs there are or there is not, at the time, a job that fits their qualifications. But the young person who gets something out of the Youth Opportunity Center is the one who finds out first what he wants to do, then does what he is asked to do in getting ·ready for it, and keeps his appointments. The Center has one thing in common with gangs and with business: Each of them expects a person to do some Weightlift Titles Due On Saturday by Betty Payne Current attraction coming to the Knott St. Community Center at 77 N;E, Knott St., is the Portland Powerlifting and Physique Championships on Saturday, Feb. 3. Lifting competition is at 5 p.m. and physique championship at 10 p.m. Top weight lifters from the Northwest will be competing. A special highlight will be the challenging ofGaryYoung, Portland State College student and bench press champion of the U.S. at 405 lbs., by Fred Loving, a teacher's aide at Jefferson High School. He held the physique titles ofMr. Portland and Mr. Oregon in 1965. They will also be vying on breaking some other records, such as the 715 lb. deadlift world record, by attempting 750 lbs. Fred is the outstanding lifter at the center, and plans to compete for the Mr. America Physique title in 1969. Another star competingwill be Ken Petara, who has thrown shot for Portland State College and Oregon State Univcr sit y. Approximately 40 competitors are expected. Trophies will be awarded, in three classes, for each championship. Jessallee Mallalieu, director of the center, emphasizes that the center is for people of the community, of all ages, to use and to help create the programs they would like to see held. Currently there are programs such as: for children, crafts, gym and boxing; for teens, gym, recreation, modern jazz dance class, teen record hops (as auditorium is available); for adults, gym and fitness classes, dance classes, and recreation dances. An attempt will be made to teach the kind of dances participants would most desire to learn. Tuesday evenings form 7 to 9 p.m., a Tole painting class is offered by Mrs. Mallalieu. This is a French method of painting on metals, and is oil painting on metal or wood. If you are interested in writing or contributing to this newspaper, call 288-6409. certain thing to benefit from the organization, The staff at the Center will help each young person do what he must do if he is to find and hold a job. It may refer him to special training. This training is not like going to school. There may be reading and arithmetic, but the reading and arithmetic will be the kind that has to be used on the job, The training will make This is Fred Hill. He was Mr. Portland and Mr. Oregon in weight lifting in 1965, He is well known at Jefferson High School where he is a teacher's aid, under the name Fred Loving. He has recently joined the staff at the North Branch Y, 5430 N. Moore Ave. where he conducts an exercise and weight lifting program. As part of the exercise program, women interested in losing weight can join a class. One will be set up for any group of eight women. In addition, Hill also will premote tournaments for both members and nonmembers in table tennis, chess, checkers and wrestling, 'Y' Members Begin Drive The YMCA membership drive began January 30 with a kick-off buffet dinner at the Sheraton Hotel which inaugurated the centennial celebration for the "Y'' which began in Portland, 1868, Highlights of the evening were a program by the Jefferson High Ensemble and a speech by Dr, Ben Padrow of Portland State College. All campaign workers and board members of the YMCA branches were invited. This year's North Branch YMCA membership campaign is headed by William Greaby, manager of the Killingsworth Union branch of the U.S. Bank of Oregon. Division leaders are Fernan Blalock, Bell's Tropical Fish; Ted Parker, Albina Improvement Association; Dr. E. P. Weber, Concordia College; Mrs. S. Q. Broadous, who will head the telephone campaign, and Mary Schwann, St. Johns Ben Franklin Savings and Loan; John Bolzell, Demme Brother~ Paint. The Rev. Clifford Trout, Mallory Avenue Christian Church, will again head the Century Club division. Each member of the Century Club is a $100 donor. Goal for this year is $8,000, This money will go towa:rds the support of the North Branch YMCA program, Approximately 400 children financially unable to take part in Y programs will benefit from these drive gifts. The North Branch Y is supported by fees and UGN allocations. Chalmers Jones is director of the Youth Opportunity Center. sense, There will be a reason for it. So, if you are 16 through 21, come to the Youth Opportunity Center at 25 N. E. 11th Ave. and find out what the staff can do for you. There is no time to sit and wish that right will soon prevail; There is no time to wait and fret when efforts seem to fail: Now is the time to lift our voice demanding wars must cease, And see that hatred, envy, greed must all give way to peace. New faces are appearing at the center at Highland United Church of Christ, N,E, 9th Avenue and Going Street. Not only are new youngpeople beginning to feel at home at the center, but new leaders are becoming interested. Mrs. RichardOsbomeofthe Disciples of Christ comes all the way from Hillsboro to lead a group of sixth and seventh grade girls. During the holidays, they spent an afternoon in the country riding ponies and visiting. Denny Clark comes from Corvallis to work with a boys' group. Don Kopshy comes from Ft. Lewis, Wash., to work with the group. These young men are interested in sports but can sew a rag doll's head back on for a small girl if necessary. Vera McClinton from St. Peter's Community Church and Joanne Degidio from the Stella Maris House share a young girls' group that likes sewing and art. The older boys may be wrestling on mats at Highland Churchorplayingbasketball at St. Andrew's Church or Mallory Avenue Christian Church, but just as often like to sit around and talk with at the center and activities depend much on the leaders imagination and the youngsters interests. There may be folk dancing, singing, some art, table tennis, wrestling, sewing, piano playing - or thumping as the case may be. More leaders are badly needed, especially at the young teen or sub-teen level. The center is open from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As leaders become available, this time will be increased until the center can be open at least two or three hours every day. Anyone interested may call Victor Phillips, director, at 246-3467. KOIN-TV Coverage A great deal of interest has been generated in the Portland cirea over the firstpublication of The Oregon Advance/ TIMES. The TV news media was represented when a camera crew from KOIN-TV, Channel 6 arrived on the scene to tape coverage of final assembly of the page make-up and to interview members of the TIMES staff. Our thanks to KOIN-TV for their leaders. this display of interest in our There is no rigid program endeavor. Service-full Banking Checking Accounts, Savings Accounts, Safe Deposit, Loans ... these are just a few of the many financial services available at U. S. Bank. To serve our friends in the North-Northeast Central Area of Portland, we have two conveniently located branches. Both offer drive-in teller service and off-street parking. And both welcome the opportunity to serve you. Our congratulations and best wishes for success to The Oregon Advance/ TIMES newspaper. U.S. BANK UNION AVENUE BRANCH INTERSTATE & GOING BRANCH 5505 N. E. Union Ave. 4550 N. Interstate Ave. United Stales National Bank of Oregon • Member FDIC
Page 6 Oregon Advance/TIMES February 1, 1968 The Problems at Jefferson High; What Are the Answers? Soul Brothers And Simbas Air Thoughts by EVELYN CREWS Do the Simbas and the Soul Brothers have the answer to Jefferson High School's problems? Thomas Hayden and John Hall are Jefferson juniors who have lived here all of their lives, and they have new ideas about how they want to live through their high school careers. The Jefferson story is old but the organizations headed by these two boys are new. Thomas is head of the Simbas and John is the spokesman for the Soul Brothers. low students. The two groups of "in" and "out" are very different, and even the "out" portion of Jefferson which does not possess the Soul Brothers' and Simbas' insight are set apart from these boys. It is also possible to become an outsider by being tagged as a trouble-maker. Snodg-rass had a five-week battle in gaining entrance for Thomas in regular high school classes at Jefferson. Thomas had asked for a transfer from Benson to Jefferson. William Knouff, Jefferson's principal, said that it had been reported to him and that he was "solely convinced" that Thomas' request for a transfer was to change things at Jefferson and to start a Black Power organization such as the Black Student John's interest in the ten- Union. sion between black and white Before Thomas' transfer, students at Jefferson began he had to sign an agreement last summer when he made saying that he would not start occasional visits to the sum- any organizations whose polmer Upward Bound program icies were contrary to school at Reed College. The inter- rules. est manifested itself into the According to Snodgrass, Soul Brothers one day in a "I dic;ln't know that the boys disrupted English class at had started an organization," Jefferson. but he said that there was "We were talking about a summer dialogue and disDetroit and Watts," John cussion about blackness and said, "and things kinda got also an Afro-American Hisout of hand. The teacher got tory class taught in the summad at us and the next day mer Upward Bound program. split us up." Two of four The Reed class was taught boys were transferred to an- by James Hill, a student at other class. the University of Oregon, Thomas' interest in black and Colden Brown, affiliated and white tensions at Jeffer- with Williams Avenue C-Cap. son started while he was at- The black question was prevtending the summer Reed alent because one-third of the College Upward Bound pro- staff and one-half of the stugram. Ronda! Snodgrass, director of the Upward Bound program at Reed, says that, ''These boys are out of the mainstream of school." Being an "outsider" atJefferson can mean that you are in the process of completing four years of high school training without ever seeing a counselor, voting for a student body officer, buying a Spectrum (yearbook) or becoming friends with any one of your teachers enough to talk with in general. An "outsider" is alone, a separate entity from general school temperament. Being on the "outside" implies that the re is an "inside" at Jefferson. There is an "in" faction of black students. They run for student body offices, are popular among white s1.udents, dress in fashion, are popular with their teachers, are articulate and seem to be used again and again on student committees as spokesmen for both "outside" and "in" black students. They most resemble the white student who has decent grades and is popular among his feldent body were black, Snodgrass said that the race problem is a major part of education. "We brought the question out into the open and made it painful to talk about." The Upward Bound staff hit the issue hard and made no attempt to preserve an easiness between the races. Glen Debeal, a Reed College student, said, "We made an effort to be honest and open." Because of the openness of the issue, the white students in the program started to re-evaluate themselves and started to hold meetings about white identity. In this at~ mosphere of honesty, Debeal said, the "surface layer was removed by the Upward Bound staff, and students confronted each other about problems below the surface." When Thomas and John returned to Jefferson, they had a new awareness and goal which they wanted to share with their fellow black students. Thomas said student groups are at work in Jefferson attempting to interest students in forming a union of students to lobby for a student bill of rights. The groups, Soul Brothers and Simba, are comprised of "black students," said Thomas, leader of Simba. "The purpose of Simba is to relate the so-called Negro to his African culture," Thomas said. ''Right now we are just helping Soul Brothers attempt to establish a bill of rights," he said. .Lewis Ninchester, a leader in Soul Brothers, explained that his group is "to help the black students in Portland and particularly Jefferson. "Right now the project is to get a student union at Jefferson," Winchester said. "We got a promise from Mr. Knouff to start a class rights," Winchester said, The bill of rights hasn't been written yet, but will include a provision for appealing expulsions, the two leaders said. Both report they have had trouble with the school's administration. Thomas said he once was suspended for about an hour and a half for "what they said was a fight." "It wasn't a fight, I don't think," Thomas said. "It was because I was talking to students about black power and having pride in black history. "I was suspended a short time because I brought my mother back to school fast." Lewis said all Soul Brothers have been threatened by in Black History," Th'omas suspension. said. In talks with Knouff, the ''We've got a group of Simbas and Soul Brothers adults to go to the Jefferson requested a Negro history Parent Teachers Association class and a Black Student (PTA) to discuss our bill of Union. The class started Planned Parenthood Clinic Has Moved To perform a more efficient and economical service to mothers interested in family planning, the Planned Parenthood Association will centralize its operations at the Broadway Clinic, 620N.E. Broadway. This move means the Planned Parenthood Clinic at the Neighborhood Services Center in Albina will be closed. However, the association feels the new quarters will mean a more concentrated and beneficial program for everyone involved. Clinics to supply birth control information and contraceptives will be available every day and counselors will be able to give more time to individual conferences. ing in the Southeast. The program will continue its cooperation with the obstetrical departments of Multnomah County Hospital and Emanuel Hospital. The Planned Parenthood Clinic is a project which provides contraceptive advice and supplies for medically indigent families. Planned Parenthood teaches that it is the right of each woman to space and limit her family to those children she desires and can adequately care for. The program is planned to observe privacy, confidentiality, and freedom of conscience while making information and services available. Jan. 22. Senior students have preference in the class, but another will be scheduled if there is large enough participation. Knouff objected to the Black Student Union because the name implied that the group would be restrictive. A substitute organization (a student forum) was suggestedforcontact between students and teachers. This project is at a standstill because of a lack of follow-through on the students' part of a purposeful silence. The Simbas and Soul Brothers also helped get music during meal hours in the cafeteria. The music had been discontinued several years ago. The feeling conveyed by Knouff was that the Soul Brothers and Simbas presented a threat to Jefferson's usual routine. The goal of the Soul Brothers and Simbas, said Thomas and John, is to awaken all black students at Jefferson to what appears to be a small "in" faction of black students perpetuating the system of tokenism. 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