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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
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