Oregon Advance Times_1968-02-01

The Oregon Advance/TIMES Publishing Company A non-profit corporation • • Chairman of the Board .••. Vice-Chairman • . •••.•••••...•. Secretary •••••.•••••••.••••• Treasurer ••.•••.. : ..•.. •...•.••......•••...•..... PublishE: r •••..•••.....••.•.•... Rozell Gilmore • . • . • • . . • . . . . . • . • . . . . . . Hazel G. Hays .•.•...•.....•••...•.. Amelia Stiggers • • • . • • • . • • . . • . • . . . • . • . Samuel Johnson Editor • • • • • • . • . • • • . • . • . •..•..•.•.....•...•.....• Dan Hayes Assistant Editor . • • • .•.•••.•••.•••..•......•.•....•••.. Larry Lakey Office Co-ordinator •.•••.•...•.•.•...•.•.............•. Averill Geus Advertising Manager • . • • .•..•.•...•.... . •••...•.........• Joe Harris Offices at 714-1/2 N. E. Alberta, Portland. Phone • . •.•. ...•.... 288-6409 The Newspaper's Board of Directors Policies of the Oregon Advance/TIMES are set by the board of directors. These are i~s members: Rozell Gilmore is the ex– ecutive director of the Al– bina Neighborhood Service Center. He prev~ously was the director of job counsel– ing and placement at the center. Gilmore is the pastor of the Berean Baptist Church. He is a member of the ex– ecutive committee of the Na– tional Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- Samuel 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 Bis– hop's committee. He was an original member of the Al– bina Citizens' War on Pov– erty Committee. He is pres– ently a member of the Chal– lengers' Bridge Club, the Urban League, National As– sociation 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 High– land 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, Ger– many and Korea. He and his wife, Vessie, have two children and six grandchildren. Emile Summers is a mem– ber of the executive commit– tee 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 Na- The Oregon Advance/TIMES goes to press weekly to serve residents of the North-North– east 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 pro– vide 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: A8/uep,inf The federal government an– nounced 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 fill– ing jobs. Much early oppositiondeveloped because too many people didn't really know what the Model City was. _ __ First, it was not a poverty p rogram; 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 co– ordinator 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 some– one else chose. They did not have That is true; but few a choice. object to Paul Schulze himself. jection is to the selection. Most ob– method of Like it or not, the fact is that Paul Schulze is the coordinator. He has picked an excellent as– sistant 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 plan– ning. 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 war– fare in our cities. This is cause for great worry both in white and black commu– nities. But we see no indica– tion 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 Neg– ro 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 admin– istrative assistant in the Model Cities Program. She is on loan from the Portland Development Commission as a neighborhood advisor. Be– fore coming to Portland, she was a staff member of the Urban League and the Amer– ican Friends Service Com– mittee in Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Hays is the present first vice- president of the Portland chapter of the Na– tional Association for the Ad– vancement of Colored People and is chairman of the NAACP Labor and Industries Com– mittee. She serves as the recording secretary for the executive board of the Albina Citizens' War on Poverty Committee, is chairman of the Kaiser Advisory Commit– tee 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 Port– land Metropolitan Steering Committee. Mrs. Hays is the wife of Chauncey O. Hays and mother of three daughters. Rufus Butler was originally from Arkansas. He gradu– ated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. His graduate work was done at the Uni– versity 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 Al – bina 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 Tek– tronix as an Inspector and by Lipman-Wolfe and Com– pany as a Credit Analyst. She is presently a housewife and extremely active doing volunteer work for the com– munity. 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 direc– Mrs. Stiggers is the tor of special services for the Columbia River Girl Scout Council, She was pre– viously employed by Mult– nomah County Public Welfare as a caseworker. Director of the Highland Edu– cation Program and is the Director of the Women's Aid Society for C-CAP Youth. She serves as the Sunday School Superintendent and ChoirDir– ector at St. Peter' s Commun– ity 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 Bap– tist 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 ma– jored 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 Nich– olson, 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 Hay– a 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 fo r Betty Payne, Dick Floyd, six years. Gordon Macnab and Duane Bowens has been a resi- Youngbar. O F"f°ICE OF T H E GOVER N OR 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 i nte r ested in any Jcvelopm8 nt in tne media fie l d , es£?eciall~, i n Or t=gon . Thus i t was witn ~l easur e tha t I notea t he launchi ng of a new weekly ncwspa~er to serve r esiden t s of a sizea0 l e section of Portl and . Tne miss i on of sue~ a ~uJlication is significant--and I ~o~e the wri te r s covar events impartia l ly and accur a t e l J , backed by penetrating edi t o r ia l s, so ti1a t t he influence of th i s f l edgl ing wil l grow each successive weeK . I \vish tfic Or egon Acivanc2 Times s uccess in eve r y way . Sincer e l y , IrrrlA Governor 'l'i'-t : W