Oregon Advance Times_1968-02-01

Newspaper Makes Bow (Continued from Page l) worker intheC-CAP(Church- When the community be– Community Action) program, comes familiar with the news- Those 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 Al- All 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 Ore- to 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 As– Neighborhood Service Center sooiated Press in making this past summer and Gordon themselves available for ad– Macnab 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 vol- At their meeting they 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 pre– editorial 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 to– resigned 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 North– east Union Avenue. He also advised on distribution and as a result, every family in a broad Albina area will re– ceive the early issues of The Advance Times without charge. It took 5,000 years to pro– gress from the sail to steam; 130 years from steam to gas, electricity, etc.; 40 years from gas, elec– tricity, etc•• to the atomic age; 12 years from the atomic age to the space age. Note that the time span decreases as progress in- creases. did you know? by S8llluel Johnson That three states, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louis– iana - had impressive ros– ters of black officials in the highest offices. The follow– ing list, by no means com– plete, suggests the variety and scope of black officialdom in these states, in past history. South Carolina: Francis L. Cardozo, Secre– tary of State (1868-1872); Treasurer (1872-1876) Samuel J. Lee, Speaker of the House (1872-1874). J. J. Wright, Justice, Su– preme Court (1870-1877). Mississippi: James Hill, Secretary of State. John R. Lynch, Speaker of the House. T. W. Cardozo, Superinten– dent of Education. Rev. J. J. Evans, County Sheriff. Louisiana: Oscar J. Dunn, Lieutenant– Governor. P. G. Deslonde, Secretary of State. Antoine Dubuelet, State Treasurer. W. G, Brown, Super- intendent of Public Education. (Historical Facts About Ne– groes) 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 success– ful 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 aP– pointment 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 illus– trator for the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wild– life. 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 Ad– vance 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 Ad- vertising Arts School in Port– land. 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 Op– portunity School recently paid an exchange visit to the stu– dents 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 Devel– opment Center Advisory Board decided at a Jan. 22 meeting that the auditorium at the center, 58 N.E. Morris St., will be available for com– munity use. Any OEO-related projector group can use the auditorium for $2.50 an hour. An in– formal 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