Oregon Advance Times_1968-02-08

~ . .. The Oregon ADVANCE PORTLAND,OREGON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1968 Model Cities Plan Revised; HUD Taking Look Before Portland City Council Decides Housing and Urban DeveloP– ment (HUD) officials in San Francisco requested a pre– liminary look this week at Portland's Model Cities re– vised plans before they are voted on by the City Council, it was learned by the Advance Times. Meanwhile, the Model Cities Temporary Committee is pro– ceeding with plans for an area- Election Set For Board Residents from each of seven school a t tend an c e areas may file as candidates for election to the Model Cities Citizens' Planning Board. Directions for filing will be given at meetings to be held at the schools next Tuesday evening, Feb. 13, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Deadline for filing one's candidacy is Feb. 23, and election will be by ballot on Saturday, March 2. Special polling stations will be set up at the school and ballots will be available with all candidates listed. The Citizens' PI an n in g Board\ will be composed of 16 persons elected by area residents plus 11 persons to be appointed by the mayor, thus giving the elected resi dents a clear majority. Duties of the Citizens' Planning Board will include: a. Regular review of all planning processes; b. Validating of o ff i c i al membership on a 11 working committees for various Model Cities planning; c. Final review (and veto if necessary) on all plans developed by resi– dent c o m m i t t e e s and Model Cities staff. wide election. It will choose 16 members to a permanent Citizen's Planning Board to supervise Model Cities acti– vities for the year. The board would have veto power on all planning headed for City Council, and would appoint residents to all the working committees that draw up Model Cities plans. Jo:m Whitesides, chairman of the Temporary Citizen's Committee, named Tuesday, Feb. 13, as the kick- off day for Citi7en Participation in Model Cities. Simultaneous meetings will be held that evening in ·seven grade school auditoriums and all residents are urged to attend. Purpose of the Tuesday evening meetings will be threefold: 1. To give further informa– tion and to ask residents to volunteer their help for Model Cities. 2. To explain the election process for naming the per– manent Citizens' Board. 3. To ask interested per– sons to file as candidates for the Planning Board. Copies of the "unofficial" Model Cities revisions were presented to HUD at San Fran– cisco by the Model Cities director, Paul J, Schulze. Ac– companying him on the trip were John Whitesides, chair– man, and Larry Lakey, vice chairman of the Temporary Committee. The three are attending a Model Cities Con– ference, called by HUD and HEW officials. If HUD gives tentative approval to Port– land's application revisions, they will go before the City Council for voting next week, at a date still to be announced. Student Tells About C-CAP by RICKY HARPER Recommended District ~ -N- N. Union N.E. 18th • N. Ainsworth ,'11 .E. 19th Soldier Hiti Calls Home Killingsworth N. Interstate Staggered boundaries for the Model Cities area will be recommended to the City Council by Commissioner Francis lvancie, the Advance Times has learned. The western part will have North Ainsworth Street as its no rt her n boundary. The eastern part will extend north to Columbia Boulevard. Broadway will be the southern boundary under the Vickers· Says N.E. 22nd N.E. 18th N.E. 21st N.E. Broadway The telephone rang at the Lynn Hatchett home, 6334 N, Williams Ave., Sunday night and to the family's astonish– ment, Pfc. Lynn Hatchett,Jr., was calling from a hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. He had been severely wounded in crawling through a mine field. But his mother said he told her, "I'm going to make it." commissioners' recommen– dations, a rejection of pro– posals that the Model Cities She said she was not able to get a clear understanding of his condition from the to the southeast radio telephone call but it be extended district. Interstate Avenue will be the western boundary. The eastern line will vary, but N, E. 22nd Avenue will 6e the farthest east line. The accompanying sketch shows in detail the lines that will be recommended. appeared that both his thighs had been shattered. There was no indication that he would be sent home. Lynn Jr., 20, attended Jef– ferson High School. He left for Ft. Lewis on Jan. 1 and was sent to Vietnam Jan. 7, his mother said. Emphasis Must Be On Youth Activity Portland must take active steps to prevent racial tur– moil, Thomas R. Vickers, president of the Portland branch of the National As– sociation for the Advance– ment of Colored People, told the East Multnomah County Republican Club, In a recent talk before the club, Vickers said city ad – ministrators must design programs to involve young people. He called for em– ployment programs, youth camps and other recreation– al facilities and asked that they be put into effect before violence erupts. Vickers said the Model outlet for young people and adults if citizens are allowed to participate in the pro– gram. He said contractors who receive building contracts should be screened to in– sure against racial dis– crimination in employment. He said the state's appren– ticeship program could pro– vide an opportunity to involve black youth. He asked that "b 1 a c k people not only have menial jobs but skilled and super– visory jobs as well," trative positions in city gov– ernment. "The city fathers seem to forget that black people are taxpayers," stressed Vickers. Vickers called upon the Portland School Board to stop '' substituting compensa– tory education for integrated education and move with haste to obey the law." Plans for electing the resi– dents to the Citizens' Plan– ning Board were drawn up by the Model Cities Tempo– rary Committee which was made up completely of repre– sentatives of existing organi– zations in the area, including five persons from the Albina Citizens' War on Poverty Committee. When I come to school, Sister (Guadelupe, a Francis– can nun) tells me, "Ricky, sit down and write about some– thing," so today I am writing about what I do at C-CAP school. When 1 am at C-CAP Cities program can be a good Vickers also said the time "is opportune" for the city to show good faith by appoint– ing black people to adminis- ''Two tax levies have been turned down and the Portland public schools need money. It would seem that the school board would welcome the federal money that it could obtain through Title IV to fa c i Ii tat e desegregation. Evansville, Ind,. received $200,000; Oakland, Calif., more than $300,000. This money is available to those who wish to comply with the law." The Citizens' election plan was fully adopted by Model Cities planning coordinator Paul J. Schulze and recom. mended to the mayor's office for inclusion in the revised application. "We want to ensure full citizens' participation so that area residents determine the direction in which the com– munity should go," Schulze said. "Persons elected to the Board on March 2 will serve without pay," Schulze pointed out, ''but some expenses such as babysitting and trans– portation can be provided." Attends Meeting Attending a meeting of the ADC (Aid to Dependent Chil– dren) Association represent– atives Feb. IO in Eugene will be Mrs, Faye Lyday, pres– ident of the Multnomah County ADC Association. school, I think of a lot of things to write, but I can't quite think of which one I want to write about, Many people say the ('.-CAP is for hoodlums and drOP– outs. But, if you want to learn something, you can learn. It's just simply, if you want to learn all you can, but if you don't want to, no– body .can make you learn. Myself, well, I see it this way: I don't like school. But, I've got to make the best of it because I have to ·have an education. Right now, there are many people in the world today that don't have jobs because they simply did not like school, so they quit. If my parole officer hadn't gotten me in to C-CAP, l wouldn't have had anywhere to go and no money to go anywhere with. And, natur– ally, I would have started breaking into things and steal– ing money, so I am · very grateful that they made a C-CAP. Swingers To Compete Aretha Franklin? Dick Gregory? Ray Charles? Are you out there? Don't hide your light under a bushel, Only a week remains be– fore the deadline for enter– ing the Albina Art Center's third annual Valentine's Day Workshop Teaches History of Negro A Negro history work – shop is being taught by Julius Stokes at the Knott Street Community Center, Stokes, who teaches re– medial , eading at Highland School, was graduated from Chicago Teachers College as a history major. The workshop meets every Friday at 7:30 p.m. Last Friday the discussion cov– ered the Nile Valley to the year 1619 in Black history. Amateur Show and Contest. Amateur singers, pantomim– ists, dancers, instrumen– talists and comedians can share their abilities with the community, Registration must be com– pleted and the entry fee paid by Feb, 14. The first 20 applicants will be on stage Friday, Feb. 16, from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Albina Child Care Center auditorium, 58 N, E. Morris. Cash prizes will be given to the top three performers, Other participants will have their talent evaluated by a board of judges. The talent show is open to the community. General ad– mission is $1.50 at the door. Additional information may be obtained from Mrs. Cynthia Brown or Lois Hud– son, coordinators of the con– test at the Albina Art Center. Program Outlined The NAACP youth are ac– tively engaged in setting up speaking engagements throughout the city with other youth groups. They are ex– plaining their new program. Various seminars have been set up. This past weekend, the group met at Camp Adams with the American Friends youth. · Coming up on the NAACP agenda is the organi?ation of a boys' basketball team and the planning of a regional con– ference to be held in May at Yakima, Wash. Francine Ingersoll is presi– dent of the group; Evelyn Car– son is vice-president and Shelley Cage is secretary– treasurer. Negro Story Observance Gets Help The week of Feb. 11 is observed as National Negro History Week, initiated more than a half century ago by Dr. Carter G. Wooden. Portland Mayor Terry Schrunk has called on Port– land residents to observe it. Libraries will make a spe– cial effort to di'Splay books dealing with the rich heri– tage of American Negroes. Films covering Negro his– tory will be available at the Albina Branch library. A special program at that branch will be presented Feb. 12 when Florence Acila of Kenya will be present. She will tell African folk stories and sing folk songs at 4 p.m. in the conference room, Films available include three of 20 minutes each with these titles: "1619 to 1860, Out of Slavery"; "1861 to 1877, Civil War and Recon– struction"; "1877 to Today, Freedom Movement." Another set of films on history of the Negro people covers such topics as heri– tage, the vanishing Negro in Brazil and the new mood. These are 16mm sound films. The borrower must have a projector, have a li– brary . card and be over 21. Many churches and various groups have projectors. The library's projector also may be reserved by groups for use in the library. In the Albina branch li– brary are numerous books about the ancient African kingdoms, contributions of Negroes to American his– tory and to fields as diverse as art, literature, sports, science and music. "From Slavery to Free– dom" by John Hope Franklin, a history professor at the University of Chicago, is one of these. It provides an ex– cellent account of African life before the slave trade. Arna Bontemps "Story of the Negro" presents his story in a colorful and dra– matic manner and is a good book for the beginner in the field. D an i e 1 Mannix' s "Black Cargoes" is a dra– matically written history of the slave trade. "Lay My Burde11. Down" by B. A. Botkin is- a collec– tion of the words of former slaves, describing life before the Emancipation Procla– mation. Many of the stories are tragic, but are told with a leavening of humor and faith. Philip Durham's ''The Negro Cowboys" provides a highly readable account of the little known range riders of the West. "The Negro in American Culture" by Mar– garet Butcher describes what Negroes have contributed to American poetry, drama, fiction, art and music. Files of magazines also provide a rich source of ma– terial. Rummage Welcomed The Albina Art Center re– ports th11t it is now receiv– ing rummage for the annual rummage sale to be held in June,