~--~-----~--- - -- - - -- The Oregon Single Copy 10~ ADVANCE Few File For Board Positions Only 11 candidates have filed letters of intent for the 21 vacancies on the Board of Directors of the Albina Citizens War on Poverty Committee. Those who are re-filing are Walter Morris, an area resident, and Mrs. Helen Stoll, 11000 s. W. Collina. New candidates who have filed are Mrs. Helen McDaniel, Calvin Toran, Rev. Edgar Jackson, Mrs. Odis Williams, Robert Cochran, Edgar Mitchell, J acquelyne McClain, Blake Byrne and Daryl Griffith. The retiring board members are Rev. George E. Carter, Jr. who served two and a half terms as chairman, William Daw, Mrs. Hazel Hays, Rev. John Jackson, Rev. Sanmel Johnson, Dr. Ellis Jump, Mary C. Roland, Don C. Vann and Mrs. Virginia Roberts. The deadline for filing letters of intent was Monday, March 18. However, nominations may be made from the floor of the annual meeting which will be held Friday evening, 7 p.m., March 22 in the Knott Street Community Center. This year, for the first time, three board members will be elected who are 18 to 21 years old. All the others are 21 or older. Of the 38 members on the board, two-thirds must be residents of the area and 12 members must come from outside the area. One-third of those elected must have incomes which are termed "poverty level." All residents of Albina are urged to attend this meeting. (Continued on Page 8) Maior Plan On Jobs Set A vast new employment program with an annual budget .of about $2.3 million for citywide operation is to go into effect July I. It will be known as the Concentrated Employment Pro1;ram or CEP. The program is under the Department of Labor's Bureau of Work Training: Programs and its local sponsor is expected to be the Portland Metropolitan Steering Committee which directs the War on Poverty programs. Final plans have not been made but Richard Collins, coordinator with the Steering Committee, said roug:hly 500 persons would be involved at one time, receiving skill training, pre-vocational counseling, orientation for job education, as well as health services, transportation, family counseling and, if needed, basic literacy help. Programs will be set up to go out and find jobless who need help but who do not know how to go about getting it, and also to provide an analysis of the reasons why some persons are unable to get jobs. A joint planning effort will (Continued on Page 12) Dig Swahili? Yeah, Mani Ever yearned to learn Swahili, one of the major languages in Africa? Swahili is one of the three new classes now being offered by the Albina Art Center, 8 N. E. Killingsworth. The Swahili class will be held Tuesday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. Creative writing and creative stitchery are the other new classes. The creative writing class will cover four fields of writing: Poetry, fiction, drama and essays. The class will be held on Wednesday nights from 6 to 9 p.m. Peter Kenyanjui, a )!raduate of Portland State, will teach the Swahili class. He is presently teaching ceramics at the Albina Art Center and arts and crafts at the Knott Street Community Center. Albina Gets Teen Center A teen center for Albina, run and operated by teenagers, is at long last about to become a reality. Nathan Proby announced this week that the building has been secured and teen-agers were being organized to form work crews to set the teen center in operation. The building is located on the west corner of Knott Street and Williams Avenue. A two-year lease on the building has been acquired for $50 a month rent. He is going to pay for the first month's rent himself so work can begin on the building. Monthly dues will be paid thereafter by the teens who wish to use the building and this money wil1 be used to pay the rent and utilities. Proby said that he hopes this will be a community project. Merchants in the area will be asked to help support the teen center and teen-agers themselves have volunteered to work on the building and make repairs and renovations. Most immediate needs, Proby said, are t\vo windows, some paint and insurance for the building. "Al" Laviske, general manager of McDonald's has offered his full support of the project. It is hoped that the teen center will be set up and operating within a month. It will offer recreation, movies and dances every weekend. It is planned to (Continued on Page 8) An Invitation Your Oregon Advance Times carrier will be calling on you at the end of this month to invite you to become a paid subscriber. Your paid subscription helps support this non-profit community project and also increases your carrier's earnings. NOTE: Always ask your carrier for a receipt. Portland, Oregon The wonder of a child and nature, seen here as 6-year-old Antone D. Smith examines the exciting, mysterious things to be found under a tree in a park ••• acorns, leaves, puffballs, cones, twigs • • • on a day when spring seems almost at hand and life has a touch of magic about it. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Smith, 6126 N. E.15th Ave. Mr. Smith, a photographer, took this picture. Mayor Told: Parks Don't Meet People's Need City parks do not meet the needs of the people, Mayor Terry Schrunk was told last week. Representatives of the Northeast and the Southeast districts met with the mayor and told him they we re opposed to having a summer program in the parks imposed on them without having any voice in what was being done. The group asked not only for a voice in what was planned but for a change in the Park Bureau's hiring practices. Robert Nelson, chairman of the School Community Action Committee, was spokesman for the group. Representatives of southeast Portland and Albina, united in their opposition to having a summer program in the ·area parks imposed on them, met with Mayor Terry Schrunk at 10:30 a.m. March 14. Spokesman for the group was Robert Nelson, chairman of the Shoo! Community Action Committee. The group met with the mayor to ask for a voice in planning the summer park program and to request a change in the Park Bureau's hiring practices. Nelson told Mayor Schrunk, "We asked for this meeting because we are not pleased with the attitudes and programs of the City Park Bureau as evide'hced by the actions of Miss Dorothea Lensch at recent community gatherings." He went on to say, ''Lately in Portland, the city administration has talked a great deal about citizens' participation in decision-making and in programs. Progress is evident." He then asked the mayor to "reaffirm his intention for citizen participation to include the planning and operation of summer programs in the parks." Nelson told the mayor, "If your administration insists on the present format of employment and the disregard of the grass roots community, you are, in effect, perpetuating rather than solving problems." Nelson summed up his presentation by saying, "This is a new time, requiring new, creative, imaginative and courageous approaches to these times." Mrs. Lizzie Sheppard, a member of the school-community action committee and an employee at the Neighborhood Service Center, also gave a report to the mayor. She said, "The requirement by the Park Bureau to be a college graduate or going to college is another way of segregating our children and others in the low economic field. We have met this stone barrier through Miss Lensch every summer and in communication in trying to get recreation facilities to the youngsters in the neighborhoods. Many adults could be included in many park programs, but, as usual, we are the last to know about anything that will benefit our children or any programs that they could participate in. After getting the same brushoff with a neat, tight smile from the Park Bureau for so long, many just gave up (Continued from Page 12) Links To Hold Arts Festival The Portland Chapter of nese Art Studio and the MLinks, Inc., a national or- bina Art Center also will ganization of Negro women take part in the program. dedicated to public service, Janice Poe, author of the will hold its sixth Arts Fes- Soul Assembly recently held tival at Portland ·state Col- at Jefferson High, will give lege Sunday, March 31, from a five-minute report of the 3 to 5 p.m. event. The Dukays from The Arts Festival in the Jefferson High will be inCollege Center is open to eluded on the program. the public. Mrs, Samuel Brown, Jr., Paintings and sculpture is president of Links, Inc. from schools and colleges Co-chairmen of the Arts throughout the Portland area Festival are Mrs. Richard will be featured. The Chi- Bogle and Mrs: William Law. March 21, 1968 Police Work Ideas Sent To Officials Recommendations for improved relations between police and the community were given this week to the Police Bureau and to the mayor's office. A meeting Sunday - prompted largely by discussions following the wounding of a young man some 10 days ago by a special police officer - resulted in the recommendations' being drafted. Robert Nelson of the School Community Action Committee said, "The police are ready to listen. City Hall is ready to listen." Nelson, Mrs. Lizzie Sheppard and Nathan Proby, a police officer, led the discussion. Resentment against the police was voiced. One boy said, "At McDonald's, the police are always breathing down your back." He agreed that if there were trouble, the police would be needed but that the police shouldn't be there all the time. Proby asked, "If there were no police atMcDonald's, would the teens behave7" Several teens answered at once, ''No.'' Mrs. Sheppard asked the teen-agers if they felt the police should carry guns. Again, several boys said, '' No. Billy clubs are enough." Al Laviske, general manager of McDonald's, said, "No one knows when something will happen. We use police only to protect the staff and the customers and not to harass anyone." Several said the greatest (Continued on Page 5) Residents Seek Places Negroes are seeking places on the Portland City Council, Portland School Board, Multnomah County Commission and the State Legislature. Filings for the May 28 primary election closed at 5 p.m. Tuesday and these were the candidates from the Albina area: Portland City Council: C. Donn Vann, owner and operator of Vann' s Mortuary, filed for Position No. 4, held for 29 years by William Bowes. Bowes is a candidate to succeed himself. William T. McCoy Jr. filed for the position that has been held for 16 years by Stanley Earl. Earl is running again. Portland School Board: Alvin Batiste, who is one of the three candidates endorsed by the School Citizens Committee to fill the three vacancies on the board. Multnomah County Commission: James "Shag" Thomas, seeking the seat now held by Larry Aylsworth who is running for re-election. State Legislature: Oliver Smith, seeking Democratic nomination to the House of (Continued on Page 8)
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By carrier, 40¢ per month (voluntary) STATEMENT The 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. 8 March 21, 1968 You Have lo Tty One of the things needed in the Albina community is a little more desire backed with willingness to act. It's the sort of thing known in the hill country talk of some years ago as ' 'gumption.' ' What brings this up? Well, 35 Negroes showed interest in getting special help in taking the Civil Service examination to qualify as Portland firemen. They applied for the help and attended one or more of the classes. How many showed up to take the examination? Only five. There were 402 who weren't black. Some may have had good reasons for not showing up. But it looks like a lot more gumption is needed in our community if we are going to be able to say that the black man is getting the share of jobs he ought to get. A Righi All Should Have An Albina district mother has gone to court to try to force the Portland schools to give written notice and a chance for a hearing before expelling a student. It seems strange that it should be necessary to ask for this. Has the Portland School Board and its administrators never heard of the U .s. Constitution and its several guarantees of the rights of the people? Has it not heard that a person is innocent until proven guilty? That an accused person has the right to be confronted by his accuser? It's true that school attendance was not the thing the Constitution was talking about, but the principle is there and anyone really interested in justice would follow it in all things, whether forced to do so or not. The Rea1on Behind /I How many people driving cars today are aware of the heavy responsibility that rests upon the control of their vehicles? At every crossing, there lurks a tragedy just waiting to happen. A little child chasing a dog, a careless pedestrian looking another way, the inevitable reckless driver in a hurry to go nowhere, ignoring a stop sign and last and most tragic, the youngster riding his bike, are all waiting to happen. There is so much you can do to stop them. First, drive carefully and obey traffic signs. Drive for yourself and for the other fellow too. You need but see one time, the broken body of the grown-up or a little toddler that has stepped in front of a fast moving car to impress this on your mind. Or picture the boy or girl lying in the street along side the wreckage of their bike, maybe never to walk or laugh and play again, struck down before they had a chance to live. Maybe they were in the wrong but who hasn't been at some time or other? It will be no salve to your conscience when you realize a little defensive driving could have prevented it from happening. This is the age of high powered autos with speed to burn. Let's just take care where we burn that speed. Let's go out on the freeways to burn rubber and not up and down heavily populated streets. Remember that old couple, the toddler and the kids on bicycles have a future. Don't deny it of them. Drug Panel Eyes Use of Narcotics A panel discussion on "Drugs, Effects and the Law'' wlll be presented this evening, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the school cafeteria at Jefferson High School. The discussion is sponsored by the Jefferson High School. The discussion is sponsored by the Jefferson High School Parent Teachers Association. The panel will consist of Dr. Samuel Irvin, Dr. Roy Moss, Harold Hart, deputy district attorney; and Vincent Masat of Juvenile Court. Don Barrett will be the moderator. The use of drugs is no longer a rarity. Adults and children both are invited to this discussion to be better informed of the effects of drugs and the Jaws which ;.!overn the use of drug:s. Mrs. Dennis Kearney is the PTA president. She urges parents to learn the facts about dru~s now. Refreshments will follow the program. The Albina community does not have a single voice. Each person has ideas that are his own and many groups speak only for their members. This newspaper In its editorials says what its editorial board believes. But it is only one of the voices of Albina. You, too, have a voice. And you can speak out by writing letters to the editor. Our pages are small and our space is limited. So please speak about things here, at home. If we do not have room for all letters, those that are about national and international affairs will have to be set aside in favor of letters that talk about the special problems and hopes of people here at home. And keep them short. If they run over 250 words, we probably will have to shorten them. NEGROES TRUE INTEREST interpretation seems just as To the Editor: valid. We must ask ourselves I heard many cries of dis- "What is there about streets appointment when a Negro was today that is different from not appointed director of the the streets of previous Model Cities program. It years?" For an answer, walk seems that many people felt into any downtown street after that a Negro should have been office hours or into the street appointed to a job that paid, of almost any residential comto some, what appeared to be munity at almost any time - a large salary. We wanted What do we notice is in on the big money. How- peculiar? There are no ever, to me, this is not im- people. Oh, there are cars portant. I am troubled by with people speeding along, what the future holds for the but there is practically noNegro in the building that will body out on his own two feet. take place in the area in the It is not fear of crime that future. deters them: -they have lost It appears that there will be the street habit. a building program within the When Americans move toModel City area. This will day, they move by car. The involve millions of dollars. streets have become places Yet I fear that there will be inhabited almost entirely by only a few opportunities for automobiles. It can probably Negro craftsmen to find em- be proven statistically that ployment in the building pro- the people who most fear gram. Fortune Magazine's crime in the streets are the January issue points out, on people who practically never page 170, that union practices set foot in them. are under attack by the NAACP At this point we can choose and the Justice Department for two possible theories - one not employing Negroes in the would be that public fear of building trades. There is a crime in the streets is nothing "refusal of all but a few of more than man's natural fear the 18 building trades unions of the unknown: the other is to open their ranks to qual- that, since so few of us use ified Negroes; most of the the streets any longer, we are highly paid construction jobs simply and actually trying to are held by whites." divert the law's attention from Now is the time to change what goes on in the places this in Portland. This is we do use. where the real money is and After all, it is comfortable where our true interest is to demanding incessant police be found. vigilance of places you never L. O. Stone, Vicar use - demanding a federal St. Philip's crackdown on crime in the Episcopal Church home or crime in the office 120N. E. Knott St. is something else. lt might be good having a cop there CRIME IN THE STREETS when the burglars come, but To the Editor: most of the time we would At a time when Americans seem to agree upon so few issues, it is odd that there should be such unity of loathing for ••crime in the streets.'' Every politician in the land is aware of it. It is a rare day when five or six of these fellows - accompanied by disk jockeys, editorial writers, police captains, and the kind of people who telephone radio stations, are not joined in a chorale lamenting crime in the streets. Now, crime in the streets is unquestionably a bad thing, but so is crime in the houses, crime in the stores, crime in service stations, and crime in any of the multitude of other places where crime occurs regularly. No one can fault the proposition that all decent people should be against crime. The question is why is it only crime in the streets that produces this thundering public response? One would expect that emotionally the prospect of being robbed in his own home would enrage the average citizen even more than the likelihood of being beaten and robbed in the streets, yet the words that make the blood leap are not "crime in the home," but "crime in the streets.'' Bayard Rustin and other reputable thinkers contend that the explanation is racial: that public passion for suppressing crime in the streets does not represent repu~nance for crime so much as repugnance for black demonstrations and the black criminal's refusal to confine his operations to black slums. Another entirely different prefer to have him otherwise engaged. Stamping out crime in those mysterious streets, for example. Gertrude Crowe 4074 N. E. 7th DUIT OF ALL To the Editor: I returned Sunday from the Democratic primary platform convention in Eugene, a convention held every two years to draft proposals to benefit people of Oregon. This year's convention was no different than its predecessors. Some excellent platforms were adopted. A strong Vietnam and forei!ffi affairs platform that was neither a victory for the doves or a defeat for the hawks was adopted. With few variations, it called for an honorable settlement of the war in Vietnam and withdrawal of troops at the end of hostilities. There were also strong platforms on taxation, labor, education and civil rights adopted. A new platform was ori)rinated this year on consumer affairs. I had the privilege to serve on the Committee. Many safeguards were adopted to protect the consumer and buyer. You may say, what is the good of all these platforms if they do not become effective? I was asked why I was not on the Civil Rights Committee this year. I replied, "We have a very good platform now . one that includes Negro history in textbooks, a proposal Iworked on for four years before it was adopted on the state plank and I figured that until we get a majority in the Hous~ to pass this and other legislation, I should work on another issue that ties in with civil rights." Now, here is where you, the reader, come in. If you want things done, you must help. You can do this by registering to vote for the party of your choice. April 27 is the deadline. Do not forget. If you fail to register and vote, you have no right to complain. Voting is your civic obligation and duty. Emile Summers 627N. E. Sumner ACCEPTANCE. BY ALL To the Editor: I have had the opportunity to read and enjoy the Feb. 8, 1968 edition of The Oregon Advance Times and both my husband and myself feel that it is well worth subscribing to. However, in several items, I noted a very heavy overtone of animosity towards whites and especially those whites that want to mix in the black society. I can understand why the black people feel the way they do and I am glad that the movement for the advancement of black people is in full swing and pray that it continues until the phrase "equal opportunity" is no longer a headline but a fact taken for granted by all. Please, in your fight for equal opportunity and reco!,':- nition as a group to be respected and admired as you should be and deserve to be, don't put my people in the same place you are working so hard to get out of. What do I mean by my people? We seem to be the "Out Crowd," of both the white and black societies. I am white and I am proud of it and I want to stay that way. My husband is black (not tan) and I am also proud of him and 1 don't want him to be white or act white or try to look white either. He is a wonderful father to my three children from a former marriage; they are white and they love him and let him know it. Also, we have two children and are expecting another. We are stared at like we are some sort of side show by most whites, and the blacks act as if 1 would have to be a prostitute to be with a black man. So you see, the problem of equality is not just a question of white acceptance of black. It includes acceptance of both black and white of black and white families who are also struggling to be recognized in the community as upstanding people who also deserve to be treated like members of the society and not outcasts. Sincerely, Mrs. Tom B. Gunnels 1846 S. E. 47th Portland MODEL CITIES To the Editor: Whenever something new comes up there are usually misunderstandings and criticisms. This is natural. Some unjustified criticisms have prompted me to write this article. Since there are so many aspects of the Model Cities program. I have singled out the most pressing one and the (Continued on Page 10) j
March 21, 1968 The Oregon Advance/TIMES Page 3 Crews Takes Scout Post Wite of Olatunji Visits The first drugstore in the An estimated 51,800 perU.S. was founded in Phila- sons will die this year of lung The Columbia Pacific other institutions now spon- Amy Olatunji, wife of Michael Babatunde Olatunji, director of the Olatunji Center for African Culture in New York City, visited Portland during the past weekend. She visited C-CAP, 106 N. E. Morris St. Sunday afternoon and spoke briefly to a group meeting there about the importance of racial pride in both black.s and whites and the necessity of thinking as a human being, rather than as a Negro or Caucasian. said she had done her crying delphia in 1729. cancer. Council, Boy Scouts of soring troops in the area: before and that now was the America, has added a new Sabin elementary school, executive to its Northeast Boise elementary school, area. He is the second Negro lrvin~ton elementary school, time to rejoice, "White is worn to wish the spirit well on its way to wherever it goes," she said. WHAT FINANCIAL AIDS ARE THERE? Charles Crews to work on the executive level of the scouting program. · Charles Crews, an Albina resident, will assist Roland Moore, district scout executive, in charge of Lewis and Clark ·district. The two men want to revise the already established troops in the area and form new troops. Crews says, ·'The scouting program is especially important to the Albina area. The scout leaders are images of masculine patience, guidance and experience of which many of the boys in our community are badly in need.'' Crews and Moore will make visits to all individuals or groups who would like to volunteer as scout leaders. The following are PTA' s and \ \I Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Highland elementary school, Humboldt elementary school, Holladay elementary school, Piedmont United Presbyterian Church, McKinney Temple Church of God in Christ, Vancouver Avenue First Presbyterian Church and the Salvation Army. North Catholic Students Meet Ambassadors Miss Bernadette Scott was hostess for a get-together of teens from the Ambassadors Club and students from North Catholic High School March 15. Twelve members of the Ambassadors met with 12 students from North Catholic High to discuss "How Teenagers Can Better the Racial Situation Today," The meeting was a continuation of a March 10 discussion between the two groups at the home of a North Catholic student when the teen-agers talked about what they could do to help lower the dropout problem in high schools. Mrs. Olatunji, a strikingly handsome woman in both appearance and manner, was wearing African dress, a lapper or skirt, a buba or shirt and a gelede or "gelly" which is a turban, Mrs. Olatunji and her husband are a part of the black cultural renaissance which may give new direction to millions of Amer ican Negroes. They hope that their center will make white people more aware of the contributions of black people to mankind and make black people more aware of their cultural heritage, Offered at their school are six African languages, drumming, dancing and music, To pay the bills, Olatunji gives concerts throughout the world and lectures on African culShe demonstrated the versatility of the stole-like fabric square she was also ture, wearing and noted it could be used to carry a baby, for toting things around, for warmth or, placed over the head, furnished protection from the wind, By draping it deftly, Mrs. Olantunji showed how the style of her simple but beautiful garments could be changed according ., to the whim of the wearer. Her costume was entirely white which signifies mourning attire. Mrs. Olatunji was in Portland to attend the funeral of her sister Rose Taylor. 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Page 4 The Oregon Advance/TIMES March 21, 1968 New Park on Schedule The new park being built on the four square blocks north of Failing Street and west of Haight Street is beginning to take shape. The baseball area has been leveled and the backstop put in place. This, along with grassed areas that will extend out from the ball diamond, covers nearly the eastern half of the park. The western half will be made up of a great variety of things for children. Leo Dimmitt, foreman for the contractor, L. S. Uppinghouse Co., said work was on schedule. It started Jan. 15 and will be completed some time in the summer. The area is muddy now but already some of the outlines are apparent. A maze built of planks is nearly completed. Children will enter and try to find their way to the center despite some dead-end corridors. One hill that will be topped by a fortress-like structure has been graded and carpenters are building the fort. There will be slides from it that will whisk the children to the ground level. Another hill will have steps to the top. Another will be covered by trees. Well over 100 trees have been planted at the park and mo,e are to come. Reinforced iron is in place around which concrete columns will be pour~d. The columns will support a roof for a play area and shelter. Dimmitt said there would be swings, and climbing ropes, balancing rails and other things that children like. Much of the western part will be blacktopped and this cannot be done until dry summer weather, he said. Some 8 to IO men have been employed the past two months Protect Your Clothes in \ Satin Smooth v Stainless Steel ~.~ although the number has varied. Dimmitt said the work force includes one Negro carpenter and one Negro carpenter's apprentice as well as Negro laborers from the community. 'Termites' Common Now Fake termite "experts" frequently victimize timid homeowners. Pesky termites probably gnaw away at woodwork on a year around basis, but the equally destructive fake ''termite control specialists" usually step uptheir activity of putting the bite on homeowners as spring approaches. One of the favorite methods employed by these transient termite crews is what is called the "scare technique." They make what is supposed to be an "inspection" of the prospect' s home and without fail they will produce evidence of termites. This is simple enough • , . because they carry as "props" jars filled with termites and worm eaten boards. Armed with this "evidence," they tell the homeowner of the great damage that will be caused to his property if something isn't done immediately. This "something" is that the faker be paid a big fee for spraying the infected area with supposedly special chemicals. Alarmed by this presumed threat to their homes, many have paid huge sums to these fakers. 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Butler home, 127 N. E. Knott st. From the left are Mrs. Allee Butler, the hostess; Mrs. Robert Canada, past matron; Mrs. Annie Holland, associate matron and tea chairman; Mrs. Margaret Isaacs, matron; Mrs. Ruby Cannon, Mrs. Frances VANN'S MORTUARY 5211 NORTH WILLIAMS AVENUE PORTLAND, OREGON PHONE -281-2836 Adair. · Grant High PTA Sets Dance Sponsored Rummage Sale By Ambassadors The Grant High School P. T. A. will hold its first rummage sale Frid11y. April 5, from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 1937 N. E. 42nd in the former Sanford's store in the Hollywood area. There will be ample parking space and good bus service. Refreshments will be sold. Money raised will be used to help with graduation expenses, buy band uniforms and help the American Field Service. Co-chairmen of the rummage sale will be Mrs. Harold Donin and Mrs. Harold Butts. School Board to Meet The Portland School Board will hold its next meeting in the Grant High School auditorium Monday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. The meeting is open to the public. Model A59DF The Ambassadors, a social club for teen-agers, gave a dance March 12 at the Knott Street Community Center to provide teens with some social activity during spring vacation from school. The Soul Segments and the Soul Tans provided music and entertainment. Keith Edwards is president of the Ambassadors Club. • for EFFICIENCY for CARE for COURTESY At Vann's No Service Ever Costs More Than The Family Wishes To Pay HEATING SPECIAL Replace your old furn ace with a New Carrier Forced Air Furnace Gas, Oil & Electric Completely installed with • New Ductwork • N~w Heating Pipes • All necessary wiring • All necessary gas piping • New Thermostat Remember... with Natural Gas, All service calls are FREE For Free Estimates, Call 287-7211 1714 N.E. Alberta Heating and Air Conditio~ir~g, Inc.
March 21, 1968 The Oregon Advance(TIMES Page 5 Model Cities Seeks Volunteer Co-ordinator Porter Wins Fellowship for Summer Study Abroad The Model Cities Program has announced a job opening for a volunteer co-ordinator. Duties and responsibilities of this position include securing and co-ordinating the services of persons who can render volunteer services to the program. This will include describing the tasks that can be performed byvolunteers in the administrative as well as the planning portion of the program. A reservoir of volunteer talent and a catalog of volunteer skills will be maintrained by the co-ordinator. This person will constantly advise the staff director and the planning teams of the special talents that are available for all aspects of the program. The co-ordinator will also be responsible for coordinating the training of the volunteers and the evaluation of their services. 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It was pointed out that the community needs to better understand the functions of the police and the police need to humanize their relationship to the community and to individuals. The group adopted a series of recommendations. One of them was to have a better screening program for police assigned to the Albina area and also to have more Negro policemen. It was suggested that a program be started to introduce the responsibilities of police to young people. Young men who took part in this program could accompany a police officer on weekends on his rounds. The possibility of hiring men over 45 was suggested. Proby said, "You may say that's too old, but we do not think so. A middle-aged man will approach the problem in a different manner and win respect of the youth, Combine one older policeman with the younger man and they could make a valuable rerun." Another suggestion made was the establishment of an information and community relations office in the area. This office would be staffed by a carefully selected police officer and communitypeople, as well as high school graduates who want to become policemen but cannot mark time until they are 21 years of age, It was suggested that such an "on the job" training program, combined with study courses, could be most effective in developing a high calibre, potential police officer. As the meeting closed. it was emphasized by Mrs. Sheppard that the School Community Action Committee was not saying, "We haven't a good police department." She said, ''The recommendations presented will make for a more effective program and assure the people of this city that the police do have their welfare at heart." Paraphernalia • IS Coming to Portland! at the Model Cities office, 5329 N,E. Union Avenue, Suite 210, the State Employment Service, North Branch Office in the More For Less Shopping Center, or the Albina Neighborhood Service Center at 59 N.E. Stanton. Deadline Approaches On Prep Art Show The deadline for entering the Second Annual Portland High School Art Show is fast approaching. Anyone planning to take part in this exhibition-competition should submit his or her work to the Albina Art Center by March 30. Painting, graphics, sculpture, textiles, ceramics and other handcrafts are encouraged from high school students attending public, parochial or private schools in the Portland area, Judges for the contest will be prominent local artists. A formal presentation of the three cash awards and the honorable mentions in each category will take place at a gallery reception from 2 to 5 p.m. Easter Sunday, April 14. The public is welcome to attend both the reception and the show. The exhibit will be in the Art Center from April 5-30. Clarence A. Porter, assistant professor of biology at Portland State College, is one of 10 persons in the U.S. to win a National Institute of Health fellowship to study parisitology in a foreign country this summer. Dr. Porter, now 28, attended Langston University in Clarence A. Porter Langston, Okla., and graduated from Portland State College in June 1962, working as a laboratory assistant and paper grader to help pay his way. He earned his masters and PhD from Oregon State University, while working as a teaching assistant in general biology. The · chance to study parasites in a tropical area this summer is exciting, Porter says. "You can study in school and work in labs, but seeing for yourself the people afflicted by diseases caused by parasites will give me background I couldn't get any other way," he said. While at Oregon State, he started a colony of germfree rats for use in experiments dealing with pesticides. 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Page 6 The Oregon Advance/TIMES March 21, 1968 Meet A Rare Bird A Black A.ctress "Lynn Hamilton, Actress. That is who I am - and it's what I always wanted to be." That is what the actress said when interviewed backstage at Portland State Lynn Hamilton College where she had just finished her last performance with the American Theater Co. The night's vehicle, "Neighbors," had been the world premiere of Arkady Leokum"s play. George Hendrix, a young Portlander, played the leading role. Miss Hamilton appeared as his wife while Gay Mathis and Rich Scheeland were the white couple intending to sell their home in a good neighborhood, to Negroes. Under Frank Farmer's direction, the cast developed the theme that racism, white or black, is an ugly thing. Answering questions about her career, Miss Hamilton continued, ''I joined my high school dramatics club back in Chicago Heights, lll. My family still lives there. It took me a whole year of sweeping the stage, painting the scenery, and making costumes before I realized there would never be any roles for a black actress on that stage. I quit and began saving my money. I knew I had talent but would need the best training available to succeed. "Luckily for me, the Goodman Theater, which is the best dramatics school in this country, is in Chicago: A school by day and a theater at night. It was two years before there was a role for me, a black actress. I acted outside of the school at night with The Skylark Players." At this point, Miss Hamilton suddenly became a bit embarrassed and protested. "l didn't mean for this to be a biography. I just wanted it understood that this is a tough business. To succeed one has to be willing to work, and work hard." "I starved the first two years after graduation, working at everything but acting in New York. I got my first part in a small off-Broadway revival of Anna Lucasta. It was a poor production but ran long enough for me to get my Equity card.'' That small part, coupled with good reviews, began a career that now includes four Broadway plays, five offBroadway shows, three years with the New York Shakespeare Festival and the first world tour with Helen Hayes, under the auspices of the U. S. Government's Cultural Exchange Program. A rare bird indeed, a working black actress, Miss Hamilton is an accomplished professional. She has worked in radio, motion pictures and television. She leaves Portland to join the Seattle Repertory Theater where she will appear in "Three Penny Opera" and do a role in "The Rivals.'' In 1966, the Seattle Repertory imported Miss Hamilton to play the female lead in Moliere's comedy, "Tartuffe.'' A charming, open and vivacious person, Miss Hamilton laughed when we asked her about Hollywood. "I'm a black actress with a classical background and they don't know what to do with me down there.'' Volunteer To Teach Sewing Technique Mrs. Lizzie Sheppard is recruiting ladies to learn a new sewing technique for the new stretch, knit and synthetic fabrics. A special volunteer from the Council of Churches will teach these easy and exciting methods with "wonder materials" to women interested in making slacks, shirts, skirts, ski pants, sweaters, knit tops and swim suits for the entire family. The Albina Neighborhood Service Center is offering the course, which can accommodate 30 to SO ladies in the four-session series. The first class will meet April 5 at 7:30 p.m. at 5744 N. E. Cleveland Ave. Adoptions Q. How much red tape is there in adoptions? A. Many people make a point of telling us they are surprised at how little red tape there is. We at the Boys and Girls Aid Society are as anxious as our aPplicants to cut out red tape. as our job is to place children with loving parents as fast as possible. A SOLID HOUR OF SOLID NEWS IN COLOR 5:30•6:3D Ro11 Marie Scott Ron Magers Dick Ross anchors a nightly 60minute local and regional newscast, reported by the KGW-TV news staff, largest in the Pacific Northwest. For latest news, weather, sports and commentary, tune NEWS BEAT. ir··· ··· .. .... ..,... :.,·.. ·:•·: ir:Jj\i Doug LaMear Linda Royer Forest Amsden FOLLOWED BY HUNTLEY, BRINKLEY 6:30•7:DD FRANK McGEE REPORTS SATURDAYS ·B Waiting for copies of The Oregon Advance Times which will be distributed to residents of the Albina area are six happy carriers. From the left are Johnny Gill Larry Clark, Virgis Roberts, Donald Clark, Tommy Wilbur; James Cooper. Fun, Betterment Aim of Emeralds The Emeralds, a group of· Mabel Jenkins, treasurer: about 40 Albina area young Annie Lewis, secretary; Cecil people, has been conducting Hatchett, sergeant-at-arms. money-raising dances, a car The Emeralds meet each wash and other activities. Thursday. Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality. Alameda Theatre • 3000 N.E. Alberta 284-9448 Tom LoughIIn Born Losers • Adam Rourke Hell's Angels Admission: s100.75c-5oc • Fri. - Sat. 7 p.m. Sat. & Sun. Matinee 12:45 When first started last fall it took part in a clean-up campaign aimed at making Albina more attractive. Its officers say it is continuing with the aim of providing fun for the members and improvement for the community. ~~~.-...._..~~~ ... ~~~ ... ~ ... , : THE SPORTSMEN Present f . Sam Redditt is sponsor of the Emeralds. Officers are: Lesley Dennis, president: Brenda Brown, vice president; t 'A SPRING DANCE' t f March 30 l O p.m. - 2 a.m. f t Cabaret t A At the Silver Skate N. E. 102nd & Halsey f , Donation $2.00 Tickets available at this Newspaper l ~ .......................................... ~ Royal Esquire Club of Portland Inc. 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