Oregon Advance Times_1968-09-19

Circulation The Oregon Published EVERY week! ADVANCE Vol. 1, No. 35 714Y2N. E. Alberta, Portland, Oregon Single Copy 10c Thursday, September 19, 1968 Neighborhood Service Center to Hold Meeting Tonight ... .. - Above shows Mr. G iimore, director of the AVSC, presenting the survey information to Rev. Paul Schultz. Included in picture, at left, Is Mrs. Hazel Hays, Deputy Director of '.; lt izens' Par~fcipation · and Gladys McDaniels, Survey P r oj– P.Ct Director for the ANSC. NAACP President To Teach Black History Tom Vickers At Mt. Angel Tom Vickers, President of the Portland Branch, NAACP, will teach a course, "History and Contemporary Culture of Black Americans - U. s. A.," at Mt. Angel College, a Catholic co-edu– cational college in Mt. Angel, Oregon. The course will carry two hours credit. Residents of the surrounding communities have been in– vited to observe and to par– ticipate in the classes. States through the study of the general culture and so– cial history of Africa; the Slave Trade; the Civil War and Reconstruction; and the Black Revolution of the pres– ent, ~r. Vickers is the first black teacher to join the Mt. Angel College faculty. There are no black people living in the area, which is nort:qeast of Salem, and few black stu– dents at the college, An NAACP college chapter was The course will examine organized at the college by the history and culture of the Portland Branch last black people in the United spring. The Albina Neighborhood Service Center will hold a mass meeting at the Albina Child Care Center Thursday, September 19, at 7:30 p.m. The Neighborhood Board and OE O representatives from the regional office in San Francisco will be dis– cussing the function and need of the center's program. When interviewed in his of– fice, Mr. Rozell Gilmore, Executive Director of the center stated: "The primary objective of the center has been to help poor people get services and jobs,' ' He further stated, "The time has come for the resi– dents to give their views as to whether they think the cen– ter is needed, I hope many residents from Albina will turn out and voice their opin– ions." The center has just com– pleted a survey project for Model Cities. The project was quite revealing and will help greatly in Model Cities planning. Alblna Neighborhood Service Center This project allowed the center to hire some 50 people, most of wtrom were poor. T.,is is only one example of what the center is doing. It is hoped that the resi– dents of the Albina Area will turn out in great numbers to make their wishes known on ju st what they want for 'fHEIR neighborhood, Library Serving·Albina Proudly New Activities Added At Center New activities have been added and summer schedules changed to fit the back-to– school routine of children and their families in the High– land Community Center area. A supervised study time, with college students and teach– ers to help with day-to-day class work problems, is of– fered Monday through Thurs– day evenings from 7:00 to 9:00. An earlier study hour from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. will be arranged by appointment. Those interested may call the Center, 284-2107. Informa- , tion about any of the other , activities can be obtained by ! dialing the same number, Adult and youth classes in (Continued on Page 3) Position Open , · " DIRECTOR ~~ Mrs. Vernon Thompson, • ,,. Chairman of the Portland · Metropolitan Steering Per– sonnel Committee, announces that applications are being taken for the position of Ex– ecutive Director of the Steer– ing Committee, the post made vacant by the resignation of Mayfield K. Webb, who leaves that position to become Pres– ident of The Albina Corpora– tion. Applications may be picked up at the Albina Neighborhood Service Center. They should be filled out and forwarded to the P.M.S,C.. 718 W. Burn– side Street, according to Mrs. Thompson. The salaryforthe job is in the region of $17,000 Albina Library specializes in books on Negro history. They have more books on Negro per annum. history, music, arts, etc., than any other library in the area. /