Wednesday, March 21, 1962
THE OREGON MIRROR
Albina Gtizens Group Form Assoc
on Housing Issue
Page 3
Booker 1 Washington M embers
Blasts Demo Committee K ick o ff Political Education Club
Albina Business Man
A group of citizens in favor of the Daisy W illiam s Hous
ing project and any other im provem ent that is designated
for the Albina A rea, met at the home of M rs. Loy Sing Yee,
202 N. E. Graham , Sunday, M arch 18, 1962.
The group selected the name of "A lbina T axpayers &
Civic A ssociation’’, who’s purpose will be "striv in g tow ards
community betterm ent and equal opportunity for a ll’’.
Chosen as tem porary officers were: M rs. NevadaD. B ar
nett, Chairm an, M r. Booker Gibson, A sst. Chairm en, M rs.
A. Cox, Sr., Secretary, M rs. Loy Sing Yee, T re a su re r and
M r. Don Alford, D irector of Publicity.
The association decided that an im m ediate pole should
be taken of the residents and interested people in and out
of the Albina A rea as to th eir opinions in regard to the con-
tro v ersal Daisy W illiam s project.
M r. U. H. L everette in behalf of the Billy Webb Lodge
IBPOE offered the use of the Club-room for all future m eet
ings of the group.
The association m em bership is open to all people and
welcome m em bers who are willing to work for all im
provem ents and erradication of the stigm a from the name
Albina.
To date, A large num ber of people have expressed th eir
approval of the project by placing th eir signatures on the
petition favoring the site location for the project.
The little people of Albina are speaking.
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"I WILL WORK FOR YOU"
Howard R. Lee, owner of
Lee U Rent Inc., 2716 N. Van
couver Ave., stated: The
resolution of the D em ocrat
C entral Com m ittee should be
disregarded. It was first
turned down by all com m it
tees in the local convention
after careful exam ination of
the facts which showed that
the Knott stre e t project should
be supported. These com m it
tees w ere overruled by C hair
man F r a n k R oberts, who
brought it to the floor in an
undem ocratic m anner. Op
position was squelched by
R oberts, who allowed Wally
Priestly, seeking support from
the Urban League and the
N.A.C.P. in his race for State
R epresentative, the alm ost
com plete ow nership of the
floor. With only one side p re
sented with distorted and in
com plete facts the Resolution
was incorporated in the plat
form . Personal political am
bition of these two men was
the m ost im portant factor, as
was the prom otion of the re so
lution passed last Thursday,
an indication that facts are not
im portant in som e politicalac-
tivity.
I am personally asham ed
that th e D em ocratic party
should put itself on record as
opposed to public housing
w here it is needed, that it
would seek to legislate where
a site will be located, that it
would discrim inate against
colored home ow ners desirous
of im provem ent and upgrading
of th eir neighborhood, and for
setting forth a policy for argu
m ents against housing in Jew
ish, Skandinavian, G erm an,
Italian, or any other ethnic
O fficers and m em bers of
The Booker T. Washington
Club in a meeting at The
D esert Motel, officialy laun
ched their new Political Ed
ucation Club and elected of
ficers. The new organization
is a Non P artisan Group open
to Republicans, D em ocrats
and Independents.
The necessary need an d
purpose for this Club is to
seek o u t non-registered peo
ple and acquaint them with the
im portance of registering and
voting.
T h e Political Education
Clubs initial goal is to p re
sent to its m em bers infor
mation data on A spirants for
Public Office and educate their
m em bers of the im portance of
m em bers to the im portance of
studying records and issues
on candidates seeking office.
Elected as P res, was A rthur
A. Palm er, owner of The D es
ert Motel. Don Alford, Man
aging Editor of thé OREGON
MIRROR newspaper was elec
ted Vice President.
An open invitation will be
extended to all Candidates,
reg ard less of party, to come
rr> th eir club house to discuss
platform s and program s with
th eir groups and to bring lit
eratu re to be studied and c ir
culated by the Political Ed
ucation Club.
A resolution was passed
unanimously favoring housing
in the Albina area.
To the Editor: The public
hassle that is going on re
garding the placing of the low
cost housing. 1 feel the deci
sion should be left up to the
people in this area instead of
the Urban League or any other
organization of so -c a lle d
leaders.
The people of the Albina
area have given no one, no
organizations, perm ission to
represent us. We shall re p re
sent ourselves. T h e project
will help beautify a rundown
area. It is close to all public
transportation and shopping
centers. It will give incentive
to others to beautify their
homes.
So let these self-im posed
leaders talk th eir heads off.
We, the people of the Albina
area, think the proposed site
is a good one.
ALEX EVERS,
124 N. Knott St.
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