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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1970)
y r W Northwest's Newest — Most Provocative — Newspaper This is your paper, because you have dem anded it y aem andeg it. -----r------------------------------ 1 No. j Portland, Ore. c *. • . • — Something of interest to everyone. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Thursday, Oct. 29. 1970 in- P ., Criminal justice workshop date set tions In the U.S. Department of Justice, and has a long history of social work experience and special legal assignments. - M e m b e rs of four m a jo r' groups within the c rim in a l ju s tice system--Judges, prosecut ing attorneys, chief law officers including sheriffs and police chiefs, and corrections workers I such as wardens and chief ad m in istra to rs—w ill w o r k with p e r s o n s chosen from other groups and agencies, such as newsmen, TV reporters, State senators and representatives, c iv il rights associations, youth service groups, and educators. Starting Friday afternoon, the workshop w ill combine the In sights and s k ills of the specia lists with the overall views and perspectives of the others at tending, to "provid e a concen trated study of both problems ROGER W. WILKINS and p rio ritie s for solution In machines: Front - Ralph Stevenson; Middle - Stanlve Paige; Back - H annah A group of fifty professionals our own Portland area,” Bur within the greater Portland Jus Stevenson. dett Emery, PCC Coordinator of tice system w ill explore prob public safety program s, stated. lems and potential solutions In Jim Long, noted O R E G O N a workshop Jointly sponsored by JOURNAL Investigative re port P o r t la n d Community College er, is co-chairman for the and the Jackson Foundation. workshop. The workshop, to be held No Wilkins w ill be the speaker vember 13-14 on PCC’s Mt. for a Friday evening buffet, and Sylvania campus, w ill present Phil Mason, fo rm e rly of the Na Roger W. W ilkins, Program Of tional Urban Coalition and now ficer for social development of M r. L lm b ric k , says. He went High Park Enterprises is a D irector, Center of Community son says "H igh Park enter the Ford Foundation, as a major on to say that this has created E d u c a t io n , Washington, D.C., local s e l f - h e l p organization p r i s e s is an example of the speaker. W ilkins was form erly a cohesiveness between em w i l l be a consultant-resource which began operation in Au church and community working an Assistant Attorney General ployees that's hard to find in person and speaker at the Sat gust of 1969. Since its incep together." In charge of community re la other establishments. tion, High Park has shown a urday session. Another Black man clim bing continued rise in both employ High Park, itse lf, does sub the ladder and reaching to help ment and output. contract work fo r a number of others. High Park began with three other businesses besides Tek p e o p le operation out of one tro n ix , hence the business is room of what is known as growing and becoming quite stable. Highland Community Center. One of the very interesting The enterprise Initially was sidelines connected with High set up to do set’ -contract work Oregon veterans attending John M ille r, form er counsel come a continuing one enabling fo r Tektronix. Park is a Garment Industry. school this fa ll may be entitled many times that number 01 o r fo r the Portland Opportuni This Garment Industry designs M r . Leon Llm brick the to state veterans' educational t ie s Industrialization Center, "students" to take part. One of and makes garments fo r sale manager of the outfit says aid benefits to help pay the has recently been appointed the most important parts of this u n d e r the label of Highland when he began with only three costs of their studies, thé De Project Manager of the Urban project is that it wUl lie a paid Fashions. Many of these fash people and >120 capital he had partment of Veterans' A ffairs Technical Assistance Program. study program enabling 400 c it ions can be found fo r sale at reports. It is a project designed to assist izens to learn and earn at the no idea how the operation p la c e s like The Cinnamon could survive. The three o rlg H. C. Saalfeld, veterans* af Model Neighborhood residents same tim e. F ifty (50) of the Tree. Washington Sign Compa Inal employees had to t>e fa irs d irector, said the state in participating actively In the participants w ill not receive ny also features some of High- trained to assemble the elec benefit pays $50 for each Model Cities planning process. stipends. la n d 's Fashions, including tric a l components from Tek month of fu ll-tim e undergrad At present, staff personnel The project Itself Is a Joint ef beautiful bowling shirts with uate college studies, and up are being Interviewed and hired tro n ix . ff they weren't done fo rt of Portland Metropolitan th e ir insignia. right they would have to be re to >35 a month fo r other stud Steering Committee and the and the program itse lf w ill be done. Highland Fashions through ies, based on one month’s en Portland Model C ities Program, taking in its fir s t class of eighty Highland Self-Help Program is Leon says it was very d iffi titlem ent fo r each month of ftinded through HUD and OEO. (80) people sometime in m id- cult, near impossible, in the c u r r e n t l y doing subcontract m ilita ry service to a maxi November. These classes w ill UTAP, as it Is commonly re work fo r White Stag, here in beginning to operate with no mum of 36 months. ferred to, w ill provide target consist of five (5) sessions, the city and a number of other Entitled are Korean veter area residents with training and each running about two hours in capital and no trained person companies. nel, but he made up his mind ans, and veterans of service information concerning not only length. It is anticipated that At the head of this organiza that It would Just have to go. after July 1, 1958, who re the Model Cities Program but UTAP w ill generate a great deal tion since Its inception in Au Now the operation has grown ceived the Armed Forces Ex also other regional agencies as of interest among area re s i gust of '69, is M r. Leon L lm large enough that early last peditionary Medal o r the Viet well as those on a national level dents and a mass promotional b ric k , who has 23 years of ex spring they moved out of High nam Service Medal for service (HUD, HEW, etc.). As M r. M ill campaign is being readied — perience in management and land Center to 3535 N.E. Union in overseas trouble spots or er points out, one of the very u tilizin g all areas of the mass Avenue. They have continued p e r s o n n e l through his A ir combat areas. They must be im p o r t a n t areas UTAP w ill media, the Model Cities News to hire more people as the Force Service. He retired Oregon residents when they address itse lf to w ill 1« to pro le tter and a number of inform a from the A ir Force shortly work comes in until now they apply for the benefit. There Is vide a continual flow of Infor tional leaflets d is tr ic te d have 28 people on board. before assuming command of no application deadline. mation to all area residents and throughout the Model Neigtibor- the Highland Enterprise. High Park Enterprises, Inc., World War II veterans who to provide citizens with specific hood. was founded on the premise drew State educational aid be instructions on how the Model The High Park enterprises A number of office sites are that Blacks and poor Whites fore June 30, 1959, may s till Cities Program operates was founded by Rev. Samuel now under consideration, but, in can tie trained to earn th e ir own qualify if they haven't exhaust Instruction w ill be offered to the in terim , M r. M ille r asks way. Johnson, m inister of Highland ed th e ir benefits. a minimum of 450 residents United Church of C h rist. He him i ‘ erested cltlze "S con "rx ie to the background of The veteran can't draw state during the fir s t year. It is ex Uct also operates Highland Commu tact him through the Model C i most of the employees there is aid at the same tim e he is re pected that the project w ill be ties O ffice, 288-6923. nity Center and a half way house a desire to help each o th e r," ceiving federal e d u c a t io n a l fo r hard core youth. Rev. John- benefits High Park self-help enterprise growing Earn and Learn goal of UTAP Oregon vets study aided
