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Rose City Initiates Safety Program Rose City Cab Company, the only Black owned Black oper ated cab has Initiated a safety program, which not only In volves the company and their drivers but also the customers. M r. Frank M illner, president of the company says theirs Is the only program of Its kind In the city of Portland. The cabs undergo regular In spections inside and out for neatness and cleanliness. The drivers are checked for neat ness of attire all with an eye to safety. When a customer enters the cab he Is pleasantly reminded to buckle up for safety sake, and for his own. M r. Booker T . Parnell who Is Safety Operation O fficer, for the company is the Initiator of this program. The idea came about, M r. M illner says, because the cab company was unable to get In surance in the State of Oregon, because of the location of the business. He also pointed out a fact which is well known to all who reside In the Albina Area. T h a t the insurance rates for people who live In this area are too high for economical opera tion of the company. M r. M illner has stated that to make the program of Interest to all employees, each employee will receive a savings bond as recognition for having served a certain length of time with the company passing all inspections and having an accident free re cord. He also figures the savings lncured by having an accident free record or a minimal re cord of accidents, can eventually be passed on to the customer. PORTLAND/OBSERVER Nov. 12, 1970 Questions and Answers Q.-What features appear on the signify the U.N. purpose of pro- United Nation Flag? motüig world peace. A.-The flag features the official Q.-What is the world’s highest N.N. emblem, a map of the capital city? world flanked by two olive A .-L a Paz, Bolivia 12,795 feet b r a n c h e s . The olive branches above sea level. For first class e fficien t service, there is no doubt when you call Vann. L. T. JOHNSON, driver for Rose City Cab Company received a “Safety Savings Bond” from Booker T. Purnell as Driver of the Month award. Split opinion o f court anticipated C airo charges Close observers of the UJ>. and school boards the option of Supreme Court and some of the using busing, without requiring participants in the three school it in all instances. desegregation cases now before (See the complete story next week) the court anticipate a split deci Rep. John B. Conyers sion. If the justices disagree on (D-M lch.) may embark on a the final opinion, It would be the fact-finding tour early next year Supreme Court's firs t split rul In racially tense Cairo, III. An ing on a school case since the aide to the Detroit congressman original BROWN decision in said a probe Is necessary "to 1954. The complexity of the find the truth." Racial tensions three cases Involving busing In The four-day conference (Oct. flared again the weekend of Oot. Athens, Ga., Charlotte, N .C ., 27-30) of the National Associa 24 and police charged that black and Mobile, A la., and the pos tion of Intergroup Relations Of militants opened fire on police sible Impact on DE FACTO se ficers (NAIRO) began quietly headquarters. “ R epo r t s I re gregation in the North are ex enough In Tulsa, Okla. LaDonna ceive are that blacks attacked pected to require considerable H arris, part Comanche Indian the police station there for no time In preparing the decision. and wife of Oklahoma Sen. Fred apparent r e a s o n , " Conyers* H arris, praised the convention Estimates of a decision date aide said. "That doesn't sound range from December through theme of "Self Determination: right." Cairo’s black militants next spring. However, pressure Red, Brown and Black." The J o in e d with black students at outgoing president of NAIRO, Ed for a quick decision has been Southern Illinois Unlversltv on created by other school cases In Bowden, said the aim of the Oct. 24-25 at a Black Survival lower courts, where judges have conference was to examine the Conference and formed tho Na withheld final action pending the problems of Indians, Chicanos, tional Black United Front (Race higher court’s ruling in these blacks and Puerto Ricans "as Relations Reporter, No. 18: Oct. three cases. they seek to enter the American 16). The Front, with head mainstream. Lawyers on both sides of the quarters In Cairo, w ill organize three cases say they want a Subsequent s p e a k e r s dis chapters across the country. quick decision. Legal sources agree. "Why jump aboard a Subsequent meetings will be stress the difficulty of second- sinking ship," one Indian asked. held to devise means or pro guessing the court. They be "We don’t want to enter the tecting black communities from lieve, however, the court may m ainstream ." Of several mi outside te rro rists. give the lower federal courts nority spokeman taking Issue with Howden, the sharpest c riti cism came from Armando Men doza, a counsellor at the Uni versity of Washington. " It is not going to w ork," he declared. "You w ill never assimilate. You never will assimilate La Raza." Racial conflict has Interfered poor blacks; the massive plan for Mendoza also told the organiza with the planning In Philadelphia exposition sites and community tion of mostly black and white on the 200th anniversary cele revampment would cause mass bration of the American Revolu displacement In a densely popu human relations officials that " I tion. Many black board lated, lack Inner-city area; and think your organization stinks. I feel deeply that you are a bunch members of Philadelphia’s 1976 a freedom celebration is ir r e l of phonies." The next day, the Bicentennial Corporation walked evant to black people. As one Chicanos walked out, calling the out of the meeting at which a black said, "We don’t have any $1 billion master plan was ap reason to have a bicentennial. goals and concepts of NAIRO lrrevelant. proved. The corporation chair The black man is still not A lot of the talk at the con man, Henderson Suppléé J r ., free." ference focused on coalitions set up a special reconciliation among minority groups. Jack s e s s io n . Of the 116 board Everyone In every walk of Agueros, a Puerto Rican and members, 22 are black, one is life has his problems. Can you executive director of Mobiliza P u e r t o Rican and none come tion for Youth In New York City, from Philadelphia's Chinese or imagine how a physical or mental handicap adds to life's declared that the assumption Japanese communities. Supplee's administrative as normal difficulties? The lucky that minority coalitions are In sistant, Spencer Jones, prom will never have to bear such evitable and will exist on every Issue Is Irrational and can ised a more multi-national type a burden. The handicapped at o f directors. Objections were Goodwill Industries have this cause even greater problems. that the organization was out of b u r d e n to try to overcome. Agueros caused a furor, espe touch with the poor, especially P le a s e help Goodwill and cially among blacks, when he thereby help the handicapped. said that at times he sees blacks and whites as simple Wonderful Oregon " y a n k e e ra cis ts ." He later clarified his position and said that he believes In coalitions but they need to be specific--about a p a r t i c u l a r project, goal or Y o u ’ll lik e our L ittle John i s s u e . This gradually became Spuds, Dip, Colo Slow, Potato the consensus among the con S a la d , B a k e d B e an s a n d ference participants. 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