Letter To
Editor
Dear Editor:
1 want to express my pleasure
at the work you are doing with
The Northwest's Best Weekly
your paper. True it isn’ t
the
New
York
Tim
es,
but
to
me
it
A Black Owned Publication
is worth the support of a ll c iti -
zens.
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when the people have a vehicle in
which to express themselves can
ALFRED LEE HENDERSON, Publisher and Editor
there be progress. 1 hope you
w ill be able to provide it.
Meanwhile everyone really in
terested in what a newspapercan
A teen-ager is a college- he become should give you support.
Between the learning of child
has the appetite of a horse, the
hood and the dignity of adulthood
Sincerely yours,
digestion
of a disposal, the ener
we discover a remarkable crea
W illie Jenkins
gy of an o v e r r i p e banna, the
ture called a teen-ager. He comes
cu rio sity of a cat, the lings of an
in assorted sizes, weights, a n d
orator, the im aginatiin of Wal
c o l o r s , buteachhas the same
te r M itty, the shyness of a violet
creed: to assert his freedom and
on his f i r s t date but the con
independence, to preach against
fidence of an astronaut on his
conform ity, while at the s a m e
s e c o n d, the enthusiasm of the
tim e dressing and acting like
It certainly m arks the age of
fourth of July, and when he reach
everyone else.
one who remembers the days of
es fo r something— look out.*
Teens are found everywhere—
“ Let George Do It,” in the day
in front of record players, on top
He likes french frie s , cokes,—
of radio plays. Those whodo re
hamburgers, hot rods, the beach,
of Mom’ s best furniture, inside
member
are struck by the con -
lunchtime, the opposite sex, and
of automobiles, and underneath
tra
s
t
of
the
public non-involve
sum m er vacations. He is not
piles of school work given b y
ment
of
th
e
’
40’ s and *50’ s and
much fo r visitin g relatives,E ng
t e a c h e r s who ’ ’ think their
present times.
lis h class, study hall, dressing
subject is the only one.’ ’
Locally one of the sterling ex
up on weekends, music lessons
Moms and dads throw up their
amples
of citizen involvement is
coats, or getting up in the morn
hands in d e s p a i r , younger
the
Model
C ities Program . The
brothers and sisters "bugf’ them. ing.
requirement
fo r citizen p a rtic i
A teen-ager is an amazing and
n e w s p a p e r s squelch them
pation in Model C ities has evok
wonderful creature. You can tell
and God loves them.
him once and you can count on ed more interest and concern ...
A teen-ager is t r u t h with
throughout the country than p e r
telling him again. You can ex
a questioning mind; beauty with
haps any other element in the pro
pect
a
child
one
minute
and
an
the s h irta il out over his Levis;
adult the next. You m ight as gram . It has been the m ost....
wisdom with the response, “ You-
w ell give. He’ s your M t. Everest complex element and most d if
te ll me to grow up and act my age,
your joy, your life , and re ally — fic u lt to accomplish. We have
then you tell me I ’ m not old
reason to believe that Portland
probably much like you w h e n
enough” ; and the hope of the fu
program
has had much success in
you were his age.
ture carrying a picket sign pro
But one day w o rrie s o r an citizen participation and would-
testing the ’ ‘ status quo” with the
xieties w ill evaporate when his like to take this opportunity to
word mispelled.
own child runs to your a rm s... commend those who have given
When you need a teen-ager, he
carrying with him those magic so much of th e ir own efforts and
is never around. When you call
words •‘Thank you fo r your un- tkme.
him, he never seems tohearyou,
But with the degree of success
even from the next room, and the derstanding?” When he develop
already enjoyed there rem ains—
telephone is just never yours
more room fo r even a greater
into a fine citizen.
when he is home.
number of citizens participating
in Model C ities. The govern -
m ent’ s policy calls for construct
ive involvement of the Citizens in
the Model Neighborhood area ,
and the city as a whole in plann
ing and carrying out the program
That means residents views on
policy making, planning and ca rry
ing out the demonstration is re
quired.
The underlying basis fo r the
policy is the belief that im prov
ing the quality of life of the res
idents of the Model Neighbor -
hood can be accomplished only by
th e affirm ative action of th e
people themselves.
The convictions upon which.,
this policy is based were reach
ed afte r long and searching ex
plorations. These explorations
squarely faced the fact that F eder
al, state, and local programs in
volving physical or social ctiange
were not addressing citizens*
c o n c e r n s and receive subse -
quent citizen resistance. T h u s
evolved the need and programs
fo r citizen participation.
The Portland Observer urges
its readers to become a “ model
citize n ” and participate in one
of the committees of the Model
C ities Program .
____
“ NO CHARBT
FOR NEWS
IT E M S "
PORTLAND/OBSERVER Thursday M a r. 11,1971
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