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Consumer protection
service
starts
Model Cities money at work
J A LTO N PACE
Appointment of J. Alton Page
from among 70 applicants for
the n e w l y created Consumer
Protection Office in North P o rt­
land was announced by President
A.M . Burdge of the Oregon Con­
sumer L e a g u e. M rs. Betty
BFadlyn was named Education
Coordinator.
The C i t y of Portland has
selected the non-profit consumer
organization to adm inister the
program under an HUD allocation
of $87,000 in Model C ities funds.
The office w ill open Monday,
March 23, at 575 N. KiJIings-
worth Street on a lim ited basis
while additional staff is trained.
Object of the program is to as­
sist people of modest means to
secure their fu ll money’ s worth
Newspaper
'Last y e a r we w ere s a tis fie d w ith a p ie c e o f th e p ie , this
y e a r , we w a n t the re c ip e 11
said that learning about NAACP
"L a s t year we were satisfied
with a piece of the pie. This
year, we want the recipe ."
"Challenges are no longer
in the market place through eco­
enough - now we want action,”
nomical buying and credit prac­
M iss Althea T. L. Simmons,
tice?.
national d ire cto r fo r Training
A fte r graduating from High
P r o g r a m s of the National
school at Palo A lto C a iif, Page
Association
fo r Advancement of
attended
Washington S t a t e
Colored
People,
told her near -
University on a football scholar­
capacity
audience
at the P o rt­
ship, and played tailback on the
land branch NAACP M assM eet-
Cougar team fo r two years. He
ing Sunday afternoon. M ar. 21st,
received an L L .B degree from
at M t. Olivet Baptist Church.
Lincoln University College of
M iss
Simmons s a i d that
Law in 1950, and moved to P o rt­
NAACP
is
62 years old this
land, where he served as general
year,
and
she
reminded h e r
legal counsel for the dining car
listeners
that
in
the early days
waiters union fo r five years.
it was not fashionable to belong
Page was w ltl| the Oregon A tto r­
to the organization.
ney General’ s Welfare Recovery
"T h a t was in the days of three
D ivision from 1961 to 1969, Using
restrooms:
men, women and
to assistant chief Investigator.
colored,”
she
said, "A nd you
From
November 1969 until
rode
in
the
back
of the bus with
recently he was Adm inisti ative
curtains
between
you
and t h e
Management Coordinator for the
white
folks.”
Portland Model C ities program.
She pointed o u t that today
M rs . Bradlyn, a n a t 1 v e of
things
are better, but s till not
Southern
C a lifornia, h o l d s
good
e
n
o u g h . "Once it was
bachelor and masters degrees
called
lynching
— now the word
in home economics from UCLA.
is
changed
to
assassination.
She taught in Los Angeles high
And
we
s
till
haven't
achieved
schools for several years and
what
the
NAACP
has
always
was employed by the Office of
worked
for:
a
single
society.”
Economic Opportunity in Adult
She recalled that in her fresh­
Consumer Education from 1965
to 1967. This was followed by a man year at law school (she had
Peace Corps assignment in Ja­ a Bachelor of Law degree from
maica and as an instructor for H o w a r d University School
of Law) she was privileged to
the Corps at SanDlego State Col­
listen
to briefs presented by
lege. Most recently s h e has
served the OEO in social work
coordination and research.
The office w ill be open from
8:30 to 5 Mondays through F r i­
days. The telephone number is
283-2459. Persons with prot>-
lems regarding credit and pur­
chase agreement terms are par­
tic u la rly invited.
NAACP lawyers against the doc­
trine of separate but equal"
and she pointed out that even
though
school segregation is
now ille g a l, we s till have to look
fo r the subtleties which work a-
gainst true freedom.
In 1964, she was coordinator
of NAACP’ s nationwide voter
registration drive which result­
ed in the addition of six m illion
black voters. She said she re­
members Charles Evers: she
took him down to register. In
discussing the extension of the
voting
rights a c t for another
five years, until 1975, she said
that if eighteen-year-olds can
vote in the 1972 election, they
and the black people can help
determine who the next presid­
e n t w ill be.”
" I t ’ s time the 11.2 black popu­
lation in this country makes it ­
self heard,” she said, "A n d I’ m
talking about brain power, not
black power.”
She talked about th e ' NAACP
work fo r the better housing fo r
Black people, p a rticularly m the
field of home financing plans.
" I f you want to buy in a b 1 a c k
neighborhood, they’ ll give you
80% financing, but if you want to
in y in a white neighborhood,
they just can’ t find mortgage
money fo r you.”
In outlining to members of her
audience what they , could do, , —-
she
in health careers, asked t h e
question, "How many of you want
to be nurses?” A haif-dozen
hands waved in the a ir. O n e
young man thrust his hand up
tentatively, then quickly pulled
it down: "N o , 1 w a n t to be
a DOCTOR!" Then he paused to
consider the situation a moment
longer —- and health careers
lo st. “ W hat I re a lly want to be,"
he confided, " i s a FIREMAN!”
There are also some enthus­
iastic future cooks in the Boise
s e c o n d grade (one wants a
kitchen “ twice this big to cook
all sorts of things’ ” and they
were vigorously encouraged by
Eugene C. Bear, Emanuel Food
Service D ire ctor.
Youngsters agreed thev all
liked the t o u r — and probably
the m o s t popular was t h e
skeleton in the school of Nursing
science.
Franklin
(¿ems
¡(» stivers and home buyers
( lass was divided into two tour groups; here one group
heads for visit to general hospital.
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Robert H ./H h
m
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F r a n k lin
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was the fir s t step, to find out
about the organization, what it
s t a n d s fo r, what
it has
accomplished, and is working to­
ward now. (There are m aterials
in the Portland Branch office
which give much of this inform a­
tion .)
"Read the newspapers: know
what’ s going o n," she advised.
(In this regard, subscriptions to
the Portland Observer News­
paper
can h e l p inform you
what’ s going on in your own com­
munity.)
"G o to the School Board meet­
ings, listen to what they say,
study what they’ re planning to
do, she said. Holding up a copy
of the Sunday Oregonian a rticle
on the "m iddle school” , she
said, "You should know what
schools are included, and why
yours ins’ t included if you think
it should be.”
"And talk to the kids, don’ t
just talk, but listen, too,” s h e
cautioned, "T he y have plenty to
say, if you’ ll listen to them. And
te ll them about the NAACP, how
many of the privileges they en­
joy t o d a y are the result of
the NAACP.”
She
mentioned that young
people have energy and ideas,
and older people have money, ex­
perience and wisdom. "D on’ t
let it throw you, the hair, she
warned, "P av attention to what’ s
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Boise School look at environment
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SECOND-GRADERS
in M rs.
Linnea M asters’ Boise School
class are getting a first-hand
look at a lot of community ser­
vices these days, and studying
th e ir environment at the same
tim e.
Wednesday, the lively, alert
and enthusiastic class got ac­
quainted with Emanuel Hospital
from the pickled pig in t h e
School of Nursing science lab­
oratory ("W hy does it smell like
that?” , they asked, amid great
no sew rinkling I) to ice cream
handed out after an inspection of
the big Emanuel Kitchen.
Youngsters are taking a good
many field trip s this year. M rs.
Masters says, thanks to a Ford
Foundation grant which has made
six school buses available for
the Boise environmental project.
The class has seen the post
office, police station, fire station
bakery, sanitation department
and Emanuel.
Emanuel
s t a f f members
eternally concerned with the need
to interest more young people
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C l a s s members
include
T e rrie Louis, M ark Jones, Gre­
gory Allen, Jeffery M itchel,
Pamela
Bunn, Denise Allen,
Donna Anfield, Candy Moore,
Toyonnia
Cyrus, Lisa Day,
Roberta Friscon, T e rry Seegar
Tanya P ryor, C h rist C a rter,
Shevette Green,
B e rn a rd
Yarborough, anti Danny Parks
assisting M rs. Masters has been
M rs . Joanne Flemming, Teacher
aide. Student nurses who es­
corted the t o u r were Janice
Smith
a n d Tamara Braden;
arrangements were made by
M iss Esther Jacobson, Emanuel
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