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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1971)
■ c / 5 P 75 hwest's Newest Newspaper Library Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331 BEG. 249 Thi, i, y o u , p o p .r , b eco »,« you hove d . mo„ d<(d -, P0RT l ..,' ^ ^ 7 _ Something o( intere>> ,o #veryone V o l.l No. 2 6 Portlond, O r .. AN EQUAL OPPORUNITY EMPLOYER Thursday A p ril 1 1971 10< N ixo n Aide billed PSU-PGE meet for Bureau appoints black Elizabeth Hanford, executive Consumer Bankruptcy. A second speaker with experi d ire cto r of the President's Com m ine on Consumer Interests w ill ence in federal policy toward con sumer affairs is Harrison Shepp be keynote speaker attheseventh annual marketing conference to ard, attorney-advisor to the San be co-sponsored by the Portland Francisco field office of the Fed General E le ctric Company and eral Trade Commission. His in the Portland State University itia l assignment in the Commiss School o f Business Adminis ion's field office was to s e r v e • as general secretary to the new t ration. The all day meeting A p ril 8, at ly formed Consumer Protectio n at the Portland Hilton Hotel opens Coord ina t ing: C omm it tee. at 8 am and w ill feature several figures who w ill discuss consum erism as “ the challenge and op- portunity of the 70's.“ It is such a challenge, note con ference directors J ack L . Taylor, J r., of PSU and Fred 1. Weber, of PGE, that the chairman of the ju diciary committee of the Oregon House of Representatives has named a special subcommitt ee on consumer protection legis lation. M iss Hanford, who received hei law degree from H arvard U niversity, represented indigent defendants in the D is tric t of Col umbia court system before Join ing the President'sComm lttee on Consumer Interests. She also has served on the staff of the A ssist ant Secretary forEducatlon in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She did her undergraduate work at Duke U niversity, where she be came a member of Phi Bete Kappa She won her masters degree in education at Harvard and also studied at the Oxford University International Graduate Summer School. She is a m e m b e r of the D is tric t of Columbia Bar Association and die American Bar Association Committee on Seymour Banks, vice president and media and program research manager fo r the Leo Bu m en Com pany of Chicago, and, among other, duties, the American Association of Advertising Agencies' repre sentative to the Broadcast Rating Council. Continued page 7 col 2 Appointment of Joe H. H a rris of Portland as a Field Represent ative of the Apprenticeship and Training Division of the O reg on Bureau of Labor with a prim ary role of recruitm ent of m inority group persons was announced to day by Norman O .N ilse n, th e State Labor Commissioner. H a rris also w ill be active in career counseling for returned servicemen. There now are more than 800 persons enrol led in f ir e - gun apprenticeship and industrial training programs under the CI B ill of Rights. In addition, he w ill be assigned to provide consulting service to jo in t employer-employee com mittees w h ic h adm inister ap prenticeship and industrial train ing programs in the Portland area fo r all phases of the inside and outside electrical and molding and corernaking industries. A form er financial secretary of a Laborers Union Local in Tex. H a rris was a career counselor during 10 years of A rm y duty . One of his pa rticu la r duties was to counsel persons awaiting dis charge who wanted to do pre-ap prenticeship work in the service. While in the Arm y, H a rris was awarded the Bronze Star and a Commendation Medal fo r act ivitie s during two tours of duty in V iet Nam. He also was stationed in Germany, Korea and Okinawa. Black Director speaks "U p to now, people in the ed ucational structure have believed that student m inorities are a different manner because of different racial and cultural viewpoints,” Harold W illiam s, A native of L ittle Rock, A r k . , H a rris fir s t came to Oregon in 1951. He attended Boise G rade School and Jefferson H ig h School He was graduated from h ig h school in Buffalo, N.Y., and w ar citizen' D o or-D oor Gypo Salemen attended college there while in the A rm y. He also studied un der a U niversity of Maryland pro gram. The new field representative succeeds Charles Canter, who has been appointed D ire cto r of the OUTREACH program of the Urban League and the Portland Building Trades Council fo r pre paring m in o rity group persons fo r entry into apprenticeshiD and industrial training. M in o rity group persons in - terested in apprenticeship and industrial training can c o n ta c t H a rris at Room 46b oftheState Office Building, 1400 SW F ifth Avenue, P o rtlin d . H a rris has worked in the ad vertising department of th e Albina Advance-Times and did advertising work in Texas. In the spring of the year the C ity of Portland along with other cities and towns across the United States is plagued by this type of door-to-door salesmen. I would hope that each of our citizens would be super cautious of door- to-door salesmen. Manyofthese gypos attempt to convince our citizens that they need chimney repairs, sidewalk repairs, fu r nace repairs, tree surgery, hu mus fo r their lawns, fender work and a variety of other so-called legitim ate services. These hust le rs overcharge, use poor quality m aterials, operate without a l i cense, do bad work and then leave town. Oftentimes before the au th o ritie s are made aware of th e ir existence. May I caution the general public to demand from door-to-door salesmen copies of th e ir business licenses, references, or oth e r documentation that would sat isfy the householders that he or she was doing business with a le gitim ate firm . A citizen can also check with the C ity of Portland License Bureau, 228-6141, exten sion 281 or the B etter Business Bureau, 226-3981. It is my hope that this warning early in the year mav save some of our citizens, especially the elderly, from being fleeced. A.K.A’s rush party Iniiiklin < » e in s /or sawrs (nul home buyers X \ K,</, Oirayit S/H/rfliii^ - H obeH H H a z e n , P re s H o m e O f f ic e • ' \ 14 O ffic e s F r a n k lin B ld g • . • Phone 224 3333 P o r t la n d . O r e g o n 9 7 2 0 4 r d ire cto r of the Portland State University Educational Center, told the Portland C ha m be r of Commerce members on Monday, March 22, at the regular week ly luncheon meeting of t h a t organization. Describing how the Educational Center was started in a form er furniture store, W illiam s said that Portland State has ventured into a new era in education by recognizing that young blacks have minds capable of running adm inistrative departments, as well as being able to run track and play football. "A great many people think Continued page 7 col 2 Members ofZeta Sigma Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa So ro rity gathered at the home of M rs. Marian Jacobs,6127NE 8th Ave., on Sunday March 28, 1971 fo r luncheon and “ Rush P a rty,” with the following persons as "Rushees” : M rs. Zanna B erry M rs . Novella Long, M rs . Olive Manning, ,M rs. Odessa Hendrix, M rs . Eva Jackson, M rs . M ar jo rie Holmes, M rs . M argaret Russell, M rs. Emma Jean Ma con and M iss F lo r ice Walker. Before lunch everyone enjoyed the fellowship of getting to know more about one another through conversation and playing fun games. The entertainment was furnished by M rs . Issac White and M rs. Horace Johnson, mem bers of the s o ro rity. M rs. Joe Nunn and M rs. Edward E. Johns also members, co-chairmaned the party. M rs. Ruth Spencer is Basileus.
