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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1971)
' " f 7 3 Northwest's Newest Newspaper £ ND owe. 249 This is y o u r p o p . r , b .c o u s . you h o ve d « m o n d .d it. - PNB Corvallis elevates Minus of Black Amerson fireman Receives M rs . Lois W illiam s. the f ir st Black on the C iv il Service In terviewing Board fo r City Firem en, reports that out of 400 white applicants only 200 passed the w ritten examina tion. Six blacks took the test and six blacks failed. Pacific Northwest Bell has named Herbert L . Amerson, 2606 N .E .9 th A ve . as manager of its public office in Portland. F o rm e rly associated with Portland Public Schools and the Urban League of Portland, Amerson joined PNB in 196* as a com mercial representative in the company's coin telephone group. He was promoted to the com pany's management ranks in early 1969 as a personnel staff assistant with the Adminis tration department. In his new post Amerson oversees operation of the com pany’ s public office in the Oregon Buildlngat509S.W . Oak Street and is responsible fo r the handling of customer accounts in Burlington,C arlton, Cascade Locks, Government Camp, North Plains, Rainier and St. Helens. munlty relations activities fo r the company in Northeast P o rt land. M rs Lois W iiliam sfeels that it is an indictment on the C ity F ire Department fo r not hav ing any black firem en. Lois W iliam s sa id ,^Ic a n ,t under stand how blacks in the m ili tary service, non-comm is sioned and commissioned offi cers, are able to advance and yet blacks cannot be hired as firem en in our c it y £ $1 be lieve that the F ire Department is using the wrong kind of recruitm ent. They could work with the colleges and encour- con't on page 12 col. 1 NAACP S o m e th in g of in terest to e v e ry o n e . Ford Foundation gives scholarship Charter M ore than two hundred peo ple attended the C orvallis Branch NAACP fir s t Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on A p r. 3, and witness the granting of the NAACP C harter to theC or- va llis Branch. The charter #as THOMAS VICKERS presented by Tom V ickers, past president of the P o r t la n d NAACP Branch. D r. W ilb e r t C a m b e r, Professor of B io lo g y and C hem istry the only Black at Oregon State U niversity served as master of cermonies. A tt’ y. I t <‘<‘ Kmiikliii ( «PIUS F re e g e m o r p e a rl g ift lo r d e p o s its o l S50 to $7 000 o r w ith a n e w h om e lo a n L im it o f o n e g ift p e r p e rs o n c c u -------- i i r u i s ro ru ana Comm u n it College presents Ford Foundation scholarship awards t< Hosie L . Howell and Harvey Lockett, both of Portland Lockett, fo rm e rly PCC student body president, and Howell, who came to Portland from Arkansas some years ago seek ing a better opportunity, were awarded Foundation suppori fo r continuing work at a four-yea r college after complet ion of two years at PCC^PCC photo by Paul Blixt) Two Portland Community Lockett is a fo rm e r PCC stu College students have been dent body president. He named as winners in a national graduated ‘from Benson High Ford Foundation scholarship School in 1963, working pa rt- search. time his ju n io r and senior The two, Hosie L . Howell, of years. (2416 N £ . Ainsworth) Portland He is a P o litica l Science stu and Harvey H. Lockett, of(6532 dent, and reports that his pre N .E . 13th Ave.) Portland, w ill sent job, working with the Model receive substantial support to C ities program as a planning continue their studies at a four - assistant, has "proven most in year college or university after teresting and relevant, making completion of work at PCC. class work mean much m o re ." Howell, an employee of the His eventual goal is law Portland WaterDepartment, is school, and he hopes to attend a Social Science student. He is Lockett spent four years in m arried and his wife, Udell, is the A ir Force, serving in Japan the mother of Byron Scott and and Germany as an intelligence Karen Lee Howell. Hecomplet- section radio operator. ed high school work while in the Both were nominated by the A rm y in C alifornia, where he College as candidates fo r the served as a cook, after attending Ford Foundation awards, which Jefferson Hihg School in P o rt are designed to assist land. disadvantaged m inority group He plans to continue work in students to continue their the social sciences, with the studies beyond the community goal of becoming a high school college level. teacher or counselor. He hopes The awards are renewable for to attend Lewis & C lark Col lege a second year of study on the o r Portland State U niversity. basis of satisfactory progress. Urban League Director here K u jf ( h I S /lt/l/i/l/ir Benj.® Franklin ’ H o h r ,I H , Hom- UH,, . » • * * O • » > <3 A p 'A « « « P ,,s . Hide, . p ,lo i) r Portland O.pq,,,, ,,,, H. B e lt o n Hamilton, form er Attorney General and c h i e f council fo r Oregon S ta te Bureau of Labor was the fea tured speaker. He used the subject, "T h e B ill of R ig h t s and Wrongs.’ * Newly elected officers of the C o rva llis Branch are: Calvin Henry, president ; M . Felton, J r , vice pres.; Adrianne Huyer, Sec’ y.; M rs . Shirley Kingsburg, Asst. Sec'y^ and D r. F r a n k Shaw, T rea su re r.T h e C o rva llis Branch has over 100 members. M r. Harold Sims, newly ap pointed acting Executive D i rector of the National Urban League w ill be the main speak e r at the Portland Urban Leagues Annual meeting to be held Friday, A p ril 23, 1971 at the Lloyd Center Audi torium . sity. He also has dope gradu ate work at John Hopkins Univ. the University of Poona, Ita ly, and Yale U niversity. He at tained the rank of M ajor dur ing his m ilita ry career and was the fir s t black office r to be assigned as Secretary to M r. Sims is a graduate of Southern U niversity with a B. A. in P olitical Science and a M . A. in Government and Public Adm inistration from Geoqje Washington Univer the General Staff. The 36 year old Sims is m arried and cur rently resides in Bayside, New York.
