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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-
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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
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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
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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.