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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1971)
lb Portland / Observer Thursday May 6, 197, Black electronic* technician manager test operation* From the grim e and sweat of a ship s engine room to the knowledge required to de velop and land a ship on the moon is one man s way of tak ing a leap for mankind. Naval Reservist Senior Chief A via tion Electronics Technician Bob Hodge made that leap. Today, employed by the Grumman Aerospacd Corp oration, Bob Hodge d ire c tly applies the knowledge lie ob tained to get transferred from the engine room of a small destroyer escort during the Korean War, to the equipment that is known tie world over as LM , tie lunar module. Hodge is an Assistant Spuce C ra ft T^am Manager, re sponsible fo r test operations on LM 12 which is being built at tie Bethpage, NY, plant. It is with justifiable pride that Hodge is able to say his work on LM 7, which was carried on Apollo 13, earned fo r Grumman the unofficial title of builder of the fit st space rescure ship. A fte r the explosion in the command ser vice module of Apollo 13, the LM was activated and its life - support and electrica l supply enabled the three astronauts to return to earth. Sears Deluxe 3-ln-l Sure-Seal Roofing This popular 3-tah design shingle is self-sealing for outstanding y ea r’ around protection from the weather. The adhesive is factory-applied and work with the heat of the sun to secure shingle to the roof. Sure-Seal* roofing carries a 1 8 -year pro-rated guarantee on materials and workmanship. SH O P AT SEA US A N O SAVE Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Hack SEARS. ROEBUCK ANU CO. HOME or HOME IM P R O V E M E N T O u a U r t o w n , pa ., Whitney Ypsilanti, Young Jr. Mich., Fra# Press: "A ccording to a National Edu cation Association report last May, New Jersey is the only state which hy statute forbids corporal punishment in all schools, public and private. 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A l though few would take such a hard line today, it appears, that at least in p rin ciple,'spare the rod, spoil the child* dies hard in A m e ric a ." 1 8 -Y e a r P ro -K a te d H o o fin g G u a ra n te e d 'When Installation is arranged through Sears, anti the roof I leaks due to defects in mate ria l o r workmanship during I the fir s t 7 years, we w ill ar range to have the roof repaired I at no cost to you. A fte r 7 and up to 18 years, we w ill arrange to have the roof re paired, charging you 1/I8th of the then current price of, repair for each full year from ' date of installation. Phon« 234-3311 Today For FREE Estimate SUNDAY HOI RS! 12 NOON TIL 5 PM Shop Monday thru Friday. 9:3(1 AM 'til 9 PM Shop Saturday. 9:30 AM 'til 5:30 PM. Park FREE Grand Ave. at Lloyd Blvd., Phone 234-3311 still lives By Jackie Robinson "Im agine being born into a fam ily in humble circumstances You grow up, helping to supjwrt yourself and get a college edu cation. You work as a bellhop and in other m inor jobs. You do very well in your schoolwork You remain clean in your p e r sonal life . You m a rry a lovely g irl and begin to build a fam ily. You struggle hard until you are on your way to becoming im portant in your profession. You become a distinguished educator, le ctu re r and social w orker. You are called upon to head a very influential organi - zatlon dedicated to seeking meaningful employment and re spect fo r black people — 1 he National Urban League. You initiate creative and bold program s which result in many thousands of Jobs fo r your people. You have a winning way with industrial princes and lords of industry. You know how to get into boa rd room s and un der th e ir skins. You know how to tell them disagreeable facts about the life of blacks and about white discrim ination without alienating them. You do not wear dashlkls or scream angry slogans or give fancy hand shakes or suggest that your peo ple participate in the h a ri-k a ri of race violence. You do a marvelous job of helping people and a brave job of weathering c ritic is m from whites who call you too m ilita nt and blacks who call you 'Tom.* Popes and presidents respect you. But so do thousands upon whose tables you have placed a little better loaf of bread. One day in N igeria, there seeking to help bring about pro gress fo r people of the world you get caught up in rushing waters and you die. A world stands s till for a moment of shock. T hen come the statements, the telegrams, the messages. Yourdeath, before you reached fifty , is inter - nationally headlined. The bosses of corporations and out standing legislators and just plain people file past your re mains in one African and two United States c itie s . The P re sident of the United States comes personally to your funeral and himself delivers the eulogy. A bugler blows taps to the sky. An American flag is at half-m ast many places in the w orld. And you Whitney Young J r ., who lived up to every prin ciple which our society says is noble, you, the highest apostle of equality in the land—are buried in your home town in a J im Crow Grave. It is as though, after all you had accomplished, your country had said to you, 'You were in deed a marvelous man. But re member even you are just an other nigger.* T he moment of truth is here. We must ask the marching bands to hugh fo r a minute and the m urm er of pledges of allegiance to be s till long enough and the emotion of the salute to flags be slowed down long enough so that we can hear the truth the black man is saying today, the truth that many black men are think ing and do not say aloud. They are thinking along with our late and ly ric poet Langston Hughes 'A m erica never was America fo r me and yet 1 swear, Am erica w ill be." Both the highest and the low est points above the sea level in the United States are in C alifornia.
