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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1971)
• T a l» y o u r p a p e r , b e c a u s e yo u h a v e d e m a n d e d - S o m e th in g of in te re s t to e v e r y o n e . P° f,l<l" d' O r ., AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER ^ h u n d o y M z ^ z T l^ ? p er copy Sullivan , Rev. Leon ouinva Selected As 5 6 th Spingarn Medalist l T h V _ T h * * * * D r Leon H Su llivan, s p iritu a l F it Jah Graliam M.W. Grand Master Elijah Graham Grand Master of the most worshipful Prince Hal! Grand Lodge of I irogun. Have Just return frotn Jackson,M ississippi. Where 1»attend the 52nd conference of Grand Masters Pie key note sneakerat the convention was D r. Leon Sullivan. Who is the founder of the (oJCj from Philadelphia Penns. The conference next year w ill he In St. Paul, Minnesota. 3 Promoted To General Contract To Black Firm L i » AN GELES - Con gn-ssman Augustus F. Haw kins ( I) Cal ) announced from his Los Angeles office the granting of a Navy Depart mi-nl contrict Io the Southern California Manufacturing com pany The contract was first given to SBA who In turn gave it to Southern California Manufacturing company. Thlr I ) nine oscillators are to be manufactured for the Navy T h re e Negro o rficera are among no colonels approved by President Nixon for pro motion to brigadier general Roscoe C. Cartw right, 49. a native of Kansaa Q ty , Kaa , is one of the three The other two are Oliver DUIard, 44. who was burn in Alatiams and James F Ham let, a na tive of Alliance. Ohio Their promotlona were annnnnred by B rig a d ie r G e n e ra l D a n iel Jam es, the only Negro general in the Air Force The Navy had announced that Cap tain Sam uel G ra v e ly J r , who was nominated last month to become the firat black ad m iral, is being assigned to the Pentagon a t chief of naval communications The prom otions w ill give the Army four Negro gen erals on a c tiv e duty the black Army general, who now wears a alar, is M ajor Gen w j f ^ red eric Davison Jerry ' E. Johnson of »17 • - ....... • • UN p r e .I •lent of Southern California Manufacturing company "The contract Is in excess of $5.000 There is a continuing need for granling of contracts to Ihe black manufacturers If blacks are truly going Io be absorbed into the overall business eco nomy The negotiated bids as well as Ihe competitive bids should la k e blacks into sen ous consideration," slated Con gressinan Hawkins "Inside the Vietnam er re c ip le n l* ‘ "elu de D r Ralph J. Bunche, Associate Justice Thurgood M a rs h a ll Senator Edward W Brooke eader social a c tiv is t and business r .oneer, has been named to receive the 58th Jackie Robinson, D uke E l Spingarn Medal, Roy Wilk lington, Roy W ilkins and ins, executive director of the Clarence Mitchell National Aaaociation for the The award was instituted Advancement of Colored Peo in 1914 by the late J E ple, announced here Tues Springarn then chairman of day. May »1. the N A A . C P board of di The coveted medal will he rectors, who. annually until presented to the Philadelphia hia death in 1939, gave a gold clergyman by Andrew Brim medal to be awarded to a mer. a governor of the Fed Negro American tor distin SPINGARN M E D A LIS T - eral Reserve board, at the guished achievement during The Rev Leon H Sullivan, 62nd N A A C P annual con the preceding year or years founder and chairman of the vention in Minneapolis July M r Spingarn left a fund suf board of the Opportunities In 6 ficient to continue the award dustrial Center. Philadelphia, Pastor of the Zion Baptist "to perpetuate the lifelong in has been named the 56th church in Philadelphia. Dr terest of my brother, Arthur Spingarn medalist Presenta Sullivan, In cooperation with B Spingarn. of my wife, Amy tion of the award will be made other clergymen, organized a E Spingarn, and of myself July 6 at the 62nd annual selective buying drive in 1962 in the achievem ent of the N.A.A.C.P. convention in Min The campaign leveled racial American Negro " neapolis, Minn harriers in 24 of the city's major firms To train ghetto workers for the new Job op portunities he founded the Opportunities Industrializa tion center Last January he became the firat black direc tor of General Motors, the Why do many racial mill intermarriage failed long be world's largest industrial cor fan!« m arry white* fore the U. 8. Supreme Court poration than black wives?. declared them unvonslilution- O r S u llivan ia cited for The answer could be "ra • ' iwfrs it Ihe inspiration and resource cial revenge ", a way to hit fulness with which he trans back at white America. life that nobody—and that mu tea the social gospel into Why do large numbers of go«y for both whilus and economic progress for his ■ucresaful Negroes In bust blacks—opefl^r advocates In people his role in prepar news and entertainment have termarriage . . nobody ex- ing his constituents to take white wives and husbands?. . ^ t t ^ o j c ^ h o m a r r y across advantage of the opportum The reason often is that "a mot partic ties won by mobilzing their mate of another race la^an ularly something that anyone economic power for group unspoken status symbol’ l l ! advocates or champions as advancement and for the escape from the bonds of col an object or goal sin gu lar steadfastness w ith or and a mark of success "Even the most zealous of which he has molded re no less than a mink or Cadil race leaders retreat gingerly ligious leadership and social lac." So contends writer Fexl from the issue of intermar vision for the advancement •Stewart in a hlghly-contro riage. never willing to become of black folk " verslal article. Why Inter Its proponents and always I^ s t year the medal was racial Marriage Is Increas seeking to turn to other ra awarded to Jacob Lawrence, ing In Ihe May issue of cial issues where the odds the distinguished artist Earli- Why Interracial Marriage Is Increasing’ Discussed in Sepia '' •" « » • K K W W W •**pla magazine. Names of tN leading blach notables who have wed whites are Isited by Ted Stewart in Sepia, a leading black monthly maga line which reports that the total number of mixed mar B lac ks a i e " le s m I i • v •« u m i u n í a s » r a c ia lly in e m p lo y m e n t is riagra testing rlages in Ihe U. S. now ex- 1 " " ................ ... >’■ ••’•’ " " ' « • I » trscles through the teaching profession. .000.000 Tracing the history of laws The C alifornia State Comm.aslon on F a ir Employment Practices initiate«! a studv on tesiine for e n jo y m e n t in the San F r.n c l.c o Bay area in 1967 in which it was sta“ H he, k ^ Z lm l« against miscegenation d a t chleveinent tests yield employtnanl information subject to biased use ** ing back to 1622. the Sepia article by Ted Stewart notes that legal sanctions against San Francisco square miles rovers 44 S Blacks'Tested O ut’ of employment against losing are more favor able Their reasoning it that in terracial m arriage is not and never can be a cause, an aspiration, l a gpd in it self " ' Sepia tfttoles famed sociologist Ralph Linton as predicting that mixed mar riage will become to common in the future that in 200 years “ there w ill not be enough recognizable Negroes left in this country to constitute a problem." Why don’t you plant , u ‘ r8 l’ v ,n '- Actual « a e s can I . cited to substantiate this of verbal and mathematical puzzles that had nothing to do with the jobs involved. Is this a good time to buy or build? In this instance the blacks through the NAACP Legal De fense Fund appealed the case up to tlie 11, S, Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the blacks. Chief Justice Burger w riting "any tests used must measure the person fo r the Job ami not the person in the ab stra ct,” and gave the plaintiffs the broad Interpretation of the C iv il Rights act they had re quested. ■'F/rsf of the Big Lenders" Ikiij.Ol'niiikliii • io a m aasN H o b .il M H « » n Prus • 14 0 8 » us • Phone 7?« .13:13 Hom« Olllcu Franklin Bldg Poillsnd Oregon 97704 MRS. VIVIANE BARNET1 Another flagrant Instance was cited by 1 line magazine of M ar. 1. 1971, where in New York, to become an apprentice steam fitte r, «|>pl leants had to pass a test which asked aboutShake- spesre's work, Dante's B ra hms', and Whitman, rhey llad to know that D ali is a painter, and tlie meaning of fancy words such as "debutante” and "m od is te ." This test weeded out 66 per oem. MODEL CITIES John Forbes K e rry, holder of the Bronze and S llverS tars and leader of the A p ril veterans protest in Washington against the Indochina war, has been selected as Portland State Uni ve rsity s June commencement speaker. The 27-year-oId Yale gradu ate and fo rm e r commander of a Mekong delta rive rb o a t de scribes himself as " s t i ll a moderate" and adds, " I 'm not a radical inany sense of theword. 1 guess I'm just an angry young man.” K e rry spent three and a half years in th e Navy. He was wounded three times during his LUNCHEON SET A I «* •*- " 1 began thinking about the war when 1 was a skipper of a MANAGERS 27fh ’L“! b°*t onrivers over there. DR. JAMES A. GOODMAN D r. James A. Goodman, D ire cto r of the Division of Urban A ctivitie s at the I niversity of Washington, w ill be guest speak e r fo r the second annual M artin Luther King J r . Scholarship rund banquet tc be held at 6:30 p.m. , Sunday, May 30 at the Sheraton M otor Inn. D r. James A . Goodman, d ir ector of the D ivision of Urban A ctivitie s at the U niversity of Washington, w ill be g u e s t speaker fo r the second annual M artin Luther King, J r . Schol arship Fund Banquet to be held at 6:30 p j n , Sunday, May 30 at the Sheraton M otor Inn. Also Vice ProvostforSpecial Programs and Acting Cha Irm in L.W ., D r. Goodman is expected to focus his rem arks on " The Relevance of Education." His previous teaching ex perience has been In the fields of Human Growth and Behavior and Social Environment as the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern Cal- lfom .a and the California Colluge of Medicine. An Associate P ro fessor of Sociology, Dr, Goodman was and I got into serious arguments „ „ . . about our shooting at targets we The Portland Model C i t le s did not see, at the free - fire Agency is having a aortas of zones, at sampans. Y o u might Inter-Agency Luncheons for r e - fir e at an old grandmother or presentatives of agencies w ork- grandfather and you did not know ing in the Model C ities area, if they we re VC. What was the M r. Charles Jordan, D i-m o ra lity of that?" rector of Model C ities program was the speaker at the F irs t meeting of series which was K e rry le ft Vietnam in March, held on A p ril 22. 1969, and took ajobas an ad- The purpose of the m e e t i n g m ira l’ s aide In New York C ity, is to exchange ideas and learn obtained an early release what others are doing in the field from the Navy so he could ru n It is a time to share ideals and f o r Congress on an anti- war experiences. platform in his hom edistrict of The speaker fo r the luncheon Waltham Mass. A fte r carnpaig- to be held May 27, 12:00 noon mg fo ra month, he withdrew and at the Managers Restaurant NE threw his support to the R e v . Alberta and 10th Avenue is M r . Robert F .D rin a n ,th e je su itw h o David Nero, D ire cto r of o p e r was elected toCongress l a s t ation Step-Up. November. K e rry , m arried to a form er M r. B illM a c k ,C itiz e n s F a r- ticipxtion Information Special- Navy nurse who also saw duty in ist fo r Mixlel C ities extended Vietnam, says the Vietnam <-LARA .MAE WALKER PEOPLES an invitation to representatives Veterans v ' ' f,‘ r “ ne against the ------------ war orga •Assistance To Needy of all agencies of Model C ities nization is "determ inedtow ork area. Call M rs. L illie Walker within the system; w e a re to ta l- 288-8261, Ext. 38 or B ill Mack ly nonviolent and non a- at E xt.30toconfirm attendance. agressive.” NAACP INSURANCE Community Care Seeks help Chief Social W orker at the A l coholic C lin ic of the Loi Angeles C ity Health Departmen from 1960-1963 and spent the following year as director of Social Services fo r the Healtl Department. Proceeds from the M ártir Luther K ing banquet w ill be usee toward providing scholarship money fo r students attending Portland Sute University in the fa ll. Tickets fo r the banquet are $10. per person and may be ob tained at the PSU M artin Luther King JR. Office or the Box Of fice, both in Smith Memorial Center; Stevens and Son; House of Sound and the Gazebo in the Ione P.laza. The reception begins at 6:30; dinner is scheduled for 8 uni. Youth election held Youth of the M odel C ities area elected 8 youth members and 8 alternate members to the newly formed YouthAffairsCouncil in a m ode ra te turnout Friday afternoon from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. balloting took p lactatthe 8 model neighborhood elementary schools, Woodlawn, Vernon, King, Sabin, Irvington, Boise, Humboldt, and E lio t. Those elected to the Council are: Brenda Jackson, Beverly W arren, andShellyCroomof 7th u, _1BUC e, LÆrluu and „ 8th grade a„ age; Gerald DeLoney Sherry Pavlor and -- - - ’ • Ricky Coxeff of highschool age; and Jackie Strong and Donald Lincoln of college age. Alternates w it h th e next h ig h e s t v o te s in each age category a re : Diane Jordan, Brenda W hite, and Gary Lewis of 7th and 8th grade age; Regina Warren, Nadine Jordan, and a four-way tie fo r third alternate between Floyd Young, Adam Mashia, Bobbie Davis, and Ricky Eatmon of high school age; and James Tim s and Pam«»la Boyer of college age. Over 190 ballots were cast for o v e r 80 candidates. Persons voting and running f o r the Council had to be between t he a g e s of I3and22and reside within the Model C ities area. Eight adults elected e a rlie r from among representatives of Model Cities area youth agenc ies w ill join with the new youth members to constitute the Council. Community Care, a program whose aim is to see thatno adult I he Portland NAACP Federal Branch N A ACP, and w ith assets or child shall go hungry in the C r e d i t U n io n of 2752 n of $ I78,> 68.24, it w ill pay a pre Portland Metropolitan area, is W illiam s A v e , P o rtla n d .o re ,' mium fo r its insurance this year now busily working in per has qualified fo r federal insur 1/12 of one percent of its s h a r e manent quarters a t2022 NE Al berta. ance of members’ share ac accounts, the same fee paid by M rs. Clara Peoples reports counts (up to $20,000 each ) , a l l c r e d i t u n io n s , state- that the operation seeks to ac •Mr. James Lee, President ’ chartered o r federal. Bylaw the announced. insurance is mandatory fo r the quire, store and distribute food S im ilar to insurance a- latter, optional fo r the fo rm e r. products, clothing and other necessities in order to supple- vailable to banks and savings in and loans organizations, the credit union share Insurance are. M r.Jam es Lee, President; , P keep th e ird ig - program is administered by the M rs. Gertrude Crowe, Vice - Presq Mr.Chauncey Hays Sec- tiX n° ‘ t* „ ulsulted in the ir National C redit Union Adm ini rotary; M rs. Sylvia N .Thoinp- ‘ aid " ^ 7 * 1 ’ ■ V™«’ Peop,es stration, an independent agency of the Federal Government. I t son. T reasurer; M r. I liv id M nr ’ “ ” exP*aTned that the Andrews. Assistant Treasure^' □ t T a x i m ™ ‘ nt° is authorized by legislation ap ni« in u m use of existing proved by I’ resident Nixon i n Board members are: M r C C McCorvey. M r. E . W. S m ith ' ,sou,rces fresh produce,other October |970, and effective fo r by Archie E aster, J r . M r. fooJ' stuffs. clothing and items the firs t time in January 1971, M r. W illiam Kinney, Samuel Redditt, M r.L X 3 .E lli- recl u l r e J t0 maintain the Ihe Portland NAACP Federal Ths National Conference on C redit Union herew ascharter- son, M rs.M lld re d S p lce r, M r n" nin' “ m lw«lth and well being Social Welfare field in Dallas, ~ . A . White • of recipients. ed in 1957. With a membership Texas frotn May 15-21 was a C and M rs. Alice There is great need fo r vol- success. It was attended by o f 005 among the Portland Butler. unteers to collect, harvest and people from all over the U.s. distribute, store and preserve Oregon was represented by food stuffs, M rs. peoples re M rs. T. T. Jermxny, Cynthia ported. The number to call to Thomas, P hyllis Benton ami receive help and to volunteer is Archie Easter , all working 288-8321. and attending school in the Held Beskies food, the program of of Social Work. I he most out fers all kinds of discount ser standing session in the con See pages 5 and 7 for pictures vices and items such as drug ference was the Black Caucus and story 0.' Black Enterprise store items, fuel o il, attorney chaired by Jay Chunn from C hl- Week Displays, services, moving tra ile r, car cago , III. penters, plumbers, painters, We as a people formed our hairdressing, cleaners, auto strategy within the conference Ihe beginning of Black Enter motive fuel and p r i n t i n g setting forward that the Black prise Week was celebrated by services. Man's strength lies within the' a Soul Food Dinner held at the "These services w ill help frame work of togetherness and Sheraton Hotel on May 23rd. the low-income fam ilies to laid down goals and ways to t he a ffa ir was sponsored by stretch their money, food- combat institutional racism the Albina W aiters, Waitresses stamps and re q u is itio n s ,"M rs . which is going full stetm a- anil Bartenders Association. Peoples^said. head in this country. CAUCUS REPORT No Relation If you have been planning to buy or build a new home, now is the lime lo act Unprecedented sav ings growth and an excellent loan repayment record enables the Benj. Ira n k lin Io allocate $ 100.04Ml,(MM) to finance new and existing homes this year . at competitive rates. The institute of the Black World, which separated from th e M artin Luther King Me m orial Center in Atlanta la s t summer has published the firs t issue of its newsletter, "Inside the Black W o rld ." Last fa ll, tte Institute signed an agreement with F isk and Howard universit ies fo r the establishment of a Research Consortium on the Black Experience. 1BW also has worked out a jo in t publication a- rangement with poetDonL. Lee and his Third World Press for the Institute's Black Paper Series. The Institute, which is headed by D r.V incent Harding, is attemoting to rise a budget of approximately $200,000 a year through contributions and con tra cts. (" In s id e th e Black World, " Institute of the Black World, 87 Chestnut St., S. W \ Atlanta Ga. 30314) AVAILABLE garden for the hungry T Black World" off press With the increase of welfare clients and with some people wno are hungry, M rs. Viviane Barnett says, "Why don't y<xi plant a garden fo r the hungry". I his Is the fourth season for Green Fingers. The project originated by Viviane Barnett reports that they s till have packets containing If) kinds of vegetable seeds they would like to give away . . . fo r you grow fo r . yourself o r to grow Vegetables for the hungiy. "People march fo r the hungry, protest fo r the hungry, anil beg for the hungry," says M rs. Barnett, "Why not plant a garden fo r the hungry?" Indeed, why not? If you are interested in pick ing up a free packet of seeds, they are available at 2 7 N .K III- Ingsworth Street, but It might he well to call 289-7354. $ M inority B u sin ess Week Gets Underway; Black enterprise week
