P ig e 2
D iscipline begins and
ends a t hom e
P o rt la nd ' Obs e rv e r T h u r s d a y
June
1 7 ,1 9 7 1
S c h o o l have
r e la x e d
established standards ill th e ir
re cru itm e n t of m in o rity group
s t u d e n t s . We feel
that
this p ra ctice , p a rtic u la rly ona
g r a d u a t e school
level.
Is unhealthy, does not tend to
in s till in its stu ients a sense of
equal Justice and downgrades
By Spurgin W aters
Often tim e s i wondsr ju s t what type of d isciplin o parents w.rnld
ike to see In tlw public schools of this d is tric t?
1 w jn d e rw b e th ir thoy want fu ll tun instnioto* s o r maybe they
w ith fo r (till tim e wardans, perhaps they wanta little of bo’ii, hut
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it seems to m« when 1 liste n to ira te parents ask fo r m ore d ls -
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cip 'in e in tlx.* schools it seem as th sigh they are adm itting t o
SulMcnptioii raU* 40ienta per month by earner. $4.00 per >e«r.
fa ilu re to d is c ip lm i that Child a; horrid, o r being m o re blunt; they
$r ,00 per year by m a ll In T ri-C o u n ty area; $5.25 pe r year else- (all to possess the a b ility to co n tro l tb e lr a r a t.
T hen they seek
where.
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the help of the in s tiu ito , to teach a code of n u ’ al behavior, to
th e ir c h ild , when it is tlx* In s tru c to rs daty to teach him the
A l T'HEI) 1 EE HENDERSON, Publisher and Editor
Verna L . Henderson............................
Executive E d ito r
tangible things tha. he has to know to be a w a ll edteated individual
Halen H e n d rix............................ D is p la y and C lassifie d Manager
and com p etitive through knowledge gained in the classroom about
T a y lo r................................................................... „Advertising M anager
his outside w o rld .
Dewey
W illia m s ................................................................ .Production Manager
Values and rules of conduct I view as intangible things that must
A lb e rt
Spurgin W aters.................................................................... A ssista n t C irc
lx.* u la e tio
s ta n b lis h *! at home fo r they determ ine whether a ch ild w ill be
a d iscip lin e d in dividu al.
A lb e rt W illia m s ........................... .Forem an P re ss, Stereotype
Departm ent
O ften tim e s i notice an ira te parent a t a school d is tric t meeting
P a tric ia
Johnson............................................... O ffice
M anager
bringing In te x tb o o k s o ro th e rm s te ria l a student h is received in
Pleasant Session .............................................
Sports
E d i t o r class w ith the com plaint that it m ight c o rru p t his Childs behavior
Cassie
Jen kin s.............................A s s is ta n t
Sports
E d ito r
o r in cite h is c h ild s c u rio s ity to the point that h» w ill try to p e r­
Tony
M a rs h a ll.................................................................. C olum nist
form the same act.
Le ts use fo r example sin. king e.g a re tts.
C ontributm g E d itors....... T h e rio n Cobbs, Betty B yrd, B ill P’eiz
To th is Isa y it is the duty o f the in s tru c to r to teach aixi
make
the c h ild aware of the problem , show him how and why it
can
cause com p lica tion s fo r the lix ltv id u il tha: tndigles in smoking.
How and why they are figh ting an u o .iill hattle. If the ch ild then
does not receive a coda o r rules of m . ra ls that supports this
doctrine a t home, that is if n u mand d id can not get themselves
together and kick the habit, the fa ith in fathers words of w arn­
ing w ill fa lte r because a code o r set of m o ra ls— d isciplin e w ill be
lo s t. M o m n o r dad and less lik e ly a person as im personal as an
in s tru c to r o r a d m in is tra to r can guide o r d ire c t that individuals,
smoking future .
It is s t ill m y contention that discup’ me begins and ends at home,
not at school.
The Northwest’« Best Weekly
A Black Owned Publication
The Levy
fa ilu re
By Spurgin W aters
As we look back upon the second defeat of the operational Levy
by the c itic e n s o fP o rtla n d o n e c a n only wonder. What type
of
education do the citize n s of P ortla nd re a lly want fo r th e ir
ch ild en.
A s a p a rticip ant in the ro le of the last 12 years I can say tha:
my experience w ill be mu‘ iig re a ;e r than that of the cla ss of 1972
which now faces the p o s s ib ility of shorten school year as a re­
sult of the levy fa ilu e. T h is 20-25 day reduction in the duration
I o f th e y e a rw illm e a n th a tth e d is tric c w ill not even meet the state
required 175 day school year sta xlu rd T h is reduction w ill m ea t
that fo rth e f ir s t tim e th is d . s tr ic t w ill face a shorten school year
because its pa rtro ns have w arrentsd it . It w ill also mean that
students w ill be ou' on the streets w ith absolutely nothing to do
u n til sum m er a ctivie s come along in June.
How u tte rly h y p o c ritic a la n a c tp u rp e tra te d b y th e ta x p a y e rs of
th„s d .s tr ic t, venting th e ir hate and fru s tra tio n against taxes, I
m ight add taxes in general, against th e ir own childre n a x i 1
ask
you taxpayer, w ill taxes ever get any less expensive?
L e ts face hard (acts, asourow n standardsof liv in g ris e s
so
I then ou - increased f a ir share of taxes undoubtly m ust inc. ease.
Som etim es, a a l am human Ia is o s u ffe r flaw s in my way
of
thinking and forge t that I am m y b ro th e r keeper, it seems
as
though the citiz e n s o f P o rtia » ! don’ t even wish to be th e ir
ch ild re n s keepers.
Black Soldiers Have
Paid With Blood
L e
e d
te r
t o r
eve rend A lfre d
The
Henderson
P u b lish e r and E d ito r
The P ortland O bserver
2201 N . K U lingsw orth
P o rtla n d , Oregon 97217
t o
I h
Lee
Dear Reverend Henderson;
1 w ish to thank you fo r you r p a rticip a tio n in getting the
inform ation out to the Veterans corncerning the Veterans C a re e r
Developm ent P rogram held at the P ortland M em o rial C oliseum
on the 27th of M ay, 1971.
The P rog ram would not have been the success it was had it not
been fo r your assistance. There were approxim ately 1,000
Veterans at t h i Counseling session.
There is an onguingProgram in the Veterans C a ree r Develop­
m ent held each Tuesday at the Bank of C a lifo rn ia T ow er, 707
S.W. Washington, Suite 507 at 7:30 P.M , T h is P rogram started
June 1, 1971 as a fo lio w -u p on th e P ro g ra m conducted M ay 27th.
i f you have any suggestions on im proving the d is trib u tio n of
in fo rm atio n through m edia, to the Veterans, of other a c tiv itie s
that may be scheduled, please contact the M a y o r's Desk on
Veterans C a re e r Developm snt, phone
228-9411, E x t. 51
M a yo r T e r r y D . Schrunk, o ffic e ot the M a yo r.
HAVE YOUR CLUBi-
MEETING
FREE AT GENEVA’S.
Debbie Warren celebrates herbirthday with
husband James Warren.
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Sen. Alan C ranston charged
Monday that black so ld ie rs have
• ' paid w ith th e ir blood
in
4 V ie tn a m " only to re tu rn to an
A m erica that denies them jobs,
housing and equal ooportunity.
In a M e m o ria l Day services
speech before the United V et­
e ra n s
C o u n c i l L „A . A i>
oye, 1313 E . Compton B lvd ..
C ranston said:
"S in ce the beginning of the
R epublic, the black so ld ie r has
fought away fro m home to defend
the freedom s denied him .
" A t the back of his mind
has
been the so fa r unrealized hope
that A m e rica would recognize
h is bra ve ry overseas by tre a t­
ing him as a man when he came
home. The black servicem an's
testam ent o f p a rtio tis m
and
g a lla n try rem ains a standing
reproach to the n a tio n ."
C ranston cited the reco rd of
blacks fig h tin g in a ll A m erican
w a rs. H e said black soldiers
were relegated to non-combat
duties in W o rld W a rs 1 and 11
because of d is c rim in a tio n , but
in Korea and in Vietnam , large
num bers were used in combat.
" O f the recent w ars, Vietnam
w ill probably have the highest
total of black de a th s," C ranston
said.
" Of those assigned to combat
units and jobs inSoutheast A six
as d is tin c t from near echelon
duty — blacks com prised m ore
than 20 percent double
th e ir
percentage o f overall
troop
strength, ” be said.
" F ro m January 1961 through
M arch 31, 1971,5,570black sol­
d ie rs have been k ille d due
to
hostile action, a n d approxi­
m ately 1,387 have died due to
other ca u se s."
Black Universities
Seek Liberation
By Jack White
These
tw o
sentences
s u m m a r iz e
t h e in te l­
lectual and p o litic a l basis fo r
t h e development of the black
universities-independent edu­
cational in stitu tion s devoted to
the lib e ra tio n of blackpeople.
T h e ir numbers are sm all and
th e ir resources are pa in fu lly
few, yet the black u n iv e rs itie s
c a n be found in c itie s fro m
Chicago to G reen sbo rs.N .C .,
fu rth e rin g education devoted
to revoluntionary P a n -A frica n
b l a c k nationalism . T h e y
operate
in old houses and
sto re fro n ts and at tim es In the
u n u s e d classroom s
of
colleges and u n iv e rs itie s .
The black u n iv e rs ity does not
put
m uch
s to c k
in
a c c r e d i t a t i o n , establish
ed standards— t h a t is , white
standards of scholarship o r
f a n c y buildings. Indeed, as
Edgar F . Beckham, fo rm e i ly
chairm an of the Connecticut
A ssociation of A fro -A m e ric a n
E lu ca to rs, put it: The black
u n iv e rs ity
e xists w herever
black people jo in together fo r a
black educational purpose., as
process, and as people, the
black u n iv e rs ity has only two
c r i t i c a l c h a ra c te ris tic s :
freedom from sxtraneous in -
f 1 u e n e e s and com m itted
responsiveness to
th e
educational n e ed s of black
people.
B la c k u n iv e rs itie s d iffe r
w i d e l y in stru ctu re , form at
a n d c u rric u lu m , but share a
common ideology: re je ctio n of
w estern, that fs w hite, values
And th e people Involved in
them see the black movement
as a s t r u g g l e fo r national
lib e ra tio n , not a figh t foreq ua l
rig h ts o r a piece of the pie.
M oving fro m theory
to
p ra ctice h a s been d iffic u lt,
however, p a rtly because of the
e x tre m e
geographical
d iffu sion
of
p e rs o n s
s u p p o r tin g
t h e black
u n iv e rs ity Idea and p a rtly be­
cause black educationw is a
new and untested concept. At
f ir s t , in 1967, the m a jo r thru st
at black education came on
white campuses, where black
studies p ro g ra m s -ru n
by
b 1 a c k s f o r blacks
but
supported by white funds. The
m .vement g ra du ally spread to
black
campuses In the South,
a n d E ast, notably Howard
I n iv e rs ity and F is k , both of
which were scenes of student
protests
aimed at reshaping
t h e s e schools into black
u n iv e rs itie s . But in them m -ls
of those s t ill pushing the black
u n iv e rs ity concept,
these
moves at established colleges
were m o re -o r-le s s fa ilu re s ,
(to be continued next week)
the quality of product that the?
law school Is subm itting to the
s t a t e of Kansas as
th e ir
p ra c titio n e rs . A l t e i
the
statement was read to
the
assembly, two of the
m ost
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mum
ja cko su sa kf the com m ittee a
recom m endations
w e re
ce rta in ly very invalid and not
in accordance w ith the tren is
ot the tim e s. In noting that tlie
m em bership did not vote to
(cent, from p. 1 )
Newton
trial
to resume
B lack Panther Leader
Newton w ill go on tr ia l
28 fo r the second tim e
c ha r g e s of k illin g
Oakland police o ffic e r.
A la m e d a County S uperior
C o u rt Judge W ilia m J . Hayes
set the fir m date fo r Newton s
r e tr ia l on m a n s I a u g h t e r
charges in the shooting death
of policem an John F re y .
The tr ia l had been postponed
m onthly since January be-
c a u s e N ew tons
attorney,
C h arle s R. C a rry , was in New
Haven, Conn., d e f e n d i n g
P a n t h e r Bobby Seale
on
m u rd e r charges.
G a rry’ s colleague, Benjamin
D r e y f u s , told Hayes that
G a rry would re tu rn in a few
days fro m N e w Haven
but
asked fo r reasonable tim e off
before the s ta rt of the Newton
t r ia l.
N e w t o n, who i s free on
$50,000 ba il, wore a black
le a th e r coat, black trouse rs
a n d powder blue turtleneck
sweater - asdid several other
adults among th e 80 Panther
supporters in c o u rt, including
3 0 p re - school ch ild re n who
p a rticip a te in t h e group's
breakfast program .
The F B I arre ste d one of
Newton s follow e rs as they le ft
t h e cou rtro om . W illia m J .
Jennings, 20, of San F rancisco
was
wanted fo r alleged d ra ft
v io la tio n .
Newton was convicted in 1968
of volun ta ry m anslaughter in
t h e death of F re y on o c t.
2 7 , 1967, he served two years
of a one to 15 year sentence but
was released when an Appeals
C o u rt reversed h lscon viction
on grounds the judge gave the
ju r y erroneous in stru c tio n s .
into other existing courses ,
which indicated in a printed
text were of m ore im portance.
The com m ittee also note« i that
the Washburn School of I aw
and U n ive rsity of Kansas I aw
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O r
CtreejU
vocal objectors were E lm e r
Jackson, ot KansasC Ity, the
only black on the n ln e -n ie m lxir
State Board of Regents,
an«l
B e n F n m klin . a fo rm e r D.S.
attorney.
I am not afraid Nixon is trying to dump
m e Just because McCloskey is after him.
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a c cept th e
com m ittee s
recommendations hut was told
to contUiue Its study, Jackson
said: I rn fa ir ly sure next year
rep ort won t tie rep ort like this
tlia t. O f m ore than 700 students
enrolled tn the two law schorls
In Kansas th is year, only 16 are
black. Atxl only 30, o f the 3,000
law yers ill the state are black.
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SHARING JU B ILA TIO N follow ing 57thannual commencement
exercises at Emanuel Hospital School of N ursing were M rs .
C harles (Yvette) Searcy, rig h t, m em ber of graduating class, and
close friend V iviane B arnett. M rs .S e a rc y had been an Emanuel
nurse aide fo r many years before she made decision to e n t e r
School of N ursing, managed school work and housework
«luring
course of 33-m onth program w h ic h fin a lly led to d ip lo n ia .
She
and M r . Searcy are parents of three daughters, two of them s t i l l
at home, and grandparents of one grandson and one granddaughter.
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Re«f, Now Try Th<
fonder, Proprietor
Parking
Lot Sale
June 19th
T o supplement It'a dw ind l­
ing funds the S taff and Board
at L ife C e n te r are having a big
parking lo t sale Saturday, June
19 fro m 9 a jn . u n til 4 p.m
Unheard of values w ill he on
s a le . Nothing u n d e r a n d
nothing over $1.00— a ll kinds
of faclnating item s to choose
fro m .
The lady squeezed
us and here
we are!
LIF E means L o w Income
F a m ilie s
E m ergency. T his
C e n t e r provides on the spot
h e lp f o r
people needing
em ergency help. I t I s a self
help center that provides Fowl
C l o t h i n g , Kitchen I ten si Is,
Dishes, S ilve rw a re , Layettes,
Beds, M a ttre ss and
many
other needed Item s in ex­
change fo r volunteer
tim e
spent In the cen ter.
L ife Center is in It’ s th ird
year a t t h e 3 2 I N £ . R ussell
S t r e e t location. The In itia l
funds were provided b y
(he
Portland M etrop olitan Steer­
ing C om m ittee fo r a 6 months
period a fte r which only dona­
tions fro m citize n s kept the
doors open. A fte r another 6
m o n th s grant United Good
Neighbors came to the rescue.
I t h a s since been p a rtia lly
funded byU .G .N. a n d
fund
raising p ro je cts. E n tire con­
tents a tL ife C e n te r sre d o n a t-
0,1 by citize n s of P ortland and
surrounding com m unities who
’ re also responsible fo r con­
tinuation of ths cen ter.
She knew The
Fresh Guys"when
she saw us!
One squeeze tells you why people call us...
"The Fresh Guys"
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the oven. Wrapped in a Sta-fresh wrapper to keep it fresh, flavorin' a n t i
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off to your neighborhood store!
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