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Casson appointed to
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Emergency Employment
act implemented
Kill« Caaaon waa appointed
by Mayor T a rry Schrunk to
the City Planning Com m illio n
In July to aarve until 1073.
Caaaon la a graduate of
Juffaraon High School and Pa
cific College to Seattle. He
■ erved In the US A ir Force
In Koreu and la a member of
Bethel AME Church.
A a a rnlnlater he served
churches In Great Falla, Mon
tana, Bremerton, Waatilngton,
and San Bemadlno, California.
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V o ll No.
b e c a m e you h o y
44 P o rtla n d , O r . A N EQ U A L
Elli» Casson
Operation Crossroads tour visits
j,m a n d ,d
it. -
O PPO R TU N ITY EMPLOYER T h u rs d a y
0IC gets
more funds
The Labor Department has
agreed to provide an additional
$5 million to further strengthen
Opportunities
Industrialization
Centers (O IC), It was announced
today by Assistant Secretary of
Labor Malcolm R. Lovell, Jr.
The Increased F ederal support
to the nationwide network of cen
ters w ill mean assistance to
about 3,500 additional disadvan
taged persons, according to Lov
ell and the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan,
director of the OlC National In
stitute of Philadelphia.
Lovell said that with this latest
funding, the OIC program will be
receiving Its («sic financial sup
port from tlx Federal Govern
ment. The program w ill continue
to solicit and accept support from
foundations, charities, and other
private sources.
He said, “ The Labor Depart
ment is proud to support OIC’s
philosophy - to prepare workers
fo r, and remove b arriers to,
good Jobs.”
Since the OIC’ s began to 1964
with 18 centers funded Jointly
by Labor, HEW and OEO, 66,000
persons
have received skill
training and 41,000 liave been
placed to Jobs. About $70 million
has been provided by the Labor
Department. About $32 million
Is current funding lor the pro
gram .
With the expanded capacity,
OIC
w ill
negotiate
greater
Involvement to such m ulti-pro
gram operations of the Manpower
Administration
as the Con
nator tor the City of Portland centrated Employment program
under Mayor T e rry D. Schrunk, Work Incen” - - (W IN) program,
J Palm er Smith, Chairman of and Nelghlot hood Youth Corps.
t h e Career Development Pro
gram Publicity Committee, and
Eugene W. Montrose,counselor
fo r the weekly meetings. T h e
weekly meetings, held to the
B a n k of California Building,
Room 507, Tuesday evenings,
beginning at 7 :3 0 P .M .w ill con
tinue as long as there arc un
employed o r underemployed
veterans Interested to Improv
ing their situations.
Pictured In front of the Portland Observer office are: (L -R )
Lincoln Caplan.State Dei#., Mjonda Lunga, Malawi, Je rry Okora
Nigeria, Theresa Chikombo, Zambia, Publisher of Observer R
A . Lea Henderson and Professor L . Ukai-Je, acting Director of
Black Studies p . S. U.
Operation Crossroad brought i,# r» ru*jber an<* («anuts.
three outstanding young people,
The terrain of Zambia Is most
from Africa, to Portland last ly high plateau covered with a
thin forest and suitable for both
week.
The continuing Career De
Theresa Chikombo, Zambia, farmuig and grating. The coun velopment Program o f t h e
J e rry
Okoro,
Nigeria,
and try Is rich to m inerals, Includ Mayor’ s T a s k F o r c e
for
Mponda Lunga, Malawi; were ing copper, zinc, cobalt, gold, Veterans has been meeting for
selected to participate In the vanadium, manganese, and coal. the last six weeks to the Bank o f
49 day visit to the US partially It ’ s wealth Is mainly to Its cop California Building, through the
on the basts of their contribu per.
It Is one of the world’ s courtesy o f M r. Gordon Hoy,
tions to their home community. largest copper producers. Vic Vice - President, with amazing
A ll three have chosen the field to ria Falls on the Zambezi River, r e s u l t s . O f the seventeen
of communication; journalism for thp border with Rhodesia, Is three persons who attended meetings,
their career.
tim es the width and more than fifteen found Jobs, one Improved
Jerry Okoro Is on the staff twice the height of Niagara.
his position wlthto his company,
of “ Africa’ ’ magaztoe and Is a
The visitors arrived to the US a n d the other man has been
correspondent for the London In New York and were flown to working at marketing his spe
Tim es. Mponda Lungu Is a sen Seattle, to the University of cialized t r a i n i n g on a con-
io r reporter for his publication, Washington Black Studies Cen tractual basis to local area
and works from a corporate view te r for orientation.
For further Information, or If
Prof. L companies.
point. Theresa Chikombo writes Ukaeje, Acting Director of Black
T h e s e Impressive figures y ° u are Interested to attending
for the Dally M all.
b y * h ® sessions, contact
the
Studies at Portland State Univer w ere announced Jointly
The three were accompanied sity, was host to the guests with G e n e r a l
Gordon Doolittle, Veteran’ s Information Desk,
on their tour by Lincoln Capian, the World Affairs Council during Chairman, M ayor’ s Jobs For Chamber ofCommerce, 824SW
who Is a State Department staff th eir visit.
Veterans Task Force, Lewis 51 h» P o r t l a n d
telephone
member.
He w ill be a senior
A reception was held In their Alexander, Manpower Coordt- 228-9411, ext. 51
at Harvard University this fall. honor F riday evening.
Malawi was visited by Dr. Liv
ingstone In 1859. It Is a member
of the U.N. It Is almost entirely
ae-
Model Cities area residents reported fraudulent o r
an agricultural country. Four
cite automobiles and housing as ceptlve practices occurring In
crops, tea, tobacco, peanuts and
field of automotive sales and
th eir main consumer problems, the
..........—
cotton account for 90% of their
according to figures published r ®P*lrs A lt h o u g h Portland
exports. Other Important pro
area residents have long b e e n
ducts are sugar, rubber, soy
The State of Oregon has enact by the new Consumer Protection wary ~
of fraud to such fields as
Program
on
N.
KUllngsworth.
beans and coffee. The Univer ed a law to become effective on
of door - to -d o o r sales or home-
sity of Malawi, which has five October 1, 1971 which w ill re The agency compiled a list
improvement s e r v i c e s , the
colleges, had Its firs t graduattog quire a 5-cent deposit by the 116 consumer complaints and In public has been slightly more
class to 1969.
consumer on all beer and soft quiries, most of which were re trusting of automotive sales and
Nigeria Is A frica’ s most pop drink bottles and cans except ceived in the month of July after service establishments.
ulas country. The sire Is atiout the so-called Interchangeable a b rief publicity campaign.
CPP Director J, Alton Page
Nearly one fourth of all com
that of Texas and Oklahoma com boer tiottles as to which a 2-cent
s a y s th a t the agency has
plaints
had
to
do
with
housing
bined with a population of 62 deposit w ill be required. The
and house rep airs(12.1% or with successfully settled almost all
m illion, 650 thousand people. N i Interchangeable bottles are those
complaints an d Inquiries re
g eria’s rich natural resources used by multiple breweries, to automotive purchases, repairs ceived. T h e agency's
only
and warranties (12.1%). The two
Include o il, coal, Iron, limestone, fact, by most breweries In the
problem so fSr Is not enough
and natural gas.
It produces Northwestern States. This law other major kinds of complaints complaints. According to Page,
much of the world’ s colurnblum c a rrie s out a promise made by Involved door - to - door sales “ O n c e th e area residents
and
o re, used for steel alloys. Cocoa the Governor during Ids re-elec (1L2%) and furniture
appliance p u r c h a s e s
o r become aware of our services,
Is the main crop. Other exports tion canqtalgn to 1970;
It Is
w e hope to handle several
warranties
(10.3%).
The
figures
are tobacco, tin palm kernels, the first of Its kind enacted by
show a surprisingly high rate o f hundred cases per month with
cotton lint, hides and skins, lum- any state.
our present staff.
Results of Task Force
S o m e th in g of in te re s t to e v e r y o n e .
Aug. 5 1971 IOC p e r copy
Model Cities
to elect
Model Cities Citizens Plan
ning Board elections w ill be
held September 25 to select
one representative from each
of the eight elementary school
areas to the Model Neighbor
hood. Representatives to the
board will be elected from
E liot, Boise, Sabin, King,
V ernon, Humbolt, Woodlawn
and
Irvington
elementary
school areas.
Any resident of the Model
Cities area who Is at least
18 years old may file as a
candidate until 5 p.m . August
27 at the Model Cities Agency,
5329 NE Union Avenue; Neigh
borhood Development Office
No. 1 (NDO), 5630 NE Union
Avenue; NDO No. 2,
3605
NE 15th; NDO No. 3, 10 NE
Graham, and NDO No. 4, 3726
N . Kerby.
Area residents who are 14
years and older may vote at
the polling places to the eight
schools.
A p p ly now
fo r N a v a l
A cadem y
A n y young man entering Ids
senior year of high school who Is
Interested In applying for an ap
pointment to the U .S . N a v a l
Academy should w r i t e h is
senators and congressman as
soon as possible to request a
nomination to Annapolis.
Interested men should also
submit their applications to take
the American College Testing
Program (A C T ) o r selected
College Entrance Examination
B o a r d (C E E B) tec’ s. CEEB
t e s t s r e q u i r e d are
the
Scholastic Aptitude Tests and
t h e Achievement T e s t s
to
E n g lis h
composition and
mathematics (Level I or Level
n .)
F o r further Information on
th e
different t y p e s
of
nominations that can be obtained
for answers to any questions
a b o u t th e Naval Academy
c o n t a c t L t. DougBomartlor
Petty O fficer M .T . H arris at the
Navy
R e c r u i t i n g Station,
Portland at 226-3361 E x t 1646.
tri - met service extended
T r i - Met service w ill be ex
tended to r e s i d e n t s along
several blocks of the eastslde
Battto area In Multnomah and
Clackamas counties beginning
M o n d a y , August 2, General
M a n a g e r Tom King has an
nounced.
Requests for the service tiad
been received from several re
sidents lnthew akeof T rl-M e t’ s
decision to modify the 102nd
Avenue line to eliminate service
to the Suncrest area because of
the lack of patronage.
Beginning Monday, the 102nd
Avenue bus w ill operate dally
from 6:35 a.m .w ltna50-m toute
Interval between N .E . 102nd and
Sandy and S.E. 92nd and Htoxiey.
New to the schedule w ill be the
r o u t e f r o m S.E. 92nd and
Hlnkley v i a Hlnkley, Fuller
R o a d , S .E .89th and Crystal
Springs. Service w ill continue
north via 92nd to Washington to
103rd, N .E . 102nd, N .E . W’ygant,
N . E. 100th and Sandy Blvd. to
N . E. 102nd an d Sandy. South
bound service w ill be on 102nd to
S t a r k to 92nd and south to
Hlnkley.
T h e 102nd line Interconnects
with T rl-M e t servlceon Foster
Road, Holgate, Powell, Division
Yam hill, Washington, Burnside,
Gllsan, Halsev, Tillamook and
Sandy.
F ran klin
(in h o n H H » « n P r« . • 14 O ffic e . . P h o n . ??« 3333
Horn« O fflc« F r .n k lin f ililo . P o .tl« n d O rnaon 9Z?04
Blacks In State of O re.
Edited by P.S.U. Prof.
of Oregon: 1788-1971, A Bib
liography,” is p rim arily de
signed as a reference for those
who wish to learn more about
Blacks to Oregon. The m ater
ials listed cover every period
of the State's history from the
earliest
records of Blacks’
a rriv a l to present. The biblio
graphy has attempted to list
everything to Oregon as well as
nearby states, whether newspa
pers, articles to newspapers and
periodicals, official documents,
as well as unpublished works per
taining to Blacks to Oregon.
Davis has done extensive r e
search on Blacks to Oregon and
Is one of the few authorities oc
the history oi Blacks to the
Beaver State. He recently com
L en w o o d D avis
pleted an article, entitled “ His •
The most comprehensllve and'-ortocraphy of Blacks In Oregon’
exhaustive work ever complied
Assessment,” that w ill also
on Blacks to the State of Oregon ' e published by a professions.
Is slated for release this fall. Journal to the F all.
Besides
And a Portland State University teaching, traveling, speakl:.,
history Instructor Is the author, writing articles and book re -
Lenwood G, Davis, rounding views, Professor Davis Is p re-
out his first year as an Instruc- sently doing additional resear h
to r at the local university, has on Blacks to the State and hopes
been working on the bibliography to complete It to early 1972.
fo r the past six months and was The PSU African and Afro-A m er-
notlfled recently by the Council lean history instructor la al-o
on Planning Librarians of Mont- author of “ I Have a Dream: The
lcello Illinois that the publics- Life and Times of M artin Luther
”
2 ° r . Novembe r . King, J r .” that was published ta
Entitled “ Blacks to the State 1969.
The Secretary of the Navy an
nounced July 27 that It w ill pay
tribute to Petty Officer Doris
(D orie) M U ler, a black Navy
Cross winner of w w n , by nam
ing a destroyer escort 1 n his
h o n o r. T h e keel of the USS
M IL L E R , a Knox class com
batant s h ip ( D E - 1091)
Is
scheduled to be laid at the Avon
dale S h ip y a r d s , Westwego,
Loulsana, August 6, 197L
S h ip ’ s C o o k Third Class
M U ler won the Navy Cross for
his bravery on December 7,
1941,
While Japanese planes
were bombing P earl Harbor,
M U ler moved
the mortally
wounded Commanding Officer of
his ship, WEST VIRG IN IA , to a
place of greater safety. Then,
manning a machine gun, he d ir
ected Ore at attacking Japanese
a irc ra ft until ordered to leave
the bridge. M Uler died Novem
ber 24, 1943 when the USS
LBCO M E BAY was sunk by an
enemy submarine to the South
Pacific.
T h e prim ary mission of the
USS M ILLER wUl beto locate
and destroy enemy submarines
and to act as an escort for m Ul-
tary convoys. She w ill be armed
with anti-subm arine rockets,
anti-submarine torpedoes and a
flv e Inch, 54-callber gun mount.
M U ler was born October 12,
1919 to Waco, Texas where his
mother, M rs. Henrietta M Uler,
currenUy resides. In addition to
the Navy Cross, M U ler, who
Joined the Navy In September o f
1939, was awarded the P u r p l e
Heart, th e American Defense
Service Medal - Fleet Clasp, the
A s i a t i c - Pacific C am paign
Medal, and the World War Two
Victory Medal.
M eeting set
M o d e l Cities Recreation i.
Culture Committee w i l l meet
August 5, at 7:30 p .m ., to Model
Cities Conference Room #226,
5329 N .E . Union Avenue to elect
acting officers to serve thr-xigh
S e p te m b e r
untU
official
elections.
The meeting agenda also calls
for planning of third action year
project, a report by Gerald
Delaney, chairman of YAC and a
review of youth affairs project.
You Are
Needed
For
KLUMPP APPOINTED
INTERIM DIRECTOR
per annum com pounded daily and p a id quarterly
The Labor Department moved provide e s s e n t i a l
public
to Implement the Emergency services.
Employment Act designed to put
The Emergency Employment
m o r e than 150,000
Jobless Act of 1971 permits states and
persons to work during the next localities to create new Job op
tw o years by naming William portunities to the public sector
Mlrengoff to direct the pro In such fields as environmental
gram .
• -
quality, health care, p u b l i c
Acting secretary o i L a b o r safety, transportation,pollution
Laurence 11. SUberman
an and conservation.
nounced Mlrengoff’ s appoint
The Act authorized $750 m il
ment today. Mlrengoff Is
a lion to the main program to F is
senior member of the Manpower cal Year 1972 and $1 billion In
Administration who has been d i F i s c a l Year 1973 for public
rector of the Job Corps since lt service employment when the
became part of the Labor De national rate of unemployment
partment two years ago.
Is at 4.5 percent for three con
T h e new activity would be secutive months.
lodged to the Manpower Admini
An additional $250 million Is
stration.
provided f o r each year for a
T h e Acting Secretary s a id “ Special Assistance Program”
that prelim inary work Is being to provide jobs to needed publh
accomplished on the projected services for unemployed and
$2.25 billion legislation by the underemployed persons resid
Department.
ing to areas of substantial (%6 or
H e said the highest priority m ore) unemployment.
has been given the program, that
Mlrengoff has been director
President Nixon h a s already of the Job Corps since the pro
a s k e d the Congress for a $1 gram was transferred to the
billion appropriation to put to Labor Department from the
work unemployed persons to Office of Economic Opportunity
nubile service jobs which would on July 1, 1969.
Ship named for black Navy hero Miller
Cars housing problems
container
la w passes
Instant Earnings from Day of Deposit
‘1
The appointment of Edward programs In the migrant stream.
Klumpp as Interim Central Ad P art of his responsibility was to
m inistrator for the Metropolitan try to Identify potential Indigen
Area Council was announced re ous leaders among migrants and
cently by the Charlman of the to determine the feasibility of
Board of Directors, Reverend establishing programs for train
A. Lee Henderson. M rs . Helen ing. The result of his research
Cordon, former director of the was the development of a m u lti-
program, has moved to the posi service team approach. He re
tion of Program Development mained with the program, super
Coordinator.
vising the training of potential
M r. Klumpp attended C alifor community leaders.
nia state College at Long Beach,
In this position, M r. Klumpp
where lie majored to Social Sci
traveled throughout the deep
ence and mlnored to Journalism
south, Texas and as far north
and education.
Following his
as Michigan and Ohio.
graduation he taught at an ur
Klumpp then served as D lrec-
ban ghetto school In Long Benell.
Dlssatlsfacton with the school tor of a migrant program for
system led him to volunteer for the Stale of New York. In this
capacity he established a half
the VB TA program.
During his firs t year
with way house for alcoholics, food
V B T A , Klumpp developed and cooperatives and an eastern m i
directed one of the first foil grant communication system.
tim e Head Start Programs In the
Klumpp returned to Oregon so
nation, at Montevlsta, Colorado. that tils wife, Janice, could com
Ills second yenr was spent as plete her nursing training. He
a V K T A leader to Washington, was appointed Director of the
D .C ., Chicago and Phoenix, A ri 4-C Point of Information and Re
zona.
fe rra l for the southeast district
After leaving V B T A , Klumpp of Portland on May 1, 1971.
worked for the University of
.2s stU1 v e ry concerned
Colorado as an Itinerant tutor, with the migrant situation. He
living and travelling with migrant believes to Insuring equality and
fam ilies, developing educational Justice for a ll.
Model Cities
Citizens
Planning Board
EIGHT POSITIONS ARE OPENONTHE
MODEL CITIES CITIZENS PLANNING
HOARD (ONE POSITION FROM EACH
OF FHE 8 MODEL CITIESN1 IGHBOR-
[ HOODS) DEADLINE FOR FILING: AUG
27, 1971,5 P.M.
|For more information!
call
288-8261
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