/»A7 , US p is Casson appointed to planning commission sV < x New est New spaper 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. ■» ■» y o u r p o p . r , 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 I - t