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Portland/Observer Thursday, Oct. 7, 1971
C leaning up Car Exhaust
One cartoon shows a down­
cast couple sitting on their
elegant
apartment terrace
surrounded by skyscrapers.
The source at their melan­
choly is made clear by the
man. who moans to his wife,
"E ve ry little breeze seems
to whisper emphysema."
A ir pollution pervades the
lives and Invades the lungs of
people of a ll
ages and
incomes— in the city as well
as the country. Everyone has
to breathe to live.
Car exhaust is the chief
cause of a ir pollution. Pol­
lution is one of the concerns
of Nicholas Johnson, an FOC
commissioner, who extols the
Virtue of bicycles m a recent
issue of the Saturday Review.
"B y comparison, the bicycle
is a model citizen.” he says.
“ It does not k ill or main; it
does not pollute; it does not
deplete natural resources; it
makes no noise; and it takes
up a great deal less space.*’
Car exhaust, he sayscreates
almost 900 pounds of pollution
fo r every person each year.
Cne m illion acres of land is
paved for highways each year,
and there is now a m ile of
road fo r each square m ile of
land.
The concrete used in
our interstate highway sys­
tem, Commissioner Johnson
claim s, would build six side­
walks to the moon.
But cars are cle a rly here
to stay.
Cleaning up car
exhaust w ill be one of the
activities during Cleaner A ir
Week, the last week in Octo­
ber.
Across the country,
tuberculosis and respiratory
disease
associations
w ill
participate
in the week's
events. E ffo rts w ill be made
to have d rive rs te stca re m is-
sions and check a ir pollution
devices. Mkltown areas in
some cities w ill be closed to
a ll polluting vehicles fo r at
least part of each day.
Cleaning up ca r exhaust is
a matter of life and breath.
Mrs. Diane Taylor and her son Henry III.
Mrs. Taylor was elected to represent
parents of the Eliot, Boise and Humboldt
areas on the A.M.A. Family DavandNight
Board.
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cont. from page 1
in a fam ily home rather than
a child care center, and
children who go to the day
care home before 3 or after
sc novi.
A ll children who live in
the Model C ities area a re e li-
gible for the program, l ees
are based on the fam ilies
income and obligations, but the
fee schedule is such that most
fam ilies do not pay fo r care.
This allows for fam ilies of low
o r middle income who cannot
afford quality child care but
who do not qualify for pro­
grams funded through the
Office of Economic Oppor­
tunity.
The Family Day and Night
Care Program is funded by
Model C ities and by matching
funds from the Department of
Health, Education and Wel­
fare. The Metropolitan Aiea
4-C Council is tlie prim e con­
tractor fo r the Model C ities
Comprehensive Child Care
component and sub-contracts
the indlv idual projects to child
care agencies o r community
organizations.
e ther sub­
contracts in the Model C ities
program are Bethel AME
Church;
Berean
Baptist
Church fo r centers at It ood-
lawn Methodist, Hughs Mem­
o rial Lnited Methodist, and
Berean Church; Parent Child
Center; New Hope Baptist
Church; and Maranatha Evan­
gelistic Center fo r the Em er­
gency Child Care Center
located at the Multi-Service
Center.
The Family Day and Night
Care Program, which was
established
in December,
1970, was tem porarily operat­
ed by the Metropolitan Area
4-C Council while an operat­
ing agency was sought. The
offices are located at Highland
Community Center, 4635 NJE.
9th Avenue.
Members of the Board of
D irectors
are:
Reverend
Thomas Strayhand,Chairman,
representing A -M jk.; P hillip
Holliman, Treasurer, repre­
senting the Albina M u lti-
Service Center: Joyce Vet-
erance, the representative of
the 4-C Board of D irectors;
Charlotte Brandon, a daycare
mother; Carolyn Nelson, Sec­
retary, and Diane Taylor.
M rs. Nelson and M rs. Taylor
were elected by parents of
children in the program.
Members of the staff are:
D ire cto r — Gloria Fisher;
Social
W orkers - Bertha
Jermany,
Roger Dorband,
Archie Easter, J r , Rene
McConoga, Dtie Hamilton,
Cynthia Thomas, and Tish
K irk ; Secretaries — Nancy
Pompa and RosemarySimmg-
ton;
Accountant - D oris
Stitt.
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LIFE CENTER
con’t, from page 1
FANTASIA
MR GREGORY
SCH1PPARELLI
JOHN I ROSS
CHAPPELOF PARIS
All at incomparable prices
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Natural American I »
Mink Coats $595.00
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Hamilton furs
some type of work done at the
Center. The size of the box
w ill be in relation to the size
of the fa m ily. The boxes con­
tain
such items as fru it,
vegetables, spices, etc. They
also have frozen foods.
.Mothers with young children
may bring the children to the
Center with them. There is a
place where the children can
play
o r read while their
mother is working fo r the
goods received at the Life
Center.
When a person comes in for
assistance he fir s t fills out a
standard form that includes
his name, address, and the
items he needs. Then he is
assigned a specific Job by the
person incharge of thedepart-
ment from which the items are
obtained.
A ll of the items at the Cen­
te r, including clothing, ap-
pliences, fu rn itu re , household
a rticle s, bedding, books, and
food, are donated by citizens of
Portland, L a k e O s w e g o ,
Clackamas, T igard,
West
Linn and Milwaukee.
During its three years of
operation, the L ife Center has
provided a very essential ser­
vice to the community.
ACME
Family Day Night Care
call lo r
Prison refo rm
Three black members of the
U.S. House ofRepresentatlves
said the uprising at Attica
State Prison grew out of de­
humanizing conditions which
exist throughout the country.
Representatives
Shirley
Chisholm and Charles Rangel
(both Dem.-N.YJ and Ronald
Heliums (Dem-Caltf.) said In
a Joint statement that the need
for prison reform "has been
dramatically brought to our
attention.’’ They said there
could tie no Justification or ex­
planation for the taking of
lives.
"When a system of penal In­
stitutions that Is created de­
humanizes people to such an
extent that life has no value
within the prison, then surely
this should shake the con­
science of this nation to move
towards the eradication of
treatment that continues to
perpetuate man’s inhumanity
to man.’’
They said Americansocletx
must ask Itself why a system
of penal Justice has created
"men who become killers of
their fellow men and place so
little value on human life.
"The answer is because the
entire emphasis of our co r­
rectional system has not been
one of rehabilitation. It has
been consistently one where
the prisoner Is regarded as an
Individual whose basic per­
sonal freedoms as a human be­
ing have been mtnlmtzed.”
Senator Edward W. Brooke,
(Rep.-Mass.) warned that If
prison conditions continued
nationally, the threat of pun­
ishment-even death itself-wtll
not stop other prison Inmates
from taking similar actions.
Of the Attica Inmates he said,
"F o r years these men tried
to be heard, and few would
listen. They finally chose the
only wav that they believed
was left open to them to pre­
sent their grievances.” He
said the majority of those In­
volved In the riot at Attica
were black and It should be re ­
membered that blacks lnA-
merlca have "less educational
opportunity, poorer quality
education, more substandard
housing, less Income, and ex­
perience greater discrim i­
nation than have any other peo­
ple In our nations history.
“ 'r hese are the facts which
are the root contentions of
many black prison Inmates
when they say they are ’poli­
tical prisoners’ ” ,
The Massachusetts Senator
said the most poignant scene
• aptured on news film at At­
tica was a middle-aged black
prisoner shouting, " I am a
man!” . "F or anyone In this
country In this day and age,to
have to shout la m a man at the
top of hls lungs and from the
depth of hls soul shocks the
conscience."
U.S Representative Ralph
Metcalfe (Dem,-ni.)called for
an endto racial discrimination
and mistreatment of prisoners
In the nations orisons and de­
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violent and sometimes even
rageful repercussions." He
suggested that the federal
government Investigate the
Attica tragedy.
’’Law fo r the
p e o p le ”
The Oregon Lawyer’s Guild
will be presenting the second
session of its eleven week
course entitled "Law for Peo­
ple". This session will be de­
voted to an In depth study of the
criminal law process, with
specific emphasis placed on
the Oregon Penal Code. The
criminal law session will run
for two and possibly three
weeks and will examine the
a rrest, trial and conviction
process, Juvenile law, laws
controlling morality,and may
possibly culminate In a mock
criminal trial with members
of the class assisting In the
preparation and presentation.
The "Law for People"
course Is a free, non-credit
course being offered at the
Portland State University Ed­
ucation Center at 2611 N.E,
Union every Thursday evening
for the next ten weeks between
the hours of 7 and 9 P.M. The
criminal law session will be­
gin this Thursday, October 7,
at 7 P.M. The Lawyer’s guild
lias made arrangments for
child care.
922 S.W. MORRISON ST.
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Aleta Michelle Jackson, daughter of
Mrs. Vaness Brown, plays with’’Skeeter”
in the Day Care Home of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Jones.
B ro w n
Men's -
L e a th e r
L,vi JockX j 59'95'
Women’s
Apparel
in Leather
$45.00
G old S u .d ,
$55.00
Wanda
and
Harvesta
Harris
Avenue
Iran Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Johnson, was one of the first
children to be placed in the program.
He is in Mrs. Louis Brown's day care
home.
Mrs. Rosemary Simington, Secretary
for the A.M.A. Family Day and Night
Care Program, entertains Tony Osborne
while his mother, Mary Osborne, visits
Highland Community Center.
(Photos- Roger Dorband)
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NATE HARTLEY Fuel Oil
2 8 2 -5 5 3 9
Care"
2330 N. K. Alberta St.
Pant»
H a r r is
The store,Harvesta’ st eathei
Shack, opened two weeks ago
a nJ offers a variety of Impoi t-
ed leathers including coats,
ponchos, purses and hells.
"T h e Idea of tlx: shop Is to
otfei unique leatlxsi items at
tlie same quality tu t lower
prices
than la rger 'brand
name* shops", (lie young man
remarked. "W e offer good
m eicliaikilse, hut iwople don't
have to |>ay fo r the name."
lie said,
H a rris , 27, and hls 19 year
old wife, Waixla, own ami u|>-
eiatn the leatlier shop. An
employee of thu C ity of P ort­
land, Hal ils w ill graduate
next month from (lie Sewage
Treatment operators School.
M i a. H a rris manages (1»
leatlier shop while liei huslmnd
la at work. Store hours are
9 am to 7 pm Monday through
Satuiday.
H a rris was born In Portland
and graduated from Franklin
High School.
He attended
Portland Community College
anl tlw t'n lve rslty of Oregon.
Wanda attended Jefferson anil
F ranklin High Schools.
H a rris Is optim istic alxiui
I ake t Iswego’ s f li at lila c bus­
iness. " I feel that (ample are
waking up,” lie commented,
" I liey liave to.”
H a rris (revels to Mexico
several times a month to pur­
chase leathet Items. A s,x>-
(cotit. p. H Col. 3)
Owned and
Operated By
'¿OMINE
The G ift That'n V orth
10,000 Worth!
M r .A M r t H a rv e s ta
"People think that If they
don’ t pay a lot for an Item,
it's no good," said Harvesta
H a rris, young owner of Lake
Oswego's Black leather shop,
located at 157 " A ” Avenue.
I Specializing
Imports
I v..t $29.95
TERS
IN C
Harvesta Views Future
In Leather Goods
I Harvesta’s
I Leather
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Shack
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GLASS
CO.
Blake Fergeson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Fergeson, and Shannon Davis,
daughter of Mrs. Jeanne Davis. The
children are pictured in the home of Mr.
and Mrs, Robert Land.
manded total prison reform
He said, "The cries of mis­
treatment by prisoners and the
frusteratlons brought about by
racial discrimination do noth­
ing more than lend itself to
The PORTLAND TRAFFIC
SAFETY COMMISSION says
that six out of ten pedestrian
tra ffic victim s are more than
60 years old. When you see
an older person take a chance
crossing the street..exercise
a little extra care and caution.
CASSINI
DONALD BR(X)KS
GEOEFORY BEENE
CHRISTIAN DIOR
ESTEVEZ
Black leaders
6 00 <*
to 6 :0 0 P m -We
(Munday thru Saturday)
Portland, Ore. 97211
Carr'
Lake
O sw ego.
O re g o n
Bus. 635-2559
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