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I I Page 6 Portland Observer Phursdav M arch 23, 1972 Soft Shades of Black doesn't like title s, because he teels that a s e ltliei tlie name of the book, the author nieniters the poem. " I f the reader catches Mtt, the rhythm you’ ve supplied to the words, workei tor AA1.A. Fam ily Day St Night Care Program where he works with children, their parents and problems, but his goal is to he a full time poest and creative w r it ing atxl speech teacher. He believes everybody expresses talent one way o r anothei and wants to help others find th e ir way. He is attending Portland State now, majoi mg In Eng lish anil wants to eventually teach at the high school level. Paster isa versatile w rite r, hav ing w ritten one play ami two short stories beskles his vol umes of poetry. He has also done three TV shows with ’ ’ T hird W orld” . W hat he lacks is the exposure big citie s can gixe. He doesn't intend to move, though, because, •’ 1 here's no place like home. The grass ain’ t no gieenei no place else.” Easter continued, "1 find that theie’ s an awful lot of Black w rite rs heie in Port land that I ’ve come in con tact with. I don't think th ose Black” is a title Archie likes, hut 1» prete.s his poems untitled. He said. " T itle s ate apply arxt are good. Most aren’ t.” Ile ie . Alameda Theater » 3000 NE Alberta | 284-9448 Black Beauty— Black Beauty Soul So Deep Pimp has you in tlie siie e t Mother asks huw--why--where did I go w i Mama, Mama it's a four hundred year o Monkey knawing, clawing at your txxly Pusher man standing in die lobby Black Man— Black Man Soul So I 'eep Bring our Black Queens of the street So you both shall lie In need While you try to leed That Big Dog who’ s related to what Related to what to what ow ing Rise up, please rise up, i t ’ s Nat 1 ou Black Queens have seen the (A ll rights rese ned) tion. Although lie considers Hughes and Baraka the great est w rite rs he has ever lead, he doesn't consider poets who have followed them to be im i tations. He saki, ’ ’ They’ ve put Into motion a feeling most Black poets can identify with. Just like the Temptations put into motion a kind ofchoreography that others have copied.” He wants to see thia motion moving in the schools, in sti tuted at all levels ascurricula in Black studies. bammy Davis. J r. is Nancy W ilson’ s guest on "T h e Nancy Wilson Special", Monday. March -7th, in co lo r at 9:00 over KPTV. Other guests include three-tim e Academy Award-winner Henry Mancini. singer/TV personality Mike Douglas, and the popular Staff e Simjers «fio perform th e ir big h it, “ Respect Y o u rs e lf". 'Nancy Wilson Special scheduled winning composer Henry Man c in i. singer and talk show per sonality Mike Douglas, and the popular Staple Singers. Highlights include Sammy Davis, J r . ’ s rendition of "T h is is My life .” as well as a soul ful m e d ly h e d o e s with Miss Wilson. M ikeD ouglasw illalso perform a duet with Nancy, plus a solo. " L it t le Boy L o st,” while the Oscar-winning rune " D e a r H eart,” is one of the numbers Henry Mancini w ill perform . One of A m erica’ s fastest rising groups, the Staple Sing ers, w ill sing th e irc u rre n t hit single. "Resepct Y o u rse lf," before teaming with Nancy fo r the g o s p e l, "Since I Met Jesus.” Mexico City park draws Those Americans who feel deprived by the deterioration of so many L . S. municipal parks w ill find in Mexico a model of what a park should be and how it should be main tained. Apart from being one of the world's oldest, largest, best- kept. safest and most beaut iful municipal parks. Mexico C ity’ s Chapultepec Park has such a dazzling array of at tractions that the firs t-tim e v is ito r often feels somewhat overwhelmed. From picnicking to polo to paddling on one of the park’ s four lakes, from browsing through the six museums, the botanical gardens or the flow e r market to bracing one’ s self foi the amusement park udes (one fo r adults, one fo r child ren), the enjoyable options go on and on, so varied that there is something fo r every age, fo r every intellectual and economic le ve l. There are adults’ c h il dren's theaters, a zoo, two ro lle r skating rinks and three band stands fo r public con certs. There is ancient Chap ultepec Castle and the brand- new, 200 acre equestrian park addition. There are playing fields and playgrounds, pony and goat c a rt rides and two miniature trains that wind th e ir way In and around many of the other attractions, a delightful and restful way to explore pan of the vast ex panse which measures almost one m ile by one m ile at its broadest point. There are all kinds of res- tua rants, ranging from the score of little kiosks o r snack bars scattered around the area all the way to the gaute cu i- slne-o- the strikin g ly design ed Restaurant del Lago. To savour it as the.Mexicans do - and it is the number one diversion fo r m illio n s of the c ity ’ s residents - take a Sun day morning s tro ll along one of the w ell-kept walks that wind through the woodland 1*- neath the giant ahuethuete trees. These are a cypress type peculiar to Mexico, and the park’ s largest, called Moctezuma's Tree (aftei the Aztec Em peror), is more than 200 feet tall and measures 44 feet around the trunk. Since Sunday is the oniyday when most Mexicans are free to come here, the government cuts Sunday admission prices on the attractions that are not already free. A visit to the world-famous Museum of Have Your Birthday party free at Geneva’s Black artists show works (Dee) Allen, popular bar maid at Geneva's, does on her night off. I < I ” ln the movement and be yond" a show of the paintings, drawings and prints of black a rtists from Los Angeles w ill be presented by the Albina A r t Center. The show w ill continue through March 25. although that’ s le a u tifu l. What’ s best about Paster's rhetoric is what it means to Arvhte Easter. "T h e greatest fulfillm ent I've gotten from w ritin g is it has satisfied me. If others lon’ t like it. th a t'sth e iro p m - Arbor plans Nigerian food inspectors checking a batch of cocoa beans before they are bagged fo r shipment. A rboi Day w ill becelebrat- «1 on tlie C entei’ s grounds and in the C entei’ s building on Saturday, A p ril 29. D i rector E i nest Kolbe is work ing with Supt. James Bray of Hoyt A rboi etum on joint plans. The Arboi etum w ill have a nee planting ceiemony at 10 a.m. A t tlie conclusion of this ceremony, those participating and watching w ill be Invited to hear a special A rb o r Day message from the C entei’ s talking tree. Them Is a rumor that the ta lkin g Tree plans to give seedling trees to the firs t 100 or so people coming to see him. And the re just might be refreshments. W I show town hall mar. 26 510 pm S 2.50 Advance I ickets on sale House of Sound o r from your favorite E squire $3.00 at door Nigeria second cocoa producer In a land with a historydat ing back to 700 B.C., when the Nok culture flourished, a crop introduced less than 100years ago Is a mere newcomer. Vet cocoa is currently N igeria's most important commercial crop andNigeria isth e w o rld ’ s second largestcocoa-growmg country. The c o u n t r y ’ s 356,0«JO square-mile te rrito ry (four times larger than Great B rit ain) lies completely w ithin the tropical zone, making it the largest single geographical u n i t along the West Coast of A fric a . I he 600-m ile coast line along the Gulf of Guinea is an almost unbroken stretch of sandy beaches. Lagos (the Federal Capital) am) Port H arcourt, two im p o r t a n t parts, are also on the Gulf -oast. Ini ,r*i, | tropic II I tin forest reaches from 60 - 100 m iles northward and an aer ial view shows a blanket of green treetops, interrupted only by an occasional small clearing or farm . About 98 per cent of N iger ia’ s 300,000 cocoa farm ers cultivate their crops on one m illio n acres of land in West ern N igeria. The average pro duction there amounts to 2'X) pounds of dry cocoa - that is, dried beans - per acre each year. N igerian cocoa (c a lle l La gos, s in c e most of it is ex ported from there) Is a basic gr ade - which means it can be used either by itse lf oi blended w it h other types of cocoa to contribute the chocolate flavoi to a myriad of chocolate foods. Harvesting Is almost continu ous - the main one from Octo- ber th r o u g h March. The sm a lle r summer crop Is col lected from May through Au- gust. Most Lagos beans are expoited to the I mted States, the United Kingdom, tlie Neth erlands, and the USSR. Lo cal grindings, however, have been increasing ami in the past year or two have been aver ag ing about 30,000 tons. Nigerians a re probably the only citizens of West African cocoa-grow ing countries to have been encourage! to con sume their own cocoa. This has teen going on since ihnur pared ami distributed instruc tions fo r us I n g , storing, ami roasting cocoa ten,-., along with recipes for cocoa drinks and desserts. F o r some time cocoa bread was a popular product, in the early days of cocoa-growing, some ingeni ous fa im e rs ’ h e ife rs discov ered that the fermented d rip pings from fresh cocoa leans made a kind of wine. It didn’ t taste like cocoa, but was very intoxicating, i e p o r t s Indi w an t to g e t to k n o w you lt s simple. \ \ better, we can d o more for you. And, also, if y( more apt to ask for help when yo g ettin g change for your parking So stop in at tli O regon and introtlute yourself. cated. Very different from the farm-m ade wine is the more sophisticate! cocoa beverage intr oduce! at a recent press conference in I igos, by its two inventor s. I 1« inventor s ex- . I f | In The Heat of the Night | | They call me M r. Tibbs | I Scalp Hunter ♦ Royal Esquires Fashions F o r her firs t television spe c ia l. Nancy Wilson, the ta- lentol internationally-known entertainer, has gathered a small galaxy of stars t h a t would provide dazzling I ight in any musical constellation. A irin g Monday, March 27th at 9:00 p.m. over KPTV, the hour - long programw i l I also feature Sammy Davis, J r , three-tim e Academy Award I T h at’s why. F IR S T N A TIO NAL BA N K OF OREGON
