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Triplets leave Hospital
D ay Care
W orkshop
On Sunday, June IIth at 3:00
p .m , the 4-C Model C llw s
Point of Information and Re
fe rra l w ill hoslgiaduailonex-
erclses / o r the children who
w ill he leaving 4-C Model C l
ues Day C areCentere to enter
school In the fall.
I he ceiemony w ill be field
at It» New Hope Missionary
Baptist Church, at 3725 North
Gantenbetn. M s. Dolly Bow
man. Principal of M artin La
ther King School, w lllbethe
guest speaker and there w ill tw
musical selections by tfte
Bailey Fam ily.
R e f r e s h m e n t s w ill be
■wived aftei the ceremony and
the public Is cordially Invited.
Seale runs
for Mayor
Black Panther Party ch air
man Bobby Seale, running on
a platform that calls for com
munity control of police and
rent ceilings, announced his
candidacy for M ayor in Oak
land’ s city elections next year.
“ What the people want in the
community will tw the mayor
ls a je ," the 35-year-old Seale
told a Panthers Black Com
munity Survival Conference
at Bobby Hutton M em orial
Park.
Seale said his campaign
platform wU I also embrace the
party’ s 2 0 -point program,
which
includes free food,
medical service and clothing.
T rip lets born May 5, 1972,
at Emanuel Hospital to M r. and
M rs . Lugene Golden, 4334
N .E . 26th Si., went home May
30, aveniguig a pound and half
more apiece that they did at
birth.
The three g irls have an old
e r sister waiting for them;
she’ s Sandl, now 3-1/2 years
old. I lie re are also grandpar-
enta, a great grandmother,
and a numlwr of aunts, uncles
and other relatives.
Triplets are:
Tammy M arie, whowelglwd
3 pounds. 6 ounces at birth,
weighs 4 pounds, 11-1/2 ounces
now, anti measures about 17-
1/2 inches long;
I ma Lorine, who weighed
3 pounds, 4 ounces at birth,
weighs 4 pounds, II ounces
now, and measures about 18
Inches long;
I aunya Denise, who weighed
3 pounds, 6 ounces at birth,
weighs 4 pounds, 15-1/2 ounces
now, and measures about 18-
1/2 inches long.
Ihe trio were “ good babies
all the way along," sayEman-
uel nursing staff members.
Because of their size and that
they are triplets, all were
placed in the Emanuel Inten
sive Care Nursery Immedi
ately after birth; with the
next week to 10 days, all had
teen moved Into the regular
nursery.
They’ve remained
there while they gained enough
weight to go home.
T riplets are the first born
at Emanuel since November
20, 1969, the date which ended
an approximately 13-month
period in which five sets of
triplets were delivered in the
Emanuel maternity hospital.
Previously, it had leen more
than II years since a set
of triplets hud teen born there.
Commission soys busing
necessary for education
Busing Is not the answer
to achieving a quality educa
tion for all, but it Is the
most workable solution for
ending segregation In schools
caused by racially divider)
neighborhoods, said a report
released by the U.S. Com
mission on C ivil Rights.
The reixirt, “ Your child
and busing” Is a compilation
of data on busing gathered
from various private and gov
ernment sources during the
last several months.
M rs . Franklin M .F reem an ,
St. Louis attorney and n u m
ber of the Commission, re
leased the report at a news
conference.
She said some
300,000 copies would be dis
tributed.
“ The plain fact Is that our
present pattern of neighbor
hood schools means segre
gated schools,” the Report
said. “ To do nothing would
condemn American children to
additional
generations
of
segregated schooling, for It
Instant Eafnings from Day o f Deposit
per annum compounded daily and paid quarterly
Kenj.(0 Franklin
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Home Office Franklin Bldg . Portland, Oregon 87204
w ill he decades before any
meaningful changes can 1«
made In the all-to o -fam iliar
pattern of rigidly segregated
neighborhoods."
In defending the necessity
of (using, the Commission
said It believed that every
child deserves a high quality
education; that the Supreme
Court has been right In de
cisions handed down on the
issue; that racial justice and
racial unity are necessary to
the Nation’ s future well-being
and cannot be achiever) when
children
are educated In
racial Isolation; and that the
continued acceptance of school
segregation “ w ill leave to
future generations a heritage
of distrust, cynicism anti
alienation which may prove
Irreversib le."
The report refuted tie a r
gument that children have a
right to attend a “ neighbor
hood" school.
"T he education trend In re
cent years has been away from
the
neighborhood
school,
whose facilities are neces
sarily limited by size, toward
larger schools which canpro-
vkle better facilities and a
b r o a d e r curriculum . The
neighborhood school was not
sacred In the days of segre
gation, and there Is not reason
why It should 1« today," the
report said.
The report said opponents
of busing Insist It endangers
children by sending them fa r
from home Into dangerous
neighborhoods. However, the
report said, " I f a neighbor
hood in which a school Is
located poses a threat to
school’ children, the school
should he closed and the chil
/
(Please see p. 8 col. 6)
(Additional pictures page 8)
Summers selected os director
li'e r n o n
Summers was
named D irecto r of the M etro
politan Human Relations Com
mission, replacing Russell
Peyton who retired In A p ril.
Summers is the firs t black to
hold this position.
He was selected by theCom-
misslon and approved by Port
land Mayor T e rry Schrunk and
Chairman of the Board of
Multnomah County, M . James
Gleason.
T he responsibility of the D i
rector of the Metropol Itan Hu
man Relations Commission is
to promote and secure mutual
understanding
and respect
among all citizens Including
economic, religious, ethnic,
and social groups In the Port
land metropolitan area. In ad
dition, It coordinates efforts
with all agencies and depart
ments In the City of Portland,
County of Multnomah; encour-
‘ges the Metropolitan Human
Relations Commission tocon-
duct positive programs to es
tablish better understanding
tetween all citizens of the
community regardless of their
racial, religious, social or
azonomlc differences; to co
ordinate with programs and
agencies within the City of
Portland and County of M ult
nomah; and to try to bring
about better human relations
not only In government, but In
the community, to accomplish
le tte r communication and un
derstanding with all citizens
Black Caucus
holds Convention
D r. Lee P, Brown, C hair
man of the Oregon BlackCau-
eus, announced today plans
for convening the F irs t O re
gon Black Political Conven
tion.
The Convention w ill I« field
on the 30th of June and the
1st of July at Bethel AME
Church, 5828 N .E . 8th Ave.,
Portland, Oregon.
According to Brown, the
convention w ill serve several
purposes. “ F irs t, It will be
a means of bringing together
and
uniting Black people
throughout the State of Oregon.
Second, It w ill le the mech
anism we will need to elect
Oregon’ s Delegates to the
Hosts
In our Metropolitan area.
Summers, who has been
Acting D irecto r since Pey
ton’ s retirem ent, has held the
position of Assistant Director
of the Commission since 1969.
Summers, 47, was previ
ously an assistant housing
planner in Portland’ s Model
Cities program and was code
enforcement officer for the
Albina Citizens W ar on Pov
erty Committee, Inc.
Summers,
a long-tim e
Portland resident, was In the
insurance
business before
joining local poverty pro
grams. He has been cited by
Boy Scouts of America for sig
nificant service in the Camp
Development Campaign of the
Columbia Pacific Council, by
the President’ s Council on
Youth and the Irvington Com
munity Association for his
service to thecommunity. He
has also received a letter
of commendation from Gover
nor Tom M cCall for his dedi
cated community service.
He Is a member of the Na
tional Association of Human
Rights W orkers, the CityClub
of Portland, Prince Hall M a
sonry, the Urban League of
Portland and the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People.
Summers is m arried with
two children and two grand
sons, and lives at 2618NJE. 8th
Avenue in Portland.
His selection was announced
Monday by C ity Comm Is sion-
Albina Art Center exhibits art
National B la c k Assembly.
Third, at the convention we
w ill develop a platform speci
fically related to Blacks in
Oregon."
Eddie Robertson, Chairman
of the Caucus’ Political Com
mittee is responsible for put
ting the convention together.
The Caucus w ill hold its
monthly meeting on June 18th
at 6:00 p m . at the Elks Club,
I ülamook and W illiam s Ave.
According to D r . Brown, “ A ll
EUacks interested in Improv
ing the conditions of Blacks
in the State of Oregon are
invited to join and participate
in the Caucus.
G raduation
On Friday and Saturday,
June 16th and 17th, a two-day
workshop on day care f o r
children w ill be held for pre
school teachers, assistants,
volunteers, and any one else
who is Interested In the needs
of thechlld. The workshopwill
be sponsored by the 4-C Model
Cities Point of Information and
Referral In conjunction with
the Oregon Council onAdull
Training and Education, and
will be held at Portland Com
munity College, CascadeCen-
ter.
Presentations w ill he made
by persons eminent in the
fields of child care and child
development. Enrollment Is
limited to the firs t one hundred
people to register.
Further information maybe
obtained by calling the 4-C
Model C itiesP olnt of Informa
tion and Referral offlceat 288-
8861.
e r Neil Coldschmidt, who is
liaison with the Commission
for the city. CountyCommls-
sioner Ben Padrow serves this
function for the county.
Summers hopes fo rg rea ter
involvement of the individual
citizens, as he believes Indivi
duals, as well as organiza
tions or agencies, need access
to the city and county govern
ments. He sees the Commis
sion as an educational agency
to assist residents as well as
one designed to implement
city-county policy in the areas
of human relations. He sees a
new direction for theComm le
sion - that of bringing people
together to work with govern
ment for betterment of human
conditions.
Block prints Including the above are featured in the exhibit
of the wotks of Byrd Bettis now showing at the Albina A rt
Center.
The Albina A rt Center is
currently presenting an art
show featuring the Center D i
rector, Byrd Bettis.
The exhibit, entitled “ The
New World African: a Byrd
Show of Paintings & Draw
ings“ , opened June5th and w ill
be on display until June 2bth.
Byrd received an undergra
duate degree in Rhetoric from
San Francisco StdteCollege in
1966. His art training in
school was mostly In the fields
of music and dram a. Itw asn't
until later that he got Into the
art fields of painting and draw
ing, most of which he picked up
on his own.
A fte r graduation from San
Francisco State he taught Eng
lish at a secondary school In
Ghana, where his art began to
take on a definite African In
fluence.
He returned to M onterrey,
California where he taught and
became Chairman of the Black
Studies Department at Mon
terrey Peninsula College.
Byrd then moved to Portland
where he became Assistant
Director of the Black Studies
Center at Reed College.
In addition to his accom
plishments In the areas of
teaching and art, Byrd is also
a published poet.
A reception is being held
this Sunday, June II, from 6:00
p jn . to 8:00p.m.providing the
public- with the opportunity to
meet Byrd anfl browse through
his exhibit.