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Page 4 AortUnd/Observer July fi, n>T2 P O R TLA N D -£5 OBSERVER I world of women Portland teacher attends training conference M rs. P a rre l) Johnson, Re gional Training O fficer of HEAD START, RTO, at Ore gon State System of Higher Education, has just returned from a one-week tra ln li^ workshop at the F a r West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development in Berkeley, California. M rs . Johnson, who resides at 220 N. Humboldt In P o rt- lant, underwent training as a course - leader / coordinator for the Laboratory’ s P aren t/ Child Toy-Lending L ib rary program which has been de veloped with funds provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. At the federally-funded Laboratory, which develops products and processes to help children have more and better opportunities to learn. M rs . Johnson worked for a week with other trainers and coordinators fo r the Toy L ib rary program who came from all across the nation. Under the direction of the developers of the Toy L ib ra ry , this group w ill now help to install model Toy L ib ra ries in various communities. These In an effort to push racial justice forward to top priority in the nation, the YWCA of the L.S.A. joined by some 100 sup porting religious, social, bus iness, government, ethnic and other groups met for a one-day National Convocation on Ra cial Justice in New York. Senator Hugh Scott, minori ty leader of the U.S. Senate, Congressman Ronald V . D el- lums of California, represent ing the Congressional Black Caucus, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and Wayne Community College president D r. Reginald Wilson keynoted the convocation. Panels dealt with insti tutionalized racism in the fol lowing areas: political em powerment; ethnic groups and identity crises; American ra cism exported abroad; the social agencv as catalyst for blocks, a flannel board, a stacking toy, a number puzzle, and color lotto. Groups of parents meet once a week to learn how to play a series of games with a given toy; Being a woman has proven then they borrow that toy for to he a real job asset fo rC a ro l use at home for one week. Daniels C a rte r, but she’ s not Over a period of eight weeks In a traditionally female oc the parents gain insight into cupation. the educational techniques of M rs . C a rte r is the firs t the Toy L ib ra ry program and black and the firs t women to be I then can borrow additional hired as a compliance officer ! 4 toys from their own lib ra ry by the local office of the U.S. any time th eiealter. From Department of Labor’ s Labor- pilot Installations w ill be open the program, parents learn Management Services Admi for one year as demonstra how to help their children nistration (LM SA). tion sites where parents, edu develop skills and problem "Perhaps it is because I am cators, and child-development solving abilities while at the a woman, and in some in experts can visit to observe same time developing a posi stances because I am black." the program In action. Funds tive self-concept. she says, "but I feel the re a re for these sites were secured Anyone wishing additional times when I make investiga under a special grant from the information about the P aren t/ tions - particularly in a home National Center for Educa Child Toy-Lending L ib ra ry - that I get better treatment tional Communication, Office program can phone 229-4835 and cooperation than the men of Education. at the Division of Continuing on our staff. The Toy L ib ra ry program Education. M rs . Johnson w ill During her four years as a enables parents of preschoci maintain regular contact with compliance officer, M r s . children to learn how to use the Laboratory, which is a C a rte r has successfully car a select group of educational non-profit public agency ried out a variety of difficult toy«. games, and other learn funded under the Cooperative assignments In Kentucky, ing activities at home with Research Act by the U . S. Tennessee, and M ississippi. their own youngsters. The Office of Education Depart She investigated the 1969 basic set of toys include a ment of Health. Education and national election of the United feely bag, sound cans, special Velfare. Mine W orkers in some of the most mountainous sections of Appalachia and "did an excel lent job” says her supervisor. Area D ire cto r Homer E .K ro g . As an LMSA compliance officer, M rs . C a rte r is a com bination enforcement officer institutional change; the role and technical assistance advi with racial justice feel must of TV in eliminating racism; sor for three federal laws and be addressed by political can open housing; racism in re li didates and party platforms, a Presidential Executive Or gious institutions; economic if the nation’ s political lead d er. These federal statutes empowerment; health - aright ers are to act to save the na are: Labor Management Re for all?; quality education for porting and ni<iclosure Act: tion from a collision course. all children; equal justice un Scheduled convocation pan the W elfare and fen s ion plans der the law; racism and post Disclosure Ace the M ilita ry el ists included: Roy Wilkins: secondary education. Selective Service Act of 1967, Rev. Jesse Jackson; Rev. An and Executive O rder 11491 drew Young of Atlanta; Imamu Gary, Indiana Mayor, Rich A m iri Baraka; M rs . LaDonna ard Hatcher and Ford Founda H a rris , Americans for Indian tion president McGeorge Bun Opportunity; D r . Kenneth B. dy were luncheon speakers Clark; D r. Benjamin Mays, Some 2,000 participants at United Negro College Fund; tended from across the U.S.; D r. James Cheek, Howard from leaders in the power University; Robert Browne, s ti’ittu re to grass roots rep Black Economic Research resentatives including Blacks, Center. Puerto Ricans, American In Convocation co -ch airm en dians, Chicanos, Americans were M rs . Laurance S. Rock of Asian descent - young and e fe lle r and M rs . R a lp h old. Bunche. Amsterdam News T h e ir aim was to elevate publisher Clarence B. Jones the elimination of racism to a was convocation advisory priority that those concerned council chairman. 'A which regulates federal labor- management relations. M rs . C a rte r is currently working on a special assign ment to speed the receipt anl Improve the accuracy of finan cial reports from labor orga nizations. Krog points out that M rs . C a rter is given exactly the same type of assignment as the men on the staff. He predicts that she w ill someday hold a position in Washington's "top echelon.’ ’ An honor student at F o rt Valley Stale College In F o il Valley, G a . M rs . C a rter o ri ginally planned on a teach career. Three months of stu dent t e a c h i n g , however, changed her mind. Theday af ter graduation, she accepted a job as an inventory manage ment specialist with the De partment of (»efense. A fte r two years at Robbins A ir Force Base, she Joined LMSA in Nashville. M rs . C a rte r enjoys playing the oboe, clarinet and saxo phone in her free fim e. She alao designs and makes much of her own clothing. She takes special pride in being a member of Delta Sig ma Theta Sorority. The orga nization. she says, "was in strumental in building a wing to the Rlruta Medical Center In Kenya, A fric a, and thatwir^ was named for the so ro rity.” She likes her Job as a Labor Department compliance offi cer, pointing out: " I simply want to do the best job pos sible.” who think that a white lady is his prize posession, and a Sister is full of jive, always, as they say, "running her mouth, arguing and keeping up on the charge accounts.** W ell, it works both ways and they can and w ill do the same things and even better. How can I say this easy, you Brothers (excuse me) some of you, w ill try and take care of a white lady and leave a Black Woman defenseless and in the dark as we always are and probably w ill stay that way until you acknowledge the fact that we look much better In the Light, the Spotlights. Diamonds are also our best friends and we like to style, too, riding high in those long pretty M ark I l l ’ s, or even E l- — ------- ~ r r r r i f i i i j j j j j . W . W ill Heed Every Wish... f 'I &■-' ; ■■ V t*r- -z K f Special Assistant to President Nixon for Consumer Affairs Our reputation for integrity and competence w ill assure consideration lor every wish of the fam ily. Don V a n n VANNS MORTUARY 5211 N.W illiam s Avenue 2 8 1 -2 8 3 6 dorados. O r like most of us, including myself, would settle fo r a nice ride and a Real Black Man who is not afraid of the fact that he is Black and definitely proud of his true Heritage. Some of us Black Women are often shocked and dis turbed at the fact that we are somewhat losing our black men to the white women. W ell, we can also be shocked to a certain extent by this fact also--w e black women are pushing each other too. So many times I have felt hatred toward certain w om en fortry- ing to take my Man or whom ever " I 'm digging on” , but I know now from experience, people cannot take away what you never had, and fighting each other with words or ac tion w ill certainly not help the cause. Jo we Black and Beautiful Sisters must try and stick together whether or not we like each other from our own race or not. But if we continue this jea lously among our own race, or whatever we determine thia situation as, we will always have to w orry about the White Women and the Black Man being, as we say, togethr In this fast, fast world. I really do believe in a Black Man, my own black man, whether we are m arried, engaged, or Just seeing each other. I simply w ill not give up my hopes or my w ill in standing up for a Black Brother. So I'm not prejudice or anything toward a White Woman, I Just feel happy. Black and Beauti ful that 1 have a sol id color arxl a heart full of warmth and deep affection fo r a TRUE BLACK M AN, NOW AND A L WAYS . . . . Unless you have a waterfall in your backyard with your own electric generating plant, you may be threatened with electrical shortages this summer. The Office of Emergency Preparedness has warned that several areas of the country could be affected and has urged everyone to conserve energy. The conservation of energy lower nnd the demands on means more than just tu rn electricity not so high. Using ing off unused lights. It the dishwasher only when means using all of our elec necessary will not only save tric»! appliances and equip you power on its actual op ment more efficiently. And eration, but also on the coat of course, thia benefits us of the hot water used. through savings on our u tili • Don’t let hot water ty bills— unless you do have faucets leak. A leak which that w aterfall. will fill an ordinary cup in Here are some of the ten minutes wastes 3,280 gal things you can do to con lons per year, water you serve power and save your have to pay to h eat money: • Make sure your house • Use only a little water is well insulated. Thia ia to cook vegetables. You want equally important fo r both to cook the vegetables, not w inter and summer as insu heat water. And once the lation works to keep out heat w ater ia boiling, turn the as well as cold. heat down. Leaving the heat • Storm windows year on high won’t cook the vege round will help to cut your tables any faster, and you heating and cooling bilia by may just burn the beans. as much as 15%. • Don’t open the oven door. • Keep your windows Every time you do, you lose closed. No m atter how large 20% of your heat. your a ir conditioning u.iit, • I f you have a refrig er you can't cool the outdoors. ator which needs to be de- froated, do it before the ice • Do things which gener deposit is U inch thick. Ice ate heat only during the cooler early morning or late acts as an insulation and lessens the cooling power of evening hours to make less the coils. More frequent de work for the airconditioner. frosting will also lessen the • And do turn off those chance of spoiled food from unused lights. They not only long defrosting periods. waste electricity, they gen • I f you are thinking of erate heat. I t is going to be buying a refrigerator-freez hot enough without any er, keep in mind that a frost- added discomfort. free model uses approximate I f you w ant more info r ly 50% more power than a mation on ways to save on frost type. heating or cooling, you • Check to make sure that might want to purchase 7 your refrigerator is airtight. Ways to Reduce Duel Con Closing the door on a piece sumption in Household H eat of paper is a good check. I f ing . . . Through Energy the paper ia easy to pull out, Conservation (Stock # 0303- you probably need to have 0888; 25<) and I I Wage to the rubber gaskets around Reduce Energy Consumption the door replaced. nnd Increase Comfort in • Only run your dish Household Cooling (Stock # washer when you have a full 0303 0876; 3 0 f). They are load and preferably in the available from Consumer morning or late evening Product Inform ation, Wash when the temperatures are ington, D.C. 20407. r At last, a wig the mature woman can call her own. Designer Charles Reuhen calls It BROWN SKIN LADY and It comes In a special capless version. It has a brown skin-tone molded scalp, so you can part It and comb It any way with ease to ault your face and mood. Made of A fryllc , the rnodaeryllc fiber Summit created to simulate a Black woman's hair. Pictured are just two of the many ways to wear BROWN SKIN LAOYt Brushed close to the head (front view) and brushed up and back (p ro file). Lots of pretty colors are available in blacks, browns, auburn and greys. sion. she received a B.A. degree from Howard Univer sity in 1957. W alker recently was elec tail to head the Department of Commerce Federal Women's Program Committee - an ad visory unit working to In crease training opportunities for women Ui government. Greatest Advance Since the Typewriter was Invented! No More Smeary Erasing- Covers Mistakes Instantly, Permanently! THE } FAMILY^ LAWYER íT- Missing Facts Tw o witnesses swore that Harry was the man who had robbed the supermarket, and a jury found him guilty of the crime Not until after the verdict did H arry’s law yer find out that two other wit- nesscs had told police Harry was definitely not the man Was this grounds for overturn* ing the verdict’ The prosecutor didn't think so SELF-CORRECTING TYPEWRITER RIBBON! l M o t ( e . M in t needed a d vance w r , m e ty p e w r.te r «a s .n v e n te d ’ As ■of tt sm om w n every mmgy wnudg) M iM ry typewriter eraser M the Iwor 1 I N scrap 'le a p to r good No m o re a , . , s , n g - . v e , t B o tto m lh a l t Of mirM le r tM o n IS hke a m ..g „ « , „ „ ) th a t m akes e rro rs disap pea r Save Money By Saving Power by Elizabeth Ann Churchwell ..... T"] Dear Consumer The Black Ruler 9 K im « » n iu i M a. Barbara A . W alker ha a been named D irecto r of tta Office of C iv il Rlghta fo r (he Economic Development A dm i- nlatralloo, U J , Department of Comm erce. W alker's appointment to the h ig h -le vel Federal position waa announced by Assistant Secretary of Commerce Rob e rt A. Podesta. A a D ire cto r of the Office of C iv il Rtghta, W alker w ifi co ordinate ED A ’ s activities to ens oul age minority - group participation in Federally as sisted programs to help create Jobs and inc re a ee Incomes in economically lagging areas. The agency's programs In clude public works loans and grants, huslneas loans and technical assistance. W alker, a 1962 graduate of the Georgetown University I aw Center, joined EDA assn attorney adviser in 1966.E a r lie r, she had been engaged in the private practice of law In the D istric t of Columbia and employed by the Foreign Claim s Settlement Comm is to compliance officer By Virginia Knaaer I have been reading for several months about Black Women versus White Women, and I strongly believe that after reading an article out of Sepia Magazine, we a re facing a very critical problem of identity among ourselves. As a Black Woman, and a very proud one, I can understand that a man wants to be die ruler, or should 1 say "W ear the pants all the tim e," tight or loose, whichever he feels w ill make it easier to look good and rule a lady. But understand, we can wear pants, too, and rule, but as true Black Women, we’ve got to have a certain amount of respect whether or not you give it or we take, BlackMan. There are a lot of brothers Woman named Sex on asset YMCA topic Racial justice *S •.lX'„"*f,p iT - Thun day, Ib e t o 'e your eyes To m ake c o rre c tio n s |Ust back space, s h ift rib b o n • •.elector and retype e rro r P re sto ' W h .t. ,nk m akes error c o m p le te ly lin v is ib le O rder e .tra n b b o n s fo r tr.e n d s Th,s is one gift they II love /OU fo r' No CODs I "W e arc not obliged to do (he other side's homework for them ,” he told the court. " I f they failed Io dig up this information on Iheir own. that is just loo bad.” Bui the court ruled that the verdict could not stand. The judge said the purpose of a trial is not merely lo punish the guilty bill also to free the innocent. This is a general principle of law, reinforced by the Canons of Ethics of the American Bar As sociation. A prosecutor musl not suppress evidence capable of es tablishing the innocence of the accused. The principle applies not only to guilt itself but also lo the de gree of guilt. Consider this case A man was charged with mur der During the trial, the prose cutor withheld testimony that the defendant had been drunk at the time of the slaying. A d m itte d ly , this testim o ny could not have cleared the de fendant, But at least it could have reduced the crime from first to second degree murder. Reversing the guilty verdict, a higher court said the trial was incomplete with out the missing fact of intoxica tion. Still, the prosecutor does not have to bring out everything he knows. In an arson trial, the pros ecutor kept quiet about a chemi cal test that had been performed by the F B I. Challenged later on this omis sion, he pointed out that the F B I test merely confirmed other tests already known and available to the defense. Result: the verdict was upheld. 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