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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1972)
r a ri c N e w s p a p e r Room L i b r a r y / f 'n i v . o f G re g o r ; u e n e , O re 9 7 POH n ,A /V/J V olum « 2, N o. 4€r Portland, 97 O re g o n * IHÇ ONLY M W S P A K » IN OBSERVER AN EOUAl OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER , H t WHOLE WID1 W O .L D THAI .LALLY C i.» ABOUT PfYYA^YIO r * ^ ° 7 A u 9 “ ‘ ' 2 " ’ 1 9 7 2 ' 0< P<" < °P ' Black Caucus calls Community Convention The Oregon lilackCaucus is sponsoring a community con vention on Saturday, August 26, 1972 at 1:00 p.m. The con vention, which w ill he held at Vancouver Avenue Baptist Church, w ill le to elect a per son from the community to be submitted to tie PortlandCity Council as the community’ s choice to fill the seat vacated by Commissioner G o ld schmidt, when he lecomes mayor in January. La h Black organization lias been asked to submit their andiJate and tie residents of ti e community w ill vnte to se lect o;e name fo r submission. According to D r. Lee I ’ . Brown, cliairnian of tie Ore gon Black Caucus, "W e are asking all Blacks Interested In the betterment of our commu nity and wanting to have an ln - ixit into our future tocomeout Saturday and vote." Vancouver Avenue Baptist Church Is located at 3138 N. Vancouver Avenue. Anyone wishing additional information or desiring transportation should call D r. Brown at 229- 4014. r Profiles in Black: The Republican Convention Blacks from all walks of life and from the age range of 18 to the 70’ s are among the 1,348 delegates attending tie Republican National Conven tion here. 7 heir opinions are as different as their occupa tions and ages. Many are fo r m er Democrats. A 72-year-old Black educa to r from M ississippi suggests that " th is nation change its concept of trying to educate everyone." JJJ. Boyd, p re si dent emeritus of Alcorn ALM College, Lorman, M ississip pi, says that the government is "spending too much money on students w ho don’t want to be th e re ." M r. Boyd changed from Democrat to Republican during the Eisenhower Ad m inistration. An iS-year-old Black stu dent from Nevada finds it d iffic u lt to understand why "m o st Blacks can’t see why I'm a Republican." Debra Geran from Las Vegas said that she "wanted to get in volved and le lp people" and the Republicans seemed to be doing just that. Debra was a Democrat fo r about a month Athletic program serves youth Phil Walden, physical edu- catlon teacler at Woodlawn school and one of the d ire c tors of tie program, reports that 300 students from ele mentary grades through high school ate registered fo r summer a ctivities. At PCC’ s Cascade gym students play le s k e tle ll, w r e s t le , lift weights and practice track s k ills . They use facilities elsewhere fo r track meets and swimming. T rip s to summer athletic events, such as the Olympic tria ls In Eugene, Portland State’ s NYC Basket- ball clinic and the Shrine Football game, are made pos sible by In -k in d donations from different agencies. A ll of the Instructors do nate th e ir time and much of tlie lr own equipment to see that children In the Albina area can le rtlc lje te in sports during the summer. Free lunches and alternoon snacks are provided by the Department of A g ricu l ture through the services of the Portland School D is tric t. H e program started In 1967 using fa c ilitie s at Irvington school. In I9ti8 and |9b9 King school was opened, In 1970 children went daily to Wood lawn, and in 1971 tie program moved to Jefferson and Holla day. Events are not lim ited to tie summer months: flag foot ball teams and five baskeltell teams are sponsored In the fall and w inter. As Walden says, "Through sports we ate able to counsel .V ^Why not invent locally? /7 o f L fC /. Savings on deposit with us go to work here in Oregon lienj. © Franklin Robert H Maten. Pre« • i t Office« • Phone 249-1234 Home Office« Franklin Bldg . Portland. Oregon 97?O4 with the youth of Ibis area . . . a tl, let les is a springboard to o tte r tilings like helping them get Into college. W e try to e x - pose the students to as many types of envlronmentssspos- slble; we search out places they’ ve never seen." W alden says students never seem to graduate from the program. "T h e bigger kids star t out helping the sm aller k|ds, and then when they go away to college they come hack during the summers as volunteer Instructors.” Dental program expands at PMSC A ll is not completely well with the Albina Athletic Sports C lin ic reports Walden. The program Is in need of more permanent financing to conti nue Its services to students on a regular basis. The in-kind donations from agencies, a l though appreciated, do not provide a stable budget to de velop the program. The PMSC Child Develop ment Division w ill tegin a Dental Health Program in con junction with Dean Hostetter, of the Oregon Dental Service, D r. Dave W hltter, State Dental D ire cto r, D r. Jack F rick. M ulti-S ervice Center, and the PMSC Kaiser Comprehensive Health Program. Information Trailer A presentation oflOpreven- tlve dental kits was presented to the PMSC Child Develop ment Division by representa tives of die Oregon Dental Service, die State Dental Ser vice, and a representative from the P roctor and Gamble Crim e prevention Informa tion, bicycle registration, neighborhood burglary pre vention programs and Infor mation on foster care pro grams and youth care centers w ill be available to the public from August 28 to September 2 at the Model C ities Informa tion T ra ile r. The tra ile r, located in die parking lot of Albertson’s Food Center, 909 N. K illln g s- worth, is open dally, from 2 pgn. to 8 p jn . I l l s sponsored by tie Model C ities Agency to feature the many Model Cities agencies working fo r the com munity. Featured agencies fo r the week of August 28 to Septem ber 2 are Police Community Relations, Foster Homes and Youth CareCenters, which are sponsored by the Model C ities Law and Justice Committee. More Information on the services offered and events planned during the week can I» obtained by calling Model C ities at 288-8261, o r Police Community Relations, at 282- 4524. School be affirmative action PSU gets grants KAREN SIMS, 12, 4940 N.E. Cleveland, works out with the Universal gym at Portland Community College’ s Cascade gymnasium where she attends the Albina Athletic Summer Sports C lin ic spon sored liy the Neighborhood Youth Corps. Assisting Karen Is Don F razier, physical education in- structor with the YMCA who works with the program» The doors of Portland Com munity College's gymnasium at the Cascade center, 705 N. K llllrigsworth. open daily to school-age children who are participating In the Albina Athletic Summer Sports C lin ic, sponsored by tie Neigh borhood Youth Corps in con junction with the YMCA, June 12 through August 30. but she switched parties toget involved. Both Miss Geran and M r. Boyd seemed to agree on one thing: they want more Blacks in the Republican P arty. T h e ir approach is as different as their age. Debra placed 1er name in nomination at a county con vention to attend the state con vention. " I was selected and went to tie state convention where I won an election to rep resent my state at theNation- (please turn to page 8, col. I) Company, the manuiacturers of the kits. A demonstration was given to the P roject D ire c to r, the Project Nurse, and teachers at the tim e. These kits include every thing from a toothbrush and toothpaste to a dental health award signed by B ill Cosby and Roosevelt G rie r. These kits serve 36 children. This program w ill service 400-500 children in the next twelve months. Each child w ill receive a full mouth ex amination which also Includes X -ra ys. A preventive pro gram fo r each child w ill re developed as a result. Portland State U niversity announces the creation of a program including both w ork- study grants and financial loans exceeding $3.000 fo r 20 Black students interested in working part-tim e in one of the Pordand television sta tions: radio stations: Portlsrxl Observer: Oregonian; or Ore gon Journal while attending school at Portland State. Stu dents may major in any field they like at Portland Slate, and th e ir part-tim e work-study assignments w ill not Interfere with their academic careers. Supervisors of the program w ill be Trofessor James H. Rogers (English Dept. / Black Studies) and M rs . Bessie F ields, financial aids o ffice r. If you are interested, please contact M rs. Fields at die F i nancial Aid Office. New Berger H all, Pordand State Univer sity, o r call 288-7754. Please call as soon as pos sible. It is the hope of the pro gram to expose as many Black students as possible to the communications m e d ia In Portland. Initiation of a comprehen sive affirm ative action pro gram at the U niversity of Ore gon Medical School was an nounced by D r. Charles N. Holman, dean. " I t is our policy that no persons shall be d is c rim i nated against by reason of race, color, religion, sex, age or national o rig in . The af firm a tive action we ake w ill include, but not re lim ited to, employment, p r o m o t io n , transfer, recruitm ent adver tising, termination, rates of pay o r other form s of compen sation, working conditions, selection fo r training of em ployees, appointments tc com m ittees, snider.: and trainee admissions and all other oper ations and areas that are a part of the Medical School commu n ity,” D r. Holman said. Employees, students and faculty assisted adm inistra tors indeveloping the new pro gram which w ill be headed by W illiam W. Jackson, recently appointed affirm ative action o ffice r fo r the Institution. Jackson also serves as m inor ity student affa irs coordinator at the School. A dm inistrators atthe.Medi- cal School, which has long had an equal opportunity program, have defined a number of goals to be sought under the new af firm a tive a c t io n policy. Among these are: to increase the ratio of women and m in o r ity applicants to all education al and training programs; to achieve a ratio of women and m in o rity employees in aca dem ic. classified and student positions at least equivalent to their availability in the ap propriate labor market; to maintain salary equity be tween male and female em ployees performing the same jobs; to assure equal oppor tunities fo r promotions and transfers; and to elim inate the concept of male o r female job classifications, A committee w ill re ap pointed by Dean Holman to as sist in carrying out the new policies and to hear any g rie vances from employees, stu dents or trainees in relation to discrim ination. Vocational V illa g e moves Portland Public School’ s Vocational Village moved July 26 from Its fo rm e r leased lo cation at 725SJE.Powell Blvd. to la rger leased facilities at 4050 S.E. Milwaukie St. Since August 5. 19p8-wten Vocational V i l l a g e firs t opened its doors with 50 stu dents - a steady increase in enrollm ent brought about the need for larger fa c ilitie s. The school form erly housed classrooms and offices in 10,- 000 square feet of building space. That now has teen tripled to 30,000 square feet. Once where a classroom measuring 10 feet by 10 feet served up to 20 students at one tim e, the new location offers the same classroom in 20 by 78 dimensions. As a result of the la rg e rfa c llitle s a new pro gram in auto body and fender work w ill re offered students. C urrently Vocational V il lage otters classes to more than 300 full and part-tim e students in programs con ducted both day and night. A t tendance this summer totaled approximately 150 students. In addition to basic-educa tion courses, Vocational V il lage offers a wide range of programs designed to meet the needs of drop-out students and those Interested in voca tional training. Included in 13 diffe re n t fields of study are programs In industrial mech anics, office occupations, food service, cosmetology and au tomotive technology. Vocational Village receives funds which support night and summer schools from the Oregon Vocational and Reha b ilitation Fund. Regular-year programming Is operated un der funds and support from Portland Public Schools. S : fV - » - ELECTROPHORESIS EQUIPMENT used in sickle cell determination is demonstrated by Bea Sand ström . Emanuel Hospital medical technologist. Laboratory work for mass screening program w ill re done at hospital. ° B Emanuel begins Sickle Cell testing Emanuel Hospital w ill work with the local SlckleCell Ane mia Foundation this fall to ¡e rfo rm blood tests on nearly 10,000 area residents. The hospital w ill provide laboratory testing during the 13-month program, for which a $02,400 grant has been re ceived from tha Department of Health, Education and Wel fare. The Portland Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, headed by the Rev. John Jackson, pastor of M t. Olivet Baptist Church, w ill select project personnel who w ill include outreach workers, a social worker, medical records cle rk and several youth workers, and (please turn to page 8, col. 3) I
