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