Body and Fender Repair
Lionel Hampton reminisces
M o il re a s o n a b le shop in town
Carlos
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Called Today, mayoral candidate J. Herbert K e rr. J r . (center)
an attempt to sabotage his campaign. " A Place Called Today”
s»r
ln8 up a bank brings into
sharp focus the atmosphere
of political unrest in a large
northeastern c ity . F o r Randy
Johnson ^Herbert K e rr, J r .
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rising young black attorney,
it solidifies his conviction that
equality through evolution w ill
taxe too long and a more
dynamic catalyst Is needed.
Carolyn
Schneider (L a n a
Wood), also a political acti
v is t, agrees that he deserves
his chance though “ in the end
w e 'll probably have to blow
this whole c ity sky high after
a ll.” Carolyn’ s life is com
plicated by an emotional love
a ff a ir
with Ron Carton
(Richard Smedly), producer-
d ire c to r at the netword af
filia te television outlet. C ar
ton refuses to get personally
involved in any cause, but
agrees that the general con
dition of the city cries fo r an
in-depth probe of the can
didates in the coming mayor
a lty election.
He confides
his thoughts to Cindy (Cheri
Caffaro) C artw right,
with
whom he is also rom antically
linked and whose father is
the controlling economic force
in the c ity . She couldn’ t care
less fo r "nothing that goes
on in this city touches my
life unless 1 want it to.”
In a deserted warehouse,
Randy and Carolyn hammer
out a shaky coalition with
radical elements, black and
white alike. A t Randy's d ir
ection, a campaign of cal
culated violence w ill be waged
against the city. Randy w ill
run fo r mayor and demon
strate to a frightened elec
torate that he alone can end
the violence fo r. of the avail
able candidates, be alone
understands the issues that
have created it.
Davis featured
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Lenwood G. Davis was re
cently notified that he w ill be
featured in the tenth edition
of the "D ic tio n a ry of Inter
national
Biography.”
The
D ictionary is a biographical
record
of
contemporary
achevement and is published
in Cambridge, England.
M r. Davis is an instructor
of H istory at Portland State
U niversity and was Included
because of his research as
w ell as published works. He
has w ritten many articles,
book reviews, books and bi
bliographies that have been
published in many profes
sional journals and quarter
lies not only in the U. S „
but also in A frica , England
and Switzerland.
Electricity is
, .
20years
behind the times: In price
While prices for most everything have risen, the aver
age cost of a unit of residential electricity is actually less
today than it was 20 years ago R eally' That makes elec
tricity one of the greatest household values you II tind
But. though it s behind the times in price, electricity's
as modern as today in convenience. The typical home
now has twice as many work-saving appliances as it did
20 years ago A fte r all. we re economical, but not old-
fashioned!
Pacific Power
e "D ic tio n a ry of In te r
nal
Biography” gives
led biographies of men
women of achevement
Il parts of the w orld.
ahled him to meet «ml make
friends with many of the
w orld's richest and most in
fluential businessmen, indus
tria lis ts and politicians. Rut
"Ham p” never has severed
his roots.
He has shared
and is sharing his good fo r
tune with numerous Blacks —
by hiring over the years
i
lite ra lly dozens of the grea-
® st young singers and in
strum entalists in jazz history,
and, by exerting positive in
fluence on powerful p o liti
cians, businessmen and in
d u s tria lists.
“ I started In with Nixon
when he was a Congressman,”
Hamp said. "T h e fir s t time
1 played a political ra lly. I
played it fo r him .”
Lionel Hampton and President Nixon discuss Republican
Hamp campaigned fo r the
F’ a rty politics in the President’ s White House office.
late
President l'w ig h t D.
Eisenhower in 1952. He cam
paigned fo r the Eisenhower-
Nixon ticket in 1956 and
played
fo r
the inaugural
everything from Bach to Fats
ball. Through the years, he
W aller. Mozart to the jazz of
has supported Republican can
today. | want to teach lib i.-
didates, including Nelson A.
making,
television,
elec
Rockefeller, to whom he sug
tronics, medicine, law and
gested the fir s t campaign fo r
business,”
the New York Governor’ s
"T o do all that, uf course,
office.
He has also cam
w e 'll have to hire the le s t
paigned fo r New York Sena
available people in each field.
to r Jacob Javits.
1 Intend to do that.”
Eisenhower and Nixon both
He went on to say, "We
named Lionel Hampton as an
Hamp said approximately
Blacks have got to le lp our
international "goodw ill am
$25 m illio n is involved in
selves. We’ ve got to break
bassador." in this capacity
the «(lartment projects.
down the racial w alls. We
last year, Hamp toured the
Hut he lias even more am
should bring in white exper
F a r East, Hawaii, Europe,
bitious plans:
He wants to
tise
where it can help. We
and the United States.
Ixiild a university in Harlem
should, in fact, want to bring
"W h y,” Hamp was asked,
at an estimated cost of $100
a ll
people of a ll races,
"d o you favor the Republican
m illio n l
creeds, and colors to our
P arty?”
'I want to build a univer
communities.
"1 tell you,” he replied,
sity fo r the kids of today,”
" I favor this party, because,
Hamp said.
" In fact. I've
we must clean up our
f i r of a ll, 1 was brought up
already picked out the loca
streets. And we sim ply must
as a Republican (he was born
tion of the u n ive rsity.”
do something about crim e
in Louisville) and, second,
" I want to see our kids
>«te. Women can't even walk
the Democrats are always
learn history — Black his
tlie streets in safety today.
trying to sell us something —
tory, American history, world
That isn’ t rig h t.”
at election tim e. They use
history.
But, most of a ll,
"N o t too long ago, every
us as guinea pigs. The Demo
1 want them to learn better
one was scare.) of law and
crats
are the ones who
how
to
relate to ‘ right
o rder. But, now,” (lamp saki,
created the te rrib le destruc
h e re '.”
"everyone's begging fo r it.”
tion in the ghettos.”
' N aturally, | want a music
" I f tfiat's conservatism, we
Hampton
projects
cu r-
school — and I want to reach
need more of It!”
A nationwide study of his
to ric places which involve
black Americans in U.S, His
tory w ill be luanched under
the terms of a contract signed
between the National Park
Service and the A fro -A m e ri
can Bicentennial Corporation,
according to a jo in t announce
ment by Secretary of the In
te rio r Rogers C .B. Morton
In being able to participate
in what he considered an im
portant program fo r worthy
students.
Students of needy fam ilies
w ill be given loan preference
under the C rosby-C rest por
tion of the AFDE program.
Funds w ill be available to
students regardless of race,
co lo r o r creed.
Washington-based p r o f e s
sional
association with a
nationwide membership, w ill
play a m ajor advisory role.
The study was urged by a
panel of 20 leading scholars
In the field of black history
who met In Washington In
January under the auspices
of the National Park Service
and ABC, Secretary Morton
said.
A part of the Service's
National Survey of H istoric
Sites and Buildings, the study
w ill identify and evaluate his
to ric places associated with
black <ontrlbtulons to the de
velopment of A m erica. ABC
w ill d ire ct the research and
investigation by recognized
The Initial goals Is to raise
authorities on black history.
$500,000 fo r the overall pro
A special advisory panel of
gram .
This w ill make ap
leading scholars w ill review
proxim ately $5 mUllon in
designated National H istoric
loans available to dental stu
Landmarks, which deserve
dents.
fu rth e r study fo r possible ad
The Fund’ s long-range goal
dition to the National Park
la to raise $3 mUllon In loan
System, and which should 1«
deposit funds which would
considered by state officials
swell the amount of Ioans
fo r nomination to the National
avaUable to $30 mUllon.
R egister of H isto ric Places.
Funds fo r the study were
provided by the Congress In
the 1973 fiscal year appro
priation act. Contingent on
future funding, the study is
expected to last three years.
The firs t year's study w ill
focus on three areas of A m eri
can history expected to be
p a rticu la rly rich In black as
sociations— development of
revelation lights
toe English Colonies, 1700-
1775; political and m ilita ry
a ffa irs; and society and social
conscience.
National
H isto ric Land
AUMT0RIUM-S UN. OCT. 14 PJL
marks are places determined
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by the Secretory of the In
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. w
te rio r— upon recommenda
tion of the Advisory Board
on National Parks, H istoric
Sites, Buildings and Monu
m ents-—to possess national
historical significance.
H istorical units of the Na
tional Park System, most of
which are called National His
to ric Sites, National Monu
ments, or National H lsotrlcal
Parks, are natlonaly sig n ifi
cant places that lend them
selves to park purposes and
that have been specially au
thorized by the Congress.
I hese places, such as Gettys
burg and Indejiendence Hall,
are preserved and managed
by the In te rio r Department's
National Park Service.
Already Included In die
National Park System are
several areas commemorat
ing significant blacks, such
as George Washington C arver
National Monument,
M is
souri; Booker T . Washington
National Monument, V irginia;
and the F rederick Douglass
Horne In the D is tric t of Colum
bia.
The National Register of
H is to ric Places Is the Nation's
o fficial Inventory of cultural
properties worthy of preser
vation. A ll National H istoric
Landmarks
and historical
areas of the National Park
System are listed as well as
places of State and local sig
nificance nominated by tie
States.
T ie results of the black
history study eventually w ill
be made available In book
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