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Guess who’s coming to Salem
IMPAC
group
forms
depression. It makes you wonder about progress,
(Photo: Rosemary Allen)
Nominations open
for first citizen
Deadline fo r nomination fo r
Portland Area F irs t Citizen
award Is January 11, 1973,
according to Alfred L . Hen­
derson, Publlshei and E ditor
of the Portland Observer,
sponsor of the annual award.
The F irs t Citizen award
honors distinguished volun­
tary community service and
leadership by a mem le t of
die c ity . Qualifications are:
1. Person must te a re a l-
dent of the Portland area,
2. Must be 21 years of age
or over.
3. Must have performed out­
standing volunteer services
w itliin tlie community.
4. Must possess a high de­
gree of leadeishlp. Inspira­
tion and cooperation in com­
munity a ffa irs.
5. Strong c o n s i d e r a t i o n
should be given to community
service rendered during tlie
two year periud Immediately
preceding tlie selection.
6 . A person having leen
chosen Portland F irs t Citizen
is not eligible fo r selection
a second tim e.
7. T ie Selecting committee
shall weigh carefully tie rela­
tive emphasis to be placed
on d ire ct community service
through civic organizations
compared with service to tie
community through develop­
ment ol tie community Itself
o r a m ajor Institution.
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A group of Model C ities
residents met to form tie
Improvement Action Council
(IMPAC) of Portland, Oregon.
IMPAC w ill be a private non­
p ro fit Local Development
Corporation patterned after
the IMPAC of Los Angeles.
T ie puqiose of IMPAC is to
provide a vehicle fo r total
community involvenent in the
development of housing fo r
Model C ite s r e s i d e n t s .
IMPAC w ill provide an op­
portunity fo r the utilization of
Model C ities Area residents,
community organizations and
businessmen in tie develop­
ment of bousing in the Model
Neighborhood.
Planning
activities
and
studies have teen conducted
in the Model C ities Area
since 1968 with only a few
housing units being provided
to residents. As a result of
one study funds have been
provided by the U.S. Depart­
ment of Housing and Urban
Development fo r a Residential
Development Program fo r
Model C ities Residents. An­
other study resulted In a plan
fo r the development of Union
Avenue.
IMPAC w ill participate in
these development programs
when they are implemented.
However, IMPAC w ill be a
private non-profit approach
to initiate housing develop­
ment which is consistent with
activities w ill be coordinated
with other development acti­
vities in the area and is not
Intended to take the place of
any program planned for the
area. The needs are greater
than any one program can
Burke
accomplish.
IMPAC
pro­
jects w ill provide opportuni­
ties fo r community ownership
by creation of cooperatives
fo r specific projects.
Ben B erry, Acting C hair­
man of IMPAC, stated that
Black political strength has
a public meeting w ill be held
increased as a result of last
soon which the residents w ill
week's election.
A ll 13 in­
be invited to attend.
cumbent
House
members
were returned to Congress,
along with three newcomers.
Edward Brooke (Rep.-Mass.)
won a landslide re-election
to the United States Senate.
Bill McCoy
One of McCoy’ s m ajor
concerns is with the aging.
He is a program d ire c to r
at Providence Hospital,deal­
ing with the employment of
elderly persons, and
has
seen the benefits that can
be had from a small
in­
vestment to improve the lives
of the elderly. He would like
to see a State department to
focus on the problems of
the aging.
McCoy also is concerned
about the young, having been
involved in child care; edu­
cational
programs fo r the
handicapped and the retard­
ed; and the Juvenile C ourt.
With his many interests,
and concerns varied employ­
ment background, and broad
education, B ill McCoy comes
to Salem w ell prepared to
se rve his d is tric t and the
people of Oregon.
Jordan
Y oung
Blacks gain political strength
NAACP
challenges
new law
Bostic heads Media
George W. Bostic came to
Portland tluee weeks ago to
assume the directorship of
Media, Incorporateti. Bostic
has spent these three weeks
meeting the m em lers of his
board and m em lers of the
community - husslnessmen,
agency heads, m i n is t e r s ,
w orkers- to determine their
ideas of what Media’ s ro ll In
tie community
should le .
He w ill soon prepare an a-
genda to leveal his expec­
tations fo r Media.
Bostic is a graduate of
Temple University, where le
earned an Associate of A n s
degree In design engineering,
He earned his B.A. in po­
litic a l science and a Master
of Husuess Administration at
Stanford U niversity.
Bostic has a broad employ­
ment background that reflects
his varied Helds of training­
engineering, business
and
political science. He was
Associate Planner to r the
C ity of San Mateo and was
Associate City Engineer for
Los Altos, C alifornia. Hewas
a documents and conference
o ffice r fo r the United Na­
tions. He spent two years
In Europe as a broker for
a stock f ir m - f ir s t in Geneva,
M ilan, an France and later In
Germany, where he ope rated a
private tuslness.
F o r the past one and one-
half years Bostic has operat­
ed the Bostic BuslnessCon-
sultants, a public relations
and consultlngftrm . The busi­
ness which was all black,
had a board of 12 experts In
the various fields. He did
mainly feasibility studies and
proposals. His last big ac­
count was fo r theCotnmlttee
fo r the Re-election of the
President.
Bostic was also co-chair­
man of the Nixon campaign
San Mateo County. He sup­
ported M r. Nixon because
he felt tie was the best man
fo r the job at this tim e.
He made this decision as
he makes all others - by
weighing the good and the
bad. On the plus side 1«
teels the President has ap­
pointed more blacks than
other presidents. Including
ten admirals and generals;
that the C iv il Rights budget
has teen increased; and that
there has leen Increased
money fo r education. Hedts-
(Please turn to p. 8 col. 6)
Bartiara Jordan of Houston
and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
of Los Angeles, and Andrew
Young of Atlanta, Georgia,
were alsoelected toCongress.
Barbara Jordan is a Demo­
c ra tic state senator from
Houston's 18th Congressional
D is tric t. A 36-year-old at­
torney, M s. Jordan ran fo r
state senator in 1962 and 1964
before being elected in 1966.
She was the firs t black
woman in the Texas State
Senate, and the fir s t black
in that body since 1882. Last
spring she was chosen presi­
dent protempore of the senate
and in that capacity served
as governor fo r a day when
the governor and lieutenant
governor were both out of
the state.
Yvonne
Brathwaite is a
Democratic state assembly­
woman in the 37th Congres­
sional D is tric t of Los Ange­
les. M rs . Burke was vice
chairman of the Democratic
National
Convention. Her
(Please turn to p. 8 col. 3)
The NAACP w ill challenge
tlie constitutionality of C a li­
fornia's Proposition 21 which
passed with a 62 to 38 p e r­
cent m argin. The proposition
w ill forblde tlie assignment
of school children on the
basis of race, creed o r color
and w ill end tlie state's e f­
forts at desegregation.
Nathaniel Colley, an at­
torney fo r the NAACP. said
he was prepared to file in
federal court within a week.
NAACP
Regional D ire cto r
L e o n a rd
C arter
said,
"Nothing has changed. It’ s
another lesson fo r us that
when you place the rights of
black citizens on the ballot
fo r a referendum vote, we
w ill always lose. Unfortu­
nately, our only recourse Is
through the courts.”
In 1964, California voters
gave a 2 to 1 approval to
Proposition 14 to remove
state open housing laws, only
to have it found unconstitu­
tional.
Sidney Ihom as prepares to fit glasses fo r a customer at Binyon Optical, where he is
employed. Sidney
is Oregon's fir s t black dispensing optician. (Photo: Rosemary Allen).
Notice
NAACP
meeting Sunday
November 19, 1972 at Hughes
M em orial United Methodist
Church i l l N d i. Falling. Re­
port of nominating committee.
Black optician comes to Portland
by Dianne Glenn
It has often been said that
"e ve ry day brings about a
change," and this is cer­
tainly true when you sjeak
of Sidney Robert Thomas.
Sidney works as a lab tech­
nician with Columbia Bifocal
and "m o o n lig h ts" as an Op­
tica l Dispenser with Binyon
Optical.
He began his career In the
Optical field as a Visual
Screening
Assistant after
completing a b rie f training
(Please turn to p. 8 col.
f . “’ ft» t
C onter of W illiam » and Russell in photo could easily le
mistaken
fo r a 1930 photo depicting tie elfects of tie
On January 8, 1973, Ore­
gon's fir s t black legislator
is coming to Salem. B ill M c­
Coy was elected to represent
the 15th Legislative D is tric t,
which represents North P o rt­
land, by an overwhelming ma­
jo rity .
B ill
McCoy w ill go to
Salem to represent all of
the people of his d is tric t -
the m a jo rity of whom a re
white. He w ill go as the
representative of h is d is tn c t,
as a member of tie Izemo-
cra tic m a jo rity, and also a
black man. He w ill take with
him a unique background and
experience that w ill give him
a different perspective than
o th e r
legislators. Having
faced discrim ination
and
oppression he w ill have an
empathetic view of the prob­
lems ol the poor, the elderly,
the unemployed, the m in o ri­
ties.
McCoy represents a dis­
tr ic t that includes residential
areas, the U niversity of P ort­
land and commercial and in­
dustrial areas. He is con­
cerned that the area's poten­
tial fo r Industry and shopping
be developed to provide jobs,
but that the environment be
protected at the same tim e.
He considers tax reform
to be a high p rio rity fo r this
legislative session.
T h is
must include property tax re­
lie f fo r homeowners.