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M iT an ces ichoru-N e ipapet Room U ni* of »e^or Ubsary Eiaene, <> 97 to t PO fi TLA N D ¡H i ONLY W W O T , ACLU honors Davis BILL HUNTER Hunter elected Prexy B ill Hunter of Portland lias heen elected president of the Columbia R ive r Chapter of NAHRO (National Association of Housing and Redevelopment O fficials). NAHRO is a professional organization in the related fields of public housing, urban renewal and codes enforce ment. The Columbia R iver Chapter covers nortliwestem Oregon and southwestern Washington. Hunter is North Area di rector of the Housing Author ity of Portland, responsible for some 1100 dwelling units In North Portland. He joined HAP, from the Model C ities agency. In 1970 as a reshlentcommunity serv ice w orker. He is s graduate of Portland State U n iversity. O ur new officers of the chapter are: Lucy Cable, ex ecutive directo r of t»«e " ash- Ington County Housing Author ity, Hillsboro, and Ben Webb and Lion Sllvey, Portland De velopment Commission, vice presidents; Barbara LaC rolx. HAP, secretary-treasurer; Alva Dickinson, executive di rector of tlie Polk County Housing Authority. I ¡alias, ex- offictal advisor. Prison inmates advise students Potential high school drop outs are hearing the old adage "stay In school” from a new source and they seem to be listening. Some 25 students at Grant High School are being coun seled on tie value of staying in school by four inmates at the Oregon State Penitentiary. The project, called Co operation Counseling, is tie third project of its kind to operate in t ie Portland Public Schools. S im ila r programs have operated at Washington and Adams high schools hut are not presently In effect. Under tie project, students IN , h , WHO« jz v u p ic B IB B « « , |„ ) „ B • IB ,, Robert H H azen. Pre« • ?O O ffices • Phone 248 1234 H o m e O ffice Franklin Hldg Portland Oregon 0 7 2 0 4 l- U lI ip iC t M r s . Viola Bonner as she appears in the J.C , Penney Calendar fo r 1973. The February page o f the letter honors the efforts of volunteers fo r the sickle cell anemia fund. Pictured with M rs . Bonner are Karen and D a rry l Hawkins, ages 13 and 10, both of Washington, D .C . Bonner appears on calendar M rs . Viola Bonner was chosen as the J .C . Penney’ s calendar picture fo r her ac tivities with the Sickle Cell Anemia fund. Which was the charitable project honored by the calendar fo r February. M rs . Bonner has been an employee of the J.C . Penney Company fo r twelve years. She is currently assigned to the downtown store, where she checks the cash registers arxi trains elevator operators. M rs . Bonner waschosenfor this honor from among the employees of over 2100 stores. H e r calendar picture was taken while she was in Washington, D.C.attending the Im p erial Council of the Prince H all Shriners. M rs . Bonner is a Past-High Priestess of the Daughters of Isis and her husband, Eugene, is the Illu s trious Potentate o fM in a T e m ple /,68. M r s . Bonner was one of the organj:ers of a benefit given by the Shrine to raise funds fo rS ick ie C ell research. M rs . Bonner is a member of the National Council of Negro Women, the Boise Im provement Association, the Board of Deaconesses of M t. O livet Baptist Church, arxi the Portland Chapter of the National Sickle C ell Anemia Foundation. F o r many years the J jC . Penney Company has spon sored programs and projects that reflect its concern for people. T his year the com pany’ s charitable contribution was given to the National Sickle C e ll Anemia Founda tion. from the Observer Staff Sfar of 'Sounder’ visits Portland by Rosemary Allen Transistor celebrates 25th anniversary If c llj.lC llT illlk lill I I v ili sponsored by tie University frustration and abject despair of Texas at Austin provided a to cauticus hope and gjanied Charles Davis, a Portland platform fo r the asessment am bition," Those acts are; Ixisinessman who has served of progress and problems In * The C ivil Rights Act of as chairman of the Oregon the area of equal opportunity. 1964, which prohibited dis A ffilia te o f the A m erlcanC ivil The symposium marks the crimination in public accom L ib ertie s Union for ten of its opening for research of the modations, in programs re 16 years of existence, has leen civil rights papers ln th eL vn - ceiving public assistance and selected tlie 1972 winner of don Johnson Presidential in employment, and establish the organization’ s annual E.B L ib ra ry . ed an Equal Employment Op MacNaughton C iv il Liberties F o rm er Chief Justice of the portunity Commission. Aw ard. United States E a rl W arren - The Voting Rights Act of The Award was esta.dlslied paid tribute to fo rm e r P re s i 1965, which authorized the at In 1962 in memory of E .B . dent Lyndon B . Johnson and torney general to appoint fed MacNaughton who served five his achievements in tne area eral examiners tc register years as chairman of tlie na of civil rights legislation. As voters in areas of marked tional committee of A C LU . At the keynote speakerduring the discrim ination and streng his death in 1960, MacNaugh opening session of a national thened tensities fo r interfer ton was publisher of THE symposium on ’’Equal Oppor ence with voter rights. OREGONIAN, and had heen tunity in the United States," - The C ivil Rights A ct of president of Reed College and M r . W arren called fo r the 1968, which prohibited dis the F irs t National Bank of creation of “ a clim ate inwhich crimination in the sale or Oregon. can be completed the Horne of rental of most housing in the The Award Is given to per Freedom , the foundation of nation and protectee persons sons and Institutions who, by which was strengthened so exercising basic educational p articu lar deed o r long record greatly between 1964 arxi and working rights, and civil of service, have made out 1968.” rights workers urging others standing contributions in tne "Unfortunately, it is true to exercise their rights. continuing effo rt to preserve that race prejudice resides in " C o m p e n d io u s ly , these civil lib ertie s. Tlie recipient the hearts of people as greed, acts, together with the various of tie award is traditionally avarice and violence do,” the administrative programs in announced on B ill of Rights fo rm er Chief Justice said, augurated letween 1963 and Day (D e c .15). “ but its manifestations can be 19' 1 t relieve poverty, break "T he name Charles Davis curbed by law so far as its up ghettos, and plan formodel is synonornous with civil lib infliction upon others is con cities, did more to make civil ertie s in ( iregon,” said Leslie cerned in the same manner rights a reality in the United Swanson, the Eugene attorney that we restrain theft, fraud States fo r all m inority groups currently serving as chair and assaults.” then bad been accomplished man of the Oregon American M r, U trra n continued: by any administration since C iv il L ib ertie s Union. "B u t aU laws are ineffec the adoption of the C ivil Wai Swanson praised Davis for tive unless there is a w ill on \mendments between 1865 and the breadth and depth of his the part of those in authority ¡8 7 0 ," M r . W arren said. dedication and contributions to to en fo rci them, and a leader Vernon E . Jordan, J r „ Ex the cause of civil lib erties in ship in them to inspire the * ecutive D ire c to r ot the Nation the state. "H e has led tlie people who roust eventually al Urban League, saic the efforts of t)ie Oregon A m eri pay the price ot a societydis- current ” Reconstructior"era can C ivil L ib ertie s Union to rupteo from any cause to obey must not meet the same fate defend tlie civil liberties of the law because it is in the as the Reconstruction of a Oregonians with an unwaiver- interests of a ll. century ago. ing commitment of time ind " In tb. • field o fC ivil Rights. "A lread y we have seen the en ergy," said Swanson. "Look President Johnson fulfilled black gains in some areas («hind tie scene of practically both of these prerequisites tc whittled away slowly. And per every victory fo r civil lib er a just society. As a result, haps, most dangerous of all, ties in this state in the past much progress has heen made, we have seen friends and 12 years and you w ill find but also much remains to be fo rm e r spokesmen of the Charles D avis.” done." cause of black people m elt Edward Ennis of New York, M r . W arren spoke briefly away into the dusk of what National Chairm an of tie on what he called "the three they prereive to be prejuuices Am erican C ivil L ib ertie s Un great landmark acts which ion. also praised D avis’ con- have changed tlie lives o fm il- (Please turn to pg. 8, col. 3) (Please turn to pg. 8. col. I) TRANSISTOR INVENTORS and w inner of Nobel prize for the* ap’* ared 25 (from left) John B ar- * lll“ rn SbocWey «nil W a lte r H. Brattain. The form er Hell Telephone Laboratories scientists are now retired and teaching at universities. T h e ir invention created a new in- ustry and brought rapid developments in tlie field of elec tronic communications. par annum compounded daily and paid quarterly C A . es ABOUT RTiO H | dOV O e ' em b<,r 2 , 3 9 7 2 " * Rights reviewed: Progress and Problems In grades 10 through 12 who • re discontented with school discuss their problems twice a month with four volunteer prisoners. The prisoners are m en.- bers of UHURU, a black in mates organization which means "fre ed o m " in Swahili. The prisoners travel from Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem to Grant High School in northeast Portland accom panied by prison officials. T l» y meet with students In small groups and individually In the presence of school counselors. (Please turn to pg. 8, col. I) Instant Earnings from Day o f Deposit QBSEfiVER W m Î ' w O . œ T h I Î m ’ a U V The transistor - the Bell System Invention that started the comjxitet revolution and the space age, and created a m ultibillion d o llar industry - w ill be 25 years old onDec- em ber 23, according to Pa cific Northwest Bell Division M anager E L . P fe ife r. O riginally developed as a replacement for vacuum tubes In telephone communications, the Nobel prize-w inning In vention has become virtually Indispensable in the w orld’ s dally commerce. Whether aware of it o r not, most people are never more than a few feet away from a transistor. High reliab ility, small size and low power needs o f the transistor have made it ideal fo r w rist watches, television sets, home appliances, tele phones, m arine, a irc ra ft and s a t e l l i t e communications, comrxiters and calculators and thousands of other ptvx’ucts used by business. Industry and in the home. The explosion of the solid- state device Industry began quietly December 23, 1^47 when three Bell Laboratories scientists successfully dem onstrated that an electrical signal could be amplified 20 tim es Its own strength by sending It through a specially prepared crystal of german- (Please U rn to pg. 8, col. 3) Paul Winfield, accom- plished actor, co -star of 1 SOUNDER, guest star on such popular television shows as ’ ’ Room 222", ’ ’Ironside’ ’, "T h e Name of the Game” , " J u lia ” , etc. ain’t from New Y o rk or Chicago. Believe it o r not, he spent some odd years in " P " town (Portland) and attended Holladay Grade School and one year at the U niversity of Portland. He Is not only an excellent actor, as those of you who have seen SOUNDER know, but he is a socially and politically con scious young man. In answer to my question, "W hat is a black movie?” M r . Winfield answered, “ I wouldn’t consider SHAFT, SUPERFLY and some of the others black movies. They’ re just rip -offs. A black movie Is one that reflects the black experience. NOTHING BUT A M AN Is one of tlie greatest I ’ve seen. I would also con sider SWEET SWEETBACKS BADASS SONG a black movie. It makes an Important state ment and is directed towards a black audience.” He feels that there is a place fo r SHAFTS and SUPERFLYs, hit too much of those kinds could quickly alienate the new-found black audience. M r . W infield feels there is a need forblack musicals, m e lo d r a m a s , comedies, mysteries, etc. SOUNDER strikes a dif ferent tune from most of the successful black movies that have heen produced today, h it It is bringing in as much off to a year’ s hard labor cash as SUPER FLY. during the depression years in the deep south for stealing In SOUNDER, Paul plays a hard working, loving father meat fo r his fam ily’ s table. who is ¡nested and taken Paul explains that his part Is PAUL W IN FIE L D that of a black man who is not super-cool, but feels, cries, loves and keeps his hutnor throughout his hardships. In other words, he plays a real human being. And SOUNDER is a n human story and In time, I sure w ill he placed alongsi (Please turn to pg. 8, col.
