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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
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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-
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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.
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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-
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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
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