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Page 8 P ertl and /O bserver Thursday. February 22. 1973 United hires Jeffries W hitaker Middle School selected Carolyn Dement to reign at th e ir Valentine Sweethart dance. She was selected from a court of four g irls from each of the Oth, 7th and 8th grades. Carolyn is the daughter of M r. and M rs. M erle Dement. The blue eyed, light brown haired beauty is an active 3th grader whose main Interests are sports and ra lly . Back row. left to right are: Julie Binford, Benita Brown, Elizabeth Palm er, Kim M ille r, T e r r i Sender, and Cindy Boyd. Front row, left to right: Kelly Green, Angela Pittman, Carolyn Dement, Barbara Schwab and Susan M arto. Leroy W. Jeffries has been retained by United A ir Lines as a consultant in matters re lating to the Black travel market. Jeffries, who is president of his own marketing consul tation and public relations firm, Leroy W. Jeffries A Associates in Los Angeles, will be responsible for pro viding expertise to United for its Black travel market pro gram. Prior to forming his own company, J e ffrie s served Johnson Publishing Co., pub lisher of Ebony, Jet, Black World and Black Stars maga zines, as advertising repre sentative, advertising mana ger and vice president. He also has worked as manager for one of the largest offices for the division of placement and unemploy ment insurance in New S’ork City, and as a job analyst and consultant to Arma Corp., manufacturers of naval pre vision instruments. He was director of indus trial relations with the Urban League ir< greater New York, lie of Liberia as a consul in later transferring to the na the State of California. Holder of a B.S. degree tional office as an executive in its industrial relations from Wilberforce University department. He recently was in Ohio, he received his M A. commissioned by the Repub degree from Columbia Cm Albina Ministerial Alliance Sooner or laisr all the people of tlw world will have to dis cover a way to live together In peace and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy Into a creative psalm of brotherhood. | refuse to accept the view that mankind Is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and warthatthe bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. This Is why right temporarily defsatsd is stronger than evil trkimphant. Martin Luther King, J r. KEEP BROTHERHOOD WEEK GOING ALL YEAR. Special offer on Materials Subscription--$ 10 per year Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B'rith veraity in Ohio, lie received his M.A. degree from Colum bia University. » here hi' also taught on the graduate farul ty. He recently received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities from Wilberforce University. THE m FAMILY^ 4 LAWYER X Alligator vs. Staff Assistant to W ally.Priestley Fish, . . . and more Taxes Black students present aspects of Black culture during Black H istory Week program at Richmond Elementary School in Southeast Portland. Black students explain culture A Black culture program was presented at Richmond Elementary School Friday morning, February 16, in a moving one hour session. The program was hosted by M rs . Joleen H a rris and her seventh grade class, in conjunction with Black H istory Week. The program was co-ordin ated by 12 year old Kevin D a rre ll B erry, a seventh grade studentatKellogSchool, who was also master of cere monies. Six students from Lincoln High School consisting of Theresa Ross, A rtie Grissom, Charlesetta Slater, Ronnie Turner, and Raymond Pasch al) opened the program by leading the singing of the “ Black National Anthem," with M iss Princlne Boyd at the piano, and M r. Norman Wooding directing. Following this, Raymond Paschall and Princine Boyd gave excerpts of early Black culture and inventions here in A m erica. As gospel music has always been an integral part of Black culture, M r , Norman Wooding captured the audience with his rendition of "Beans of Heaven,” L a rry Turner, a seventh grader of Robert Gray Ele mentary School, gave his ver sion of his great pride in be ing Black. M artin Luther King Ele mentary School was well rep resented by Waynom Cowley, another seventh grader, who gave an instrumental solo, “ The Sack W altz,” by John Metcalf. HAUGEN AUTOMOTIVE 2203 NE Union Avenue 282-2266 COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR AND BODY AND PAINT SHOP Entering the second phase, a portion of the "Shades of Brown.” with M r. W ilbur Antoine-guitarist, M r.H arvey McDaniels on the Bass, M iss Joanne Bowles (a Grant High School student) on the drums, M r . Kenneth B e rry at the piano and organ, with M r. Gregg Smith, vocalist, dis played th e ir rare musical tal ents, as they gave out with a pulsating rythm of "Searching fo r L o v e ," an original w ritten by the vocalist himself, M r. Smith. It was then that the entire audience was "so u fu lly get-, ting with i t , " as the Hames fam ily, youngsters of Rev erend and M rs . F , Hames, stepped forth with th e ir "way out” rendition of "H eard it F rom The Grapevine.” The group, organized only three weeks ago. is comprised of 18 year old Lauralyn, Fenney 16, V alerie 12, Paula 11, 7- year old twins - Rondella and Kelane, and the main attrac tion of the group, 5-year old Antoine, who never once lost a single step o r beat in their unusual performance. Then M iss A rtie Grissom, •of Lincoln High School, took command of the microphone with " I ' l l Take You There,” as sung by the great Staple singers. Performing in the back-ground with her solo was Steve Lee of Central Catholic High, Michael and A lfred Caldwell of Grant High School, V alerie Potts of M arkum Ele mentary, and Lauralyn and Fennie Potts, of Madison High School. Both the principal M r. Haight, and M rs . H a rris ex pressed extreme gratefulness and satisfaction with the entire program, as they felt it would serve to contribute much to ward broadening the scope of understanding between races, as with many of th e ir students, thia had actually been their very fir s t encounter o r ex perience with Black students. LONGHAIR MUSIC 915 SW 9th 224-8542 All Charles Lloyd albums 50< off regular low price. BEST JAZZ SELECTION-- LOWEST PRICES LOTS OF BLACK MUSIC, TOO. The program was under the direction of M r. and M rs. Edward S, Berry, parents of Kevin B e rry . Work release (Continued from pg. 1, col 3) Apart from that, the P o rt land Men's Center trie s to make the house as home-like as possible fo r the men stay ing there, by trying to get them to feel a part of it. by grant ing them as much freedom as the law allows and by using guidelines which yield to the needs of the moment and the individual rather than hard and fast rules. No more than two men are assigned to a room and they are allowed to deco rate th e ir rooms in almost any way they want. That may not seem like much to a person who has never spent any time in ja il. But as Bud Hanson, the direc to r of the Portland Men’ s Center, described it, "w e 're working with men who have been in prison fo r up to ten years. In prison they never had to take any responsibility fo r themselves o r anything else. In fact, some of the men have never had to take any responsibility in their life ." P a rt of that responsibility given the men allows them to form a Resident Advisory Council. It meets once a week to discuss the various living problems of the residents and attempt to straighten out the problems which have o r may create some d ifficu lty. The decisions handed down by this council range anywlere from a lim it on the length of time a resident may use the phone to a plan to help one of the new resident's fam ily get situated, o r being the staff fo r those who s till have the old prison hang-up of notwantingto speak to "the M an." This week the 1973 Oregon State Legislature performed its most significant action of this session when the House passed the comprehensive tax b ill, generally known as the McCall Plan. The vote was 43 to 16, with most of the sup port comm mg from the Dem ocratic side of the aisle. Speaker of the House, Richard Eymann, took the floor, in an unusual act fo r a speaker, to plead fo r support forthe mea sure. Representative Wally P riestley carried the section of the b ill relating to trans portation, He received com mendation from the Speaker as well as others fo r his pre- s e n t a t io n . Representative P riestley coined the term " r u r a l overburden", in ref erence to the school trans portation issue, and in re sponse to rural legislator's c ritic is m of features favor ing Portland. Representative Priestley also serves on the House Com mittee on Transportatlon, anil in this connection expressed substantial disapproval over the Highway Commission's Shoemaker presentation before the Com mittee, whiehcoveredsever.il weeks of hearings. '• ft « Highway Commission is trying to bamhoozel us again". Rep resentative P riestley stated. He further indicated that le felt the Highway Cominis sion's conduct in opposing tie acquisition of Cape Kawanda as a future state park loca tion was typical of th e ir dis interest in the needs of the public. P riestley toured the area about Cape Kawanda last week. He indicated that to lose such a beautiful natural spot to anything as ugly and unnecessary as a nuclear power plant would be a " t r a v e s ty ". Much interest Is concen trated about tie b ills intro- luced this week to control commercial fishing and g ill- netting in the Columbia River and return of the stream to the private sports fishermen. Representative P riestley ' as been a supporter of this type of legislation fo r some time, and was a composer of this legislation. The b ills are le ing beard before the Senate Committee on agriculture and Natural Resources. Brotherhood w eek (ConDnued from pg. 1, col. 6) poor areas. White institu tion» created them, white institutuions maintain them and too large a segment of white society condone them. White racism is essentially responsible for the explosive mixture which accumulated in our cities following World War II and which burst info such fury during the last decade. When the NCCJ speaks of Brotherhood, its fundamental root is Respect on the part of man for his fellow man. Further, Brotherhood is an obligation every American has to every other Ameri can. We ask people to commit themselves to the cause of Brotherhood. But has the essence of Brotherhood been so severely undermined as " Keep on loving one another as brothers in C hrist."--H ebrew s 13:1 Brotherhood W eek F e b .18-24 GREAT» PORTLAND COUNCIL OF CHURCHES to hinder the efforts of men and women of gocxl will? Is one’s commitment to the cause of Brother'.ood just an afterthought, a fad, an in trusion, a conversation piece or a tax-deductible contri bution? Is Brotherhood a matter for tomorrow's agenda, not • "day's; a reflection for the Sabbath or for one week and forgotten the other days and weeks? I9M With ecology in mind, a slate legislature banned the sale of alligator skins within the borders of the stale In short order, a maker of men's shoe* went Io court wuh the following objec tion: 602 Securities Bldg., Seattle, Washington Portland phone: 228-5296 O u r motto: 'Benevolence, Brotherly Love and H arm ony' Let's make it a reality. Portland Lodge #65 B’nai B’rith " I b i s law is unconstitutional. I rue, the siale does have the power io protect consumers. Itul here they are not trying Io p ro lect consumers I hey are trying Io protect alligators. I hat is be yond (he scope of legislatise au thority." However, a court ruled that the measure was indeed within the "police power" of the siale. Let’s stop hate this week. Oregon Region, N a tio n a l Conference of Christians and Jews “ Protection of animals," said the court, "is necessary not only for their natural beauty and for biological ->ludy but (also) for the key role they play in the main tenance of ihc life cycle." Not long afterward, a shoe dealer tried another tine of attack on the same law. " It hurls our chances of making a living," said the dealer. " It de stroys our properly rights without due process of law." Bui again the court upheld the legislation. The court said the shoe dealer simply had no "prop erly right” to begin with in the wildlife of a foreign country. these cases illustrate the legal issues that have arisen oul of ef forts to preserve "endangered species.” As a rule, courts have looked with favor upon such ef forts. Nevertheless, if the state may act on behalf of animals, it may also act on behalf of hunters. In another case, lawmakers decided io introduce a special breed of deer into remote sections of the state for the benefit of sports men. Some residents opposed the plan, partly because o f the harm the deer might inflict upon the flora and fauna of the region. But after a court test, their objections were overruled. The court said the state’s police power included the right to make the stale more appealing and more profitable as a recreational area. When the evil of prejudice casts a shadow in one's community or one's social life it takes courage to speak up for Brotherhood. A p u b lir s e rv irr fe a tu re o f th e Brotherhood Commitment A m e rie a n B a r A aaoeiation an d Week provides the catalyst the O re g o n S tale B a r Aaaueia- to make that courage a lio n . W ritte n by W ill B e rn a rd . positive reaction throughout © 1973 American Bar Association the year. BROTHERHOOD WEEK F e b .18-24 A week to rededicate our efforts to bring all people together. DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY Sd/utes Youth of the Week a Senior at etive In student government. |y e a r she was Secretary of the a Junior she was a member in her Senior year la a Hrant During her Sophomore I Hrant General t i i u n r i l . l of the General Counril.l member of the Senior! Connell. Lillian la Secretary of the Sunday School at Greater^ |M t. Calvary Church of God in Chriat. She la l ember of the Urban I .eague youth group and spends| luch time on volunteer work for her rhurrh and th e| |U rban leagu e. latst year she volunteered at th e | [U niversity of Oregon Medical Schoool, earning a sur certificate. Lillian la one of Ifl Oregon students II of 3 girlsll I awarded scholarships by the United States National! iBank. She will attend the University of Oregon in i I Business Administration and Management. In te rT Im itte a tly with attending college she will begin h er| I hanking career at the U , 8 , National Rank. C o u r te s y o f (2) Pacific Northwest Bell
