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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1973)
Mr« Frances Schoen-Newapaper Poo« U n iv e rs ity of Oregon L ib ra ry t.ugcne, Oregon 97403 POR TLA ND Volume 3, No. 26 P ortlan d, O regon AN THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER THE W HOLE W IDE, W ORLD THAT OBSERVER Thursday A pril 5, i9 7 3 10< per copy REALLY CARES AB O U T PEOPLE Officials assist Lampus shows faith — removes boards Senate seeks Peoples’ testimony by Rosemary Allen Melvin Broadus shows Good Citizen Award received from A ll-C ity Dade for hla efforts In saving the Uvea of five children. All City Dads honor Broadus Melvin Broadus student at Lincoln High School, was honored Monday. A pril 2, by the All City Dad* Club. Mel vin was presented the Good Citizen award, in honor of his life saving rescue of five chil dren from t h e i r burning home in early January of this year. Broadus stated that the rescue mission began when he and Keith Richardson were laying tile in a house on Alberta and Rodney Streets. They suddenly heard scream ing. and, seeking the source, saw smoke in the house next door. They immediately ran over and tried the door to the burning; however, the door was locked. Using their shoulders, Melvin and Keith broke the door down and tra n s p o rte d fiv e panic stricken children to safety. Keith ran to a nearby fire box and alarmed the fire department, then both pro- ceded to put out the flame with a water hose until the fire department's arrival. This is the first year that the All City Dads Club has sought to commend students for outstanding efforts in Iheir school and community. They feel there is a special need to give attention to those many students who do good, rather than contin uously pointing out those who create trouble. When Mrs. Clara Peoples went to Washington, D.C., March 24. 1973, she forgot something. She forgot to speak tor herself. instead, before the United States Senate, she spoke for you. the people! Mrs. Peoples was asked by U.S. Senator Abraham Ribi coff to testify before the U.S. Senate in favor of Bill S.707. Bill S.7O7 is "to establish a Council of Consumer Ad visors in the Executive Of fire of the President, to esta blish an independent Con sumer P ro tec tio n Agency, and to authorize a program of grants, in order to protect and serve the interests of consumers, and for other purposes." Why d i d Mrs. Peoples speak for the people and their needs instead of "What she has done?" For the same reason that she founded and is now directing Community Care Association, because she cares for the community that surrounds her, whether it be local or national. So on Tuesday. March 27, 1973. Mrs. Peoples testified before the U.S. Sena'«, "I hope that thus bill will be first in helping all our citi zens in budgeting, paying their debts and saving for their future; helping l h e economy to insure an ef fective freedom used :« part of the interpretation we have put on the preamble to the Constitution as o u r fore fathers saw for all of us; to promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity as ordained in the Constitution of the United Stales of America." She pleaded humbly, yet with a determined force. "One thing we all have in common M r, Chairman is that we are all human beings and all human beings bleed red blond!" She summed up her testimony thinking of those in need. ", . . and that a concentrated consumer edu cation thrust is of exrep tional importance at this time." Housing project begins building The ground breaking cere mony for the Piedmont Plaza was held last Wednesday. March 27th. Piedmont Plaza, bounded by North Missis sippi. North Michigan. North Jessup and North Simpson, is a $1.2 million rental hous ing project for low or moder ate income families. The project, which is being built by Hammond Development Corporation, a subsidiary of Ross B. Hammond Company, inc. of Portland, is financed under the F H A 236 program. This is the first sizeable 236 project in the Model Cities area. The project is on a two acre site and will consist of 17 buildings with 4 town houses each and one large office, meeting and recrea tion building. The two-story townhouses will have private courtyards and 5 separate play areas sre provided. Financing will come from Mortgage Bancorporation of Salem. Howard Glazer of Glazer W allwork and Com pany was the architect and William K. Roth and As sociates the landscape archi tects. The project is using four minority sub ■ contractors; Christian Electric. William T. Flemming Company, Com plete Gardening Service and Baldwin Sanitary Service. Participating in the ground b reakin g cerem ony were: City Commissioner Mildred Schwab; Russell Dawson, Area Director of H U D ; Andy Raubeson, Model Cities Direc tor; George Christian, sub contractor and President of Albina Contractors Associa lion; Jack M iller, President and Jim Freeman, Vice Presi dent of Hammond Develop ment Corporation; Ernie Mil ler, Mortgage Bancorpora tion; and architect Howard Glazer. Angelos lam pus will re move the boards from the front of his store on Friday. April 6th at 9:00 a.m. The ceremony is considered to be of great significance to the community because it sigm fies the faith in the future of Albina of one of its white merchants. The boards were placed over the windows several years ago following rock throwing incidents in the area. Participating in the cere mony will be a number of public officials who a re taking this opportunity to assure the people of Portland that Albina is a good place to do business, to shop, and to live. Among the officials who will be present are Secretary of Stale Clay Myers. State T re a s u re r James Reddin. Portland Mayor Neil Gold schmidt, Multnomah County Com m issioner Don Clark, and State Representatives Stephen Kafoury. Bill McCoy and Wally Priestley. Gov ernor McCall expressed his regrets that he is unable to attend because of prior com mitments in Roseburg. Angelos lam pus told A.L. Henderson. Editor of the Observer and Harold W il liams, Director of the PSU Educational Canter, that he put the boards over the show store windows years ago as a defensive move. A fter con sidering the responsibility of business to the community, he has agreed with Hender • i Plint flower or vegetable seeds this spring Io enioy ne«l summer Get a packet free while they last at any of our offices And save some seed money, too. for growth at 5% a year compounded constantly Benj.O Pranklin .............................. from the University of Port land. The store is managed by his son, George lam pus. Angelos lam pus expressed his feedings about his busi ness: "I feel that we at lam pus Company have in the past straddled the fence. We've looked at our location on Union Avenue defensively and reacted accordingly. This could be manifested in the boarding up of our dis play windows, a lacadaisical approach to hiring minori ties, a de emphasis of our Union Avenue store in our advertising. "Coming from an ethnic minority race myself, the feeling prevailed that if someone is to gel ahead he's got to do it himself 1 shouldn't expect a helping hand from anyone. But through the riot torn years of the past, we forgot one salient fact that my minority face was not red. black or yellow. Sure I had to fight, but the fighters face was w hile, and the public liked a fighter. "Many times in thv past I have answered the ridicule of our Union Avenue location with a shrug I had no defense but fate. 1 can now sav that no longer is that feeling true. “Our staff has developed a sense of pride in our Union (Please turn to pg. 8. col. D Highway department studies lead pollution The Oregon State High way Division today asked the Oregon Graduate Center if additional assistance might be used to speed up its study of the source of lead pol lution in the Portland M etro politan area. George Baldwin, adminis trator of highways, said. "We feel that every effort should be made by all concerned agencies to id e n tify the source of the health problem and take corrective action as soon as possible. Although automobile emission is only one of the possible sources of lead contamination, it is ob vious that the research being conducted by the Oregon Graduate Center for the Ore gon Stale Highway Division with the cooperation of the Federal Highway Adminis tration can be very valuable." Last August, the State Highway Division contracted with the Oregon Graduate Center to conduct a study on the effect of transportation sources on air pollution in the P o rtlan d M e tro p o lita n area. Results obtained from the study will provide in PUTEP seeks teaching trainees The P o rtla n d U rb a n Teacher Education Project in the Portland Public Schools is now recruiting minority persons to become teacher Names in the news There is an exciting new cade College. Call YSO L at Black Drama class at PSU. 287 2658 for time and admis It is being taught by Rosalie sion price. Booth, Jean Stuart and Pro Leslie W hite, Student Body fessor James Rodgers tie President of Jefferson High tween the hours of 1 and 3, School, took first place in the Thursday afternoons. P o r tla n d In t e r s c h o la s t ir Earl Debnam has taken on Speech League. the position of Director of M r. and Mrs. Edmond the Albina A rt Center. E x Green became the proud ten sive fund raising activities parents of a baby girl on are planned. April 2nd. Mrs. J.M . Gates, known 4-C Provider Agencies will Poetress and Author, will be be having a Parent Con reading from her works April ference at Bethel A.M .E. 20lh at PSU. Call PSU C hurch. 5828 N.E. 8th Ave information for details. nue, at 6:30 p.m. Tom Fen YSOL Radio will sponsor a ders will be the keynote record hop April 7th at Cas speaker. Dinner will be son and Williams that he should remove the boards as a symbol of his decision to become a part of the com munity. W ithin 60 days trees will be planted all around the store. He also has hired a Black salesman and plans to hire more Black personnel. lam pus has decided to remain in Albina and resist the recent tendency of busi nesses to move into the suburbs. He plans to expand at his present site and as a businessman realizes that his business is located in a prime area. The Union Avenue store was established ap proximately 20 years ago following lam pus' graduation served. A pril has been designated by the Albina Ministerial Alliance as Observer sub scription Campaign Month. D r. O.B. W illiams has sug gested that every pastor name a chairman to solicit subscriptions. D r. Williams said. "The Observer is our voice and we must support it." He continued, “for 29 years I have lived here in Portland and the Observer is the best community paper that I have seen. It is really a paper that cares about people." trainees. Dr. John Parker of Adams High School is heading the project which is attempting to recruit and train inter mediate and high s c h o o l teachers for inner c i t y schools in Portland. Parker said the goal of the recruit ment drive is to bring more Black and other minority adults into teaching profes sions. The project would like to meet with persons from mi nority groups holding a bar helor’s degree or undergra duates with senior standing with an interest in teaching minority and econom ically deprived students. The project will hold a question and answer session for interested persons at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 2 in the cafeteria a t Cascade College, 715 N.Killingsworth. Qualified applicants may also arrange an interview with one of the staff member of the project through April 15 at Adams High School. 5700 N.E. 39th Avenue by railing the school. formation which will be use ful in selecting future trans portation corridors and de signing transportation facili ties. The study was ap proved for federal financial assistance by the Federal Highway Administration. The study, to extend over a three-year period, is ex pected to cost over $400.000. Its purpose is to determine the relative contribution of transportation sources to the concentrations of gaseous and particulate pollutants in the air. A ll types of transpor tation sources will be exa mined. These include, in addition to gasoline and die sel engine exhaust, s u c h sources as pulverized tires and pulverized pavements. The information regarding source contributions to air pollution will be obtained under all types of meteoro logical and background condi tions. Consideration will be given to transportation im pact on air quality at all distances from the highway- source. The final objectives of the program, Baldwin said, will be the development of pre dictive models for the types and concentrations of pollu tants which are traceable to transportation sources. The models will be applicable at any distance f r o m these sources under representative meteorological, background, and source conditions. In addition, a predictive capa bility for physical effects, such as visibility reduction, will be developed. Baldwin said this was be lieved to be the first study of this nature undertaken by a state highway organization. The program is under the direction of D r. E.J. Baum, while the analytical projects are being supervised by Dr. D .F. Barofsky. both on the faculty of the Graduate Cen ter. Representative Wally Priestley views Oregon Peace Award presented to him by the Oregon Peace Fund, Inc. with Helen Gordon, chairman of the fund. The award was given In recog nition of Priestley’ s strenuous efforts on behalf of peace and human dignity, which many times imperiled his own safety. In his acceptance Representative Priestley said, **1 am grati fied to accept this award, however, people w ill need to continue to question the legitimacy of government policy”
