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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
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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
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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”