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A " m h r w r t* ' child sleep» on the floor while in protective custody st W averly Children’ s
Hama. Receiving eipport front tie stste, Waverly cares fo r children until custody arrange-
cee he made by the Multnomah County Juvenile Court.
Condictions exposed at
Waverly Children’s Home
A social w orker at W averly Children's Homo was terminated from employment after taking
the above photographs of conditions at the home. Waverly provides "s h e lte r care ' and treat
ment fo r retarded children. The "s h e lte r care” program, funded by Oregon State Children’ s
Service I.apartment at »35 per day per child, provides temporary care fo r children who are
removed from their homes because of parental neglect or abuse, usually under emergency con
ditions. Children are held at W averly pending juvenile court hearings to determine their future
and some are held for longer periods by court commitment. Mentally retanled and emotionally
disturbed
hlldren are commlted to Waverly for treatment. Parents have complained that con
ditions ai the home
sleeping areas, sanitation, child care — are substandard and that
their children are In greater danger than In the homes from which they have been removed^
Kim Sprague wins Good Citizen Award
The A ll City Dad's Club of
Portland High Schools is
presenting a Good Citisen
Award to each high school to
be presented to a boy or girl
who, through work in their
community and sc I
I, de
serve recognition.
This award is given each
year through a committee
selection composed of stu
dents, faculty and two Dad's
Club members from each
high school.
Roosevelt High School pre
tented their award to Senior
Kim Sprague at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday. May 1. in the
school auditorium during the
school's Golden Anniversary
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open house celebration. The
presentation was made by
All City Day's Club president
Gordon Bishop and Roosevelt
High Dad’s Club president
Ed Eaoro. Miss Sprague has
donated many hours to the
Red Cross. March of Dimes,
Cancer and U .G .N , drive.
She is presently working at
Bess Kaiser Hospital on Sun
days as a Candy Striper.
High school activities include
Forensic Club where she has
accumulated thirty ribbons
during her four high school
years and twenty five to
thirty certificates of merit in
state and out of state speech
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State requin
Norman O. Nilsen, the
State la b o r Commissioner,
has advised young persons
under 18 years of age who
wish to obtain work permits
for summer jobs to act im
mediately if they do not have
Social Security cards.
Nilsen said that the Ore
gon Bureau of la b o r must
have a S.icial Security num
ber before it can issue a
permanent, plastic work per
mit card to an applicant. He
said that new methods of
processing Social S ec u rity
applications by the Federal
Government has meant delay
Thur,d a y M a y 3, 1973 10« par copy
WOULD THAT REALLY CARES, ABOUT
Clinic ordered
to surrender
The M u ltn om ah County
Departm ent of Judicial Ad
m in is tra tio n removed the
personal property belong to
the Fred Hampton People's
Health Clinic from property
owned by the Portland De
velopment Commission at 109
N. Russell Street.
This
action was taken pursuant to
a Court judgement entered
on March 15. 1973. ordering
the removal of the Clinic
from the property.
The Clinic had occupied
the property rent free for a
period of 16 months. During
this period, the Development
Commission and Em anuel
Hospital had o ffere d the
Clinic comparable facilities
rent free for a period of five
years.
The action by the Com
mission in en fo rcin g the
court judgement was made
necessary by reason of the
construction of a street and
relocation of utilities to serve
the surrounding neighbor
hoods. Stanton Yards and
Emanuel Hospital. The street
is presently under construe
tion and the city advised the
D e ve lo p m en t Commission
that the property was needed
for construction the first
week in May.
They also
stated that, if there were
any delay to the contractor
due to the demolition of the
building, the expense would
have to be absorbed by the
rances Sei oen-- e»«paper Poem
r a i t y o f r j f o n L ib r a r y
Development Commission.
The Commission advised
that, at the request of Kent
Ford, Clinic spokesman, the
personal property would be
moved directly to the new
offices where the Clinic will
be operated at 2341 2343 N.
Williams Avenue. The rent
for this new facility will be
paid by Emanuel Hospital
until August. 1977. In addi
tion. the Development Com
mission will make a reloca
tion payment to the Clinic.
Benjamin C. Webb. Chief
of Relocation for the D e
velopment Commission, said:
"For the past 21 months we
and Emanuel have made
every effort to get the Clinic
to relocate its facilities volun
tarily. We have offered the
Clinic several a lte rn a tiv e
facilities with several years
of free rent, any one of
which could have provided
the Clinic with facilities com
parable to, if not better than,
the facility they now occupy.
The Clinic has consistently
disregarded our good faith
efforts to resolve this mat
ter."
According to Kent Ford,
the facilites offered by the
Portland Development Com
mission and Emanuel Hos
pital either required a large
outlay of cost to bring up to
standards, or did not have
sufficient room to house the
clinic.
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Benton plans Africa trip
Gregg Benton, a Portland
State University Senior will
be making an envied trip to
Africa this summer. He was
selected along with 199 other
young people from all over
the United States by Opera
tion Crossroads to Africa,
Incorporated.
There were
over 15.000 applicants. Gregg
was the only one accepted
from Oregon.
Operation Crossroads to
Africa was set up by a
Christian group as a means
of cultural exchange. Pro
fessor Ukaeje, who is from
Nigeria, introduced the pro
gram to Gregg and other
interested students.
Mr.
Benton will be leaving in late
June and visiting primarily
the W est Coast of Africa,
working in a small com
munity, building a school,
teaching young children or
some other type of work
needed. He’ll be there from
8 to 10 weeks.
Gregg will be graduating
with a B.S. in Political Sci
ence this June of 1973 and is
taking this trip for much
more than a pleasurable va
cation. " It is important that
Black people in America and
Africa have an understand
ing of who they are," Gregg
explained. "W hat ever we're
going to call ourselves, co
lored. Negro, or Black, we
still have a Black African
ancestry and we should know
from whence we came."
Gregg Benton, PSU
trip to Africa.
student, discusses his forthcoming
Gregg is presently seeking
co n trib u tio n s to pay the
»1350 price of the trip.
Anyone having contributions
can call the Portland Ob
server for more information.
Gregg has no plans of
going to Africa as a prodigal
son, or thinking that he is
sm arter or d u m b e r than
anyone else. "I'll just go as
who I am, a Black man. And
when asked what he expects
to find, Gregg simply re
plied.
"Just home folks,
that's all. Just home folks."
Patterson wins PSU
Racouillat/Xerox grant
Portland State University
senior Armenious Patterson
Jr. is the first winner o, a
»51X1 Racouillat Xerox Mi
n o rity Scholarship Fund
award, it was announced by
Robert Racouillat. manager
of the Portland branch office
of Xerox Corporation, and
Gerald Halverson, assistant
dean of the PSU School of
Business Administration.
They said the scholarship
has been established to assist
minority students train for
business careers.
Several
awards totaling $4.000 will
be made each year to stu
dents at PSU.
Patterson was selected on
the basis of need, scholastic
record and business aptitude
by a committee composed of
Racouillat, PSU Educational
Center Director Harold C.
Williams, and Financial Aids
Administrative Officer Bessie
M. Fields. The award will be
presented at the conclusion
of spring term.
Patterson transferred to
PSU from Washington State
University last year, and was
course coordinator this spring
for the unique "Minorities in
Business” class offered by
PSU's M a r k e tin g
depart
ment.
Designed to place
minority students in line for
senior management positions,
it brings them together with
a panel of businessmen from
a different field each week.
A junior fellowship intern
with the Economic Develop
ment Administration of the
Department of Commerce,
Patterson is also an honorary
member of the portland exe
cutive board of the Office of
M inority Business Affairs.
This fall he will play his final
season as defensive bark on
the PSU v a rs ity football
team.
The Racouillat/Xerox scho
larship was inaugurated when
Racouillat conceived the idea
of a sales management course
taught by his own staff at
PSU. His teaching salary is
matched l'/i-to -l by Xerox to
establish the fund.
teenagers permits
in the issuing of cards.
Instead of being issued on
a local or regional basis, as in
the past. Social S ec u rity
cards now are issued from a
central location in Maryland.
Experience has shown, said
A.W . (Bud) Gardner, Ad
ministrator of the Wage and
Hour Division of the Oregon
Bureau of la b o r, that this
has meant from four to six
weeks for processing.
Persons under 18 must
have permits for all employ
m ent except
newspaper
vending, domestic work and
most areas of agriculture.
Applications for permits and
Social Security cards may be
obtained at Bureau of la b o r
offices in Portland. Salem,
Eugene, Medford and Pen
die ton.
Perm it applications are
also available at State Em
ployment Division offices and
at schools and colleges.
Nilsen said that the work
permit system insures that
young people receive the
right amount of pay under
the right conditions for em
ployment not proscribed be
cause of hazardous condi
tions.
From left to right, Joe Mullen, John Mullen and H arry [lean pose for a PORTLAND OBSERVER
picture while preparing for Friday’ s Grand Opening.
A salute to Black business:
Old Blood’s Department Store
by Rosemary Allen
Union Avenue has become
about the busiest thorough
fare in the Albina Community
It was practically deserted
during the 60’s by fearful
W hite businessmen who be
came aware of the disatis
faction and anger felt by
many members of the Black
Community.
Many empty,
neglected buildings and va
cant lots even now remain;
evidences of years and years
of suppressed discontentment
and justified anger.
However, as a r e s u l t ,
slowly but surely a small,
but determined Black busi
ness has begun to appear
here and there along the
avenue. The business I am
speaking of today in the first
of a monthly “S A L U T E TO
BLACK BU SIN ESSES," is
Old Bloods D e p a r t m e n t
store, on N .E . Union Ave
nue.
John Mullen is 27 years
old.
He was raised right
here in Portland and gra
duated from Benson High
School. John Mullen is the
owner of the new Old Blood's
Department Store. Lacking
nowhere in the experience
department, he was formerly
a salesman for Nordstrom's
Best in the Lloyd Center,
promoted to Assistant Ma
nager in 6 months, and buyer
6 months later. It was from
some businessmen at Nord
strom's Best that he found
out Geist's (now the home of
Old Blood's! was up for sale,
and advised that it might be
a gixxl idea. Dave Anderson,
a realtor gave John as much
help as he could provide,
which was a big hand in
helping him to get started.
After talking with his at
tyrney and looking the build
ing over Mr. Mullen decided
to go ahead with it.
The
Oregon Bank liked the idea
too, and was prepared to
loan the money within 2
weeks.
However it took
about 10 months to settle
matters with the Small Busi
ness Administration, w h o
guarantee
business
loans.
But with the help of Lou
I^um an from Boise Cascade
and John Gustinson and Joe
Bostick of Media. Old Blood's
is now a reality.
"We've got people who
know the business, are well
dressed and aware of fas
hions," explained John Mul
len. Joe Mullen, a salesman
for Old Blood's and John
Mullen's brother, has had
extensive training at J.C.
Penney’s. H arry Dean, the
buyer, is well qualified and
well versed on how, what,
and how much to buy.
Leon's Mens Shop, also lo
cated on Union Avenue, is
Black owned and carries clo
thing; however, Mr. Mullen
sees no threats on either
side.
“I want all Black
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