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Urs Frances Schoen-*ewspapar P.ooa University of Oregon Library tUE?ne, Oragon &71O3 OBSERVER POR TLA ND Volum« 3, No. 32 Portland, Oregon AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER T H E O N lY N E W S P A P E R I N J H E J J H t ^ L ^ J j n O ^ J T O R L D ^ T H A ^ E A L L l ^ A R I ^ ^ Â â i i L i i â l i J L Dawson discusses HUD Washington heads drive Named to head the drive for “Summer Jobe 7 3 " were Lou Perry. Preaident of Stan d ard In a u ra n te . G en eral Chairman, and Richard Waah- infton, Benaon High School Basketball star. Youth Chair man. According to Perry. Wash ington and hundreds of hia local high school classmates will be knocking on business doors throughout the com munity the week of May 14-10 aaking for full time summer jobs. Businesses are re ce iv in g m a ilin g s w ith pledge cards which will be picked up by the students. Perry points out that the program, sponsored by the National Alliance of Busi nessmen. is aimed primarily at finding jobs for kids from low-income families. The students making the calls will not be asking specifically for jobs for themselves, but rather for a commitment for several jobs to be filled later by student job placement agencies. I f the student should find a job he likes while collecting the pledge cards, he can apply for it through the work experience coordinator at his school, giving him the same oppor tunity for the job as all other applicants. Perry pointed out that the job drive is extremely impor tant this year, since fed erally funded work programs that provided nearly 1,800 jobs last year for low income youngsters, have been cut to 250 with federal budget cut backs. He says only more jobs from the private sector of business can maintain op portunités for these kids at even last year's not very satisfactory level. Senior CW» • The Oregon State Council for Senior Citizens is again holding the Annual State Conference for senior citi zens. The conference will be held at the Agriculture Build ing on the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem on May 25, 1973. Booker Tayior is a member of the Portland Leisure Hour Golf Club and is one of the few left-h an ded g o lfe r s around. He look up the game of golf while working at the Columbia Edgewater Golf and Country Club and has been playing now for some 20 years. RUSSELL H. DAWSON During a break in active duty, he attended the John Marshall Law School in Chi cago and did some graduate work in the School of Com merce at Northwestern U ni versity. Following his Arm y re tire ment, M r. Dawson was em ployed by the City of Seattle as Office Manager and Bud get Supervisor in the Urban Renewal Division. He was promoted to Manager of the Yesler-Atlantic Neighborhood I k’ A long list of experience in the Child Care Field follows Mrs. Norman. She was an aid in the Head Start Pro gram. worked at the Jewish Community Center, Albina Child Care Center and Port The featured speaker in the morning will be Senator Betty Roberts, Co-Chairman of the Special Joint Com mittee on Aging, who will discuss the legislation studied by the committee in this session of the legislature. Activities planned for the land Public School's Extended Day Program. She was also on the Model Cities Planning Board. That's where she got the feeling. "I didn’t feel I was doing anything with my life. On the Model Cities Planning Board I had no real powers. Now I have a chance to make a real input.” The purpose of the 4C program is to coordinate the a d m in is tra tiv e and su p er vision services for all the child development programs in the Model Neighborhood. It provides one of the most comprehensive packages of child care in the Northwest. Providing, of course, the tra- (Please see page 8 col. 5) Enter today! Over *100,000 in prizes- you may WIN and move in! Six 1st Prizes ot 20% down, many 2nd prizes of 5% down on a new home. Details at our offices lte n j.0 Franklin Robert H Haien Pres • 21 Ollies« ■ Phons 248-1234 Moms O llies Fransiin Bids Porllsnd Oregon 97204 Improvement Project in the ghetto area of Seattle where he prepared job specifica tions, and re c ru ite d and trained a staff from residents in the area, opening job opportunities for many at a higher level of responsibility. Besides receiving a big beautiful sparkling trophy, M r. Taylor was given first choice of a table piled with an array of expensive gifts, from tape recorders to ster eos. I t was Mothers Day. so he let his wife pick the prize. W hat did she pick? A wall clock! W hat did he do? Well, he did the most logical thing any attentive husband would do. He went and got some batteries for it! President Ellis Casson ex tends an invitation to the public to attend this dis cussion of s topic which af fects the future of the whole community. hold conference 4-C hires Norman The 4C Point of Inform a tion and Referral, sponsored by the Metropolitan Area 4C Council, has taken on a new director. Mrs. Debby N o r man. mother of 2 children and a graduate of Oregon State University, is the new employee. She received a B.S. in Elem entary Educa tion upon graduation and is now working on a Masters Degree in History. Booker Taylor wins golf trophy The 4th Annual Green Acres Invitational Golf Tourn ament was held on May 12 and 13 in Vancouver, B.C. M r. Booker Taylor, a Port land businessman, entered the tournament and came home with two first places. One in the B Flight and one in the over all championship round. Russell H. Dawson, Area Director of the Departm ent of Housing and Urban D e velop m ent, w ill be the speaker at the N A A C P , Port land Branch's monthly meet ing. The meeting will be held on Sunday, May 20th. at 4 p.m. at Hughes Memorial United Methodist C hurch, 111 N .E. Failing. M r. Dawson will speak on "H U D and its future for us". M r. Ruaaell H. Dawson was appointed Director of the H U D Area Office in Portland by Regional Ad ministrator Oscar Pederson in August of 1970. The Portland Area H U D Office has the responsibility for all the operations for m e rly p erfo rm ed by the H U D -F H A Portland Insuring Office, in addition to the operational management for other H U D programs in the State of Oregon, the southern part of the State of Idaho, plus three counties acroes the Columbia River in the State of Washngton. M r. Dawson was grad uated from N o rth w e s te rn University in 1941 with a B.S. D e g re e in P o litic a l Science. Following his grad uation, he entered the mili tary service and was trans ferred to the active reserve at the end of World W ar II. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean W ar and remained in service until he retired in December. 1963 with the rank of L t. Colonel. Thursday May 17, 1973 1(X per copy afternoon are varied. The participants will break into smaller groups according to their interests and discuss legislation on health, housing or transportation. The Sen iors will also have the op portunity to view two films of interest if they so choose. Professionals working in the Held of aging will also have a section designed for them with technical leadership pro vided. A dance and social are planned for later in the afte r noon beginning at 3:30 p.m. Coffee and tea will be avail able for the participants both in the morning during a break in the program and during the social time, which is scheduled to run until 5:30 p.m. Penninsula hearings planned M E LVIN H l'G HES Consumer protection expands service M elvin Hughes visited Portland this week during a swing through the west roast for his agency, the Neigh borhood Consumer Informs tion Center of Washington, D.C. The Center operates a local program in Washington. D.C., providing consumer education and a consumer complaint service. The staff of approximately 50 persons includes full time and part time law students and other students, lt began in I96H as a program of Howard Uni versity and obtained DEO and Justice Department funds in 1971. A national program was begun in 1971, the National Advisory Council on Low In come Consumer Protection. This project sponsors task forces made up of govern ment, business and consumer organizations that study prob lem areas, plan programs and studies, and make recom mendations for improvement. They also do consulting with local groups and present workshops and seminars on consumer problems. Hughes worked with the Multnomah County Legal Aid Society in 1970 and 1971 as a K< ginald Heber Smith Fel low from the University of Pennsylvania. He was one of approxi mately 250 lawyers and law students assigned to work in local commur ity programs. While in Portland he worked with the Albina Legal office. He is a 1969 graduate of the Howard University School of Law and originally comes from Virginia. The Portland City Plan ning Commission and M u lt nomah County Planning Com mission will hold a joint public hearing in the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 1220 SW 5th Avenue, at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 21, 1973, concerning the North Portland Peninsula Study, which emcompasses the area between the W illam ette and Columbia Rivers west of the Interstate 5 Freeway. The study was prepared by the Columbia Slough E n viro n mental Improvement Task Force. This plan for the most part is a review and update of the Rivergate Plan prepared in 1967 for the Port of Portland with the co operation of other agencies. Copies of the North Portland Peninsula Plan can be ob tained from the Port of Port land, 700 N .E. Multnomah, P o rtla n d (telep h on e 233 8831). Because of the expected widespread interest in this proposed plan, the Planning Commissions are asking those who plan to speak at the hearing to submit written statements along with only brief verbal summary com ments. JOHN CRAIG Salute to Black Business by Rosemary Allen If you were to ask a little Black boy what he wants to be when he grows up. he would probably reply, with out batting an eye. ‘Superfly*! Superfly, a slick dresser, pimp and dope pusher. Sad isn't it? But Superflies are the images that are constantly being placed up as heroes, in the eyes of our Black youth. The real heroes, the real images that are worthy enough to be followed are shoved into closets, or swept under the rug. One such worthy hero re sides right here in Portland, Oregon; perhaps right down the street from you. He and his business are the subiect of this week's "Salute to Black Business". John Craig, the hero in mention, is 41 years of age, and is originally from Wash ington, D.C. He is the only Black landscape contractor in the North West. He is a high school graduate, and "indirectly went to college." in his own words. "I just took courses in what I thought 1 needed. I didn't take courses like history, physics, English g r a m m a r , those heavy courese that you really don't need." Mr. Craig took courses in physical environment, chem istry, biology, botony, com municalion, business and per sonal relations. However, most of his knowledge about landscaping was learned prior to his college education. At the age of 17, John became a member of the U.S. Army. v I Please see page 8 col. 5)
