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Volum« 3, No. 32 Portland, Oregon
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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-
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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.
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