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Thursday Juna 7. 1973
Muhi Service Center serves people
P A R T II
by Lenwood G. Davia
Interview er: W hat are your
impressions of the Nation's
Capitol?
D r. Brown:
D.C. is an in
teresting place - a place
of despair. It is indeed the
last colony in the United
States -
controlled by the
Congress, it's residents are
not allowed the benefit of a
democracy to elect their own
representatives. It has great
monuments surrounded by
gross poverty.
It has a
society of affluence in the
midst of a community of
want. In fact, the city is a
sad commentary on the lives
of Black folk in this country.
Dable Llghtsey receive« a TB akin w at from LPN BUlle
M cKenzie.
Among the services pro
vided by the Albina Multi-
Service Center are medical,
dental and mental health.
One success story of the
center is the pending hos
pitalization of Am ber A lex
ander, age 8. Am ber suffers
from a severe type of bron
chial asthma and will receive
treatm ent at the National
Jewish Hospital in Denver,
the only hospital where she
can receive the treatm ent
she requires. H er treatm ent
there is expected to take
from one to four years.
The hospital care was a r
ranged by Children's Service
Division social w orker June
Flemming and center staff.
Amber's mother, Mrs. Sheryl
Alexander, and her brothers,
Damon and Tim . plan to
move to Denver so they can
be with Amber.
Approximately 600 to 700
children are served by the
Multi-Service Center's pedia
tric and dental clinics each
month. The pediatric clinic,
directed by D r. Larry Wolfe,
provides physical e x a m i
nations. immunizations and
general health care for chil
dren from birth to 18 years
of age.
The dental clinic
provides emergency and rou
tine dental care for children
from 3 to 13 years of age. It
also serves a limited number
of adults.
The Mental Health Clinic,
directed by Mrs. Shirley
Hamilton, provides a number
of services for community
residents including:
Child
guidance, family and mental
counseling, alcohol and drug
counseling, group therapy,
services to the mentally re
tarded. follow-up for persons
released from the mental
hospitals, and psychologoical
evaluation.
Two hundred and sixty-six
perons attended group ses
sions in M ay. and 3,265 per
sons receive regular or oc
cassional counseling.
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Amber Deni9e Alexander w ill go to Denver, Colorado to
receive treatment fo r asthma at the National Jewish Hospital.
Finding help for people in
ned is the whole idea at the
Portland Multi-Service Cen
ter. The Center is basically
a one-stop human service
center.
Services include:
Public welfare, children's ser
vices, vocational rehabilita
tion. public health, mental
health, employment, correc
tions. medical and dental
clinics and food stamps ser
vices.
To bring all these
services together to focus on
people's problems, the De
p a rtm e n t of H um an Re
sources has developed a case
coordinators system.
Since
its creation late last year,
there have been many suc
cess stories.
In March, the mother of
four children, caring for one
four-year-old child left with
her, faced many diffcult prob
lems.
The family needed
food, $28 for house payment,
medical care for the mother,
treatm ent for a 14-year-old
boy with sickle cell traits and
n u tritio n fo r an a lre a d y
u n d e rw e ig h t four y e a r old
child. Medical care for the
family was provided through
the Pediatric Clinic at the
Center, at the University of
Oregon Medical School and
at Emanuel Hospital.
Food
stamps were acquired for the
family. The $28 house pay
ment was located from chari
table organizations.
The
mother of four is now em
ployed by the Children's Ser
vices Division as a service
assistant. The mother is a
very determined person.
H er main goal is self-suf
ficiency. W ith a few months
she w ill have achieved that
goal.
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Interview er: The W atergate
case has been very much in
the news recently.
As a
Criminologist, what are your
views on it?
D r. Brown: First of all. the
W atergate case reflects a
vivid abuse of power and an
a rro g a n t abuse of public
trust. There were a number
of criminal acts committed,
e.g. burglary, conspiracy, il
legal wire tapping, etc., that
must be dealt with for what
they are -• criminal acts.
It is ironic that the political
leaders that advocated "law
and order" find themselves
involved in such flagrant
violations of the law.
Interview er: Based on your
experience in D.C., what do
you see on the horizon for
Black people
particularly
Black students?
D r . Brown: My thoughts on
that subject have not changed
by being in Washington, only
reinforced.
There is. more
than ever, a need for us, as
Black people, to unify our
efforts in order to gain those
goals we have set up for
ourselves.
Black students
have a particular role to
play. As our future leaders,
it is esential that they take
advantage of their educa
tional opportunities to de
velop those skills which will
be needed to develop and
run p ro gram s for Black
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In te rv ie w e r!
You were re
cently quoted in Black E n te r
prise magazine as saying the
prisons have failed.
W hat
did you mean by that?
D r. Brow n:
As you know,
that issue of Black E n te r
prise I A pril) was devoted to
crime and the Black com
munity. My comments were
directed toward what more
and more people are coming
to realize: That prisons are
not the answer to the crime
problem.
As s m atter of
fact, I am convinced that
many, if not most, prisons
are themselves “schools of
crime".
If a person who
enters a prison is not a
“criminal", he is likely to be
one when released because of
his experience in that insti
tution. As I have often said,
only a small percentage of
law violators should be in
prison, say two percent or
less. The others should be
treated in the community.
What I am really advocating
is a stop to the use of
prisons (except in the cases
where the person is dan
gerous) as a rehabilitative
technique because they have
failed .
C o m m u n ity based
treatm ent of offenders is
what we need.
Interview er:
You recently
served on a National Com
mission.
W hat significance
does that Commission's find
ings have for Oregon?
D r. Brown:
You are re
ferring to the works of the
National Advisory Commis
sion on C rim in a l Justice
Standards and Goals.
We
have recently completed our
work for that Commission
and the reports should be
out sometime in July or
August.
The work of the
Commission does have major
significance for not only the
state of Oregon, but also the
nation. W e call for each state
to review our findings and
adopt or develop their own
standards in criminal justice.
We call for improvements in
police, courts and correc
lions. Additionally, we make
a strong plea for the com
munity to get involved in the
cause of crime prevention.
This has a special signifi
cance for Black people since
Blacks are disproportionately
the victims of crime and
Blacks are drastically over
represented as clients to the
criminal justice systems and
drastically under represented
as professionals working in
the system.
I have a par
ticular interest in the Com
munity Crime P re v e n tio n
Report of the Commission in
that it calls for reform in
the educational systems, eco
nomic development, integrity
in government and other
means of removing the root
causes of crime.
ular
research
projects
two books, one on Principles
of Police Community Rela
lions and the second an
introductory text to criminal
justice. Also, 1 am editing n
book on the criminal justire
system and the Black coni
munity.
1 hope to finish
those up soon. A t the same
time, I am preparing to do a
study of Black policemen and
Black correctional workers.
Those are my personal re
search projects.
Besides
those, I will be involved in
the research activities of the
In s titu te .
O u r research
priority for the Institute is
the examination of social
policy as they impact on the
Black community.
are
you involved in?
D r. Brown: C urrently, I am
under contract to coauthor
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A t home with rock, pop,
gospel and soul music, Ron
nie Dyson, with his current
Columbia single "I Just Don't
W ant To Be Lonely”, is a
seasoned vet at 22.
The
angelic choir boy of a singer,
who first made it big with
his part in the Broadway
production of ''H air”, owes
his success to his mother. A
dedicated fan of her son's
singing, Mrs. Dyson was
working as an operator at a
telephone answering service.
One of the companies
clients placed a call for talent
for an upcoming show. Mrs.
Dyson made the call herself
right from the answering
service office, acquiring an
a p p o in tm en t for Ronnie's
audition.
Not only did he
make it into the show “H air”,
which was being moved from
Greenwich Village’s Cheetah
Club to Forty fifth Street; he
inspired the w riting of the
seventies liberation theme
"Aquarius”, enjoying a 19
month run with the show.
Dyson was born in the
nation’s capitol city and was
raised in the ethnic hodge
podge of B roo klyn New
York, the home of a hoarde
of stars.
The character of
the vast New York City
borough changes every few
blocks, but the totality it has
in common is personality.
Nothing is bland, it's all got
a taste to it.
Dyson does
too, a lot of it -- all good
and flavorful.
His vocal career began
with gospel church singing at
age three. To date it is still
in gospel that he revels.
During later success and
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career preparation, Ronnie
remained in the choir of his
church and traveled with
them around the country.
“I'm a church going boy," he
explained gladly, "and I al
ways have been and always
will be."
A t five, Ronnie entered a
local talent show at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Singing "Why Do Fools Fall
In Love”, a favorite tune of
his.
I t was a brand new
experience for him to be in
front of a live audience; an
experience he didn't want to
forget.
In school, his goal was
medicine, hoping someday to
become a doctor la thought he
hasn't entirely put out of his
mind).
W ith Ronnie's “big
break" in "Hair" at 17. he was
unexpectedly a “star".
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