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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1973)
f ’ o rtla n d /p b s e rv e r Demos set hearings for charter change Left. M l«» M ary Hooker, contestant In the Mtas Black Oregon Pageant, displays deep ex pression In her talent act. At right, M n , Rosalie Booth crowns M iss Hooker as the new Miss Black Oregon. Mary Hooker wins pageant On Friday evening at the Memorial Coliseum, an audi ence of approximately 300 patiently Buffered through 90 minutes of a quickly put together, patched up Eighth Annual Miss Black Oregon Beauty Pageant. Internal problems within the planning committee a week prior to the pageant caused a com plete turnover in the actual planning of the program. However the three gentle men who hosted the pagrant with only a week's prior notice are definitely to be commended for their sin cerity thoughout the endea vor. Co-hoata Harold John son. Greg Smith and Charlie Davis displayed strong deter mination to create an at mosphere of charm and hap pineaa to what many viewed as a dull farce. The pageant featured as entertainment a hand called Zodiac and v e n trilo q u is t Gover and Joe. The four contestan s, Beverly Hodges. M a ry H o o ker. Kuby An drew» and Patricia Thomas did very well under the circumstances. Mary Hooker, who is now Mias Black Oregon 1973, un doubtedly won predominantly because of her talent act, which was the most creative of the four contestants. Her talent was a dramatic por trayal of two women, one who had lost her faith in God and the other stable in her faith that God answers all. Miss Hooker. 18 yrars of age and a graduate of Jeffer son High, exclaimed “It's wonderful. Being a lawyer is my greatest ambition and winning this pageant and getting to meet people is exactly what I wanted." First runner up was Kuby Andrews, who is also a graduate of Jefferson High School. Miss Andrews is 18 years old and plans to special ize in computer data and office machinery in college. Delayed live television cov erage was provided by K P T V Channel 12. It was televised to a p p ro x im a te ly 40,000 viewers at 10:30 that same evening after the pageant. Many have expressed em barrassment that the pageant was ever televised. I feel the opposite. 1 am happy that now perhaps we who either went to the pageant or viewed it on television will perhaps take out a little time to help the current or ganizers plan a pageant of which we as a community can be proud. Mississippi elects Black mayors (Continued from pg. 1. col. 3) office In Pace and 3 Black aldermen - representing a voting m ajority on the five m em ber boards - w ere elected in Jonestown. Shelby and Tchula. "The election of this un [irecedented number of Black candidates to key municipal offices in Mississippi is a genuine harbinger of things to come," declared Julian Bond. S E F Board Chairman and Georgia State Repre sentative. “Blacks are continuing their fight for full participation in our representative form of government and it is indeed noteworthy to see that it is being won at the grass roots level of municipal, county and state government w*here so many pertinent decisions g o vern in g our e v e ry day lives are made. And it is here that our voices nyist be reso un d in g ly h e a rd ," he added. The Atlanta based Southern Elections Fund was created to assist liberal and Black candidates in the eleven southern states to run for local office by providing them with financial assistance as well as technical aid on the fundamentals and the intri cacies of participating in the electoral process. Since it’s inception in 1969, S E F has supported some 350 Black and white candidates for electoral office including most (approximately 75% l of the Black candidates for mayoral and aldermanic of fice in Mississippi. "The decision to concen Irate S E F activities both grants in aide and on the spot technical assistance in Mississippi during May and June of this year has been more than justified by the results." stated S E F Execu live Director Yancey F. Mar tin. D « a r P o rtla n d O b s e rv e r Custom er This offer is limited to customers of the Portland I O boarvar only. From June 28 to July 7 the presentation of this ad is good for the following discount at either of the tw o Lynn K irby Ford Ixications. These discounts are off of the suggested retail prices, including dealer [ preparation charges. $1300 off of any 1972 or 73 T R’.rd in stork. $ 8 0 0 oft of any 1973 L T D Wagon in »lock. $ 7 0 0 off of any 1973 Gal500 Country Sedan Wagon in stock. $ 7 0 0 "The face of the South is changing. And despite this election's loss by long time civil rights advocate James Meredith in his native Mis sissippi. we find immense encouragement in the elec tion of Chris M cNair, father of one of the slain children in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, to the Alabama State legislature. He is the third Black to serve in that body since reconstruction and the first to win a Jefferson County Birmingham race," he added. Despite the historic show ing of Black victories in the Mississippi general elections, a Della Ministry official, Kims Barber, cautioned, "W e still have a tremendous void to fill when one considers that while there are 7 Black mayors, there are also 250 incorporated towns in Mis sissippi, of which some 30 are predominantly Black." Democratic Organization and Policy be held? How, within the restrictions of the man date, should delegates to it be chosen? 51 How satis factory are relationships be tween the national and Con gressional Parties.’ How i f fective are Democratic Na tional Committee services to Congressional candidates? 61 Wha' roll stuc,:,I 1 ■ DNI play in the party's Presi dential campaign, both be fore and after the Conven tion? What ongoing prépara tions should the DNC be making for the presidential campaign? 7) How effective is the Party at raising it's funds? 8) Should the Demo cratic Party maker interim policy ' 9) What I m U mean to be a Democrat? Should the P a r ty en ro ll members? Should Party members pay dues? 10) Are present provisions intended to secure the loyalty of N a tio n a l C o m m itte e mem bers. delegates, etc., ade quate? The Democratic Charter Commission, which is charged with developing a charter for the N a tio n a l D e m o cratic Party, will hold it's con ference for Oregon on July 14, 1973, at the Congress Hotel from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Persons who wish to testify should contact the Multnomah County Demo cratic Central Committee at 226 7106. Among the questions the C h a r te r Comm ission must consider are: 1) W hat changes, if any. should be made in the pre sent structure of the Demo cratic National Committee? 21 Should any substantial change be made in the pre sent re la tio n s h ip b etw een state and national parties? 31 Is the Convention fulfilling it's responsibilities with re gard to the Party platform, policy, and internal business adequately? 41 When should the 1974 C o nference on many of whom perceive social spending and anti poverty as being for Black people only. "And the secret is simply this That while Black people are disproportinately poor, the majority of people who have benefited from the reforms of the '60s, the m ajority of people who will be hurt by the budget ruts, and the majority of those whose lives will be* per manently damaged by the ending of federal social pro grams, are white people. "So I believe that in these crucial days when the fate of the social reforms of the '60s hangs in the balance. Black A m erican s must ex h ib it greater self confidence and firm e r conviction in our righteous cause, and we must demonstrate to white Ameri cans that our cause is, in effect, their own, and we must be w tiling to cross racial lines to build the coalitions around issues of importance to both Blacks and whites. " It is crucial that the Black press take the lead, both in exposing the current scandals in federal w ithdrawal from domestic progress, and in ex plaining to your more than four million readers the stra tegies and issues confronting them. While the white m ajority press is more in terested in M r. Brezhnev's visit or in the W atergate story, the Black press has it's unique role of keeping alive the issues of direct concern to Black Americans. "Civil rights in the '70s will be . . . an era of trench war fare, requiring knowledgeable technicians skillfully mom taring and exposing racism in the tw ilight zone of America's in s titu tio n a l policy m aking prix-esses. "The role of the Black press in this new era of struggle is crucial. You w ill bear the major burdens of the effort to educate the Black public to these new issues. "The issue in the '70s. as in the past, is survival, and Black people have survived despite our history of ad versity and persecution. We have survived because we built strong, creative Black institutions the church, the Black colleges, the civil rights movement, the count less self help agencies, and, above all, a strong, free and proud press that fought for our rights. It is upon that basic institution of a free Black press that the hopes of millions of our Black brothers and sisters will rest in this crucial decade of the '70s." SPECIAL! ’• ì A i|ii*lyiiln 'Toicby.,») TWO L O C A T IO N S N ortheast B ttM d w .iy «vt First • 788 5211 5430 N orth I o m bard • 288 521b Notice The Portland City Plan ning Commission Sign Be view Committee will hold a public meeting on their work program for the Sign Study Proposal on July 6th, 9:00 a.m., Room 200, City Hall Annex, 424 SW Main Street. JACK’S CHEVRON Health center 1, -,|. 8 The car doctor of Portland Nyoung Etuk; Social W orker Miriam Gilmore: and recep tionist Jo Ann Simington The idea for the com munity clinic originated in 1968 through Model t ’itic». The Health Working Com m ittee within Model Cities was instrum ental in bringing the clinic into being. The Medical Clinic is a pilot pro gram and is funded $154.636 for one year in which il will be- evaluated for continuance The clinic, located at 4122 N E. Cnion Avenue is now open, free of charge, to all 5 'oriel Citv re-idents Brake adjustment Minor tune up 329 N. E. Broadway at Union HOUSE of SOUND Rhythn & Blues HOUSE Jazz Stereo Tapes Needles f or the latest in I I’*». tSs and H track tapes, check out the House of Sounds toda* 3 6 0 6 N . W illia m s A venue 2 8 7 -1 9 6 0 the first 2 0 0 persons w h o b rin g this ad POLLOCK MOTORS Does y o u r car ride lik e a covered w a g o n Try one of these six). ra< 1971 F o rd P in to , 4 1976 F o rd 1 /2 to n P l . , ieluxe. int.. Il.iKH) miles, like new ............... V K. -I spd.. new m o to r.................................................................... *2095 1970 P lv . F u ry I I I . 4 d r., a ir. 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Fessenden lENO W 'S On Sunday, July 1st, from 2 p.m. til 5 p.m.. an edura tional benefit will be held on the Cascade campus of Port laid (.'(immunity College. 705 N Killingsworth S treet The w orthy event is being pr> sented by the Fruit of Islam Ik 0.1 i of Muhammad s Temple No. 62. The program includes music by Brother Willie X and the Black Crea tors, a K arate dem onstration by Brother l.t. Wilbert v and C om pany, G u est S p eak e r M inister John .Muhammad of Mohammad's Temple No 26 in San Francisco, ( aliforna. and of course, dinner T he d o n a tio n o f $7.50 con tributes to the eslah lish m nt of a University of Islam in Portland, Oregon 1967 O ld s C o n v e rt., Bachelors Laundry This offer is only valid with the presentation of this ad, during the time prescribed, with only 1 discount per unit purchased. FOI holds benefit 1968 (Md» I d r . . K off of any 1973 L T I) 2dr. in stock. l ’.igs I SHOP (Continued iron. Black press (Continued from pg. I, col. 8) symbol of political immor ality, it is a minor second story job when compared to the violent mugging of the promises made to poor people and to the aspirations they have nurtured. For -»bile the public has been obsessed with W atergate, a Senate C o m m itte e re p o rte d th at twelve million Americans are malnourished. W hile the m ajority press has covered page after page with W’ater gate revelations, it gave little notice to the housing freeze that affects hundreds of thou sands of low income people in need of subsidized housing. W hile the television cameras have been focused on the W a te rg a te h earing s, over four million people are walk ing the streets without jobs and hundreds of thousands of others have simply given up all hope of finding work. W atergate then, came on the heels of a greater scandal that seems to be neglected by the majority media the scandal of heartless bud get cuts, vicious abandon ment of important federal programs, and the shifting of money and power from the federal government, which has been the historic pro tector of minority rights, to the stale and local govern ments who have historically been centers of discrimina tion and abuse. W atergate, in my eyes, is less of a scandal than the proposed federal budget which totals over $268 billion, yet has no room for an OEO. for schools and hospitals, for manpower development and urban aid, or for other basic programs, that have been impounded, frozen, subjected to mora toria. phased out. dismantled and otherwise murdered. These budget cuts, the dis mantling of federal programs, and the institution of special revenue sharing will have their greatest impact on the Black poor, who already are forced to shoulder the bur den of discrimination and want. The bright promises made in the form of civil rights legislation and federal anti poverty programs have been whittled away and are now in danger of being with drawn altogether. The bud get and the government's domestic policies break faith with the Black poor, as they break faith with the cities and with the nation as a whole. "But there's a little secret hidden here, a secret that has been effectively kept from the American people. Ihursday June ’S, N7J 2 8 6 -2 2 9 6 1967 In te rn a tio n a l P l „ 1967 E l C a m in o P l .. K ft 11. au to, o r 4 spd., y o u r c h o ic e ...................................... ,1095 3 I ton, I spd.. H. Duty wheels, 46.000 a c tu a l m ile s ................... ,1395 V 9. auto., p s.. maroon, real nice ..................................................... ,1395 1966 D o dge C h a rg e r, K f t 287-1217 II, auto.. V 8. p.s.. clean ................................................................. ,999 288-0291 4 2 0 6 N. E. Union Ave. ¿01 N. E. 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