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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.
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"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."
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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
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been centers of discrimina
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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,
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These budget cuts, the dis
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