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Page 6 Portland O bserver Thursday. August 2, 1973 Most reasonable shop in town CARLOS Body and Fondor Repair 287-8529 311 N.E. Shaver FASHION WHEEL WIGLETS WIGS FALLS 5709 N. E. Union 283-3525 R E C O R D D IR R A R T TH E B IG Ç .E S T L IT T L E R E C O R D S H O P IN T H E N O R T H W E S T . Featuring the Soul Survey Top 50 Best Selling Singles, Albums & 8T Tapes For your recreation pleasure Ze have pool & skill games for all ages Hours Mon thru Sat. 1:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. 826 N 285 2564 K IL L IN G S W O R T H We Will Heed Every Wish... Our reputation for integrity and competence w ill assure consideration for every wish of the family. C. Don Vann V A N N ’S MORTUARY 5211 N.Williams Avenue 281-2836 Portland,Oregon A fricare aids starving Africans Africare, a private, non profit organization concerned with health improvement in rural Africa, has launched a Famine Relief Fund Drive to raise emergency funds for the drought stricken “Sahel" Region of West and Central Africa. The Drive's goal is “6 for 6 for 6". $6.000.000 for the 6 afflicted nations where up to 6 million people will die of famine and drought-related disease unless they get help within weeks. Africare intends to send volunteers with expertise in rural Africa to buy and distribute food, medicine and crop seed throughout the stricken area in cooperation with the countries' ongoing relief programs. The Drive is staffed pre dom inantly by volunteers based in Washington. They are recruiting an expanding network of volunteer workers around the nation. From its D.C. headquarters at 2204 R Street N.W., the volunteers now work day and night on a joint "communications and contributions campaign", to generate the publicity, the concern and the urgently needed relief before it be- comes too late to save many of the people. Speaking at a press con ference to inaugurate the Drive, Africare President C. Payne Lucas stressed that only massive public response could help avert the stag gering human tragedy facing the Sahelian nations. He said “We must remember that these countries have agriculturally based econo mies. That means they’re doubly jeopardized by natural disasters. The people can't feed themselves if the crops fail or the livestock dies, and the governments lose reve nues on which their econo mies significantly depend." Drought is not uncommon to the Sahel Region, as Mr. Lucas noted. Rut neither the governments nor the nomadic herdsmen and small farmers involved in this crisis could have predicted its 5-vear duration nor prepared them selves for its devastating effects. In addition to the poor and unseasonal rainfall, over grazing by herds newly-en larged through immunization and well-digging projects helped upset the ecological balance of this vast desert Save energy Energy Crisis! Gasoline Shortage! Black outs! Brown outs! Headlines like these have made most Americans aware of the energy problem. It can be frightening to think about, but you can help. The Department of the In te rio r has published a pam phlet called E nergy. America and You which of fers some steps you can take to help cut the use of elec tricity, natural gas and gaso line. Free single copies may be obtained by writing to Consumer Product Informa tion, Pueblo, Colorado 81009. Some helpful tips to con serve energy at home, at \ work and in between are: 1 Make sure your cooling and heating equipment is clean and well lubricated. If possible, add insulation to vour house where needed. - Use your stove effi ciently. Make one pot meals or cook more than one food at a time in the oven. Cut the number of times you open the refrigerator storing or removing several items at a time. - Save water. A drip ping faucet wastes water that has to be pumped to your house, and if it is hot water, energy to heat it. Use clothes washers, dryers and dishwashers only with full loads. And use them in the evening, early morning or on weekends when energy requirements are not as great. Stop and think before you turn on light switches. Do you really need the extra light, or is it just habit? If you do need the light, turn it off when you leave the room. 'F i r e s t o n e Applications available SPORTS ftre s to n « Low. wide 70 serica Strong 4-pIy conntruction ✓ Raised white letters . PRICE I F.E.T 5 « 4 0 /9 0 »2 66 TWIT! K H L U M É 1 All prices plus tax a -d old tire. CUSTOM WHEELS ANSEN SPRINT II Strong, one-piece wheel polished to a high lastre. 1 3 x 5 *1 2 for 49.95 14x72 for 59.95 15x72 for 69.95 15 X 8*/r 2 f° r 79.95 Prices are carry out - Mounting and Balancing available. INcXUDfS LUGS AND ('APS Charge §m ® oi h S f f l FIRESTONE 815 W. Burnside Phone 228-9268 M on, Thurs, Fri. 7a.m. Io 6 p.m. I I 1 V for education grants Oregon students who need money for their education after high school may now apply for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants, accord ing to William E. McLaugh lin. Region X Commissioner. Office of Education. Seattle. Approximately $500.000 is available this year under this new program administered bv HEW'« Office of Educa tion. for some 8.000 State students. ".Although limited this year to first year, lull-time post secondary students, the pro gram is expected to benefit an estimated one hall million students who might other wise be unable to continue their education." McLaughlin s a id . "Along with other Federal programs of student financial aid. it marks signi ficant progress toward the ultimate goal of making post secondary education available to all young people who desire it." Under the Basic Grant program, students in finan cial need may obtain funds to help pay their educational expenses at any approved college. university, vocational school, teehmeal institute, or hospital school of nursing. How much a student or his family can contribute affects the amount of his Basic Grant and is determined ac cording to a formula estab lished by the U.S. Office of Education. T o a p p ly lo r <■ li. is u of the Basie Grant to which he is entitled. Application forms are now available at student financial aid offices at postsecondary in stitu tio n s, high school guidance offices, post offices. S ta te em ploym ent offices, county agricultural extension agents, and Talent Search. I pward Bound, and Student Special Services projects. Il unavailable in your area, write to Box G. Iowa City. Iowa 52240. For further information on Basic (irants and other slu dent financial aid programs, students should contact their high school counselor or the financial aid officer at the school in which they expect to enroll. a voteless people is a hopeless people. bordering region, stretching for nearly a million square miles through Senegal, Mali. Mauritania, Niger, Chad, and Upper Volta. Today there is hardly any thing left to eat or even to plant if the rains do come to the Sahel, and they are already late. Life sustaining cattle, sheep and camels have been dying by the millions. Already, some areas may have lost as much as 80% of their livestock, their primary- source of protein. Now, its natural resistan ce broken down after years of under nourishment, the human pop ulation is succumbing to di senses normally taken in its stride. The weakest and the most pathetic are the first to die: The elders, the sick, and the children. Impeach The late President Lyndon Baines Johnson will be pre sented the Alpha Phi Alpha Public Service Award at the 67th Anniversary convention of Alpha Phi Alpha Frater nity in New Orleans, August 3 to 9. The award will be presented at the public m e e t ing Sunday. August 5. honor ing the late President John son for his devotion and dedication to the cause of civil rights. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. Vice Presi dent under the late President will accept the award. Also receiving the Public Service Award at the public meeting will be the Honor able James Charles Evers, Mayor of Fayette. Missis sippi. The Honorable Andrew Young. C ongressm an for Georgia, will be the guest s,»eaker at the public meet ing. Dr. Walter Washington. General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, said both the convention and the theme of the Sixty Seventh Anniversary Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity reflect the concern of the times. This year's conven tion of the first of the Black college fraternities, founded at Cornell University in 1906. will have as its theme "Re dedication to Brotherhood". Bachelors Laundry One Day Service SAVE YOUR CLAIM TICKETS! 10 cleaning and pressing claim tickets good for 1 bib. load of cleaning and pressing. BUDGET DRY CLEANERS I 286-2296 "Its finger liekin g o o d .” Buy it by the . Box Bucket or Barrel Perfect for Parties, Picnics, Lunch, or Dinner I ake It Home, Eat It Hete, or in Your Car What about those who aren't lucky enough to find a Meanwhile, Reverend Ralph job? The government says D. Abernathy, who has an there are 4.3 million of them. nounced his resignation as But that is only because the head of the Southern Chris government counts only (»co tian Leadership Conference, in a Buffalo speech last week pie actively looking for work who can't find it. called for Nixon's impeach The fact is that there are ment. Abernathy said the millions of people who are President “is totally insensi live to the needs of poor peo not officially counted as being ple. He has turned a deaf ear unem ployed because they have given up looking for to the pleas and cries of or d i nary people, both Black work, or because they are w orking part tim e, even and white. Abernathy told an overflow though they may prefer to crowd at the State University hold full time jobs. If you of Buffalo: "Whether you are add these discouraged job Black, white, brown or green, seekers and under employed, whether you came to this you'll find that there are country on the Mayflower or a actually about ten million slave ship, we are in the same unemployed people, over two million of them Black. sinking ship together now." Instead of the official rate "You and I," he said, “have of 4.8 percent unemployed, a responsibility to launch a movement and to say we made more accurate picture shows a mistake in the last election, ten percent of the labor force but we must correct that now out of work, with a twenty by im peaching P resident percent ra te for Black workers. Nixon." This grim reality has been The St. Louis American, a hidden behind doctored sta Black newspaper, editorially stated in its July 19 edition: tistics. misleading rhetoric "The President ought to take this time he has in the hospital to figure out a way he can gracefully resign from office.” APA awards President Johnson America loves? what the Colonel cooks nomination method is cm ployed in the selection of nomine««. Using this method, ten nominations are sub milted to each academy based on the applicant's high school scholastic and extracurricu lar activies as well as em ployment record (and pre paratory school or college record, if applicable), letters of recommendation, and the results of the College En trance Examination Board tests. This method. Hatfield continued, is the fairest pos sible means of selecting Ore gon's finest young men. Applications and additional information may lie obtained by writing to: Senator Mark 0. Hatfield, Did Senate Of fire Building, Washington, D.C. '20510. Full em ploym ent (Continued from page I) SPECIAL! 7220 N. Fessenden Senator Mark (). Hatfield. R Oregon, announced re cenlly that he is accepting applicai ions for nomination for appointment in the 1974 entering class of Cadets in the U.S. Air Fore«1 Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy (West Point I. and the U.S. Mer chant Marine Academy. To qualify for the com petition. an applicant must lie unmarried and must have reached his 17th but not his 22nd birthday by June 30, 1974. The minimum educa tional requirement is a high school diploma: however, high school seniors assured of graduation by June 30. 1974, are eligible to compete. Senator Hatfield empha sized th a t the competitive (Continued from page I) m a u l, an "Application for Deter mination of Expected Family Contribution'' must bo ob tamed, filled out, and mailed to P.O. Box B. Iowa City. Iowa 52240. Within a m o ii i i i the student is notified ol the amount of his family’s ex pei-terl contribution. He then submits (he notification to the school of his choice, which calculates the amount West Point apps due THE r n FAMILY^ w LAWYER J - about a supposedly booming economy, and other diver aionary issues. Ku* it is clear that the economy does not seem able to provide everyone with work, and it is time that issue came out into the open and the nation started a great debate on what should be it's number one priority a full em ployment policy. See Yellow Pages for Store N earest You HOUSE of SOUND For thè latrai in LI*». 45s and 8 trarli tape*, check out thè House ol Sound* today. 287-1960 3606 N. W illiam s Avenue Rights o f Unwed Father Dues an unwed father have any right Io the custody of his child? As a rule, in case of dispute, the law gives preference to the moth er Two arguments are generally cited in her favor: 1) that mother’s love is a more powerful emotional tie than fa ther's love; and 2) that the mother’s kinship to the child is more certain than the father’s. I tie k ALBERTSDNS h___________ > HAWAIIAN DAYS t ome in and Join the lun! W e've gone Hawaiian, with the largest selection of Tropi cal fruits anywhere in town. He sure to register to win a Free Dinner For Two at the Kon Tiki or Cantonese Pavi lion. But suppose the mother is out ..f the picture perhaps uninter ested in the child, perhaps unfit, perhaps dead then, may the un wed father insist on custody if he so chooses? The question arises in conflicts w ilh the mother's relatives or with a community agency. The tend ency in recent years perhaps re flecting greater attention to the role of the unwed father has been for the courts to rule in his favor. TUNA Bumble Hee Chunk. 6*/i oz. can jjg. 39' For example: In a custody light between an unwed father and the maternal grandmother, the court uwarded the child to the father. The court felt that, other things being equai. the closer relationship should make the difference. Of course, the father himself may he disqualified by his own ladings In another case, an un wed father filed suit to gain cus tody nt his two young daughters I hey hail been entrusted by their mother to her aunt. However, the court decided that the children were better off where they were, with the aunt. I he court pointed to evidence that, on several occasians, the father had been guilty of "cruelly and depravity” hence, was not likely Io provide a proper home for the girls. As one judge put it: “ The polar star for determin ing the custody of children is what serves the best interests of the children.” FRESH, HAWAIIAN PINEAPPLES Large Size ALBERTSDNS t p u b lic service fe a tu re o f th e A m erican l i a r A ssociation an d th e O re g o n .Stale lia r Asaoria- lio n . W r itte n by W ill B e rn a rd . the fo od people Price* effertive August 2-3-4, 1973 909 N. Killingsworth, in Portland ®* 197) American Bar Association A » Who Care'
