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Page 4 Portland/Observer Thuisday, November 1, 1973 P o rtra it o f a P resid en t (Continued from pg. 1, col. 91 bina Contractors Association. The funny thing now is that the NAACP gave birth to ACA and now ACA is doing many things that the NAACP should b<- doing, like filing charges of discrim ination against PDC and several white construction com panies.*' Sugar Ray Seales (left) and his brother, Bale Grant, are both professional fighters who will be fighting Thursday, November 1st at 8:00 p.m. at the Portland Sporta Arena. Seales' opponent is Dandy Dave Coventry from Vancouver, B.C. A 147-pounuer, Coventry's record shows 36 wins, 1 draw, 19 K.O.s. and ! losses. Sugar Ray and Dale live in Tacoma, Washington. They are out at 6:30 every morning, rain or shine. Road work is a must 5 miles - and every other day there is a good workout between the two. Seales wears his Olympic Championship Ring, showing the gold medal he won in the 1973 Olympics, the highest award an amateur boxer can receive. Since turning pro Seales has won 12. including 5 by knock-outs. Seales, like Joe Frazier, has a corporation that allows him to maintain himself without having to work a regular job. George Yelton, Seales’ manager, says a fighter should train and fight and not have to worry about anything else. Seales' ambition is to be the Welterweight Champion and to become an actor. He attends a community college near Tacoma, where he is studying speech. G overnm ent (Continued from pg. 1, col. 91 read it. He said the com pany’s minority employment ranged around 11 per cent of the man hours, but that on this date he has only two minority persons working. Todd Building Company has 30 days in which to reply to the complaint. 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I threat ened to picket the affair. The banquet was held at the Hoyt, but not until after an affirmative action agreement was signed." "The Branch made its ef forts in the field of legis lation. too. When I came into office the Oregon Leg»- G O P m eets The Multnomah County Re publican Central Committee held its first county conven tion on Saturday. October 27 at the Sheraton Motor Inn. People of all ages and colors attended the one day convention, which is sched uled to become an annual event. Spirit*of '74 included group seminars with discussion on City-County Consolidation, women in employment and the Downtown Plan, The participants voted, a fte r strong debate, not to support City-County Consolidation. However, there was unani mous agreement that “per sons should be employed, treated and reimbursed on ability and merit". The basic goals of a downtown plan were also supported. Convention highlights in cluded a panel discussion by members of the media as to their views of the Republican Party. Congressman Wendel Wyatt was guest speaker at the banquet. The Multnomah County Republican Central Com mittee is encouraging mi nority participation in party affairs. The party believes that the Watergate scandal should not discourage people from learning and under standing their county Re publican party. fit Y O U R B U D G E T Lane Rocker Recliner ............................. $ 69.95 Lane Occasional Tables .......................... $ 59.95 Sofa & Loveseat ................................... $199.95 5 pc. Bedroom Set ................................. $199.95 Simmons Mattress & Box, from ............... $ 69.95 Sofa, Loveseat, Chair, all 3 pc...................... $299.95 7 pc. Dinette Set .................................... $ 69.95 Hide a Bed, full size ............................... $149.95 Carpets, many colors and sizes, per yd............ $ 2.99 7 1 2 6 N .E . S A N D Y B L V D . PO R TLA N D , OR EG O N 97213 Model Cities 4-C Day Care Center Lunch Menu Monday, Nov. 5th Vegetable Beef Soup Tuna Sandwiches Chocolate Chip Cookies Apple Milk Tuesday, Nov. 6th Community Care Associa tion thanks A. Lee Henderson for his continued service to the community and salutes the Portland Observer, a newspaper to which all Ore gon can point with pride. Veal Cutlets/Gravy Broccoli Mashed Potatoes Fruited Gelatin Bread/Butter/Milk Wednesday, Nov. 7th Baked Chicken Green Beans Fruit & Vegetable Kabobs Gingerbread Bread/Butter/Milk Thursday, Nov. 8th lasagna Brussel Sprouts Sliced Peaches French Bread Butter Milk Friday, Nov. 9th Clara Peoples The staff 4 L Chili Dogs on Bun Ketcup/Mustard French Fried Potatoes Pears Butter Milk lature was attempting to override Governor Mark Hat field's veto of the new ap prenticeship law that had been passed by the previous legislature. The NAACP had sponsored this bill in 1965 when Reverend Grady Brown was president. This bill placed the A pprenticeship Council under the jurisdic tion of the Commissioner of labor, added public mem tiers to break up the domi nation by the craft unions, and was designed to offer more opportunity for mi nority youth. Your effort in 1967 was to' block a com promise that would have eli minated the public members and left labor in control." The NAACP sponsored three bills in the 1967 Legis lative session. Home Hill 1481 would have provided mandatory damages and at torney fees in eases involving discrimination in public ac commodation. HB 1549 had the same provisions for dis crimination in housing, and HB 1508 would have ex tended Oregon's FEPC laws to all employees. All of the bills failed to pass and when HB 1508 was re-introduced to the 1969 Legislature, it failed again. "The Branch supported the reapportionment bill intro duced in the 1969 session. This hill would have provided for one man legislative dis tricts. We also supported Wally Priestley's bill which would have included most of Albina in one district and would have given us at least some chance of electing a Black to the L egislature. Neither of those bills passed and because the Legislature didn't act. Secretary of State Clay Myers eventually had to do the job and split Albina four ways, which is a trage dv." "We participated in hear ings and support of many of the bills - consumer edu ration, day rare licensing, 19 year old vote, etc." On the national scene the Branch stayed in close con tact with Oregon's Congres sipnat delegation and advised them of our support of ex tension of the voting rights bill, strengthening PEPC laws, the 18 year old vote, and opposition to the Murphy amendment limiting the ef fectiveness of Legal Aid and the W hitten amendment making busing to achieve desegregation unlawful. "Of course two of our big cam paigns were against the ap pointment of Judges Cars well and Haynsworth to the Supreme Court." Although Vickers is em ployed as a teacher by the Portland School District, he and the Branch were active in the field of education. The Portland Branch has consis tently demanded desegrega tion of the Public Schools, going back to Mayfield W ebb's adm inistration in 1963, when NAACP pressure brought about the study of the Race and Education Com mittee. In the fall of 1968. the Branch assisted parents at Sabin who opposed the clos ing of the first grade and transfer of the students to Eliot. The school district agreed to arrange a class at Sabin for those children whose parents wanted them to remain there. The Branch supported efforts of Black students at Washington High School who had been denied permission to form a Black Students group, and helped organize Black Study Clubs at Lincoln and Marshall, and brought about the introduc tion of a Black History class at Lincoln. When John Adams High School opened in the fall of 1969, the Daughters of the American Revolution p re sented a flag to the student body. The Black girl who was chosen to receive it re fused to accept it from a "racist organization" and many students walked out of the assembly. During the controversy that followed, Vickers wrote to the princi pal, Dr. Schwartz, and the news media recommending that the flag be returned to the DAR. "Things were a little uncomfortable. Dr. Sch wartz thought I was being disloyal to him, but 1 tried to explain to him that my first loyalty had to be to the Black students and the com munity." Vickers met daily with a group of concerned students and assited them in making a com prehensive study of the DAR. The stu dent body held an election, and through th«* educational program of the Black stu dents, the students voted to return the flag In 1970, the NAACP joined with other organizations the Urban League, the Al bina Ministerial Alliance, the Albina Citizen's Council, the Black Beret, the Students and Parents of Roosevelt High School, and the Albina Citizens Together itlEOl and formed a Black Coalition. The Coalition called a sue cessful boycott of Roosevelt High School following racial incidents in and around the school. A committee ap pointed by the school district to investigate the circum stances at Roosevelt found that Black students had been mistreated by members of the staff. The boycott re sulted in a change of ad m inistration and improve ments in the racial climate at Roosevelt. The Coalition filed a suit against the school district charging that disci plinary procedures denied students their constitutional rights under the 1st and 14th Amendments to the Consti tution. Judge Solomon of the U.S. D istrict Court agreed and ordered changes in disciplinary procedures. His decision was recently upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals. Because of his efforts with the Black Coalition, Vickers, along with Ed Mitchell, who was chairman of the group, was threateneil with "dis ciplinary measures" by the school district, but he re fused to discontinue his ac tivities with the Coalition In March of 1969 the Black students al Oregon State University decided to leave the university in protest and the Branch endorsed their decision: demanded an in vestigation which showed their charges of discrimina tion to be true; provided transportation Tor those who required it; and obtained scholarships for others. The Branch requested an investi gation of the use of federal funds and hiring practices at OSU by HEW and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. OSU was found to be defi cient in its hiring practices. Many other goals were ac complished in the field of education: a Black counselor who was fired by OSU was awarded a cask settlement: when rumors circulated that Black students from Jeffer son and their families would not be welcome at the foot ball game in Medford, Vic kers contacted the Mayor and Chief of Police in Med ford, which resulted in a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and a letter of welcome to the students of Jefferson: a bas ketball letter was obtained for a Black player for Lincoln who had been denied his letter; interceded on behalf of Black students in Colton whose parents accused the school district of discrimina tion; obtained scholarships for Black students to go on American Heritage Tours, dress. A lot can be done for individuals with problems if you are willing to take the time. Some problems can lie solved with a phone call or a letter, while others take legal action or the threat of a suit. The NAACP has a good record in the courts, and not many people want to force an NAACP suit." Examples of problems solved by per sonal contact are: a furni ture store that was using racial identification on loan forms; some cases involv ing discrimination in housing and employment; a case where an employee asked for help when the unions barred him from hiring a Black; neigh borhood disputes involving Black and white children. Cases that required inter ceding of the NAACP Legal Counsel, Keith Burns, in eluding police brutality cases. Black juveniles who received harsher sentences at Juve nile Court or stricter disci pline hi the schools than their white counterpart*; a suit was filed against Gen eral Motors; a teacher was protected when she was in timidated after objecting to an alLwhite class at Sabin Elementary School Ithe class vv .IS desegregated); a suit was filed against Singer Dress Company when the owner refused to accept a jacket returned by Liz. 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A college chapter was formed at Mt. /Xngel etc. The Portland Branch op poses some sections of the “Blanchard Plan", which in volved decentralization and creation of middle schools and was called a plan for desegregation. The Branch opposed the fact that ele mentary schools would re main segregated, with middle schools being developed in areas that would promote some desegregation but over a period of ten years. "The National Office did not agree with our opposition to the plan and sent June Shagalof, education director, and Leonard Carter, Director of the Western Region, to tell us. They wanted us to accept it as a good first step". Carter even threat ened to remove the Branch's charter, stating that maybe the President didn't agree with NAACP policy. I see now that the president of the Atlanta Board, Lonnie King, has been removed from office because he supported a com promise plan that did much more for Blacks than the Blanchard Plan proposed to do, yet they wanted us to accept a plan that would have left the elementary schools segregated." M o tt reasonable shop in town College. This group was very active in the grape boycott and several members spent Thanksgiving in the Salem jail when they were arrested for peacefully pic keting a supermarket.” The NAACP also was active in many areas of the community. Memorial Marches were held for Dr. Martin Luther King and Sen ator Robert Kennedy. Each year Negro History Week was observed with a special meeting and historical dis plays. In 1968 the Branch obtained the Proclamation of Negro History Week in Port land by Mayor Terry Schrunk and, in 1970, a statewide prodam ation by G overnor McCall. 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