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Portland/Observer
Thursday, December 20. 1973
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LAWYER J
D ollar Value
O f A Housewife
How much is a housewife
worth in dollars anil cents? Ibis
unsentimental question comes up
every day In our courtrooms.
Whenever a housewife has died
In an accident anil her family is
seeking damages, some amount
must stand for her dollar value
what the family has lost because
of her death.
In moat cases, the key issue
Is how much it would cost to
hire a substitute housekeeper Io
do approximately the same work
as long as necessary. Sometimes
the work is broken down into the
separate functions that the de
ceased has been performing.
December 16, of a fast moving experience in glamour focused
for the Black community.
Herman Plummer and Pat
Patterson compare notes during intermission of the Ebony
Fashion Fair.
Photo by Chuck Bradwell
provide some detailed in
formation for those would be
com et aightera who have
telescopes. Comet Kohoutek
will pass perihelion on
December 28th. and should
be most visible on New
Year's Day.
Area residents may get
the facts on the "comet of
the century" by calling
OMSI's Dial A Comet. 248
0339, at any time during the
day or night.
For everyone interested,
the Oregon Museum of
Science and Industry it now
offering a daily, 24 hour
tracking service on Gomel
Kohoutek.
By telephoning
"Dial A Comet" at 248 0339,
callers may learn exactly
when and where in the sky
to look for the now famous
visitor from outer space.
Diul A Comet will keep the
public* informed on Kohou
tek'a vital statistics, and also
Dashikis
Caftans
Pottery
m aiked
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Open
11-9 daily
& Sunday
Fashion styles ranged from ultimate elegance of furs and
silks to seductive, almost topless and daring garments, to
highly practical suits. Clothing by Black designers were
especially featured. The ten ladies and two men models were
a treat to Portlanders with their very professional
showmanship and presentation.
Photo by Chuck Bradwell
W
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This is Harold
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by Harold Johnson
On Sunday night at the
Paramount Theatre, an ener
getic, yet relaxed audience
saw the Ebony Fashion Fair.
It was a colorful, fast-paced
show with finesse and ele
gance.
As I noted the
audience reaction from the
colorful flairs of dress, it
presented an air of antici
pation. not envy. It seemed
that everyone pulled for the
models who boldy stepped
from one end of the red, blue
and green lit stage to the
other.
Confidence, expres
sions. quick turns and deliber
ate movements just high
lighted the experienced
m odels as they appeared
pleased in front of an audi
ence that obviously was on
their side.
I’ve been to fashion shows
and I’ve been to fashion
shows, but the commentating
of Ms. Audrey L. Smaltz, a
native New Yorker and win
ner of three beauty contests,
seemed to croon out elo
quently the many moods of
the evening.
Ms. Smaltz,
who’s fashion background be
gan in 1962 as a buyer and
coordinator of dress fashions,
was complimented by Dave
Rivera’s music. Dave, with
his own trio, has weaved a
kind of magic over the show
for the past ten years.
The Ebony Fashion Fair in
its infancy was planned
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Merry Christmas - Happy New Year
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The Links, Inc., Portland
Chapter, who sponsored the
Fashion Fair, were pleased
at the attendance, coopera
tion and participation of the
entire effort.
I especially
enjoyed the contented smiles
on the faces of the general
chairman, Mrs. Conrad Me
Connel and co-chairman, Mrs.
Walter Sayles.
Ten attractive female
models, two male models,
and a greyhound bus full of
the latest in fashionable wear
pulled out of Portland on
Monday, enroute to Seattle
where this troupe of twenty
will present still another
show.
After travelling to
seventy nine cities this year,
starting in Joliet, Illinois on
September 11th, the group
will finish the schedule in
Seattle on December 17th.
Dance benefits kids
ROY BURNETT SAYS:
C om plftfly covered lot.
carefree driving.
mainly for the purpose of
featuring some of the love
liest Black models; however,
the elegance of the fair
created and stimulated in
terest. and attendance in
creased. The fashion fair is
not a profit making venture,
but rather offers social and
civic organizations an ex
cellent opportunity to raise
money for their favorite
charity.
In the past 15
years, more than $3.000,000
dollars has been raised by
sponsors of the Fair.
ROY BURNETT
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The public is invited to a
benefit dance for the Albina
Ministerial Alliance Family
Day & Night Care Program
on December 26th from 9:30
p.m. to 2:00 a.m. at the
Town Hall. Music will be
provided by Funky Stuff
(James Butler).
AMA Family Day & Night
Care Program provides care
for children of Model Cities
area families whose parents
are employed.
Children,
ages from infancy through 14
years, are cared for in pri
vate homes certified by the
program and licensed by the
state.
The program provides care
for 161 children funded
through the M etropolitan
Area 4-C Council and the
Model Cities Agency and 85
children funded through the
S ta te Childrens' S ervices
Division. AMA Family Day
& Night Care is a part of the
Model Cities Comprehensive
Child Care Program and uses
the services of the Model
Cities 4-C office (transporta
tion, nutritionist, child de
velopment specialist, nurses
and homemakers).
Fight removes Wicks
by Paul Knauls
The Portland Trail Blazers
are 13-19 in the won-lost
column in the National Bas
ketball Association, and are
2-0 in the fighting game.
Super Sidney Wicks, after
going for a pass that was in
tended for Bob Dandrige,
accidently struck Dandridge
between the shoulder blades.
Dandridge charged into Sid
ney, and when he wouldn't
stop, Sidney had no other
choice but to let him have it.
D andridge's mouth was
bleeding as he headed for the
dressing room after being
ejected from the game, along
with Sidney. One of the fans
said to Dandridge “that bush
league", and I cannot write
Dandridge's reply, but if he
¡had said that to a NBA ref
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eree, he would have been
thrown out of the game twice.
The fight was uncalled for,
as most fights are, and very
costly to the Trail Blazers.
Sidney will be out for a
couple of games because of
an injured right hand; and to
win without Sidney is a real
task.
John Johnson took over
after Sidney was ejected and
had 26 points, 10 rebounds
and 5 assists. Bernie Fryer,
who continues to improve,
collected 12 points.
Geoff
Petrie had 15 points.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the
only man in the NBA with
the ability to score 100
points in a basketball game,
had 32 points. Lucius Allen
had 24 points as the Bucks
whipped the Blazers, 121 98.
Mrs. Lorene Overton and Mrs. Ruby Howard display their
wares at Bethel AME Church's booth at the "Old Portland
Today" Christmas Bazaar, held December 15th and 16th.
What It 1$
by Curtis Woodson
Portland, the last frontier,
is m aintaining the PNW
image, but with a bit of
coming aboutness. The city
is laying out some of the best
local jazz aieund. One of the
most prominent groups in
the area is Emanon - three
young men of Portland origin
who seem to find a very
happy medium together play
ing music. Jazz, too. Com
bine Tom Grant, Ron Stern
& Nate Hygelund and you've
got Emanon -
a fasci
nating hybrid that has fused
together Black expressive
ness and style with western
instrumentation and theory.
Scratch the surface and you'll
find the blues with Emanon.
After paying their dues and
a long apprenticeship with
Jim Pepper at Ray Helm's,
Emanon moved on their own.
Their current forte is at the
Local Gentry, 4108 N.E.
Sandy. On Friday and Sat
urday you will find some of
the finest in jazz. Al Boxler,
who recently opened The
Gentry with music by Buddy
Fife, plans to present many
evenings of the NW's finest
jazz personalities. Whether
or not one accepts this, the
fact remains that jazz has,
after laying down for a bit.
developed into a music of
such infinite variety that it
offers something for almost
everybody.
To note, dig this: After
many years of change, The
Top of the Park, with Jack
White at the controls, has
live music nitely with Ru»»
Hackett and Sunday nite jam
sessio n s with local jazz
artists. You can also catch
Dodie Carter doing her vocal
thing -- a young lady that
is out of sight!
At Fracasso's Prima Donna,
you'll hear Andre, Mary &
Neil paying tribute to their
musical upbringing with in
triguing arrangements spiced
with shifting tempos.
These sensual cushions for
excursion s into nostalgia
d em onstrates that sw eet
music ain't hardly likely to
go out of style. But if you
really no dig, check out
Ryons with Aldus at the
Table Square.
And still
more jazz at De Opus and
mellow people with soul food
at Lu's Higher Ground.
Next
more local people
in music. Stay cool and dig
the boss with the sauce,
Roy J.
I or example, an award muy
be based on such items (per
week) as 10 hours of services as
a cook, 2 hours of services us a
waitress, 7 hours of services as
a laundress. It) hours of services
as a babysitter. 2 hours of ser
vices as a bookkeeper.
O f course, there are endless
variables Suppose, (or instance,
that the deceased was excep
tionally capable in her domestic
chores That could increase her
worth. Thus, the dollar vulue of
one housewife killed in an auto
collision was held Io be higher
than average because she made
most of the family clothing
and cunned considerable produce
from her backyard garden.
In another case, the figure
was higher because the woman
helped her husband in his plumb
ing business, in another, because
she worked part-time us a bus
driver; in another, because she
gave special nursing Io her ail
ing child.
Docs the law allow compensa
tion also for the "society, care,
and attention" she gave to her
husband and children? Some
courts do, on the theory that
these loo are "services" with a
price.
Other courts, however, don't
go that far. saying such bene
fits arc loo intangible to be men
sureil in money.
Furthermore, factors that may
be plus in one situation may be
minus in another. In one case
an award of $75,000 was held
too righ, largely because the
woman had functioned at a be-
low-average level in family mat
ters. She had been on unfriendly
terms with her husband, and, be
cause of her own frailties, had
played only a minor role in the
upbringing of their children.
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Santa Claus has opened a
branch office at Abernethy
Elementary School.
Managed by more than 30
elf-like students in seventh
grade, the branch office is
strictly for handling Santa's
mail from young Abernethy
students.
Students, mainly in kinder
garten through third grade,
compose letters to Santa and
post them in an enormous
mailbox decorated in his
image and located outside
Ms. Ann Smith's seventh-
grade room.
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p.m. two seventh grade stu
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S eventh grade stud en ts
collect the mail and invent
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PCC registers now
Portland Community Col
lege will register new stu
dents for winter term, which
begins January 3, Wednes
day through Friday, January
2 through 4, at both the Syl
vania and Cascade centers.
Hours will be from 9 a.m. to
8 p.m. on January 2 and 3,
and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on
January 4.
The Sylvania center is lo
c a te d at 12000 S.W. 49th
Avenue, with registration
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At the Cascade center, 705
N. Killingsworth, registra
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