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Hage I Portland Observer Thursday. May 2, 1074 "Impossible Dream" becomes real ***** TOW NE SQUARE Restaurant A U u n ge Breakfast 6 a.m. - Closing Lunch Open Sunday 9 am 6 pm Special Sundav Dinners 4908 N.E. i'nion 288-8521 ******** o DUNCAN SAYS: “I want full value lor each tax dollar spent” Oregon V o te r Digest n am ed Duncan " th e W atrhdog of the Treasury " RETURN DUNCAN Democrat TO U S . CONGRESS He's already proved his worth there. Pd D uncan fo r Congress Comm Wes le m a tta trees 712 S W Salm on. Portland (4 74) Cradled in Portland, unique in the Northwest and one of Oregon's finer achievements is the locally based cultural organization for children, Young Musicians and Artists. The group is devoted to furthering the cultural educa tion of youth. Music, art, dance, drama, supplemented by physical education, in teresting and varied elec tives and lots of unusual recreational fun are offered. "Culture for the average child" is the byword of the camp. As a result, young people are working hard, playing hard and having fun doing it.' The daily program includes instrumental techniques, en semble playing, orchestra, drawing, painting, color and design, understanding art. crafts, graded and classical hallet, pointe and variation, creative experiment in move ment. improvisation, voice and state movement utilizing a variety of acting tech niques, and simple set and costume construction. Although the daily sche dule is a full and exacting one, the children are given the opportunity to study, live and relax in a cultural at mosphere with the personal in terest of truly great teachers and the discovery of new friends as added bene fits. From its very first days the camp has employed only teachers of professional, artistic competence with a special predilection for an experience in working with children. The late Dr. Boris Sirpo. one of Portland's most » C L IA N M S A L A U N D IR M i S E tta b h th td 1912 QUALITY M Y CLEANING REASONABlf RATES •S A M t DAY SHUT StrVICE •2 H O U » CLEANING SAT(J«OAYS UNTIL N O O N •COMPLETE LAUNOTT SERVICE 1014 N. «AJNOSWOtTH 4 ■l»dii M ef W o n * * 289-9357 l§) SELF SEEVICE cleaning available D» y 0 o » Y o v n .lt And Scve West African roots i A true first time story of one Black man's 12 year long quest for the origins of his identity is told in Roots, a book by noted author Alex Haley. To be published originally in a two part con densation in the May and June issues of the Reader's Digest. Roots documents the lineage of one Black family over a period of more than two centuries and in so doing documents much of the history of the Black man in America: his traditions, beliefs and conditions of slav cry. PRACTICE TIME Help is always available from one of the Camp Counselors. excellent and loved educa tors, was the first conductor when the camp was only a music camp This same type of excellence has been main tained through the years and. for the last several years. Hugh Ewart, member of the Oregon Symphony and teacher in the Parkrose Public School System, has gradually formed the or chestra into a fine, inspira tional instrument. The in structors in the areas of art. dance and drama are of the same high caliber. Starting the camp without a cent. Sister Ann Miriam, founder and director of the project, brought her "Im possible Dream" to such fruitful reality that it is now known as ‘one of the finest camps in the Northwest’. Thtj beautiful campus of in W illa'm ete U n iv e rs ity Salem. Oregon will be the site of this summer's session for the children, grades three through nine. Two sessions of two weeks each are of fered; the music session from June 16 through June 28; the art? dance, dram a and chamber music session from June 80 through July 12. Planning the camp is a year round occupation (along with teaching) of Sister Ann Miriam. A tremendous cul tural advantage planned by Sister for the older children, the counselors, faculty, par ents and friends of the group is an extended tour every second year. This year will sec the lucky ones who can beg, borrow or earn the money traveling to such ex citing places as England. Germany, Austria, Switzer land. Italy and France. Young Musicians and Artists has more than proved its worth and stability bv its SS V Have Your Lunch Meetings GENEVA'S, Hot Beef Sandwich Crisp Green Salad Hot Links Bar-B-Q Sauce Ham & Cheese ten years of durability and growth. The group is grate ful to all who have helped them continue serving chil dren. especially to the Ore gon Arts Commission which, for the last two years, has assisted the organization with matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Those interested in either the Camp Sessions or the European Tour are requested to write to: Young Musi nans and Artists. 3180 NE 23rd Ave., Portland, 97212. or call 282 8918. Student wins Jeffrey It. Lachman, son of .uni M rs |{i, h.ii-,1 \ laichman, 885 SW 83rd, Portland, and a senior at the University of Portland, has placed second in the Poetry Section of the Annual Inter national Literary Contest sponsored by Sigma Delta Pi. national Spanish hono rary. His poem. "La llleguda del Sabado". will be published in E n tre Nosotros. which is I In official magazine of Sigma Delta Pi. All works sub mitted to the contest were in Spanish. Jeff is president of Uni versity of Portland Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi. He was enrolled as an economies major in 1971 at the Um versity of Portland while still a senior at Sunset High School. Mr The book is the culnuna tion of a dozen years of pain staking research by Haley, ranging over three conti nents and ending, finally, in the village of Julfurc. in the back country of Gambia. West .Africa. There a seventy three year old griol, living archivist of African tribal tradition, supplied the author with key pieces to the intricate puzzle of a Black man'', search lor roots. In confronting the problem of tracing hi* own ancestry through the b a rrie r of slavery, author Haley also faces the larger, more diffi cult question of the source ol cu rrent Black American consciousness. "It is not just the story of a man." he said in an mtervlew reeentlv In tracing my own beginnings. I got into the culture ol Black people, then I was involved in American history, and th e n A m erican h isto ry through Black eyes Family tales told by his grandmother motivated Mr Haley in his complex search But it was the fierce de termination of his proud African ancestor to maintain his own identity despite the terror of slavery that mail« possible this reconstruction of African heritage. In Part I of Roots, ap pearing in the May issue of the Digest. Hal< v tells the story of a small Gambian village in the mid eighteenth century. Recounting the customs amt rich culture life ol the Mandmka tribe, he fix-uses on the growth and education of young Kinte, his ancestor seven generations removed. At sixteen, grail uated to manhood, educated to tribal tradition and Mils lim religion. Kinte was kid nap,M-d. iMiund anil taken to a slave ship victim of the steadily growing and highlv lucrative slave trade. Barelv vour em b arrassm ents or worries later. 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Williams 282-6363 America loves w hat the Colonel cooks "Its finger lickin’good Buy it b y the Box Bucket or Barrel Perfect for Parties, Picnics, Lunch, or Dinner Take It Home, Eat It Here, or In Your Cer the See Y ellow Pages fo r Store N earest You James Earl Jones as the President in “The Man Speech problem leads actor to career To hear James Earl s|ieak as eloquently as he does today, one would hardly believe he suffered Irom an extremely serious speech defect during his adolcscncc. Born into a theatrical family, his father. Robert Earl Jones, originated the roll of Joe Mott in Eugene O'Neill’s "The Iceman Cometh". The younger Jones was not raised onstage but brought up as a farm boy. I was born on a cotton and obacco farm in Mississippi, mil moved to Michigan when I was five." recalls the 12 vear old actor. “When you're born in Mississippi, you come into a world that is general Iv hostile. And. if you're a child, it’s doubly hostile. It was [lainful to accept the truth and even more painful to speak it. so I became a stutterer...mainly due to not l»eing able Io tell anyone all the negative things I felt." So painful was his life that with the exception of an occasional talk with his only i hildhiMwl friend. and the farm animals. Jones did not talk at all from age 8 to I t. lie grew up insecure and lonely; but in nigh school realized the need to communicate and dis covered an outlet through reading his poetry aloud. He went from totally nonverbal Jones and noncommunicativ e to an outgoing forensic debater; once he learned how to com municate, nothing could stop him. It was in college that Jones first turned to the theater to exercise his now famous voeal skills, and hi- liked it. In 1955. he came to New York City to undergo two years of theatrical training at the American Theater anil won his first role in "A Wedding in Japan". Later, he found himself in the legendary cast of Jean Genet's "The Blacks" with such well know n stars as Cicely Tyson, G od frey Cambridgi . Roscoe Lee Browne. Robert Hooks, Raymond St. Jacques and Hilly Dee Williams, to name a few. He now has mon th.m 60 credits in America and abroad. James Earl Jones has deitly demonstrated that he is skillful enough to play any type character, and in the future he is looking forward to retiring to his newly ac quired country estate, only to return to Hollywood when he finds opportunities to relate to those most needed to be reached. His single, self imfioscd limitation is to play only dramatic roles. "I am committed," he declares, “to the communication of pain.“ Minister Louis Earrakan (center). National Representative for the Honorable Elijah Muhammed and the Nation of Islam, will speak May 10th at 8:00 p.m. at the University of Oregon Student Union Building. Earrakan has been a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammed for 15 years. He is the minister of Muhammed's Temple No. 7 in New York City and is nationally known for his satirical style in his presentations. Earrakan is tenatively scheduled to speak in Portland the following day, May U th. at a Fish Bazaar. The Bazaar is to be held at the Town Hall, 3425 N. Montana, from LOO p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Live music, an assortment of rooked fish and a karate demonstration will complete the evening. The public is invited to the affair with a $3.00 donation. surviving the wretched con ditions of the sea voyage, Kinte arrived in America. In Part 11. to appear in the June issue, lluley rccon struct* the ordeal of an African tribesman in cap tivity Kinte's sale into slavery, his desperate at tempts to escape. his un ceasing efforts to maintain his Mandmka identity and Muslim beliefs. Providing a rich background to this per sonal account is the Be volutionary War as seen through slaves' eyes After Kinte's marriage there is a daughter, Kizzy, whom Kinte instructs carefully ami often on her father's background, teaching the Black American child African words and tribal names. The genera turns arc recounted, taking the family through American history the cotton gin, the Civil War and ultimately Ireedom Irom slavery In 1872 a 21* wagon tram of Black families lelt North Carolina lor Tennessee. "The last wagon," Haley writes, was driven bv Tom Murray, with his wile Irene ami their seven children, the youngest a two vear old girl named Cv nthia "That little girl was my grandma. At her knee I first heard the story of The African’, Kunla Kinte, and l»-gan my search lor roots." I he still to I m - completed til te rn hundred page manu script (or Roots, which will describe the author’s family to the present day. will I m - published by Doubleday ill 1975 Haley, a Black author with impeccable credentials, was the first writer to call at tention to the Black Muslim movement in the United States m a national public.! lion, lb- spent mouths re searching the stru ctu re, ,*olilies and philosophy ol this movement In addition to obtaining an exclusive interview with Elijah Mu hammad. thi powerful Mus lim leader, Haley also at tended Muslim meetings amt traveled with Muhammad's assistants During his re search lor this assignment he came to know ami earn the r< speet ol Malcolm X. An outgrowth of this meeting was a long term friendship between thi two men, which ti ll to t h ' best selling Auto biographv ol Malcolm X, lor which Halev did thi actual writing. Beef cooking explored "The Art of CiMiking Beer', special show sponsored by the Oregon lied Council, will focus on ways to buy and prepare beef so that it suits the family's budget ami taste buds alike. On Saturday, May Ith, at OMSI, Geneva Jones, who is Pacific Power K Light Com pany's "Polly Pacific", will present lectures ami demon stratums at 11:00 am .. ami 1:00, £00 ami JIMI pin. Each 20 minute show will deal with inelhiMls of buying, storing and preparing one basic cut of beef, including, respectively, chuck, round steak. ground beef aril variety meals, such as livir, heart and tongue. On Sun dav. May 5th, Linda Baker, home economist with the Ore gon Hci-f Council, will k " sent programs on the same subjci-ts at 11:00 am . and 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Thus,- attending the pro grams on cither day will receive a chart outlining the cost per serving of various cuts of beef, as well as pam phlets on budgeting lu-ef, and recipes preparer! at the show. Also, after each program, a representative from I he Oregon Beef Council will speak for a few minutes on the economics of the Iw-ef industry. “The Art of Cooking Ifecf" will be presented in the Arcnd Auditorium at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) May 4th and 5th at 11:00 a.m. and I 00, 2:00 and J (Ml p.m. There will be no additional) ■harge for the shows, alter a the regular OMSI admission. MUGGED PRINTED AND BOOKED Most amateur shoplifters don't get a tail sentence Most do gel caught and all who are caught are taken Io jail where they are mugged (pholugraphed tor police records) fingerprinted and booked The record can last a lifetime II is all up hill from there the price tor stealing STEM S T E -ts M J^ C K S O ^ J^ T*. cO B D Subsidiary ol Owl Radio & TV Co. Gospel Jazz, Soul and Pop L.P. Tapes A Accessories Etc. Northwest’s Largest in Gospel Records and Tapes Phone 287 11.16 1621 N Vancouver Avr Portland. 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