Portland Observer
Thursday. December 19. 1974
Page I
4-C moves to new office
spare for visitors and meet
m gs, according to Mrs.
Walker. In November, the
move to the Union Street
site was completed with no
in te r r u p tio n in s e r v ic e .
After u little elbow grease
and a coat of peach colored
paint, the new quarters are
roomy and cheerful; the staff
is ulreudy ordering materials
to expand its child develop
menl resource library, which
was confined to a closet until
the move.
The next step, says Mrs.
Walker, is to get a sign to
help people find the new
Model Cities 4 C offices,
since the exterior of the
building gives no clues as to
what might be inside.
Model Cities child care
facilities include six pre
school centers for ages 3 6,
seven centers for school age
children and some 100 family
day rare homes, for children
from birth to age
14.
Pre school centers include
Herean, Hughes. Bethel, Jef
ferson, W oodlawn. North
Portland and Parents Child
Care; before and after school
programs are held at Eliot.
Humboldt. Irvington. King.
Sabin. Vernon and Woodlawn
elem entary schools, and
children are placed in family
day care homes through
heating facilities and lack of AMA Family Day and Night
It's official
Model Gilles
I C has moved into its new
office at 4122 N.E. Union. A
December 12 open house
drew members of the Model
Cities community to tour the
renovated facility at the
invitation of Lillie Walker.
Model Cities 4 G Director.
Since Decem ber 1970.
Model Cities I G has been
providing child care and
other supportive services to
children in the community
whose parents must work,
are m training programs or
are incapacitated.
Model
Git -s 4G is the neighbor
hood branch of the District 2,
Child Care Coordinating
Council (4 Cl; its child care
programs in the Model Cities
neighborhood currently serve
705 children ami their fami
lies and employ around 200
people
Staff serving ihe Model
Cities 4 C community are the
director, a child development
s p e c ia lis t , th r e e so cia l
workers, a transportation
team, four homemakers, a
nutritionist, two nurses, an
accountant and two secre
Varies.
The Mtxlel C ities 4 C office
has outgrown its former
quarters at 7 1 l,/i N.E. Al
berta, where staff and clients
were plagued by inadequate
Care.
Model Cities 4-C is partly
funded through the Child
Care Coordinating Council
(4 C), District 2, which pro
vides support to some 56
child care centers in Mult
noinah, Clackamas, Columbia
and Washington counties.
Other income originates from
Model Cities Agency, City of
Portland, ami parent fees.
Model C ities resid en ts
needing child rare referrals
may call Mmlel Cities 4 C
office at 288 8861. or 4C
Information and Referral,
226 7638.
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One out of every 4 0 people in Oregon
will have V. D.
this year.
Since 1971, the incidence
of VD has gone up 23% in
Oregon If you have any rea­
son to believe that you have
been exposed to VD. go to your
doctor or public health depart­
ment immediately Minors over 12 years of age can be treated with­
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Blacks gain places
in state assemblies
lation in the 1970 census.
They are California, with 7
|>ercent of the population and
7 5 percent of the House,
Colorado, with 3 percent in
both population and the
House, and Ohio, with 9.1
percent of the population and
9 percent of the House.
Overall, the 2% Black
legislators constitute only
3.6 percent of the 7.563
legislators in all 50 stales.
The population of the United
States is more than 11
percent Black It should be
noted that the Census
Bureau has acknowledged
that the 1970 Census under
-ounted the Black population
overall, although it has not
made any revision of its
state by state figures.
Several Black Legislators
have attained leadership
positions. For example. 8.
Howard Woodson last March
w as elected speaker of the
N ew Jersey /Assembly, and
Jewell G. Harris was re-
entlv appointed majority
whip of the Indiana House.
Blacks have served for
periods as presidents pro
tern of state senates, in­
cluding Cecil I’artee in Illi
nois and Barbara Jordan,
now a member of Congress,
who was a Texas state
senator from 1966 to 1972.
Mervyn Dymally of Cali
fornia
and George L. Brown
Legislature
The 11 states of the Old of Colorado, both state sen
South showed the sharpest ators, were recently elected
gains, from a regional total lieutenant governors of their
of 59 legislators to a new respective states.
Eddie N. Williams, presi
total of 92.
This was an
inrrease of 56 percent. dent of the Joint Center for
Three states in the Old Political Studies, commented
South ilid not hold legislative that the advances in the
number of Black legislators
elections this year
Iaiusi
ana. Mississippi and Virginia. m several states "bring Black
Other states with Black people in a step farther down
legislators which held no the road to the share of
le g isla tiv e election s were political power and influence
Kentucky and New Jersey. (hat they should have. In
Thirty four percent of all practical terms, this growth
Black legislators now come gives Black legislators lever
from these II states of the age to obtain legislation that
will address the concerns of
South, compared to 24 per
Blacks.
And. almost as
rent previously.
Blacks now hold 10 percent important, the increasing
or more of the seals in number of Black people in
legislative chambers in four legislative chambers provides
stales: the Alabama House incentive for Black people to
(12.3 percent); the Georgia push even harder for gains
House (11.6 percent), the through the electoral sys
South Carolina House (10.5 tern."
Williams cautioned, how
percent), and both the House
and Senate in Michigan (10 ever, that progress should
not lead to complacency.
und 10.5 percent respect
"There are still many states
ively).
In all but a few stab*, where Blacks have only
however, Black's share of token representation, and
legislative seals is less than where the Black legislators
their share of the total who are in office have little
population. For example, in in d e p e n d e n t le g is la t iv e
the states listed above. power.” he noted. He also
"What gains
Blacks made up 26 percent of commented:
there have been could bo
the total population in Ala
bamn in the 1970 census; wiped out in some states of
25.8 percent in tieorgia; 30.4 (he South if the Voting
percent in South ( arolina, Bights Act of 1965 is not
renewed when it expires
and 11.2 percent in Michigan
This Act has
Only three states come next year.
close to matching Black been directly responsible for
representation in at least one permitting the blossoming of
legislative chamber with the Black political activity in the
Inst decade."
Black share of total popu
There will lw 270 Black
persons sitting in the legis
latures of -12 states as a
result of the November 5
election in many of those
states
an inrrease of
one seventh from the pre
vious total of 236, according
to a survey by the Joint
Center for Political Studies
This is almost triple the
number of Black state legis
atom in 1964. ».hen there
were 94. and a 39 percent
increase since 1970. when
then' were I9h.
As a result of the No
vember ••lection. Georgia is
now the slate with the
largest number of Black
legislators, with 23.
Pre
vtously, Illinois and Maryland
were tied for the lead with
19 each. Georgia's total rose
from 16, while Illinois now
has a total of 21. and
Maryland went down to 18.
Georgia and two other
stales in the South
Alabama and South Carolina
showed the largest in
creases.
Alabama's total
went from three to 15 and
South ( arolina's from three
to 13.
There were several not
able "firsts." including the
first Black state senators in
Massachusetts and North
Carolina, and the first Black
member of the Montana
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