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?n PORTLAND OBSERl/ER Voi. 6 No. 31 P o r t la n d , O r e g o n Thursday, June 17, 1976 10c per copy Cinema 30 open for business Cinema 30. located on N.E. Alberta at 30th Avenue is open (or business. Charles Allen and James Brannon are the new owners of the theater. "Our first goal is to fix up the building to make it comparable with the better neighborhood theaters," Brannon told the Observer. "We want to show the better movies, the ones that are family fare, but of course the quality depends on the support we receive from the community. Films are expensive and we can get the best only if we can guarantee a good response." The pair has spent several months working in the old theater building and are still hard at work. "We expect to use the building for concerts, plays and other culture events in addition to movies," Allen said. Allen, who has lived in Portland for fourteen years, is concerned about rec reational opportunities for young people in the area. "We want the theater to be a place parents can send their children in the evening and know they are safe. They won't have to catch the bus downtown or hurry around the downtown street cor ners and get in trouble with the curfew." The theater hopes to have a summer matinee program for younger children. "We are here and open for business. We want to be an important part of the community. The services we can provide will depend on the people of the neigh borhood and what they want," Brannon explained. Prices will lie kept low ($1.75 for adults) to encourage patronage. James Brannon and Charles Allen are the proud owners of the new Cinema 30. Rally supports Death Row youth A rally in support of Gary Tyler, a seventeen year old Black youth who has been sentenced to death in lxiuisiana. will be held on Saturday. June 19th. at LOO p.m. in Irving Park. Tyler was convicted by an all white jury for a 1974 shooting death of a white student in Dresham, Louisiana. The shooting occurred during a mob attack on a busload of Black students in opposition to school desegregation. A gun was shot and a thirteen year old white student was killed. Tyler was convicted of the killing in the testimony of Natalie Blank, who has since claimed that she was coerced by prosecu tors into testifying falsely. Additional evidence was a pistol, later discovered to have been stolen from a gun range used by police, that was never conclusively traced to Tyler. Added to the fact that the investigat ing officer was a cousin of the dead student, Tyler protested the treatment of Black students following the incident, and he was convicted by an all white jury. The Ku Klux Kian has intimidated supporters in louiaiana. Judge Ruche Morino last month denied Tyler's motive for a new trial. He currently awaits execution on Death Row A massive demonstration is set for New Orleans on July 17th, sponsored by the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF). Representatives of SCEF say only through a "massive grassroots movement that lakes place in the streets" can Gary Tyler be freed. "In the days of slavery, teaching Black bondsmen to read or write was a crime punishable by death. Today, almost twenty years since Little Rock, the struggle continues in the streets of Boston, Ixiuisville and in small towns like Dresham. Equal rights to education has always been part of the struggle for complete Black liberation.” said Robert Zellner. SCEF director. "This only proves that the stench of the slave market is still present - that the democracy, of which this country boasts, is practiced only for a select ruling class of whites with wealth. It is clear that simply appealing for justice in their courts brings no results." Additional support has come from SCIX, the National Conference of Black law yers, the Southern Region of the National Lawyer’s Guild, California Con gressman Ron Dellums, Julian Bond, and- others. The local committee can be reached at 2285733. Hays led attack on Adam Powell Those who believe the "chickens even tually come home to roost" had more to add to their collections when U.S. Rep resentative Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) recently admitted having an affair with 33 year old Elizabeth Ray, for it was Hays who was a leader in the movement to sack Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in 1967. Powell, the object of what civil rights leaders and many others called a "legists tive lynching” for his flamboyant esca pades, died in early April, 1972 on the island of Rimini. He was repudiated by the regular Democratic organization in 1956, and denied his seat in the House in 1967, but was seated again in January 1969. He was defeated for his seat by current U.S. Black Congressman Charles Rangei two years later and went to the small island he first moved to in 1966 where he died in 1972 after an emergency hospital trip to Miami. Even in the years when Hays battled Congress, Representative Hays was one with Powell over some of Powell’s esca pades, there were reports about Hays' of the Congressmen mentioned in a Balti own activities and reports that other more Afro American story that kicked off Congressm en had sex scandal stories with the lead, "People who live in glass waiting to explode if anyone did enough houses shouldn't throw stones, especially hypocritical ones.” probing. The Baptist Ministers Conference of Powell was ousted on charges of misuse of public funds. His wife was on Greater New York had complained in the payroll, but it was shown others had 1967 about Hays having been named head sons, daughters, sisters and brothers on of a subcommittee to investigate abuses the payroll. His critics blasted him for charged to Powell when the ministers poor attendance and others were cited for said Hays had been in trouble in 1963 worse attendance. As chairman of the over a junket to Paris. The record, said House Committee on Education and the ministers, showed Hays had taken Ixibnr, he successfully guided to passage along on the trip a New York head waiter and a greenhouse owner at government -49 important laws. The initial author of a Black political expense. The ministers declared: plan and one of the first ministers to "While none of us expected that Rep bring the church into the civil rights arena, Powell during his ouster troubles, resentative Hays would investigate his authored the popular saying. “Keep the own ethical conduct, it was expected that his subcommittee would investigate acti Faith, Baby." When the pastor of Harlem's Abyssi vities of all members of the Education nian Baptist Church was under fire in (Please turn to p. 2 col. 4) McCoy certified w inner Bill McCoy has been certified winner of the tightly contested race for Senate District 8. McCoy was appointed to the seat in 1975, after serving a term in the House of Representatives and being re elected to that poeit'on. He sought election to the Senat» position in the May 26th primary election. McCoy’s election by a margin of nine votes was certified by Multnomah County Elections Registrar Bill Radakovich. McCoy received 5,924 votes: Max Run yon, a North Portland electrician re ceived 5,915; and Jimmy "Bang Bang” Walker had 1.839. Runyon was first announced the win ner by 48 votes, but when the absentee ballots and a precinct that had been misplaced had been counted, McCoy took the lead. An Oregon law requires a recount when an election is won by less than one fifth of one percent of the votes cast. The recount will be ordered by Secretary of State Clay Myers, but a date has not yet been set. y McCoy, a former social worker, ju venile court counselor, vocational rehabi Illation specialist, has served as commit tee chairman of the Interim Resource Committee subcommittee on delivery of services. He was appointed to the Ways and Means Committee during his first term of office, an appointment unused in House procedure, McCoy also headed the Com mittee on Aging. April Adams, Camp Fire Girl from Humboldt School: Matt nderson. North Project Move, YMCA, Sylvan Grad» School, and Tony Runnels, also North Project Move, from Rose City Park grade school, demonstrate packing of Time Capsule to be dedicated as part of Bicentennial observance by nine youth agencies. Dedication ceremonies at 7:00 p.m. June 20th at Western Forestry Center in Zoo-OMZI complex will be open to the public. Capsule will not be opened until nation's trkentennial in 2076. Portland youth plants Bicontinnial time capsule A Time Capsule will be dedicated to the youth of the year 2076 in ceremonies Sunday, June 20th, at 7:00 p.m., packed with memorabilia of nine contemporary youth organizations and then sealed for 100 years. The public is invited to attend the event, to be held on the steps of the Western Forestry Center in the Zoo- OMSI complex. The dedication is one of a series of Bicentennial projects undertaken co operatively by youth agencies of the tri-county area; it is the prime responsi bility of Camp Fire Girls, assisted by the Girls Scouts, Boy Scouts, Boys Club, 4-H Club, Salvation Army. YMCA, YWCA and Junior Red Cross. Highlights of the program, in addition to loading of the ten-cubic foot capsule, will include flag ceremonies led by the Girl Scouts and a historic flag display by Boy Scouts; presentation of winners of the youth agencies' Bicentennial writing competition, and introduction of various dignitaries. Ms. of Ceremonies will be Chris Haug and Tutti Anderson, both representing Camp Fire Girls and both graduating seniors at Adams High School, Portland. Contestants whose work will be placed in the capsule are Julie Olson, essay. Girl Scout from Hillsboro; Heather Otto, essay, Camp Fire Girls from northeast Portland; and Shirley Ann Benrett, poe try, senior Girl Scout from southwest Portland. Co-chairmen of the coordinating com mittee are Austin Leach and Senator Victor Atiyeh, Portland; contest coordi nator is Ms. Sarah Anders«, n. Portland; and Time Capsule chairman is Ms. Ruth Otto, Portland. The Time Capsule itself was donated by Esco Corporation, and the brass plaque by Oregon Brass. The capsule matches a similar one packed and sealed by Grant High students during Oregon’s Centennial and scheduled to be opened in 2059 - seventeen years ahead of the one which will be dedicated Sunday. The matched pair will wait out the century on display at OMSI. Items to be placed in the capsule include a television tape covering preli minary packing of the capsule, news papers, magazines, Bicentennial memen toes, letters from civic dignitaries, and such speciality items as directions for the Hustle and the Seattle Slide, a skate board, a frisbie, styrofoam cups, a mini calculator, Elton John records and Rose Festival photos, a copy of Future Shock and letters addressed to counterpart agencies in the year 2076. IBooks in the 1959 capsule include 1984 and Brave New World.) Each agency will have one-half a cubic foot of space for its own collection of tomorrow’s artifacts; the remaining five cubic feet will be filled with youth- oriented item s of general in terest. Among the debates: if jeans are included, and it was generally felt that they should be, should those jeans be brand new, with price tags attached, or should they be well-worn in current fashion? Safeway assists fam ily shopping lesson Eight families who shopped at Safeway Stores as a demonstration on buying economic and nutritious foods received the groceries they selected, as a gift from Safeway. The shopping trips procedes a Con sumer Conference sponsored by the Portland Chapter of the National Asso ciation for Community D evelopm ent, which will be held on July 14th at the Ramada Inn. The shopping survey, which took place at the Union and Ainsworth store, will be nutritionists. Ms. Wanda Phipps, nutri tionist with the Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program , and Ms. Carol tionist with the Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program, and Ms. Carol Herron, Home Economist with Portland Community College. The nutritionists shopped for one senior citizen couple and one single senior citizen. Four families did their own shopping: one family of five or more; one family o f three; one senior citizens couple; and one single senior citizen. Speakers for the Consumer Conference are Ms. Roberta Baylan. Assistant Direc tor for Consumer Protection, Legal Ser vices Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C.; Ms. Mercedes Bates. Vice President, Con sumer Center, General Mills, Incorporat ed of Minneapolis; Ms. Wanda Phipps and Ms. Carol Herron. Topics are purchase of consumer drugs, financial planning. So cial Security and problems of the aged. Coordinator for the event is Art Dil worth. Liberian ambassador sees changes in U.S. life S. Edward Peal, Ambassador from Liberia, is leaving Washington - going to represent his country in Moscow. Peal has seen many changes since he came to this country fourteen years ago. When he arrived in Washington, his appearance caused confusion everywhere he w en t When he entered a restaurant the headwaiter did not want to seat him because he was Black. When he drove around Washington in his native dress he was stopped by disbelieving police asking who he was. “There was hostility to the fact that smhassadors could be Black," he recalls. At the State Department, African policy was non-existant and Peal often had to defend Africa when U.S. Senators from the South flaunted their racism. Peal has seen some dramatic changes. Now the second ranking ambassador in the Washington diplomatic corps, he re ceives letters in viting him to buy property and is welcome at (he most exclusive Washington parties. Peal said changes have been slow anc painful and he is not satisfied. He came here “to see if Americans live by their Constitution,” and now thinks they do. “The African ambassador still has to work ten times as hard to get twenty percent of the attention," he explained. Peal is leaving at a time when Third World ambassadors are gaining in credi bility and influence. “Lately we have received our due recognition because of our unity at the United Nation's and various conference," Sierre Leone Am bassador Philip Palmer said recently, "And recognition is what effective diplo macy hinges on.” "Before, the world looked elsewhere for a view on us. but now the powers talk directly to us. They know we are just a confident and can hold our own." Since Peal's arrival in Washington, the American Black presence has also grown with the prominance of the Congressional Black Caucus. Libera has strong historic ties with the United States. A group of freed Ameri can slaves founded the country in 1822. Pele himself has contributed to the changing attitudes about Africa, being a sophisticated, Ajucated man who partici pated in all levels of community activity and Was one of the best informed and fragkest diplomats. Although Peal will be in Moscow soon, he frill not lose his interest in U.S. policy on .Africa. “We are commited to the liberation of our Black brothers in south ern Africa and this will be made clear to the Russians. 1 would like to see the peace and stability soon rather than later, but I will wait for the little signs to see if the United States is sincere.'1 /
