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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1976)
Pag« 8 Portland Obaarvei Thursday, June 21 McCarthy convention seek* ballot spot at least forty states, will be placed on the Oregon ballot through a nominating con vention to be held at Portland State Uni versity at 7:30 p.m. this evening. McCarthy told the press in Portland that he forsees victory. Charging that neither party is dealing with the major issues confronting the nation. McCarthy explained, “The Republicans will tell the voters what's wrong with the Democrats: and the Democrats will tell what's wrong with the Republicans. I can forget all of The Portland Police Bureau has no that and deal with the issues." leads in the murder of Navy fireman, McCarthy sees unemployment, abuse Richard T. Williams, in Irving Park early Tuesday, but believe the killilng was in of power, integrity in government and militarism as some of the major issues tentional. Williams, who was visiting Portland, that musi be addressed. "The Democratic was killed by a .22 caliber shot fired while Party's answer to unemployment - the he was sitting in a swing in the park. Humphry Hawkins bill is nothing new. According to a friend, Ali Gonzales, who It is a reitera*;«" of laws passed in the was with him at the time of the killing, Williams, his wife Darlene, Gonzales and his fiance, Kim Williams, Gary and Elsie Williams, had stopped in the park after playing cards. While sitting in the play ground, talking, a shot rang out. The second shot hit Williams. Gonzales told police that the sniper continued to shoot at about seven second intervals, and his shots followed them as they attempted to cary Williams to the car to get medical aid. Police The .22 caliber slug recovered from Williams' body is being compared with five .22 caliber shell casings found in the park, by the Oregon State Police Crime laboratory. No results have been announced. Senator Eugene McCarthy is in Port land seeking support for his candidacy as an Independent for the presidency. Me* Carthy, who expects to be on the ballot in Park murder unsolved forties. What we need is a redistribution of employment, cutting the work week and giving the extra time to the unem ployed. This would create more jobs. We have not made a significant change in our wage/hour laws since the late nineteen- thirties, during the New Deal, when we established the forty hour week. We now need to think about a shorter work week to cut unemployment." McCarthy, who lost the 1968 Demo cratic nomination to Senator Humphry alter a good showing in the primaries, sees in the American people a lack of faith inthe major parties, which he believes will assure his election. If the eligible voters who usually do not vote, indepen- der-ts, and Repuoicans and Democrats who are disenchanted by their parties' nominees vote for McCarthy, his election is assured. Help HELP WANTED Loving hands put finishing touches Photo by Dan lo n g on Martin Luther King quilt block. Quilt shown at OHS Heritage and history are the focus of a Bicentennial Commemorative Quilt high lighting Afro-Americans at the Oregon Historical Society. 1230 S.W. Park Ave nue. The quilt may be seen by the public beginning July 1st at which time a brief ceremoney will open the exhibit at 3:30 p.m. and the exhibit will continue there after through September 30, 197^. A public reception will be held Saturday, July 10th at the Oregon Historical So ciety from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., in which all are invited to join this special Bicen tennial tribute and view the quilt and historic exhibit which includes Frederick Douglas memorabilia, also family items from the Bogle Family, the oldest Black family in Oregon (based on available re cords). At the reception, persons who have lived in Oregon for fifty years or more are invited to register for a special introduc tion. The Afro - American Heritage Bicen tennial Commemorative Quilt Committee is an ad hoc committee which has been operating the past two years with the specific purpose of designing and deve loping an Afro-American Heritage Quilt for a Bicentennial Exhibit. Following the exhibit, committee members will vote as to which institution they will donate the quilt. They will also then decide as to whether to disband the committee or to formally establish a club or other group. Two unique features distinguish the Afro-American Heritage Quilt from the usual quilts: 1. the red, white and blue striping suggested by Mrs. Rebecca Mil ler (who also made five quilt blocks) and 2. the chronological presentation coordi nated by Mrs. Osly J. Gates who empha sizes that this quilt is not a carbon copy of any other quilt but a unique design which is to be copyrighted. Mrs. Gates had in earlier years served as volunteer chairman of several heritage exhibits at Central Public Library, U.S. National Bank (Main Branch), The Bank of California. Portland Art Museum, and Meier and Frank Downtown. She reports that in early 1974, she learned that the Portland Art Museum had chosen “Mast erworks in Wood" for its Bicentennial theme and that such a theme did not seem to her to provide much opportunity for Afro-Americans whose masterworks were in other art mediums: she knew something else would have to be done. Later, she viewed the Oregon Quilt and observed that it included aspects of Cau- casion Indian and Japanese heritage but not Black heritage, although Tom York preceded many of the persons in the Oregon Quilt. So an effort evolved to change the "left-out" status and make a quilt containing Tom York and other Afro -Americans. The Commemorative Quilt Committee members were born in 11 different states: Oregon, Texas, Oklahoma, Loui siana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, and Min nesota. Only one native Oregonian is on the committee. Block #1 - Alonzo Pietro, Explorer - by Mrs. Isaac S. Payne. Block #2 - Crispus Attucks and Prince Whipple - by Mrs. Phillip Owens. Block #3 - Richard Allen, 1st Bishop of African Methodist Episcopal Church - by Mrs. Robert Canada. Block #4 - Phillis Wheatley, Poet - by Mrs. William McCoy, Jr. Block #5 - The Courts of the U.S.A. -- by Mrs. E.M. Rollins. Block #6 - Tom York, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition - by Mrs. F.V. Love. Citizen ot the Week Block #7 - Frederick Douglas. Aboli tionist and Statesman - by Mrs. Osly J. Gates. Block #8 - Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad - by Mrs. F.V. Love. Block #9 Dred Scott and the historic legal decision -- by Mrs. Rebecca Miller. Block #10 - Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute -- by Mrs. Rebecca Miller. Block #11 - Railroads - by Mrs. Phillip Owens. Block #12 - “Forty Acres and a Mule” -- by Mrs. Osly J. Gates. Block #13 - "The Emancipation Procla mation - 1863" - by Miss Sylvia J. Gates. Block #14 -- The Thirteenth Amend ment - by Mrs. Isaac S. Payne. Block #15 -- The Fourteenth Amend ment - by Mrs. Isaac S. Payne. Block #16 -- The Fifteenth Amendment - by Mrs. Rebecca Miller. Block #17 -- Carter 0 . Woodson, His torian -- by Mrs. E.M. Rollins. Block #18 - The Fisk Jubilee Singers - by Mrs. Webster C. Brown, graduate of Fisk. Block #19 -- The Frederick Douglas Home, a National Monument - by Mrs, Osley J. Gates. Block #20 - Mary Church Tarrell, Na tional Club Founder and Civil Rights Ac tivist - by Mrs. Rebecca Miller. Block #21 - James Weldon Johnson (Composer of "Lift E very Voice and Sing") - by Mrs. Richard Bogle. Block #22 - Marian Anderson, Contral to - by Mrs. Zack Phillips. Block #23 - Charles Drew, Physician and Developer of Blood Plasma Techno logy -- by Mrs. Walter Reynolds. Block #24 -- Integration of the Armed Forces -- by Mrs. Richard Bogle. Block #25 - Brown vs. Board of Educa tion of Topeka, Kansas -- by Mrs. William McCoy, Jr. Block #26 - Louis Armstrong, Ambas sador of Jazz - by Mrs. Robert Canada. Block #27 Leontyne Price, Opera and Concert Singer - by Mrs. Rebecca Miller. Block #28 - Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader and Nobel Laureate - by Mrs. Perry Whitlow. Block #29 - The 1964 Civil Rights Act - by Mrs. Sarah E. Mayfield. Block #30 -- Hank Aaron, Home Run Champion - by Mrs. F.V. Love. The Police Bureau is operating on the assumption that the killing was deliber ate because the area was well lighted and the party were making a considerable amount of noise. July 4th special planned Jack Allen, owner of the new "Cinema 30” (formerly the Alameda Theatre), an- nonuced the Bicentennial Spectacular to be held on July 4th. The entertainment package will begin at 7:00 p.m., with "Truck Turner” starring Isacc Hayes. The next attraction is “Foley Brown”, starring Pam Greer. The show then shifts to live entertain ment in the form of four of Portland's top rock and jazz groups. Cinema 30 plans to broaden its ap proach and app>-sl hy offering the public a unique approach to entertainment. Promotion and production for the Bi centennial event is handled by New Tai ent Unlimited (NTY), a group of young Portland businessment who express their mission in these terms, “We're out to put the Cinema 30 and Portland on the enter tainment map. The series of concerts we have planned for the summer, if support ed by the public, could be only the begin ning of a new phase in local musical history." Along with regular ticket sales at Cin ema 30, advance tickets may be purchas ed from "Uncle Sam", NTY's travelling salesman who will be appearing at the major shopping centers and gatherings throughout the city. “So if you see a fellow decked out in red. white, and blue, don't 'join up', just 'join in' on the Bicentennial Spectacular, July 4th, at the new and different Cinema 30", urges Jack Allen. Allen and James Brannon have recent ly reopened the theatre and plan to show family fare. "High quality films will be shown if the community demonstrates an interest", Allen said, Full time, Part time Men Women Coast Janitorial Service, inc 714 NE Alberta 288-5138 BIG Year End Demonstration Sale the successful Cordobas the popular Yolare for 7 6 (Station Wagons, Sedans and Coups) the beautiful New Yorker Brougham (1 with sunroof) James Loving is director of the King Neighborhood Facility, a neighbor hood center planned and developed by the citizens of the area. He also serves as Chairman of the Northeast Coalition Board (formerly the Model Cities Citizen's Planning Board). Among Loving's major activities are: Board of Directors of the National Consumer Health Conference. Board of Directors of the National Citizen's Participation Council, Board of Directors and Treasurer of Region X Citizen Council, Board of Directors of Health Systems Agency, Chairman of the Citizens Involvement Committee for the City of Portland, the Portland Public School Health Planning Board, Treasurer of the Albina Health Care Center. He is past president of the Boise Improvement Association. Loving is a Trustee and member of the Usher Board of Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church, a member of the Alabama Club and the NAACP. He and his wife, Vesia, have four children. Use all you need but save all you can . , . The People at Pacific Power. yo+s, hwuu and Vuui POLL YESTER PANT SUITS! ¿Uk jo* Alto* 3 piece prints and colors R e g u la r to J. 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