Portland Observer
Thursday, July 29, 1976
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Brother* score at Clackamas County Fair
W alking off with cham pionship-------
at the Clackamas County Pair has become
a tradition w ith the Stone family of the
Wilsonville area. The four Stone broth
ers. ranging in age from 16 to 18, have
garnered so many trophies, ribbons, and
other awards over the past nine years
that, according to Andrew , the oldest,
they've run out of wall and shelf space to
display them. I t hasn't been an unprofit
able effort, either. Since 1971 the four
Stone brothers have sold 18 hogs a t the
fair'« annual Junior Livestock Auction for
a total take of 82,298.16. In 1972 one of
the brothers, Porter, sold his prize hog at
the auction for a whopping 8494.66. For
two years running, his swine held the
distinction of being the champion profit
takers a t the Junior Auction.
The boys supplement their swine in
come at the auction, too. w ith sheep they
raise on the family farm. T heir aheep
have been winning numerous honors at
the fair for almost a decade.
The Stone boys - Richard (16), P orter
(16). Jim (17) and Andrew (18). have been
involved in livestock raising and county
fair activities since Andrew and Jim ex
hibited their first animals nine years ago.
Richard, who was graduated this year
from Wilsonville School and wiU enter
W est Linn High as a freshman in the fall,
belongs to the Wilsonville Top 8w ine 4-H
Club. His brothers, all students at West
Linn High (Andrew and Jim are seniors.
Porter a junior) belong to the W est Linn
Chapter of F F A and all are active in
school athletic competition.
The Stone family came to Oregon from
Tennessee in 1948 when the father,
James, Sr., obtained a job in the Portland
shipyards. He and his wife, Annie, pur
chased their 15-aere farm in the Wilson
ville area shortly thereafter, determined.
i be bas i___ .
___ . (abovel Andrew , IS , Richard,
16. P erter, 18, and Jim. 17, w ill p artid
■ate in the Clnckassas Cesssty J a a b r
U veteek Anetten, (right)
they emphasize, to raise their sons in the
healthy, character-building environment
of the rural countryside as opposed to the
crowded city and its Stereotyped pro
blems. They haven't been disappointed
with the results.
The senior Stone is a stone mason by
profession, hsving worked at the trade
extensively in Tennessee prior to moving
to Oregon. His father had been a tobacco
farmer and it was in this agricultural
environment that James grew up. Eco
nomic conditions, however, made the
family farm unprofitable and both Stone
and his father reluctantly joined the mi
gration to the cities where they found
employment in the construction trades.
Although James Stone, Sr., works for
the Union Pacific Railroad, he is still
pretty much involved in stone masonry.
He devotes much of his spare tim e to the
ambitious project of facing the big two-
story colonial-type farmhouse the family
lives in with a handsome rock exterior.
The rock is obtained from a quarry in the
M L Hood area, transported to the farm
on a rented truck, and sculptured labor
ioualy to desired shape and size by the
master stone mason.
W hile Stone and his sons work at ren-
novating the house, caring for a large
vegetable garden, and raising sheep and
swine, M rs. Stone, a U.S. postal em
ployee, is hard a t w ork delivering mail
throughout the rural countryside. There
aren't many idle moments for the busy
Stone family of Wilsonville.
This year the four Stone brothers will
be back at the Clackamas County F air
with th eir sheep and hogs and w ill be
vieing again for top honors and top mon
ey at the eighth annual Junior Livestock
Auction on August 21st. I f past perfor
mance is any criterion, they should fare
well.
Runaway children face dangers
Each year thousands of children run
away from home. Most of them return
home, either on th eir own or through the
help of the police or a social service
agency. For some, however, the results
are tragic.
A few years ago. several runaway boys
w ere found murdered in Texas. N ot long
ago, h er* in Portland, a young girl was
found slain. A t the time of this w riting,
she still has not been identified. Almost
certainly she was on the run.
The Portland Police have no way of
knowing bow many runaways there are
in the streets at any particular time.
hundred phone calls about the unidenti
fied girl, and that gives them an indica
bon of how many kids are missing. Be
tween January of 1976 and March of this
year, the Police Bureau listed 2,448 child
ren on the run.
W here do they go? W hat happens to
them and w hat can be done? T o get some
answers to these question*, w e talked
with Lew Winchester. M anager of the
North Portland Office of the Children's
Services Division (CSD).
According to Winchester, each child
has his own reason for running. But, it
should be remembered th a t children are
running from something. They usually
are not running to anything, except that
they hope it w ill be better than w hat they
are leaving behind.
Winchester noted: “I f a child is so
alienated from his family that he is on the
run, it is almost impossible to find him if
he wants to stay hidden. There are people
out there who w ill aid and abet these
youngsters for their own reasons.“
Among those reasons: drugs and sex.
Kids on the s treet* are easy targets.
They are an open m arket for drugs, and
often tu rn to crime to support them
selves. F or a meal or a place to sleep.
they often have to prostitute themselves.
A 14 year old Portland girl was recenby
arrested in Washington for prosbtubon.
Winchester does not claim to have any
easy solution*. He notes that: “W e must
find w ay* to intervene poeibvely in a
child's life earlier so that we can prevent
these problems." CSD, the police, and
other agencies do not have the manpower
to track down these runaways. People in
the community must assist, by not hiding
these kids, and by getbng them to a
source of help. A * Winchester comment
ed: “W e need more and better commun
ity-agency cooperation."
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Coagress considers Black art
Congressman Charles B. R an g el.
(D -N .Y .) announced that the Congress is
going to take acbon on his request that an
effort be made to include a rt works de
picting Black Americans in a posibve
manner in the United State* Capitol.
“The Joint Comm ittee on Arrange
ments for the Commemoration of the
Bicentennial has approved a plan that
would provide an exhibit recognising all
those Black Americans who have served
In the United States Congress. The p ro
ject include* a photo-biographical bro
chure, and the exhibit whieh w ill be on
display in the Capitol during this Bicen
tennial year.” Rangel said.
The New York Democrat, who repre
sents the Harlem , East Harlem and upper
Westside communitiea of New York inib
ated this effo rt upon receiving a copy of
the publication. A r t In the United States
Capital. “I was just outraged that out of a
total number of 700 a rt works, Black
Americans w ere only depicted in five of
them. I t was my belief that something
has to be done quickly to rem edy thia
situation," Rangel stated.
R anger* major concern was th a t dur
ing the Bicentennial celebration, when
millions of American would be coming to
Washington, they would not see Black
Americans in the Capitol building. “I
went to Lindy Boggs, the Chairman of
the Bicentennial Committee and told her
my feelings. Through her e ffo rt* and
those of the M ajo rity Leader, we were
able to obtain agreement on thia exhibit,
which I think w ill be very posibve," Ran
gel said.
The Congressman's e ffo rt* are also
directed a t securing permanent exhibit*
placed in the Capitol. " I have correspond
ed w ith the Joint Committee on Libraries
who have juriadicbon over the a rt work
in the Capitol. A * soon a* we are able to
jointly find appropriate a rt works, I w ill
be going again to the Joint Comm ittee to
urge them to place these on permanent
display so th a t the contribubons of Black
Americans can properly be reflected,"
Rangel concluded.
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T H E K IN D OF LIFE SHE LIVES
TELLS SO M ETH ING A B O U T T H E
K IN D OF FU N E R A L SHE W ANTS.
Woshtagtoa jadga vbHs Chtaa
Jerome Farris, Judge of the Court of
Appeal* for the State of Washington, is
one of a group of thirteen Black members
of the legal profession who have been
invited to the Peoples' Republic of China
in order to study and observe court pro
cedure* and other aspects of their legal
system.
A total of seventeen persons, organized
for the trip by Judge George W . Crock
e tt, J r., of D e tro it’s Recorders Court will
leave August 4th for the one month visit
w ill include 18 day* in six mainland China
cibes.
Judge Crockett stated that the overall
aim of the tour was “to obtain a better
understanding of the unique and highly
effecbve system of dispensing justice in
China. W e hope to visit actual tria l pro
cedures and to talk w ith ju ris t* at every
level of their court system. W e hope also
to be able to gain a better understanding
of their treatm ent of prisoners and their
re-education and rehabilitation
pro
grams."
The tour w ill begin August 5th from
San Francisco, w ith entry into the Peo
ples' Republic scheduled to begin August
10th. The first major city is Canton, and
visits are scheduled to five other cities
including Shanghai. Hangchow. Nanking
and Peking.
M eetings are anticipated in each city
w ith mem ber* of the Chinese legal com
munities and in Peking w ith law profes
sora, the M inister of Justice, and one or
more members of the Supreme Court
“W e are not approaching this visit w ith
preconceived nobons about whether they
system is good or bad," Crockett said.
“T he vast difference* in social and eco
nomic relabonships that exist between
our tw o countries, especially as reflected
in the taw, almost completely preclude
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meaningful
comparison.
Crockett
explained. “W e are hopeful that we
can learn from the Chinese, especially in
the area* of neighborhood mediabon of
minor offenses and disputes, increased
participation of the citizenry in crime
prevention and crime detection, and some
new ideas in our approach to prisoner
rehabilitabon."
O ther tour members include two lead
ing D e tro it physicians and a college pre
sident. A D e tro it w rite r and publicist,
M orris Gleicher, president of the political
consulting and public retabons firm , MG
and Casey, Inc. w ill also accompany the
tour, along w ith his w ife, political scien
tist Dorothy Gleicher. to record it * ex
periences and report the findings.
Others are: Geo. W . Crockett, J r„-
D etro it, Judge of Recorders Court, De
troit, Michigan; Judith L. Bourne, A tty .,
Charleston, South Carolina, South Caro
lina D irector of the Nabonal Conference
of Black Lawyers; Charles S. Conley.
Montgomery, Alabama, Judge, Court of
Common Pleas; H a rry Y . Duplesais,-
D etro it. Court Adm inistrator, D etro it
Recorders Court; Joseph C. Howard, Bal
timore, Maryland, Associate Judge of
Supreme Court; M a ry Johnson Lowe,
New Yo rk City. Judge of Criminal Court;
Anna R. Langford, A tty ., Chicago. IUi
noia, M em ber of C ity Council. Chicago;
A lb ert E. Manley. A tlan ta, G *., A tty , and
Preadient, Spelman College; Joeeph S.
M itchell, J r.. Boston, Mas*.. Associate
Juabce, Superior C ourt of Maas.; Sally-
anne Payton, Ann Arbor, Michigan, As
sociate Professor of Law , University at
Michigan and form er Chief Counsel U r
ban Mass Transportabon; James N.
Reese. Compton, California, Judge of
Municipal Court; and Henry R. Smith,
Pittsburg. Pa., Judge. Court of Common
Pleas of Allegheny County.
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