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KBOO expands minority coverage
by Ulysses Manahafi
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Youths produce sequal to Kong
by G. L . Gedgar
M in i* producer Ditto De Laurentiis
■ad special effects m u te r. Ray H arry
hausen should look over their shoulders,
three young Portland filmmakers are
producing a sequel to the 1983 classic and
1977 re make of “King Kong." using the
technique of miniature animation perfect
ed by Harryhausen.
Anthony Cash, Cott Ellis and Frank
Hunt, all high school freshmen, have not
only written a new script and operated
the cameras, they have built the Kong
m4wi«*in— th a t e r e used in the film. And.
even though the movie has yet to be
completed, the trio h u already received
an award lor their work as “C and C
Productions."
Cash. a fifteen-year-old student at
p ------- High School and the Portland A rt
School, and Ellis, a fourteen year-old
“film nut" at Monroe High, developed the
idea for the project in late 1975 while
attending Buckman Elementary School.
Hunt. H . who also attended Buckman,
joined them two months later.
He
presently attends W uhington High
School. Cash and Ellis actually started
out disliking each other but their friend
ship grew out of a common interest in
(Unoaaurs, other monsters and monster
movies; especially th o u containing the
work of Ray Harryhausen. filmdom's
undisputed king of three-dimensional ani
mation. or Dynamation.
Harryhausen, who w u first introduced
to animation techniques u an understudy
of the original Kong’s creator. Willis
O'Brien, received an Academy Award for
his first professional animation work in
another monkey movie, "Mighty Joe
Young." in 1949. Since then, he h u
unleashed an incredible array of spine-
tingling beasts in 14 films, including "The
Beast from 20.000 Fathoms" (1963). " It
Came from Beneath the Sea" (1965), "The
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" (1968), “Mys
terioius Island" (1961), “Jason and the
Argonauts" (1963), "One Million Years
B.C." (1966) and "The Golden Voyage of
Sinbad" (1974).
"We have seen just about every mon
ster movie there is," u y s C u h about the
tremendous amount of research done by
the trio. "Do you realize how many times
Tokyo h u been destroyed?" The group
collected a massive amount of Kongpher-
nalia"* and other materials from local
sources ("You can find almost anything at
the library." says Colt) u well u a lot of
material from California. So impressed
were they with Harryhausec’s work,
C u h . Colt and Hunt would settle for
nothing le u than Dynamation to bring
their Kong back to life; suited actors
playing "monster", a technique used by
filmmakers and for the most
part, by De Laurentiis in the currently-
running Kong " c u t give the right
feeling, says Hunt, adding, “A ll he c u do
is move around, open his mouth u d
smile.
You c u t get the quality of
animation." He explained that moving
lips, rolling eyes u d flaring nostrils could
not be done effectively. Fighting pos
itions u d m uouevers possibly used by
particular beasts could not be carried off
that well.
Dynamation is one of the most time-
consuming forms in the realm of special
effects. Differing from the process used
in making cartoons, Dynamation requires
shooting a single frame of film of the
model in one position, u o th e r frame
after the model is moved a fraction of u
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In 1976 when K Q IV , Portland's only
Black managed radio station went off the
air, KBOO began to attempt to serve the
minority audience that was left without a
station.
KBOO now h u a soul music program
hosted by Michael D . Vance, a former
K Q IV disc jockey. This feature is part of
the new Saturday programing which
ingjudes jazz, blues u d soul.
Other Saturday programs are: Uncle
Homer's Jazzhole Cover; Jazz Rap with
George Page; Kidney Stew blues with
John Head u d Radio Lab, featuring rock
and jazz with Rick Mitchell and D u
Chinn.
by Ulysses Marshall
► Women are God's gift to earth. They are beautiful, not only on the
outside but on the inside, too.
Verolta Waddy, an interesting, intelligent, and beautiful lady is an
example.
Veroita is an Aquarius. Her favorite activities include sewing, singing,
writing music, and she is the director of a Gospel Choir.
Varoita is a student at the University of Portland and a Y T u n leader for
the YW CA. She would like to get her Masters degree in the near future.
She wants a family of two.
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Her description of her ideal man is—“My ideal man is someone who is a
Christian, intelligent, and understanding - someone who respects me u a
woman without categorising me because of sex, or limiting my ability, or
considering me to be inferior to the male species. My philosophy is. I am to
be my m u 's helper, by his side, not his servant.”
She's Get The M agk Teach
KBOO is a listener supported station.
Rather than taking advertising, listeners
subscribe to the program guide for $26.00
per year and become shareholders in the
station. "We operate through coopera
tion u d democracy." Mitchell said of the
non-profit group.
Another aspect of the station is its
public affairs emphasis and spoken word
programs. Interviews and playbacks of
important community meetings provide a
unique service. A recent development
has been the effort to e x p u d minority
news reporting.
"KBOO, as an alternative
radio station, tries to be irreesihls to
groups and individuals who are deprived
of access to big-time corporate owned'
media."
Beginning in Marek, KBOO will pre
sent a Black Culture and A rts program
called "The Underground Railroad”. The
station also caries gospel and folk mpsfe.
poetry, drama and children’s stories.
In December, 1976, the radio signal
was increased from 3000 watts to 12J00
watts, reaching a vast new audience. The
station is located at 3129 S JE. Belmont.
The staff urges the public to tune in to
F M 90.7 and welcomes comments »»«i
suggestions.
Concordia College hosts NAACP meeting
The Minority Affairs department at
Concordia College will host the member
ship meeting of the N A A C P on Sunday,
February 20th at 4:00 p.m. "This fits well
within the scope of our Black Awareness
Celebration that is taking place at Con
cordia throughout the month of Feb
ru a ry " ,
stated
T he
R everend
Rocell Gilmore, director of Minority
Affairs.
The meeting will be held in the Guild
Hall Lounge located on the main college
campus at 2811 N .E . Holman.
This is the first» meeting since the
election of new officers. The agenda will
consist of orientation and discussion of
the objectives for the branch this
The Reverend John Jackson,
encourages all members and th o u inter
ested in the civil aad human rights of
Blacks and other minority groups in the
country to participate.
Rehabilitation: Does the system believe1?
Each year thousands of drug addicts go
through the Oregon courts. Literally
millions of the taxpayers' dollars are
spent on alternative programs to prevent
the warehousing of drug addicts into
prisons. Few drug addicts are able to get
into long range, intensive programs, yet
vast amounts of time, energy, patience,
concern, love and hope are put into each
man u d woman who is fortunate enough
to get into one of these programs.
What happens to these individuals
when they complete their rehabilitation
programs? How much does the justice
system believe in its formulated defini
tion of rehabilitation? Are alternative
drug programs a coverup for an incurable
social program?
These are some of the questions raised
by the conviction of Babe Wilson, drug
counsellor for the state and former drug
addict.
“I know that the legal authorities in
Portland. Oregon, are not willing to
believe, cannot believe, and just plain
don't want to believe that I, a convicted
felon, ex-dope fiend for over fifteen years,
could go to a drug rehabilitation program
for eighteen months u d come out a
ehuged m u with a made up mind to
dedicate the rest of my life to learning all
the modalities of drug treatment,” Wilson
explains.
“I ’m just one of so many other ex
addicts across the country that the
system considers in the same way -
'Once a drug addict, always a drug
addict'. But I ’m not going along with this
indictment.
“I ’ve just been convicted of criminal
activity in drugs u d taking contraband
into a correctional institution by a ton to
two vote, after the jury deliberated for
ten hours. The decision followed a week
long trial in which several corrections u d
police officers gave conflicting testi
mony.”
Wilson faces sentencing under the
Career Criminal Act, a program which
allows the District Attorney’s office to
select which ex felons it will designate as
“career criminals”, providing long-term
sentences.
"My life is at stake u d I know it. I am
innocent. The people in this town know it
and the police department knows it. I am
Judge condemns drug programs
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KBOO is primarily a volunteer effort.
Using volunteers sometimes creates tech
nical deficiencies, but it also gives the
station a human quality that is lost in the
typical automated media production.
What is the opinion of the judicial
system about drug treatment programs
u d the addicts who use them?
Circuit Court Judge Robert Jones
answered that question this morning
while sentencing “Smokey" Eppley to six
years in the penitentiary. Judge Jones
said drug treatment programs in prisons
do not work u d that he h a s n e v e r seen
one outside that works either. “Drug
programs are a waste of talk,” he said.
The only persons who are whlped are the
ones who have an almost "religious
conversion”. He expressed the opinion
that Alpha House, one of the state's
programs in Portland, h u had no success.
He advocated a prison sentence every
time an addict commits a crime, predict
ing that eventually the individual might
c h u g e his behavior to avoid punishment.
"Other programs aren’t going to help
change that behavior.” Help is not going
to come from some "fancy drug pro
gram”.
Eppley, a former heroin usee, had been
on five years parole. During this time he
had moved to P o rtlu d , obtained two
jobs, and working steady had supported
his*family for two years. During this
period he w u on the state methadone
program. In July of 1976 his methadone
w u gradually lowered so he decided to
quit the program. “When I left jail five
years ago I w u e le u , but I w u scared,
he explained. He went to methadone to
get off heroin, then to speed to get off
methadone, then to alcohol u d around
the cycle again. He quit his job at the
printing p lu t but continued the other job
because it did not require m u tin g pe
ople. He got into financial trouble, then
one day in December while on speed, he
robbed a pharmacy with a toy gun. He
explained his attempt to run u d escape
reality, “I didn't walk into a drug store
but into a ja il cell.”
In trouble since the age of fourteen,
Eppley said he had s u n enough of
freedom to w u t to be free. Saying his
attempt to escape reality through drugs
not only hurt himself but his family, he
asked for a sentence that would allow him
to maintain his family ties. He had asked
for a drug program, but local programs
did not s u m to be able to take him at this
point.
Thomas Gaddis, crimnologist and w rit
er, told Judge Jones that Eppley h u the
talent to become a nationally known
w riter if his motivation it not destroyed.
He expressed hope that Eppley would be
able to use his talent to reveal the
injustices of the criminal justice system.
“Inmates u d prisoners are the major
body of people not asked for advice about
the bankrupt criminal system.” He said
the “barbaric conditions in the county jail
and the incredible state penitentiary” had
nothing to offer in aasisting a person to
mature u d to retain their motivation to
change u d excell.
going to fight it in the highest court in the
land if this is what it takes to prove my
innocence. I am fighting this, not only for
myself, but for all of th o u other ex
addicts who are considered 'guilty' for
ever.
“I have put too much dedication u d
hard work into changing my life from a
nothing low-life parasite to what I am
today. As a drug rehabilitation counsellor
for the Oregon State Mental Health
Division of Oregon for the last two years.
I’ve been helping drug dependent people
change their self-destructive life styles. I
know deep withing my soul and guts that
I have something to give a drug addict
who really, with everything in him, wants
to change his life. I have something to
offer another because that is one of the
things that truly keeps me drug free.
“There is u old saying that h u been
around for a long time. It's b u n around
treatment progams quite a while too, Ta
order to k u p what you've got, you must
give it away.’ I ’ve bora living by this and
the other things I learned in my own drug
treatment for the last three years.”
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RO BERT W STRAUB
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O F F IC I O F T H t G O V E R N O R
S T A T E C A P IT O L
SALEM
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January 24, 1977
STATEMENT BY GOVERNOR BOB STRAUB
Throughout our history, Black Americans have
made significant contributions toward the development
of the United States. Their efforts have helped to
secure freedom and individual dignity as an essential
part of our heritage.
Today, Blacks are actively involved in every
area of our society and should be rightfully proud of
their efforts and the contributions of their forefathers
in the building of this nation.
Yet, we must continue to work to insure that
equal opportunities are available to citizens of every
race.
Therefore, as Governor of Oregon, I hereby
proclaim the Month of February as "Afro-American Black
History Month" in Oregon.
I call upon all citizens
to rededicate themselves to the principles of freedom
and to recognize the many contributions Afro-Americans
have made to our state and nation.
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Bob Straub
Governor of Oregon
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