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.'3; Hra Francea Seho^n-Ä eespaper Roos U n iv e rs ity of Oregon L ib rary Cone, Oregon 97403 ■' < & PORTLAND Talley heads mulli-! OBSE 7, Ne. » by G. Gedger Thursday, April M , 1977 10c per copy by Roxell Gilmore The Junior Miss Black Oregon Pageant for 1977 was held at the Memorial Coliseum Assembly Hall Saturday eve ning. The pageant is a yearly event. Its purpose is to teach Black girls poise and proper conduct. Also the participants are given opportunities to speak before large audiences and do other activities that can help them gain confidence and self aware ness. The winner of this year's pageant was Kimberly (Kim) Anderson, sponsored by the Portland Observer. Kim is twelve years old and is a seventh grader at (Please turn to page 2 col. 4) Benjamin Talley, former Affirmative Action Officer for the State Department of Human Resources, has been named Manager of the Albina Human Resources Center. The eight-year-old facility, locat ed at 5022 N. Vancouver Street, houses thirteen State Human Resources and County Health Services offices. Talley, a 46-year-old native of Detroit, Michigan, replaces Hasel G. Hays who vacated the position February 11th to become the Public Welfare Division Re gional Manager of the Multnomah Re gion. Talley will officially assume the posi tion May 9th. In making the announcement of the appointment. State Human Resources Director Richard Davis said, “I have had the pleasure of working with Ben over the last year and a half . . . I know of his many talents. The key to his success is his ability to work well with so many groups." He added, "This, coupled with his management skills, will provide the Albina Center with a strong leader.” (Editor's note: There is a | the Albina Branch Library 1977 BO: M : '<<• Since my sophomore year at Universi ty of California, Los Angeles, 1 have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing fields and too little time in the libraries. Please don’t think of this attitude aa being pretentious just because I am a black, single, professional athlete. I don't have children, but I can make observations. I strongly believe the black culture expends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising and teasing our black children as to the dubious glories of professional sport. All children need models to emulate- parents, relatives or friends. But when the child starts school, the influence of the parent is shared by teachers and classmates, by the lure of books, movies, ministers and newspapers, but most of all by television. Which televised events have the greatest number of viewers?-Sports- The Olympics, Super Bowl, Masters, World Series, pro basketball playoffs. Forest Hills. ABC-TV even has sports on Monday, night prime time from April to December. So your child gets a massive dose of O J. Simpson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Reggie Jackson, Dr. J and Lee Elder and other pro athletes. And it is only natural that your child will dream of being a pro athlete himself. But consider these facts: For the major professional sports of hockey, football, basketball, baseball, golf, tennis and boxing, there are roughly only 3,170 Crime Prevention Bureau alerts citizens Ron Wyden is a Field Representative for the Crime Prevention Bureau of the City of Portland. He has worked in the Albina area and upper Northeast Port land area for eight months. Observer: What are your responsibili ties with the Crime Prevention Bureau? Wyden: My basic goal is to reduce the opportunities for residential and street crime in those areas. We do that primarily through block meetings where we gather neighborhood residents to gether and diacusa the need for marking their properties with their Oregon Driver's License number, securing their doors with deadbolt locks, drilling and pinning their windows, and when and how to use burglar alarms. Our basic function is to educate the community in reducing crime risks and generating community involvement and cooperation. r What would bring law offi cers and the Black community closer together? Wyden; I think that police and commu nity relations can improve greatly if we get to know more about each other. The officers wno worn tms area are concerned and sincere-and they know that the needs of the Black community aa they relate to crime are great. Now what we have to do is get citizens actually participating through the neighborhoods to take advantage of their services. Observer: What are some of the most common crimes and how can they be stopped? Wyden: I think that burglary and purse snatching are perhaps two key crimes we most want to prevent, and rape is another... ...Purse snatching is a crime that hits senior citizens extremely hard and we are trying to get seniors to not carry purses. not walk at night, and aboid certain areas such as dark bus stops and parking lots. Rape prevention is of course a key concern to women, and a specialist on our staff, Meg Gloves, does special rape prevention m eetings for wom ens groups. She can be reached at 248-4126. Observer: What suggestions do you have for elderly people who are vulner able to attack? Wyden: I think it is clear that seniors need to take some special steps. For example, don't open your doors at night, have your social security cheeks deposit ed directly in the bank, don't carry big bulky purses on the street, don’t adver tise the fact that you are an elderly widow, be careful of people who sell home repairs or get-rich wuick schemes door to door. Make sure if you are going away that some one picks up the papers, and the mail, turns lights on and off, plays the radio, opens and shuts the drapes, puts a car in the driveway-make your house look occupied...Seniors are our greatest unused resource-in crime prevention they can help keep our neighborhoods safer for everyone. Observer: What are your goals in the community? Wyden: I think that if we can say that we brought awareness and a higher degree of cooperation among Northeast Portland neighbors we will have accom plished something. We can never elimi nate crime completely, but we can reduce the chance for it to flourish. And I think that the neighbors of Northeast Portland realize how important it is to work with each other and law enforcement if we are to make progress in reducing crime. Crime prevention is a new concept but it is starting to work, and as the old cliche goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a ton, to those who can feel that they have reduced significantly their chance of becoming a crime victim. poor Aymara and Quecha Indian farmers, who have been encouraged to migrate from the country's densely populated western mountain regions. Bolivian government officials claim the immigration is aimed at increasing agri cultural production. But a leading oppo sition group-now underground-has la beled the project an “importation of apartheid” and called on Bolivia's over whelming majority of Indians (66 percent of the population) and racilally mixed “meztisos" (20 percent) to oppose it. A large influx of the 30,000 families (some 150,000 people) would mean a 17 percent increase in the European popula tion, which dominates the nation’s gov ernment and economy. Presently 886,000 (16 percent) of the country's 5.9 million people are of European origin. The first public acknowledgement of the immigration came from Bolivian Under Secretary for Migration Dr. Guido Strauss. In January, Strauss announced the government of Gen. Hugo Banter “would promote the immigration of large and important contingents of white colo nists of German and Dutch extraction from Namibia, Rhodeaia and South Africa." Strauss justified the plan on the grounds that immigrants would "colonize extensive underpopulated areas of the Beni (northeast tropical region) and other departments” and would help Bolivia increase farm production for home mar kets and export. Strauss also claimed the country would “benefit from the technological know how, experience and capital which the immigrants will bring with them.” Bolivia welcomes 'colonists’ by James Goff Pacific News Service LA PAZ. BOLIVIA Within three months, some 30,000 white families are expected to flee black majority rule in southern Africa and resettle in Latin America, where they have been invited to develop potentially rich farming lands- just as their forbears did on the African continent. The emigres looked to Latin America when their countries of origin principally East and West Germany, Holland and Great Britain-proved reluctant to repa triate them for economic and political reasons. These governments, under the aus pices of the Inter-Governmental Com mittee for European Migration (CIME), have held meetings and extended gener ous credit offers to Latin American governments to accept the refugees. One such meeting took place in Costa Rica last November between the repre sentatives of West Germany and officials of Argentina. Bolivia. Brazil. Uruguay At that meeting the Bonn representa tive reportedly offered a credit of 1150 million through CIME to finance the resettlement of 30,000 families. A spokesman for the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry told PNS there was a general discussion of the refugee problem at the November 17 meeting, but that no decision was reached. He added how ever, that it was “very probable” such a proposal could have been agreed to privately. Government sources in La Paz have confirmed that thousands of the white refugees will settle in Bolivia, a land locked country in the heart of 8outh America with a predominately Indian population. Other sources say Brazil and Venezuela agreed to receive only professionals and specialized technicians, while Uruguay and Argentina rejected the '»roposal due to their already severe political crises. The hew immigrants are expected to settle in Bolivia's eastern tropical lands, where the military government has al ready initiated colonization projects. These projects were initially intended for Talley looks forward to a very positive working relationship with the Center's personnel. "Our relationship here is one of cooperation,” he said, adding, "I have the maximum support of department administrators.” He defined his job as one of coordination. “As problems occur and as successes occur, I make sure that the client’s needs are served and that the public is made aware of these services.” Angie Talley to Center. Arthur Ashe: Send children to the library by Arthur Ashe Junior Mias Black Oregon [below) and tearfully wears t (left). (Photos: Dan Long] Talley, a graduate of the University of Portland, has a Masters degree from Portland State University and an L.L.B. from the Blakatone College of Law. Talley has worked as a social service worker lor the City of Portland, a parole officer and Assistant Director of Parole for MacLaren Schoo, for Boys. In 1968, he was named Deputy Director for Admin istration for Portland Model Cities. After Model Cities, Talley became Director of Guidance and Counseling for the Portland Residential Manpower Cen ter, then went on to become Parent Involvement Coordinator for the Port land Public Schools before joining the Human Resources Bureau in 1974. major league positions available (estima ting 200 positions to golf, 200 to tennis and 100 to boxing). And the annual turnover is small. We blacks are a subculture at about 28 million. Of the 13*/> million men 3 to 4 million are under 20 years of age, so your son has less than one chance in 1,000 of becoming a pro. Less than one in a thousand. Would you bet your sound future on nothing with odds of 999 to 1 against you? I wouldn’t. Unless a child is exceptionally gifted, you should know by the time be enters high school, whether he has a future as an athlete. But what is more important is what happens if he doesn’t graduate or doesn't land a college scholarship and doesn't have a viable alternative job career. Our high school dropout rate is several times the national average, which contributes to our unemployment rate of roughly twice the national average. And how do you fight the figures in the newspapers every day. Ali has earned more than $30 million boxing. O J. just signed for $2‘/t million. Dr. J for almost $3 million, Reggie Jackson tor $2.6 million, Nate Archibald for $400,000 a year. All that money, recognition, attention, free cars, girls, jobs in the offseaaon-no wonder there is Pop Warner football, Little League baseball, National Junior Tennis League tennis, hockey practice at 5 a.m. and pickup basketball games in any center city at any hour. There must be some way to assure that the 999 who try but don't make is to pro sports don’t wind up on the street corners or in the unemployment lines. Unfor tunately, our most widely recognized role models are athletes and entertainers “mnnin' " and “jumpin’ ” and “singin’ ” and “dancin.’ ” While we are 60 percent of the National Basketball Association, we are less than 4 percent of the doctors and lawyers. While we are about 35 percent of major league baseball, we are less than 2 percent of the engineers. While we are about 40 percent of the National Football League, we are less than 11 percent of construction workers such as carpenters and bricklayers. Our greatest heroes of the century have been athletes-Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali. Racial and economic discrimination forced us to channel our energies into athletics and entertainment. These were the ways out of the ghetto, the ways to get that Cadillac, those alligator shoes, that cashmere sport coat. Somehow, parents must instill a desire for learning alongside the desire to be Walt Frazier. Why not start by sending black professional athletes into high schools to explain the facts of life. I have often addressed high school audiences and my message is always the same. For every hour you spend on the athletic field, spend two in the library. Even if you make it as a pro athlete, your career will be over by the time you are 35. So you will need that diploma. Have these pro athletes explain what happens if you break a leg, get a sore arm, have one bad year or don't make the cut for five or six tournaments. Explain to them the star system, wherein for every O J . earning millions there are six or seven others making $15,000 or $20j00e or'$30.0001year. But don't just have Walt Frazier or O.J. or Abdul-Jabbar address your class. Invite a benchwarmer or a guy who didn't make it. Ask him if he sleeps every night. Ask him whether he was gradua ted. Ask him what he would do is he became disabled tomorrow. Ask him where his old high school athletic buddies are. -We have been on the same roads- sports and entertainment-too long. We need to pull over, fill up at the library and speed away to Congress and the Supreme Court, the unions and the business world. We need more Barbara Jordans, Andrew Youngs, union cardholders, Nikki. (Please turn to page 2 col. 6) Darby heads affiraiative action MacArthur Darby, special assistant to the vice president for equal opportunity at Indiana University-Bloomington, has been appointed affirmative action officer at Portland State University. PSU President Joseph Blume! said Darby is expected to assume his new position on or before July 1. Darby was chosen from among some 200 candidates after a national search by a committee of faculty and staff at PSU. He will take over a position which has been held on a temporary basis by Mary Kinnick. director of institutional re search. She will now return full-time to the latter position. In his new position, Darby will be responsible to the president for all aspects of planning and operation of PSU’s affirmative action and equal op portunity programs. He will serve as a consultant to the University’s Committee for Affirmative Action in Faculty and Staff Employment, and will help monitor progress in the employment and advancement of women, minorities and the handicapped. Darby has held several positions at Indiana University-Bloomington since 1971 when he joined that institution aa an associate coordinator for residence life. He also served as a coordinator of residence life and associate campus om budsman before being named special assistant to the vice president in mid- 1976. Darby's educational background in cludes a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin, a master's degree in student personnel from Indiana University, and a doctorate in higher education from Indiana University. The Bolivian Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), forced underground when Banzer seized control of the gov ernment in 1971, has condemned the project, contending the immigrants’ "colonial and racist attitudes” would threaten Bolivia’s national interests. “By granting good lands to the new colonists the government will be handing over a $10 million to $16 million invest ment, thus denying Bolivian camposinos the benefits of public works,” says the MIR's publication Bolivia Lfors. to director of I l P s Oregon Mother ol the Year, Martha Payee eeto a cake at a teal her. The Northeast Portland rs rids at to being sponsored by United Way lor the national Mother of the Year award kt New York. ____
