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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1977)
NAACP Portland Observar director the Executive Director af the N AA CP ua heads regioa ■ W *« . waa bore to Memphto In IM S . Ho graduated from LeMoyna-Owen Coi- aad received hie law degree from Howard Univeraity. Hooka waa eo-founder aad vice proai- deot of tha Mutual Federal Saving* and Lean Association of Memphis for 15 y ean , from 1986 to 1999. Thia w ai a earner that ho pursued while also work ing both in law and the ministry. For several yearn. Hooka waa an ■aiatant public defender in Memphis, [presenting the legal internet« of the pear and Indigent Ha pradticod general law in Memphia and waa later selected aa the flrat Back judge in Shelby County (Memphia) Criminal Court, where he served arith distinction for several years. Hooka has produced from Memphia and boated his own television program, "Con versations In Black and White," co produced an other, “ F o rty Percent Speaka” and haa been a pandiat on "What Ia Your Faith." Barn to Memphia on January 81,1925, he attended LeMoyne CoUege and Howard Univeraity, CoUege of Law, to 1948. He ia a World W ar H veteran and served to Italy to the 92nd Infantry Division. He ia a Life Member of the N A A C P and ones aarved on the Board of Director» of tha Southern Christian Leaderahip Con ference. The Tennessee Council on Human Relation* to Memphia and the Shelby County Human Relations Commit tee. He ia a member of the American Bar Association and the Judicial Council of tha NBA. M r. Hooka and hia wife France* have a daughter. M r*. Patricia Loutoa Gray, aad two grandchildren. ■ * Tb* Alliance, a coalition of organisa tions and individuals to tha Pacific North west, early this month had announced i fo r a non-violent civil disobedience t i the Trojan plant on August 9th. Hiroehima Day. “I f such negotiations have not resulted to Trojan’s ceasing the production aad raises* of radioactive poisons by August 9th, we shall take the action that our 1." the anti-nuke eaid to Ha letter to PGE board Frank M. Warren. The tha latter to F D . Wiedan, a PGE vice preaidant, after attempting to nuke aa appointment with Warren for Monday or Tuesday. The AUiaaea w u told by Warren that both he and PGE Preaidant Robert Short would ha “out of town“ or otherwise unavail- Ia tts Isttar to PGE. the Alliance noted the past lew years to rid Oregon of nuclear power plants, and added, “W e now believe that civil dis obedience is the only peaceful direction we can take to answer to the demands of our consciences; we forbid, to the limits of our power, any imposition of radio active poisons upon us and upon this planet." The Alliance latter formally informed PGE that anti-nuclear demonstrators “will be attempting to halt the operation of Trojhn through non-violent civil disobedience. .This action will commence on August 9 ,1 9 7 7 , Hiroshima D ay.” Criticism of the Trojan plant h«s been growing due to its extensive history of shutdowns from malfunctions, leaks of radioactivity and the lack of any proven safe method to deal with the approxi mately 600 pounds of plutonium (the deadliest known element) and 86 tons of other radioactive material slated to be removed from the plant’s reactor core every year. Speaking at a mid-morning press conference. A lliance spokesperson Eugene Roeolie termed the continued operation of the Trojan plant “a definite danger to the health and safety of ourselves and future generations.” Roeolie went on to cite recent leaks at the nuclear plant of cobalt-58 and plans to enlarge the spent fuel storage pools to hold ten years of radioactive waste from the Trojan reactor as examples of ways PGE executives and government officials > Mrs. Lillian Herzog is best known for her more than twenty years of tutoring reading which she provides free for young people. She began tutoring young adults who were out of school, but also found a great used among younger students. She was one of the founders of the "Reading Tree”, a volunteer reading program carried out to Irving Park. A response to the large number cd- young people who were entering high school wihtout reading skills, the program started with twelve reading houses but soon outgrew the houses and expanded into the park. Mrs. Herzog and her husband, Don, are strong supporters of Irving Park Little League and for y e a n have sponsored a team. Besides her involvement with the neighborhood youngsters, she is politically active and belongs to a number of community organisations. She is the mother of a grown daughter, Ann Schneider. Use all you need but save all you can . . . The People at Pacific Power Group demands Trojan shut-down T ro ja n Decommissioning A lliance at with Portland ' Co. officials this morning I a latter calling for negotia tions aimed a t tha permanent shutdown of tha Trojan unclear power plant on the Cetambfe R iver 40 mites northwest of 18. 1977 Paga I Citizen of the Week The Secretary of Health. Education, and Welfare, Jooeph A . Califano, Jr., haa announced the appointment of Bernard E. Kelly aa the Principal Regional Official to H E W ’« Region X Office to Seattle, Under the Department'* reograngiaa- tion plan, effective August 1. 1977, the current title Regional Director will ba discontinued and the position redefined and renamed Principal Regional Official to reflect the function of the new PRO* and the direct personal rspreaentativea of the Secretary to the field. Kelly, H E W Region X Director since 1996 thus become* the first new Principal Regional Official to be appointed for one of H EW ’, ten regional office«. Region X comprises at the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The major duties of the new Principal Regional Official* will be to: serve aa the central clearing point for providing ser vice« to Congressional district offices; to serve aa the principal regional contact for the Secretary with state and local at- ficiala, public interest groups, and the news media; assess the effectiveness of H EW programs at the level of the recipient» of H E W services; assist the Secretary and program heads to canvas sing views of state aad local officials aad various interest groups on present and future H E W policies, legislation, and regulations; provide centralised and cost- effective administrative services to regional program units; assist in solving problems that cut across several different H EW program areas. Kelly, a native of Thurmont, Maryland, has been with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare since 1992. He and his wife Betty live on Mercer Island (Washington). They have four children. BENJAMIN HOOKS Thursday, July “have been abdicating their responsibil ities.” Roeolie said. “They leave us no choice but to take more direct action to defense of life itself.” Carter appoints Bolea ambassador President Jimmy Carter has announc ed the nomination of David B. Bolen of Colorado as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the German Democratic Republic. Bolen, a Black, is Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Bolen was born to 1928 in Heflin, Louisiana He received a BS and MS from the U niversity of Colorado to 1950 and an M P A from Harvard University to I960. He served to the A ir Force from 1948 to 1949. From 1960 until 1962 Bolen was ad m in istrative assistant and consular and re porting officer to Monrovia. He was an economic assistant to Karachi from 1962 to 1964, and was detailed to the Com merce Department from 1966 to 1967. In 1967 and 1968 he waa an international economist at the State Department. Bolen was Afghanistan desk officer to 1968 and 1969, and chief of the economic section to Accra from 1990 to 1992. From 1992 to 1994 he was staff assistant to the assistant secretary of state for African affairs. From 1994 to 1999 he was officer to charge of Nigerian affairs and to 1999-1997 he attended the National W ar College. SMITH See This Today! fa m o i to p -q u a lity W h ir lp o o l From 1997 to 1972 Bolen was economic officer, then counselor of economic af fairs. to Bonn. From 1972 to 1978 he was counselor of the Embassy for economic affair* to Belgrade. He served as ambas sador to Botswana, Lesotho and Swazi land from 1978 until 1976, when he became deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs. 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