NAACP
Portland Observar
director
the Executive Director af the N AA CP ua
heads regioa
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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.
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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.
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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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