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I r'agt* 6 Portland Observer Thursday, March 30. 197H Colbert ee.ts Ohio fiflbier PORTLAND - Portland's hope for a World Boxing title in the middleweight class. Mike Colbert will have his first and probably most severe test since having his jaw broken by an illegal punch last November by No. 1 ranked Marvin Hagler when he holds down the ten round feature. Thursday. March 30th at the Expo center in Portland. The bouts, re-scheduled from March 9th because a suitable opponent for Colbert was not available will again be promoted by Northwest Sports and matchmaker Ron Ail has one of the country's top middleweight's in Cinci- natti's Clifford Wills. Wills credentials include a 18 win 2 loss record but his two losses were to No. 1 ranked WBA middleweight Ronny Harris when the fight was stopped in the tenth round because of a cut and a 10 round split decision loss to “Sugar" Ray Seales of Tacoma, the No. 2 ranked WBA * * * * * * * * • Trt- middleweight and U.S. rated boxing champion. The classy 23 year old former national A.A.U. champion is a class boxer stated Seattle promoter Joe Williams who pro moted the Seales fight in Vancouver. B.C. He is a stalker and does not back down even when being punched stated Wil liams. He will be a worthy opponent for No. 2 ranked by Ring magazine Colbert and he comes to fight. Wills manager Ray Cantrell was elated at the opportunity to fight Colbert and assured Ail that Wills will be ready for the classy Portland boxer. Four other bouts will be on the evenings’s carding with a 8 round semi main and three six rounders, with four top area pros matching their skills against top out of state talent. Persons holding tickets from the March 9th fight, those tickets will be honored at the March 30th slugfest. Book explores career * Community Calendar games that •«¡aaf’w With them began the golden era of Negro baseball. Brashler recreates the magical mo ments of those days when Josh's bat met ball, sending it soaring right out of the stadium. And he resurrects the flam buoyant style and spirit of the game - the “doctored" balls, the unbelievable mo tions (sidewinder deliveries, hesitation pitches), the tricks (bunts, force-plays, intentional walks, hit-and-run plays at unheard-of moments). The author deals with the frustrations of playing in the Negro leagues. The ever-present bigotry that spelled incon venience in some places (teams using the Pittsburgh Pirates' stadium, for example, couldn't use their showers and lockers) and danger to life in others. The broken promises of the Big Leagues that they would sign Black players. The recogni tion never achieved by those who were too old when racial prejudice turned the comer in 1945 and 1946. Through the ‘30s and '40s Josh played on, winning fans all over, even in Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico where the climate was more hospitable to Black ^layers. But his heavy drinking took its toll. Though he won the Negro National League batting title in 1945, his health was poor, and when the Big Leagues began tapping Black talent, signing Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella. and Don Newcombe, among others, Josh wasn't on their list. (Neither were Sat chel Paige. Buck Leonard, Cool Papa Bell and others considered too old.) In the early morning hours of January 20, 1947, Josh Gibson died of a stroke. In 1972 he finally found his place in the Baseball Hall of Fame and three years later, admirers replaced the metal plaque that marked the number of his plot with a simple but proper stone. created a monotheistic religion which shattered the foundations of Egypt's security. Tutankhamen brought his homeland back to its ancient gods. Stampfer will lecture on Moees, who was of roughly the same time period, at 2:30 p.m. April 1st at congregation Nevefk Shalom. 2900 S.W. Peaceful Lane. The Tut lecture will be at 2:30 p.m. on April 2nd in room 338 of PSU’s Smith Memorial Center. Tickets are free but may be reserved by calling PSU (229-4440) or the synagogue office 1246-8831). ’66 T-Blrd Completely reconditioned & should be just the car you've been looking for to drive or put in storage for future appreciation. Stk No 2096B. CDfìM from OHE O f THE FIJI £R FAMILY OFFIMC AUTOMOBILES of Negro League star The “Black Babe Ruth." That was Josh Gibson, a baseball legend in the first half of this century, barrel-chested like the Babe and a hitter who meant murder every time he touched bat to ball. On April 26th, Harper & Row will publish “Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues" by William Brashler ($9.95). Brashler is also the author, most recent ly. of a biography. “The Don: The Life and Death of Sam Giancana" and of a novel, “The Bingo Long Traveling All- Stars and Motor Kings," about a barn storming team of Black ballplayers To The 1 railblazcrs loot their fourth in a row as injuries still plagued the champions. write his new book. Brashler interviewed Dave Cowans led the Celtics to a KM victory with 28 points and 16 rebounds many of the old-time players who toured Maurice Lucas returned to the Blazer lineup after sitting out six with an injured with Josh in the Negro lea g u es - foot, getting 14 points and 14 rebounds. Havlicek. playing his last game in Portland baseball greats like Hall-of-Famer Judy before retirem ent, finished with 14 for Boston. Johnson. “Cool Papa" Bell, a gazelle of an outfielder, and Jimmy Crutchfield. The result is a biography that captures the joys, sorrows, triumphs, and frustrations of the Black ballplayers in the ^ s , ‘30s, and '40s and paints a portrait of an Schedule of events for Martin Luther King. Jr. Meeh. KBPS Radio (13901: Sunday, extraordinary athlete wire might have ^ p rii 2nd, - 9:45 * m. Special guest interview, Nick Barnett. Director. Metropolitan made it but for the color bar. Human Relations Commission, Darrell Milner. Black Studies Program. Portland State Born on December 21, 1911 in a village University Monday. April 3rd - 7:30-9:00 p.m. Special broadcast, “From the Pulpit. outside Macon, Georgia, Josh Gibson From tlie People," a benefit performance. March 15th-18th, Catlin Gable School, featuring gospel singer Willa Dorsey, speaker Herb Cawthorne as Dr. Martin Luther moved to Pittsburgh where his father worked in the steel mills. While still in his King. Jr., and the New Hope Baptist Choir. Very good. Tuesday. April 4th - 5:30 p.m. teens, Josh began to make his name as a Special dinner meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee for Martin Luther King. Jr. W eek, at the Albina Women's League Center, 8 N.E. Killingsworth. Barbecued ribs, beans and sandlot ballplayer. By 1928 his baseball salad, about »2 per person Please R.S.V.P. 231-1449 early a.m. or late p.m Friday, career was launched with the Crawford April 7th. - 9:45 b jb . Presentation ceremony. Martin Luther King School. 490b N.E. Colored Giants, a team he helped orga 6th. Gorti.nd l»aily - 12:00-12:30 Noon - a series of lectures delivered by Dr. King nize. His position was catcher, a natural for this big strong boy, 190 pounds of shortly before his death and produced by the Canadian Broadcasting System. These muscle spread on a six-foot two-inch were aired in Canada in 1967 and will be broadcast for the first time in the U.S. by frame, with solid legs as fast as a National Public Radio. Monday: The relative merits of violent and non violent sprinter’s. approaches to racial problems: Tuesday - Conscience and the War in Vietnam; By summer, 1930 Josh was hitting Wednesday - Youth and Social Action; Thursday - Non Violence and Social Change. baseballs out of parks all over Pittsburgh Friday - Peace and Non-Violence. as the Colored Giants regular catcher. In celebration of National Library Week. April 2nd-8th. the Albina Branch Library. And then he joined the Homestead 3605 N.E. 15th Avenue, will present readings by local Northeast Portland authors on Thursday, April 6th at 7:00 p.m. Willis Eberman, William Kaplan and Robert Reid Grays. The tale most commonly told, and probably least truthful, puts Josh as a fan will read selections of their poetry and author Susan Green will read from a novel in progress. All interested persons are invited to this free program. For additional in the stand suddenly called in during a crucial game. information call the Albina Branch at 287-7147. A ‘-*1* Spaghetti Dinner. Saturday. April 29th from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. will be In 1932 Josh rejoined the Pittsburgh held at St. Andrew Community Center. 4940 N.E. 8th Avenue. There will be a charge Crawfords - the Craws - under the aegis of $3 for adults and $2 for children. The dinner is being sponsored by the Oregon of a new owner, Gus Greenlee, who Coalition for National Health Security as a fund raiser, to help in its work of educating turned them into one of the best and most stylish Black teams in the country. the public on the issues of a national health plan. (Satchel Paige was also among the On Sunday. April 2nd, at 3:00 p.m. KGW-TV presents “From the Pulpit - From the players he signed.) Greelee built them a People," a 90 minute tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. The program features 45 stadium of their own, provided an abun members of the New Hope Baptist Choir and the Youth Choir of Portland, gospel dance of first-rate equipment (including clean uniforms and two bats per player), singer Willa Dorsey, and Herb Cawthorne. On April 14th. loth, and 16th, the First Portland International Conference on and gave them a bus and a secretary. The Human Rights will be held at the King Neighborhood Facility. This conference will Craws were sensations, winning 99 to 135 feature speakers, workshops, and cultural events which will focus on the international struggle for human rights. Keynote Speakers are: Colistus Ndlovu - Representative to the United Nations for the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe. Vernon Bellecourt - National leader of the American Indian Movement. Hassan Noti - Professor at UCLA, Los Angeles; an expert on the history of the Middle East in particular the Palestinian issue. Jose Alberto Alvarez - First Secretary of Puerto Rican Socialist Party. New York For information call 234 5860. King Tut and Moses will be the subjects of a free two-lecture series to be presented April 1 and 2 by Rabbi Joshua Stampfer of congregation Neveh Shalom, adjunct associate professor of Middle East Studies at Portland State Univer ally. Stampfer, who will teach a course this summer at PSU “King Tut's History" calls Tutankhamen a “heroic tragic figure who survived the age of Ikhnaton and returend the land of Egypt to its tradi tional course." He explains that Ikhnaton. ruler before Tut, established a new god L< Now Only $1899 7 5 Datsun B-210 Coape 7 3 LTD 4 Dr. Ht. V8. automatic, power steering, factory air, vinyl top, WSW tires, radio, radials. 4 CYL, 4 SPD, 40 MPG $2299 ’76 Pinto Wgn $1999 ’ 75 Valiant 4 Dr. Just the one you've been looking for. 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Competition is in poetry, fiction and essay, and is open to all 9th through 12th graders. Twelve winners will be selected to participate in a unique, five-day work shop at Lewis and Clark College with professional writers and poets. Tuition, room and board will be awarded to the winners. Workshop dales are June 26 30. All entries should be submitted by the English Department of each school En tries must be postmarked no later than April 15th. The workshop will be conducted by Sa idra McPherson, a poet, and James State SALEM, MARCH 27 - Retroactive food stamp benefits may be available to past and present clients of Adult and Family Services Division under a recent court decision involving issuance of emer gency food stamps. In the past, emergency issuance of stamps required full proof of need, either by a friend of the household or by the household itself. The emergency is suance also was good just once every six months. Under the Federal Court Ruling (Aiken vs. Obiedo). both the time limit and confirmation of need have been found illegal for households with no income. Past and present clients of Adult and Family services Division who applied for Welch, a novelist. Ms. McPherson is a poet of national stature and she has taught at the Aspen writers conference and the University of Ioway. James Welch is an American Indian novelist and poet from Montana. His poetry has been published extensively in American journals and abroad. His first novel, “Winter in the Blood”, has been praised by many national publications. Welch has conducted numerous resi dencies as a guest writer and has worked in poets-in-the-schools programs in many states. Students who are interested in the contest should contact their English teachers. Graduates of James Monroe High School (Girls Polytechnic) wffl hold their annual reunion on Monday, April 3rd from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the school. A brief program will be held in the Auditorium beginning at 7:30 p.m. This will be the 50th Anniversary of the present building, which will be its last year of use as a high school. Historic items will be on display in the hall showcases. The school is also attempting to com pile a history of the school, its staff and students. Those who have yearbooks before 1930 that could be duplicated the night of the reunion and returned, or any other souveniers or items of interest are asked to take them to the reunion. All students, neighbors, relatives, fac ulty and husbands are urged to attend the reunion. food stamp requirements food stamps from August 5, 1974 to January 1st of this year and who were denied stamps on either or both grounds possibly could be eligible to receive retroactive benefits. People currently not receiving food stamp benefits but who applied during the 1974 1976 benefit dates are also potentially eligible for retroactive benefits. 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