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Volume 8 No. 20 Thursday, May 11, 1978 10c per
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Mike Ingram
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Michael Ingram is the new floor man
ager at Lynn Kirby Ford.
"Mike came to us about a year ago and
became one of our top salespeople in
about three months. On several occa
sions he has been our top salesperson,”
said Jim Kirby, General Sales Manager.
“When the job of floor manager came
available my first thought was to give
Mike a shot at it. Needless to say, he has
more than met our expectations and has
found a definite home as part of our
management team.
“The only time I ever worry about
Mike is when he looks at my chair and
smiles. You never know . . .”
Ingram, a native of Minneapolis, at
tended Metro Junior College and the
University of Minnesota. After moving
to Oregon in 1975, he sold central heating
and air conditioning. He came to Port
land at the urging of his sister, Mrs.
Linda Eubanks.
“What I like about selling at Lynn
Kirby Ford is bringing prestige to the
sales business.
They are fair with
customers and employees. I plan to stay
with Lynn Kirby because I have a job I
like and the people I work with are the
greatest, and the opportunities are unli
mited.”
Ingram, who is unmarried, enjoys golf,
chess and painting.
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Mothers Day greetings
by Joe McHenry
JABIES PONTON. JR.
James 0 . Plinton, Jr., pioneer aviator,
civic leader, and vice president of East
ern Airlines will be in Portland Thursday,
May 18th as the keynote speaker for the
NAACP’s final Blue Ribbon Committee
meeting.
Mr. Plinton's 38-year romance with
aviation began in 1940 with aeronautics
and pilot training at the University of
Newark.
After graduating with an
instructors rating in 1942, Plinton joined
the famed 99th Pursit Squadron as a
flight instructor.
After the war, Plinton was unable to
get a job with the Airlines. Unwilling to
give up his career with aviation, Plinton
joined with Maurice DeYoung flying a
beat-up amphibian airplane throughout
the Caribbean. In 1946 Equador sought
Plinton's help in reorganizing ANDES A,
the Equadorian National Airline.
Two years later, at the invitation of the
Haitian government Plinton established
Quisqueya, Ltd., an inter-island air ser
vice connecting the Turk and Caicos
Islands from Port-an-Prince, Haiti and
Kingston, Jamaica.
While in Haiti, Plinton received the
National Order of Honor and Merit from
the islands grateful government for
speeches given by Plinton in the U.S. on
travel and business opportunity in Haiti.
After a stint of acrobatic flying for
various national events, Plinton again
tried to enter the ranks of commercial
aviation pilots.
After writing to a childhood friend who
was a captain for TWA, Plinton was
invited by Carter Burgess, then presi
dent of TW A, to a company meeting.
Plinton so impressed Carter and the
other company officers he was made
executive assistant to the director of
personnel and industrial relations thus
Plinton became the first Black executive
to work for a major airline in U.S.
history.
After fifteen years of service with
TWA, Plinton moved on to Eastern
Airlii.cs as Vice President and director of
market development.
Today Plinton's emphasis is directed
toward Caribbean travel, and the wheel
turns full circle.
Mrs^ Evangeline Smith (right) and Mrs. Irene Tate of Complete
*- *—[ Service presented Mother’s Day corsages to ladies
_ the monthly Senior Citizen Lunch. The donor of the
flowers wi
wished to remain anonymous but the rumors say it was
John Craig.
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AVREC forum explains ballot measures
The Albina Voter Registration and
Education Committee (AVREC) in co
operation with the Black Studies Center
of Portland State University will sponsor
a “Public Forum on Ballot Issues" as a
voter education service for the May 23,
1978 primary election. The forum will be
held at the King Neighborhood Facility
cafeteria, 4815 N.E. 7th Avenue, Tues
day. May 16th, from 8:00-10:00 p.m.
and cons of the six state ballot measures
and the one county measure up for vote
on the primary ballot.
2, To allow AVREC to develop a
position in respect to the ballot measures
as they relate to the needs and interests
of Northeast Portland.
The forum will be conducted in a panel
format which presents both sides of
selected measures, and is followed by
discussion and comment from the aú
dience. At the conclusion of the forum,
AVREC members will be polled on their
positions on each of the various ballot
MICHAEL INGRAM
Eastern official promotes NAACP convention
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The purpose of the forum is twofold:
1) To provide information to the resi
dents cf Northeast Portland on the pros
measures.
The Albina Voter Registration and
Education Committee believes that this
type of public forum will aid Northeast
residents in defining the importance and
impact of various ballot measures on the
community and the quality of life within
it. We invite all residents of Northeast
Portland, and other interested citizens, to
attend and participate.
Please call Art Barfield, AVREC Edu
cation Committee, at 248-4509, for addi
tional information.
Pambrun joins White Cloud Center staff
PORTLAND, OR. - Audra Pambrun, a
member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Mon
tana, has been named program analyst of
the White Cloud Center at the University
of Oregon Health Sciences Center
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Ms. Pambrun also has a joint academic
appointment at the UOHSC. She is
adjunct instructor in psychiatric nursing.
School of Nursing, and senior instructor
in the department of psychiatry. School
of Medicine.
At the White Cloud Center her duties
include designing model mental health
programs and technical assistance for
mental health development for American
Indian and Alaskan native people and
their communities. She also assists in
mental health research and development
and coordinates program development
activities in the Center.
The White Cloud Center is the only
center for American Indian and Alaskan
native mental health research and pro
gram development in the United States.
It is supported by the National Tribal
Chairman's Fund with monies from the
National Institute of Mental Health.
Ms. Pambrun, a registered nurse who
also holds an honorary doctorate of
science degree, has ten years of ex
perience each as director of health pro
grams and community nursing.
Before coming to the White Cloud
Center she was associate director of the
U.S. Public Health Service office of
research and development, applications
branch, Tucson, Arizona, where she
worked with tribal health groups from
throughout the U.S.
Her background also includes exper
ience as community health director,
Blackfeet Reservation, Browning, Mon
tana, work with the Western Interstate
Commission on Higher Education
(WTCHE) on increasing the number of
minority students in health fields, serv
ing as health liaison specialist for the
Indian and Migrant Head Start Program,
American Academy of Pediatrics,
Washington, D.C., and later as director of
medical consultation for Head Start, with
the academy, Evanston, Illinois.
Audra Pambrun, a member of the
Blackfeet Tribe of Montana, has been
named program analyst of the White
Cloud Center at the University of Oregon
Health Sciences Center in Part u s
Register and Vote
Oregon Primary - May 23rd
You
1.
2.
3.
may register to vote by m ail or in person if:
You are a citizen o f the United States.
You w ill be 18 or older on election day.
Your are a resident of Oregon.
You must re-register to vote if:
1. Your address changes.
2. Your name changes for any reason. (A person
who had changed a name w ith in 60 days before an
election and has not re-registered may vote upon
presentation of proof of name change. Subsequent
re-registration is required).
3. You wish to change p olitical parties.
Your must be registered 20 days before the
election in order for your name to be included in the
poll book.
You may apply for an absentee b allot if:
1. You are a registered voter, and
2. You live more than 15 miles from your voting
place, or
3. You w ill be unable for any reason to attend the
election.
4. You are in the m ilitary service or a dependent
of a m ember o f the arm ed forces or merchant
marines and are absent from your place of
residence.
You may apply for an absentee b allot by:
1. Submitting an application to the county clerk
w ith in 60 days preceding the election. (Service
voters may apply after January 1 o f the election
year).
2. The application must include: Your signature,
your address and precinct num ber (a va ila ble from
the Registrar), a statement of w hy you w ill be unable
to attend the election, and the address to w hich the
b allot w ill be m ailed.
You may register and vote w ith in 20 days o f election
day if:
1. If you register between 10 and 20 oays before
the election, a "C ertificate o f Registration" w ill be
m ailed to you. If you register less than ten days You must return the voted absenteee b allot to the
before the election you must obtain the certificate in Registrar's o ffice not later than 8:00 p.m. on Election
person at the Registrar of Elections office. Certificates Day.
are issued until 8:00 p.m. election day.
2. You present and surrender your certificate to For a dd itio n al inform ation call:
precinct on election day and sign it before the
Registrar o f Elections
election board clerk. Your name w ill then appear in
1040 S.W. Morrison
the poll book at the next election.
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Newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Herbert B. Countee
receives congratulations from his grandmother Mrs. Doff
Phillips lieft) Joan O’Neal and his other grandmother Ethel
Countee. He will report for active duty October 26th in Boston.
U of Portland graduate receive* commission
Herbert B. Countee, was commissioned
as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air
Force Reserve during ceremonies May
6th at the University of Portland.
Major General William H. Prentice,
U.S. Army Retired, administered the
oath of office to seven U of P graduating
seniors.
At commencement ceremonies May
7th, Countee received a bachelor’s degree
in business administration and manage
ment.
Bishop Paul E. Waldschmidt,
president of the university, conferred
degrees on 449 students at ceremonies at
the Portland Civic Auditorium.
Countee, a 1966 Jefferson High School
graduate, attended Portland Community
College before enrolling at the University
of Portland. He received the Reserve
Officer’s Award of Merit presented to the
senior cadet who possesses the most
positive attitude toward AFROTC and
who displays the greatest courtesy, per
sonal appearance and officer potential of
his/her contemporaries. He has been
active in AFROTC activities and soccer.