Portland Observer Thursday, October 12, 1978 Page 5
Hooks visita Portland NAACP
Benjamin L. Hooks, the Executive
Director o f the National NAACP,
met with the Portland Branch
NAACP Executive Committee while
he was in Portland, according to
Reverend
John
H.
Jackson,
President o f the Portland Branch. In
town to speak to the national
meeting df the Associated Pcss
Managing Editors, Hooks requested
a meeting with the Branch Executive
Committee the night before his
speech. Traveling with Hooks was
the Associate Director o f Public In
formation o f NAACP, Paul Brock.
Hooks had just been to two
Southern churches one of which had
presented him with a check for
$10,000 for the NAACP and the
other with a check for $5,000. He
noted that the backbone o f the
NAAC P was now, as it always had
been, the Black churches. He noted
with regret that the support from
prosperous, middle-class profes
sional Blacks, as a group, was
sporadic. He was more than grateful
for those who served faithfully, but
compared to the numbers o f mem
bers from the churches, and their
ability to support the organization,
he noted that the support o f the
professional class was weak.
In his message to the NAACP
Convention in Portland last July
Hooks said, “ Remember, my brothers
and sisters, none of us have made it
until all o f us have made it.” He
urged the Portland Branch to renew
its efforts to interest both the
Reverend A. Bernard Devers
professionals and the churches to
jo in the NAACP. Hooks said he is
seriously considering giving a percent
age quota to cities against which to
work for membership. He said,
depending on the location o f the city
Delegate.
National
Baptist
Conven
New Hope Baptist Church w ill
or area, that there is really no reason
tion;
President,
Metropolitan
hold a series o f services in honor of
at all why a Branch shouldn’t be
Federal Credit Union; 32° Mason,
its Pastor, Reverend A. Bernard
asked to get five percent or seven
Logan Lodge.
Devers, beginning Sunday. Devers
percent o f the Black population as
has been Pastor o f New Hope for
members. Hooks noted that only
Reverend Devers has recorded two
nearly three years.
with increased membership can
albums distributed nationally by
In 1970, while a member o f New
N AAC P pull itself out o f its finan
Jewel
Records o f Shreveport,
Hope Missionary Baptist Church in
cial crisis in operating funds.
Louisiana. One is entitled “ Remem
Seattle, Devers entered school to
As a political action organization
ber Dr. King, Remember Dr. Jesus,”
study for the ministry, graduating
N A A C P memberships, and Life
and the other entitled, “ Amazing
from Seattle Pacific College in 1975.
Members, are not tax deductible.
Grace.” He has also released a 45
While attending college he was
The NAACP Special Projects fund is
rpm recording entitled “ Because He
associate minister o f his church.
tax deductible, but not one penny o f
Lives” and “ Guide Me O Thou
On January 17, 1975 he became
those funds, by law, can be used for
Great Jehovah.” Other secular work
Pastor o f New Hope Missionary
experience has been Field Technician
operation o f NAACP.
Baptist in Portland. Since moving to
The Executive Director said he had
for Philco fo rd Corporation in
Portland he became involved in
been closely examining N AAC P’ s
Thailand and Vietnam.
church and community activities:
financial status. When the Life
Reverend Devers and his wife,
President, Portland District Sunday
Membership
program
was
Deleria, have four children: Vipa,
' Schools, Baptist Training Union and
inaugurated years ago, it was with
ten; A rthur Bernard II, eight;
Ushers Congress; Vice President.
the provision that only the interest
Demetrius and Demika, five.
Albina
Ministerial
Alliance;
from those funds should be used for
operation. It was sound figuring at
New Hope honors pastor
the lime, but inflation has ruined the
plan. Hooks concluded that only an
expanded membership, more Life
and Heritage Memberships, could
remedy
the
situation.
Hooks
promised that he would make the
operational costs as lean as possible
and said that he was curtailing im
mediately the air travel o f NAACP
National Staff members. It is Hooks’
feeling that the regions, area? or
branches that wish the physical
presence o f staff members to assist
them should band together, make
tight schedules for the staff and
share the expenses of bringing them
out. Parenthetically, he jokingly
suggested that less time be spent on
high level think-tank conferences
such as they seem to be so fond of in
California, and more money and ef
fort be spent on obtaining member
ships.
NAACP National has had a com
puter handling memberships for
almost a year — but he said it w ill be
two more years before it works ef
ficiently. In the meantime, tell
everyone to be patient if they don’t
get their membership cards right
away!
Another item o f business Hooks
took up with the Executive Commit
tee is the matter o f quotas for the
sale o f Holiday Seals. He noted that
in most o f the country, the quota for
seals stays the same year after year.
I f a Branch quota is $1,000 one year,
and they make that quota, they
receive the same quota the next year.
Hooks feels that quotas should be
increased each year so that each year
can be bettered. (The quota has been
tied to membership. I f a branch has
1,000 members it has been con
sidered that they should sell $1,000
worth o f seals.) Holiday Seal money
is unencumbered as far as using it for
operating expenses.
Hooks, while spending most o f his
short time with the Executive Com
mittee on the nitty-gritty o f business
affairs, nevertheless emphasized that
there is no organization save the
N AACP which is in any position at
all to deal with the difficu lt days he
believes lie ahead.
Hooks feels that the “ tax revolt”
that started with Proposition 13 in
California is also racial — anti-Black
and anti-poor folks. He fears a cur
tailment o f the gains o f the past 25
years unless NAACP is strong
enough to resist incursions upon civil
rights. For this reason, as well as
many other signs o f regression,
Hooks urged the Branch to redouble
its efforts to gain support.
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