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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1978)
Page 6 Portland Obaervar Thursday, Community Calendar The Clackamas County Housing and Com m unity Development Agency w ill hold a public hearing to obtain citizens* views on housing and community development needs and priorities fo r the coming year. The hearing w ill be held Wednesday, November 29th, at 7:30 p.m. at Clackamas Com m unity College in Room 204 A and B o f Barlow H all. Citizens having comments on how the ap proxim ately $2.3 m illio n in C om m unity Development Block Orant funds should be spent are urged to attend. For further inform ation call 635-8392. November 27th — Sabin C om m unity Association. 7:30 p.m .. King Neigh borhood Facility, 4815 N .E. 7th. November 28th — King Improvement Association. (1, Elections, 7:30 p.m ., King Neighborhood Facility, 4815 N .E. 7th. November 29th — Bureau o f Planning. Establishment o f a Going Street Senior Advisory Committee. 7:30 p.m .. Beach School, 1710 N. H um boldt. On November 25th and 26th the Western Forestry Center is hosting local toy makers f o r a pre-Christmas showing o f their wooden toys. Many safe, durable, wooden toys w ill be displayed, most o f them w ith a natural finish. In addition to the display o f toys, there w ill be toy-making demonstrations by members o f the Western Woodcarvers Association. The demonstrations and display w ill be in the Exhibit H all, which is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free for members: fo r nonmembers it is $1 fo r adults, 50c fo r senior citizens and students. Children under seven are free. Christmas shoppers, glass and china collectors, and all those who can't resist a good sale should be on hand fo r the Treasure Shop holiday sale at the D ow n town Y W C A , beginning November 28th and continuing through December 1st. The treasure-laden tables w ill be displayed on the main flo o r o f the Downtown Y W C A from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the days o f the sale. Anyone who ad mires beautiful things and appreciates good buys shouldn't miss this one! Location fo r the November 27th meeting o f the Portland School Board has been changed from the small auditorium at the school adm inistration building to the large, centrally located auditorium at Benson High School, Portland schooLpfficials announced. The meeting w ill start at the regular time, 7:30 p.m. The Executive D ire cto r o f the National Association for the Advance ment o f Colored People, Benjamin L . Hooks, has announced that Ms. Althea T .L . Simmons w ill assure the duties o f A ctin g D ire c to r o f the N A A C P ’ s Washington Bureau, ef fective January 1, 1979. Ms. Sim mons. who w ill succeed the retiring W ashington Bureau D ire c to r Clarence Mitchell, becomes the first woman to serve in the post that is the m a jo r lo b b yin g arm fo r the Association's legislative efforts. Althea Simmons is presently the Associate Director fo r Branch and Field Services, and is a seasoned member o f the N A A C P . She has formerly served as National Director fo r Education Programs, National T ra in in g P rogram s, N a tio n a l T ra in in g D ire c to r, Special Field Representative and Director o f the National Voter Registration Project. The 54-year-old, native o f Shreve p o rt, Louisiana is a graduate o f Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she holds a degree in Business Education. She also has a masters degree in marketing from the U niversity o f Illin o is and a J.D . degree in law from Howard Univer sity. NAACP Clarence M itchell, who has been the N A A C P W ashington Bureau Director since July 1946, w ill con tinue w ith the Association in a con sultant’s position and as Chairman o f the Leadership Conference on C iv il R ights. In a d d itio n , he w ill serve as a Distinguished Visiting Lec turer in political science at Morgan State University, and w ill practice law w ith his son M ichael in Baltimore, Maryland. M itc h e ll, w ho has been a ffe c tionately called the "G od -fath er” o f the 1964 C ivil Rights B ill, after an in itia l career as a newspaper report er, started his N A A C P career as Labor Director, before assuming the post o f Washington Bureau Direc to r. He has served on various governmental committees, including the President’ s F air Em ploym ent Practice Committee, the War Man pow er C o m m issio n , the W ar P ro d u c tio n B oard and the President’ s C om m ittee to Em ploy the Physically Handicapped under the Trum an and Eisenhower A d m inistration. W illia m Penn, c u rre n tly the N A A C P Director o f Personnel, w ill assume the post o f Acting Associate D irector o f Branch and Field Ser vices, (effective January 1, 1979). Bring your own Food Geneva's 4228 N. W illiam s 282-6363 Tbo bad, taxpayer. Ybure denied your share. Am erican State Bank "The Bank that integration b u ilt" 2737 N.E. Union Disco Office Holiday Party Ybur federal tax dollars built the dams that generate the electricity that can cut home electric costs twenty percent now. ALTHEA S IM M O N S Simmons heads Washington Free 282-2216 Forty-three years ago, Congress wrote a law. It spelled out how electricity from taxpayer-built dams was supposed to go first to rural and domestic users.,. people like you in your homes. But times changed. And so did the interpre tation of the law. Today, it doesn’t matter that your taxpayer dollars paid for federal dams. If you’re a residential customer of Pacific Power or any other investor-owned utility (like about two-thirds of the homes in the Northwest), you’re denied access to this less-expensive hydro- power. What you get instead are higher home electric bills. To cut your home electric costs, Pacific Power’s been fighting for access to federal hydro- power ... all the way to the courts. Now, leading members of Congress have recognized that legislative action can and should bring you your share. OFFICIAL NOTICE OF NAACP ADJOURNED MEETING - DUE TO BAD WEATHER. Note Change of Place and Time The NAACP November 19th meeting to receive and make N O M INA TIO N S has been adjourned until Sunday. N o vem b er 26 1978 at 3:00 p.m ., Hughes Memorial Metho dist Church, 111 N.E. Failing. Please note change of time for this meeting and for the D ecem ber 10,1978 ELECTION M E E T IN G , an annual meeting. 3:00 P M , Hughes Memorial Methodist Church, 111 N.E. Failing. John H Jackson, President Doris Hayden, Secretary Portland Branch N A A C P . 2752 N W illiam s A v e ., P ortlan d . 97227 When proposed legislation passes, customers of investor-owned utilities will see a 20% cut in home electric rates. Immediately. And more cost cuts will come. Finally, customers of all utility companies, investor-owned and public alike, will equally share the hydropower tax dollars generate. Don Frisbee, Pacific Power’s Board Chairman, testified before Congress in response to pro posed legislation. If you’d like to read what he had to say, just ask one of the people in your Pacific Power office for a copy of his statement. And make sure your Congressman knows where you stand: Taxpayer dollars built the dams. Taxpayer homes should share the bene fits. Reallocation of federal hydropower, through Congressional action, is the way to make it happen. T h e P e o p le a t P a c ific P ow er. Working to cut your energy costs down to size. .. .in lim e o f need Demand that your Congressman support legislation for fair hydropower distribution. (ALDWF.LLS COLONIAL MURTI ARY N F 14th at Sandy and Burnside 232-41 I 1 (
