Portland Observer Thursday, December 7, 1978 Page 5
4-H leader plans busy schedule
“ All the things 1 love tc do, but
never had the time.”
In one sentence, Gladys Maribona
reflects her feelings about her job as
com m unity advisor, serving the
Portland Urban 4-H Program.
Maribona looks forward to a busy
schedule during the months ahead,
including classes in holiday baking,
featuring cookies, cakes, candies and
breads. The Baking Club meets at
Penninsula Park every M onday,
from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Registration is
open and further information about
the sessions can be obtained by
calling the 4-H office, 287-1770, or
Ms. Maribona, 287-4200.
Also on Maribona’s agenda are arts
and crafts classes each Tuesday,
from 3:00-5:00 p.m ., at Columbia
V illa C o m m u n ity C enter, 8900
Woolsey Street. Volunteers are
needed to assist with leadership, and
anyone with one or two hours a week
to spend with a group o f youngsters
is asked to call for leadership infor
mation.
A t C o lu m b ia Boys C lub each
Thursday, Between 3:00-5:00 p.m.,
Maribona is scheduling classes in
photography, woodworking, car
pentry and ceramics.
Pet clubs are meeting in homes
throughout the urban P ortland
community, where youngsters are
learning about rabbits, fish, gerbils
and other small animals,
Maribona has lived in Portland for
the past twenty years. She attended
St. Mary's Academy and earned her
degree in animal science at Oregon
State University. Her interests run the
gamut from the sciences to home
economics. " In 4-H , I can do all the
things I enjoy, and share my skills
and interests with youngsters who
are anxious to make use of their spare
time by learning something new.”
Among other areas o f interest for
Maribona are calligraphy, which she
will teach each Friday afternoon
between 4:00-5:00 p .m . She will
teach folk dancing, cooking, paper
arts, crocheting and sports as part of
her program for the new year.
Spanish has been a second
language in Maribona’s home from the
time she learned to talk. This too she
is sharing with 4-H youngsters who
have signed up fo r her Spanish
workshop, meeting every Wednesday
afternoon at the King Neighborhood
Facility between 2:30-3:30 p.m
The Urban 4-H program is under
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Gladys Maribona discusses 4-H programs.
Come in at your convenience
the direction o f Ira D. M um ford,
Oregon State University extension
agent, and is centered at the King
Neighborhood Facility, 4815 N .E .
7th Avenue, Portland. Anyone in
terested in classes for youth between
the ages o f eight and eighteen, or
leadership in the 4-H program, is
asked to call for further information,
287-1770.
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Quick OK of NW energy bill seen
RETROSPECT - BILL SUMMERS
"I'm not just an entertainer," says Bill Summers. "I like to share my music
with the audience, turn them on at levels they've never experienced and get
them to participate in the creative process."
Offstage, Bill Summers is a serious young man who regards himself as much
an educator as he does a musician. But whenever he appears onstage. Sum
mers is one of the world’s most accomplished percussionists, inevitably
igniting audiences with his infectious enthusiasm and flawless technique.
Summers, thirty, has gathered a wealth of experience that explains much
about his mature attitude towards life and art. As a child, he became a
proficient multi-instrumentalist (piano, reeds, percussion) while growing up in
Detroit. After moving to California, he worked his way through four years of
ethnomusicology study at U.C./Berkeley, with emphasis on percussion. Short
ly after graduating. Summers became a charter member of Herbie Hancock's
pacesetting jazz/funk ensemble, the Headhunters. For the next three and a half
years. Summers, the self-professed nonentertainer, customarily brought
capacity audiences to their feet with his breathtaking percussion solos. More
recently, he was featured percussionist on Quincy Jones’s soundtrack to the
celebrated TV series, "Roots."
Summers studied the piano formally for.tan years (ages six to sixteen) but his
love for music didn't blossom fully until lie picked up the flute, saxophone, and
percussion on his own. "I studied out of books," he says, "and listened to a lot
of records - Eric Dolphy, Wayne Shorter, Gene Ammona."
Back in California, Summers petitioned the conservative U.S. music depart
m ent three times before they granted him an independent m ajor in
ethnomusicology, with a speciality in African music. "I also studied with
several master drummers from Africa, including Zak Diouf and C.K. and Alfred
Ladzekpo."
Though Summers’ educational intentions are needed lofty, his own music is
by no means academic. His playing with Herbie Hancock and with the
Headhunters did much to warm America's ears to new percussion sounds. In
the context of instrumental jazz/funk that was as musically sophisticated as it
was irresistibly danceable. Of course, many sounds new to America's ears in
the Seventies belong to centuries-old instruments with exotic names such as
shekere, quica. hindewhu, and bata drums. In all. Bill plays well over fifty in
struments, and has worked in the studio with Santana, Norman Connors,
Stanley Turrentine, the Pointer Sisters, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, and
many others.
For the past two and a half years. Summers has led his own group, Summers
Heat, an evolving ten-piece unit. The band colorfully juxtaposes African and
Western instruments without compromising any of the individual elements.
"Just like on my records." he says, "there are segments in our live show which
are strictly African, while others are pure Brazilian, America salsa, Latin jazz, or
straight-ahead funk. My music is really a combination of folk musics from
around the world. And rhythm and blues is an American form of Black folk
music."
William F. Buckley, Jt engages
outspoken guests in one-on-one
verbal combat.
THE PREPONÍAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1», 197»
R E T U R N IN G to Oregon after the end of
th e 95th Congres», Dem ocratic Rep. A l U11-
m aa told an A lbany audience that enactment
o f regional energy legislation should be the
“ No. 1 p rio rity " for N orthw est representa
tives and senators in the n e x t session of
Congress.
He said that unnnecessary delay w ill ac
cele ra te th e rap id rise in regional energy
costa.
“W e cannot stop thia trend w ith a new
p ro g ra m ," he said. “ B ut w e can c erta in ly
stretch our resources in a w ay that slows the
trend.”
He said regional differences over the Pa
cific N orthw est Electric Pow er Planning and
Conservation A ct can be w o rked out over
th e next several months. H e said there was
unanim ity over basic objectives o f the meas
ure. including rate relief to residential and
sm all-farm customers.
By KEN H AM BURG
Jownal Staff W rite r
VA NC O U VER . Wash. - W ork la al
ready under way for the passage of the
Northwest regional energy bill by early
1979, according to the man who success
fully pushed the national energy package
through in the closing moments o f the
95th Congress.
Sen. Henry “Scoop" Jackson. D-Wash.,
predicted Monday that the Senate w ill
pass a regional power plan "within tw o to
three months at the most" after Congress
reconvenes in January.
Jackson made his rem arks at a noon
luncheon w ith the Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce at the ThunderMrd Inn at the
Quay and during a presa conference after
wards.
Jackson said the Senate could liav e
passed a Northwest energy bill this year,
"but it wouldn't have solved anything.”
because of disagreements among the three
House comminees that also were looking
at the legislation.
“ There is going to be some give and
take; there's a fear the preference clause
(fo r public power agencies) w ill be invad
ed,” be said. “W e're not going to do that.
W hat w e are going to try to do ia bring
equity to the rate payers. There's going to
be problems, but I think they can he re
solved and w ill bs resolved." he said.
On another matter of regional interest.
Jackson said a decision by the U.S. Su
preme Court Monday to review the Judge
Boldt decision on Indian fishing rights "is
the beat news we've had in a long, long
tim e.”
"The Boldt decision would establish a
precedent that would have a colossal Im
pact on claims by Indians a il over the
United States," he asserted "It's long
overdue.”
On the national scene, Jackaon said the
*18 .7 billion tax cut passed by Congress
Sunday was “ overall the best N il we
could get. It provides a pretty good bal
ance" ia savings for middle- and lower-
income taxpeyers, as w ell i t for corporate
investments.
The tax package, he said, should stimu
late the economy without contributing to
Inflation
In response to a question, Jackson
awarded President Carter a B-plus for his
handling of the 95th Congress. "He made
a complete turn-around," Jackson said. He
said Carter managed to pass nts top prior
ity energy package by w o rkin g closely
w ith the congressional leadership.
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Just because Congress has adjourned until
January doesn’t mean the Northwest’s re
gional energy bill is on the back burner.
A Square Deal for Investor-Owned Utility
Customers.
Leading m embers o f Congress recognize the
im portance o f a Northwest regional energy
bill. Am ong other im portant objectives this bill
is designed to bring about equitable distribu
tion o f less expensive federal hydropower.
As it stands now, two-thirds of the North
west’s homes are served by investor-owned
utilities...and all are denied access to this
cheaper power.
Legislative action is the answer.
Pacific Power has been fighting to gain access
to that power for our custom ers... all the
way to the courts. And now, our Northwest
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representatives in Congress are working
diligently to solve the problem through legis
lative action.
It means lower hom e electric bills.
When the proposed legislation passes, cus
tomers o f investor-owned utilities will see a
20% cut in hom e electric rates. Immediately.
With more cuts to come. And customers of all
utility companies, investor owned and public
alike, will equally share the hydropower tax
dollars generate.
So let your Congressmen know where you
stand. \b u r support o f reallocation of federal
hydropower will help keep this very im portant
bill rolling.
The People a t Pacific Power.
Working to cut your energy costs down to size.
Senator
Representative
Mark O. Hatfield
Robert Duncan
463 Russell Senate
440 Cannon House
Office Building
Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510 Washington D.C. 20515
Representative
Representative
Al Clllman
Les AuCoin
1136 Longworth House 231 Cannon House
Office Building
Office Building
Washington D.C. 20515 Washington D.C. 20515
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Leaders from US. House and
Senate say Northwest energy
legislation "No. 1 priority."
Senator
Bob Packwood
1317 Dirksen Senate
Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510
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Representative
James Weaver
1238 Longworth House
Office Building
Washington D.C. 20515