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Page 10 Portland Obaarvar April 16, 1961 Sports Talk By Ron Sykes, Sports Editor something special. For me, he was my first hero. Joes’ s reign, 1937- 1949, took place in very different times for Black Americans; a Joe Louis was the one man that all could look up to and cheer. And what Joe did was just as proud; Joe struck out against “ Jim Crow” in the only way he knew best...his fists. Born Joseph Louis Barrow on May 13, 1914, Joe won the title by knocking out James Braddock in eight rounds. Joe would defend his title 25 times more than any heavyweight champion ever. Some w ill say that Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight ever to lace on a pair of gloves, others will argue that Muhammad A li was the greatest, but all in all, they are two different athletes, from different times. One should only judge them, as hopefully history w ill, that they (A li and Louis) were the greatest o f their time. Rest your body Joe, but your memory will always remain with us. The “ Brown Bomber” is gone, and w ith him the hearts o f many Americans both Black and white. Louis was pronounced dead at 10:15 A.M . (PST). Louis reportedly died in his Las Vegas bathroom , despite all efforts by his therapist, Noel Larimer, to revive him. Black people throughout America w ill mourn Joe because he was U niversity distance runners ex pected a good test last week when the Duck track and field team took on Auburn. What they got was a clean sweep from 400 meters to 5,000. The Tigers distance corp in cluded runners which guided Auburn to a fifth place finish at the NCAA cross country meet. Oregon’ s crew o f Rudy Chapa, Greg Erwin and Mike Friton took up the challenge and as usual won everything. The Ducks are to track as OSU to basketball. Oregon is p e re n n ia lly one o f the top dual teams in the country. And i f there’s a weakness, its been in the sprints. This w ill no longer be a problem . Earlier this week, coach Dellinger received a letter o f intent from George Kallott from St. Catherines, Jamaica. George is the 1980 NCAA 200-meter champion at C entral Arizona College. He has times o f 20.83 fo r 200 meters and 10.40 in 100 meters. A long w ith fo o tb a ll wide receiver Mark James and top sprinter, Larry Bradley, the Ducks appear to be on the way to greater heights. Dwight Robertson, fo o tb a ll tailback, has made good progress and now appears on the verge o f becoming a world class hurdler. Robertson had to lose 20 pounds for track. He played football at 205 and now is down around 180, and th a t’ s no easy task. D w ight has a wind rided 14.0 and when the weather breaks could be down around 13.9. There’ s another star on Oregon’ s horizon in sophomore David Mack M ack, the Los Angeles dandy has run 1.46.6 fo r 800 meters and 3:44.8 at 1500 meters. In three meets this year, he has won at 400, 800 and 1500. When the 1984 Olympics roll around, look for David Mack to be there. Politics (Continued from Page 1 Col 6) the two additional west side dis tricts, including Mason's. Legislators proposing the one- district policy are Representatives K afoury, Bauman and Priestley. Bauman presented a plan that was bordered by the 1-5 freeway, 33rd Avenue, the Colum bia River and Fremont. This plan has been rejec ted. PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Forest Grove - This group of Pacific Univer sity students are at their snack bar table ready to hand out green rib bons as a rem inder of the children of A tlan ta. They are m em bers of Pacific's C ultural Ethnic M in o rity Student Union (C E M S U ) and are (fro m le ft s tan ding ) Lance Giles. A n d rew K irklan d , M ich ael Rhue b o tto m , V a llice Fow ler, Phillip Sherm an, Di Di D aniels, and Bryon Crudup (seated). They w ill continue this project until the situation in A tlanta is resolved. CEM SU reports that the green ribbon project has Legislative Research designed a district that would involve the maximum number o f Black resi dents and still follow natural com m unity boundaries. This district would have 43,532 residents - 45 percent Black, 46 percent white, and 9 percent other races. This plan in cludes the Boise, H um boldt, Pied m ont, W oodlawn, King, Vernon and Sabin neighborhoods and part o f Concordia, Irvington and Eliot - roughly the area served by the Northeast C oalition o f Neighbor hood Organizations. Mason’ s plan assigns ap proxim ately 20 percent Black to district 8. Since district 9 and 10 are not yet drawn the number is not determined, but in those combined districts there are 87,283 persons in cluding 15,911 Blacks, (about 19 percent) As tempers flare, so does insen sitivity. W hile the legitim ate need lo r an optim um opp o rtu n ity for Black participation is discussed - gripes about districts fo r Jews and Southeast Asians are made. The involved legislators, as well as others who are interested, w ill be invited to discuss this issue with the public at a meeting to be held on Tuesday, A p ril 21st, 7:30 p.m .. at King Neighborhood F acility. The meeting is sponsored by the Obser ver, the Urban League o f Portland, the N A A C P , the U nion Avenue Business Boosters and several ad ditional organizations. PUBLIC FORUM Police and the Community Saturday, April 18, 9:30 A.M. Bourbon Street Restaurant NE Grand & Weidler • Stan Peters, President Portland Police Association • Captain B. McCabe North Portland Precinct • Norm Monroe Urban League of Portland • Reverend John Jackson Mt. Olivet Baptist Church • Bob Lamb U.S. Justice Department Sponsored by the Portland Observer HITS THEM WHERE THEYUVE. (§ ) Pacific Northwest Bell Bell System 1961 JEFFERSON GRADUATES Yellow Pages 20 Year reunion being planned. Call 292 8362 or 246-4393. 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