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Portland Observer, December 10, 1981 Page 9 Bits and Pieces by Ruth Spencer M rs. Jay Stokes, w ife o f U .S. Rep. Louis Stokes, speaking o f be coming 40 years o f age, encourages women to look forward to their fo r ties. "T he forties are not the end o f anything, but the beginning o f a lot o f things. Just be grateful you are there,” she said. Derrick Bell, dean o f the U niver s it y o f Oregon Law School and form er Harvard U niversity profes sor, in a keynote speech to a P o rt land Meeting o f (he National Coun c il o f U rban E ducation A ssocia tio n ’ s approved a n a tio n a l trend • away from busing as a remedy fo r school segregation. ; B arbara J o rd a n , fo rm e r C on- : gresswoman. was recently selected • one o f (he 25 most influential worn- ;-cn in the United States fo r 1981 by : the W orld Almanac. • Ms. Jordan was selected the most • outstanding woman in the fields o f education and political science. She served as United States Kcprescnta- - live from 1972-76, and is presently a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson ■ School o f Public A ffairs, University o f Texas at Austin. •••• The N ortheast Y o u th Service Center w ould like to alert the par ents o f m in o r c h ild re n that a law was passed in 1979 which gives Ore gon store owners the rig h t to sue you fo r up to $250 i f your child is caught sh o p liftin g . Please encour age your children not to s h o p lift; for further inform ation contact the Northeast Youth Service Center at 288-6708. (. aged B ird Sings. J The death rate from the nation’ s No. I killer, hear/ disease, dropped IK per cent between I97O-8O. The ; toll from cancer, /A e.second leading > cause o f death, has been going down ; for people under 50, but rising slow- , ly for people over 50. The death rate ,« for stroke declined 32 per cent in the • last decade. (U. .S’. News and W orld ' Report, 12/4/81.) • •••• ? How to Cope W ith Family Stress: s I) Pace yo u rse lf. 2) Exercise. 3) ' A v o id arguments. 4) W atch what you cat. 5) Think positive. • •••• •The Whole W orld In His Hands (C itadel. $17.95), a p ic to ria l biog raphy o f Pau! Robeson by his granddaughter Susan Robeson. •B o b M a rle y: Soul Rebel— N a t u ra l M ystic (St. M a rtin ’ s $7.95), a pictorial biography by Vivien G old man w ith photog ra phy by A d ria n Boot. • The Black Discovery o f America (Person L ib ra ry , $14.95) a history o f voyages o f ancient West A frican mariners, by M ichael Bradley. For inform ation call The Talking Drum Bookstore, 282-9465. • ••• eeeee A c c o rd in g to the “ E conom ic Status o f Black A m ericans," w rit ten by Robert B H ill and published by the N a tio n a l U rban League in The State o f Black A m erica 1981, the o fficia l jobless rate for teenagers in 1980 was 36 per cent. But the Na tional Urban League’ s Hidden U n employment Index placed the actual jobless rale for Black teenagers at 59 per cent during the same period. D ick Gregory, comedian-activist, starved him self fo r science seventy days and seventy nights fo r his re search p ro je c t at D illa rd U n iv e r s ity ’ s F lin t-G o o d rid g e H o s p ita l. L iv in g on prayer and a g a llo n o f m in e ra l w ater a day, he dropped from 154 lbs. on July 21, 1981 to 104 lbs. on Sept. 28, 1981. Dr. James Car te r, one o f G re g o ry ’ s a tte n d in g physicians, said that The G regory Research Project has already yield ed some te n ta tiv e and im p o rta n t conclusions about the way the body defends itself during starvation and prolonged fasting. •••• You asked, Where are they? Port land Public School employees: Bar bara Friday, form er prim ary school p rin c ip a l, is on leave. A. W. W il liams is a vice principal at Jefferson The R everend Jessie Jackson, speaking to 200 Black delegates at tending the 1981 Congress o f Cities said: “ The B lack c o m m u n ity is under siege. A ll three branches o f governm en t, led by the executive branch, have turned their backs on us. T h e re ’s a k in d o f a n ti-B la c k , a n ti-p o o r meanness— m ania g rip ping the country. The government is inducing pain, hunger, unem ploy ment and school closings.” He said th a t we m ust f ig h t f o r "o u r share" o f the w orld’ s econom ic wealth; Blacks collectively must be a " D a v id " and take up “ econ om ic r o c k s " to fig h t against the “ G o lia th o f the w hite m ilita r y - in d u s tria l c o m p le x " to get a fa ir share o f the econom ic pie. “ T o o much focus is on G o lia th and not enough on D avid and his rocks." Ron A d d icks was selected presi dent o f the OSP Lifers Club with an overwhelm ing vote. The 281 mem bers— a ll serving life sen tences— w ork w ith in the prison to encourage inm ates to take advan tage o f educational o p portun ities, p ro v id e c o m m u n ity services, and educate the public as to life in prison and transition problems. New Books: •T h e H eart o f A Woman (R an dom House, $12.50) is the fo u rth volume o f Maya A ngelou’ s autobi og ra p h y. w hich began w ith the a w a rd -w in n in g / K n o w Why The The Reverend Ira D. M u m ford reports that he is beginning his 3rd year as pastor o f Sm ith Chapel at Columbia Villa. He has an outreach program that identifies the needs for food and c lo th in g and counseling for poor people. Vernon E. Jordan, executive d i rector o f the N a tio n a l U rban League, was the guest on the tele vision p ro g ra m , M eet the Press, Sunday Dec. 6th. M r. Jordan did an outstanding jo b . He was rig h t on target. e t*» * H igh School. 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