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Portland Observer, April 1,1962 Page 3 METROPOLITAN Inmate suit challenges censorship The American Civil Liberties Young and old. Black and white, parents and students joined together in protest of the Portland School Board's broken promise to the Black com- munity. Shout» rang out as School Board mem bers Herb Cawthorne and Chairman Bill Scott waited. (Photo: Richard Brown) BUF halts School Board meeting “ A ll fired up! W o n ’ t take no m o re ,” “ M cN am ara’s the o n e,” "Gisvold must go,” "Beeman must go," "Sneaky Rieke," and "E-l-i-o- t ” rung through the auditorium as members and supporters o f the Black United Front closed down the Portland School Board meeting Monday night. The group marched into the board room, look positions along the wall and in front of the Board members’ desks and chanted for ap proximately 90 minutes until Board Chairman Bill Scott adjourned the meeting. The protest was one in a series to oppose the selection o f the Boise building as a site for Tubman M id dle School. School Board member Herb Caw thorne stood at his desk throughout the demonstrations. Steve Buel, who also voted for the Eliot site en dorsed by the community, remained at his place as did interim-Superin- tendent Jim Fenwick and incoming Superintendent Matthew Prophet. Board member Charlotte Beeman left the meeting immediately and Scott, Riecke and McNamara wan dered in and out of the meeting and caucused in the halls. Notable for their presence were several uniform ed, gun-carrying School District police officers. In re sponse to C aw thorne’s question, Dr. Fenwick said there had been ru mors throughout the day of a wide range o f possible actions at the meeting. Cawthorne responded that any demonstration would be peace ful. The next announced action will be a one-day school boycott on April 19th. Jones retains parole postition Chalmers Jones has been appoint ed to a third four-year term on the State Parole Board by Governor Victor Atiych. Jones is a former di rector of special programs for the State Employment Service and was appointed ombudsman by Governor Tom M cCall, who firs, appointed him to the parole board. Atiyeh appointed Douglas Dins- more, executive secretary and trea surer of the Lane County A F L-C IO to succeed Ira Blalock. Dinsmore served as a counsellor for the Lane County Firs, Offender Diversionary Program and was a member of the Lane County Jail Advisory Committee. He considers his labor background as a plus in understanding the employment problem inmates have when re leased. Both appointees favor construc tion of added prison space. fra Blalock, whom the Governor chose not to appoint to another term, is a former director of M CCA (Multnomah County’s war on pov erty program) and of the City’s Hu man Resource Division. Union has filed a law suit challenging policies and practices regarding censorship of inmate mail at Oregon State Penitentiary and the Oregon W om en’ s Correctional Center. The suit asks the court to enjoin corrections officials from enforcing the policies on the grounds that they violate the rights guaranteed by the first and fourteenth amendments to the US Constitution and violate provisions of the Oregon Constitu tion. The complaint alledges that the following practices are unconstitu tional' - Failure to notify inmates when M ail addressed to them is censored and failure to provide them an opportunity to challenge the censorship. - Failure to notify senders that material they have sent was not received and failure to allow them an opportunity to challenge the censorship. -Failure to deliver publications soley because they were not sent by a publisher or “ reputable book store". - Failure to deliver photocopies clippings from news articles, photographs,drawings and hand made greeting cards on the basis that the material "is not written or is not approved to be received in advance." - Censorship o f materials that discuss or depict homosexuality- The p lain tiffs in the case are Jenny Costa, Jonathan Landre, Lionetti Haynes, Hazel Krum- macher, Robert Reimers, M arvin Johnson, Gary H o lt, C arol Pope and Keeston Lowery. Jefferson hosts SF art experts Visiting Jefferson High School this week are school and civic leaders from San Francisco. That city plans to establish a specialized high school o f the visual and performing arts. Visitors are Agnes Albert, board member o f the San Francisco Symphony; M yra Kpopf, member o f the San Francisco Board of Education; M a tild a Kunin, chairman of the school district’s arts advisory committee and director of the San Francisco Com m unity Theater; Daniel Ryan, school district director of fine arts and Ted Moore, principal-designate of the new school. Resale Clothing "First Quality The Second Time Around' Men's, Women's, Children's Clothing and Household Ite m s ALL SIZES AVAILABLE Consignments Accepted (QuJhtv Merc handne Only) By Appointment Plea»e -»oi n x i o ¿ u i-y -v io 2406 N.E. 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