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Portland Observer, September 15, 1982 Page 7 OBSERVATIONS Everything you need to know: How to buy gold, teat, and reeeli it on a daily m arket. . . • Low Rates • Personal Service • Serving Portland Area FROM THE SIDELINES by Kathryn H a ll Bogle call Toni for information Did you know that there are 1,000 black physician* in the d ty o f Lot Angeles and the surrounding areas o f Los Angeles County? So says Dr. Charles Brown, a Portland visitor this week. D r. Charles E. Brown, a Los A n geles general surgeon and an author ity on vascular surgery, spent sever al days visiting with his brother, Dr. Webster Brown, retired Portland surgeon. D r. Charles Brown, in private practice since 1953. is professor o f surgery at the Charles Drew Post- Graduate Medical School in South Los Angeles, and also serves on the surgical faculty at Los Angeles Med ical School. The Charles Drew Post-Graduate Medical School, established in the heart o f the Los Angeles Watts dis trict after the smoke and fury of the damaging riots o f a few years ago, has. according to D r. Brown, en rolled its first class o f undergradu ate medical students. The first of these began their classes in 1981. W ith this new shift in its curricu lum the school becomes the fourth institution in the United States to provide education for black pro spective physicians. The roster in cludes Howard University in Wash ington, D .C .; Meharry Medical C ol lege in Nashville; and Morehouse College. The Charles Drew institution has as its clinical hospital the M artin Luther King Jr. Los Angeles County Medical Center, Dr. Brown said. • In the sparkling crystal glass house o f the O ’Connell Gallery, A1 Goldsby, Portland metal sculptur- ist, exhibited some o f his new works on Thursday. September 9. Visitors sauntered around and about the white pillar-like dividers to come up on a school o f playful fish cast in bronze, a pool and waterfall housing a half-dozen metal turtles or a landscape o f bur nished metals gleaming against a snowy wall. Drypoints in tlse rich colors o f fall were there too. I t ’s a visual experience. Better see it. The artist was on hand to greet guests and to pour a glass o f wine on • the day of opening. The show will remain at the O ’Connell Gallery un til September 29. The Gallery is at the Willamette Center downtown. Hours are from 10 am to 6 pm Monday through Friday and from 11 am to 5 pm on Saturday and Sun day. • The first annual fall tournament o f the Northwest section o f the American Bridge Association brought about 200 persons to Port land. The successful September event was arranged at the Marriott DARLENE'S AN8WERING 8ERVICE A buyer's guide end dealer's handbook for buying gold, silver b diamonds from the public P.O. Box 13768 Portland, OR 97213 (603) 263-6666 TROPHY HEADQUARTERS FOR THE GREAT NORTHWEST • BEST QUALITY • BEST SERVICE • BEST PRICE 1 VI /> V V 1 U 1 L I d 1 1V I , V_Z1 V 11 222-1051 'Poftfortd I See Outdoor 4 Garfield M yer, for fast 4 I Store \ 1 Engraving Trial bridge hand gets attention from Martha Jordan. Helen Raw- ne. Beatrice Leverett (Portland Unit Preaident). Chariee Patterson and Chariee R aw lins (Photo: Judith Siewert) hotel. Three clubs, Portland mem bers o f the A B A . banded under the title o f Portland U nit, were headed by Beatrice Leveritt and were hosts for the 4-day affair. Lolita Darby, president o f the Pace Setters, Lois McDonald, presi dent o f Club Finesse and Wilson Smith, who heads the Challengers, were all busy people, according to Mrs. Leverett. "They and the 40 members o f their clubs were the gra cious hosts for the tournament, and they even helped with the registra tion o f our guests,’ * she said. Hospitality rooms were kept open by the Portland unit each evening and a banquet was held on the clos ing evening when awards were given to winners in several categories. From Washington D .C . came Attorney Arthur Reid, president o f the national A B A . One national vice president arrived: George Johnson o f Raleigh, N. Carolina, who is also chairman o f the N A B A executive board. Another vice president came from Seattle. He is Herbert M . Jackson, vice president o f the Northwest regional section, which affiliated with the 30-year-old na tional just two years ago. by Ruth Spencer CLEARLY AHEAD ---- — - ■ ■ J. M A R K W A G E N E R . H . JAM ES K R U E G ER PORTLAND HOURS Monday - Friday 10:00-7:30 Saturday 10 - 6 MARGARET BURDINE CASH Happy Birthday to Margaret Burdine Cash! "Miss M aggie," as she is known up in her town o f Yak ima, Washington, is 95 years young this month and still in command. We wish her the best o f everything good. Ronnie Herndon, Black United Front co-chairman, and religious groups denounced a Lane County judge’s ruling that the State's 1981 racial harassment law is unconstitu tional. Herndon said he was not sur prised by the judge’s ruling "given the history o f institutional racism in Oregon." The Third Annual Congressional Black Caucus Caribbean Seminar is scheduled for Saturday, September 25, 1982 in Brooklyn, New York, the city with the largest Caribbean population. The seminar will focus on (he problems o f Caribbean migrants and United States policy toward the Caribbean, REP. 8HIRLEY CHI8HOLM Polls show that M ayor M arion Barry, incumbent mayor o f Wash ington D .C ., is leading his oppo nent, Patricia Harris, first Black woman U.S. Cabinet member, in the race for Mayor. Ms. l.ela Erazier and M r. Ernest Roberts were recently married in Reno. Mrs. Roberts is a pupil manage ment specialist at Markham Middle School, Portland Public Schools. M r, Roberts works for Jantzen Woolen Mills. • • • • Sunday 12-5 Players came from Seattle, Taco ma and from several cities in C ali fornia. One hundred fifty Black Alumni meeting at the University o f Oregon found a decline in programs, finan cial assistance, and enrollment at the University in the last decade. Enrollment had dropped from 450 in 1968 to about 200 in 1982. Mrs. Rosa Parks and son, Chris topher, spent the summer visiting relatives and friends, and attending the World's Fair, in Knoxville, Ten nessee. Mrs. Parks teaches at Alameda Primary School. Kappa Alpha Psi hosted its annu al "D u ffers” G o lf Tourney for members only at Portland Mead ows. Dr. Ernie H a riio g won the tro phy for "lo w gross” score. Follow ing the tournament all the brothers met for a I9th-hole celebration at Shelly Hills* home. j 285-5204 Bits and Pieces Calvin Simmons, 32, the first Black music director o f a major American symphony orchestra, died in a canoeing accident near Lake Placid, New York, on August 21. Simmons conducted most o f the major orchestras in (he United States. He was known in the San Francisco area as the "Maestro K id .” Karat Gold Mining in America - 4 vol. STRIKE IT R IC HI Phone Secretary Service A Census Bureau study revealed that 51 per cent o f voting-age Blacks voted in 1980, an increase o f 2 per cent over the 49 percent who voted in 1976. In 1980, 61 percent o f the white voting population voted, while the Hispanic turnout was 30 percent — about the same as in ’76. Rep. 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