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Page 6 Portland Ob—rvwr, September 22,1982 O B S E R V A T IO N S FROM THE SIDELINES by Kathryn Hall Bogle • Low Rates • Personal Service • Serving Portland Area call Toni for information 285-5204 A L E M , O R EG O N — Salem re S DARLENE'S ANSWERING SERVICE visited! Fifty years ago two (2) black fam ilies lived in Salem. A visitor might call on the Charles Henry Maxwell family, or she might call at the home of Saverio Dominick Parise, a na tive Italian, and his American Negro wife, Reather Jackson Parise. The visitor would have then contacted the entire black population o f the capitol city. It is different now. U.S. Census figures of 1980 show that Salem had 994 black persons counted as residents that year. It is reasonable to believe that others have moved to Salem within the last two years, for the whole city is growing and expanding. Reather Jackson Parise was born before 1900 in Salem. Her parents, Jane and Josiah Jackson had come to Salem from Missouri in the 1980s. Josiah died in 1900 and is buried in Salem’s Pioneer cemetery. Jane lived until 1928 and is buried next to her husband. Reather, and her brother Leslie, went to school in Salem and were the only black children enrolled in their school at the time. When the Parise daughters, Angela and Thel ma, came along they too were the only black students in school. The Maxwells came to Salem (af ter the Jacksons) from Texas. They reared a family of six who all went through Salem High School as the “ only” black students enrolled, missing the other family by a scant three or four years. The census figures o f 1980 show the presence of 138 black families in Salem now. Among them they have 82 children under age five and 187 children under age 17. There are black teachers now in Salem schools and at least one Counsellor on the high school level and one school principal. There are two physicians, several attorneys, financial experts and other professionals. Early residents supported their families by work on the railroads, by selling foods they had cooked or by doing seasonal work on nearby farms. All this while encouraging their children to “ do better” for themselves. The Maxwells and the Jacksons and Parise, in turn, attended white churches and Sunday School and came to Portland for wider social contacts.- In 1982, black families are attend ing white churches but they are also building congregations o f at least three churches. The Church of God in Christ and the Assembly of God are typical. The Rev. Arthur Shank- el divides his time between Salem and Springfield congregations; the Rev. D .L. Collins, of Portland, tra vels to Salem to preach, and the by Ruth Spencer MAKE A )NEW HOME AT THE OLD ADDRESS Phone S e cretary S ervice Rgg>SE C ITY A P P LIA N C E W ITH A NEIGHBORHOOD i PROFESSIONAL Wm. D. Herboth Remodeling Ï CALL: 289-1600 'n te r io r * E xterior A d d itio n s • W e e th e rlze tlo n s EXPERT SERVICE Atty. 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Labor Rela tions Asst., State of Oregon, and Willie Richardson. Word Proces sor. I «F Diamond Pendants (3 pts ) Reg $50 00 NOW SI0.OO (10 pts ) Reg $130 00 NOW S 6 5 .0 0 Now til Christmas! FREE I4K Floating Heart with every purchase p > free 14K Heart with Diamond / Gwen Carr, Mgmt. Analyst for SAIF. Kan W alker, and Carrie Clark. Driver Examiner. Pauline Memorial Church members meet at Salem’s Y M C A for services. Angela Parise Britton and her sis ter Thelma Parise Bird, in recalling days of their childhood for the Ob server, said, "W e were happy there. We lived in a little house at the end of Willow Street. M ill Creek was at our back door. We could sit in our yard and catch salmon or crawdads or go swimming whenever we liked.” Mrs. Britton and Mrs. Bird visit old friends in Salem and know that a bungalow court of apart ments has replaced their family home. The census reports inform us that the black population in Salem is young. There are 713 persons (among 994) between the ages of 18 and 64 years. They counted only 12 people over 63. On a recent trip to Salem, the Ob server met a score or more of tht present citizens at the Capitol and found them indeed young. The offi cial median age is 28.5 years for mer and 21.4 years for the women. Zoe Wilson, Personnel Officer, Ore. Dept. of Transportation. Those we met are employed and enthused about their jobs and their lives. Most live in apartments but some are buying homes with every intention of permanent residence in Salem. Almost to a person they ex pressed happiness with a chance to meet each other at an informal break in a week o f heavy personal schedules. Customarily, they have waited for a scheduled trip to Port land for social contacts. Some are hoping to form a branch of the N A A C P in Salem. Some are hoping to establish a branch of the Jack and Jill organi zation; others are wishing for black business people to bring a beauty shop operator to Salem; they have no black barber for the 674 males among them and many travel to Portland for this service. Catalysts for the current feeling of togetherness are unofficially ap pointed but lots of assistance has come from Ron Knox, Zoe Wilson and Kay Toran. Bits and Pieces Ted Parker was recently elected president of the Peninsula Kiwanas Club— a service club that is a spon sor of a camp for handicapped chil dren, a boy’s club in North Port land, Little League Baseball and a program that provides volunteers and drivers for Loaves and Fishes. The first quarter monitoring re port o f the N ational Coalition on T V violence shows an increase of 25 per cent over last year, to its highest level yet. The N C T V findings sup port the Surgeon General’s report that there is an important cause-ef fect relationship between T V vio lence and real-life aggression. Dr. Matthew W. Prophet was the guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Portland Chapter of the Na BOBBIE NUNN tional Association for the Advance ment o f Colored People, Sunday, were the most vulnerable to crime September 19, four o ’clock, at were black households, higher in Bethel A M E Church. come households, and households Dr. Prophet, speaking to fifty in central cities. members and friends o f the N AACP, traced the decline of Fed Mrs. Bobbie N unn has retired eral support for equal education and from the Portland Public Schools desegregattion. He emphasized the after 26 years of service. effects of the passage of Ballot Mea sure 3 on School District programs Diabetes is the third cause of death and minority staff. in the U .S .A . The rate o f death among black women is almost twice A Justice Department report said that of white women. The rate of 30 per cent o f the nation’s house death in black men is higher than in holds were touched by crime in white men. Diabetes is aggravated 1981. by poor diets and stress. It is es The kinds o f households that timated that over ten million diabet with $100 00 or more purchase ics have never been diagnosed. Mmes. Emma Chiles and Letitia Brock recently returned from a four day cruise in the San Juan Islands. The cruise was sponsored by the Odyssey Club. House Bill 3013 enacted by the 1981 Oregon Legislature, allows a teacher to use reasonable physical force upon a student to the extent necessary to reasonably perform the teaching responsibility. Prison Ministries, Inc. is sponsor ing a Mission Fair, Sunday, October 17, 1982 at M aranatha Church, from 3:30 to 5 pm. The speaker will be Mrs. Viola H . Brazil. Activities will include special music, exhibits, literature, and refreshments. For more information call the Reverend John Parker, 284-7563. Send or bring news for Bits and Pieces (weddings, promotions, trips abroad, teas and other public func tions) to the Portland Observer, 2201 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR 97217, or call the Observer, 283- 2486. O r call Ruth Spencer, 286- 8093,6-9 pm. Photo materials must be in black and white. (Sponsored by American state Bank, V. F. Booker, President) I THE M M 'S RANSOM J 24K Gold. Jade. Rubys 520 SW 5th Ave.. Portland 228 6448 “THE BUTCH CÓÓRS STYLING TEAM” Introduces If LONG HAIR '82 A ll z in M L n a r j* I« . _ 1 1 • ee Yes, you can have long beautiful hair. M y dynamic styling team, after months o f research, has perfected a fail-proof program for long curls—with no breakage! I f you have breakage now call and ask about our SUPER PAC CONDITIONER (Back T o School Specials! 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