Portland Observer, January 5, 1983 Page 3
METROPOLITAN
Street Beat
by Lenita D u ke and R ichard B ro w n
The disturbance in Miam i was the
last word o f 1982. We sent into the
streets to see what Portlanders
thought, with "W h at was your reac
tion to the one-day riot in Miami?”
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David Pipkay
Receiving
It was a hell o f a way to start
'83 I do not know what to
think about that. I think some
thing like that is more apt to
happen there than here.
Bill Tllch
Technical Rapraaantativa
It was an isolated incident.
The police arc doing follow-up
work to fin d out what hap
pened. Everyone is full of anger
but we should not condone that
behavior.
Constructors' Interior Supply Source. Gloria G.
M c M u rtry . supplies and installation of carpet,
drapery and w all coverings; A .K . M ark etin g
International. Akuta Kuwa Nyoka. computor and
o ffic e supplies; Louis C rom w ell M ark etin g
W estern States, auido visual equipm ent and
supplies, food and kindred products. Michael Hill;
N .T.I. Supply Company. O B Hill, electrical and
industrial w holesale products. A ssociates are
Perry O. Lowe and Harold A McLauirn.
(Photo: Richard R Brown)
A recaption w n held at tha Southwest Business
Development Complex, a consortium ot minority
and female owned businesses sharing office space
and resources at the Board of Trade Building, who
seek the geographical location that will provide
direct access to the business com m unity rather
than the isolation often imposed by location in the
minority communities. They are Oregon Business
Extension Services. Joan Courtney Gordon,
secretarial services; Trans A tlantic Trading and
Morrla Turner
Clark
The police do blacks wrong any
way. I think what they did was
justified. We arc always wrong,
regardless o f the circumstances.
You shouldn't have to kill a per
son to make a point.
Watson wins Lions scholarship
Northeast Portland resident Nola
Watson has won a scholarship cov
ering a full year's tuition and other
college-reltated expenses to P o rt
land C om m unity College. The
scholarship, provided by the C o
lumbia Lions Club, is given annual
ly to a second year student enrolled
in PC’C’ s Optical Technology pro
gram at the Cascade Campus, 705
N. Killingsworth.
According to Lions o ffic ia ls , a
qualified candidate for the scholar-
ship must be a successful student en
rolled in his or her second year o f
the optics program and have a grade
point average o f 3.5 or belter. The
L.ions prefer a candidate who is a re
sident o f North or Northeast Port
land and who intends to work in the
Portland area following graduation
from the program.
Other factors in the choice of a re
cipient include the q u a lity o f the
candidate's presentation, estimate
o f the candidate’s potential for suc-
Micronesian speaks here
Two top activists from the N u
clear Free Pacific N etw ork. G iff
Johnson and Darlene Keju, will visit
Portland, January 9 and 10. John
son and Keju are touring the West
Coast to speak about the growing
anti nuclear and self-determination
movement among Pacific Islanders.
The tour is also coordinated with
the upcoming protests at Vanden
berg Air Force Base where the first
M X test flight w ill be made in Jan
uary 1983 to Kwajalein A toll in the
Marshall Islands.
A talk and slide show is scheduled
for Sunday, January 9, 3 p.m. at St.
Andrews C atholic C hurch, 4940
N.L. 8th at Alberta in the Commu
nity Center. (A potluck w ill follow).
On Monday, January 10, Keju and
Johnson w ill speak at P ortland
State University, 12 noon, in Room
294, Smith Center.
G iff Johnson is one o f the fore
most journalists writing on the sub-
lecl o f a Nuclear Free Pacific. Dar
lene Keju is Marshallese. She has
been active in Nuclear Free Pacific
issues for many years, her involve
ment stemming from first-hand ob
servation o f the health and cultural
damage to her own people by the
U.S. nuclear testing program in the
late 1940s and 1950s.
Since 1947, Micronesia has been a
Trust T erritory o f the U.S. Under
this agreement, the islands became
the site o f U.S. nuclear testing, nu
clear waste dumping, missile testing
and the base o f our m ilitary opera
tions on the Asian rim.
M ilita ry operations have d is
placed island people and nuclear
tests are associated with a high inci
dence o f cancer and other health
problems.
The Nuclear Free Pacific move
ment is evidence o f opposition in
Micronesia and other Pacific coun
tries to U.S. and other foreign m ili
tary and nuclear use o f their islands
and surrounding ocean.
cess in the eye care field, and eco
nomic need.
A form er computer operator,
Watson broke both hands and arms
in a car wreck and was unable to
continue with her job. In seeking a
second career she chose optics "b e
cause o f my interest in and love o f
precision.”
W'atson w ill work w ith contact
lenses fo llo w in g her graduation.
"M a k in g contacts is an art fo rm ,"
she says.
Because o f her partial disability
she is better able to handle the light
equipment used in making contact
lenses than that used in making eye
glass lenses.
Leonard Paden
Plywood Producer
In one sense it was a Spanish
police o ffic e r who started it.
But when police get in their uni
form they get pretty "g u n -h o ."
Not every in d iv id u a l makes a
good officer. The police tend to
react to color. We all need more
education to solve this problem.
Ofiok Ekanam
Student
I do not know what happened
so I cannot say. But I th ink
we’ ll have more o f those in c i
dents unless someone changes
the basic oppression.
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L.H. Price
Retired
I thought it was rid iculo us.
Every little thing a black man
does is made a mockery o l. W e
should show them that we are
sick and tired o f being kicked
around. I'm not fo r violence
but violence is the only thing
that whites understand. Some
time you have to fight fire with
fire. We fought wars and people
come over to America and are
better treated than us.
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