Portland observer., March 16, 1983, Page 11, Image 11

Portland Observer, March 16, 1963 Page 11
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O r a n l'i Cindy Brown. 6-foot-2
' center, was chosen to Parade
Magazine's all-America girls basket­
ball first team.
Brown, a four-year starter for the
Oenerals, was one of 10 girls so hon­
ored.
For Cindy this was her second
time around. Last year she was
picked on Parade's second team.
The silk smooth Brown led Grant
to a second-place finish in this
year’s class A A A state champion­
ship.
Cindy holds ever individual scor­
ing and rebounding record in the
class A A A books.
Brown, a native of Portland, has
over 33 m ajor college offers. The
question on everyone's lips is just
where the sweet smiling young lady
will matriculate.
“ I'm strongly considering USC,
Louisiana State, Texas and C a li­
fo rn ia .’ ’ said C indy. “ And I
ha ven't ruled out either Oregon
State or Oregon. I'v e had strong
pressure," the little senior said, “ to
stay in-state. But right now I have to
see what's best for Cindy Brown.”
Brown appears to know which di­
rection she’s heading and the two-
time all-American says she's inter­
ested in becoming a veterinarian af­
ter basketball and college. " I realize
that (here’s more to life than basket­
b a ll," Brown said, "and I want to
use college as a vehicle to something
better in the future.”
Brown's prep honors include all-
City, all-Metro, all-star and now all-
American. The sky is the limit for
Cindy Brown.
The fledgling U S F L , after their
second week, is still drawing well.
And ABC reports that the fans are
still watching. Although attendance
showed an average decline of some
1,300 fans, no one is pushing the
panic button. The jury is still out;
it ’s much too early to tell whether
the USFL will survive. The question
lurking out there still remains as to
just how much football the fans can
stomach.
George Allen, coach of the Chica­
go Blitz, thinks America is ready for
football on a year-round basis.
T h a t, in my opinion, is yet to be
proven.
Everyone keeps reminding us that
this new league will make it because
they're doing everything right. One
thing they did was to go with proven
coaches. They have such names as
Chuck Fairbanks, New Jersey Gen­
erals; Red M ille r, Denver Gold;
Dick C oury, ex-P ortland Storm
coach in the W F L , now with the
Boston Breakers; Ray Jauch, ex-
Canadian Football League coach,
now coaching the Washington
Feds; Hugh Cam pbell, successful
CFL coach, now head mentor at LA
Express, and probably the premier
coach of the USFL in George Allen,
who's guiding the powerful Chicago
Blitz.
Where do most of the USFL play­
ers come from? You’ve heard of the
territorial d ra ft— if you haven't it
works like this. The entire United
Slates was divided into regions.
Each team was then assigned the
colleges and universities in their re­
gion. And they were given exclusive
territorial rights to those players.
" T h e system sure in the heck
d id n 't help m e ," chortled Dick
C oury. C oury's Boston Breakers
were given Harvard, Massachusetts,
Boston College and Connecticut!.
And only two of those schools offer
football scholarships. I f you scan
the rosters o f NFL clubs you’ll find
players from such powerhouses as
USC, Oklahoma. Texas, Ohio State
etc. Occasionally you'll find one or
two from the Slippery Rocks and
Ouilfords, but those are exceptions.
But in the USFL it's the other way
around. Here are a few names you'll
see dotting USFL rosters: Fort Val­
ley Star, John C. Smith, None, Ft.
Lewis, Salisbury St., Norwich, Ur-
sinus, Adrian and who out there can
tell me where in the h— is Millers­
ville State. The list goes on: William
Jewell, and if there's a school out
there you've never heard of, there is
a good chance you may find it by
checking the USFL roster list.
Most teams signed players from
their own area, maybe due to famili­
arity they figured on drawing fans.
As a result there are very few State
of Oregon players in the USFL, and
neither Oregon State nor Oregon
was included on anyone’s exclusive
list. Remember Reggie Ogburn, ex-
Duck QB? Well Reggie's now earn­
ing his money as a Running Back
for the Boston Breakers. The C h i­
cago Blitz has Rock Richmond, a
defensive back from Oregon. Daryl
Tanner, who last played for the Ore­
gon City Steelheads, is listed on the
Oakland Invader roster as a defen­
sive tackle. Portland State's Fred
Nordgren and Ron Scawell are listed
on the Tampa Bay Bandits and L. A.
Express rosters. Ex-U. of O. offen­
sive tackle Stu Yatsko is playing for
Oakland after being cut by Denver
of the NFL.
Tim Smith, ex-Beaver defensive
back, is playing for the Breakers,
while Roger Levasa, ex-Oregon
State offensive lineman, is blocking
for the Invaders.
Remember Coy Bacon, Lydell
M itch ell, Cedric H ardm an, Greg
Landry and Raymond Chester? No,
they're not ready to be nominated
for the hall o f fame. Not yet, any­
w ay— they’ re going at it in the
USFL. If you think the USFL is be­
coming a nursing home, then you
could be right. John W alto n , ex-
Philadelphia back-up quarterback,
is 37, Mike Livingston, who is play­
ing for Chicago is 36, and Bacon is
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there will be more than a few injur­
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Chester does appear to have more
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The fight to u nify the Light-
heavyweight championship between
Dwight Braxton and Michael Spinks
will take place Friday, March 18th.
And it will be a donnybrook.
This will not be your classic con­
fron tatio n between boxer and
puncher. Both men are adept in
both categories. Spinks, at 6-2, is a
clever counterpuncher with power in
both hands. Michael is probably the
hardest hitting Light-H eavy since
Archie Moore.
Michael uses his jo b very well;
however, most boxing experts figure
if Spinks is to win it will be his good
right uppercut that w ill put the
smaller Braxton away.
For some strange reason the odds
makers have made Spinks a 7-3 fa­
vorite in this Friday's encounter.
Braxton, at 3-6, w ill give away
eight inches in height, but not one
inch in heart. Dwight Braxton will
bring an unrelenting style o f fight­
ing to Spinks, a pressing style that
just may be too much for Michael to
withstand.
' ' I ’ ll take him out between 7 or
8 ," Braxton said. “ Just look at his
(Spinks') body— it was made to or­
der for me.”
One thing Spinks can look for.
and that's for the shorter man,
Braxton, to be right in his face at all
times. Whereas Braxton w ill give
away many inches in reach, he still
will have the most effective jab.
Braxton's arms are extremely long
for a man of his stature.
Look for Braxton to come out
early, work hard to Spinks' body, to
never tire, and to win the fight. In
today's fight game, Dwight Braxton
is the closest thing to Superman
around. Did you hear that Lawson
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Jason Ambers, age 10, lied for
first place in the O M SI State Chess
Cham pionship by winning 4 ‘/ i
games out of a total of five games.
Jason won in the fifth-grade-and-
under category. There was a total of
39 players in this category. This
event was held on March 12, 1983.
For the first-prize, Jason received
a trophy, gift membership to OM SI
and a cash award.
Jason is the son o f Jasper and
Floreid Ambers. He is in the fifth
grade at Robert Gray School.
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Fentress requests new trial
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lation, loss of her children and pro­
secution for hindering. She also
states that she was not advised o f
her constitutional rights. Because
she was afraid o f return to prison
and separation from her children,
Ms. M offett said, she changed her
story. She told police that she had
not been with Fentress through the
night in question, but that he had
taken her home at 4:30 to 3:00 a.m.,
then he returned about 6:30 to 7:00
and took her in the van to the crime
scene.
On July 12th Gilda M o ffe tt re­
turned to the police station to get
the car keys, was arrested briefly
and given a subpoena to the grand
jury.
During the time between Fentress'
arrest and the grand jury hearing,
390 hours of telephone conversation
were taped and a 24-hour surveil­
lance o f the house made. The pri­
mary question regarding this activi­
ty was that in forcing Ms. Moffet to
testify Judge Roth was (old that she
was not a suspect, but to obtain the
wire tap Judge Steinbeck was told
she was a suspect.
Ms. Moffett attempted not to tes­
tify before the grand jury but was
forced by court order. She m ain­
tains that she was threatened with
W hat nobody »»<*>« is rer»ty
fo u n d ’’
Past sforzi
loss of her freedom and her children
if she did not repeat the story that
she had not been with Fentress dur­
ing the entire night. Because she has
eight years to serve on parole, this
was a frightening prospect.
Besides Ms. M offett’s inability to
provide an alibi for Fentress, the
other damaging testimony was from
Joe Sartin, who came to the atten­
tion o f the police through an in ­
formant who was aware o f a story
Sartin told his employer.
Sartin said he was driving north
on Union between 6:30 and 7:00
a .m ., and saw a woman walking
south. He saw a black man— 26-27
years old, 3 10" to 6 ' tall, 163 to 180
pounds— walking from Sacramento
and Union. He was suspicious and
afraid the man would snatch the
woman's purse so he drove around
the block. When he drove by again
he saw the woman on the sidewalk,
but did not see the man. He did not
slop but continued to Killingsworth.
Then he decided to return and when
he arrived he found the ambulance
and police car. He said he recog­
nized Ms. Williams as a woman he
often saw walking in Northeast
Portland. Sartin selected a photo of
Fentress from six photographs.
Prior to Fentress' January trial, a
witness, a M rs. Smith, appeared.
She had seen Fentress' station wa­
gon at the scene and when she later
saw it at his home, she dropped by
to ask what had happened that
morning. She made a statement for
attorneys but left town before the
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trial and was not called to testify.
Mrs. Smith said she had gone to
Union and Sacramento at about
6:30 a.m. to contact her daughter.
She parked on Sacramento near
Union to check an apartment build­
ing where her daughter's friends
lived. She decided not Jo knock and
returned to her car, which would
not start. She saw a white woman
and a black m an— “ middle aged
with a big b elly’ * — walking on
Union. She got out of her car to go
to ask the man for help. She heard
what she thought were firecrackers
and when she turned the woman was
on the ground; the man's back was
to her.
She returned to her car and soon a
man in a small grey car, a white
man, age 50 or so, stopped. She
heard a bus, then saw the driver.
Then a blue van pulled into Sacra­
mento from U nion . The driver
parked and went to the corner. She
described him as “ tall and th in .”
She saw him talk to the white man;
then her car started and she left.
Following Fentress' conviction, a
woman responded to a newspaper
ad and in response to her inform a­
tion, Birkland is requesting a new
trial.
Darla Wilson said she was driving
on Union Avenue, looking for an
address where there was to be a ga­
rage sale. Two children were with
her. At Fremont she began having
car trouble and was moving slowly.
As she approached Sacramento
Street she noticed a couple walk-
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peared to be drunk. “ The man was
fat and his belly hung over his belt."
They were both screaming and the
man hit her in the face and she fell.
As she walked away he struck her
again. “ The man was behind her
when she fell to the sidewalk near a
small tree in a patch of grass in front
of the building on the Southeast cor­
ner of Sacramento and Union. The
man just turned and walked away
east on Sacramento. Then he turned
and looked back."
Frightened, Mrs. Wilson drove
away. She remembers hearing what
she thought were firecrackers.
Fentress' and Moffett's attorneys
have many avenues for appeal, a l­
leging that their constitutional rights
were abridged.
Whether the appearance o f two
corroborating persons who have no
personal interest in the crime and
who were unaware that they were
witnessing a murder will bring Fen­
tress the opportunity for a new trial
is the next question to be answered.
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