Portland Observer. May 11, 1963 Section I Page 3
METROPOLITAN
Cawthorne portrays Douglass
Herb Cawthorne will portray
Frederick Douglass in "A gitate:
Our Work is Not Finished."
Frederick Douglass was the most
prom inent black A m erican o f the
19th century. Born a slave in Talbot
C o u n ty , M a r y la n d , in F eb ru ary
1818 or 1819, he spent his firs t
twenty-one years in bondage before
escaping to the N o rth in 1838.
Despite his hum ble beginnings, he
rose out o f slavery to claim his right­
ful place in American society during
those turbulent years before, during
and after the C ivil W ar.
Over the course o f his long public
career, Douglass gained a w ide
reputation as an abolitionist orator
and newspaper ed ito r, a supporter
o f w o m en ’ s rig h ts , a statesm an,
diplom at and presidential advisor.
Douglass was a hig h ly regarded
spokesman fo r the new ly freed
slaves durin g the Reconstruction,
and the h old er o f three fed eral
ap p o in tm en ts, b eg in n in g in 1877
when Pres dent Hayes named him
U .S . M a rs h a ll fo r the D is tric t o f
Columbia.
Frederick Douglass is p ortrayed
by Hsrb Cswthorns, a member o f
the P o rtla n d B oard o f E d ucation
and an administrator and teacher at
P o rtla n d S tate U n iv e rs ity . C a w ­
th o rn e began d o in g o ra l history
programs 12 years ago as a college
instructor to encourage students to
read more about history. "Agitata**
brings to gether a ll those years o f
effo rt, as Cawthorne takes the audi­
ence through Douglass* experience
o f slavery, his struggle fo r educa­
tio n , his in v o lve m e n t in the a n ti­
slavery movement, his development
as an o ra to r, and his leadership
during Reconstruction.
The o rig in a l stage perfo rm an ce
begins on M a y 20, 21 and 22 and
continues M ay 27, 28, 29 at Cabell
Theater for the Perform ing Arts on
the C a tlin G ab el School cam pus.
Friday and Saturday performances
are at 8 :0 0 p .m ., Sunday p e r fo r ­
mances at 7 :0 0 p .m . A d m ission is
S I.5 0 at the door.
OaybiM li O m I o "
Webster celebrates 99 years
H ig h la n d U n ite d C h u rch o f
C h rist was the place fo r the gala
held for M r. Herbert Webster, born
in Atlanta, Texas. April 8, 1884. His
parents were W illis and M aggie
Webster.
TAG students sn|oy clsss on pro-historic Oregon :
Becky Harvey. Humboldt, grade 3; Kim Bradford.
C hief Joseph, grade 6; M yle G odfrey. C hief
Joseph, grade 6.
Gifted students present festival
P o rtla n d School D is tr ic t’ s 3rd
annual Talented and G ifte d Festi­
val, T A G Fest, will be held on Tues­
day, M ay 17, from 4:00-8:00 p.m. at
the Education Service C enter, 501
N. Dixon.
The festival will provide a special
opportunity for Talented and Gifted
students in the P o rtlan d Schools’
T A G program to share their work
and talent w ith fam ily and friends
from the community.
The T A G Fest w ill include fo u r
hours o f dem onstrations, displays
and perform ances. Student made
film s w ill be shown and paintings,
drawings and sculpture exhibited.
Students will discuss, debate, dance
and sing to demonstrate for friends
and parents what they have learned
this year in their T A G classes.
There are 3,500 T A G students in
the Portland Public Schools repre-
senting every P o rtlan d school and
all grades, k in d e rg a rte n th ro ug h
high school. T A G students are those
students who have been identified as
having superior ab ility in the intel-
lectual/academic area or (he visual/
p e rfo rm in g arts. T A G students
attend special classes, called C h a l­
lenge classes, d u rin g the school
year.
HCD funds self-help programs
by Robert Lothian
T h e H C D N e ig h b o rh o o d S elf-
Help Program will fund six projects
aimed at helping low income, handi­
capped and small business people
this year.
They are: a fa rm e r’ s m arket for
E lio t neighborhood organized by
R A IN C o m m u n ity Resources and
E liot Energy House, a cannery for
low incom e people inspired by
members o f Oregon Gleaners, Inc.,
a housing re h a b ilita tio n p ro ject
sponsored by R E A C H Com m unity
Developm ent, In c ., a tool lending
library organized by the Multnomah
County Community Action Agency,
street trees for the Hawthorne busi­
ness district backed by the Sunny­
side N e ig h b o rh o o d A sso ciatio n,
and a project to make the U n ited
Cerebral Palsy Association’s group
home kitch en accessible to the
handicapped.
Housing and Com m unity Devel­
opm ent grants o f up to $ 5 .0 0 0
enable residents o f low and
moderate income neighborhoods to
develop the capacity to help them­
selves by cooperating on projects
that demonstrate ways to reduce the
cost o f basic needs, and im p ro ve
their neighborhoods.
V o lu n te e r
la b o r,
donated
materials and involvement o f those
directly affected by the projects is
encouraged.
In a d d itio n , the grants provide
’ ’ seed m oney” fo r sm all com m u­
nity-based groups w ith o u t a paid
sta ff or sophisticated structure, to
try a w o rth w h ile p ro ject which
m ight otherw ise be im possible,
according to program coordinator
Dee W alsh , w ith the P o rtla n d
Bureau o f C o m m u n ity D e ve lo p ­
ment.
In a process o f "cap acity b u ild ­
in g ,” she said, an in itia l success
made possible by the seed money
may give groups the confidence to
take on larger projects.
According to Eliot Energy House
coordinator Lynn Vanderkamp, the
firs t E lio t fa rm e r's m arket w ill
occur a fte r July 1st on Em anuel
Hospital grounds. U p to 30 booths
operated by farm ers and urban
gardeners w ill m ake av ailab le
“ q u a lity produce at a cheaper
p rice " to low income inner n o rth ­
east residents. "W e feel it could be a
real asset fo r the n eig h b o rh o o d ,”
she said.
Kris A ltu c h a r. organizer o f the
R U N T project, w ill coordinate the
m arket project. Neighborhood vol­
unteers are encouraged.
In anothes food related project,
O regon G lean ers, In c . is p uttin g
together a com m ercial cannery so
that some of the 300,000 lbs. of fruit
and vegetables the group harvests
from the surplus in farm ers’ fields
and in backyards can be preserved.
"Gleaning and canning go togeth­
e r ,”
said c o o rd in a to r
M a ry
E d w ard s. Last y e a r’ s e ffo rt was
lim ited by in a b ility to process and
preserve gleaned food, according to
Edwards, who said the cannery will
make it possible to harvest twice as
much.
The cannery will be available free
to those who help in the fields, and
on a fee basis to the general public,
she said.
In 1982, nearly 800 fam ilies
w ithin the city lim its and 13 social
service agencies benefited from food
gleaned by the g ro u p , she said.
Backyards alone yielded over 40,000
lbs.
R E A C H C o m m u n ity D e v e lo p ­
m ent’ s self-help grant w ill enable
the n on -p ro fit housing re h a b ilita­
tion corporation to hire a coordina­
to r w ho w ill organize vo lun teer
lab or needed to re fu rb ish 40 run
dow n housing units in B uckm an,
Sunnyside. R ich m o n d, H o s fo rd -
A b e rn a th y , Kerns and B ro o klyn
neighborhoods.
R EA C H buys old houses, duplexes
and sm all ap artm en t b u ild in g s,
refurbishes them and brings them
up to code, then rents them at low
cost to low incom e people o f a
diverse ethnic mix. Renters can join
a housing co-op and become owners
after ten years.
G en trific atio n means decreased
low income housing in inner south­
east, and poor people are being
pushed o u t, according to R E A C H
general m anager Dennis G ilm a n .
H is group seeks to reverse this
tre n d . " W e w ant to keep it low
incom e and
keep it decent
housing," he said.
V o lu n teers are needed to help
remove plaster, to help w ith paint
preparation and cleaning. In some
cases, fu tu re tenants w ill do the
work, he said.
A home repair resources center
organized by the M u ltn o m a h
County Com m unity Action Agency
w ill fa c ilita te hom e fix up in the
Lents, Foster-Powell, M t. Scott and
A rle ta Heights neighborhoods o f
southeast P o rtla n d , according to
Steve Rapp, M C C A A resource de­
veloper.
Tools, including special ones for
installing locks, will be available for
a small fee, home maintenance skills
w ill be taught and low income and
elderly people needing w ork done
w ill be m atched w ith unem ployed
skilled help, he said.
T w o V IS T A vo lun teers are
organizing the project, which will be
operational " in several m onths," he
said.
In an o ther p ro je c t, volunteers
from the Sunnyside Neighborhood
Association will make planter boxes
and plant street trees to beautify the
business district between 35th and
39th on SE Hawthorne.
" W e w ant to create a m ore
pleasant pedestrian environm ent,”
said David O shin, chairman o f the
Sunnyside Neighborhood Associa­
tio n . T h e area " c o u ld use some
sprucing u p ," he said.
O shin said the p ro je ct w ill
hopefully enhance cooperation be­
tween the neighborhood and local
small business people.
A spokesperson from the United
Cerebral Palsy Association was un­
a v a ila b le fo r com m ent on th eir
project.
Guests inclu d ed : M rs . T ru la
K in d ric k (sp eaker); M rs . D o ris
C o o ney fro m U n iq u e Services
U n lim ite d ,
P o rtla n d ;
C a ro le
C ooney, free-lance photographer,
C le v e la n d .
O h io ;
W estley
B rundage, G o u rm e t specialist,
Portland, Oregon. Special guest and
speaker was Commissioner Charles
Jordan. Other guests included a son
W illis Webster from Atlanta. Texas
legislative history o f the 1983 divest­
ment b ill, House B ill 2772. Rep.
H o s tic k a was the lead sponsor
am ong the 15 cosponsors o f H B
2772, which originally called for d i­
vestment o f all state investments in
South Africa-related companies but
was am ended to fo rb id o n ly new
investments in such companies.
D a v id G la u b e r, a student fro m
Johannesburg presently attending
the University o f W ashington, w ill
give his views on the ro le o f the
United Sûtes in South Africa.
g ran d ch ild ren and seventy g re a t­
grandchildren and thirty-one great
great grandchildren.
W hat does M r Webster attribute
his long life to: his love for God and
his fellow man. He is a member o f
W illia m Temple Church o f God In
C h ris t. " N o w also when I am old
and gray-headed, O G o d , forsake
me n o t, u n til I have shewed thy
strength unto this generation, and
thy pow er to every one th at is to
com e." Psalms 71:18.
The g ift money was donated to
the Sam Johnson Sch o larship
Fund at Highland United Church of
Christ.
New Outlook
Weight Control Center
Now Open in N.E. Portland
AN ALTERNATIVE to Fad Diets and High Cost Programs
The New Outlook Weight Control Center is exclusivey for
women, located at
4903 N.E. Sandy Blvd.
284-5757
Bring this advertisement for 55% off
Bldel mar
One Inch
Aluminum Blinds
Mini Blinds
I S J mini blinds
55% OFF
with thia ad
Softlight Shades
40% OFF
Woven Woods
Panel discusses divestment
The ch ief sponsor o f the b ill to
take O regon investm ents out o f
com panies in South A fr ic a , a
U n iv e rs ity o f O regon sociologist
active on South A frican issues, and
a white South A frican student w ill
be among the speakers at a panel on
divestment and apartheid, to be held
Thursday, M ay 12, at 7:00 p .m . in
room 204 C o n d o n H a ll (a t the
corner o f 13th and Kincaid) on the
U O campus in Eugene.
State
Representative
C a rl
H o sticka (D -E u g en e) w ill discuss
argum ents fo r divestm ent and the
and M rs . A re a b a M ills also fro m
A tla n ta , Texas. O ther guests came
from Seattle, Washington.
M r. Webster lived in Los Angeles,
C a lif, before coming to P o rtlan d ,
O reg o n in 1969 to live w ith his
daughters. H e is the oldest son o f
eight children, all are deceased but
three.
H e was m a rrie d to M a r y E lla
W ebster. They had eight children,
U . L . W ebster (deceased), Leola
Law son, P o rtla n d , O .L . W ebster,
A tla n ta , T exa s, L u la M . C o o k ,
Po rtlan d, W illis W ebster, A tlan ta.
Texas, M e lv in a G iles , P o rtla n d ,
Rapheal W ebster (deceased). O pal
Johnson, P o rtla n d . O u t o f this
(Selected Patterns)
SAVE
50% OFF
Vertical Shades 40% OFF|
ILM . DIETZ COMPANY
239-9014
1010 SE POWELL
PORTLAND 97202
m
( t o n t O i » « » m z » pw
Mon Thurs 9 6 301
Fri M
S e t 12 5