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Portland Observer, November 9, 1963 Page 3 METROPOLITAN C.B.: Communication, recreation Club by Lenite Duke K ♦ B • O • O ♦ B * E * N * E * F * I* T HAIR SHOW à DANCE Graasroot Newt, N . W .— Breaker, Breaker, get your ear» keyed up, be cause there is an organization o f men and women in Portland who use the communications o f Citizen Band radios to assist one another under the banner o f the A ll-C ity C .B .a u b . Citizen Band radios or CBs were a fad in the early 1970s. As the signals faded on this fad a group o f P o rt landers who were introduced to CB- ing during this period found out that they dug it and kept their ears on. Their handles (names they call themselves) range from Low Down Dirty Snake. Magic, Brain Damage, Skull, Stoney, Boss, Buzzard, L .A . W o lf, and Track down. On any day you can hear these brothers rapping politics, economics, day-to-day problems and love on C .B . Channel 22. Brain Damage said, “ 1 use my CB for communication. It is a hobby. We have a lot o f fun with one another now. Now , it is a competi tion within one another. W e come out and key on [talk to] each other. That means we all come out and talk at the same time. It is like a verbal wrestling match. The one who breaks through is the w inner." Magic said, "Because of our jobs and families we can’ t visit one another. The CB keeps us in touch. W e do not use our CB for road con ditions to bry to outrun the police. W e help our own sick people and when the weather gets bad we use our CBs to help one another get to work. I f we hear o f a sick person in the community who cannot get around we communicate that and share what we have with them .” "Trackdow n said, " In case o f an emergency and you can’t call for anyone you just call Trackdown. I ’ll key up on all these boys right here and get you some help.” Low-Down D irty Snake said the A ll City CB Club assisted him in his hour o f need. “ M y baby brother died last month and the CB-ers all Sponsored by -«.csr’b Sunday-November 13,1983-Red Lion Motor Inn Jantzen Beach Free Hors d oeuvres No Host Cocktail Hour from 6 3 0 7 3 0 p m Door Prizes Presenting Hairstyles that are just right for you1 ♦ l h e latest ire tid ♦ Occupational sMes All-City C.B. Club members: Skull, Stoney. Breln Damage. Meglc. Sneke. Boat. Buzzard and pitched in and came up with quite a few hundred dollar bills. 1 didn’t even ask them. That was one hell of a thing that they did and I will do my best to help someone else." It has been said that you will not realize what a racist town Portland is until you listen to some o f the white CB-ers. Snake said a lot of what they say on their CBs I couldn’t print. "Jungle Bunny, Nigger and all kinds o f monkies. When I hear this I don't believe in turning the other cheek. I talk just as nasty back to them as I can be cause I ’m Low -D ow n Dirty Snake!" Other members o f the club will save the racist talk for M r. Snake to (Photo: Richard J. Brown) The A ll-C ity CB Club o f Portland takes care o f their own. Their love for talking does not mean they love to hear themselves talk. They use their CB as a link to each other and as an SOS in their time of need. AOnaaon $ 4 0 0 G et set foR t ^ e hoLidAys political origins or explanations. It is our hope that The D ay A fte r will inspire the nations o f this earth, their people and their leaders, to find means to avert the fateful d a y ." Much o f the program's scenario is based on a 131 page Congressional study by the office o f Technology Assessment titled. " T h e Effects of Nuclear W a r.” Immediately following The Day A fte r, at 10:15 p .m ., A B C News will broadcast a one-hour special ed ition o f "V iew p o in t.” Anchored by Ted Koppel, "V iew p o in t” will fea ture a distinguished panel o f experts reflecting different points o f view on issues raised by The Day After. Also. K A T U will present “ N o rth west V iew point,” live at 11:15 p .m ., immediately following " V ie w p o in t." The program, hosted by Rick Meyers, will focus on regional concerns over the nuclear problem. Lindberg supports hearings on Portland nuclear free zone After months o f considering a nu clear free zone ordinance for Port land to be "n o t a priority,” City Commissioner M ike Lindberg re cently announced his full support for public hearings on the viability o f such an ordinance. Lindberg stated to New Clear VLsion, an or ganization supporting such an or dinance, that he "w ould like to en courage that the issue get a full and fair hearing in front o f the City C o u ncil," and that he "w ould ask the other city commissioners to give their attention to the [nuclear free zone] issue.” W ith support from Lindberg’s office. New Clear Vision will now petition formally for a 1984 hearing date. Testimony as to the constitution ality and the economic viability of stopping nuclear weapons and parts production in Portland will be the focus o f the hearings. New Clear V i sion hopes the economic viability discussion will encourage local com panies to disclose the nature and the dollar amount of their nuclear wea pons parts contracts with the De partment o f Defesne. This inform a tion is nearly always withheld by the companies involved. Full disclosure o f the war production currently sup ported by the Portland community will enable Portland's citizens to evaluate whether or not to continue that production, in the opinion of New Clear Vision activists. "Commissioner Lindberg re sponded to the tens o f thousands of Portlanders who oppose the nuclear arms race by working last year for a symbolic Freeze Resolution," ac cording to New Clear Vision repre sentative Michael DeChristopher. "N o w he is responding to those same people by calling for hearings on a concrete, more-than-symbolic. nuclear free zone ordinance." w, sJZLw l •. l ' • r • .-1 ' • ■ » 1 .- • •« £ . ■, > L i : sfieii success Tickets on sale at Waves Hair Design 3327 N E Broadway The King's Ransom 5 2 0 SW 5th The House of Sound 3634 N Williams T ra c k D o w n . handle. Not only does Snake handle the racists o f the city but occasional ly Snake will key up his CB and bring awareness to his channel by talking about Black colleges, A fri can History and Ronnie Herndon. th a t tor spot ♦ Television progam reveals 'life' after nuclear war After nearly three years o f devel opment and production, The Day A fte r, a dramatic two-hour, 15-min- ute motion picture that will protray with stark realism the catastrophe of a nuclear confrontation and its de vastating effect on a group o f aver age American citizens, will be tele cast as a special “ A B C Theatre” presentation, Sunday, Nov. 20, at 8:00 p .m ., on K A T U -T V , Channel Tw o. " W e have lived for nearly four decades with the terrifying threat of an apocalyptic nuclear war and have all wondered what would happen to us if it were ever to occur," said Brandon Stoddard, President, AB C M otion Pictures. Inc. “ This film will provide an unrelenting and de tailed view o f a nuclear attack on the United States and what the e f fects might be on average citizens living in Kansas, far removed from t k/leu«r . ' i . » .
