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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1989)
>• ♦ ♦ * ♦ « ♦ * » V • * * *' • * • « • « » W ♦ » * ♦ * ♦ * * * > ............... «* •• • » « , 0 * > t * «V * * WV-* * ♦ « * ♦ * • * *■ » *■* • Page 6 Portland Observer February 16, 1989 News Around Town The Abuse Continues Links will Present Debutants in Starlight Cotillion The above photograph is an indication of what little regard som e businesses have for the impoverished and the elderly. A.G.G. Enterprises, Inc., a drop box service in North Portland dumped the debris on the lawn o f the residence of Mr. asnd Mrs. W illie Harris, 4746 North Mississippi. ASccording too Mrs. Harris, the driver o f the drop box truck staled the dum pster was overloaded and rclused io accept a check for the extra debris. Upon being contacted by the Portland Observer, a spokesperson for the business conceded that the trash was dumped but refused to discuss the matter any further. The incident was reported to liter City Nuisance Bureau whiuch requested a photograph o f the trash and promised to inv estigate The Portland Chapter o f the LINKS, a service oriented group o f African- American women will sponsor their 12lh annual debutante ball to be held Sunday, February 19th at 7 p.m. This gala event will take place in the Chiles Center of the University of Portland which is located at 5000 W illamette Boulevard. The University is accessed via Portland Avenue. Last Sunday the press and special invited guests had an opportunilv to chat with these 19 young women and their escorts just before thev went into final rehearsal for die ' Starlight C otillion." All of die debutantes are graduating seniors and plan to pursue further studies alter their graduation from high school Paula Jordan already has been accepted at Oregon State University, while Shanda Watts and Ursula Madden-Williams have not yet made up their munis where to study next year. BAN Valeric Peterson is interested in studying nursing while Robin Beavers is looking forward to studying at the University o f Arizona. Levan Pierce, one of the escorts, is anticipating an exciting college career at G ram bling University in Louisiana. He also hopes to make their famous football team in that historically African- American institution. According to Mrs. Kaye Toran, publicity director, attendance at the cotillion is by invitation only. The major fund raiser for the LINKS will be a fashion show to be held the last Friday in April. All o f the proceeds from the latter endeavor will provide at least six college scholarships for local area young women. In greeting the guests, Mrs. Freddie Prophet, president of the local chapter said. ‘‘Thank you for letting us have your children. They have been a joy to all of us just as they must have been a joy to you. We expect much from them in the future because they represent the hopes o f our destiny.” Underscoring the words o f their president were Jeanne Hertzog, Sandy Jackson, Phyliss G ainer and Marlene Fuller. Mrs. H ertzo g ’s d aughter participated in such a cotillion more than 10 years ago. She now lives in California and looks forward to having their 16 month old daughter follow the same pathway laid down by their elders. The Portland LINKS represent a tradition that has endured a great number o f challenges in their 32 year history. For the last 12 years they have presented some of the bright aspirants o f the com m unity to the general public. In the years that followed, each o f these young African-American women has assumed a responsible place in our society. The Portland Observer salutes this tremendous success story APARTHEID! Electrical genius GRANVILLE T, WOODS A* (1856-1910 Granville T. Vi nods BLACK Many of his sixty inventions were bought and used by G eneral E lectric, Westinghouse and Bell Telephone Among them are: the alternating current telephone; “ telcgraphony” (conversion of an ordinary telegraph key into a telephone); railway telegraphy, which made use of the telegraph wires along train tracks to transmit messages to other trains and stations; a theater light dimmer that reduced wasted electricity by 40%; overhead electric power sources for electric trains; the “ third rail’’ used in New York’s subway trains; the automatic air brake, the electric chicken egg hatcher. Woods was called the “ Black Edison.’’ Isaac Myers Freedom and the the new unions :On December 6 ,1869 at the union league hall in Washington a delegation o f more than 200 delegates met to form the colored national labor union union. Issac Myers was part o f that organization.W orking on the premises that until the necessity for seperate organigation shall be deemed unnessary in our organization W e make no discrimnation as to nationality,sex or color. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (1 8 8 4 -1 9 4 3 ) K Daniel H. Williams (1856-1931) “ Sewed Up His H eart” was the Chicago paper’s headline in 1893 when Dr. W illiams performed the w orld’s first successful heart surgery on a man who had been critically stabbed in a brawl. Doomed to die, the fortunate man recovered and lived fifty years after the operation.Dr. W illiams founded Providence Hospital in Chicago, the first interracial hospital in America. George Washington Carver Carver is known as the “ Savior of Southern Agriculture’ ’ for developing over 300 different products from the peanut and 100 different products from the sweet potato, which grow on the mineral-depleted soils of the south and return the nitrates needed for next season’s tobacco crop. Amoung his products were: cream .buttermilk, butter, shampoo, bleach, ink, plastics, instant and dry coffee, face powder, wood stains, mucilage, flour, starch, tapioca, and synthetic rubber. He extracted 75 products from the pecan and hundreds more from cotton and com wastes. His clay dyes were superior to G erm any’s aniline dyes. Carver refused to patent most of his inventions. THE STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES SALUTES BLACK AMERICANS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO SCIENCE, MEDICINE, INDUSTRY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE AND MORE. WE ARE PROUD TO JOIN OTHERS IN THE OBSERVATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH. DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES, PURCHASING DIVISION KAY THORAN, ADMINISTRATOR (503) 378 4642 * < * Ji 4 * •