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V olum n XXII, Num ber 4
“The E yes and Ears o f th e C ojn m u n ity”
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Jefferson Hosts Martin Luther
King, Jr. Celebration
Above, Mattie Ann Col­
lier Spears sang at the
state’s largest celebra­
tion honoring the Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Left, Martin Luther King,
Jr. was born January 15,
1929. He was killed by
an assassin on April 4,
1968, in Memphis,
Tennessee.
On M onday, January 20, Jeffer­
son High School hosted the state’s
largest celebration to honor the Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The seventh
annual “ Keep Living the D ream ”
celebration offered continuous en­
tertainment and commentary from
noon to 6 p.m.
The school auditorium which
holds 1,500 people was continually
filled throughout the afternoon. The
special tribute featured a combination
of drama, speeches and song provided
by local leaders, musical talent, and
gospel choirs from metropolitan Port­
land and a guest appearance from Total
Experience Choir from Seattle. The
entire concert and program was broad­
cast live on KBOO (90.7 FM) and on
Paragon Cable Television.
The seventh annual
‘Keep Living the
Dream celebration
offered continuous
entertainment and
commentary
Portland Parks And Recreation Celebrates Improvements
At King School Park Playground
King School park playground has
some new equipment and the park has
new lighting, benches, and trees - all
thanks to funds generated from the Parks
Improvement Levy approved by voters
in 1989. On Thursday, January 23, one
hundred second and third graders from
Martin Luther King Elementary School
will help Commissioner Mike L ind­
berg officially cut the ribbon and put a
stamp of approval on the com pleted
project.
T h u rsd a y , J a n u a ry 23
11:15 AM
K ing School P a rk -
N E 6th and H um bolt
Joining Com m issioner Lindberg
and the children in the celebration will
be Portland Parks and Recreation Di­
rector Charles Jordan, King School
Principal Laverne Davis, and Fred
S tew art- Chairman o f the King Im­
provement Association.
Levy improvements to the park
are not limited to above ground! This
spring, the ballfield will be renovated
and irrigation improvements will be
made to the entire park. According to
Commissioner Lindberg, “ Our city’s
neighborhood parks and playgrounds
are the backbone of ourparksystem . It
is essential that we continue to put re­
sources into our inner-city parks to as­
sure that all our children have safe, fun
and accessible places to play.”
to announce a massive recall o f defec­
tive engines. However, the company
was found to lead the nation when two
o f its lines were compared with others,
“ The most frequently stolen cars in
A m erica in the past five years are the
Chevrolet Camaros and the Olds C ut­
lass.”
It is more than shameful when you
have the President o f a great nation
touring the world on a marketing junket
to yesterday’s “ third w orld” nations,
begging for “ QUOTAS AND SETA-
SIDES.” Rather ironic, don’t you think?
A growing fallout from the ill-conceived
trip is producing a sobering trauma in
the American public. From the Japa­
nese press and parliam ent we have it
that “ American workers are lazy,over­
paid, and too illiterate to follow written
directions or schem atics.” The most
embarrassing feature o f this is that it
sounds like a direct quote from an
American industry roundtable critiqu­
ing our EDUCATION SYSTEM.
There arc many o f us of the other-
than-majority class of disadvantaged citi­
zens (race, gender) who have been acri­
moniously accused of seeking an unfair
position in society by demanding the
Bush-type “ Quotas and Setasides.” What
happened to that old adage “ w hat’s
good for the goose is good for the gan­
der” ? I thought that Anna Quindlen
(N.Y. Times) dealt rather well with this
m atter in her column last week, and in
good time too. As the layoffs and plant
closures escalated, there typically will
be increasing com petition, confronta­
tion, stress and overt racism. She had
the following comments for those
‘ ‘advantaged’ ’ who now believe blacks
A 21 -story office building with an
adjacent parking garage has been pro­
posed near Lloyd Center by S-PAC, a
joint venture partnership of Pacific
Power and the Ralph Schlesinger
Company.
The partnership will own the pro­
posed building, located at 600 N.E.
Holladay Street. GBD Architects has
been selected as the building arthitect,
and Hoffman Construction as the gen­
eral contractor for construction.
Pacific Development, Inc., a Paci-
fiCorp subsidiary, has agreed to sell
the site for the new building, and re­
tains substantial other holdings in the
Lloyd District. Pacific Development
and Schlesinger were partners in the
new state office building, currently in
the final stages o f construction, nearby
at 800 N.E. Oregon S t
The name o f the new project is the
“ 600 Holladay Building” .
Pacific Power and some Pacific-
Corp staff functions will be the pri­
mary tenants o f the building, which
represents approximately 60 percent
of the total office space. Pacific Power
and Utah Power arc electric utility di­
visions o f PacifiCorp. Together they
serve 1.2 million customers in seven
W estern states.
No other leases are signed at this
time, though discussions are under­
way with interested groups such as the
law firm of Stoel Rives Boley Jones &
Grey. The Ralph Schlesinger Co. will
manage and operate the building on
behalf o f the joint venture.
Plans call fora480,000-squar-foot
office building with an adjacent eight
floor above grade parking garage. In
addition to providing parking for the
office building, the parking structure is
expected to serve the planned Oregon
arena and replace surface park ing being
removed as the Lloyd District devel­
ops.
4 There will also be service/retail
space on the main levels of the building
and parking garage, a daycare facility
and conference rooms and teleconfer­
encing facilities for building tenants.
Schematic building plans go be­
fore the City of Portland, Bureau of
Planning in January as part of the De­
sign Review process. Actual construc­
tion is scheduled to begin in mid-
1992, with occupancey in mid to late
1994.
Pacific Power curently leases the
Public Service Building on S.W. Sixth
and Salmon streets in Portland. It was
constructed in 1927. Several firms have
already expressed interest in the build­
ing and plans for its redevelopment
are in progress.
Community Care
Needs Our Help
And Support
MARTIN
LUTHER
KING, JR.
by Michael Lindsey
Our own Clara Peoples has for
many years gone the last mile for the
community. She has clothed, housed
and fed residents for over 20 years,
never asking for anything in return,
but the ability and resources to care.
Now she needs help. In these
recessionary times where unemploy­
ment is rampant and individuals and
families are hurting, the need is greater
than ever before. And Community
Care needs our help. Clara Peoples
cannot do it alone. Please help,: she
has done her part, it is time we do
ours.
Please send your generous
donations to Community Care, c/o
Bethel AME Church, 5828 NE 8th,
Portland, OR, 97211.
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thieves to the tune of BILLIONS OF
D O LLA RS~A nd this while other p a ­
triots spun out o f their lucrative gov­
ernment jobs to become successful lob­
byists and public relations experts in
representing Japanese and other Asian
manufacturers. How do you think these
firms got so solidly entrenched here in
the first place? (Add Taiwan, Hong
Kong, S ingapore,etc.). Greed and short
term profit have run amuck and now
the piper demands his price.
Next week this series will develop
an approach that specifically addresses
the minority situation in all of this. We
will look at both the immediate and
longterm effects of America’s economic
fiascos upon black job seekers and
families. We are not seeking to “ cry
havoc,” but to define the problem ac­
curately, and to develop solutions.
Special
by Bill Barber
by McKinley Burt
EDITORIAL
Now that it has been accepted in
the press, Congress and the think tanks
that the ill-fated trip accomplished noth­
ing (include union headquarters), what
will be the adm inistration’s next move
in a critical and dangerous election
year. Need we be on guard against
some headline-grabbing MILITARY
ADVENTURE? Will CUBA be at­
tacked? Is an American-backed coup in
IRAQ imminent? Will the accused ter­
rorists in LIBYA be forcibly extra­
dited? Certainly, there is a precedent
for such escapades since failing gov­
ernments or administrations have
adopted such attention-diverting ploys
since time inmemorial.
It is obvoius that for a decade the
nation has been raped and ravaged by
gangs of junk bond hucksters, savings
& loan executives and other high-level
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Isaiah’s Song Of The Vineyard:
Are Those Wild Grapes I See?
Heroes And
Heroines Sung
And Unsung
and women have it made.
“ Nevermind that you can walk
through the offices of almost any big
company and see a sea o f white faces.”
(Try the offices or shops along Martin
Luther King Blvd.). “ Never mind that
in the good old days preferential treat­
ment was routinely given to brothers
and sons of workers in certain lines of
work. Perceptions of programs to edu­
cate and hire more black citizens as a
partial antidote to decades of system ­
atic exclusion have been inflated to
enormous proportions in the public
m ind.” (“ Partial” is the right word.
For years I have pointed out how Euro­
pean immigrants have always been given
job and craft preference for 1 5 0 y e a rs-
and that these laws and custom s arc still
in practice-D ept. of Labor cites “ a
shortage o f certain skills” )
Sports
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New Lloyd District Office Building Announced
No Jobs And No Shame, Part I
BY PROFESSOR MCKINLEY BURT
That highly touted economic task
force o f the Bush Administration has
returned from Japan and the signals are
mixed; “ Disappointing” or “ A com ­
plete failure.” The President’s excur­
sion under a table failed to define a new
relationship between the two super­
powers; but Japan’s prime minister has
stated that America is a “ subcontrac­
tor and supplier of raw m aterials.”
The representatives of the Big Three
automakers fumed and fussed with dec­
larations o f American resurgence in
manufacturing skills and quality con­
trols. The category o f superlatives was
com pletely exhausted: mastery, pri­
macy, paramount, superb, superior,
finest unexcelled, leading edge. Within
hours of their return, G.M. was forced
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