February 1 2 ,1992...The Portland Observer...Page 9
Sir Thomas Upton Traditional Teas
Now Available
A new collection o f four fine tra­
ditional tea blends worthy of the brand
nam e “ Sir Thom as Lipton” is being
introduced into this market by Tho­
mas J. Lipton Co., Englewood Cliffs,
NJ.
Developed in response to the in­
creasing interest o f tea drinkers in tra­
ditional teas, the new varieties have
been specially blended (utilizing Lip-
ton’s heritage o f expertise) with the
finest ingredients for a smooth, rich,
robust taste. The line’s purity o f flavor
has been achieved by use o f only the
highest quality teas hand-selected from
tea plantations around the world at the
peak o f their seasons-often only a few
days each year.
Due to the unique character o f the
teas, they have been named for Sir
Thom as Lipton, the man whose inge­
nuity, classic values, adventurous spirit
and passion for tea led him to perfect
tea blends that set the highest possible
standards for quality and tea flavor. In
fact, he was known throughout the
world as “ Sir T ea.”
The four premium blends are avail­
able in boxes of 20 individually wrapped
tea bags. Two blends are also avail­
able in loose form, enclosed in a foil-
wrapped pouch in a quarter-pound tin.
The varieties are:
English Breakfast - A classic blend
o f Ceylons, full-bodied strong black
Assams from northeast India, and col-
orful teas from the m ountains of Kenya.
This rich, robust tea, spectacular in
color and natural aroma, can be en­
joyed any time o f day or night. A vail­
able in tea bags and loose tea.
Earl Grey - A highly aromatic
combination of China Black Teas scented
with bergamot, acitrus fruit. The names
from the British prime minister, Earl
G rey, who received the recipe from the
Chinese in 1830. Available in tea bags
and loose tea.
Darjeeling Blend - Indian’s fin­
est, m ost delicate tea, grown in the
foothills of the Himalayas. Harvested
only during the brief summer period of
peak quality, this tea is noted for its
consistent light, soothing flavor and
exquisite bouquet. Available in tea bags.
Irish Breakfast - A delicious blend
o f black teas from Kenya and Rwanda
as well as other fine African teas known
for their brilliant cup, golden yellow
color and distinctive bold state. The
Irish sip this blend with milk, sw eet­
ened to taste. Available in tea bags.
The New Sir Thomas Lipton blends
have been successfully introduced in
Europe and in fine hotels and restau­
rants here in the U.S. Now they are
available in supermarkets in this area,
identified by their award-winning white
packages with the gold and w hite pic­
ture o f Sir Thomas Lipton anti delicate
illustrations of areas of the world asso­
ciated with the individual tea blends.
Tri-Met News
Goodwill Industries
Open House
Passengers who use wheelchair lifts
to board buses and MAX relied on Tri-
Met more than ever in 1991.
Life use increased nearly 60 per-
centover 1990 with ab o u t58,000 boar­
dings, 44,000 on buses alone. Passen­
gers used Tri-M et lifts nearly 33,000
times in 1990, and 17,000 in 1989. The
lifts are used by passengers in wheel­
chairs and by other riders who are unable
to clim b stairs.
New lift-equipped buses, public
education and aw areness training pro­
grams all contributed to the increase.
Ninety-three new lift-equipped buses
went into service in late 1990, and an
additional 13 began serving in spring
1991.
Last sum m er, Tri-M et offered
“ mobility fairs” throughout the Port­
land area, which helped customers get
acquainted with lifts on buses and MAX.
Tri-Met employees participated in three
disability aw areness days last year,
becoming more fam iliar with the chal­
lenges that passengers in wheelchairs
face. During the event, em ployees
maneuvered wheelchairs through an
obstacle course and used a wheelchair
and lift to board a bus.
MAX and 56 o f 74 bus lines are
accessible weekdays. Tri-M et is totally
accessible on weekends. W eekday
accessibility will increase when 108
new lift-equipped buses go into service
next fall. Tri-M et has purchased only
lift-equipped buses since 1982, placing
the agency well ahead o f new A m eri­
can with Disabilities Act regulations
requiring all buses to be accessible by
1997.
Tri-M ct’s LIFT mini-buses pro­
vide door-to-door rides to some 10,000
elderly and disabled people who are
unable to use buses or MAX. Volunteer
Transportation, Inc., also coordinates
T ri-M et’s volunteer service for volun­
teer agencies.
On M onday, February 17, from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m., Goodwill Industries of
the Colum bia W illam ette will hold an
open house. This is a good opportunity
for the com m unity to see firsthand how
G oodw ill is providing vocational reha­
bilitation to people with disabilities in
the community.
A tour o f the facility will include a
walk through:
- The production area where
12,000,000 pounds of used goods are
processed annually.
- The Goodwill Contracts D epart­
m ent where twenty-eight em ployees
package and assemble everything from
cans of tuna to the “ Farming G am e.”
- The O ffice Technology and Re­
tail Skills Programs where people with
disabilities learn new skills to become
independent and self-sufficient.
- The Placement Department where
people with disabilities learn how to
w rite a resume, interview, and g e ta jo b
in their chosen field.
Tours are approximately 20 m in­
utes long, and refreshments will be
served.
Goodwill Industries of the Colum ­
bia W illam ette is located at 1831 S.E.
Sixth Avenue, Portland.
No Jobs And No Shame: Conclusion
by P r o f. M c K in le y B u r t
W ell, I left you with a cliffhanger
last week. I had just described the sud­
den success-and equally sudden fail­
u re -o f a Portland job-creating, inno­
vative black businessman; what we need
a lot more o f today. Let me repeat the
last fascinating paragraphs that led to
the query, “ So who killed the venture—
Uncle Tom? Is it happening again?”
‘‘In 1948, M r. M cK inley W il­
liams came here from Los Angeles..„a
year before the ‘O regon J o u rn a l,’
one of P o rtla n d ’s two daily new spa­
pers, w ent on a 25-day strik e (J a n u ­
a ry -F e b ru a ry , 1949). A public a c ­
countant that the time, I was requested
to visit M r. W illiam ’s N orth W il­
liam s Ave. offices to set up an a c ­
counting system for a new an d inno­
vative en terp rise.
Im agine my su rp rise w hen en­
terin g his facilities...a sea o f w hite
faces, a full dozen of the strik in g , laid
o f f ‘J o u r n a l’ employees busy at type­
w riters teletypes, a r t layups, phone
banks. W illiam s had conceived and
launched a sm all g ro u p of Regional
C om m unity N ew spapers of a sim ilar
basic form at: St. Johns, B eaverton,
Milwaukie, Albina, etc. But each with
a news content specific to th a t p a r ­
tic u la r neighborhood’s ongoing a c ­
tivities and u rb an problem s.
T he idea sold like hot cakes be­
cause m erch an ts saw a golden o p p o r­
tunity to ta ilo r their advertising to
the custom ers in th eir specific neigh­
borhoods. So who killed the venture?
W hether the reader identified e i­
ther ‘‘Uncle T om ” or ‘‘T heE stablish­
m ent” (or both) as the culprit, he was
absolutely right. Both are still with us,
alive and well. A contemporary prob­
lem is that we need this new and som e­
what arrogant generation to understand
that ‘ ‘nothing haschanged but the name
of the gam e.” Except that it has be­
come more sophisticated while rem ain­
ing equally as dangerous. And when we
talk about the critical need for JOBS,
remember that most Americans work
for small business and the ratio is in­
creasing daily.
Let us exam ine the startup o f Mr.
W illiam’s enterprise. From an experi­
ence-based perspective, I can assure
you that this innovative venture was
not that different from scores o f white
businesses which successfully launched
with strength and expertise but without
capital sufficient for all emergencies.
A case in point is the Tektronix Corpo­
ration whose roots were in a shabby
facility in the same area where years
later I started my own Education/
Computer firm in 1969 (at the com er of
25th and S.E. Belmont).
At the nearby Italian restaurant,
there were alm ost daily stories told of
the hilarious and desperate experiences
of the two, always broke inventors of
what was to prove to be the w orld’s
most popular oscilloscope. Before they
made it, they were known to have re-
served a special window table at this
same cafe from which they could watch
their little shop several blocks away.
The partners fled here whenever they
got a call from a friend at their bank
informing them the bank had foreclosed
and the sheriff was on the way out to
serve them.
Today, Tektronix has plants and
employees all over the world, but what
happened to Mr. W illiams? He was so
involved 18 hours a day with the intri­
cacies o f his venture that he forgot to
watch his rear; specifically, two blacks,
one o f whom considered himself “ King
o f the Ghetto, ’ ’ and the other his ‘ ‘court
jester.” As we find yet today, both of
these little jealous and insecure crea­
tures mouthed much “ black talk” but
at the same time boasted of how much
influence they had with “ the white
folks dow ntow n” (and the King surely
did).
Mr. W illiams got out the first three
weekly editions o f his papers and the
advertisers were ecstatic-so were the
creditors who furnished the printing,
supplies and leased equipment; not to
mention the employees who had dreams
o f never having to return to the
“ chicken,” stolid constraints of the
establishment Oregon Journal. It was
not to be. The King and his jester went
about their destructive work most
immediately. The grinning jester hung
around closely enough to find out that
the enterprise was “ credit financed”
ju st as Tektronix, but w ithout a bank
backup and no venture capitalists in the
wings.
This information was quickly passed
to the “ K ing” and this second Uncle
Tom just as quickly passed the news
dow ntow n-a frequent favor-trading ploy
of wrongdoers whose skirts are dirty.
Creditors, previously content with wait­
ing 30 to 60 days for their first payment
from a quite promising new business,
were now panicked into demanding
immediate paym ent by an ugly tele­
phone campaign forecasting failure. This
led to many of them discovering that the
owner was, in fact, black! In concert,
the Oregon Journal m oved to get its
employees back, adopting a more con­
ciliatory stance.
In short, the venture was quickly
doomed. Several years ago I talked with
two retired em ployees o f the ‘ ‘Journal ’ ’
who verified that sequence o f events.
And what Uncle Toms forget is that both
“ Ole M assa” and their frie n d s and
relatives often tell on them when they
fall out of favor. However, the forego­
ing considerations represent ju st a few
of the possibilities and hazards to be
faced by a new generation o f black
innovators and job-creators. A gain, we
need to know if our com m unity is pre­
pared ethically and em otionally, as well
as technically, for the type o f economic
development necessary for survival.
This question will be addressed in
the next series; which will thoroughly
explore every elem ent o f this critical
field.
Portland Observer encourages our readers to write
letters to the editor in response to any articles
we publish.
Delta Sigma Theta’s
Founders Day Luncheon
Sponsors Needed For Summer Food
Service Program
Sponsors are needed fo ra Summer
Food Service Program which provides
children nutritious meals during the
summer. Sponsors receive cash reim ­
bursement for providing nonprofit food
service to children 18 years or younger
in low-income areas. A pplications are
due May 15.
Participation is open to public or
private nonprofit organizations, schools,
residential camps, Indian tribal govern­
ments, migrant agencies, and units of
local, m unicipal, county or state gov­
ernments. Selected sites will serve ar­
eas where at least 50 percent of the
children arc eligible for free or reduced-
price school lunches.
All residential camps may partici­
pate. Camps and sponsors serving mi­
grant w orkers’ children are eligible to
serve up to four meals per day. Other
eligible sponsors may serve one meal or
one lunch and one breakfast, or one
lunch and one snack.
Meals must meet U.S. D epartment
of Agriculture meal patterns. Sponsors
prepare their meals or purchase them
from a school district or food service
management company. Sponsors must
keep cost and meal count records for re­
imbursement claims. Food service
management companies in Oregon in­
terested in participating in the program
must register by March 15.
Eligibility for the program is w ith­
out regard to race, color, national ori­
gin, age, sex, or handicap. Anyone who
believes he or she has been discrim i­
nated against in any USDA-related ac­
tivity should write immediately to the
Secretary of Agriculture, W ashington,
D.C. 20250.
For more information, contact Khalil
Tadros, School Nutrition Programs,
Oregon Department of Education, 700
Pringle Pkwy. S.E., Salem, OR 97310
(call 378-3579).
As part of a national awareness
campaign, the Portland Alumnae Chap­
ter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.,
will present a luncheon and forum on
the challenges facing African-Ameri­
can young men.
The forum is entitled “ Securing
Our Future: Preparing Our Sons For
M anhood,” and will be held on Satur­
day, February 22, at the Convention
Center Execulodge, 1021 N.E. Grand.
The luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. and
the forum follows at 1:00 p.m.
The keynote speaker with be psy­
chologist, Dr. Garfield DeBardelaben.
He will be joined by panelists: Parks
Superintendent Charles Jordan, former
Blazer Kermit Washington, Self En­
hancement Co-dircctor Ray Leary, TLC-
TNT Co-director Roy Pittman, KOIN-
TV anchor Ken Boddie, Morehouse
College graduate William (Billy) White,
and Urban League CEO Dr. Daryl
Tukufu. K G W ’s Sharon Mitchell will
be the moderator.
Tickets for the luncheon and fo­
rum are $25 for adults and $15 for
those under 18. Call 289-3648 for res­
ervations. Tickets can be purchased at
the door or in advance at the Skanner
newspaper, 2337 N. W illiams Ave.
Tickets purchased at the Skanner must
be paid for by check. Please make
checks out to Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.
Everyone knows the negative sta­
tistics. Delta Sigma Theta is inviting
you to attend and bring at least one
young man to share in the expertise of
those who have been successful at
meeting the challenge. Audience par­
ticipation is encouraged. Please take
advantage o f this opportunity to be
part of finding a solution to the devas­
tation o f an entire generation o f Afri­
can-American young men.
Expect the Best at Safeway
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Local United Way
Surpasses National
Average
United Way o f the Columbia-W il-
lamette recorded a 6 percent increase
in donations during Campaign ’91 while
nationally, 2,300 United Ways across
the country are averaging a 3 percent
increase over 1990 figures.
The organization has collected $20.7
million, exceeding thecam paign’s goal
of $20.5 million. The number o f Lead­
ership Givers, individual contributing
$1,000 or more, increased 33 percent
over 1990. These 663 donors accounted
for more than $1 million o f the 1991
campaign total.
“ This past fall, more than 150,000
people throughout the four-county area
cam e together to help their neighbors.
They donated $20.7 million to the United
Way Campaign, a record amount,” said
Robert L. Ridglcy, president and CEO
o f Northwest Natural Gas Company
and 1991 campaign chairman.
‘ ‘These people aren ’t the only ones
who gave som ething to United Way.
The time contributed to Campaign '91
by hundreds of volunteers helped raise
those millions o f dollars. I’d like to
extend a heartfelt thanks to each one of
you.”
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