Page 8...The Portland Observer...July 1, 1992
NASCD Selects
New Director
Oregon Expects $4 Million
Jobs Boost
Director
,
The National Association for Sickle
Cell Disease, Inc., (NASCD) announced
the appointment of the new Executive
D irecto r, L ynda K. Anderson by
X ernona C layton, Vice President,
Turner Broadcasting System and Chair
of the NASCD Board. “We have cho
sen the right person at the right time.
Our new Director has the stamina and
management skills that will take us into
the 21st century,” said Ms. Clayton.
NASCD is a Los Angeles based
organization with nationwide commu
nity sickle cell programs which recently
celebrated 20 years of providing educa
tion, research and patient services cen
tering on the sickle cell conditions.
Sickle cell disease is an inherited, in
curable condition which primarily af
fects African-Americans.
Ms. Anderson has extensive expe
rience in administration, public rela
tions and the nonprofit sector. She has
been vice president for special projects
for the National Black United Fund,
and public relations director for the
Brotherhood Crusade in Los Angeles,
CA. Until recently, she was co-owner
and operator of a specialty shoe salon in
Culver City, CA. Ms. Anderson brings
to NASCD a varied ‘and determined
background.
“I welcome the challenge to direct
this organization which pioneered an
effort to identify and educate the carri
ers of a genetic disease. We are on the
brink of the 21st Century, and I want to
help us get to a time when we will no
longer have children bom with sickle
cell anemia because their parents were
unaware that they carried the gene for
this condition,” said Ms. Anderson.
Ms. Anderson succeeds Dorothye
H. Boswell, who retired after leading
the organization since its founding in
1971.
Tony Brown’s Journal
“ Is The Press Helping
Ross Perot Lie?”
Airdates:7/10-7/16
Although Dallas billionaire H. Ross
Perot did not object to the remarks
attributed to him in 1988 by Dallas
journalist Laura Miller, he now not
only denies them, but question her pro
fessionalism and suggests that she had
engaged in “flights of fantasy.” How
ever, Miller, now a columnist for the
Dallas Observer, maintains that H. Ross
Perot, the man who may be the next
president, lobbied to have the Black
and Hispanic communities of Dallas
“cordoned o f f ’ so that police SWAT
teams could conduct house-to-house
searches for drugs and weapons.
On this edition, Miller repeats this
charge and adds that the man now lead
ing George Bush and Bill Clinton in the
presidential opinion polls also wanted
souped-up police helicopters with in
frared tracking devices to root tout drugs
in the Black neighborhoods of South
Dallas. Further-more, the Dallas jour
nalist accuses the news media of “help
ing Ross Perot lie” by ignoring these
“dangerous ideas.”
•Depending on the date the pro
gram is aired in a specific market. Please
check with the local PBS station for
exact date and time.
Oregon’s welfare-reform program
is expected to receive an increase of
about $4 million during the next two
years as the result of an amendment to
pending federal law, approved today by
the U. S. House Ways and Means Com
mittee.
The funding will help Oregon pro
vide job training to recipients of public
assistance. Twenty thousand Orego
nians are receiving training in the 1991 -
93 biennium under the state’s $62-mil-
lion welfare-reform program. Welfare
reform, or jobs, provides education,
training and job-search assistance to
welfare recipients.
The legislation provides for the
allocation of previously unspent Jobs
matching funds to the states.
The
Ways-and-Means-approved bill, con
taining the disbursement change, now
goes to the House and Senate.
“We have fought hard for this
amendment,” Kevin W. Concannon,
director of the Oregon Department of
House and Senate.
“We have fought hard for this
amendment,” Kevin W. Concannon,
director of the Oregon Department of
Human Resources, said. “This correc
tion in the law allows our state to re
ceive its rightful share of unspent fed
eral Jobs dollars.”
Concannon testified twice in March
before congressional committees on
Oregon’s success in training teen par
ents through its Jobs program. This
state leads the nation in educating teen
parents.
Oregon congressman Les AuCoin
was the state’s principal advocate for
the legislative change. “Oregon’s Jobs
program shows that welfare doesn’t
have to be just a life preserver,” AuCoin
said. “Il can be a springboard to help
people get back into meaningful fam
ily-wage jobs.” Oregon Congressman
Mike Kopetski also worked for the
modification.
Prior to the amendment, Oregon
was excluded from the allocation of
Jobs funds because this state spends
more for welfare reform than is quali
fied to be matched by federal dollars.
“Our superior commitment to wel
fare reform would have eliminated Or
egon from receiving a share of unspent
federal funds before today’s legislative
change,” Stephen D. Minnich, admin
istrator of the Oregon Adult and Family
Services Division, explained. “This
helps Oregonians keep faith with their
commitment to welfare reform.”
A nti-poverty advocate Bruce
Bishop, legislative chairman of the
Human Services Coalition of Oregon,
praised the action: “Our organization
has been advocating for months with
state and federal officials to maintain
necessary social service programs. We
applaud the leadership that has gone
into this. It is in Oregon’s long-term
interest that we continue these impor
tant services.”
Foods: Not Always A Picnic
Barbecued chicken, baked beans,
com on the cob, potato salad, and water
melon. S ummer is here and so are all the
wonderful foods the season brings. How
ever, some of these summertime treats
need a little extra precaution from con
sumers before eating.
Summer is the season for picnics
and camping trips. That calls for some
consideration when it comes to packing
the food.
“I guess the utmost thing to con
sider would be refrigeration of prod
ucts. Don’t leave them out too long,”
says Jim Black, administrator of the
Food and Dairy Division of the Oregon
Department of Agriculture. “I gocamp-
ing myself and we use a good old cooler
along with ice blocks, there are a num
ber of measures you can take to keep
that temperature down.’
Each summer, local health depart
ments report outbreaks of food borne
illnesses associated with products like
potato and macaroni salad. In many
cases, the salad sits on the picnic table in
the hot sun for too long. The tempera
ture is perfect for incubation of food
borne organisms. ,
“Refrigeration again is your best
safeguard with those kinds of products,”
warns Black, who says time is as impor
tant as temperature. “Don’t just keep
them for several days. T wo or three days
usually doesn’t make any difference
assuming proper handling and tempera
ture. But beyond that, you may want to
just throw it out.”
Black repeats a popular motto
among food safety specialists: “When
in doubt, throw it out.”
Another favorite summer food is
now a new source of concern for some.
Melons until recently have never been
considered a problem. However, a sal
monella outbreak in the northeastern
U.S. last summer was traced to the
consumption of cantaloupe that had been
contaminated.
“We are surmising perhaps fertili
zation was the source, perhaps using
animal waste in the field,” says Black.
“Of course, melons are grown on the
ground.”
People don ’ t normally cat the rind.
The problems may have taken place
when the knife used to cut the melon
spread whatever organism was on the
rind onto the part of the fruit that is
eaten.
The best advice in dealing with
melons is to was the outside rind after
you buy it using a brush for the rough
exterior of cantaloupes. Watermelons
have a smooth surface and don’t need
the brush but do need the washing.
Black has some additional advice:
“If you need to cut into the melon
and consume only part of it, then you
should refrigerate the leftover portion.
Again, refrigeration retards those bac
teria that can make us sick.”
Several other summertime foods
are relatively safe and don’t need the
same kinds of precautions as melons.
Most of them, like many fruits and
vegetables, have a high acid content
which also retards any organism
growth. Those foods, such as apples
and pears, can be kept out of refrigera
tion most of the time without any prob
lem.
There is yet one more food safety
concern for the summer. Black says
cross-contamination should be mini
mized.
“Many times things are chopped
on the same cutting board, for instance,
that you cut your raw chicken on.
Those raw products have organisms
that could produce illness.”
Black recommends a good clean
ing and sanitizing of the cutting board
after chopping up raw meat products.
Despite the warnings and precau
tions, summer continues to be a great
lime to enjoy food. With a little com
mon sense, those foods con be safe as
well as delicious.
For more information, contact Jim
Black at 378-3790 or Bruce Pokarncy
at 378-3773.
UNJONZAVENUE/;
& G WÂVZ QM P AN Y ;
Over-The-Line Softball
Tournament Slated For
July 11
Eugene Parks and Registration is
accepting registration for an “Ovcr-
the-Line” softball tournament planned
for July 11 at Ascot Park. Over-thc-
Line is an adaptation of softball which
combines place hitting, power hitting,
and fielding using a threc-pcrson team.
Divisions include men’s, women’s, and
coed teams. Entry fee is $21. The
registration deadline is Tuesday, July 7
at 5:00 p.m. For more information, call
the Eugene Parks and Recreation Ath
letic office at 687-5333.
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November, 1992.
Lee’s announcements followed an
im passioned address by featured
speaker Rev. Frank Reid III, Pastor,
Bethel A.M.E. Zion Church, who hailed
the Black Press as “the social con
science of our community.”
Reid said: “The legacy of the Black
Press is a rich one. But the question that
faces you today as journalists and as
representatives of the African Ameri
can Community is, how do we move
from that legacy to liberation? Because
one of the problems with romanticizing
one’s past is that if one is not acting on
that legacy then it is meaningless, and
all we do is walk through that history
like it was a museum, observing it but
never acting upon it.”
Reid encouraged Black publishers
to use their newspapers to communi
cate to the African American Commu
nity the importance of controlling its
own economic destiny.
Reid cited the donations made by
Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey, Michael
Jordan, Janet Jackson, Prince, Peggy
Cooper-Cafritz and Tracy Chapman that
enabled Spike Lee to complete the film
ing of “Malcolm X” as “a sign of the
economic power that we too can act
upon if we wake up.”
The NNPA publishers were also
treated to inspirational musical selec
tions performed by members of the
Bethel A.M.E. Zion Choir.
Sam Hall, Manager, Public Rela
tions, Pepsi-Cola Company said: “Pepsi
Cola is pleased to continue its long
standing support of, and relationship
with, the Black Press by sponsoring this
inspirational and exciting breakfast.
“We are equally pleased to have
provided a forum for NNPA members to
hear the powerful message of Rev. Reid,
and the important announcement by
Spike Lee, two young men who stand at
the forefront of their respective field sf
Hall said.
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Black newspaper owners have lo r?
complained that motion picture distribu
tors generally send them many news and
photo releases, hoping for free public
ity, but the distributors have been reluc
tant to use paid advertising in Black
publications to promote their films.
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Motion picture producer-director
Spike Lee, who recently completed film
ing his latest and most ambitious movie,
“Malcolm X,” told Black newspaper
publishers here recently that he is de
manding that Warner Bros., the film’s
distributor, advertise the movie in Black
newspapers nationwide.
Speaking at a Prayer Breakfast,
sponsored by Pepsi-Cola Company
during the 52nd Annual Convention of
the National Newspaper Publishers
Association (NNPA) at the Hyatt Re
gency on the Inner Harbor, Lee also
said that Warner Bros, would fly Black
journalists from NNPA newspapers to
New York for a “media day” prior to the
film’s opening. Delegates representing
205 publications that reach more than
11-million readers were present at the
convention.
The publishers were shown a brief
teaser of scenes from the film, which
examines the life of the slain African
American activist Malcolm X. The
movie stars Academy Award-winning
actor Denzel Washington in the title
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