M arch 10, 1993 • T he P ortland O bserver
NEWS
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PDC
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COMMISSION'
COMMISSION MEETING
COME ONE
COME ALL
"THE DREAM BOYS"
AT THE APOLLO!!!
Date: March 17,1993
Place: Portland Building
1120 SW Fifth Ave., 11 th Floor
Portland, Oregon
Time: 9:30 a.m.
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Commission meetings are open to
the public. A complete agenda is
available at PDC or by calling
823-3200. Citizens with disabilities
may call 823-3232 or TDD 823-6868
for assistance at least 48 hours in
advance.
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Latina Jones and Chris Smith
He won the weekly $50 and
referred her and won another
PDC is the City of Portland's urban
renewal, housing and economic
development agency.
$50.
Afro-American History Did Not
End On February 28th!
»» PRESENTING:
KIRK GREEN JR.
DAJUAN JONES
MICHEÁL SPENCER
Contrary to the impression the
media gives the public. African-
American History must not end on
February 28th A frican-A m erican
History is every month.
Don’t allow yourself to be fooled
by the attention given our culture just
one month a year, its shortest month.
Television stations will put away their
video tapes until next year The news­
papers will put their Afro-American
logos back into their file cabinets
They find it difficult to make space
available for positive news about Af­
rican-Americans But the newspapers
will always have space available for
the killings, the body bags, and any
negative news about African Ameri­
cans.
Some of the African-American
co n tin u ed fr o m fr o n t p a g e
You Can Attend
College Free!
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scoring colleges run from $40,000-
$ 100,000-and this tuition is per year.
There are organizations that have
spent hundreds of hours in research,
locating scholarship sources These
organizations are AEE (American
Educational Excellence) members
and have a list of over 400 different
scholarships available. The lists in­
clude the scholarship names, ad­
dresses, telephone numbers, applica­
tion deadlines, summaries about the
scholarships and the entire tuition;
other wise, students combine appli­
cable scholarships together to form
one large tuition payment Most schol­
arships include junior colleges, ca­
reer & vocational schools, 4 year
colleges, graduate schools and medi­
cal and law schools
For information on obtaining
these scholarship lists, send a S. A . S. E
to: The U S. Channel of Commerce
For Higher Education * P.O. Box
1161 “Hanford, CA 93232
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than 150 personnel of the 2 12th Mo­
bile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH)
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will provide medical support to the
United nations Protective Forces, and
will include a 60-bed care unit and
treatment facility, crisis and stress
intervention teams, preventive medi­
cine teams, physical therapy person­
nel, and equipment
The lieutenant is a 1975 graduate
of Cleveland High School, and a 1990
graduate of Oregon Health Sciences
University.
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Crack Alley Sylvester Family Reunion
DATE:
SATURDAY MARC1113TH, 1993
TIME:
8:00 P.M.
WHERE: ARLENE SCHNITZER CONCERT HALL
Most parents and students think
that scholarships are only for the stu­
dents with good grades, low-income
families, or the athletically inclined
A small example of the numerous
scholarships available to students in­
clude: Left-Handed Student Scholar­
ships, Handicapped Student Scholar­
ships, Members of a Church Scholar­
ships, DavidLetterm an’s Scholarship
for ‘C ’ Students, Veteran Children’s
Scholarships, Scholarships for minori­
ties and much much more!
The general public is not aware
that over $10 billion is available to
students from private sector scholar­
ships and over $20.4 billion from the
federal government In a U S. Con­
gressional study, it was reported that,
“Over $6.6 billion of private sector
financial aid went unused because
parents and students did not know
where to apply.” A conservative col­
lege tuition for a full-time student
runs from $ 10,000-$30,000. High
press falls into this same trap, and
only print information about our great
leaders of the past during the month
of February.
This must stop! And it will with
your help We will never convince
our young people that their great are
important to their future, until adults
illustrate our determination to keep
Afro-American History alive every
month.
Don’t just read thisand say ‘Right
on, brother Tell it like it is”.
We need you.
We must stop waiting. Expect­
ing someone else to do for us w hat we
can help do for ourselves. We must
network with others w ho are commit­
ted to making Afro-American His­
tory every month. Contact two other
A ddendum to caption on E.
• Shelton Hill in the February 2 4 ,1993
' issuse of the Portland Observer
“A Tribute To Mr. Hill”
Mr. Hill came to Portland in the
early 40’s from a Principalship of a
high school in Paris, Texas. His sum­
mer job was railroad work in Portland
until he maoved here permanently. He
began his career in interagency rela­
tions serving as Race Relations Advi­
sor to the Base Commander at the
Portland Army Air Base in 1943. He
joined the Portland Urban League as
Director of industrial Relations 1947
and served as Executive Director from
1959 until his retirement. His accom­
plishments garnered him many hon­
ors. It is fitting to use Leroy Browlow’s
writings of “Worthy” to describe this
man who was loved by all.
When a man treasures the rights
of men-as Shelton Hill did;
and prefers principle to profit-as
Shelton Hill preferred;
and believes “that man was not
designed by the All-wise Creator to
live for himself alone”-as Shelton Hill
believed;
and was courageous enough to
stand up to opposition-as Shelton Hill
stood;
and towers above trickery and
partisan-ship-as Shelton Hill towered;
and refused;
and trusts in “the all-wise Dis­
poser ofevents-as Shelton Hill trusted'
and sees heroics in ragged men
with a cause-as Shelton Hill saw-that
man is Truly Worthy of leadership
and a place “in the hearts of his fellow-
man”.
(Taken from “Leroy Browlow’s
city. State
zip-code___________________ _
T hank Y ou F or R eading
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BY WINSTON GRADY-WILLIS
could save the city money. If some­
how, through the city’s efforts, more
Black construction crews were cre­
ated, the financial benefit might look
something like this:
Ten construction crews in teams
of five could earn as much as $200,000
per crew annually. This, by rough
calculations, would mean $2 million
in subsidized salaries for the commu­
nity. This amount would generate
nearly $400,000 in various taxes, city
fees, etc. The crew members could
contribute substantially to the local
business economy. It’s possible the
crews could spend as little as 15% of
their income with small business
within the Black community, around
$300,000, and as much as $700,000 in
the larger Portland business commu­
nity. These are pretty impressive num­
bers when you consider that the ma­
jority of the construction crews cur­
rently working on city projects are
whites who live and spend outside of
the Portland metro area.
As a result of developing these
crews, the city would need 3 fewer
police officers patrolling the street of
Northeast Portland; 12 less jail spaces
reserved for Black inmates; 3 less
youth gang task force members; 2 less
drug and alcohol treatment counsel­
ors; 2 less social workers, and 2 less
juvenile court workers. The need for
special housing programs like PC1R
way. Although the December holi­
and NECDC could be reduced. We As another Black History Month has
days are already a distant memory for
could reduce the special jobs and eco­ come to a close, we are becoming
most people, the members of the
nomic development programs com­ even more familiar with the contri­
Sylvester clan are still talking about
ing out of the Private Industry Council butions of famous individuals such
their Christmas reunion. “It was the
and PDC. Some of these organization as Phyllis W heatley, Frederick
best Christmas I’ve had in a long
may be fearful of being displaced by Douglass, Dr. Martin Luther King,
time,” said Cynthia Ann Casin, 34 a
these crews, but I’m sure they can find and Harriet Tubman. It is also im­
niece of John and Thelma Sylvester.
more productive work 1 could go on portant, however, to remember that
“My kids enjoyed it, too.”
and on, but I think you get the picture.
some of the greatest contributions to
“ I didn’t like the driving part, but
The way I figure it, there are big the African-American experience
other than that, it was pretty fun,”
saving in these numbers. Making sure have come from “everyday people”
said Crystal LaCour, 15, who was
all citizens have an opportunity to be just struggling to make a way for
part of a contingent from Denver
gainfully employed docs not cost - it
their families.
which drove two days to get to the
pays.
The Sylvesters of Portland are one
reunion, which was held in Colton,
James Posey is a local, small busi­
such family.
California. The reunion was hosted
ness owner with a background in so­
John and Thelma Sylvester left a life
by Gene and Doris Brown.
cial work and community activism.
of sharecropping and overt racial
The Sylvesters, like a growing num­
violence in Louisiana for economic
ber of Black families across the coun­
opportunities ushered in by World
try, made a point of getting together
War II. They have resided in Port­
Employment In Perspective land ever since. They raised four whenever possible. As Noel Willis
remarked, this has not been lost on
children, and have seen them raise
Minority Workers From
those of younger generations. “ You
young ones of their own.
Pagel
have to celebrate who you are and
“In my eyes they’re the superstars,”
where you came from,” said the se­
said Noel Willis, 22, of his parents
they were a year earlier. Unemploy­
nior journalism m ajorat the Univer­
and grandparents. “These arc the
ment rates for blacks (14.1 percent)
sity of Missouri.
people who we grew up with and
and Hispanics (11.8 percent) were
“I don’t know whether any of us is
who raised us.”
each more than 1 percentage point
going to be famous’,” he said, “but
Through several family get-togethers
higher than a year earlier, while the
this is an important way to acknowl­
over the past decade, the Sylvesters
jobless rale for whites (6.4 percent)
edge how important we are to one
have celebrated the importance of
was only slightly higher than a year
another."
the Black family in a most personal
earlier. Following the end of the re­
cession in the first quarter of 1991,
BODY LANGUAGE
the unemployment rates for all three
A chubby little girl is not destined to be an overweight woman, nor isa skinny
race/ethnic groups continued to rise.
7-year-old guaranteed lifelong thinness in her adult years, says a U.S.
While the rates for both whites and
Department of Agriculture study, which found no correlation between a
blacks had started to edge down in
female’s body mass index (BM1) at age five to seven and middle age. Most
the second half 1992, the rate for
overweight women were average-size little girls. For males, MBIs were
Hispanic worker had not shown any
more reliable in predicting body size.
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significant improvementby yearend.
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