C e le b rity G olf
Q u e e n ’s C o ro n atio n
F irew o rks
F e s tiv a l C e n te r
Enjoy the entertainment and
suspense as one of 14 Rose
Festival princesses is named
Queen of Rosaria. June 2 - 8
p.m.; Civic Auditorium.
June 3 - 9:45pm. Tom McCall
Waterfront Park. A dynamic
kickoff to Rose Festival
activities as more than 5,250
shells explode over the
Willamette River.
June 3 - 12. Tom McCall
Waterfront Park. Enjoy the
thrilling carnival rides, exhibits
pavilions and entertainment
stages.
June 3 - 4. Columbia Edgewater
Country Club. Oscar Robinson,
Ray Nitschke, Gregory Harrison
and others are featured in this
event to raise money for
charities.
"Servine the community through cultural diversity.'
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Court Refuses Appeal In Hate
Crime Award
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H isp anics To O utn u m b er
B lacks By Y ear 2 0 2 0
According to projections released by the
Census Bureau, Hispanics will replace Afri­
can Americans as this nation’s largest minor­
ity by the year 2020. The bureau projects
blacks will number 45.4 million by 2020 and
Hispanics will total 51.2 million. The propor­
tion of whites will also decline. White Ameri­
cans currently account for 83.3% of the
nation’s total population. But that percentage
is expected to decline to 78.2% by 2020. The
report suggests the biggest factor influencing
population changes will be immigration. Dis­
proportionately, immigrants go to California,
New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey and
Illinois. The largest number are expected to be
Spanish-speaking. But Asians are expected to
grow rapidly. The experts are unclear as to
whether the population shifts will lead to
greater or less ethnic strife.
VICTORY l„ ‘S ay mg No To Drugs*
Kids from King Elementary School among the 13,000 gathered downtown Saturday in a “just Say No To Drugs" march
G e ttin g Less H e a lth
C a re , B u t S u rvivin g
A s W e ll
Denny’s Settles For $46 Million
ENNY’S RESTAURANT HAS M aryland.
Company chairman Jerome J. Richardson
REACHED AN OUT-OF-COURT
SE T T L E M E N T IN A SU IT said the anticipated cost o f litigation, a com ­
itm
ALLEGING RACIAL DISCRIM m IN
A­ ent to im prove the relationship with
African
A m erican custom ers and a desire to
TION AGAINST CUSTOMERS IN ITS
move
past
the discrim ination controversy,
RESTAURANTS THROUGHOUT THE
prom
pted
the
com pany to settle the claims.
COUNTRY.
The results of studies published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association
reveals that blacks get less medical care than
whites, but tend to survive major ailments just
as well. One study of over 33,000 people
found white heart attack patients were twice
as likely as blacks to be treated with surgery or
angioplasty. Nevertheless, blacks hada slightly
better heart attack survival rate. The surpris­
ing results suggest that blacks are genetically
better able to survive certain ailments or that
some advance medical treatments are not as
effective as doctors believe. Regardless,
Harvard Medical School Dr. John Ayanian
suggested that treatment may allow patients to
feel better even if it docs not prolong their
lives.
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T he $46 m illion settlem ent must be ap­
proved by federal courts in California and
unopposed in N ovem ber because there was no
M icheál L eighton
T A T E R E P R E S E N T A T IV E District 19 candidate in the Republican Party.
City commissioners Earl Blumenauer and
M A R G A R E T C A R T E R , D-
PORTLAND,
HAS
BEEN G retchen Kafoury each won over 50 percent
o f the
NOMINATED FOR RE-ELECTION
IN vote, enabling them to run unopposed
HOUSE DISTRICT 18, REPRESENTING in November.
Blum enauer had 59,266 votes to 18,252
NORTH/NORTHEAST PORTLAND.
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H ow ard U n iv ersity P resid en t D r.
Franklyn Jenifer has resigned amid contro­
versy over the university allowing controver­
sial Nation of Islam spokesman Khalid Abdul
Muhammand to speak on campus. However, it
appears that Muhammand’s appearance did
not play a major role in the resignation. Re­
ports of his leaving circulated for months. The
controversy over Muhammand and other
speakers considered anti-Semitic had been
stirred by Jewish organizations and stories in
the New York Times and Washington Post.
Howard’s board of trustees reportedly had
been dissatisfied with Jenifer for some time.
Howard is widely considered the nation’s
leading predominantly black
P rin cip al
R e in s ta te d In
S cho ol P ra y e r C ase
The black Jackson, Mississippi high
school principal who lost his job because he
allowed students to say prayers over the school
intercom has been reinstated. Bishop Knox
became the center of a national controversy
last November when the school board ruled
that the reading of prayers violated the U.S
Supreme Court ban on organized prayer in
public schools. But Judge Chet Hinds ruled
that the Constitution docs not ban prayer in
schools. The school board will appeal the
decision saying the judge should have only
ruled on the narrow issue of whether Knox
had violated school policy.
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“W e deeply regret these individuals feel
they w ere not treated fairly at D enny’s,”
Richardson said. “W e invite any customers
who have perceived discrimination at D enny’s
to give us another opportunity to serve them .”
There are approxim ately 4,300 discrim i­
nation claim s against D enny’s, a division o f
Flagstar Com panies, Inc. D enny’s attributes
the num ber to the enormous publicity on the
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Carter Overcomes Walker Challenge In Primary
H o w ard U n ive rsity
P re s id e n t Q u its Am id
C o n tro v ersy
EDITORIAL
he United Stated Supreme Court
has refused to review the $12.5
m illion v erd ict in favor o f
the estate o f Mulugeta Straw against
Tom and John Metzger and the White
Aryan Resistance. The Metzgers and the
White Aryan Resistance have now ex­
hausted their legal appeals and the ju d g­
ment of the Oregon jury is final.
The decision of the court reinforces
the message delivered by the jury: H ate
crimes will not be tolerated here. If you
participate in hate crime in Oregon, Or­
egon juries and courts will bold you fully
accountable and financially responsible.
The price for hate in Oregon is high.
On Nov. 13, 1988, Mulugeta Seraw
was murdered by three skinheads associ­
ated with Tom and John Metzger and the
White Aryan Resistance. The family o f
Mulugeta Seraw, with the help o f Ala­
bama attorney Morris Dees, Portland
attorney Etden Rosenthal, the Southern
Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defa­
mation League brought a legal action
accusing the defendants o f conspiring to
commit acts of racial violence in Oregon.
The highly publicized case was tried to a
jnry in Portland in November 1998. This
verdict was affirmed by both the Oregon
Court o f Appeals and the Oregon Su­
preme Court, and now by the U.S. Su­
preme Court.
Lawyers representing the Seraw fam­
ily have forced the sale o f Tom Metzger’s
house in Fallbrook, Calif., and have col­
lected approximately $100,000 for the
benefit of Mulngeta Seraw’s family.
C arter, a counselor at Portland C om m u­
nity College, overcam e a bid by small busi­
ness ow ner Clifford W alker in the May 17
Prim ary Election. C arter received 3,632 votes
to 763 for W alker.
T he victory sends C arter to the N ovem ­
ber G eneral Election where she will face
Larry W ilkins who won the Republican Party
nom ination, 491-361 over Brian W oodbury.
M ike Fahey, Sr. won the Democratic
nom ination for State R epresentative in North
Portland’s House District 17. Fahey received
2,254 votes. O ther candidates were Pam Arden
with 1,844, Frank Biehl w ith 498, and John
Nichols w ith 390. M ike F iu won the Repub­
lican Party nom ination, 1,385-434 over Lester
“Jim ” Harris.
State Rep. Avel Gordly, D-Portland, was
u n o p p o se d for re -e le ctio n in N o rth east
Portland’s House District 19, picking up 5,475
votes. G ordly, a com m unity activist, will run
for Fred Neal, and 7,934 for W illiam Savage.
K afoury had 52,071 votes beating Tom
O ’Connor, Lew Church, Steve G unther, R i­
chard M ossbarger and Richard E lliott Shan­
non in.
P o rtla n d vo ters a p p ro v e d m easures
am ending outdated elections procedures and
collection o f delinquent assessm ents.
In the tri-county regional governm ent
M etro, State Rep. Mike Burton o f North
Portland and W ashington C ounty C om m is­
sion Chair Bonnie Hays, split the vote for
Metro Executive Officer. They will face each
other in November. Burton had 57,275 votes
and Hays, 55,100. Unsuccessful candidates
were M ike Ragsdale with 40,920 votes, and
Ken G ervais with 18,695.
Alex Dow beat Hank M iggins in the race
for M etro Audi tor. The tally, 68,506 to 50,764.
Ed W ashington and Jeff R ogers will run­
o ff for M etro Councilor, 5th District. W ash­
ington earned 6,075 votes to 5,655 for Rogers.
The unsuccessful candidates were Sandi
Hansen, David M cCallum and Ken McGuire.
Multnomah County Sheriff Bob Skipper
won re-election. Skipper was challenged by
deputy sheriffs V era Pool and David C ham ­
bers. Skipper had 54,186 votes to 34,663 for
Pool, and 10,604 for Cham bers.
In statew ide returns. Superintendent of
Public Instruction Norma Paulus won re-
election in a non-partisan race.
John K itzhaber won nom ination for gov­
ernor in the D em ocratic Party.
Kitzhaber, a Roseburg physician and former
Oregon Senate President, will oppose Denny
Smith in the November General Election.
S m ith, a new spaper publisher and former
U.S. Congressm an won the Republican Party
nom ination for governor in a hard fought race
over Craig Berkm an, a Portland business­
man. Smith had 122,285 votes to 98,614 for
Berkman.
Mary W endy Roberts won the Demo­
cratic nomination for re-election as C om m is­
sioner o f the Bureau o f Labor and Industries.
Roberts had 125,344 votes in acrow ded field.
The other candidates were State Rep. Bob
Shiprack with 45,216 votes, M etro executive
Margaret Carter
Rena Cusm a with 45,209 and State Rep.
M ichael Payne with 3,279. In Novem ber,
Roberts will face Jack Roberts who ran unop­
posed in the Republican Party.
U.S. Rep. Ron W yden, D-Portland, was
unopposed in a race for another term to
Congress.
A state ballot measure allowing new
m otor vehicle fuel revenues was defeated.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis Dead at 64
Former First Lady Buried Beside Her Martyred President
acqueline Bou vier Kennedy Onassis,
the form er w ife o f m artyred Presi­
dent John F. Kennedy was buried
Monday beside her husband’s grave
lington National Cem etery.
O nassis, 64, died May 20 o f cancer at her
apartm ent in New York City.
The burial was at the site o f K ennedy’s
eternal flame, placed there at her request - one
o f the few things she asked o f the country after
her president was killed in N ovem ber 1963.
Funeral services w ere held at St. Ignatius
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Loyola Catholic Church in New York. Her
children, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline
Kennedy Schlossberg spoke at the funeral and
took
at
A r­ part in the burial.
Three decades ago Kennedy Jr., at his
m other’s urging, saluted his father at his
funeral. This time, a man him self, he kissed
his m other’s coffin, patted his father’s grave­
stone and paid his respects to his brother,
Patrick, who died shortly after birth. It was a
com pletely spontaneous moment overw helm ­
ing in its pow er.
Hours earlier, his uncle, Sen Edward M.
Kennedy, noted that Jackie O nassis never
wanted public notice, in part because it brought
back “painful m em ories o f unbearable sor­
row .”
“ 1 often th ink o f w hat she said about Jack
in D ecem ber after he d ie d :’ They made him a
legend, when he would have preferred to be a
m an.’ Jackie would have preferred to be just
herself, the world insisted that she be a legend
too,” he said.
“ She graced our history. And for those of
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us who knew and loved her - she graced our
lives,” Kennedy concluded in his eulogy.
At the burial, President Clinton praised
her as “ a remarkable woman, whose life will
forever glow in the lives o f her fellow A m eri­
cans.
“ She taught us by example about the
beauty o f art, the meaning o f culture, the
lessons o f history, the power o f personal
courage, the nobility of public service and,
most o f all, the sanctity o f family,” Clinton
said.
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