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Inmate Building Helps
Community
Protect Yourself From
Home Scams
Gospel Festival
Concludes Series
Globetrotters Film
Developed
Public service groups benefit from
a Multnomah County inmate
construction program.
Oregon’s electricians assist the
state attorney general in an
investigation o f con artists who
target homeowners.
See Housing, Page A4
A series o f gospel concerts in the
North/Northeast community heats
up with a big celebration Saturday
at Dawson Park.
See Religion, Page B4
Columbia Pictures is developing a
motion picture on the world famous
Harlem Globetrotters.
See Metro, inside
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See Sports, Page B2
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Walter C. Froman
Lloyd Mall
Hires New
Manager
Skinheads Indicted In
Boston
The founder of a white supremacist
skinhead group which advocates using vio­
lence and other forms of intimidation to
drive Jewish and African American citi­
zens out of the Boston area was indicted for
conspiring to violate the rights o f Jews and
Blacks. Brian Joseph Clayton. 20, and three
juveniles are accused of arming themselves
with bats, mace, bricks and other weapons
and driving on streets and sidewalks look­
ing to blacks to “bash.”
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From an, a P o rtland resid en t, was
m anager o f V an co u v er M all for five
years. A graduate o f the U niversity o f
Oregon, he-entered a m anagem ent trainee
program in 1971 with L ip m an 's in dow n­
town Portland. He advanced through the
ranks as assistant buyer, buyer, assistant
store m anager and store m anager. He
m anaged the W ashington Square and
downtown Portland Frederick & Nelson
stores prior to taking over m anagem ent
at V ancouver M all.
Froman replaced Tim othy G. Ear­
n est who w as tra n s f e rre d to L lo y d
C e n te r’s c o rp o rate h e a d q u a rte rs, MS
M anagem ent o f Indianapolis, Ind.
Opened in 1960, Lloyd C enter is one
o f the largest shopping m alls in the Pa­
cific N orthw est with 1.5 m illion square
feet, providing space for 165 stores. It
attracts 15 m illion v isitors annually.
Clinton Honors
Distinguished
Americans
President Clinton will award the Presi­
dential Medal o f Freedom, the nation's
highest civilian honor, to nine distinguished
Americans on Monday. Two o f the recipi­
ents are African American women. Dor­
othy Height is the head of the National
Council of Negro Women and Barbara
Jordan, a congresswoman and professor.
project. The arena is not scheduled for completion until the fall of 1995.
Oprah Winfrey Stays
Number One
Relief Collected For Rwandans
According to the latest Louis Harris
poll, Oprah Winfrey is America’s favorite
talk-show host. She had a popularity rating
nearly twice that of the show which came
in second place, David Letterman. This is
the third consecutive year she has placed
first among talk-show hosts.
Clothing
Bundled For
Refugees
Promotor Don King
Indicted
by
Famed black boxing promoter Don
King was indicted in New York City for
nine counts o f fraud. He is charged with
defrauding the Lloyds of London insur­
ance company o f over $350,000 for a fight
that never came off. King pleaded not
guilty and will go to trial in the fall.
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The organization has packaged 12,000
pounds of clothing, about half of it for
children, in bails for shipment to Seattle and
loading on container ships.
Salvation Army Capt. Samuel Southard
said the materials will leave Portland this
An Aug. 29 sentencing date has
,een set for the son o f Surgeon G en­
i a l Joycelyn Elders. Kevin Elders was
ecen tly co n v icted o f sellin g $275
vorth o f cocaine to a police under-
:over officer. He faces a possible life
¡entence. But the prosecutor says he
will seek a 10 year sentence. Elders
s e a te d a national controversy earlier
his year when she suggested that the
latio n study the legalization o f drugs.
Study Looks At
Domestic Violence
A ccording to a Justice D epartm ent
study on dom estic violence, A frican
A m erican husbands and w ives kill one
another at relatively equal rates. These
p ercen tag e s stand in co n trast w ith
those for w hite couples w here nearly
70 percent o f dom estic violence hom i­
cides involve the husband killing the
wife.
M ichael L eighton
Relief support to Rwandan refugees
from the Portland Salvation Army is
headed to Africa.
Sentencing Set For
Elders’ Son
Neighbors To
Paint Boise
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ver a hundred volun-teers will
work together to paint the
homes of five low-income
residents of the Boise Neighborhood
in inner North Portland.
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000 pounds of clothing bailed for shipment for
Capt. Samuel Southard and the 12.
Army Adult Rehabilitation Center, 139 S.E.
Rwandan refugees at the Salvation
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
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A relief fund to collect cash donations
to purchase food and supplies for the refu­
gees has also started.
This is the second shipment of clothing
the Portland Salvation Army has collected
from its Oregon outlets. Southard said. In
June, another 13,000 pounds ot clothing
went to Tanzania where the refugees were
driven from their homeland tom by war.
There has been more than 60 tons ot
clothing donated, including more than
75,000 garments, from the Salvation Army s
western territory.
Southard said more shipments are pos­
sible depending on the amount of contribu­
tions still to be received.
Cash contributions can be made by
check payable to The Salvation Army Cas-
cade Division, Rwandan Relief Effort, and
mailed to The Salvation Army Divisional
Headquarters, P.O. Box 2823, Portland, OR
97208. Form more inform ation, call
alter C. Froman has been
named manager of the Lloyd
Center shopping mall in
Northeast Portland.
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They will be putting the finishing touches
on a summer-long project organized by the
Boise Neighborhood Association and Hous­
ing Our Families, a non-profit community
development corporation.
The Paint-a-Thon is the culmination of
the Boise Community Revitalization, Em­
ployment and Training Effort, a seven-week
program funded by a grant from the Bureau of
Housing and Community Development. For
the past six weeks, a team of five neighbor­
hood youth have been working with a profes­
sional painter to scrape, caulk, sand and prime
the houses. Their efforts are part of a training
program which include classes at Oregon
Outreach's McCoy Academy.
The volunteers on Aug. 13 will come
fromawide variety ofgroups, including neigh­
borhood residents, local businesses, youth
programs, fraternal organizations, corpora­
tions, and schools. Among those participating
are the House o f Umoja, Neighbors of Wood­
craft, Pacific Power and Light and Tri-Met
The project was also made possible by dona­
tions from Miller Paint, Purdy Brush Co., and
Plaid Pantry.
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