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\ ohimè X X IV Number 35 Serving the eom muiift) through cultural d i\ersitx August 31, 1994 Trail Blazers Mark 25th Year Neighbors Share Common Bonds The Portland Trail Blazer unveil a new logo and special plans fo r a silver anniversary season. PAL Club Opens Doors For Kids A weekend o f events cement friendships old and new fo r present and former North and Northeast neighbors. School Offers Education Grants Kids in Gresham have an alternative to the streets with the opening o f a Police Activities League Club. See Metro, inside Portland Christian Schools offer scholarships and financial aid for minority and low income students. See Sports, Page B7 See Metro, inside Che See Back-to-school, Page A 5 (T 'G M rs . F ra n c e s S c h o e n -N e w ^ p a p e U n i v e r s i t y o f O re g o n L i b r E u g e n e , O re g o n 97403 Crime Bill Slips Through Congress Years o f congressional wrangling and debates over a crime bill, came to an unexpected end last week. For days, the senate dragged the bill doggedly, making it seems impossible to pass but Thursday night, the weary senate, with a bi-partisan effort, passed the bill for president Bill Clinton’s signature. The centerpiece of the legislation is $13.5 billion to be spent on local, state and federal law enforcement. About $8.8 billion o f that amount would be directed at hiring 100,000 officers nationwide to carry out community policing and $9.85 billion for prison construction. Portland Charity Turns 125 The Portland chapter o f the Society ofSt. Vincent de Paul is 125 years old this , year. The organization, which provides assistance to those in need, hosted a na tional convention of St. Vincent de Paul last week at the Hilton Hotel. More than 1,000 people from around the nation at tended. (Salvation Army Helps Children G et Ready for School H The kids got ready for back-to-school in a one day event in Northeast Portland hosted by Salvation Army Family Services and vol- Robin Givens Poses For Playboy Actress Robin Givens has become the latest in a series of Hollywood stars to do a nude pictorial for Playboy Maga zine. Givens, ex-wife of imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, appears in the magazine's September issues. Other black stars in cluding Jane Kennedy and Diana Ross have done similar pictorials. Frank hair salon at Lloyd C enter and C ity L iquidators. The children were members o f families who have received assistance such as food, counseling and utilities from the family ser vices program. The S alvation Arm y hopes to boost the program to help up to 200 children next year. P resently, th e re ’s not a lot help av a ila b le to fam ilies who have trouble g etting th eir children ready for school, officials said. The goods and services help bring self esteem to children who have to combat peer group and fashion demand pressures in school. F ‘We Shall Overcome/ First To Tribute King Legacy he legacy of Martin Luther the performance for a national television King Jr. will be celebrated in audience broadcast during King's birthday Portland with two powerful in February. works which echo the civil rights Oregon Symphony officials have con leader’s words and dreams. tacted the King family to join the event. T Strikers Distribute Shopping List Union grocery workers have a list of stores to shop at during the current gro cery strike. It asks the public to shop at Kienow’s Food stores, in all o f it’s loca- , tions, Gartner’s Country Meats, Flavel Food Valu, Laurelhurst Food Valu, and Galluzzo’s Choice Meats. It also lists the Parkrose Sentry, Sandy Thriftw ay, Estacada IGA and Safeway Sandy. If none o f these location are convenient, it asks shoppers to continue patronizing their usual store, but not to shop at all locations o f Fred Meyer, Cub Foods and Food 4 Less. unteers. The goods and services were distrib uted free to about 50 kids from low-income families or those facing emergency situa tions. The program was m ade possible by the donations o f clothing and supplies from churches and com panies in the P ortland area, including the M eier and Oregon Symphony Honors King Clothes, vaccinations distributed Back to school means book bags filled with long, yellow pencils (with erasers intact) and nifty new clothes. But for many low-income families, new school clothes and supplies are out of reach. For those children. Life Income Families Emergency Center held its ninth annual Back-to-Schoolclothinggiveaway Saturday at Peninsula Park Community Center in North Portland. Free vaccina tions from Multnomah County Health Department were also available air cuts, school supplies and a complete clothing outfit, brought smiles to a group of area children Thursday, James DePreist is the music director and conductor for the upcoming Oregon Symphony performance of We Shall Overcome: A Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. The 1994-95 Symphony Sunday se ries will begin with a concert titled “We Shall Overcome, a Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr." in which Music Director James DePreist and the orchestra will be joined by baritone Raymond Bazemore and the Port land Symphonic Choiron Sept. 11 at 3 p.m. The concert is the first symphony per formance to honor King in the nation. KOCH International Classics plans to record Officials are also working with church lead ers in North and Northeast Portland to en courage participation by young people in the African American community. Discount tickets will also be available. The Portland performance will feature Joseph Schwantner’s “New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom" which includes sections of narration, by Bazemore, excerpted from several w ritings and speeches o f Dr. King, answ ered by Schwantner’s musical interpretations. Also on the program will be Nicolas Flagello's “The Passion o f Martin Luther King" in which Bazemore will sing the words of Dr. King and the Portland Symphonic Choir will respond with various sacred Latin texts. DePreist conducted the Schwantner work tor a 1993 Arts and Entertainment Network special with the Philadelphia Orchestra; he conducted the world prem iere ofthe Flagel Io work in 1972 with the National Symphony General admission tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for children, students and senior citizens and may be purchased at the Oregon Symphony Ticket Office at 719 S.W. Alder, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or charged by phone at 228- 1353 or (800) 228-7343 outside the Port- land-metro area. Tickets may also be purchased at all G.I. Joe’s Ticketmaster outlets 224-4400, and at the Pioneer Information Booth. Ser vice fees may apply. Watch Out For Children's Safety Motorists are urged to drive with caution as students return to school next week and school buses return to their neighborhood routes. For related stories, See Back-To-School special. Page 5. Oregon Continues To Lead In High ‘SAT’s For the fourth straight year, Oregon high school seniors scored the highest on the Scholastic Aptitude Test o f the 23 states in w hich at least 40 percent o f their graduates participated. However, O regon scores dropped on both the math and verbal tests Oregon's 1994 graduates scored 491 on the math test, 1 point below the record high recorded in 1993. The national math score was 479, up 1 point. Oregon students scored 436 on the ver bal test, 5 points below last year. It is the lowest since the score of 435 in 1984 The national verbal score was 423, down I point. Fifty-three percent o f the state’s gradu ates took the SAT compared to 52 percent in 1993 According to the Col lege Board, w hich administers the SAT, scores generally go down when the percentage of test takers increases. Nationally, 42 percent were tested The SAT is designed to measure verbal and mathematical reasoning skills, devel oped over many years o f education. The test is intended to predict the freshman year college performance of individual students. The College Board reports that out-of- ▼ Continued to page B6 ■ EDITORIAL HEALTH A2 A4 METRO I HOUSING ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS CLASSIFIEDS B4 B5 B7 B9 I