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Volume X X IV Number 36 Serving the community through cultural diversity September 7, 1994 <3 Contract Keeps Tennis For Kids Coleman To Head Children’s Services The founder o f a tennis program fo r inner city kids has been awarded a contract to run the St. Johns Racquet Club. See Sports, Page B2 Neighbors Get Ready For School Lee Coleman, a former parole board member, will lead the Children’s Services Division in Portland. Renter’s Forum To Spell Out Rights A Back-to-School fair in the Cully neighborhood provides immunizations and school enrollment help. See Metro, inside A forum on the rights and responsibilities o f renters is being organized with help from legal aid. See Page A3 97 •• , & s.-V : ‘A •, See Housing, Page A 7 i y vL* "Ir QLlu' ;Jínrtí¿mh ÖL tr- ) .- 4 *5 ' y r '•*V ? 3s •*?7 250 r - • / «•’: • • 1 ■ 7 ^ '- ' •> • ■ * '- V AIRPORT IN • i is ,-r ' 3 ■i I ':■ Buses Cut As Schools Open Portland public schools open its doors to students Thursday for the 1994-95 school year. Bright yellow school buses will be operating on Portland’s streets and high ways, transporting some 13,000 elem en tary and m idd le school students twice dai ly. That num ber is down from previous years, as the walk to school is longer for some students this year. Because o f budget cuts, middle school students must find their own way to school if they live within one and a h alf miles from school. Last year, bus service was provided for kids who lived ju st a mile from school. Graduation Is Aim For TLC 9 RECORD GROWTH ortland International Airport c o n tin u e d its b lis te rin g sum m er growth with a 12 percent in crease in passengers through the month of July. P Travelers pass by the ticket lobby during July, the busiest month in the history of the Portland Airport. Continued to page A5 Chief Moose Keynotes Black Publishers ’TLC” (tender loving care) this year in a I first time ever eighth/ninth grade transi- ! tion project in the Portland public schools. the participating middle school students in high school next year. Senior Center Planned In N ortheast 5 V olunteers o f A m erica o f Oregon has I been awarded a $263,000 grant for a Se nior Day Service Center for inner North and N ortheast Portland from the Meyer M emorial Trust. Officials are still w ork ing on a site location. The center would I offer a range o f services for frail seniors and their families, including adult day care, group respite care, an A lzheim er’s resource center, A lzheim er’s diagnostic treatm ent services, education, and care giver training The center is expected to open in w inter 1995. Paid Firefighter Training O ffered The Portland Fire Bureau is starting a trainee program to help increase the num ber o f minority and women firefighters in the d e p a rtm e n t. C ity C o m m issio n e r Charlie Hales and Fire C h ief Bob Wall said the program will aggressively recruit and train minorities and women who dem onstrate the potential to be successful firefighters. Trainees will work 40 hours a week and paid $8.14 an hour, which is about 70 percent o f the entry rate for firefighters. “This program represents a landmark effort to diversify the fire bu reau work force through a creative and collaborative effort by firefighters, com munity leaders and the city,” said Wall. Ship Jesse L. Brown Retired The U.S. Navy is decom m issioning the frigate Jesse L Brown. The ship was the first American m ilitary vessel named for a black officer. Brown was the navy’s first black aviator. He was killed in action during the Korean War. The navy is taking the frigate out o f service at the Pensacola Navy Air Station and selling it to Egypt. The decision disappointed the Brown fam ily. And B row n’s form er w ingm an Tho mas Hudner told reporters, “ I can ’t believe the navy would have done it. We need everything we can in race relations.” t was recently announced by tory from the Univer Cloves Campbell, Sr., Host sity o f North Carolina, Publisher of the West Coast Chapel Hill. In 1984 he B lack P u b lis h e r’s 11th A nnual received a M aster o f Convention, that Police Chief Charles Public A dm inistration A. Moose will be the keynote Speaker and in 1993, he received at the Host Publisher Awards Dinner his Ph D. in Urban Stud- to be held on Thursday evening, ies/C rim inology from October 27, 1994, reception at 7:00 Portland State U niver p.m. followed by the dinner/program sity. ChiefM oose is also at 8:00 p.m. a graduate o f the FBI I The overall conference will convene W ednesday, O ctober 26th and end on Sat urday, October 29th, in Phoenix, Arizona, one o f the country's fastest grow ing cities, at the Hyatt Regency located in Ci vie Plaza. According toC am pbell, “C hief Moose is a law enforcement leader who wants to be in touch with the community. The first thing that he did after he became Portland’s Police C hief was to buy a home in The H ood.’ It was an unorthodox move for which he has received much praise. We are very pleased that he will be speaking to us about one o f the most important issues facing A merica today, crim e and how it is affecting the African American com m u nity.” Police ChiefM oose has served in Port land and the State ofO regon since 1975. He received his Bachelor o f Arts in U.S. His N a tio n a l A c a d e m y ’s 154th session. He has vast experience in shap ing com m unity polic ing projects which in clu d e the Iris C ourt C o m m u n ity P olicing Project and Operation Target. C h ie f M oose be lieves that public safety is more than law en forcement. At a recently held rally for President C linton’s crime bill, he conveyed to the attend ees, “ Public safety is education. Public safety is jobs. Public Safety is people caring about people A ttorney General Janet Reno, who was also in attendance told the crowd that Portland Police Chief Charles A. Moose will be the keynoter at the West Coast Black Publishers Association (WCBPA), 11th Annual Convention October 26-29, 1994 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Hyatt Regency Civic Plaza Hotel. Chief Moose will address the WCBPA delegates on Thursday evening, October 27th during the Host Publisher Awards Dinner. He has been lauded by both President Clinton and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno as an extraordinary law enforcement officer. For additional information regarding the conference please call the office of Alescia Buford & Associates at (818) 995-6545. Police C hief Moose is “one o f the most remarkable people I have met in these last 16 m onths... an extraordinary example o f polic- ing in America, policing at its best. ▼ Continued to page A5 Rosa Parks Recovers From Attack ivil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks “ I re g re t very m uch th a t som e o f our described sadness over an p e o p le a re in such a m e n ta l sta te th at a tta c k d u rin g a A ug. 29 th e y w o u ld h u rt and rob an o ld e r p e r burglary of her Detroit home that s o left n ,” P a rk s said. “ In th e se tim e s, none her face bruised and her lip swollen. o f us se e m s to be safe from th is ty p e o f C P ark s, 8 I , u rg e d the p u b lic not to read to o m uch into th e v io le n t c rim e . B ut, re fle c te d on how th in g s had ch an g ed sin c e 19 5 5 , w hen she sat d o w n on a M o n tg o m e ry , A la. bus and in h e r so ft but firm v o ice said she w ould not y ie ld h er seat to a w h ite m an, se ttin g o f a 3 8 1 - d ay b us b o y c o tt and a re v o lu tio n a g a in st th e Jim C row law. “ M any g a in s have been m a d e ,” she said . “ B ut as you can see. at th is tim e we still h av e a long w ay to go, and so m any o f o u r c h ild re n are g o in g a stra y . tre a tm e n t and v io latio n by a sick -m in d ed p e rs o n .” T he a tta c k w as p a rtic u la rly g a llin g to m an y , b e c a u se P a rk s’ a tta c k e r w as d e sc rib e d as b lack. “ F o r h e r to have been a leg en d , to have p a v e d the w ay for o u r race, and y e t, the sam e y o u n g m an w ho beat her, she stru g g le d to b e tte r his ow n life ,” said Ja m e s F o ste r, a 7 0 -y e a r-o ld n e ig h bor. S om e o f P a rk s' n e ig h b o rs ca u g h t the 2 8 -y e a r-o ld su sp e c t at a n e a rb y g ro cery and liq u o r sto re The b u rg la ry o c c u rre d at P arks p r e p ared for bed. She heard a loud n o ise d o w n sta irs and then a man c a llin g out. W hen se cam e dow n, the m an to ld her th a t so m eo n e had broken in h er back d o o r, but he had ch ased him aw ay. “ He w an ted to p ro te c t m e, is w hat he said and he w an te d me to g iv e him som e m o n e y ,” P arks said. He a sk e d for th re e or four d o lla rs and then fo llo w e d P arks u p sta irs as she w ent to get it. O nce in her bedroom , how ever, the m an, w hom P arks said ree k e d o f alco h o l, d e m a n d e d all o f h er m oney. She resisted . “ T h a t's w hen he sta rte d p u sh in g me aro u n d and h ittin g m e ." she said As she fell on her bed, try in g to pull her m oney out o f her p o c k e t, th e m an c o n tin u e d to strik e her in the face. “ I had n e v e r been hit in th a t m a n n e r in m ay life ,” she said. “ I w as sc re a m in g and try in g to ask him not to h it m e .” O nce she g av e him her m o n ey , Parks said , th e m an left. P a rk s th e n p h o n e d h e r n e ig h b o r a c ro ss th e stre e t and the n e ig h b o r called p o lice. P arks m o v ed to D etro it in 1957, a fte r h e r ro le in the M o n tg o m ery bus b o y c o tt m ade it im p o ssib le fo r her to find w o rk th e re . She w o rk ed as a seam stress and them jo in e d th e s ta f f o f R ep. John C on y ers Jr., D -M ic h ., in 1965, re tirin g in 1988 H er h u sb a n d , R aym ond, died in 1979. In the 1980s, Parks fo u nded the Rosa and R ay m o n d P arks In stitu te fo r S e lf D ev e lo p m e n t. ■H aan EDITORIAL A2 ■ i.‘ •V ? A * ,, I J . í- -V.«.'; - A . ’ . ‘ z •* ’.K ' A- z 7 •.» . . » * . - .n '.•>* 'Tt Passengers totaled 997,384, making it the busiest month in thé history o f the airport. For year-to-date, passengers through the Portland Airport have increased 16.7 per cent, which continues to be far ahead o f the national aviation industry s 6 percent growth rate. "W ith the busiest travel month yet to come in August, we have every expectation T hey’re kids who normally w ouldn’t walk through the doors o f high school. M iddle school children who drop out. | Some 75 kids are targeted with some extra I rh e goal o f “TLC-TN T” is to have all o f y.'-f HEALTH A6 HOUSING A7 METRO Bl SPORTS B2 ENTERTAINMENT B3 CLASSIFIEDS B6 V
