Serving the community through cultural diversity
Volume XXV Number 7
Join In Celebrating Our
Urban League
Anniversary
To Remember
The Past
Dr. Marshall Opens
Williams Avenue Office.
West Pontiac s Clarence
Larkins offers incentive
program in honor oj Urban
League s 50th year.
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See Black History, page B6.
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U.S. Surgeon General nominee Henry
W. Foster Jr.
Kids, Families
Campaign Opens
“ Building Strong Kids, Families, and
Communities” is the theme for a campaign
for donations now underway with the
YMCA, Colum bia-W illam ette chapter.
Over 400 volunteers have kicked-off the
drive to raise $445,000. A victory and
thank you celebration is set for March 14 at
Montgomery Park. Donations go toward
new and existing YMCA programs that
support youth, family and adults in the
Portland area.
Surgeon
General
Nominee
Henry W Foster Jr is fighting to be
come the next U.S. Surgeon General.
Foster, 61, was nominated for the posi
tion last week by President Bill Clinton. But
opponents, mainly Republicans and anti-abor-
tion activists, are trying to block the nomina
tion because Foster performed abortions over
his four decades as a gynecologist and obste
Yellow Bikes Need
Storage
TheCommunity CyclingCenter, 2407
N.E. Alberta, urgently needs temporary
space in north and northeast Portland for
its yellow share-a-bike program which pro
vides free bicycle transportation to the
public. Individuals and small businesses
who have secure, dry space are urged to
call Brian Lacy at 288-8864.
Parks Recruit Summer
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Kids having fun in the snow at Martin Luther King Element? / in northeast Portland after a record 10 inches of
snow falls Sunday, canceling school. It was the worst snowstorm to hit the city since 1968-69.
(Photo By Charles Washington)
trician.
Foster is widely recognized as one of the
nation’s leading authorities on reducing in
fant mortality and preventing teen pregnancy
and drug abuse. He is currently on sabbatical
from Meharry Medical College where he
served as dean of the school of medicine and
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Portland Parks and Recreation is hir
ing qualified staff to fill 350 positions as
swimming pool managers, lifeguards and
swim instructors. The dates o f employ
ment are mid-June through Sept. 1 Wages
are from $5.60 to $9.50, depending upon
the position and experience. Training to
become a lifeguard or swim instructor is
available now and through April. Call the
parks department at 823-5130 for more
information
Farrakhan Tops Among
Readers
To the dismay o f many, a Black Press
o f America survey reveals that Minister
Louis Farrakhan is the most effective Afri
can American leader. Farrakhan captured
13 percent o f the poll beating out Jesse
Jackson, who placed second among the
responses from over 2,000 readers.
White Executed In
Killing
It has been extremely rare that a white
person has been sentenced to death for
killing a black person. But one o f those
events has now happened in North Caroli
na. A 55-year-old white man - Kermit
Smith Jr. - was executed last month for the
1981 kidnapping, rape and murder o f a
black cheerleader - Whelette Collins.
Support For Shabazz
Grows
The daughters o f some o f the nation's
most prominent civil rights leaders have
announced a campaign to aide the legal
defense of the daughter o f assassinated
black nationalist leader M alcolm X.
Qubilah Shabazz, 34, was charged last
month with plotting to kill Nation o f Islam
leader Louis Farrakhan Members o f Mai
colm X 's family have long maintained that
Farrakhan played a role in the assassina
tion
he Rose Garden, the $262
million future home for the
Portland Trail Blazers, is 65
percent com plete, according to
officials of the Oregon Arena Project
and Drake/Turner, joint contractors.
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Completion is scheduled for October.
A bout h a lf o f the aren a’s ro o f is now
complete. Heavy roof steel has been installed
and crews are finishing up the catwalks,
rigging and metal decking.
Installation o f architectural battens and
roof membrane continues. Metal panels that
make up the roof edge are complete at the
north end o f the building.
The aisle steps in the arena bowl have
been substantially completed.
Officials say mounting holes for instal
lation o f seats is done. The seats will be
delivered in April. Final concrete work for
the team locker rooms is underway.
Installation o f drywall, paint, millwork,
lights and other finishes is also being com
pleted on levels 1 through 4. Concrete work
continues for the arena's television studio
and truck dock.
Crews are closing in on the roof of the new Pose Garden in north and northeast
Portland, the future home of the Portland Trail Blazers.
Police Encouraged To
Move To Inner City
tatives from Bank o f America, First Interstate
new program designed to
Bank, Washington Mutual, Key Bank and
encourage police officers to
U.S. Bank.
buy hom es in som e of
Portland’s inner city neighborhoods Moose, a resident o f the Martin Luther
King Jr. Blvd. area, also found support for the
was launched last week by Mayor Vera
proposal as he talked to community groups,
Katz, Police Chief Charles Moose and
including the Albina Rotary Club, about his
executives from five major banks.
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The plan, called “police at home" will
offer incentives to officers who buy and
occupy homes in eight designated Portland
neighborhoods. The communities include
Belmont, Cully-Killingsworth. Harney Park,
Humboldt-Jefferson. Kenton, Martin Luther
King Jr. Blvd Opportunity Area, Unthank
Park/Boise and Lents
The program was initiated by Katz and
Moose, who then met with Oregon represen
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own experiences after moving to the neigh
borhood in 1993.
The program provides incentives to lower
initial home purchase costs such as down
payment, closing costs, inspections and other
related fees. Most costs may be financed,
allowing police officers to purchase eligible
homes with no out o f pocket expense Partic
ipating officers w ill commit to residing in the
home for a minimum of five years.
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acting president.
Foster earned a Bachelor o f Science
degree from Morehouse College in 1954 and
was awarded his Doctor of Medicine by the
University of Arkansas in 1958.
He conducted an internship at the De
troit Receiving Hospital, served two years as
a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force and
conducted one year of residency training in
general surgery at Malden Hospital, Malden,
Mass. He completed a three-year residency
in obstetrics and gynecology at Meharry
Medical College in Nashville, Tenn.
Among his awards and honors, Foster
has been a scholar-in-residence at the Asso-
ciationof Academic Health Centers in W ash
ington, D C.; induction into the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy o f Sci
ences; awarded the Appreciation Award for
Research and Teaching in Sickle Cell A ne
mia from Tuskegee University; and the Fac
ulty Award for Excellence in Science and
Technology.
Food Bank
Worker Earns
Praise
Percy
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ercy Winters Jr. of northeast
Portland has been honored
as the first Employee of the
Year for the Oregon Food Bank, a
statewide provider of emergency
to build relationships among staff, volun
food supplies.
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Winters has worked as a truck driver for
the agency for four years. He recently was
promoted to warehouse manager at the food
bank’s38O8N. Williams Ave. location, where
he coordinates warehouse operations and food
distribution to over 170 member programs in
the greater Portland area.
He was selected for the honor by a vote
o f his peers. Winters was cited for an ability
teers and corporate food donors. He also
won praise for his power o f persuasion,
ability to rally the troops and inspire the
public at special events and food drives.
“Percy is extremely articulate and in
spires his listeners when communicating
Oregon Food Bank's story and the story o f
hungry people," said Rachel Bristol Little,
food bank executive director.
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