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out early Sunday and quite a few
of the congregation, including
the pastor and his wife, proceeded to an
empty lot at Northeast 1 4th and Alber­
ta.
New Lloyd
Tower Planned
Liberty Northwest insurance has an­
nounced plans to build a new 17-story
office tower in the Lloyd District o f north­
east Portland. Plans call for the building to
be build by October 1997 at a cost o f $40
to $50 million.
It was at this site, that hundreds o f other
area residents gathered to welcome northeast
Portland resident and professional athlete
Terrel Brandon.
Brandon, a former Grant High School
student and now a veteran NBA player, an­
nounced plans to build a shopping outlet to
include a Barber Shop and offices at the
location His long-time friend Dante Pashel
is a partner in the effort.
“This is a dream come true for me,” said
Brandon, now a starting point guard for the
Cleveland Cavaliers and an NBA all-star
candidate. “It’s something I’ve always envi­
sioned, to help out tire community.”
The barber shop wi II be run by Pashel as part
ofTee Bee Enterprises, which will have offices
at the same site. The opening date is set for July
and is expected to boost the economic revital­
ization o f the Alberta district.
“Until people are willing to step up and put
a plan into action, it’s just a plan,” said city
commissioner Charles Hales who was at the
ground breaking ceremony. “The city o f Port-
Rose Fest
Kids Launched
Rose Festival Kids will replace the all­
girls Junior Court, Rose Festival officials
recently announced. Under the system,
boys and girls from selected elementary
and middle schools will tackle public ser­
vice projects and march in the Rose Festi­
val Junior Parade.
Gas Tax Hike
Scuttled
Metro has decided against asking voters
to approve o f a 4-cent tax on gasoline and
diesel fuel to raise money for road repairs.
But the regional government is still think-
ing_abo»t making another tax proposal in
the fall.
Keiko, A
Marketing Dream
The journey o f Keiko the killer whale,
from a Mexico swimming pool to the Or­
egon Coast Aquarium in Newport, is a j
perfect marriage o f community and mar­
keting expertise, according to a University
o f O regon m arketing expert. M arian
Friestand said Keiko’s story is the kind o f |
event that companies dream of, but can
never really orchestrate.
High Tech Passes
Timber
For the first time, technology manufac­
turing employed more Oregonians than the
timber and paper industries. The high tech
origins in Oregon began with Tektronix,
founded by Howard Vollum in southeast
Portland in 1946.
The forewoman o f the O.J. Simpson jury j
thought Mark Furhman, the racist cop for the
prosecution, was a “snake.” “My first feel ing
when I saw him, he sort o f looked like a Ku
Klux Kianoraskinhead with hair,” Armanda
Cooley writes in her book, “Madam Fore­
man,” which came out last week.
Suns Coach
Westphal Fired
The ax fell last week on Suns head coach
Paul Westphal. During his seven years as a
coach in Phoenix, the Suns posted a better
regular-season record than any other NBA
team. Cotton Fitzsimmons, twice coach o f |
the Suns, takes over the team which has been
riddled by injuries this season.
Americans Eat More
Americans arc eating four times as much
Mexican food and three times as much
popcorn and pretzels as they did two de­
cades ago. An Agriculture Department
survey also finds that the average daily
calorie intact is up, but the percentage of |
calories from fat is down.
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reS>!dent Terrel Brand° n retUmS t0 hiS r0° tS Sunday t0 address S t e n t s and city officials on the
groundbreaking of his new business venture on Northeast Alberta Street.
(Photo by Mlchael G Ha„ e)
OJ. Gives First Sworn Testimony
J . Simpson sometimes spoke
O
Goldman.
just above a whisper In his
Subdued and at times speaking so softly
first sworn testimony about
that he could barely be heard, Simpson was
events surrounding the murders of
his for several hours by the Goldmans’
grilled
ex-wife and her friend.
lead attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, according
Nearly four months after his acquittal,
the former football star sat down Monday
in a west Los Angeles law office and
began answering questions under oath in a
w rongful-death civil lawsuit brought
against him by the victims’ families.
It was his first face-to-face showdown
with opposing lawyers. He opted not to
take the witness stand during hisyear-long
criminal trial. The case ended with a jury
clearinghim oftheJune 1 2 ,1994,murders
o f Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald
to a lawyer who was present for the much-
anticipated deposition.
In the first in a series o f closed-door
interrogations, Simpson was questioned
abouttheJune 1 7 ,1994,carchaseinw hich
he led police down the freeway in a white
B ronco befo re su rre n d e rin g at his
Brentwood mansion, according to Micha­
el Brewer, attorney for Goldman’smother,
Sharon Rufo.
Simpson was asked about his actions
and feelings the day o f the nationally tele-
vised slow-speed chase and about a letter
he left only hours before with his friend,
Robert Kardashian, that many interpreted
as a suicide note.
Simpson gave simple yes or no answers
to some questions and occasionally re­
fused to respond, according to Ron
Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman.
There were frequent interruptions as
Simpson’s lawyers complained that cer­
tain questions violated attorney-client priv­
ilege.
Outside the building, the scene was
reminiscent o f the media circus surround­
ing Simpson’s criminal trial, with dozens
o f camera crews and photographers stak­
ing out positions.
iowman Seeks NE House Seat
o Ann Bowman of northeast
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O.J. Juror’s
Book Is Out
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alker Temple Church let church
ing priso n s w hile our public school
Portland is running for State
system su ffers from inadequate fu n d ­
Representative in House Dis­
ing,” Bow m an said “ I ’m not saying
trict 19, representing northeast Port­
we d o n ’t need ja ils . But w hen all your
land.
In o fficially m aking her a n n o u n c e ­
ment o fficial on S aturday, Bowman
p resented an endorsem ent from State
Rep. Avel G ordly, who currently holds
the elected office, but w ho now is
running for the state S enate.
Bow m an w orks as a com m unity
p artn ersh ip specialist to M ultnom ah
C ounty C hair B everly S tein.
She listed a need for consensus
building and a lack o f funding for
education as two p rio rities in her cam ­
paign.
“ We c a n ’t ju st sit back and allow
m illions o f d o llars to be spent b u ild ­
resources are focused on locking p e o ­
ple up, you will alw ays find m ore
people to lock up.”
Bow m an said she plans to build on
her county ex p erience, to bring O re ­
g o n ’s m ost m u lti-cultural n e ig h b o r­
hoods to g e th e r to reach co n sensus in
ta c k lin g pro b lem s facing n o rth e a st
P ortland in p a rtic u la r and O regon in
g eneral.
G ordly said B ow m an’s com m itm ent
to the com m unity m akes her “the p e r­
fect c a n d id a te .”
Stein said Bow m an has d e m o n stra t­
ed the lead ersh ip skills necessary to
be a highly effectiv e law m aker.
Jo Ann Bowman
Civil Rights Leader Barbara Jordan Mourned
n a setting rich with remind­
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died last Wednesday of pneumonia as a
ers of the 1 9 6 0 s civil rights
complication o f leukemia. She was 59.
campaigns that she champi
Jordan, a preacher’s daughter from an
oned, mourners lined up last week
to
impoverished
H o u s to n neighborhood, was
pay their respects to the late U.S.
a political pioneer who in 1966 was elected
Rep. Barbara Jordan.
the first black state senator in Texas history
Her funeral was held Saturday and was
attended by President Bill Clinton.
Jordan, who became the conscience o f a
nation with her stirring defense o f the Con­
stitution during the dark days o f Watergate,
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and in 1972 the first southern black to the
U.S. Congress since Reconstruction.
A relentless fighter for civil rights, she
caught the eye o f the nation as a member o f
the House Judiciary Committee that voted
to impeach President Richard Nixon for
his role in the 1972 Watergate break-in
and coverup.
Her vote to impeach, she said, was
based in her belief in the Constitution and
the rule of law.
Jordan left Congress in 1979 because
she had multiple sclerosis. She became a
teacher ofpolitical ethics at the University
o f Texas’ Lyndon B. Johnson School o f
Public Affairs.
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Rosemont
(Proposal Get:
Second Look
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P e r lm a n
entral City Concern Intends to hire
an independent consultant to create
a “m aster plan” for the old Rosemont j
School property In north Portland.
The non-profit agency, which operates low
income housing in the downtown area and the
Hooper Detox Center, created an uproar last year
when they announced they wanted to buy the 7.6
acre property at 597 N. Dekum St. to house AIDS
patients, recovering alcoholics and drug addicts.
T he Piedmont Neighborhood Association held I
two meetings to discuss the proposal that drew
more than 150 people each, most o f them strongly
opposed to the proposal.
Association leaders say they would not object
to use o f the property for AIDS housing or for drug
and alcohol-free housing on a much smaller scale.
However, they say, creating so many units for such
a “fragile" population could undermine their ef­
forts to “stabilize” their inner north and northeast
neighborhood.
Central City Concern officials have been reluc­
tant to consider alternatives to their “vision” for
the property. In contrast, they told the Piedmont
board at its Jan. 11 meeting that the study they
propose would explore the “full range” o f possi­
bilities for the property.
“We would ask the consultants to interface with
our vision, but also to interface with neighborhood
concerns,” Ian McKechnic o f Central City Con­
cern says. “We wouldn't rule anything out as long
as it was financially feasible."
They have asked Piedmont to participate and
the board is referring the request to the general
membership at its next meeting, 7:30 p.m. Thurs­
day at Holy Redeemer School, 127 N. Portland
Blvd.
Meanwhile, some Piedmont board members,
including former presidents Betsy Radigan and
Tom Markgraf, have proposed that the neighbor­
hood form a community development corpora­
tion, acquire the property and develop it them­
selves.
‘ We don’t feel we should oppose this plan
unless we can come up with something better,”
M arkgraf says.
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