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June 4,
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Kids graduate in
youth program
Doctor delivers
important message
North Street Soccer Club held
their third annual graduation
Saturday fo r the Soccer in the
Streets program.
Dr. Lillian M Beard touches
on the value o f milk and good
nutrition fo r babies during a
visit to Portland
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See Health, page B3.
See Education, page A8.
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Nike Alls Gap
Nike has committed $25O,O(X) over
the next five years for summer programs
to aid, em ploy and educate north and
northeast Portland youth. The pledge of
support was presented to Charles Jordan,
director of Portland Parks and Recreation
and Lawrence Dark of the Urban League
of Portland last Thrusday at the Nike Fac­
tory outlet on Martin Luther King Jun­
ior Blvd.
Mayor greets
Rose Festival
Mayor Vera Katz helped kick off Rose
Festival by participating in Thursday's
Queen Coronation and riding in the Star­
light Parade on Saturday.
"It's always a pleasure to participate
in the festivafw hich means so much to
our community," Katz said.
Arson fire draws rally
Com m unity m em bers and activists
held a march Saturday to condemn the
May 24 arson fire at a Portland abortion
clinic. The Fire at the Lovejoy Sugicenter
is the 11 th bombing or arson in the county
in 1997 against clinics providing legal
abortions.
Love doesn't hurt
Kids at P o rtsm o u th Ju n io r H igh
School in north Portland got an impor­
tant message about relationships Thurs­
day. The group Sisters in Portland Im­
pacting Real Issues Together talked to the
teenagers about date rape, sexual harass­
ment, verbal abuse and other forms of
intimate violence that are too often com ­
mon in the lives of teenage girls. SPIRIT
has worked with the public schools to pre­
pare a dating violence information bro­
chure which has been distributed to stu­
dents throughout the district.
PCC enrollment climbs
The overall number of students tak­
ing classes is up 1.4 percent from the
same time last year at Portland Commu­
nity College campuses. But at the Cas­
cade Campus in north Portland, lower-
division enrollm ents are slightly lower
than last year.
Airport rises in ranks
Portland International A irport was
the 31st busiest airport for passengers in
the United States in 1996. By serving
nearly 12.6 million passengers, Portland
passed Cleveland's Hopkins International
Airport to move from the 32nd to 31st
position. O f the airports ranked higher
than Portland for passengers, only Cin­
cinnati, Salt Lake City and Tampa, Fla.,
grew faster. PDX is ranked 27th in the
U.S. for air cargo.
Lincoln High School's Adrian Williams, crowned queen
o f Roseria for 1997, is a nationally ranked pole
vaulter and a former exchange student in ThaHanrt.
he
P o rtlan d
Rose
F e s tiv a l's
offi
c la l
h isto ry
d a te s
b ack
to
1907:
however, its roots may be attributed to an
event that took place more than 15 0 years ago. In
1 8 37, the first rose bush to reach the Northwest was
brought around Cape Hom and presented to Anna
Marian Pittman the day she married Jason Lee at
Lee’s Mission near Champoeg.
Years later, after the mission had been destroyed by fire,
John Minto found the rose bush growing near the site of
Lee’s cabin. He carefully dug it up and transplanted it into
his land where it flourished. He then began distributing
cuttings throughout the countryside. Descendants o f this
historical “mission rose” still bloom today in the Pioneer
Rose Garden in Portland.
Portland’s climate was perfectly suited to growing beau­
tiful roses, which led local rose enthusiasts to found the
Portland Rose Society in 1887 to “ encourage amateurs to
cultivate and exhibit roses”. The organization remains today
as the oldest such group in the United States.
In 1889, the Rose Society held its first Rose Show in a tent.
In 1904, it began holding a ‘“fiesta” in connection with the
annual exhibit and the city’s first floral parade was held on
June 10, 1904. It included elaborately decorated vehicles -
surreys, carry-alls and four automobiles.
It was not until 1907 that another floral parade was staged.
In that year, the floral parade was accompanied by a two-day
Photo Credits: Rose Queen photo (top left) by Aloha Photography, Rose Parade Photo (above right) by Vem Uyetake.
festival to celebrate the rose - the “Portland Rose Carnival
and Fiesta.”
as queen over the festival’s
Saturday, June 7, 10:00AM
Civic leader E.W. Rowe is credited with the original idea
inaugural year. From 1908 to
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o f a “rose festival” Portland Mayor Harry Lane is also
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1913 a king, Rex Oregonus,
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remembered for expressing a need for a “ ‘festival o f roses”
ruled
over the festival. The
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Memorial
on the heels o f the successful Lewis & Clark Exhibition in
identity
o f this king was kept
Coliseum
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1905. In these early years, the Rose Festival was highlighted
secret
and
he wore a huge beard
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(Paratìe Start)
by horse-draw n floats in the floral parade, aquatic events in
to
disguise
himself until his
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the nearby harbor and fireworks at night. Never before in
identity
was
revealed at the
s
America had a large community dedicated an annual festival
festival’s annual ball. In 1914,
to the beauty o f a single rose. The theme for many o f the early
a festival queen, selected from
festivals was “For You a Rose in Portland Grows,” origi­
among Portland’s socialites,
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nated by Bertha Slater Smith.
was again chosen to rule. This
Following the 1907 festival, a group o f 10 businessmen
practice continued until 1930.
formally originated the Portland Rose Festival into a non­
From 1924 to 1929, Rex
Lincoln
profit civic enterprise to plan and finance the annual event.
O regonus returned to rule
High
The organization, 1,000 shares o f Capital stock were sold at
along with the queen o f the
School
$10.00 per share.
mythical realm o f Rosaria.
Carrie Lee Chamberlain, the governor’s daughter, reigned
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dier, should be sentenced to life imprison­
onvicted Oklahoma City bomber
Timothy McVeigh’s best hope of ment or death by lethal injection.
Prosecutors will put dozens o f bombing
saving his life may be to beg for
survivors and relatives o f victims on the
mercy from the jury, but he has shown
no sign he is ready to take such a step, stand to testify about the pain they have
endured and how the bombing wrecked their
legal analysts said on Tuesday.
McVeigh was found guilty on Monday o f
lives.
Nineteen children, many o f them in a day
blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah federal
care centre, died when a huge truck bomb
building on April 19, 1995, killing 168
brought the building crashing down
people, in the worst mass murder in U.S.
The defence will try to show mitigating
history.
factors such as M cVeigh’s lack o f a prior
When the penalty phase o f the trial begins
criminal record and his exemplary Army
on Wednesday, the same jury o f seven men
service, including action in the G ulf War.
and five women will be asked to decide
The penalty phase is expected to last about a
whether McVeigh, a 29-year-old former sol­
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week.
Legal analysts say the defence has a daunt­
ing task to convince jurors they should spare
McVeigh the death penalty for such a horri­
fying crime.
“Given the current climate ... it’s hard to
imagine he’s going to escape the death pen­
alty,” said Robert Precht, director o f the
Office o f Public Service at the University o f
Michigan Law School.
A death penalty verdict must be unani­
mous. If one juror opposes a death sentence,
a life term would be imposed.
Mimi Wesson, a law professor at the
University o f Colorado and a former federal
prosecutor, said the defence would “try to
make Timothy McVeigh into a human being
like the rest o f us instead o f the monster that
he appears to be.”
Under federal law, aggravating factors
which prosecutors can argue include par­
ticularly heinous crimes, premeditated mur­
der and cases in which the victim was a
federal law enforcement officer.
Possible mitigating factors include whether
McVeigh was unable to appreciate that his
actions were wrong, whether he acted under
unusual duress or emotional disturbance and
whether another equally guilty defendant will
not be punished by death.