July 14. 2004 ^Jnrtlanb (Db sem er___________ Page A2 Isabel Sanford of ‘The Jeffersons’ Dies Was first black to win best actress Emmy Reading Scores Improved 1.1 Years Just Since January! And If That's Not Enough . . . Combined Subject Scores Improved 8 Full Months Just Since January! Register Now for 6th Grade and 7th Grade (AP) — Actress Isabel Sanford, best known as “Weezie,” Louise Jefferson on the television sitcom "The Jeffersons." died of natural causes, her publicist said Monday. She was 86. Sanford died Friday at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized since July 4, said Brad Lemack. Her daughter, Pamela Ruff, was at her side, he said. Her health had waned after un dergoing preventive surgery on a neck artery It) months ago, Lemack said. Sanford co-starred with Sherman Hemsley from 1975to 1985 on CBS' "The Jeffersons.” a spin-off o f the popular series “All in the Family." in which she also appeared. In 1981, Sanford becam e the first black woman to receive an Em m y for Best A ctress in aC o m - Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley performed on the televi sion sitcom “ The Jeffersons. " edy Series for her work on "The Je ffe rso n s.” “ Isabel was ourqueen and that’s what we called her on the show,” said M arla Gibbs, who played the J e f f e r s o n s ’ m aid F lo re n c e Johnston. Gibbs said that even before the hit sitcom, Sanford's com edic tal ents were evident during acting auditions. “Isabel would com e in and just light up the room and start telling stories and having everybody in stitches,” Gibbs said. Sanford, a native New Yorker, was joined by "Jeffersons” creator Norman Lear and others in January when she received a star on the Holly wood Walk of Fame. “Here with stars in my eyes - something that I dreamed about when I was 9 years old," she said at the time. "There are others that deserve it, but let everybody get their own.” Sanford made her feature film debut in the 1967 classic, “Guess W ho’s Coming to Dinner.” Recently, Sanford lent her voice to "The Simpsons" and appeared in co m m ercial ca m p a ig n s fo r D enny’s restaurants and retailer Old Navy. Besides her daughter, Sanford is survived by tw o sons, seven g ra n d c h ild re n and six g r e a t grandchildren. Bush’s Military Records Destroyed ( A P)— Military payroll records that could more fully document President B ush’s w hereabouts during his service in theTexas Air National Guard were inadvert ently destroyed, according to the Pentagon. In a letter responding to a free dom o f information request by The Associated Press, the Defense Department said that microfilm con taining the pertinent National Guard payroll records was damaged and could not be salvaged. The dam aged m aterial included payroll records for the first quarter o f 1969 and the third quarter of 1972. The letter said that in 1996 and 1997, the P entagon "e n g ag e d with lim ited success in a project to salvage d eteriorating m icro film .” D uring the process, "the m icrofilm payroll records o f nu m erous service m em bers w ere d am aged,” the letter said. This process resulted in “the inadvertent destruction o f micro film containing certain National Guard payroll records," includ ing Bush's, the letter said. In February, the W hite House released some payroll and medi cal records from Bush’s Vietnam- era service to counter sugges tions that he shirked his duty with the National Guard. Cancer Treatment Center Planned A d d in g 8th G rad e In 200 5 OPEN HOUSE Tuesday, July 27th 7:1 5 PM Located In The Beautiful Classroom s O f Blazers Boys & G irls C lub 52 5 0 NE MLK (503) 890-1858 C all N o w To Register -- Space is Lim ited V ic t o r y s tu d e n ts a r e b e a tin g th e n a tio n a l a v e ra g e ! 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It will feature three linear accel that it makes sense to bring this com modate the larger number of erators that deliver high doses of service onto our north Portland cam patients we expect to have as the radiation to control and kill cancer pus,” says Dr. Tom Leimert, Kaiser population ages." Work will start this summ er on a cells. About 80 cancer patients a Permanente’s chief of oncology. two-story parking garage serving Leim ert expects that K aiser day will receive care at the facility, Kaiser Permanente plans to build which is expected to open by the Permanente will hire about I4people the treatment center and visitors to a new radiation treatment center end of 2005. other than physicians to staff the six o th er b u ild in g s on K aiser next door to its outpatient cancer The same group of physicians new center, including radiation Perm anente’s Interstate campus. treatment department on Interstate currently providing care for Kaiser th e ra p ists, im aging assista n ts, The garage will have spaces for 298 Avenue in north Portland. Permanente patients at other loca nurses, and two medical physicists. cars. C onstruction o f the 17,000- tions has agreed to continue pro Total com bined cost o f both “W e're also designing with fu square-foot. one-story treatment v id in g th a t c a re in K a ise r ture expansion in mind.” says Dr. building, including landscaping, is center will begin this fall on what is Perm anente’s new facility. Leimert. “Waiting areas, forexample, an estimated $27 million. Kaiser's north Portland campus to expand (Equal Opportunity) • Certified Teachers I quul O p p o rtu n ity to r A ll 4n artist's rendering of Kaiser Permanente 's new radiation treatment center and parking garage planned for construction along school. Crisis in Sudan Mercy Corps responds to humanitarian need Portland-based Mercy Corps has sent staff to provide food, water and life-saving assistance in the Darfur region of Sudan, where more than a million people are affected by conflict. O ver the past year, ethnic and political violence has destroyed the livelihoods o f m any people in Darfur. Thousands of Sudanese have been forced to flee across the border into the neighboring nation of Chad, and leaving over one mil lion people directly affected by fighting, homelesses and vulner able to hunger, weather and contin ued violence. The U nited N ations calls the situation in D arfur “the w o rld ’s w orst hum anitarian crisis," and ‘ri’r |Jnrtlanb (Observer Established 1970 USPS 959-680 __________________________________ _ 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland. OR 97211 Eniroit-iN-CmcF, P uklisheh : Charles H. Washington EoiTOH.Michael Leighton R i pour n : Jaymee R. Cuti D istkikutio n M anage * : M a r k W a s h in g to n C reative D ikector : P a u l N e u fe ld l O ffice M anager : K a th y L in d e r estim ates that more than 130,000 S udanese have already fled to Chad as refugees; 49 percent of displaced Sudanese lack food; 88 percent lack shelter; 67 percent lack w ater; and 93 percent lack adequate sanitation. 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