The 25C ·. coMBlflATION,. ' . SEPTEMBER 1966 CHERYLE BROWN ' I WILLIE MAYS -- CLEM DANIELS M~RY SYAS j 1 .. START PACKING WHEN-U CALL .. .. -RAY C·OLLINS REALTY: .. .. - LET.. US-568-3000 . - and his - I SINCE 1953 1 SELL YOURS . World Famous Orchestra 1 15 TRAINED -_ SA'LESMEN TO SERVE YOU i~s~e~11 ..•Ji; ,. -LOTS- _ IN TIE -BEIINNIKI l~D" -- RENTALS . · . ACCOMPANIED IY . .. -INCOME Downs Memoriai Church BUSINESS CHOIR OPPORTUNITIES B. L VAUGHN, Director FREE . .· . Featuring . , APPRAISALS ·I FRED FERGUSON 7924 E. 14th ST. OAKLAND :-·.- As David Dancin~ before the Loni ,.::: .. / .. Auapicu ... ,~;~,~. DOWNS MEMORIAL CHURCH il'fJ//Ji!A CONCERT COMMITTEE _OAKLAND AUDITORIUM Saturday, Sept. 17, 1966 AT 8:QO__ e/A Ticbta: S2.50-Sl.50-SUO-$5.00 ·ii.,;;ro:~ ME-L'S JR. DR-IVE~-IN Dinne rs , 6 a. ri·. ·to ll p . m . Mons.' thru Fri · 7 a . rii. to Up . m. Saturd_a ys -. _8a.m . tolOp. m . Sunda ys Shakes - Malts - Fries - Prawns AUGUST CHARMER • Alfred Pav ton , mgr. \ . EDITORS' NOTE CONTENTS COMBINATION staffers, while touring the Bay Area to bring a local flavor in news, social events and entertainment, have discovered new faces to add to its growing organization. In this month's COMBINATION readers will get a chance ~o ABOUT OUR COVER ..... meet our "Fashion Lady' and new COMBINATICN filshion FRONTIER VILLAGE. 5 editor, Eddie Carraway; Cartoonist Dorothy Fields; and our WATTS FESTIVAL ............ 6 San Francisco representative, Jonathan Buchanan /· Eddie is an old name to Bay Area social and fashion circles HAPPY BIRTHDAY. 6 and the proud owner-operator of Eddie's House of Fashion·in FASHION LADY. 8 East Oakland. · · ·· Dot Fields, on the other hand, is now a relatively new name MONTEREY JAZZ . 9 in the art field. But, once you discover her contemporary and DUKE ELLINTON ............ 24_ satirical sketchings, you'll agree with us' that she'll be around ON THE GO WITH COCOA ..... 17 for' a long time. Jonathan Buchanan caught our attention while in San Fran• FLIPSIDE ..... ·... .•....... ...7 cisco. · He will! be our "man~a:tross-the-bay", gathering the ..,, 1.. ,J~. news and circulating COMBINATION in the City; His office is . :.,I"<, ., ·.~'·N'If .. r-' located at, 957 Hayes Street. Phone 626-8574 or 387-4240. Along with Georg "Cocoa" Walthers, Jack Oglesby, Brackeen McCarty and yours truly, we _hope to make COMBINATION a most int~resting and entertaining monthly, a part of Bay Area living. Rernember, all you have to do to see yourself in COMBINA• TION is . ...live in ,the Bay Area. Sincerely yours, LENNIE ANDERSON, Editor COMBINATION STAFF-. Bracke_en McCarty .... Publisher & Photoe:raphy ,.,:,~1t, .• · ,; Lennie Anderson ...... Manag~r ·& Editor Georg Walther ........ Erlt.ertainmen.t : . Eddie. C~_rraway, .... ·. : . Fc!-;hion-Editor jack .Oglesby ..... ; ~ '. .. Music Editor Dorothy Fields ... ; : ·. ; • ·Art . Jonathan Bucha:r:i.a~ .. :... Francisco_Mgr. Robert Mason ...... :. : ~ .. Distribution BALLS, BAGS SHIRTS, SLACKS SHOES TROPH IES . C?mplete Lin~ of Bowling ,Aids & Supplies BOB WILLIAMS Pro Shop for Bowlers COMBINATION Magazine is published . monthly by the Bay Area Studio/Printing Co with Advertising, Editorial and Circulation 2775 Shattuck Avenue Phone offices located at 582 - 6lst St. , Oakland . Cal Berkeley, California 848-3797 Subscriptions: $3. 00 per year. Phone 6 5 2 - 6959 1 MEET EAST OAKLAND'S ... PAULETTE HOLLOWAY ... YOC staffer MISS BERNESTINE CARTER Catching the attention of COMBINATICJ\l .staffers in Augqs't was ·statuesque Bernestine Carter of East Oakland. Bernestine, a University of California senior on the Berkeley Campu.~, spent the summer in Guadalajara, J alisco, Mexico, attending · summer; school through a University of Arizona extension course. The unique course placed about 400 Ameri• can college students and instructors from all parts of the United States into private Mexican homes. The course gave participants an inner and first hand work• ing . knowledge of our south-of-the-border neighbors' daily lives. President of ,Delta Sigma Kappa sorority, Bernestine is a .. 19'63 honor graduate of Fremont High School in East Oakland. Upon her scheduled graduation from UC, she plans to do graduate work and later seek employment with the state de• partment. She·is a political science major. During her years at UC .she has worked with student tutorial groups designed to encourage more Negro students to pursue collegiate training at the Berkeley campus. · The tall, five-feet, six-inches brown-eyed beauty is the da:ughter of Mrs. Theodosia "Teddie" McKery of East Oak• land. Her favorite colors are red and white and she lists · turkey and enchiladas as her favorite foods. Bernestine was selected "Sigma Sweetheart" in 1965 and attended their convention in Phoenix, Arizona, in November of that year. She attended the fraternity's "Qrchid Ball" in Los I Angeles' last month. YOCs OFFER· JOBS . Youth\ Opportunity Centers (YOC) offer employment to all youths, 16-21 years . old. The West Oakland ,YOC' at 1905 Adeline Street, is one of a number of such branch offices opening in the Bay Area. Under the auspices of the State Employment Office, the brahches are located in neighborhood areas to make em• ployment services as available as possible to the community. Through this outreach, the Service is making an attempt to get to the young people who are unable or unwilling to come to the downtown offices. Through the efforts of employment community workers who spend the ·greatest part of their time "on the streets" con• tracting young people, the YOCs are trying to reach young people who are most in need of special help in job prepara• tion. In· the branch offices special attempts are being made tc reach boys and girls who have dropped out of school and lad the motivation or skills necessary to qualify them for many BERNESTINE CARTER · jobs. Three agencies in addition to the Employment Service are offering services through the Adeline branch. The West Phone: 562-6162 Oakland Reading Center will be conducting classes beginning in September. Women in Community Service have provided a 'JE.dJ.i.E., ~ <u'l9 c£fz.op staff to d.o Job Corps screening for girls and the Urban League has assigned a motivational counselor _to the branch. , We Specialize In In tota'l, the focus of the branch is to offei- whatever aid Wig Styling - Cutting - Tinting necessary for young people to compete more equally for the · Cleaning Re-Conditioning jobs that are available. This help will include counseling, All Types of Wigs Accessories aptitwe and achievement testing, referral to training, Job · We Finance Corps or Neighborhood Youth Corps and job openings. , 7924 E. 14th Street Ben & Theodosia McKcry, West Oakland branch supervisor is Gerald Hi~era. 2 - Oakland, California Props. ABOUT OUR COVER CHERYLE BROWN Cheryle ,Brow'n. a.local East Oakland beauty who was the ·second runner-U:p~ln the recent' "Miss Bronze" beauty 9onte_st and winner of the Knights of Honor-s "Miss Bathing Beauty 19"Al',lctQWn in San Jose, takes her share of the limelight on - tne - ~op~ 'pyramid of COMBINATION's September ,cover. A -June graduate of East Oakland'. s Castlemont High School, Cheryle plans to enter San Jose Stat:e Colh;ge this month to pursue a baccaulaureate -degree in political science. Site 'plans later to work in government protocol. ' ·· Cheryl likes "any sport, really," but places all her atten"• tion ..,right n~" bn water skiing which she is just learning. ' Her favorite colors are <turquoise and yellow. Favorite foods are Mexican dishes and her dimensions are 34-24-37, which are well ·, distributed over a five-foot, three-inch frame; MARY SYAS Cheryle is the -daughter of 1Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Brown of E,ast Oakland. Mrs. Mary Syas of North Oakland ls employed as stock, CLEM DANIELS cle.rk in H. C • . Capwell' s department store and shares the bottom pyramid·on .COMBINATICN's Septembei;, cover. A native of Tyler, Texas, Mrs. Syas, a widow, has been Ciem Daniels of the Oakland Raiders footoall 'tea,,: i, no living in the Bay Area for over 20 years. She was chosen as stranger ·to most Bay A'rea gridiroi:i fans ~nd Raider rooters. one of Northern California's "ten best dressed" women of · Clem, 26 years~old, a six-foot, one-inch, two hundred and 1966 by the- Sun-Reporter newspaper. She design,s and makes twenty pound half-back, came to the Raiders in 1961 as a free her own clothes. agent. He spent the 1960 season with the Dallas Texans a~ a Mary starts what she terms a "r.egularday" by a six o'clock defens-ive back. ' awakening, ba~. break!ast (coffee, toast, one slice of bacon) In his initial season with the Oakland eleven, Clem was op and an eight o'clock arrival at her job. , 'the 'taxi' squad until the final four games when he was activated ~he is a member of the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church where ~aMTh~. - she serves on the usher board. , A former "Negro All-American" while a junior at Ptaire . She ls also a member of the Bay Area Couturies social View · A&M , who ran 100 yards in 9.8, Clem set a season clu.~1 and the civic-minded Negro Women of Progress organiza• rushing record of 1;099 yards in 1963 and was voted the tion. "· . American Football League's "Most Valuable Player." .' Owner of . a Texas livestock ranch, the ~ll (five-f,oot. A bachelor; Clem makes his home in OaklaJ)Cl. He has 0 taught five-inches) brown-eyed lady likes golfing and bowling. high school physical education anclfEnglish. courses. , . ' ' ' Starting his seventh year in the "run-for-money" circuit, it · is evident. that Clem will be a big punch in the Raider offensive attack.