PO R TLA N D /O B SER VER O ct. 8, 1970
Where to address
your congressman
Counselor on
Counseling
Black doctors
map plans
By GEORGETTE SMITH
Counseling is a subject which
For persons wishing to ex
Room 700, P o r t l a n d , Ore.
asserts, among many Black
press their feelings on issues of 97232.
people, a negative attitude. Stop
the day to their representatives
and think of what comes to your
CONGRESS
is suffering a health
expense and suffering of black
in Washington, D.C., here is
m in d when the subject is m America
a
n
p
o
w
e
r
crisiso
f
disastrous
lives.
a list of Oregon's senators and
FIRST DISTRICT - Congress
brought up. Something negative
For all this, the convention
r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s , with their
man Wendell Wyatt, House Of
or positive? Several surveys proportions. It affects all the
nation’s
citizens,
t«ut
especially
was
mostly free of rancor.
mailing addresses.
fice Building, Washington, D.C.
state that 92 per cent of the
its
black,
Spanish-speaking
and
Those
(including some white re
This list is published by the
20515. DISTRICT OFFICE: 1033
time a negative response comes
porters who had come to dis
Observer to encourage voter in
SE McLoughlin Blvd., Milwau
out. A couple of factors contrib In d ia n population. Fifty-five
miss NMA as " a black AMA")
terest in operation of the feder
kie, O re. 97222.
ute to our negative response. (1) thousand more practicing doc
tors
were
needed
YESTERDAY.
looking
for confrontations, dia
al government.
SECOND DISTRICT - - Con
Counseling was available to the Each day, as the population
Persons interested in ex
gressman A1 Ullman, House Of
wealthy; (2) How could we relate grows, the medical manpower tribes and demonstrations were
d i s a p p o i n t e d . There WERE
p r e s s i n g their feelings on fice Building, Washington, D. C.
to a counselor, though trained in gap gets wider.
clashes of will, and differences
c u r r e n t issues to government
21515. DISTRICT OFFICE: Post
tlie field of counseling (academ
The shortage of doctors is of opinion. But the majority of
representatives should address
Office Building, Salem, Ore.
ically) but could not relate to dramatically
apparent in the the over 1,200 physicians and
their envelope to "The Honor
97301.
Black people.
black
community.
There are
able Mark O. Hatfield," "The
THIRD DISTRICT — Con
No. 1 has been deleted through only 6,000 black physicians in student present seemed to real
Honorable Robert W. Pack-
ize that the situation has gotten
gresswoman Edith Green, House
our Albina project. My col the U.S. - less than 2 percent
to serious now to play around.
wood" or "The Honorable Wen O f f i c e Building, Washington,
league and I are at your dispos of the total 317,000 doctors, ac
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who
dell Wyatt." The letter should
D.C. 20515. DISTRICT OFFICE:
al. All one has to do is to call cording to officials of the Na
calls himself " a physician to a
begin "Dear Senator Hatfield,"
US Courthouse, Portland, Ore.
the Albina Community Action t i o n a l
Association sick society," put the mood of
''D e a r Senator Packwood" or
97205.
Center 287-2603, and ask to (NMA), the Medical
black
doctors’
orga the convention in perspective
"Dear Representative Wyatt."
speak to one of us or leave a nization.
FOURTH DISTRICT — Con
during a press conference 1«-
UNITED STATES SENATORS
message with our secretary
g r e s s m a n John Dellenback,
In Mississippi, tor instance, fore his speech to the Internal
Senator Mark O. Hatfield, House Office Building, Washing
Mrs. Carol Wilson to make an
e black population is about Medicine section. "All of us in
Senate Office Building, Wash ton, D.C. 20515. DISTRICT OF
appointment. Each session is th
900,000.
there are only 46 black b la c k American are suffering
ington, D. C. 20510. DISTRICT FICE: Post Office Building, Eu
for one hour per week and we
doctors.
This
a ratio of more from some form of sickness,
OFFICE: 475 Cottage Street, gene, Ore. 97401.
are available for evening ap than 19,000 is
persons
to one and it’s really a case of social
NE, Salem O re. 97301
pointments. The fee is what you
Representative f o r Benton,
practitioner.
Federal
health
of claustrophobia. There’s just too
Senator Robert W. Packwood, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia,
are able to pay.
ficials
estimate
that
a
ratio
of many of us for the amount of
Senate Office Building, Wash Lincoln, Multomah-west por
No. 2 is alleviated through 1,000 persons to one physician
in g to n , D.C. 20510. DISTRICT tion, Polk, Tillamook, Washing
our Project by Brother Trotter is needed for a MINIMUM stan s p a c e we’re confined to^.The
issue is not fight the victims ixit
OFFICE: 1002 NE Holladay, ton and Yamhill Counties.
and myself. We have been thor dard of health care.
to expand the w alls." Jackson
oughly trained in the field of
is an extreme, said. "In a convention like this,
counseling and relate to Black liut Mississippi
by
no
means
a typical ex
you find the young medics flgtit-
people not only because we are
ample.
Fayette
County,
Tenn.,
ing the old medics and neither
Black—but
because
we
care
Secretary Elliot L. Richard Under these new supplemental
with
a
black
population
of
alxxit
of
them is f i g h t i n g the
what happens to you personally.
son of the Department of Health, grant no "watching"
27,000,
has
no
black
doctors.
is re
walls...W.
Montague Cobb (who
We are trying to relieve the
Education and Welfare has an quired. The Federal government
Urban areas also have a short was dismissed from his post as
many
negative
views
of
counsel
nounced that HEW'S Office of share is 100 percent.
ing that have faced Black people a g e , although not usually as chairman of Anatomy at Howard
Education will provide more
for
so long. One way, I feel, to a c u t e . Fresno, Calif., with University Medical School dur
The Office of Education has
than >30 million in supplemen
30,000 blacks, has 10 black doc
ing student protests last year)
achieve this is through better tors.
tary funds this calendar year to just made supplemental Awards
ended
up being a victim of dis
communication with each other,
help predominantly black col of $53 million under the College
So, when the NMA held its located frustration («cause we
placing
of
more
trust
in
each
Work-Study program to enable
leges and their students.
wouldn’t take on Nixon and
other, and of course, a feeling 75th annual convention In Atlan
Funds would be made avail 124 pre-dominantly black col
ta,
Ga.,
August
3-6,
bridging
the
HEW.
And Nixon’s (>udget is
of pride for oneself as a human
able for construction, College leges to provide employment for
manpower gap was the chief more of a death wish than a life
being.
I
hope
these
feelings
will
Work—study, and strengthening more than 10,000 students who
c o n c e r n . Amid the pomp and wish."
become a reality.
of teaching, administrative and need jobs to help meet the col
Using
slightly
different
Just a brief note on our Youth circumstance o f Atlanta’s fu
lege expenses.
student Service program s.
turistic
-
and
expense-Regency
language,
the
NMA's
leadership
Club which is called THE UNIT
President Nixon in a letter
Hotel, amid the parties and would probably agree. "We feel
ED SOUL SOCIETY. We have a fluff,
ELIGIBILITY
last month to Dr. Herman R.
some of the doctors were we're the most neglected, im
project just off the drawing
In order to qualify the college
Branson, president of Central
taking
care of the (»usiness of portant segment of the nation,"
board for a "Youth House" open
State University in W’ilberforce, must have previously received
how
to
recruit, educate and get said outgoing president Hill.
to all youths in the Model Cities
Ohio, in which he stated: "The C o lle g e Work-Study grant for
into
practice
the 30,000 black "You spend $20,000 to train a
Area, ages 15-20. At this time
employment of needy students
present financial plight of our for
doctors
NMA
officials
say are graduate of Annapolis (the Naval
current period, and
we are trying to raise tonds to needed now.
small and overwhelming major must this
Academy), maybe it's more than
have exhausted their funds
have the house operational. All
ity of our predominately black for this
Not everybody was taking that. $12,000 would almost make
purpose.
interested
youths
are
invited
to
colleges clearly demonstrates
care of this particular kind of a doctor. We can train people
drop by the Albina Community business,
to me that the federal govern
however. There was to kill (xit not to help people to
Previous federal grants have
Action center at 7:30 P.M .,O c
ment must strengthen its role in provided 80 percent of students
considerable
bickering at>out the live."
tober 6, 1970.
support of equal education op earnings, with the college pro
"relevancy" of the NMA. Out
N M A representatives took
portunity."
going president, Dr. Julius W. t h e i r complaints to President
viding the remaining 20 percent.
Hill, of Los Angeles, attacked Nixon on August 5, and told him,
"ego-m aniacs,
exhibitionists, they say, like it is.
s h o w - o f f s and self-centered
We («lleve, Mr. President,
pseudo-leaders" who had been that certain aspects of the
quoted by newspapers as making health crisis demand immediate
The Concentrated Employ
"asinine" attacks at the NMA attention and CAN 1« solved
Father Flanagan of Boys’
ment Program provides a close- during his tenure. On the other fortiiwittil" said * stdi-iiKiit
Town built a movement on his
knit s y s t e m for delivering side of the fence, Paul B. Sims, given the President by Hill. Dr.
belief, "th ere's no such thing as
manpower services for the dis of the Black Science Student O r Andrew L. Thomas (secretary
a bad boy."
advantaged in the Model Cities ganization, of New York, circu of
NMA House of Delegates),
This philosophy can lead to
area and a like-sized area in lated an open letter addressed D r the
.
Emerson Walden (NMA
very diverse opinions, depend
the Southeast section of Port to NMA members:
president
elect tor 1971-72),
ing on whether you are a parent,
land.
Black people still suffer at Dr. C.C. Bookert (speaker of
teacher, or over thirty. Regard-
Every area program has four the mercy of the Federal Gov the house of Delegates), Dr.
l e s s of age or occupation, I
principle features: (1) enlisting ernment, still die a slow death John
Kenney (a Howard Univer
think we can all agree "there
the active support and coopera at the hands of educators who
sity
professor)
and Dr. Jam es
are bad boys, but there are also
tion of business and labor orga mlseducate, die at the hands of M. Wittico (NMA
past presi
reasons why boys or girls act
nizations in the local communi
Preachers who pray on Sundays dent). "The most important of
badly."
ties; (2) providing a wide range and "sprinkle Itoly water on Hy
According to the form er At
of counseling, health, education drogen Bombs," die at the hands these tor the moment," the state
ment continued, " is the acute
torney General Ramsey Clark,
and training services on an in of Cadillac surgeons who only shortage
of tonds for black and
we could cut the crim e statis
dividual basis; (3) developing w a n t to develop some bit of other minority students of $2
tics in half by attacking the rea
employment opportunities suited knowledge so that they can be
in aid THE fall-Fall
sons of crime involvement with
to each individual in the pro listed in "Who’s Who" at the million
19701"
modern scientific know-how. He
gram, and (4) providing the fol
states that eleven to seventeen
low-up assistance necessary to
year old boys commit one-half
assure that a job, once obtained,
of all burglaries, larcenies and
will not quickly be lost.
car thefts; and that sixteen year
The PCEP was funded for
FR. (JORDON DICKEY
W o o d la w n Parsonage
olds commit more crime than
$2,096,000 for the year 1969 &
925 N .l. Highland Street
any age group.
homes are needed. Half-way
70. Most services are subcon
Hour*: 10:00 A M until ?
Across the country we face homes p r o v i d i n g counselling,
tracted to other agencies, such
Phon* 2 (7 -5 6 6 3
the same problem with youth. work opportunities and a more
as: Portland Community College
Our problem is that we have not suitable learning environment.
for basic education and voca
learned how to prevent, correct
The half-way home is an at
tional education; Portland Op
and rehabilitate youthful offend tempt to avoid the traum aof sep
portunities
Industrialization
e rs . Our jails and correctional aration associated with the
Center for basic education and
Subscription Introductory
institutions tend to create crim conventional correction institu
special programs; University of
inals.
tion. The home is located in a Oregon Dental School for dental
Offer -
We are pushing kids out of typical neighborhood; the boys
services, and local doctors for
society. Young people who are go to school like the rest of the physical and medical follow-up.
Save M.OQ by using this form,
put out of school with nowhere young people in the neighbor
Its Internal programs are the
to go but the street are the hood. Counselling programs are New C areers Program, Opera
52 issues for M .00
same young people who end up established to help not only the tion Mainstream adult work ex-
later in the courtroom. Nation i n d i v i d u a l boy but the family p e r i e n c e and Neighborhood
N am e___
ally, most crimes are commit from which the boy comes.
Youth Corps youth work expe
ted by school drop-outs; and by
Neighborhood youth care fa
rience programs.
Address
p e r s o n s who never completed cilities are an example of com
The Po r t l an d Concentrated
the tenth grade. Three-quarters munity involvement in crime
E m p lo y m e n t Program, spon
of all offenders come from bro p r e v e n t i o n ; in peace-keeping sored by the Portland Metropol
ken homes.
th r o u g h problem solving. The itan Steering Committee, is
Great efforts are now being statistics concerning such a fbnded by the U £ . Department
waged by federal, state and home are im pressive. In Cali of Labor. PCEP is headed by
P o lan d Observer, 7 1 4 '/, N.E. Alberto Portland, Oregon
church program s. Of notice in fornia, 67% of youths who go to
George Rankins, a retired Army
Oregon is the Job Corps, Op prison are arrested subsequent non-commissioned officer and
portunity School, The Louise ly; only 29% of those who go to his
three
executive
staff
Home, Christie School and St. a n e ig h b o r h o o d youth care members:
WE
Mary s Boys' Home. One vast center are arrested a second
Carl Simington, Support Man
OUT
problem -area still u n to u c h e d
time.
ager; Robert Willits, New Ca
TAKE
are the young people who are
Father Flanagan explained his reers Manager, and Dell Smith,
OF
having trouble at home but who philosophy this way; "there are Operations Manager.
THE
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may not yet be in trouble with no bad boys, if they have the op
Next week we will discuss the
the law and have nowhere to portunities to love, to learn, and Concentrated Employment Pro
Woods Fix-It and Repair
Ph. 284-3093
turn. Neighborhood youth care to become productive."
gram system.
HEW To fund Black Colleges
No B ad Boys!
Concentrated
employment
reports
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