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PORTLAND OBSERVER Oct. 15, 1970 'W ell! Turn It On!' C o n g r a tu la tio n s on y o u r e njoyable first issue. H oping you co n tin u e d success. H ow ard C o llin s Cash and Maxey's Barber Shop 4603 N. William» Avenue Phone 284-5 188 The Northwest’s Best Weekly A Black Owned Publication Published every Thursday by Exie Publishing Company, 714'.■ N.E. Alberta, Portland, Oregon, 97211. Subscription rates: 60 cents per month by carrier, $5.00 per year; $6.00 per year by mail in Tri-County area; $6.25 per year by mail outside Tri-County area. Phone 2 8 2 - 0 9 2 9 Much Success. Essie and S herry A lexander ALFRED LEE HENDERSON, Publisher and Editor Margaret Wicker, General Managing Editor Good luck with your paper. G arry L. Alexander CHOOSE YOUR CANDIDATE CAREFULLY Within a matter of a few short weeks, we will be faced with the chore of electing those people who will represent us in government and it will be to our advantage to take just a few short minutes to look at the candidates who will be running. No longer may we be satisfied with the candidate on the strength of his party and what the party itself stands for. We must examine to some degree the man himself and what he represents both as an individual and as a politician'. We can no longer be satisfied with the same old campaign literature that floods our community. It is interesting to note that very few if any major political bases have been set up in our community, even though we are the recipients of all kinds of campaign mail. We must certainly exercise our right to vote, if we are to have a voice in the government. But just as important, we carefully evaluate the candidate to see what he can do for our community. If he is an incumbent, then we must look at the voting record of the past. We must look at the bills that were introduced by the candidate and see how well we have been represented in the past and then determine if this is what we want for the future. If the candidate is a fledgling politician, then we must look closely a* his qualifications and examine his sincerity. We must also look and listen to the platform of the individual candidate as opposed to the party line. If we are to control our own destiny, then we must look long and hard at the people we choose to represent us. If we don’t, then we don’t have a gripe when things go badly. W H AT ABO UT THE PRISONERS? C ongratulations and Best of Luck. M al de mer cure Buckingham Palace hopes that Prince Charles will not forget his royal duties when he goes into the British Navy for a hitch of three to six years. This mean c e r e m o n i a l appearances at times in proper nautical attire- right down to the last polished button. And a bottle of seasick pills? Surely not. But such seems to be the case. The prince talks of feeling queasy M r. & M rs. Jo hn ( ’ . Wadde when the decks of Her Majesty's ships begin to heave. Well, now, the cure isn’t the pills; it’s the very same hard tack, grog and bully beef that Lord Nelson prescribed for himself in sim ilar circum stances. That’s enough to prop up a man for anything-winnlng a battle, making a royal speech or even forgetting he was sick in tne first place. PCC to dedicate College Center The new College Center building on the Mt. Sylvania campus of Portland Communi ty College will be dedicated on Sunday, Oct. 25. Special guests at the dedica tion ceremonies will include members of PCC’s more than 100 a d v i s o r y committees. Each member of each commit tee plays an important liaison role with Industry, business, occupations and the profes sions in shaping and guiding PCC programs. Other special guests will in clude local and county govem- m e n ta l figures, officers and dignitaries of citizen, service and professional groups, and representatives of other col leges in the state. The program will include a review of the concept and plan of the new center, which rep resents both ” a crossroads of the campus’’ and a "home a w ay from home" for PCC students and staff. The four quadrants of the new center are connected by a very large covered mall. Each quadrant offers complete and integrated services and sup port in a special area of need: the library-instructional re sources center for study and learning m aterials; the coun s e l i n g - admissions - business office quadrant for every step from inquiries to registration; the food services quadrant, which offers five levels of food services from automatic vend ing machines to gourmet res taurant; and the adm inistra- While the “doves” flutter in Congress in an effort to under cut out military defense against Communist aggression in Southeast Asia by limitation of funds, they totally ignore the Americans who are held as prisoners of war by the Reds, unaccounted for and abused in violation of the Geneva Con vention for the treatment of prisoners, to which the North Vietnamese have officially subscribed but which they con stantly violate. Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., has challenged the mo rality of the fund-cutters by declaring he will oppose any limit on American military funding as they propose until every American prisoner of war held by the North Vietnamese is released. The “doves” don’t mention them. The “doves” apparently would forget them, and wish that others would. But no American worthy of the name can forget the men who served us and are now held by the Communists. It is a strange and sickening thing that senators in our nation are so willing to surrender, so eager to appease the enemy, so unconcerned about the Americans the Communists hold, the Americans who are on the battlefields and the South Vietnamese who would be murdered by the Reds if we were forced by a Fifth Column here at home to back down before the Communist aggression. \ ou hear the “doves calling for an end to American resis T a x rate up tance to Communist aggressions. But do you hear them call ing for Communist aggressors to cease their attack? on em ployer You hear the appeasers seeking to undercut our men by of the heavy drain on denying them arms support. But do you hear these same the Because unemployment insurance ones demanding identification of our men who are prisoners tru st hind during the past of the Vietnamese Communists? year, employer tax rates will Our nation today is the victim of men who would sell out rise for calendar year 1971, their fellow men who have served under our flag and in our R o s s Morgan, adm inistrator, uniform. employment division, reports. I here are perhaps 1,500 Americans in Communists hands The Aug. 31 trust fund balance in Southeast Asia. Nobody knows for sure how many or is expected to produce a fund adequacy ration which will whether they are living or dead. place effect tax rates There are a hundred members in the Senate of the United ranging into from 1.2 to 2.7 per States. Will a majority of them surrender our prisoners? Will cent for 1971, Morgan said. a majority of them refuse to undercut Americans held bv Some 532,000,000 in unem the Communists? J ployment insurance benefits Will a majority of our senators stand with Sen. Eastland have been paid by the division and declare they will do nothing to undercut our forces until during the first seven months < very American prisoner held bv the North Vietnamese Com of 1970, he said. T h e average tax rate for munists is freed? 1971 will be 1,9 per cent as Any who will not take that stand deserves dishonor. compared to 1.5 per Cent. C o n t r a t u la t io n s on y o u r new v e n tu r e a n d b est o f luck. G ertrude Crowe For Experienced Catering Service Try Johnson's Catering Company. Phone 282-4951 tion-planning quadrant which is headquarters for the college board, the president, a plan ning and development staff, and the college bookstore. The new center cost $4.1 million and is in use, with current registration and other services fully available. Penny’s Shoe Repair 2940 Union Avenue We d o c to r shoes, heel them , a tte n d th e ir d yin g and save th e ir soles. PHONE AT 8 4 3 4 2 PICK-UP SERVICE DICK’S RADIATOR SERVICE Rodiatort Rodded Cleaned and Repaved New Core* Prompt Service All Work Guaranteed 4222 N.E. Union Portland, Ore 97211 Ever Ready Moving ond Hauling, Rug, Upholder and cleaning. Ed. Dortey Ph 2 8 4 -7 4 9 7 2829 N E Union Ave. A lw ays a S a tis fie d Custom er
