PORTLAND/OHSERVER Jan. 7, 1971
Job T raining
Black C an didates
Win Top Jobs
By WILLIAM DEIZ
NEW YORK- Negro candi
dates in the North, West and
are returning for retraining and South fared well in the 1970
help with job placement at a elections, a survey by the
time when money is short and NAACP reveals.
The
number
of
black
CEP is attracting the attention
members of the House of Rep
of others who need work.
Rankins says since the last r e s e n t a t i v e s was increased
fiscal year, the budget for his from nine to 12 with the election
operation has been slashed by of three Negroes from predomi
»400-thousand dollars. And he nantly white districts which
is not optimistic about the previously have been represent
availability of jobs in the near ed in Congress by white per
sons. Seven of the nine present
future.
Programs like CEP may be at black House members were re -
least partial victims of their e l e c t e d . The remaining two
own successes. As one spokes were replaced by other Ne
man who asked not to be named, groes.
The most spectacular and
theorizes, CEP was begun under
s
i
g n i f i c a n t triumph was the
the Johnson Administration, and
he has a sneaking suspicion election of Wilson C. Riles as
N ix o n isn't too enthusiastic C a l i f o r n i a 's state superin
about contributing to its well tendent of public instruction. He
defeated a formidable foe, the
being.
WILLIAM R. DEIZ
He further theorizes Nixon is vociferous and controversial in
less interested in the welfare of cumbent, Dr. Max Rafferty.
It almost goes without saying people than he is in his own Riles, in his new position, as
that government programs to "accomplishments" a s P resi sumes also a seat as a regent
help the so-called "hard-core dent.
of the University of California
unemployables" find work are
After all It is the Nixon ad a n d trustee of the California
least effective during times of ministration whose tight money, State Colleges. He Is the first
economic stre ss, times such as "Inflationary control" policies Negro in California elected to a
we are seeing in an acute fash have plunged the Northwest into statewide job. Although the po
ion in the Northwest this winter. i t s worst employment picture sition is regarded as non-parti
One example is Portland's since the 50’s.
san, Dr. Rafferty had the sup
Concentrated Employment Pro
With money h a r d - t o - g e t , port of Gov. Ronald Reagan who
gram (CEP), which gets its b u s i n e s s growth has been was overwhelmingly re-elected.
funds from the Portland Metro- slowed - and in many cases
White Districts
p o l l t a n Steering Committee curtailed — and this, of course,
The three congressmen-elect
which, in turn, gets money from puts people out of work.
who defeated white candidates in
the Federal Government.
It the person is unsmllled, predominantly white districts are
Director George Rankins says then he loses his job quicker; Parren J . Mitchell of Balti
during 1968-69 CEP was able to and for a longer period of time more, George Collins of Chica
p l a c e some eleven hundred than the skilled worker.
go and Roger V. Dellums of
people in jobs, but that the
Sometimes it seems officials Berkeley, Calif. Charles B.
current recession has forced who make policy, deal too much Rangel of New York was elected
many employers to lay them off. with facts and figures, and they to replace Adam Clayton Powell
T h e result, he says, is that forget there are real, living, who was defeated in the Demo
these CEP-trained p e r s o n n e l flesh and blood PEOPLE behind cratic prim ary. In Chicago,
Ralph Metcalf was elected to
those statistics.
Going from 5.4% to 6% unem replace the veteran Cong. Wil
Tutors Needed
liam L. Dawson who died last
Nearly 200 persons seeking p lo y m e n t may not sound like week. The new congressman,
much
on
paper.
But
when
you
a d u l t tutoring assistance to
like those re-elected, is a Dem
learn to read and write more visit the homes of some of those ocrat.
effectively may find their first unemployed, feel their despair
Mitchell, b r o t h e r of the
steps toward learning delayed. and frustration, you begin to re NA AC P's Washington represen
alize
the
real
effects
of
this
Not enough new volunteer tutors
t a t i v e , Clarence Mitchell J r .,
are available in the community type of statistical "shuffling and a professor at Morgan State
game."
service program sponsored by
And you can easily feel and College, defeated his white Re
Portland Community College,
publican opponent, 58,986 to
project workers reported today, understand the anger of those 42,024, in a district 60 per cent
who
have
been
fed
a
dream,
even though 300 are at work.
non-Negro. The district in
"This is a case of success, have bought it, and then had It cludes part of the City and the
not failure," said Mrs. Eliza snatched away because of politi County of Baltimore.
beth Tiktin, tutor trainer for the cal considerations over which
Included in Collins' district
PCC C o m m u n ity Education they had no control.
are
the blue collar lllywhlte sub
Many of the so-called "hard
project. "We’ve been able to
urbs of Cicero and Berwyn
core
unemployables"
had
given
help so many so well that the
along with Chicago's Westside
word has gotten around...and up trying to make something de black ghetto. His success in
now we are desperately short of cent of themselves. It took pa carrying the suburban areas is
enough volunteers to meet the tience, and hard work and com attributed to the strong backing
greater needs that are develop passion on the part of programs of Chicago Mayor Richard J .
ing." The volunteers work face like CEP to get them Interested.
But they were Interested, they Daley.
to face with persons needing
Out on the West Coast, Del
did
train, and they got work.
special help in learning to learn
lums
defeated a Republican and
Now that 1970 has come and
and in developing reading and
a Peace and Freedom Party
gone
they're
people,
many
of
writing skills.
candidate, amassing 60 per cent
She pointed out that the pro them black, find the old adage of the total vote. Negroes and
gram had served 745 people of "the last hired and the first Mexican-Americans in the dis
from July 1 through Sept. 30, fired" to be all too true once trict voted strongly for him but
with the largest number of stu again.
Why must programs which he also received substantial
dents, 263, between the ages of
offer
so much hope when con- support from the predominantly
18 and 25 years, for the second
c
e
i
v
e
d , constantly run out of white precincts in the area of
successive quarter. Previously,
the University of California.
the largest number has always steam before any lasting im The congressman-elect was the
provements
can
be
made?
been in the age bracket between
It is a tragedy that those in target of attacks by Vice P resi
25 and 44 years, she said.
dent Spiro Agnew.
"We had 98 persons studying positions to do the most good
Other Re-elections
for
the
truly
disadvantaged,
are
in levels (grades) 1 to 3, 137
Black Democrats re-elected
often
so
far
out
of
touch
with
in levels 4 to 6, and 510 in lev
them that nothing really gets to the House of Representatives
els 7 to 12," M rs. Tiktin said.
are John Conyers J r . , and
More than 75 percent of the done.
Charles C. Diggs of Michigan;
Not
too
many
hungry
people
students were white, she re
William Caly of M issouri; Au
ported, with about 23 percent make policy, and its too bad that g u s t u s Hawkins of California;
not
enough
policy-makers
are
black and around 2 percent O ri
Louis Stokes of Ohio; Mrs.
hungry.
ental or American Indian.
M r s . Tiktin announced a
s e r i e s of Volunteer Tutor
T r a i n i n g Workshops, with the
first one at Westminster P res
byterian Church from 7:30 til
9:30 p.m., January 12, and a
second session there Tuesday,
Jan. 19.
Others will be in Failing Hall
L ibrary, Wednesday, Feb. 10
and Wednesday, Feb. 17, from
7:30 til 9:30 p.m.
F o r information on what a
volunteer tutor does and how to
volunteer, call 224-2135.
Nina temple
grows
Mina Temple # 68 A.E.A.O.
N.M.S. will hold a ceremonial
on Saturday, January 9, 1971, at
the
Prince
Hall
Masonic
Temple, 116 N.E. Russell St.
Four candidates will be inducted
into Shrlnedom.
Noble Thomas A. Shelby is Il
lustrious Potemtate.
Noble Thomas A. Vickers Is
Imperial Deputy of the Oasis of
Portland.
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etc. W e develop any type of film black and white
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Shirley Chisholm of New York;
and Robert N.C. Nix of Pennsyl
vania. The only other Negro
member of Congress, Sen. Ed
ward W. Brooke of Massachu
setts, was not up for re-election
as his term does not expire
until 1972.
Two congressional liopefuls
failed of election - Mrs. Myrlie
Evers in California and Andrew
Young in Georgia.
Milton B. Allen became the
first Negro elected prosecutor
in Baltimore and one of only a
few black men to have been
elected to such a position in any
city in the country.
A sizable number of Negro
c a n d i d a t e s were elected to
local, county and state offices In
the South as well as in non-
southern states. A black slate
took all major posts In Green
County, Ala. Also In Alabama,
two Negroes were elected to the
state leglslature-the first since
the Reconstruction era.
According to a New York
Times report, Alabama now has
a total of 105 elected black offl-
c l a l s , including four sheriffs;
This Deep South state is ex
ceeded in the number of Negro
officeholders only by Michigan
with 110, The Times reported.
Four black candidates were
elected to the South Carolina
legislature.
Tour the
World
In Food
Would you believe a tour of
Europe, accomplished right at
the dinner table without leaving
your chair?
That experience Is available
In a new Continental Cookery
c o u r s e offered at Portland
C o m m u n ity College winter
term .
Chef John R. Sharp, a PCC
staff Instructor with many years
of varied experience, will dem
onstrate preparation of exotic
dishes drawn from the national
cuisine of Armenia, Denmark,
F r a n c e , Germany, Hungary,
Italy, Sweden, and Spain.
Course participants also par
ticipate in the prepared dishes,
learning In this way to become
critics In the preparation of
various ethnic foods.
The course c arrie s three
credits; fee is >24, with a >15
lab fee to cover the cost of the
foods involved.
The first session of the
course will be held Tuesday,
January 12, from 6:30 p.m.
through 9;30 p.m. There will be
11 sessions, meeting in the new
PCC kitchens and food Indus
trie s teaching area in the Col
lege Center building at Mt. Syl
vania.
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