PORTLAND/OBSERVER Jan. 7, 1971
State Civil Rights Chief quits
cites politics, lack of funds
STAN McKENZIE 6-5 NYU
Bowling
Top Keglers
RICK ADELMAN 6-2 LOYOLA
Weekend Sports Calender
Saturday
Basketball _ Blazers vs. New
York, Memorial Coliseum. 8:00
p.m.
W restling - Portland Sports
Arena.
Sunday
H o c k e y - Buckaroos vs.
Phoenix 7:00 p.m.
Bowling - 185 Average and
under sweeper, 4 games across
8 lanes. Grand Central Bowl,
8.00 p.m.
Wednesday
Hockey - Buckaroos vs. Seat
tle 8.00 p.m. Memorial Colise
um.
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National Basketball Assn.
Pacific Division
W L Pact GB
Seattle
TRAILBLAZERS
Western Hockey League
W L T Pts.
Buckaroos . . . . 24 8 4
52
San Diego . . . . 16 17 5
37
Phoenix . .
18 7
35
Seattle . . .
13 4
34
Denver . . .
18 9
33
Salt Lake . . . . 13 20 3
29
By Pleasant Session
In COSMO League action,
Coast. Ja nito rial, Sweep three
to take over firs t place, by a
one game margin. 8650 C oif-
fuers in 8th are only tra ilin g by
two.
In ten grand league, Tim ber
lane, John (moose) Mangum,
mingeles a sturdy 621 on games
of 214-204-203 as Grand Cen
tra l Bowl up ends LYNN KIRBY
FORD 3-0.
Junior league, AMATO lanes,
a four week tie for fir s t place
came to an end as the BARNES
ROCKETS took a three lead Sat
T railblazers cool Celtics 1
urday night.
124-120
COSMO 2nd round standings
For the second tim e In nine
Won Lost
days, the Blazers put it all to
Coast J a n ito ria l........... 11
7 gether to make it two in a row
Beauty M a r t ................ 10
8 over Boston. McKenzie defen
Jenkins A u to ................ 10
8 sive game on Havllck, and the
Walnut P a rk ................ 10
8 Blazers fastbreak technique was
Lov-Lee L a d e e ................ 9
9 out of sight. Geoff Petrie and
Island D a ir y ................... 9
9 Rick Adelman were high
scorers
Tooth A ch e s ................... 9
9 fo r the T railblazers.
8650 C o iffu re s ....................9
9
W L Pet GB
J e r ry ’ s ” 6 6 " ................... 7 l i
Los Angeles . . . 22 18 550
Hi Fashions..................... 6 12 San Diego . . . . 23 21 523
1
Women 500 Series
San Francisco . 23 22 511
Hazel P o lk ........................... 592 S e a ttle .............. 19 24
442 4%
Alzena DeDeleveaux........... 566 TRAILBLAZERS
Thelma Johnson...................... 547
14 30 318 10
Elenora
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Norma F lo w e rs ................... 544
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Minnie B ro w n ...................... 592
522 •
Wanda B a rn e s...................... 522
Viviane B a rn e tt................... 519
H o lid a y celebrations ended
Bea N e a l................................ ....
M
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n d a y for Portland’s 77,000
Faye W ild e r........................ 505
public
school c h i l d r e n as
Waleka Goodman................ 505
classes resume fo r the second
Women 200 game
half of the school year.
Alzena DeDeleveaux........... 223
School custodians have been
Norma F lo w e rs ................... 214
taking advantage of the tra d i
Frances C lin to n ...........201—211
Hazel P o lk ........................... 211 tional m id-year recess, which
Thelma Johnson...................... 209 began December 23, to brighten
Addie W a rd ..............................203 up Portland’s 114 buildings In
preparation for another five
Waleka Goodman................ 202
Mandy R u s s e ll.........................202 months of hard use. They report
that 154,000 shoes are not easy
Minnie B ro w n ..................... 201
on floors...but the floors are all
Men 555 Series
polished and ready to go.
John M angum .......................... 621
The holiday break has offered
Less Johnson...........................598
a b rie f respite from classroom
Al Washington...................... 588
Jim P h illip s ........................ 583 pressures for Portland’s 3700
teachers, as w ell. Teachers w ill
Claude O live r
566-574-582
Dee Johnson........................ 576 pick up the new year with learn
Bob B e d fo rd ........................ 571 ing, as well as teaching. Winter
Allen Bownes.......................... 555 in-service c la s s e s fo r the
teachers begin January 5 in the
Men 225 games
Portland Public Schools.
Al Washington......................... 257
And Spring Vacation, March
Claudie O liv e r .........................247
22-26, looks a long way off.
OCtlOOlS O Will £
into New Year
It was with regret that on De
cember 5, 1970, after eleven
years of service with the C ivil
R ig h ts Division, Oregon State
Bureau of Labor, I found It nec
essary to submit and request
t h a t the Labor Commissioner
accept my resignation as Ad
m inistrator of the C ivil Rights
D i v i s i o n , Oregon Bureau of
Labor, effective- January 15,
1971.
When I was appointed to the
position of Adm inistrator of
C i v i l Rights Division, Oregon
Bureau of Labor, I swore alle
giance to the people of Oregon
to uphold the C iv il Rights laws
and to afford m inorities of the
State of Oregon a speedy reme
dy and justice In valid com
plaints of discrim ination, under
the law, by adm inistrative pro
cedures of conciliation, admin
istrative public hearings and if
necessary, through the Courts.
During the past one and one-
half years I have become d is il
lusioned as to the future of m i
norities in this state, particu
la rly since M r. Lee Johnson,
Attorney General, took office. I
have certified cases to the At
torney General for public hear
ing of which some have been
over a year ago, but under his
adm inistrative policies he has
u n n e c e s s a r il y delayed these
cases from coming to adminis
trative public hearing, which
has also hampered the com
plainant in having his case
heard by the Court.
The Attorney General has in
sisted Instead of speeding legal
action on these cases, he has
Insisted that his Assistant At
torneys General clear through
him and receive his personal
blessings on the certified C ivil
Rights cases before he would
sanction a public hearing. These
unnecessary lo n g delays have
defused the cases and have ren
dered them unbearable. In other
words, by the tim e the Attorney
General has given his personal
blessings fo r a case to be
heard, the tim e lapse has prac
tic a lly rendered the case un-
tryable through the loss of
witnesses, staff, etc.
Due to the fact of the Attorney
General's attitude concerning
the prosecution of C ivil Rights
v i o l a t i o n s by adm inistrative
public hearing, some tim e ago
It was necessary fo r me to
make a decision of how I could
work out these problems In
order to give justice to the
complainants. It was necessary
for me to defer a number of
cases to Equal Employment Op
portunity Commission, In view
that justice could not be ren
dered under state law for the
aggrieved parties. It is a sad
event when one has to go around
to the back door in order to ob
tain Justice In Oregon in 1970
fo r m inorities In discrim ination
complaints.
The C ivil Rights Division Is
c h a r g e d with the responsi
b ilitie s of one of the most
serious problems of our tim e,
One of the worst over-tim e
p a r k in g problems on record
has just been discovered near
A lder Point in the Northern
C alifornia mixed Douglas f ir
and coast redwood tim ber
country. A tree several feet in
diameter has grown up through
the frame of an abandoned
1921 logging truck, overlap
ping the truck on both sides,
Georgia-Pacific Corp, forest
ers report.
that of attempting to eliminate
prejudice and discrim ination by
enforcement of the a n tl-d ls c rl-
m(nation laws of the State of
Oregon; to encourage m inorities
to process th e ir complaints
through the C ivil Rights D ivi
sion fo r justice Instead of going
to the streets.
Under the present budget con
ditions and the cut by the Exe
cutive D e p a r tm e n t of the
1971-73 budget, coupled with the
a t t o r n e y General's attitude,
C ivil Rights has received a
crippling blow and because of
this I can no longer say to the
m inority brothers and sisters
that a Job can be done through
le g a l channels toward solving
some of the problems that are
and have been existing In Ore
gon human rights, and that
under these conditions we are
on a dow n-hill slide toward
human disaster.
My predecessor trie d to warn
the legislature In the past of
some of these problems and
asked In his budgets for s u ffi
cient funds In order to make
forward p r o g r e s s In human
rights in the State of Oregon,
but his words fe ll on deaf ears.
My recent budget request was a
minimum request to operate the
C i v i l Rights Division for the
1971-73, but as of this tim e It
would appear that my request
for a minimum additional per
sonnel for operating efficiently
has fallen on deaf ears In the
Executive Department. It would
appear that this has come about
because of the wishes of the Ex
ecutive Department of the State
to transfer the C ivil Rights D i
vision out of the Bureau of
la b o r and bring It under the
Department of H u m a n Re
sources. These political plans
have caused unsettled conditions
of staff and no one knows from
one day to the next what to ex
pect In reference to his own
welfare as w ell as the welfare
of his clients. Due to these con
ditions I have found myself In
a position of becoming sick and
tired of the politica l game play
ing with tlie lives and welfare
of m inorities in this state in
which tokenism and equal em
ployment opportunity and Justice
continues to exist, as well as
the uncertain game of security
for staff who have been dedicat
ed public servants, and I per
sonally do not Intend to continue
as C ivil Rights Division Admin
is tra to r of the State of Oregon,
and be used by any Individual o r
g r o u p s to make political ex
cuses for the lack of good en
forcement of the Oregon State
C ivil Rights laws.
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