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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1971)
I A letter to the editor Dear Sir: This letter has been sent to me in the hope that it might help illuminate the welfare crisis in our society. I sent It along to you with the hope that It will do Just that. For obvious reasons the child must remain anony mous. Yours truly, Dr. Charles Grossman, Chairman From a w elfa re ch ild A STATEMENT BY A WELFARE CHILD To all the people who don’t care about me and kids like me. My Mom cries a lot and I know she loves me - but I need ed a pair of shoes for school and she couldn't get them for me, so I took a pair from a store. I didn't want to but I didn't have any money to buy them and I want to go to school so I won't have to go on welfare like Mom. We don't have enough to eat all the time either and I didn't have a coat for a long time this winter. Nobody likes welfare and they don't like us welfare kids, but nobody wants to do anything to help us get off of welfare. I know enough about politics to know I don't have any rights. I don't have the right to ask for more to eat or to be warm or to even have a house to live in. I don't vote so I don't count. Those people in Salem decide whether I w ill be hungry and cold or not, and I've been cold and hungry a long tim e. But I am told I must respect the people who do this to me. I try to - I try very hard. Save our children HELP US SAVE OUR CHILDRENI The time has arrived again when the state government de cides about welfare, and if chil dren will be allowed enough money through the ADC pro gram to live with any degree of decency. The Governor has already de cided against the children by submitting only 80% of the low est living standard. Does your child deserve only 80% of life?? NOI Our children deserve 100% of lifel It is only because chil d r e n have no political power that they are given so little con sideration by those in govern ment that could do better by the children if they chose to| So in order to help the plight of the children, we are sponsor ing a children's lobby to Salem to present their case before all to see. The time will be an nounced later. We ask only that you be there to SAVE YOUR CHILDRENI Let's stop the wel fare cycle and give the children a chancel Transportation will be free. Just be prepared WITH YOUR CHILDREN TO GO when the time comes. Remember if you don't care, nobody w lll| But if you show YOUR concern SO WILL O T H - ERSI Firemen PCC offers civil service exam classes E xam s S et The Portland Civil Service B o a r d is currently recruiting able young men Interested in careers with the Portland Fire Bureau. F ire fighters start at $695 p e r month, with periodic in creases to $903 after five years. They work a shift of 24 hours on duty and 48 hours off duty, with 24 paid vacation days per year. Additional benefits in clude city paid family health in surance and a "top" retirement plan. All higher level positions are filled by promotional exam inations. Applicants must between the ages of 21 and 25 inclusive (21 and 30 for veterans), at least five feet seven Inches ta ll, phy sically and mentally fit, and have a high school education or equivalent. Orientation sessions dealing with the work of a fire flghtar and sessions on taking civil service examinations have been arranged for the later part of January. Applications and are being taken through January 29, 1971. For applications and informa tion about the orientation ses sions contact the Albina em ployment service centers. Four separate o n e - n i g h t classes, reviewing C ivil Service e x a m i n a t i o n procedures, de signed to assist persons who wish to take the Portland F ire Department examinations, w i l l be held by Portland Community College. The examination preparatory class w ill be held in the Cas cade C e n t e r Student Union Building, Room 310-A, on Jan uary 18 and 25, starting at 7 &O h y p.m . The Student Union building is at 5605 North Borthwick. Another class will be held at the Fire Department Training Center, 2915 S. E. 13th Place, on January 21, at 7 P.m. The same examination prepa ratory class w ill be offered on January 26 at 7 pun., meeting in Room A7-ST, M t. Sylvania campus, 12000 S.W. 49th Ave nue. I n t e r e s t e d persons should telephone the Portland Commu nity College Basic Education Department at 244-6111 for fur ther information. Cash and Maxey's Barber Shop 4603 N. William* Avenue Phone 284-5188 A generation ago only about half of each mature tree har vested found its way into wood products. TURKEYS A N D CHICKEN BARB-QUED TO ORDER F arm er’s p lea to N ix o n There is a sardonic twist to James Farm er's plea asking P r e s i d e n t Nixon to raise his voice in behalf of racial Justice. T h e nationally famous civil rights leader resigned his post as A s s is t a n t Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare precisely because his efforts to get the Administration to com mit Itself to an affirm ative dec laration on racial adjustment were embarrassingly fruitless. What makes him think that now that he is out of govern ment, M r. Nixon would be more amenable to his counsel than ever before. Though the resig n a t io n has heightened M r. Farm er's image as a civil rights advocate, his semi-apo logetic stance for the Adminis tration gives the impression that he is unable to cast off the Nixon hypnotic spell on him. Though he admitted his disap pointment over the Administra tion's failure to give financial support to minority-owned busi nesses, and expressed his anx ieties over the GOP campaign strategy in the off-year Con gressional elections, Farm er w as uncharacteristically re strained in voicing these stric tures. Farm er possesses one of the keenest minds on the American socio-political scene, yet in the i n t e r v i e w on CBS television's FACE THE NATION, he exhibit ed neither depth of perception nor critical introspection when he expressed doubt about M r. Nixon's decision to w rite off the black vote. For, there is ample and palpable evidence in support of that contention. The Adminis tration's refusal to take Farm er's advice and the manifest in difference to his departure from HEW are in themselves indel ible proofs of the contempt for the black electorate. THE RIB PIT “REAL EAR B QUE” ATTHE LOCAL teletype machine relaying informa tion to Guilds Lake yard. RIBS - BEEF - HOT LINKS - CHICKEN GL 4-6153 GENE A MARY YOUNG Farm er is a cautious and prudent man, but one who never bites his tongue when major in terests of the Negro race are at stake. We didn't expect him to come out blasting away at the Administration as others have done. What was expected of him was an unemotional, factual de lineation of the Administration's rationale on civil rights and the collateral issues that revolved around them. 10301 N E 10th St vaa> M llT V U * w*«M i M f l TO H f w tIO u O * PORTLAND CLEANING WORKS NORTH & N.E. PORTLAND ONE DAY SERVICE We Give KNIT BLOCKING OUR SPECIALTY We Give M IN O R REPAIRS—N O CHARGE PICK-UR & DELIVERY It is as plain as day that the Administration is pursuing a PART OF THE business is strategy designed to bag the relaying information over the Southern vote at whatever costs. direct communication system. The mathematics of this polar ization w ill in due tim e deter mine its wisdom and effective ness. The interlude, of course, has already deaccelerated the civil rights movement which three previous Administrations A new note of better days to had set to motion. It may also come was sounded when Gov- spell disaster for the Republi e l e c t John C. West of South can Party. Carolina named a black man as James Farm er could have assistant to the Governor tor served that notice to the GOP human resources. In that capac leadership in words that only he ity, James E. Clyburn w ill co could utter with relevant rheto ordinate programs in the area ric and reasonance. We are dis of human resources develop appointed but not disgusted. m e n t and handle liaison with agencies administering human resource programs. M r. West, a Democrat who defeated Representative Albert W. Watson, a conservative Re publican who believes in segre gation of the races, by 29,OCX) votes. Solid Negro support for M r. West provided the winning margin. He has pledged an adminis tration dedicated to "unity and reconciliation." Two days after PORTLAND/OBSERVER Jan. 21, 1971 his election, he announced plans to establish an official state human relations commission. The Northwest’s Best Weekly This was an objective on which A Black Owned Publication all the civil rights groups of South Carolina had established Published every Thursday by Exie Publishing Company, 2726 N.E. Union an urgent p rio rity . Ave., Portland, Oregon, 97212. This is the firs t tim e in mod Subscription rates: 60 cents per month by carrier, $5.00 per year; ern history that a major staff $6.00 per year by mail in Tri-County area; $6.25 per year by mail outside position in the Governor's office Tri-County area. Phone 2 S 2 -O 9 2 0 has been given to a black mafl. This is one more convincing ev ALFRED LEE HENDERSON, Publisher and Editor idence that consolidated black vote is prying open doors that were heretofore closed to Ne groes. o r iin «TAM B la ck v o te sh o w s fru it 282-8361 3968 N. William« O R C I STAM I “ You’ve Tried The Rest, N ow Try The Best’’ N. Alexander, Proprietor FIRE FIGHTERS WANTED Serve your community as a fire fighter with the City of Portland Fire Bureau. No prior experience necessary. Salary starts at $695 with periodic increases to $903 after five years. Many benefits in cluding “top” retirement plan, sick leave, and city paid family health insurance. Candidates must be a high school or GED graduate, age 21 through 25, (21 through 30 for veterans) and be at least 5’7” tall. For applications and information about orientation programs on fire fighting and taking civil service tests, contact the Albina employ ment service centers. Last day to file is January 29, 1971. I