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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1971)
C r e d it u n io n NAACP 14th Annual Credit P ortland / observer President Jam es Lee and M rs. Gertrude Crowe, V ice- President of the N A A C P Credit Union program got on the way last Friday night Feb. 13th with a m usical selection "My way” rendered by Rev. and M rs. Richard Parker. i8 ,i9 7 i Th« Northwest’s Best Weekly A Black Owned Publication E llis A v i1“p ei r ve7 n huredan ^ y Exie Pub,ishin« Company, 2726 N.E. Union Ave., Portland, Oregon, 97212. Subscription rates: 60 cents per month by carrier, $6.00 per year; $6.00 per year by mail in Tri-County area; $6.26 per year by mail ¿utside Tri-County area. Phone 2 8 2 - 0 9 2 0 National Administration anti-black Constitution, as I do - A judge wno wui not us the power or the court to seek social change by freely interpreting the law or Constitutional c la u se s.” This is the Administration's expi’e s s - ed opposition to the Equal Pro tection clau ses of the HthAmend ment. The effect of this has been ex actly what was predicted. It has given encouragement to the Southern ra cists whose full page advertisem ents have e x p o s e d - their radical retreat to the cal endar level of the 1870’s, such as produced by Senator Stennis of M ississip p i and G o v e r n o r Mekeithan of Louisiana, to say nothing of the melodramatic pose of Florida’s Governor Kirk in defying the Federal Court’s or ders to desegregate the public schools of the Everglades state. Before us today, in the solut ion of the problem of a single so ciety are the issu es arising from what seem s to many, the futility of our effort toward integration . There is a tremendous white blacklash as we have forged a difficult path thru the m etallic barriers in housing, employment and P olitic A sm all butvocifer ous nttmbçr of N egroes has ef fected the black retreat as in dicated in the black c o l l e g e students* demands for separate dorm itories, separate cafeterias separate curricula and sepa rate facilities. Incidentally, we should sympathize — even as we disagree - with young black youth whose bitter and bloody experiences on white college campuses have driven them to "the black retreat." The -white hlacklash on the one hand and the black retreat on the othee hand have combined to accentuate the racial polarity of which the Kerner Com m ission warned. At this juncture in our national life, we recalling Abraham Lin coln’s declaration that "this nation cannot endure half free and half sla v e ,” emphatically paraphrase M r. Lincoln and declare "this country cannot endure, half white and half black. If American dem ocracy is to survive, we shall be one society, as the Declaration of I n d e p e n d e n c e visioned and the Constitution declares I Ours is a national problem affecting all Am ericans and no matter where we live, the prob- lem of one society is before us. For instance, it is easy for Northern Negroes to forget the South because local needs are urgent and desperate but they do so at their own p eril. Fifty two per cent of black Am eri cans still live in the S o u t h , m ostly in c itie s , where the housing, crim e, discrim ination poor education are the 3ame as the North’s . In addition,they have the Southern segregation traditions, white supremacy ide ology and wanton rqurderousness. TURKEYS A N D C H IC KEN BAR-B-QUED TO ORDER THE RIB PIT 'REAL BAR B QUE” RIBS - BEEF - H O T LINKS - GL 4-6153 GENE A MARY YOUNG CH IC KEN 10301 N.E. 106, S». (M l XT TO N fW llQ U O S S T O « | M U fV U f. WASH president Barber Shop 4603 N. Williams Avenue Phone 264-51 i t of Portland N A A C P Branch was the speaker. T h e theme was "L et’s Get it off the Ground ALFRED LEE HENDERSON, Publisher and Editor Two years ago, fo rm e r Attorney General R am sey Clark, speaking for the Kerner com m ission called for "the reaffirmation of our faith in one society" and the comm ission itself sounded a warn ing that the nation is moving in the direction of two societies one black, one white — separate and unequal. Today, the signs are even more ominous. On every hand, the commentators and the politicians — the faint hearted liberals and the .tragi cally misguided black sepa ratists, are announcing the end of integration, especially in the schools. For the frist time since Woodrow Wilson, we have a. National Administration that can be rightly characterized as anti- • Negro. This is the first time since 1920 that the National Administration has made it a matter of calculated policy to work against the needs and aspirations of the largest minority of its citizen s. Here are a few instances sup porting our contention of the Ad m inistration’s anti-Negro policy: 1. Signing of defense contract with textile companies long in violation of contract require - ments versus our recommen dations that these contracts be cancelled. 2. The pull-back on school desegregation. The Administ ration went into court to secure delays in already ordered de segregation. Thank God, t h e Supreme Court struck down these attem pts. 3. The nominations of C le ment Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carsw ell to the United States Supreme Court (which nomi nations were defeated by the leadership of the NAACP, alond with other organizations, in cluding the leadership Confer ence on Civil Rights, of which Roy Wilkins is Chairman and in which fight our C l a r e n c e M itchell demonstrated his superb sk ills on Capitol Hill as truly , the one hundred first senator!) 4. The Administration a t Washington weakened ohr-hard won Voting Rights Act in the House. 5 . The Administration opposed the cease and d esist order powe? of the Equal Employment Opport unities Com m ission. 6. The Administration sup ported the Senate Amendment of the School Appropriation B ill. 7 . The Administration pro duced the Moynihan Memorandum calling for "benign neglect.” 8 . The Administration sup ports Ux exemption for white, separate private schools, des igned to avert desegregation of the public schools. 9. On April 9th, after the re jection of his nominee. Judge C arsw ell, for the Supreme Court the President described the ideal judge as "som eone who believes in the strict construction of the Casson Cash and Maxey's gather. Inspiring comments came from C13. Vann, R o o s e v e l t R ogers, Otto Rutherford, Harry Ward, M rs. Minnie Harris and M rs. A lice Butler. PAUL JANITORIAL SERVICE M r. Casson noticed that one word was m issed— "Together"without the Credit uion there would be no NAACP and without the NAACP there would be no Credit Union, "M r. Casson said. "Allow me to parphase the theme and say,"Let Get It Off The Ground Together” Casson said, "We need to build for tommorrow so we can quit going to other loan com panies. Build something that we can be proud of and I think this is what the NAACP Federal CreditUnlon is all about.” a CasSon continued to str e ss the fact that of "Togetherness in order to accom plish our goal in 1971 it will take cooperation, preparation and then inspiration It cost our fore parents some thing to be somebody.” In closing minutes of Csson address he said, "If we are will ing to borrow, we ought to be willing to give. It’s a two way street. It can and m ust be done but we must do it to- F L O O R C L E A N IN G ft J A N IT O R S E R V IC E IN S U R E D A N D E O N O E D 8 2 3 2 N . K. I 3 th A V E N U E PORTLAND, OREGON 2 8 2 -0 4 0 8 Now! PCC graduate receive awards Get dial-it-yourself discounts on most out-of-state calls. M iss Lynda B ell,P o rt land Community C ollege graduate in medical record technology, who received the highest score in the nation on the national accred iting examination, will be honored at the annual meetlnf of the Ore gon Medical Record A ssociation. She received 145 out of a possible 150 on what is known as "a very tough accreditation examine— tion.” The OMRA meeting will take place Feb. 19 and 20 at the Port land Hilton Hotel: m ore that 150 Registered Record L ibrarians- and Accredited Record Techni cian s, and other record person— nel, are expected to attend. Speakers for the session will jpclude Eugene C. Thomas, Legal Counsel. Idaho Hospital A sso ciation: John Beatty, Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge; D r. Dominic A. LaRusso, University of Oregon; and M rs. Kathleen W aters, RRL, D irector, School for Medical Record Librarians, Providence Hospital, Seattle, Washington. M rs. Virginia Pettengill, Med ical Record Librarian at the Lebanon Community Hospital, is president of the A ssociation, pre siding over the se ssio n s. Rates shown are for maximum 1 and 3 minute o ut-o f state station caffs you dial yourself to anywhere m the U S except Alaska and Hawan-tax not included And it’» easy to d ia l-it-yo u rs elf: Just d ia l ” 1” , the o u t-o f-state A rea C o de, and then the phone num ber. Pacific Northwest Beil LEADERS IN THE FIELD M rs. Karen Creason, RRL, Chief Medical Record Librarian at the University of Oregon Med ical School Hospotals, will lie in stalled as president at a banquet Friday evening. M iss Bell is now serving as an Accredited Record Technician at Salem M emorial H ospital. She is a graduate of PCC’s Medical Re cord Technology program for which M iss BEVERLY HOOTEN is coordinator. Em anuel hospital honors M iss Constance C .F ish e r , now D irector of Community Relation Emanuel Hospital, Portland, will be one of more than a dozen per sons prominent in Minnesota history to be honored during National Afro-Am erican Achie vement Week beginning FE B. 13. M iss F ish er is a form er St. Paul, Minnesota, welfare work er; since coming to Oregon she has earned additional recog nition, including selection as the "Social Worker of theYear for 1969. she joined the Emanuel Administrative staff shortly after her retirem ent as medical so cial worker for the Maternal and Infant Care project sponsored by the Oregon State Board of Heal th at Emanuel Hospital. KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN KENTUCKY BEEF SANDWICHES H. SALT ESQ. FISH & CHIPS Perfect for parties, picnics, lunch or dinner D it A L L OWNED AND MANAGED BY 31 LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU Sae Yallow Page, r
