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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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