PORTLAND/OBSERVER Thursday M ar. 18, 1971
NAACP note
Corine Winchester
them and c h a rg e d them to put
th®m to p u l
th e ir s o u I s into
to “ M
M aklngevery
aklngevery
citizen of Portland a mem her of
the NAACP.
Key l e a d e r s h i p among the
Clergy, labor, business, p r o
fessions, radio and T .V .C Iubs&
Organizations are striving to help
the BRANCH reach at goals. The
tfc r tn e
1971 drive is
Is geared to a goal of
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m
aking e every
v e r v r citizen
ir < 7 » n a
a member
making
but 1 know the membership chair
man would be happy to least
10,000 new members. Ihe NAACP
HAS BEEN CHAMPION FOR THE
PEOPLE many a year. There is
a new thrust a foot to give It “ New
soul,” by adding members.
W in c h e s te r
OFF TO A G(XJO START —
Ihe membership campaign that
is being launched by the NAACP
w ill have plenty of soul. If le ft to
James Lee -Co-Chairm an and to
E llis Casson, Presldend of tie
Portland Branch NAACP. They
have gathered workers around
Richard P arker, Sec’ y of the NAACP with the Treasu re r
Betty White.
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L a r g e crowds have been In
evidence at the Capitol this week
as public hearings were held on
several»! l i t e r b ills . HB 1036
would require a
deposit on
a 1 1 beverage containers, and a
somewhat related b ill, HB 1039
also had a hearing t h Is week on
the proposal to impose a 5 f t a x
tainers In an attempt to encourage
manufactures a n d shippers to
use returnable cartons. It is
apparent from the Interest these
measures h a v e generated that
there a r e many people who a re
seriously concerned about our
Jitter problems and are w illin g to
become involved in seeking solu
tions.
In other legislation dealing with
litte r problems, it was with mixed
emotions that I voted fo rH o u s e
B ills 1037 and 1038, which provide
penalties fo r the dumping of gar
bage or trash on private property,
public roads, o r near the ocean or
s t a t e waters. I find it hard to
understand why our citizens in
sist upon despoiling our publi
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and private property, b u t it has
apparently become necessary to
impose harsh penalties in order
to get some of o u r people to
change their habits.
The report of the House Task
Force on W elfare, which came
out last week, is s till being wide
ly discussed and analyzed, and
s o m e of the recommendations
made in the report are worth of
further discussion. A prim ary
recommendation of the r e p o r t
was the n e e d to intensify job
training programs as a m e a n s
of helping people to get of Welfare
ro lls . Other suggestions w e r e
to encourage fam ily planning, and
to give p r o p e r t y tax re lie f
to persons over 65 years of age.
It was n o t e d in the report that
many of our elderly people are
being f o r c ed by high property
taxes to go onto welfare or into
nursing homes.
In reviewing the Welfare Task
Force r e p o r t , one wonders if
firm e r steps and direction on the
part of the Oregon administration
m ight have prevented some of the
problems we now face. There
must surely be a way todecrease
the fantastic growth of welfare in
Oregon from the 39% increase in
welfare cost experienced just
d u r i n g the past year, and we
should concern ourselves with the
sudden jump in caseloads to see if
there aren’ t s t e p s to be taken
which would slow d o w n this
increase.
During the past few eeeks every
le g is la tiv e
activity has
been directed toward the g o a l
of having all legislation submitted
which is to be considered during
this session of the Legislature.
We have n o w reached that goal,
with a record number of nearly
2,000 b i l l s introduced to date,
which is more pieces of Legisla
tion than has been considered in
any p r e v i o u s Legislature in
Oregon's history. It w ill require
all of our talents, energy and de
dication to complete our task dur
ing the session, but the attitude
seems to exist that we’ re ready
and eager to meet the challenge.
PCC dope
problem
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Helps build
strong bodies
12 ways
A series of a rticle s on the
dangers of the currentdrug scene
w r i t t e n fo r the Portland Com
munity College student news -
paper THE BRIDGE, is b e in g
reprinted in a number of other
community college newspapers
throughout Oregon.
The a rticles are written by
1’CC students who have exper
ienced what it is like to become
a drug addict; some are s till un
der treatment and in the process
of withdrawal from a d d ic t io n
undergoing rehabilitation and in
preparation
fo r employment.
Each report is re a listic and
sometimes very graphic in its
relation of circumstance, situa
tion, and reaction. An editorial
in the Blue Mountain Community
College student newspaper THE
SPOKESMAN says that “ they
express the dangers of the drug
scene in a more graphic and poig
nant manner than medical or le
gal machinery’ could ever do. Per
vading these a rticle s. . . is
a
sense of reality - they are cred
ible because the situations re
lated are actual experiences - -
not just hazy p o ssibilitie s.”
Student editors of THE BRIDGE
pointed out that the a rticle s are
the fir s t m aterial to be w idely-
used throughout the community
college system student newspap-
college system student news
papers, in a new e ffo rt among
student editors to exchange news
and other m aterials “ thought to
be important for all students in
the system.”
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