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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1971)
I Portland / Observer Thursday April 29,1971 mixtices lawless’ 10tf per copy Sickle-cell te s t re q u e s te d A black geneticist at Yale Un iv e rs ity has charged the na tions public health agencies with being "unconsciously d e re lict” fo r not requiring m arriage- bound blacks to have a special blood test detecting the inher ited sickle-cell tra it. Sickle- cell anemia affects one of every five black Americans, including such well-known figures as the Rev. Jesse Jackson. It is a frequently crippling and often fatal disease, and so fa r, there is no cure. M iss G radella P e rrl Johnson An atmosphere of jubalation fille d the halls of Grant and Jef ferson high schools as they an nounced th e ir Princesses for the Annual Rose Festival. Grant w ill be represented by M iss G rad ella P e rri Johnson G rade to het friends) daughter The Yale geneticist, U r. Richard A. Golds by, the author of Race and Races, says that the blood test would detect the sickling tra it, if both persons Involved carried the gene, they could be advised to adopt child ren, rather than take the chance of passing the tra it along.Conn. State Senator Joseph Lieberman la said to plan to Introduce a b ill making the sickle -ce ll test mandatory. If it passes,Conn ecticut would be the fir s t state with such regulations. A black ophthalmologist in New York says he has found that the sickling tra it, previously assumed to be innocuous unless it brought on the disease, rnay bring about serious eye dis orders , even when it itse lf was not the cause of the p io - blem. He hopes that nis work w ill lead to the establishment of an on-going eye clin ic to diagnose and treat such dis orders. of M r. & M rs.W h'teP.Johnson of 2823 N £ . 13th Ave. She is the youngest of four children. B o r n In San Francisco, February 21, 1954 17 year old G rade plans to attend Portland State. She hopes to have a career Continue page 9 column 1 F¥eo Fhinklin < «ems 14» A sapphire now sparkles in each of the pins worn by Emanuel Hospital Green Ladies who have volunteered more than 500 hours of service — among them, from left to right, M rs. Robt. Herren, 4127 S.W. 52nd A v e , M rs. Mabie Tim m ins, 2010 NJE. 19th Ave.; M rs . Guy Neal, 711 N. Columbia Blvd.; M rs. George O 'N e ill, 4430 N.E. 79th Ave.: M rs. Gail Linden, 9286 S.W. 2nd Ave.; M rs . A. Lewis Rutschow, 7105 N. McKenna Ave.; M rs . W alter Thompson, 7945 N. Dwight Street. Volunteers at Emanuel honored for services A doctor’ s report on a $7,800 g ift by Emanuel Hospital volun teers to the m aternity depart ment highlighted the annual vol unteer award presentation A p ril 16th. D r. C liffo rd F e a rlo fth e E m a n - ue I Medical Staff told voluntee rs - who had given $7,200 in gifts and 34,135 hours of service to the hospital during 1970 - that the expensive fetal m onitoring dev ice purchased this Spring was a tre mendous asset in protecting the baby during labor. The unit synchronizes the heartbeat of the baby with the mo Guy on news Gals to assist sport editor } Free gem or pearl gift for deposits of $50 to $7,000. or with a new home loan. Limit of one gift per person. s' m o r R o b e rt H H a /e n H o m e O f f ic e «« v in o * i io t a t i t N » i P re » fr a n k lin • 14 O ffic e » B ld g • P h o n e 2? 4 1 3 3 3 P o r t la n d . O r e g o n 9 7 2 0 4 Alexander said, "Government itse lf is not an equal opportunity em ployer," and he cited theU.S. Department of Defense as an example. In the "supergrade” category - those who make over $25,000 - he said the Depart ment of the A rm y has 362 em ployes, "and there isn’ t a single black among th e m ." Only three blacks, he said, are among the 1,093 "su p e rg ra d e " employees in the entire Department of Defense. The government also "m a in tains testing procedures that it outlaws in the private s e c to r," Alexander added, aserting that ‘what tests generally do is to work against m in o ritie s " and "screen out rather than bring in a p p licants/’ Alexander said the "sad fact is that, despite some mediocre and m inim al claim s made by Nixon and company, little or no thing has been done" to end ra cial discrim ination in employ ment. "E v e ry comment that I can think of has been negative, (cont. page 7 col. 3) PCC Aircraft students top In nation During many sports events, whether it is the Beavers, w restling matches, or hockey l\« j> OrcgVU S / h /I /;//>!£ Benj.(8) Franklin ther's labor pains and enables the doctor to determine if the baby is in danger. The doctor thanked "b e nevolent angels like you people" fo r the purchase of the machine fo r fetal monitoring, which w ill also be the subject of the two- day Swanman Lectures at Eman uel May 13 - 14. Key award presentation during the program was that of a pin guard signifying 10,000 hours of service to the hospital. It was presented to M rs . Mae Goodburn by Emanuel President Paul R. Hanson. The fo rm e r chairman of the federal Equal Employment Op portunity Commission (EEDC| in assessing the efforts of private corporations and the federal gov ernment to end job d iscrim ina tion, has accused both sectors of the economy of "being law less". C liffo rd L. Alexander J r , who resigned two years ago as head of EEijC because of what he called "a crippling lack of support" from the Nixon adm inistration, believes the adm inistration’ s performance has not improved since his departure, in spite of "predictions of good faith and good in te n t." Alexander, who was the fir s t blark man to head the EEOC and now is a Washington lawyer, gave his assessment of the current state of emp.oyment opportun ities fo r m inorities in an in te r view with the MBA , a slick - paper monthly magazine publish ed in New York and directed p ri m a rily to faculty and students in colleges of business adm inistra tion. "T h e laws, as made by the leg- are pretty clear ” , Alexander said. "T he Supreme C ouit de cisions . . . are pretty clean discrim ination is against the law, and equal opportunity is the law of the land. The execution, by either the government or the p ri vate sector, is fa r away from the law. In other words,they are being lawless. Tony MARSHALL or basketball with Portland T r a ilb la z e r s , q u ic k 1 y scribbles statistics continue on page 8 onto a Skilled, practically-experienced instructors at PortlandCommu- nity College’ s Aviation Center have proof positive of th e ir success with the announcement that PCC students led the en tire nation in results on stringent Federal Aviation Author ity ce rtification testing. The Center, at Portland International A irp o rt, has more than 200 day and evening students. Left to right, fir s t row: Harry Day, Ken Hext, Dale Dutcher, Bob Spielman, Dan Beltram i, Dick Spielman, Rocky Gynther. Sec ond row: Dick Foreman, Dick Enfield, cle rk, and Brad Freed. Not pictured is Chuck M cIntyre. See story page 6. (PCC pho to by Paul B lixt)
