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Portland / Observer Thursday April 29,1971
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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)