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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1971)
/À / j f 'f » ü te l*SU Educational Center press ignored Bayh Pushes Issue O f Women's Rights PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY U C A T IO N A L n - Sen Birch Bayh, who may be turning women's liberation into a presidential platform plank, has moved to a new forum to plead for equality of women The Supreme Court The Indiana Democrat, an un announced presidential aspirant, was to file a brief in the court today in the new role of attorney for the National Federation of Business and Professional Wom en’s Clubs CENTER W ß r by G.O.P Over 400 executivi porters from the ne of Oregon ami the states attended a ne log with PresaJent N urday. The black p not invited. The ne' ing was arranged b' Republican leaders, they were sorry t overlooked Portland1 newspapers when th. tions were sent. nas such a bad image In the bla< k community because of its ‘ "benign neglect’ 1 policy, that one would think that t. ey would have made an ef fort to reach the m inority communities of Oregon. President RichardM . Nixon was met at the Benson Hotel by a group of protesters, who were kept behind police bar rie rs. Among chem was a i us lents a ixl earned the Education Aasocia- 1970 A w a rd fo t U u t it Achievement in Ed- cental la a full-llodged i of Portland state and » of only three such i centoi s of ui tain co l- in the United States. The tlier two are located tn Philadelphia and New York. D ire cto r Harold W illiam s say» the purpose of thecentei is to upgrade basic skills and develop submerged talent among its enrollees, many of whom Iv a r scars from pre vious educational experi ences. The center ojierates at three educational levels. Tu toring fo r grade schoolers with specific classroom prob lems Is provided. Thia program Involves the child, parents and tutors. Jt Is not a substitute lot regular ele mentary school attendance. One of the most popular programs is tii Jenera) Ed ucational Deve.jpipent or G E D program. An Indivi dual plan of ackJy is pro vided each candid Re fora high school diploma and when the staff feels he ready, the student Is testeo an the P S U main campus fo r his (TP.n ce rtifica te . (continued pag- 3 - col 31 Portland, O r .. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Th Housing discrimination Sidney Wli-ks ki mates of the Trallbgei basketball team havw - d ifficu lt to rent ajiatf Portland hecausey^ * d isci Im ination. / found that a p a ry able over tlie t / terlously h a y when tliey „7 I h is is n ,Z ( ic g o n ia n y d is c i in. i n / i am pant / la y s , l i l y a re a s i / le a l c s / of cthl<f H oard / n e ve i / m u i> f houl I Ol i l l i act-/ d lv 1.1 deal KRTY’s Business in the llnatlon tn the sale and of property became II- I more subtle forms of lei e in order. It became | v to say the home was | i sold or to use some It’ll ifuge. A few years k a black social worker Bl a homeneai Heavei - ■'bite real estate agent B il«.' house was fir e d . te P ortlaixlers dis- knowledge of this llch Is an everyday fo blacks. It takes r that accompanies [ of racism toward I public fig u re to I d l e a tte n tio n . Yet ■«practice ish id - ■1)11c vie w aixl lg- lotherwl.se "c o n - Is n s ” , it w ill con i ' is h . The w h ite r tlie e co n om ic I access to public I to e lim in a te It. ■there has been lenient in oppor- Irclia se property, Ip e rty to blacks is lire areevpim iiart- 'tngs in tlie Albina have never had a drratton, lip told students ai ^Kansas state College, "The American people an- already la i down tlie road to a govern ment ol executive supremacy aixl secrecy.” Morse charged that there hss been a breadkdown In the American Constitutional sys tem of checks and balances, "Congress hasjierm lttei(ires- klents to usurpexecutlve pow e r by impounding budgeted I....i t . . . . . . ■ Black The brief asks the court to rule, in two pending test cases, that state laws which treat wom ÏÏtfjk Î ■ en differently from men are un constitutional. One of Congress’ mam spon . 1 k « sors of the proposal to add an “ Equal Rights Amendment" to the US. Constitution, Bayh Instead of analyzing what is argued that the existing lan guage of the Constitution gives merely “ reasonable" or "unrea 1 H I women protection against dis sonable," the court should sub 1 crimination ject them to the "very strictest Never before has the senator, who is a lawyer, served as an scrutiny," and strike down those B «adì attorney in a Supreme Court which do not satisfy a rigid de case With his move into the mand f i r equality, Bayh said court in behalf of a women's Bayh said various forms of rights cause, Bayh went further War protesters march as Pres idem Nixon meats with white press to establish his political pre sex discrimination — in educa tion, employment, business, gov eminence on :hat issue privileges Bayh and his staff chose a ernment-regulated symbolic date for the filing of and criminal law' enforcement the brief Today is the 5!st anni versary of the proclamation that the 19th Amendment, giving “ Government at all levels.” women the right to be vote, had become a part of the Constitu- Bayh said, "is implicated in sub jecting women to second-class treatment . . . That the majori i ne group he is representing ty of our population should be has about 180.000 members subjected to the indignities and Open to all working women, the limitations of second-class citi organization is composed of zenship is a fundamental affront members of some 3,800 local to personal human liberty.' clubs. Sen Bayh asked the court to accept the group as a “ friend of the court" while the justices weigh two test cases on women’s Caucus Established rights Also coinciding with the 51st anniversary of women's suf The Religious Society of Friends reminds the President of his Quaker pacifist heritage. One involves the right of wom frage. it was announced today en to serve, equally with men. that a Women’s Political Caucus as jurors in criminal cases The in the District is being estab issue was taken to the high court lished. by a Louisianna man. given a life The caucus's goal "is to influ prison term after being convict ence local and national political ed of rape lie charged bv a processes toward election of grand jury drawn trom a ust both men and we men who ex that included no women press sensitive and viable politi cal machinery needed to solve The other case involves the urgent problems" here A committee, sponsors said at right of women to serve as ad- ministiutors of estates or execu a District Building press confer tors of wills The issue was ence. is setting up a conference raised in the Supreme Court by here next month to get the cau cus organized an Idaho woman Mrs Barbara Bick said they In his brief. Bayh asked the expect "a tremendous outpour justices to reverse a doctrine established by a 1906 Supreme ing of women " for the Sept Court decision, which said sex 25-36 conference here Members discrimination was unconstitu are particularly interested in the tional only if It was "unreasona November election of new mem Many prominant Oregonians joined the bers to the D C. Board of Educa Lewis and Clark College instructor, w ble. tion. Green in the 1970 Democratic P rim ary. Sickle Cell Anemia Can m em lars of m inority races succeed in txisiness in this area? Portland’ s black business people tell their own story in an hour-long special busin ess in the black on KPTV’ s Columbia Cross roads” Sunday night, uctoher 3rd at 9;00 p m . There are some notable success stories, and some not so successful, but fo r the most part the picture is one of encoui aging growth and stability in the biack business community. C le a rly, it isn’ t easy. M rs. W illie Ranson, owner and operator of Woodlawn Cleaners keeps steadily pressing clothes as she tells of tie txisiness she has bought and runs. V .F . Booker of Freedom Bank of Finance School Board sets Meeting Members of the Portland Hoard of Education hold their second regular business meeting of the 1971-72 school year Monday evening. C ollins View Elementary School, 9806 S. W, Boones F e rry Road, hosts tlie 7:30 p jn . public meeting—the firs t of eight regional board sessions to lie held at schools In the Portland d is tric t during tlie current academic year. Superintendent Robert W. Blanchard tops the agenda with a report on his recent appear ance before the U„S. Senate d rive rs who wanted to own th e ir own company, and do. Other business owners and managers who te ll the story in th e ir own words, on the Job, are M rs . Vivian Barnett, Barnett Real Estate; B ill Ben ton, J r , Neighborhood B ill’ s Sausage, L td .; Sam Johnson, High Park Enterprises; M rs. T e rri W ickliff, AccuracyPlus Answering Serv ice; T im Cuff, T im ’ s Auto Polish; Je ff and E lla Powell, the Managers Restaurant; Richard Washing ton, Washington Sign Com pany; A lfred Lee Henderson, Portland Observer; and Jim G riffin of Media. Court Injunction The C irc u it Court in P o rt- land lias filed a temporary in junction prohibiting the Oregon State Public Welfare Division from cutting off aid to child ren of fam ilies with stepfa thers. A regulation passed by the Welfare Division in August terminated aid to children with stepfathers unless the stepfa ther was unemployed or Inca pacitated. Previously low -in come stepfathers could re ceive financial aid fo r their step-children. A tty. Stanley A.S ltnlck, who filed the suit for tlie Multno mah County Legal A Id Service, alleged that the fam ilies need financial assistance " t o pro vide their minor children with the basic necessities of life .” He said tlie new ruling w ill dis courage the cliancas of m ar riage fo r mothers who have several children since the new husband w ill have d ifficu lty In supporting them. A hearing w ill be held later to determine whether thecourt w ill make the injunction per manent. Sickle Cell anemia was dis covered 60 years age and although it occurs more fre quently in the United States than any other he red itary r fc & I 1 Hy Dick Bogle A unique ed' itlonal ex perience hegan its thin) ye it Monday when class«» s u ite d st Portland State I n lve rslty’ s Educational Center at 2611 Nortlieast Union. Dui mg Its fu s t two years tlw centei has seived over F » 'I 1 I»’ Il disease, very little research has been done. Sickle cell anemia is a disease of the blood that is peculiar to black people. A l though the disease is found in an estimated one of 400 black babies and these children survive an average of twenty years, physicians and re searchers in tlie white medi cal establishment have v irtu ally Ignored it. Although blacks make up over 10$ of the population of the U. S, and the disease is prevelant among us, tlie gov ernment has not seen f it to finance research. D r. Roland 1 ete I'unno arxi Bob Smith B. Scott, a black physician concerned citizens protesting working on sickle cell fo r the group from the Religious So past twenty years and now ciety of Friends who were chairman of the Department of there to remind the President Pediatrics and D ire c to r of the that he had disavowed his Sickle C ell Center at Howard Quaker heritage. "W e utterly U niversity, has never receiv ed a cent of federal money. deny all wars and s trife , and In 1968 the National Institute fightings with outward weap- of Health gave 65 grants fo r research In cystic fibrosis which is found in only one In 3,000 births (98% white) and 41 grants fo r pheny Ike tune ria which attacks one in 10,000 (nearly all white). Yet there were fewer than two dozen N .l.H . grants for research on sickle ce ll. Portland Comn The disease Is manifested lege. Cascade, wi by sickle shaped red blood classes fa ll term , cells that, because of their months of e.xtensiv shape, cannot perform th e ir •<nd remodeling, normal function of transport nard Garni ire , Ca ing oxygen and Is hereditary m in is tra to r, estin Adding to the severity of the 3,000 students prohlem, along with lack of classes in the form. research on prevention and located , treatment. Is the fact that College ' K ill ingsworth. seve little information is provided mem hers and 26 su the black community. P roper 1 sonnel w ill staff the testing and genetic counsel satell ite center, ing could make great strides 1 toward elimination of this fatal (continued pace 1 disease. watt for N i x . a rt the war, the econon.i. ons, for any end, or any pre tence whatever; this Is our testimony to the whole w . rid ... Therefoie we cannot learn war any m ore." (1660) They were joined by an es timated 500 marchers who tne Henson Hotel along with 1 ether anti-people programs walked from the Park Blocks to the hotel and gathered across tlie street, behind barricades. Protesters stood in the rain, carrying black flags, the United Nations flag (continued page 3 col 4) PCC Opens Satellite Center Science laboratory equipment is being set up in Cascade Hall which will also house administrative offices. The equip ment was used previously when PCC occupied Shattuck Hall near Portland State University.
