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Bayh Pushes Issue
O f Women's Rights
PORTLAND
STATE UNIVERSITY
U C A T IO N A L
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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 .
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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. /
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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
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en differently from men are un
constitutional.
One of Congress’ mam spon
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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
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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
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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
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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.