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l.ihrary °$&r. \<.«7■> Mat, l/n iv, r ,itv •I ok Multnomah County Legal Aid Society hires Black P O R T LA N D Volume I No. 55 P ortia,«I, ( n egon IH I^ O M U N t W l » * » t i IN 0 USURPER * n - to *, « X o » »» o » » iu n iiv im m ot — — o — — r ’ *»« vrsi » » im riu it* i » T H l_ W H O tj W jQt W O U D THAI »IAL1V ( A » H A >00, . A W O W |1 > I> I< * ' 1 O « ,. k . . 2 0 1971 IO <»» ' Cop, Demo. Central Comm.[ M o th e rs passes resolutions B ill McCoy,Chairman of the Multnomah County Democrat ic C em talC om m I t te e . An nounced the passage of two Im portant resolutions by ths Committee at Ita October meeting. Important party function» coming up Include: November 5 - Reception fo r Senator Eu gene McCarthy, Shiraton Ho tel - 7 p.m ami November 12- East County D sm o cia ticF o - rum Dinner - Senator Wayne Moi se - speaker. RESOLUTION NO. 1 Resolved Charles Evers " I don’t trust FBI.’ Charles Evers says The U. S. Department of Justice doe» not provide enough Justice fu r black c iti zen», C h » rle s L v ;rs ,M tyo ro f Fayetteville, Mia»., nr»I black candidate fo r governor of the D ixie state, dsclared to re Sunday. Speaking on the television a llo w , Washington New» Con ference, Evers aakl the Jus tice Department does not have enough black officials to aid m inority votera adequately and " I don’ t think J. Edgar Hoover cares anything about black people... I hat’ s Just th; way to la.” Declarng " I don’ t trust tto FBI, (Federal Bureau of In vestigation), Evers refei red to Hoover’ s remarks calling ths late D r. .M in in Luther King J r. a ’ notorious liar*and his ow i experiences with tbs pa. The FBI once told him ttoy knew who was trying to as sassinate him in Natchez, M iss., to t aakl tto y could not do any tiling until a fte rw ird . E v e n recalled. " A to when my brother, M togsr, was murdered In M ississippi, FBI agents Came to ask me if I had anything to do w.th it. So, you kn >w I don't care anything fo r them,” to added. Evers sasl changes had tak en place In M ississippi since his brother’ s death, " t o t we have to keep on working and we're going towln tills gover nor’ s ra ce ." The firs t black mayor of an Integrated city In the state and gubernatorial catoklate said he was nut Invited to the re cent masting of political lead- eta in Chicago. "T hey left me out of that, I'm Just a poor country boy from M ississip p i,’ ’ to told ns w amen. Jones named director Chalmers Juntos was ap pointed by Governor I urn Mc Call to toad state programs - the state Economic ( >p,X)i tu rn ty t iff ice and l l u Governor’ s Manpower Planning Council. It o S2ÎAJA). p r o v id e s assistance to tto 13 o ffic e of Economic Oppo,tunlty futoed programs In tto state, a sum of about $22 m illio n . The 31 m onitor manpxnvai Planning Committee has been reorganized to provkle advice to tto governoi In planning ways to u tlll/e manpowei ser vices In tto state. that tto Multnomah County Democratic Central Commit tee go on record condemning President Nixon’ s wage-price freeze as groaslydlsci Imlna- tory against wage e irn e rs , a bonanza foi BIG BUSINESS with Its exemption on profits, dividends and bank moi tgago Interest, and new tax breaks— a policy which Ignores the i eal causes of the cur i ent inflation, sach as tto Vietnam War, th; $8J billion war bulge! and manipulated prices sat by huge corporations In tto b is lc In lu strie s, and That theM ult- nomah County Demjc ratio Committee also condemns Nixon’ s announced intent to suspend the right to strike. R liS D LIT lD N Nt). 2 The ex pedition of Lewis a n d C la ik has different meanings for Oregon C itizens. F o r some It la a nostalgia for tto past, the last fro n tie r. F o r others It is a wealtli of knowledge about n itlve American cultures, and the flora and fauna of tto West In tto early 19thCentury. For sjn n Oregonians tto exped ition signifies tto loginning of tto end of our Indian cultures. Whstevei tto special signi ficance each of us Bnds in th ; Lewis and C lark expedition - we agree that the fam.; of the expedition should not ho m is used. We are Insulted ami angeied that two teams of tto Arm y S|>eclal F o ire s (Green Berets) for m il Ita ly promotional pur poses nave ch isen to retrace the Lewis ami C lark T ra il. W e n e ltto i want tto saga of tlx; Lewis and C lark expedition despoiled nor our tax dollars used to sell tto Pentagon and m il ita i lam. We request that this m il itary operation to terminated ami If not terminated request that the portion of th ; Lewis ami C lark tra il travel sing Multnomah County to exclud ed. Since September 1, 1971 Jones baa Ixsen assistant for special programs to State Hu man Resources D ire cto r Ja CHALMERS JONES cob Ianzer. He la responsi ble fo r Co-ordinating.SJi.o.t). ami the Albina M ulti-Service tto Manpower Planning Coun with seven social service d l- c il, tto progi am t for tto aging veisluns In tbs department The Secretary of tto M ilt - nomah County Democratic Central Cumin ttee Is directed to Inform the Secretary of De fense Mstvln Laird of the pas sage of thia resolution re questing he Inform us of his uitemled action. Renner new supervisor George Renner, 46, has toon designateli new supervisor of tto Division of Audits follow ing tto retirem ent next A p ril of tto present supervisor, Doug | leCew. Renner has toon with tto D ivision of Audits since 1953 ami was promoted toAsslstant Audit Supervisor In 1966. He tos toen responsible to r audits of tto Department of Illg to r Education, State High way Division, Department of Revenue, Motor Veli Idas Div ision, Department of General Services, Public W elfareD Iv- lslon and State Accident Insur ance Fund, as well as various municipal audits. Renner attended schools In M t. Angel and Salem, and earned a B.A. InBuslnessAd- m In 1st rat Ion from Willamette U niversity In 1953. Betook post-graduate work at tto U n - iv i-is ity oi Portland, ami re ceived his CPA certificate In i960. A U.S. Navy Seahee during World War II, Renner saw ser vice In Newfoundland, Saipan and Okinawa. He was honor ably discharged In 1946. He and his wife Delores at tend St. Vincent de P aulC atli- ollc Church In Salem, where lie is a member of tto Finance Committee of tto Parish Council ami past chairman of St. Vincent’ s school hoard. The Renners have three children ami reside at 2487 Maple Avenue, Salem. B lack h e a r t p la n want YOU as a sa v e r ßenj. © Pninklin Robert H Hazen. Pres • 15 Offices • Phone 224-3333 Home Ollien Franklin Bldg , Portland, Ore 9/204 attorney Bryant H arris, a black male nursing student at tto Univer sity of Oregon School of Cursing would like to assist any black students, male or female, who are Interested in earning a Bachelor of Science Degree In Nursing. High School or college students can contact him at "B lack Heart Plan” , 9795 S. W. H all, Box 107, Portland, Oregon, 97223, P o rtla n d C of C sponsors scholarship It o V.A. McNeil Scholar ship grant, the only annual scholarship grant sponsored by the Portland Chamber of Commerce, w ill he awarded to a PCC student at a luncheon "Ctotoi .h, at I.' , , . Poitlam l Community College. The scholarship Is a tribute to V.A. McNeil, form er man ager of tto Convention Bureau of tto Portland Chamber of Commerce, ami w ill to award ed to a student demonstrating the promise of future profes sionalism and a ctivity In tto field of Hotel-Motel Manage ment. CHUCKLE PROBLEMS IN NEW MATH HACKENSACK (PSb)—Maybe it’ s tto new math? I t o sign on a local shoe store reads: " A ll shoes one-price. . . $3.33 ami $4.44.’ * R agsdale receives aw ard D r. Lee Ragsdale, head of the health and physical edu cation department at Poi tlaml State U niversity has received the highest honor awarded by tto Oregon Association fo r Health, Physical Education aixl Recreation. At OAPHER’ s 54th annual meeting e a rlie r this month. D r. Ragsdale was presented with an Honorary L ife Mem- te rsh ip Award fo r " h is ef forts to provide quality pro grams in Oregon’ s schools and communities, fo r tto totterm ent oi our society through better understanding ami tto fitness of its c iti zenry.” D r. Ragsdale served as president of OAPHER In 1957- 58. He also served as presi dent of tto Medford Education Association and on numerous committees fo r tto Oregon State Board of Education as well as tto Oregon Coaches Association. The organization recog nized one of D r. Ragsdale’ s greatest contributions In the area of program administra tion as the supervisor of health, physical education, athletics, safety and recrea tion fo r tto Medfonl Public Schools from 1952-66. D r. Ragsdale Joined the PSI faculty in September 1966. Sue Two welfare recip.ents from Lane County have filed suit in U.S. D is tric t Court, c longing that the State of Oregon uses im proper pro cedures In administering the Food Stamp program. Joil Southwell Senior Adult service I l i ; suit charges thatmeth- <xls of determining tto cost of food stamps to th ; recipients are unfair, illegal ami uncon stitutional. It chai ges that the state violates th e ir right to equal protection of tto 14th Anundm.;nt to the I . s. Con stitution. Both plaintiffs are mothers receiving Aid to Depemlent Children grants fo r their children. PCC students score V ictories John W rlgley, second-year student from Beaverton, won firs t place In oratry in tto 30-school forensic tourna ment held Saturday at Lewis and C lark College. He was tto only community college student to win a firs t place in tto tournament that drew nearly 300 college and uni versity student competitors from five states. Although there were several community colleges p a rtici pating, only PCC came away with victo rie s. In addition to W rlgley, Bruce Maland of Judy Tyler by Rosemary Simington Judy T yle r is a young, at tractive, black female attor ney who is presently employed at tto North Portland Legal Aid Office. M rs. T y le r is fromChicago where there are approximate ly 20 to 25 black female at torney’ s. While in Chicago, M rs. T yle r was a member of the Cook County Bar Associa tion, which is comprised of black attorney’ s only. She has also practiced In Gary, Indiana M rs. T yle r and to r 2 year old daughter, Donna, have been in Oregon since June, 1971, although the firs t two months were spent In Salem, where she was studying fo r the Oregon B ar Examination. When asked what brought t o r to the West Coast, M rs. Tyler stated that she wanted a change from tto b ig e ity life . department telephones about 200 shut-ins daily to make certain tto y are all right. The center employes 41 persons, a ll but three are Senior C itizens. Theprogram provides part time employ- m ;nt as well as an opportun ity to get out and be with other people. Of the 47 persons hired by the center, only five hav resigned, and one of these have resigned - and one of these, a 70 year old woman, went on to a better job. The center also provides a place fo r older persons to gather to talk o r play games. Space is provided fo r those who do not have a place to meet their friends. The staff and regular users are plan ning such activités as a quilting bee. M r. Southwell Invites all Senior Citizens of the area to drop in and get aquainted with the services the center has to offer. The center is located at 3904 N E Union at Failing. THE PORTLAND OBSERV ER WOULD LIKE TO SAY RIGHT ON TO MRS. TYLER BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT SHE’S A W INNERIIIIIII1II!III! Lake Oswego won 9econd place In debate. O reg o n Trade Mission Governor Tom McCall today announced a s ix -c ity , 18-day trade mission to the F a r East fo r 1972. “ We feel this Journey should concentrate on Oregon agri cultural products,” McCall said. “ P re lim .n a ry market ing research Indicates that it is in the area of bulk, fresh, and processed foodstu'fs that Oregon has tto best opportun ities fo r rapid and dramatic sales increases abroad.* Advance planners for the January 30 through February 17 tr ip have chosen countries according to food d e ficit posi tion, rapidly rising personal incomes, relatively strong holdings of gold o r hard cur rency reserves, and existing or planned U.S. Government grain shipment patterns. C itie s to to visited are Tokyo and Sapporo, Japan, Seixil, South Korea: Taipei, Taiwan; Hongkong; and Sing apore. Sistei City and State relation ships -M cC a ll with o tto rO re - gon government and civic leaders have been invited to Join tto opening ceremonies in Sapporo fortheFebruary3-13 W inter Olympics. Oregon governmental anal ysts have researched tto po tential fo r new Oregon M ar kets going to these ports of entry and have determined tto earliest possible 1972 date as the most productive time fo r tto journey. Twenty-five or less people w ill be on tto tour, including leadership in Oregon wheat, onions, peas, le n tils, grass seed, apples, pears, beef, mint hops, frozen foods, pro cessed foods, p oultry, and possibly seafood. Banking and port representatives would complete tto group. Exact dates, itin e ra ry, and other details are w till tenta tive. Halloween train runs at Zoo The Portland ZooRailway’ s special Halloween train began Its spooky runs on October 22 at 6:00 pun. This Is the tenth year that gohbllns and ghosts have taken over the Zoo R ail way fo r the week before Hal loween. The train winds through three tunnels that are fille d with ho rro r during the 20 minute ride. Nearly fifty rubber, papier niache ami plastic cats, witches, mon sters ami ghosts, many of the.n animated, provkle scare en tertainment. I he tra in runs through October 31. The C hildren’ s Zoo w ill liave Halloween parties from 5 to 7:30 p .m .th ro u g h iicto to r 3lat. The l adybug I heater w ill offer 15—minute Halloween shows starting at 7:00 daily. Encouraged by some close friends to come to Oregon, «Mrs. T yle r consented arxi found Portland an ideal spot. As an attorney, to r main area of Interest is working with tto black youth, espe c ia lly in the school system. During the past few weeks M rs . T yle r has been visiting tto high schools and speaking with the students about tto laws governing them. .Mrs. T y le r stated that there is a great demand fo r black professionals and strongly en courages all young blacks to seek a profession or a spe cia lty. M r. Jo il Southwell, D ire ct o r of the Senior Adult Center, is pleased with the programs progress. The center serves Senior Citizens of the Model Neighborhood through four de partments: Outreach, Trans portation, Handyman & Tele phone Reassurance. The Outreach program pro vides v isito rs who go to tto home's of Senior Citizens on request to make friendly vis its, take the older adults on walks, do errands, w rite let ters, etc. Some persons are visited weekly and others less often. The Transportation depart ment served 483 persons in September, taking them to die doctor, tto hospital, shop ping, to the bank or on other errands. The Handyman department does minor household repairs such as changing light bulbs, small carpenter jobs, fixing leaky faucets, replacing brok en windows. T to Telephone Reassurance T axes M ary Nero, Supervisor of Outreach Services; Right—Pat Coch ran, Ass’ t. k e e p in g p o or People p o o r by Harold R. Sims NEW YORK. - It w ill pro bably come as a surprise to most people to learn that this nation takes money from poor people to subsidize rich peo ple. T to means used Is tto tax system. We’ re supposed to have a graduated income tax, chat is, people who make more pay more. But it works some what differently. While the official rates scaled to income are progres sive, at least in tto federal in come tax, affluent citizens have the use of a wide variety of looph es to lower their taxes, while poorerpeople pay fo r m .re of th e ir incomes A recent Census Bureau study showed that fam ilies and individuals with incomes of less than $2,000 a year paid fifty percent tn all form s of taxes. People making between $6,000 and $25,030 paid only th irty percent of th e ir In comes. The greatest disparity is in state a.id local taxes of various kinds, but the more affluent fa n ii’ tes paid onlytenperce.it. Some states don’ t even pro vid«; fo r graduated Income taxes, having constitutional provisions that force fla t pay ments not based on income;. Sales taxes hit the poor with L e ft-M rs . M arcia Taylor, Right- M iasW ilbia M e ye r,Secretar (cont. p. 5 cols. 4 - 5 ) Black Superstar (cent. p. 3 col. 2) Hosea Visits C hina Emanuel honors Juniors Pat ticip in ts at a recent reception honoi ing newly "capped" Junov Auxiliary volunteers .it Emanuel Hospital were Gloria Bradford (right), president of thejum oi A uxiliary, anddaughter of M r. and M rs. John B ra d fo rd ,546N.E.Stanton, and M iry Ann M .'Donald, .’ 107 N. Saratoga. C lona and M ir y Ann are two of nine "capped" Juniors who are assigned to supervisory duties over the some 90 Junior A uxiliary volunteers at Emanuel. Six g irls were capped at tto recent ceremony in Emanuel’ s chapel, an honor accoided only to g irls exhibiting superior qualities of leadei ship, competence ami dependability. Hosea W illiam s, national program d ire cto r of the South ern C hristian Leadership Conference, returned from a month long v is it to China and 17 days in South Vietnam. M r. W illiam s met Premier Chou E n -la l three times during his stay in the People’ s Repub lic of China. M r. W illiam s Investigated racial tension, drugs, hahies fathered by Americans, and AWOL soldiers. He said, "T h s reason these problems ate so pressing Is that there is such great tension now be tween ths South Vietnamese people and ths Amsrican sol d ie rs. Ths South Vietnamese are taking th e ir anger out now on the American u n ifo rm ." Singer is NAACP ’S honorary Chairman "N a tu ra lly, we were delighted when M iss Ross graciously ac cepted to take time away frum film lng'LadyS ings The Blues’ to serve as the Honorary Chairman of this year's Image Awards P rogram ,” Miss Hathaway said, adding: "A s you know, Diana won lastyear’ s'E n te rta in e ro f tto Year iw a rd ,’ and she is the only Black Superstar holding a life mem bership in our branch who consistently offers hei services above and beyond tto call of d u ty." T he NAACP’ s Image Awards are presented annually to mem- beta of the Motion Picture, Television and Recording Industries who have made outstanding contributions toward improving tto Images’ of m inorities in tto entertainment industry. The plush International Ballroom of tto Beverly Hilton, which seats sixteen hundred, w ill house this year’ s presentations.
