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Portland/Observer
rhursday, Nov. 11, 1971
The Northwest’s Best Weekly
A Black Owned Publication
Published every Diursdaj bs Exis PubliUiing Company, 2
N. Killingsworth Portland, Oregon 97217.
Subscription rates: 4.) cents per month by carrier, $5. 00 per
year:$5.25 per year by m a il in Tri-C ounty area:$6.00 per
year elsewhere.
Phone 283-2486
ALFRED LEE HENDERSON, Publisher Editor
Verna L . Henderson
Asst. Publisher/Business manager
Helen Hendrix
Personnel and Production Manager
the Editor’s Desk
Vancouver Citizens
pace setters
With the city election in which two black
men were elected to city-wide positions,
those of city council and school board, the
people of the City of Vancouver have joined
those of other enlightened areas where men
are not judged on race alone. The people
of Vancouver, with an over 99% white
population , chose black men to represent
them in the important areas of city govern­
ment and the operation of their public
schools. The people of Vancouver are to
be complimented for their wisdom.
However, this is not a first for the State
of Washington. Art Fletcher served on the
Pasco city council and Washington has
already had a black in the legislature. Wash­
ington has traditionally been less conserva­
tive than Oregon and would be expected to
lead Oregon in this important area.
The time has now come for Oregonians to
take a look at the political advances of
our neighboring states of Washington and
California and to the advantages their elect­
ed black otiicals have brought to both black
and white citizens. Black officials such as
Senator Brooke and Rep. Ron Dellums have
contributed much to the progress of the
democratic ideals of this nation and their
application to all people. Not only blacks
have benefited by their service, but also
the young, the less fortunate whites, and
other groups that the fruits of democracy
do not always reach.
Police Corruption
The Knapp Commission which just finished hearings on police
corruption in New Y ork C ity found: ) v irtu a lly all contractors
putting up tuildings in NYC bribe the police and other agencies
to the tune of 5% of the building costs.
2) There is a pattern of organized corruption within the narco­
tics units of the Police Departments and the Federal Government.
3) Managers of major hotels stated they had provided meals and
rooms fo r police.
4) V irtu a lly every gambling enforcement unit receives regular
monthly bribes.
5) A large number of patrolmen receive regular bribes from
gamblers, truck operators and other businessmen.
6) Some narcotics police use their addict informers to steal
whiskey, cigarettes and other goods.
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Amchitka proves
Nixon’s greed
The administration has announced that the Amchitka atomic
test was a success. The U, S. w ill have a bigger and better
bomb. The test did not cause an earthquake; it dkl not cause
a tidal wave. Although it w ill not be known conclusively for
many months, it apparently did not release radiation or
atomic waste into the atmosphere.
The test did show conclusively that the Presxlent is so
intent on tuilding a larger war machine that he put this bomb
test above the safety of the peoples of the w orld. He placed
its importance above that of the respect of our allies and clos­
est friends - Canada, Japan, and Sweden - all of which pro­
tested the test. He placed it before the success of nuclear
arms control negotiations. He placed It above his new found
concern for the environment, a move that gives further evid­
ence to the idea that his talk about environment is a ploy to
cloud the serious Issues of racism , poverty and unemployment.
But most Important, the President placed his desire fo r
power above the desires of hie people. He has demonstrated
once again that the pleas,demands, petitions and demonstrations
of the people he was elected to represent w ill go unheeded.
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M O RTUARY
The American C ivil L ib e r-
I.’-s Bl I ( LCI I ) MM I
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asking a federal court to halt
unconstitutional
p o lit ic a l
surveillance and intimidation
of peaceful groups and indivi­
duals by F B ID ire cto i J .Edgar
Hoover, The suit also asks foi
the destruction of all FBI hies
on such groups and Individuals
including the F B I’ s "Sec­
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C. D o n V a n n
V A N N ’S
WASHINGTON
BRIEFS
Rep. Edith Green of Oregon, House leader in education
legislation, has again joined forces with the conservatives
to fight the face issue of "b u s in g ".
M rs . Green, saying,
"W e cannot go back 100 years to make up fo r the e rro rs of
our ancestors” , spoke fo r the members of the House of Rep­
resentatives who voted to re s tric t desegregation of the public
schools.
The House amendments to the education b ill say
that no federal desegregation order may be put into effect
until the U. S. Supreme C ourt has ruled on that case; a second
amendment prohibits the use of federal funds to finance the
busing of school children fo r the purpiose of racial desegrega­
tio n ; the third amendment forbids the federal government
from requiring schools to use state or local money fo r busing.
These amendments , if adopted by the Senate, w ill bring to an
end the progress in federally ordered school desegregation.
M rs . Green has long beer, opposed to busing, which would
make one assume that she isalsoopposed to school desegrega­
tion since housing patterns preclude desegregation without some
form of busing in most areas. She uses an example of her
form of busing in most areas. She uses as an example of her
concern a friend whose fam ily lived in suburban Washington,
D.C.
The residence was chosen largely because of the
excellent schools, but a busing program so inuixlated the school
with black children, that the friends were afraid to send their
children to school.
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Rev. George Brooks, past-president of the Maricopa County
N.AACP, said Rehnquist had gone to predominately black voting
places on election days and challenged the rights of blacks to
vote by demamling that they read and interpret sections of the
Constitution. He also opposed the Arizona c iv il rights b ill of
14o8. Rev. Brooks said Rehnquist had told him the b ill would
deny whites the right to discrim inate.
In September 1957, in a talk in Phoenix, Rehnquist called chief
Justice W arren and Justices Black and Douglas the "le ft-w in g "
of the Supreme Court. He emphasized that tie was not saying
they were sympathetic to communism, but added that Justice
Brennon sometimes joined these three” left-w ing philosophers"
ani that the four were "m aking the constitution say what they
wantai it to say. He has in effect ca lla ! Warren a political hack
ani poked fun at him fo r graduating near the bottom of his class
at Berkley.
In December, 1957, he wrote In Udì. News and World Report
that Supreme Court Justices were influenced by "unconscious
slanting of m aterials by their clerks. Some of the tenants of the
liberal point of view , . . Extreme solicitude fo r the claim s of
Communists ani other crim in a l defendants, expansion of federal
power at the expense of state power, great sympathy toward any
government regulation of business - in short, the political phil­
osophy now expounded by the court under Chief Justice Earl
W arren."
In 1969, in Newark, he called student rio te rs “ new bar­
barians” . "These new barbarians care nothing about our gov­
ernment and law ."
"W ell, there goes the neighborhood I
Last March he told the Maricopa County Bar Association that
investigative powers of law enforcement agencies should not be
reduced, even though some officers might abuse th e ir authority
now and then. The JusticeDepartmentdisclosed that Rehnquist
opposed integration of high school and public accommodations
The presidents of five black
JULIAN BOND! recommended
in his home town. In September, 1967, he wrote: "T he school’ s
colleges w ill take part In a 16
campaign to elect Black dele­
job is to educate children. They should not be saddled with a
gates to the Democratic and day study-tour of Israel ar­
task of fostering social change which may lesson th e ir ability
ranged by the Antl-Defomatlon
Republican National Conven­
to perform this prim ary jo b ." Injune 1964, he complained that
League of Bnai Bith. The ed­
tions.
the city council's public accommodations law was a "m is ta k e "
ucators w ill examine Israels
ani would result in "theunwanted customer and the disliked
U. S. R e p r e s e n t a t iv e
methods of education fo r the
proprietor glowering at one another over the lunch counter."
Charles Diggs J r. (Uem.-
disadvantaged,
the
countiy’
s
Lewis F. Powell, J r , the other nominee, wrote attorney Gen­
The U niversity of Georgia
MlCh) was married on Nov. 6
youth, health and immigration
has voluntarily dropped the
eral John Mitchell in August of 1971, urging him to reverse his
to Miss Janet Elaine H all.The
projects, and its handling of
ruling that Richmond, V irg in ia ’ s annexation of white suburban
word " D ix ie " from the name
wedding was held at Riverside
ethnic
problems,
lhey
w
ill
of its band. F orm erly called
areas violated voting rights of city blacks by diluting th e ir pow-
Church in New Y o ik. Diggs
also set a student exchange
the D ixie Redcoat Band, the
holds the rank of Ambassador
program.
Also of concern is the fact that Powell owns more than $1 m il­
band w ill be known as the I n-
as a fu ll delegate to the DJ9.
rhose
participating
are:
D
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lion worth of shares in 30 corp o ra tion s. He, his wife, and his
lve rsity of Georgia Redcoat
General Assembly. He Is
Charles
Hurst,
Malcolm
X
Marching Band.
son own shares in 38 corpoi ations. Judges are required to dis­
chairman of the sub-com­
College in Chicago; U r.L e w is
qualify themselves in cases involving companies in which they
mittee or A frica of the House
C
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Dowdy,
North
Carolina
o r their fam ilies hold shares. A new legal cannon expected to
Foreign A ffa irs Committee
A&T;
U
r.
Roy
Hudson,
Hamp­
be adopted would require judges to sell any shares that "m ig h t
and vice-chairman of the
The Supreme Court turned
ton Institute; D r. Janies R.
require frequent disqualification."
down a request that it review
Democratic National Commit­
Lawson,
Fish
I
nlverslty:
and
It appears that Nixon cannot find two men in ail of the nation
tee.
the federally ordered busing
D r. G ranville Sawyer, Texas
that meet his "conservative requirements and who are not also
plan fo r desegregating the
Southern University.
overt racists.
Pontiac, Michigan schools.
Anti busing fight
in tow n
W e W ill
The N.A.ACP Southwest Area Conference unanimously opposed
W illia m H. Rehnquist,calling him "a rational reactionary, soph­
isticated racist ami champion of right-wrong causes."
Green leads
shop
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M o st re a s o n a b le
Nixon has done it again. In his >^iest fo r a "conservative’*
for the U.S. Supreme Court, he had hascome up with a racist.
The Americans fo r liem ocratic Action announced it w ill op­
pose Rehnquist’ s confirm ation on ttie grounds that he had "n e i­
ther the respect for m inority aspirations nor the devotion to the
B ill of Rights that should be the hallmark of a Supreme Court
Justice. . . his record is in opposition to the great advances of
recent years in c iv il rights and c iv il liberties. M r. Rhenquist
is an assistant attorney general who has taken strong law and
order stands on issues such as wiretapping, mass arrests of
demonstrators and surveillance of suspected subversives.
The Leadership Conferencs on C iv il Rights , an organization
made up of 125 organizations with c iv il rights interests, w ill
oppose the confirmation of the nomination of W illiam H. Rhen-
quist to the U. S. Supreme Court.
M a p le T a b le 4 2 ”R d .6 9 .9 5
Now in Portland a police lieutenant and form er head of the
vice and narcotlcsunit has been mdi-ted fo r purgery in connec­
tion with grand ju ry bearings on gambling, and it has been dis­
closed that police and the D is tric t Attorney’ s office have looked
the other way as fa r as gambling is concerned. Private clubs
have long been the haven of gambling fo r those who could afford
to belong and who meet the "qualifications.”
Ralph Nader recommended prison sentences fo r corporation
leaders who commit corporate crimes against the public, stating
that this time of crim e goes unpunished because of the promen-
ance of those involve.!, and the natural business bias of law en-
forcement.
i. . « J * dlifiC ul' t0, teach S'0“ "? PeoP'e respect fo r the law when
justice is not applied equally ,0 all segments of the population.
Body a n d Fender R e p a ir
HUD charged with discrimination
N ix o n does it ag ain
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