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Page 2 P E O P L E CREATE WASHINGTON NEIGHPORHOOO POLLUTION; LEADERS IN THE FIELD BRIEFS MUST WORK TOGETHER FOR FULL ANO EQUAL EMPLOYMENT. Russia w ill aid Banglj Desh with trade and w ill semi tech nical advisors. The Soviet Onion w ill supply cotton lo r Hangla Desh cotton n u lls ami w ill attempt to revive (he jute Industry. Portland/Observer Thursday, Jan. 6, 1972 The Northwest’s Best Weekly A Block Owned Publication Published every T h u r s d a ^ ^ Z ^ ^ n Z h m ^ ^ T i v T c e o T " Conservative Republican Repiesentative JohnAshbrook of Ohio announced that he w ill run for the presidential nomination in the New Hamp shire and Florida prim aries as a protest against Nixon’ s " leftward d r if t " . N. KilUngsworth Portland. Oregon 97217. Subscription rates: 40 cents per month by carrier, $5. 00 per year $5. 25 per year by mail in Tri-County area $6.00 per year elsewhere. Phone 283-2486 ALFRED LEE HENDERSON, Publisher/Editor Verna L . Henderson Asst. Publisher/Business manager President Nixon said his most important dicision of H 7 I was to open communica tions with I he People's Re public of China. Helen Hendrix Personnel and Production Manager Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or rep utation of person, firm or corporation, which may appear in the 1 ortland Observer w ill he cheerfully corrected upon being brought to the attention of the E ditor. Senatoi W illiam P ioxm ire (Dem. - Wis.) said lie was forced to cancel hearings of the Senate-House Committee on Pnemployment because the Nixon Administration declined to semi any witnesses. He said, “ I'd be reluctant to ap irear also, if 1 had to defend the kind of record this Ad m inistration has made." The Editor’s Desk KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN KENTUCKY BEEF SANDW ICHES H. SALT ESQ. FISH & CHIPS Perfect for parties, picnics, lunch or dinner ALL OWNED AND MANAGED BY 31 LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU S m Y e llo w Peyet Another successful year Fight pollution use wind Observer’s Intercom in Vietnam Every year fo r s ir years the White House has assured the American people that during the next year an objective would tie reached in Vietnam. The objectives change from year to year. Now the message is that our troops are being withdrawn and the casualty rate w ill reach zero in 1972. In 1970, Americans invaded Cambodia, chasing an enemy that either had not been there o r that had fled. In 1971 the South Vietnamese. furxfod by the U.S., invaded Cambodia. There is no legitimate government in Cambodia now and none in Laos. This year the government of Thailand became a dictatorship. A t one time our goal was to produce a demo cra tic government in South Vietnam, but the October election emied that dream and it was followed by a statement by the President of the United States that the U.S. w ill not tolerate the overthrow of the dictatorship that rules South Vietnam. Legality and truth fare little better in this country than in the war zone. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to con sider the legality of the war. The UJS. Senate has made feable attempts to lim it the President's war-making powers, but the President has said he w dl ignore any mandate from Con gress that sets an ending date fo r the war. Congress has never analized the war budget in detail and is unable to find out how large the intelligence budget is and how i t is spent. A t home the government continues to invade theprivacy of and to harass war resisters including elected officials and to investigate reporters and others who attempts to reveal the history of the war. The President promised an increased a ir war m Southeast Asia. Renewed bombing of North Vietnam took place this week The Pentagon said the bombings were in retaliation fo r North Vietnam's violations of ‘ ’ understandings’ ’ The so-called understandings, that have not been acknowledged by Hanoi, were that U.S. reconnaissance planes would not k ! ? tiei , on’ that shellui? of South Vietnamese cities would be halted, that Hanoi would stop infiltrating troops through S n y m p a n s nzed meanm* - How long would we allow a country with which we were at war to send reconnaissance planes over our te rrito ry to check our movements and supplies before we would respond by attempting to destroy them? If an invader occupied te r ri tory we consider to be pan of our nation, would we agree to stop attempting to liberate our cities? A t a time when the President talks about getting out of haVUlg corKern only for the prisoners of war prisoners'0^ Vletnam> * * are addul8 t0 the "umber of these Two scientists who visited Vietnam revealed that the A ir Force is using a new bomb that k ills every living creature including plant life , within 3.280 feet. It has been used to destroy personnel as well as to clear land, ihe two scien- tlS.tS * eaP°n "Provides a concussive blast surpassed only by that of a nuclear bornb.” And what is to be accomplished by these bloody raids? tn e m y action is increasing and m ilita ry analysts are talking about a new enemy offensive. 6 A ’ anothei/ « r comes to an end. the Administration tells us that we have come through a triumphant year and are heading ito another - another year of war and blood abroad and of deceit and decay at home. Notice The.Gbserver’ s official position is expressed only in its Pub lish e r’ s Column (The 1 observation Post) and the E ditor’ aDeak. Any other material throughout the paper is the , in ion of the In dividual w rite r or submitter and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Observer. i********************e»e*#e**»»e#eeeeee»eeeeee#eew **e. We W ill & Heed Every Wish... Our reputation fo r integrity and competence w ill assure consideration fo r every wish of the fam ily. i President Nixon and working mothers by D r. Benjamin E . .Mays President Nixon has vetoed the child development pro gram. The Senate voted 63 fo r and 17 against. The House voted 210 fo r the child care program and 186 against. In essence this b ill, if the Pres ident had not vetoed it, would have provided child care for the children of all working mothers: Free day care lo r the poor and the middle in come people wouid pay accor ding to their income. It is this b ill that the President vetoed. It may be the Pres ident vetoed this b ill partly because the Congress has not approved his re-organization- al plan to change the struc ture of welfare. This child development pro gram proposed by Congress had attracted unusually broad support from labor, religious groups, women's liberation and public interest groups. The advocates of this b ill and the senators and representa tives who voted for it argued that such support was a neces sary response to the great change in our society resul ting from the large number of women who must work - not only the poor but the middle class women as well. In vetoing the b ill, the Pres ident point out that he had a $750-m illion day carecompo- nent in his welfare reform plan. And yet I do not be lieve that the President’ s ar guments against the b ill are convincing. The in itia l cost of $2-billlon would not have been excessive and that the bill would soon call for$20-blilion a year was largely an assump tion. The President's reference to bureaucratic control prob ably meant that the state and local governments should ue administer mg such a program rather than the Federal gov- e rumen t. However, a wide variety of public and non p ro fit agencies would have been involved in the program approved by the Congress. Ihe weakest argument the P resident put forth was the charge that the fam ily ties betveen parents and children would be weakened. He spotce of his desire to anact a wel fare reform whose objective would be to bring the fam ily together. To quote the Pres ident: "T h is child develop ment program appears to move In precisely the oppo site dire ctio n .’ ’ 1 think the following quota tion from an editorial in "The New York T im e s" of Dec. I I is an adequate rebuttal to the President’ s charge: "T h e President's charge that day care weakens the fam ily ignores the realities of much of modern fam ily life. Poor and working-class fam ilies norm ally have to leave their children im properly supervised or entirely unat tended fo r much of the day; fam ilies at v irtu a lly all other income levels rely heavily on baby-sitters and, in the uppei brackets, on a variety of dom estic help." M r. Nixon is right in rais ing the question about the avallabilltyof trained people. But this is hardly a just c ri ticism because much of the $2—billion for the firs t year of the program would be used to train people to handle to to train people to handle rr>e program. I cannot accept the P resi dent’ s views that the plan is too costly, that it is admin istratively unworkable, that pr ofessionally we are Ill-p re pared for the program, and that the b ill passed by Con gress w ill undermine tl« A m erican fam ily. This bill would have been a fine Christmas present for the poor. C. Don Vann V A N N ’S MORTUARY 5211 N.W illiam s Avenue 2 8 1 -2 8 3 6 Portland,Oregon I \\ ind is overlooked j a source of power. Cki the high desert in Eastern Oregon stand abandoned w uxim ills, remi.-v e r that wind once was and couid again become ar iponant source u energy. It is st* ge that a dd should have passed from the scene as a source of energy, for it meets most of the modern-day requirements. It is abundant. It is cheap. It Is clean. America today demands increased production of e le ctri c ity . At the same time, environmentalists bjectto new power plants because of the dangers of pollution. Use of wind could satisfy the demands of both. In the early 1940’ s, the federal government financed exper iments in utilization of wind power to genet ate e le ctricity. It was the conclusion of these studies that wind turbines could produce e le ctricity on an efficient and economical basis. Although the findings have never been implemented, they assume new importance in light of the nation's current energy c ris is . Wind turbines could supplement other form s of elec tric a l production, providing the country with the energy it needs while doing little or no harm to the environment. Perhaps this is a matter on which producers and environ mentalists alike can collaborate. VOTE January 18th Special tax Folsom Prison officials have been accused of locking black prisoners, including Black Panther Party Chief of Staff David H illia rd , in “ dark, dingy" cells because of th e ir political beliefs. A fw tltion filed in D istrictC o u rt in San Francisco said eleven black inmates have been pun ished fo r "vague offenses.” The American Anthropolog ical Association repudiated statements appearing in me UJS. that Negroes are bio logically and mentally inter ior to whites. Eugene McCarthy, presi dential candidate, urged the resumption of diplomatic re lations with Cuba. He also said, '| think the I lenioci ais could pick a black man ot a Spanish-American fo r Vice President.’ ’ M rs . Ruth V. Washington a black woman from New Yoi k. was appointed to the 14 mem ber Federal Advisory Council on Unemployment Insurance. The Council w ill make recom mendations for changes or improvements to the Secre te 17 of Labor. DURING OUR BARGAIN OFFER... To Be Equal by Vet non E . Jordan, J r. The bright lights of C h ris t mas are shining. The season VERNON JORDAN JR. of faith, hope and trust is upon us. But there seems to be a flagging of faith, a les gether. Ihe day care center* sening of hope, and a grow would have teen integrated ing m istru st a bead in this fa cilitie s, because the federal great land. government would have paid A number of surveys taken the costs for the poor while last spring and summer con other fam ilies would be firm the divisions and loss of charged reasonable amounts. optimism among the A m eri I he re a re now some 11 can people. Another, issued m illio n working mothers, and by U niversity of Michigan re nearly half have pi e-school searchers last month finds Children. But the lack of nur this trend continuing. It says Seriously . . . you can save money on a mall subscription sery schools andday care cen if you subscribe during this seasonal bargain o ffe r. there Is "a massive erosion ters, and the high costs of of the trust the American those (hat do exist, mean that The Observer goes to great lengths io see that its reader* people have In their govern very few children get the kind •re given concise, dependable news coverage from all over m ent." Barely 40 percent of care they should have. the globe as well as important local happenings. of the people surveyed believe So It’ s a lean Christmas Be aware of vita l Issues and how they affect you. that the government is run fo r Am erica’ s children. E l for the benefit of all people d e rly people too, constitute a and not just lo r "b ig interests fo r midable portion of the looking out for themselves." country's forgotten men and Even the most optim istic women. The black elderly among us would be hard put have three strikes against to argue with those results, tehm - they are black, they especially after some recent are old, and they are dispro actions such as the granting portionately poor. of bit tax benefits to corpor Half of elderly black live ations at the same time that Home delivery of the Pot Hand observer is available for a^ in poverty - about double the a massive child development small extra charge In moat ofthe Portland metropolitan/ percentage for older white program was vetoed. area. people. Higher social secur Christmas is considered to ity payments w ill not help be a time fo r children, but many blacks. Life expectancy this year children join poor lo r black males Is only GO people, the elderly and job y e n s , meaning that the aver less veterans as part of the age black man w ill not live huge numbers of forgotten long enough to collect the re Address — ——- Americans. This is indeed tirem ent lenefits he’ s paid for the Christmas of the Forgot all his working life . ten. C ity — The child development pro And the young men back State «1 Z i p ---------------------------- gram was part of a broad from Vietnam alto constitute package of anti-poverty leg a large part of the forgotten. Apt. If a ny- - —T e l——— islation. It would have set They were asked to fight a up a nation-wide system of war no one wants. T hey're day care service centers run coming back from the battle by parents and neighborhood fields now to find that the groups. The children of tire country that sent them 10,000 $ 4 .5 0 (or 52 weeks poor would have been assured miles to fight, doesn't have of nutritional and educational jobs for thorn now. The Observer keeps you informed benefits. T heir parents, es I heir unemployment rate is pecially their mothers, would far higher than the rest of you know because you read it in the be free to re-enter the laboi tlie country's workers. Is force. their plight due to the national Many fam ilies, now threat Observer distaste for the war, or is ened by financial stress, would It due to what seems to be be better able to cope with a total lack of human con their problems and hold t Bargain offer ends Feb.,1972 cerns In our policy-making? WE’VE GOT A WINNER IN SAVINGS FOR YOU now and save Moneyl
