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The administration w ill tell
protesting Senators that It has
no intention of changing new
lood stamp regulations
to
avoid cuts o r loss of benefits
to some recipients.
Twenty-eight
S e n a to r s
urged a gricultuie Secretary
E a rl Butz to make sure t fie re
would be no cutbacks. I he
hew
nationwide standard
makes couples eligible tfthey
receive $222.00 o r less a
month, arxl th e e llg ib ility c e ll
ing for a fam ily of 4 is $300
a month.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT.
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Absentee Senators "Greatest Disgrace”
Racism in Oregon
gets caught
I> ember 9th, the Portland Observer predicted that the
.ties and colleges In the Oregon state System o f
■dion would soon be in d iffic u lty with the federal g !v-
X t as S»nrt°' dlsSrim ina“ on
hiring and the lack of
idents and employees. Oregon’ s colleges nave long
reputation ot unfriendliness toward blacks and other
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t' a a month la te r, Oregon state University was charged
. r>. Department of Health, Education and Welfare with
v X n ,ag,ahnSL m‘ nOri“ eS and *< *‘ nst »omen. Explicit
d edu at,on an
° f * ithdrawal ° f ™Uions of dollars
ed immediatelv* "
“ th* ma" ’ r is "<*
' ° me; \ at, a d?mCUjt “ me ,o r « U b e « “ » budget cuts
• ic the layoff of many faculty and staff members It
’’ public institutions to take a look at themselves’and
houses in order before a c ris is situation develops.
Welfare racist?
• e many other state institutions that require some
is the Welfare Department, much Of which is now
Idr- ’s Service Department.
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oral government requires a ll agencies receiving fed-
t0 ake an a ifirm a tive effort to re cru it and upgrade
people. This is not being done by the Welfare Depart
'd the present time there are in Multnomah County
• Im in lstra to r, 2 black social workers, 1 black case-
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iack assistance workers and 1 investigator. One
assistance workers is leaving the county to accept a
7 position w h ic h w as denied to her in Multnomah
. The adm inistrator and the two social workers have
degrees, the caseworker has a BA and fifteen years
eripnce.
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night indicate - four years of college for the case-
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MS ,,r°n’ .hsl* h SCh° ° 1 Snd ,W° years exP*rience in re-
lelds for the assistance w orker. Ninety-six positions
k - r aVay1nabr e
'L * 2*a r ,uture ’ about 75$ ,or « s ia ta n .e
k -rs . Ahat w ill be the excuse fo r h i r i n g all whites t h i s
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*5 ° M ‘ nvestl* * ‘ ° r s »«re sent to investigate
M C recipients tn the Model Cities area - this intense
ation was happening nowhere else in the state Members
WHfare Rights Organization called on ¿ . ^
| of the Department of Human Resources and the In-’
ve -tigation was called off.
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ration and not for the client - whether bUck o r white
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Why then doesn’ t tlie Senate
do something a bou t "absen
teeism " instead of p io u s ly
wringing hands?
Because the Senate is a club
of prlnia donnas I n t e n s e ly
self-oriented - 99 kings and I
queen - dedicated to th e ir own
personal accommodation.
O bserver’s Intercom
Eugene McCarthy won his
fight to enter the Illin o is p r i
mary election without signing
a non-Com mum si loyalty oath
which he ra ile d “ d e a rly un-
conatltutlonal.”
“ Sunday’ s Child” , singing
trio from Portland, joined Boh
Hope on his annual Christmas
show that entertained service
men abroad.
Mavor Richard Hatcher was
named ' hairman o,the Nation
al Black Caucus o, Local E l
ected O fficials at its a nnu a I
meeting held In Honolulu dur
ing the annual Congress of
C ities. Hatcher and Los An
geles Councilman Tom brad-
ley were elected to the 35
member hoard of directors ot
the National League of Cities.
The number of Blacks hold
ing high a>hool diplomas In
creased during the decade of
1960 - 1970. The proportion
of blacks 20 years old and ov
er having finished high school
was up nearly tw o-thlrds.
from 24% to 39.7%.
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Dear E ditor;
Since 1962 it has worked to in
Deer Editor,
I wish to a p p e a l to your
crease political participation
Some feel that all too much
readers for support to what
throughout II Southern states.
haa been made of the lasuance
could be one o, the most Im
The Voter Education Project
of a "poatage atamp" by the
portant and reassuring devel
has assisted to over 1,000vot
Independent Poetal Syatemof
opments to the history of this
e r registration drives in local
A m erica.
nation - the peaceful and dem
communities throughout the
No one denies John Doe has
ocratic revolution that is tak
S o u th . VE P has also spon
the right to deliver non-ad
ing place to the A m e r ic a n
sored citizenship education
dressed advertising m atter as
South. If it continues, some of
programs fo r n e w ly regis
long as it la not left to or on
the great injustices of this so
tered voters. And It has as
the m all box.
ciety can be eradicated, and
sisted newly elected black of
The claim by IPSA that It op
this country can take a needed
fic ia ls
throughout training
erates a "post office” is ab-
step toward its ideals. Your
workshops, legal and technical
surd. They cannot aell U.S,
readers can help bring this
consultation, and Internship
postage stamps. They cannot
about.
programs.
register or certify a letter.
During th e 1960’ s, b la c k
In September, the Voter
The public cannot rent of post
Am ericans to the South made Education P roject had to sus
office box from IPSA. They
remarkable g a in s in t h e i r
pend its registration pro
w ill not forward your mall
struggle fo r the right to par-
grams because of the shortage
when you move. They are
tlclpate meaningfully to th e
of funds. E v e n though more
simply ansdvertlatogdellver-
political p r o c e s s . R e g is
than 100 projects had been sup
tration of black voters more ported to 1971, over 50 commu
The U.S. Postal Service
than doubled. The number of
nities w e re applying fo r as
performs many services be
black elected o f f i c i a l s in
sistance when the program
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aell
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fo r President.
upon squeezing out every bit of
A greater cause of Senate Senate-paid w o r ld t r a v e l
debilitation comes f ro m th e ahead of the official d u ty to
Senate "m o o n lig h te rs" w ho which they were elected. And
regard the Senate as s tric tly t h e y , t o o , ask the m ajority
secondary to t h e i r m o n e y - leader and the m inority leader
rnaking activities tn being of to hold off votes until they re
fered high-paid le c tu re ,e e s turn from then world junket
simply because they are sen ing at taxpayers’ expense . . .
ators. As the Republican dean
ot the Senate r e c e n t ly said,
" b e in g p a id $ 2,500,or$50
speeches. . .
T o o many senators h a ve
chronic absences because they
Three top black legislators
are on the lecture tour piling
in C alifornia are supporting
up annual lecture incumas that
Sen. George McGovern fo r the
even exceed theirSenate sala
presidency.
They are W illie
The I nited States Senate is
ries - sometimes e v e n d o u
Brown, J r; Leon D Ralph; and
in trouble. It is because grow
bling their Senate s a l a r ie s . John M ille r, who is the ch a ir
ing numbers of its members no
I heir absences not only open
man of the C alifornia B la c k
longer regard it as a high in
ly retard and postpone the pro
Legislative C a u c u s . M rs.
stitution foi d e d ic a t e d and
gress of senate business be Coretta King is supporting Sen
honorable service b u t rather
cause of the d ifficu lty of get Muskie.
only as a means to an end.
ting the necessary q u o ru m
It h a s b e c o m e a m e r e
piesent to do business- h it as
Cincinnati w ill get its fu s t
spring-board to th o s e w ho
w ell, behind the scenes unduly black major next year when
would use i t - even abuse it -
delay the Senate schedule. Be-* form er DEO Adm inistrator
f o r their sellish in te re s i s,
cause repeatedly they go to tne Ted B erry takes office. T h e
w h e th e r such interests be
m
ajority leader or the mlnoi i-
chartei Democratic M a jo rity
com m ercializing th e ir p o s i
ty leader and beg them to call
Coalition, T h e C i n c i n n a t i
tion and title with the acquisi
o ff a vote scheduled for a cer
C i t y Council e le c t e d four
tion of high-price lecture fees
tain day simply because they
mayors, with Thomas Luken
or running for President.
can’ t be there as they are max
(white, to serve during 1972
1 have no c ritic is m of Pres
ing a high-pa kJ lecture hun
and B erry to serve d u rin g ’ 73,
idential aspirations as long as
dreds
of
m
iles
from
W
ashing
those Presidential aspirations
ton.
Nearly half of M anila’ se le -
do not result in dereliction of
So the Senate procrastinates
nientary school p u p i ls a re
Senate duties in representa
f o r the convenience of " t h e
classed as "se ve re lyu nde r -
tion of state and national con
m oonlighters." And what hap
nourlshed."
stituencies. A fte r a ll, having
pens on the Senate flo o r, to a
A health department survey
been a Presidential candidate
lesser degree, happens behind
showed 4 3 per cent weighed
in 1964, who am I to c ritic iz e
the scenes in the Senate com
less than tw o-thlrds o, the
Presidential ambitions? Yet,
m ittees.
normal weight for thelr ages.
I never missed a Senate ro ll-
In a d d it io n . . . there are
Nearly all the others were un
call vote while I was running
those senators who are bent
dernourished to some degree.
Republican S e n . M argaret
Chase Smith of Maine saidtne
Senate's "greatest disgrace"
is the absenteeism of m e m
bers who are away campaign
ing, lecturing, or simply jun
keting. She called fo r a Con
stitutional a m e n d m e n t d e -
signed to keep her colleagues
on the job. The amendment
would require automatic ex
pulsion of any senator not pre
sent and voting on record ro ll-
call votes 60 per cent of th e
tune. Following are excerpts
of Sen. Smith’ s indictment:
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Rep. Paul McCloskey (K -
C altf.) said he w ill introduce
legislation to force federal o f
ficia ls such as J. Edgar Hoov
er to re tire at age 70
or
loose a ll benefits.
The Editor’s Desk
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preferred by
A black
correspondent
Samuel E. Yette, who was fired
by Newsweek riled complaints
charging the magazine with
racism and denial of free
speech and press. He alleged
Newsweek was guilty of “ in
cipient racism ” through! his
four vears with the Washing-
ton bureau.
Verna L . Henderson
Publisher/Business manager
Helen Hendrix
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tal service employees are
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Charles Hudson
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