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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1972)
'f it. Oregon POR TLA ND V o lu m « 2 N o z o P o rtla n d , O re g o n THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN V I o f i tre n n Library p a id 97403 PORTLAND, OREGON PERMIT NO 1745 OBSER llk AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD THAT REALLY CARES T h u rs d a y A p r il 6 ,1 9 7 2 10< p e r copy ABOUT PEOPLE Neil Goldschmidt proposes Bureau of Human Resources for Portland PAR I I Citizen advisory committee formed f White Priest pickets prayer breakfast M ure than SO Lake Oswego citizens, wearing black armbands, picketed the M ayor's Prayer Breakfast to protest its being lield at cite E lks Lodge. P rotesters informed tbeit friends ami neighlxns of the LIks racist policies. I be protest was ed by Lather p i i,pit, p letei of (.'in let I p i« . . • ■ • . (Please see pictures on page 7.) & i G erry Caldwell makes office change PSU Prexy sends Black Aide on special assignment tour C larence A. P o rte r, execu t i v e assistant to President Gregory Wolfe foi the past two yeais. Is spending s p i l n g quarter on tpecla! assignment to implement the I nive ra lty’ s A ffirm a tive Action Program . In announcing the assign- ment, President Wolfe said P o rte r's p rim a ry mission during tlie quartet w ill lie to study the affirm ative action policies of othet uruveisilies and governmental agencies and to: 1. Identify vacancies on th e Portland State staff and devel op appropi late rosters of qua lifie d m inority and lernale ap plicants. 2. Identify untap|ieil sources of personnel. 3. Identify new methods of recruiting. 4. Study graduate student rec tu i ling. 5. Explore funding to assist in developing opputtunnies lo r faculty ami students as well as foi Internships in adm inistra tion for women ami m inorities. (>. Study tire fe a sib ility of es tablishing exchange programs with one or more predomi nantly Black institutions. P o rte r hopes to start his n e w , special assignment this week In N ashville, le n n ^w ith stops at Plsk, I ennessee Slate ami Vanderbilt, to attend a conference of Black social w orkers. Next on the schedule land and that apparently she must have communicated 1er wish to Goldschmidt. The irony of the whole situation Recently Commissioner is that Goldschmidt surmised Neil Goldschmidt submitted that he was submitting this a proposal fo r a new Bureau proposal to the present mayor of Human Resources toM ayor and C o u n c il members Schrunk and the Portland C ity BEFORE tlie forthcoming Council. The proposal stated election. On the face of things that over $12 m illio n is cu r this appears very adm irably— rently being spent each year fo r a p o litician. Goldschmidt in the C ity of Portland fo r stated that he was ju lm iittin g social programming aimed at this proposal now so that la te r solving the problems of low- ( if elected mayor) he would income persons. This pro not be accused of playing posal would create a City p o litics. A close examination of Portland Bureau of Human shows that that isexactly what Resources that would enable he is doing because if it is the city to integrate, plan passed now it w ill be imple and coordinate these pro mented during the incoming grams to gain a maximum M ayor's term of o f f i c e effect. Hence, he receives credit fo r According to the plan the it both ways. Bureau should start out with According to the proposal Model C itie s as its m ajor a Human Resources Bureau arm . Another initial step has many advantages: the is to invoke Section 210 of development of a compre the Economic Hpportunity hensive city-w ide capability A ct (the (Edith) "Green fo r centralized planning; cen Amendment’ ’) and draw the tralized planning w ill allow Portland Metropolitan Steer fle x ib ility in using resources; ing Committee (P.MSC) into at the same time that planning this structure under city gov is centralized, delivery of ernment. The bureau should services can he de-cen- eventually include all of tlie tralized and citizen p a rtic i city employment programs, pation can continue to occur including Summer ‘ 72, E m er at the most basic neighbor gency E m p lo y m e n t Act, hood level; and it w ill cut out CAMPS and the Neighborhood duplication of programs. Youth Corps o u t-o f-s c h o o l An analysis of the proposal program . Consideration must reveals a number of contra also be given to the relation dictions and many of its short ships between the proposed comings. F irs t, if there are Bureau of Human Resources duplications of programs, ob and theCiry-Council'sCouncd viously some people w ill lose on Aging, tie Metropolitan th e ir jobs. The plan stated, Human Relations Commission however, that persons now and the Metropolitan Youth holding these duplicating posi Commission. This proposal tions either m Model C ities stated that it does not recom o r P.MSC need not be laid mend any immediate changes off. Instead, th e ir valuable in the independent Citizen skills and energies can be Commissions now running spent in the delivery of ser these three operations. vices. Obviously, many people A few people knew several W ILL lose th e ir jobs because months ago that the mecha simple mathematics shows nism fo r this consolidation that if two people are doing was underway. A number of the same job and those two other people knew that Con jobs are combined, only ONE gresswoman Edith Green sup person w ill be needed. To ported the concept of a Human (P la n e turn to p. 3 col. 5) Resources Bureau fo r P o rt- By Lenwood G. Havis 1 tie C ity of Portland, i epi e- sented by Commissioners F i ancis Ivancie and Nell Gold schmidt, ami Multnomah County represented by fieri Padrow and Lar ry Aylsworth ,IJ v " • Red a Citizen ’ Advisory Committee to con duct a comprehensive review of the C ity and County C ivil Service and Per sonnet Sys tems. H r. Lee P, firown, D ire cto r of Law Enforcement, Portland State I Diversity was appointed Chairman of [tie City-County Comp ehensive Personnel Rev ;w Committee. Other members of the Committee are Gladys E verett, attorney and form er member of the C iv il Service Commission; GERRY C A L D W E L L Ken I ewis, Vice-President of Lasco Shipping, Inc.; Thomas Mackenzie, President ofM ac- kenzie Engineering, Inc.; and RJM. Sweeney, P ort Agent of the Marine Firem en’ s I mon. I he Committee tse xp licttly charged with the authority to (je rry Caldwell, general ing. member of the United examine tire e n tile range ot loan officer at F irs t National Good Neighbor loaned execu C ity and County functions, o r Bank oi Oregon's Sixth and tive association, and on the ganizations and obligations as M orrison branch, has ti ans- Board of H ire cto rs of St. It relates to personnel in ac ferred to the bank's 122nd M artin Hay N ursery. cordance with existing C ity and Halsey branch in a s im i and County charters, per lar capacity, according toLeo Sutherland, a graduate of sonnel laws, ordinances, Painter, manager. He re Stanford U niversity, came to rules, regulations and labor places H a rre ll Sutherland who F irs t National in 1968 after agreements. The Committee l nsferred to the receivable being employed by the Wells Is vested with the power to financing department at ad Faigo 3 Jik in Sa: Francisco propose specific changes in m inistration headquarters. and the United C alifornia Bank tlie present system of per Caldwell joined F irs t Na- in Los Angeles. He worked sonnel administration in rh . ' J' 1% i r. a manage p rim a rily In the lean field, C ity and County in order to ment training capacity. He and after completion of the enhance the efficiency, the worked at several Portland bank’ s management training effectiveness and responsive area branches p rio r to the program, transferred to the ness of local government as assignment to the Sixth and Burlingame branch where he it is now constituted. Speci M orrison branch as general was promoted to general loan fic a lly , this means a careful loan officer in September, o ffice r in June, 1970. He and complete examination of 1971. moved to the 122nd and Halsey career ladders and lattices He is a member of the branch as general loan officer and analysis of relevant American Institute of Bank- in June, 1971. evaluation of C iv il service employment requirements and recruitment procedures and a study of methods of imple ment improvements. Special attention in the study w ill he give to City-County con solidation and problems of Nineteen lexleral employ Award presentations w ill be the L nited G o o d Neighbor recruiting, hiring and pro ees in the Portland a rea w ill he made by M r.J ames Young, re moting the disadvantaged. In d rive . Sergeant Broussard is honored at an annual awards gional d ire cto r ot the Office of sum, the function of the C ity- expanding his two years of col luncheon to he held on Thurs Economic t»pportunity in Se County Comprehensive Per lege by taking night courses at day, A p ril 13, at the R iver attle. Young was recently ap sonnel Review Committee is Portland Community College • queen Restaurant. pointed by President Nixon as m sociology and speech. to make a thorough and de T he awards program,which chairman of the Northwest tailed examination of current is sponsored by the Portland Federal Regional Council. personnel arrangements with P h ilip Sanchez, Bureau of Federal Executive Board and pitneiples of modern human Indian A ffairs( Administrative its memher agencies, pays resources management and Services Division): M r. San tribute to Federal employees m e rit systems procedures. chez, a Navajo Indian, joined who have performed th e ird u t- M r. KennethCalvln has been the Bureau ol Indian A ffa irs les in an exemplary man appointed to head the live - in 1970, at»l has already com ner and who have made a posi memhei staff and organize piled an outstanding record as tive contribution to th e irco m - tlie study a ctivities. a secretary and la te ra Reser m unities. t he committee w ill behold vation Programs Aid. on his (>f tlie |9 award nominations ing its fir s t public hearing in submitted by II different Fed the Multnomah County C ourt eral employees who have per house Council Cham fers on formed th e ir duties in an ex March 27, 1972 at 7:30 p.m. emplary manner and who have A ll interested public em made a positive contribution to ployees, concerned citizens eral agencies, a top award for o r anyone interested in im outstanding service w ill le proving the C iv il Service and made in each of three Federal Personnel Systems are in service categories. T h e se SCT. RRUl SSARH vited to attend. categories are in tlie admini Gunnery Sergeant Hebert strative services, managerial (Bruce) Broussard, I .S .M ar and technical, and profession ine C o r p s (A dm inistrative al and scientific classifica service H ivision): An eleven- tions. year Marine Corps veteran. Sergeant Broussard is pre PHILIP SANCHEZ sently assigned to the I ,s. Ma nne Corps Recruiting Station own initiative, he has devel ui Portland. He is wholly re oped a variety of information sponsible fo r the development documents on Indian qaopula- of a I sAIC m inority recruiting tion, labor and employment program in th e Model C ities statistics, and has completely area of Portland. As evidence reorganized the file s of two ol his w ile interest in the Pl A planning sections. Though Model C ities th u d action fo r the City of Portland's problems oi m inority groups only a high school graduate, he year program was appioved Comprehensive C ity Demon- anil the disadvantaged, Ser has documented and cro ss-re March 29(h m a special meet stration Program is based on geant Broussard has l>een ex ferenced the highly complex ing ol tlie Model C itie s C i continuing planning indevalu trem ely ictive in tlie .Model statistical file s relating the tizens Planning Hoard, Fred ation efforts throughout the C ities M u lti-se rvice Center BI A Planning Programming Flow ers, J r , chairman of the past two and one-half years. ami as a counselor fo r y o u th am! Evaluation System to the Boa nl called the meeting at the 1 hese efforts include: Policy programs relating tothe.Mod- budget system, ami has taken Model C ities Agency, where leadership by th e Citizens el C ities program . Heserves over much of tlie technical Planning B o a r d ; Proposals submission oi th e proposal on th e Board of H ire cto rs of workload to rm a lly handled by w ill now go to the CltyCoun- ind planning from the vai ious tlie Portland Opportunities In his sujvervisor. c ll fo r th e i i ipproval and Citizens AA oi king Committees d u stria l! ation Center anil the M r. Sanchez is president of submission to the department and Neighborhood organ r a 1'iegoii I i ailC hapter, Ameri the Portland American Indian ol Housing and I ibanHevelop- tions; Technical assistance can Re I Cross. Center, an organization de ment. Final approval ot the tio m the olfice of Commis His other community activi voted to Improving th e lot of proposal w ill come from HUH. s io n e r-in -c h a rg e , the City ties include youth counseling the urban Indian. He assists in I his means that tlie program Demonstration Agency, pro with th e M in iste ria l Alliance, preparation of m in o rity pro w ill he funded fo r tlie f i s c a I ject operating agencies and/oi public relations fo r the Boy grams f o r a local TV station year beginning July I, 1972 consultants; Advice and con Scouts of Am erica ami the Re1 and is an active mem her of the through June 30, 1973. sent of tlie Portland CityCoun- Shield Youth C e n t e r , ami Portland Junior Chamber of The I bird Action YearPlan (Please turn to page 8 col. 6) working as a team captain for Commerce. He frequently ad Federal employees honored L *' ‘ X, ARLNCH PORT is the A t l a n t a U niversity complex ol live colleges ami universities and also the Insti tute of tlie Third Woi Id. P o rte r then intends to check .11 several institutions In North C arolina le lo re moving into Benj. Franklin^ Garden Seeds Plant flower oi vegetable seeds this spring to enioy next summer Get a packet tree while they last at any ol our offices And start saving, too, tor a bright future with the Beni Franklin I k i i j . ^ ) Franklin Robert H H«/«n Pro» • IS Ollie»» • Phon« 224 3333 Hom« Offlc« Franklin Bldg , Portland. Oregon 97204 th e Washington - Baltim ore area. In addition to visiting sever al schools, tie hopes to meet with m em ters ot the Oregon congressional delega tion as well as o fficia ls of Health, Education andWelfare to deteim ine the potential for federal lumling of internship pr ograms foi women amt m i no ritie s. He also w ill have Interviews at institutions In the Philadel phia and Chicago areas befoie returning to Portland about the end of A p ril. “ I won’ t Iw signing anyone to contracts, but I ho|x? to put specific persons in contact with deans and/or department heads who are looking foi peo ple to f ill specific jo b s ," P or te r said, " t here are certain Internal vacancies which have to le fille d , but we w ill not le going beyond die exigency in which ^ve ate in at the mo ment.’ * P o rte r said he hopes to ex plore tie possibility of a facul ty exchange program letween Black Institutions ami P o rt land State as well as to com pile a roster of eligible m inor ity ami women who would le in terested in teaching a l t e : completing g i s itu a te pro gram s. A t the same time, he said, he w ill tv recruiting for graduate students to enroll in Portland State programs. M ark Howard, special as sistant to the president, w ill also serve as the president's executive assistant during P o rte r's special assignment. CPB proposal meets approval hatf — U. S. POSTAGE dresses local high schools on th e subject of Indian A ffairs, and is jo in t chairman of the BLA Blood Honor program . In pursuing his education, M r. Sanchez is completing a t w o - y e a r correspondence course in Hotel Management, and is pursuing studies in In dian culture and philosophy. AAalter F . M o rris , Jrx, u .s. Postal Service (Managerial and Technical Division): Now in his twelfth year with the Postal Service, M r. M o rris has advanced from temporary m ail handler to his present (Please turn to page S col. -)) Husband k ille d ; w ife arrested Roosevelt L e w is , 53, a Northeast Portland service station owner, was s h o t to death at his home Sunday, ac cording to a Portland Police report. Accused of m urder and hel l without b a il in P ortlandC ity Ja il was his wife,JohnmeMae Lewis, 51. The Lewis fam ily lived at 4539 N.E. M allory Avenue. M rs . Johnnie Mae Lewis called the Police shortly after the shooting occurred. Police reported that th e v ic tim ’ s mother, M rs . Mabel Mont gomery, was also in the house. O fficers recovered a .38ca li ber revolver with four fired casings in the house. Lew is owned a service sta tion at 3434 SJE, Division St. 4
