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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1972)
P o r tla n d Harlem remembers Powell Steven Lehman, 20, 9905 S.W. 56th Avenue, Portland, newest m a n te l ol ifie Governor's Committee on Youth, In stalls heat i iser valve on exhaust manifold In Portland Community College class, Lehman, a Jackson High School giaduate, is second-yea i stmlent In autointove program at PCC, Student appointed to Governor’s Committee Steve L e h m a n , newest memhet of the G ovem oi's Committee on Youth, is not s u r e what his committee te sponslblllties w ill entail, hut he telieves he canolfei infor mation on some of the prob lems faced by young peuple. I ehman, 20, who lives with his patents M i . and M rs . E r nest Lehman at 9905 S.W. 56th Avenue, I'o ttla n d , received word of his anointm ent to the state-wale advisory com m it tee last week, lie isujackson High School giaduate and a second-year student in Auto motive Mechanics at Portland Community College. 11» Governor '* Committee on Youth, chaired by < >regun sec i eta ry of state!? I ay M y e i s , meets monthly to discuss is sues concerning youth. ( if t le 21 committee memheis, six are high school anil college stmlents. (itfie i m e m lv is in clude teaclier s. State senator s and repr esentatives. State ad m inistrator s, housewive- , and Ixisinessmen. Lehman hopes to t epresent tlie v lews of the vocation.! I/c a reer student on the Commit tee . He t rred a I (be i a I a rts program after high school hut left to work In a local bank. He entered I’ CC fo r naming as an aulo mechanic in sepiem - I * ' , 1970. | .ehman say ■•, "PCC is great fo r people I ike me who didn’ t leel like making u In school. Ile ie I have an oppor tunity to prepaie lo i a Job and develop In many a te a s . .. like this com m ittee." I I * higliest achlevei in the PCC automotive lepartment’ .s elimination lot the National P ly m o u th troubleshooting Contest, I ehman w ill receive his associate degree from PCC In June. M o ie than 2,000 mourners (racked t l * Abyssinian Ha|>- tls t C h u r c h in H a r le m fo r i f * funeral of Adam Clayton Powell, while many thousands more flllexi the streets outskle. 11* Baptist preacher and form er Congressman, who d ie d In M i a m i , w as praised by black and white civic, religious and political leaders. I Iwy descrded (hechurch's form er pastor for 34 years as a black leader without laser. they recalled mostly his reputation for the use of political puwei In a way that no other black American had teen able to match. "Never belore have so many people owed so much to one m an," said O r. Samuel P roctor, a professor of edu cation at Rutgers I d ive r sify. " L ik e Amos and IlkeMicah, Adam Clayton Powell was a man of ju s tic e ," sakl D r. P roctor, who dellveied the eulogy. Recalling M r. Po w ell’ s firs t political victory, a City Coua ii seat m d i i . D r. P roctor sakl. "H e gave us our firs t evi dence that American institu tions were ca|>ahle of any change at a ll. He gave us a new basis fo r hope when our c h u r c h e s , colleges, unions, hotels — all were segregated. When my great country, America screamed at me, telling me I'm a no body, he gave us all hope.” D r. P roctor, who had served as r l* Northeast regional d ire cto r ol t l * o ffic e of Economic O p p o r tu n ity , brought loud shouts of agree ment from tie mourners when he listed social legislation that M r. Powell has pushed through Congress as ch a ir man ol the House Education and l.afxit Committee. He said that M r. Powell had d o r* this with " a com mittee that hail not let any social l e g i s l a t i o n come through in 100 years— he roared like a lion and snapped like a cobr a ." “ Yes, he did,’ ’ many mourners shouted luck, "Y e s, L o rd ." the massive church with mourners fillin g its 2,000 seals and a nurnler of auxi lia ry rooms, echoed with the freijuent sobbing of women. 11* coffin, placed at the foot ol I f * church’ s circ u la r, marble pulpit, was flanked "envious ami mediocre men*' by roil, white ant yellow ui Congress had denied M i. wreaths of flowers and by Powell his Congressional seat American flags. ami had "made (he Congress A I 'nited States naval pla a sm aller place.” toon formed an honor guard Mourners included New in front of i f * coffin. Young Yoik Representatives—C har black and white men, (heir les Rangel, Edward I. loch, hall closely cropped, con William Ryan, M ario Blaggi, trasted with Charles Ken- ■hirley Chisholm ami Bella yatta, Harlem nationlrst, who, S. \hzug—ami Boiough P re si with a wide A fro hair style, d e n t P e rc y E. S u t- stood at attention near them. ton. " I here was nothing wrong Ihe body of M r. Powell, with Adam but A m e rica ," said who died late I uesday night t l * Rev. Gardner C. I aylor, in M iam i a( 63, was to I * m in iste r of the Concord Bap cremated ami the ashes tis t Church in Brooklyn, " lie scattered on the Bahamian was boro to walk a royal toad. islaml of B im in i. More than Wien Adam was boro, nature 13.000 mourners viewed the played a tric k on Am erica. He b«Jy of M r. Powell on Satur was born among the oppressed day at the church, the police but with a kingly presence, a said. nimble mind, coutage and audacity — w h a t the old fteople used to call " a sasst- riess.' ” Mayor Lindsay was an un Close to 4,000 persons scheduled s p e a k e r . I I * gathered on the windswept church’ s associate m inister, coiner of Harlem 's Seventh the Rev. Davkl N. L lco rish , Avenue ami 125th Stieet fo r a called him to tie pulpit, ami thiee-hour outdoor tribute in the Mayor was applauded as a "F in a l People's M em m ial he moved along the crowded R ally" foi fo rm e r Harlem aisle. Representative Adam Clayton I,Ike the other speakers, Powell. M r . Lindsay stood before the Manhattan Borough P re si gold Coptic C hristian cross dent, Percy E . Sutton, called that had l*e n given to M r. on the gathering to rem em ler Powell by Em peror Halle tie late M r. Powell as "a Selassie of Ethiopia in recog giant who was responsible for nition of a re lie f program the most dram atic changes that M r. Powell ran lo r t l * ever made in behalf of the poor church during the Depression. in our country." In measuied tones, the May Form er State senator Basil or recalled the man who was A. Paterson, who kept the H arlem ’ s unquestioned p o liti steady stream of black speak cal leader fo r more than rwo ers moving as the master of decailes as "a man ol style, ceremonies, t o ld the hun b rillia n ce and compassion - a dreds of schoolchildren at the skilled p o liticia n ." rally: He said, " | knew him and I “ F or the young people w ho shared with him hisconviction didn’t know hun, it was ibtack fo r justice, just simple justice man, Adam Clayton Powell, and fa ir treatment fo ra ll peo who had control of 25 percent ple.” of this country’ s domestic D r, Roger Shinn, a pro spending." fessor at the (Inton rheologi Ami Livingston L . W ingate, cal seminary, noting that M i . form er d ire cto r of the New Powell had left ihe church to Y o r k Urban League who had go into politics, told the teeri an aide to M r. Powell, the mourners: "H e opened sakl that "w h ite s had deter Its doors, learned its rules mined that he would not hold and because 1« dal, others that power fo r long.” did likewise and this nation M r. W ingate, who had leen w ill never te the same tie counsel to the House Edu again." cation and Labor Committee, The present senior black which M r. Powell headed, told member o( Congress, Repre the enthusiastic crowd that t l * sentative Charles E , Diggs committee "had passed 60 ol Michigan, brought shouts m ajor b ills in live years and ol "A m e n ," "A m e n ," ami the media concealed his (M r. " T e ll i t ' " when he said that Powell's) performances with Street r a lly City Club calls for marijuana I his week ( I* Portland City- Club released its report on Legal Sanctions of Marijuana, l i e committee studied the legal sanctions imposed upon the possesslun, use and sale of marijuana In Oregon. Ihe committee unanimously re commended that ile ie I * no crim in a l o r legal sanctions foi personal use oi possession of m arijuana. Ihe m ajority recommeikted (he.ivoklanceof the black market sale of m a ri juana through legalizing its sale with appropriate con tro ls . Ihe m inority re iu m - uieikled that die sale oi pos session fo r sale, oi cultivation of marijuana he (reatedeithei as a lelony oi a misderneanoi, w ithin the dlscietion of (he court. P rio r to January I, 1972, under oiegon Law conviction ol use o r possession o r sale of marlujana could be treated with f t * discretion ol t l * court as eith e r a felony punishable by a maximum of ten years In prison, o r a misdemeanor. Its possession was also sub je ct to a line of not more than J 5,000, Unite r the new Oregon C rim in a l Code, which went Into effect on January I, 1972, conviction for possession or sale c a r ie s a prison term of up to one year o r a tine of $1,1X10, in case a is con sidered by the court as a m is demeanor, o r If a lelony a prison term of no more than ten years o r a tine of no more than $2,500. Courts no longer have complete d is c re tion as to whether a felony or misdemeanor Is Involved. F o r example, use of the drug Willner appraises economy Is classified as a m is- other problem. I) Marijuana deineanoi. Il the conviction adversely .meets the indi is a firs t offense and less vidual by taking away his than one ounce ol marijuana motivation. Initiative and in is involveil, the penalty must hibitions. it could damage I * foi a misdemeanor. Hut the whole character of Am eri If a person over IS furnishes can society. 4) To legalize marijuana to j pei son under IS marijuana would make its use and there is a three yeai d if mote wklespread. Ihe p roliferation ol con ference in Iheir ages. It is Arguments commonly made glomerates is one of t i * a felony. lo r t l * legalization of m ari m ajor causes of present eco The new federal law also juana tollow: nomic problems. Ournational relaxes penalties. All man 1) Marijuana does not lead economic program should I * datory maximum sentences to Jnd-soclal conduct, and to preserve the tree enter are eliminated except for the l l * retore is not a proper sub prise economy. Ihe spread engaging in " a continuing ject ol legal sanctions. of conglomerates has meant enterprise” . In 0 « case of 2) I he current wklespread that an increasingly greater a Hi st oltense lo r possession, violation ol tlic present laws part ol t l * economy is domi the offender can I * put on brings disrespect lo r t l * law nated by enterprises whichcan probation and it there are no in general, ami the tact that set prices without the re fu rth e r offenses during pro marijuana is legallx classi straint norm ally imjxised by bation, ft»- proceedings may fied as a narcotic, which it competition. le dismissed without a deter is not, adds to t l * cre d ib ility 1 would propose the follow mination ol g u ilt. F or those g«P- ing measures to revitalize under 21, the court can order 3) Because marijuana can the economy: expunging of all o fficia l re only be purchased illegally, confs relating to t l * crim e. it exposes t l * use ami socle tv I, Vigorous use ol anti- I he transfer of small amounts to a nurnler of adverse site trust laws. of marijuana torno i enumera effects ol the illic it sale of 2) Specific examination ot it mgs. tion o r only enough to cover- the conglomerate trend ami cost, is consiilered simple 4) 11* present law subjects lai more vigorous control ot possession. F o r t l * firs t the user to the possibility regulated industry. tittle, marijuana is not in ot having a lelony record. 3) l i m i t the number of cluded as a narcotic drug, 5) Marijuana is not tie separate areas in which a I he new Oregon law, on t l * cause of current widespread corporate enterprise can other hand, s till defines m a ri dissatisfaction w ith American function. juana as a narcotic. society, amt although it is 4) P r o v id e preferenti tal In Its researchtheCityC luh associated with long-haired treatment fo r smal husi- found the lolluwing arguments youth. Its use is widespread nesses in dealing with the against t l * legalizing of through all social levels, lederai government ami ta ilo r m arijuana. I) t m il t l * lu ll Ihe committee recom government policies to help extent of pyschologlcal and mended, based on available small businesses. physiological effects are medical and sociological data, 5) Revise the lederai tax known, we should not make that legal sanctions govern structure so that it does not legal a substance that might ing the use ami possession promote die growth ol big prove to I * dangeioua. 2) of marijuana are inap Ix.siness, but rather provides Society a heady has a large- propriate and that there should an incentive fo r the small scale problem from alcohol I*? no crim inal or legal sanc businessman. and we should not legalize tions fo r personal use ami another drug am) create an possession. Committee members were: D r. C h a r le s Grossman, Chairman fo r t l * M ajority; A . I elghton Plant ami Donald W, Green, 111, Chairmen for t l * M in o rity; Ernest Bonv- hadl, Fred M. Huchwalter, P hilip D. Chadsey, W illiam E llio t P. Skinner has been Gittelsolin, D r. Frederick, named chairman of Colum A . M. Kingery, George |). bia’ s department of anthropo- Lena nt. h’gy, becoming the firs t black department chairman in the u n ive rsity’ s histo ry, A Co lumbia faculty member since 1954, D r. Sklnnei became an M ost charges of absenteeism ami nonproductivity.*’ He said that M r. Powell, who il* d at t l * age of 63, "had ac tually leen killed on March I, 1967, when lus(Congressional) seat was taken from hun . . . I * died broken-hearted that no black leaders were capable of rallying support to reseat him .” M r. Wingate called " h is legacy the most sophisticated black leaders in the w orld” and added: "W e must not allow them to put us into the tric k bag of comparing M artin with Adam - they were both great. Don't let ti* m play one leader against another. Did th e y compare Eisenhower w it h Roosevelt - Washington with Jeflerson?” 11* pastor of the Resur rec- tion Roman Catholic Church of Harlem the Rev. L a rry Lu cas, stood like other speakers between an American flag and th e red, green and b la c k "black liberation fla g "to c a ll out that "Adam showed Con gress he would not I * a good little colored boy whose head could be patted." "Im m ature r a c i s t pigs stripped Adam Clayton Powell of his pow er," he said. T he Rev. H. C arl McCall, president of The Amsterdam News editorial board, said the thousands of blacks blocking the western half of Seventh Avenue fo r the ra lly were the "H eritage and legacy of.Adam Clayton P o w e ll." "Adam started us on the road to freedom and lib e r a tion," he said. "W e owe Adam our commitment that we w ill complete t l * struggle." associate professor in |9pj and a fu ll professor in |9oti. From I9pp to 1969 he served as I nited States Ambassador to Upper Volta. Inl97l,hew as appointed Franz Boas Profes sor of Anthropology atColum- bta. 20, 1972 p ig e 3 r e a s o n a b le 2 8 7 -8 5 2 9 in to w n 2 6 0 9 N. 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In h is prepared statement, Meindienst defended t l * con stitutionality of t l * P re si dent’ s move, saying that it ci id not constitute interference with the Supreme Court’ s se curing of a constitutional right, only a “ pa rticu la r rem - ewiy” - husing. sho p Carlos «AskUsAUet SOFLINS Coated Larisas OFFICES street level « sem lerho c Third and Morrison Other Offices in SALEM A EUGENE • F beet „ 7 7 2 0 0 S.W . lo p t o m ir r t. t Auucutu D octon o j O ptom etry - • H U U • M RELIT • W MeCRUM • M W EIR • S RRlGCS I I if ! « G old M e d a llio n : It’s a b e s t seller. Build a Gold Medallion home and you ve built a home that's going to sell. 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On reopening cases, th e President's proposal c o n tained this section: "O n applieationof an educa tional agency, court otxtersor lesegregation plans u n d e r I itle VI ol theC ivil R ight-A ct of |9p4 m ellect on the date of enactment ot this act ami In tern led to end segregation ot students on the basis ot race, color o r national origin shall le reopened and modified to comply with t l * provisions oi this act.” I he h ill says t h a t , (or drawing desegregation plans, the courts and federal agen cies cannot increase busing to r grades one through six ami must use busing only as a last resort In the higher grades. Asked about t l * reopening provision, Meindienst said. O b s e rv e r 11 a .m .-9 p.m 1 I I I I I I
