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Nero to assist MC Task Force
David N eiu, President of
Nero 14 Associates, Inc., con
firm ed lie had accepted an In
vitation to usatala TaskFoice
of tl« Model Citte-* Citizens
Planning Board to develop a
concept fo r the ptoposed City
Bureau of Human Resources.
M t . Neto w ill I» donating Ills
time ami services to this pro-
Ject. A Model Clues T a s k
Force, made up of merit le i sot
the Citizens Planning Hoard
has laten appointed by M r.
Fred Flowers, Board ch a ir
man.
(his I'ask Force w ill
piesent to the Citizens Plan
ning Hoard recommendations
foi oigunizatiuti, management
ami citizen participation tor
the rww City Bureau proposed
by City Commissioner, Nell
Goldschmidt.
Charles Jordan, Executive
D ire cto r of Portland Model
C ities, stated that M r. Nero
w ill wot k closely with the I ask
Force and w ill endeavoi to in
sure that input to tire Human
Kesouices proposal [« s o lic i
ted from all concerned citizen
groups anil agencies. In addi
tion, M r. Nero w ill gather ad
ditional factual data in support
of the structural design of tire
Bureau ami prepare the organ
ization
and
management
structure for the new City Bu
reau.
In accepting this challenge.
M r . Nero stated to the Model
C ities I ask Fotce, he wasgl i l
to 1« able to show his appre
ciation to tl« Model C ities
Program fo r tie support they
have given him over the past
tw years. M r. Jor lari stated
Ire «as glad to be able to accept
the services of David Nero and
wa rg ia te lu l for theopportun-
PORTLAND
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lum e 2 N o ^ 9 P o r tla n d , O r e g o n
THE ONLY
rty to u tili/e that expertise M r.
Nero has developed through
his association with Model
C ities. This project w ill also
enable M r. Nero to gain more
exposure at C ity Hall and gain
expertise in wor king as a con
sultant to the C ity govern
ment, Jordan adder!.
7 he eight m enders of tl«
Mixlel C ities Task F ace are
M rs. Qpal Strong, Chairman,
J o s ia h Nunn, M r s C *ia M a y
Peoples, Lee K ell, Robert
Rogers, Herb Simps ,n, Deb
bie Norman and M rs. Marian
Scott.
M r . Nero stated 1« would oe
keeping tn very close contact
with the Task Force regarding
the progress of his w ork. He
indicateli the Task Force
would be receiving a form al
report within 20 days.
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Several black students are
among 90 eighth graders in
Portland chosen to participate
£n the annual 1972 E ighthGrade
Columbia Basin A g ricu ltu ra l
l our to Sherman, G illiam and
Wasco Counties A p ril 2 8 -3 0 .
P articipating students are:
from Boise school, Jeanean
Dunn, Tony Howard, Steven
Knight, Gloria Johnson, Rus
sell Richie and Corinthian
D u rin g a v is it to tl« t m versity of Oregon campus, senator \\ ayne Morse chats with Vernetta Cald
Mathies, with M rs. D e l by
well, Head Resident of tl« I o ’s Hamilton dorm itory complex.
Norman as chaperone; Irom
Woodlawn school, Johnny I),
i Jegrats, Eisle Grave
a I
H illy Maxie; from Peninsula
i, c h a t ie Smith indKay
Aubrey; Irom M t. T a b o r
School, Barnell Wilson; in
Irom Creston School, M a rc i-
ity. -'Equality ol opportunity
“ I here’ s liable to be con-
Morse sees the problems
is the la - under our Con-
anne Jackson.
of racism, intlation, unem
(pston in a dream deterred,”
T h e ir expense-! ree tr ip to
stitu.iv>i, "vviHa.u.aiiis, 'and
wrote poet Langston Hughes
ployment, and inequities in
Eastern Oregon is sponsored 20 years ago.
health and education as all
Presidents and Congresses
by the Sherman, G illia m , and
related to the w ar. ’ ’ The
have failed to enforce the
Since 1968, confusion has
Wasco County Wheat Growers
money we are spending to
law .” In 1964, he sponsored
abounded in nearly every as-
Associations, along with a spect of the Nixon Adminis
k ill American boys and Asians
the Economic im portunity
number of cooperating organi-
is money we should he using
Act, which is responsible fo r
tration’ s domestic and foreign
policy.
F o r m e r senator
izations and is coordinated
to solve our crying domestic
the creation of Head Start,
with the help of Portland 4 - H Wayne Morse, whose dreams
Upward Bound, the Community
needs,” be explains.
Club extension agent. Gray
The long time Oregon law
Action programs, and the Job
and service to the Oregon
Thompson, and Portland Pub
maker feels the federal gov
people were deferred four
Corps.
ernment must take greater
lic Schools cooperating.
years ago in his narrow re-
His position on school bus
During th e ir stay the eighth
election defeat, is campaign
responsibility
in meeting
ing is cle a r: " In 1954, the
health needs, “ so that every
graders w ill be guests at
ing to correct some ol this
Supreme C ourt ruled that
American, regardless of in
homes of (amities which have confusion.
equality of education is im
M oise charges Nixon with
come or economic class, is
been carefully selected and
possible without integration.
misleading the people on the
which also have an eighth
insured
q u a lit y
medical
L ater court decisions have
Vietnam war. "D on’ t let him
grader.
c a re ."
He would also have
found that if busing is the
tool you,” he says. "H e ’ s
The tour is held annually to
the federal government sup
only way to achieve integration
not winding town the war, but
improve
understanding 1«
port public education by 30
in the schools of a specific
New Asian
tween urban and rural people expanding it.
percent. He would obtain the
community,
then students
gravevards are being lug
and to show students the oper
funds fo r this federal aid by-
must be bused. That is the
ation ot an Eastern Oregon
plugging tax loopholes c u r
law, and 1 think society must
Morse predicted thousands ol
wheat (arm . Some ot the things
rently given to corporations,
abide by it.”
lives would Ie lost in South
foundations
arxl charitable
the students w ill see include
F urther, Morse believes
rod-weeding, airplane spray east Asia; he now predicts
trusts.
schools must be integrated at
that it the I nited states does
ing, d e -horning of calves,
Lnlike many other liberals
the teaching and adminis
not get out of A sia , m illions
grain elevators, and conser
of late, Wayne Morse is not
trative levels. "B la c k stu
of lives w ill 1« lost in a fa r
vation practices used by the
about to abandon the goals ol
dents should never have to
greater war.
racial integration and equal
farm ers.
(continued on page 6, co . 6)
Morse campaigns for return
to United States Senate
M r. Harvev Rice, assistant director of tl« Portland state I nlverslty I tucatlona' ('enter. 261I
N.F , Union, l« lp s to bold theC ED (C ertlflcate o f I qulvaiencvl w hich M r. Gera • B.tllev (right) re
ceived through 2-1/2 months ot study at tl« Educational Center. M r. Bai ev came to Port'and in
October, 1971. and M r. Rice wasmstrument.il in getting him starte toward his Cl I an.' plans fo r
continuing his education at Portland State I ;nlvei s ltv .
Education brings success
By Nan P hillips
How does a young man 22
years old suddenlydecide he’ s
going to make a new life for
hmiseH7 A life completely out
of B a l t i m o r e , Maryland,
where 1« was bom into a fam
ily of six biothere and five sis
ters - a life e n tiie ly different
from tl« one lie’ s known: odd
jobs, no ambition, no future.
It helps to have an uncle who
lives in Portland, Oregon, an
unde who te lls you to come to
live with him and his fam ily til
you can get yourself on tl«
track.
I hat's what hjp|«iied to
Gerald (U tley. He came to
Portland in October, 1*971, to
live with his unde, Samuel
Macon, who Is on the stall at
Grant High School.
Gerald spent tl« (lis t weeks
looking tor a job, with no luck.
One day, 1« dropped by the
Portland
state I n ive islty
Educational Center at 2611
N.l . I nlon Avenue. Hetalked
with M r. Harvey Rice, Assis
tant D ire c to r. M r. Klee asked
him some stiaight questions.
Where was Gerald heading?
How much education did 1«
have! What job training? W hat
could he ollei an employer?
G erald said he had worked
tor a rooltng company, done
odd jobs, was in the Marines
(or awhile, never finished high
school, couldn’ t find a job.
M r. Rice suggested that !«
study tor his CEP and earn the
equivalent ol a high school d i-
plorna. Gerald took him upon
it ami tor 2-1/2 months 1«
showed up it tl« Filuc.ttion.il
Center every school night. 1«
took the GEP test, and passed
It. Ihat was his Christmas
present to himself: hlSGED
diploma, which he received
I lecember 23, 1*971.
While he w a s attending
school every night, he got a job
days, working as J cabinet as
sembler at B.P. Johns F u rn i
ture ( o m p a m . He got the job
through the P d IC (Portland
i ippoi tuniiv Ithlustt i.ilization
Center). He takes his job ser
iously . Even when he smashed
a fln g e i, hedkln’ t lay off work.
.so now he has a job, his
GF I ) - what next? More school,
1« says: art classes at night
at Portland Community Col
lege, with the dream of going
on to Portland State t n lve r
slty. And eventually the big
dream: a college degree which
w ill enable him to teach a rt in
high school.
The Observer salutes this
young man with a future, which
he Is bringing about through
his own hard work. The Ob
server also salutes M r. Har
vey Rice, who encouraged M r.
Bailey to finish high school,
and helped him believe that tie
could go on to college.
Protesters march in Portland
By Roger I lot band
strains of " In the Mood”
softly emitting from the Dick
Niles
show
loom
were
m om entarily
drowned out
SJtunlay by the passing ol
some 1000 slogan chanting
marchers protesting the es
calation of 1 . S. bombing in
A letnam.
Beginning at the
south Park Blocks shortly
after noon, the marchei spro
ceeded in an onlei ly I ashion
down oth Avenue behind a
large banner depicting a A iet
Cong flag and an American
flag upside down, undei the
w ritten im perative, "Stop the
bombing.”
A lter passing
through the shadow ol the
monolithic 1st National build
ing, the marchers tu ned on
Main st. ¡n.l conime iced to
the Women’ s Park Blocks on
3rd St. for i short anti-w ar
ra lly.
I he m u c h ,
the largest
since 1970, drew I ittle specta
tor response in spite ot the
vehemence ol the pi otestei s.
Most ol the onloi kei s v iewe.1
the event fio m l«hind the
piotective cover of store tio n t
glass with a passivity with
which one might watch a tele-
vison renin. Fven Portland's
largest newspapei fe lt the
march was no more note
worthy ti an a lew paragraphs
well lu ck of the front page. by the tens of thousands all
It is unfortunate that this ove Southeast Asia as part
passivity reflects a general of
the electronic
battle
reaction to the war by many fie ld ” . These devices trans
w ho have been lulled into com mit the slightest sound, smell
placency by statistics inoica- o r vibration to a ir-b o rn e t elay
ting I ,s. troop withdraws I. As piatfoim s which leed com
pointed, out by speakei s at the putéis directing bombers to
rally Saturday, tew realize the scene, senator Proxm ire
that "o n ly the color ot the pointed out the only unfor
bodies has changed,” as the tunate aspect of thesedevtces:
L ,S. continues financial sup ” 1 he sens, i s cannot tell the
port ol South Aietnamese and difference between soldiers,
mercenary soldiers.
women and children. Speakers
In addition, large amounts at the rally suggested boycott
are l«ing spent oncomputers, on products produced by such
and a great variety of elec large companies a sl.T .T .w h o
tronic weapons. E ectromc manufactu e many afthecom -
se n so rs have been dropped (Please see page 7 col. 4)
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Calvin O. L . Henry, P res.-
dent of the C o rva llis Branch,
NAACP, charged Oregon State
U niversity with d iscrim in a
tory practices. In a p re lim i
nary report to Oregon State
University p r e s i d e n t . D r.
Robert M acV icar.follow ingan
investigation by the NAACP,
Henry accusea baseball coach,
Gene Tasnelli, of cutting black
outfielder, Verdel) A d a m s ,
from the baseball team fo r ra
cial reasons.
The case was brought to the
attention of the NAACP by
Lonnie H a rris, Chairman of
the CorvallisHum anRelations
Committee, who reported that
he had heard that black players
had been cut from the baseball
team because they were black.
He also heard Coach Tanselli
rem ark that he was not going
to have blacks on his team te ll
ing him what teams he could
play o r not play with. Tanselli
had stated that the coach at
Brigham Young U niversity
was his best friend and that he
would not have blacks on his
team because of black opposi
tion to racial policies ofBYU.
There has never been a black
player on the baseball team
since Tanselli has been coach
at Oregon State, nor had he re
cruited a black player.
Other members of the team
informed the NAACP th a t
Adams was a good baseball
player and that he could not
have been cut from the team
because of lack of a b ility . They
stated, as did Adams, that the
coach never made any attempt
to assist or encourage Adams
and did not give him help when
he asked fo r it. One white
player recruited by Tanselli
said the coach told him that he
would never have a black on his
team. The team members also
reported that Adams was re
placed by a white player who
had not proved his a b ility , did
not try out fo r the team o r par
ticipate m spring training.
It was also reported thatDon
Reyno.ds, who graduated from
C o rva llis High School in 1971,
would have liked to attend OSL
but knew he would not be
treated ta irly by T anselli.
Robert C la rk, American Le
gion coach who coached Rey
nolds, said he has observed
(b U ’ s baseball program and
teels that a black w ill not re
ceive a fa ir opportunity.
Conterences with thecoach-
mg staff brought the conclu
sion that OSU A thletic D ire c
to r, James B a rra tt, is not
really concerned about getting
to the root of discrim inatory
practices in his department,
but is interested in justifying
the positions of his coaches.
He does not admit that racial
discrim ination exists m (S I
athletics.
r he conclusion drawn by the
C o rva llis Branch is th itCoach
Gene la .is e lli has d is c rim i
nate! against Verdel I Adams
because of race and that the
Athletic Department has not
taken action to insure th a t
Coach Tanselli’ s attitude is
not goo.! fo r the OSD basebal
program and recommend that
if he cannot change, he be re
placed. I hey also recommend
that the A thletic D ire cto r
"take positive and construc
tive action to root out d is c ri
minatory practices in his de
partm ent.”
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I lie next meeting ot the ( u e -
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A p ril 30,1972 between 5:00 a rut
7:00 p.m. at tlie E lksC lu b .b N .
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electing o ffic e rs . Everyone is
welcome.
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