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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1972)
State to assure consumer protection Wendell Brow% partner In M u rria Construction Company, ami Ludia i Lee check new caipet they Inatailed at Geneva'a. (Piloto: Paul Knawls) ACLU asks withdrawal of Oregon troops The American C ivil L ib e r ties Union of (iiegon ha a reaffirmed Its support for en actment of an Oregon law to prohibit service by Oregon ians In foreign undecl a red wars. An effort Is being made to put the measure on tlie Novembei ballot by Initi ative petition. Il passed the Oregon Senate In 1971. In announcing Saturday’ s action by the Executive Board of tlie Oregon ACLU, Charles Davis, Chairman sald,"W htle die President ol I tie United States plates about tlie evils of 'pei mlsslveness' and 'lack of lespect for law,’ he con tinues with an undecl a ted. Il legal w ai, waged with weapons of unspeakable horroi to sup port a i eg line whose values most Americans detest, this la tlie ultimate In lawlessness and contempt for the Consti tution." Commenting on recent statements by Herb Klein, White House D irecto ro fC o m - muntcatlons, Davis added, " the Im m orality and Illegal ity of our war-making Is not cured by self-serving ques tions about the virtue of tlie enemy. Surely theCommunlst war lords we call enemy are as evil as the non-Cornmuntst tyrants we call ally, but it la our own m orality that must concern us.” I he ACLU Is urging Its membeis throughout tlie state to assist In obtaining signa tures (or the Initiative peti tion and to vote for the meas ure If It Is placed on the No vember lull lot. Ethnic schools ordered closed The U , S. Office of C ivil Rights hat ordered the Het ke- ley School D istrict toclose its two ethnic schools or face the loss of $ l.b million a year in feder al funds. The sellouts are Black House, atteniled by about 70 black high school stu dents, and Casa de la Raza, for ISO Chicanos, these schools were Initiated as ethnic ex periments after blacks anti Chicanos complained t h a t their histories and cultures were not presented properly in the regular schools. Whiles a re excluded from b o th schools. J. Stanley Pott inger, lie ad of the U.S. Office o fC ivll Rights, sakl in his letter to the Hei ke- ley School D istric t, "(in the one hand, the Casa de la Raza and Black House expei intents can lie viewed as w ell-inten tioned, goal faith attempts on tl« part of a local education agency which has undergone several yeats of voluntary de segregation. "O n Ihe oilier hand, there Is th e la n g u a g e o f T itle VI of the C ivil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids tlie exclusion of any In dividual from lurticlpatlon In any federally assisted pro gram on tie grounds of race, Colot o r national origin." Superintendent of Schools, Richard Foster, said hewould see how the schools can he brought into compl lance. CHAPMAN Candidate for District 18 Chapman for Rep. 2221 NJK. 59th M e n d e r St. P h lllp a Claircfc SHO P lENOW'S FOR -B R A N D S you know -V A R IE T IE S you liki - SIZES you w a n t 'M H S ! M .'w ,.» , V ’ h * le s t K u m iu lr » 7?n«t A N I G h te n N I L n s m t l et r ie m h b o s id el O G re e le y M e i^ • .Mh le t ie Mb H ills P íe e I •?'«<! . x on Ml et S S I I o D**-S'on The Friendliest Stores In Town 'Since 1908 • M EM BIB O f U t ‘t A J J id A • • S I M „ . , ,x H in t u H»tb A S I (> i«iv.«m J |.« | A W n l H i. • l «he Osseetgo H R A U N IftD GROCERS eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeweeeeeeeeeee*raieeeeeeeeeeee«e<e«eeeee l 1 RETAIN JUDGE PHILIP t. ABRAHAM DISIRJCT COURT S T ATE OF OREGON MULTNOMAH COUNTY DF.PT. 6 NON-PARTISAN EXPERIENCED - QUALIFIED SUBMITTED BY: Committee to retain Judge Abraham Chaa. M . Lowry CPA Chairman 113 Cascade Plaza Portland o r 97201 «eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Governor T om M cCall an nounced tlie State Department of Agrlculature soon w ill re double Its efforts to assure that only safe meat products reach tlie consuming public. McCall said both lie and State Agriculture D irector I r vin Mann, J r . helleve the de partment should amplify Its work " In tlie area of direct consumer ptotectlon - In the Inspection and analysis of prepackaged meat foods and prepackaged meats, and of pet foods, which are usually served In the kitchen." The Department of Agricul ture w ill increase the frequen cy of Inspections of meat In transit, and at retail food m a r kets, frozen fo o d lockers and pet food plants. Responsibility for inspec tion of slaughter and process ing plants w ill he handed to the federal government, the gov ernor sakl, although the plants still w ill 1« licensed by tlie state and be required to main tain high standards of sanita tion and operation procedures. "Oregon Intends to furnish consumer protection through a system of uniform sanita tion, sampling and analysis of meat products at tlie point of sale - at retail food markets arai frozen food lockers," the governor said. McCall and Mannexpressed concern about the condition of over-.ige fresh meats offered for sale at reduced prices. Ihey also said increased at tention should le paid to re frigeration arai care of meat in transit. Oregon h as conducted a meat inspection program at slaughter a nd processing plants for 15years. Since 1968, this has been on «cooperative basis with the federal govern ment, with costs shared equal ly. The federal government has had o v e r -a ll responsi bility. McCall sakl amendments to the Federal Meat Inspection Act place increased emphasis on bringing about uniform fa cility requirements In slaugh ter and processing plants. F o r the state to continue to share in the program, McCall said, 10-14 more veterinarians would have to be hired. The state’ s costs would rise, he said, but " a t the expense ot adequate protection at tlie Im mediate consumer level - the retail m arket." McCall said the federal- state relationship will be te r minated July I. He said tie has Ixsen advised by tlie U.S. De partment of Agriculture that exemptions from the full effect of the act probably will Tie granted to small custom slaughterhouses. The governor added that the change will allow the State De partment of Agriculture to add the necessary licensed sani tarians and laboratory techni cians to handle the increased retail inspections workload with less money that It would take to continue u n d e r tlie state-federal system. M cCall said he believes tlie redirection of the state effort Is responsive to the findings of a study made last January by the Oregon Student Public In terest Research Group (OS- PIRG). The study, he said, was sanctioned by Director Mann and OSPIRG representatives received the full cooperation of department personnel. Students endorse Horse R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s from eighteen colleges throughout Oregon gathered at the Con gress Hotel to express their support of Wayne Morse for die United States Senate. Col leges represented Included: University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Portland State University,Central Ore gon Community Col lege. C lat sop Community College, M arylhurst College, arKj Lewis and C lark College. "W e support SenatorMorse because of his consistant, vig orous, and humane stand against tlie w ar In Southeast A s ia ," read the telegram from Blue Mixintatn Community College. "H is clear position on Agriculture is vital to our region,’ ’ the Pendleton state ment continued. Tlie University of Oregon Service Employees and the National I (ten Coalition. M r . Brown said there was no disagi cement that the spirit of the law gives priority to the disadvantaged. "And that’ s exactly what w e're doing." he said. I here are two parts to tlie equation." he said, "and pre viously we have addressed only one p a rt." "W e have been so wrapped up in Job training and counsel ing that we have not properly kept upwithemployer’ s needs. "A s a result, we have lost 750,000 placements thatwould have benefited black and 250,- 000 that would have benefited the disadvantaged during the past four years,” he said. "O ur new guidelines simply reflect the realization that we've got the get the employer into the equation. "W e can't continue to train tlie disadvantaged if there will I * no repeat for them ," M r. Brown sakl. I lie Coloiado suit was filed by the (lenver Urban Coali tion, Denver Eedeiatlon of La bor, Colorado W elfare Rights Oigamzatton and three private Citizens, itch ai ges that Colo rado officials of the Federal Employment Service h a v e used funds earmarked foi the actions and ideas that he Isas youthful as we re . A man that has intirm te working knowledge of th« Senate. A man tliat can go Io work right away." The women ol M arylhurst College declartd, "Wayne M orse Is a liberated Woman's candidate." T h e ir statement continued, "W e reed his pow erful Influence now, locally nationally and internationally. With the present state of the nation, we need someone who is not indecisive or a fra id ." The Oregon State students suggest»! the theme of all die statements, "W e endorse Wayne M orse for the Senate because of his proven capabi lities as a statesman arid de fender of the public interest." Caucus sues to halt import The Congressional Black Caucus and a number of p ri vate organizations have sued the United States government to stop Imports ol chrome ore from Rhodesia. Import was resumed recendy despite United N a t io n s sanctions against Rhodesia. American Imports of the ore from the white-run nation of 5 million Africans and 240,000 whites were authorized after a heated debate last year. The government placed the ore on the str ategic materials list, which makes Its importa tion possible, even though the General service Administra tion stated that tlie 1.3 m il lion tons now stockpiled would he sufficient for defense needs for ten years. In announcing the suit. Rep resentative Charles Dlggs(D- Labor Department charged with bias The Department of Labor has teen accused of d is crim i nation for allegedly violating F e le ra l mandates that it focus its employment service re sources on the special needs of tie pool anddlsadvantaged. The accusation was Initially made In a class action lawsuit filed in Colorado last Novem ber, it was repeated in a letter sent to James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor, by seven antipoverty and social action organizations. I he changes center on changes in policy governing the department’ s Employment and T raining Service - a net work of 2,200 fedei ally funded employment centeis, around tlie country tliat offer a var lety of Job counseling, placement and related training programs to the public. In prior years the Depart ment o f l.aboi has given major priority to job training and placement of the disadvan- taged, who include tlie hard- to-employ - those under 21 and over 45 with no skills and lim ited education. But this year It has decided to shift itsemphasisto making more job placements and de veloping more jobs. In nieasunng its perfor mance the employment ser vice counts tlie numhei of job placements It makes rather than tlie actual number of new Jobs It finds. It Is possible and not uncommon for tlie same person to lie placed ««many as ten times. Robert J . Brown, director of tlie employment service net work, said that the policy shift was calculated to "enable us to better seive the poor anddls- advantageil," but critics say it Is designed to improve the ap pearance of a bad performance record in o ld er to Justify tlie several legislative requests now pending before Congress, which, if approved, would pour additional millions of dollars into tlie employment network. 1 lie critics maintain that (he Job-ready, such as teachers or craftsmen, w ill benefit most, not the disadvantaged. T h e critics say the employers are shying away from employing die disadvantaged - as evi denced by a decline in job list ings with die employment ser vice - because It is assumed they don’ t have the necessary skills. C ritics helleve thatby giving job training of the dis advantaged a back seat the si tuation Is perpetuated. Ihe letter of criticism to Secretary Hodgson makes the same charge. It was sent by the Center for Community Change, League of Women Voters, National Assembly for Social Policy and Develop ment. National Association for Community Development. Na tional z\ asocial ton of W orkers, National Conference of Public statement stress id, "Wayne M orse lias prove i through his disadvantaged as g e n e r a l funds to benefit other groups of persons already job-ready. The plaintiffs say they will further show that the new reg ulations w ill encourage conti nuation and escalation of this type alleged violation. PSU Scholars accept applicants High school counselors are being advised that applications to the Portland State Univer sity Scholars Program now are being processed and ad missions Interviews are being conducted. D r . Judah Bierman, USP director, said he expects the quota to be filled by June 15, but added thatapplicationswill he accepted as long as posi tions remain available. Graduating seniors may ob tain further information from the high school counseling of fice, or by writing or phoning the University Scholars P ro gram, Portland State Univer sity, P.O . Box 751, Portland, O r e , 97207. The phone num ber is 229-4498. WANTED: BRIGHT YOUNG COL LEGE M IN I OR EXEC UTIVE POSITIONS IN govehnmen ; must MEET PHYSICAL RE QUIREMENTS QUALIFY THROUGH SPECIAL TRAINING COURSE. Here’s a government job with a real future. A pilot and officer in the Air Force An executive-level job in anybody's book. To qualify, college grads enter the Air Force’s Officer Training Program and upon receiving their commission continue on to flight school. Investigate You’ll find that as an Air Force pilot you’ll be able to go far, fast. Find yours«! in the United States Air Force Mich.) said, “ The Importation of chrome . . .vlclated solemn commitments of the United States to the United Nations.” The two firm s that Import the chrome are UnlonCarbide Corporation and Foote M in eral Company. P ort! m d /o b s e rv e r T hursday M a? 18, 1972 p a r a J — ».» «aw e. X, Don MURPHY | For City Council Position No. 4 / f IS 7 true for a Change! ,,,, < To Elect Don Murphy «322 SE Woodstock — Irene Johnvxv Treasurer J ïfiE IS Raymond L. Jones for CIRCUIT JUDGE Reliable - 20 years ex perience In Estates, W ills i Probate Law Pd. adv. Jones for Judge C o m m ./ Ron Douglass 4 Bob Broderick, Co-chairm en/ 7l8 Corbett Bldg. as your District Attorney Endorsed by the Portland Observer Haas For District Attorney Committee, John Haugh, Treasurer, 727 Corbett Bldg., ph. 2 2 2 -6 4 3 8
