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.
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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
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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
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Raymond
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for
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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
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Haas For District Attorney Committee,
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