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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1972)
JLK rati U S. POSTAGE Kb Fiance* ichoen-Newspaper Rm Unlvesiity of te Library P A I D * * ^ 0 . OR- ;ON Eumene. Pre 97403 POR T M A'/) Volum « 2 No. 4 2 Portland, O regon THE ONLY ro OBSERVER AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER NEWSPAPER IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD THAT REALLY CARES ABOUT PEOPlf T h u r ,d a y July 2 7 ,1 9 7 2 10< p e r copy Portland blacks divided on busing seeks to overcome white fear National Neighbors Task Forces coordinator Robert G. Ketron was in Portland this week publicizing National Neighbor« nationwide pro gram. National Neighbor« 1« •n organization of Interracial n e ig h b o r h o o d s that was formed In 1970 " to fostei and encourage successfully integrated neighborhoods." One of the m ajor goals of the organization 1« to let white people know the benefit« of integrated living and to help them overcome th e ir fears and Ignorance. liv e r fifty local neighbor hood associations, Including Portland's Irvington improve Junes ti Brooks, National Neighbors Board memher and ment Association, («long to K o le rt G. Ketron, coordinator of Task Forces, discuss their National Neighbor s. They are organization s program during Ketron« v is it to Portland. also seeking memberships from all organizations and ports local organization acti ing market to all Americans institutions that are Involved vities to Improve community on an equal opportunity basis. In tie neighbor hoods Inc lulling life by [a ib llcl/ln g positive The strength of NN lies real estage Interest», banking programs to other member entirely in the committment ar*l financial Institutions, organizations and the public ami involvement of its officers civic organizations ar*J gov at large. ami delegates in their own ernment. National Neighbors I he 3rd annual conference respective home town organi re p re s e n ts neighborhood of NN delegates, field in June zations. t; very NN leader has residents ami seek to to esta in Baltim ore, undertook a developer! on the local level, blish within local government complex coord (native cam serving local community In an acceptance of the integrity paign to develop ar. Informa terests. The degree of ser anti important of local neigh tion exchange program Six vice offered by lie Individuals borhoods. task forces were established in its m em let organizations National Neighborhood Is to so licit, accumulate, analyze lias resulted in community the only federation of local and disseminate specific pro participation In v irtu a lly in te r-ra cia l neighborhoods grams used successfully by every field of civic endeavor. and communities, of con ctawnunlty organizations to Most Important. NN has been ce tria l civic groups ami in overcome problems in com a catalyst and an inspiration dividuals, in the United States munications. educ ition, hous In helping us recognize that which seeks to help one an ing. Illegal teal estate prac tair problems are common other to solve local problems tices, public services ami to a ll, ami that Ideas are at the local level. and community action. James leing generate! and acted upon I he national faleration O. Brooks of Portland is exists solely fo r the benefit chairman of the ' ’ Community of Its member oiganlzatlons, C lout" Task Force. In addi as an information ami action tion, NN is seeking funding to re fe rra l and resource ser establish an effective action vice. In addition, NN sup- program in opening tfie hous in communities from coast to coast in an e ffo rt to im prove the quality of urban life . I lie henefits to local muni cipalities are innumerable. NN through Its information exchange, increases aware ness and knowledgeability on tlie part of local residents. Support of local member o r ganizations and their pro grams stimulates increased local involvement and co operation in activities from zoning and code enforcement to urban lenewal planning, from police community rela tions to tra ffic control and public tra n sit. The excitement,enthusiasm and increased confidence In the a bility of local organiza tions to solve local pro blems which has heen gen erateli by NN regional and national conferences is in fectious. The "good neigh bor«" concept has been ex panded to include neighbor hoods in every section of the country. More important, however, is the recognization of tlie need of local people to band together, generate »leas and programs to solve their own problems, and then commit themselves to rolling up th e ir sleeves and act to achieve th e ir goals. An ac tive, aware, informed, con cerned, committed, in ltia tive - oriented community is a healthy community — an as set to themselves, their neigh- ( I ’lease turn to p.8 col. 3) Albina blacks among appointees l i r . Booker I . Lewis and N 'rs. Faye l.yday were named by Governor Tom McCall to serve on the new Oregon P blic Welfare Review Com mission. | ) r . Lewis, a P ort land Jentist, is a form er member of the Multnomah County Welfare Commission. M rs. l.yday is a Program Planning Specialist fo r the Model C ities Agency and was tli- firs t presidentof theM ult- nomah County W e lf a r e Mi ihers Association. I (e c o m m is s io n was created by the 1971 Legis lature to replace the Public Welfare Advisory Committee. The commission remains In an advisory role but its du ties have been recast. The law provides thateight uf tie IS members of the con mission w ill he present members of county welfare lx>ards; five must be public assistance recipients or fo r m er recipients; and two must represent public o r private agencies interested in public Davis publishes again A Portland State U niver sity professor has recently compieteti a comprehensive bibliography on ’ 'Blacks In the C itie s " . Lenwood G. Davis, who Is completing his second year on the faculty of Portland State U niversity, was notified recently by the Council on Planning L i brarians of M onticello, I l l i nois, that the publication date set fo r October of this year. iM ltie d "B la cks In the C ities 1908-1972", it is p ri m a rily design«! as a re ference fo r those who wish to learn more «bout Blacks in urban areas. The biblio graphy attempted to lis t eveiythlng that has teen w rit ten on the urban growth of Blacks, whether books, a rti cles In newspapers and peri odicals ami official govern ment documents. M rs. Mary Vance, his editor, called It (Continue p. 8 col. 5) assistance. C o u n t y Welfare Board members-two from each congressional d is tr ic t- - are M rs . N a o m i M a n s f ie ld , T igard; M rs Barbara Knutson, Sheridan Wasco C o u n ty Judge (J. W . Kortge. 7 he Dal les; M rs I rbana Manion, Warm Springs; M rs Margot P e rry and D r. Booker T. Lew is, J r , both of Portland; Douglas County Commission er Ray I oemer, Roseburg ; and Henry F . Padgham,Med ford. C om m unity split Representing the recipient fo rm e r recipient group are Reynaldo Cantu,Independence M rs . D oris McPherson, Sa lem; M rs Faye Lyday, P o rt land; M rs Nina Torson, E l m ira ; and M rs . Madelon Power, Dallas. Many Caucasians w ill say that since there has been such a big fight for integration, and now it seems that some blacks are renege and are op posed to busing, "W hy can’ t they Je w > they want, Public agency represen and all be together." tatives are Charles Bocci of u u r community is much like the s ta t e comprehensive any other community — not Health Planning A uthority and all blacks are fo r busing. Edward Bergstrom, S ilve r- Some are opposed to one-way ton, Salem Area Seniors. txising and some are not. Some are opposed to any type of txising. In the Week com munity, like in the white com munity, each individual has his own ideas on many issues. fine-way txising w ill give black kids a way to follow the d o lla r resources. One way busing might helpachieve quality education. Call it a voluntary system o r adminis trative tra n sfe r, it has its goof points which might out weigh some of its evils. Those children who are chosen to be transferred attend the better schools wliere quality education is more nearly a reality. They also can suc cessfully compete with white children and learn to succeed in the white w orld. They are provided the models ot the successful professional and txisiness community, to which d ifficu ltie s and to determine the tongue’ s a b ility to distin guish touch sensations. F ive-year-old Wendi trie s to i- dentlfy each object without peeking. School per annum compounded daily and paid quarterly Ik n j. O F n in k liii raaiaak ia » ta e i a ia a a a n a Robvil M H an n P i« « • 1« O llie « • Phon» 22« 1J33 Hom» Ollie» IranXIm Bldg Poill»nd, Oi»gon »120« on view s would not te exposed to in tie ghetto, and hopefully some of the models would be non whites of varied ethnic hack- grounds. In the past the public schools have not p r o v id e d t.hese models and we must note that more of the black leaders such as D r. M artin Luther King. J r ., Jesse Jack- son, Dodie Bates, Charles E vers, Julian Bond are pro ducts of black schools in the ghetto. The evil of a one-way txising system is that it de stroys a community. A one way txising system, with grades being e l im i n a t e d through voluntary busing or adm inistrative transfer, w ill eventually e l i m i n a t e the schools in the ghetto. People who have talked with the Observer, both black and white, believe thatelim ination of the schools in any com munity is e vil since every community needs it bussiness, its churches, and its schools. Busing of black children out to white schools reinforces attitudes of superiority since it is only the black students who must leave th e ir com munities to go togood schools. The burden of riding a bus to school is placed on the black students and th e ir fa m ilie s instead of being shared by the Caucasians. It is tra d itio n a lly the black child who must break the b a rrie rs and suffer tie hardships. A survey of O b s e r v e r readers show s differences of opinion on the issue of busing of school children to e lim i nate racial imoalance and to bring about quality education. However, there is much concern in the community about busing and how it w ill be applied in Portland. Re cently rum ors have been c ir culating that the Albina schools w ill be closed and all children bused out of the black community. D r. Robert B la n c h a r d , Superintendent of the Portland Public Schools, said on June 2, 1972, " . . . that we should not send children from pre dominately middle c la s s schools where quality is high to schools of low quality. We should assign the poor to the predominately middle class schools and use the buildings from whence they come fo r ocher educational purposes (such as e a rly childhood cen- (Please turn to p.8 col,3) Emanuel appoints advisory committee D r. C urtis Weiss, assistant professor of speech pathology at the U niversity of Oregon Medical School Crippled C h il- di an s Division, uses one of 24 small plastic objects of va r- lous shape* in a simple new test he devised to detect speech Instant Earnings from Day o f Deposit Busing is a necessary tool fo r quality education. of course, every parent is fo r busing because every parent wants the best possible edu cation fo r his children. In tie black community there are manydifferent ideas on txising. Many blacks are fo r txising but are not thinking of busing in the same terms as Caucasions. Most Cau casians think In term s of one way busing, which in many respec.s has its evils the same as"separatebutequal” . Busug has teen a tradition fo r America to achieve segre gation. This too was a one way txising system. It may be that one-ways busing is the best possible solution fo r the moment. However, many of the problems that exist today in the ghetoo schools are just "Chickens comicg home to roost.’ When the whites bussed the more accomplished black children out of the ghetto schools and left those who fo r many reasons were less talented, it brought the exist ing chaos. I he tongue is one of the body's Ixislest oigans. It Is important in eating, tasting, swallowing. But one of Its most Important Jobs Is forming the sounds made while talking, I he tongue Is, fo r its size, the body’ s strongest muscle. Ami It Is one of the hanlest woi king. People spend about a th lid of then waking hours talking. But biawn alone Is not enough. The tongue must be able to move accurately. N orm ally, the tongue can feel things well enough that the brain can sense where the tongue lies Inside the mouth. This infonnatlon helps tlie brain move the tongue precisely while talking. But some children may have trouble talking because they have d iffic u lty feeling with th e ir tongue. A test to de tect the problem Is being developed by a U niversity of Oregon Medical School speech spec ia list. D r. C u rtis E. Weiss, assis tant professor of speech path ology at the School’ s Crippled Children's D i v i s i o n , uses small plastic objects of va ri ous shapes to check tongue sensitivity to touch. They are pressed against the child’ s tongue, one at a tim e. Then the child trie s to identify the correct shape on a chart without looking at the object itse lf. A child who has trouble distinguishing die circle s from squares, o r the triangles from stars, using only his tongue, may also have trouble making the complicated torque movements that speech re quires. Weiss uses 24 different ob jects in the test. Children with normal speech co rre ctly (Please turn to pg. 8, co l. 4) Potential fo r a broad-based system to improve the health and health care of citizens throughout the P o r t l a n d metropolitan area was ex plored Thursday at Emanuel Hospital by members of a newly-formed Community Ad visory Committee. P ro p o s e d vehicle fo r improving the com m unity's health and w ell-being is a Health Maintenance Organi sation (HMO), in which health care providers (hospitals , physicians, nurses,c 11n lc s, ambulatory fa c ilitie s , extend ed care units, etc.) provide care on a contract basis to an enrolled membership through a health insurance program financed by em ployers, government o r sub scribers themselves. "W e need your help to tell us how to design a healt delivery system that’ s better than what we have now.” Melvin Breese, M . D., chal lenged the advisory com mittee Breese heads the HMO ad hoc committee of the Emanuel medical staff which initiated the HMO study but he, like other speakers, emphasized that the hospital hopes even tually to be only one of many "p ro v id e rs of care” involved in the projected a rea-wide health care system. HMO's place heavy em phasis on preventive health care— keeping patients well and out of hospitals. Breese who said 95% of a physicians time and training now is di rected p rim a rily to treat ing acutely i ll patients, asked committee members to e- valuate the types of pre ventive health programs needed here. P roject d i r e c t o r fo r the HMO study is Paul J Vogt, fo r m er hospital adm inistrator and d ire c to r of Minneapolis Health and Hospitals pro grams, who said the key charge to the committee is to find out, "w hat do the c iti zens of Portland want?" He said one "constantalternative HMO study Is Paul J . Vogt, fo rm e r hospital adm inistrator plementation of " fin a l re commendations fo r the best best and most feasible HMO a lte rn a tive " would be achiev ed by e a rly 1973. (Please turn to pg. 4, col. 3,
