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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.
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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,