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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1972)
fr ra n c e Paper •> c h o e 'a l.i ■re '»7 »<>. POR I l i ND Volum e 2. No. 45 P o rtland, O regon ¥4 THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN OBSEHtEK AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD THAT REALLY CARES ABOUT PEOPLE * A ■» * U° US 7 972 P * f C° PX Tuskegee Syphiilis scandal called genocide US tests bus bon Scoutmaster of Boise T ro o p #92 lielps boys board camp-bound txia. T l * Big T hunder District of it» Columbia Pacific Council of the Boy Scouts of America provided campsites for 80 boys from Mixlel Cities and Columbia V illa . Among the boys sponsored were Boise T roop #92 and Ockley Green I roop #29. I 1« boys. Including Scouts and non-Scouts, w ill spend a week at Camps M erlw eather and C lark on the Oregon Coast. The Justice Department last Monday asked tbeU,S.9th C irc u it Court of Appeals to halt desegregation of Oxnard, California schoola, until all appeals In the case are com plete. Substantial busing is in volved In the Oxnard desegre gation effort. The department's request, filed by David L . Norman, as sistant attorney general for civil rights, and W illiam Kel le r, U.S. itto m ey in Los Angeles, marked tie first time the government had gone to court to defend the federal antibusing law that took effect July 1. As a measure of the Impor tance the department attaches to tl« case, Norman w ill be in San Francisco to participate when tie case is argued («fore the 9th C irc u it Court, a spokesman said. Under the new law. federal court busing orderstoachleve racial balance In schools are postponed until all appeals are exhausted or the time for ap pealing runs out. Lawyers for the Western Center on Law and Poverty in (Please turn to pg. 8, col. 4) JAMES MAYES lias been promoted to operations officerat F irs t National Bank of Oregon's M idway-Division branch. He resides at 420) N .E . 20th Street. A native of Portland, he was graduated from Benson High School and received his bachelor of science degree in business administration from L in fe ld College. U of O seeks black students SANDRA G AYLuR l), 1971 National Hula lloopChainplon, checks out the form of her sister Teresa, age 7, who isa contestant in tills year's event. The 1972 National Hula Hoop Championships, spon sored try W hain-o, makers of tie popular toy. w ill take place for the fourth year at the Universal Studios Tour Entertainment Center, Universal City, California, on T hursday. August 24th. Re gional Hula Hoq, Champions from all overtheUJS. w ill be competing for the top prize of a $1,000 U.S. Savings Bond. /Veso heÿai 6ui/dcommunity With tl» opening of a luxur iously remodeled office build ing, David M . Nero, J r ., I«a taken another step in tie ful fillm ent of a lifelong goal, that of an Independent and profes sional bualiesaman bringing together and utilizing minority scientists and professionals in tl» delivery of services. Nero heads both Nero Indus tries, Inc. and Nero and Asso ciates, |nc., (»adquartered in the l e i r t of Albina at 3525 N .E . Union Avenue. Nero Industries, organized in tl« spring of 1969 for pur poses of setting up several cWhy not invest locally? C IIiE w tit/. f Savings on deposit with us go to work here In Oregon. Franklin Sob.rt M. Hann. Sraa • is ONlow • Skone M S -itM M om . O fflO M tre n M Ie SW « . M * r t e M . O w e « . 17104 sophisticated s m a l l bu nesses throughout the area divisions and to be later s, off as separate entitles, w later deslgi»d as a manpov delivery organization. Nero pointed to one of contracts with pride. "Ope atlon S T E P -U P Is a M a Cities funded contract I $213,730 annually,deallngw the unemployed and underei ployed of this neighborhot In tl» Second Action Year ■ placed 119 Model Cities re; dents In higher-paying jol T heir total monthly lncoi tiefore placement was $43,5 and Is now almost doubled $84,219 monthly. We havepr vlded educational asslstan to 181 Model Neighbor!)» residents In areas of technic training to PhJJ programs Nero said thatextenslve n search Indicates that STEF UP Is unique. "T h e re 's n another one like it In the coui try that we know of, and I la lieve we have a concept whit could be adapted anywlere ar provide a need which can I measured In substantial ecc nomlc tenns, but. most lm portantly, can provide fc man's well-being and lnde|»n deuce. Industry Is now wlllln to hire qualified minorities I wider and more responslbl positions throughout thecoun try. "T he last statement is th chief source of skepticism ex pressed by Nero-watchers those looking at the enter (Please turn to pg. 8, col. 2 Project 75 Is an educational opportunity program designed to provide tl« opportunity and «ipport for Black people who want to attend college. The program iegan In F all of 1968 and has grown to be the largest student-populated and stu dent staffed program of Its kind on the University of O re gon campus. The rationale behind t l * program Is to advance an ed ucational opportunity to Black people who, because of low High School CPA's or lack of funds would not have other wise had t l * chance to further their educational exper«nces. The advantages of a college education today are many — and the disadvantages of not having one are twice that. After a four-year col lege pro gram a man has many more doors open to him and the tools or skills to open doors that have hlther-to been closed to him. With these same skills he can go beck to his people aid teach others what he himself lias learned, there by helping them to help them selves. The BlackCommunity -•an strengthen itself aid grow and become a powerful unit through education and moti vated minds. With these goals in mind. Project 75 has designed into Its program as many faci lities as possible to meet t l * various needs of its stu dents aid to help them to make t l * last of their ex periences here. F irs t Is the ijuestion of financial a d for each student. This is pro- vded in three forms: 1. NATIONAL DEFENSE STUDENT LOAN. This is federal money borrowed by the student which must be re pad by the student over a 10 year period following the com pletion of his education. 2. EDUCATIONAL O P PORTUNITY GRANT (EOG). This Is federal money granted (given, to students to use toward their education. This money is not given in place of the NDEA loan, but is pro vided in addition to the loan, 3. WORK - STUDY PRO GRAM, This is a federally lUnded program which enables eligible students (from low income f a m i l i e s and/or inane tally Independent) to work In a training situation (in areas related to the stu- dent’ s interests, while goir^ to school. The federal money comprises 80$ of the student salaries, while the employer pays the remaining 20$. These three financial aid programs combine to cover the average student expenses for the year, averaging one- third each of the total among • 4 the financial package of ap proximately $2900 per year. In addition to providing fi nancial service for its stu dents, Project 75 offers three other services to all its stu dents. These services are: (I) academic advising and counseling, (2) tutorial ser vices and (3) vocational career gudance. Advising / Counseling Ser vices provide a source of aca- (Please turn to pg. 8, col. 5) Representative Ralph H. M etcalfe (D e m .- lll.j, chair man of the sub-committee on health of tie Congressional Black Caucus, has demanded a bill-scale investigation of the 4 0 -y e a r experiment on syph ilis conducted by the United States Public Health Service in Tuskegee. M etcalfe said ne is looking into the possibility of seeking compensation for surviving victim s and tie fam ilies of t h o s e involved in the study. On July 26, A s s o c la ted Press revealed that the Tus kegee Study began in 1932 with. 600 black men, mostly poor and uneducated, used as human guinea pigs in the study of the effects of syphilis. Four hun dred of the men had syphilis txit were not treated. The study was begun by D r . J . R. Hellen, assistant surgeon gen eral of the venereal disease section of the Public Health Service, ten years before pen ic illin was found to be a cure for syphilis. In spite of the availability of the drug, no treatment was offered to the men who were also kept ignor ant of their disease. At the be ginning of this year, only 74 were s till alive. D r . Regionald James, a government doctor who was in Macon County between 1939 and 1941, sax! he was told not to treat men involved in the experim ent. "Whenever I in sisted on treating such a pa tient, he never showed up again. They were being ad- vised th e y shouldn't ta k e treatment or they would be dropped from the study. At the time, certain benefits were proffered the patents such as treatment for other allm enu , payment of burial expenses and a $50 cash benefit. To re ceive these benefits the pa tient had to remain in the pro g ram .” The m atter is being dis cussed on Capital H ill. Sena tor Edward Kennedy (D e m .- M as a.j, chairman of the Sen ate sub-committee on health, has his staff making a p relim i nary investigation. Senator W illiam Proxm lre (D e m .- W lsc.j called the s tu d y a "m o ra l and ethical night m a re .” D r . EdwardMazique, form er president of the N a tional Medical Association, said the experiment was not necessary. The only thing needed at the time was a treat ment for syphilis and once penicillin was discovered, that removed any excuse for human experimentation. The NAACP has called for legal action against a ll per sons involved. " I t is not enough to deplore and suspend it. A ll perpetrators of thia ra cist crim e must be exposed and punished. It is a further demonstration of how cheaply the conceivers and executors of this diabolic plot hold black life. They would never have subjected white persons to such an experim ent." The following is the text of (Please turn to pg. 8, col. 2) Indian study approved This w»«k the U n ted Indian Council approved a proposal by Grant-Morgan Associates of Portland, Oregon to conduct a community analysis and needs assessment of the American Indian currently re siding in urban Multnomah County. This study is funded through an OEO grant under the sponsorship of the Urban Indian Program , an agency of the Portland Metropolitan Steering Committee, E.O-A^ - Inc. Included in the communi ty analysis w ill be selected in terviews with Indian Fam ilies and individuals concerning their problems, needs and as pirations. Through in-depth interviewing techniques de veloped by Grant-Morgan As sociates for community analy sis and utilizing trained Indian field interviewers, approxl- mately400 Indian fa m il« s w lll be contacted for information. (Please turn to pg. 8, col. 4) ■* - ” - J " 7 ’*■ : Work begins on Irving Park project Life begins at 52. That is the hope residents of the I r vington area hold for Irving P ark where work has just be gun on a long-awaited Im provement project. The park, named in 1920 for Captain W illiam Irving, a prominent Oregon pio i»er, has teen the subject of intensive neighbor hood planning over the past year. The firs t phase of those plans, a tot play area and i«w basketball facilities, is being put into action this week. Re grading of the baseball area w ill begin shortly. Residents started planning for improvements at a "hap pening" in the park In late Au gust of last year, o ver 200 persons listened to music and offered ideas about the future of the park. Irvington Community Asso ciation president. Andrew Fink, appointed Herbert Am erson to chair a committee to implement change using many of the Ideas brought out at the "happening.” The committee submitted a proposal to the Portland Development Com mission to use Neighborhood Development Program (NDP) funds from the federal govern ment to Improve the park. The residents contraeteti through the PortlandDevelop- (Please turn to pg. 8, col. 6)