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C oalition selects Vann, Casson fo r C ity Council
Public schools expand
Black Caucus chooses Jones
desegregation program
An ex|«mled administrative
transfer prog ism w ill le in
operation with tie opening of
school tills fall in tl» P o n
iani! Public Schools.
l ie administrative transfer
program lias leen Inexistence
since IM m . Under tie seven-
year-old progiem , students
from schools with high con
centrations of economically
deprived fam ilies and low
achievement can voluntarily
transfer to other schools with
hlgtier achievement levels,
provided tie receiving school
lias tie s|*ce to accomodate
them.
The program is ex
pected to Involved only alxxit
two per cent of tie d la trlc t's
72,(XX) students.
School officials said tie rs
are two main reasons for tie
anticipated Increase In num
ber this fs lly . F irs t, due to
tie declining enrollment In
the d is tric t, more apace Is
available to accomodate those
who wish to transfer; and,
second, a team of community
agents lias wot ked fo ra some
what longer je rlo d of time
this
sum m er
Informing
parents about tie availability
of tie program.
Cost of
transporting tie students are
la id from o tte r than local
property
tax
resources,
school officials said.
C urrently participation In
the program ta confined to
students
from Inner city
schools.
Harold W illiam s (right), d ire cto r ol tire PSU Educational Center,
is congratulated by assistant d ire cto r Harvey Rice on successful
completion of work at the University of Zagreb. W illiam s re
ceived his Masters degree from PSU on August Kith.
'Education is the w a y’
by Nan P hillips
Last March 20, M r. Harold
W illiam s, d ire cto r of tie
P o r t la n d state University
Education Center at 2611 NJ£.
Union, left Portland fo r Za
greb, capital of Croatia, fo r
five weeks of intensive study
at the University of Zagreb.
The trip was made possible
through a special fellowship
grant and the help of D r.
Charles White, professor of
H istory and assistant Dean
fo r International Education at
Portland State.
D r. White
was M r . W illiam s’ advisor
(Please turn to pg. 8, col. 5)
The Albina M in iste ria l A l
liance, the NAACP and the
Urban League have joined
hands to present to the P ort
land C ity Council two black
men, C. Don Vann and E llis
Casson.
The organizations
are requesting that tie coun
c il consider these men as
appointees to f ill the vacancy
on the C ity Council created
I by the election of Commis
sioner Neil Goldschmidt to
the position of M ayor.
The three organizations re
present approximately 18,000
persons, the vast m ajority of
whom are black residents of
Albina. The recommendations
are part of a community ef
fo rt to obtain the appointment
to the city council fo r a black.
The black people of Portland,
having no elected city, county
or sute officials, are asking
the city council to place a
black on the council.
AMA, N.AACP and the Urban
League did not consider the
Community Convention, which
met Saturday and chose Chal
mers Jones, to have been
representative of the black
community. The convention
was poorly attended, and in
tire eyes of the spokesmen
fo r the coalition, was not o r
ganized in the best way to
achieve community support.
C. Donn Vann is a Portland
C. DON VANN
taisinessman. operating Vanns
M ortuary on W illiam s Ave.
Vann has been a resident of
Portland fo r the past 18 years.
Vann attended Michigan
S ate U niversity, Northwes
tern School of Law, St. Louis
College of M ortuary Science
and Portland Su « U n ive rsity.
He is liseensed to practice
Michigan, Oregon and na- i
tionally.
Active in tire Urban League
fo r many years, Vann is a
Past-President of the Urban
League of Portland and cur
rently is a member of the
Board of D ire cto rs. He is a
member of the Executive
Board of the NAACP, P o rt
land Branch; the Board of
D ire cto rs of the N a t io n a l
Funeral D irectors and M o r-
ticians, Inc.; the Portland
Chamber of Commerce; and
the Coliseum Kiwanis Club.
He Is a member of the Trus
tee Board of the Vancouver
Avenue F irs t Baptist Church.
Vann Is a fo rm e r member
of the Albina C itizen’ s War
on Poverty Committee and
was among those instrumental
in funding the Albina M u lti-
Service Center.
E llis Casson is the Re
gional C ivil Rights O fficer
fo r Region 10. He was pre
viously Adm inistrative Assis
tant fo r Intergroup Relations
to the Superintendent of the
Portland Public School. He
is a form er deputy d ire cto r
ELLIS CASSON
of Model C ities and was a
field representative fo r tlie
C iv il Rights D ivision of the
Oregon Sute Bureau o fLabor.
S ute Youth Commission; a
Portland Urban League.
Casson is currently P resi
board member of the YMCA;
Casson received his BA
dent of the NAACP. Portland
a vice-president of the Na
from Seattle-Pacific College
Branch. He is chairman of
tional Conference of C hris
and his Bachelor of D ivin ity
tlie Oregon Sute Commission
tians and Jews, O re g c ^ i
degree
from
Evangelical
on lntergroup Human Rela
Region; and a member of the
Seminary.
He is a ssisu n t
tions; and a member of the
board of d irectors of the
pastor of Bethel AME Church.
( I le following a rticle Is a
special report to tie Portland
Observer.)
by Jim Rogers
In a h isto rica lly significant
meeting, Sunday, August 26th,
•’ P- m -» at the Vancouver
Ave., F lra t lia p tist Church,
Portland’ s firs t Black Com
munity Convention elected
C la lm e rs Jutes, state ad
m in is tra to r fo r special pro-
giam s In the Department of
Human Resources, as tie
Black com m lnlty’ s candidate
fo r tie C ity Council post to
be vacated Jan. I. when Nell
Goldschmidt lecomes mayor.
Chalmers Jones, active in
tie lilsck commlnlty in social
six! civic affa irs since 1SM3.
defeated Black lawyer John
Toran, community leadei and
member of tie Executive
Council of tie Oregon Black
Caucus.
T ie convention invocation
and welcome was delivered
by Rev, O.B. W illiam s, pastor
of tie Vancouver Ave. F irs t
Baptist Church. In his open
ing rem arks. Rev. W illiam s
charged the audience with the
responsibility to work In har
mony and unity fo r the greater
good of the total community,
since in Rev. W i l l i a m s ’
opinion "to o long have we
lingered In the desert of in
decision.*'
A ttorrey John Toran, tie
c le lm ia n of the convention,
established the rules govern
ing the nomination and selec
tion of tire candidate; and tie
contents of a pledge of a l
legiance to be signed fry tire
candidate would serve tie
interests, needs, and desires
of all members of the com
munity.
CHALMERS JONES
M r. Jones was nominated
by David M. Nero, Black busi
nessman; and the nomination
was
seconded
by Dennis
Payne.
In his acceptance
speech to tire nomination, M r.
Jones said that ’ ’ this was
truely a mementous occasion
In it« history of the Portland
Black community . . . and the
Black community had two op
tions now opened to them that
related to their destiny; that
(I) this was the beginning In
Portland of tire firs t stages
of operationalunp -mandatory
if tie Black Community is to
sustain itself;
and (2) an
understanding of the channels
of power and progress to
achieve an improved quality
of life in our com m unity."
M r . Jones said that he "was
committed to both options."
M r. Jones added that he would
"w o rk hard to assure that
the real needs, desires and
(Please turn to pg. 8, col. 1)
Congress of African peoples
hold annual conference
Un Agust 31 through Sep-
tember 4, 1972, tlie Congress
of A frican People w ill hold
Its
2nd Bi-Annual Inter
national Assembly In San
Diego, C alifornia. The As
sembly w ill le hosted by tlie
Western Regional Coordinator
of the Congress of African
People,
Imamu V e r n o n
Sukumu. Tlie 1st Congress of
African People International
Assembly was in 1970 In A t
lanta, Georgia, at which time
tlie theme of "u n ity without
un ifo rm ity” was the firs t put
Into action with speakers from
a diverse background of ide
ological Influence, from tlie
late Whitney Young, J r., of
the Urban League, to M ln iste r
Louis Farrakhan of theNatlon
of Islam .
The 2nd International As
sembly w ill focus more speci
fica lly on Nationalist and I ’an-
A frika n ist development not
only in tlie U.S. hut around
tlie w orld.
It w ill be using
as its tlem e "K a z l (Swahili
fo r " w o rk ") is tlie Blackest
of a l l" .
Speakers fo r the
2nd Assembly w ill include
Imamu Baraka.C.L.R.Jam es.
Owusu Sadaukai, and repre
sentatives from Organization
of A frican Unity, TANU (Tan
ganyikan A frican Nationalist
Union),
PDG (Democratic
Party of Guinea), FRol I.'I
(F ro n t fo r the Liberation of
Zlmbatxve),
Roy lnnis of
CORE, Nelson Johnson of
SOBU, Malcolm X Liberation
U niversity, Joe W aller of
JOMO, Edward Vaugh of Pan
A frican Congress.
P art of the overriding con
cern of tlie 2nd International
Assembly is I) the question
of what should be the position
of Nationalists and P anA fri-
kamsts with regard to the
newly set up National Black
Assembly 2) What should be
the role of Nationalists and
PanAfrikanists r e g a r d in g
th e ir leadership In relation
ship to tlie media created c iv il
rights oriented leadership of
Black people, and 3) how to
proceed, i f possible, with tlie
concept of "u n ity without uni
fo rm ity ” when there are clear
differences between the ide-
(Please turn to pg, 8, co l. 3)
Senator Morse warns against Constitutional crisis
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Senator Wayne Morse told
law students of Northwestern
School of Law that lawyers
have an obligation to address
themselves to the problems In
this time of Constitutional
c ris is . "Unless we preserve
and implement constitutional
guarantees we are not going
to save a system of consti
tutional government.”
In speaking of the Brown
decision that brought school
desegregation, Morse said the
American people arenoihelng
told the truth.
The court
has never ordered wholesale
fusing lu t has ordered that
fusing be used as a tool to
prom o» desegregation. The
Brown decision found that
segregation vlolaws the op
portunity fo r equal education
of non-white children in tie
United S ûtes. Morse said
political philosophy has no
place in courts. In the Brown
case tlie evidence was ana
lyzed and the decision was
made.
Now an amendment
to the United States Constitu
tion to forbid busing and
thereby deny to blackchlldren
th e ir constitutional right to
equal aiucatlonal opportunity
Is seriously being considered.
He said, "th e re is no place
In America fo r an apartheid
society. This issue w ill play
a great part In the coming
campaign. They w ill seek to
deceive the American people
to believe that you can have
apartheid in the schools and
maintain
domestic
tran
q u ility ."
Senator Morse said the Su
preme Court is not acting to
guarantee the rights of c iti
zens and warned against
a coming constitutional c ris is .
The last time the Supreme
C ourt moved to prevent un
constitutional use of power by
a president was when P resi
dent Truman attempted to take
over the steel m ills during
the Korean W ar. The court
found there was no evidence
of need because of the war
e ffo rt.
That was the last time the
court Intervened against a
president. It takes four votes
to take jurisdiction and only
three ju stice s have teen w ill
ing to consider allegations
dial presidents have over-
asserted th e ir powers. "The
American people have a right
to have the Supreme Court
protect their rights when the
presidents excede th e ir con
stitutional pow ers."
T ie new Chief Justice has
challenged the Sth Amendment
and ju ry tria ls .
He plans
■hanges of procedure which
could deny the Individual his
rights.
"Substantive legal
rights w ill never beany better
than procedural rights. A ll
b ills should be examined as
to the procedures they ini
tiate and whether those pro
cedures w ill deny rig h ts.”
President Nixon has placed
him self in tlie position of a
ju s tic e
slnce»*Tias stated
that he w ill only appoint men
to the supreme Court whowill
interpret the law the way he
does.
The Supreme Court has re
fused to take jurisdiction in
the case of the Vietnam War,
yet the decision of whether
o r not the w ar is constitu
tional would settle many other
questions.
The S u p re m e
Court has refused to deter
mine whether Congress could
pass the. economic rule by
the president. The Congress
cannot legally legislate power
to the president.
The Supreme Court should
also determine how the presi
dent has the power to Im
pound legislated funds. Only
the Congress has the power
to appropriate and d ire ct the
expenditure of funds. The
President’s only power in this
m atter is to veto approprla-
Qons b ills .
But Presidents
have been impounding ap
propriated funds and Congress
has permitted it. The p ré si
dents lave also used these
funds in places fo r which they
were net intended, such as
the CIA. "Congress has been
supporting a President rather
than a C onstitution."
Morse warned of a loss of
rights through court proce
dures and admonished tlie
legal
profesaion
to take
leadership In this time of
c ris is .
Morse, a form er Dean of tlie ’
University of Oregon School of
Law, is considered to be one
of the nation’ s leading author
ities on constitutional law.
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