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M rs F ra n c e s S c h o e n -N e w s p a p e r Room U n tv e s ity o f O re g o n Eugene, THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN Or OBSERVER POR TLA ND Volume 3, No. 4 Portland, Oregon L ib r a r y AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD THAT REALLY CARES ABOUT Thursday November 2,1972 1CX per copy PEOPLE Fate of child care programs unresolved Smith accuses Johnson : Civil Rights delay Joe S m i t h , candidate for State Attorney General, hit tl» civil rights record of hla ap- (xjnent. Incumbent Attorney General Lee Johnson. Smith stated that the C ivil Rights Division and the protection of equal opportunity la one of hla biggest concerns. In late 1970, both Assistant Attorney G e n e r a l Belton Hamilton and Russell Rogers, Adm inistrator of tl« C ivil Rights Division, resigned In protest of Johnson's actions. Hamilton cited tl« "In c re d i ble style of operation" of tt« Attorney General's office as a major factor In bis leav ing. He told tie Urban L ea gue, " I don't accuse tie At torney General of telng hostile to black people," tut he noted the delay of routine matters and I m p a i r e d protective service. In February of 1971,Labor Comm las loner Nil sen told the House C i v i l Rights Com m ittee, tliat Attorney Osta:ial J o h n s o n was "sitting un” eases certified to him by tl« Bureau of Labor atxl was not performing hla duty of w rit ing specific charges and giving notice of a bearing. The previous Attorney General, R o lert T h o r n t u n, hud per- fo i med thia duty In a few days, wtiere it was taking Johnson a m atter of months. Smith sakl Johnson had also taken credit In campaign ma terial fo r causes which he had attempted to delay or prevent coming to court. In January 1971, the Court of Appeals, In tie case ol W illiam s vs Joyce, upheld the constitutionality of an Oregon statute prohibiting d is crim i nation In housing. This was the first known case In which courts allowed an adminis trative agency ( I let Labor Bu reau) to award damages for humiliation because of racial discrim ination. The W illiam s case was In- stumd by the Labor Bureau working with Attorney General Robert Thornton. Itwas heard Ghana Ambassador visits T l« Northwest Institute of African and Black Studies (Black Studies Center, name change In progress) Ui con cert with Portland's African Community is sponsoring a lecture-discussion to 1» pre s e n te d in tl« A lb in a Community by tlie Ghanlan Ambassador to tl« United States, T l« Honorable J . Amonsoo. 11« lecture shall lake place at Nero Industiles, Inc., located at 3525 N J i. Union Avenue, Saturday, November 4, 1972, from 2:45 to 3:45 p jn . 11« topic ol tl« Ani>assador*s lecture is "Ways to Promote Better Understanding and Re lations between African and American Blacks." A ll Interested persons are l« a rtly Invited to attend. For lu r ll« r information please contact D r . Almose Thomp son. Portland S t a t e Uni versity, at 229-3052. Vocational Village Instructor Je rry Foat (center) discusses electric current with heating and refrigerator students John Knepper (left) and Sam Jenkins. Vocational Village registers Vocational Village w ill began new registration on November 6. Vocational V ill age is a high school for dropouts - students who do not fit In tl« regular academically oriented high school. Thesm - JOB SMITH un September 20, 1967, just three months after the com plaint was filed. The case was appealed to tl» Multnomah County Court two months later and was still an appeal wlien Lee Johnson took office. Lee Johnson proposed to abandon key parts of die esse If not the entire appeal, Belton Hamilton sakl in a letter to Joe Smith, that M r . Johnson may have no hostility to "blacks, women or other underprivileged people," lu t at least has a "lack of sensi tivity to th eir Interest and his orientation toward oilier special Interests place him more often than not in op position to things important to C a n t." He continued, " I t was tl« orientation that caus ed him upon taking office to ,wsh for abandonment of part of tlie administrative re medies awarded B e v e r l y W illiam s in tlie Joyce case." Documenting the delay in C i v i l Rights cases. Com m issioner Nllsen sakl, "O u r records show that. In the case of spencer vs Portland School D istric t No. 1, although In vestigation and conciliation efforts were completed In a period of approximately two months. It took live months for tie Attorney General to draw up the charges. In tlie case of (Please turn to section II p.3, ate students m tt« required Leisure elected col .4) McCall requests vote No- Measure 9 I have expressed on eveiy suitable occasion my opposi tion to Ballot Measure Number 9 that w ill confront Oregonians when we go to the polls next Tuesday. I now find It necessary to tepeat my reijuest of tlie c iti zens tin t they reject Ballot Measure 9. This measure Is a pro posed constitutional amend ment to prohibit the use of property taxes to finance school o,«rating costs. This would make a shambles of the deliberative process so es sential to democratic govern ment. It would substitute an unwarranted cris is for a re Instant Earnings from Day o f Deposit par annum compounded daily and paid quarterly Ik n i.O Franklin r n io i aavtaaa a iaaa aaaa Robert H H e le n Pres « » 0 O ffices» Phone 2 4 8 1234 H o m e O ffice FrsnXIln Bldg Portland. O regon 0 7 204 solvable problem. Ballot Measure 9 would prohibit tl« 1973 Legislature from consideration of a basic form of taxation at the very time we are trying to achieve meaningful tax reform. 1 have announced a pro gram (or homeowner tax re nte and reform of tl« | while school finance structure. It has come to my attention that some supporters of Measure 9 are arguing that passage of their amendment would in crease tl« chances for ap proval of my program. They are fllm -flam m lng the voters. My program re quires that we remain em powered to levy a statewide tax on Income-producing property for school operating costs. This levy is a key- stoi« to a program that bases school finance on the ability to pay. Measure 9 offers no Ideas for leplacement of the public school revenue that would le lost. It gives no assurance that equity In taxation would 1« achieved. Measure 9 Is a pig In a poke. It asks us to trust to luck. It offers no solace for future g rie f. Oregon homeowners have made their point with us. We know the shotgun Is at our heads, I am committed to tax re form . If you w ill support legislative candidates equally committed, then I promise you never w ill have to pull tl« trigger. phasls on the school is on vocational career training. Students attending Vocatio nal Village enroll in vocational preparatory programs such as Industrial Mechanics, F ab ri cation Processes, Office O c c u p a t io n s , Distributive Education (Marketing oc cupation), Food Service, Cosmetology. Basic Education courses provide students with the necessary language and mathamatical skills. Students develop job skills and gam training by actually doing the work. Whenever possible, the y are placed on "W ork Experience" wtiere they can work in employment related to their goals. Ron Thurston, D irecto r of tl« school, sakl tlie school is set up to do more tnan gradu GEORGE RANKINS George Rankins ¡oins Urban League Staff George Rankins, form er Associate D irecto r of tl« Concentrated E m p lo y m e n t Program in Portland, has jouied the Urban League Portland staff as D irecto r of a new program, the Urban League Rood Builders Ser vice. Rankins has had quite a bit of experience working with various manpower pro grams. The Urban League of Port land has assumed the respon sibility of tl« new program called "Road Builders Ser vic e", as a sub-contractor of tl« National Urban League, who Is tl« prime contractor under the Federal Highway Administration. Only four states. C alltfo m la, Indiana, M issouri and Oregon, have this program. T l« purpose of tl« sup portive sei-vlce to 1« supplied by tl« League w ill 1« to ef fectuate the following results: 1) G reater participation of m inority disadvantaged wor kers In existing and future of minority disadvantaged workers In existing and future on-the-job training programs set up by Federal-aid state highway contractors u nd en t« Federal Highway Administra tion. 2) Effective recruiting, screening, counseling, coach ing and assisting trainees to ensure a good retention rate once they have been placed In the on-the-job training programs. Irvington Community As sociation at their annual meeting e l e c t e d Everett Leisure, 2735 N .E . 19th, as president of the organization for tl« coming year. Also elected were Ed Kent, Herbert Amerson, B ill M ille r , and Sydney Ford, vice presidents: Ann Walrod, re cording secretary: Barbara Reddick, coorespondmg sec retary; Jack Q u i n li n , treasurer, and M ary S till w ell, Joan W alters and George Coppedge, directors. Paul Cook and Russell Payne were appointed to fill vacancies on the board. Also at the meeting achieve ments in the Irvington area under tl« Neighborhood De velopment program, admin istered by the Portland Development Commission, were reviewed and activities for the coming year pre viewed. number of years. The school hopes to prepare students both vocationally and academically and to place them in their firs t jobs, so that their firs t experiences in the (Please turn to page 8 col. 6) 7 1« Metropolitan Area 4 -0 Council has been notified by Jacob Tanzer, D irecto r of the State Department of Human Resources, that its child care programs w ill be cut by over >557.396 in federal funds for the fisical year that began July 1, 1972. The 4-C pro grams are funded by local private contributions that are matched 3:1 by f e d e r a l dollars. The state orginally pre dicted a >2.4 million cut in the 4-C programs across tl« state. The bulk of the fund ing decrease was to be born by the 4-C program. Upon the request of the 4-C Councils, which are non-profit community based agencies, T an zer agreed to attempt to find areas within the state budget where funds could be saved in order to lessen the burdens on 4 -C . Tanzer estimated tl« cut to 4-C w ill be >557396 for the current fiscal year which began July 1, 1972. Local 4-C Councils w ill notify the state as to how ti«sy can best obsorb the loss of funds. A committee of the Board of D irectors of the Urban League of Portland issued a statement expressing the League’s grave concern over the budget cuts of the child care programs of Oregon. Letters expressing (Please turn to page 8 col. 5) Nixon child care veto hurts Oregon programs "Nixon's celling on Social Services funds, as well as his veto of the Comprehen sive Child Development Act, has drastically affected Ore gon’s 4 -C 's Program (Com munity Coordinated C hild.” according to M s .E id th R y - man. Program Development Coordinator fo r the Portland Metropolitan 4-C 's Council M s. Ryman stated that " s im ila r crises are occuring or about-to-occur through out the nation, mere previews of the events to come should Richard Nixon be re-elected. It is absurd Indeed for a man who so vehemently espouses the Work Ethic, denouncing those who receive public assistance, to simultaneously smother the efforts of those attempting to work for a living, calling the Compre hensive Child Development Act . . . a move toward K ib b u tz is m and So cialism . . .’ .** of such services), the pro gram now faces severe cut backs which would eliminate approximately 30J of the children now benefitting from day care. This would force a considerable number of women onto the W elfare rolls. T l« State of Oregon, for tlie firs t time in years, ex perienced a reduction in W e l fare recipients in 1971-72. This has been due to a large degree to the availability of quality day care fo r working mothers through 4 -C ’ s ef forts. The Oregon 4-C 's Pro gram is an excellent, indi- pendently administered or ganization financed through locallly raised d o lla r s matched by Federal funds — without the use of State monies. Already insufficient to meet the growing needs of communities throughout the State (the Metropolitan Area 4 -C ’s programs are servic ing only a fraction of those fam ilies in desperate need vern's position on Child Care and Development is clear. He was co-sponsor of the Comprehensive Child De velopment Act, and his voting record indicates that his p riorities, if elected P resi dent, would be significantly more beneficial for the chil dren of this country than those of M r . Nixon." The text of her statement regarding the 4 -C ’ s program follows: "Unless the State of Ore gon and individual cities and towns do something rapidly to remedy the financial catastrophe, a great number of parents and children are going to be hurt," concluded M s. Ryman. "T h e situation at pre appears bleak for Oregon 4 -C ’ s Programs andforchild care in general throughout the nation. Our only long-range recourse is to cast a vote for a change in priorities — and vote for George McGo vern on November 7 ." 3) Establishment of a co ot« ia ti ve mechanism for ex change of Information between contractors, unions, state agendas and trainees that should facilitate continuity and completion of training and promote tl« full utilization of training program graduates in the highway construction Industry. 4) Surveying, screening and c o a c h in g unskilled workers In the Industry so that they may successfully participate in upgrading pro grams provided under the Federal Highway Administra tion for advancement to jour- iMyman statua which w ill In turn increase tl« skilled resources available to the In dustry. M rs . Berna Plum mer, D r . Booker Lewis and Representative Wendell Wyatt discuss the Nixon campaign with California Governor Ronald Kegan during Republican fund-raiser. M rs . P lu m n o r and D r . Lewis are co-chairman ol tt» Oregon Black Committee for :le Re-election of Che President.
