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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1972)
PORTLAND an <3 louai orroatuMirv laariona () PS ERP RR Section II N F W w IlM r l’ * Thursday November 2, 1972 ■xstij On being black in White America TC GREAT VALUE! htm£ by J Ini (Doc) Rogers I 4 4 Clothing workers picket Farah The Northweac Rational Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing W orker! union re ports that It Is Intensifying picketing efforts at several Portland area stores whose managers have refused to cooperate with the union and It's national Farah pants strike and boycott. The Clothing workers, aided by It« Oregon State A F I.-C IO and He Multnomah County Labor Council, are calling upon store managers asking them to discontinue carrying Farah pants and not to place any future orders with tie company until tie strike, which legan in May, Is sealed. T he ACE is also asking retailers not to advertise Farah Products In the rewspapers o r by any other public media. Arthur Adair, Oregon Co o r d i n a t o r for the Farah Strike C o m n i I t t e e , repons that many retailers have re sponded favorably to lie visits and some have even written letters of complaint to tie Farah Company. She expects thany m a n y o tte r stores w ill also comply when faced with tie prospect of being picketed. She points out that even though tie pic keting Is Infonnatlonal only In nature and Is not aimed directly at a store, many shoppers w ill naturally avoid entering any tuslness where pickets ate present. F o r a small businessman, this can mean a serious financial loss. Efforts are now being centered at the Rhodes lie - Rf-ELECT DON CLARK M u ltn o m a h County Commission Position # 4 The Don Clark Campaign Jewel Lansing, Treasurer 8435 S. W. Terwilliger Blvd. Portland, Oregon 97219 ELECT Edwin A. YORK for JUDG E OF THE CIRCUIT COURT POSITION NO. 7 Comm ittee tor Edwin A Y o rh -P ro b ate Judge C h ir le * Paulton. Chairman 203 Labor Center Portland Ore 97201 partment s t o r e , downtown Portland and Gateway shop ping Center. Store President. John King states that tie AMFAX conglomerate af filiate w ill continue to sup port lie Farah Company and claims that the store has a "duty“ to supply the con sumer with wahtever tley want. M iss Adair declares this a lot of nonsense. " T ie shopp e r hasn't any choice In the m atter at all, hut must select from the styles and fashions they see on tfe racks. T le y can complain alxxit tie m er chandise or take their busi ness elsew tere, tut dial’ s a- bout It. Anyway tley don't tell tie manager what brands to carry, u * y simply look for something wearable at a good price. They could care less about the tug In s id e .(U r job la to make tie consumer "b rand " conscious and to show them that H e re are several other good pants- makers around that put out even le tte r ijual ity pants than Farah and at a reasonable price too." Berkman plans savings Craig Berkman, Republi can candidate for the office of State T teas u rer, was raised in (itegon and attended Madison High School, He was graduated from Wteaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, with a degree In government. He also holds a M asters de gree in public administration from the University of C a li fornia at Berkeley. Berkman Is a co-founder of Applied M aterials, Inc., which is now an International, m ultl-n illllo n dollar elec tronics firm . In subsequent Investments, Craig has con tinued to demonstrate his business acumen. Craig has won national recognition fo r his leadership In civic affairs. He was selected one of Am erica’ s Ten (kitstanding Young Men for 1971 for the role he played In tie People for Portland movement during tie summer of 197(1. Berkman has proposed that tie State place its credit be hind selected capital projects of Oregon's ports In order to finance them at no cost to the taxpayers, Berkman has spoken re peatedly about ways the state can reduce the tarden on the residential property tax payer. On October 20th, (F riday), thia w rite r Interviewed M r . Lafayette Keaton, for educa tional t e l e v i s i o n station Channel 10, M r . Keaton la presently free on his "own recognizance" from charges of firs t degree kidnapping brought by tie State of Oregon. Keaton Is repre sented by attorney John Toran, secretary of tie O re gon Black Caucus. Because of the Importance of M r . Keaton's case — In what it Illustrates about tie Institu tional racism of the legal system In Oregon In affairs affecting some Black c iti zens — I have requested that Reverend Lee Henderson, publisher of the Portland Observer and tie editors of the Portland Scribe print the following memorandum (filed by John Toran) In part In place of my regular column. Please read It carefully, and decide fo r yourself why some Black people are so em bittered toward tie "white power structure" In the "C ity of (White; Roses." The com plete Interview with M r . Keaton and attorney John Toran w ill be sh o w n on Channel 10 (KOAP), In early N ovem ler. We call tie show: ON BEING BLACK IN OREGON. STATE OF OREGON VS. L A FA Y E TTE FREOERJCK KEATON P rio r to his Indictment the D is tric t Attorney, by and through his D e p u t y , M s. Frankel, advised law en forcement officers that tie charge to be made against Lafayette Frederick Keaton was Custodial Interference, implying that if Keaton was. in fact. Involved In the dls- •ppearance of the child, his ■elation to ir would warrant tie charge ra tte r than kid napping. I he i n d i c t m e n t loud against tie Defendant was twsed wholly upon the evi dence given by M . Stratton and Oayle Ann Stratton. That evidence was to He eflect that M , Stratton claimed she saw an unidentified man moving about a car which she was later taken to identify before He house belong to Defendant's mother. P rio r to the indictment Keaton had said nothing to implicate him In the com mission of He crln e alleged in He indictment. P rio r to tie Indictment, the police searched two auto mobiles; the search included visual inspection, tearing upholstery apart and vacum- ing tie automobiles. No evidence was found connecting Hie child with the automobile or with Keaton. P rio r to indictment, tie Defendant was interrogated on tw o occasions by law en forcement officers about his implication in tie disap p e a ra n c e of the child. Defendant denied all know ledge relevant to the disap pearance of the child. A fte r Indictment, proce dures established by He Dis tric t Attorney, and approved or accepted by the C ircuit Court were violated when Defendant was denied Hie right to Inspection ot the D is tric t Attorney’s file. Defendant, lecause he was denied access to the D istrict Attorney's file and because VOTE, or shut up. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE DEIZ with her experience and compaseton w ill be an outstanding J U IC E on (he COURT OF DOMESTIC RELATK »NS. RE-ELECT OUR SECRETARY OF STATE for Oregon’s Future The M yer■ Committee f ld o n le v i Treeeurer PO Bos 9? Portland Oregon ELECT I ’d. Political Adv: Com mittee to Elect Judge I >elz to the C ircuit Court, F red Rosenbaum, I rea- s u ie i. 110 Lindsay llhlg. Portland, Oregon 97204 T e l. No. 222-1477 Deiz TO THE CIRCUIT COURT DEPT.No. 18 he had entered a plea, lost u valuable right to move to dismiss He Indictment on the ground that the G randjury acted out of caprice or bias. Oeferxlarit refused at least one, possibly two, offer or offers of immunity from pro secution relative to tie dis appearance of He child. The State neither proved nor alleged any connection between tie person o r per sons who returned the child and He Defendant. The T ria l Court’ s persis tence In suggesting that a leaser included cha rge he submitted to the jury finally resulted In the Plaintiff’ s tria l attorney to join In and accede to submitting to the jury an instruction concern ing Kidnapping In the Second degree. Oe fe nd an t c ann ot unde r - stand why Hie Court insisted on ruling on the Issue created by Hie several verdicts be fore the T ria l Court would consider the Impropriety and mlscorxluct of Juror >8. The T ria l Court refused Defendant He opportunity to Interview the trial jurors, at Hie earliest possible time and before the trial jurors had forgotten, concerning misconduct in the course of deliberation. Portland Police Officers harassed Defendant's m o d er and friends in the belief that they had somehow assisted Defendant in effecting the disappearance of Hie child. Portland Police Officers searched wiHiout warrant several homes and He home of Defendant’ s mother and other friends In the belief that Ketton effected the dis appearance of the child. All these efforts failed of their ixrrpose. Defendant beleves that the indictment charging k id napping in He F irs t Degree was a desperate attempt to terro rize him to admit that be was involved in the dis appearance of the child. Familysized Washer with Permanent Press Cycle! FILTF.R-FLO’ WASHF.R James (Doc) Rogers • F ilte i Flo System T ra p s L in t Fuzz • 3 w a te r-le v e l se le ctio n s • 3 wash, 2 rin se te m p e ra tu re s • P o rce la in enam el top. basket and tu b • Perm anent Press C ycle w ith "C o o ld o w n " D e s p ite the apparent lib erality of the T ria l Court, Defendant has gained the im pression that the trial was unfair and that he had been found guilt before the jury had arrived at their verdict. ARGUMENT 7 he Defendant had a right to have this case decided upon the evidence adduced in Court. Juror #8*s miscon duct denied him He rights of confrontation and cross exa mination and thereby deprived him of his constitutionally guaranteed rights. The inference is compel ling that Juror #'8 must have considered some deficiency In the proof, sufficient, to initially prompt his miscon duct. His verdict justifies this conclusion. Further, it w ill not do to say that what Hie juror learned was cumu lative is light of He fact that careful observations will surely disclose some new fact. In view of the juror's prior experience and the admoni tions of this Court, the mis conduct should not be re garded lighHy. The con sequences to Lafayette Frederick Keaton are too great. 46,000 Americans killed in Vietnam can't vote this year. What's your excuse? WWA-S400M M a tc h in g GE £ DRYER DOE 40ÛG not shown, 118 Easy M o n th ly P a y m e n ts ^'Oppen...at sho » • w e MOSS M i l SAT T A » W W l t l MORSE I $. B. DIVISION • 234-9351 Democrat for U.S. Senate " If we are to continue to throw our money away for the killing of American and Asian boys in a tragic conflict, we will never solve any of our pressing domestic problems. The war has caused inflation and unemployment. It has kept us from improving our educational system and cleaning up our environment, and has deterred any serious move for tax reform .” —Wayne Morse, April 18, 1972 Wayne Morse consistently voted against all appropriations for the war in Vietnam, Hatfield did not In fact, Hatfield voted for appropriations specifically earmarked for the conduct of the war. Wayne Morse voted against wire tapping and electronic sur veillance, opposes preventive detention, and rejects any at tempt to dilute the guarantees of the Fifth Amendment Mark Hatfield voted for bills containing all of these measures. There’s a difference.. Check the record. Wayne Morse says that the federal minimum wage law should be equally applied to all those working; Mark Hat field voted for a Buckley amendment to the Social Se curity Act which would have allowed workers below the age of 18 to be paid $1.60 an hour or 80% of the mini mum wage - whichever is higher. Wayne Morse does not approve of court packing and did not support the Administration's political nominations to the Supreme Court; Mark Hatfield voted for the confir mation of Burger, Blackmon, Powell and Rehnquist he also supported the nomination of Richard Kliendienst for Attorney General. Paid fo r: W ayne Morse for Senate C o m m ltt Phil George Treasurer, 5 9 5 Crest D rive, Eugene. O
