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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1973)
Portland/O bserver Thursday January 18. 1973 "Voice of the NAACP” UGN dots program funds b y Ellis C asson Pagr I W ilkins calls America "state of seige" I BLACKS - L E T ’S G ET IT TOGETHER It la Incumbant upon all rad-blooded Americana to do / «heir bit to keep the lieat on bigotry and the advocate* of reclam . Thee* are currently anemias from within whodea- troy the very foundation upon which thia country waa found ed. Bigotry can la found In aorne aurprlalngly high placea; po- altlona that determine wheth e r thia community ahall move forward or backwarda: In In dividuate who could atretch a point and decide whether a defenseless black ahall live or die. Thia la an unbelievable alt- uatlon. But thia la not t t * only horror b a rrie r the Black haa to face conatantly. He has to face the dupe puaher next door, the raplat In the next block, the m urdererwholurka In the dark and la never caught. (L ike the caae of Edwin T . P ra tt - Urban League D lre c - • to r In Seattle, Washington.) He haa to deal with the hood lum and the con manwholeela the only way he can survive la to outsmart people around him . These are Black People we dlacuaa who terro rize other Blacka and have the gall and audacity to call them •‘ broth- e ra ” and ••alatera” . T la s e are Black people who create their own Jungle and criticize other Blacka wlan they move to the sulurbs wlarw tlay search for a climate a little leas hoatlle. Black communities are de veloping Into arenaa where Black leadera are In a con tinuing struggle tor power and are too self-serving and de pendent upon M r . Charlie to la effective In any crisis situation o r even to give his neighbor a helping hand when needed. But the real tragedy la heap ed upon the poor and less affluent Blacks. They, too, fight among themselves. The difference la th eir fights are more physical and more per sonal. T lo y cut up one another. They shoot one another.They, In many cases, malm and leave scars on one another that w ill last fo r a lifetim e. The poor Black la no lunge/ the ha|>py-go-lucky. foot shuffling, smiling Individual he haa historically been pic tured as being. He la caught up In a tragic situation to day that la cannot cope with. The traditional, paternalistic, great whIK father la no long e r there to protect him - CANNOT PRO TECT H IM . The young Black has a mon key on hla back. He la hooked on dope. He la resentful, He can’t get or hold a Job. He haa lost faith in the system. There has to develop a new understanding, new program ming, iaw Involvement, new and continuing concern If re sponsible Blacks are to rid their communities of the hood lums who have taken over con trol of Black neighborhoods ami the deep-rooted problems which are driving those who are best prepared to help outside of the arena. Tim e and circumstances have taught Blacks a lesson. In aplte of promises and long- winded denunciations. Black communities can expect only token help to solve their neighborhood problems from downtown. If problems are to be minimized, there haa to he total Black commitment. We must make upuurmlnda that there la but one way out - we've got to get It to gether ourselves. ‘ •NAACP BITS AND PIECES” The NAACP congratulates James L . Butler upon hla appointment as C ivil Rights Coordinator for the Oregon Highway Division. The NAACP congratulates C la te M . Peoples and the “ Community Care Program " for their w rite-up In "J et” last week. The NAACP congratulates M rs . C lifford Dixon for (alng an honoree as a "Woman of Dedication” by the Portland Federation of Women’s O r ganizations last week. The NAACP w ill l a taking a close look at Salem for the next several months. Under Don C . Vann’ s leadership, we w ill see that "o ur voice w ill be heard” . O regonians feel taxes u n fa ir By a wide margin, middle Income Oregonians feel the tax load is u n fa ir ly d istri buted. Alxxit four fifths of middle Income Oregonians (eel that workmen's compensation and unemployment benefit pay ments should la adjusted to cost of living Increases. A m ajority of middle In come Oregonians say they would change Jobs If they had the opportunity. Stretching the paychec k re mains a major problem for <•* i *• DR JEFFREY A M O DI IN DENTAL PLATES PARTIAL PLATES AND EXTRACTIONS Immediate Restorations • »— a — l e u r l a j r i O l v l t w B S It w S iBBstwUlstwJy uttgr luftfc •rueitrscHU • Partial Plates • Dettai Plates SLEEP DURING EXTRACTIONS soMwm fintotnu e iv ia it EMBTIBIQ AMSTNIT H I .'A M F M I - M Y PAM *M SHOT 10! MNIISi WeefcOeyt t i M le StOO Saterdey SJOle 1 iM J A P P O M T M M IIK «SI A l l DR JEFFREY BRADY DENTIST M M l I R «D U P IN G S W brf * M o r m o n P o rlln n d O i'q o n Phone: 228 7545 I middle Income Oregonians. Moat middle Income O re gonians are heartily In favor of the four-day work week, these are just a few of the conclusions reached In the second of three reports on a precedent-setting survey of middle Income wage earners in the state conducted by the Oregon Bureau of Labor. The survey was mads about tla middle of last year and gave about 500 persons who were heads of fam ily a chance to apeak out on issues of the day, A m ajority of the re spondents were from the Portland area. The firs t survey report Indicated, among other things, that the biggest problems middle Income Oregonians think they face today are taxes and Inflation. The se cond report amplifies these sentiments. According to Norman O. Nllsen. the State L a lo r Com missioner, a third and final report w ill be Issued In tla near future with a fully- illustrated compilation to follow. "T h is survey has given the most talked-about group In our society a chance to speak up about some of their Indi vidual situations along with their views, hopes and frus trations,” Nllsen said. ”1 hope policy-m akers both In government and the private sector w ill pay close heed to what these self-Identified middle Oregonians have to say and consider appropriate measures.” The survey was conducted by D r . E ric Wales, D irecto r of Research for the Bureau of Labor, allied by hla assis tant. Nancy Doughton, and with technical assistance of Bob Hulen, the Bureau’ s In formation O fficer. The ques tionnaire they utilized In cluded such Items as employ ment, pay rates, pensions, education, working conditions, government activity. When asked In the ques tionnait» If they thought the tax load In Oregon was fa irly distributed among the citi zens, 89 per cent of those responding In the Portland area and 96 per cent of (nose answering from the remainder of the state said " n o " . About 95 per cent thought that workmen's compensation payments to those Injured on the Job should he periodically brought Into line with actual living costs. In regard to aslm llarq u es- tlon about unemployment henaflts, 78 to 80 per cent said "yes” . About one In six respondents from the Portland area were opposed to what would he an automa tic, periodic hike In unem ployment payments. "T h is support fo r change Is Interesting,” Nllsen no«d, “ In view of the fact that It Is anticipated that bills aimed at keeping compensation and unemployment payments In line with living costs w ill be Introduced to the forthcoming session of the Legislature.” Six of ten said the middle Income group Is too laavlly taxed and has by far tie heaviest tax burden while ora In eight In the Portland area and one in four from outside said those In the low Income and lower middle Income brackets were too heavily taxed. In general, no one particu lar type of tax was mentioned except for the property u x, which one In four felt was burdensome. M ore than 60 per cent of thoee surveyed felt that per sona in upper Income brackets had too light a tax load. About 35 per cent thought the« busi ness firm s and corporations got oft too easily and about 15 per cent thought that "others” got an unfair tax break. Among the "o thers'’ were large, subsidized farm ers; "tim b e r Interests” ; specu lators and persons with in come from abroad: persons with high In c o m e from sources other than salaries and tourists. M ore than half didn't think they got their fa ir share In return for the taxes they pay and about one In four thought they were gening their money's worth compared to other citizens. Only three In 100 Indicated they felt they are getting more out of their tax dollar than other O re gonians. Although latween 70 and 76 per cent of those polled said they were satisfied with their jobs and more than a third said their Jobs were what they always had been aiming at or pretty close to It, between 60 and 61 par cent lndlc a ted they would change jobs If there was an opportunity. Biggest reason for a change among Portland area persons was the amount of money tlay now asm while this factor shared top billing with the actual type of work performed among respondents from the rest of the state. In closing, the second re port noted that about half of those questioned said that th eir station in life measured up to previous expectations. It was about 50-50 among the remainder whether the cur rent situation was better or worse than expected. Copies of the reports about OREGONIANS IN THE MUD DLE may he obtained from the Research Division. O re gon Bureau of Labor, Room 438, Stats Office Building. 1400 S.W. Fifth Avenue. P o rt land, Oregon 97201. Tele phone Inquiries can he dliectsd to the Research Divi sion at 229-5740 In Portland or to Bureau of Labor offices In Salem. Eugene, Medford, Pendleton and Coos Bay. » The United Good Neighbors acy, IncM $10,500; Planned board of directors approved Parenthood Association, $51, allocations to Its agencies, (XX); P a rry Center for Chlld- last week for use during 1973. e m , $72,000; Portland Center T la UGN board approved the fo r Hearing and Speech, $65, recommendations of the 91 350: St. Johns Day Care Cen member volunteer agency re te r, $6,250; St. M artin Day lations committee, which con Nursery $42,300. ducted fudge! studies before Salvation Arm y (Portland), and after the recent UGN cam $262,500; Salvation Army. paign. (C lark County^, $32,500: Sho- The 1972 campaign achieved C ra ft, Inc„ $14,544; Suicide Its second straight victory Prevention Services, $5,000; In as many years by raising Tualatin Valley Guidance $6,698,013 for 100.1 per cent C linic. $31,850; Tualatin V al of $6,691,351 goal. ley Workshop, $7,500; United Don C . Frisbee, UGN pres C erebral Palsy, $71,740; U r ident, said allocations total ban League of Portland, $100, $6,729,553, which Includes the 000; Visiting Nurse Associa sum raised In the recent drive tion, $99,372 plus $12,000 for plus a “ ca rry-o ver” amount Bedside Nursing Services made possible through refunds through theClackamas, Wash from agencies where service ington, and Clark Counties demands In 1972 did not re Health Department; Volun quire expenditure of full allo teers of America, $181,315; cations. Volunteer Services Bureau, Frisbee, chairman of the $10,010; West Tuallty Day board and chief executive of Care, Inc., $24,570; Women's ficer of Pacific Power and Protective Division, $150. Light Company, said the funds YMCA (Downtown, John R, w ill help meet minimum agen Leach, North, Northeast, cy needs, a development fund Washington County, Clack of $75,000 to finance Innova amas County, andClarkCoun- tive programs, and support ty, Washington). $290,100; for four new agencies. YMCA (Dwantown and St. The new agencies are the Johns), $202.800; YWCA Children’ s Club, Inc., which (C lark County),$25,900; Youth Is a day care centerforchild Progress Association, $19, ren of working parents, and 568. is located In Southeast Port The Oregon United Appeal land; The Foster Parents As was allocated $820,857 for sociation, which recruits and distribution to the following trains foster parents; St. member agencies: Albertina John’ s Day Care Center, which K e rr Homes. Inc. (Louise provides day care services to Home, Portland Residence); children In the St.John’ s Area; American Social HealthAsso- and Tualatin Valley Workshop, ciation; Boys and C lrls Aid located In Beaverton, which Society; Catholic Services for conducts a sheltered workshop Children: Farm Home of Ore program for both physically gon; C hristie School; Leuke and mentally retarded. mia Association of Oregon, Frlsby added that some of Inc.; Mental Health Associa the child care agencies re tion of Oregon; National As ceived larg e r increases this sembly fo r Social Policy and year, due to the fact that Development. National Coun th eir 4 -C ’ s Federal Funding cil on C rim e and Delinquency; has been cut tack. These In Oregon Association for Re clude: Clackamas County Day tarded Children; Oregon State C are Center. East Vancouver University YMCA-YWCA; Our Day Care Center, F ru it and Lady of ProvIdenceChildren’ s Flow er Day Nursery, S t.M a r Nursing Center; St. M ary’ s tin Day Nursery, W estTuality Home for Boys; United Serv Day Care, and Volunteers of ice Organizations (USO); Un America Day N ursery. iversity of Oregon YMCA- YWCA; V illa Gerard; V illa The agencies, and th eir a l locations, are as follows: St. Rose; Volunteers of Am er ica Mothers and Children's Allepgy Foundation of Home; Waverly Children's Am erica, $3,000; American Red Cross (Oregon T ra il Home; and YMCA Youth in Government. Chapter), $926,771; A m e ri can Red Cross (C lark County, Washington), $49,010; Boys Clubs of Portland and the Tri-C ounty ares, $83,500; Boy Scouts, $295,600; Camp F ir e G irls (Portland). $110, 000; Camp F ire G irls (Clack amas), $33,000; Camp F ire G irls (C lark County),$23,800; Campershlp Fund. $18,500; C a rl V . M orrison C e n te rfo r Youth and Fam ily Service, $62,850; Catholic Children’ s Service (C lark County), $15, 200; Catholic Fam ily Serv ices, $64,150; Catholic Youth Organization, $39,400; The C hlldem 's Club, $7,000; Children's Home Soclery,$17, 700; Clackamas County Child Day Care Center, $16,000; Clackamas County Mental Health C linic, $ 17,650; Coun cil on Alcoholism, $5,000; C lark County Chapter of the W as h in g to n Association for Retarded Children. Inc., $14, 208. Delaunay Institute fo r Men tal Health, $26,750; E astV an - couver Child Care Center, $18,900; Epilepsy League. $19,250; Fam ily Counseling Service (Clackamas, M ult nomah, and Washington Coun ty Offices, and Homemaker Service), $266,176; Fam ily Law Center, $46,357, plus an additional $4,000 to the Wash ington County B ar Association for sim ilar services, $2,000 of which comes for the UGN development fund; F t. Van couver Seamen's Center, $9, 500: Foster Parents Associa tion, $6,000: Friendly House end Llnnton Community Cen te r, $106.000; F ru it and Flow e r Day nursery, $49,700: G irl Scouts, $124,100; and Highland Community Center, $10,300. Jewish Community Center, $72,200; Jewish Fam ily and Child Service, $34,500; Jew ish W elfare Federation, $17, 500.’ L IF E Center, $16,583, Lutheran Fam ily Service of Oregon, $50,000. Mental HealthCenter(Clark County), $29,030: Multiple Sclerosis Society, $30,000; Multnomah/Clackamas Asso ciation fo r RetardedChlldren, $40,000; Myasthenia Gravis Association, $5,800; Neigh borhood House, $59,500; O re gon A rthritis Foundation, $53, 000; Oregon Heart Associa tion, $165,000; Oregon L ite r American Negroes are un der a state of siege launched by the "executive branch of the Federal Government,” ac cording to Roy Wilkins, ex ecutive director of tt>e Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. ” We used to he able to call Lyndon or John when things got bad,” said Aaron Henry, president of the Mississippi chapter. "But now we've lost tla White House and the Attor ney General. And when Nixon appoints one more member to the Supreme Court, we've lost that, too.” In remarks following his speech, M r . Wilkins said his greatest disappointment In 1972 was the Presidential election. He labeled Senator George McGovern “ wishy- washy on the busing Issue” and he accused President Nixon of fostering polarization between black and white by telling white voters they were "hard-working people” (and implying that blacks were not). With membership up by nearly 22,000 to 412,000 in 1972, and the treasury in good financial shape, the NAACP w ill not go into a "holding action,” M r . WUklna Insisted, but would pursue a “ cool” strategy in areas of education, housing and employment. However delegates from the Deep South said they felt violence could be the result of President Nixon's alleged policies. " A fte r they hear Nixon’s code words, the whites in M ississippi say they don't have to obey the laws any m o re ," said M r . Henry a long-time civil-righ ts ac tivists and currently the only Black state chairman in the Democratic party. "B u t it's worse in the Deep South than up North,” said the Reverend E . Bums, field di rector in Mississippi. "Back home. It’s a matter of life and death." M r . W ilkins devoted much of his speech to the claim that the Government has not fought fo r jobs for black workers. |n la te r rem arks. M r . Wilkins repeated his opposition to the appointment of Peter J.B ren nan, president of the State and C ity BuildingandConstruction T redes Council of New York as Secretary of Labor. "Brennan has been a very real obstacle to the employ ment of blacka In the construc tion Industry,” M r . Wilkins sakl. Let Tri-Met do your Driving ...and let your fingers do the walking Tri-Met routes, Tri-Met bus stops and Tri-Met route lists are as handy as your telephone book, or as handy as your telephone. Information in the front of the yellow pages section, or from Tri-Met Information Center. for information call: 233-3511 T R I-M E T 4314 S.E. Seventeenth Ave., Portland. Oregon 97202 OPERATED BY JERRY COLLINS ENTERPRISES. INC. 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