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Portland/Observer Thursday, January 18 1973 Rice joins Media by Joseph W . Bostic Executive D irecto r, Metropoliton Economic I development Industrial Alliance, Inc. M r . Harvey Rice form er _____ Assistant D ire cto r of the PSU Educational Center, has joined the Metropolitan Economic Development Industrial A lli ance (M ED IA ) staff as the Loan O fficer of this company. M edia. Inc. is a private, non profit local development c o r poration which has a contract with the City of Portland with the responsibility for being the economic development arm of the Portland Model Cities Program . Media, Inc. seeks to provide technical assis tance, management councel- ing and financial aid to bus Harvey Rice inesses in this area, as well as to attract new enterprises appointed Model Cities bus to the Model Cities Neighbor inessmen after not receiving hood. a loan they had applied for M r . Rice who holds a Bach elo r degree (December 1971) and at some time in the future in Business Administration, a he feeis that MEDIA should Certificate (August 1972) in w rite a column educating Mo del Cities businessmen on the Urban Studies, and a Masters degree (December 1972) in steps that must be taken in approaching Banks, S.B.A. and Social Science with an em M EDIA for financing. He said phasis on economic and com that few Model Neighborhood munity development. Also, do sufficient M r . Rice holds a number of businessmen homework before asking lend years work experience in ers fo r money. As a result, economic and community de many are embarrassed or an velopment dating hack to 1968 noyed when the Loan O fficer when he was chairman of the asks questions they do not Business Development sub committee of the Employment expect. This column should be and Economic Development aimed at the businesses lo Working Committee during cated in theM odelCitiesarea. the Model Cities Planning Every week it should discuss year. The proposal prepared a different topic that might by the sub-committee had the be of help to Model Neigh idea to have a Community De borhood businessmen. Also, velopment Corporation for the the column should discuss the Model Cities area. various kinds of financial facts After working at MEDLA, which lenders require when Inc. since August. M r . Rice considering a loan. has seen a number of dis- Burns appointed Urban Affairs head Senate President Jason Roe, D-Reed sport, has appointed Senator Keith Bums, D -P o rt- land, as chairman of the Local Government andUrban Affairs Committee. Senator Bums was also ap pointed vice chairman of both the Judiciary and the Labor Committees, and member of the Elections and Revenue Committees. •‘ Bums earned great re spect as a hard worker dur ing his term in the House," Boe said, "and it isw ithgreat confidence that I entrust him in his firs t Senate te-m with these committee assign- Garvey leads Providence by Bill Jeffery Staff Assistant A relatively meaningless F irs t Week was effectively transformed by our office’ s creation of the M artin Luther King, J r . Resolution and Ceremony. Representative Priestley began the conceptual prepara tions for D r . King's Birthday In the 1971 session. Bums Celebration in Salem several served on both the Judiciary months ago, before his own and the Urban Affairs Com election. A great ileal of leg mittees. work remained to be done and a great deal of staff time was spent on the effort. Very special and much ap preciated contributions to the Ceremony were ma^e by stu dents and teachers from Boise and King Schools, and Adams High School. Readings FAIR, San Francisco, and from D r . King, joyftil sing W illi W alter, Zurich, the ing, and speeches of tribute Swiss architect who was the by W ally Priestley and other recipient of the 1972 Reynolds legislators capped the day. Award, But not obscured was the message of D r. King's life I.M . Pei, FAIA, New York, and death. Wally Priestley was named jury chairman for does not believe that the mes the R.S. Reynolds Memorial sage w ill be put into action Award for Community Arch by most legislstores, because itecture. Other members are W ally has found from per Charles W . Brubaker, FAIA, sonal experience that to fol Chicago, and Henry Stein- low the road of nonviolent hardt. ALA, M erce r Island, civil disobedience, the boy- Washington. The Award for Community Architecture hon ors architects responsible for an outstanding "new town" or other planned community anywhere b< the world. Both juries w ill meet at ALA headquarters here dur ing January. Urban Planning The humanistic approach to urban planning and land u ti lization w ill be the focus of a series of workshops to be sponsored by the Urban Studies Center at Portland, State University January 18 through April 14. The special project "M an and the Land; Is a Humane View Possible?" has re ceived funding from the Joint Committee for the Humanities in Oregon under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and PSU. Four workshops are sche duled to bring together nationally prominent "hu manists" and local land use planners, developers and public decision-makers. Harvey Perloff, dean of the school of architecture and planning, UCLA, and a mem ber of the Commission on the Y e a r 2000, will keynote the firs t workshop at 7:30 p.m^ Thursday, January 18 in the Smith Mem orial Center Ball room at PSU. Perloff. who developed the N e w -T o w n -Into w n concept which was incorporated as a m ajo r provision of the U.S. Housing Act of 1970, w ill talk on "Coping with the Urban C r is is " . After P e rlo ffs presenta tion, a reactor panel of local workshop participants will relate questions raised dup ing his address to local land use issues. Moderated by D r . Lyndon Musolf, director of PSU’s Urban Studies Center, the panel w ill include: Clifford Campbell, Sr., special con sultant to the Ford Founda tion and formerplanningcom missioner, C ity of Chicago; D r . Judah Bierman, director, PSU’ s University Scholars Program; Vera Katz, newly- elected state representative; and D r . Carol in Keutzer, assistant psychology profes sor, University of Oregon. Kenneth Boulding. interna tionally known economist and humanist, w ill keynote the second workshop at 7:30p.m., Friday, February 23 in the Smith Center Ballroom. Boulding. who is a professor and program director at the Institute of B e h a v i o r a l Science, University of Colo rado, w ill talk on "Humanis tic Perspectives on Economic G row th." Third keynoter Constance Perin is a city planner, an thropologist and consultant to the Rouse Company of Colum bia, Maryland. She will talk on "Urban Design for M an" at 7:30 pun., Thursday, March 15 in the Smith Center B all room. The final workshop, Satur day, April 14 w ill focus on "Human Values and Land Development: A re They Com patible?" All workshops are free and open to the public. Project director is D r. LeRoy Pierson. PSU asso ciate dean for international and continuing education. Co ordinator is L a rry Shadbolt, J r., a research assistant In the urban studies center. General Foods Corporation, one of the nation's leading processors of packaged gro cery products, is this month increasing to the ha 1 f million dollar level the total of its deposits in a number of m i nority banks throughout the United States. The food company is also making tax deposits in these banks, aggregating $8 million per year, to be held by the banks fo r short periods and to be credited ultimately to the Federal Government in satis faction of General Foods' tax obligations. One of the depositories is the Freedom Bank of Finance of Portland, in a brief cere mony at the bank, a check from the company was deiv- ered to Venerable F . Booker, President and Chairman of the Board of the Bank, by R.H. Burgess, of Portland, D istrict Sales and Distribu tion Manager, General Foods Corporation. The decision to make more extensive use of minority banks in cities where GF has processing plants or other facilities is in keeping with the company's long-standing policy of providing assistance and encouragement to blacks and other minority groups. F o r 35 years. General Foods has had a written equal em ployment opportunity policy; for a long period the company has been a substantial con tributor to the United Negro Set Unary: D r . Nathan Hare, publisher of "BlackScholar"; Senator M ervln Dymally of California; D r. Philip Foner of Lincoln University; Chuck Stone, author and educator from Philadelphia. Persons from or recently from P o rt land serving on the editorial board are: Reverend A X . Henderson; McKinley Burt; James Rogers; Lenwood G. Davis: W i l l i a m H llllsrd; Harold W illiam s; Oznathylee Hopkins; Jim Mapps: Ronald Herndon; Bruce Broussard; D r . W I lam Jenkins; Attorney John Toran: Debby Norman; Delores Bowman* M ize' G. Hsys: H-rvay Rica; jo si Hernandez. Associate Fdltora are James Rogers and InnoUaeje; Assistant Editors are Bar bara Pittman, Donna Collins, and M arjo rie Allen. Subscription rate for the publication w ill be $4.00 per year o r $1.25 per copy. In quiries should he directed to D r . Thompson at Portland Stale University. Reviews of the articles to he published as wall as bio graphies of their authors will appear In later issues of the Observer.) 1 Rep. W ally Priestley cott, peaceful, yet forceful demonstration of truth; these things often mean political suicide. And yet it is necessary to do all these things, necessary to stand on principle In order to become a legislator with a difference. Future columsn w ill deal with the works through which faith is manifested. Repre sentative Priestley has pre pared a number of bills to shift the tax burden over to the corporate rich. Reverend E llis Casson and Phil M cLaurin were participants in service honoring D r. M artin Luther King, sponsored by the M artin Luther King Scholarship Fund of Oregon and the Albina M inisterial Alliance. M artin Luther King Elementary School's 5th and hth Grade Chorus, under the direction of Angela Hlckok, sing "A m en" at tlie M artin Luther King Day ceremonies in the State Capitol. S ch w ab College Fund, It has Insisted upon the use of minority tal ent in a proportionate number of its televlsioncommerclals, and it currently is sponsoring a successful MESBIC program (M inority Enterprise Small Business Investment Com pany). General Foods* plans for assisting minorities were spelled out in a convenant signed recently with PUSH. The company's products are well known throughout the na tion and include Maxwell House, Sanka and Yuban Cof fees: Birds Eye Frozen Foods, J e ll-o Desserts, Kool-Aid, Post Cereals, Gaines Pet Foods and many others. M ayor (Continued from page 1 Col. 4) one term w ill expire on June 30. The mayor said he plans to reappoint some of the per sons who resigned but Is seeking public opinion on the selection of new members. He would like to begin filling the positions next week, es pecially those of the Planning Commission. Persons Interested in sug gesting possible appointees may call or w rite the M ayor’ s office with either names of individuals o r of qualities they would like to see in per sons named. Eymann (Continued from page I C o l.3) require college degrees. He would like to see an amend ment to the FEPC law mak ing it Illegal to discriminate because of education or the lack of it. Eymann is concerned about the current crisis in child care caused by cutback of federal funds. He believes PABLO ROBERTSON’S DRIBBLING EXERCISES child care is important for two reasons: F irst, to In In order to become a good the chairs and place them In crease productivity in the dribbler, you must be ready a circle, about eight to ten labor market because of in to practice consuntly. In feet across. Do the same creased availability of per dribbling, this practice can sons for work; and second, things you did in the firs t often become very boring. exercise, except you w ill find as a benefit to the child by That is why I have devised it more difficult going in a providing trained personnel two special exercises to help circle than you did going In to care for children whose you become a te tte r dribbler a straight line. Again, start parents must work. He be and have bin at the same time. out slowly and try and build lieves child care Is Important Don’t forget that just be up your pace until you can go enough that the state would cause you are working hard, between the chairs without be better off Investing state you don’t have to forget about hitting them or without loslrg funds than taking the his having a little fun. control of the ball. torical path of waiting until In the firs t exercise, line the young person's life is Keep working at dribbling, up eight to ten chairs in a and try changing hands. After ruined and then having to pay straight line or row. Leave you m aster your right hand, for rehabilitation. a few feet between the chairs work on your left. Soon you Eymann expects a good re and bouncing the ball slowly, w ill he able to not only lationship between tho Repub weave in and out lie tween t ie m aster change of hands, but lican Governor and the Dem chairs. Start slowly and in also changes in the speed you ocratically controled House crease your pace as you go are dribbling. Above all, of Representatives. He con until you eventually are going don’t forget to practice hard, siders M cC all's views on as fast as you can. but try and have fun at the social Issues to be as liberal In the second exercise, take same tim e. ah many fiemocrats and the Globetrotter tips ► General Foods deposits in Freedom Bank (See picture page 1) Workshop features (Continued from pg. I, col. 8) Sent Up The River By Yoe Aluminum juries decide architecture awards Juries fo r two 1973 R.S. Reynolds M em orial Award programs for distinguished achievement in architecture were announced today by The American Institute of Archi tects, which administers the awards. Each of the international awards offers a $25,000 hon orarium and an original sculp ture in aluminum, created each year by a leading sculp to r. Max O. Urbahn, FAIA, New York, immediate past presi dent of the Institute, was named jury chairman for the R .S . Reynolds Mem orial Award fo r a significant struc ture or related group of struc tures using aluminum. Other members areW orteyK.W ong. jo u rn a l OR ments." Bums, 45, a Portland attor ney widely known as a civil rights advocate and a volun tary legal counsel, is a for m er Deputy D istrict Attonwy for Multnomah County and a form ar clerk of the UJ». Courts. He is a graduate of Lewis and C lark and North west College of Law and is an active member of the A m er ican T ria l Lawyers Asso ciation. US Justice Department fights desegregation The Department of Justice vania. Others are Kentucky. is struggling to avoid a pos M issouri, South Carolina, sible court order that would Tennessee, Texas, West V i r - force the Government to re giniä and Delaware. sume the largely abandoned In his findings on November p r a c tic e of threatening 16, Judge Pratt said that the schools and colleges with loss Federal law does not allow of Federal funds for failing the Secretary of H.E.W . dis to desegregate. cretion in threatening to cut Last November 16, Judge off funds. It orders him to Hohn H. Pratt of the Federal start proceedings in that di D istric t Court in Washington rection. found that many state and The Nixon Administration local educational agencies has moved toward a voluntary were failing to meet the terms compliance system that the of the C ivil Rights Act of 1964. court called "unsuccessful." Hearings on compliances, with "Defendants (the Govern the threat of loss of Federal ment) now have no discretion funds, had been running at a to negate the purpose and in rate of about 100 a year. tent of the statute by a policy They dropped to a trickle, described in another context beginning in March, 1970, the as one of 'benign neglect,'” judge noted. the judge wrote in part. A t that time, J .Stanley Pot tlnger was appointed director of the Office fo r C ivil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and W elfare, the judge also noted. In his findings in a case brought by the N.A .A .C .P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., in October, 1970, Judge Pratt asked the defense fund to suggest a court de cree in the matter. The judge ordered the de fense fund to "confer with de fendants on the wording and substance" of the proposed decree. On December 11, the pro posed o id erw asfiled .Itcalied for resuming the administra tive hearings in 10 states with court supervision fo r three D r . John F . Garvey years. The action would begin in 60 to 120 days. In the past, the mere begin ning of su:h administrative hearings has brought compli ance with desegregation or ders, one lawyer close to the m atter said. Since the proposed order At the annual Medical Staff was filed, the Justice Depart banquet held in the Auditorium ment has filed a six-page of Providence Hall on January preliminary statement In op 16, D r. John F . Garvey was position that requests a hear Insulted as president for ing, plus a 13-page affidavit 1973, succeeding outgoing by M r. Pottlnger. president Joseph C . M itchell, Among the Justice Depart M J ). Serving with D r, Garvey ment' s objections to the de are president-elect Thomas cree are that their sugges L . M ille r, M J ) , and secre tions were ignored in draft tary-tre as u rer Robert L . ing the document, thatitwould Kalez, M J ).D r.G a rv e y , grad require too much manpower uate of the University of and divert funds from other Oregon Medical School, is a activities, that the suggested specialist in Internal Medi action takes the wrong legal cine. He Is a member of the form and that the Government Multnomah County Medical should not be required to pay Society, Oregon Medical As the legal fees fo r the sociation and the American N .A .A .C .P. Defense Fund. Medical Association. The 10 states, In which Oh te r members of the Ex colleges would be affected by ecutive Committee a re D r. Jo the order are Louisiana,M is seph C . M itchell, past presi sissippi, Oklahoma, North dent: Dr.JohnP,D ennis, Chief Carolina, Florida, Arkansas, of Surgery: D r . Thomas M . Pennsylvania, G eorgia,M ary Haun, Chief of Medicine; D r. land and V irginia. Ronald D . Rohlflng, Chief of In addition, some 155 ele- General Practice; D r . Gordon m e n ta ry and secondary L . M aurice, member 1973; D r. schools would be affected In E mest H .P ric e , member 1974 16 states. They include all of and D r . Michael Henry, mem the firs t 10 except Pennsyl- ber 1975. Priestley Reports difference to be mainly In M c C a ll’s support of President Nixon and the national Re publican policies. Newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives Richard Eymann Is a Demo crat from Lane County, where lie Is employed by the Lane Community College. He has been a member of the House of Representatives during the 1957. 1961, 1963, 1969 .nd 1971 sessions. (Continued from pg. I, col. 6) dent E llis Casson, officers and board members of the Branch, saying, "the com mitment to Human Rights means more than the com mitment to words o r rehe- to rlc. The days of simply talking a good game are far behind us, and our society is demanding action. I remind you of this fact. AND IT LS FA C T, because It Is you and I who must and w ill take that action." Abortion hearings planned In coordination with the In ternational Abortion Tribunal Initiated by the Women’ s Na tional Abortion Action Coa lition (WONAAC). to he held In New York City M a rc h 9-10, the Oregon Women's Abortion Tribunal Committee w ill hold a public fearing on abortion Wednesday, January 24th In room 338 of the Smith M e m orial Center at Portland SUM University.The hearings w ill begin at 7:30 p jn . The purpose of the fearing is to gather testimony on women's experiences with abortion from personal, legal, medical and psychological aspects. Testimony gathered at lie Oregon Tribunal w ill be sent on to the International T r i bunal In M arch. The Oregon Women's Abor tion Tribunal Committee, In coordination with WONAAC, Is dedicated to winning the complete repeal of all anti- abortion laws, unrestricted access to contraception and c o n t r a c e p t iv e information, and an end to forced ster ilization. All Interested women and mem are invited to attend the hearing; women with personal experience or Information on abortion are urged to present testimony. Anyone Interested In working with us for tlw repeal of all anti-abortion laws can contact the Oregon Women's Abortion Tribunal Committee through the Edu cational Activities office at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 97207. T E L : 229-4431. Ad Space Salesman for metro newspaper Equal Opportunity Employer P.o. Box 3137 City, 97208 Sabin School Continued from pg. I, col. 5) been able to use school fa about what activities they cilities, hut Sabin's commun would like to hive available ity school program enables at their school, "The sched citizens to make greater use ule of activities reflects their of the iulldlng and offers spe p re fe re n c e s , but people cial activities tliat meet needs throughout Portland are wel of the Sabin community," come to attend," notes Paa Paavola said community vola. school programs were Initi Acltlvtles Include ca l- ate«! in the Portland School igrsphy, psychic phenomena, D is tric t for the firs t time bicycle repairs, basketball, last fall at Sabin, Woodmere volleyball, table gates, pho and Portsmouth elementary tography, dog obedience and schools. candle making. He said tlie programs were Three «e**tng classes plus set up by tlie school district decoupage, m ac rim e . foreign in response to citizens in cooking, household repairs terested in using school build and alimnaatlcs are offered. ings as a focus fo r neighbor^ In addition, classes are hood activities. available In babysetting, tyre " A ll of our programs a re ing, sec t eta rial skills, first operated on a vo lu n te e r ski. legal aid, film s, jobhunt basis," continues Paavola. ing, career awareness anft "People in the Sabin commun children's theatre. ity are donating talrne and Sabin also w ill offer soci talent to instruct their neigh ology, science, math and high bors in a variety of subjects. school completion courses. We believe that when enlgh- Batty sitting services will bora help each other, the com te available to parents en munity becomes more like a rolled in luesday night ac fam ily and less like a cold t iv it ie s . c ity .” Persons interested In reg Starting (he week of Jan istration for a class or de uary 15, Sabin School will siring more information may host more than 30 activities contact Sabin Elementary for senior citizens, adults, School, 4013 N X . 18th Ave teens and children. The ac nue, at 287-0357. tivities w ill he offered at lit ppa - F o r further Informa tle or no charge. tion, contact: F ran Baumann, Members of tlie Sabin com public information specialist, munity were surveyed in 1972 234-3392, E xt. 336, Leon’s M a n ’s Shop High fashions in clothing, loathe rs and hats <0 4950 N.E. Union Ave. 282-4900 W hat about price? At Vann’ s no gimmicks are used. We refuse to insult your Intelligence. We know the buy ing public can recognize qual ity. We make certain tie fam ilies we serve have a wide variety to choose from . They select the price category that Is best suited to them. VANN’S MORTUARY 5211 N* Williams Avenue 281-2836 Portland, Oregon
