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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1973)
' ; Z I Z z H -/ £><4. ‘X t v C POR TLA ND THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN OBSERVER AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER T I.....J -. c u o ,« > THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD THAT REALLY CARES ABOUT P E P » . / * F« b r « a r y 8 , 1 9 7 3 IOC p . r c o p y President’s budget destroys social programs Government closes Residential Manpower Students of Portland's re sidential Manpower Program were informed Wednesday that their center will be closed. Director Patrick Hickey told the student as sembly that he had just received a telegram from Washington. D.C. s t a t i n g that all Urban Residential Manpower Centers will be closed. The Portland renter trains 203 students, ages 16 to 21 years. These are students who have dropped out of high school and are trained for entry level employment in Health Occupations, Busi ness, Agriculture, Welding and Auto Mechanics. The students are residents of Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties. CHARLES F R IT Z , PCC student and winner of an Upper Division Scholarship awarded by the College Entrance Examination Board, discusses plans for future schooling at PSU with Amo Du Bernard Is, PCC president. Fitz wins PCC scholarship Charles Fitz, M*cond year business administration stu dent at Portland Community College who lives at 54 N.E. Graham, has been awarded an Upper Division Scholar ship by the Collrge Entrance Examination Board in New York The grant is funded by the Ford Foundation to support minority students in their work toward a bacra laureate degree at the four year institution of their choice. Fit«. who plans to rontin «• hts studies in Business Administration at Portland State University, graduated from Portland's Jefferson High School in 197». He is considering a career in lax auditing with the Internal Revenue Service. In addition to a full time student load. Pita is employed 20 hours each week as a motor mes senger for Northwest Natu ral Gas Company. "I was really surprised when I was notified I had received the scsholarship.*' says Fitz. “I've never won anything in my life, in fact, I almost didn't apply." He ad mils he was concerned about how to pay for additional schooling, and that the scholarship grant will help. The Ford Foundation through t h e College En trance Examination Board Many of the students live at the school. The girls live in a remodeled former hotel in downtown Portland, and the boys live on the Spring dale campus in East Mult nomah County. Although the Residential Manpower Center is a part of the Job Corps, it differs in that the students are near their homes r a t h e r than being sent elsewhere in the country. Counsellors are concerned that the students will not only have to leave their training programs, but many will have no-where to live. The students are planning a letter writing campaign to try to halt the schools clos ing. The final dinsion as to when the center is to close will be given in two weeks. i ’ I has made available two mil lion dollars annually to pro vide financial aid for Black American. Mexican Ameri can. Puerto Rican, and American Indian students who have completed a trans ferable associate degree pro gram at a two-year junior or community college, and who plan to transfer to a four year college or university for the bachelor's degree. Scholarship amounts vary according to the need of th< individual winner They are granted for one year and may be rem-wed for stu dents who make satisfactory progress. 4 iik r 4 divided, and it is divided into four districts. Each of the four pieces of Albina is combined with a large white area, giving none of the four d i s t r i c t s a percentage of more than 20 per cent Black A suit was filed at the time, but the Oregon Su preme Court upheld the re districting. When Blacks objected to the division. Secretary of State Myers said he thought it would give Blacks more voting power to have a fifteen to twenty per cent vote in three districts and five per cent in the fourth, than to have approximately fifty per cent in one district. Many Black citizens dis agreed with this statement, pointing out that with 50 per rent of the vote there was a possibility of electing a Black to represent Albina, but it would be nearly im possible to elect a Black in any of the four districts. It has been pointed out that the lines could have been drawn roughly around the Model Cities area and this would have made a legislative district with the correct number of voters, approximatey 50 per cent Black. It is possible that the r e d i s t r i c t i n g could be (Please turn to p. 8 col. 6) x White heads Free Clinic for HOME BUYERS Arc you planning io buy or build a home and have a lot of questions? Get the answers at one of our free Wednesday evening clinics. Promi nent Builders and Realtors will speak on home construction and home buying. Benj. Franklin officers will talk on financing, followed by a question-and-answer period. To register, call 248-1361. Wednesdays—7:00-9:00 p.m. Franklin Bldg., S.W. 5th at Stark l l e n j . O F ra n k lin R ie s e a t eaeieee a »eae aeee Bobsrt M H u m . Pro« • 21 Ortlcoe • Phone 24B*12M Home Office Franklin Bldg Portland Oregon 97JO4 Hays leaves PDC Mrs. Hazel G. Hays is resigning from her position as one of Portland Develop men! Commission's four pro gram directors. As Director of Community Services, Mrs. H a y s has been responsible for the de velopment of the Neighbor hood Development Program site offices. These offices are operated by community residents and have been a (Please turn to p. 8 col. 4) a national and local insti tution. Too many of you have a tendency to perceive the above statement as a per sonal attack upon our parti cular city government. This is not necessarily the fact. We have more than twenty- five million p o o r people across our country and to say that one is concerned only with those poor in the City of Portland and to hell with the others is very, very sad. There comes a time when it is mandatory that we express a united concern for all poor; for what is true for the poor in the City of Portland is true, perhaps even more so, for the poor in Mississippi, Louisiana, or the Appalachias. In the absence of critical phrases of concern for the sick and poor in current national legislation and with the correspondence present of legislaton, which decen tralizes efforts to local gov ernment. the issue is clearer than ever to us - who will speak to and with the p o o r in local government? It is a known fact in most cities, if not our own, gov a member of the National Honor Society. He is the student repre sentative to the Area I Advisory Committee to the School Board. Leslie was a member of the Jefferson track team during his Freshman and Junior years. As an eighth grader, he w a s Student Body President of Martin Luther K i n g Elementary- School. Besides his many activités, Leslie maintains a grade point average of 3.6. He plans to a t t e n d Morris Brown in Atlanta where he will study Philosophy and Religion. His career goal is to become a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Already a c t i v e in the church, Leslie is a Licen tuate (minister without or dination) at Bethel A.M.E. Church. He is First Vice President of Young Peoples Department of the Puget Sound Conference and Voca tional Leader of the Fifth Episcopal District, which in cludes the western states. He attended Expo 72 in Dallas. Texas last summer and was an observer at the A.M.E, General Conference in Dallas. During the sum mer of 1972 he also pastored Bailey A.M.E. Church in f b n ' l X ™ f^ m n p1? - Everett, Washington. Leslie is the son of Char les and Pearline White. He has a married sister, [.aura (Please turn to p. 8 col. 4) ernment tends to seek com promise in regard to the poor, rather than solutions. Historically, as we all are aware, l o c a l government s e e k s to regulate rather than liberate the poor. It is my personal viewpoint that the President of our country is more and more beginning to adopt the attitude of being “anti people”. The priorities established by our present administration are d e g r a d i n g and absurd. Nearly half of the Presi dent's 1973 budget is in the military. The following re port. published in the Feb ruary 5, 1973 edition of the Economic Opportunity Re port, indicates the funding levels of programs within the Office of Economic Op portunity during 1972 and 1973, as well as their fate lor 1974. As you can readily see, no funds have been appropri ated for these important programs in 1974 and they will be merged with other agencies or local govern ments to fund either out of t h e i r existing budget or through revenue s h a r i n g funds. (Please turn to page 8 Aging committee forms Senior citizens of Oregon are promised special consid eration when proposed leg C. Don Vann. Jr. has islation is referred to the joined Vann's Mortuary as a newlev appointed Joint Com professional licensed morti mittee on Aging. The com cian. Vann recently passed m ittee is made p ossi the state examination after ble through a special grant completing the 12 month from the Administration on course at the Mortuary Col Aging and was appointed lege of Mt. Hood Community last week by the Speaker of College. He also served a the House and the President two year apprenticeship. of the Senate. Senator Betty Vann graduated from King Roberts and Representative Elementary S c h o o l and Bill McCoy serve as co- Jefferson High School. He chairmen. McCoy announced attended Lewis and Clark that a transportation propos College and Pacific Univer al will be discussed at a sity. work session of the commit C. Don Vann, Sr. has been tee this week. The proposal in the Mortuary business in tails for a partnership of Portland for 19 years. ■ Leslie White, a 17 year old Senior, has been elected Student Body President of Jefferson High School. Leslie is Vice President of the Black Student Union, is on the speech team, plays trumpet in the Band, and is by Cleveland Gilcrease, Executive Director. PMSC Community Action Agen cies, such as the Portland Metropolitan Steering Com mittee, are presently wit nessing the dismantling of t h e i r national legislative foundation. The moving and enabling spirit of the 1960's is gone! Increasingly the trend is toward decentrali zing and decatorizing the national priorities and ef forts, supposedly to be ac complished through general and special revenue sharing. The total budget, submitted by the President on January 29, 1973 for Fiscal Year 1974, prioritizes better gov emmental relationships be tween the federal level and local and state governments, the continuation of general revenue sharing, and the réintroduction of special re venue sharing with emphasis on urban community devel opment, manpower, educa tion, a n d law enforcement. It is ironic that new legis lation will fund those same old structures whose historic failures of will to care and work for the poor. had. in 1974, contributed to the cre ation by Congress of the community action concept as Vann ¡oins Firm Residents seek court ruling The Observer has learned that a group of Model Cities residents plan to take the question of the legislaive redistricting of Oregon to the United States Supreme Court. The State was redislricted following the 1970 Census, in order to equalize the num her of voters in each legis lative district. At the same time the state went into a single member district ays tern, where each district has one representative who lives in the district. The redistricting plan was drawn up by Secretary of State Clay Myers, after the legislature had refused to take action. The intersection nt Fre mont and Union was chosen as the center point from which to divide the State. Albina is the only commu nity in the State that is 7/ ¿- W / / ' - < *r~y £ r < , Lf , (, 7 local, state and federal fi nancing and would give special emphasis to the el derly who are isolated from health and shopping ser vices. The panel also heard a report on Senate Bill 18, relating to age discrimina tion in employment and agreed to submit four bills pertaining to nursing home patients that were reviewed by Cornelius Bateson. State Health Division Administra tor. According to McCoy, the discrimination issue and a dozen or more areas of concern for the elderly will be given full review by the (Please turn to p. 8 col. 3) ■ - • / d* u8hter> M r . and M rs . B illie Jo Hurst, are having '< *' S it i n g girts are’ Triplets launch candy sale Notice The Oregon Black Caucus will meet on February 11th at 6:00 p.m. at the Elks led g e. 6 N. Tillamook. A slate of officers will be elected. You are urged to attend this important meeting. Terri, Toni a n d Traci Hurst, 8 year old triplets, are experiencing their first Camp Fire Candy selling. The Hurst triplets, daugh ters of Mr. and Mrs. Billie Jo Hurst, 3307 N.E. 11th Avenue, are three of some 10,000 girls in the Portland area who are selling Van D u y n ’ s chocolate covered mints and chocolate covered cremes. The annual Camp Fire Girls randy sale, conducted by the Portland Area Coun cil of Camp Fire Girls, will continue through Wednes day, February 14. There are 98 candy depots in the homes of volunteers throughout Multnomah and Washington Counties, where (Please turn to p. 8 col. 3) I
