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Page • Portland/Obae rv er Thursday February 8, 1973 Camp Fire (Continued from page 1 James T aylo r was a first place winner in Highland Community Center's ping pong tournament. At the table in the background is Elaine Antoine, another firs t place winner. Additional winners were: F irs t place - Del ben Newton and Eddie Lomax; Sencond place - Gregory and Avery Pnney, Paulette M cM urray and Lindell Betts. 236,256 boxes of candy will be dispensed to group lea ders. Proceeds from the candy sale are used to buy camp sites, c o n s t r u c t build ings. maintain s i t e s and structures and provide the program for both resident and day camps. Although Camp Fire Girls is a United Good Neighbors a g e n c y . UGN does not support the camping program. There are two resident ramps. Camp Namanu on the Sandy River. n ear Sandy, and Camp Kwonee sum. in the mountainous area a b o v e Washougal. Washington. “We have many girls in the inner city who are in terested in becoming Camp Fire Girls and sharing in all of the indoor and outdoor benefits of the program,” said Miss Anita Austin, spe cial project director for the inner city. "Our problem is securing interested a d u l t volunteer leaders.” Miss Austin, who spends her full time working with the inner city program, may be reached by interested volunteers at 224-7800 at the Camp Fire Office. Hays leaves PDC Court (Continued from page I) (Continued from page I) training ground for many minority people who have gone into other PDC depart ments. Some persons have moved up into supervisory positions under Mrs. Hays' training. The site offices are re sponsible for planning many of the more visible improve ments in the Model Cities are - housing and street improvements, tree planting, street and curb improve ments. The site offices also are the focal point for citizens participation. The neighbor hood committees have been among the most active citi zens groups in the city. Due in large part to Mrs. Hays' efforts. PDC employs 25 full-time and 11 part time minority persons out of a total of 126 employees. Mrs. Hays has encouraged her staff members to con tinue their education. At the present time, nine em ployees are attending col lege, one is in high school, and one is preparing for the GED. Mrs. Hays serves on many boards and committees dedi cated to human rights. She is a long time member of the Executive Board of the NAACP Portland Branch, Aging (Continued from page II Delbert Newton displays skill that earned him a firs t place award in Highland Community Center’ s ping pong tournament. Tournaments are held every two months. President’s budget (Continued from page I) Research, development, & evaluation Community Action Operations Health and nutrition Community economic development Migrants and seasonal farmworkers Legal services program General support 1972 1973 45.07 351.0 157.2 26.8 36.5 285.3 165.2 30.7 67.7 18.2 66.7f 36.3 73.8 18.5 committee in the near fu ture. Action on the nursing home bills was postponed until they are referred by the Speaker of the House for committee recommendation. For your subscription, send to: Portland Observer P.O. Box 3137 Portland, Oregon 97208 Name « A regular meeting sche duled each Monday at 3:00 in Room 309 of the Capitol Building, has b e e n esta blished for the Committee. changed by the Legislature. This question has not been brought up by the Legis lature or l e g a l opinions sought. Senate President J a s o n Boe said it is unlikely that the Legislature will reopen this question since it would endanger t h e position of each legislator. A red is tricting could change or eli minate the districts many of them represent, particularly those in Multnomah County. The o n l y practical re course, in the opinion of the group that is now ogranix ing, is through the courts. The federal courts have re quired s o m e states to change their legislative dis tricts when it was proven that they had been drawn to weaken Black voting power. Unless legal action is tak en. the legislative districts will not be redrawn until after the 1980 Census. Various agencies Local option HEW 0MBE DOL Independent corporation GSA A banquet marked the kick-off of the weekly radio program - PROVE ODD NOW RADIO HOUR. Evangelist W . Pritchett and Chaplain James Coleman were speakers. The radio program Is aired on KGAR from 8:23 to 8:33 each Sunday morning. Heuderson Printing Company 283-2486 Printing to moot your needs: tiWS posters fliers envelopes newsletters pamphlets programs business cards Typesetting at moderate cost 2201 N. Killingswortti Responsible Agency 1974 tBillion dollars Under no circumstances do I believe inflation can be fought with massive unem ployment, s u c h as that which will be created by the abolishment of the Office of Economic Opportunity and over one hundred o t h e r social service (human ser vice) agencies. In defense of his actions the President has stated, “the time has come to get rid of old programs that have outlived t h e i r time, or that have failed. When we cut a million dol lars for a federal program, that money is not lost and its power to do good things eliminated; r a t h e r that m o n e y is transferred to other budgets w h e r e its power to do good is mutli- plied.” To me, the Presi dent's elimination of major domestic program is dan gerous; especially in an era when people's ability to help themselves is dwindling with massive unemployment, the high cost of livng, the high cost and limited medical ser vices. Yet, our President can tell each of us in his Inaugural Address “do not ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for yourself.” One would think that at this time, with the President's optimism for our country's future, there would be a federal commitment to hu manity, which is needed now more than ever before. Our present national legis lative trends pose real and present dangers to the con tinued existence of Commu nity Action Agencies, es and has served as First Vice President, Secretary, a n d Chairman of l^bor and In dustry. She served two terms as Secretary of the Western Region. Mrs. Hays will join the firm of Christian Electrical Corporation, owned by her brother. George. She said. “Becoming involved in the family business has been a life long dream a dream to make a successful minor ity owned firm a reality.” There is fear in the com munity that Mrs. Hays will be replaced by a white. Some Model Cities residents are contemplating a cam paign to request the assign ment of a Black to the position. SPECIALI AH during February Leslie White Dry Cleaning Only $2.50 per load (Continued from page I) pecially since they have al ways assumed the role of federally f u n d e d advo cates for and with the poor. These trends tend to dilute and diversify the influence and developed skills which the poor have begun to acquire with great difficulty through the Community Ac tion Agency. The dilemma facing each CAA throughout our country is how to become a local institution, while pre serving the community ac tion concept which has been won with such effort and while retaining the role of the CAA as advocate for the ’»oor. Another national di lemma facing both CAAs and local governments is how can the CAA work ef fectively with elected of ficials for the purpose of liberating the p o o r and enabling legislation tends to ward regulation of the poor? CAA Directors must become fully aware and knowledge able of pending legislation and must communicate this awareness and knowledge by developing joint strategies with the poor and CAA Boards, elected officials, and the various community or ganizations. CAA Directors must adapt their leadership role to include the role of “Community Representative” within the emerging local community development pro cess. Community Action Agencies must develop a knowledgeable and concern ed constituency locally, in the state, regionally, and nationally, which will create $5.00 for 52 ÌS8USOS new lines of communication by which these new con cerns can be heard and acted upon. Communiy Ac tion Agencies must provide more active support to their state and national associa tions for the purpose of projecting t h e community action concept. As a Director of a Com munity Action Agency, I am more than ready to meet this challenge and assume the responsibility to seeing that our poor continue to be recognized and receive the assistance they so desper ately need, d e s p i t e the views of our President. But it is about time that every one, each citizen, awaken to the fact that the problem facing our country today is not just the problem of CAA Directors or the Office of Economic Opportunity. The problem of poverty in our country affects the lives of everyone. Poverty will not disappear if it is ignored; this theory has been tried time and time again in our country and proven false. Isn’t it time we all joined in a united effort to eradicate poverty? A united voice would insure that our mes sage would be heard in every corner of the country, from the smallest local city hall to the big white, stone build ings in Washington, D.C. Throughout this article, I have made a sincere, honest appraisal in my efforts to illustrate what the drastic cuts in the president’s do mestic budget mean to all of us. One has only to look around in the City of Port land. In a multitude of different areas, from public Housing to Model Cities, to Day Care Centers, to Com munity Action Agencies, the cutbacks will definitely put a new burden on an already gravely overburdened com munity. Unquestionably, to me, all of this dramatizes human suffering and degra dation. Since Blacks have always been at the bottom of the economic heap, it is the Black who will feel most directly the cuts in welfare, employment, health and edu cation. Reid; two brothers, Cederick and Manfred, who attend Oregon State University and Pacific University; and a sister, Irene, who is a first grader at Holy Redeemer School. SAVE YOUR CLAIM TICKETS! FOR THE B -B A LL players at the Salvation Arm y Youth Clubs In Portland, Navy L t. 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