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Mr« France» Schoen-Nawapaper Pooa U n iv e r s it y o f O raron L ib r a r y tu g c n e , 0;-T e n 97403 OBSERVER POR TLA ND AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER |W THE WHOLE WIPE WORLD THAT REALLY CARES ABOUT Volum e 3, No. 2 0 Portland, O regon Thursday February 2 2 , 1973 1CK per copy PEOPLE Brotherhood Week seeks unity BY D r. David H yatt President-elect of the National Conference of Christians and Jews In 1934, more than 300 communities in the United Stales shook off the dol drums of the then current depression long enough to observe an e v e n t called Brotherhood Day. The ob servance caused o n ly a ripple of response in the participating communities and il received virtually no na tional recognition. But to a group of men and women banded together in a relatively new organization known as the National Con ference of Christians and Jews, that day in April, AYOS •indent«, Horwld M ille r, M « n u H Jones, Jackie Allen end Donald M ille r, examine 1934. was exciting and in la o a r w ritten by D r . Robert Blanchard giving school district support to the AYOS program. In spirational. And in Denver. Colorado, the re ar Is Leon Johnson, Counseling Coordinator. a Catholic priest. Monsignor Hugh McMenamin was see ing the fulfillm ent of an idea he had almost casually pro posed to the NCCJ two years previously. The sug gestion grew out of this the administrations rutting mending that the same level A large group of students situation: Monsignor M r bark on social and edura of school funds be appropri and teachers from the Albi Menamin. sitting i n his tional programs, that will ated to AYOS. "but il Model na Youth Opportunity School study one July day. looked at adversly offset the schools. Cities funds are cut off, we went to the office of Doctor his clanedar with the date of Doctor Blanchard gave the would have to re examine the Robert Blanchard. Superin July 4 in red coupled with students a letter explaining situation". He said the lendent of the Portland the wording. "Independence his support of their school. P o rtla n d School D is tr ic t Public Schools to obtain Day." thought: The stuoent body elected might lie able to increase its »upport for their school. The "Wouldn't it be fine if for a representative. Marques support of the school, but future of AYO S is endan just one day we celebrated Jones, to go to Washington that it could not completely gered by the cutback of fed our inter dependence?" Out D.C. with Bob Turner, com replace the Model Cities eral school aid and the poa of this reflection came his munity Relations advisor, to funds. Blanchard explainer! aible closing of the Model suggestion for Brotherhood talk to Oregon’s congression that the problem with fund Cities Program. al delegation and to research Day. ing AYOS is a part of a Doctor Blanchard told the Those who worked to pro the possibility of obtaining series of events, inrluding students that he is recom mote that first Brotherhood other federal funds. Day saw it become a full week's observance in 1940. and four years later, more than 2.000 communities rep resenting every state, cele AYOS students seek PPS support Work Release brings successes PART I Moat convicts who are re leased from prison commit a n o it e r crim e and are re turned, The national average for recidivism (sibling back Into crim e) is 65 to 7Oj£. There is a program cur rently functioning In Oregon, called the Work Release Pro gram , which has reduced tie recidivism rate among ax - coo V let ■ who complete the program to 10^. P a rt of Its program are such agencies as tba "half-w ay house,*’ The Portland Men’ s Center Is one of four such houses In Port land and one of seven In Oregon. What the Portland Men's Center, located In southeast Portland, does la take men who are about to te released from prison and place them In a facility which acts aa a kind of half-way stop-over between prison and release or parole. And In length of tune. It Is just a stop-over. The longest the program wants to keep any client, assures J Im Hammock, assistant director of the Cen te r, Is six months. A fter that time he should be released Into society to assume the role of a normal citizen. In that six months the pro gram attempts to Instill In its clients the kind of social atti tudes and behavior which w ill enable them to become useful members of society. It Is a large task. A ll the attitudes which tlie ex-convict has grown up with and which brought him to commit a crime Free Clinic for HOME BUYERS Are you planning to buy or build a home and have a lot of questions? Gel the answers at one of our free Wednesday evening clinics. Promi nent Builders and Realtors will speak on home construction and home buying Benj. f ranklin officers will talk on financing, followed by a question-and-answer period To register, call 248-1361. Wednesday«—7:00-9:00 p.m. Franklin Bldg., S.W. 5th at Stark B enj. F ra n k lin Robert M Moion P ro . • >1 Ofttceo • Phono 74» l?J4 Homo OMIcs Fronklm Bldg . Portlond. Oregon *7704 must le erased and a new set put In their place. It would be an Impossible task In six months, or even six years, without the help of the ex convict. What the program attempta to do Is get the ex- convlct to help himself become a useful member of society. " E ith e r we’ re lucky or we must be doing something rig ht." Is the way Manfred Maass. regional director of the program, describes the success of the half-way house. The program has been In ex istence for six years. In that time over 2.000 people have completed the program. Out of that number only a lew over 200 have committed another crim e and been returned to prison. How do you get a convict to help himself? "W e use posi tive reinforcement Instead of negative reinforcement.’ ’ ex plained Manfred M aass. "The men earn prlveleges by doing chores. The biggest privelege Is passes. According to O re gon statutes they can receive passes which allow them to leave the facility for up to twelve hours. That enables them to he with their families and re-establish a family re- latlonship.*’ Maass described this phil osophy as being one In which no one stands over the men and constantly tells tliemwhat to do, the way they were treat ed In prison. "W e tell them, this Is what we expect of you, and If you do whatweexpect of you, this is what you w ill get.” What they expect of the men at the Portland Men’ s Center, and tl« other facilities. Is that they take a responsibility for caring for themselves and the house. Each man performs certain tasks every day, such as cleaning up the living room, washing the breakfast dishes, or cutting the lawn. Each man la also expected to make his own hed and keep his room reasonably neat. (please turn to pg. 8. col. 3) brated Brotherhood Week. Since 1940, the traditional dale of Brotherhood Week has been the full week of Washington's Birthday. Cnee a robust national observance serving as a re minder of mans penchant for irrational and divisive hatreds, the violence and sealing hatreds of the 1950's served to undermine its es sence. A t its best, what we now call Brotherhood Com milment Week, was a mov ing. distinguished plea for rationality and sanity, in volving broad and repre sentative segments of our nation's population. During the darkest days of H itler’s barbarism, for example, t h e observance contributed rather effectively to American unity, although admittedly 'he war was the p r i m e concern throughout the nation and world. As our nation now extri cates itself from the longest m ilitary conflict in its his tory. the time seems appro priate to r e c o m m i t our selves to continuing efforts of Brotherhood. Millions of Black Am eri cans, M e x ic a n Am eri cans. Puerto Ricans, Native American Indians and other minority groups i n our society suffer from severe deprivation a n d injustice. Many factors, prim arily ra cial prejudice, have contri buted to this deplorable sit uation. Race prejudice has shaped our history decisively in the past and it is threatening to do so again. W hat white Americans never have fully understood - but what the Black American and Am eri can Indian can never for get - is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto and other equally (Please turn to pg. 8, col. 4) Rally opposes cuts Fifty four Oregonians join ed approximately 50.000 other Americans in W aih ngton. D.C. Tuesday to protest the threatened cutbacks of fed erally funded programs. The people went to Wash ■ ngton to demonstrate to Congress that poor people do have a constituency. A rally held on the Capitol grounds brought out the theme of unity as every ethnic group w a s repre seated. Speakers included Reverend J e s s e Jackson. Reverend Ralph Abernathy and Mrs. Coretta King. As the rally progressed, the feeling of despair held by most of those present turned into one of hope. Plans were laid to mobilize the nation in massive marches and demonstrations to let President Nixon know that he cannot turn his back on the poor. Jesse Jackson described the mobilization as “an emerging spring and a long hot summer." Portland delegates repre sen ted the Albina Ministerial Alliance, the Portland M etro politan! Steering Committee, the G reater Portland Council of Churches, child care and headstart mothers - but most were concerned citi zens who wanted to get information aa well as to make their voices of protest US Bank names Grigsby Tenors D. Grigsby has been amed operations officer at he Lombard Emerald Branch f United S û te s National lank of Oregon, according to .J. Winczewski. manager of he branch. Mrs. Gngsby joined the iank as commercial teller at he Lloyd Center Branch, and ias held numerous positions rithin the banks since that time. She is Junior Achievement advisor, and treasurer for the Portland Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation. Her outside activities in clude sewing and volleyball. Mrs. Grigsby and her hus band. Ernest, reside at 77 N.E. Morgan. Portland. Ore gon. Schnaible appointed Pacific Northwest Bell has appointed Roy Schnaible Portland Division Manager, replacing Gene Pfeifer who becomes assistant comptrol ler at PNB's Seattle head quarters. Schnaible assumes respon sibility for some 261,000 tele phone subscriber accounts in Portland as well as Oregon City. Gladstone. W est Linn, Milwaukie. Oak Grove. Lake Oswego. Burlington. Carlton. Rainier. St. Helens. Cascade Locks and G overnm en t Camp. Employed at PNB for 17 years. Schnaible has worked in the company’s commercial, a d m in is tra tio n , accounting and plant departments at Portland, and is returning to this area from a brief assign ment at the company's Seat tie headquarters. He is a graduate of Oregon City H.S. and Lewis & Clark College, and served in the U.S. Ma rine Corps during the Korean W ar. Schnaible and his wife Ilene have a son. The family enjoys fishing and Attorney General arrested Attorney G e n e r a l L«e Johnson was arrested this week and accused of driving while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor. John son was released on bail from the Salem City Jail. James Durham, a spokes man for Johnson, said the Attorney General d e n i e d that he was under the in fluence of alchohol. stating that he was very tired at the time. Johnson has had 13 mov ing violations since 1963 and his drivers license has been suspended twice, once in 1968 and again in 1969. None of the previous vio lations were f o r driving under the influence of liquor. Johnson was elected A t torney General of the State of Oregon in 1968 and again in 1972. The Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the state and head of the Departm ent of Labor. Minister promotes Brotherhood works Doctor Raymond Balcomb, pastor of F irs t United Metho dist Church, is promoting Brotherhood through en couraging his congregation to subscribe to the Observer. Doctor Balcomb, a native of Palo Alto. California, is a graduate of San Jose State College, earned h it Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree "magna cum laude” at tie Boston University School of Theology, and his Ph. p .fro m Boston University Graduate School. Before becoming a minis te r, Doctor Balcomb was a journeyman machinist. He pastored churches In Massa- chusetts and Portland, Med ford and C orvallis, before be coming pastor of F irs t United Methodist at 1838S.W .Jeffer son. Doctor Balcomb has written two books. STIR WHAT YOU’VE GOTI and TR Y READING THE BIBLE THIS W AY. He has leena contribu to r to 12 books, magazines such as: THE CHRISTAIN CEN TU RY. THE PU L P IT, THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. P U L P IT DIGEST, ett: and to the National Council of Churches: syndicated news paper column, " P ra y e r for Today.” u Henderson, Editor and Publisher of the OBSERVER. Spurgeon Waters of the OREGONIAN. E Shelton H ill, Executive D irector of the Urban League of Portland visit with column s n Rowan during his visit to Oregon. Rowan spoke at Portland State University and at the — a --R — — —.---in *** * * — ~ •
