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Iira Francea Schoen-Newapaper Roo» U n iv e r s it y o f O reron L ib r a r y tu r o n i. OBSERVER PORTLAND y-g,-- 3 N. a, volunto J, w o. a t P ortland, O r .« o n ro m a n o , w u J((| AN (O U At C " » » ’ ««"’ » NEWSPAPER IN IN I W H O li W IPt WORLD IMA! » « U T Educational Center feels financial pinch The Portland Slate Uni versity Educational ( “enter, located at 2611 N.E. Union, is in danger of being closed. The Center, w hich is a branch of P.8.U., has served approx imateiy 1500 disadvantaged students during its lour tear existence. Designed to serve low in come anil disadvantaged stu dents of all races, the ( enter emphasizes the abilitv ot every student to achieve Having a success rati ol about 93 |ier cent, the Center has enabled some students to obtain jobs and others io go on to other schools. The Center is now in danger because ol lack ol funds available Io it. Existing mainlv on volunlei*rs anil donations, the I enter has onlv three paid emplovees Director Harold William-. Assistant Director Jose Her nandez and Secretary Rosalie Wav tie Approximately two thirds to three fourths ol the instructors are volunteers, with P.S.I , budgeting only $1200 lor instructional costs this year and nothing in prev iou * years. Although the volunteers, many ol whom carry regular leaching loads at Portland State, are dedicated. W il llams docs not led the ( enter can continue to rely on volunteers alone. But Ron Cease, dean of undergraduate studies at I’.S I . said Port land State has no money Io pul into the Center. The P S U. administration h.i- not vet made the decision as to whether the Center will con linue. Williams feels this decision rests on politics. "If we are still (Militically useful, we will survive. If not. we will not. Work and success do not have much Io do with it." Committee calls TV hearing PCC/Tri-Met train mechanics A 24 year ok) ex Marine enrolled in the two-year die eel program at Portland Community College has been named first participant in Tri Met'» work scholarship and training program for m inorities, according to General Manager Tom King. Henry Morris, 634 N.E. Morgan Street. Portland, would “graduate" to a full time helper position on suc cessful completion of the two-year part time on the job training program and diesel class work. King said. The cooperative program with Portland Community College, supported by Dlvi sion 757 of Amalgamated Transit Union, was estab lished to aid in expanding the work experience of two minority trainees. “We see this as an excel lent opportunity for Tri Met to assist in a worthy coop erative program for industry which will help provide us with a potential source of trained manpower." King said. Morris, who served 13 months with the Marines south of Danang, is enrolled at PCC under the GI Bill. A n a t i v e of Memphis. Ten nessee, he has been a Port land resident since being discharged 2*/t years ago. Requirements of the pro gram include a minimum of two eight hour work days a week during the training period, maintaining at least a “C" grade average at the college, and conforming to Tri Met work performance and conduct standards, ac cording to James Booser, Coordinator of cooperative education for PCC. Morris has been assigned to the Tri Met maintenance division where he will be initially assigned bus servic ing duties. The Portland Multnomah County Citizens' Cable Tele vision Committee has called for a Public Hearing on the question of whether the city county cable system should be publicly o r ' lyyately owned. Presiding officer at the hearing, which will be held March 12 in Room 338. Smith Center. Portland Stale University at 7:30 p.m.. will be Professor Kenneth H. Pierce, chairman of t h e ownership subcommittee and head of the business depart ment at Lewis and Clark College. Presently there are 18 20 municipally owned cable iy s terns, or variations thereof, in the country. These sre mostly in small or middle sized communities where it has not been commercially profitable for private owner ship However, a trend appears to be developing in several of the nation's urban centers where local govern ments are now considering seriously the feasibility of municipal ownership. City Commissioner Connie McCready, at the time she a n d County Commissioner Ben Padrow appointed the committee, instructed t h e committee to examine thor oughly the issue of public ownership. The ownership subcommittee felt the ques tion was of sufficient impor tance to call for a public hearing. Taxes hit more lodges The Director of the Ore gon Department of Revenue Charles H. Mack has or dered county officials to place the property of two more fraternal lodges on the tax rolls for the 1972-73 and 1973 74 tax years. Named in letters to the county officials are the Knights of Pythias and the Loyal Order of Moose, both of which have racially re strictive membership clauses in their national conslitu lions. These two groups will continue to be subject to Free Clinic for HOME BUYERS Are you planning to 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. Wednesday«—7:00-9:00 p.m. Franklin Bldg., 8.W. 5th at Stark Benj. © Franklin »SMSSt »«naaa a i » m aoso . RoExrt M Macon Free • 11 O ltic w • Phons 24S- m s H o m s Oft loo Franklin Bid« Portland. Ors«on S7M 4 taxation unless they alter their membership restric lions in accordance with a Federal District Court ruling handed down last November. Mark noted that the Knights of Pythias is moving to eliminate the race restric lion from its national const! tution. However, the lodge states this cannot be ap proved before April 1, 1973. the final date for filing ap plication for exemption. Since the federal court issued its ruling, the Depart ment of Revenue has been investigating the national membership policies of fra ternal organisations which had been receiving tax ex emptions under Oregon law. The letters directing the Knights of Pythias and the Ixiyal Order of Moose to be placed on the roll resulted from this investigation. The Department also iden tified several fraternal or ganizalions which do not limit their membership on the basis of race and will continue to receive their tax exemptions: Fraternal Order of Eagles, Grand I.odge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Knights of Colum bus. Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.), Vet erans of Foreign Wars of the U nited S ta tes, the American legion, and the National Grange. O rj ro n 9 7 4 0 3 CARES ABOUT PEOPLE « » « d o y M arch 1, 197 3 1 « per copy Warren expands Explorers Ernest Warren has been appointed Exploring Execu live for the Columbia Pacific Council, B.S.A. His district will include Oregon Explorer Posts from the Columbia River on the North, the Multnomah County line on ihe west. Burnside Street on the South and 33rd Avenue on the east. It will also include Clark and Skamania Counties in Washington and part of Columbia county, I fregon. Exploring is a program for high school age bovs and girls. Warren's immedeale goals will be to bring in Clark County, to work in Columbia County, to organ i/e | nis I s in North Portland, Io put the inner city posts under a single Exploring Executive, and to develop an inner city task force to bring the Exploring Pro gram Io disadvantaged youths. Warren attended Lincoln High School. Oregon State University. Multnomah Col lege and Pasadena Junior College. He earned an Asso elate Degree in Education in 1954. He has had professional training in his field, inelud ing: N.E.I.. Boy Scouts of America; W’oodbadge and Urban Relations Seminar. E rnest W arren Before j o i n i n g B.S.A., Warren was employed by Bose City Transit Company. N orthw est Natural Gas Company and .Aetna Life and Casulty Insurance. He has been with the Columbia Pacific Council of Boy Scouts of America since 1963. Most recently serving as Associ ate District Executive of the Big Thunder District. Priestley seeks reapportionment Representative W a lly Priestley iDem Portland) has introduced a bill into the House o f Representatives calling for the redistricting of the Multnomah County legislative districts. Priest ley's bill would form Sena tonal districts following the lines of the proposed city- county council position dis tricts. The district encompassing Albina would include the area between approximately 33rd Avenue on the East. Burnside Street o n the South, the Vancouver free way on the West and Colum bia Boulevard on North. One State Senator w o u l d be elected from this district. The district would be di vided into two areas, each e le c tin g a Represents tive. Priestley wants sug geslions from the residents as to how the district should be divided. The bill is a response to concern in the community over the fact that Albina is divided into four districts, each combined with large areas outside Albina. Black citizens have been especially concerned that the Black community has been so di vided that it cannot elect a representative, but that it is the only community in the state that is divided this way. This division took place when the state was reappor tinned by Secretary of State Clay Myers following the 1970 Census. Previously Albina had b e e n divided along Fremont Street, with part in the East City Sub district and the other part in the North City Sub-district. Secretary of State Myers reapportioned the state after the last session of the Legis lature was unable to reach an agreement. Reappor tionment. to make the num ber of voters in each district as near equal as possible, is required by the federal gov ernment. Priestley’s bill is expected to meet controversy in the Legislature, since some of its member's districts would be eliminated or changed by a new reapportionment. Reynolds seeks minority employees Teachers and children from Bethel Child Development Center visit with poet and author, M rs . Eve M e rria m . Author visits Bethel A recent visitor to Bethel Child Development Center was writer Eve Merriam. Mrs. Merriam, who is from New York City, is the au thor of books for children and adults. Among the books that Mrs. Merriam has written for children are: Calch a Little Ryme, 1 Am a Man (about Martin Luther King, Epaminodas. What Can You Do With a Poket, Mommies at Work. Project 1 2 3. lnde pendent Voices; Do Y o u Want To See Something. She is the author of Inner city Mother Goose, a Mother Goose book for adults that has become a collectors item. Peoples speaks in Texas Clara M. Peoples. Founder and Director of Community Care Association, Inc. spoke at a food and diet workshop in Texas. This workshop, sponsored by the Bowie County Eco nomic Advancement Corps, of Texarkana. Texas, Execu tive Director E.E. Collins, d e p u t y Director Carolyn Gooch, and through the co ordinating efforts of Mrs. Thelma Williams, Program Administrator for DOS (De livery of Services), has. ac cording to Mrs. Peoples, been a huge success. A self help food project called LINK is now off and running, and it is hoped that this will prove a gain to Bowie County, and a particular gain to residents concerned with good health through adequate diet. Bowie County was extremely im pressed by the work done by (P le a se turn to page 8 c o l. 3) “There may be only one solution to the problem, and that's for Reynolds to con duct a full, four year appren tice program.” said Don Phillips, personnel manager of R eynolds Aluminum's Troutdale Plant, at a press conference last week. Even so, at present Reynolds has no plans to undertake such a program at this time to insure that enough minority individuals will be able to qualify for the skilled jobs at Reynolds. What promoted Phillips' statement was his comment that he had been disappoint ed by the lack of minority applicants for a recently ad vertised electricians' job at the plant. "The reason is certainly the failure of the building trades unions to admit minority apprentices." he recognized, and went on to state that it may be the responsibility of the larger corporations to take positive steps to sponsor such ap prenticeship programs to cor rect the problem. Recently Reynolds under went an Affirmative Action Review by the Department of Ijibor and was judged to be in complete compliance, said Phillips. That coinpli ance has been assured be cause every Reynolds Plant throughout the country is making an active effort to call minority groups and govern ment agencies to find out where they can find minority applicants for jobs. The Troutdale Plant regularly ad vertises for applicants in the Portland Observer. The Reynolds Troutdale Plant had been closed down in the Fall of 1971, because the aluminum industry "was feeling the economic crunch of an over-supply situation." remarked Harry Helton, the plant manager. However, Reynolds found it desirable to re open the plant before the expected two years clo sure time had elapsed be cause of lost production due to a strike at one of their Canadian Plants and the ris ing demand for the ingots which are produced at the Troutdale Plant. The plant currently em ployes 715 people with an annual payroll of $8.5 million and a total contribution to the Portland area economy of $15 million. Reynolds figures that their one plant supports directly or indirectly 8,750 people in the Portland area with their employees expend itures for food, clothing, shelter and services. The building now housing the Reynolds plant was built early in World War II by the government and was origin ally operated by ALCOA. At the end of the war it was closed down. But in 1946 Reynolds leased the plant with five others which had been declared war surplus, and in 1949. Reynolds bought all six plants. Throughout the history of the Reynolds Plant in Trout dale there has been contro versy regarding the pollu tants emitted during the aluminum making process. Reynolds insists that it is doing everything possible to be a good neighbor and correct whatever problem there might have been. "We have spent more than $8 million here at Troutdale on anti pollution equipment and we are prepared to spend millions more to meet any new standards that are reasonabale and practicable." insists Harry Helton. How ever, they are concerned about the new controls being considered by the Depart ment of Environm ental Quality because they “cannot be met with existing tech nology.” As a whole, Reyn olds Metals spent "between 10 and 15 million dollars last year on environmental con trols and expects to spend between 30 and 40 million on controls this year." The Reynolds laboratories have developed a new meth od of cleaning up the created pollution made by the alu minum making process (called trigas fluxing) which cuts (Please turn to page 8 co l. 4)
