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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
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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.
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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
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“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
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