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Mrs Francs« Scho^n-'.ew spsper Poem U n iv e r s it y o f Orearon L Ib r n r y tu g e n o , O ra ro n Í/7 4 J 3 PORTLAND, L& OBSERVER Volum 3, No. 23 Portland, Oregon __________ ' THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN Board approves programs Black administers labor law Jam«« Barnett la 11»United St*ma Department of Labor«* Resident Compliance o ffic e r for Oregon, operating a one- man office, Barnett adminis ter« the federal laws relating to union« and their member«. Passed by Congress in 1959, the Labor Management Re porting and Dlsclosurea Act protects the rights of employ ers to organLe, to choose their turn representatives, collective bargain and Join to gether for mutual aid o r pro tection. It regulatea the ac tivities of the unions and their officers and provides for tire rights of the members toequal and open participation In tire union. The W elfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act regu lates the use and record keep ing of union welfare and pen sion funds. P r n e B Administers these laws as weil as the Veterans Employment Rights Act and Executive O rder ' “ 91. He receives reports, investigates complaints ara, evaluates the union activities. Should he re quire assistance he can call on the Department of Labor Office In Seattle, (he F .B J . or the United States Attorney Most usual Infractions are contested union elections and The Model Cities Citizen s Planning B o a r d approved fund allocations for the fourth action year budget for sub mission to the Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment for approval. JAMES BARNETT misuse of funds. Barnett haa found few Black union members In O re gon, especially In positions of leadership. Barnett came to Oregon ap proximately a month ago, from D etro it. He has been with La bor for three years. P re viously he had been an In ternal Revenue officer, but saw more chance for advance- ment and responsibility in the Department of Labor. Barnett is a graduate of Detroit Institute of Techno logy. with a BA degree in accounting. He Is m arried and has three teenage children. Active in community affairs In Detroit, tie was psrtlcular- ly Involved In (he attempts to desegregate the I letrolt Pu blic Schools. KT ¿DIA hires management staff Joseph W. Bostic, Execu- D irector I he Metropolitan Economic Development Industrial Al liance. Inc. (M ED IA ), the o r ganization In Portland which assists businessmen and po tential businessmen In deve loping their effectiveness as entrepreneurs and managers, has engaged a management consulting staff of experienced businessmen and professional experts. Guiding this newly-formed team Is D r. [lonald C . Jones. As Chief ManagementConsul- tsnt for M EDIA, he w ill pro vide leadership to MEDIA'S management department. The principal responsibilities of the group w ill be to assist Model Neighborhood busi nessmen In the basic planning for new business ventures and In providing management counseling to support existing Model Neighborhood busines ses. Such business assis tance Is especially necessary during the crucial firs t years of a new buslneas operation. t j D r . Jones Is an economist and an authority on personnel management. He was educat ed at Columbia University. D r . Jones has had extensive experience as a management consultant and served as a teacher, researcher and ad m inistrator In several univer sities. His previous aasocla- tlons Include assignments with the Boeing Company. Supreme L ife Insurance Company. Yale University, Pacific Univer sity and Chicago State Univer sity, and s most recent assign ment as a member of the staff of the C ity-C o un ty C o m p re hensive Personnel Review The arting director of the Office of Economic Oppor tunity (W ar on Poverty) has announced that the ten re gional offices of OEO will be closed on or before April 28th. W ithin the next few days, regional office employees will be officially notified of their termination. Howard Phillipa. named by President Nixon to preside over the demise of the agency, said some employees will be with true daily interest. Ai the Benj. Franklin, interest on passbook savings is compounded constantly, from day of deposit to day of withdrawal. For maximum earnings on your savings, pay yourself first in a safely-insured account al the Benj. Franklin. 5% 6^ Paeeboofc S a v in g * per annum C e r tific a la * o l D e p o sit per annum com pounded daily end paid quarterly IS OOO m inim um tor ? y e * @ Franklin Robert M Hatsn. Prss • 21 Offices • Phone 240-1234 Horns Office Franklin Bldg . Portland. Oregon 97204 Faced by a nearly 50 per cent cot in federal funds, the Planning Board attempted to inrluifi funds for all existing components in the new bud get. The budget committee- recommended the termination of two projects, the compre hensive health planning pro gram and the Martin Luther King. Jr. Scholarship Funds. After extended discussion, funds were taken from money earmarked for residential de velopment. to continue the two programs. The Portland Model Cities program will receive $1.985. 000 from the federal Depart ment of Housing and llrban Development for the fiscal year June of 1973 to June of 1971, as opposed to $3.745.000 received for the current fiscal year. Proposed funding for the Model Cities program for the fiscal year beginning June 16. 1973 totals $3.897,920. Pro gram areas to be funded include social services at $84.565; Citizens Participa tion. evaluation and adminis (ration at $815.260; and citi zen relocation at $736.267. Thursday March 15, 1973 10< per copy PEOPLE ______________ Cheryl James... Free at last Richard Belloni. Judge of the federal court in Portland, commuted the prison sen tence of teen ager Cheryl James to t i m e already served. Cheryl was sen lenced in April of 1971 to an 18 month sentence at Ter minal Island Federal Cor rectional Institution, to begin after her graduation from high school t h a t June. Cheryl had been arrested for "assaulting an FBI officer" in her home. Cheryl was one of the three members of the Char les James family that was taken into custody by federal officers on January 4th. when FBI officers entered t h e James h o m e to arrest Charles, Jr., age 20. who was AWOL f r o m the Navy. Charles had left his Navy [Mist to be home during the birth of his child, and he had reported his address and his intentions to return to his base. Mrs. James states that the FBI agents did not properly identify themselves or pre sent a warrant when they came to the house to arrest Charles. In the confusion that resulted in the house- full of children and the family dog, the officers reported that they had been assaulted with roiling pins and other weapons. Cheryl s a id she did not knew who the men were and that she was defending a younger brother who was beaing strangled by one of the men. Charles. Cheryl and Martha, age 15, were ar rested. Charles, a wounded veteran, was sentenced to an indeterminate sentence with a six year maximum. He is now on probation and is at tending Portland State Uni versity. Martha was given three years probation. Two weeks after her high school graduation. Cheryl be gan serving her term at Terminal Island in San Pedro. California. Since that date. Cheryl has been through a series of legal moves, including release on appeal and a number of motions to prevent her re turn to prison. While in prison Cheryl became preg nant. she states, as the result of rape, and in October of this year gave birth to a baby boy. Maurice. J u d g e Belloni's decision frees Cheryl from serving further time in prison, but it does not clear her of the prison record which she in curred as a juvenile. It will allow her to eontinue her studies at Portland Com munity College and to begin to plan for her future. Present in the court room were approximately 100 sup porters. Black and while, and from all walks of life. Pro minent in the crowd were Cheryl's high school teachers and fellow students. Much of the expense and work involved in Cheryl's case has been carried on by an interracial committee, the Cheryl James Defense Fund, chaired by Mrs. Ann Camp bell. Arthur C. Spencer, III. Secretary of the group, told the Observer. "We are now pleased to be able to get to the task of helping Cheryl CHERYL JAMES rebuild her life and we are grateful for the support evi denced by the large turnout at the hearing this morning." Among the organizations that have been prominent in the Cheryl James defense are the Women's International WATTSTAX premiers at Black theater C o m m itte e. OEO offices close Everyday is pay day A," AN EOUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER n U WHOLE W IPE WORLD THAT REALLY CARES ABOUT transferred to the General Services Administration to oversee the audit of DEO hooks and the disposal of property owned by OEO. Four Democratic senators have asked a federal court to remove Phillipa from office on the grounds that his appoint ment it illegal. Senator H .A . Williams (Dem. N.J.). Chairman of the Senate Iaibor and Public W elfare Com mittee. and three other com mittee members filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The suit alleges that Phil lips it holding his position illegally because President Nixon did not send his nomi nation to the Senate for confirmation. Law requires that the OEO director's nomi nation be confirmed by the Senate and another law indi rates that a temporary ap pointee cannot serve more than 30 days without Senate confirmation. Nixon appointed Phillips as acting OEO director on Jan uary 31 and assigned him the task of dismantling th e agency created by President Lyndon B. Johnson to fight the "war on poverty". Notice The Portland Branch, N A A C P. will h o l d its March membership meet ing on March 18. 1973 at 4:00 p.m. at Hughes Mem orial Methodist Church, 111 N. E. Failing. Senator Keith Burna will speak. The Northwest Prem ier of 'W A T T S T A X . . . The Living Word" was held Wednesday evening at the Alameda Cine ma. The Alameda is the only Black owned theater in the Northest and one of few in the nation. Miss Carla Thomas, a star of the movie and a Stax recording artist, was present for the opening. Miss Thomas was accompanied by Ms. Fannie Young and William Cherry of the Stax Record Corporation. In pre show ceremonies. Miss Thomas was presented the Key to the C ity by Vernon Summers, Director of the City of Portland Human Relations C o m m i s s i o n , represent ing Mayor Neil Goldschmidt. The premeir was enjoyed by a packed house, including 125 invited guests. In describing the film, a representative of Stax said. “All of us have something to say . . . but some of us are never heard. Seven years ago the people of Watts stood together and demonstrated to be heard. "On a Sunday this past August, in the Los Angeles Coliseum, more than 100.000 Black people came together to commemorate that moment in American history. “For more than six hours Senate WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Black Press Week, March 11- 17, marks 146 years of print ed protest against one form of slavery o r another for Black Americans, says Garth C . Reeves, S r., president of the National Newspaper Publish ers Association (NNPA) and editor-publisher of the M iam i T im es. page Vickie G arrett has been appointed as a page for the Oregon State Senate. Miss G arrett attended Wilson High School in Portland. Before graduating from high school, she was admitted to Portland Community College and be gan taking courses toward her goal of becoming an elemen tary teacher. Miss G arrett loves her new job with the Senate, enjoying the excitement and involve ment. Miss G arrett is the daught ter of M r. and Mrs. Galvin Irb y of Portland. She and her five month old son. Todd, will live in Salem during the legislative session. this audience felt. sang, darn ed and shouted the living word. “This is a film of that experience and of what some of the people had to say." The film features perform ances of a dazzeling array of talent from the Memphis-bas ed Stax Organization during last summer’s W attstax 7 2 concert. Their message in song is enhanced by dialogue of community people and arid commentary by Richard Pry orall. The feature film combines the creative talents of the Stax Organization with t h e award winning docu mentary film techniques of the Wolper Organization. Alameda C i n e m a owner Harvey Garnett was pleased to be chosen for the Norwest Premier. Garnett has had difficulty obtaining first run movies from the film distribu tors, even after a successful nine-week run for "Superfly”. Garnett is a firm believer in the concept that the Black community should gain some measure of financial benefit from the current trend to B la c k and Black-oriented films. League for Peace and Free dom. which provided the ori ginal bail fund; the Albina M inisterial Alliance; t h e ILWU Auxiliaries; and the Methodist Federation f o r Social Action. Attorney Nick Chaivoe handled Cheryl's ap peals. Bridge Watchers A "riverfront supcrinlen dent'-«" observation area has been established on the east bank of the W illamette River at the fool of N. Randolph Avenue to view the rise and placement of the center span of the new Fremont Bridge. Grandstands have been e- rected. The Division will also have a mobile in forma tion van equipped with mo dels at the bridge and slatis tical information loraled al the observation site. Direction signs have been installed on streets on the east side to assist drivers wishing to reach the site. Black Press celebrates 146 years of service “ Today, the protest is a- galnst economic bondage that holds most Black people in the lowest paid, least desi rable jobs, as well as In the worst housing in the Uni ted States,” M r . Reeves adds. t One hundred and forty-six years ago, the NNPA presi dent continues, when John B. Russwurm and the Rev. Sa muel E . Comish launched Freedom's Journal on March 16, 1827, the fight was against more than 200 years of sla very In the South and for more decent and humane treatment of freedmen In the North. And although physical sla- JOHN B. RUSSWORM very was abolished In name more than 100 years ago, and considerable progress haa been made, slavery In many forms still exists for Black Americans, M r . Reews points out. "And th is ." declares the NNPA head, “ is the continu ing challenge of the Black press which now stands at 208 In number with a com bined circulation of more than four m illion, according to D r. Henry G. Labrle, a research fellow at Harvard University who has just completed a study of the Black press.” A good indication of the con tinuing need fo r a vigorous Black press to help support the long hard fight for full, first-class citizenship fo ro u r people Is the establishment of more and more Black news papers at a time when W hite papers are declining in num ber, M r . Reeves explains. According to D r . L aB rle's study, M r . Reeves points out, of the 208 Black newspapers In Am erica, 132 have been es tablished since 1950; 96, since 1960: and 31, since 1970 A generation ago, says the NNPA head. Black newspapers numbered only a little over 100, although since Rusa- wurtn’ s Freedom's Journal, nearly 3,000 Black papers have come and gone. Now there are 208. o f these, five were founded in the 19th century: The Philadelphia Tribune, 1884; the Baltimore Afro-A m erican and the Hous ton Inform er & Texas F ree man, 1892; the Des Moines New Iowa Bystander, 1894; and the Indianapolis Recorder, 1895. M r . Reeves says there are now three Black dailies in continental U.S.: The Atlan ta D ally World, the Chicago D ally liefender, and the New York Daily Challenge. Week lies number 190, semi-week lies, five; monthlies and bi monthlies, 10. "B lack Press W eek," M r . Reeves declares, " is the time fo r a re-dedlcatlon of this press to an ever-continuing fight until every Black Am eri can Is free to advance himself o r herself to the full extent of his o r her ab ilities ."
