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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1973)
I The Honorable Frederick Hllburn Talbot baa been named Ambassador from the Repub lic of Guyana to the United States of Am erica. M r . T a l bot had t®en serving aa the country‘ a permanent repre sentative to the United Na tions. Bom In Guyana In 1927, he la an elected Blahop of the KJAJZ. Church and was con secrated in July of 1972. Fol lowing hla consecration ha was assigned to the 16th episcopal D is tric t. The D istrict Included Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, tie Do minican Republic, Virgin la - lands. Granada, T rin id ad ,T o - hago, Surinam and the Re public of Guyana, The Republic of Guyana la lo cated on the north-east shoul der of the South American continent. It la 83,000 square m iles In area. The Atlantic aea-coaat stretches for 270 miles; from It the land ex tends Into the Interior for a- bout 450 m iles. Its boun daries meet those of Venezu His Excellency Frederick H. Talbot and M rs . Talbot take ela In the west, Brazil In the up new post In Washington, D . C . Ambassador Talbot Is the south and Surinam In the east. new Ambassador of Guyana to the United S u h s , and form er The m ulti-racial population ly served as the Permanent Representative of Guyana to the numbers a little more than United Nations. M r . Talbot was elected Bishop of the A .M .E . 800,000. M r . Talbot had his Church In Dallas last year. M rs . Talbot is a form er Minis original education In Guyana te r of Health for Guyana. (fo rm erly British Guiana) and subsequent to that he studied a practicing public health spe at Allen University In Colum W ilberforce University in the cialist. A graduate of the bia, South Carolina and re United States of Am erica. He served as m inister at Polytechnic Institute In Puerto ceived his B.A. degree from Rico, she also holds a Mas that Institution. He then st- the St. James Church of ters Degree In Public Health tended Yale University School Colusa, California and tra from Yale University. M rs . of Divinity and the Pacific veled the L ittle Mountains Talbot served as M inister of School of Religion at Berkeley C irc u it In South Carolina as Health for the Republic of C alifornia. He holds the fol a visiting m inister. He Is Guyana from 1969 to 1971. lowing honorary degrees; m arried to the form er Sylvia The Talbots w ill he resid Doctor of Divinity from Mon Roas, a native of St. Croix ing at Guyana House In rovia College In I.Ib eria and In the Virgin Islands. She Is Bethesda, Maryland. Blacks train in insurance The first program in the United Steles speeifirally de signed to train Black men and women f o r technical positions in the insurance industry is being started in San Francisco. Ten high school graduates are l>cing selected for the one year training program which will be conducted by DR JEFFREY I >11 MODI t N DENTAL PLATES the Bay Area Aasociation of Black Insurance Brokers and Agenta, Inc. Upon comple lion of the program, stu dents will qualify as casualty underwriter, property and package policy underwriter, loss control representative, prei >ium auditor and claims representative. Roosevelt Carrie, president of the Association, said to day that thia experimental program ia the first one ever to train Black people for jobs in the insurance industry beyond mail or file clerk. He added that if thia try ia successful, similar pro grams w i l l be conducted throughout the country. “During training, the stu dents will receive a year's salary,” Carrie said. “Sev eral major insurance com panics have already assured us that they will have jobs for our graduates when they finish the program.” The training will also help train the students to reach m anagem ent positions in their chosen fields, Carrie explained. The program has the sup port of the Bay Area Urban League, The National A l liance of Businessmen and major property and casualty insurance companies through out the United States. The Bay Area Asaocialion of Black Insurance Brokers and Agenta is the only or ganization in this country PARTIAL PLATES AND EXTRACTIONS jrm ed to represent a n d assist Blacks in the insurance industry. The Association is cur renlly studying discrmina tory hiring practices of major national insurance firms. It is also examining discriminatory agency appointment criteria which make it difficult for a Black agent or broker to obtain an agency appoint ment. In addition, the Association ia looking at discriminatory »radices by major firms which make it difficult for Black agenta and brokers to place business with major insurance companies. In another study, it is investi gating underwriting practices which make it difficult for residents of Black communi ties to purchase insurance. "We are studying the pos sibility of forming the nation's first Black owned and oper ated property and casualty insurance company in San Francisco," Carrie said. “It's a disgrace that Black brokers and agenta are currently handling none of the City of San Francisco's insurance business. And that's prob ably true in almost every large city in America." he added. Further information on the Association and its projects can be obtained by writing to Roosevelt Carrie at 2081 Sutter Street, San Fran cisco, California 94115. •' im i. I H s e r v e r spare, water a n d sewer, public facility loans anil re habililation loans will be frozen as of June 30. 1973. No additional funds are pro posed for the Model Cities program. Health Several m a j o r health programs are expiring this year and the adminis tralion is not recommending their continuance. These include funds to build hospi tals. the Community Mental Health Center program; the Regional Medical programs and training programs for many health professionals. Education Funds requested for programs in the Office of Education total $277 million less than I he revised figures for fiscal year 1973. The budget would shift the way funds are used, by proposing increase in funds for the Basie ()p,Hirtunity Grants, which give aid directly to individuals. A number of categorical programs would have their funds cut or would be eliminated entire!» under this budget. These include aid to <lis.idvant.iged children under Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; library ser vices program of the ESEA; higher education aid; eduea lion development: health and nutrition, drug abuse educa lion; Follow Through and dropout prevention. Welfare The administration has not repeated its efforts to make major changes in the welfare system, instead, there will be an emphasis on management reforms. The ceiling of $2.5 billion for social services under I he Social Security A rt would he lowered Io $2 billion under this budget. M a n p o w r r - The budget calls for a decrease of $375.3 million compared to what had been anticipated for (is cal year 1973. The largest cut results from the eliniina tion of the Emergency Em ploymenl A rt. which was funded al $2.5 billion Iasi year to provide public m t vice jobs for the unemployed. There is also no request for funds for summer youth pro grams. The debate over the bud gel, particularly this year, is a debate over the direction of social and economic poli cies w hich will affect z\meri can siM-iely for years to conic. Thi '» IS * laum oerirs Pr°9rams Talbot named Ambassador Budget threatens Debate has begun on the fiiM-al year 1974 federal bud get. which rails for major shifts in federal programs and policies. The president's $288.7 bil lion budget proposes rut backs in a number of domes tic programs begun during the I960’». The total budget is slightly higher than the current budget because of recommended increases in military spending, social sc curity payments, Medicare and Medicaid payments and increased interest payments on the national debt. The administration's pri mary purpose in this budget is to avoid a (ax increase while controlling inflation by reducing government spend ing. The budget also supports the president's goal of shift ing responsibility for domes tie programs to state and local governments and for restructuring the federal a geneies. In a number of rases where the budget requests no funds for a categorical grant pro g r a m , (he administration suggests that revenue shar ing funds be used by state and local governments to support such a program The rrueial q u e s t i o n is whether programs benefiting the Black community will gain or lose funds as a result of shifts away from categor ical grant programs. Following is a run down of the major proposed budget changes in program« of m.- • concern to Biaeks. Office of Economic Opportu nlty By providing no funds in the budget, the adminis (ration is moving to dis mantel the Office of Econ omic Opportunity. Some programs such as the Com munity Action Program, will be eliminated entirely as a national effort; other pro grams will be moved to other federal agencies. These in elude: I I The health and nutrition program, which is being moved to the Depart men! of Health, Education and W elfare, with a budget cut of $18.2 million; 21 com munity e c o n o m i c devel opment programs, moved to the Office of Minority Bus iness Enterprise, with a net decrease of $28.7 million for the combined programs; 31 migrant farmworkers pro gram transferred to the La bor Department and raised by $3.7 million; 41 research, split among H E W , Labor and H U D . with a total budget increase of $11.3 million. Both the Democrats and the administration have put forth plans '.o continue the la*gal Services Program as a separate corporation but a fight is expected over the size and scope of the pro gram. The Legal Services budget request is down from $78.3 million to $71.5 million. Some local projects are re portedly already closing or preparing to do so. Housing and Urban Develop ment In January then H U D Secretary George Romney announeed a freeze on all new commitments for build ing low income housing un der public h o u s i n g pro grams; for rent supplements, and for the Farmer's Home Ix»an Program. Funds for the categorical community development programs open i 1912 B I QUALITY DRY CLEANING REASONABLE RATES • saa « o< , s ttv c f m o g i C it A « * e ,G SA’ JSCA»S U N O . N Q O s l < O S » U T l ia o M M ’ •1 u r« t P s t r i S t iv e t D«» C r iA N iN G AVA» A t t i Do » And Se.r tl I I I « M M U M O SW O STH 4 last «4 lo to»*««. 209-9357 V G a t e w a y V o lk s w a g e n S p r in g D e m o n s tra to r S a le 1972 Volkswagen Superbeetle \M radio, bumper guards. List $2537 75 white wall tires, gravel guards N O W ONLY $2140 1972 411 2-door sedan 4 -speed transmission, \M radio with 8-track stereo, bumper guards, mag wheels. 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