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b Hra Franca« Schoon-í:«w»paper Rooa Unlvaralty et Oruron Library Lugcnc, Or " n ' j H J3 PORTLAND Volume 3i No. 27 Portland, O regon THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN OBSERVER AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD THAT REALLY CARES ABOUT Thursday April 12, 1973 1O< per copy PEOPLE State grants license to Black dump truck driver Emanuel Hospital announces building halt Emanuel Hospital has an nounced that plans fur new hospital construction have been postponed (»ending re assessment of the hospital's role in the health care indus try. The hospital will also phase out it's School of Nursing. In a press conference held Friday, April 6th, President Roger I arson said the deci sion to halt the building program was based on finan rial consideration alone and was not influenced by poor community relations. (arson announced that the halt in expansion will have repercussions in three major areas: land use, closure of the nursing school, and a cut back in free medical ter- vices. Iarson said much of the land acquired from private property holders through Portland Development Com mission, some of which was acquired through condemna lion proceedings from home owners who did not want to sell, will not be needed im mediately. Much of this land was planned for housing and education as well as addr tional hospital buildings. The hospital does plan to resume building as soon as funds are available, anu has applied for new sources of funds. The original plan was to have used Hill-Burton money and other federal funds that have now been eliminated by the Nixon Ad ministration. (.arson sa>d there will be no slow down in the acquisi tion of land and that the hospital is planning with P.D.C. to find “partners" who will use a portion of the land for "service and em ploym ent producing pro grams". The hospital will close its 60 year old School of Nurs Rally protests budget cuts On a sunny April 4th after noon, an elastic rrowd that stretched at one time to about 250 and relapsed at times to ISO, stood before the Pioneer Post Office in downtown Portland. Their purpose being to protest federal rut barks and to commemorate the dream of the Honornble Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr NAACP A wide variety of speakers ranged from the NAACP, a mother protesting cutbacks of child care centers, to the Y oung Socialist A lliance Party. Mr. Ellis Casson. President of the NAACP. pointed out in his stirring speech that the federal cut backs and rising food prices not only were affecting the poor. And that this is not just a poor man’s Itattle. Ada Reed among other singers, sang in memory of Dr. King’s dream. The rally, though small, was a well organized effort to show that Portland citizens, along with the rest of the nation, have in no way forgotten or given up belief in Dr. King's dream. launches membership drive The Portland Chapter of NAACFs Annual Member ship kick off drive is ache duled for Sunday. April 15, 1973 at 4:00 p.m. at the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. 116 N.E. Schuyler. Co Chairmen of the event are James la*e and Clyde A. White. The Sunday meeting will honor past presidents of the branch. According to Port land's Chapter Predsident. Ellis Casson. "We wish to honor the efforts of all those who have given so much to work toward reaching the goal of human dignity and equality.” Casson said that without members, young and old, the work of the organiza lion could not continue. "We still need to maintain the interest in and fight for equality and justice in hous ing. employment and educa tion.” Casson stated that, “the principles of the NAACP should be activated not only by Blacks, but should be the concern of all minorities and all citizens of Portland should belong the NAACP.“ Past presidents to be hon ored are: Reverend J.J. Clow. Marie Smith, Herman Plummer, Otto Rutherford, l-orna Marple. Phil Reynolds, Harry Ward, Mayfield K. Webb and Thomas Vickers. Entertainment f o r the event will feature: Indies of Bethel, Bailey Trio, Mt. Olivet Chancel Choir, Zion A.M.E. Choir, Vancouver A venue First Baptist Choir and the St. Mark Youth Choir. Displaced residents confused by halt by Rosemary Alien EDPA stands for Emanuel Displaced Persons Associa tion. It was formed in 1970 when families immediately surrounding the Emanuel Hospital were abruptly con fronted with Emanuel expan sion plans. The expansion pregram included the land of many of these residents. Therefore, they were forced to move within a 90 day period. To say the least, these residents were alarmed and apprehensive about what would become of the time, money and energy they had put into their homes. Most of the residents did own their homes and many had them paid for. The EDPA. com prised of displaced residents, set up a Board with a legal advisor. It also composed a group of fieldworkers who went door to door to find out who had been hit by the expansion program. HUD intervened and brought the expansion program to a tem porary halt while they pro ceeded to check out the situa tion. A federal grant program was set up to compensate displaced home owners for up to $15.000 and displaced rent ers up to $4,000. EDPA was first encountered with the at any ot our offices And save some seed money, loo, for growth el 5% a year compounded constantly B e n j.O Franklin > t e a * a e iM R oben H M aten F re t Homo Office F'anaiin • 21 OHrce« • Rhone 24« 1234 Bldg Portland Oregon *7 2 0 4 problem of an insufficient number of houses to move people into in other areas. They were supposed to be able to find standard housing without going into debt: how ever. many of the houses were shabby and sub-standard. So today, 1973, after going through a long drawn-out hassle. Emanuel Hospital has discontinued building con struction. What is the feeling of those displaced citizens who were forced to relocate home and family? “I don't think any of us found a home that we are as well satisfied with as we were," replied Mrs. Leo Warren, a displaced resident, and chairman of EDPA. “If I missed the bus, I could walk to town. I'm away from my church. To tear up a community and then not ex pand the hospital." Mrs. War ren continued, “didn't they have a long range plan?” Be wilderment could well de scribe the feelings of many of the citizens. After all. if your life's investment was smashed to splinters by a bulldozer to make room for a hospital, you could at least feel decent and perhaps tolerable about it; but to have it all done for nothing? Well, what is there to feel? Lampus removes boards State, county and city of ficials were on hand to help Angelos Lampus remove the Week honors martyrs “The Black Man's Homage Week", which is dedicated to the remembrance of over 40,000,000 people taken as salves from Angola. Africa, who died during the days and on the trails of slavery, will be held Sunday, April 15. They will be honored in ways and manners to instill into their offsprings self confidence and independence. ing, one of two diploma nursing schools in Oregon. The school has an enrollment of 225 and has trained ap proxim ately 2300 nurses. According to Dr. Larson, one or two Blacks have grad uated from the school during the past 60 years and there might be one or two Black students in school now. The school will be phased out over a two-year period, with this year's freshman class being allowed to graduate. The third action to reduce expenditures will be a severe cut-back of the free medical care program. Although denying that the program pro viding health care for low- income persons would be closed, (.arson said the ex penditures for this program will be reduced from $1.050, 000 in 1972 to $600.000 for 1973. The hospital has asked assistance from the Mult nomah County Hospital and will attempt to refer as many patients as possible to that facility. Scheduled events include A Community Forum at 2:00 p.m. at the Albina Art Center, 8 N.E. Killingsworth. An evening of delightfully Black entertainment will begin at 4:00 p.m. A cultural show to include poetry, exhibits, las hion and hair fashion will show the Black experience related to the arts and to also reaffirm the Black Aesthetic. boards from the front of the lam pus store on Union Ave nue. Lampus removed the boards, which he had placed over his show windows fol lowing rock throwing inci dents five years ago. as a symbol of faith in the future of the Albina community. Among those who parti cipated were Mayor Neil Goldschmidt, County Com missioner Don Clark, Secre tary of State Clay Myers, State Treasurer James Red din. and R ep resen ta tiv es Stephen Kafoury and Wally Priestley The event was attended by a large number of community residents. |See pictures en page 8| William Jones has been awarded a dump truck license by the State of Oregon's Public Utilities Commission. With an unrestricted license, Jones will be able to accept jobs anywhere in Oregon. Jones applied for a license several weeks ago amid much controversy. Oregon law requires that need by proved before ad ditional dump truck licenses can be approved. had even considered bringing in Black truck companies from Seattle to integrate their projects. Lester Jack son of the Albina Contractors Association also testified to this point. The other factor brought out by Jones is that there is a need for additional trucks in the state. During the building season, contractors are often unable to obtain truckers. In a hearing before the P.U.C., Jones based his ap plication on two factors. First, that there are no Black dump truck owners or drivers in Oregon, and also that contractors are unable to meet their obligations under federal contract regulations that minorities be hired in all aspects of the job. Jones also found that Black drivers are not hired by the white dump truck owners. He ap plied both to dump truck owners directly and to the Teamsters Union and was not hired. Don Anderson of the As sociated General Contractors testified in the hearing that AGC is unable to place Black truck drivers and that they The application was pro tested by white truck owners, assisted by the Oregon Truck Association. These men. who had met Jones prior to the hearing and knew he was Black and who had not pro tested another recent appli cant, said there was no need for another truck and that it would damage their business. They admitted that they do not advertise for more busi ness and that their earnings exceed $20,000 a year. Jones received a favorable recom m endation from the PUC examiner.-which both sides to the controversy were allowed to protest. The examiner did not accept the testimony of AGC and ACA, saying this was not a civil rights matter. A formal complaint was filed by the dump truck owners, again questioning the need for another truck. Mr. Jones found it in teresting that just prior to their filing this protest, the p resident of the Oregon Dump Truck Association had railed to offer him member ship and had even offered to go to his home to obtain his application. Jones replied that he did not feel that this was the time to join the organization, since they were fighting his efforts to get into the industry. On Monday, April 2nd. Jones filed his own answer to the PUC. Jones main tained that this is a question of race and that he had proved the need for a Black owned company. Jones believes the protest against his receiving a li cense was based entirely on the fact that he is Black. Now that he has his license, he plans to expand his busi ness in order to hire more minority people. Until now, the dump truck industry has been "all-white" and white owners have not been willing to hire Blacks. NAACP endorses tax reform The Portland Branch of the NAACP endorsed the McCall Tax Relief Plan, call ing it "A long sought boom to the vast majority of Ore gon's Black population”. “By authority ot all mem bership,” Ellis Casson, Presi dent of the NAACP, said, "we strongly urge members of minority races in this state to get out and pass the word that, finally, this is a real reform, aimed at the average and low income guy." Casson issued the state ment after an address by Senator Keith Burns, (Demo. Portland) in which Burns pointed out the proposal's benefits to Blacks, the chief of which is a direct 9% credit on rent. “Since the m ajority of Biacks do rent." Casson said, “this reform will lighten their load by about the equivalent of one month's rent. The slight rise in income tax rates of about 6 to 8 per cent will be easily outweighed by the relief of property taxes and by the graduation of upper income brackets so as to apply the ability to pay principle to every citizen.” 'Hybrid1 wins Reynolds award A brushed aluminum sculp ture combining the diverse forms that come from nature will be presented to the 1973 winner of the R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award for distin guished architecture using aluminum. The sculp ture, entitled “Hybrid", by Richard Hunt of Chicago, Illinois, was com missioned by Reynolds Metals Company as part of the award which also carries with it an honorarium of $25.000. Hybrid was first produced in clay as a pattern. Molds then were constructed using the bonded sand technique. Molten aluminum was poured into the molds and, after removal of the cast, the sculpture was ground, pol ished. burnished and for the final surface, wire brushed to obtain the ultimate effect. Mr. Hunt explained that the sculpture's theme em braces the hibernation of plant and animal life, the separate forms in the piece coming from the environ ment. In describing the work, Mr. Hunt said Hybrid “is a bringing together of a var iety of natural forms through a sculptural technique that blends with their qualities as forms in nature with indus trial techniques -- in this case casting. This produces a unique object that has a variety of association." Mr. Hunt, who produced the dramatic sculpture in the lobby of the new Kraftco Corporation world head quarters in Glenview, Illinois, has been an instructor, visit ing artist or visiting pro fessor at many United States universities and art schools. A native of Chicago's Wood Richard Hunt and his aluminum sculpture “Hybrid", created for the thirteenth annual 1973 R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award for distinguished architecture using aluminum. In addition to the original scultpure, the winner of the award receives a $25,000 honorarium. lawn district, he enrolled at the Junior School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the age of 14 and began to sculpt in clay two years later. After completing his secon dary education, he entered the School of the Art In stitute as a scholarship reci pient from the Chicago Public School Art Society a n d majored in Art Education. He was awarded the James Nelson Raymond Foreign Travel Fellowship and after his graduation toured Europe. In 1968 he was appointed a member of the National Coun cil on the Arts by President Lyndon B. Johnson. He has received a Guggenheim Fel lowship and the Logan. Cam pana and Palmer prizes all offered by the Chicago Art Institute. Mr. Hunt in 1971 was named outstanding Chicagoan in the arts by the Chicago Junior Chamber of Com merce. He has taught at such prestigious institutions as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the University of Illinois; Chouinard A r t School, Los Angeles; Yale University; Purdue Univer sity; Northwestern Univer sity, and various state uni versities in Illinois.
