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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
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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.
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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.