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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1973)
P o rtlan d/o baerver Caucus Time by J e ll« H W llda, J r., < hair man of the Oregon B lark Caucus and responses to its differ enlisted clientele? Is the welfare person given the same attention as the non welfare person? The Downtown Plan is in motion. W hat if the agenda of the Downtown Plan does not include h o u s i n g consider ations for the persons to be displaced along the Hurnaide Street area. W here would the people go? There is always laike Oswego, Ala meda. Albina, and the West Hills. Who is always dis persed and what has been the trend of the general areas of relocation? Are R Frederirk Douglas« stated many, many years ago that, “P ow er concede« n o t h i n g w ithout a dem and. I t never did and it n ever w ill. Find out just w hat people w ill submit to and you have found out the eaact amount ol injustice and w rong which will be imposed upon them .: and these w ill continue until they are resisted e ith e r w ith words or blows or w ith both. T h e lim its ol ty ra n ts are prescribed by the endurance ol those whom they sup press.“ 1 have been told that Mr. Douglass' statement dues not apply to Portland, Oregon because we are just one big, happy, lovable family. The nuclear family structure of Portland, Oregon has a col leetive ma, a collective pa, and a collection of children. I tried to dream of the possibilities that would allow for the test of love. It was revealing and somewhat up setting to others, perhaps it's love. It was revealing and somewhat u p s ettin g as I went through the experience. If my dream isn't upsetting to others perhaps it's because love transcends all. When I learn to appreciate that the powerful love me because I'm me. then I'll be in the swing of things. Anyway, my dream analysis w e n t something like this. I started off by assuming t h a t parent child relation ships are really power rela tionshi| s. Being somewh'’ * of an egotist, I proceeded Io look at the power side (par ent side) of the relationship to determine mv present niche. I viewed he econon ic social and political power structure and found that if my niche was among the pow er s tru c tu re it was clearly not being presently filled. This precluded me from the parent category. Then from my non parent position. ’ started asking questions of m y se lf that would make my buy the love thing. I wondered if the land that was acquired by Emanuel Hospital under the pretense of expansion f o r medical purposes would be used to build apartments for hospital personnel. Would the dis placed persons lx- upset to find interns, nurses, some doctors and administrative staff living in the apartments built? What has b e e n Emanuel's track record in regards to growth, promises There are so many quest ions whose answers seem ingly have not and will not be based upon love. Thia thing about power conceding nothing without a demand seems to hold greater possi bilities of leading toward satisfactory answers. How ever, the idea of Portland being one big, happy, love able family is still intriguing . . . not promising, but intriguing. Group insurance aids Golden State growth Group insurance continued to constitute a major thrust during 1972 in Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Com pany'a growth program, ar counting for a large share of the $161.4 million gain in life insurance in force by the firm last year. Ivan J. Houston, F L M I, Block Trade Unionists hit Nixon wage The C o alitio n of Black Trade Unionists called the Nixon Administration's min imum wage and overtime proposal “anti Black, a n t i white, anti brown and fund amentally anti worker". The Coalition responded to testimony by Labor Secre tary Peter Brennan calling for an increase in the federal minimum wage from $1.60 to $2710 an hour over three years but excluding gov ernment employees, keeping m<«l other sevire employees at a lower level, and provid ing a “sub minimum'' lower wage for workers 19 years of age and under. The Coalition a national organization m a d e up of Black rank and file workers anil local union leaders from transportation and income two factors of consideration in location? 30 national unions urged Congress to reject the Bren nan proposal and replace it with an immediate $2.25 per hour minimum to rover all workers. The Coalition said that although minority workers are most in need of minimum wage and overtime laws, white w o r k e r s , women workers, all lower income ,*enple are being victimized by the Nixon plan. "The Nixon proposal perpetuates the discrimination in the law against domestic workers, retail service workers and g o v e r n m e n t e m p lo y e e s . These workers are the low esl paid members of our society. To deny them equity is absurd and painful. Higher food costs empty Black cupboards president of Golden State, named several major Am eri can co rp o ratio n s as new group insurance policyow ners in his 1972 Annual Report to Policyowners. Golden State's acquisition of this new volume of bust ness through rein suran ce agreements, he said, repre sents "a decided change in the economic climate which has historically resisted the efforts of Black owned busi ness to enter the mainstream of our economy." The big story in 1972, noted Houston, was the com puny's surpassing of $1 billion in life insurance in force, which was announced last summer. This achievement makes Golden State "the first com pany in the history of Black business io reach this mile stone during the lifetime of any of its founders.” Norman O. Houston and George A. Beavers, Jr., the company's chairman and past rhairmun respectively, were two of the firm's three prin cipal organizers in 1925. The third, founder William Nick erson, Jr., died in 1945. Golden Stale closed out 1972 w ith $1.1 b illio n of insurance in force, assets of $44 million and a total in come o( $19.8 million. The company also paid out $8.6 m illio n in b en efits, bringing its total paid since organization to more than $67 million. Schools observe bus safety Every week in which school buses operate in Portland Public School District No. 1 is safety week, school of finals say, but special atten tion to bus safety is being paid during National School Bus Safety Week, A pril 23 through 28. Object of the observance in District No. 1 is designed to encourage students to comply with the prescribed safety practices and to re mind them that continued observance of safety prac tires and regulations rontri bute to the safety of them selves and fellow students. The observance also plays an important part in remind ing the motoring public of the laws and safe driving practices concerning school buses, and to recognize school bus drivers and bus main tenance personnel for their proficiency as safe motor vehicle operators in trans porting children safely and in keeping the buses safe. School officials report that most vio latio n s of tra ffic laws concerning school buses result from improper obser vance of the school bus stop law. DR JEFFREY BRADY tv O D I P N DENTAL PLATES PARTIAL PLATES AND EXTRACTIONS primarily responsible for the 0.8 per cent jum p in the CPI has an especially dire meaning for lower income groups. Economists report t h a t since lower income families spend relatively m o r e of their earnings on food than do upper income groups, their real purchasing power thus suffers a greater reduc tion as a result of food price inflation. “The relative real income of the poorer family is declining a lot more than that of higher i n c o m e families," states David Swinton of New York's Blark Economic Re search Center, “because the lower your income the higher is the proportion of that income which goes to buying food." $4,000 yearly. Thus, one of very three U.S. Black families had buy- e o o W h e n c le a n in g y o u r w in d shield. d o n 't fo rce th e w ip e r blades aside Som e o f th e la te m odel e le c tric a lly d r i v en w ipers c a n be p e r m a n e n tly d am a g e d by fo rc in g th e m to a n o th e r p osition • O ALL BRANDS: B a s s e tt, B r o y h ill, Lane, L .A . P e r io d , B a rk e r, M a n y M o re ! HU "I I »•<4 lllf • r ’ ■ U . ” *. 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Double-Stretch Motes iu*rt«4 - — f t - a - ■ Il IV* ■ i ««»« A IWWSwtwisty "wwVW are tslrsstsd , YOUR 4 CHOICE: if# Incum bent M ay o r of I>av- ton, Ohio James M cG ee, who became m ayor in 1970, la seeking another te rm . Hr lace« tw o w hite opponents in the May 8 Dem ocratic p r i m ary. Immediate Restorations 3-DAY SALE of BEDROOMS 2000 N J. UNION o ing power reduced by 2.4 per cent in February as a result of the rise in food prices. The biggest price jumps among foods occurred in meat, poultry, a n d fish. Meats alone rose by 5.4%. One middle income Black probably summed up the current situation when he stated "The more you make the less the rise in prices affects you. It affects you less because you can afford it." WALKS O N AIR No wheels or runners . . . Follows effortlessly while you cleon . . . Powerful motor . . . Convenient toe switch . All steel construction . . W rap around bumper guard . . . Light weight Has built-in carrying handle . . . 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I,ed by sharply higher food prices, the CPI for February posted its largest one month increase in 22 years, accord ing to laibor Department figures. However, the prices of many non food items also registered im p ressive in creases. While boosting the weekly- grocery bills of all the na tion’s consumers, the fart that rising food costs were ¡¿Zampini Thursday, April 2b, 1973 CHARLES CREWS W e feature: • Raleigh • Jeunet • Colum bia • Vista 286-1079 5 % discount on ren tals to rh u rrh es and o rg a n is a tio n s Convenient Off-Street PARKING SHOP 9 TO 9 M O N . THRU FRI SAT. TIL 6 (Closed Sun.) 30th and S. E. D IV IS IO N 234-9351
