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by J e ll« H W llda, J r., < hair
man of the Oregon B lark
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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
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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.
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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-
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laist month's record rise in
the Consumer Price Index
(C PI) will hit hardest at the
pocketbooks of the country’s
lower income groups, es
pecially Blacks.
The Con
sumer Price Index (CPI),
based on a national sample of
120,000 commodities, is a
measure of the prices con
«umer» have to pay for
goods.
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
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