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Page 8 Portia n d /O b ser ver Thursday, July 12, 1973 Model Cities gets rehabilitation Participants in the filming of the movie "Lost in the Stars” board buses to location near Cottage Grove. The film is produced by the American Film Theater. The Portland Development Commission and eight local lending institutions recently executed a fagmal agreement establishing the Northwest's first Public Ihterest Housing Rehabilitation Lender’s Pro gram to supplement or re place federal programs which have been cut back or ter minated. The $836,000 initial program will be administered by the PDC with funds being dispersed in the form of 5*/iAb interest loans to quali fied home owner-occupants for the purpose of financing repairs necessary to bring home structures into con formity with city building codes and property rehabili tation standards established for the various neighbor hoods. Don Silvey, PDC Chief of Housing Rehabilita tion and Development, stated that these loans will be made strictly for the purpose of rehaoilitating homes and will not be used for unnecessary modernization or capital im provements. The eight lending institu tions participating in the program are: The U.S. National Bank, First National Bank. Bank of California. The Oregon Bank, Oregon Pio neer Savings and Loan As sociation, Benjamin Franklin Savings and Loan Associa tion, Equitable Savings and Loan Association and the Portland Federal Savings and Loan Association. Under the program, parti cipating institutions will lend $835,000 to the PDC at 4'/»% interest. Because of the tax jxempt status of the loan, the 4Vi% rate will provide a much higher net interest rate to the lending iaatitu- tions involved. The interest differential of 1% on the individual rehabilitation loans will be used to help defray the administration and re serve expenses of the pro gram. During the seven years in which PDC has administered federally funded Housing Re habilitation programs. 1,876 homes have been rehabili Uted at a cost of $6,380,169. In granting loans under the Public interest Lender program, PDC will give first preference to the 200 loan applications which had al ready been received by PDC when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban De velopment’s Section 312 Loan program was curtailed earlier this year. No new applica tions will be solicited until all current applications are pro cessed. John B. Kenward, PDC Executive Director, stated that while the initial pro gram is composed of eight lending institutions, several more institutions from the Portland Metropolitan Area have expressed a definite in terest in future participation. Kenward went on to say that while the current program will be limited to the Model Cities Neighborhoods, it is hoped that a similar program can be eventually expanded to other areas of the city. Soul Sounds Brock Peters and Station Master Lee Henderson wait for the train. by Joey Sasso OBSERVATIONS IN COV ERING THE NIGHT BEAT: Ground water omitted as natural resource "W ater survey warns of dire area shortage’ ’ the head line in a m ajor big-city news paper reads. "Serious water shortages for much of the nation in the next few decades," the story goes on. "M illion s of people living in areas where cheap water now is taken for granted w ill face rationing and much higher water b ills.” Growing water shortages, pollution — the alarm is being sounded everywhere by public officials. conservationists, and the communications me dia. There's good reason for this general anxiety. But the solution - - better management of all of our water resources, and especially the development of our abundant underground water supply — is sadly overlooked. The story of our underground water re sources remains largely un told. With increased usage and a continually growing demand, our country's surface waters, the waters found in lakes and rivers, are threatened by de pletion in many areas. While we* re not likely to run out of water, we a re in danger of run ning out of unpolluted surface water. Ironically, we have m o r e underground w ater, but we use more surface water. The Ground W ater Resources In stitute reports that more than 80 per cent of th-t water used in the UJS. comes from expen sive surface sources rather than from o urfarm ore plenti ful ground water sources. And there’ s plenty of water underground, about 35 times more than in surface water sources. The L\S. ground wat e r resources that are less than one-half mile under the sur I f you turn this off when nobody’s listening...you’re really tuned in to an energy conservation program! face constitute 97 per cent of our total supply at any one tim e. This "hidden reser voir*’ amounts to 47.5 billion acre feet, a supply that will last the United States about 7.800 years at the current rate of d e p l e t i o n . Conclusion: ground water is our most un der-used national resource. Because there is so much ground water, the Ground Wat er Resouices Institute points out that adequate supplies for use in homes, on tarm s, for city supplies, and in industry are found almost everywhere in the United States. Ground water has other im portant and little known advan tages. It is usually suitable for general use in its natural state since it is filtered by soil, gravel and sand asitdescends into the earth. Therefore, it needs little if any treatment - an important fact considering the high cost of treatment fa cilities that are being built to "clean up” our surface water supplies. Ground water also stores it self, with no loss through eva poration. It is protected from the sun and atmosphere, and is generally cool when drawn up from the ground. And it is less expensive to obtain and less expensive to use, prim arily because it is available right at the point of use and requires less treat ment. A recent study shows that ground water actually costs less than half as much as water supplied from sur face sources for a central mu nicipal system. Obviously, Intelligent and far-sigh ted management is needed of both surface and ground water sources. F o r more information on ground water, send 25 cents In coin to Dept. U, Groundwater Resources Institute, 221 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, 111. 60601. Ask for "How W ater W ells Can Help You.” Practicing what he preaches: George Faison, choreographer for the hit musical “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope”, at the Edison Theater, was at Carnegie Hall with his dance company June 5th on the bill starring entertainer Josephine Baker . . . And Isaac Hayes, who won an Oscar last year for his musi cal score of “Shaft”, has made his dramatic acting debut in Dino Do Lanrentia* “Two Tough Guys”, in which he plays an e x - p o lic e man . . . In conjunction with the release of her new Capi tol LP, “I Know I Love Him”, Nancy Wilson journeys to the U nited Kingdom where she will make several TV & nightclub appearances. Her manager just presented Nancy with a “Schick Super II For Women” shaving sys tem to use in her travels around the world . . . As we all know, hit records are hard to come by and when you have one in your pos session, we deem it a sin not to take advantage of it. We are speaking about Corin thian Records artist Al Spaul ding with his release of "I D idn’t Know From The Start” & “Winning On The Losing End’ . . . Sammy Davis rented out a movie theater the other night to hold a private screening of “Deep Throat” for a horde of his best buddies - includ ing pal Roger Moore. After the show, Sammy toasted the gang with Teacher's Scotch . . . In a lighter vien, the June issue of FORUM explores the sexual excite ment some men find in heavy women. “Infatuation, What Makes Some Men Plump For Enormous Podgy Women”, in the June issue of FORUM, The International Journal of Human Relations!. . . It's not usual for a movie director to invest his screen hero with the identical physical handi cap that he himself suffers from in real life, but that's M o st re a s o n a b le shop to tow n Conserve Electricity Use all you need but save all you can CARLOS The People at Pacific Power Body and Fender Repair ___________________________________________________ I 311 N.E. S h aver 287-8529 just what Melvin Frank has done with George Segal, who currently co-stars opposite Glenda Jackson in Frank's new romantic comedy. “A Touch of Class”, a Joseph E. Levine & Brut Productions Presentation for Avco Em bassy release . . . Ever since Ben Vereen copped that Tony Award recently as 3’way's musical star of the year, he's been asked by associates and friends if he feels different. “I havent noticed anything,” answers the singer-dancer of “Pippin". He recalls all those medals taken as a quarter mile champ with the J.H.S. 178 track team over in Brook lyn. “Winning," he told me, "makes you feel secure - until the next race." Ben, after a slow start, has been charging up the show-biz heights with rockets thrust for several years "with my energies flying off the walls." For a guy out of the Bedford Stuyvesant ghetto, the lean and smiling entertainer has managed to accumulate an impressive galaxy of talent sp o tters including Martha Graham, Jose Limon. Sammy Davis and, most of all. Bob Fosse. Poverty, racism research earns award Harvard psychiatrist Rob ert Coles was honored by the National Association for Men tai Health for his research into the effects of poverty and racism on the mental health of children. Senator Edward Kennedy presented the Mental Health Associa tion Research Achievement Award to Coles at a National Press Club dinner in Wash ington, D.C. A Research Psychiatrist at Harvard University. Coles was described in a Time cover story (February, 1972) as the most influential psy chiatrist in the United States. He is a controversial figure as a result of his strong belief that the field of pay chiatry should become more involved with social isues and social reform. Coles has worked for more than ten years with share croppers, migrants, moun tainneers, poor Blacks and working class whites. His goal is an end to the stereo typed thinking so prevalent in our society. His belief is we cannot help what he calls the “children of crisis" with out understanding them, and we can't understand them without de labeling them. “America”. Cole aaya, "la a country founded on revolu lion, on political protest, a country to which, over gen erations, the poor and exiled have come. It is the world's richest and most powerful nation, so it has not only the potentiality but the immedi ate possibility for reform.'* That event narked the second annual presentation of the Mental Health As sociation Research Achieve ment Award. It is presented each year at the beginning of May, which is Mental Health Month. The recipient is the researcher who, in the eyes of the NAMH- Research Com mittee, has made an out standing contribution through research to the prevention of mental illness. Senator Kennedy. Chair man of the Senate Health Subcommittee, made the pre sentation on behalf of NAMH. He has been a strong sup porter of federal legislation for more and better treat ment for the mentally ill. His remarks on the ceremony centered on the need for a continued com m itm ent to federally supported programs in mental health research and services. The Award originated as a result of the generous sup port and devotion to mental health of the late William R. MrAlpin of West Hartford, Connecticut. It includes a $10,000 stipend and a plaque represen tin g the MrAlpin Medal. Coles is currently involved in a research project in New Mexico to determine the psychological effects of pov erty and racism on Indians and Chicanos. His work has resulted in a considerable number of published mat erials, including 13 books and more than 350 articles. Present at the uward pre sentation was Seymour S. Kety, M l)., of Harvard Uni versity, who was the first recipient of the Award of 1972. Kety's field of study is the relationship of mental illn ess, especially srhizo phrenia, to chem ical im balances in the body. Hr has contributed to the develop ment of pharmaceutical ap proarhes to the control of several types of mental ill n esses, including schizo phrenia. Use report required According to final regula tions on revenue sharing issued by the Federal Gov ernment in April, 1973, a "Planned Use Report" for each entitlement period after December 31, 1972 is re quired from recipients of revenue sharing funds, the first Planned Use Report, indicating the general cate gories which revenue sharing funds will be spent, covers funds received for the en titlement period from Jan uary 1, 1973 to June 30, 1973. For this period a total of $2.3 million was received during the first week in july. Federal law requires that the “Use" Report be published in V local newspaper and filed by June 20th. The report The first Planned Use Re port is a listing of the planned use of specific $4.6 million in general categories without regard to whenit is to be spent. Consequently the first revenue shairng funds of about $8 million dollars for previous entitle ment periods which were not received until the end of 1972, must be excluded. However, because of the timing of receipt of these excluded funds, they are the primary revenue sharing ap plied in the 1973 74 budget, which is the detailed use plan developed to date. Only a small portion of the funds covered by the first Use Report is included in this budget. This results from the fart that the city is pro ceeding in an orderly manner to plan and spend revenue sharing money, rather than allocate all the funds cur rently on hand. Plans for detailed use of the major portion of funds DR. JEFFREY BRADY M O DIRN DENTAL PLATES PARTIAL PLATES AND EXTRACTIONS Immediate Restorations Flatts inxrttd isHn«4lst«lv attar i»a»k art • «traitad received in April and July have not been completed by the Council at this lime. This money, together with receipts during the next two or three quarters for a total of approximately $8.8 million, will be utilized for priority needs in the Fiscal year 74 75 budget, which will be developed in the Spring of 1975. Consequently, the statement of planned use being filed at this time is an approximation based on the assumption that that the funds will be allocated within the various expenditure rate gories listed in the report in the same proportions that the revenue sharing funds are planned to be used in the FY 7374 budget. Subse quent Council action will be required to finalize detailed use of the revenue sharing dollar«. • Partial Plates • Dental Plates SLEEP DURING EXTRACTIONS SODIUM FIHTOTHAl 6IVIH i t IIC IS T IIID AHISTMTMT F A l l F il l A N F F A I I I SttOF 10T NMMi W a a k d a r t I J 0 ts t iM l a n o d a y I ) 0 ta liM HO AFFOIHFMIHT HKISSAIT DR. JEFFREY BRADY DENTIST S IM lil IUHDIHG S W Jrd A Marrisoa Portland Orefan Phone: 228 7545 Only one luxury car in America can have the highest resale value. This is it. _ NAACP (Continued from pg. col. 3) ber said “They were angry because we removed their attorneys from the case and then proceeded to line up plaintiffs support that we and not the (NAACP) Legal D efen se Fund represen t them . . . It was a slap at the National pride more than a difference in philosophy." The Atlanta Board is ex pected to support it's presi dent and the Atlanta Com promise which he was in strumental in achieving. Since March the Atlanta branch has been run on a day to day basis by it’s director, Mrs. Johndelle Johnson. The functions of the suspended board are in the hands of Mrs. Ruby Hurley, regional director of the NAACP. Mrs. Hurley does not take a position on the split, but in the past has come to the defense of King and of the Atlanta Com promise. Many of the branch activities have ground to a halt. In the meantime, the Fed eral Court has approved the plan and it has been adopted by the Atlanta School Board. 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