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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
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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«.
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• Dental Plates
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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.
Based on resale prices published in recent National Automobile Dealers’
Association guide books. Continental Mark IV returns more o f its original
manufacturer's suggested price than any other luxury car built in America
’Novgh saidl
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