Hortland/Obarrver Thursday
In Washington, D.C. (pop
u l|lio n 72%T Black), the
Watergate Affair just might
not lie the top story in town.
Doubtless, the Senate Select
Committee's hearing on who
did. or did not do wi.at is a
big TV show, with new
“ stars" being born, careers
being busted and political
hopes being depressed. But
the District of Columbia has
its immediate problems, and
they are not all being pushed
out of the newspa|iers and
off of the air. How do these
"home" stories rate?
Harold II. Greene and Judge
Gerard D. Beilly, have ques
lions regarding the possi
bility that judges might come
under a elected City Council,
by an appointment proce
dure, etc., etc. There are
others, too. But D.C. resi
dents want a Home Buie bill
passed. It seems that people
there would like to see a
Jo in t Senate House Com
mittee have a stab at settling
the differences. Will they?
Question: Will it be State
hissl, full Congressional rep
resentation, an elected Mayor
and City Council, or all?
Take three:
I) The pos
2) Congressman Ford has
sibility for Home Buie has "problems" wilh D.C. Home
been looking belter than Buie (note aliove). He won
ever. For years, the Senate ders if Washington is ready.
hus been making an effort to In support of his wonder, the
push through some form of Michigan Republican declares
self determ ination of this that he will oppose Home
Ward of the Federal Govern
Buie this year. He contends
ment. But on the House side that D.C. is not ready for
the legislation has failed to full cast voting. |minting to
meet the approval of the past performance in School
chairman of the House Dis
Board elections. Seemingly.
trict Affairs Committee or. District School Board elec
say the "Mayor" of the Dis
lions have not come up to
trict.
Now, Charlie Diggs the Congressman's expecta
III Mich.) is the Committee lions. However, the mfluen
Chairman. C ongressm an
tial Washington Post notes,
Diggs is determined, and he editorially. Grand Bapids, the
has the voice of non voting heart of Ford's own Con
D.C. Delegate Walter Faun
gressional district, has not
troy, the reaped of Mayor
done too well in its elections,
Commissioner Walter Wash
either.
ington, who is pro Home
Marion Barry insists that
Buie, and many other mem
school IS l i e i n g projected into
bers of the Committee Back the Home Buie issue as a
on the Senate side there’s means of stifling "strong
help, too. But there are also Black male leadership".
"Blacks".
House Minority
Barry, the these days not so
Leader Gerald Ford lMich.1 militant, is D.C. School Board
has reservations
not of chairman.
Too, the Board
White House direction, he has its problems, some are
says. The chief judges of saying.
The District of
Superior Court and the D.C. Columbia has had three
Court of Appeals, Judge school au|*erintendents since
1904. Dr. Hugh Scott, the
most recent school head, is
out. In August, days before
school opening, D.C. has no
superintendent.
So goes
D.C. problem X2 The School
Board has been going through
an exercise of finding a new
school leader.
Once there
were 30 odd candidates. By
reduction, it arrived at the
figure five. Then one was
booted and a 5th candidate
was added. Now there are
three On top of it all, the
D.C. City Council has passed
a resolution which takes the
School Board out of election
politics. This naturally does
not sit well with the School
Board, the only elected body
in D.C.
especially coming
from the non elected City
Council, which wants ap
,»ointment authority under
Home Buie.
Congressman
Bonald Dellums ID C alif.)
head of the House District
Committee, is in the Act
"Keep the elected School
Board," he says.
31 Washingtonians are
elated that Mayor Washing
ton, thanks to the Depart
ment of Housing and Urban
Development, was able to
announced that $3« million of
federal monies were avail
able, as of early July, to be
used in the next twelve
months in the riot torn cor
ridors and in decaying down
town areas.
This is good
Nixon fostered news for
inner city dwellers and de
pressed business people, w ho
have lived amidst what the
hot" summer left and the
aging of business areas, left
falling by the exodus to
outer Washington
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viding some means of de tants" who believe that poll
by Jetie II. Wilds. Jr.
Chairman. Oregon Black Cau< us Itvering (hem out of the tical and economic power
wilderness.
( "ontribut ions must be co llectively de
toward change are non exis veloped, must come to the
The polit leal rhetoric in
tant.
table.
The "survivalists"
Oregon continues to divide
who believe in and plan from
people along all the wrong
The "traditionalists" who
day to day must be brought
lines. What is needed is a
still
have the primary access
to the table.
Most of all.
summit meeting ol all ,icoplc
to the Aifrmtiislrution and to
that table should be void of
interested in the future of
the w hite establishment must
the political rhetcric that
people. First, however, we
come to the table. The “ mill
divides.
must get our thing together.
The Albina community, as
a part of the larger com
munity, has not escaped the
division caused by political
rhetoric
There are three
groupings in this community,
similar to those expressed in
"The Los Angeles Biot Study
(LABS)" of several years
back
These groupings are
the "tra d itio n a lis ts ", the
"militants", and the "survi
valisls". The "traditionalists"
tend to emphasize individual
success and mobility rather
than collective concern. Us
ually this group w ill attempt
to fpild the reigns on the
larger group while bargaining
for individual gain. The re
suits are usually disastrous
(or the larger community as
well as the individual. If the
"traditionalists" achieve their
goal, it's usually in a "flunky"
role. If the "traditionalists"
fail, usually the result is a
setback for the larger com
munity. I have no concrete
evidence to wit which says
Ira Blalork's appointment Io
head the city's Bureau of
Human Besources is a set
hack for Black people. I do
know, however, that there
were persona in the Black
community behaving as "tra
ditionalists" and are now
angry about the hiring of Mr.
Blalock. lad this be a lesson
to those who are dazzled by
the footwork of the politi
cians.
The "m ilitants" vary in
their philosophy hut have as
a common denominator the
belief that individual mobility
is not the answer,
They
believe that only through
collective concern can Blacks
solve their problems.
The
core of this group is edu
rated, are less religious and
do not identify themselves as
lower class. This description
may vary from some more
popular beliefs of what a
"m ilitant" is.
The "survivalists" tend to
be victims of disease, des
p e titio n , joblessness and
hopelessness. They are highly
visible on the welfare roles
and if employed, tend to be
underemployed. They contri
bute heavily to the statistics
on poverty and have a firi
mary concern of survival.
The "survivalists" tend to
side with whomever is pro
Bond recommends
Demo guidelines
Any retreat from the guide
lines which tripled Black par
ticipation at the 1972 Demo
Cratic ('onvention represents
"gambling wilh the affections
of the party's most loyal
supporters'" a Dem ocratic
Party Commission was told
recently in Atlanta, Georgia.
Georgia Stale Bepresenta
live Julian Bond told the
National Democratic Com
mission On Delegate Selec
tion and Party Structure
that Black voters were "less
interested in labels than per
forma nee."
"We will increasingly be
guided by the old maxim:
We have no permanent
friends, no permanent ene
mies, only permanent in
terests," Bond said.
Also appearing was U.S.
B e p re s e n ta tiv e A n d re w
Young ID Ga) who defended
the guidelines, saying "The
spirit ol the reforms must be
maintained."
Young said that the Me
Govern Fraser guidelines,
adopted by the party after
the I96K convention, had in
creased Black participation
at national conventions from
5% in IMS 1« 15“*. in 1972
Bepresentative Bond noted
that Black voters have been
"almost slavishly loyal" to
the Democratic Party, giving
Lyndon Johnson 98% of the
Black vote in 19B4, Hubert
Humphrey 96% in 1968, and
George McGovern 93% in
1972.
He noted, however, that a
recent survey showed Black
allegiance to the Democrats
down 1#, and predicted fur
ther Black defections if the
guidelines are abandoned or
weakened.
The only Black testifying
against continuation of the
'72 rules which brought re
cord numbers of Blacks to the
Miami Convention was James
Moore, an official of the A.
Philip Bandolph Institute.
Moore said the guidelines
were "quotas" which were
“ insulting" to Blacks, because
they imply that Blacks can't
compete in the political arena
and need special protection."
Oregon Guard leader
makes Brigadier
The United States has ap
proved the prom otion of
Richard A. Miller, Adjutant
General of the State of
Oregon, to the rank of Bri
gadier (ieneral in the U.S.
Army National Guard.
Mr. Ed Branchfield, repre
senting Governor Tom Mr
Call who is recuperating from
recent surgery, pinned Mil
ler's new insignia of rank to
his uniform during a brief
ceremony in the office of the
Adjutant General on July 26.
Miller, appointed as Ad
jutant (ieneral by Governor
McCall in March, has been
active in the Oregon National
(iuard sinre 1948. He has
served as a company com
mander, regimental plans and
training chief, personnel of
fleer, G 3 A ir and Assistant
Chief of Staff for the 41st
Infantry Division, latter he
became commander of the
Engineering Battalion of the
■list Infantry and executive
officer of the 41st Infantry
Brigade. He was promoted
to deputy brigade commander
in 1972.
General Miller, as the Ad
jutant General, is the full
time director of the Oregon
M ilita ry Departm ent, the
sujiervising headquarters for
the Oregon Army and Air
National Guard.
He also
administers federal money
and property madi available
to the National Guard within
the State.
Miller succeeded General
Donald A. Anderson in March
of this year.
General M iller and his
wife. Helen, live at 1425
S.E. 120th Avenue in Fort
land.
General Motors claims
employment gains
General Motors is making
progress in assuring equal
employm ent and advance
ment opportunity for all its
minority employees, but "the
effort is hard, and progress
does not come easy," GM
Chairman Bichard C. Ger
stenberg said recently.
“ But it is worth the ef
fort," he told the National
Urban League Conference in
Washington, D.C. "The mi
nority American in General
Motors is earning his way to
economic equality."
"A growing handful of
minority Americans are now
in top positions. Hundreds
more are just below them,
and thousands more a level
down, and throughout the
Corporation there are more
than 105,(MX) minority Ameri
cans
all w orking, all
earning opportunity," he de
dared.
General Motors is com
milted to working to pro
mote equal opportunity
beyond preventing discrimi
nation, Mr. Gerstenberg said.
“ We are convinced that
this policy - positive rather
than negative, active rather
than passive - is the right
one,” he said, "because it not
only fulfills the letter of the
law. but reaches to the spirit
of our American commitment
to equality.”
"We believe opportunity is
everything; but we know
also th a t o p p o rtu n ity is
nothing to the person who
cannot use it, that oppor
tunity is useless to men and
women who are unequipped
or unprepared to earn their
way to economic equality,"
Mr. Gerstenberg declared.
"That is why in General
Motors we have coupled our
commitment to equal oppor
tunity with extensive pro
grams of training and de
velopment. Their purpose is
to enable our employees
minority and other
to
take better advantage of the
o p p ortu nities which await
them in our organization."
He reported that enroll
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ment of minority students at
General Motors Institute, the
Corporation's five year co
operative engineering college,
has increased from 13 six
years ago to 372 this year;
and is expected to In- about
4<XJ next year. He said this
is made possible, in part, by
a pre freshman program es
tablished to qualify appli
cants who were not able to
receive adequate preparation
for engineering studies in
high school.
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"We expect
indeed we
know
that these young
men and women w ill be
among the managers of Gen
eral Motors in the years to
come," he declared.
"A ll
that is needed is their con
tinued efforts, our continued
resolve, and time."
"We know that equal op
portunity in employment is
not up to the employee
alone,” Mr. Gerstenberg said.
“ The person who does the
hiring and the promoting is
crucial. So we train not only
employees, but we train man
agers as well.
We teach
them how to take positive
action to speed upward
mobility throughout the Cor
poration. And we measure
their performance."
GM's record of success in
assuring equal opportunity in
employment has a special
quality enhanced by GM's
tradition of success, he said.
"General Motors does not
hire incompetents and does
not promote the unqualified
whatever their race or na
tionality or sex or religion."
"The rewards and incen
tives are high, and so are the
standards of performance
necessary to achieve them,"
he said. "When an employee
in General Motors
Black
or white, male or female,
Christian or Jew, native-born
or immigrant - progresses
in General Motors, he or she
can be sure that that recog
nition has been earned," he
concluded.
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kind of care. \\ herever and whenever
you need it. But they are going one step
further. 1 hey are also working to save
vou money by controlling their own
rising costs.
It isn t easy, hut headwuv is being
made.
At least 11 Oregon hospitals, for
example, have gotten together with
other institutions to share such high cost
facilities as computers and cobalt treat
ment machines. Five others recently
began saving about $500,000 a year bv
building a im perative laundrv. Others
have join, management services. Almost
all are involved in a group purchasing
plfm.
One hospital saw a 35 percent saving
abv rescheduling anti reorganizing their
|X‘i sonnel operations. In another, a
study led to an expanded out-patient
department and Day Care uni, that cuts
overnight stays anti reduces patient
costs one-half to one-third. Another
hospital credits a new employee incen
tive plan with eliminating an expected
budget overrun.
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