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 Caucus Time ■■■■■■■■■■■■a 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 SHOP ■ENOW'S 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 » M . . . . \ * » ,»» R i. • S j ;,».«» 4 ' i • S «» G'rrlrf • MW'e.s,»' M.'ls Pu,d n • 5 , • . M fM B fk O» J M l i D 0 (C U > vfSM wiatKiwry.'»'. Washington pushes Home Rule August 9. 1973 Page 3 "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. If you turn this off when nobody’s listening. . . you're really tuned in to an energy conservation program! Conserve Electricity Use all you need but save all you can The People at Pacific Power There are times you don’t care what it costs. But hospitals care. 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