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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1973)
Page 4 Portland/Obaervur Thursday. August 16, 1973 PLUS offers student aid ” 8 mow nights" GREYHOUND R'A'ClKltíHlM _- - *•_K_ opportunity for persons who would not otherwise have the opportunity to go to college. The program has seen several of its students graduate iron, the university. Two of the graduates, Mel Toran and Eric Harper, will enter law school this fall. One of the unique aspects of PLUS is its special credit- carrying courses in Heading and Study Skills and Math. The reading course consists of three sequences and each student starts with the first, second or third sequence, Operation PLUS, Portland State University's Program for low income students and studenta needing assistance to meet college entrance re quiremenls. has vacancies for fall term. The program pro vides financial assistan ce, counseling, tutoring and special classes. Program director Bill Wilkerson urges students to apply quickly so their records can be in order before registration begins. Iva Lane. Reading and Study Skills Coordinator for PLUS, sees it as an unusual Ladie» Free Tonight a General Aditi 50« • Free Parking • Compiete Dining end Beverage Facilities • No Sunday Racing • Closed Circuit Color TV • PARI-MUTUEL WAQERHSQ Telephone rates raise JEANNE HARTZOG (Sorry, no children ondar 12 admittad) POST TIME 7 :3 0 j DAILY DOUBLE 2nd * 3rd stsa i m s m Funtastic FAIRVIEW PARK Multnomah Kennel Club 223rd & Halsey— East out Banfield Freeway (SOM) RESERVATIONS: MS-1111 Hartzog heads project Mr*. Jeanne Hartzog is director of the Urban Lea gue‘s school desegregation program. The program, which is funded by the U.S. Depart meat of Health, Education and Welfare. will work with the School District, trans Geneva’s Cocktails Free Happy Birthday Party Meeting Rooms Two Pool Tables Free Pool Lessons Paul A G eneva Knauls Ow ners 4228 N. Williams 282-6363 288-8803 2629 H. L Uaioa Ave. ferring schools and host or receiving schools. Seminars, workshops and in serv ice training courses will be held throughout the year, involving parents, teachers and administrative staff of the selected school c o m m u n itie s. T u to r in g classes, if needed, will be set up to assist in bringing to parity the academic status of transfer students in host schools. Testing procedures will be available to those students nearing decisions on career goals. One of the major priorities of the Project will be to am eliorate racial ten sion s, apprehensions, fears, and myths in the hope that the transitions for all communi ties undergoing change will be as smooth as possible. PSU studies drugs The interacting effects of marijuana and barbituates is the subject of a research project recently awarded a $33,173 grant from the De partment of Health, Educa tion and Welfare's Public Health Service. The study is being con ducted by Dr. Cord B. Seng stake, associate professor of psychology at Portland State University. Using laboratory rats as subjects, Sengstake is inves tigating the effects the two depressant drugs have on physiological systems when used together and which are not present when only one or the other drugs is adminis tered. During his experiments, Sengstake has noted electro cardiogram changes and dramatic decreases in heart beat rates. The study, funded through May, 1974, is a continuance of Sengstake’s four-year re search of the effects of mari juana on rats. According to Sengstake, his work can be described as a pre-clinical study whose findings will indicate whether or not fur ther research applied to an other animal species or hu mans is necessary. New local and long dis Lance telephone rates for Pacific Northwest Bell's Ore gon customers went into effect August 13. according to Roy Schnaible. division commercial manager. The basic monthly service charge fur residences and most businesses will increase by 15 cents per month, Schnaible said. Long dis Lane« charges for calls be tween Oregon communities more than 40 miles apart will also increase. In Portland, for example, the new monthly rate for basic telephone service will be: $7.25 for one party resi dences; $19.90 for one party businesses. Some new charges for long d istan ce calls (custom er dialed, three minute call on a weekday) within Oregon in elude: $.47, Portland to Salem; $.78. Portland to Eugene-Springfield; $1.04. Portland to Medford. The charge to install a telephone has also been in creased. The new rate will be either $20 or $30 for residences, depending on the telephone equipment already in the residence and the work done on the premises. New rates for business will be $35. Before the increase the charges were $15 for residence and $30 for busi ness. The Public Utility Com m issioner directed Pacific Northwest Bell to provide a four month payment plan to installation charges for those customers who would prefer not to pay all of the charges with their first bill. PNB was also directed to proceed with a yearlong trial of low priced two party residence telephone service in Springfield and in the office serving about 32.000 customers in Northeast Port land. The trial will begin this fall in Springfield, and early next year in Portland. The service will cost $3 95 per month. A maximum of ten outgoing local calls are allowed, with a ten cent charge for each additional local call. There will be no limit on incoming calls. Some of the other rates approved include: Non published telephone numbers will cost 50 cents per month beginning Sunday. September 9. The telephone company will also offer a new "non-hsted” telephone service which cost 50 cents per month. The non pub lished number would not be available in either the tele phone directory or from Dir ectory Assistance. The "non listed" number would not be printed in the telephone dir ectory, but could be obtained from Directory Assistance. The charges were approved to help offset the cost to maintain Ih e confidential nature of VW numbers. Increases were approved for PBX (private branch ex change) trunk lines, key tele phone systems and CEN TREX services. PNB's customers will re ceive detailed information on the rate increases in their telephone bills later this month. The entire list of new rates is on file at each Pacific Northwest Bell busi- ness office in Oregon. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■a by Jetie B. Wilds. Jr. Chairman, Oregon Black Caucus There is a very hot issue in the nation and in our com munity among Black people. It'a so hot that whomever touches it gets burned re gardless of how it's handled. However, many sisters have been pushing the issue of Black/white social dating and marriage as something that must be dealt with NOW. I am therefore obliged, as my good female friends state, to take my lumpV-also. First of all, it did not seem to rank very high when placed in the same arena with hunger, unemployment, traditional racism, unfit hous ing, lack of educational op portunities and political im prison/nent. However, the sisters state that the issue of Black/white social dating and marriage permeates all sec tors, factions, classes, philo sophies and ages. The ques tion is, according to our Black sisters, more on the order of what should be de sirable for the Black man along racial lines rather than just what is desirable in terms of qualities. The issue at the moment seems to dwell around Black males and white females. In polling some of the Black brothers informally, the following notions and quali Call On Us for a good place to do business. Let your fingers do the walking through the Yellow Pages. CS> Pacific Northwest Beil Fur (he latest h i I.P s . 45* aod R truck tapes, check out the House of Sounds today. 3 6 0 6 N . W illia m s A venue 2 8 7 -1 9 6 0 Photo Charles Hradwell PDC, ACA (Continued Ironi pg. 1. col. 6| PDC has in the past. The ACA. whose members are residents of the area, would be better able to communi rate the benefits and the limitations of the home repair program to the homeowner, Jackson slated. PDC and Model Cities will look into the ramifications of the transfer and reach a decision within a week. The Home Improvement Program is supposed to give prelerence to minority con tractors through ACA. but thus far no working relation ship has been established between the two agencies. Kay Wilson of PDC has al lotted the jobs by calling in contractors who were avail able at the time of the phone call. Those who cannot be reached by telephone during the day do not get the work. The work also has gone to speciality rather than gen eral contractors. Wilson had no statistics available, but Andrew Raubeson, Acting Director of the Model Cities Agency, estimated (he |>er rentage at 35 percent of the jobs and 24 percent of the money to minority contrac tors. If the ACA is awarded the project, they will allocate work on a rotating basis «> all minority contractors ran benefit equally. Kenward agreed to obtain sta tistic s on m inority in volvement; release these sta tistics to ACA; relea se monthly reports to ACA; in vestigate the dissatisfaction among homeowners and dr vise a better system of communication with home owners; review the bidding system; and consider trans fer of the Home Repair Pro gram to ACA. Caucus Time Unemployment insurance is a joint federal-state program operated by the state in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor. HOUSE of SOUND according to his ability. This year, for the first time, the third sequence will be com bined with Writing 121 so that students can also earn credit for this course which is required for graduation. W hile taking the special reading and math courses, PLUS students are also en rolled in the regular univer sity courses in their chosen field. Ms. latne is beginning her third year with PLUS. A native of Chicago, she grad uated from Northeast Illinois State College in Chicago in 1968 with a degree in Edura lion. She taught second grade in the Chicago public schools and did educational television broadcasts for 4th grade Social Science. She earned her MA at Atlanta University in 1971 and became a Certified Read ing Specialist. She served as a graduate assistant at Spell man College in Atlanta lor a year, and it was there that she was discovered by Hill Wilkerson and talked into coming to Portland. Ms. Lane is glad she came to P'-'ll, where she has the opportunity to assist with a valuable program. She sees students not only learn to read better but mature and grow in their attitudes. She finds most of the PLUS slu dents to lx* serious about their studies anil appreciative of an opportunity they did not expert to have. ties were expressed. The most frequently expressed notion was that the brothers wanted someone in their corner who is non compete tive. Next was the notion of a partner who understood their ego needs and satisfied them. Unfortunately, there was no expression of the brothers giving along the same lines; just taking. Some of the desirable qualities most often expressed are: attractive, charming, pleasur able, delightful, soulful, to gether, passionate, with-it, affectionate, poised and in terested in the Black struggle and the Black man. The most frightening qualities that a woman could have are com bativenesc and the tendency to make attacks upon the Black male character, e.g. their individual worth as a human being. We know that some Black women are the possessors of such qualities and all have the capability of possessing all of the desirable qualities mentioned. The question then is do some Klaek men prefer the white woman who possesses the same qualities because she is white. If whiteness is the deciding criteria then a terrible injus tice is in the land and that kind of rarisrn cannot be tolerated. There also has to be a look at whether Black men and women are com batants and whether one or both attack the character of the other. It would v e m that a person would prefer being considered the greatest rather than the worst or just another person. Statements like, "that's a no-good man" or “that woman doesn't mean you any good" are not really terms of endearment. Demo Sale G rem lin s A m bassadors M a ta d o rs Hornets SAVE HUNDREDS OH DOLLARS A L L GUARANTEED A L L W ITH LOW M ILE A G E AMERICAN MOTORS CARS and JEH>S & SERVICE 1005 W. Burnside If the issue of Black/white social dating and marriage is to continue to get in the way of necessary organizing and strategizing, then we must deal with it. The question has to lx' resolved in terms of desirable personal quali ties. We can each work at becoming desirable hut ran't do much about our color. We cannot deal with the issue of whiteness versus Blackness if white is auto matically desirable as is the contention of some Black men and women. We must also recognize that some Black men and some Black women will find white part ners more desirable. Our concern, therefore, must be some way of legitimating the process so that whiteness isn't unfairly weighted. Some Black men and Black women are calling for a summit. What are your comments? Please respond to Oregon Black Caucus, P .0 . Box 12262, Portland, Oregon. The next Caucus meeting (not to disruss the above issue) is Sunday, August 19, 1973 at the Portland State Univer sity Education Center, 2611 N.E. Union, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “The Story of Eric", an en ligh ten in g film of one couple's prepared childbirth experience, will be shown at the Public Service Building second floor auditorium Aug ust 27, 1973 at 7:30 p.m. There is no charge and all interested persons are in vited. This film is sponsored by the Portland Association for Childbirth Education. Q uestions concerning this film may be answered by calling 284 0591. 226-7711 1 w e e k o n ly Warm December Sidney Poitier Esther Anderson His love, her December their story . . . something to remember. Co-feature Fists of Fury Bruce Lee The Master of Karate Kuag Fo la Bock To break you up. Smash you down, and kick you apart. Monday - Saturday Sunday .1:45 p.m 7:15 p.m. I
