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I can't street too strongly
the importance of unity, of
working openly together for
the public good. Maybe this
is an old fashioned message
at this moment in a country
whose leadership appears to
have been working in secret
to maintain power by means
unfair and foul, when we find
new evidence everyday of
stealthy and illegal air strikes
in Southeast Asin and chi
canery in South America by
a cabal of America's corpora
tions and its C.I.A.
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But it is because of the
sorry and s till self righteous
record of the e xe cu tive
branch that those of us who
are concerned about our
country have to pull together
to help pull America out of
the fire. Ijet's face the fact
that while our elected offi
cials and their hirelings have
been busy laundering dollars
and b u gging each o th e r,
themselves and even their
families, they have ralloualy
and crassly neglected the
needs of the country and its
people.
What has happened to
programs to aid the cities, to
improve standards of health,
housing, economic develop
ment for the urban and rural
floor, to provide day care for
children of working mothers
or tuition aid to young men
and women whose talents de
serve college and whose par
ents can't afford it?
What
ever happened to those
vaunted programs for law
and order?
The simple
answer is: nothing has hap
pened nor seems likely to.
I'm optimistic enough to
think that the situation in
W ashington w ill im p ro ve
slightly after the next Con
gressional elections and enor
mously a fte r In a u g u ra tio n
Day, 1975. Even pessimisti
rally, 1 am darn sure it can’t
get worse.
But in the meantime, who
is doing something to help
solve the problems of our
cities? Who is working to
help the poor to help them
selves? Who is our brother's
keeper?
The answer is you are and
I am . . . we are.
No one can match the re
sources of our government
it still pays welfare checks
and Medicare bills and dis
burses disability and Social
Security payments. No one
nor one organization can do
what our government has
the ability to do. We must
continue to pressure for real
change in our next adminis
trations.
Alabama Governor George
Wallace made a not too
publicized visit to Jackson,
Mississippi on August 31 to
speak at the 18th annual
leadership conference of the
Citizens’ Council of America.
Wallace, who only a few
weeks earlier had shared the
platform with Senator Ed
ward Kennedy at a political
rally in Alabama, shared this
one with former Mississippi
Governor Boss Barnett. Bar
nett, a staunch defender of
segregation, praised Wallace
as a "political messiah" and a
“ modern Moses".
Wallace told the audience
that the nation is finally
beginning to understand the
platforms and objectives he
enunciated in his unsuccess
Ervin
fights
busing
Senator Sam Ervin's role
as rhairman of the Senate
Watergate Committee has
been widely applauded by
many liberal opinion makers,
but some of his North Caro
lina constituents aren't quite
as impressed. According to
E rvin staffers, the Senator
has been deluged recently by
letters from back home urg
ing him to forget Watergate
and turn his attention to
busing and school Integra
lio n
w hich the le tte r
w riters see as a more im
mediate threat.
E rvin, a
long time opponent of civil
rights legislation, has taken
steps to m ollify the home
folks by introducing a s trin
gent anti busing bill, which
forbids any branch of the
fe d e ra l go ve rn m en t from
tampering in any way with
freedom o f choice schools.
On August 28, during a re
cess in the Watergate hear
mgs, E rvin sent out letters
to all 99 of his Senate col
leagues urging their support
of his bill, and he carefully
called the letter to the atten
lion of N orth Carolina news
papers. The bill, S 1737, is
one of at least a dozen anti
busing measures now floating
around the Congress.
Geaocide T re a ty gets
Seaate consideration
Consideration of the Geno
ride Convention w ill soon
begin in the United States
Senate. The treaty, passed
by the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly in 1948, makes
it an international crime to
attempt the destruction of
national, ethnic, racial or
religious groups as such.
Seventy five countries have
ratified the Convention. The
United States is the most
prominent nation that has
not. It was submitted to the
11.S. Senate in 1949 by Presi
dent Harry S. Truman, but
the Foreign Relations Com
mittee refused to art on it.
President Nixon sent it to
the Senate on February 19,
1970. The Foreign Relations
C om m ittee approved the
Convention in May 1971. re
porting to the Senate: "As
our planet becomes more
crowded, man's behavior to
wards his fellows must be
governed by standards even
higher and more humane.
This treaty seeks to set a
higher standard of interna
tional morality and should be
judged on that basis," Be
cause it did not reach the
Senate floor by the end of
that session of the Congress,
the Foreign Relations Com
mittee again gave its ap
proval early in 1973 and the
treaty is now on the Senate
calendar awaiting floor ac
lion. Senate M ajority Leader
Mike Mansfield has indicated
that he w ill bring it to the
floor of the Senate for action
in September 1973, soon after
the August summer recess.
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Because all HUD money
coming into Portland is ac
cepted on behalf of the city,
the complaint names the City
of Portland.
George Roybal, Equal Op
portunity Officer for HUD,
Region X, said the com
plaints w ill bring an imme
diate investigation by HUD.
This investigation could re
suit in withdrawal of federal
funds until compliance re
quirements are met.
Complaints were also filed
against Todd Building Com
pany, which is building on
the U niversity of Oregon
campus; Tom Walsh Con
struct ion; and Western Bal
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The explanation did not
satisfy Mississippi civil rights
leader Charles Evers, who is
mayor of Fayette, Missis
sippi.
"When George Wal
lace took enough time to roll
over here . . . to sit up there
before people we know he
sat w ith last night, people
who've been accused of mur
der, people who've been ac
rused of supporting these
run down private schools,
people who have harassed
and intimidated Black fo lks...
when he's still governor of a
state and w ill come to an
other slate that's just as had
as his state and participate
in that kind of stuff, he ain't
learned much . . . he a in 't
learned nothing."
E ve rs said la te r th a t
shortly before he made the
statement he had been in
formed that one of the people
attending the Citizens' Coun
cil meeting was Byron De I*a
B e ckw ith o f Greenwood,
Mississippi. De I-a Beckwith
was charged in 1963 with the
murder of Medgar Evers, the
mayor's brother.
The case
ended in a m istrial when the
ju ry could not agree on a
verdit.
The jurors were
divided 7 5 for arquittal.
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The U.S. Arm y is extend
ing its $2.5fXl cash enlistment
bonus indefinitely, according
to SFC Hardie D. Davis,
local A rm y representative.
The cash bonus is offered
to young men who enlist for
four years in A rtille ry , A r
mor or Infantry. To qualify,
they must lie high school
graduates and meet normal
Arm y mental and physical
standards.
The bonus is available both
to young men without pre
vious service and to former
servicemen who have served
fewer than three years and
have been out of the service
at least three months
zLpplicants receive the
bonus as soon as they com
plete both basic combat train
ing and advanced individual
training.
Complete information about
the A rm y's bonus enlistment
option is available from SFC
Davis, Portland .Metro Re
cruiting Station, 321 S.W.
Salmon Street, phone 221
2267,
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Please don’t waste electricity
The North Portland Branch
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brary at 512 N Killingsw orth
Street is presenting a pre
school Story Time each Tues
day morning at 10:30 a.m.
There w ill be stories, songs,
games and film strips for chil
dren from ages three to five.
Story Time w ill continue
weekly until December 18.
To help during this power crisis,
here are some ways you
can save electricity
in your
COMMUNITY
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PGE is urgently asking everyone to join in the campaign to conserve
electricity. Only with the cooperation of every member oi the community can
we hope to prevent the present power shortage from becoming an even
greater crisis this winter.
Every kilowatt-hour of electricity now being used means either some water
must be released from reservoirs behind a dam, or some thermal fuel
burned to generate that power If the area s utilities can save the water and
the fuel until the big winter demand occurs, we will all be in much
better shape to meet the need. Here are some things you can do to help:
Booby Trap Against
Trespassers
On the oiilskirls of lo»n Mood
an old open-air theater, aban
doned for years The owner of
the property, resentful of oc
casional trespassers, decided to
get lough. He placed a small
bomb under ilig stage, connecting
it Io a nearby door.
Sure enough, a few days taler
a youthful intruder opened the
door, set off the bomb, and suf
fered fatal injuries.
Could the properly owner be
held legally liable for this trag
edy? At a court hearing, he in
sisted he bad the right to safe
guard his property againsl any
unlawful intrusion.
LIGHTING
Re-schedule community sporting ac
tivities and recreational uses to
eliminate or minimize night time ac
tivity requiring floodlighting In school
rooms, turn off the outside row of
lights on sunny days Survey street
lighting installations for possible sav
ings Never lose sight of safety fac
tors however
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n* k o i rn u n ... una m i
fir
ful bid for the presidency in
1908. What he was really
talking about. Wallace said,
was local control of political
institution», but his message,
he contended, had been dis
torted by the national news
media.
M ost media re p re se n ts
tives were excluded from the
g o v e rn o r’s ta lk
a ll of
them, in fact, except a CBS
crew consisting of camera
man Ijiw re n ce Pierce and
reporter David Dick. It was
Pierce who had taken the
graphic and much heralded
film of Wallace being shot
last year in Laurel, Mary
land.
A fte r his speech, Wallace
did consent to an interview
with other reporters, during
which he defended his ap
pearance before the white
segregationist Citizens' Coun
cil. "They've been friends of
mine," the governor said. “ I
speak to them.
I have
spoken to groups I'd say are
on the far left. The fact that
you speak to any group
doesn't mean that you are
against any other particular
group of people and I don't
think this group here is
against anybody.”
A rm y
extends
en listm en t
Thursday, October -J. 1973
HEATING
However. » court held him re
sponsible for the young man's
death.
" I l is no defense,” said the
court, "that (the victim) was
a trespasser. While the law au
thorizes an owner to protect his
property by reasonable means,
considerations o f humanity pre
clude him from setting traps
dangerous lo (he life and limb of
those whose presence may be an
ticipated, even though they may
be trespassers."
On Ihe other hand, less dras
tic measures against trespassers
have usually been upheld. One
case involved a barbed-wire fence
which a home owner put up to
slop pedestrians from taking short
cuts across his front lawn. This
time, when an injured trespas
ser claimed damages, the court
turned him down. The judge said
the wire obstacle, in plain sight,
was a reasonable way for the
owner lo protect his lawn.
O f course, the right to use
force is greater when there is
menace not only lo property but
ulso to people. Accordingly,
most courts have sanctioned t ie
use of deadly force, if necessary,
against burglars breaking into a
home As one judge put it:
" Ihe idea that a man's house
is his castle is not that it is his
property. The sense in which the
house has a peculiar immunity
is thal it is sacred for the protec
tion of his person and his family,”
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A m e ric an B a r Association an d
th e O reg o n M a le lia r . W ritte n
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Lower public building heating ther
mostats to 68 Make sure the heat
ing system s filters are clean
MOTORS/SHOP
OPERATIONS
Motors should be turned off when
ever not needed Turn off all decora
tive fountain motor pumps.
MISCELLANEOUS
Consider re-scheduling office hours
for maximum efficiency of workers
and minimum need for lighting.
Check all municipal electrical equip
ment for efficient operation.
COOLING
If the public building in which you
work has several cooling units, sug
gest that one-third of them be dis
connected. and that the thermostats
for the rest of them be set at 80
Keep curtains drawn when the sun
shines directly into your windows.
WATER HEATING
Minimize the use ot water, both hot
and cold Repair any leaky faucets
immediately
PGE joins 109 other utilities in the Pacific
Northwest in urging custom ers to save
energy now to help dilute the impact of a
power crunch This winter. We share the
groups concern that sooner or later, unless
new generating plants, transm ission lines
and other electrical facilities are built as
needed
w ithout im prudent delay for
whatever reason., scarcity ot ele ctricity
and enforced rationing may becom e a per
manent tact of life in this region. We re
w orking hard to avoid that situation. But
we need your help and understanding.
Write tor a tree booklet o, ideas on conserving energy in your business, home or community
Portland General Electric Company
Conservation Center
621 S W Alder • Portland. Oregon 97205
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