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U rs F ronces Schoen- «»«paper "c o n U n iv e r s it y o f Oregon L ib r a r y tu r a n e , r. e.i j 74JJ Owners forced from homes - city studies best use Mayor Neil Goldachmidt has appointed a committee, chaired by Commissioner Mildred Schwab, to study the "highest and best use” of the site in North Portland that has been acquired by the school district. The committee was appointed at the request of Commissioner Francis Ivancie, who pro posed that the property be used for motel and conven tion facilities. Although the school dis trict has been acquiring land since 1970, Ivancie's request did not come until late this summer. The School District said they had chosen the site for their maintenance facili ties at the advice of the Port land Planning Commission, which was then one of Com missioner Ivancie's responsi bilities. The site was included in the First Eliot Urban Re newal Area Plan prepared by the Portland Development Commission, approved by the Portland City Council on September 13, 1972, and put into effect with the coopera tion agreement between the District and PIK' dated Nov rmbrr 28, 1972. Commis sioner Ivancie said he had learned about the school dis trict plan during the summer of 1973. The residents of the area fought the acquisition of the land by the school district both because they did not want to lose their homes and liecause they feel they were not paid a reasonable amount for their property. The non resident owners were ap proached first, and when bulldozers began to clear their lard, some of the resi dents gave up and sold. Others sold when they were told that relocation money available through PDC would terminate on June 30, 1973. Still others refused to leave and their property was con dcnined or is scheduled for PORTLAND & . Volume 3. No. ... ’ Portland. Oregon a THI OMIT N IW tF A P H IOUAl OMO.TUHITY IM M 0V " IN IH I W M O tt W IDt W^»LD tM»T J I A t t y In informing the Board of his decision, Dr. Blanchard said, "I have carefully re viewed this matter and have concluded that this incident does not indicate that Mr. McCrea should be transferred from his post as principal at Boise School. "This conclusion is based on the following considerations: “II When confronted at the last Board meeting with the initial concerns about the principal's public expressions, both Mr. Ridgley and I re marked in ways intended to make it clear that we were "disavowing" much of the direct content and inferred content stated in that article. It was qualified that Mr. McCrea's comments (not Mr. McCrea) were disavowed to the degree that careful in vestigation established his responsibility. The article statem en ts especiallx d is turbing were on the issues of stereotyping all Blacks as having a particular urban culture, which is obviously not true. Also, the inference that instead of correction of clearly improper behavior, such was tolerated by the staff of Boise and perhaps other schools was inappro priate. That posture would be in direct conflict with Board policies, and deserves disavowal. "21 My investigation estab lished that Mr. McCrea made two and possibly three of the unfortunate comments in that article. (Interestingly, the re marks that were quoted on a monolithic Black culture and tolerance of m isbehavior were not made by Mr. Me Crea.l "31 Mr. McCrea, neverthe less, has substantiated the general accuracy of the ori ginal article to two news sources. 1 think it is to his credit that he assumed full responsibility for the content of the article as leader of the Boise School. Additionally, he has shown courage and humility in apologizing to the school and citizen commu nity. Mr. McCrea especially regrets the way in which the article has brought unwanted applause from some indivi duals who are resistant to racial understanding and are initiators of racial tension and conflict in our schools and city. I also share frus tration with his being sup ported for the wrong reasons Raubeson has been acting director of the Model Cities program since November of 1972 when the former direr tor, Charles Jordan, resigned. One of Raubeson's new responsibilities will be pro viding assistance to Model Cities during its period of phaseout. He will remain letter to William Scott of the Mayor's Office: "During the acquisition process, District personnel worked closely with the residents of the area and with neighborhood groups, and were additionally Thurm Uy. October I I . 1973 C A « lt instrumental in obtaining fed eral relocation money for these residents. To sell the property at this point for co m m ercia l d e v e lo p m e n t would constitute a serious breach of the moral obliga tions toward these people by both the City anil the Dis trict " Howe went on to state that the Eliot Plan and the agreement with PDC "firmly There are obvious moves developing in the country today to eliminate Black col leges. Dr. Carlton B. Good lett, president of the National ^Newspaper Publisher's As Sociation. warned last week in a luncheon speech before journalists at the PUSH Ex position in Chicago. At one time, these schools numbered more than 100. Today, there are 89 and the threat to their existence is very real. Dr. Goodlett said. By merging or consolidating, the best of them can be saved, he suggested. Whenever Black schools are combined with white in can count on at the Beni. Franklin ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR Fitq in pocket or purse -fo r home, office, school or shopping. Adds, subtracts, multi plies, divides. Floating decimal, constant key, clear entry. Complete with batteries and case; AC adaptor $4 extra. Offer limited while supply lasts. BIG DISCOUNTS FOR SAVERS $29.95 with $5,000 deposit $34.95 with $2,500 deposit $44.95 with $1,000 deposit $49.95 with $250 deposit U p iij.0 Franklin Robert H Hazen, Pres • 22 Offices • Phone 248 1234 Home Office Franklin Bldg . Portland. Oregon 97204 stitutions, as is the trend in many states today. Blacks are the losers in administra tion, faculty jobs and stu dents, he added. The Black Press has al ways been concerned with the survival of Black col leges, the NNPA head de clared. For more than 100 years, Black leaders have been produced by Black insti tutions and the need for them is as great as ever. Turning to drug addiction, he chided Blacks for not showing the “interest they should in the crisis faring us." Citing the magnitude of the problem he said: "In 1970, the largest number of suicides in the age range of 20 to 30 were Blacks. Fifty percent of Black America is under 25 years and 38 per cent of Black teenagers are unemployed. Thirty percent of Black adolescents are drug addicts. Blacks purchased $300 million in alcoholic bev erages in 1970 and they drink a sizable percentage of the Scotch whiskey consumed in America. The NNPA head praised the Nation of Islam which he says has assets of $700 mil lion and the best program oi drug rehabilitation of any group in America. We are a nation within a country, he said, ranking ninth in population, with the second highest Black count in the world Nigeria with 61 million is the only country ,Please turn to pg. 6, col. 8) ment. The District has announced that they will probably move the administrative offices to the site. This derision will give additional weight to the district's case in future ron demnation proceedings. The district has started rondem nat'on proceedings against the ten remaining projterties it has not been able to pur chase. 10c per copy by those who were not aware of this true intent." Blanchard also reflected on his opinions on inner city schools: “No matter how capable the staff of a particular school, no matter how much is spent by a school district, any school attended by a vast majority of low income children is unsound edura tionally. Further, it is my social as well as educational conviction that this is es pecially damaging in the rase of a low income school that is also Black. "For this reason I have recommended, and the Board has supported the creation of additional pre kindergarten through grade 2 early child hood centers in schools such as Boise. I am convinced (Continued from pg. 1. col. 41 acting director of the pro gram. Raubeson is a graduate of the U niversity of Puget Sound and attended the Uni versity of Washington on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He took graduate work in G o v ern m en t and Urban Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, C onnecticut and Souther Connecticut State College. Before joining the Model Cities staff he seemed as Director of I’roject New Resources for the State Divi sion of Continuing Education. Women’s League awards achievement The Albina Women's Lea gue presented awards to citizen s for outstanding achievement. The Albina Women's la-a gue was organized in 1971 by eight civic minded women who desired to improve life in the Albina community. The League has been in volved in numerous com munity activities including: transjmrtation for the el derly, providing chaperones for youth activities: provid ing secretarial training, tu toring, etc. Mrs. Betty Overton. I’resi dent of the Ix*agu«. explained the annual awards: "We seek to show our apprecia tion to those who sacrifice to work for a belter com munity. We hope this will encourage and inspire them and others to continue their work." Citizen of the Year Award went to Erma Hepburn, as sislant director of the City Bureau of Human Resources. Ms Hepburn was an ad ministralor with the Portland Metropolitan Steering Com mittee before going to the city. The Distinguished Citizen Award was presented to E. Shelton Hill, who is retiring after 25 years as Executive Director of the Urban la-a gue of Portland. Awards for s,H-nal achieve ment went to Lee Henderson. Editor and Publisher of the Portland Observer; I,eon Harris, former director of the Albina Multi Service Center: Ralph Nickerson; John Rice, PMSC board member; Jam es Loving, Model Cities board member; Mrs. Azzree Ijithan; Drs. Dennis Yamamoto and Doug las J. Stahl of the Pacific University School of Op tometry. The names of Captain William Taylor, Father William Curtin and Marcus Glenn were inscribed on the Police Community Relations plaque that will hang in City Hall. The award for the Club of the Year was accepted by President Betty Thompson for the Oregon Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Five gentlemen were ac cepted as Honorary Members of the Albina Women's la-a gue Dr Walter C. Rev nolds. Dr. E.C. Ogbuobiri, David Nero, Cleveland Gil crease and Dr. Lee Brown. Certificates were presented to: Hildress Benson, Mrs. Ann Kent, Ms. Claire Green. Clif ford Daniels. Mrs. Evangline Smith, Alvin Lucus. Georgia Warner, OB. Hill, Willie Davis, Ms. Edna Robertson. Ms. Helen Gordon, Ron Buel. Vern Summers, Ms. Jesse Verner. Ms. Ada Reed. Greg Benton, Robert E. Nelson, Roy J. Harris. Ms. Bobbie Gary, Ms Edna Basketl. Ms. Marian Scott, Connie Matt ingly, Royal Esquires Her man C. Plummer. Terry Wil liamsnn. Ernest Smith, Ms. Emily Randle, Ms. Hazel Warren, and Gail Strong. ACLU asks impeachment The American Civil Liber lies Union has railed for the impeachment of Richard M Nixon. The organization, pursuant to a vote by its Board of Directors last Sunday, called for the President's impeach ment on six grounds "af feeling civil liberties”, in eluding specific, proved vio lations of the rights of polili cal dissent; usurpation of C ongressional war making powers; establishment of a personal secret police which committed crimes; attempted interference in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg; distortion of the system of justice; and perversion of other federal agencies. The ACLU statement says: Impeachment should be predicated on the following grounds affecting civil liber tic-, NNPA prexy addresses PUSH Expo commit the City and the district to develop their re s,M*ctive portions of the area for public use." He sug gested that the consideration of "best use" also be applied to neighboring property al located for City Water Bur eau facility expansion. The School District has agreed to release the three blocks adjacent to N.E. Broad way for commercial develop A»OUT jM g f jM Raubeson accepts Human Resource job Andrew Raubeson, acting director of the Model Cities Agency, will become director of planning and program development for the Bureau of Human Resources. but they have felt all along that it would never be used by the school district. The School Board declined to appoint a member to serve on the Mayor's com mittee. Hoard Chairman Paul H. Howe stated in a OBSERVER Blanchard retains Boise principal Dr. Robert Blnnrhard. Superintendent of the Port land Public Schools, an nounced Monday night that he has decided not to remove Principal David McCrea from Boise Elem entary School. Blanchard was responding to demands by the Black com munity that McCrea be re moved as the result of his statements printed in a Port land daily. McCrea admitted that he had made the remarks and that he had been quoted cor rectly. He did state that he felt only the negatives were printed and that positive programs at Boise were not reported. A number of community organizations including the NAACP, the Urban League of Portland, the Albina Ministerial Alliance, the Ia*a gue of Albina Women, the Albina lean« Club. the Ore gon Association of Colored Women's Clubs and the Royal Esquires sent the school dis trict a resolution railing for McCrea’s removal. The Boise Improvement Association later voted to support McCrea and the Boise PTA. Although disagreeing with McCrea's statements, the PTA asked that the par ents be allowed to solve their own problems (please see page 2. col. 6). When the m atter was brought to the attention of the School Board two week? ago board member Robert Ridgley and Dr. Blanchard expressed concern and ''dis avowed” McCrea's remarks. condemnation. Many of the residents be lieve the school district never planned to build on the area that the district was used to acquire the property at minimal eoat. Some property sold (or as little as 60 cents a square foot. Most family homes «old for $7500 or $8500. Residents and former residents state that they would not rare as much if the property was really needed by the school district, Clarence Mitchell recieves Adam Clayton Powell Award Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., director of the Washington Bureau of the NAACP and legislative chairman of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LC('R) was the recipient of the Adam Clay ton Powell award by the Congressional Black Caucus. The award was pres»nted to Mitchell at the third annual fund raising dinner of the Caucus on September 29. In announcing the selection of Mitchell for the award. Representative Louis Stokes, chairman of the Congres sional Black Caucus, said the award is given annually to a person who has made signt ficant contributions to im prove the life of American minorities, utilizing the legis lative process and other com munity resources. Iaist year's recipient was A. Philip Ran dolph. The 1973 award was presented by Representative Shirlev t hisholm (D N.Y.1 The Congressional Black Caucus, formed in mid 1970, is a non partisan coalition of the 16 Black members of the House of Representatives to utilize the legislative process in helping to bring about full equality of opportunity for all Americans. Proceeds from the $100 a plate dinner will be used to underwrite the research ef forts of the Caucus staff headed by Dr. Augustus Adair. The staff seeks resolution of problems af feeling disadvantaged riti Mayor selects pair Mayor Neil Goldschmidt announced that he has sub milled the name of Robert R. Ames to fill a vacancy on ’.he Portland Development Commission, and that of My ron B. Katz to fill a vacancy on the Portland City Planning Commission. The appoint ments must be confirmed by the City Council. Ames, 33, is Vice-Presi dent and Manager of the Head Office of the First National Bank of Oregon. Ames has been with the First National Bank since graduating from Oregon State University in 1963. He is a native of Portland. Katz, 47, is head of the planning office of the Bonne vile Power Administration, a post he has held since 1961. Katz is a native of Chicago, Illinois, with degrees from the University of Wisconsin and other universities. He has lived in Portland since 1951. zens. Adam Clayton Pow ell served in the House of Representatives from 1945 to 1971. He was chairman of the Education and Labor Committee and was instru mental in the passage of legislation crucial to the wel fare of minority citizens. The House voted to "exclude" him from membership in 1967 on the grounds that he had misused public funds. In June 1969, (he U.S. Supreme Court declared his exclusion unconstitutional. He was defeated in November 1970 by Representative Charles B. Rangel and died April 4, 1972. Representative Rangel served as coordinator of the 1973 Caucus Dinner. Mitchell has devoted nearly more than two decades of his life to the cause of civil rights. His legislative pur suits on behalf of minoritirs has earned him the title of the "101st U.S. Senator". After the passage of .he HUD Art of 1968 which ton tai net! strong open hou ling provisions, the Washington Post said in an editorial teat "Americans are in debt o him". He has been a lobbyist ft r the NAACP since 1950 end has been credited with play ing important roles in the passage of every civil rights bill since he came to the (Please turn to pg. 4, col. 5) He anil his closest aides have organized and con ducted a deliberate assault on civil liberties by author izing massive invasions of the First Amendment rights of citizens of the United States. On July 25. 1970 he personally approved the "Huston plan" for domestic political surveillance and es plottage by such methods as burglary, wiretapping and eavesdropping, mail covers, and military spying on civi lians. These methods of political surveillance were employed against dissenters, political opponents, news re porters and government em ployees. He and his aides em p lo y ed g o v e r n m e n ta l powers to harass and punish critics of his administration regarded by them as “ene inies". He and his aides interfered with a free press through the use of wiretaps, FBI in v e s t ig a t io n s , and threats of criminal prosecu tions. He secretly recorded conversations in his own of bee without advising the par ticipants. He and his aides interfered with the right of peaceable assembly and pro test as in the arrests of thousands of persons on Mayday, 1971 and on many other occasions. He has usurped the war making powers of Congress as in the bombing of neutral Cambodia and he deliberately concealed the bombing from Congress and the people of the United States; and he has announced he would do so again under similar cir cumstances. He established within the White House a personal secret police (the 'plumbers'), operating outside the re straints of the law, which engaged in criminal arts in cluding burglaries, warrant less wiretaps, espionage and perjury. He and a principal aide offered a high federal post to the presiding judge during the Ellsberg trial and. for a prolonged period, he with held from the court know ledge of the burglary of the office of Dr. Ellsbert's psy chiatrist. He and his aides interfered with and distorted the ad m in istr a tio n of j u s tic e through such arts as his ef fort to limit the scop«1 of the FBI in vestigation of the Watergate break in. He and his aides caused the politi cally motivated and unjusti (Please turn to pg. 2. col. 6) Stokely pushes socialism Stokely Carmichael advised students at Portland State University to put together "all the little bits of Blark Power" all over the world to create a power for world peace. Every society has an ide ology, he explained, anti by studying this ideology one can determine the society's values. Ideology reflects so cielt's belief about man and the desired goals it seeks for its people. The value of capitalism is financial profit so capitalism cannot exist together with ideologies that are based on benefit to man. Comparing capitalism to s c ie n t if ic S o c ia lism , he stressed that socialism strives to meet the needs of man and emphasized the positive aspects of rulture. All peo pie whatever their rank in a socialist nation are working for the benefit of all. Everyone reaps the profit. For this reason only socialism will bring peace. Capitalism , he said, is based on the exploitation of man by man, with labor and mnagement always in con flict. "Those who labor do not enjoy the fruits of their labor; those who do not labor enjoy the fruits of the labor." Capitalists own the means of production and are moti vated solely by profit. Be cause of internal conflicts created, capitalism must eventually fail. Blacks, who have experienced the most severe form of capitalism, will never enjoy the benefits of their labor until capitalism is totally destroyed and "Let me help bring it down". Revolution, to lie success ful. Carmichael said, must be for som ething, not just against something. Revolu tion is fighting to create a new system. Carmichael asked the stu dents to study their African heritage, for in history is found a meaningful identity. If history is properly inter preted it will mobilize. Of his own role, Carmichael said he is a follower of Kwame Nkruma seeking liberation and unity of the African people though scien tific socialism. "I am fighting lor Black people, which logi rally means I am fighting for man," I I