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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,"
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