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Hypertension tests begin 1 Job assist available
Oregon State Employment
Division has a branch which
services residents of North
and Northeast Portland Io
rated in the Albina Multi
Service Center at 5022 N.
Vancouver Avenue.
Place
ment interviewers are avail
able to assist in finding suit
able jobs.
The North Portland Em
ployment Division Office re
reives the same job listings
as the Downtown Employ
m e n t o ffic e and o th e r
branches in the Portland
metropolitan area.
A new
selection of job listings comes
in each day and these are
available for viewing. Place
ment interviewers are on
hand to demonstrate the use
of the microfiche viewers to
select a job, and to refer to
available job openings.
Laona Jones, supervisor of
the North Portland Employ
A statewide program to
find an estimated 100,000
Oregonians who have un
diagnosed high hlood press
ure will start on November
2nd and 3rd for persons
living in Northeast Portland.
These free screening centers
are co-sponsored by the Ore
gon Heart Association und
the Oregon State Health
Division and will blanket the
state during the next year,
according to Dr. Richard 1,.
Shepherd, chairman of the
OHA Hypertension Commit
te
Dr. Shepheril
reported
that high I i I imm I pressure can
detected easily and painless
ly and controlled to prevent
it from being a major factor
involved in heart attacks,
strokes ami kidney diseases.
Everyone from 15 to 65
years of age living in the
Northeast Portland area is
encouraged to have their
blood pressure taken at one
of these locations between
10:00 a.m. and 8:00 pm
Multi Service Center, 5022
N. Vancouver; Health Help,
Inc., 4642 N. E. Mth Avenue;
People’» Free Health Clinic,
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W illia m s .
“Especially plentiful are
job opportunities for veter
ans and for skilled indivi
duals, particularly those with
typing and other clerical
skills. Openings (or unskilled
individuals are less frequent,
but they do occur.
Appli
rants who come in every day
to check the viewers find
that their diligence pays off
They will be referred on a
job and eventually they will
be hired.
"Job development special
William C. Davis. Ph.D. (left), Program Director, Albina
Health Care Center, and Volile Manning, staff member of
Albina Action Center, discuss free blood pressure screening
program beginning November 2 and 3 in the Northeast
Portland area.
Ms. G lo ria M cC lelland,
Chairman of the Portland
Hypertension Steering Com
mittee, says northeast Port
land (Model Cities areal was
chosen for the Hypertension
Community Program because
a m a jo rity of P o rtlan d's
Macks live there.
Ms. McClelland said '259«,
of Macks compared to 13%
of whites in Portland have
Hypertension." Many people
are unaware that they have
the disease because there are
no symptoms. Untreated, it
can be severely harmful to
the body, causing heart at
tacks, strokes and kidney
disease.
Another purpose of the
H ypertensio n C om m unity
Program is to promote com
munity awareness. By using
health facilities, awareness of
available services and know
ledge of the Health Delivery
System will increase.
It is
hoped consumers will be
motivated to effectively ad
vocate improved health rare
quality.
A conference to inform
small and minority group
home repair contractors and
real estate brokers in busi
ness opportunities related to
the repair and sale of fed
erally owned housing will be
held in Seattle on October
31, it was announced by the
U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
Similar meetings will be
held in Detroit, Atlanta, Cin
cinnati, Dallas Ft. Worth and
Newark.
The evening workshop, to
be followed by special train
ing courses for repair con
tractors, will be held by the
Office of Property Disposi
lion, which is under H.R.
Crawford, Assistant Secre
tary for Housing Manage
ment at H U D .
H U D now owns some
73,000 single family homes
throughout the nation. The
Office of Property Disposi
lio n norm ally brings the
homes up to local rode stan
dards or better by putting
them out to bid to local home
repair contractors. They are
then sold through local real
estate brokers.
H U D also ow ns some 207
m u lti fam ily projects w ith
about 25,000 units.
These
p ro p e rties
are managed
under contract by local man
agement brokers, rehabili
tated if necessary, and put
out to bid.
"There is a substantial
volume of home repair work
involved in this program."
Mr. Crawford said.
"We
estimate about $100 million
annually across the country.
That is based on our projec
tion for next year, figuring a
$3.000 minimum repair po
tential for ui its that need
work.
In adflitaon. we pay
regular commissions on HUD-
owned single family proper
ties that are sold through
local real estate brokers."
The workshop will consist
of a three hour evening meet
ing to acquaint local contrac
tors and brokers with HUD's
p ro p e rty disposition pro
NNPA Publishers visit Russia
by Slava Tyne»
Novosti Press Agency
A delegation of the Afro
A m erican N atio n al News
paper Publishers Association
is currently in the Soviet
Union at the invitation of the
U SSR Jo u rn alists' Union.
Members of the delegation
include Frances Murphy, P.1,.
Inman. Garth Reeves. John
Sengstarke, Lenore Carter.
H o w a rd W o o d s , R o b e rt
Thomas and Carlton Good
lett
Having visited Moscow and
Ia-ningrad the delegation left
for Uzbekistan
one of
the fifteen Soviet republics.
Prior to the Great October
Socialist Revolution of 1917,
Uzbekistan's population was
almost 100 percent illiterate.
Today 3.5 million children
study in 9,(MM) secondary
schools. (The republic has a
population of 12.9 million.)
After visiting a school in
Tashkent, the capital of Uz
bekistan, Carlton Goodlett,
head of the delegation, said,
"For the first time we have
seen national education in
action and we are delighted
with it."
He stressed that
the Afro American publishers
had arrived in Uzbekistan
specifically to view the Soviet
successes scored by the peo
pie of the former colonial
region of tzarist Russia The
delegation members. Good
lett said, were particularly
impressed by the fart that
children, receiving a well
ro u n d e d e d u c a tio n , a re
brought up not only in the
spirit of national pride, but
also in the spirit of inter
nationalism.
Having gone sightseeing in
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ists are available to help
those who have special place
ment problems such as age,
physical disabilities, prison
records, lack of experience,
etc. A vocational counselor
is on hand for those who
need assistance in choosing a
suitable field of work or
training.
Employment divi
sion works closely with other
agencies such as Vocational
Rehabilitation. Childrens Ser
vices, Mental Health. Ap
prenticeship Information Cen
ter, and other agencies in
order to meet the needs of
individual clients."
Residents of the North and
Northeast communities are
encouraged to visit the North
Portland Employment D ivi
sion office for help in seeking
employment.
Office hours
are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
HUD conferences assist minorities
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Action Center, 707 N. E.
Knott; Fred Meyer. 5406 N.
E. Union, Albertsons. 909 N.
Kilhngsworth and the Albina
Health Care Center, 4122 N.
E. Union.
Dr. Shepherd also empha
sized that in the Northeast
Portland area no less than 15
groups are shnldering the
responsibility of detecting
those with high blood press
ure and finding satisfactory
treatment. In addition to the
groups listed above, these
organizations are supporting
the free screening renters:
Comprehensive Health Plan
nlng. Model Cities Program.
Oregon State and Multnomah
County Medical Societies, the
Multnomah County Health
Department, Holiday Park
Huspital. and Oregon Na
tional Guard. Company H,
141st Support Hu.
ment Division office, says,
“Many local employers are
anxious to interv , w minority
individuals who meet the
qualifications of their job
openings. They expect Em
ployment Service to help
them meet Affirmative Ac
lion goals.
We cannot do
this if applicants are not
available to us.
the city and having met the
residents of Tashkent, the
guests from the U n ited
States visited the M alek
(tzar of the steppesl State
Farm in the Hungary steppe.
The head of the delegation
said that they were particu
larly interested in visiting
the farm because they had
long wanted to study the
activities and the structure
of a Soviet farm. The Malek
farm was set up a year after
the end of the Second World
W ar in the Hungary steppe,
which was then an unirri-
gated, desert area. Over the
decades the Soviet state has
earmarked huge funds to de
velop the Hungary steppe".
Today it is a blossoming
land.
The farm is multi
branched, but cotton is its
main crop. The work is 62%
mechanized; but almost 1,500
people of 34 different na
tionalities work there.
As part of their tour of the
farm, the American guests
visited a kindergarten, an
elementary school, a music
school, and a specialized
secondary school, w here
skilled specialists in agricul
ture are trained.
Sharing his impressions of
the visit to the farm, Garth
Reeves stressed that the
achievements of the Uzbek
people were of special value
for A fro Americans.
The managers of the Malek
farm gave a dinner in honor
of the guests, during which
Howard Woods stated that
the delegation members
representing 25 million A fro
Americans
strive, like
the Soviet people, for the
attainment of peace.
The
guests from the USA, Woods
also pointed out, were very
pleased to see that Uzbek,
Russian, Ukraman and Azer
baijan children do not know
the rare hatred and ani
mosity that poisons childhood
for risin g generations of
AfroAmerieans.
The Public Pulse
T h e H o n o r a b le T e r r y
Schrunk . . . "I don’t know all
the farts surrounding W ater
gate. I think the decision to
impeach the President should
be left with the courts and
w hatever the court’s findings
are . . . then we should do
whatever is necessary for our
country."
Ms. Allison Belcher, chair
■man of the
M ultnom ah
County D em o cratic Com
m itte e . . . ''R ic h a rd Nixon
had made a promise that Cox
was to be independent.
When Cox made a stand he
was fired. No man should be
above the law, even the
President. It would be best
for him to resign so congress
can get on with important
issues
poverty, aid to
education, and other prob
lems that need their atten
tion.
A lengthy impeach
ment proceeding would be
very time consuming. I feel
Nixon has overstepped the
legal bounds and has robbed
the United States of the
service of fine, dedicated
men.
There are several
reasons he should be im
peached
I'm definitely
for impeachment.”
Corine W inchester. . . "Most
of the men selected by Presi
dent Nixon to work for him in
Washington have been in
volved in crimes and con
victed. These men were bad
selections on President Nix
on's part.
I f a Mack ad
ministrator made that many
mistakes, he would have
been fired long ago."
Rea Johnson . . . "Nixon has
taken law and order off the
street and put it in the
W hite House.
His resigna
tion should
come
very
quickly
Chester Lund . . .“Impeach
ment of King Richard Nixon
is long overdue.
Since he
has placed himself above the
courts and will not keep the
oath he promised to the
country, he should be- im
peached. He will not resign
because a King will never
surrender his crown.
We,
the American people, will
have to take it and save our
country."
S tan ley Cage . . . “ P re s i
dent Nixon should resign be
cause the American people
have last faith in his leader
ship. In fact, if he does not
have enough integrity to re
sign like Agnew, then he
should he impeached."
Eugene Jackson . . . "H is
tory will record that Nixon is
the worst President in the
history of this country. King
Richard places himself above
the courts and should be
impeached."
Agnew's Epitaph
I was stunned to learn of
the Agnew resignation. Rut
I was more shocked to see on
TV less than 4 hours later a
most complete documentary
of his life from the time he
was governor up to his resig
nation.
It seems a bit strange that
the network had his political
epitaph so neatly and quickly
packaged!
Anonymous
Reruns of W atergate?
Watergate has gotten such
high ratings that 1 wonder if
there will be reruns come
next spring?
Leslie White
gram. The workshop will be
followed by a specialized,
extensive training course for
repair contractors.
There
will be an evening session to
suit the convenience of local
contractors.
Contractors who partici
pate in the workshops and
tra in in g sessions w ill be
given the opportunity to
qualify for performance and
payment bonds, assistance in
obtaining w orking capital
loans, ongoing management
and technical assistance, and
inclusion as bidders for par
ticipation in the property
disposition program.
"We believe this program
will be very useful to small
contractors, particularly mi
nority, who have the job
skills, but need training in
our H U D property disposi
tion procedures, repair esti
mating and bidding and per
formance criteria. The first
step for any contractor is to
bid a contract. The second is
running the business itself,
and this involves hiring, plan
ning, and the paperwork that
is part of any business."
The program will fulfill
two functions: the first is to
involve real estate brokers
and repair contractors in the
p ro p e rty disposition pro
gram; the second is to
broaden the base and number
of qualified contract sources,
and facilitate the repair and
sale of HUD-owned proper
ties.
"One of our main concerns
is to build human resources
to help H U D reduce its in
ventory of foreclosed proper
ties, which is a national
problem." M r. Crawford said.
"But another major concern
is to increase the resources
and skills of minority group
contractors, and bring them
into the mainstream of the
American economy."
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Commissioner of Public A f
fairs Mildred Schwab an
nounced the appointment ol
Faye LyDay as City Planner
in the Bureau of Human Re
sources. Under the direction
of Ira Blalock, Mrs. LyDay
will assist in developing a
program of human services
in conjunction with the Burn
side Urban Renewal Plan.
The position becomes effec
tive October 29th.
Mrs. LyDay is presently
the Acting Social Coordina
tor for Portland's M odel
Cities Agency, where she has
worked for the past five
years.
Active in a wide
range of religious and civic
affairs in the community, she
is presently a board member
of the Multnomah County
Welfare Commission, the U r
ban League and the Tri-
County Community CounciL
She has served on the Port
land Metropolitan Steering
Committee Board and was a
member of the Mayor's Sum
mer "73 Committee.
Mrs.
LyDay has received the AFL-
CIO Kelly Loe Award for
Community Service, and in
1972 was honored with the
Oregon Journal's "Women of
Accomplishment" award. She
also is on the Board of D irer
tors of Community Coordi
nated Child Care (4-C’s). The
mother of five, Mrs. LyDay
has lived in Portland since
1950.
The City of Portland is
contemplating an urban re-
NAACP
honors
Ward
The local branch of the
N A A C P w ill honor Past
President Harry C. W ard on
Sunday. October 28, 1973.
Mr. Ward served as Presi
dent twice during the 1960's
and laid the groundwork for
trying to get the National
N A A C P to come to Portland
in 1962.
“Because of Harry Ward's
long involvement in Civil
Rights, he saw the need to
do more.
Therefore, he
started workiing on his life
membership in the associa
tion, which cost only $500.00.
It has been a long time
coming, but on Sunday he
reached his goal," said Presi
dent Ellis H. Casson.
For the ocassion Leonard
H. Carter, Regional Director
of the West Coast Region.
NA A C P from San Francisco,
will be the main speaker.
Mr. Carter will speak on
the subject "Lest We l'-er-
get - Our Fallen Heros".
M r. Ward is a member of
the Model Ciies Planning
Board. Boys Clubs of Am eri
ca. Businessman's Club of
Portland, and the Royal Es
quires.
President Casson encour
ages the community to come
out Sunday at 4:00 p.m. at
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church to
bear M r. Carter an honor as
an outstanding community
leader.
recieves appointment
FAYE LYDAY
newal project in the West
Burnside area which will
have considerable economic
and social impact on that
community.
The Human
Resources Bureau will ana
lyze existing human services
in the area and, using the
information collected for the
Downtown Plan, determine
the effects on the population
of various options for eco
nomic development and ur
ban renewal.
Oregon youth mistrust
political system
Youth are deeply disen
chanted with the national
political system, according to
results of a survey conducted
by the Governor's Commis
sion on Youth.
In releasing the report.
Youth Commission Chairman
Clay Myers pointed out that
60% of the high school stu
dents queried in the pre
W atergate hearings survey
characterized political leaders
as dishonest and untruthful.
This a ttitu d e ce rta in ly
helps account for the fact
that many young people over
age 18 years are not regis
tered to vote, Myers said.
Political leaders, govern
ment, and schools should be
concerned over this attitude
of young people concerning
the political system, Myers
said, and work toward chang
ing it.
The survey involved re
sponses from 1.600 students
from 60 high schools. Stu
dents filled out the question
naire last spring.
Young people listed con
cern about en viron m ental
pollution as the most serious
problem facing them on a
national level, and "getting a
job" as the most important
on a personal level.
Four of every ten students
said that they had smoked
marijuana at least once; 14%
stated they used marijuana
"more than weekly".
Two
out of ten said they used
some form of speed; 2% indi
cated frequent use.
Three fourths of the stu
dents felt that students in
junior high school should be
taught about veneral disease
and one-third said they knew
someone who had had a
veneral disease.
Forty four percent of the
students said they had
learned most about sex from
friends their own age but
only 5% agreed that this is
the way it should be. Home
and parents, according to the
students, should be the chief
sources of sex information.
One-fourth of the young
people described school as
"exciting" while another 58%
described it as "dull". While
over three-fourths of them
said school was "important",
48% found it "boring" and
almost a third said that
school was "out of it".
Myers said the survey
indicated little difference in
youth attitude or opinion
based on geographic location
or size of community. "The
attitudes of youngsters in a
small, eastern Oregon town
are strikingly similar to those
of his counterpart in the
metropolitan area." Myers
noted.
Copies of the re p o rt,
printed by high school print
ing students, are being dis
tributed to Oregon legisla
tors. school administrators,
and other interested agencies
and persons.
Names in the News
Mayor extends plan
Neil Goldschmidt has an
nounced that the Mayor's
Task Force on the Home
town Plan for the Building
and Construction Industries
will finalize their report in
January of 1974.
The original charge of the
Task Force was to conduct a
thorough review of the
“Hometown Plan" and to
assess its effectiveness in
achieving its stated goals
and to develop a w ritten re
port on corrective measures
to be implemented ’ in the
present Plan and to recent
mend a course of action for
the Building and Construe
turn Industries and the Man
power Area Planning Council.
Goldschmidt indicated that
he is extending the Task
Force's deadline of Novem
ber 9 to January "to assure
all interested parties have an
adequate opportunity to have
input in the final report."
Thus far. the Task Force
has heard statements from:
a staff member of the Metro-
politan Human Relations
Commission; a representative
from the Office of Federal
Contract Compliance; local
union representatives Earl
Kirkland and Rob Stanfill;
re p res en tative s from A s
sociated General Contractors,
Electrical Contractors, and
Plumbing and Heating Con
tractors; the United Minority
Workers; and many others
have been invited to partici
pate.
"This Task Force, chaired
by Roy Schnaible. Jr. of
Pacific Northwest Bell, is
working diligently to meet
with all concerned members
of the community.
I am
confident that their report
will be extremely valuable
not only to Portland but
possibly to o ther cities
throughout the nation. This
short extension of time will
allow the Task Force to p ra
duce a thorough report for
the use of the Manpower
Area Planning C o u ncil.”
stated the Mayor.
Oops we goofed: We re
ported that Eugene Jackson
was the State Affirmative
Action Director of Personnel.
Instead, he was appointed by
S ecretary of S tate Clay
Myers to the Advisory Com
mittee of Project PASS (Per
mit Approval System Study).
R.L. Anderson is bark in
town for a few days and has
a new conversation and a
new look. He is wearing a
clergy garb and talking about
how Christians should be in
volved in the political pro
cess of the community and
nation.
Mrs. Carlene Jackson, wife
of Eugene Jackson, has been
hired as the Training Co
ordinator, Executive Depart
ment Personnel, State of
Oregon.
Portland State University,
M E D IA . V. Lester Jackson
and Associates will have top
executives from across the
country in a workshop Oc
tober 31 through November
1.
Call V. Lester Jackson
and Associates for further
information.
Tim Stafford is back in
Portland after an extensive
trip to Europe and a short
stay in Jet City (Seattle).
He was the director of Bethel
A M E Choir, w here many
came to receive a spiritual
gift from his music.
Lillie Walker was not hired
as Administrator Assistant
to Debbie Norman, Model
Cities Information Referral
Office, as we reported last
week.
Debbie Norman re
ported the information to the
Observer.
Warren Robinson II is not
employed at Parry Center,
Robinson is a recent gradu
ate of the University ol
Oregon with a Masters De
gree in Education.
Nellie Alexander is cele
brating the first anniversary
of her cleaning establishment
in the Bonneville Power Ad
ministration Building.
She
was recently awarded a go*
ernment cleaning contract.
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