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rer Mrs Fronces Sch University of < Democrats dissociate with Green’s D.C. stand The re so lu tio n reads: "T h e M ultnom ah C ounty Demis'ratic Central Commit tee notes with sorrow the action id the House id Repre senlatives on self determina lion for the D istrict of Colum bin. We reject any 'com promise' on basic Democratic rights. The people of Wash ington, D.C. deserve full self The M ultnom ah C o .n ty Democratic Central Commit tee overwhelmingly pained ii resolution Wednesday eve ning calling (or statehood for the D istrict of Columbia. The resolution was directed to H ep re a e n ta tive E d ith Green (Dem. Oregon) who w ill one of the leaders of the opposition to statehood. rule, including the right to budget their funds, the right to name the judges in their courts, and the right to elect all responsible officials for their city. "W e s tro n g ly dissociate ourselves with Edith Green on her position and real firm our strong support for statehood for the D istrict of Columbia." Passage of the resolution by a 120 to 27 vote followed a lengthy debate and finally the deletion of the para graph, " I t is a source of great shame to us, and to all Multnomah County residents, that Representative Edith Green emerged as a leading opponent of meaningful self government for our nation's ■apital." PORTLAND Volume 4. No. 4 Portland. Oregon THE O N IY NEWSPAPER IN CARES AROUT Veterans charge "benign neglect” were provided education and who had top priority on the job market. He feels there will be no improvement until the citizens gain respect for and give recognition to the Vietnam veterans. He has seen veterans drop out of school because their checks were late, and sees others who need medical care and who need th«-ir disabilities reassessed and their pay menls increased. Other vet erans cannot attend school because there is not ade quate cheap housing and no allowance is made for trans portal ion cost s. Art Center gains new strength nurture and grow. However, Director Earl Debnarn as sures "more volunteers and community support and in volvement are always needed and appreciated." Candidates announce PSU gets Criminal Justice study Portland State U niversity has accepted an invitation to become a member of a na tional Criminal Justice Edu rational Development Con sortium funded by the Law Enforcement Assistance Ad ministration. During the next 33 months. PSU w ill receive $6<M).(MM) to develop a Crim inal Justice Research Center and doctoral level program to prepare criminal justice leaders of the future. The new research center w ill have as its first function the task of identifying the kinds of jobs and people that w ill be needed in the future. This identification is the first step in the curriculum plan ning process, which the Uni versity said is expected to take two years and to tie in to one of l ’ SU's existing doctoral programs in either urban studies or systems science. LL E A has recently awarded PSU an additional $49,285 to provide stipends for graduate students this year who are involved in research related to criminal justice. This sum is in addition to PSU'a an Passbook savings are compounded constantly from day of deposit to day of withdrawal Franklin Robert H Hazen, Pres • 22 Offices • Phone 248-1234 Home O ffice fra n k lin Bldg Portland, Oregon 97204 nual LEEP (Law Enforce m ent E ducation P rogram ) fu n d in g of a p p ro x im a te ly $175,000 each year. Eventually the consortium also w ill involve an exchange of students, faculty and in formation not only between consortium members but with other institutions around the world concerned w ith crim i nal justice study and re search. Consortium mem bers are Michigan State, Northeastern, Arizonia State, the University of Nebraska and the U niversity of Mary land. Project director for the consortium is Charles Tracy, acting director of PSU s ad m inistration of justice pro gram. The University's entry into the consortium has grown out of its administration of justice program, which pre pares students for careers in general and specific law en forcement, criminal invest i g a tio n , crim e p re v e n tio n , supervision, treatment and control of juvenile and adult offenders, training and edu cation, personnel supervision and planning and research. Class enrollment has grown over 385 percent during the past five years, from ap proximately 125 in 1968 69 Io 475 in 1972 73. C urrently, there are around 200 degree candidates and 10 certificate candidates. Approximately 50 students enrolled each quarter are in service crimi nal justice professionals. Full time faculty includes Tracy and Gary Perlstein, association program director. Lee P. Brown, program dir ector, is on leave at Howard University. the Oregon State Senate, said, "I think it's about tim r that the Central Committee expressed its views on the rights of the citizens of Washington, D.C. to enjoy full citizenship. I certainly hope any action taken by Congress w ill not result in the D istrict being added to another state or allow the rights of the citizens to ex OBSERVER AN EO U A l OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER THE WHOLE WIPE WORLD THAI REAttY to attend PCC or Ml. Hood tain employment. Veterans who testified at Community College. II«' also Some veterans felt there the Mayor’s Task Force on ure opportunities available questioned the V A ’s inclusion Returning Veterans hearing in it's handbook of private but that they do not know held ul the Cascade campus trade schools that charge how to get to them. They of Portland Community Col high fees and give little ser claim that they are not in lege last T h u rsd a y com vice. These schools are plained of economic problems formed by the VA of their designated 'GI approved' ami options and o p p o rtu n itie s . and what they termed "foul the VA does not tell the up»" by the Veterans Ad veteran that it does not ministration. The hearing is Others feel the various pro a c tu a lly a p p ro v e th e s e one of a series held to deter grams were just so much schools. mine the course of Project talk and that nothing w ill be Another problem discussed Return", the city's program done to assist them. was the one of employment. to assist returning Vietnam David Myers, an instructor Veterans are often not given veterans. at PCC, feels the basic prob credit by employers or unions Robert Teffee said the lem is the attitude of society for training and experience Vietnam veteran has been toward the Vietnam veter they received in the service. depersonalized by the gov Their treatm ent is A lth o u g h many are ex ans. ernment and the people and much different from that of perienced in technical and th a t P ro je ct R e tu rn and trade fields, they cannot ob World War 11 veterans who similar programs serve as buffers to lim it the hostility of veterans. "You have to go from agency to agency to straighten out the mess the V e te r a n ’ s A d m in is tra tio n makes," by Rosemary Allen Many veterans complained live drawing, candle making, A fte r a forced hibernation about the inadequacies of the I Kittery making, oil painting $221) a month allowance for because of a lack of funds, and water colors. students. This amount must the Albina A rt Center is now Jazz m usician conductor Extensive and cover tu itio n , books and awakening. and former I’SU jazz band living expenses Many vet p ro fe ssio n a lly c o n stru cte d instructor Thara Memory is erans have a continuous classes and workshops are Director of the Music De problem of not receiving now being held daily at the partment at the Albina A rt their checks on time. Those center, in an effort to fill Center. Classes in reading who are unable to find work the need for cultural ex and w riting music are held at cannot live on $220 a month pression in Albina. 3:00 on Thursdays. A jazz Director Earl Debnatn said and are forced to drop out of band is also being formed at that the renter plan« the center. Edward Good diacussed the enart membership again soon Jazz. African, ballet, and lark of service offered by the and hopes to triple the modern dance classes w ill VA to veterans who are not record of 2500 member* set begin this month at the cen sure about what type of in the past. ter. Call 288 6766 for more The A r t D e p a rtm e n t, education they should pur information. In drama, a sue. The VA does not pro under direction of Lee T ill class in fundamentals of art v id e in fo r m a tio n a b o u t ander, a graduate of PSU, ing w ill soon be offered. schools or what type of prob offers classes from 5 to 9 The Albina A rt Center is lema might be encountered p.m. for adults, 3 to 5 p.m. for moving steadily towards its at each school housing grade school and 9 a.m. to 12 ultimate goal: To serve as shortage, lack of jobs, etc. noon for pre schoolers Mon an umbrella under which the He said moBt veterans in the day through Friday. The cultural seeds in Albina can Portland area feel they have selections of art include crea G ladys McCoy, School Hoard member and precinct committeewoman, said of the decision, "I am pleased that we faced the issue squarely for statehood for the people of Washington. DO., and that we have used our politi cal voice to speak out against those who would oppose this act of justice." John Toran, candidate for P A U L BIGMAN Paul Bigman. tormer Prt»si dent of the Young Demo cratic Clubs of Oregon, has announced his candidacy for the Oregon House of Repre s e n la tiv e s from D is tric t Twelve. He w ill run in the Democratic primary against long lime incumbent Grace Peck. (Please turn to pg. 4. col. 4) Ihur^day. November 15, 1973 PEOPLE IOr per copy Professor rejects "disadvantage label” Dr. N orm a* . ohnson, pro fessor at Carnegie M illon U niversity in Pittsburg, ad dressed the Second Annual Vocational Inservice Day at V ocational V illa g e F rid a y , November 9th. Dr. Johnson called upon school personnel to refrain from labeling people as dis advantaged and then pro ceeding to deny them oppor tunity because of this label. Children are labeled disad vantaged if they are physi ra lly or m e n ta lly handi capped, are Black or come from lo w e r so. io economic groups, he said. Then they are deprived of the oppor tunities provided for "nor mal" children. What they can or cannot learn, the types of jobs they can train for, even the purely social aspects of their lives are determined for them. He admits that some children w ill, for various reasons, have a more difficult time learning particular material, but he believe« they should be given the opportunity and the assistance necessary to enable them to earn. Expectations of those who are labeled handicapped change. Children who a short time ago were con sidered uneducable are now being trained in vocations. M e n ta lly re ta rd e d people have been denied certain social responsibilities, includ ing sexual experience, yet now the experts have de cided that they are capable of these things. The deci sum, Johnson said, should not be made by society, but by the individual. The same stigmas are ap plied to Black children, Dr. Johnson said. Socio-economic data are used to explain why schools do not teach Black youngsters. The important factor in learning is the re lationship between the pupil and the teacher. If the child is given the opportunity to learn and the teacher has a positive relationship within, he w ill learn. On the other hand, if he is deprived of all opportunity to learn because he is labeled "disadvantaged" his chances of fulfilling his potential are lost. Detroit elects Black Coleman A. Young, a Black State Senator in Michigan, was elected Mayor of De tro it. He defeated the city’s former police commissioner, John F. Nichols, in a non partisan election. Young. 55, was active in the labor movement in the 1940's and 1950's and has been a state senator since 1964 Blacks make up nearly 50 percent of the population of D etroit. Young joins a growing group of Black mayors in the nation. On October 16th. Vice Mayor Maynard Jackson was elected mayor of A t lanta. Several other large cities have Black mayors, in clu d in g : Theodore M. Berry, who was appointed by the Cincinnati City Council in December of 1972; Thomas Bradley, elected mayor of Los Angeles last summer; Kenneth Gibson, who was elected mayor of Newark in 1970; W illiam S. Hart. Jr. of East Orange, New Jersey, who is chairman of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials; and Richard G. Hatcher, who was elected mayor of Gary, Indi ana in 1967. The first elected Blark mayor of a major city was Carl B. Stokes, who was elected mayor of Cleveland in November of 1967. W a lte r W ashington has been mayor of Washington, D.C. since August of 1967. but that post is not elective. The mayor and city council man are appointed by the President. M ayor visits AMA Mayor Neil Goldschmidt w ill be the guest speaker at the Albina Ministerial Gen eral Meeting on November 26 at 7:00 p.m. at Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church, 3138 N. Vancouver. The Mayor w ill share his concerns about City County- Consolidation w ith the minis ters. Also, there w ill be a question and answer period. A ll ministers and others in terested in the subject are inv ned to attend. With the rut back or clos ing of the agencies which in the past addressed them selves to people needs, this meeting is even more im portant as the Black com munity goes through this transition. press themselves through ap propriate governmental facili ties to lie diminished." State Senator Vern Cook voted for the resolution as amended. He felt the resolu tion, without mention of Mrs. Green, spoke to the point at issue and that emotional ref erences to Mrs. Green were not necessary He is in favor of full statehood for the Dis trict of Columbia. Dick Celsi voted for the stronger motion, but said he could live with the motion as passed. "I think the people of D.C. are entitled to repre sentation like any other citi zen and I hope our Congress woman w ill recognize that and act on it.” Although he does not feel that condem nation of Mrs. Green is es sential to the issue, he does not think the stronger pro posal was a personal attack "But you cannot separate the person's stand on the issue from the issue itself," he said. He hopes the act of the Central Committee w ill bring attention to Mrs. Green's stand on many issues, which he feels is out of step with the m ajority of Oregon Demo crats. Tom Walsh, who was Mrs. Green's 1972 campaign man ager, thought the resolution was a direct personal attack on Mrs. Green. He feels that attacks such as this just make her more persistent in her beliefs and that one can see the logic in her position if he tries. He considers opposing views to be healthy. Paul Bigman. candidate for the House of Representa tives. disagrees He believes Mrs. Green is out of touch with the views of the people of her district and the people need to be told how she is voting. He attributes her resignation from the House Committee on Washington, D.C. to the effort that was made to denounce her a year ago. Howard W illits. Represen tative for D istrict 21. said. "The D istrict of Columbia has for too long been under the domination of racist, re actionary Southern Congress people. This move w ill help to free the people in D.C., but it does not go far enough Our representative in the Congress. Edith Green, should be in the vanguard of this effort, not dragging her feet." Senator B ill Stevenson voted for the resolution and favors statehood for the peo ple of Washington. D.C. Betty Overton, comparing Mrs Green to Watergate, said "A cancer in the Demo cratic Party is just as bad as a cancer in the Republican Party." A year the Central Com mitlee failed in an attempt to censor Mrs. Green on her stand against statehood (or Washington, D.C., implying that her opposition was based on the fact that Blacks make up a m ajority of the district. Mrs. Green deined race was a factor in her decision. The C e n tra l C om m ittee also voted to ask Governor Tom McCall to refuse ex (Please turn to pg. 3, col. 7) Myers seeks governorship Secretary of State Clay Myers announced his candi dacy fo r the Republican Party nomination to the of fice of Governor of Oregon on Saturday, November 10th in Portland. The announce ment was made during an all day statew ide meeting of M yers' frie n d s and sup porters. Myers spoke of the need for a bi partisan effort to solve Oregon's problems: "In the future, as in the past, the issues facing us in Oregon are not partisan is sues, of concern only to Democrats or to Republi cans - they are issues fac ing all of our citizens. "There must be no par tisanship in the solutions to such problems as: proper use of the land, new sources of energy for Oregon, mean ingfui education for your youth, better health care (or our people, increased food production from agriculture, and new and diversified job opportunities for ourselves and our children." Of the energy crisis he said: "The years ahead w ill teach us that it is not simply a m atter of reducing our wattage in order to get by. It may mean, indeed, that we have to revise our way of living drastically. “ We must not delude our selves into believing that today’s shortages are arti ficial or temporary, and that after a little token belt tightening, we can go on- with life as usual." “ No candidate for Gover nor can promise the people of Oregon to solve the energy C LAY MYERS crisis and the fuel shortage, and miraculously replenish all of the other critical ma te ria ls th a t are in such desperately short supply." He spoke of efficiency in state government, saying “ In terms of our economy, it is not enough to say we need to a d ju st to changing c irc u m stances and work to provide a higher quality of services for Oregonians. It must be noted explicitly that there ju s t is n 't enough public money available to do all we m ight like to do. "In these times of eco nomic sluggishness and spiral- (Please turn to pg. 4, col. 4) Impeachment meet set The Ad Hoc Committee to Impeach Nixon w ill spon sor a Tow n Meeting at 12:00 noon. Saturday, November 17th in the Portland State U niversity Ballroom. A walk from Women's Park at 4th and S.W. Main Street to PSU w ill precede the meet ing. The walk w ill begin at 11:00 a.m. A ll citizens in terested in this article are invited to participate. Jones addresses NAACP DAW N ANDERSON Chalmers Jones, the newly appointed Ombudsman for the State of Oregon, w ill speak on Sunday, November 18th, at 4 p.m (or the Gen eral Membership meeting of the NAACP. Dawn Anderson announced her candidacy for the House of Representatives in Dis tric t 14. Originally from Wisconsin, twenty five year old Ms. Anderson has lived in the district for five years. She is employed by Portland Community College, working in the Audio-Visual Center, and during the last three years has attended the North P o rtla n d campus of the school. While attending she (Please turn to pg. 4, col. 4) A ccording to P re sid e nt Ellis Casson. this w ill be Jones first public address in the community since his ap pointment by Governor Tom McCall last month. Jones w ill speak on W hat's I t All About And How We Can Help". Jones served as Special Assistant to the D irector of the Department of Human Resources before his appoint ment as administrator of the Special Programs Division last year. Previously he worked 16 years for the State Department of Em ployment. Included among his positions were assign ment as manager of the Youth Opportunity Center in Portland and supervisor of Target Programs in the Port land Metropolitan area. He is a member and past chairman of the Public Em plover Retirement System Board, a former member of the PMSC and Model Cities Planning Boards, a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Frater nity, the NAACP and the Urban League. The meeting w ill be held at First AME Zion Church, S kidm ore and Vancouver. The public is invited. Big Brother John Wilkinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wilkinson of Southwest Portland, helps entertain his young companion from the Albina Day Care Center. Students visit children's center It was Big Brother Big Sister Day at The Hall iSt. Helen's, Bishop Dagwell Hall) last week as the eighth graders entertained the chil d ren from PMSC A lb in a Child Development Center. In total, 15 children came, ranging from three to five years of age, together with th e ir teachers and room mothers. Mrs. Peggy Gar re tt, teacher of the purple room at the Child Develop ment C enter, emphasized that the youngsters are in volved in a learning ex perience. "We do more than just babysit these young sters," she said, "and we re funded by the Headstart Program." A ll in all, everyone had a good time. The eighth graders b ro u g h t re fre sh ments from home and also provided the entertainment, playing such games as "Fish" and "Musical Chairs". The Big Brother Big Sister Day was organized by the eighth grade English class, under the «direction of Mrs. Kathy McPherson. The class plans to offer monthly acti vities for the Albina young sters, and are planning to take them to the zoo and also for a visit of the Enchanted Forest near Salem.
