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P o rtla n d 'Observer NNPA president addresses conference PORTLAND CLEANING WORKS NORTH & N.E. PORTLAND by Howard H. Woods, Editor Publisher. St. Ixtuis Sentinel ONE DAY SERVICE KNIT BLOCKING OUR SPECIALTY We Give wrAias-NO (XAaof «at ur a. miivcry minou 282-8361 3954 N. W illiam« Ave. “ Y o u 'v . Tried The Re*», N o w Try The Bo*»” N. Alexander, Proprietor EBONY FASHION FAIR presents a > /c/ffwd yf j sponsored by P o rtla n d C h a p te r Links, Inc. b e n e fit Annette Brawn Memorial Phil Key no Id» Scholarship Paramount Northwest Sunday, December I#. 1973 5:00 p m General Admission SM.00 Reserved Seats *10.00 Inc ludst I yooi vutnc npMn to I BONY or 6 moniin lo X 1 Door prize wies <» brooks UL selects Brooks H erbert I,. Amerson, Presi dent uf the Board of D ir ectors of the Urban League, P o rtla n d , announced that Jam es (). Brook», currently Deputy Director, w ill sue reed E. Shelton H ill a« Executive Director H ill w ill retire from hi» position on D ecem ber 31, 1973. Brook, was raised in Port land, graduated from Wash ington High School and hold» three degree» from the Uni veraity of Portland a B.S. in Zoology, a R.A. in So ciology and an M A . in Edu cation. He also ha.» received a certificate in Urban So ciology from George Williams College in Downers Grove, Illinois. He wa» employed by the LTrban League in 1965 and ha» held every professional position in the agency. Other professional exper icnce includes group worker. Multnomah County Juvenile (H urt, sociology instructor, Marylhurst College and Civil High«» Coordinator. Portland Public Schools. He is a member of a numtier of local Ixiard» and commissions. 2 United Airlines tickets to Hawaii DR. JEFFREY B R A D Y Says: DO Not Put Off Needed Dentol Care" Enjoy Dental Health N ow and Im prove Your Appearance Getting Smart f On November 15 patients working without pay in stale mental institutions across the nation won a class action suit against the Department of Iaibor. The suit was filed by the N a tio n a l associa tio n fo r M ental health and the American Association on Mental Deficiency after the Department of I-abor refused for many years to enforce the 1966 amendments to the Fair I,abor Standards Act applying to workers in non federal institutions. Federal D is tric t Judge Aubrey Robinson held. " It is undisputed that the Depart ment of I .abor has a declared policy of non enforcement of minimum wage and over time provisions with respect to patient workers." The controversy since 1966 involved the distinction be tween therapeutic work and actual employment of mental patients. Judge Robinson defined the test of employ ment as follows: “ So long as the institution derives any consequential economic be nefit, the economic reality test would indicate an era ployment relationship rather than a mere therapeutic ex ercise. To hold otherwise would be to make therapy the sole ju s tific a tio n fo r thousands of positions as dishwashers, kitchen helpers, messengers, and the like.” This order w ill apply to "all patient workers in non federal institutions for the residential care of the men tally ill and mentally re tarded who meet the sta tu to ry d e fin itio n of em ployee." Judge Robinson says that initial application of the law may be expensive and time consuming for administrators of institutions but that “ ad ministrative burden" is no excuse for failure to impie ment the law. The suit was filed early in Columbia. Two of the law yers working in behalf of the mental patients were Paul Friedm an of the M ental Health Law P roject and Margie Kohn of the Center (or Law and Social Policy. Washington. D.C. M o s t re a s o n a b le shop in tow n CARLOS Body an d Fender R e p a ir 311 N.E. S h a v e r 2 8 7 -8 5 2 9 W e h a v e b ik e * for a ll sizes I St. jO é^CLERY y RM-t# -KIJVKY sowns-BiCYcies Christmas Special Training Bikes $46.95 with coaster brakes lav aw ay P lan LOW-BUDGET TERMS « 7 0 17 N . Lom bard 2 8 6 -1 0 7 9 Ì National Federation o' Settlements and Ne'qntxvbood Centers Two area* in which we are still substantially naive is in the understanding of the dynamics and strengths <J our economic and political power. z\s economic recession lie comes in cre a sin g ly more forceful, it is extremely ini portant that we move from the area of being receivers of goods and services and be come ow n ers .mil disp en sers of goods and services. So long as businessmen are able to take money from us with no need or commit ment to return part of it in employment, at decent wa ges. and in substantial con tributions to our causes, we shall continually be on the begging and receiving end of their meager largesse. Our long history of being only receivers of goods and services, and of being ex Bank with Betty and Barbara. OLD BLOOD’S \ 11 Fashion (\ R e v ie w U p s ta irs Lounge ■) Betty Palmer and Barbara Brown are our Personal Service Representatives at the Union Avenue branch. And if you don't know them, you should. Because their only job is to make your banking a lot more pleasurable. That means introducing you to the right people for faster service. And helping you choose the right kind of cheeking or savings account. They'll even help you balance your checkbook if you want. A long time ago U.S. Bank promised to make banking a very persona! thing. People like Betty Palmer and Barbara Brown are helping us keep that promise. Come in and meet them. They’ll be waiting on a red carpet to greet you. Ca ervice UNIT! D STATI S NATIONAL BANK OF OREGON 5505 N.E. Union William ( ' Spicer, Manager Member F D i t ' P.n:» 1 Mental patients win suit BY WALTER L SMART Executive Director lion whose major focus is to make sure we can own our homes. It is also important (OMIIN A, to make certain we have »OUR (ONViNIINd lasting and stable deposits. OPfh SAIURDAY MOIhihG 4. Support the local credit • unions where poor people NO AFROIN,MIM NllOIO can borrow at low interest rates for needed household • items. This program not (OMHITI ( OOP»NATION only encourages th rift, it also ON Ali OINIAl counsels in the area of con INSUtAMI FlANI sunier protection. 5. Most importantly, this o drive for affluence and the (OMPUll OINIAI H ltlC iS middleclass image must be directed toward mutual co operation. mutual self help U M O N O * C O M S A N V O IN T A l IN S U B A N C I and mutual economic bene C O V I I A G I A C C ir t t O O N T O U I fits. N tIO IO O IN T IiT IT There are those among us who wish and hope for a day P a rk A n y P e rk n S h s p t » » H O U I V W a e k d o y t • 3 0 a m lo 3 p m when money w ill get us ’ S at 8 W o r n to 1 p m status, position and the spot light. We do not realize the possibility that this thrust ran and frequently does se parate us we ignore our SIMUR BUILDING p lo ite d en masse, should Rlaek businesses u n fa irly provide lessons about unity S Vv 3ra A M o m s " NT P ortioned Q ie y o n while allowing others to ex in economic awareness and Tube t l e v o i c i »o 2 n d ( lo o t 3 'd S» I n titin c * ploit us. development. I have been to innumer Phone: 2 2 8 -7 5 4 5 1. Support Black buinesses able affairs where not a so that we develop our Black face is seen serving us. people as providers of ser This goes the gamut from vices. This can generate conferences of social welfare more money flo w in g back to Black political affairs and into the community and a high school proms. more efficient business has We must be singularly to develop as more demands sensitive to the drain of are made upon it. There is a money from our community, booklet which lists these supported and encouraged by businesses, published by the our own inaction, by our Small Businessmen's League. patronage of hanks and busi W’e must learn to be as nesses which rarely provide patient with our business opportunities for economic people, give constructive cri growth in the Black com ticism and continued patro munity. nage All of this is called Black 2. Develop businesses with economic solidarity and it is the help of counseling ser this very solidarity which vires. A number of such w ill bind our community to services are now being fund gether, strengthen it econo ed by the Office of M inority mically and politically. and Business Enterprise. It is consequently serve to build deplorable that with the in our own institutions, our own creased number of Black business expertise and our organizations holding nation own blueprint for freedom. al and regional conferences As Ossie Davis said at the there are few, if any, Black Black Caucus dinner. "Not owned and operated motels the man but the plan," or and hotels in downtown loca "Not the rap but the map." tions. It is also a shame that A ll ethnic groups learned with the large numbers in this and traveled this route. volved in social and fraternal Even in the face of criticism, organizations, we have only we m ust understand the been able to reap minimal beneficial power of this kind economic benefits from such of effort. unions. We have the power in the 3. Support the Black build palm of our hand, all we ing and loan associations have to do is grasp it. Surely where your deposits are in this is one step in the Sun. 2 -D e c . 7 3 6 - 9 : 0 0 p m sured. We save millions discovery of the meaning of each year in other banks. We A L L I ’ DWER TO THE 3 9 3 3 N E Union A venue 2 8 1 -6 8 0 8 PEOPLE." aoeaoeoeeeeeeoeaoaoeeoaaoooaaeoeeooaal should support the inslitu D R . JEFFREY B R A D Y , D E N T IS T Helsinki - Although the success or failure of the m ilitary junta that toppled Chile's President Salvatore Allende is yet to lie proven, the reverberations of the World Peace Conference held here a month ago is still having an impart on the international scene. Dr. Carlton Goodlett, presi dent of the National News paper P ublishers A ssoria lion the Black Press of A m erica b ro u g h t the conference to a sobering halt with a ringing denunciation of Allende’s friends and foes alike. “ Where were you who now weep for him?" Goodlett asked the 20« plus delegates assembled in the Ereelander haus auditorium. Goodlett, a medical doctor as well as a publisher, was a friend of Allende, who was also a medical doctor. Goodlett charged that Al lende was “ forsaken by Doth his enemies and his foes." He spoke of the "economic isolation of Chile" by the international banking insti tutions. Goodlett followed to the platform by one day the dead Chilean leader's d aughter, Mrs. Maria Isabel Allende Tambuti, who attended the conference in place of the widow, who was unable to be present. Since the coup, reports of mass killings have come out o f the South A m erican country. These rejwirts were made by released prisoners interviewed by reporters. The ex prisoners said that they slept on blankets on a concrete floor but were not mistreated. Their meals consisted of bean soup, bread, water and fru it. There was meat twice during their eight day stay, they said. Goodlett, going into the cause of the late President’s downfall, spoke of the "eco nomic isolation" of Chile. "Resolutions and marches w ill not alone wipe away the enemies of the people,” he declared. Goodlett said that the U.S. G overnm ent "discouraged private financial powers from supplying short term credits, ordered a lim it to develop ment loans from the World Bank and Inter American Development Bank" and that as a result of such actions "the economy of Chile was destined to w ither." The firey San Francisco physician then asked "How much real economic assis tance did the People's Re public (of Chinal give Chile only token." He said that Allende'» difficulties stemmed much from his coalition that was more committed to doc trine than to survival and movement. "We must depend upon more than marching feet and platitudinous slogans to deal with neo colonialism," he said. Goodlett, publisher of the San Francisco Sun Reporter. D.L. Inman, publisher of the Thomasville (Georgia! N ew s and the Tallahassee- I Florida) News Free Press and this w rite r, left the main party of touring NNPA members to attend the conference here. Thursday, November 29. 197.1 A very personal ttMng. *