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Krn I per ¡’oom Un l vei ru g e n - State agencies pledge minority hiring Hrectors of »Ute agencies, ■Meting ul Saliahan Ia>dge at Gleneden (or an Affirmative Action Workshop, committed themselves and their agen eie» to hiring minority per- »on». The workahop was coordinated by Ken John »on, affirmative action dir ector for the Executive De partment, and Harold C. William», Equal Employment Op|M>rtunity Coordinator for the State. Al»o participating in the meeting» were Hill ilughei, Director of the Her son nel Division, and Terry Collin», Aaaislant Director. William» told the Observer that he consider» the con ference to have been a sue ceaa. “It proved that agency head» were willing to sup port affirmative action in the fullest and that there were some voids in knowing who was available for employ ment. Some discrepancies were cleared up a» to what affirmative action is all alwiut. Hut the most important far tors that came out of the conference are that many agency heads for the first time had the chance to bump shoulders in a friendly manner with every minority group in the State of Oregon, as well as with women. “I feel that this conference has truly given us a fresh start toward equal employ ment of all citizens in the state because the agencies are willing to reach out to every citizen who is looking for employment and to make sure that they have a fair chance to compete. “Now it is up to the ininoritie» and women to ex PORTLAND Volume 4, No. 7 Portland. Oregon IM I O N I Y NEWSPAPER IN tend their hands and make affirmative action ana equal opportunity a reality in the State of Oregon for the time is now. The responsi bility lies on every individual to make the first step and to ask for assistance when they have exhausted every effort possible. Minority people are very definitely a part of making fair employment a reality in Oregon.” Williams and the Personnel Division staff assured repre sentatives of minority groups that they will provide assis AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER IM I WHOLE WIDE WORLD the game”. The applicant who knows how to present himself and what language to use will get the job. even though his "performance" has nothing to do with his ability to do the work. Employers, he said, are "hung up" on qualifications, although often they and their fellow em ployees are not qualified for their jobs. Often required justifications are unrealistic and job descriptions could be rewritten to give opportunity to a broader spectrum of employees. lance to minority people who do not fee they are getting the proper opportunity or who do not know how to proceed. They assured state agencies that minority em ployees are available and that they will assist in their procurement. Jetie Wilds, Equal Oppor tunity Officer for the U.S. Forest Service and one of he conference speakers, de fined affirmative action as ‘corrective action". Wilds said too often employability is based on ability to “play OBSERVER THAT REALLY CARIS Thursday. December 6, 1973 ABOUT Bethune heads committee Oregon company solves energy crisis A Portland company has solved the fuel problem with a heat recovery device thut not only saves fuel but deans the air. Hut they cannot m anufacture these units at a reasonable rate because they cannot obtain the necessary ingredient» aluminum and polyester resins. William Darm. owner of Allied Air Products Corpora lion, 2225 N. Killingsworth, has been in the heating and air conditioning business for 25 years. In 1905 he de veloped the Temp X-Changer, which was patented in 1968. In January of 1971 he liegan production. After a long struggle to get his product recognized, a combination of the emphasis on ecology and the shortage of fuel has brought him world wide at tent ion. The Temp X Changer re covers heat from air that is exhausted and discharges air when necessary. Approxi .■lately 70 percent of the energy 1» recovered from the exhausted air and used for heating or cooling. A unit in the average industrial plant ran save 300 gallons of oil or 12,500 kilowatts of electricity a day. There are similar unit» on the market, but Allied Air Products' unit is unique in that it is cheaper to as semblc, has no moving parts ami requires no maintenance. There also is no contact between the exhaust air and the fresh air as there is ir. other units. The unit ran Hill Darm, owner of Allied Air Products, watches as his daughter Dianna, one of two women employed in the shop, Robert Walsh is prepares parts for Temp X Changer wo-klrg i» the hariiground. sidering installation. [>ay for itself in savings in Allied Air Products ouilds fuel cost» in a single year, 3 units a day at the present The Temp X ('hanger can time. Darm points with pride be used on industrial install» to his true "affirmative ac tions, restaurants, or any tion" assembly crew, which business building. includes a Black, a Spanish The Temp X changer is speaking man, and a woman. becoming know in all parts of Now that his product is in the ro u n try and abroad. demand. Harm's major protv They are currently being lem is the shortage of mater shipped to Italy, and are ials. He has only enough soon to be installed by aluminum for another month's Erieghtliner in Indiana, and production. Maintaining that W arner and Swasey in his units not only save Minnesota. Auto manufar energy, but help clean up the turtng plants in New York air, Darm appealed to Presi- and Cleveland are also con Mrs. Vinie M. Bethune, formerly of Portland and now living in Eugene, was just recently elected as Chair man of the Affirmative Ac tion Committee for Public Welfare for the State of Oregon. Mrs. Bethune has been with the Welfare De partment for 6 years, be ginning as a clerk typist in 1967. She was advanced to a secretarial position, then to an Assistant Worker In January of 1972 she was prom oted to a Financial S upervisor and moved to Eugene. She was the only supervisor for Welfare in the State of Oregon without a degree. Mrs. Bethune won her latest honor as a result of her vigorous efforts in recruiting minorities into the igency. She is the mother of two children: Troy, age 7, and Tammi, age 5. She is the daughter of Mrs. Marian L. Scott of Portland, and grand daughter of Mrs. S.J. Davis. Greg Parsons and Dirk Sandy add finishing touches to a heat recovery unit. Units recover energy from exhausted air. dent Nixon's energy advisor, As long as the material John Love, for help. All he holds out. Allied Air Products received was a form letter will be in full production, about the propane gas short hoping to have a part in age. solving the fuel crisis. B usinessm en study develo p m en t A “Get Together" of Union yvenue businessm en was held on Friday, November 30th, at Geneva's Cocktail Lounge. About 55 people attended the meeting, busi nessmen as well, as students from Portland State Univer sity who have been assisting with the Union Avenue Busi ness Survey, and several agency representatives. Initial results of the Busi ness Survey w ere made available with information on such subjects as whether or not the businessmen intend to stay on Union, if they favor some sort of formal or informal association, what they feel are the most harm ful factors to successful oper ation of their businesses, and what suggestions they have for improving the business limate along Union Avenue. In addition to discussion of the questionnaire re su lts, Dennis Wilde. Project Coordi nator for the Union Avenue Redevelopment Program, was present to explain the status of that project. He stressed that from now until June of 1974 is the planning phase of •he program, and that no plans have been approved as yet. After June, when the (Please turn to pg. 6, col. 9) 0E0 board seeks members The Albina Action Center. Inc., a non profit, community action agency located at 707 N.E. Knott Street, will be holding a Hoard of Directors Election on Saturday, Dec ember 15, 1973. There are six vacant posi tions for low income repre sentatives and five vacant positions for community at large representatives. Director» who are elected as low income rep resen ta lives shall be residents of the Albina Northeast geographi cal area. Community at large repre sentatives shall be residents of the Albina Northeast geo graphical area, or be actively involved in some community project in the Albina'North east area. j A TIME for saving J \ TIME for giving For a free yift to give or keep, save now at the Beni Franklin Deposit $l.(X)0 to $5,0(10 and choose your gift from our collection of famous Timex and Swiss watches Offer good while they last, for new deposits only, one per customer 5lA% per annum on passbook savings. compounded constantly, day in to day out I k n j . ß Franklin „VIH,, • LOAM AOOM Roborl M Maisn, Rrss • M Ollies» ’ Phons 24» 1234 Moms O llie s f isnSlin Bldg Poillsnd, O isgon »7204 Applicants and voters must be eighteen years of age or older. The filing deadline is 6:00 p.m. Wednesday. December 12, 1973. Transportation to file for electiop and to vote will be provided for senior citizens, handicapped persons or shut ins. Voters' Information Sheets listing candidates who have filed for election will be available December 13, 1973 at 12:00 noon at the follow ing locations: The Albina Action C enter, 707 N.E. Knott Street; J.C. Penney Store, 5411 N.E. Union Ave nue; More-4-la*»» Store, 106 N. Beech Street; Safeway Store, 5920 N.E. Union Ave nue; Tradewell Store, 3535 N.E. 15th Avenue; Albert son’s Store, 909 N. Killings worth. These six locations are also the polling locations. Each person who files is responsible for returning the application form to The Al bina Action Center, 708 N.E. Knott Street. Attn. Marcus Glenn, Sr., Project Director. Those eligible to vote in this election must be resi dents of the Albina/North east area, or own property or a business in the area, or be actively involved in some community project in the Albina'Northeast area. Voting time is 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec ember 15, 1973. All citizen? eligible to vote and/or file for election are encouraged to participate in this impor tanl election. For additional information, phone 288 8345. John A. Mills, recipient of the First Annual Kussell Peyton Award, views the plaque with Kussell Peyton, former direc tor of the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission. Mills wins award John A. Mills, a vice presi dent of the U.S. National Hank of Oregon, has been named recipient of the first annual Russell A. Peyton Human Relation» Award. The award, intended for a person "whose whole life style radiates a deep concern for his fellow beings," was established in honor of Rus sell Peyton when he retired as Director of the Metro politan Human Relations Commission. Peyton will personally present the award to Mills at the annual dinner of the Commission, to he held Friday, December 7, at the Yakitori House Restau rant, 14601 S.E. Division. Dinner will begin at 7:00 p.m. The Metropolitan Human Relations Commission, which sought suggestions from throughout the Multnomah County, reports a landslide of nominations of John A. Mills in appreciation of his 10c per copy F IO R II efforts toward improving em plovment for minority mem hers, getting better housing for low income families, im proving welfare grants, in creasing the cultural oppor tunities for all citizens in the area, and generally working for a better human environ ment through a host of civic activities and organizations. UL plans Another problem fared by the minority applicant is the employer’s bias on what he expects of minority persons. Having been born into a racist and sexist society, the em ployer has developed stereotyped expectations. Also, the person selecting the employee often knows tome of the applicants or snows something about them He rarely knows a minority applicant. Wilds recommended that corrective action to bring minorities into employment be an integral part of the employment system. He has found that the best way to insure that managers will take affirmative action ser iously is to make it part of their job and include their success or failure in their job evaluation. Lee Moore, Assistant Ad ministrator of the Civil Rights Bureau, Department of la bor, discussed legal aspects of affirmative action. He assured the participants that discrimination is against the law and that the law must be enforced. Moore called for two in gredients in the affirmative iction effort -- a good faith effort and a proper state of mind. He advocated a com plete evaluation of every position and an assessment of coming vacancies. Many positions can be restructured and qualifications changed to better fit the expectations of the position. “You can't expect to bring minorities into a situation that is rotten already into an archaic system." Moore m aintained th at qualified minority employees are available. As an exam H A R O LD W IL L IA M S agency should have definite pie. his department recently accepted applications for a goals and time limits and should lead to a permanent position and of the 200 appli job. ants scoring 96 and above. Gary Siniscalo and Shirley 40 percent were minorities and 62 percent women. The Cohen, from the Equal Em Civil Rights Division has also ployment Opportunity Com mission in San Francisco, had success in promoting brought the directors up to employees into positions for which they ordinarily woub. date on federal law and cur rent Equal Opportunity re not have been considerel quirements. qualified. The EEOC investigates, Moore emphasized that af conciliates, and, if necessary, firmative action does not mean just hiring one mi litigates cases covered by nority person and leaving the Title VII of the 1964 Civil est out, and it does not Rights Act, which makes mean developing train in g illegal discrimination in em programs that lead nowhere. ployment because of race, Training programs used to sex. religion, national origin oring m inorities into an (Please turn to pg. 6, col. 5) Controversial HEW survey evaluates fa m ily planning Dr. J.M . Udry of the University of North Carolina called the Observer to ex ptair. the ptar.u.ug survey currently being con ducted by the University. The survey came to public attention in Portland when the Black interviewers who had been hired to make the survey quit in protest. The interviewers and members of the community charged that the survey was racist and feared that information con tained in it might be used against the participants by federal agencies. Dr. Udry explained that the survey was funded by the U.S. D epartm ent of Health, Education and Wel fare to evaluate whether federally subsidized family planning programs are sue cessful in helping women realize their own fertility goals. He said neither the project nor the cooperating agencies Planned Parent .itnx. and the Chre^ufi J , - c Board of Health - had any goals for population control. The study is being con ducted in 16 cities across the nation. The survey was initiated in 1968 and will end in 1974. A similar survey was taken in Portland and other cities in 1970 and the current survey is to be used to see what progress has been made and whether there have been changes in atti tude. One-hundred Blacks and 100 whites are inter viewed in each city. The areas and the persons within the area to be interviewed are chosen at random, but the survey is directed at concentrations of low income people since it is to evaluate a program directed to low income people who would be eligible for federally-funded programs. Besides the two house to m - U jc jjf.tty .-, — li.iiuo surveys have been made of recently delivered mothers in Portland hospitals. Dr. Udry said he did not think the questions on race - "Would you prefer a hospital where the nurses are all Black, all white, or mixed" - to be racially biased. The question is to determ ine whether racial attitudes ef fect delivery of service. In the previous survey more Blacks than whites indicated that race of the doctor or nurse was not important. Of the questions about who needs birth control the most, which community peo ple considered a method of direct attention to Blacks and the poor, most partici pants gave personal answers, iPlease turn to pg. 6, col. 4) i Dorothy and Irene Tate, employees of Complete Gardening Service, plant shrubbery at new city park. testimonial Women give special care Mills has been president of the Tri County Commumtv Council. MEDIA, Inc., The Albina Art Center, Portland Art Museum and School, and the Irvington Club, as well as serving on many com munity boards. A testimon._i dinner for E. Shelton Hill, who is retiring from his position of Execu tive Director of the Urban League of Portland, will be held on December 13th at the Sheraton Motor Inn. Tic kets can be obtained through the Urban League office, 718 W. Burnside Street, 224 0151. Hill has been Executive Director of the Urban League since 1959 and prior to that served as director of indus trial relations for 12 years. In 1965 he was named one of the "Outstanding Young Men of America" by the National Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mills has been an employee of the U.S. National Bank for 17 years and for the past 5 years has been a vice presi dent. 4 John Craig, owner of Com plete Gardening Service, has found women employees to be an asset to his company. Complete Gardening Serv ice provides landscaping, irriga tion. design and consultation for industrial and govern ment projects. "The ladies have the re sponsibility of light planting and finishing touches to the landscape job. They have the patience and love re quired to return the area to the beauty of nature," Mr. Craig said. Irene Tate also serves as a supervisor, helping organize crews and assigning their work. The women are currently working on a city project at 9th and Washington, where a park is being created. The park contains a plaza and underground parking and is to be a place where people can eat lunch or spend their leizure time in a garden-type setting. The ladies worked on the landscaping at the Coast Guard Base on Swan Island. On that project, which in volved planting on a steep bank, they invented an origi nal planting device which enabled them to plant with out disturbing the soil on the Dank. Craig said, "A man will stand on the bank even though this will push the soil down the bank. Hut the ladies were more concerned and d e v e lo p e d a new method." I I
