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I / Portland/Observer .Getting Andrew Young asks Rhodesia boycott_____ Smart 282-8361 Aw. •Yoa'va TrUd The Rea», N ow Try The Beal" N. Alexander, Proprietor SHOP lENOW'S COM PETITION by Ricardo Parks FOR - B R A N D S y o u know -V A R IE T IE S yo u lik< - SIZES y o u w a n t • a . . • • . i . I f • M IM M i>t • a ■ a I ' m a *s t A • »« . • K o * 0 » U N H ID G R O C IW S WANTED Pay Care Mothers To provide Child Care in your home Ages Infancy thru 12 yra. Day ■ Swing - Graveyard Contact: AM A Family Uav/Night Progrlun 1425 N.E. Dekum 4 28§8821 He added that ESS service will offer many custom call ing features including Call Waiting, which sounds a lone signal to the person using a phone when som eone is tr to call on the same line; Speed Calling, which permits customers to reach most frequently dialed num bers by simply dialing a two digit code; Three Way Calling, where a third party can be brought into a con versation by merely pressing the sw itch hook and dialing the third party's number; and Call Forwarding, which permits the forwarding of calls to another phone while the subscriber is away from home or office. "Construction of the nearly $4 million project was started late last fall,” Schnaible said. "The building addition con tains approximately 11.000 square feet, and a parking area for employees is also provided." • stead, he has to train himself to constantly glance behind It seems everywhere you but focus on where he is turn somebody is competing going. with someone else. Country Ix*t's talk some straight against country, Safeway facts! Most people think of against Kienows. Rlazers our race as being lazy, shift against Sonirs, and Ali less, unm otivated, dumb, against Frazier. On every slow and a bunch of other level in this world involving misplaced adjectives. If we man. competition is playing a are to move away from this dominant role. false identity, it will be Hut who should the Klack because of individuals chai man really bi' competing lenging themselves to greater with? His background? The ’hings. They will be the system? Or is it his brothers examples of Our future. and sisters? I think it should Join the competition! be himself! Each of us Black people (or even white people, yellow people or green people) should throw out a challenge to be a better (Continued from pg. 1. col. 3) Single youth between the person within ourselves. Because people like King, ages of 19 to 30 is the group Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Ms. Robertson is now trying Evers made significant sacri to reach to draw them into fices, people like you and I the program. “Men should can understand what it learn to cook as well as "Now means to openly strive for women." she said. adays they're marrying wo something better. Have you ever noticed how men who can’t cook." Many many lllack people live for students who don’t cook from today? These are the takers, scratch find they are spend ing more money on con the ones who want every thing given to them. They venient food and the only are the ones that are con thing they save is time. stantly playing "hookie", They don't compare prices, living in the back rooms ounces or quality most of the throwing dice, stealing from time. A challenging job and a his brothers, and even selling promising future lay ahead his Black sisters. Maybe I am a bit idealistic for a young lady who's bright but I like to believe that the outlook on life stems from guy being able to use the her large family. “1 learned examples of the past while to share, rare and develop directing his activities on strong love," Ms. Robertson "Being from a today and tomorrow will be explained. the truly successful person. large family. I learned to be It's kind of like a guy considerate of others." driving down a highway. If and other areas involving family living. She also he pays too much attention to the rearview mirror, he teaches leaders training for 4 H. will run off the road. In Economist is B u ild in g p ro je c t? Executive Director National Federation ot Settlements Remodeling and Neighborhood Centers Household repair»? To many of us, the big goal of a home for every business inspired oil shortage family has ceased to be a will mean fewer trips to goal any longer. The housing Aunt Martha's, fewer trips moratorium persists. We cannot remain de across town on weekends and using woefully out of pressed about the sad state date mass transit more times of affairs in this republic nor than we would like. For should it in any way prevent medium distance trips, it is us from continuing the often more expensive to use struggle to search for the trains, the bus and airplanes. realization of the American But to even more large a dream We can't wait for our part of our population it can weak kneed Congress to im mean the difference between peach and remove the Presi life and death. The elderly dent. Gerald Ford could be a and the very young will worse monster than his pre decessor We must continue suffer most from the de crease in room temperatures to move politically in our and the need for those cheap own localities to elect strong hazardous electrical heaters. principled leaders. We must In previous columns, I continue to lend the support have shown that the number necessary to keep those in (1) raise con of deaths caused by fires has office who: increased in our major urban troversial issues and educate areas. Until fuel becomes the public, 121 support urban more readily available to economic development in our those who need it most, com m unities to make us more self reliant, self su s more people will die need taining and self determined. lessly. The cries from our cities (3) make coalitions and al fall on deaf ears in the White liance with those who have House. If you listened to our same im plementable, President Nixon's State of tactical and ultimate goals, i4l are more concerned with the Union message, it be came clear that he still wants leading us as groups rather to invest little, if anything, in than gilding their own pockets our cities to 111 reduce the as individuals, and 15) make cost of fuel and gas and 12) every effort to consolidate invest adequate monies to our fragmented people rather keep the cost of mass transit than contribute to divisive- ness. down. When we begin to think It also becomes clear that he still thinks in terms of about a real Movement, and "welfare cheaters" instead of real leaders for real change, we have to also think of real a large segment of our popu lation who are truly in need. people as the sole base of Without the proper monetary movement support. It is up assistance, the poor, jobless, to us - the people -- to disabled, young, widowed, ensure that our needs, de and abandoned (millions of sires and aspirations are people) would die of starva heard, felt and acted upon in tion. homelessness and ex every corner of our govern posure. It almost remains ment. from the desk of the clear that the Great Society's bureaucrat to the Oval Office. work? le t us do the job for you. Expertise saves tim e, m oney. Home Improvement Jobs None Too Big or Small WENDELL E. BROWN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Roofing • ( ement W ork • Remodeling • ( onstrurtion A Model Neighborhood Business M em ber Albina Contractors Aksoriation 575 N . K illin g iw o r t h 2 8 9 -5 5 4 9 CAUCUS TIME X Police by Jetie B. Wilds, Jr. Chairman. Oregon Black Caucus When 1 was growing up. there was a saying, "You can't hold me and whip me". Loosely interpreted, that meant that whomever wanted to abuse someone had to expect some fighting back. This brought great respect from everyone involved. Hopefully, this political season won't find us being held and beaten We must be active in the support of those Blacks seeking public office and also those white candidates or office holders who support Black candi dates. Other than not sup porting Black candidates, we can be held and beaten in the following ways: 111 A white candidate comes a calling "to find out what Black folks want." Rather than wanting his or her office or the office they are seeking we support the white candidate. If you must support, play a promi nent and visible role. (2) A w hite office holder implies or commits indirect support for a Black candidate. There is no public commitment made and the same white office holder supports som eone white for the same position. We are not only held in check but we probably would try to discourage other Blacks from seeking that position. (3) There is always the “field trip" play. This is where the office-holder in vites the attention starved community person to his or her office for coffee and con sultation. Sometimes the office holder will go to the community person for coffee and consultation. The con sultation is usually centered around "what do you people want?". The result is always the same undying sup port for the opportunity to have coffee with the man. We must not knoek those persons who need this psy chological lift, but for those who want and need more, let's do more. Why speak about this now? The city- county consolidation vote, City Councilman Ivancie's declaration to run for a county seat and other elec tions on the state and national ’evel shaping up mean that a lot of public offices will be up for grabs. Herewith are a few com menta to be pondered. The upcoming vote on city county consolidation has produced some interesting conditions. One camp is inferring that it comes down to liberals being for consolidation and old guard conservatives being against consolidation. This kind of split might make for some kind of rallying point but doesn't make much sense. When we look at meaningful deeds, the so-called liberals and conservatives in Oregon have the same track record. For example, here are four popular names on the local political scene: Gleason, Clark, Ivancie and Gold schmidt. Your task is to pick the liberal(s) from the con serv a tiv es by past and present deeds as public ser vants. The next task is to pick the liberals from among the conservatives by what they say. If your analysis indicates that liberals talk liberal but act conservative, then what is the difference in real value? We need to look at the deeds of Portland Mayor Goldschmidt and his buddy Multnomah County Commis sioner Clark. We need to look at the deeds of Mult nomah County Commissioner Gleason and his buddy Port land City Councilman Ivancie. The words of these men, as far as Blacks are concerned, oft-times seem to put them in different camps. How ever. the deeds of the four seem to produce the same results for Blacks . . . nothing. We’re ready to offer sup port and strategy to any brother or sister seeking of fice at the local or state level. We ask in return that we not use each other to further the ends of the man. We ask that any white poli tician who endorses a Black in private also endorse the Black candidate publicly. Anything less than that is another game. We must not be brought into any camp, directly or indirectly, unless the options are clear and acceptable. Coffee with the Goldschmidts, the Clarks, the Ivancies and etc. must be realized for what it is - a cup of coffee. We can buy our own coffee. L e t's not be held and whipped. I (Continued from pg. 1. col. 31 According to 1971 Oregon Crime Report S tatistics, i,986 burglaries were re ported in Multnomah County alone. In the state of Ore gon. 22.665 burglaries were reported in 1971. Of those 22.665 reported burglaries, there were 1116 arrests, 41 convictions, 11 acquittals. 5 reduced charges and 94 dis missals. Less than 10% of these reported burglaries re sulted in arrest. For many, accepting the probability that their home could be burglarized on any given tomorrow has made the news of a break in familiar and unalarming. Upon dis covery of a break-in. the first step is to report it to the police. An initial investiga tion will be made by the officer. If the burglary is extensive, a further investi gation will be made. After that, the victim will just have to hope for more con sideration than Yernard Taylor. Today thousands of your telephone dollars will be spent to give people telephone numbers already listed in their directories. If vou want to end this waste and help hold down rising telephone costs, please kx>k in the b<x)k first. O ) Pacific Northwest Bell If you have a p h y*cai handicap that impairs your u m of tha telephone. or if you can t find a number Haled m the d rectory, call us That s why we re here N E W .. PORTLAND MEADOWS OPERATED BY JERRY COLLINS ENTERPRISES. INC. FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 3ES-E144 SERVICE CHARGE PASSES NOW A V A IL A B L E - SEND A STAM PED E N V E L O P ! to PO RTLAND M EADO W S. 100T N SCHMEER ROAD. PO RTLAND. ORE I 9/3 .» itu A i ÎA Ü P v f- mihc * k p a i »$ m o cbaho « not up a oeuvtav . PNB switching system provides new services through federal and state lax ■tepreciation allowances gives every right to 25 million Black Americans (the 26th largest nation in the world of 179 nations) to insist that your company stop its racial discrim ination against the Black press, which is the sole Black controlled rommunica tion medium." Goodlett pointed out that Black Americans represent 27.6 percent of the popula tion of the nation's 48 largest cities and that they cannot obtain a viable community press so desperately needed by both Black and white America without that press receiving its fair share of advertising dollars derived from Black purchasing power. "Black Americans can no longer participate in the sulx sidy of America's oil industry if such beneficiaries of fed eral subsidies continue their flagrant disregard of Black demands for fair advertising." Copies of the wire were sent to the National Urban League, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, the National Black Church men and the National Council of Negro Women BY WALTER I SMART rf. t. a I KNIT BLOCKING OUR SPECIALTY • m . * » .• » * Goodlett. publisher of the San Francisco Sun Reporter, has told five major com panics that “public subsidy of oil through federal and state tax depreciation allowances gives every right to 25 million Black Americans to insist that your company stop its racial discrimination against the Black press. The charge was contained in a sharply worded telegram from Goodlett to Texaco, Exxon, Shell of California, Standard Oil of California, and Gulf. “After decades of fruitless pleas for oil advertising, com m ensurate with the $46 billion purchasing power of Black Americans, first the tremendous 1973 oil company profits, second the massive energy crisis advertising campaign of oil companies utilizing white metropolitan daily newspapers, and finally the petroleum industry’s long record of advertising dis crimination against the Black press . . . it can no longer be borne in silence," the tele gram said. The President pointed out that the "public subsidy of oil 0EEA5V bju ONE DAY SERVICE • i Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett. president of the National Newspaper Publishers As sociation. has charged five major oil com panies of America with “summarily fla grant violation of equity in advertising.” a concept which the Black press ran no longer bear in silence. CARPENT b v / «•. NORTH & N.E. PORTLAND • • NNPA charges oil discriminates in ads Construction of Pacific Northwest Bell’s one story addition to its central office building at 2150 N. laimbard is nearing completion. Ac cording to Roy Schnaible, PNB division commercial manager, the addition will house new sophisticated Electronic Switching System (ESS) equipment to initially serve area customers who have the telephone number prefix 283. Completion of the building is scheduled for mid summer and the “ in service” date is set for early spring of next year. “The new switching sys tem is part of our service expansion program to meet growing customer needs in the area.” Schnaible said. "The ESS is computerized for more efficiency and is less costly to maintain be cause most serv ice affecting problems are cleared by re placing defective parts with plug in components." PORTLAND CLEANING WORKS 3954 N .W tB lam a “These import« are said to be worth $30 million a year to Rhodeaia. There are sev eral reasons why America should not be giving this aid. ‘‘First, it is bad foreign policy to support this racist regime in Africa. Black people here and around the world are opposed to this policy, as are many whites. “Second, America does not need Rhodesian chrome or ferrochrome. It is available from other nations, including Turkey and the Phillipines. Even President Nixon has- proposed that we reduce the come from Nigeria, 90 per cent of our cobalt comes from Zaire, and Zambia is the world’s largest exporter of copper." Congressman Young ol> served that these reasons for stopping imports of Rho desian chrome ran be com mumcated to members of the House by telephoning, visit ing or writing them in Wash ington or at their District office in their home states. All House members can be reached at the House of R ep resen tatives. Washing ton, D.C. 20515. Page 3 _e • ruled by a minority white regime. The issue is expected to come to a vote in the House o f’ R ep resen tatives within about a month, and Con gressman Young appealed to people to contact representa liven from their states and ask them to vote for legisla tion banning im ports of Rhodesian chrome and its processed product, ferro chrome. Native Hlacks make up 95 percent of the population of Rhodesia, but the minority w hite regim e refuses to agree to effective Black par ticipation in the government. Even though the United Nations has imposed inter national economic sanctions against Rhodesian products, the U.S. governm ent under the "Byrd Amend m ent” adopted by Con gress has permitted the importation of chrome and ferrochrome from Rhodesia since 1972. I amt December the Senate voted to repeal the Byrd Amendment and halt these imports, and the House will take up the legis lation soon. Mr. Young, who is the first Black Congressman from Georgia in a century, said in a statement from his Wash ington office: “I urge citizens every where to contact the mem hers of the U.S. House from their states on this issue. You can write, call or visit these rep resen tatives and ask them to end the U.S. government's support of the Rhodesia regime by stopping the import of chrome and ferrochrome. U.S. ('unKreNsman Andrew Young ha, urged citizens across the nation to call upon members of Congress to vote against imports of chrome into the U.S. from Khodesia, an African country supplies of these product*, which we have already stock piled in this country. “Third. Secretary of Stale Henry Kissinger has said that the Byrd Amendment is not essential to our national security, brings us no real economic advantage, and is detrimental to the conduct of foreign relations.’ “Fourth, we cannot expect to continue to have good relations and trade with other African nations if the U.S. supports the Rhodesian government. About one fourth of our oil imports Thursday. February 21, 1974
