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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1974)
L V County charged with misrepresentation in federal funding _______ . . Loren Bud" Kram er. Ad ministrative Assistant to the Board of County . . mental body receiving eral funds must submit with their application an affirms tlve action plan guaranteeing the employment of minor! ties Approximately 10 per rent of the County budget is federal funds. Kramer admitted that the County haa only an affirma live action policy, passed in 1071, and not a plan to im plement the policy. He said Commta aionera, told the United A f firmative Action Committee that he haa never seen the county's Equal Employment Opportunity report and does not know where it could now be found. "Legally there has to have been a document, so it must exist," he said. Every agency or govern ___ *. n ___tk .t tnal although the County Board parted an affirm ative action policy. C h airm an James Gleason, who is the administrator for the county, has not had a plan drawn up or implemented The U A A C charged that federal money was obtained under false pretenses and that it has been fraudulently spent. Kramer said the money has been spent and 1QRTLAND Volume 4, Ne. Portland. Oregen im AN »w« IO U A I w h o m New managers have been named at three metropolitan area branches of U .S , Na lional Bank of Oregon, ac cording to Robert Brun meier, vice president and Northwest regional manager. Joe W ard is a graduate of Lincoln University in Mis souri. He joined U.S. Bank as a management trainee in 1964 Since that time he has worked in main branch operations, as a credit analyst in the head office credit department and as a loan counter assistant and general loan officer at the 67th and Glisan branch. was n am id OBSERVER O k P O S ttm iT V IM F t o r IS w i o i e ro s t o in a i tiA ttr Word betomes manager lie portunity .M ir m .iiu . ative .M inn action k u has .naLnnt beenu*< oi the county county personnel personnel officer. o ffic er, portunity to r to review existent becaus. of de the de that affirm ordinance before it which would create a per plorable condition of the still not been implemented before the Commission. He sonnet department and in County personnel records. He denied knowledge of the denied that he is responsible clude strong « v ii rights He said the information for CEO report or the statistics for delaying action on the guarantees. The ordinance the report was gathered by it contained, but said there ordinance was approved by U A A C and the department and agency must be a copy of it in Kramer denied having re was to have been submitted directors by “a head count" ChairmangGleason's office moved the A ffirm a tiv e immediately to the Com of minority and female em The Observer has been Action Officer position from mission. However, the ordi ployees. which would make unable in the past to obtain the county budget. He said nance has been rewritten its validity highly question the EEO report. One Com as far as he knows, the ind has not yet been sub able. misaioner said the statistics position is still in the budget, mitted. Kram er agreed that A personnel ordinance was en which the report should although the moat recent U A A C would have the op submitted by dohn Raynor have been based were non available copies do not show the position. (Please turn to pg. 5. col. I I Thursday. May 1«. 1974 c a s is > * o u i Minority recruiter quits Robert Davis, minority recruiter for the Portland Police Department, has re signed, stating that he could not continue on the job and maintain his integrity. Dsvis said he resigned because he was not able to persuade police officials to drop or modify testa that he says d is crim in ate against minority applicants. Davis said he complained to Mayor Neil Goldschmidt and to Police Chief Bruce Baker about mental and physical •lam inations that he believes •early guarantee that Blacks. Chicanos and women will not be recruited into the Police Bureau. assistant manager and general loan officer at the bank's Holly wood branch in 1972. He is a member of U.S. Bank's Urban Affairs council and is a member of the new M etro politan Arts Commission. He is past president of the Albina A rt Center and past treasurer of the Hollywood Kiwanis Club. He is also a candidate for g rad u ation from the Pacific Coast Bank ing School. He and his wife. Ella, have one daughter Richard W. Hughes, former manager of the firm's Bur lingame branch, ha* been .uimid X’ d atan t vice presi dent of the bank's head office commercial loan department. He is succeeded by Jack I. Irw in, former manager of the Broadway Elanders branch Joe H. W ard, formerly of the Hollywood branch, has been named manager of the B roadw ay E lan d e rs office. VelQon E. Zeuske, former general loan officer at the Davis told the Observer in late April that in hts opinion minority/disadvantaged hir ing will not materializ.e until serious commitment is fos tered within the managerial and administrative echelons of the Portland Police Bur eau. Thia commitment did not materialise. Davis pointed out that courts have barred San Francisco and Chicago from using similar testa. The Portland Police Bureau uses the Personnel Aptitude Test, the Schools and Colleges Aptitude test, an oral inter view, and a rigid physical lest a low score on any of which can disqualify him from the Police Bureau. Davis said he did not object to the tests as much as to the failure of the Police Bureau official!- to recognize the built-in racial bias of tests and make allowances. He was told the Bureau did not want to "lower stan dards". Tests as requisites for employment or entry intc WARD Tigard branch, has become manager of the Oak Grove branch Hughes attended the U ri versity of Portland and is a graduate of the Pacific School of Banking He joined U.S. Bank in 1948 and has served in the areas of audit and consumer credit He was named assistant cashier, served at the Citizens branch and became assistant man ager of the Eastport Plaza office in 1968 He was volunteer rorps at the end of the year to taled 2800 workers, an increase of about 1,000 over 1972. These volunteers came from over 200 Greater Portland area churches and congregations and more than 40 other com munity groups. Such sup porting organizations also provided some financial assis a nee to the program. In his outline of the 1974 p ro gram . M astbrook r e ported that new Center* are now operating in Lenta and Gresham. These bring to 30 the Loaves and Fishes Centers in the fourcounty area. The trem endous growth of the program is shown by the fart that only 3 (£> Longer-term Financing tor Home Improvements Now it the «me lo plan remodeling protects for more convenience and recreation af home. Even major appliances can be Included with up to 15 years to repay af the Beni Frankkn M ake your plans, get estimates. then visit any of our offices Bloc* A (Jochar Rawer fool wbon you obtain o Momo improvement Loan al St 000 ex morn B e n i.® Franklin Aotwrt M. Haisn, Arsa. professional achoola have been under attack in recent years as their relevancy to the employment involved haa been questioned. Testa tend lo be w ritten by middle class educators and thus are cul turally biased. Individuals who are not accustomed to middle class cultural con cepts or who have not learned the art of teat taking often fail on these testa. Those opposed tf> testa quea lion their validity and their relevance to job performance. Davis was employed by ihe Police Bureau as a minority employment special ist. Davis began his police career in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he served as a patrolman, detective and ad ministrative assistant for the Police Community Relations unit. He holds an Associate Arts degree from Clinton College. W elfare prom otes Daisy Perry named manager of the Bur lingame branch in 1971. Jack Irw in joined U.S. Hank in 1959 at Ihe Hollv wood branch A fter working in the head office operations department, he served as operation and. later, as assis tant manager of the Menlo Park branch Vern Zeuske is a graduate of W illam ette University and joined U.S. Bank in 1964 He ha* worked in the Lloyd (Please turn to pg. 5. col. 5) Dexter Henderson, Man sger of Albina Public Wei fare Division, announced the appointment of Multnomah County's first minority Wei tare Assistance Supervisor »nice the Welfare Children's Services Division reorganiza tion. with the appointment of Mrs Daisy Perry. Mrs. Perry is a veteran worker with the agency. She wa* first employed in January of 1966 as a Welfare Project Aide, specializing in service for adulta. She then re reived a promotion to Com munity W orker in August of 1967. January of 196b saw Mrs. Perry among the first seven agency em ployees selected and promoted to the new classification of Welfare Assistance Worker. Assis tance w o rk e is J e ll- m in s payments to be made to welfare recipients. According to Henderson, Mrs. Perry has served the agency well both in her work performance and as a very capable salesman. She has participated in TV programs, i.e., "Columbia Crossroads and W elfare Hot Line", for which she was commended centers were operating in 1970, the first year of 1 .oaves and Fishes existence, serving 150 participants In prospect is a move into Columbia County with new Centers in St. Helens, Scappoose and Clatskanie being developed. It is expected that more than 6,000 elderly participants will be served before the end o f 1974. New officers of I-oaves and Fishes, Inc. elected at the annual meeting are: Chair man, Reverend Kent I j iw rence, associate pastor of W e s tm in s te r P re s b y te ria n Church; Vice C h airm an , Pamela Qualley, supervisor. Visiting Nurses Association; Secretary, Ernestine Bee man, So uth w est S te e rin g C o m m itte e m em ber; and Gladys Geffert. Piedmont Center Steering Committee member, Treasurer. Elected as new community at large Board members are: Reverend Kent Lawrence. current chairman of the ___ Board . Mrs. Gerald Thomas, former president of Portland YW CA; August Kalberer. president of Kalberer Hotel Supply; Mrs. Barbara Sulli van, former staff member of Multnomah County Library; Mrs. Mary Gillespie, active in social services and corn- program s; M rs. m unity David, active in Muriel Southeast M en tal H ealth Project; and Mrs. Ruth Hayden, nutrition instructor, Portland Community College. Community at large Board m em bers re elected for second tw oyear terms are: Charlotta Byrd, supervisor, Metropolitan Family Ser vices. NJarian Closser. former treasurer of Loaves and Fishes, Inc.; Lewis Hahn, Multnomah County Public Welfare Division; jea n Hig genbotham, executive diree (Please turn to pg. 6, col. 5» by the Welfare Adminis trator. In 1972 Mrs. Perry was recognized by the Oregon State Employees Associa tion. Multnomah Chapter 31. as EmjAovee of the Year". Mrs. Hazel G. Hays, man ager of the Albina Multi Service Center, said that under Henderson's manage ment the Public W elfare office at the Multi-Service Center has increased its minority representation on the staff from seventeen to twenty five. Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers Union A FL-C IO . is speaking througout Oregon to explain the current status of the union's boycott of non-UFW harvested grapes and lettuce and Gallo wines. Chavez will speak at Reed College on Thursday evening. Chavez is pictured above with Mrs. Coretta Scott King. Chavez was the recipient of the 1974 M artin Luther King Peace award. G rant students receive aw ards Two seniors at Grant High School recently received $400 cash scholarships for college in the name of Paul E. Rehmus, former Superinten dent of P o rtlan d Public Schools. Gill Boardman. 18-year-old daughter of Thomas and Susan Boardman, 2012 N.E. 26th Avenue, and Doris Kimura. 18-year-old daughter of George and Takako Ki mura, 1152 N .E. Columbia Blvd.. have been selected as 1974 recipients of the Paul E. Rehmus Awards. The students were chosen on the basis of good citizen ship. service to the school, academic achievement, defi nite plans for future educa tion and financial need. Boardman plans to attend Oregon Institute of Tech nology beginning in the fall of 1974. Kimura will enroll in occupational therapy at the University of Washing ton. Cash awards ia the amount of $400 have been given to G ra n t students annually since 1972 in memory of the late D r. Paul E. Rehmus. Superintendent of Portland Public Schools from 1947 to 1954. Recipients are selected by Mrs. Rehmus. a resident of Palo Alto. California, and her two children Amy and Fred, both graduates of Grant High School, in co operation w ith school of ficials. Nancy Stevens seeks community Loaves and Fishes expands program A t the re ce n t annual meeting of I .oaves and Eiahes. In c ., ex e c u tiv e d ire c to r Richard Mastbrook reported that I-oaves and Eiahes served more than« 26.000 meals to elderly persons in its best month in 1973. This compares with 12.000 meals served in the maximum month in 1972. Mastbrook'4 report showed that 9 new Neighborhood Centers were established in 1973 in the Multnomah Clackam as W ashington Yamhill counties area. An additional 600 elderly par ticipaifla enjoyed meals at the Centers or Meals on Wheels delivered to shut ma. The loaves and Eiahes l®c per eepy r io s tr Nancy Stevens, Democratic candidate for M ultnom ah County Commission. Position No. 3. has been actively involved in seeking solutions to pressing public problems for over a decade. Stevens, 50. has been married 28 years to Rod Stevens, a Portland business man and member of the Portland School Board, and has lived for the past 25 years in Multnomah County. In that time. Stevens has raised a family of three sons and a daughter and been active as a community volun teer in human, political and environmental issues. Children meet farm animals at the W ildlife Safari. All day tour to the Wildlife refuge near Roseburg was sponsored by Baldwin Sanitary Service and Albina community busi nessmen. George Baldwin helps young lady get acquainted with mother goat. Since declaring her candi daev for county commission in February, Stevens has conducted an open, active, person to person campaign addressing key issues such as mass transit, inequitable land use. city county con solidation and clean air. She has challenged 'h e r major opponent. .Mice Corbett, to debate the issues a chai lenge still unaccepted by Corbett. Stevens explains that "we must act promptly to adopt a foresighted plan that will assure the homeowners, busi nessmen and farmers of stability and equity in land zoning far into the future. It is time to stop urban sprawl, freeway despoiling of neigh borhoods and the black top deserts of parking lots. In this new era of critical energy shortage it is time we have a mass transit system that will effectively serve the whole m e tro p o lita n area, rather than merely being a feeder for downtown Port la nth" S teven s com pares her public record of participation in solving social problems to Alice Corbett's lack of a public record in this area during the last eight years. Stevens served on the Dow ntow n Committee during 1972 73, which wrote Port land's Clean A ir Plan. As a citizen lobbyist and a mem ber of Common Cause. Stevens has labored long on behalf of campaign spending limitations and honest cam paign practices. In 1971 she introduced to the Portland City Council a resolution limiting campaign expendi tures and worked on a mayor's committee on the lim ita tio n s u n til it was passed eight months later. She also assisted in w riting a bill limiting campaign ex penditures for state and local offices which was passed by the 1973 Oregon Legislature. Stevens is currently Chair man of the Coalition for Clean A ir, an organization of th irty three en viro n m e n ta l groups. As past president of the Portland Beautification Association, Stevens was in volved in the first organized effort to promote a better urban environment in Port land. In addition, Stevens is a member of the DEQ Citizens' Watchdog Committee and the City Club. She is a past board member of the Parry Center for Children and a supporter of the W averly Children’s Home and Christie School for Girls. Stevens is a Multnomah County Pre cinct Committeewoman and a former Democrat District Leader. In her campaign for the C ounty Com m ission. Nancy Stevens supports city county consolidation but favors an amendment to make the new commission jffices non partisan. Bill Berry returns Edwin C. Berry, the Vrban League of Portland's first Executive Director and currently a consultant for Johnson Publishing Company, will speak on "Astute Political Action: ?rograms for Minorities" at the Urban League's 2»th Annual Meeting The dinner meeting will be held at the Sheraton Motor Inn on May lTth. Candidates debate Republican gubernatorial candidates Clay Myers and Victor Atiyeh will hold a public debate at Mt. Hood Community College on Mon day, May 20th, at noon, according to Paul de Block, S tu d e n t A c tiv itie s Vice President. The debate will take place in, room CA 102 of Studio Theatre on the college cam pus. "Each candidate will speak for 15 minutes, then alter nate answering questions from the audience," de Block explained. The public is invited to attend the debate, which is the last joint appearance of Myers and Atiyeh before the primary election. Next Week- PRIMARY Special Issue I