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County charged with misrepresentation in federal funding
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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