Portland Observer
BE N A TIO N
Republicans fa il to help
Black Senate candidate
Civil rights groups called elitist
RO BERT H A Z E N
Hazen receives bid
Bob Hazen. president of
Benj. Franklin Savings and
lawn Association. has been
nominated as Vie» President
of the United Stales la-ague
of Savings and lawn. Nomi
nated for the office of Presi
dent was Lloyd S. Howies of
Texas, currently Vice Presi
dent
Hazen joined Henj. Frank
lin in 1941 after graduation
from college and four years
service in the Navy. He has
been president since 1959
Henj. Franklin is a $7.3.3
million association with 25
branches.
Much of the nominee's
energy on the regional and
national levels has been de
to te d
to the
A m erican
Savings and Loan Institute,
lie set up the District II
conference, .trill irf 1957 38
N e ri ed as the
Institute's
national president.
He has
served on U.S. la-ague com
mittees continuously since
I952. most recently on the
la-gislative Committee and
the Special Committee on
A lternative* for Future D e
velopment.
From 19 6 1 to
1966 he was a member of the
la-ague's board of directors.
On the regional level. Mr.
Hazen has served as presi
dent of both the Pacific
Northwest Conference and
the Oregon la-ague.
He is
presently serving as trustee
at large of the Savings and
Iatan Foundation.
Civic affairs have also
claimed a share of M r.
Hazen's time. He was presi
dent of the Portland Chamber
of Commerce in 1967 and is
presently serving on the
Hoard of Directors.
As
Chairman of the United Good
Neighbors campaign in 1970,
he headed the first four
county d riv e .
He also
serves on the boards of the
G reater Portland Convention
Association. Whitman Col
lege and Columbia Christian
College. He is chairman of
the Bicentennial Committee
of Multnomah County for
1976. and will serve as presi
dent of the Portland Hose
Festival Association in 1975.
lie has held many leadership
,Hisitions in the American
ta-agion. and in 1967 was
named M arketing Man of the
Year by the Portland Sales
and M arketing Executives
Club
M r Hazen is married to
the former Roberta Williams.
They have two children:
a
son. Dechard. 23. currently a
student at the University of
California at Santa Cruz: and
a daughter, Sydney, 21, en
rolled at Oregon State U n i
versity. When not actively
engaged in business affairs,
M r Hazen enjoys golf and
tennis.
Three oldline civil rights
organizations and the Con
gressional M ark Caucus were
accused of elitism last week
by Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett,
president of the National
Newspaper Publishers As
sociation and editor publisher
of the San Francisco Sun
Reporter.
The charge grew out of
their call for a conference in
Washington to consider Black
economic problems without
including the National Wei
fare
Rights
Organization,
Black churchmen, the Na
tional Business Io-ague. the
National Black la b o r Caucus,
and the Blark press.
The oldline organizations
are:
The N A A C P . the
Urban
la-ague.
and
the
National Council of Negro
Women.
In a mailgram to
their heads and to the Con
gressional Black Caucus
Chairman
Roy Wilkins.
Vernon Jordan. Miss Dorothy
Height, and Representative
Charles Rangel - Goodlett
demanded the inclusion of
the omitted organizations in
the call. His mailgram reads:
"The organized Blark press
is incensed at the continued
elitism of the four organiza
tions convening the Wash
ington emergency conference
on Blark economic problems.
For over 18 months, N N I’ A
and recent publisher Loins
M artin have urged a number
of national organizations, in
eluding these four, to jointly
plan and call such an emer
gency conference.
"No national Blark eco
nomir conference ran achieve
maximum results without the
full participation of such
organization as:
Nationa
Black la b o r Caucus, National
W elfare Rights Organization,
the Black Churchmen, the
National Business la-ague
and the Blark Press in the
early planning as well as the
issuing of the conference call
“The Blark masses are in
creasingly suspicious of the
middle class chauvinism of
the U rb a n Leag ue, the
N A A C P and the Congres
sional Black Caucus. If this
conference is not to be a
replay of previous orgies of
c on versatio n,
the
Black
workers, the Black poor, the
Blark churchmen and the
Black press must have a full
peer relationship with oldline
national organizations which
merely talk about economic
racism, but have rarely or
never mobilized Blark politi
cal power or Blark eronomic
power to combat institutional
and individual racism that
oppresses the Black masses.
If conversation and parti
tioning alone could win, the
struggle against eronomic
racism would have ended
eons ago.
“The constituents of the
five nonconvening organize
tions mentioned above de
mand new initiatives or their
organizations rannot partiri
pate in any conference con
vened for them rather than
with them.
"The Blark press will not
participate in any Blark eco
nomir survival conference
without the full participation
of Blark labor, the Blark
poor, the businessmen and
the Blark churchmen as con
veners. For 147 years since
Freedom's Journal's found
ing, the Blark press has
fought racism, and we shall
not hesitate in this hour of
Hladk crisis to fight national
Blark organizational elitism."
The race for the U.S.
Senate by Connecticut State
Representative
James
H.
"Buddy" Brannen. a 33 year
old Blark airline pilot and
law student, is being slowed
by lack of financial support
from
Republicans in the
state, Theodore M. Pryor,
one of the candidate's or
ganizational co-chairmen, said
last week.
In response to a call from
Brannen, a sizeable number
of the state's 2.000 Black
business
and
professional
p«-ople met to develop plans
for launching a national fund
raising campaign.
As a result of the meeting,
appeals are being sent to
college alumni groups, fra
te rn itie s , s o ro ritie s , club
groups, and business leaders
all over the country.
Brannen. a resident of
Colchester. Connecticut, sur
prised voters in 1972 when
he won election to the
General Assembly, unseating
Rubin Coheft, a 30 year legis
lative veteran.
Following his nomination
by the Republican Party in
July to face Senator Abra
ham Ribicoff in November,
the Hartford Times wrote:
Commission predicts the U.S.
will want 52.(881 new engi
ni-ers annually by 1980. The
Department of la b o r sug
gests that 62.000 would be a
better forecast, the OSU
engineering
leader
points
out.
"Whichever figure you take
is far above present and
near future totals," says Bur
gess
"The number of students
James H. Brannen
"A bouquet to State Repre
sentative James H. “B u d d /'
Brannen. I I I . of Colchester
for winning the wide-open
race for
the
Republican
nomination for U.S. Senator
and thereby becoming the
first Blark ever nominated in
Connecticut for that high
office."
was
on
Brannen
born
in
Christmas Day.
1940.
Flushing, New York,
He
attended Northrop Institute
of Technology and is pres
ently studying law at Wash
ington College of Law. He is
married and has two small
daughters.
The Board of Directors,
staff and advisory council
of the National Scholarship
Service and Fund for Negro
S tu d e n ts , has announced
"The Minorities' Rights to
Post Secondary
Education",
a convocation to search out
and develop innovative ap
proarhes, on October 17 19.
1974 at the Conrad Hilton
Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.
For the first time, Blacks.
P u e rto Ricans. M e x ic a n
Americans, American Indians
and a host of other minor!
ties from across the nation
will assemble to discuss and
recommend new goals and
strategies for the minority
student's survival in a com
plex edu catio nal system .
A major highlight of the
conference will be a keynote
address delivered by Dr.
Benjamin
Hooks.
Federal
Com m unications Comm is
sioner.
A ll in te re s te d persons
should contact:
NSSFNS.
National Office. 1776 Broad
way, New York, New York
10019, telephone (212) 757
8100
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called
in engineering dropped by
about .30 percent between
1968 (260,000)
and
1972
(200,000). The number of job
openings meanwhile steadily
increased in the face of
energy, transportation, hous
ing and food crises.
"Many people forget how
many engineers are involved,
for example, in the food pro
cessing industry." Burgess
observed.
"Engineers are
needed also to help solve
environmental problems re
lated to air and water
quality, waste recycling and
disposal, and mass transit
among other transportation
problems."
The number of students
"in the pipeline" has been
trimmed to the point that
increased numbers of engi
neering g radu ates w on 't
come very fast
for four or
five years at least. Burgess
reports.
For instance, 25
|>ercent of all U.S. male col
leg«- students were in engi
neering in 1950.
Now the
figure is 6 percent.
Most OSU
June
engi
m-ering graduates had at
least three job offers, ac
cording to Burgess.
Some
had 8-10.
The average
starting pay for bachelor’s
degree graduates in engi
neering was about 41.000 a
month.
“B«-cauae of the engineer
shortage, we expect more
student* in the School of
Engineering thia year than
anytime in the 1970's.
Rut
Oregon ~ and the nation -
could use considerably more,"
Burgess concluded.
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Nation faces engineer shortage
The explanation for the
shortage of engineers in the
U.S. can be found in national
statistics, says Fred J. Bur
gess, dean of engineering at
Oregon Stale University.
This
past
June,
some
(6.IMM. engineers were grad
uated from the nation's 215
engineering colleges. Burgess
points out.
The nation
needed about 48,000, how
ever.
The Engineering Manpower
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