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 ITie truth about D irectory Assistance? Every day we spend thousands of your telephone dollars to look up numbers already listed in the directory. If you want to help hold down telephone costs, please look in the b * s ^ fu r n itu r e , 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. Page 3 Hour«: 9 a m to 6 p m Mondav thru Saturday Good Uaed Furniture Good New Furniture Applisinee* Guaranteed 30 day* Hurts A laubor 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. 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