May 15, 1975
Governor promotes housing campaign
Governor Robert Straub
ha* proclaimed support for
Oregon's Housing Industry
anil the promotional effort
to interest
the general
publie in buying homes.
Oregon's rhief executive
has been a consistent sup
porter of the housing in
dustry having put forth a
senes of measures aimed at
assisting the buyer in the
areas
of financing
and
public housing
A six week campaign
throughout Oregon starts
on May 11th under the
theme: “ Huy A Home To
day: Il's lake Money In The
Hank." Similar multi media
campaigns in 1967, I96H,
and 1971 were instrumental
in stimulating public in
terest in the vital housing
market.
Hoy
Asbahr.
Portland
builder anil Chairman of
Oregon's Housing Industry
committee, gave credit to
the long list of builders,
realtors, financial inatitu
lions, mortgage and title
companies, and numerous
m a n u fa c tu r e r s , lu m b e r
companies, and building
material suppliers who have
contributed to the ram
paign.
"W ith this kind of con
srientious effort, Oregon
families ran look forward to
a continuation of having the
finest homes available at
the lowest possible cost,"
Asbahr said. "The building
industry is confident that
today's home buyer not
only gets dollar value to
day, but his investment
increases in value im
mediately."
James Mistier, President,
O re g o n
S ta te
Hom e
Builders Association, called
attention to the condition of
the home building market
in Oregon and across the
nation.
"There are some
g reat bargains, ” N is tle r
said, "in the housing market
for potential home buyers.
Areas that have unsold
homes carried over from
last year when mortgage
money was unavailable, are
o fferin g some excellen t
buys."
"Hut things are beginning
to change," Nistler said.
"Mortgage money is avail
able.
Interest rates have
stabilized and inflationary
pressures on housing costs
appear to be levelling off "
James T. I.ynn. newly
appointed director of the
Office of Management and
former secretary of the
Department of Housing and
(Iritan Development (11UD)
said recently:
“ The
w is e
p e rs o n
wouldn't wait two, three or
four years to buy it he
could afford it now. Because
even though we get an
appreciably better handle
on inflation than we've had,
it's still going to cost more
for that house each year
hereafter."
In the broadest terms,
the housing industry pro
duces widespread and im
mediate contributions to
Oregon's economy. In 1974,
the State of Oregon lost
more than 7,000 units due
to the high interest rates
and the inflationary spiral.
If 2.000 new units were
constructed in 1975, the
costs for materials and
labor would run about $40
million.
From 5,000 to
6,000 jobs would be created
because each housing unit
built creates 2'/» man years
of employment.
In addition to the $40
million is an estimated $11
million in land costs and the
$2.5 million for site im
provements. Then there is
$1.5 million that the local
municipality or city would
collect annually
in real
estate taxes
money that
is funnelled into the school
system to pay for the
education of children.
The 2,(XX) new
home
buyers also would circulate
$5 million annually in mort
gage interest and $20,000 in
property insurance.
Also there is another $5.5
million would be paid by
builders and
buyers to
cover closing costs
real
estate commissions, settle
ment costs paid the title
company, placement fees,
appraisal and land survey
fees and real estate transfer
taxes.
To furnish these new
homes
consumers
would
spend about $7 million to
purchase new appliances,
rugs, drapes and curtains,
furniture and other misccl
laneous items.
Add that up and the
figure comes to about $75
million in jobs, goods and
services that affect just
about everyone
in
the
community.
So, “Buy A Home Today
It's Like Money In The
Bank" proves a very ac
curate statement for today's
home buyer.
crush the spirits of ten of
thousands of workers.
To
use the words of Willie
Brown, a migrant worker in
Homestead, Florida:
"You
work and work.
But you
don't make nuthin'. Some
thin's gotta change." There
is every hope that the
situation will change. The
UFW Union is effecting
revolutionary change in the
lives of those workers who
are covered by its con
tracts.
The problem at
present is that most of the
contracts once held by the
UFW . in California, parti
cularly, have been taken
from them by the Team
sters and the growers, who,
excluding the workers from
any s e lf d e t e r m in a t io n ,
signed collusive "sw eet
heart contracts" in 1973.
As a result, the UFW
members have resorted to
strikes and boycotts, whirh
they vow to maintain until
the contracts
are
won
again When that happens,
workers in California, in
Florida,
in every
state
which employs farm labor.
will have the opportunity to
live under improved condi
tions.
All across the nation.
UFW members and sup
porters are striking the
fields, picketing the stores,
and refusing to eat or drink
any of three
products:
non L E W lettuce, grapes
and Gallo Wines.
The
grow ers connected w ith
these foods are the ones
with whom the Union had
the majority of its contracts
prior to 1973. Of the three,
the Gallo W inery, the larg
est in the world, has been
singled
out
for
special
pressures from the boycott.
Consumers are being urged
to refrain from drinking
such Gallo Wines as Thun
derbird. Boones Farm, Rip
pie,
Andre Cold
Duck.
Spanada and Tyrolia. In so
doing, they are heeding the
plea of Cesar Chavez:
"Please join with the thou
sands of farmworkers who.
after generations of hope
lessness, now see a chance
for a better life, and say,
'Si, se puede!'
lYes, it
can he done!")
Farmworkers ask boycott support
What a terrible irony it
is that the very people who
harvest the I imm I we eat do
not have enough fixsl for
their own children ” These
workers of Cesar Chavez,
president of the United
Farm Workers of America,
A P I. ('ID . express a bitter
truth that fares a large
portion of the country's
farmworkers each day
they do not have enough
food to eat. enough clothes
to wear, enough shelter to
adequately protect them
selves.
So the struggling young
Union is w o rk in g to effect a
miracle
through
its
strike and boycott activities
it is restoring hop«- and
dignity
to
hundreds
of
thousands of the nation's
agricultural workers
UFW camjH'sinos ifarm
workers) are concentrated
in three states: California.
Arizona and Florida, the
great majority id whirh are
native born Blacks. These
workers sow and harvest a
crop which nets Florida s
growers about $700 million
a year, but none of them
share hi the bountiful profit
resulting from their lalxir.
Most earn incomes which
fall far below the federal
IMiverty level.
Com,M'lled to accept an
inadequate wage, the farm
workers suffer exceptional
hardships:
substandard
h o u sin g , m a ln u t r it io n ,
illiteracy and disease And
barred from the law which
protects the rights of all
other lalxirers in the land,
the farmworkers have no
immediate remedy for their
special plight. There is no
way, of course, to fully
convey the suffering of
these workers
But farts
and statistics are available
which reveal at least one
indisputable, painful truth
the farmworker lives
and works in a nightmare in
order that we may «-at:
The average Florida
farmworker earns $1,737
per year
I University of
Miami)
The average Florida
farmworker can only find
work 5.6 months per year.
(University of Miami)
More than 95% of all
Florida farmworkers work
for labor contractors, who
dictate the place of employ
ment. hours of work, and
rate of pay. (New College)
About 375,000 paid
agricultural workers (about
one out of every eight) are
children between ten and
thirteen (US Senate Sub
committee on Migrant I .a
bor)
The average F-twrid
fa rm w o rk e r drops out of
school after 6.2 years (most
migrant rhildren must drop
out to help their families in
the fields.). (US Senate
Subcommittee on Migrant
Iaibor)
While the average
migrant family in Florida
has about five members,
the average Florida mi
grant dwelling
has
1.9
rooms.
About 90.4% of
these dwellings have no
sink. 95.6% have no toilet:
96 5% have no showers or
bathtubs. (Florida Christian
Migrant Ministry)
In 1974, the Florida
D e p a rtm e n t
of
H ealth
withdrew its certification
from nearly half the mi
grant labor camps in the
state. (New College)
In February of 1973,
116 migrant workers were
hospitalized in Miami after
an outbreak of typhoid
fever. The epidemic
the
nation's worst in fifty years
originated at the South
Dade
Labor
Camp
in
Homestead, Florida. (Miami
Herald)
Agricultural workers
are excluded from Florida
laws which require em
plovers to pay unemploy
ment insurance, temporary
disability
insurance,
and
workmen's compensation.
Agricultural firms in
Florida recorded $1.6 billion
in sales and $737 million in
profit in 1972. (U S D A )
The situation cries out for
change. It calls for an end
to the brutal conditions
w hich maim the bodies and
G a te *
R eflectio n s on th e
The financial aid picture
at Portland State Univer
sity looks bright for next
year, but the competition
for funds appears to be
stif/er.
That's the word from
Richard Streeter, director
of financial aids, who esti
mates that PSU w^l have
more financial aid money to
distribute to students in
1975 76 than in 1974 75.
In fart, he said some
$2,795,517 should be avail
able under three federal
programs in 1975-76 com
pared
to
$2,167,807
in
1974 75.
Those totals in
elude allocations to PSU
from the Department of
Health. Education and Wei
fare
as
well
as
local
matching funds.
Federal allocations are as
follows: N a tio n al D ire c t
Student Ixzans, $743,941;
College Work Study Pro
gram. $1,038,801; and Sup
plemental Education Op
portunity Grants, $199,615.
One ad d itio nal factor
College The N egro College
has been on oasis in the
journey to freedom
Each
period of history has pro
duced people of courage,
vision and action.
In a 1910 social study The
( o ileg e B re d
N e g ro
A m e ri
can made by Atlanta Uni
versity and edited by Dr
W F B I I ii B ois . I hi- philo
sophy of Negro college
graduates was reflected as.
1. Equality
before
the
l.t w
2. Full citizenship rights
and privileges
3. The right to vote
4. U n re s tric te d educa
lional opportunities
5. Well trained leader
ship.
The above
in d ic a te
aerious pur,Hise then as
well as now.
Any of the
intervening decades record
serious Afro American col
legians attempting change.
A 1925 Survey Magazine
a rtic le
relates
student
strikes at Fisk anil Howard
Universities regarding con
corn for the education of
the “New Negro." Each
sm all vic to ry
was en
couragement for other re
forms.
Students
were
concerned about courteous
tre a tm e n t,
a b o lis h in g
segregated sealing, anti
lynching and other pressing
issues.
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contributes to the bright
outlook. The Basic Educa
tional Opportunity Grant
program is being expanded
to include
junior
level
students, and it appears
part time students (those
who take six credits or
morel now will become
eligible for assistance.
"We have been swamped
with applications so far. "
Streeter said. "In fact, we
have as many applications
now for 1975-76 as we got
for all of 1974 75.
There
are still funds left, but
students
should
apply
quickly."
Streeter attributes the
increase in applications to
several factors; better pub
licity, students learning to
file applications earlier be
cause financial aids awards
are being made faster, and
current depressed economic
conditions.
Applications forms, and
information on any financial
aid program, are available
from Streeter's office. 3461.
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Talladega College slu
dents refrained from mak
ing purchases after abusive
treatment was received by
one community resident.
That economic effort was
effective and in I 9 H , Tai
ladega College students
won a National N A A C I’
achievement award
The indignation of West
Virginia State College stu
dents over a Georgia lynch
ing the summer of 1946
culminated in a campus
mass meeting and plans for
a mammoth protest march
Indignant voices railed for a
new civil rights organiza
lion, a mammoth protest
march to the State Capitol,
ami a petition
to the
Governor.
Emotion was
high. Students were later
advised that the Governor
had an open door policy for
receiving visitors; the pro
test march was cancelled,
and a student committee
called on the Governor of
West Virginia for a per
sonal statement concerning
the injustice of lynching and
the need for immediate
comm unication w ith the
Governor of Georgia
A year later, some of the
West Virginia State College
students
attend ed
the
Charleston. West Virginia
court proceedings as Isaac
Woodard la World W ar II
veteran) sued for damages
for the loss of both eyes
following the injuries he
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sustained while travelling in
South Carolina. Many were
sad when the verdict was
read and Isaac Woodard did
not receive damages be
cause of the police brutality
sustained after the driver's
ejection from the bus of
Woodard who supposedly
was seeking restroom pri
v ileges.
The night before the
November 1948 Presidential
election, a burning cross
was reported on the campus
of Tuskegee Institute. Alert
students copied the license
numbers of the intruders
and future purchasing was
discontinued from those re
sponsible for the election
eve intimidation. When an
economic pinch was felt,
some in the white com
munity later apologized.
Howard University's Law
School was a cog in the
wheel of N A A C P
legal
action for civil rights. Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity mem
hers throughout the nation
provided moral and finan
rial support at the various
levels of justice on behalf of
Mr. Elmer Henderson
a
dining car service class case
which was finally favorably
derided in the U n ited
States Supreme Court.
G e n e r a lly , A f r ic a n
American collegians have
not devoted their energies
to frivolous issues such as
swallowing gold fish or
panty raids.
Through the
years, they have contri
buted time,
talent
and
money to projects whirh
remedy
social
problems
West Virginia State College
campus organizations of the
postwar 1940's conducted a
monthly Well Baby Clinic,
weekly tutoring, scholarship
fund raising projects, and
fund raising for social action
such as Alpha Kappa Alpha
S o ro rity's Non Partisan
Council then under lobbyist
Thomasina W alker Johnson
(Norford) and the American
Council on Human Rights.
The 1954 Supreme Court
derision has resulted in a
new role for West Virginia
State College and Lincoln
University of Missouri; both
of these campuses are now-
integrated with the Euro
American student enroll
ment exceeding the Afri
can American student en
rollment.
The Negro college has
truly had a “rendezvous
with destiny."
W ith new
challenges, it will continue
to survive because of its
leadership, its service and
the people whose lives it
has changed.
People re
gardless of race are “the
college in action."
I next month: "Quality of
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Bank predicts economic upturn
Oregon is ending the
longest, deepest recession
since World W ar 11.
But,
the worst is about over,
according to U.S. National
Hank's Oregon Business
Barometer, prepared by Dr.
Edward W. Read, senior
vice president and econo
mist for the stale wide firm.
The recovery will be slow,
with most Oregonians lie
ginning to realize improve
nients in their personal and
business dealings by late
summer.
U.S,
Bank's Index of
Business Activity stood at
151.3 in March, three full
points below its year end
mark in December and the
lowest point since last July.
W eakening farm prices,
employment declines and a
slow recovery in weekly
wages all contributed to the
disappointing news.
But,
when compared to national
indicators, a c tiv ity was
slightly better in Oregon.
According to Reed, the
beat news of the quarter is
the slowing of inflation.
This slowdown, more than
any other factor, will con
tribute to an increase in
consumer confidence.
In
crease spending, spurred by-
tax
relief
and
rebates,
should also be of some help.
ings and loans showed a
'sharp increase.
Credit
demands
increased
with
commercial and industrial
loans show ing seasonal rises
in March and April.
HO USING B ETTER
E M P L O Y M E N T G A IN S
With funds flowing into
Following its usual sea
savings institutions at rapid
sonal pattern, employment
rates,
dollars
are
now
inched up at the end of the
becoming av ailab le
for
first quarter.
A fter an
mortgages. The housing in
e ig h t m o n th d o w n w a rd
dustry
and Oregon’s
skid, employment in lumber
lumber and wood products
and wood products was up., sector
could soon begin
at the end of the quarter by
to benefit from the increas
1,9<M). Substantial increases
ing confidence of con
were noted in food, agncul
sumers. The trend of mort
ture, construction and ser
gage commitments has been
vices.
Total Oregon em
moving up, which is an
ployment was up more than
indication that housing will
13.7IX) in March over the
likely improve as the year
previous month.
progresses, said Reed.
Though hovering around
After a tw o year b«x>m,
ten percent, unemployment
Oregon's agricultural com
rates are somewhat below-
munity is now caught in a
the level of past recessions.
squeeze of declining prices
Earnings are on the rise,
and rising farm costs.
particularly in the manufac
Oregon's o v e ra ll crop
turing area, which reached
outlook is good, despite the
an all time high of $5.32 per
cost price squeeze, assum
hour.
ing farmers enjoy a steadily
Rank deposits moved up improving weather situation
slightly during the first
for the balance of the
quarter.
Deposits in sav
season.
THT1E OF THE
FIRST ITIOOfl
This is my land
From the tim e o f
the first m oon
Till the tim e o f the last sun
It was given to my people
I am fore ve r grateful fo r this
beautiful and b o u n tifu l earth
G o d gave it to me
This is my land
C larence H c k e rn e ll
Q uina lt, Taholah
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