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. SHOP lENOW'S FOR B R A N D S you knov V A R IE TIE S you liki SIZES vou w a n t T h « F rie n d lie s t I Storca In Town| Since 190« 1 »n » \ I u.r« U'h A I • »» B, IJ J n d « N l G l.U n N l a i i ' b i ' i t at (a < e *tp i ■ a 'p< « h M ills F t a ia l« 7 n d s ’ S I U - , s-« . • »«.•» « N t U«.».««.. • 1.1« «I * N l H an«u a • I9»»> a S I O .,,v .un • ) l ' d * W est B. • 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. DR. JEFFREY BRADY Says: DO Not Put Off Needed Dental Core" Enjoy Dental Health N ow and Im prove Your A p p ea rrn ce (OMI IN ÀI TOUR (ONVINIINd ORIN SAlUROAf MORMNG • NO APPOINIMINI NIIOIÜ • (OMRIUI (OORfRAHON ON All U lN lil ■NStilAND PIANS • (OMRUIt OINIAI SllKlifS U N IO N O « C O M P A N Y C IN T A I IN S U t A N C I C O V K A C I A C C IP T IO O N Y O U ! N i l O ld D IN TISTW Y Park A x, Park p S k .. L .l HOUR Si W sek day» a i o a m «e 3 a M- Sot a lO o .m »O t p x , DR. JEFFREY BRADY, DENTIST 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 N eg ro Page 3 PSU scholarship funds available TOS /\Ö£?J£V-\ bv J M Portland Observer k th e U - A H 8 H R • M IM H IB O ’ U N H ID CROCKS A 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 Life") SEMLIR BUILDING S 'A 3ro & M o ’ '1 'c c S’ P c f’ io n d O 'e g o n Toke E le v o ’o i ’ o 2n F FAR AR \ JFMÆST (VEST > < FEDERAL SAVINGS 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 1,9m, 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 Major documentary traces 120 years of tradition to today's bitter headlines KGW TV explores Indians’ controversial rights to fish Northwest waters WEDNESDAY. MAY 21. 9:00 pm