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» lira F ra n c ia S y to a n -'le w s p tp e r Pooa U n iv e r s ity o f Ora-’on L ib ra r y t-Ugcne, Orcgo.i 97103 ¡Sgä PORTLAND Voi. fi No. 5 OBSERVER Portland, Oregon l'hursdav. December IN, 1975 lite per copy - K j N " ' y W A''J’ Every child's dream: Snow Jbr Christmas. Albina Women’s League plans Senior Haven Jarkaon High School coach Richard Reachell urge» his team page 8, column / ) toward victory in P IE opener with Wilson Troians The Albina Women's League Founda tion has applied to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for "reservation of funds" of $7 million to build a health complex for elderly citizens. According to Ms. Bettie Overton, (Please see Jake Tanzer announces candidacy for court Jacob Tanzer has announced his candidacy for the Oregon Court of Appeals. Position No. 2. He said: "1 intend to run on my record as a judge, lawyer and public servant. My opinions and experience show: • in criminal law , a concern for fairness and effectiveness; • in administrative law, an insistence that government deal justly and openly with all citizens; • in constitutional law, a deep commit ment to the worth and equality of every citizen; • in jurisprudence, a belief that law must be made to work for jicople and that opinions should be written so that people can understand them.” "Those fields of law are the work of the Court of Appeals and they are what my background has prepared me to deal with knowledgeably." Tanzer was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeals in 1973 by Governor McCall, but was narrowly defeated for election in 1974 by Jason Lee. In the general election, Tanzer received over 96,000 w rite in votes, the largest number ever cast in an Oregon election. Before joining the Court of Appeals, Tanzer was the first Director of Human Resources for tb«' state He is peeseitl. Director of Multnomah County's Depart ment of Justice Services. What happened to integration? \ Review by Roy Harvey "The rreative aspect of human mental processes defines that which is distinctly human, reflecting the fundamental law of the entire universe. The question ‘what happened to integration?* is posed by Lyndon IaiRouche. Jr in the lead article in the recent theoretical journal of the U.S. laibor Party, the Campaigner The book length article outlines broadly the history of social manipulation of Black and white working people, the psycholo gical basis for racism, and calls for a 'new conception of civil rights'. From the late 40s through to the early 60s, the Rockefeller (Rockefeller Foun dalion. Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rock efeller University, Ford Foundation, Rand Corporation, etc.) distinguished themselves as 'liberal' within the 'Black Community' by backing first the integra lion movement, then various other projects that were to prove useful to the Rockefellers* from their counter insur gent vantage point. LaRouche states that the purpose in setting up the integration movement was twofold: to force the essential costs of education and in fra s tru c tu ra l developm ent on the southern states (minus substantial fed eral aid); the second purpose was to bust up the northern union movement (lower ing wages), while simultaneously making available cheap southern labor. A major factor in not picking up the bill for the educational development via federal subsidy (outside of the fart that industry stration (L E A A ). and the banks would have had to pay Why community control? some of that coat) was the awareness that One of the questions often put to this the tax base of the southern states was w riter is 'why don’t you concentrate on insufficient to pay for the education costs what's happening locally?' But the and therefore the southeastern stales primary significant thing that is happen were forced to borrow heavily from the ing locally is that the population is not New York banks. Following the 1954 mentally artively engaged in questions of recession, laiRouche states, the country n a tio n a l/in te rn a tio n a l significance was treated to extensive credit expan questions which if seriously engaged sion: "rather than pay workers adequate could effect change. I^R ourhe argues wages to meet their needs, give them that the 'thought' allowed within the credit" the 'small monthly payment parameters of ‘community control' allows ruse!' Ry 1957 1958, LaRouche argues, the Rockefeller group a free hand the Rockefellers developed a counter to nationally and internationally, and vi the integrationist movement. M artin ciously replicates the psychological me Luther King was assassinated "at the chanism by which ghettoized Jews in time when the integrationist movement Nazi Germany policed first their own had threatened seriously to break up the property, then their own extinction. "The Black nationalist segregation and local mechanism is to focus the population on community control movements launched something which the victim is forced to by H EW and the Ford Foundation..." etc. accept as a controlled environment...a King's assassination came at the time population ran be induced to regard its when he was moving toward the spiralling descent into aggravated 'm proto socialist perspective of Malcolm X. poverishment as of relative unimportance The unity of King and Malcolm X would when compared to local community- have proved a disaster to the Rockefeller control demands." group. The psychological basis for the creation “By 1963 the Rand Corporation policy of the community control victim is the makers barked a number of segregation same as that mental disorder known as ist movements (SNCC, etc.) parodying racism. "Racism fundamentally is a the Nation of Islam. This segregationist product of the child's failure to grow out movement was eventually to merge with of infantile outlooks. Specific racial the integrationist movement in the issue prejudices are introduced as part of the of 'community control,* " programs which process of imposing a spectrum of fears have come to their 'final' fruition in the on the child." In a strict clinical Law Enforcement Assistance Admini (Please turn to p. 2 col. 4) County seeks planning board members Don Clark, Chairman of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, an nounced that he is seeking applicants for two vacancies on the County Planning Commission. Patricia L. Wessinger has resigned from the Commission effective December 1st and Robert C. Shoemaker has resigned effective December 8th. Anyone who is a resident of Multno mah County and interested in serving on the Planning Commission is invited to submit a resume and a letter indicating why they would like to serve, Clark said. State law specifies that members of the Planning Commission should reside in various geographical areas of the County and that not more than two members of the Commission should have the same occupation. Clark indicated that an interest in the community and the problems of land use planning, urbaniza tion and environmental quality were also helpful attributes for anyone serving on the Planning Commission. All members of the Commission serve without pay and are expected to attend at least two meetings a month, plus committee meetings and public hearings and are expected to read staff reports. The Multnomah County Planning Commission assists in the review of land use policies; coordinates land use plan ning efforts with local, regional and state agencies; and makes recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners on land use questions. The Planning Com mission is also the chief citizens' body involved in the development of a comprehensive land use plan for the County. People interested in serving on the Planning Commission should send their letters and resumes to Chairman Don Clark, Room 606 Multnomah County Courthouse, Portland. 97204, by Decem ber 24th. Anyone with questions about the Planning Commission should call Martin Cramton. Director of Planning, at 248 5000. president of the Foundation, the center will provide space for 150 retirement apartments, 100 nursing home patients, and 35 day care patients. The Foundation envisions a center that will not only provide complete health care services for nursing home patients and retired elderly citizens, but will provide related services and training opportuni ties for the public. The center will ensure an ethnic mix, with at least 51 percent minorities, as well as an economic cross-section, with particular emphasis on insuring that low income persons receive the same opportunities for good care as those who are able to pay. The center is to be named the Luesinda Williams Senior Haven Project, after Luesinda, who died last Sunday. Ms. Overton said, "We had hoped she might live to see the center completed and to be one of its first residents. Our elderly people so often have no where to go where they will be comfortable and get proper care." The center is planned to include the latest physical therapy, dental and optical facilities, which will be used by residents and by out patients. To add to the comfort and well being of the residents, there will be exercise equipment, a swimming pool, a movie room, recreation rooms, and beauty and barber shops. Each of these facilities will provide training opportunities for community residents. A food service and restaurant will provide meals for residents as well as the public. A unique program will be that a day care or short term care for the elderly. Individuals who need care only during the day can be accommodated and provided all of the services available at the center. Persons who need only temporary out-of home care also can be accommodated. This is seen as a resource for families who ordinarily care for elderly relatives but who occasionally must be away from home. The center will have an advisory board of professionals with special community interest. The Albina Women's League is a group of society-conscious women who have for many years contributed to the com munity. particularly in the area of youth programs. Current members of the Albina Women’s Ijeague Foundation are: Amelia Stepelin, Chairman: Bettie Lou Overton. President; Ethel L. Ross, first vice president; Marion Scott, second vice president; Annie J. Allen, third vice president and Treasurer; Cynthia Tho mas, assistant treasurer; Gwen Ware, secretary; Agnes Gilcrease, historian; Kay Toran, consultant; and directors: Alyce Marcus, Mildred Morgan, Grayce Baldwin, Rebecca Marks, Marilyn McCoo, Cynthia Turner, Annette Preston, Micky Harris, Ann Kent, Dorothy Baker. Carol Bryant, Edna Baskett, Edna Robertson, Gay Martin, Carla Van Cleave. Mary Des Camp and Jean Reeves. Minorities discuss human experimentation A broad cross section of minority persons legislators, scientific and psychological researchers, lawyers, doc tors, ministers, community leaders will discuss both sides of issues surrounding human experimentation nt a three day conference in Washington, D.C. on January fith through the 8th. The National Minority Conference on Human Experimentation will involve approximately 300 persons from all over the country in discussion» on behavior modification, psychosurgery, informed consent, health rare delivery, experi mentation in prisons, on children and with the institutionalized mentally in firmed. Coordinated by the National Urban Coalition, the conference is being held under a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Recommendations from the conference will be presented to the National Commission for the Protec tion of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. The Commission was established in 1974 by an Act of Congress and will make recommenda lions to the Secretary of the Department of Health. Education and Welfare and to the Congress, based on hearings and other input. Rep. Louis Stokes (I) Ohio), who introduced a bill in March 1973, and again in November 1975, to prohibit psycho surgery in federally connected health care facilities, will be one of the principal speakers at the conference. E a rlie r this year, R e p res en tative Stokes spoke at the Howard University School of Law on psychosurgery. There, he told a L eg is la tiv e Symposium th at "Psychosurgery is a frig hten ing, repugnant and immoral develop ment. Too often its victims are prisoners, involuntary mental patients, women, adolescents and children." Stokes added, "An underlying objective of this surgical strategy is Io defuse those demonstratively angry Blacks who op pose the overt racism and inequities in American society." Another expert on psychosurgery, Dr. Jesse Barber, Chief of Neurosurgery at the Howard University Hospital, will give a paper on ethical issues in psychosurgery. Other sessions will deal with ethical issues in health care delivery, the use of humans in experimentation, genetic research and mental health research. New York University, will moderate the panel on experimentation in prisons. Informed consent among prisoners will be the subject of a paper presented by Dr. Joyce Cook of Howard University, and lairry Palmer, Professor of Law at Cornell University, will present other information on prison research. Three papers are scheduled on beha vior modification. Dr. Jim Jackson, of the Department of Psychology at the Uni versity of Michigan, will give a paper on the use of psychological testing. Dr. Ruby Lombard of New Orleans will talk about the use of drugs in behavior modification programs, and Samuel Yette, of Howard University's School of Communications, will speak on the use of communications media on behavior modification. Ms. Johnnie Tillmon, Executive Dir, tor of the National Welfare Righ Organization, will be the moderator for the panel on children and the institution alized mentally infirmed. Dr. Henry Foster, Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Meharry Medical College, will discuss the ethical issues involved, and Dr. William F. Liu, of the University of California at San Diego, will deal specifically with experi mentation on refuges from Vietnam. Experimentation among confined groups has raised quite a hit of controversy. Two panels will deal with this problem for two separate groups. Dr. Haywood Burns, Professor of la w at M. Carl Holman, President of the National Urban Coalition, said the participants have been selected from many concerned areas, including former subjects of experiments. A RU E N A L L , JR. Accountant advises church finance The Reverend Roe Nall, Jr. has completed his several week stay in Portland. He noted that his discussion of bookkeeping of Church financial records was met with some enthusiasm. In particular. Reverend Nall, Jr. stressed wills as particularly important in bring ing in finances for the Church. Reverend Nall, an ordained Minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, said that churches were feeling the economic pinch, hut the main effect as yet was a serious worry' as to the ability to continue extra-curricular services. Reverend Nall is an auditor for Owens Illinoise Incorporated, which has its corporate headquarters in Toledo, Ohio Reverend Na'l’s hometown. The Reverend was a 1968 recipient of a Ford Foundation fellowship, and has a Masters degree in education from the University of Toledo; Toledo, Ohio.