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Portland, Oregon
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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.