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Uro Francos Schoen-Nawg^aper Roo» U n lveraity of Oregon Library tugene, Oregon 97403 I PORTLAND OBSERVER Voi. 6 No. 11 Portland. Oregon Thursday, January 29. 197« 10c par copy New York banks called shaky Service Center hires two Mr». Dorothy 8. Spencer has been ap|>oint<-<l ■•» a Cane W orker I I I according to Mr» Hazel G. Hay», manager of the Albina Human Resource Center. Mr». Spencer'a duties will consist of assisting Center clients with the nu merous services provided by agencies in the Center She replaces Robert Phillips who has been transferred to the Albina Public W elfare Branch as a Social W orker I. Mr. Phillips received his B.S. from Oregon State University and a MSW from Portland State University School of Social Work. Mrs. Spencer is a product of Philander Smith College, I.itlle Rock, Arkansas. Mrs. Spencer resigned her position as head tearher and assistant to the Director of Bethel Child Development Center to take her new assignment. New York (IPS) - the U.S. capitalist class thia week launched an austerity push unprecedented in American his tory albeit from two sides of the same austerity coin. The picture that has emerged is of two broad capitalist camps debating what kind of austerity and how it would enforce the collection of major categories of dollar denominated debt, imminently threatened with default. A t one end of the spectrum there is the • conservative Ford Administration which has consolidated itself around what one W all Street observer described as a policy of "cold turkey" for the economy: massive budget cuts, tax hikes, stripping down of regulatory agencies, and stepped up resistance to upcoming demands by labor for wage hikes. A t the other end is the east coast banking community hooked in the center and left center factions within the Democratic Party who moved this week to eliminate Chase Manhattan's Chair man of the Board, David Rockefeller, and run the remains of the dollar empire through a top down. Federal control over the U.S. banking system and a corporate (Please turn to page 5 col. 1) Mason heads Union Pacfic Club Z T R E V O L M ASO N For the first time in its fifty year history, the Union Pacific Club has elected a Black president, Trcvol Mason As far as is known. Mason is the first Black president of any of the member clubs throughout the area served by the Union Pacific Railroad. It was only recently that Blacks were admitted to the dub. and even now they make up about five percent of the membership. The local Union Pacific Club is approximately fifty years old and was formed as a social dub for Union Pacific employees The club is divided into two sections, one called "The Old Timers Club”, for employees with twenty years service or more, and the "Junior's”, for employees with less than twenty years with the company Mason heads the "Old Tlmera." The club provides social activities for its members and participates in the annual national conference. Mason came to Portland over thirty years ago for a visit, took a temporary job The House Intelligence Committee last week exposed a bit of C IA press control, revealing the C IA cooperation of fifteen major international media outlets including television, radio, newspaper and magazine companies. The Pike Committee draft report says the C IA had eleven full time clandestine agents posing as journalists for American and foreign organizations. These agents, with the knowledge of their employers, did nothing but plant stories in the major News analysis press media. The way i t works, according to the Committee report, is to influence (or control) domestic news through international foreign news agen cies. Reuters, the British newswire service, is singled out as especially C IA dominated. To the critical reader of the news, these revelations should come as no surprise. Subsequent to the House Report on C IA press infiltration, Same Jaffe, a former CBS and ABC foreign eorrespon dent (himself an FB I informant) told television interviewers that he knows of some 239 newsmen working for the C IA , including W alter Cronkite. The Pike Committee report is to have identified NBC television anchorman John Chan cellor "of secret intelligence work." In his hook C IA IMary: Inside the Company, veteran C IA agent Philip Agee describes the three types of media control: white propaganda (conduited directly through government agencies to the press: press releases, reports, tapes, speakers); grey propaganda ("attributed to people or organizations who do not acknowledge the U.S. government as the source of their material and who produced the material as if it were their own"); and Black propaganda C‘...un attributed material, or...attributed to a non existent source, or false material attributed to a real source"). Agee says that the C IA “is the only government agency authorized to engage in Black propaganda operations," (our emphasis,. Agee identifies the International Foun dation of Journalists as a wholesale C IA creations out of which nonwitting agents are recruited. Agee lists numerous other C IA press agencies, federations and unions. The C IA was created in 1947 out of the 'old boy' network of the Office of Strategic Studies (OSS) associated with the ‘Eastern banking establishment* to serve their interests. International Press Service (IPS), which has extensively exposed the role of the C IA in the press, views the story behind the spy exposes as reflecting internecine warfare (now es sentidlly over) between the New York bankers (^he Rockefeller group or cabal) and a ore inchoate capitalist grouping which includes hankers and publishers Averell Harrim an, Dorothy Schiff (New York Post), Marshall Field iChirago Sun Times, etc.I, the Sulzber gers (New Yark Times), Katherine Graham (Wash-ngton Post, as well as the W arburg Rothschild and liz a r d Freves hanking groups. IPS maintains the key issue which has motivated the Kennedy Harriman wing of the Democratic Party has been the Kissinger Rockefeller to reign policy especially its use of the C IA covert operations and thermonuclear war provocations against the Soviets. H a rri man is chairman of the Democratic Party Foreign Policy Task Force. IPS outlines the above group as determined to impose a 'neo-new deal', in an attem pt to restart production, exposing the corporatist by Roy Harvey Disease - an International Agent on the railroad, and derided to stay. He has now been with Union Pacific for th irty years, the last tw enty-tw o of which he has been a crane op-rator. Mason participates in many community activities He has been a Deacon at Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church for over twenty years; is Past Grand Pastor of the Prince Hall Grand Chapter O.E.S.: is a member of the Board of Directors of Prince Hall Grand Ixidge of Oregon, F .& .A .M . Prior to being elected President of the Union Pacific club, he was Vice President for two years. Mason and his wife, Beatrice, have raised three sons. Trevol, Jr. is a truck driver in Seattle: James, a graduate of Oregon College of Education, is a counsellor at the Albina Human Resource Center: and Michael is employed by a Portland chemical firm. Mrs. Mason is a member of the Board of Directors of the Union Pacific Club Indies Auxiliary She is serving her second term as Grand W orthy Matron of the Prince Hall Order of Eastern Star. 'And that’s the way it’s n o t . . .’ by Roy Harvey Austrity brings rapid health breakdown Since 1973 the World Health Organiza tion (W HO ) has seen its budget cut some thirty percent, while the Third W orld in particular has had widespread epidemics of an enormous variety diseases such as chagas, meningitis, tuberculosis, shisto- somiasis, cholera, bubonic plague, ma laria have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths throughout Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The W HO cites in a current report that the steady rise in disease has seen a dramatic increase in the last two months. Malaria cases, for example, have risen by 41 percent last year and 91 percent over the past two years throughout Southeast Asia, with three million official cases and at least ten times that number of actually afflicted individuals. W HO notes that some 922 million people are “at risk" given the "large scale cut backs" in funding. The W H O reports that there is large scale biological resistance to common drugs used to treat malaria. There exists large scale resistance among the malaria bearing mosquitoes to D D T , while the most severe type of malaria is resistant to the most common drugs used to treat malaria This is the pattern: as the population is weakened by a declining living standard, diseases become resis tant to the usual remedies and new more virulent strains appear. This is the pattern suggested in the V -toria-A influenza. The half dozen cases of the A-Victoria strain of influenza is viewed by many epidemiologists as part of a trend in a depression induced world wide break down of health. State epidemiologist Dr. John Googins stated that the new strain of influenza was identified last year in Victoria Australia, but was earlier the cause of an epidemic in New Guinea which caused extensive deaths - though how extensive the epidemiologist did not know. The A-Victoria variety of influenza is a variation of the Hong Kong A strain and the Port Chalmers influenza strain which reached epidemic propor tions last year in Europe and in nineteen states in the U.S. Dr. Googins stated that the probable origin of the influenza virus is Southeast Asia. About half a dozen strains of influenza virus are innoculated against in vaccine. I t is unusual for nursing homes to initially be affected so seriously by influenza before schools, flu vaccinations are given more thoroughly in the nursing homes. Vaccine is prepared about half a year in advance. D r. Googins describes Oregon's health condition as “pretty good", but in a less healthy population such new strains could quickly wreck havoc on masses of people, similar to the influenza epidemic in 1918 which killed millions of people. Last year in the U.S. tuberculosis jumped five percent, while previously it had dropped seven to eight percent steadily. Hepatitis B is up ten percent (nearly fifty percent is spread by drug addicts). Encephalitis doubled last year, due to the St. Louis strain. A healthy population can endure relatively mild diseases - quite often do not see a doctor as their general state of health allows them to fight the disease off - but a drop in the standard of living magnifies the silent' cases, and lays the conditions for the disease to spread. Malnutrition pushes an entire population to the edge of holocaust. F«r example measles, mild childhood disease is the second greatest cause of the enormous infant mortality rate in Latin America. Likewise with a breakdown in sanitation, clean water supplies, malnutrition and starvation (such as is now the case in northeast Brazil, where some 150,000 people are facing death from the lack of water and food! magnify infectious hepatitus, tu berculosis. various strains of influenza into deadly killers. Oregon - as part of the international community Bonnie Percival of the Oregon State Health Office outlined the situation as fairly bleak if further budget cuts to health are made: "Many countries are hard put to have any health service at all for a long while last year Columbia (Please turn to page 6 col. 3) austerity measures whereby this faction hopes to wring the capital for production starts out of the lifeblood of the working class. Seantor Frank Church (head of the Senate Intelligence Committee) is now- moving to incor,M»rate an Official Secrets Act in his oversight committee recom C. Kevin Collins, equal employment mendations to Congress. This legislation opportunity officer for the U.S. Arm y would prohibit former C IA and other Corps of Engineers' Portland District, agents from publishing information gain has received the Secretary of the Army's ed during their intelligence employ. This Award for Outstanding Achievement in woidd exclude at least Colonel Prouty Equal Employment Opportunity for 1974. (author of The Secret Team, and ex National Security Council agent Roy Collins, a resident of Northeast P o rt Frankhauser. IPS notes that it is part of land. received the award from Assistant the foreign policy of this anti cahalist Secretary of the Arm y Donald G, group to persue the Soviets into a Brotzman in a ceremony at the Pentagon posture of self containment, rather than in Washington. D.C. He was one of four see the U.S. involved in showdowns with Arm y employees chosen to receive the the Soviets, as in Angola and the Middle award for 1974. East. c The award cited Collins for his A Healthy Press Could Not Tolerate "exceptional efforts in the development C IA Agenry and implementation of a highly successful A recent pastime in the news media Equal Employment Opportunity Plan... must be to guess who’s on the C IA Perceiving the needs of the members of payroll, and who's not the joke being the Portland area community, as well as that those who are not are working for those of his organization, he sympathized nothing. The established and ‘under and personally pursued innovative pro ground' media is ripe for C IA domination, grams which benefited both groups.” in the same way that most left wing Collins, 48. was director for the Social groups are: having no program for Action Commission of the Archdiocese of development, having no coherent notion Portland before joining the Corps in 1972. o f responsibility (in the Spinozan -La- He also served as dean of students at the Rouche sense), the myth of 'objective University of Portland. 1967 69, and as news' flourishes: it becomes objective the first director of the Upward Bound when you 'have your facts straight' and Program at the University of Oreogn in you 'lack partiality.' The sensationalism 1965 66 essential to selling papers is comple A graduate of Columbia Preparatory mented by the impotence of individual High School and the University of reporters and editors who (for a variety Portland. Collins was at Jefferson High of related reasons) are incapable of doing School as a teacher, counsellor, and vice holistic investigative reporting. A series principal from 1953 to 1965. of seemingly disconnected events as He is currently chairman of the sembled so as not to cause alarm pass for Portland Federal Executive Board EEO "the news" - such news is complicit in Committee, and a member of the board of KEVIN COLLINS maintaining working people's passivity directors of the National Catholic Con belongs to St. Andrew's Catholic Church Collins and his wife Joanne are parents (Please turn to page 2 col. 4) ference for Interracial Justice. He and the City Club of Portland. of nine children. Collins wins Army’s EEOC award