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Voi. 6 No. 11
Portland. Oregon
Thursday, January 29. 197«
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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
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Mason heads Union Pacfic Club
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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
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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
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ference for Interracial Justice.
He
and the City Club of Portland.
of nine children.
Collins wins Army’s EEOC award