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to the City ol Salem'. 11« million aewerage plant becauae ef the
prime contractor. Butler Con.truetion ol Salt Lake City, laded
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PORTLAND
OBSERVER
Voi. « No. 12
Portland, Oregon
Thuraday. February 5. 197«
10« P«r c* f >7
Concordia
celebrates
Black History
DR. ERNEST HARTTOC
One of the major Black History Week
events in Portland is Concordia College’s
third annual Black Awareness Week.
February 8th through 15th. Numerous
events are planned throughout the week,
involving studenta, faculty and guesta.
The week's activities begin on Sunday,
February 8th at 3:00 p.m. with a Soul
Food Banquet. The banquet will feature
young peoples' choirs from three local
Black churches. A keynote address will
be given by II J. Belton Hamilton, Jr.,
U.S. Administrative Judge for the
Department of Health. Education and
Welfare.
A series of films on various dimensions
of Black history will be shown Monday
through Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Discus
sions will follow each film.
On Thursday, February 12th. at 11:00
a.m
Dr. Ernest Hartzog. Assistant
Superintendent of the Portland Public
Schools, School District No. 1, will
address the rampus community.
Climaxing the week's activities on
Sunday. February 15th at 8:00 p/n. is a
concert by Paul Hill at the Hilton Hotel.
M r Hill is an accomplished songwriter
and singer from I xm Angeles, California.
Two of his songs. "Lean On Me" and “I’ll
Be There" are million record sellers. He
declined a $600,000 recording contract
with Motown Records to teach first
graders in Inglewood. California.
“We are extending an invitation to the
public to come and celebrate with us at
the contributions Blacks have made,"
stated Kozell Gilmore, Director of the
Minority Affairs Office and coordinator of
the week. Gilmore noted that one of the
reasons why whites have such little
appeciation for Blacks is their failure to
recognize the contributions Blacks have
made to this country. “We celebrate
Black Awareness Week so that all people
realize the contributions Blacks have
made to the development of our country.”
The depression has hit the Multnomah
County Department of Human Re
sources, which haa been asked to reduce
its budget by 2.5 million for the 1975197€
fiscal year. These cuts do not yet reflect
President Ford's austerity budget, an
nounced in hit recent State of the Union
address, but is necessary to bring the
county bud yet into balance by June 30th,
1976. According to Oregon law, the state
and local governments must operate
within available funds.
For many years Multnomah County
had a tax surplus, wca able to meet its
obligations and hold a contingency fund in
the banks, drawing interest. In the last
few years the contingency fund has been
decreased, and this year it must be used
to meet budget costs.
As is usually the case, social services
must bear the brunt of the budget ruts.
The customary method to save money
has been to consolidate programs, then
rut the staff.
One of the major factors in the
shortage of funds is the changeover from
social programs receiving direct federal
funds to revenue sharing, where the
states receive grants of money and can
use them as they please. *
Both
Multnomah County and the City of
Portland have used money that could
have gone into social services for other
programs.
Observers close to the Department of
Human Resources point out that no
matter wha' money saving cuts are
made, the taxpayers will have to pay in
the end and the poor will bear increased
suffering.
"When the public health nurse can't
visit the elderly in their homes and when
they can't get proper health care, they
will go to hospitals and nursing homes
and the taxpayers will pay for their care.
“When the Detox center is closed,
alcoholics will be in jail, where costs are
higher, or will be on the streets.
"When health care and nutrition
services are rut drastically, rommunic
able disease will increase.
"There is just no way for the taxpayer
to avoid paying the bill. These cuts only
make the bill higher in the tong run. and
add to the suffering of the poor."
The Department of Human Resources
has submitted proposed ruts and haa left
job vancancies unfilled. Some employees
of the H.R. wonder when this department
must absorb a great portion of the loss,
while others, such as the District
Attorney's office continue to hire.
The Department of Human Services
took severe cuts in 1974, so the proposed
cuts are not a true reflection of the real
crisis in social services. The effect of the
ruts are much more serious than most
obversers suspect. Not only will $2.5
million in !m*«l dollars be lost to social
service programs, but the withdrawal of
this local money will cut off approxi
mately $1 million in federal matching
money that would have come into the
community.
The first round of proposed cuts are:
• Veterans Program - elimination.
The Veterans Program offers counselling
and emergency assistance to veterans. It
was cut from $100.000 and six counselors
to $15,000 and two counselors in 1974.
now it will be eliminated.
a Public Guardian cot by 31 percent
or savings of $15,000.
The Public-
Guardian services provides legal guard
ians for persons who are unable to handle
their own money and whose estates are
too small to warrant hiring an attorney.
• RAB (««tract - drug program to be
picked up by the state. Savings of $6,000.
• Family Education Center - elimi
nated, savings of $5,000. Offers parental
training and guidance.
• Community Coordinators -- elimi
nated, saves $102,968.
These are
Quadrant managers who man neighbor
hood offices and facilitate communication
between persons needing services and
the programs.
a Law
Enforcement
Counselling
-
elim inated, savin gs $10,000.
Thia
program provides training in human
relations problems (marital, family prob
lems. neighborhood conflicts, etc.) tc
police offices to assist them in handling
these without retorting to arrest. This
program is available to the Portland
Police Bureau and Multnomah County
Sheriffs Office, but is used mainly by the
Sheriff.
• Involuntary Commitment security,
transportation and subpeona. • Fifty
percent cut. saving $15,000.
These
counsellors assist mentally ill persons
who are in the process of involuntary
commitment to the state hospital. This
function will be handled by the police
• Mettopotitaa Yeuth Couauriaaiau -
elimination of the county’s share of this
program, which is funded jointly by the
county and the City of Portland. Saving
$36.286.
• Detox Center - elimination, saves
$312.110. This center provides emer
gency care and counselling for alcoholics
and serves mainly those who are
"picked up from the streets in a drunken
condition." They will now go to jail or
remain in the street without care.
• Shelf Feod Quality - elimination,
saves $18,000. Thia program provides
sanitation inspection of foods and meats
in retail outlets, and supervises the
return of foods recalled by the federal
government because of health hazards.
(Please turn to p. 9 col. 2)
Mayor visits Albiaa
Mayor Neil Goldschmidt will meet with
the Black Justice Committee on February
11th to discuss community affairs related
to the Mayor's office. The meeting, the
BJCs first monthly community meeting,
will be held at Matt Dishman Community
Center at 7:30 p.m. Chairman Baruti
Artharee urges all members and invites
concerned citizens to attend.
Thomas wins bus depot discrimination case
A final order was issued Friday by Bill
Stevenson. Oregon I^abor Commissioner,
in a civil rights complaint against N.H.
Kneisel. Incorporated, operator of the
Trailwsys Bus Depot in Portland.
The complaint was filed on March 9th,
1971, by Carl Thomas, a Black man who
was employed as a janitor/baggage
handler. Thomas had applied for a
position as ticket agent and according to
testimony, his application was not
accepted. He was subjected to an oral
interview not given to other candidates.
Testimony at the August 1972 hearing
further showed that there was no written
job description and that Thomas was
qualified for the job. White employees
had previously been moved from jani
tor.baggage handler jobs to ticket agent.
Subsequent to his filing a complaint
with the Civil Rights Bureau and
notifying the Trailways company of his
complaint. Thomas suffered harassment
at the hands of his employer.
Norman Kneisel. owner of N.H.
Kneisel. Incorporated, make it known to
other employees that he did not appre
ciate Thomas' action in filing the com
plaint, and Thomas was avoided by other
employees.
Then, on April 27th, 1971, Thomas was
fired for refusing to follow an order qf his
supervisor. Thomas was ordered to clear
a room that was not ordinarilly part of his
job. and thinking it to be part of the
harassment against him, refused. He was
terminated abruptly by his supervisor,
which was authorized by Kneisel, and
approved by Thomas' union. Service
Employees No. 49. Within fifteen minutes
he was given his check and excused
Kneisel refused to listen to his explana
tion although he had been employed for
three and a half years.
to cut methadone doses as a way of
punishment or control. Milne states that
methadone is very difficult to kick, more
so than heroin, with withdrawal lasting in
some cases up to three months.
Methadone Works. Nat with a bang bat
with a whimper.
Jim Kenny, Director of Treatment for
the methadone program, a copy of T.S.
Eliot's hymns to banality (The Waste
Land) on his coffee table, draws lines on a
sheet of paper, explaining how metha
done blocks heroin: “It works; it's a last
resort treatment modality...this is not a
pleasant place...we want people off the
program...if people are into other drugs,
it shows in their urinalysis."
Critics of the use of methadone and the
methadone maintenance program argue
that the program maintains a drug
oriented climate of potential agent
informers, strike breakers and assorted
army of potential thugs which could be
used by the government. One Detroit
recruiter of mercenaries for Angola
stated recently that he especially wanted
methadone addicts, adding that he could
"whip them in shape in a couple of
weeks." Psychological lability charac
terizes the drug culture population in
general. A susceptibility to psychological
control (vis weekly counseling sessions)
and the control mechanism of the daily
dope offers government agencies a
potential zombie to be used especially in a
period of economic collapse against labor
and political organizations. This, critics
say. has already been the case in New
York, Boston, and San Francisco.
Michael Powers was expelled from
high school when he was a sophomore for
suspicion in dealing drugs'. To this day
he prides himself on having sold for many
(Please turn to p. 8 col. 1)
Commissioner Stevenson found N.H.
Kneisel, Inc. and Norman H. Kneisel
guilty of discrimination in his refusal to
consider Thomas for promotion and the
harassment following his complaint and
ordered Kneisel to pay Thomas $4,000 in
damages. He also ordered Kneisel to
adopt an affirmative action plan under
Civil Rights Division supervision. He was
jrdered to offer Thomas a position as
ticket agent and to write him a letter of
apology.
In the matter of the termination,
Stevenson found the firing had followed
union contract procedure although it was
"unusually abrupt."
Drugs in Oregon : Methadone maintenance
by Roy Harvey
Filth in the lfrug» in Portland Series
"I wasn't born into this kind of culture
I never knew it until I was forced into
it. The whole atmosphere is disgust
ing..." Bill, a hemopheliar. is one of the
few methadone addicts who did not have
a criminal habit before getting on the
methadone program. Other methadone
addicts are generally less critical: Dennis,
a 25 year old janitor who has been on
methadone three years is defensive of
any criticism of the program: "Hey. these
people (staff) have their stuff together
people who have come from Washington
(D.C.).” Asked when he was going to get
off methadone. Dennis said: “When I get
my stuff together." Why did he get on
heroin in the first place. Dennis said “I
was going nowhere, doing nothing, and
along came Horse..."
Along Came Methadone | Dollies,
Dolophine, dolls, amidone I
The methadone maintenance program
in Portland has over 400 addicts who
daily drink from 50 to 100 mg. of
methadone which blocks their heroin
addiction. The program began in 1969,
and has had 2.065 admissions.
The
program costs about $500,000 a year,
with the State of Oregon paying about
twenty percent of that. Over eighty
percent of the methadone addicts have
criminal records, usually drug related.
The average age (white males) is about 27
years; Rlarks on the program tend to be
older, and married; women (mostly
white) tend to be younger.
Methadone was developed by the
German chemical giant company I.G.
Farben in 1941, after years of collabora
tion with Standard Oil’s research opera
lions. Farben. one of the initial funders of
the Nazi movement, was ostensibly
searching for a substitute drug for
morphine.
Methadune possessed the
properties of addictive opium deriva
lives, but none of euphoria-inducing
agents, leaving the user functional for
purposes of dull, repetitive tasks, en
hancing the capacity of the user for heavy
labor by dulling both the sense of reality
and the sense of pain. Farben named the
drug 'Dolphine' in honor of Adolph Hitler
the drug was immediately put to use
"on the tens of thousands of Jews and
Eastern European prisoners of war - the
world's first "methadone maintenance
centers' were in the concentration camps
of Nazi Germany."
The Pushers
Eli Lilly Company, the sole distributor
of methadone, began production of the
drug in the U.S. in 1948. In the early 50's
an abundance of the synthetic drug could
readily be obtained on the streets of
Harlem. After this ‘experiment’, the
drug was pulled back for more research.
After ten years, the drug was re-released
legally this time - to be celebrated as
the solution to spreading heroin addic
tion.
In 1964 Doctors Vincent Cole (Rocke
feller University) and Marie Nyswander
issued a report proclaiming the drug
usable on heroin addicts, alcoholics, and
“any patient satisfying...for criteria":
willingness; susceptibility of the indi
vidual to "psychiatric therapies"; capa
bility of “ordinary" (dull, repetitive tasks
at “increased productivity levels."
Thomas Milne (director of pharmacy
services for Multnomah County Labora
tory) notes that methadone addiction
clearly offers a way of controlling people,
citing abuses by its administrators “in
other cities": the cutting or threatening
Europe’s New Year storms: Were they man - made?
IPS Special Report)
Introduction
The events surrounding the storms
that hit the European continent around
New Year, 1976 make possible the
establishment of a prima facie case that
the storms thebiselves resulted from
NATO coordinated weather modification
aimed at Europe. This weather modifica
tion operation had the deliberate inten
tion of bringing into play civil defense and
military personnel who, in the wake of
the emergency, would regiment and
demoralize the areas' working clas>
population.
The following brief will outline the
history of weather modification; ^lATO
U.S. operational capabilities in weather
modification; the unusual weather his
tories of the storms, including informa
tion on deliberate sabotage of European
storm warning systems before they hit,
and the military apparatus that was
poised to carry out civil defense functions
in the wake of storm destruction. As will
be clearly shown in the brief, the actions
of civil defense personnel during and
after the storms parallel military opera
tions necessary to establish and maintain
national military governments capable of
enforcing the austerity programs which
currently stand as adopted government
policy in the United States, Canada and
Western Europe.
On December 30th, at noon Greenwich
Mean Time, a United States weather
satellite observed a low pressure weather
system east of Richmond, Virginia, and
south of Newfoundland. By the time this
system died, it had become the worst
storm to hit Eur >e in 29 years. Striking
the Northern Irish coast on January 2nd,
intensifying drastically over Scotland,
sweeping destruction over the North Sea
and Northern Europe with 100 mph
winds and severe flooding, this was
followed after one day by yet another
storm, nearly as severe as the first.
The events in the scenario of the 1976
New Year storms indicate that much
more was involved than meteorological
phenomena and subsequent recovery.
The storm wave took place in the
context of an on going economic and
political drive by the Rockefeller allied
international financial fnction to preserve
the dollar denominateff debt structure
against escalating pressures of depres
sion collapse. Related to this political
framework is the fact of on going
research into and implementation of
geophysical warfare techniques. At the
39th session of the General Assembly, the
Soviet Union, recognizing a significant
weather warfare potential already devel
oped by NATO forces, entered a call to
eliminate the danger of the modification
of the environment and climate for
military and other purposes, since these
would be incompatible with ensuring
international security, human welfare
and health.
The events involving mobilization of
the affected populations, the incidents
involving agencies concerned with vari
ous aspects of the storm, and the
suspicious nature of the storm tracks,
indicate that a chaos and confusion
operation to be directed at the European
working class was in place, ready to be
triggered under the right conditions.
Winter storms exist in plenty. To trigger
a weather warfare operation it would be
necessary only to wait for a storm
suitable for modification, particularly one
over mountainous Scotland, and then
begin the operation.
The Scenario
The satellite information giving the
location of the storm was supplied by the
National Weather Satellite Service, and
(Please turn to p. 9 col. 3)
a F IR S T STORM
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