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I M rs Trances Schoen-.Ne»3POper Fooa University of Oregon Library e x o rn e , PORTLAND Portland. Oregon Thurxday, February 19, 1976 1%. 10c per ropy Burke takes Caucus reins U.S. Representative Yvonne B. Burke (I) California) was elected Chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus for the second Session of the 94th Congress. Representative Burke is the first female member to head the Caucus. She has served in Congress since 1972, representing the 28th Congressional District in lx>s Angeles. A t the 1972 Democratic election, she played a promt nent role as the Convention's permanent Vice Chairperson. The other Caucus officers elected to serve during the 1976 Congressional Session are: Representative W alter E. Fauntroy (D-D.C.) Vice Chairperson, Representative Cardiss Collins <D-Illi noil). Secretary and Representative Andrew Young (D Georgia), Treasurer. During this past year, Fauntroy held the position of Caucus Secretary and Young held the same position of Caucus Treasurer. Following her election, Representative Burke stated, “I am proud to have the opportunity to serve the Caucus in this office. 1976 is a crucial year in the development of Black political influence and in the development of the Congres sional Black Caucus program. 1 believe that the Caucus has grown immeasurably in stature and influence since its formation in 1971. "At the same time, non Black candi dates for the presidency, the Congress and other elected offices are becoming increasingly sensitive to the Black vote and are asking for guidance on issues affecting minorities and the poor,” she concluded. M n n s r .i. Jordan becomes principal Portland school administrator, teacher, advisory specialist and administrative assistant Michael Jordan has been named principal at Hollyrood Prim ary School. Donald D. McElroy, Deputy Superin tendent of Portland Public Schools an nounced. Jordan. 33, replaces Bruce Craft who was named principal at Chief Joseph Elementary School two weeks ago. Selection of Jordan for the post. McElroy said, followed consultations with staff and citizens in the local school area about the style of administration desired and needed. Superintendent Robert W. Blanchard will recommend his appoint ment he effective Monday, February 16th, to be confirmed by the Board of Education at the February 23rd regular meeting. Jordan was selected for appointment from the principal's eligi bility list and prior to his appointment had proceeded through the regular screening process given all candidates for Portland principalships. Jordan has been on the staff of the Portland Public Schools for six years. In his career with the district he has served in a variety of administrative assign ments. He has been a community advisory specialist in two areas, an administrative assistant at Washington High School, and a couse lor at Hayhurst. His current assignment is as administra tive assistant at Penninsula. Jordan has also successfully completed a Ford Foundation internship for the training of minority school administra tors. The newly appointed Acting Principal holds an M .A. degree. He is a First Lieutenant in the A ir National Guard. Jordan is married and is the father of one child. McElroy said Jordan began his new job on Monday, February 16th, even though it is an official school holiday. He is the son of George and M artha B. Jordan. by Roy Harvey Peru is the most interesting choice on Secretary of State Kissinger's laitin American itenery Peru recently moved o|H-nly for the new world economic order (a suspension or cancellation of dollar debts, and a commitment toward raw materials for industrial production with the inclusion of the Soviet bloc into three way world trade and planned develop Portland Observer launches subscription campaign The Portland Observer will sponsor its first nationwide subscription campaign IF ro m our knowledge, such a subscription drive has never been undertaken in thi« ■ part of the country. HnnJi7 l ° T rP,<1e7 throughout the country informed about local and Ith J T o U l B t a e / L m . u r 11 re V e" l ° the Hlack Ninety five percent ol Also l i e ° r,,gWn ,OCaled in Multnomah County k. I Also, The Portland Observer would be a wonderful gift anytime of the ■anniversaries, birthdays, graduation presents for students leaving the area a Im ovjng present... " ■ organizations'^^ l. tO cornmunity ,n "PPortunity to earn money for their lhu 1 ? ’ ° f t r y 'nvK tO m° ney throuKh popcorn selling, candy selling I and raffles will become a thing of the past L . k r \ L Z e . 7 2 bM Th?" r#te S ’ ^ " i p t i o n sold, the seller receives 12.50. This is a wonderful opportunity for churches, schools, clubs. i sororitiM and othpr community organizations to raise extra money Also thia is an opportunity for individuals to earn money on the side. I An example of the money which can be raised is if a club with 26 members held I each member responsible for three subscriptions, the club would earn »187.50. I f a l i Uri h Wt h a0° . memb* r ' heid eafh member responsible for three subscriptions. I the church would earn »1,600. This holds true for schools, and other organizations A housewife selling 80 subscriptions per month could earn »200 per month. •*5Unr 80 »ubscrlptions a month of the Portland Observer would earn per month. ♦ I * * ball rolling. Now is the time to begin to put >xtra money in your ■A and strengthen the leading Black newspaper in the Northwest. |»U8 Committee adopts school plans The Area I I I Advisory Committee has adopted resolutions that, if approved by the school board, will affect Sabin and Irvington Schools. The Sabin Advisory Committee re commended that Sabin become a Kinder garten through fifth grade school, and that sixth, seventh and eighth grades be sent to Area I I I schools that have vacancies. The proposed receiving schools are Beaumont, 4043 N .E. F re mont; Creston, 4701 S.E. Bush; Glenco, 825 S.E. 51st; M t. Tabor, 5800 S.E. Ash; Hosford, 2303 S.E. 28th Place; and Sellwood, 81100 S.E. 15th. It was originally proposed that Sabin and Alameda Schools become Primary Schools (Kindergarten through fifth) and that Beaumont become a middle school. Resislence by Beaumont parents caused the Sabin community to abandon for now the idea of a three school combination and to persue a Kindergarten through fifth magnet school for Sabin. This hope is that parents in the Alameda and Beaumont area will send their primary students to Alameda and that this will eventually bring about an Alameda Beaumont Sabin cluster within two or three years. The Sabin Advisory Committee asked for six guarantees for the sixth, seventh and eighth grade students: (1) That they attend schools as good or better than Sabin; (2, That the administration meet with each family to make transfer as easy as possible; (3) That each family have the opportunity to select their school; 14) That the Sabin administration actively support transferring students; (5) That information be provided on each receiv ing school; ,6) That there be activity buses for transferred students. Bill Peck, principal of Sabin Elemen tary School, envisions assisting each family to select schools for their upper grade students, including visits to receiving schools. Ray Steed, Superintendent of Area I II , said the district plans to place a full day kindergarten and four year olds at Sabin and to develop it into an Early Childhood Education Center. Ellis Casson, Area Advisory Committee member, asked for assurance that white four and five year olds bused into the four, five and six year old programs would remain through the fifth grade. He said the community has grave concerns about the program that allows white parents to "reap the harvest of ECE" then return their children to their neighborhood schools, leaving the Albina Schools with Black student bodies. In other action the committee ap proved the reorganization of Fernwood into a middie school, serving the Ixiurelhurst, Hollywood, Irvington areas and part of Normandale. The remaining four schools w ill be K in d e rg a rte n through fifth schools, Irvington sixth, seventh and eighth grades are currently transported to schools throughout the area. I f the plan is adopted by the school board, they will attend Fernwood. Ellis Casson was selected to be Area I l l ’s representative on the Administra tive Candidates Screening Committee, which screens candidates for principal, vice principal and administrative assis tant. > President Ford answers Jordan’s complaints The W hite House has answered charges made by Vernon Jordan, Execu tive Director of the National Urban league, as he spoke in Portland and across the nation about President Ford’s State ot the Union Message: "There was not one single reference to Black people or other minorities in the whole speech, not onel Not one damn word!” “Nothing about the government's role in enforcing the civil rights laws, nothing about the disproportionate sufferings Black people have endured in the current Depression, nothing about mob attempts to deny Blacks their constitutional rights in desegregated schools. "Nothing about the needs, the hopes, the aspirations of the largest minority group in the country, the most urbanized people in our nation of cities, the majority of the population in the nation's Capital - nothing, not one word!" The W hite House memo to the Black press states, “President Ford, in his State of the Union Message, dealt with a number of issues of critical concern to the Nation's Black citizens. “Throughout his address. President Ford proposed recommendations on subjects like energy, housing assistance and child nutrition -- subjects which bear directly on the lives of all the country’s citizens, especially its minorities and poor.” Jordan says of the Message, "Instead of the longawaited institution of a national health insurance program that assures everyone, rich or poor, of high quality, comprehensive health care, we get a proposal for some kind of major medical expense coverage for Medicare recipients and a vague hope that some day there might be some form of a plan to widen middle class- participation in private insurance programs. “Now that's just not good enough. I t doesn’t deal with the issue at all, which is how can we as a society construct a health care system that delivers quality services to all, regardless of race or income?" "W elfare is treated the same way. The President says it isn't 'the right time for massive and sweeping changes while we are still recovering from the recession'. But now is exactly the right time to replace the welfare system with an income maintenance program that in cludes a universal refundable income tax credit." "President Ford also announced that he would submit latei this year legisla tion granting him authority to adjust various income assistance programs to make them more consistent, equitable (Please turn to p. 2 col. 4) Mayoral Race Surveyed — Frank Ivancie spots a fire V by Roy Harvey Commissioner Frank Ivancie's phik> sophy parallels roughly that of Gerald Ford's: regeneration of industrial pro duction through U x breaks to industry, industrial development but at the same time a ‘Governor Brown type' belt tightening. California's Governor Brown is known for balancing the budget by cuts in social services. Inflation, in Ivancie's view, “is largely due to wild government spending," Ivancie is not an advocate of the "new deal" CCC and W PA type programs of labor intensive projects, though he himself went through the CCC when he was seventeen years old and held the experience to be "meaningful". Ivancie's read maps and spotted fires. Ivancie impresses one as having the morality of a conservative Catholic Kissinger seeks safe spot in Latin America / menll Kissinger's effort will be to destabilize that process: to bring Peru into line But Peru is not really safe. It is understandable that the Secretary would avoid Chile, out of fear of further o|M-ning to public view his C IA creation: the gorilla dictatorship of Pinochet. General Pinochet has recently In-gun to attack his intimate circle, arresting Christian Democrat allied General Arel lano Stark, while pro C IA la man who is 97433 Sabin, Irvington OBSERI/ER \o l. ti No. I I O re ro n now probably firmly in thv hands ol the Harriman Ball IM F faction) Christian Democrat head Edward Frei has issued a sixty page attaek of Pinochet Chile is not aafe for Henry. Kissinger also chose not to stop in Argentina, where Isabel Peron's ouster is lieing demanded. The working class has not yet been pacified to its Schaction fate (Hjalm ar Schact was Hitler's financial minister; the'old wizard’ who dressed up the human recycling schemes designed to protect the bankrupt Deutschmark by systematically lowering the standard of living of the German population, and ridding Germany of its unions and political organizations which stood in his way). A year ago Argentina's foreign debt was »10 billion. The International Monetary Fund in the past several years has waged a battle to collect the debt service (which in 1975 was nearly »3.5 billion). To meet that debt payment, Argentina has seen an inflation of nearly 500 |M-rcent, while wages have gone up only 60 percent. Argentina, like Brazil before its C IA imposed dictatorship, wa„ one of the world’s most productive and healthy countries. The IM F imposed austerity in the past few years has created an austerity and police control that has seen a near destruction of the unions, which the ever present AAA death squad assassinating labor leaders and leftists, while an increasing number of workers and peasantry have joined the Montonero guerillas in the Argentine jungles. To pay off the debt, only 40 percent of 1974's imports came into Argentina last year; unemployment is now about 40 percent, while agricultural and industrial production nears collapse as the capital (Please turn to p. 2'eol. 3) Democrat: the tried and the true will work - “sober deliberate economic moves to gradual recovery...cut out the fancy programs...manpower and C E T A pro grams are an incomprehensible mens gerie they come to us on a spoon-fed basis: 'here it is - vote on it.’ Goldschmidt thrives on that kind of short run orientation - an orientation that has little concern with the end result; his is a government of processes." The Commissioner has won the support of the Portland Policemen's Association (PPA); he is the only mayoral candidate to have gotten union support. I t is Ivancie's notion of "outlanders", coincid ing with his qualified criticisms of the federal police agency, the Law Enforce ment Assistance Administration (L E A A ) which has won the police to Ivancie. " It is not ‘outsiders' as such." explains Ivancie, “it is the bringing in of people who are put in top positions at top salaries over people often more responsible than themselves." The Commissioner cites, for example, Daniel Boggan, the recently hired th irty year did Director of Budget and Management from Flint, Michigan. “Boggan was the man in Flint responsible for laying off city employees, and then hiring them back through the use of C E T A funds.” Critics say that this is a practice widely used to bust up unions -- even though the wages paid by C ETA may be union scale wages initially. Ivancie says. "I don't approve, of that." Boggan admits to the use of C E T A funds in Flint to hire some 57 employees back, but explains that the plan was submitted to the F lin t City Council: " It wasn't anything secretive or solely associated with me..." In an interview Boggan said that a "pretty important” way to stop inflation was "increased productivity” by city workers, but declined to elaborate on how important “pretty important" was. nor other ways to curb inflation: “if I knew that. I'd be advising the President.” Frank Ivancie contends that Gold schmidt is “building a patronage system. He brings in outsiders like Boggan who must develop personal loyalty to him.... “they have no other lies than to the mayor." Ivancie answers the counter charge that be is 'an outsider' by explaining that he came to Oregon 35 years ago, having taught school for nine of those years before working in city government. Another outlander' coin ciding with the P P A ’s criticisms of Gold schmidt was the selection of Police Chief Baker. Baker was chosen over the six interviewed candidates with the assis tance of ex-CIA covert operations head Robert Kiley, according to the Seattle Times. Ivancie is critical of Gold schmidt's "political appointees", citing the L E A A Crime Prevention Bureau and T ri-M et as “having all the earmarks of a political machine..." as opposed to ap pointment by qualification. C O M M IS S IO N E R F R A N K IV A N C IE 'A Phony' W illam ette Week publisher Ron Buel says "Francis Ivancie is a phony." Buel explains that because of Buel's long time association with Goldschmidt "some will distort" what he has to say. Covering himself in that manner. Buel continues: "my thesis is simple. I t is that Francis Ivancie symbolizes the fundamental problem with American politics today. He represents a widespread style and method which is not only dishonest." but corrupting of others...Ivancie's “philo sophy is political opportunism" and so on. Ivancie won't get Buel's vote. Ivancie's conservativism is hardly 'phony' nor any of the other epithets the ex-Goldschmidt aide uses. Ivancie has two problems. Mayoral candidate Francis J. Ivancie's strength lies in his inchoate criticisms of Mayor Neil Gold schmidt, and not in his program to stop austerity: the crushing budget cuts that will undermine and destroy social ser vices (education, welfare, health, sanita tion) in Portland. A related weakness of Ivancie is that he has not yet identified Goldschmidt's controllers. Ivancie sees Goldschmidt as one who is tying the city to revenue sharing and federal govern ment programs run by Washington, D.C. But Ivancie himself has no clear articula tion of an alternative. Ivancie Not A fte r the Gay Vote - Which Is Said To Be Suable Contrary to Goldschmidt's apologists, Ivancie's stand is 'moral'. I t comes out; in part, this way: W e in Portland...“are attracting problems with this grab-bag approach - C E T A pr- grams for Gypsies and Indians and queers...Portland is a dumping ground for social problems." W hat is required of a mayor - as of all publicaly elected officials and of humanity at this historic juncture - is the determination to understand the scope of the international depression-collapse and to move Portland's population toward a resolution of that crisis. Next Week: Albina Polled. McCammon seeks Mosee’s position Dave McCammon, a 34 year old chartered life underwriter and vice chairman of the Portland Towing Board, has announced his candidacy for the County Commission Seat held by Dan Mosee. He filed petitions with more than 4,400 Multnomah County Democrats requestion that his name be placed in nomination. McCammon said that the major prob lems facing the Multnomah County Commission are protection of the few remaining green areas in the metro politan area, especially Sauvies Island and the Sandy River Gorge, budget shortfalls, and tax reform. "The county must place in front of the voters a proposal that would replace the property tax with a graduated income tax, McCammon said: “the county should base its tax directly on the state tax and contract with the state government for its collection, avoiding the form ation of another county bureaucracy." McCammon chose the Hoyt Hotel for his announcement to emphasize the need for more thorough, long range considera tion of county capital spending than has been shown in the past. McCammon stated. "A dramatic example of the county's budgetary ineptness was its expenditure of $650.000 under a Mosee proposal to purchase the Hoyt Hotel, only to have it lay idle for three years, deteriorate, and remain off the tax rolls because it was later found that the expense for a new office facility would have been substantially less than the cost of renovation." Dave McCammon has been an in surance representative for the past nine years and is a trustee of the Portland Highland Games Association. He avas educated at Lewis and Clark College and lives in Southeast Portland. McCam mon's wife Linda is a Media Specialist/ Librarian in the David Douglas District. t
