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Portland Observer Young joins Washington staff P re sid en t F o rd nom inated James Lloyd Young, a career Federal executive honored for innovative leadership and aggressive management policies, to be Assistant for Housing Management. D e partment of Housing snd Urban D e velopment. Young. Regional Administrator for Region X, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, succeeds H.R. Crawford who resigned January 27th. C om m enting on Young's selection, H U D Secretary Carla A. Hills said: “Young brings to H U D 'scen tral office the proven qualities of leadership and judge ment that made him an outstanding success in the field. W e need his talents in the very important office of Housing Management.” Young in 1975 received HU D 's Distin guished Service Aw ard, highest honor of the Departm ent, for his "innovative leadership, aggressive management poli cies snd comprehensive planning efforts which have greatly enhanced Region X's ability to respond to public needs. The federal official also received the H U D Certificate of M erit for outstanding leadership and initiative in reducing by 56 percent the inventory of Secretary acquired properties in the Region X jurisdiction, Washington, Oregon. Idaho and Alaska. The City of Seattle gave Young its highest honor. F irst Citizen Award, for “outstanding service to the people of this Region and particularly in Seattle.” Appointed Region X Director in April, 1974, Young joined H U D in the fall of 1969, the year the Region was created in HU D's reorgsnization of the field struc ture. In February 1972, Young was named chairman of the Northwest Federal Re gional Council, consisting of Regional Administrators of nine domestic Federal human resources agencies. Born September 8, 1932 in Swain, Arkanaas, Young was for eight years a high school teacher and athletic coach in Pueblo, Colorado. He was graduated from W estern State College, Gunninson. Colorado. Following a stint as counselor super visor of an experimental manpower-de velopment program of the U.S. Depart ment of Labor, Young became executive director of Pueblo's Community Action Program (CA P) in 1964. Tw o years later, he became a community-development trainer for the U niversity of Missouri, working with 123 Community Action Agencies in the midwest, for a year. A fte r that he was district supervisor in San Francisco with the W estern Regional Office of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. Property tax referral deadline near April 1st is the deadline to apply for three property tax reduction programs - residential deferral, senior citizen's de ferral and veteran's exemption, and Ore gon Departm ent of Revenue Director John J. Ixibdell alerts sll qualified tax payers. The residential deferral was adopted by the 1975 legislature to reduce pro perty taxes for persons whose homes are located in areas zoned for commercial or in d u s tria l land use. I f a person's application for the single family residen tial assessment is accepted, the land is vslued as if it were zoned residential which generally has a lower tax rate. The special assessment applies to land only, not the buildings. However, the taxes are merely de ferred. When the home is disqualified, such as by transfer of ownership, back taxes are calculated based on the com mercial or industrial value of the land at the time of the transfer and at the latest tax rate. This figure is multiplied by the number of years, up to ten, the land was on the special assessment. The senior citizen's deferral allows persons 62 and over to avoid payment of property taxes as long as they live on the property. Taxes plus accrued interest at six percent per year must be paid when the property no longer qualifies for the deferral. Veterans of the Spanish American, Philippine Insurrection or Boxer Rebel lion: certain disabled veterans and wi dows of veterans may have $7,500 of their re s id e n tia l p ro p e rty value exem pted from taxation. This can provide a substantial tax benefit for veterans and their widows. The reduced taxes do not have to be paid back. by a medical doctor is required, so community operated projects are not funded. Scheff said a new system of mental health services must be developed. "We cannot reform the present system - it is inadequate.” In California, patients were removed hospitals and put into care homes, but the quality of services did not improve. The way to change the system, accord ing to Scheff. is to put lay people in charge. These people, with training would deal with the person in a more honest way. “When people tell what they are feeling there is tension and strain and apprehension, but it gets to the point and clears the air.” Scheff believes that lay people would be better able to let persons express emotion and to respond to it. One model described is the "Blow out center", where persons in severe psy Labor Commissioner Bill Stevenson announced that seven recently appointed civil rights investigators have completed three weeks of intensive training and have been assigned individual case loads. Stevenson said that an investigator's job at the Bureau of Labor is two-fold: e to provide complainants with infor mation about their rights and responsi bilities in filing a complaint, and; W ) \ I ( s( A M U stration by mail procedure may have caused some confusion because it does not discuss Oregon's closed Prim ary system," Clark explained. As of March 8, 1976. the Elections Division reported that 18,138 (or 5.8 percent) of the County's 312,751 register ed voters had registered as unaffiliated. This compares to 12,867 (or 4.2 percent) unaffiliated registered voters in the County as of March 1, 1975. Under Oregon law, if a voter is registered as neither a Democrat or a Republican, he can only vote on ballot The General Membership Meeting of the N A A C P will be Sunday, March 21st at 4:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at Hughes United Methodist Church, 111 N .E . F ail ing. The speaker according to President Ellis H. Casson, w ill be Roy Harvey, who w ill speak on the su b ject. “ W hy Depressions Happen - And How W e Stop This One." Harvey is a journalist. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. and the University of Washington with a M .A. He is the author of two books on Angola. The public is invited to attend. (Continued from page 1 col. 6) birth during a ceremony that includes a feast and give-away. Ka-mook knew that would be impossible for her, so she asked her grandmother to hold the ceremony before the birth. "They had it Christmas Eve," she said. "They knew she'd be a girl. So when she was born, she had her name already.” The baby was born by cesarian section by Wesley Memorial Hospital in Wichita. "I still thought I might get out on bail," recalled Ka mook, "so I started to nurse her. But after two days I gave it up because I knew I wasn't going any where.” An aunt from Oklahoma arrived to take the infant, to care for her along with the Banks' eighteen month old daughter. Tashina. Ka mook returned to her jail cell. Now, finally re united in San Francisco, Dennis Ranks held his daughter Iron Door Woman high over the pulpit at the People’s Temple and told the late night assembly, "Your love has moved the iron Job seminar The Women's Component of the Urban League of greater Portland la b o r Edu cation Advancement Program (L E A P ) will hold a "Job Awareness in '76" Seminar on March 24, 1976 at the Sheraton Motor Inn. Lloyd Center. The keynote speaker will be Ms. Nellie Fox, political director of Oregon A FL-C IO . The luncheon speaker will be Ms. Fred dye Pettit, Administrative Assistant to Mayor Goldschmidt. The seminar runs from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.. $10 registre tion, includes lunch. Panel participants will include local women in non traditional positions and several female counselor/recruiters from other L E A P components throughout the United States. The seminar will be divided into groups: 1.) Should Women Train for non traditional occupations? 2.) C hanging em p lo ye r a ttitu d e s in non- traditional areas of employment; and 3.) Opportunities in non traditional occupa lions. doors." But for the ten week old child, other barred doors loom in the near future. Her mother faces trial in Kansas and in Oregon on charges of possession of firearms. H er father is wanted for sentencing in South Dakota on a convic tion of being armed w ith a dangerous weapon during a riot. (He had picked up . a police club from the ground during a demonstration in Custer in 1973.) He is also charged in the firearm s case in Oregon with Ka-mook. Despite the charges, both parents say they're optimistic. “I think it will turn out all right, the case and all," says Ka-mook. If so. she hopes, she and Dennis and the children will one day return to a place they discovered very far north, “where the N orthern lights are south of you." There, in an Indian community where the men and women live off caribou, make clothing from hides and have no electri city or telephones, Iron Door Woman may grow up. (Continued from page 1 col. 6) decolonization of the former Portuguese territories demonstrates that minority white rule in Africa is a lost cause. This is not to say that African nations will not have other problems and that vestiges of colonial power will totally disappear. The fighting in the newly independent Spa msh Sahara is witness to this reality. But there is no reason to believe that the African continent will not be totally liberated. And there is a terribly important need for our national Black community and all people of good will to organize and tell our government what kind of policy we favor towards southern Africa. It is not SAVE ’6 NYLON TWEED ROOM-SIZE RUGS MENS’ MOC-TOE SLIP-ONS SIZE REGULARLY 15J7 Fine style and quality, at a low sale price! Poly meric upper with long wearing man made soles and heels. 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