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.
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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
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Scheff recommended that professionals
in the mental health field educate the
public to the deficiencies in the current
system and help them demand control
over this important area.
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resolve their experience. They are able
to release tension and express emotions
without interference.
The most important factor in helping a
person in emotional distress is a concern
ed person - a person who w ill listen and
not judge. Those people can be non-
professionals. v o lu n te e rs , com m unity
people who make themselves available.
Scheff also advocates “peer counsel
ing”. a process through which persons
learn to know themselves better, through
counseling and being counseled.
By
learning to be a client persons learn
what a counselor should be.
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discrimination," said Stevenson.
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Further information and application
forms are available at the offices of
county assessors.
measures and non-partisan candidates in
the Prim ary election. State law also
prohibits changing party affiliation w ith
in 30 days of the P rim ary election.
Therefore, if voters wish to be affiliated
with one of the two major parties they
must be so registered by A p ril 25, 1976.
“W e don't want people coming to the
polls thinking they can vote for partisan
candidates, only to discover they cannot
because they have registered as unaffili-
ated," the Chairman stated.
Individuals seeking more information
should contact the Multnomah County
Elections Office at 248-3720.
e to provide professional and objective
investigations which do not jeopardize
the rights of either the complainant or
the person being filed against.
" It is important for investigators to
listen very closely." he said.
“They
learned what constitutes legal discrimi
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must listen to people carefully and
determine what aspects of an actual
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issuing the reminder because William
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number of voters who have registered as
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“There is concern that the new regi
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Dr. Thomas J. Scheff, Professor of
Sociology at the University of California
at Santa Barbara, asked mental health
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control of mental health services.
Speaking to a symposium on Involun
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to be Mentally III. D r. Scheff said that if
help to persons in emotional crisis were
provided by non professionals in the
community, the need for involuntary
commitments to mental hospitals would
be drastically reduced.
Dr. Scheff advocates the use of non-
professionals in treating disturbed per
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tants.
“As long as we have professional
control of services we will have too little
and too few," Scheff said. There is a
common belief among legislators that if
there are emotional problems supervision
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