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Page 8 Portland Observer Thursday. A pril 1. 1976 Neighborhoods seek lighting Last Fall over half of the neighborhood associations told the City about their needs by sending budget requests to city bureaus. These major needs identified are: traffic safety, street and park im provementa and lighting. Inadequate lighting is a problem in six neighbor hoods. O f five of these. Woodlawn. Eliot, Sabin, North Portland and Northwest some new lighting has already been installed this year. A number of the requ ests from N o rth P o rtla n d and Northwest are scheduled for next year. The Lighting Division's $359,080 pro gram for new lighting next year is in two parts - neighborhood lighting and a r terial street lighing. The Division's top priority for neighborhood lighting next year is around community centers which have nighttime use. Ten school areas are to be included. They are: Couch. Buck man. Sellwood, John Ball. Grout. Sunny side, St. Mary's Academy, Irvington, George and Sitton. Other areas included for additional lighting next year are Old Town, St. John's, and H ill Crest Drive. Light of these projects are located in neighborhoods which are eligible for Housing and Community Development funds. Of the total coat of this neigh borhood lighting $225,500 H C D funds will pay $93,500. The remaining $132,000 will be funded by City street lighting fund dollars. There are no general fund monies in this program. New lighting along arterial streets is planned for seven locations. They are N. Columbia Boulevard (N O sw egoW , city limits!, N .E. Grand Avenue (N .E. Holli day and S.E. Clay S.E. Harrison), S.W. Barbur (S.W. 35th city limits), W. Burn side (N .W . 14th 19th), N .E. 82nd and Sandy Intersection. N. Killingsworth (N. City Commissioner Charles Jordan, center, joined Fred Bieker. M .D .. left, and Philip Parshley. M .D .. for Pizza with a Purpose" on Thursday. March 18, 1976. Sponsored by the Portland F ire Departments Womens League, the day long event was held at the Engine House Pizza Company No. 1 at the Jantzen Beach Shopping Center. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Oregon Burn Center at Emanuel Hospital. Forum studies v ita l issues The “V ital Issues Forum", sponsored by the Legislative Committee of Ecu menical Ministries of Oregon, will be held at the First Methodist Church, 600 State Street, Salem, at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, April 9th, with Registration followed by an Open House at 5:15 p.m. hosted by the Church Women United of Salem. Dr. Robert P. Lisensky. President of- W illamette University, will keynote the Forum at dinner at 6:30 p.m. On Saturday, April 10th, four work shop sessions will be available - two choice* st 9:00 a.m. and two choices at 1:30 p.m. “Nuclear Energy - More or Less?" will find D r. Raymond G. Wolfe, Jr., Chemistry Professor at the U niver sity of Oregon and Dr. Bernard Spinrad presenting information and debating on this critical subject. D r. Spinrad is Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Oregon State University. The second choice will be “Full Employment - Impact of Conglomerates, Justice Issues in Era ployment, etc." with D r. Jann Carpenter. Economist. Graduate School of Admini stration, W illam ette University and Leon T. Johnson. Director of Youth Services. Portland, speaking "Health Insurance - How Much and Who Pays?” will be explored by Howard Steward. Executive Director of Cascade Health Care and Dr. Otto Kraushaar, Physician from Salem. “Farms - Family or Conglomerates?" which will be discussed by M r. Robert Elkins. National Farm ers Union and M r. David Nelson, Freedom to Farm Com mittee. The public is invited to attend the “Vital Issues Forum" where citizens, church people, educators and politicians will come together to discuss, debate and deliberate. Registration forms can be obtained from Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, 0245 S.W . Bancroft Street. P o rt land. Oregon 97201. (Telephone 503-221 1054. PSU sponsors job classes The Portland State University Educa tional Center will offer a series of free career symposiums in April. The series of six symposiums will be heid on April 1st. 15th and 29th, May 6th and 20th, and June 3rd, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Each symposium will feature a panel of speakers who will discuss their career experiences and how they selected thie career fields. Speakers for the first session are: Sherin Bennett, job developer at the YW CA; James Edwards, K O IN radio newsman) Laura Huks, community coor dinator; and Susan Rhodes, a training technician, both from the Women's L i beration School; and Gene Lander, chap lain at Bess Kaiser Hospital. The center will sponsor a free resume w riting class on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. The three workshops, beginning April 6th, A pril 27th or M ay 18th, focus on taking personal inventory, research for mats and resume dos and don'ta. Interstate N.E. Union), Union Avenue. Funds for city lighting will pay $50,500 for these projects along arterials the $83,080, ia to be paid with federal grant monies. This entire program has been reviewed several times. It was approved by both the Public Works Citizens Advisory Committee, a volunteer group appointed by Commissioner McCready, and the planning Commiasion. City Council re view of the entire $2.8 million Lighting Division budget will be held on April 5th from 9:30 to noon. The Council will be asked to make a policy about the use of high ¿odium vapor fixtures. These fixtures are more econo mical than the widely used mercury vapor lighting. The Lighting Division staff recommends that any improvements to arterials be made using high pressure sodium vapor. The Planning Bureau staff recommends that this type of lighting be used in all commercial and high volume traffic areas. The Planning Commission during its review added that low inten sity lighting should be used in neighbor hoods as energy costs allow. Future plans for street lighting are influenced by the ten year street lighting levy passed by the voters in 1974. This levy will make available about $200,000 each year for the next nine years. Careful planning for the best use of these funds is already underway. In order to begin a five year program, the Lighting Division is presently making an inventory of all city lighting. Neighborhoods are being asked to help the Lighting Division by noting areas that (1) have present night time use and (2) need better lighting levels. Hum an needs, m ilita ry cost symposium subject Symposium on Human Needs and M ilitary Spending will be held at Port land Community College - Cascade Cam pus on April 17th. The symposium will be sponsored by a group of Portland based organizations which work in a variety of programs related to human needs in Portland and to national priorities. These include: The American Friends Service Committee; Portland Daycare Workers Alliance; Methodist Federation for Social Action; F IS H Emergency Services; Tri- county New Politics; Women's Interna tional League for Peace and Freedom; Portland Community Warehouse. Oregon Gray Panthers; Coalition for Safe Power; Clergy and Laity Concerned; Forelaws on Board; Centenary W ilbur Methodist Church; Portland Town Council; Fellow ship of Reconciliation; Portland Youth Advocates and Oregon Solar Institute. The focus of the symposium will be the Ford administration's proposed federal budget for fiscal year 1977 and its effect upon our ability to meet essential human needs. The sponsors of the symposium feel that the administration's proposal repre sents a distorted sense of priorities. The budget calls for a sixteen percent “real growth" increase in defense spending, (the $114.0 billion m ilitary budget would be the largest in U.S. history) while calling for substantial cuts in funding for education, child development, the el derly, health research, food stamps, veteran's benefits, public assistance, le gal services, agricultural extension, and community development. The city of Portland would feel the impact of cuts in the fields of daycare, mass transit, public works, youth services, and other areas. The symposium is intended to provide a public platform for discussion of these issues. The symposium will provide a way for Portland citizens to have direct input into this process. The forum will include an address by Dr. Charles Grossman, chairman of the Interagency W elfare Crisis Committee, on Human Needs in Portland; an address on M ilitary Spending in Fiscal 7 7 by John Markoff of Pacific Northwest Research Center; workshops in various subject areas; and will conclude with a panel discussion on national priorities. The panelists will include Congressman Ix-s AuCoin and State Representative Vera Katz. Congressman Robert Duncan and other representatives have also been invited to serve on the panel. One of the prime goals of the sympo sium is to advance some specific propo sals to challenge the congress and the administration to change national priori ties to reflect the real needs of the American people. C o m m u n it y B u s in e s s C o n fe re n c e April 26, 1976 UPSTAIRS LOUNGE He Prrsrnt nr .Srrid o Drlrttalr Your Buwtrss h Important To This Communth REGISTER NO LATER THAN APRIL 16, 1S76 FEE: $10 PER DELEGATE 28 8 -8 4 6 9 SMN s o m d Special Bonus! 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The highlights of the meeting were the presentation of a fifth anniversary cake and the election of a full slate of board members and credit committee. Board selections were Les Andrews of PMSC, John Wesley of Emanuel Hospital, L o r raine Duncan of PM SC. Edem Usoro - assistant bank manager. Chuck Hagens, business consulUnt and Mrs. A l Green, housewife. Ms. Thelma W ilder is serving out her second year of a two year term as vice chairperson. The credit committee selections were Reverend Mayes, A rt Dilsworth, V.F. Booker and Chuck Ha gens. F A C U is alive, well and financilly sound. The F A C U is Portland's first and only community oriented Federal Credit Union. The F A C U was founded and sponsored by PMSC to provide a financial institution that was designed to serve the needs of the total community including the low income segment. Attem pts to serve members who could not qualify for full participation with other financial institutions often project ed an image of a granting institution rather than a bonifide savings and loan operation. Consequently much abuse was experienced in loan recovery, resulting in a high delinquency factor which prompt ed very severe recommendations from Federal Auditors. A t One point an examiner considered a closure recom mendation, but Gilcrease requested ad ditional funding from his board in order to F A C U needed capital and time to regroup. 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