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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.
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The Family Action Federal Credit
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March 27. 1976.
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
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assistant bank manager. Chuck Hagens,
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F A C U is alive, well and financilly
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Attem pts to serve members who could
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experienced in loan recovery, resulting in
a high delinquency factor which prompt
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