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OBSERI/ER
Voi. 6 No. 23
Portland, Oregon
Thursday, April 22, 1976
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State Police seek minorities
Blunder Ausborn is seeking minorities
and women who are interested in berom
ing state police officers. For the first
time in its history, the Oregon Stale
Police will accept women as state patrol
men.
Ausborn, who is from Burlington, Iowa
has been a state police officer for a year
apd a half. Previously he was a police
officer in Iowa for four years.
After
leaving the military service, Ausborn was
employed as a draftsman, but soon
decided to pursue his boyhood goal of
becoming a police officer.
“As a child I saw policemen using
brutal tactics and I wanted to become a
police officer and see if there was u better
way to enforce the law," he explained.
He came to Oregon to become a state
police officer because it provides a great
er latitude of police work than city police
bureaus
including traffic patrol, game
warden work, criminal investigation, and
enforcing all state laws.
Applicants are now being accepted for
the fall training class, which will be held
near Redmond. After completing the six
to seven week school, recruits ride with
another officer for two or three months,
then return to school for advanced
training.
Applicants must be 21 years of age:
have a high school diploma or equivalent;
have a good driving record; have good
health and moral character; and have
good vision. Physicial tests are the same
for men and women, including being able
to drag weight of 150 pounds.
Ausborn encourages persons who feel
they might be interested in police work to
contact him ul 378-8192 in Salem. "The
job offers an opportunity to meet all
typos of people, to learn more about the
stale, to do varied work." The pay starts
at $856 a month for an eight hour day,
with a raise after the first six months.
After starting in the Traffic Division,
officers ran be assigned to Criminal,
Narcotics. Arson. Fish and Game, or
Crime laboratory.
The State Police also have a cadet
program for young people ages eighteen
to twenty one
Cadets w oi4 during
school vacations, giving them an oppor
tunity to see if they like police work.
OFFICER OLANDER ALKBORN
Eastern Washington increases Black aid
Administrators at Eastern Washington
State College, at Cheney, have agreed to
increase aid to the Black student program
and set up a student committee to review
affirmative actions plans under an agree
ment mediated by the Community Rela
lions Service ICRS).
CHS Director Ben Holman said the
settlement hopefully ends a dispute in
volving Black students and officials over
such issues as alleged insensitivity to
minority students' problems and a double
standard on student activities, curricula,
grades, and hiring.
Under the agreement, $120,000 will be
added to the 1976 1977 budget of the
Black Education Program (BEP), which
was set up to help Black students with a
range of problems and needs. The money
will bo used to add six full time BEP staff
positions, hire some part time staff, and
purchase equipment.
The agreement stipulates that the BEP
director will have authority to broaden
the program, supervise everyone paid
out of its budget and to manage BEP
fund raising. The director's autonomy
was a major issue in the dispute.
The Student Affirm ative Action Com
mittee will review and make recommen
dations to the administration on all
matters relating to affirmative action. It
will have two members from each of five
student groups
Black, Chicano, Asian,
Indian, and foreign; one administrator or
faculty member; and the college affirma
live action office as an ex-officio member.
Eastern Washington State College be­
gan recruiting minority students in 1969.
There are now 400 minority students
among the 8,(MX) student body.
Dissension reached a peak last Feb
ruary when two Black students were
removed from a student government
committee that recommends to the ad
ministration how student activity fees
should be used. The Black students had
refused to cooperate with committee
action on a proposed budget because
funding that the majority student or­
ganization requested was refused.
Blacks on the campus staged protests
and threatened a lawsuit against the
college. In the midst of the controversy,
the college's president resigned.
The
BEP director, then its only full-time staff
member, also threatened to resign.
CRS offered its assistance at the
request of the Yakima Human Relations
Commission.
Mediator Jesse Taylor,
assigned to the agency's Chicago Office,
worked out the agreement.
CRS was created by the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 to resolve disputes stemming
from actions that impair the rights of
racial and ethnic minorities. The agency
conciliates, mediates, or provides other
assistance as a neutral third party to help
disputing parties resolve their differenc
es.
Boise seeks skills based program
The Citizens’ Advisory Board of Boise
Elementary School has presented a plan
to Area I II , and ultimately to the School
Board, requesting that Boise remain a
kin d e rg arten through e ghth grade
school and that a full year, specialized
program be initiated.
Principal David McCrea emphasized
that the plan was developed by the
Citizens' Advisory Board with inpui from
the community. A series of meetings
were held and volunteers are attempting
to visit every home in the area to explain
the program and get suggestions.
The plan is unique in several respects.
It is contrary to the districts' policy of
grouping schools in an effort to promote
the development of elementary and mid
die school clusters. McCrea explained
that Boise's isolation geographically and
its racial composition preclude its joining
nearby schools. The closest schools are
Beach and Ockly Green, and if Boise
students were sent to those schools, their
Black enrollments would excede 25 per
cent, which is the district guideline. One
answer would be to close Buckman and
transfer its students to Boise, but that
plan has not been promoted by the
district. Another alternative is to close
Boise and bus out all students, which
puts all the burden on Black families and
is unacceptable to the Boise community.
The Black enrollment in Boise has
decreased from 92 percent last year to 83
percent this year, due to natural changes
in the community.
The white students now attending
Boise are wel) received. After about a
week of feeling each other out, the Black
and white students get along fine. The
white students are doing about the same
level of academic work as the Black.
McCrea believes a good program at
Boise designed to teach the fundamen­
tal skill of reading, writing, speech and
mathematics
will attract white stu
dents.
The main ingredient in the Boise plan is
an emphasis on basic skills.
In the
primary unit, the entire school day
except for a 40 minute Physical Educa­
tion period and a 40 minute special
subjects period, would be spent on
reading, writing, speech and mathema­
tics. In the upper grades emphasis would
remain on the basic skills.
McCrea said additional subjects will be
taught music, art, science, social studies
- but will be taught in a way that will
place emphasis on the basic skills. “Our
children have a terrible lack in reading
skills. We need to spend as much time as
possible to helping them to learn to read.
Without reading, they cannot achieve in
other subjects."
Goal orientation will enable each stu
dent to judge his progress according to
specific goals in each subject. As the
student meets one goal, he to o l begins on
the next. A regular set of goals will give
a sense of accomplishment and a method
of self-evaluation.
Goals have been
written for the upper grades and some
improvement has already been made.
The Boise plan features a restructured
school calendar, with four quarters, each
with nine weeks of instruction, with two
weeks between each quarter. Summer
vacation would be six weeks in July and
August.
DAVID McCREA
The two week "down time" periods
would be used for students who want to
or are asked to return for one-half days
for either additional instruction in the
basic skills or special classes in music, art,
science, creative w riting, etc. Class size
during this period would be from ten to
fifteen students.
A special feature in the Boise plan is
participation of parents. Parents would
assist during the regular class time and
the down time, and home-work would
encourage involvement of parents in the
child's school activity. McCrea believes
the involvement of parents to be a
deciding factor in the child's success. “I
have found that all of our parents are
v ita lly concerned about th e ir child's
success in school. I f the parent can make
the child aware of that interest, the child
will have a better chance of succeeding.”
The Boise faculty attempts to make
parents welcome at the school and is
trying to change the prevailing idea that
educators do not want parent inter­
ference in the education process. “You
will find that these children whose
parents come to school and participate to
some degree are the ones that are
achieving. There is a direct correlation
between together' parents and 'together'
students."
Behavior is not the problem at Boise
that it is at many other schools. The
students have four rules, and if a rule is
broken they are sent home until the
parent can return them to school and
discuss the matter. Few formal supervi­
sors are necessary and only one child has
been expelled in the last two years. The
rules are: 1. no fighting; 2. no profanity to
adults; 3. no refusal to do as told; 4. no
stealing or damaging property. "Fight­
ing is rare, and you can go into any
classroom and find the students quiet and
doing their work. And they are happy."
Another turning point has been to
overcome the concept among many of the
students that it is not "in" to be a good
student.
When the honor roll was
introduced, there was not much interest,
but as some of the leaders attained honor
roll status it became a goal for others.
Honor roll students are announced in the
school paper and their pictures displayed
in the halls.
Eloise is still at the bottom of the
district academically. In the past two
years the achievement level has risen,
while the district's has declined. McCrea
praises his faculty, explaining that most
teachers have been at Boise for several
years and that they remain because of
choice.
About 100 students are bussed out of
the Boise area. No research has been
done in their school adjustment as op­
posed to those who stay at Boise. fteports
from receiving principals indicate that
they are doing adequate work. Accord­
ing to Washington High School, students
who come from Boise eighth grade
classes tend to stick together for the first
two years in high school, but Black
students that come from majority-white
schools more quickly integrate into the
high school activities.
McCrea is not entirely satisfied with
Boise remaining a Kindergarten through
eighth grade school, especially if to
remain majority Black, but feels this is
the best plan for the immediate future.
He believes in the middle school concept
and thinks the Boise community will see
the merits of that system when m ere is a
feasable plan for fitting Boise into it.
He would like the opportunity to try
the basic skills program and is deter
minded that it w ill work.
Boise presents hero's of Black history at school district Bicentennial show. DeLewis
Moore. LaBaron Singleton and Rene Hudson distributed special issue of school paper,
Boise Speaks.
Simpson heads Associated Roofing Contractors
The Associated Roofing Contractors of
Portland held its annual election of
officers Wednesday evening April 14.
1976 and Herb Simpson of Abbott and
Simpson Roofing and Gutters was elected
President.
Simpson is presently a member of the
Multnomah County Democratic Central
Committee and a board member of the
Sabin Community Association and served
on the Model Cities Planning Board for
the duration of the Model Cities Program.
He has long beer, involved in community
affairs.
In addition, Jim Bolt of ABC Roofing
Company was elected Vice President and
Arnie Schmautz of Buckeroo-Thermoseal,
In c o rp o ra ted was elected S e c re ta ry -
Treasurer.
Simpson plans to continue the efforts of
the Association members to provide
quality roofing service in the Portland
Metropolitan area.
Lets Angeles daily resumes harassment of Lt. Governor
Black Californian's are asking why the
press attacks on Lieutenant Governor
M ervyn Dymally have been resumed.
Sources close to Dymally report that the
lx>s Angeles Times has been investigat­
ing his campaign statements dating back
to 1962.
Many believe the resumption of inves­
tigations are the result of the announce­
ment that Governor Edmund G. Brown,
Jr. will seek the presidential nomination,
tion.
The Sacramento Observer said, "Gov­
ernor Brown's announcement that he
would seek the Democratic Presidential
nom ination sent mild shock waves
through the ranks of the Sacramento-
based Capital Correspondents Associa
tion, many long since concluding that the
youthful "New Spirit" would eventually
throw his hat in the ring.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR DYMALLY
"In the office of Lieutenant Governor
Dymally, by provisions within the State
Constitution the man to succeed Brown,
the news of the governor's intentions to
seek higher office finds his staff prepar
ing for renewed investigation by the lx>s
Angeles Times.
"W ithin hours of Governor Brown's
public announcement that he would seek
the Presidential nomination, Dymally’s
office learned that the Time's was pre­
paring a new series of probes into his
political life."
Observers have noted that as long as
Dymally represented Black people alone,
being elected to represent Compton,
there was no hint of wrong-doing. The
attack came only when he sought state
wide election.
The Los Angeles Times has made
several charges against Dymally since
1972, when he became involved in the
Humphrey presidential campaign. D u r­
ing his state wide campaign for Lieute­
nant Governor, Dymally claimed that the
Times wan the only daily in the state that
treated his campaign in a biased manner.
One of the most recent charges was
that Dymally had used the red light in an
official car to stop and intimidate a school
employee. An independent investigation
showed that the car assigned to Dymally
has neither a red light nor a siren and
that the man in question; a friend, pulled
her over to talk with her.
Political sources in Sacramento say the
renewed harassment is designed to force
Dymally to resign his office, since should
Brown be selected as the vice presiden
tial nominee on a winning Democratic
ticket. Dymally would become Governor
of California.
Dymally's associates say he "will die
and go to hell before he resigns. Espe­
cially when he is guilty of no wrong­
doing.”
The California Legislative Black Cau­
cus has strongly endorsed Governor
Jerry Brown for the Presidency, and
Brown, at a press conference declared
that his Lieutenant Governor, Mervyn M.
Dymally, “will serve the people well" if
elevated to the Governorship.
The Black Caucus announcement was
signed by six of the eight California Black
legislators. Assemblyman W illie Brown
(D-San Francisco) and Senator Nathan
Holden (D Los Angeles) have indicated
that they will make public their formal
decisions later.
In a packed press conference in Sacra
mento, six Caucus members joined by
Governor Brown, who had strong words
of praise for Dymally. "He is a very
decent human being. “He's been a good
Lieutenant Governor.
I think he will
serve the people well” if he becomes
Governor.
Assemblywoman T e rry Hughes I D-Los
Angeles), speaking for the Caucus said,
"W e have watched Jerry Brown for a
period of one year as of one of the largest
states in the union and we are satisfied
that he possesses the qualifications need­
ed to lead this nation in a new direction.
“He has a great capacity to govern and
to govern well."
Caucus members went on to praise
Brown's appointment of women and
minorities to high posts in his admini­
stration, and his support for programs
affecting poor students. "W e are pleased
with his commitment to full employ­
ment,” they said in a statement.
Ms. Hughes said members were satis­
fied with Brown’s stands, and planned a
continuing series of conferences and
meetings with him on the issues.
B row n said th a t D y m a lly would
play a significant role in his campaign,
that he expects an expanded govern­
mental role for Dymally as he (Brown)
travels outside the state during his
campaign. Under the state constitution,
the Lieutenant Governor assumes duties
of the Governor when he leaves the state.
Brown also said “although there ap­
pears to be some smoke, I haven't seen
much fire" in the accusations levied
against Dymauy by the Los Angeles
Times. He indicated he felt if there was
substance to the charges, that the state's
Republican Attorney General would pro­
bably have taken action by this time.