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ror i ' PO R TLA N D OBSERVER Voi. 6, No. » I - Thursday, Angwot ». 1976 10e par copy ........ .... Mystery disease speeds vac Twenty-two deaths of Legionaires who attended their national conference in Philadelphia has renewed interest in planned vacination programs for swine flu which is being held up in the House Health Subcommittee. Federal and State scientists attempt ing to diagnose the reason for the deaths and the illness of one-hundred others, will not be able to isolate the virus respon sib'c until later today, August 5th. They neither deny nor admit that swine flu is responsible for the deaths. The Observer has learned however, that the Philadel phis Daily News will report in an exdu sive story that the Federal Center for Disease Control in Atlanta traced the soldier who brought swine flu to Fort Dix, the first known outbreak in the United States, to Franklin County. Pennsylvania and that swine flu vi rus was found in nine additional members of his family The first Logionaires to re port sick were also from Franklin Countv and many of the over 100 persons report ed ill are from Pennsylvania- Dr. Michael A. W. Hattwich, Chief of the Resperatory and Special Pathogens Branch of the Center for Disease Control, told representatives of the Oregon Public Health Division and county health divi sions meeting in Portland. "The Pennsyl vania experience clearly demonstrate« the potential explosiveness of this kind of event, whatever the outcome, and shows the need for planned programs. It will have a clear impetus on the national level and will reduce the debate as to the need for the preventative program." Dr. Hattwich expects vaccine to be available within thirty days from the date Congress approves the bill that will free drug producers from legal liability. The bill will free the producers from legal liability in mass vaccinations by allowing individuals to sue the government direct ly. The government will then seek re dress against the company if neglegence is found. The National Influenza Immunization Program is the first attempt to establish a comprehensive immunization delivery system capable fo vaccinating every American as rapidly as possible. The en tire population will be vaccinated with swine flu vaccine, and those who are considered "high risk" will be given a combination of swine flu antegen and A/Victoria flu antegen. Swine flue is a new variation of influen za that was first identified in early 1976 following an outbreak of flu at Fort Dix. New Jersey. Several hundred recruit« were ill and one died. It is not yet known whether the virus will spread to the general population, but if it does it could develop into a worldwide epidemic. For most people, flu is a moderately severe disease but not a serious threat. For certain high risk groups, it is a ser ious problem and can be fatal. The 1918 epidemic was unusual in that many fa talities occurred among apparently healthy young people. The worldwide death total was over 20 million. The 1957 Asian flu epidemic - the most severe since - caused an estimated 70,000 deaths in this country, primarily among the el derly and chronically ill. The swine flu vaccine contains a virus that has been killed, but which promotes the production o( antibodies in the per son, therefore preventing the person from catching the flu. Because the virus are not living, the vaccine cannot cause flu. Side effects are not yet known, but generally flu vaccine has little side effect. About one percent of the people innocu- lated run temperatures over 100 degrees. Swelling and tenderness of the arm occur in about 20 to 40 per cent. Innoculations, which will be done by the country health departments, will be done with a “jet injector". Oregon's goal is to immunize 90 per cent of the popula tion before December 1st. 1976. f ] fl( Y t l Child development center graduates class Forty-two proud youngsters and their parents attended their first graduation Friday night — from the PMSC Child Development Division, an all day head start, child development program. Ron Herndon, director of the center, congratulated the students and implored their parents to take an active part in their children's public school education. The center serves children three to six years of age whose parents are employed or in training. Graduates were: Inas Al-Azzaby, Church of God in Christ nomes H. B. Daniels Bishop At the recently held 32nd Annual Holy Convocation of the Stale of Oregon Church of God In Christ. Jurisdiction <1, to Right Reverend H. B. Daniels Sr., was appointed by a majority nominating bal lot to fill the vacancy left by the late Bishop W. L. McKinney, as the Presiding Jurisdictional Bishop. The late Bishop McKinney pioneered the Church of God in Christ in Oregon, served the church sixty five years and held the post of Jurisdictional Bishop for thirty three years. His efforts and ac complishmenta will long be remembered by these who served under him. For more than twenty seven years the Right Reverend Daniels has served his church and community in numerous capa cities, that of assistant pastor to the 1st« capacity of counselor and advocate of the parolee. The Right Reverend Daniels as a Bishop McKinney, Distrirt Superinton dent. State Executive Secretary, Pastor liaison between the community and the and founder of the Greater Mt. Calvary late Mayor Shrunk'« administration. The Right Reverend H. B. Daniels Sr. Church of God in Christ, located at 1234 N.E. Killingsworth and admintrative as and Mrs. Jessie Daniels are the parents sistant. He will be officially consecrated of four children, Rev. Harry Daniels Jr., and installed into one of the highest of Mrs. Georgia M. Willias, Mrs. J. Marie Williams. Mrs. Wendy Booker, and are fices of the church, that of Bishop. The Right Reverend Daniels is also the grandparents of eleven grandchild well known by the people of the commun ren, all of Portland. The official consecration and installa ity for his committment and involvement in civic affairs. He is one of the founders tion service will be held at the Greater Mt. Calvary Church, 1234 N.E. Killings of the Portland Opportunities Industrial izstion Center, he has been an active worth, Portland, Oregon on August 9th, member of the NAACP. he also works 1976 at 7:30 p.m. The Inaugural Banquet closely with the County and State of will be held and announced in the near Oregon Probation Departments in the future., Debra Nowlen helps Anthony Robertson prepare for his pre-school graduation. T 'i/T f'V Twauna Allen, Jiekibia Armstrachan, Katrina Bea, Rose Blondell, Torro Boyd, Irving Brown, Tiffany Cantue, Shawn Carter, Lynetta Charity, Adair Clark, Terrence Connors, Sondra Davis, DeShavian Dean, Jeffery Dunlap. Andrea Duran, David Fitten, Frank Gaston. Shawna Gibbs, Alex Geisert, LaTonya Green, Tamiko Hagger, Terry Haynes, Angela Henderson, Sheila Kimmons, Francine Lee, Dana Lock ridge, Myra McKinney, Chana Neyland, Swan Nowlen, LeaShell Preston, Donte Roberson, Anthony Robertson, "David Sherman, Dana Spears, Jeffery Sum mers, Tunicia Thomas, Steven Urban, Abelardo VanBlaricom. Derek Warren, DeWayne Watterson, and Shlonda Williams. Almost as proud as the parents, were the children's teachers: Zudora Byrd, Carolyn Carter, Charles Comfort, Ornia Dabner, Madeline Ingram, Mariette Loiseau, Shirley Proctor, and Yvonne Webster. idgefield, reorauizotion petitton drive success Petitions that would require Multno mah County to operate Edgefield Manor nursing home and attempting to restruc ture Multnomah County government were submitted to the elections division Wednesday. The petition providing for county oper ation of Edgefield Manor for five years has 23.400 signatures. The county first attempted to close Edgefield and transfer the residents to private nursing homes but halted the plan due to public pres sure. Later a task force studied the ques tion and recommended that the home be closed. The reorganization measure would re duce the Commissioner's terms of office to two years and name the candidate with over 50 per cent of the vote as chairman. If no candidate received aover 50 per cent, the commission would elect its own chairman. The reorganization petition has 26,000 signatures. The reorganization plan would provide geographic districts for commissioners and change the procedure for electing the chairman. A minimum of 16,472 valid signatures is needed to put each petition on the November ballot. State Senator Vern Cook of Gresham and State Representative Glenn Otto of Troutdale spearheaded the petition drive. Pullman porters win his tone discrim ¡nation suit DENVER, COLORADO Phase D in the historic class action suite that found the Pullman Company had discriminated against Black Pullman porters by not making them conductors was completed here July 21st when a federal judge awarded back pay of over »4 million in damages. ____ __ The award, granted by Chief U.S. Dis trict Judge Alfred A. Arraj, stems from a six-year-old class-action discrimination suit filed against the Pullman Company of Chicago, Illinois, by a former Pullman porter. Earl A. Love of Denver and others. Judge Arraj's latest ruling means that an estimated 1.500 former Pullman porters will receive a maximum of $2,889.22 plus eight per cent interest that started the day he granted his original decision on February 9th. This amounts to more than $4.2 million. “The case represented some retribu tion of all the years of mistreatment of Black Pullman porters," said Willie L. Leftwich. of the Washington. D.C. Uw firm of Hudson. Leftwich & Davenport which represented the former porters now living in the Washington area and the metropolitan New York area. Mr. Leftwich was the “main catylist in the lawyers representing the porters. Other lawyers in the case included Ronald Jessamy, of Mr. Leftwich's firm; Hugh J. McClearn, of Conover, McClearn. Burkhardt & Heppenstall of Denver; Ms. Irene Goldbarg of Goldbarg & Bennett of alston, Mass., and Lawrence M. Lawson, of Neptune, New Jersey. “We put a lot of time in this case," said Mr. Leftwich who has a B S . in Electrical Engineering from Howard University and a law degree from the George Wash ington University School of Law where he also received his LLM degree. He is also a Director of the D.C. Redevelop ment Land Agency and a former Com missioner of the D.C. Human Relations Commission and owner-founder of Con tract Management Services. He was pre viously owner-general counsel for Ur- banetics, Inc. The trial started on May 27th. 1975 before Judge Arraj and ended on Decem ber 17th, 1975. On February 9th, 1976 he found that the Pullman Company limited promotional opportunities for Black em ployees and maintained racially segre gated job classifications in that Pullman porters could not become conductors un til 1967, although as Pullman porter in charge they performed duties similar to white conductors. The suit was filed un der violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Law of 1964. The company, which has since gone out How Carter would change U.S. foreign policy by Banning Garrett Clifford and Roth Jackson, «718 N.E. Hancock. Portland, worn the guests of honor at a birthday party given tor Jackson by the Emanuel Hospital Auxiliary. Jackson, who turned 76 on Sunday, July 4th. 1976, was given a celebration complete with cake. Ice cream, balloons, and the musk of Monte Ballou's Famous Castle Jaas Bond. Jsrhseo recently retired from Pinkerton a, Inc., as a security guard who was assigned to r - . - .—I Hospital for a number of years. As a special tribute te him, the auxiliary felt that the hospital's bicentennial celebration should bo in his honor. (PNS) While political analysts from Pravda to the Wall Street Journal predict Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter, if elected, will follow in the foreign policy footsteps of his Republican predecessor. Carter himself has indicated in recent statements that he would significantly alter current U.S. defense policy vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. Carter has given indications that, as President, he would reject former De fense Secretary James Schlesinger's key policy of "counterforce", or limited nuc lear war. That policy, first enunciated in 1974, involves a defense strategy of aim ing missiles at a potential enemy’s missile launching sites, rather than cities. Be cause it replaced the former MAD (Mu- tural Assured Destruction) strategy of ur ban destruction, proponents - including the Joint Chiefs and the defense industry - have touted it as "more humane." Carter, on the other hand, says he does not think a limited nuclear war (counter force) could be kept limited, but would be likely to escalate into an all out exchange of strategic nuclear weapons. However, in an apparent contradiction. Carter also says he would consider a pre-emptive nuclear strike “if I was convinced that the existence or the security of our nation was threatened." He has not answered the question of whether he would use such a strike against the Soviet Union, or only against other nations such as North Korea. Bargaining chips rejecting counterforce. Carter sug- s he might also abandon the Schles- r policy of “bargaining chips" - the lice of developing sophisticated new pons systems partly in order to force lessions from the other side. Carter i construction of the $6 billion anti- istic missile system (ABM), built un the Johnson Administration and then ntualy bargained into extinction, was While Carter has not taken a position ont he new strategic cruise missiles, ad vocated by Henry Kissinger as a bar gaining chip for SALT II, he has come out against the construction of the B-l bomb er. though he says he would keep re search and development of the project alive. He also has said he would not feel bound to go through with development of a new land based missile to replace the Minuteman. Carter's lack of enthusiasm for either new land based missile systems or the B-l bomber should win approval amoog some liberal defense experts who advo cate the "moving the missiles to sea" - specifically, nuclear powered submar ines. And indeed, given Carter’s nuclear submarine background in the Navy and his admiration for Admiral Hyman Rick over, it is not surprising to hear him pronounce "a deep belief that our moot important strategic element in the entire defense machanism of our country is nuc lear powered submarines." of business, a victim ot increasing com mercial air travel, was accused of the maintenance of segregated job classifica tion for two years after the effective date of Title VII and also failed to promote Blacks. * / — Even after Pullman went out of busi ness it had assets of $18 million and attorney Leftwich had asked the court to freeze the assets of the company during the litigation. The judge at first demur red, but then it was discovered that be fore the judge's decision that the corn- observed Leftwich. U.S. Magistrate Royce D. Sickler has now been appointed by Judge Arraj as a special master to compile a list of former porters entitled to awards and to eom- I please turn to p. 2 col. 4) "They are almost completely invulner able to missile attack," says Carter, “and their deterrent value is superb." Nuclear submarine advocates argue a move to sea would decrease the likelihood of a nuclear first strike against the U.S. because submarines, unlike land misailes or bombers, are invulnerable to a disarm ing first strike. Though some defense experts predict the eventual extinction of the land-based missile, the defense establishment still jealously guards its sacred “Triad” de terrence strategy - bombers, ICBMs and nuclear submarines. A tilt by Carter to the Navy's submar ines would almost certainly unleash inter- service feuds and stiff opposition in the Pentagon. Adjusting detente Beside abandoning the Schlesinger strategy of counterforce and bargaining chip tactics. Carter has indicated that he would like to readjust the priorities of foreign policy from Kissinger's emphasis (Please turn to p. 2 col. 4)
