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Voi. 6, No. »
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Thursday, Angwot ». 1976
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)