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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1976)
i PORTLAND ,ÿ V J OBSERl/ER Val. • N». 40 T h ^ w U y, A u ge* 19th, »»’ « Republicans 1 I adopt conservatism »<* P*r Williams, Wheeler named outstanding women Mrs. Cal Jean Williams has been set ected one of Oregon's tw o “Young Wo men of America" candidates. Candidates from the states w ill be judged for the national title on the basis ol community service. M rs. Williams, who has not yet been officially notified of the honor, told the Observer she is excited and surprised to be an Oregon winner. M rs. Williams was born in Ruleville, Mississippi, the third of fourteen child ren. H e r grsndfather, D e w itt Joiner and her mother. Mrs. Louise Rash still live in Mississippi. She aliened school in Rule villa, then went to Alcorn University, graduating with a B.S. in Home Econo mics. She was the recepient of Sears and Roebuck and Rockefeller scholarships. Mrs. Williams came to Oregon in 1973, after graduating from Alcorn, and work ed in the Salem area for six months before coming to Portland. She is a County Home Economist for the Oregon Stata University Extension Service, attached to the Multnomah County Extension Service. She works in Multnomah. Washington, and Clackamas counties, teaching clothing to young homemakers, young singles, and giving consumer and food information. She has instructor status a t Oregon State U n i versity. M rs. W illiams is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Soronity, the American Home Economist Association, the Oregon Home Extension Association. the Nation al Association of Extension Home Econ om iata, the Elbetts of the Salem Elks Club, and the Portland Branch. N A A C P . One of her recent activities was co sponsoring the Governor's Fashion Show benefit for Albina Youth O pportunity School. M rs. Williams is working on her Mas ters' in Social Science a t Portland State University and plana to pursue a doctor ate later. Mrs. Williams said that although she is a “career woman" the high point of her life was her marriage to Harold W illiams in June of 1975. President Gersld Ford narrowly achi eved the Republican Party's nomination for the Presidency over a strong bid by former Governor of California, Ronald Reagan. The party platform is in keeping with the conservative shift in the Republican Party, emphasizing limited government and encouraging the private sector. The platform relies on discontinuation of deficit spending to aid the economy and rejects federal aid in lowering unemploy ment. Creation of jobs is left to private business. The platform opposes national health insurance and guaranteed annual income, it opposes mandatory retirem ent and addresses some changes in the Social Security system. The party supports a constitutional amendment to allow states to make abor tions illegal. A constitutional amendment to forbid assignment of school children on basis of race to promote desegregation. I t favors a constitutional amendment to allow prayer in the public schools and seeks to find a way to provide funds for private schools. In the field of energy, the Republican platform calls for an end to price control on oil and newly discovered national gas and opposes the breakup of the large oil companies. The Republican Party calls for a reform of welfare, leaving it on the state level, and a restriction on eligibility for food stamps. The platform calls for preservation of the Panama Canal as an international w aterw ay and says the U.S. must insure that all agreements w ith the U.S.S.R. benefit national security. A Reagan back ed amendment calls for morality in foreign relations. I t also calls for the development of new missile launching submarine forces, the B I bomber, and increase in naval power, and restoration of the intelligence system. The convention ended with Governor Reagan calling for unity, but an uneasy truce was in effect, w ith some Reagan delegates still refusing to support the Ford ticket. CAL J. WILLIAMS Pat W heeler, form erly of Portland and now in Baltimore, was also selected to represent Oregon aa a “Young woman of America" Miss Wheeler was employed by K O A P -T V for two years as a producer- director. Judge upholds federal jurisdiction over fishing Judge Robert C. Belloni extended the non Indian fishing season for 48 hours after threatening federal intervention if the states of Washington and Oregon do not enforce his orders. A t an unusual Sunday court session, he told the concerned parties orders signed by state courts on F riday and Saturday, ordering the states not to enforce Bel lonfs earlier injunction against non In dian flailing, w ere invalid. A fte r soundly chastising former Congressman Wendell W y a tt for going Into a “secret, unrecord ad” court session in Astoria to get a state order contrary to the federal order, while all of the Involved parties w ere in Port land attem pting to reach a mutual agree ment. Belloni had earlier interpreted the In dian Treaties to allow the Indian fisher men fifty per cent of the salmon catch. He also had ordered the states of Oregon and Washington to make a plan that would insure the fifty per cent and also to allow escapement of enough aalmon up riv e r to insure preservation of the fishery. The states ignored the recommenda tion of the staffs for a five day non-Indian commercial season and set a ten day season. Beloni then issued an injuction ordering the fishing closed a fter five days and asked the government, the l U t w , the Indian Tribes and the commercial fishermen to meet and try to work out a solution. The non-Indian fishermen have' claimed that the reduction of the fishing season would bring too great a financial loos. In the Sunday court session held to determ ine w hether Belloni should set aside teh state court decisions, federal attorney Sidney Lezak said this was a straight test of w hether the federal gov ernm ent has the power to meet its obli gations to the Indian people and w hether the state court can enter an issue which is clearly in the jurisdiction of the federal governemnt. Belloni did not set aside the state or ders. but stating that they w ere invalid, advised the attorneys resoonaihle that they had better ask the state judges to rescind them that day. “I think that the attorneys who violat ed this court, who obtained thia order, should go back today and aak that judge to aet them aaide." He said he would w ait to see w hat happened that night - that if his orders were not enforce by the states he would consider intervention by federal law enforcement agencies. “T here is an injuction from the federal court in effect. Anybody who violates it takes the risk. Any gillnetter who fishes is in vioaliton. I f the states allow it. they are in violation . . . No longer w ill I allow the fish to be taken downstream and say to the Indians. 'I'm sorry, all the fish are taken and the escapement must come from your share?' I can't understand why the commercial fishermen insist on the distruction of future fishing." Belloni repeatedly admonished W y a tt for his action, saying he could not under stand that type of behavior from any attorney and especialy from one who had served in the United States Congress. “W hat do you think of an attorney asserting his veiws before one judge - being heard in federal court and being; denied - then going to another judge. A t the tim e attorneys w ere bargaining - your co-counsels were there - you w ere in a private, unrecorded court hearing, without notice to the other parties, get ting an order." L ate r the Indian tribes agreed to allow the gillnetters 48 hours additional fishing time, althow it will decrease the Indian take. They said they w ere sorry about the prediciment of the commercial fisher- ment, since the states had allowed too many fish to the ocean trollers and the sports fishermen and Belloni had to cut the gillnetters to protect the Indian's share. The compromise is considered an im portant breakthrough in Indian, non- Indian relations. Belloni said he expects the states to devise a proper manage- ment plan before next year so that his Democrats reject county reorganization scheme The offices of Precinct Committeeman and Committee-woman will no longer exist if a measure passed by the M ultno mah County Democratic Central Com mittee is adopted by the Oregon Legisla ture. The Central Committee asked that sex based requirements for election of precinct committee people be abolished and that one precinct person be elected for each 150 party members in the pre cinct. C urrently, one man and one woman are elected by each precinct. The Central Committee voted to deny support to tw o initiative petitions spon sored by Senator Vern Cook and Repre sentative Glenn Otto. The Edgefield proposal would require the continued operation of Edgefield Manor Nursing Home by the county until 1982 and impose a five year tax levy of $1 million per year. A substitute motion, which was ac cepted by the Central Committee, re ports that the County Board of Commis sioners ask the county to put a tax levy before the people to provide care for all of Multnomah County's 75,000 elderly. His motion called for a county supported ger iatric center, nursing home care, and aid in construction of retirem ent homes. Support of the initiative petition calling for reorganization of county government was also denied. This bill, which will be on the Novem ber ballot, calls for single member districts and two year terms for commissioners. Opponents of the bill charge that assignment of Chairman Don Clark to the Elast County district, where he has strong oppostion, is an effort to defeat Clark. One speaker pointed out that although Clark was assigned to that district, two of the current commission ers. Mel Gordan and Dan Mosee. live there. City seeks citizens for Task Force assignment For the past four years, the City has involved interested people in the budget process through participation on Budget Advisory Committees. These committees provide opportunities for citizens to be come fam iliar w ith bureau programs and to help staff seek g reater economies or higher productivity. Nominations are again being sought to fill vacancies on the budget committees. This year the committees w ill be; (1) General Services, (2) Neighborhood Environm ent & Traffic Engineering, (3) Office of Management Services, (4) Office of Planning & Development (includes Buildings), (5) Parks, (8) Police, (7) Public Affairs, (8) Public Safety. (9) Public Works, and (10) W ater. Participation on a Budget Advisory Committee is an excellent opportunity for citizens to became informed about their city government and to share in the deci sion making process. How ever, this en tails a time commitment w ith concerted effort on the p art of the citizen. Commit tees meet tw ice a month during the sea son for the review process: November through M arch. Some budget committees meet on a year-round basis, usually once a month. The responsibilities of the Budget Ad visory Committees include: (1) Gather information about bureau policies and ob jectives; (2) Review neighborhood needs; (3) Assist in preparation of bureau bud get requests: (4) Provide specific recom mendations for the Council; (5) Assist in informing the community about the role of the budget committee and the City budget process. An Orientation meeting for all budget committee members will be held on Sep tember 25th, 1976. Citizens groups and individuals are requested to send in nominations for the budget committees by September 1 s t The Commissioners will then appoint new members who will attend the orientation. Nomination forms are available from the Office of Neighbor hood Associations, Rm. 413, City Hall 1220 S.W . 5th Avenue, phone 248-4519. intervention will not be necessary. Pentagon eyes South African Black 'Homeland’ for base by Tssal Hsdtaaaa and Reed K ram er (PN S) Washington. D.C. -- Even as race riots sweep South Africa, Pentagon planners appear to have seized on the white m inority government's widely cri ticised plan to av e rt Black rule as a golden chance to realise one of th e ir old- eet dreams: a naval base on the strategic southern tip of Africa. « The South African government's sirs tegy is tb grant Independence to 10 native areas, rather than breaking down the rigid apartheid policy w ithin South Africa proper. And U.S. m ilitary planners, long held back by a U N arms embargo against South Africa, are floating the idea of building a base in the first Black area to be declared independent, The Tranakei. The proposal - sure to be controversial if pursued - surfaced this June in an article in M ilita ry Review by A rm y intel ligem-e strategist M ajo r Wesley Croes beck. Published by the A rm y S taff and General Command College at F t. Lea venworth. Kansas, the Review is known to defense experts as s frequent outlet for the m ilitary's tria l balloons. Adm inistration sources say the Groes beck proposal closely parallels a classified Pentagon report recently sent to the W hite House. And according to Groesbeck, the only serious argum ent being raised against the plan is possible opposition by mem bars of the Organisation of African U nity (O A U ). The O A U voted in June to w ith hold recognition from the Transkei after it is declared independent this October, calling it “a mere creation of racist South Africa." T he plan is p art of a new U.S. effort to counter what is seen as growing Soviet superiority in and around Africa. But it also stems from a recent shift in defense planning that gives high priority to secur ing the world's sea lanes and preserving Western access to raw materials. As Adm iral James Holloway I I I , chief of naval operations, explained the idea to the House Armed Services Committee last year, “In contrast to the Soviet Union, the United States and her allies are greatly dependent on the seas for commercial transactions, raw materials and security arrangements." In Groesbeck's words, the Transkei proposal offers “vital surveillance and protection of the Cape Sea Route" w ith out tjie open involvement of South Africa, and "strengthens the U.S. strategic posi tion in the Indian Ocean and South Atlan tic." New Global Strategy The new Indian Ocean/Africa strategy is already well under way, as has been demonstrated by: •th e construction of a new U.S. naval facility on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia; •a dramatically increased U.S. naval presence in the region, typified by a recent show of the flag in Kenya an American ally - at the height of tensions between Uganda and Kenya; •Secretary of Defense Donald Rums feld's June visit to Kenya and Zaire, the first trip to Africa by a Pentagon chief; •a jum p in m ilitary aid programs in Africa from $40 million in 1974 to nearly $200 million this year, along with a simi lar escalation of arms sales from $20 million to $250 million; •a recent Pentagon revelation that long range B 52 bombers are now being used to track Soviet ship movements off Africa's Atlantic coast; •and the disclosure last February that ships from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N A T O ) - in which the U.S. plays perhaps the key role -- have ex panded their operations to the South A t lantic and Indian Oceans. N A T O also has been accused of plan ning secretly for the defense of southern Africa and its sea lanes. Tw o years ago a U N task force discovered the contingency plans, but because of strenous objections by N A T O countries their report was never published. Resistance in Africa African objections to South Africa's independence plan for the Transkei cen ter on the fact that it is the first step in South Africa's "separate development" plan, designed to resolve the country's racial problem without m ajority rule. Critics of South Africa's apartheid sys tem point out that altogether the ten Black states - now called "homelands" - will encompass less than 13 per cent of the country's land area, although A fri cans make up four fifths of the popula tion. And because the economics of the Transkei and the other homelands are heavily dependent on South Africa, most Africans will continue to live in segregat ed townships like Soweto, outside the white cities where they work. Groesbeck hopes African objections can be overcome by the argument that U.S. aid would give the Transkei a mea sure of independence from South Africa. Transkei Chief Kaiser Matanzima has al ready asked for U.S. development assis tance, including help in turning Port St. Johns into a modern facility.
