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Mrs Frances Sehoen-Newspaper Room U n iv e rs ity of Oregon L ib ra ry Eugene, Oregon 97403 SERl/ER Volume 7 No. I I Thursday, January 27, 1977 10c per copy 1 Alabama highway named King The U.S. Department of Transporta tion has approved the naming of a 8.8 mile section of interstate highway in Montgomery, Alabama in honor of the late Kev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman, Jr., announced today. The designated section of Interstate 85, which was opened to traffic in January 1971, extends from the Mont gomery city limits to its intersection with Interstate Highway 65 in downtown Montgomery. DOT has authorized the Alabama State Highway Department to erect signs saying, "The Martin Luther King, Jr. Expressway." It is the only time DOT, including its Federal Highway Adminis tration, has ever authorized the placing of signs other than route numbers or road information on an interstate highway. In this case DOT was exercising its powers to grant an exception. Secretary Coleman said. The Secretary's authorization responds to a resolution of the Alabama Legista ture that 1 85 in Montgomery be named for Dr. King and a request from U.S. Rep. Parren Mitchell (Md.) asking him to approve the recommendation. Coach builds players, and men Bobby Harris, basketball coach of Jefferson High School, is concerned with getting the best out of his players on and off the court. As he talked about his team there was obvious enthusiasm shown on hi* part. He seemed more like a father talking about his children, than a coach talking about his team. Coach Bobby Harris looks at coaching basketball in the following manner: “1 want kids to be the best possible person, both on and off the court." He says, “You must sell the team on the team concept. The team comes first. Assists are just as important as baskets, or more import ant." Harris also feels that a ball club is only as good as its last substitute. "Every kid is valuable to the team.” Harris likes to play an exciting brand of basketball. He likes to play pressure r* ................ ■ OwnersMp of tbeir own boilding is the topic of coBversatioa at Albina Youth Opportunity School. Lee McClendon, Mike Yarborogh and Michelle Spruill. with director Rance Youth Opportunity school buys building YDC was established in the 60 s under The Albina Youth Opportunity School has made the down payment on the the auspices of C CAP, with Frank Fair purchase of the 8,000 square foot building as director. Initially it served drop outs it has been leasing for the past five years. from the local high schools, providing "It’s been a long uphill road from just part lime jobs cutting and selling wood existing to becoming self sufficient," for th<»e youth who attended its morninv Rance Spruill, director of the school said, classes. Acer, dilation by the Portland Public "And now we have reached a milestone." The purchase wafs made possible by Schools rame later, and then during the more than $20,000 in grants, mainly from Model ( dies years the school received local foundations. “For the first time, I funding It currently is funded from a feel that we have something which is Law Enforcement Grant, the Portland going to be a permanent part of the Public Schools and private contributions. community.” YOC has an annual enrollment of about 200 high school students, and this year opened its doors to students from the fifth through eighth grades. The school recently purchased a truck and tractor and next spring will contract for nuisance abatement work. Proceeds will he Used to supplement the school's income and to build a financial base. "We've a i.niK way to go yet," Spruill said, with expensive heating, wiring and other renovations facing us. We'll take these things one at a time. At least we’re moving in the right direction." Oregon Democrats join Inaugural throngs BOBBY HARMS by I lyases Marahall I defense, and fast breaking offense, and take advantage of what is offered. He likes to be in control of the game at all times. Coach Harris grew up in Haywood. California, where he played sports ever since his grade school days. He played . Baseball, Football. Basketball, and ran track, however. Basketball was his favor ite. After graduation from high school he attended Pacific University in Forest Grove. Oregon. Harris was recruited specifically for basketball, but he also participated in track and football. At Pacific University he majored in Physical Education and Health. He later went on to Portland State to get his masters. With adequate preparation and expert ence in the world of sports, Harris has given Jefferson Basketball fans a winning team. Coach Harris and his team are dealing with the job at hand. I It is an unusual year weatherwise for the city of Washington and the whole eastern sea board. Temperatures ranged from near zero to below freezing. This did not deter supporters of the President elect from coming to the city for the ritual of the Inaugural. They came in droves to witness the installation of the first Democratic president in eight years. During the preceedings they stood in 16 degree weather, in snow; in front erf the Capital, then patiently travelled the area along Pennsylvania Avenue - the route of the parade. “That evening 16,000 people crowded into the visitor’s center, the old railroad station, to dance and to catch a «mall glimpse of the President, his wife and their party. Many of us who were not standing within a few feet could not see because of the floodlights, but we could hear his short speech." Senator Bill McCoy told the Observer. “Back the crowd went to its dancing, talking and merrymaking. "Many of us who visited the delega tion’s offices were treated to typical Oregon hospitality, especially arranged by Representatives Ullman, Weaver and 'Ihmcan. Many Oregonians front all over the state were there and enjoyed the various events." McCoy watched the Inaugural parade in comfort from the offices of Representa tives Bradamus and James Weaver. He was received at the White House by Ih-esident and Mrs. Carter, with the Democratic National Committee, of Mrs. Allison Belcher was impressed with the feeling of hopefulness among the people present in Washington, "Not the false hope that things will change immediately, but a hope for the reestab lishment of unity and of working to gether.” The most memorable part of the Inauguration to her was the President and his family’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.' '‘It made it seem that he understood the average person, that he wants to be close to the people." She also appreciated President Carter’s giving praise to Gerald Ford in his Inaugural Address, “like an attempt to heal the country.” “I was impressed with the spirit of the people on the parade route and as we walked afterward. There were many ordinary people, not just the politicians or the rich. There were many Blacks participating in the Inaugural, the parade and the parties - Black people from across the country. This I had never seen before.” Mrs. Belcher had a wonderful time at the ball, went to Mondale’s reception, visited the King Tut exhibit on loan from Egypt. heard a gospel concert 'a t I Be ' National History Museum - but she most enjoyed the feeling of togetherness that pervaded the events. Others attending from North Portland and Albina were Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rosso, Ms. Thelma Carlson, Mr. and Mrs. Don Bagley, Bill Thomas and Hulie Phlum. Church stockholders hit banks on South Africa loans NEW YORK -Stockholder resolutions three-quarters of a billion dollars in 1976, aimed at stopping loans to the South “provide financial support and lend moral African government have been filed with legitimacy to South Africa’s apartheid five major U.S. banks by 15 religious government." They seek corporate poli groups, it was announced here today. cies prohibiting further loans to South The Protestant and Roman Catholic Africa until apartheid is abandoned. groups own nearly $10 million in bank Speaking for the church investors, stock. The move marked the first time Robert C.S. Powell, the National Coun church investors have taken banks to cil’s Africa director, called on the Carter task for their South African involvement. Administration “to adopt a policy discour The filing was announced by the aging U.S. loans to South Africa. This Interfaith Center on Corporate Respon will give a clear signal to the South sibility, an agency related to the National African government that it cannot count Council of Churches. The banks are on billions of dollars of U.S. loans while Citicorp, Continental Illinois Corporation, apartheid remains in force," Powell said. First Chicago Corporation, Manufactur He charged that “the horrors unfolding ers Hanover Trust and Morgan Guaranty in South Africa in recent months- the Trust Company. killings of school children and adults, the The resolutions charge that the U.S. widespread arrests of people working for bank loans, which totaled more than change in that country, the continuing oppression of the Black majority have been financed in part by U.S. banks.” “As the sources of foreign financing for apartheid grow more scarce," Powell said, “the South African government has continued to find willing lenders in the U.S." The loans being made by the banks come at a crucial time -crucial for the people of South Africa and crucial for the people of the United States. At the same time that the South African government (urns increasingly to foreign capital to finance extensive domestic operations and offset a worsening balance of pay ments situation (aggravated by a bloated military and security budget), its blatant and brutal racism is revealing itself clearly once again in the events that have followed the Soweto uprisings of last summer,’ he declared. “As the people of the United States face a new administration, we are con fronted with the fact of U.S. complicity with the regime in Pretoria and with our increasing economic interest in maintain ing that government in power." “With a new administration, a major re-examination of U.S. policy toward Southern Africa is possible.” Powell said. "We look to President Carter, Secretary Vance and Ambassador Young to develop strong policy and vigorously enforce it to end any U.S. support for white minority rule in South Africa." In the late 1960's, a number of Protest ant church bodies protested a $40 million credit line extended to the South African Ministry of Finance by several U.S. (Please turn to p.2 col.3) International collision course nears on human rights by Bob Barber 'wuitifcd, eÙtjiMe, twxkdowtòu, by Ulysaes Marshall Women are God’s gift to earth. They are beautiful, not only on the outside, but on the inside, too. Gail Mitchell, an interesting, intelligent, and beautiful lady, is an example. Gail is a Taurus. Her favorite activities include dancing, water skiing, Ry'ng. (Towing plants, skiing, reading a good book and meeting people from other countries and cultures. She also likes to try out new things. Gail is the manager of a jewelry department. She would like to open her own boutique, or do some type of work with young people in the future. She wants a family of four "But depending on our income. 1 would be happy with a smaller family also." Her description of her ideal man is - "I look for principles and character in a man: a man who enjoys people of all kinds. I want a man who is intelligent, not just the scholarly type of intelligence, but people intelligence. He has to be able to relate to all people on their own level a man who takes care of himself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritualy. I like a man I can be totally myself with and we can talk about everything. I want a man who accepts me the way I am, with my imperfection* and doesn't try to change me to fit into his world of interest, but at times enjoys fitting into mine. He should be a man who has travelled, and love* kids: someone who will look out for our own interests" “Heaven must be missing an Angel” WASHINGTON. D.C. (PNS) President Jimmy Carter may find his first foreign policy hot potato lurking in recently disclosed State Department reports on human rights violations by U.S. backed military regimes. While reports assert that such viola tions -including torture occur in Argen tina, Haiti, Peru, Iran, Indonesia and the Philippines, they urge that U.S. aid continue to these countries because of overriding geopolitical interests. This conclusion places the State De partment on a collision course with the growing “human rights lobby" on Capitol Hill: a loose coalition of congressional liberals, refugees from I^atin America and former anti war lobbyists deter mined to stop such assistance. At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in loans and credits for weapons purchases, police and military training and economic development. This aid flows from the U.S. taxpayer to foreign governments through more than a dozen channels, including the Defense Department'* Foreign Military Sales program, the Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and such inter national lending agencies as the World Bank. The State Department advocates con weeks, though not stopping, two large United States Latin American Relations. tinuing the aid in the interest of national World Bank loans to the Santiago Junta This Commission has seven members security, which it defines as maintaining in the past 18 months. Backed by closely associated with Carter foreign influence over the military apparatus of legislation passed last year and a mount policy advisers. the countries in question. ing flow of documentation of abuses from abroad, these activists promise quick Its report refers to Argentina's 1,000 LIKELY CONFRONTATION mile border along the South Atlantic, for action on the Hill and grassroots pressure example, and states, “Our assistance from around the country to make further Given the hardline conclusions drawn orients the Argentine military profes cuts in the aid that reaches such govern by the State Department, however, the sionally toward the U.S., exposing them ments. new President likely will request aid for Rep. Donald Fraser (D„ Minn.), who at least some of the countries in question to our technology and methods." In the case of Iran, the Department heads the House international organiza and thereby provoke a confrontation with cites its strategic location near the Soviet tions subcommittee, has said he will try Congress. Union; and with the Philippines, it cites to hold the first human rights hearings of The human rights lobby's immediate U.S. bases there as the prime concern. the new congressional session in mid tools are two new and as yet barely February, on Argentina. And Rep. tested legislative clauses that prohibit aid For each country, the U.S. asserts Edward Koch (I)., N.Y.), has begun from being granted to countries showing that local U.S. embassy personnel have seeking support for legislation to remove a "consistent pattern of gross violations had lengthy discussions with the govern loopholes in the military aid law that still of internationally recognized human ments about the necessity of observing allow Pentagon training and weapons to rights." Congress can continue the aid, human rights and that continued aid provides the leverage for positive action be sold overseas for counter-insurgency however, if it determines it directly or "internal security" purposes. benefits needy people. on these requests. Carter himself faces a decision on These clauses are themselves the prod Critics of this policy, however, contend whether to request aid or not to request uct of several years of battling on Capitol that the aid serves mainly to buttress aid by the March budget deadline. Hill that began with revelations of U.S. regimes practicing brutal repression Last year President Ford chose not to financed tiger rage prisons in Vietnam such as torture, prolonged detention request military loans for Chile after and v ere given impetus when the U.S. without charge or trial, kidnapping and Congress cut them off the year before. role in the bloody overthrow of Chile's assassination that by association damage Pressure is already mounting on Carter Marxist president Salvador Allende was the reputation of the U.S. in the eyes of to follow that same course in the coming uncovered. the world. months, a position that would be consis In the past two years, a nucleus o f Thus far their efforts have succeeded tent with his own campaign statements House liberals led by Fraser has held in rutting off military aid to Chile and and the recommendations of a recent extensive hearings on the human rights Uruguay and in delaying for several study by the private Commission on (Please turn to p.2 Col.l)
