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■**• Francea Schoen-Newspaper Nooa U n iv e r s ity o f Oregon L ib r a ry Eugene, Oregon 97403 PORTLAND 24, 1977 10c per 7 Ne.14 Thursday, ■ Henderson ■ V V **’ ■ ■" • $ A A.L. Henderson, editor and publisher of the Observer was awarded the 1976 Russell A. Peyton Award for human rights, Tuesday. Henderson was selected unanimously for his service to the community through his newspaper and Bethel African Metho dist Episcopal Church, where he was formerly pastor. City Commissioner Charles Jordan, speaking at the awards luncheon, asked all present to make some sacrifice to see that the poor are fed, the elderly poor of Multnomah County are cared for, and to rid the state of Oregon from discrimina tion. Master of Ceremonies for the occassion was Mrs. Hazel G. Havs, Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission. Reverend John Jackson, President of the NAACP, Portland Branch, gave the invocation. Mrs. Bobbie Nunn of the Portland Public Schools, introduced Commissioner Jordan. The award was presented by Dr. Lee P. Brown, Director of Justice Services for Multnomah County. Father Gordan Dickey, Chaplain for McLaren and Hill crest Schools gave the benediction. The award is presented each year by the Metropolitan Human Relations Com mission. Previous recipients are: John A. Mills, 1973; Thomas S. Sloan, 1974; and E. Shelton Hill, 1975. (Please see page 8) j 9- • Dr. Lee 1*7« tel Peytea Award te Lee He Dea Jamieson abused again? The Observer has been informed that Bobby Jamieson, inmate at Rocky Butte Jail, who we reported two weeks ago had charged guards with brutality and asked for an investigation, has again been injured by guards. Witnesses to the incident said that on Saturday the men in the cell block had returned from a meal when Jamieson knocked on the window and asked a guard to turn on the television. The guard told him to get away, but Jamieson repeated the request. Then, the guard told Jamieson be was going to the hole. Jamieson repl il that he had done nothing wrong and was not going. As a sergeant and three guards (name badges removed) came for him, Jamieson braced himself beneath the table against the bars. “They pulled him by the hair, gouged their thumbs into his throat, and pried on his fingers. His foot was twisted and pulled." As J am e iso n was taken away, other inmates report they saw him thrown against the wall. They later heard he had been taken to the hospital. Last week Jamieson told The Observer that since his complaint was filed, some guards had attempted to provoke him. Jamieson has a reputation for a quick temper and for defending himself. According to other inmates he is small and is the object of some of the guards' The response of Commissioner Chair man Don Clark so far has been to ask the Corrections Division for a report, being prepared by jail investigator James Gredvig. L, ■ ’ (Photo: Dan Reggie Raiford demonstrates Us talents. Portland youth seel If Reggie Raiford’s dream comes true, Portland will have its own entry in the Olympic figure skating competition. Raiford, who is seventeen years old and a senior at Madison High School, recently came in third in the National Figure Skating Championships, Junior Division, held in Connecticut. Raiford began skating at the age of eleven. When about nine years old he saw an ice show in Tacoma, then tried a little skating. His current teacher, Cathy Cas- sey, observed him and told him that if he ever moved to Tacoma, she would teach him. His mother did not take his requests lympic fame for lessons seriously because he had never shown mgch persistence at any thing, but when be was eleven and still interested, his parents gave him lessons at the Lloyd Center rink. Raiford studied with Berna Patterson and then with Ron Kauffman, a world (Please turn to page 3 col. 1) PMSC considers suit against Oregon Journal The Executive Committee of the Port land Metropolitan Steering Committee Board of Directors has asked its attorney. Neil T. Jorgenson, to begin preliminary action toward a suit against the Oregon Journal. The board charged that the Journal has repeatedly reported untrue information about PMSC. The most recent example was an article published February 19, 1977, written by James Long that stated thst the PMSC board had voted to use funds from the poor people’s eyeglass clinic to pay off “an estimated $19,000 in dis allowed ‘expenses' by PMSC Executive Director, Cleveland Gilcrease.” John Rice, Chairman of the board, said all but $10,203 expenditures for 1973 and 1974 have been justified and PMSC is in the process of documenting the remain ing expenditures. Two small accounts that have been incorrectly charged in the bookkeeping process were repaid to the government and were paid with non- federal corporation funds, money ob tained through the coffee and candy bar machines in the office and through private donation. The discussion in the former board meeting of the eye clinic had nothing to do with any questioned expenditures. It referred to the required practice of returning client fees paid for glasses to Region X, then requesting return of the funds for use by the clinic. Rice said he respects the freedom of the press to report the news and to print its opinions, but that he expects the press to be honest and responsible as a guard ian of freedom. For the past two years the Journal has reported and editorialized on alleged misappropriation of federal funds by Gilcrease although Gilcrease was investi gated and cleared by the Justice Depart ment, the attacks have continued. Murder in Zim bwabwe: Who is responsible? by Fungai 8. Kumbula Recently, the world was shocked by the cold-blooded murder of seven Roman Catholic and Dominican missionaries in Zimbabwe, supposedly by the guerillas. Few, if any, stopped to ask themselves: Who has the most to gain from such a cowardly act? Would the guerillas really Analysis kill the very same people who have done so much for them? And why, at this point in time, when we have finally convinced the world of the legitimacy of our struggle? I am not in position to pinpoint the murderers but then neither is anybody else, for that matter. Who was there besides the one lone survivor? He says it was the guerillas. This testimony can, at best, be taken with a grain of salt. He saw a few people who he took to be guerillas and reported them as such but how could he tell the real guerillas from Ian Smith's agents? After all they have been known to commit such murders and blame them on the guerillas. Considering the circumstances of the attack, he could not have taken a very good look at the killers. Even if he did, he cannot be absolutely sure that they were -- erftlee caaaaa a a v w OwviiU’« ««veasafa in f t U C i iia u a o as eaeevee «* » ..- — w q v disguise. It is now public knowledge that toward the end of last year. Smith sent his murderers to attack a refugee camp in Mozambique where they massacred 800 defenseless women and children. And how were the killers disguised then? As Frelimo soldiers and they were even singing Frelimo revolutionary songs, (a U.N. commission has since confirmed, amid denials from Smith, that it was a refugee camp, and not a ‘terrorist’ base as he claimed.) Killing missionaries would make no sense from our point of view. Most of us get what little education we do in mission schools. Also, the churches have been very vocal in speaking out against the regime. The Catholics, along with a few other churches, had begun to gather evidence of government atrocities again st innocent Black civilians. This informa tion, Smith was most anxious to suppress and so murdering the missionaries may well be the result of his efforts to that end. So while we have nothing to gain by these killings. Smith has everything to gain. He not only suppresses this very damaging evidence, but also silences his critics and cools our new-found friends. He knows that murdering white mission aries would stir up the world as nothing would Public supports drug treatment programs by Ulysses Marshall “Once a drug addict, always a drug addict?" That's a complicated question because each addict is an individual, and therefore relates and handles situations differently. Being intrigued with this question a survey was born. diqMt, kklw tta by Ulys Women are God's gift to earth. They are beautiful, not only on the outside, but on the inside, too. Yolanda Ellita Maria Yuvienco, an interesting, intelligent, and beautiful lady is an example. Yolanda is a Virgo. Her favorite activities she says are!*T like to spend time with my son and little sister. Then there is my work...when I workl I'm a carpenter and you can bet when I do something I do it good. I love the out of doors, to go camping, beaching, horseback riding, backpacking, fishing. Swimming, picniking, not to mention loving to party, h:\rty." Yolanda is a U.S. Coast Guard recruit. When asked of her future plans she s ta te d “To be able to do anything...when I return from my four year stretch in the Coast Guard I will have completed a very important part of my plan to becoming a Jill of All Trades. I will study to become a mechanic. She wants a family of four. She had this to say about her Ideal Man. “My Ideal Man is already picked. He is masterful and strong, very ambitious because of his high ego. No, his ego doesn't bother me. for in fact it keeps me on my toes in our struggle to keep our long and happy relationship going. He is considerate, and loves children. I love a man whc will atand to his word to love, honor, end cherish his family, until death do us part. His patience is unbelievably strong, but his resistance to my love is weak. A master he truly is. My Leo can lead me to his den anytime.” Words Caamet Describe Her Perfection Roger Reid: Yes, I think drug addicts can be rehabilitated. But the problem is in the environment. It's a problem in the environment or community that's created the drug problem, and it is the same problem that will exist when the reform ed addict returns to the environment. Therefore there has to be an effective problem solving group within the com munity that deals directly with those problems causing drug addiction. Julie Clemens: Addicts can be rehabilita ted. It depends on how sincere they are about wanting help. Denise Callahan: An addict can be rehabilitated if he has a strong enough constitution. A n n a Street: Yes. If they have a strong desire to be rehabilitated. They need to be helped to get off the drug, and then worked with so that the total aspect of the person's life is dealt with. Forrest Jenkins: Addicts have to be in an atmosphere that is conducive to rehabili tation, and they have to look for new highs, such as their friends, or natural highs. Joyce Harris: With some type of rehabilitation program and the elimina tion of the problems that lead to drug addiction, an addict can be rehabilitated. Sandy Freeland: Addicts can be rehabili tated. There are as many forms of treatment as addicts. Therapeutic com munities, methodone programs. Detox programs, outpatient counseling, and narcotics anonymous meetings. Rev. John H. Jackson: I think it depends on what type of drugs they are on, and it depends on what type of person they are, and how strong their will is. But they should be helped. It should be up to social agencies, and medical agencies and such to find the cure. U.S. eyes major overhaul of Southern Africa policy by Reed Kramer WASHINGTON, D.C., (PNS1 - A major U.S. policy review on the escalating crisis in Southern Africa is underway at the State Department, aimed at clarifying new U.S. options for bringing majority rule to the white-minority governments of Rhodesia, South Africa and Namibia (Southwest Africa). State Department sources characterize the study as “extremely important.” They say it parallels the significance of former Secretary of State Kissinger s now famous National Security Study Memorandum 39, which led to a tilt towardt white minority regimes in South ern Africa in 1969. In addition, observers believe the outcome will test the influence of UN Ambassador Andrew Young, now a pivot al figure in the U.S. policy debate over Southern Africa. Young has yet to win the full confidence of the foreign policy establishment-both career officers of the State Department and the non-govern mental figures from business and aca demia. While policy-makers see Rhodesia as the flashpoint, the real challenge facing the U.S. is how to juggle relations with the powerful white regime in South Africa. In Rhodesia and Namibia, a general policy has been laid down: the U.S. will actively push for the rapid triumph of moderate Black majority rule. But no such commitment has been ing sanction resolutions. While the administration has witheld made on South Africa, where American comment on its policy discussions of economic interests continue to climb. Carter and Young must balance their South Africa, interviews with many State need to win approval from Black Africa- Department and congressional sources including nations like Nigeria, the num confirm that the major policy options ber two source of U.S. oil imports- under review include: *The possible appointment of a Black against the necessity of maintaining ambassador to South Africa. Some working relations -with South Africa. officials also want to see the five Ameri The dilemma will come to a head late can military attaches there reduced in next month when the Africa nations on | number or completely withdrawn. the UN Security Council propose several 'Ending American intelligence-sharing resolutions for economic sanctions a- with South Africa. Same officials argue gainst South Africa, at a time when that South African data has not been Young will be sitting as chairma.'. Young particularly useful and that a publicly and Carter, who both oppose such sanc announced end to the exchange would tions, will be forced to decide whether to look good. continue the American practice of veto (Please turn to page 3 col. I)
