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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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)