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U n iv e rs ity of Oregon L ib rary
Lagena, Oregon 97403
Community rejects racial plan
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____ ___ ______The Ctty of Portland is
exported to receive approximately 8811.7
million. Multnomah County will reeeive
about fS J million.
Tied to the pending grants is a 10
percent set-aside lor minority *
which was taetaded in the
signed by the
“The ten
lor minority business is not a I
William Grimley, E D A Regional Director
of Civil Righto said Tuesday. “W e p ia n to
enforce these regulations to the fullest.
Minority businesses to be utfltoed on each
project must be identified and Mated with
the eontret document before any money
is released. Any grantee that fails to
i w ill lose any monies
and may have to
I to date."
Local officials are waiting for word
from E D A as to what their actual dollar
grants will be. UnUke the first round, the
specific projects w ill not ha selected by
E D A . but by local government.
The
priority list mast be approved by the
local goveramant (city or county) and ha
principal
district«
The Portland Publie Schools hope to
receive 88 million from the City of
Portland’s grant. This would be used for
renovation of Fernwood Middle School (2
million), renovation of Sabin Elementary
School (8860.000) and creation of covered
play areas at eleven schools (8600,000).
Monies received by PPS can be need
lor approved building projects only, and
will not be available to offset the operate
C ity ef
The
to the Board of Education by board
member Jonathan Newman baa brought
immyti»*« negative reaction.
The Board to faced with lowering the
percentage of minority studento attend­
ing Jefferson High School to meet state
totes student! ta a section of the Boise
«mt Kingatoe1— tory I
to ta the Jefferson
bars them from atte
School or —y other high schsol that has a
minority mssfissant ever the district's
average of 1* per sent.
The Boise 8chooi Advisory Committee
discussed the proposal at their meeting
tost week and unanimnuely opposed the
proposal. The Committee had net been
informed of the prop seal prior to its
and had net been eon-
of the committee fait
the plan discriminated against H a rk
r cue-third of the
Uvee ta the
, the remainder living ta the
Washington H g h School district.
C. Mason io s Parole
i Officer assigned to the Albina
Resource Center. A native of
Texas, Mason graduated from
Bwreogh High School. He enlisted ta the
Martas Corps, serving three y e a n of
active duty.
Maae* graduated from the Emanuel
Hospital and University of Oregon Medi­
cal School program as s Histological
i ta 1961. He was employed st
ta the Pathology
to school at Oregon
College of Education ta Mammouth, grad­
u a t e b 1972 with a Bachelor of Science
Degree ta Social Science, corrections. He
at OCE, earning a Master of
i ta Corrections Administration in
of 1974.
i attending graduate school, from
March 1972 until September 1974, Mason
i a Correctional Counselor at Oregon
right that we as I
our children are
“W hy should our children be expected
to do afl of the desegregating,“ asked
another parent. “Why doesn’t the white
community participate. Their children
don’t have to ride busses and face strange
new schools where they are unknown and
many tin ea not wanted. I want my ehild
to get the best possible education and if
that means busing her e m u s town I don’t
Mason supervises p in m s * omignod to
him who am either on probation or on
parole fcww tbs state institutions. w«
must insure that they most tbs require-
IIMUltfi M t flX* th a n .
Among tbs additional services ba pro­
vides ai? help ta 1
ta t a k e
training and
and help with a host of <
that persona caught up ta the legal
system encounter.
Mason has the reputattaa of b e e
of those people who goes eat of hta way to
be of service. He earned the reepsrt of
the imatee of Oregon State Penitentiary
while employed there and is still referred
to as the ideal
expected t o d o s o f a r i e t o l e t u s g o t o
their schools."
“The recent proposal presented to the
School Board by Jonathan Newman to
another in a continuation of insults and
racial policy that the school district has
aaoerted against Black students and the
community," Mrs. Veeta Loving said.
“The proposal as presented by M r.
Newman would deny students from these
two schooto (Betas and King) from going
to Jefferson because of the racial balance
that the school district has as con­
veniently declared. There are no such
guidelines in the white community. There
are a lot of white schools that have only
ten or twelve Stacks but nothing has been
dene to rectify that.”
Mrs. Loving ease the new policy as
another attempt to pressure Black par­
ents. “Meet parents did not want King
and the other schools made into Early
Childhood Education Centers and still
don’t want it. But this will go on until we
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AYOS, Cooisiunity School foods cut
The Portland School Board, meettag
Monday night, voted to continue fending
tag of private Alternative Schools.
Superintendent Robert Blanchard had
proposed a 168,000 cut ta the 8109,000
budgeted for private alternative sehosto
far the 1977-1978 school year.
A fter considerable discussion the P ri­
vate Alternative School Program was m t
to870,000 with 815,000 started to Lento
Education Cantor, 816,000 to Open Mead­
ow, 810.000 to Willstastto Loaratag Cen­
ter; and 880,000 to Afetaa Youth
n it y oCDOOi.
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i ^ m i T s i is I u i i i v w
OCuOOft
was not funded.
anemwmon ana
an/1
Board memoers Mcvoy, IklA
nawman
York voted for the shove funding,
hers voting against any cut wm WaBy
Priestley and for
tag funding for I.
F rin k MaeNamara,
Spesktog far the Albina Youth Oppor
tunfty School, Kay Pankratx called the
school “an alternative to nothing“, which
is “in the business of saving student’s
Uvee.” AYOS has an elementary school
program and a high school program, with
PPS fnndtag lees thaa ou-e-half of the
high schnai program.
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school’s ewrofimoot, which was below the
number anttripatod thia year, director
Rance Sprufll told the Board that the
school district hoe hem negligent in
referring students to the school. "We
Mda in trouble or
hem told there are
I k e school is not allowed to
recruit students who are having prob­
lems. Sprufll said the school was present­
ed with ifee first Hat of perspective
many of them
e a t of school since October.
nara question­
ed A Y O ff adherence to its contract,
for so 80 students and an
I, Spruill explain­
ed that the school served 156 students.
of the year, if no
i, or if students are
to PPS, daily attend
below 40.
In the fsU of 1976,1
by the State of Oregon Parole and
Probation Ssctfon and assigned to the
Albina Human Resource Center.
mind. But 1 think white parents should
meet us half way. All they have been
I
levy
Parole officer gains r«poct
of the Boise
Improvement Association, nes received a
number of calls from Boise residents whe
are upeet over the proposed policy. “The
people who have called me are o p peead to
the plan, feeling it would work an unfair
hardohip on the Boise students."
A parent, whose child has applied for
admission to a Jefferson magnet pro­
gram, said. “M y child will probably ge to
Jefferson this fall, hut if he had beau a
year younger and had ant applied until
next year he would be barred from the
program because of his race. I t to not
D urin g 1976-77, A Y O S received
861,000 from the school district which
supplied four high school teachers and
some supplies.
The funding in the
proposed 1977-78 budget was 140,000.
“I f they won't give us the money we
need we will have to cut hours of w o rt
and cut back on the academic day. There
is only so much you can do. We spend a
lot of time in follow-up, going out and
getting the kids to school. But we can’t
expect teachers to work for nothing.
What it boils down to is eliminating
options for kids - forcing them out of
school and into bad situations.
Superintendent Blanchard had also
proposed a 890,253 cut from the com­
munity schools, including eliminating the
coordinators for the three schools. The
three community schools - Portsmouth.
Alameda and Woodmere - provide educa­
tional activities for the public in the
school facilities.
A unanimous vote of the board rejected
budget cuts in this area.
Proposed cuts to be addressed at the
June 22nd meeting inc
tioa funding, teacher ai
meat and capital outlay (a
romedeitag). The meeting wUl be held at
•7:80 pun. at «81 N I . Clackamas.
policy o f funding Community School since
them ta some qu est i on as to
them children could benefit
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WMW^meemnne
D U D U C S C lM A M l p m i f r n i i i .
for the Community School,
wUsh is located at 4688 N £ . 9th Avenue.
Sandy William addressed two questions:
the «e d ib ility of the taformatfoa provid­
ed the Board by the PPS Administration,
and whether the public schools are
currently serving all children who have
;
at
bar of the
district’s Bhw Ribbon Panol on
Disruptive Youth, reminded the Board
Blue-Ribbon Panel were that Alternative
Schools be expended and that resources
for alternate programs be redirected at
primary grades. The private alternative
■choeh are meeting the needs of these
young people who do not adapt to the
publie schools.
Legal heroki: New tool in war on crine?
ettvely, that at
percent of the criminal
is drug rotated.
Heroin
would knock out 80
ef the Mack market."
- S J . Judge Fronds McCarty
“W e would be forfeiting the strug­
gle ever the reel issues if we paralyse
i people with heroin and
•the record of corrupt and illegal
practices by both local and federal
narcotics agencies.
D r. Peter Bourne, President Carter’*
special assistant on drug abuse, has
opened the door to heroin maintenance
projects. Speaking ta San Francisco st
the annual conference of the Ford Found
ation’a Drug Abuse Council. Bourne
declared such proposals “will get the
same kind of consideration as any other
scientific proposal."
Bourne’s statment also opened the door
to a storm of controversy from the top of
America’s drug control establishment all
the way down to neighborhood treatment
clinics in such cities as New York, Detroit
and Oakland.
Richard Hatcher, the Black mayor of
Gary, Indiana, ia one of the leading
proponents of heroin maintenance experi­
ments. Last year he chaired the Notional
League of Cities committee that endorsed
such experiments.
“Look, we've spent 88 billion a year on
drug abuse and what we have to shew for
it ia a half million addicts and maybe two
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-D e tro it Judge Justin Ravita
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Narcotic* play important rolo in local crimo
Drugs and drug related crimes, togeth­
e r with alcohol-related offenses are the
moot foquent cause of the booking into
Rocky Butte Jail of males in 1976 and ia
the second most frequent cause of book­
ing for female*.
The five most frequent categories of
arrest of men incarcerated in Rocky
Butte were: Narcotics, IS percent; Alco­
hol, 11.9 percent; Driving under the
influence of liquor (D U IL ), 8.0 percent;
Driving while license revoked or sus­
pended. (D W R -D W 3), 7.6 percent; and
Other Misdemeanors. 7 percent.
The order of arrest* for women was:
Proetttottoa, 20.8 percent; Narcotics, 18.8
percent; Theft - Misdemeanors, 18.5
percent; Freud, 6.9 percent, Larceny, 6.0
Narcotics were the greatest cause of
arrest of M a rk s, with 7 J portent, with
aleohoi ta fifth piece with 6.6 percent.
Arrests of whites were led by narcotics
with IS A percent; with aleohoi second,
10.4 peroent; and D U IL third with 8.7
Native
■ i t i l l art for ah
D U IL ta third
Other
aleohoi, 29.7 percent, followed by narcot­
ics. 7.7 percent.
In the year 1976, 687 persons ever 18
and 186 juveniles were arrested ta
Portland for drug abuse violations. Add
to thia arrests for 421 robberies, 1,084
burglaries, 8,518 larcenies, 708 prostitu­
tion arrests, many of which might have
been perpetrated to support a drug habit,
and the cost of narcotice addiction rana
high in Portland
The dollar eoat of
property stolen came to I14.128A17. A M
to this the cost of arrest, conviction, end
incarceration and the coat of drag abuse
in Portland runs into the millions.
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National District Attorney's Association
and the American Bar Association.
Heroin maintenance, which is the
cornerstone of drug control policy in
Britain, has caught the attention of policy
makers for several reasons:
Sharply escalating urban crime rotes
including theft sad personal violence;
•dramatic increases in the use of
narcotics since the mid-1960’s, coupled
with failure in traditional enforcement
and treatment programs;
•f he relative success of the British
system; and
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