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Volume 8 No. 4
Thursday, Jaauary 19, 1978
10c .»er co.iy
Ed Center sponsors engineering
The PSU Educational Center is spon
soring a new program to interest mino
rity students in engineering. The pro
gram, which is just getting started, will
provide classes in engineering and mathe
matics to high school students as well as
introduce them to different aspects of the
field of engineering.
"Our purpose is to expose students to
engineering, a field that many have not
considered and to give them a boost with
their education," Lucius Hicks IV , di
rector of the Educational Center ex
plained.
Hicks contacted fourteen high schools
to find students who were interested and
who had the necessary background in
math and English and preferably in
Science.
"A fte r examining their grades and
talking to students and counselors, we
narrowed the field down to sixteen, then
selected five to join the program.” Hicks
said it was purely accidental that the four
students who were finally selected were
young women.
Karen Bell is a junior at Monroe High
School and works part-time at Kozell's
a mathematics course from Dr. Rita Bell,
which is designed to place them in second
year level math. D r. Bell, who is new to
Portland, is an instructor at Portland
Community College and a graduate of the
University of Houston in Administration
of Curriculum.
The classes will provide 21 hours of
college credit and 3*/t of high school
credit over a period of nine months. The
students continue to carry their full high
school course load.
Hicks hopes the new program will not
only help the students enrolled but will
acquaint other minority students with
engineering opportunities.
“W e find
many excellent students with science and
math backgrounds who have just never
thought about engineering, yet it is a
field in which good jobs are available
after four years of college as compared to
seven or eight years for medicine or
chemistry.”
The program was started with the
assistance of Tektronix. BP A , and Ap
plied Science and Engineering D epart
ment at PSU, and P S U ’s Dean of Under
graduate Studies.
Restaurant. She is seventeen years old
and already knows she wants to be an
engineer like her older brother.
Her
parents are M r. and Mrs. John Bell.
Desiree King, a seventeen year old
senior at Monroe High School, is the
daughter of M r. and Mrs. Norman King.
She is taking “work-experience” at Bon
neville Power Administration and is sure
that she will become a nuclear engineer.
She has applied to Oregon State Univer
sity.
G retta Franklin is a junior at Jefferson
High School, the daughter of Ms. Doris
Franklin. She is employed part time by
Dr. Samuel Brown as a dental assistant.
Karen Tally is the exception. She is a
1977 graduate of St. M a ry ’s Academy,
now attending Portland Community Col
lege.
She has applied to Hampton
Institute and is in the program to get a
headstart in engineering principles. H er
parents are M r. and Mrs. Ben Tally.
The students will take two classes. The
first is comparable to first year college
engineering, taught by D r. Erasmus
Ogbuobiri, an engineer with Bonneville
Power Administration, they also will take
Mrs. M arie Smith, recipient of the 1977 Russell A . Peyton
Award, received a corsage from the Oregon Association of
Colored Women's Clubs, presented by Mrs. Betty Thom;i-
son...
And a kiss from Mayor Neil Goldschmidt, who presented
the Aw ard, which is conferred annually for dedication to
human rights by the Metro,»olitan Human Relations
Tax plan benefits downtown property owners
by Representative W ally Priestley,
Member Portland Public School Board
Las! week we saw how urban renew
al*. in the Portland area, since it began in
1963 has benefitted Portland's down
town core area property owners while
shifting the tax burden to others. This is
being done in two ways: 1) Raising the
tax rate of every property in common
with the area designated as the ‘urban re
newal area’ and; 2) By directing all of the
increased taxes raised from every taxing
district in common with the 'urban
renewal area’ back into the urban re
newal urea.
Analysis
We saw how this process automatically
raises more tax money for the urban
renewal area should the people choose to
increase their taxes for any reason, be it
schools or parks. W e saw how the taxes
’saved’ by shortening the school year of
the Portland Public Schools by five days
($2.4) million just about equal the in
creased taxes raised by Portland area
taxpayers and directed into the core area
($2.3 million).
Further, we saw how the passage of
the proposed tax levy, because of the
additional 54c per thousand dollars of
property value it generates, will automa
tically benefit the core area by $45,360 at
today's values. Should the levy pass at
the May 1978 Prim ary, their benefit will
increase 150 percent next year.
otherwise use property located in any of
the seven districts in common with the
designated 'urban renewal area', you’re
paying. Even businesses or services you
buy shift their tax increase to you if they
can. Add up the changes in rate from the
table and then multiply this times the
value of property by it's value in thou
sands of dollars-fEveryone living in the
sands of dollars.
Everyone living in the City of Port
land has all seven districts in com
mon with the benefitted area and their
tax rate is increased the most - this year
by 31c per thousand dollars of value.
However, every property within the
This week we want you to be able to
calculate your 'contribution' to improved
public service to Portland and Oregon's
most valuable property and their rich
owners.
Here's how: from the map, or the
table, determine the rate your property
tax has increased. I f you own. rent or
three metropolitan counties of Multno
mah, Washington, and Clackamas is
effected even if they live in faraway
places
like
Bonneville
(Multnomah
County), Tualitan (Washington County),
or Mollala (Clackamas County) because
they are paying a higher than otherwise
tax rate because of the ‘urban renewal
area’ to the Port of Portland.
TAX ZONES IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY
Among the three hundred ;tersons who gathered to honor
her were M rs. Clara Bartholomew and Osley J. Gates...
And 1975 Peyton Aw ard winner, E. Shelton Hill.
Northeast Coalition writes own land use plan
The Northwest Coalition has rejected
three land use alternative plans provided
by the staff of the City Planning Commis
sion and has presented its own plan - now
called Alternative IV .
Although citizens have spent five years
developing neighborhood plans that were
to have become the Model Cities Area
comprehensive plan, to be incorporated
into the Citizen's Comprehensive Plan,
the City has now determined to develop
its comprehensive plan by providing the
framework and policy to the neighbor
hoods.
The neighborhoods now will
respond to the City proposals.
Jan Chiles, the City Planning Bureau,
explained to the Northwest Coalition that
it is far ahead of some other areas since it
does have a coordinating body.
The
comments and proposals of the several
city planning districts will be considered
by the Planning Commission in its w rit
ing of the Comprehensive Plan, which
will then be presented to the City Council
for adoption.
The C ity alternatives propose a higher
housing density and added industrial
development. The N .E . Coalition plan
calls for viewing the area in its historical
perspective and zoning accordingly..
Areas that are now used for single family
dwellings but have other zone designa
tions would be rezoned from single-family
dwellings. Areas now zoned for commer
rial, but actually used for multi-family
dwellings, would be re-zoned for m ulti
family dwellings.
Commercial and multi-family housing
would be located within two blocks of
major street intersections as they are
now located. Codes would be amended to
require design and construction quality
and to provide for historic conservation.
Outside the commercial center all
single family dwelling zoning within the
City would be retained.
The policy
proposed by the Planning Commission to
allow building on sub standard size lots
would be restricted to require neighbor
and neighborhood association approval.
A separate zoning code for parks and
open spaces is recommended.
The plan proposes that land at commer
rial centers now zoned for light industry
be re zoned commercial and that indus
trial development be promoted on vacant
land near rail, w ater and truck transpor
tat ion. It also proposes development of
townhouses, garden apartments; and wa
ter-oriented commercial establishments
along the W illam ette south of Broadway
Bridge, which is vacant or used for
industry.
The Northeast Coalition of Neighbor
hoods, Inc., represents the Boise, Concor
dia, Eliot, Humboldt, King, Piedmont,
Sabin, Vernon and Woodlawn neighbor
hoods.
NAACP awards Humphry’s civil rights work
Tax Zone
Amount current tax rate increased in cents
,ier thousand dollars value due to downtown
urban renewal district.
A
B
31.03c
20.27c
5.39c
8.97c
19.84c
19.73c
8.54c
8.46c
c
D
E
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NEW YORK - The first Annual W alter
W hite Aw ard was presented to Senator
Hubert Horatio Humphrey for his histori
cal contributions to civil rights at the
N A A C P Annual Fellowship dinner on
Sunday, January 8th.
M r. Humphrey, who was represented
by his sister, Mrs. Francis Howard, was
given the unusual N A A C P honor for his
years of support to the civil rights
struggle and the N A ACP. The award
highlighted his "unremitting crusade
against poverty, bigotry and discrimina
tion” which "has helped renew the fiber
of the democratic ethic upon which this
nation stands."
The award was presented at the
Banquet which was also a special tribute
to Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director,
who took over the job that W alter W hite
once had.
M r. W hite was executive
secretary, the old title, from 1931 until
his death on March 21,1955, when he was
succeeded by Roy Wilkins.
It was presented by W illiam H. Oliver,
a member of the Board of Directors and a
vice president of the N A A C P .
Also
participating in the presentation was
W alter W hite's daughter; Miss Jane
White.
M r. O liver noted that W alter W hite
"led numerous campaigns in defense of
freedom, justice and equal opportunity
for Black Americans.” Indeed, one of
W alter White's most singular contribu
tions was his crusade against lynching.
which began several years before he
became executive secretary.
He said that “we are proud that our
first recipient is indeed an illustrious and
outstanding American."
Mrs. Howard, in accepting the award,
said that Senator Humphrey attributed
his concern for people to his late father,
Hubert Humphrey. Sr. He said: “It was
Dad all the way. M y Dad was a druggist.
He never sold a pill, but he sold an idea.
And the idea was one: people count. My
Dad believed that you never owned
anything, you only used it; you were a
steward.” She said, "He believed that the
dream was there before the reality. Of
course, that's why Hubert cared so
much.”
Hubert H. Humphry
1911 - 1 9 7 8
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Taxing Districts in Common with
Portland's downtown 'Urban Renewal
District’ (UR D)
Multnomah County
Port of Portland
City of Portland
Multnomah County IE D
Portland Community College
Portland School District No. 1
Metropolitan Service District
Total all lb s trifts
Current Tax
Rate per
$1,000 Value
Amount Current Tax
Rate Increased in
Cents per Thousand
Due to Downtown ‘U R D ’
$4.26
1.15
7.92
3.85
0.58
9.06
0.14
4.01
0.87
10.76
3.58
0.43
11.30
0.08
<26.96
31.03
"T h e re a re those w h o say to y o u , 'W e are
rush in g this issue o f c iv il rig h ts .' I say w e a re
172 years late. There a re those w h o say, 'This
issue o f c iv il rig h ts is a n in frin g e m e n t on
states' rig h ts .' The tim e has a rriv e d fo r the
D em ocratic p a rt to g e t o ut o f th e s h a d o w o f
states' rig hts a nd w a lk fo rth rig h tly in to the
b rig h t sunshine o f h u m a n rights. P eople -
h um an b e in g s — this is the issue o f the 20th
century.
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1948
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