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U rs F ra n c e s S choen-N ew spsper Reo» U n i v e r s i t y o f C rcjron L ib r a r y tu g s n s t C reso» 9?4L'3 Home burglaries increase in Northeast Portland There is a definite rise in residen tia l burglary affecting all inner- northeast neighborhoods according to statistics provided by the North Precinct C rim e A nalyst. From August through September, a six teen percent increase (from 123 to 143 burglaries) occured. From Sep tember through October, a fifteen percent rise happened. (143-158 crimes) Total percentage increases fro m August through O ctober equals twenty percent (424 crimes). The financial losses experienced by citizens is substantial. In the week o f October 24th - 30th, tor example, 44 reported burglaries amounted to $66,244 in losses to people. N eighborhood Against Crime and N orth Precinct tallied losses from February 1, through August. Citizens reported financial losses from stolen property that totalled up to little over $500,000. Normally September and October are slower months for burglars. In inner-northeast and throughout the city, residential burglary rates are always high in summer months and November and December. Summer rates soar because o f such factors as people being on vacation, people being out in their yards with door unlocked, and more people coming and going on the neighborhood streets. As the Christmas holiday approaches, it is more likely that people will have valuable presents or cash in their homes. We can naturally expect more people to be victims o f home burglary and street crimes as robbery and purse snatch ing at this time o f year. It is d iffic u lt to determine definitely why home burglary is on the rise. Common sense tells us that high unemployment among adults and youth, government cutbacks, and other economic factors con tribute to the problem. W ho are the burglars? In a number p f cases youth com m it home burglaries throughout Port land. They are usually unarmed and commit their crimes during daylight hours when people are at w ork. They enter homes through unlocked doors and windows, in at least one third o f burglaries. How can people prevent them selves from becoming victims? The most im portant step is to use existing locks. Secondly citizens can request residential surveys to get suggestions on how to safeguard property. Homeowners w ith in comes under $11,300 q u a lify fo r free locks installation (a tax state ment is usually the determining fac tor for establishing need). Finally, neighbors need to watch out fo r each other and report suspicious ac tivity on their block. A number o f citizens have ex pressed their reluctance to working directly with police on crime and crime prevention issues. Due to the substantial rise in burglary, somehow the community needs to get involved. There is a lot that can be done totally on a citizen level to watch out for each other. Anyone interested in addressing the rise in residential burglary can get help from Shaion M cC orm ick, Inner NE N eigh borhoods Against Crime, 287-3692. N orth Precinct w ill be doing specific patrol in neighborhoods most affected by residential burglary and street crimes in the next two months as their response to the rising crime rates. PORTLAND OBSERVER Volume XI Number 5 November 13,1980 2SC per copy Project aids child care placement The Sabin neighborhood is one of two communities selected by the Ecumenical Ministeries o f Oregon for a “ Neighborhood Child Care Network Demonstration Project.” The second neighborhood is Sunny side, in southeast Portland. A ccording to C ornetta Sm ith, director o f the Albina Ministerial Alliance Family D a y/N ight Care Program, which is the local spon soring agency, the goal o f the project is to identify and strengthen neighborhood child care systems. C hild care is one o f the social programs that comes and goes with the political whims and economic trends o f the time. Ten years ago every child living in the Model Cities area, whose parents were employed or were in school or training, had a right to free child care. Now there is no federal or state money for child care other than for those who are eligible for welfare, and low-income fam ilies eligible fo r federally funded Headstart programs which do not provide care fo r children under two years. Other parents.- even those on lim ite d incomes - must pay the full cost o f child care. Most o f the child care centers established through Model Cities had to close when parents were unable to pay at the level required to operate them. The Sabin com m unity has no child care centers. There is an after - school ‘ ‘ latch key” program operated by parents who had used the Sabin School latch-key program until it was closed last year. The most usual type o f child care, and the cheapest, is “ family day care,” where the child is cared for in the home o f the care provider. Families pay from $6.00 to $8.00 per day for the first child, with some reduction for additional children the demonstration project w ill attempt to locate these “ day care mothers” and establish a referral system to help parents in need o f child care to find them. The first phase o f the project is to locate “ natural neighbors,” persons who are involved with their neigh bors and therefore know who is currently providing child care. This phase o f the project is based on a demonstration project carried out in northwest P ortland in the late 1960s, which id e n tifie d natural neighbors and used them as infor mation providers. The project coordinator, Carol Latim er, w ill keep in touch with these persons to find the resources and the needs. Once day care providers are located, she w ill provide inform ation to them and w ill establish an inform ation and referral system to help parents locate suitable providers. (Please turn to Page 10 Col 1) Coalition elects chairman The Northeast C o a litio n o f Neighborhoods election next Tuesday will be a controversial one, with Bob Nelson launching a cam paign for President, opposing Mel Hamilton, who was selected by the nominating committee. Six year old Jo y M y ric k , d a u g h te r o f Rose Williams and Chuck M yrick, concentrate on learn- ing to write. (Photo: Richard J. Brow n) Priestley seeks citizen advisors State Representative W ally Priestley has been named Chairman o f the House Committee on Aging and M inority Affairs by Represen tative Hardy Myers, who is expected to be elected Speaker o f the House. A long w ith the C hairm anship comes the responsibility o f selecting an assistant and a secretary. “ Rather than just using the money to hire two peple, I want to pattern this after the way I have used my administrative assistant money - to allow citizens to work for passage o f bills that interest them,” Priestley said. While each legislator can hire a fu ll tim e assistant, Priestley has allocated the money he received among a number o f people who wanted to go to Salem and work on issues. For example, last session he paid several members o f the Trojan Decommission A llia n ce $250 a month or less, while they used his office to write and organize support for several anti-nuke bills. Others received small “ expense” stipends to work on nursing home and other American State Bank w ill hold the Grand Opening of Its 2nd and S.W. Yamhill Branch on Novambar 17th from 7:00 to 9:00pm. Thia la ASB’a third branch. Coffee, punch and cookies will ba served during business hours throughout the weak. I special legislation. Others, who did not need the expense stipend, used his office facilities. ‘ ‘ There are many people who have worked on issues for years or who have an idea they would like to pursue. 1 can visualize using this com m ittee s ta ff money to allow these people to get their concerns before the public and before the legislature. ‘ ‘ I ’ ve talked about this w ith Speaker Hardy Myers and he is in terested. O f course. I 'll discuss it with the other committee members when they are appointed.” Priestley will begin by recruiting two advisory committees - one for aging and one for minority affairs - that would help select issues and potential legislation to be addressed. They would also allocate the money to pay expenses for those who will do specific w ork and w ill need assistance. The committee w ill be open to anyone who wants to par ticipate. Rather than hiring two people, the advisory com m ittee idea w ill allow an u nlim ited number o f people to become in tim a te ly in volved in a legislative committee and to organize community support or opposition to legislation. “ 1 would like to include as many people in the legislative process as possible,” Priestley explained. “ For the next eight months. Aging and M inority A ffairs should become a focal point for organizing and ad dressing the issues and concerns that are relevant to the committee.” Among those issues the commit tee is expected to address early in the session are the Nursing Home B ill o f Rights and the Black and Hispanic Commissions. Priestley plans to hold committee hearings in Portland and other areas o f the state as well as the regular bi-weekly meetings and hearings at the Capitol. To jo in the Advisory C om m it tees, send a statement o f concerns, issues and past involvem ent to W ally Priestley, 6226 N.E. 33rd Avenue, Portland, or call the Port land Observer. Green joins WSU staff Brenda J. Oreen has been appoin ted a teaching assistant in the D e p a rtm e n t o f E d u c a tio n at Washington State University for the 1980-81 school year. Ms. Green is a graduate student in education adm inistration at W SU and is working toward a Doctor o f Education degree. She received a M .S . degree in 1974 fro m O regon C olleg e o f Education, Monmouth. A graduate o f the U niversity o f M aryland, Eastern Shore, Md., Ms. Green ear ned a B.S. degree in education and mathematics in 1966. A member o f the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and the NAACP - Portland chapter, Ms. Green was named O regon’ s O utstanding Young Woman o f Am erica fo r 1974. The Northeast C o a litio n o f Neighborhoods is a com m unity board representing nine neigh borhood associations. Board mem bers are selected by the member neighborhood organizations and additional "at-large” members are elected by the Coalition board. The Coalition is a continuation o f the old Model Cities Citizens Advisory Committee. James Loving was the first chairman followed by Ed Leek. Several members of the Coalition board are upset that the nominating committee, chaired by John Hills, had brought in slate with only one nominee for each office; also that the nominating committee did most o f its business by telephone. Others question whether Hamilton has the necessary leadership ability to speak in behalf of the northeast neighbor hoods. Nelson said H ills asked about nominating him for chairman and talked about the p o ssib ility o f issue. We need to increase the having three candiales. Later, ac visibility o f northeast and promote cording to Nelson, H ills told him business investments.” some people think he is too dic Bob Nelson is well known in the ta to ria l. H ills also to ld him community, having worked for C- Hamilton had wanted the position C A P ; helping to establish the for some time. Hills was not avail Albina Youth Opportunity School; able for comment. working with the Emanuel Hosptial Hamilton said he considers it the Displaced Persons Organization to usual practice to offer one nominee assist persons displaced by Emanuel for each position when nominations and the School District; and similar can be made from the floor, and community activities over the past that the first vice chairman usually fifteen or more years. becomes chairman - "m ore or less He is currently president o f the moving up the chairs.” C o n c o r d ia N e ig h b o r h o o d Ham ilton is a past-president o f Association. the H um boldt Neighborhood " I am a firm believer in neigh Association; the C o a litio n ’ s borhood associations,” he said. representative to the Inner North “ Neighbors should get together and east Economic Development Coun make the decisions that affect their cil; is a corporate officer o f the new community.” He would like to see N o rth /N o rth e a st Mental health the C oalition function as an ad Clinic; is a member o f the Advisory vocate fo r the com m unities, Committee to Portland Community defining its own agenda, and going College. to the City on issues that concern As chairman o f the C oalition, the residents. “ The neighborhood Hamilton would attempt to improve associations should id e n tify the the neighborhood associations. problems themselves rather than “ Wc need to let the people know hear agency reports.” that they have neighborhood Bob Nelson w ill be nominated associations. Sometimes there are a from the floor and unless a third few people at meetings and contender appears, he is the front sometimes a lot, depending on the runner. Johnson heads S&L branch Denise V. Johnson has been named branch manager at Benjamin Franklin Federal Savings & Loan Association’ s Jantzen Beach office, according to Robert E. Downie, association president. Ms. Johnson replaces Charles Fisher who has been named Sales Data Coordinator for Residential Sales Data Services, a Benjamin Franklin subsidiary which markets sales data to real estate agencies, mortgage lenders and residential appraisers. M s. Johnson jo in ed B enjam in F ran klin in September 1976 as a teller at the firm 's H ollyw ood o f fice. In A pril 1978 she transferred to the association’s headquarters and in July 1979 joined the Russelville office as a loan officer where she w orked p rio r to her most recent move to the Jantzen Beach office. T he new branch m anager g rad uated fro m C le v e la n d H ig h School in 1972. She studied business administration at the University o f Oregon and has completed courses through the Institute o f Financial Education. She is a member o f the Benjamin Franklin Inner City Lending Task Force, the N A A C P (N ational Association for the Advancement of Colored People), and the Western Association o f Savings and Loan Institutions. Fisher joined Benjamin Franklin in A pril 1977 and worked in the loan department at the downtown Port land headquarters. In N ovem ber 1977 he moved to the Lake Oswego office and worked in the loan and a p praisal departm en ts b e fo re a transfer to the Progress o ffic e in F ebruary 1978 as a loan o ffic e r. Later that year he jo ined the St. Johns office as a loan officer where he w orked p rio r to being nam ed manager at the Jantzen Beach office in November 1979. DENISE V. JOHNSON
