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Portland Observer May 7. 1981 Page 3 Chisholm speaks here From the Capitol Representative Shirley Chisolm w ill speak at the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Award Luncheon on May Congressman Ron Wyden Q Congressman Wyden, what was your reaction to the President’s budget message this week? A. The President is so likeable and such a good speaker that I almost forgot for a moment that he was asking us to support a budget that will result in a $40 billion deficit next year. I have two major concerns about the President’ s budget proposal in its current form . F irst, I believe Congress should support a proposal that w ill balance the budget at the earliest possible moment. Secondly, I am committed to ensuring that the approved budget is a fa ir one. Senior citizens should not be faced with the choice o f eating or heating, while defense contractors are hand ed a blank check. Q How do you feel about legislative proposals to curb money market funds? .4. I think it would be a big mis take - and so do many Third District residents. D uring the past three weeks I have received more than 1,500 letters from residents who feel they need money market funds as a hedge against inflation. They have a a valid point. Money market funds allow a great cross-section o f Americans to combat in fla tio n one-on-one, to defend what is theirs. They encom pass the values o f pooling resources fo r the benefit o f the saver, the fin ancial in s titu tio n and the c re d ito r. In many ways, they represent a logical extension o f the savings pools that the Oregon Gray Panthers implemented some time 16th ago. Stripping small investors o f this opportunity is like asking people to take o ff their coats in a snowstorm. F urtherm ore, com plaints by the fin ancial industry that money market funds represent unfair com petition for savings deposits and in vestment dollars sim ply w ill not hold water. It is in fla tio n , not money market funds, that has squeezed small banks and sav mgs and loan institutions. I f capitalism means anything, it means that the rich and not-so- .¡t alike can share in its risk - and its fru its. The wealthy should not be the only ones with access to invest ment instrum ents w ith appealing returns. Fverybody deserves their little piece o f the pie. Q. This week you spoke out in opposition to an amendment which would allow health maintenance organizations (HM O s) to exclude mental health, drug abuse and alcoholism services from their basic benefit package. Why? I wo deputy police chiefs called him in the office and gave him two options. One was to resign and the other was to stay and face a disciplinary hearing. Faced with a short time in which to make his decision, Hulett decided to resign. Then the next day, he heard police commissioner Charles Jordan say on the Channel Two show, A .M . Northwest, that H ulett had acted prem aturely and shouldn 't have resigned. A p p a re n tly, H ulett agreed whereupon he w ithdrew his resignation and decided to face the hearing before Chief Baker. Officers o f all ranks were cheered when the Captain changed his mind. He had to, otherwise the nearly th irty year career o f this good and honest man would have gone down the tube, d irtie d forever by a tiny indiscretion o f little consequence. Some may wonder how I base my opinion o f Hulett. I t ’ s quite simple. When I was assigned for nearly two years in the Intelligence D ivisio n , he was my Sergeant and I had d aily contact with him. That was a sensitive assignment too and his integrity and honesty were recognized by all o f us who worked for him. This all leads to the question as to how a th irty year veteran holding the rank o f captain seemingly was pressured to resign w ithout the knowlede ol Commissioner Jordan. On the other hand examine the case o f the two officers fired over the “ possum” incident. The decision to fire in those cases came only after some deliberation both by C hief Baker and Commissioner Jordan and then it was a jo in t decision. A ll this indicates to me that at best, the ultimatum issued to Hulett was the result o f terribly poor com munications between some police brass and city hall. I Because these are im portant preventive services which if ignored now, w ill u tiniately cost us more down the road. In a d d itio n , exclusion o f these services from the benefit package may in essence preclude many people from getting any help fo r these types o f problem s. There is still enough stigma attached to men ial health care, drug abuse problems and alcoholism that many in dividuals simply w ill not go outside the HMOs in to the general com munity to seek hellp. Rep. Shirley C hisholm is the Senior Dem ocratic woman in the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the only woman and the only Black member o f the House Rules Committee. Born in Brooklyn, she spent her early childhood in Barbados. She was first elected to Congress in 1968 from the 12th District in Brooklyn. Previously she had served in the New York Slate Assembly. Women who w ill be honored are: Avel L. M a yfie ld , D irector o f the Urban League Northeast Youth Service Center; H a rrie tt A d a ir, D ire cto r o f D esegregation/ln- tegration Program s, P ortland P ublic Schools; M rs. Fannie L. Smith, retired manpower specialist; M artha Kiser Payne, homemaker and volunteer; and Tracey Lynne Palm er, Senior. Jefferson High School. The Luncheon w ill be held at noon at the Red Lio n - Jantzen Beach. For more in fo rm a tio n call 249-4749. Dick More on the trouble plagued Portland police department. Last week we wrote about the cir cumvention o f the hiring and selec tion process which installed current police chief Bruce Baker. Since then, the commander o f the Special Investigations Division (vice and narcotics), Captain C orky Hulett, found himself in trouble. H ulett has 29'/i years on the department and enjoys a reputation as a man with a high degree o f in tegrity and honesty. Hulett was put in charge o f S.I.D. it was my feeling at the time, he was mis-assigned. Com m anding that type o f sensitivity operation de mands even more than honesty and integrity. The assignment as commander o f a vice and narcotics division is the most challenging, d iffic u lt and trying assignment in the police bureau. Probably fewer than a handful o f captains in any police department in the country have “ everything” it takes to assume such an awesome task. Some say Hulett lacked certain management skills for such a position, but that wasn’ t what placed him on the department’ s hot seat. One o f his subordinates found himself in trouble a week or so ago in connection with the investigation into the abuses o f power by several S.I.D. men. In talking with investigators, he mentioned that H ulett had taken home a pair o f scales from the S.I.D. office. The scales in question are type narcotic dealers use to measure quanities o f drugs. That description in itself, in light of other revelations about the S.I.D., sounds almost incriminating. But no one at Second and Oak is saying privately or otherwise that H ulett has any connection with drug dealing except to put dealers in the penitentiary. Hulett’ s story is that he borrowed the scales to weight some silver he had collected and wanted to sell and simply had forgotten to return the scales. The scales were not evidence for some pending trial, instead they were just sittin g in the o ffic e as memorabilia collecting dust. Divestment Bill tabled hearings began. South A frica n Council Frank L and gave testimony to the com m ittee the current situation in South A fric a . He claimed that much progress has been made fo r Blacks in recent years, and that the government is prom oting fu rth e r change. M r. Land also emphasized the need for trade and cooperation between the U.S. and South Africa. During the hearings a number of people disputed the South African C onsul’ s claims o f significant change. Several cited increased repression in recent years towards those opposing the government, and argued that the reported changes House B ill 2618, which would have required the State o f Oregon to divest $8(X) million o f its funds that are currently in companies doing business in South Africa, was tabled by the House Aging and M inority Affairs Committee, April 16 by a 5- 2 vote. Supporting the b ill were Rep. W ally Priestley and Rep. Shirley Gold o f P ortland. Rep. Jeannette Hambee o f H illsb o ro called for a resolution condemning aparthied, South A frica ’s system of legalized racial segregation. The decision came after four hearings in which testimony had run strongly in favor o f divestment. Several weeks before the official ‘1 ftS I INTERESTING FACTS Brought To You Every Week By AM ER IC AN STA TE BANK One man in history was both the son and the father of a U.S. President. He was John Harrison. His father was the 9th President, William Henry Harrison, and his son was the 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison. • Mary Catherine Campbll of Columbus, Ohio, won the Miss America title 2 straight years, 1922 and 1923. There was no rule against the same woman winning twice then. One of the strangest of all animals is the may fly which never eats in its adult life. American State AN INDEPENDENT BANK Head Office 2 7 3 7 N. E. Union Portland, Oregon 9 7 2 12 have not had any real affect on the apartheid system. Ann Stever, who chaired an A IS C delegation to South A fric a last summer, ex plained, “ W hat kind o f change are we talking about? I would say our goal is fo r a unified South A firca w ith fu ll citizenship and par tic ip a tio n fo r all. We are not, as Bishop Tutu explains, talking about making an inhum an system more human. We’ re talking about fu n damental changes.” Besides discussion about the general situation in South A fric a , arguments were heard about the role o f US corporate involvement. Some legislators raised a concern that withdrawing our investments might do nore harm than good to Blacks w ith in South A rica , and that prom oting the Sullivan Principles might be a better approach. The Sullivan Principles are guidelines fo r reform w ith in the US co r porations. Supporters o f the b ill testified that these corporations only employ I per cent o f South A frica ’ s Black population, so their reform s w ould not have a significant effect on the society. They added that our investments are concentrated in industries that are crucial to the apartheid system and that Black leaders w ith in South Africa have called for divestment. The committee's over-riding con cern in the hearings was fo r the financial impact o f the bill. Robert Schwartz, an investment counselor for New York testified that invest ment p o rtfo lio s w ith o u t South African investments do not result in a financial loss and have often shown a higher rate o f return. State Treasurer Clay Meyers, however, opposed the bill, saying it is in con flict with the state's “ prudent man” clause. This rule requires invest ments to be made with rate o f profit as the only consideration. A legal ru lin g is expected this summer which w ill decide the prudent man clause's applicability to divestment in the State Board o f Higher Education's divestment case. 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