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
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apartheid system. Ann Stever, who
chaired an A IS C delegation to
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Besides discussion about the
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arguments were heard about the role
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