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Portland Observer June 4. 1981 Page 5 Seniors seek service center funding The Senior Adult Service Center o f near Northeast P ortland Task Force is kicking o ff a Can Donation Drive to raise money fo r a senior facility in the near Northeast area. Many Northeast Portlad businesses are participating in the drive by allowing canisters to remain in their stores for 30 days. According to Can Drive C hair man, Rance Spruill, “ We hope we will be able to reach every person in the inner Northeast area who knows someone old or plans to grow old here in the City o f Portland.” The near Northeast area is the only area in P ortland w ithout a senior facility. Senior services are presently operating out o f a small o ffice at the King Neighborhood F a cility. There is no room for socializing, large gatherings fo r crafts or meetings. Many o f the programs that once made the Senior Adult Service Cen ter a national model have been eliminated because o f lack o f space. The Task Force has received the help o f various corporations, com m unity groups and individuals to locate and finance a senior facility. The C ity and County has ear marked a $100,000 grant fo r the purchase o f a building. 1 he 1 ask Force is raising funds to help pur chase, renovate and m aintain the center. The Task Force goal is $160,000. Over the past year the group has put on various community events to raise funds. It has also looked at several sites, in seeking the most suitable site w ith in the $100,000 price range. “ We are giving all Northeast residents a chance to help our Northeast senior citizens to have a place to g o ,” said Mrs. Maude Young, Task Force Chairman. ANTIQUES BUY • SELL TRADE L A N D IN G JACKIE Et JIM 281 2034 A. The biblical inscription, ’To those who have, to them shall be given. To those who have not, even that which they seem to have, shall be taken away.’ That is the essence o f Reagan’ s recovery plan which takes pennies from the poor and dollars from the rich. The pennies taken from the poor are the d if ference between food and fuel and the dollars from the wealthy is an altered location site. The program is b u ilt on the backs o f poor people because they hve to bear the disproportionate burden o f the budget. I do not believe the theor- tical side o f supply side economic addresses itse lf to the question o f how poor people w ill survive. It's clear that for some it would be bet ter to go on welfare than to work. Their safety has a hole in it. H ours Tues M A R K E T & DELI Q. In the current 'State o f the Race’ report, you classified the mood o f America turning mean. What brought about this change in attitudes? A. You always get meaness when there’ s an upsurge o f economic d iffic u lty . The country has moved into a self-centered sense o f privateness. What has kept poor whites from responding as loudly as Blacks and other m inorities is because they are leaderless, forgot ten and unrepresented. And they have the false sense o f safety that racism w ill protect them from the ravages o f others who are m utally situated, therefore, this program is anti-poor, and anti-working people. Q. / take it that you don 7 think the private sector can pick up the slack fro m the divestment o f the government in the economy? A. I don’t think the private sec tor has the responsibility to pick up the slack. The government o f this country is a government fo r the people. It is not my view that because a given government func tion stops, that the private sector can and should take up the slack. If we do not get an extension on the voting rights act o f 1965 that is not the responsibility o f the private sec tor. I t ’ s a mistaken notion that in fact, i f we are to get government cuts, that the private sector should come in and do what is the respon sibility o f the government. the dissemination o f funds fo r the poor can effectively be dispensed in the form o f ’Block Grants?’ A. We are faced with this issue; the procecedure o f shifting federal dollars; federal responsibility and federal power to the states. This must be resisted by advocates o f the poor because this will dismantel the federal government's constitutional responsibilities to prom ote the general welfare. In my view, this is a resurrection o f the discredited notion o f states rights. Black people can teach the nation a little bit about states rig h t. We know it means separate drinking fountains, schools and unequal lives. We know it means never, no not one and segregation today, tom orrow and forever. SAFEWAY I t ’ s because o f states rights that we have the voting rights act o f 1965, because if the states had done what they should have done, we w o u ld n ’ t have had to w rite it w alking from Selma to M o n t gomery. So to answer your question, I d o n ’ t th in k that the states can effectively disseminate funds, create programs or provide assistance for the poor. Grassroot News felt it was un necessary to question Jordan about his assassination attem pt, yet we sensed a subtle difference in his a ttitu d e and temperament. He’ s more determined, serious and dis ciplined. Even though his politics avoided c o n fro n ta tio n , the hard re a lity o f racism hit home and almost took him out. .6* ’’ 1815 N.E. Broadw ay • Portland 287-1221 ->/ Open: Mon. - Sat. 10A.M.-7:0OP.M. Sun. Noon 12-5 P.M. 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He attended a gyn- mastics college in Vietnam and played on a Vietnamese table tennis team before coming to the United States. He is married and working his way way through school. (Reg. $ 3 « ) FRESH H A L IB U T ........................................ $4.26 Phan enters US Open A member o f the Portland Com m unity College table tennis team won the men’ s national collegiate table tennis championship defeating 15 players from four-year univer sities throughout the country, in play Tuesday, A p ril 28 at the U niversity o f M innesota, M in neapolis, Minnesota. Tung Phan, 23, a fu ll-tim e student in mathematics and English at PCC and an employee of Western Abrasives Company in southeast Portland, took the national cham pionship defeating Craig Man- oohaian o f the University o f C ali fornia at Berkeley, and M ike Lardon, New Y ork Collegiate Champion, in the final round robin o f play. 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