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.
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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.
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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.
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m unity College table tennis team
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U niversity o f M innesota, M in
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To those w ho have not, shall be taken aw ay
Q. What is your opinion o f the
Reagan’s Administration recovery
plan and how will it impact the
minority and poor?
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