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Congressman Ron Wyden
Q. A lot o f questions have been
raised about the House budget vote
last Friday. How do you feel about
that vote — and the process sur­
rounding it?
A lhhink Oregonians should be
very angry -- angry that the House
voted on a budget that most o f the
members hadn’ t even seen -- and
angry that we may have established
a dangerous precedent that w ill
follow us for years to come.
No one disputes the need to
drastically cut the budget. I ’ m con­
vinced that balancing the budget is
absolutely critical to our economic
recovery - but we must take a balan­
ced approach to balancing the
budget. -
What we saw last Friday was not
this sort o f balanced approach but
was, in fact, a perversion o f the
legislative process. Members o f
Congress were asked to consider
and vote on a 1,000 page budget
document that was thrown together
at the last moment - a document
that most o f us had not even seen
before that morning - a document
that
contained
handw ritten
passages, erroneous m aterial, and
several ‘ ‘ hidden agendas.”
What we saw Friday was high-
level horse trading - with legislators
being promised special favors in
return for voting for a package they
didn't even understand.
What we saw Friday was an em­
barrassment fo r Congress — and a
frightening prospect fo r the
American people. At the very least,
the citizens o f this country should be
able to depend on their elected
representatives to consider proposed
legislation carefully and though t­
fully. At the very least, the public
should be able to depend on a firm
separation o f powers — where
Congress — not the Executive
M arc h p ro tests dem ise of Black p ro g ram m in g on re ce n tly sold
KYAC radio in Seattle.
(Photo: Eddie Edmundson)
Grassroot News, N .W . - Last
hursday, 2Q0 Seattle residents
tagcd a mock funeral service to
nite concern over the dissolving o f
YAC. KYAC was Seattle’ s Black
^mmerical radio station from 1964
n til three weeks ago, when a
hange in ownership expanded the
jrm at and diluted Black program­
ring.
Father O. J. McGowan, one o f the
rganizers o f the Eulogy, gave his
cason for the protest. "T his Eulogy
i to alert people to the understand-
ig that we cannot afford to lose our
adio station. What I ’ m saying is
bat we put too much money in all
f those businesses that should be
dvertising. Also, those businesses
/eren’ t involved in projects in the
ommunity. Maybe we should quit
uying from them.”
Surrounded by the tune o f
‘ When The Saints Gio M arching
n,” the pallbearers carried a casket
rith a radio inside. The march
iroceeded to the corner o f T h ird
ind University Streets, in downtown
ieattle. This is also the home o f the
lew KKFY radio station, the former
lome o f the now deceased KYAC.
A form er employee o f K Y A C ,
Eddie Rye, J r., gave Grassroot
Mews his account o f what happened
echnically to KYAC. ‘ ‘ The station
vas sold to an in d iv id u a l, Lloyd
Edwards, a Black banker from
ia kla n d , C a lifo rn ia . He chose to
lestroy the format and come in with
iop music. Since taking over, there
lave been no public service
innouncements, public affairs has
,een minimized, and we have no ac
ess to any national Black News like
he Sheridan Broadcast Netw ork.”
JBN was first introduced as Mutual
Jlack N etw ork. This netw ork
irogram broadcasts from a Black
perspective, although the content is
¡imilar to news broadcasted on the
hree major networks.
branch - fu lfills the legislative fun­
ction.
It may be weeks before we are
to ta lly aware o f all o f the hidden
provisions in F rid a y’ s budget
package. This weekend, fo r exam­
ple, it came to light that a hand­
written note slipped into the budget
package e ffectively deleted the
budget fo r the N ational Science
Foundation — and reduced or
eliminated funding for various other
research programs.
We can at least hope, however,
that we will have learned something
about the need fo r an o rd e rly
process -- and fo r careful and
th o u g h tfu l perform ance o f our
duties as the elected representatives
o f the American public.
Rye said the protest was not inter­
ference in a private marketing mat­
ter, but rather that it is Edw ard’ s
w ho’ s actually v io la tin g a FCC
standard.
At that same gathering was Oscar
EAson, J r., who represented a
cross-section o f businesses who
posed support for KKFX, if a Black
program m ing form at could be
adopted. ‘ ‘ The com m unity is now
suffering from the im pact o f not
being informed o f events affecting
Blacks on the national and local
levels. Conscious o f the fact that
p ro fit is the prime m otive fo r any
sound business venture, we stand
eager to m obolize all o f our re­
sources in support o f KKFX when
we are assured that a programming
format will be adopted that’s o f in­
terest and service to the m in o rity
community,” he explained.
The program director o f KKFX
declined to respond to the protest
except to say that he hadn’ t been in
tow n. A fte r a number o f calls to
Lloyd Edwards at the First Enter­
prise Bank in O akland, failed to
produce a response. Evidence points
to the fact that K K F X is going to
ignore the co m m u n ity’ s protest.
KKFX current programing format is
one o f ‘ ‘ autom ation.” Every song
in the last ten years that made it to
the top 40 hit list is the type o f music
it is airing.
The Eulogy for KYAC marks the
death o f “ Black Commerical Radio
in the entire Pacific Northwest.” It
w ill be interesting to see how they
respond to this absence o f com­
m unication. W ill our sister city
become regulated to a position o f
relying on a non-commerical radio
with no Blacks in position to chose
what programs w ill be aired, like
Albina’ s position at KBOO. For the
sake o f the A fro -A m e rica n com­
m unity in the P acific Northwest.
Let’ s hope not.
Services B u ild in g , SW Sixth and
Montgomery.
F ollow ing each seminar, par­
ticipants may arrange appointments
for individual help. A collection of
inform ation about companies and
career o p p o rtu n itie s w ill be
available to assist jo b hunters in
reaching potential employers.
For inform ation about these free
employment preparation seminars
at PSU, contact the U n ive rsity’ s
Career Planning and Placement O f­
fice: Portland State University, 402
U niversity Services B uilding, 617
SW Montgomery, 229-4613.
Sir William Arthur Lawns, West Indian born British econo­
mist, in 1979 became the first Black to win a Nobel
P ris e -fo r econom ics-in a category other then peace.
Prince Hall, oriqinally from Barbados, established the first
Black chapter of Masons in America in Boston in 1787.
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