Portland Obaarvar July 9. 19S1 Paga 3
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From the Capitol
Congressman Ron Wyden
Q. Defense spending is a big
topic in the news these days. How
do you think we should be spending
our defense dollars?
A. There's no debate that we
need a strong defense. A nybody
who reads the papers these days
knows that.
But we also need a cost-effective
defense. And that means p utting
more money into attracting and re
taining high quality personnel - and
less into gold-plated weaponry like
School
the F-18 and the M -l tank. After all,
without a fighting force that is trim
and properly m otivated, all the
whizbang weaponry in the w orld
won’ t give us the strong defense we
really need.
The m ilita ry ’ s biggest personnel
problem right now is retaining
technical specialists and ju n io r o f
ficers. We spend thousands upon
thousands o f dollars to recruit and
train these men and women - and
then because we refuse to offer them
a decent living, we lose them to the
private sector.
In the last three months o f 1980,
for example, none o f the 33 ground-
based F-1 5 computer specialists who
were up fo r re-enlistment chose to
do so. Likew ise, in 1979, only 44
percent o f the younger officers in
combat units opted to re-enlist.
Congress can help reverse this
dangerous trend by approving
targeted pay increases and bonuses
that w ill encourage critical person-
nel to remain in the Armed Services.
The Arm ed Services Pay A ct o f
1981, due to come before the House
next week, would do just that.
Just as we co u ld n ’ t solve social
problems by th ro w in g money at
them, we can’ t solve our national
defense problem s by throw ing
money at the m ilitary. It is time we
began to spend our defense dollar
ca refully and wisely -- and in the
manner most lik e ly to provide us
with the strong national defense we
want and need.
oard closes Adams, Jackson
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School - outlined his group’ s
proposal for combining Washing-
to n /M o n ro e and Adams in the
Adams building, which has not been
given consideration by the board.
The plan w ould provide a grade
school in the area with the second
highest number o f students and the
best building at a cost less than
other high schools.
Teletha Benjam in - N E /S E
Coalition - called the school closure
process a ju s tific a tio n fo r closing
Adams, with inform ation managed
and m anipulated to fit a pre
conclusion.
Pointing out that A l Dobbins, in
charge o f curriculum , had not seen
the proposal she indicated that
showed lack o f serious con
sideration. “ Children and the public
suffer first. Staff remains untouch
ed and unaccountable - which comes
first and whose needs come first?
“ The public has been betrayed
and the east side residents ex
ploited.” Administration has grown
in cost and numbers, while numbers
o f children have decreased.
Bob Nelson, Chairm an, N o rth
east C oalition o f Neighborhoods -
“ The low enrollm ent at Adams is
the result o f negative messages by
the d istric t and the media. You
would rather see the neighborhood
destroyed than admit you could be
wrong about Adams.”
He asked i f the statement a t
trib u te d to Forrest Rieke is true:
“ My mother (form er School Board
member M ary Rieke) opened
Adams and I’ m going to close it.”
Freddye Petett, Executive Direc
to r, Urban League o f P ortland -
who had to demand that she be
allowed to speak - “ The Urban
League believes the proposed
decision
is
an
act
of
discrim ination...It is an assault on
the community. 1 hope you under
stand the im pact o f your
decision...Y o u have a chance to
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H erb C a w th o rn e and C h airm a n F o rrest R ieke
argue over board procedure w hile bored members
B ill S c o tt, F ran k M c N a m a ra and C h a rlo tte
close a widening gap. We w ill not
support your return to scattering;
we deplore the divisiness this
decision w ill bring.”
Armando LaGuardia - Chairman,
M e tro p o lita n H um an Relations
Commission - M H R C opposes the
closure o f e th n ica lly id e n tifie d
schools; there is a need to coun
teract social condition s and
h isto ric a l practices. The current
social climate causes m inorities to
feel "under seige” and to have “ a
feeling o f disenfranchisement.”
Sheryl M cD o w e ll, Am erican
Friends
Service
C om m ittee
Education P roject - The closures
leave 692 children at W ashington/
M onroe and 54 at Adams w ith no
idea where they w ill go to school; it
STILL H O PEI S tu d en t« Join B lack U n ite d Front p ro te c t M arc h on
duly 2nd School Board m eeting.
(Photo«: Richard Brown)
Beem an w a it to cast th e ir p re-d eterm in ed votes.
Not shown: Steve Buel and Dean Gisvold.
brings “ to their parents the know
ledge that the School Board cares
little about their neighborhoods.’ ’
This causes tremendous frustration
and resentment that w ill create
problem s in the schools to which
they are transferred.
David Lordes - speaking for the
Jackson C om m unity said the
closure o f one o f the finest academic
programs and a new building in a
community with growth potential is
“ reckless and c a llo u s.” Jim Me-
Dickson said he can’ t understand
why “ p o litic a l pressure is seeking
precedent over educational and
emotional well being.”
Amid controversy over procedure
and attem pts by Rieke to lim it
debate, the closure o f Adams and
Jackson was accomplished w ith a
series o f 5-2 votes - Cawthorne and
Buel opposing the closures.
Cawthorne opposed the closure
o f Adams on the basis that it closes
two o f the three neighborhood
schools serving Blacks; that it
creates an attendance area for Jef
ferson w ith at least 1,000 more
students to be bussed out and
therefore w ill lead to the deprivation
o f Jefferson to entice those trans
fers; about 200 Black transfer
students at Jackson w ill not have the
op tio n o f re turning to neighbor
hood schools.
Steve Buel has opposed all
closures because education issues
and programs were not addressed;
there has been no investigation o f
im pact o f closures on neighbor
hoods; there has been no in
vestigation o f shared use o f
building s; there has been no
economic assestment. Every speaker
in every public meeting opposed
closure, yet the Board insists it has a
mandate to close schools. The only
support "comes from a media haze
laid out in the community.”
Calling the board action the same
determ inatio n and intransigence
that caused the school boycott
threat, “ I truly question your sense
o f looking at other people like you
look at your own children. In ad
d itio n to d iscrim in a tin g against
Blacks, the Board action tells whites
that ’ I f you get in to an integrated
situation, you w ill lose.’ ”
M cNam ara’s amendment, which
was o ffered for adoption only if
Jefferson projections went over
50 percent m in o rity , indicates «
reversal to previous board policies
that caused the scattering o f Black
children; “ It may perm it a tem
porary
divergence
from
its
desegregation and related policies in
light o f the extreme importance o f
adopting a district-w ide, cohesive
and logical school closure plan. The
Board recognizes that estimates o f
projected enrollm ents resulting
from the assignment boundary con
figurations developed to accomo
date its school closures decisions
and related tra n s p o rta tio n and
feeder pattern issues include a
p ro je ctio n that Jefferson High
School m ight have a m in o rity
enrollm ent by the 1982-83 school
year exceeding the 5O’/o goal
described in Board policy 200.12.
The Board intends to reassess the
Jefferson situ a tio n a fte r actual
enrollm ent figures, which are in
fluenced by many factors, including
administrative transfers and District
magnet programs, become available
and to take any a d d itio n a l ap
p ropriate steps to am eliorate any
resulting divergence from its
previously-adopted desegregation
policies at that time.”
The new policy moves W ood
lawn, Faubian, Vernon and the sec
tion o f King that was in the Adams
district to Jefferson, and Meek and
Rigler to Madison.
The section o f Boise that was in
W a sh ington /M o nroe and E lio t
are assigned to Grant.
Buckman and A bernathy are
assigned to Cleveland, Sunnyside
and Glenco to Franklin.
Sacajawea w ill be closed w ith
students transferred to Scott;
Foster w ill be closed with students
going to Marysville or Lent. Sylvan
w ill be closed in 1982 and Norman-
dale at a later date.
W ashington /M o nroe’ s magnet
programs were dispersed:
- Medical/dental to Benson
-Day care discontinued
-Food service to Education Ser
vice Center
-C om puter program (not a
magnet) to Jefferson
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