Portland Observer, November 19,1961 Page 5
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From the Capitol
C ynthia E. H odga D .M .D .
by Rep. Ron Wyden
Mon. Tue«. & Thur«.
Q. In a recent memo to budget di
rector David Stockman. Health and
Hum an Services Secretary Richard
Schweiker allegedly called f o r new
and drastic medicare, medicaid and
welfare cuts in 19S3. W hat is you r
reaction to these proposals?
A. I think they are shortsighted at
best. Just as in the budget cuts this
year, these proposed cuts will place
the burden o f balancing the budget
on the backs o f the poor. And as I
have said many times, the net effect
o f such a move is neither humane
nor cost-effective. Not only does it
leave people w ith no way to put
food on their table or a ro o f over
their head, it also forces the elderly
and others into nursing homes or
other institutions where the cost for
the taxpayer is higher.
A better approach w ould be to
trim the fat from the military budget
and from subsidies for the tobacco
and synfuel industries.
Q. Is fu n d in g f o r the Legal Ser
vices Corporation out o f the woods
yet?
A . N ow that the Senate has
agreed to retain $241 m illio n in
funding for the Corporation, 1 think
it w ould be safe to answer yes to
that question. In retaining that level
o f funding, the Senate defeated a
proposal by Sen. Jeremiah Denton
to eliminate all funding for the Cor
p o ra tio n , and one by Sen. Thad
C ochran to cut fun d in g to $100
million for 1982.
The House already voted to fund
the Corporation at the $241 million
level.
Although I would have preferred
that the C o rp o ra tio n receive fu ll
funding ($321 m illio n ), I am de
lighted that it has at least survived
with a reasonable amount o f fund
ing. Now less fortunate Oregonians
and other A m ericans w ill at least
have some access to affordable legal
services.
Q. W hat has happened with the
possible contem pt o f Congress
charge against In te r io r Secretary
James Watt f o r refusing to release
im p o rta n t docum ents to a H ouse
subcommittee?
A . A contem pt proceeding
against M r. W a tt still seems very
likely. This week the Oversight and
Investigations Subcom m ittee met
w ith two experts on the executive
p rivilege d o ctrine who said they
thought we should go ahead with
contempt proceedings.
And I personally am still o f a
mind to urge that M r. W att be held
in contempt. The Interior Secretary
is withholding inform ation that is
necessary for members o f the Com
mittee to do their jobs.
I find this totally unacceptable.
Congressional oversight o f the Ex
ecutive Branch is a very important
part o f our whole system o f checks
and balances. W ithout this review,
we run the risk o f increased bureau
cratic snafus. W e also deny the
American people the kind o f open
and responsive governm ent they
need.
I also find it p articu larly ironic
that this A dm inistration would be
guilty o f such an abuse when Presi
dent Reagan cam paigned on the
need for a more open and effective
government.
1536 N.E 41«t
ago.
Helen Diggs says she’ s “ fin ally
where I want to be for the next four
and the next forty years.
“ Being a veterinarian had always
been in my mind but I chickened out
for a w h ile, avoided science, and
settled for my second choice: teach-
i ng.
After earning bachelor's and mas
ter’ s degrees in education from the
University o f Portland, Diggs went
to Alaska to teach. Her first assign
ment was in Point H o p e , one o f
nine Eskimo villages above the Arc
tic Circle.
“ One day in class, I was telling
the students not to give up and ac
cept lesser things in life than they
dreamed o f, if they were willing to
work to attain them.
"Th at night I fel, like a hypocrite.
I realized I ’ d been a c o w ard , not
taking the science classes that would
let me gain my lo n g tim e goal o f
working with animals.’ *
The next summer, 1979, back in
P o rtla n d , Diggs started takin g
chemistry at the University o f Port
land. A nd when she returned to
A laska to teach (at B arro w , the
northernmost city in the U .S .), she
took a genetics course by correspon
dence.
Returning to Oregon the summer
o f 1980, she enrolled at O S U to
com plete the suggested pre-veter-
inary courses that would allow her
to apply for admission to the four-
year, doctoral degree, professional
program.
Her outstanding academic record
(highest honors at graduation at the
University o f Portland and near-A
grades in her OSU course) brought
her not only admittance this fall to
the school o f veterinary medicine
but a SI ,000 scholarship as well.
Twenty-one o f the 36 students se
lected this fa ll were w om en, she
noted, an indication that the field
has special attraction for females as
well as males.
Diggs is the only Black. “ H o w
ever, the color o f my skin isn’t going
to affect my future as a practicing
veterinarian, hopefully in Eastern
Oregon and working primarily with
food animals," she said.
I anticipate that people will show
surprise and have some questions
when a young Black woman veterin
arian walks on their place to treat
their sick animal. But I also believe
that I'll be competent, capable and
that when I've finished, they’ ll want
to have me back," Diggs added con
fidently.
She bristles at the suggestion that
women may not be up to the physi
cal demands o f handling veterinary
medicine assignments with large ani
mals. " T h a t ’ s an absurd thought.
Women will have no more such pro-
lems than men.”
" I don’t expect to be a cowboy,
lassoing or bulldogging steers.
W e 're being trained to use our
heads, to perceive needs in advance
so help w ill be a va ila b le as re
quired."
Diggs has had experience with an
imals o f an unusually wide variety.
Once she had decided to leave
teaching in A laska fo r veterinary
medicine at O S U , she would walk
each Saturday (across two miles o f
tu n d ra ) to the A rc tic N av al Re
search Laboratory outside Barrow.
As a service to visiting scientists, the
L a b o ra to ry kept a p o lar bear, 27
wolves, some foxes, marmots and
other small A laskan anim als lo r
physiological studies. Diggs helped
care for them.
A t the University o f Portland in
the summer o f 1979, she worked in a
lab o rato ry at the H ealth Sciences
University, where students did sur
gery on dogs.
And this summer, 1981, she went
to Africa for six weeks, visiting ani
mal preserves, wilderness areas and
research-veterinary centers. " I t was
like being inside a N a tio n a l G eo
graphic M agazine. The treatm ent
procedures and the disease problems
were so unique; it was a great educa
tional experience.”
Diggs was born in Spokane. Her
father was a teacher; her mother, a
nurse. “ O b vio u sly, the b ack
grounds o f my parents rubbed o ff
on me.”
She went to high school at the all
girls, H o ly Names C a th o lic A ca
demy. She then entered the Univer
sity o f P ortland on a scholarship,
finishing the four-year bachelor’ s
degree program in only three years.
She stayed for another year, how
ever, to be co-editor o f the univer
sity’s yearbook and to earn her mas
cussw
will study academic subjects while
learning construction and farm ing
skills. D r. W a lto n Johnson, on
leave from his post as Chairman o f
A frican studies at Rutgers U n iver
sity, will direct the new program in
Zimbabwe.
India: "Jaago” is an Indian word
meaning aw akening. It is also the
name o f a new program for some o f
India's poorest rural women organ-
ized by the Self-Employed Women’s
Association (S E W A ) and sponsored
in part by a grant o f $45,000 from
O x fa m A m erica . S E W A was
formed in 1972 by a group o f self-
em ployed women struggling to
make a living in the urban market
place. T o d ay S E W A provides its
10,000 members with credit services,
supplies, health and day care, mar
keting and legal aid. M ore recently
S E W A has extended its program to
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Q . W hy is there this concentra
tion on the Soviet Union?
M cH en ry : “ Part o f it is in our
history and part o f it is that they are
the ones who can put our interests in
jeopardy."
Q. Do you think the nations o f
the world can ever co-exist peace
fully?
M cHenry: “ O f course, you have
to think that way. They arc now, be
cause it’ s far more peaceful than it
has been in a long time. We are used
to having 30 years wars. I however
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to live with one another."
Q . In developing countries are
the richer nations getting richer and
the poor nations getting poorer?
M cH enry: " Y e s , th a t’ s true but
the band o f those countries that are
well o ff is growing wider. But many
o f the developing countries find that
the resources that they depended on
arc no longer their staple crop."
Grassroot News asked M cH enry
how the m ineral concentration in
the less developed nations would im
pact the more developed nations.
M cHenry: “ It ’ s clear that the fu
ture o f both are intertwined. Soon
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ter’s degree in education.
" I liked teaching and enjoyed the
children. But I did not have peace o f
mind. There was always a feeling o f
unrest; a sense that I let fear keep
me from something m ore f u l f i ll
ing.”
Fellow teachers in Alaska were as
tounded, she said, when she left a
high paying teaching job there to go
back to school and then into a ca
reer where riches are not assured.
But Diggs has absolutely "n o re
g rets.” She breaks up her 16-18
hour days o f study-classes with rac-
quetball, noon-time runs, and fiddle
classes fo r fu n . A nd she lives 10
miles out o f town where the deer
come visiting on Saturdays.
"There is a lot to be learned from
our animals," Diggs observed, "not
just medically but in the sense that
we have put them at our mercy and
must, therefore, accept responsi
bility for their well-being. They are
our very curious, extra special silent
majority.”
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the food situation rem ains pre
carious. K am puchea’ s present
dependence on traditional rice-fed
varieties, uncertain weather, poor
soils and lack o f irrig a tio n all
threaten food production.
Grants will fund a farm-level pilot
program using higher-yielding vari
eties o f rice seed, app ro p riate for
the wet-season and local growing
conditions, and facilitate the return
o f 40 traditional rice seed varieties
lost during the rule o f the Khmer
Rouge.
One o f two agricultural colleges
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struction o f the Pol Pot years.
Chamcar Duang College, which was
converted to a munitions factory in
1975, is being refurbished and re
turned to its original use in part with
a $10,000 grant from O x fa m A m
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tor maintenance and repair course
for 100 students and there are plans
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Alaska experience inspires vet career
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