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Portland Observer, December 31,1961 Page 3 METROPOLITAN McCoy files for Commission seat GLADYS M CCOY County C o m m itilo n er O lad yi McCoy has announced her intention to seek another term to represent North and Northeast Portland. Ms. McCoy said her primary issue during the next four years will be city-county consolidation. “ While 1 believe the consolidation of govern ments may be more d ifficu lt to achieve, I am equally convinced that, when the facts are known about the amount o f money re quired to maintain duplication o f services in the unincorporated juris diction, there will be a demand for consolidation. Additionally, almost all of the citizens in my district live within the city limits o f Portland. Some o f the tax dollars that the county collects from them are used to pay for County services which are used exclusively by unincorporated areas.” The coming election is the first time county commissioners have run in districts. District Two is bounded on the North by the Columbia Riv er, on the West by the Willamette, Thi* NON SMO 11:45 am C lark T u th lll, piano, and V arn o n Johnson, saxophone, are show n In p e rfo rm a n c e w ith th e C ascad e R h yth m S e c tio n , a p ro fe s s io n a l q u ality ja zz co m b o com prised o f th e P o rtla n d C o m m u n ity C o llage vo catio n al music students. T h e R hythm S ectio n p erfo rm s regularly at P C C ’a C ascade C am pus. 706 N. K lllln g aw o rth . □ □ □ □ on the South by the Benfield free way, and on the east by 42nd Avenue. The district’s population is approximately 115,000. Ms. M cCoy was elected to the Board o f County Commissioners in 1978 and is currently Presiding O f ficer. Prior to her election she was State Ombudsman from 1975 to 1978, appointed by Oovernor Bob Straub. She was a member o f the P o rt land School Board from 1970 to 1978. A graduate of the Portland State University School o f Social work, many o f Ms. McCoy’s volunteer ac tivities are in the fields o f human services. She has recently served as co-chairman of the N A A C P A C T- SO competition and was co-chair man o f the Oregon Women’s Con ference. She was Oregon Mother of the Year in 1980. She and her husband, Senator Bill M cC oy, live in N orth Portland where they raised their fam ily o f seven children. 600 SW Pine Between 6th Et Broadway a c te r A w a rd o f In te rn a tio n a l T elep h o n e and T ele g ra p h C o rp , fro m U .S . R ep . R on W y d e n , D -O re . W a c h a m u th is a c tiv e in m a n y v o lu n te e r jo b s in clu din g tea ch in g n e w ly h an d icap p ed p eo p le h o w to deal w ith physical problem s. Make small gains Minorities still at bottom lower salary ranges and males are Minorities and women have made concentrated in higher salary some gains in state employment ranges. The personnel manager ex during fiscal 1980-81 in spite of an plained that the department is ex overall reduction of the work force, periencing a turnover rate and there but disproportionate numbers are is no budget for affirmative action still in lower-paying jobs. workshops and training. The State employs 5.8 per cent or The Employment Division has 1,714 minorities in full-time jobs, as minorities and women concentrated compared to 6.7 per cent o f the in lower categories. The nine em state’s population and 4 per cent of ployees at the top categories are the labor force. Labor force is de white, eight of them men. In the 25- fined as those who are employed or 30 range, only three out o f 78 em who are unemployed and actively ployees are minority: one Hispanic seeking work. Blacks make up 1.5 and two Asians. The deputy director per cent of the labor force; Hispanic? indicated that it is difficult to main are 1.5 per cent; American Indian; tain affirmative action during staff are0.3 percent. ! reductions, but minority hiring sev O f the current state employees? eral years ago is responsible for the 1.7 per cent (498) are Black; 1.5 per current minority employees. cent (442) are Hispanic; 1.7 per cent (512) are Asian; and 0.8 per cent In the Department of Revenue 5 8 (262) are American Indian. per cent of the workforce is mino*- Minorities continue to be concen ity— but only six blacks among th: trated in lower pay ranges, but there 674 employees. White females dom is better representation of minorities inate the full-tim e workforce, but in the upper pay ranges than a year are concentrated in the lower salary ago. Blacks and Hispanics are con ranges. The deputy administrate- centrated in the lower pay ranges and personnel director indicatet and are underutilized in all other that affirm ative action has suf salary categories. For example, fered during the past year because there are only three Blacks and two of the lack of a full-time affirmative Hispanics in the top salary category. action officer. A new seven-member Minorities are employed most fre volunteer equal employment ad quently in professional, paraprofes visory committee has been sional, clerical and service/mainten appointed to advise and assist in af ance jobs. They are underutilized in firmative action. technician and skilled craft job cate Women make up 52 per cent o f gories. Blacks are also underutilized the state's population, but only 41.1 in protective services. per cent of the labor force. Women Analyses o f three departments continue to be heavily employed in were reported by the State Affirma lower pay ranges, 93.1 per cent o tive Action Office. In the Depart the employees in the lowest six cate ment o f Education minority groups gories being women. The rate of fe were underutilized in most salary male employment is 50.3 per cent. ranges. Females are concentrated in ALL NEW FUEL EFFICIENT CARS LOW DAILY RATES - FROM ’19" WEEKEND RATES - *15°* MAJOR CREDIT CARDS OR CASH Rentals (Call for Cash Qualifications) 223 4531 A n O re g o n w o m a n has baan cho sen to re ce iv e the first a w a rd In a n atio n w id e program reco g n iz in g th e s tr e n g th a n d c o u ra g e o f th e A m e r ic a n C h a ra c te r. G ra ce W a c h a m u th , a p a rtly p araly zed Portland resident has received the A m erican C har- Notice of Public Hearing Pursuant to Title VII of PL95-561, the Elementary and Secondary Education A ct, School District No. 1, Multnomah County, Oregon, announces the public meeting of the Project Committee of the Bilingual Education: De segregation Support Program to be held 7:00 p m , Jan u ary 7. IM S , in the Board R oom of the School District at 601 N. D ixon S tre et. The purpose of the meeting is to review a grant application to the U .S . Department of Education for funds to implement instructional programs of bilingual-bicul tural education to meet the special educational needs of minority group children who, because of language barriers arid cultural differences, do not have equal ed-icational opportunity. 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