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Oregon’s next governor:
Who will he be?
Jerry R ust, candidate fo r the
D em ocratic P arty n o m in a tio n fo r
Governor o f Oregon, wants to bring
about fundamental changes.
“ The main issue is the economy,”
he explained. “ Everyone talks
about the economy but 1 propose
fundam ental changes that w ill help
b u ild the economy o f Oregon and
make the state more independent—
quasi-independent.”
The state o f Oregon can never be
fu lly independent—but it can move
to m inim ize the effects o f national
policy errors here. “ I feel the feder
al government is headed fo r bigger
problems. There is too much m ili
tary expenditure and interest rates
w ill not come dow n.”
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Rust’ s first answer to the stagna
ting economy is a State Bank. This
bank would be capitalized with state
m oney— state in d u s tria l accident
funds, employee retirement funds,
etc.— c u rre n tly to ta lly about $3.5
b illio n . C u rre n tly the money is
invested in the money market where
it can gain the best interest income
-«-usudily out o f state.
C reation o f a State Bank would
be accompanied by a new policy o f
investment at home. The State Bank
w ould invest in and make loans to
local small businesses— which pro
vide 80 per tent o f the jobs.
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A second boost to the economy
w ould be m aking Oregon the “ re
newable energy c a p ita l o f the
w o rld ” O regon's move to nuclear
power w ill result in electric rates
quadrupling in ten years. Develop
ment o f technology for small hydro
electric plants, solar, methane and
other renewable energy sources
would not only free Oregon ratepay
ers fro m high electric b ills , but
could be exported.
Energy— an alternative to o il— is
a b illio n d o lla r business. Oregon is
in a p o sitio n to provide energy to
the countries o f the Pacific R im —
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the m arket o f the fu tu re . Oregon
has the human resources, the educa
tio n , the natural resources to pro
vide the leadership.
This industry— along w ith public
pow er— w ould make Oregon ener
gy-self-sufficient.
O ther areas in w hich Oregon
could become a leader are in tele
com m unications and cable televi
sion. The natural resources— fish,
agriculture, forests— should be de
veloped along w ith health care and
research.
Following are excerpts from
the statem ent of Chairman
Scott and Superintendent Fen
wick regarding the decision to
place Tubman Middle School in
the Boise Building:
“ The decision by the Board o f
E ducation to p e rm anen tly locate
Tubman M iddle School at the pre
sent Boise School site has draw n
criticism from some members o f the
community.
“ This criticism is based upon the
tact that Eliot School was originally
named as the perm anent Tubm an
School site in the district’ s compre
hensive desegregation plan adopted
in A p ril, 1 9 8 0 ....
“ Am ong the key issues affecting
•he final decision were:
•Boise is the closest o f a ll sites
considered to the center o f both the
current and projected Tubman stu
dent population;
•Boise has the lowest ten-year to
tal cost projection o f all sites consid
ered and the lowest cost per student
capacity, as well;
•Boise can accommodate a 750-
student p o p u la tio n ; this w ill allow
Rust is a supporter o f public pow
er and would put article 11-D o f the
Oregon Constitution into effect. 11-
D is a p ro v is io n th a t enables the
JERRY RUST
state to develop and sell electricity.
“ The nuclear debt w ill bankrupt the $250,000 w ill get $23,000 from the
N o rth w e s t. . . . It w ill take tw o federal tax re d u c tio n . The states
weeks salary from every person for should get some o f that money.” He
the next 30 years to pay the WPPS opposes a sales tax, which places a
d e b t.” Five to six per cent o f the greater burden on low and middle-
bonded indebtedness in the United income people.
States is in WPPS and it is the great
The state needs a long-term fiscal
est financial disaster in the history p la n — a plan that w o u ld measure
o f the region.
the needs o f the state and revenue
“ The Bonneville Power Adm inis projections over a long term. Money
tra tio n and the p riv a te u tilitie s to finance the state programs should
b la ckm ailed the p u b lic w ith th e ir be based on ability to pay.
false projections” o f needs for elec
The c u rre n t p ractice is “ crisis
tric power, he said. The public u til management” — going fro m fiscal
ity districts need to withdraw and let crisis to fiscal crisis, trying to make
the investors take the loss. He con state governm ent sm aller but not
siders assessing the public u tility dis more efficient.
tricts and ratepayers fo r the WPPS
Rust opposes the current m ilita ri
4 and 5 nulcear plants, and possibly za tio n on m oral and econom ic
a li fiv e , to be ille g a l because grounds. Reagan has requested a
Measure 9, passed by the citizens o f
tr illio n d o lla r war budget, interest
Oregon in 1978, states that ratepay
rates have risen in response, and the
ers cannot be charged fo r w ork on
cu rre n t G o ve rn o r o f O regon has
utility plants until they are in use.
tried to bail out o f the recession by
T o meet the im m ediate budget inviting the war industry to Oregon.
Rust’ s main problem in the next
needs Rust favors a graduated cor
60
days is to get his message to the
porate income tax and a graduated
people.
“ I need $50,000 to $70,000
individual income tax that would re
lieve the tax burden o f lower income fo r the p rim a ry,” he said. A popu
persons and small businesses while list, and an opponent o f the private
increasing the taxes o f those who u tilitie s , his message has not been
earn m ore. “ Persons earning carried by the m ajor media.
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Avenue at 7:00 p.m. Another public
event is the C om m unity Luncheon
at Geneva’ s, W illia m s and S kid
more, set for 12:30 Friday.
H ig h lig h t o f the conference w ill
be the A n n u a l Freedom Fund
Banquet, w ith Executive D ire cto r
B enjam in H ooks as speaker. The
event w ill be held at the H ilto n
B a llro o m , F rid a y , 7:00 p.m . The
conference theme is “ L in k in g the
Generations on an Upward C lim b.”
March 18, 1982
Volume XII, Number 23
25v Per Copy
Two Sections
School Board explains decision
m ore students to choose the T ub-
man M iddle School program;
•Boise increases them easure o f
desegregation based upon c rite ria
accepted by the U.S. Department o f
E ducation and the federal courts.
A ll other sites under consideration
m aintain the status quo or actually
decrease the desegregation measure;
•Boise is in the geographic heart
o f the Black com m unity and satis
fied the B oard’ s prom ise to locate
Tubman in this part o f the city;
Boise w ill mean a vastly strength
ened 6-8 academic program fo r stu
dents cu rre n tly enrolled there who
w ill be reassigned to Tubm an M id
dle School;
•Boise p rim a ry students w ill at
tend early childhood education cen
ters in nearby schools: these p ro
grams w ill provide
¡riched cur
riculum fo r the Boise prim ary c h il
dren;
•B oise as a perm anent site fo r
Tubm an M id d le School w ill allow
continuation o f the nationa lly rec
ognized early childhood education
center at E lio t; this is a program
highly prized by many m inority and
non-m inority parents;
Hooks addresses banquet
The public is invited to participate
in portions o f the N AAC P Regional
Conference to be held in P ortland
on March 18th through 21st. A rally
w ill be held T hursday evening at
Bethel A M E Church, 5828 N.E. 8th
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Dancers Brenda Bufalino and Honi Coles auto-
graph mural at Jefferson High School during
recent teaching session with the school's dance
•Boise, as a site fo r Tubman w ill
mean that a K-8 school option is not
available in that com m unity; how
ever, this is not unusual. The pres
ence o f m iddle schools throughout
the city in community after commu
n ity has meant the discontinuance
o f neighborhood K-8 schools;
•Boise is a ce ntrally located site
that w ill continue to attract non-m i
nority students from throughout the
city to Tubm an’ s exciting program.
•P arent a d visory com m ittees at
both Boise and E lio t recommended
against the E liot site.
“ We know that the change in our
decision has disappointed the expec
tations o f many. We want to w ork
w ith the c o m m u n ity to heal any
breach in o rd e r that the c h ild re n
won’ t suffer from further uncertain
ty.
“ The Board o f Education urgent
ly needs the help o f parents and
other citizens to stand w ith the dis
trict in helping immediately to plan
the d e tails o f the new T ubm an
building—to w ork w ith adm inistra
tors, teachers and architects to in
sure that Tubm an continues as the
most exciting school in the c ity .”
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program. See story on page 3.
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
Grenada celebrates third anniversary of revolution
On M arch 13th the small island
nation o f Grenada celebrated the
th ird anniversary o f its revolution.
On March 13, 1979, the New Jewel
Movement ended the 21-year rule o f
E ric G a iry w ith a bloodless coup.
The new People’ s R e v o lu tio n a ry
Government has made great strides
in b ringing not o n ly econom ic re
form s but self-governm ent to the
110,000 citizens.
A cc o rd in g to P rim e M in is te r
M aurice Bishop, “ O ur revolution
was for justice, for food, for health,
fo r housing, fo r clothing, for pipe-
borne water, for education, for peo
ple’ s c o n tro l o f our resource, fo r
people’ s participation.”
One o f the m ajor obstacles facing
the PRG was the 45 per cent illite r
acy rate among adults. In a popula
tion where more than half the popu
lation is under 21, the lack o f state-
supported schools was a crip p lin g
negligence. The new governm ent
has in s titu te d free secondary
schools; has lowered tuition to elem
entary schools; provides scholar
ships, clothing and books to low-in
come students, and provides schol
arships for university study abroad.
Centers fo r Popular Education have
been established fo r the teaching o f
adults.
1981 saw the introduction o f free
medical care and the o fficia l launch
ing o f a primary health scheme.
In three years the real gross do
mestic product has grown nearly 10
per cent, far more than that o f the
industrialized nations. In 1981 ex
ports jumped from $44.6 m illion to
$51.1 m illion in spite o f poor prices
fo r the c o u n try ’ s m a jo r exports:
nutmeg, cocoa and bananas. Pro
duction o f all three o f these crops
expanded last year.
Imports went up from $151.8 m il
lion to $159.9 m illion in spite o f ef
fo rts to reduce dependence on im
ports. A substantial portion o f this
went for construction o f the new in
ternational a irp o rt, but the cost o f
imported food also increased.
The standard o f liv in g has risen
considerably w ith a rise in salaries
and an increase in social wages—
free medical care, secondary educa
tion, dental care and m ilk.
1982 has been named “ The Year
o f Econom ic C o n s tru c tio n .” The
p rio rity w ill be the develonment o f
a g ric u ltu re and a g ri-in d u s try .
Among the plans are soil and water
conservation p ro je cts to expand
p ro d u c tio n to h illsides and other
areas previously considered not us
able; a sheep and a pig farm; manu
facture o f nutmeg oil and processing
o f spices; large scale production o f
ice cream and re co n stitu te d m ilk
pro d u cts; processing o f orange
juice, development o f the fishery.
During the year 1981 the govern
ment continued its e ffo rt to place
more political power in the hands o f
the people, establishing Parish
C o uncils th ro u g h o u t the n a tio n .
This structure allows the people to
come together with government o f
fic ia ls , m o n th ly , to discuss issues
ranging fro m the placing o f water
pipes to the progress being made on
the new international airport.
A t least tw o im portant new laws
had their origin in the Parish Coun
c ils — the m a te rn ity leave law and
the rent control law.
Also expanding in importance are
the mass organizations: the N ation
al Youth Organization, the National
Women's Organization, the Nation
al Students O rg a n iz a tio n and the
trade unions. It was the trade unions
that brought about the new p ro fit
sharing scheme for workers who are
em ployed on p riv a te ly owned es
tates.
In January, nearly 1,000 Grenadi
ans, representing 30,000 members
o f mass organizations, actively par
ticipated in the fo rm u la tio n o f the
n a tio n ’ s 1982 budget. Brought to
gether in a N ational Conference o f
Delegates o f Mass Organizations in
the Econom y, the delegates repre
sented over 60 per cent o f the adult
population. The prelim inary budget
was then taken back to the organiza
tions and to the Parish Councils and
the private sector, so that when the
fin a l budget was presented or
March 9th, 80 per cent o f the peopl«
had participated in its development.
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P.M. MAURICE BISHOP