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* » Portland Observer, May 26, 1983 Section I Page 9 Olympics beckon A happy duo. Pratty 20-yaar-old Klmbarly Kay Buchanan, Canby, waa crownad quaan of St. Paul's 4Bth annual rodao. at caramonias In St. Paul, Saturday night. May 14. Official crownar was "Big Ed” Whalan, popular KOIN-TV sports announcar. Whalan also will bo grand marshal of tha old-fashionad Fourth of July parada. Sha Is a sophomora at Oragon Stato University. House Democrats deny labor bills bv Charles Goodmacber The Democratic Party controlled Oregon House o f Representatives voted overwhelmingly against an A F L -C IO sponsored workers’ com pensation bill Tuesday and then took an about-face Wednesday ap proving a related measure while sending a third bill back to comm it tee. Governor Atiyeh is pledged to veto any one or all three measures. The Tuesday vote sending H B 2376 down in flames stunned observers. H B 2376 would have in creased workers’ compensation benefits for workers with temporary or permanent disabilities by 33 per cent while causing only a 1.4 percent increase in costs to employers. M any liberal Democrats voted against the measure citing possible adverse effects on economic devel opment efforts. Steve Sokoch o f the A F L -C IO called the argument " ir- relevant and hackneyed.” The floor vote was 19 pro and 41 con. Economic development worries didn’t seem to bother the House Wednesday as it voted 36-22 in favor o f H B 2379 increasing benefits paid under workers’ compensations to survivors o f deceased workers. Analysis by the Legislative Fiscal O ffice estimates a 2.1 percent in- crease in premium costs paid by employers as a result o f the proposed change. Observers note that the bill has a better than even chance in the Senate. The third bill, H B 2378, requires that attorney fees be paid for in addition to actual awards for claims requiring legal services. The House is re-referring the measure back to the House Labor Committee. Meanwhile the House Labor Committee voted Tuesday in favor o f a fourth A F L -C IO sponsored bill, H B 2392. An increase in the scheduled portion o f permanent dis ability payments for loss o f limb type incidents is the aim o f this measure. According to Chamber of Commerce data, Oregon ranks nearly last in benefits paid to this category o f workers' compensation claimants. The A F L -C IO is the lone propo nent o f the workers’ comp bills. Sokoch notes that the package is a result o f statewide A F L -C IO con vention resolutions and that they "benefit folks whether or not they belong to a union.” Previously, labor supported a recently imple mented method for determining compensation premiums which saves employers $80 million per year. coming out o f high school and col lege,” P o llard says, “ i t ’ s a shame that we have to send them overseas N E W Y O R K , N Y — W ith I ) children in the Pollard fam ily, it was easy enough to start a pick-up game. The home court was an old bicycle rim nailed to the alley wall in the back o f the house. Ten years later the hoop and the house still remain, only the players have changed. Street b all has paid o f f fo r one family team member She's LaTaunya P o lla rd , th ree-tim e A ll-A m e ric a n from C a lifo rn ia State University at Long Beach. T h e n a tio n ’ s leading scorer this season, P o lla rd is the newest recipient o f the coveted Wade T ro p h y , aw ard ed a n n u a lly to the ouUtanding junior or senior women’s college basketball player in the coun try Widely recognized as the top goal fo r women basketball players, the award is sponsored by Stayfree and named for the legendary M argaret W ade, form er head coach at Delta State University and a pioneer in the establishment and advancement o f women’s collegiate basketball. ’ ’ A ccep tin g this aw a rd means more to me than winning the nation al cham pionship,” Pollard says. A graduate of Roosevelt High School in East C h icag o , I L , P o llard had no plans to attend college and expected to join her brothers and sisters in the steel mills, to help support the fam i to play, although there are rumors th at a fte r the O ly m p ic s a new women’s league might start up in the United States.” W om en's basketball gets a little bigger and a little better every year, says coach Bonvicini, Stayfree Coach o f the Year w inner tw o years ago. R ight now the W o m e n ’ s Coaches Association is considering decreasing the diameter o f the ball by W -inch. Bonvicini explains that a smaller ball (easier to grip or p alm ) w ould im prove the players’ field goal percent age. ball handling and the prospects for the first dunk shot by a woman. “ Even without the dunk, the game is ex c itin g .” says M arg a re t W ade. " P la y e rs lik e L a T a u n y a P o lla rd demand respect,” she adds. Carrying on the tradition of growing excellence in women's athletics, P o lla rd ’ s ac complishments rank w ith previous W ade T ro ph y winners such as O ld D o m in io n ’ s tw o -tim e recip ient Nancy L ie b e rm a n , Pam K e lly o f I ouisiana Tech University and Lynette Woodard of the University of Kansas. Montclair State star Carol Blazejowski won the first Wade Trophy in I978. P o lla rd ’ s younger b ro th e r, who stands 6 ’2 " and plays basketball for alma mater Roosevelt, can attest to his sister’s skill on the court. "She can still take me o n e -o n -o n e ,” he ly- " M y high school coach had faith in my abiUtics,” she says, “ and handled all the phone calls and paperw ork. fin a lly co n vincin g rne to accept a scholarship.” A Wade Trophy finalist last year, Pollard, a S’ l l " senior guard, led the '49ers to Western Collegiate Athletic Association Conference champion ships in 1981 and 1982. She holds 18 school records including most career points, 3,001, and most points in a game, 48, set this year against Marist College. " I have never seen a woman shoot like L a T a u n y a ," says Long Beach State coach loan Bonvicini. "She can score fro m inside and outside the key.” Pollard averaged 29.3 points per game during the season, adding 8.9 rebounds and 4.9 assists per con test. Long Beach State was beaten by U S C in the regionals this year but her coach speculates that i f Pollard h ad n ’ t fouled out w ith 1:30 left to play in the game, the outcome might have been very d iffe re n t. P o lla rd says, " W e have no excuses, we gave all we could give, but I'm happy for USC because they represent the West Coast.” N e xt stop fo r the 2 2 -y e a r-o ld "P layer o f the Year” is the trials for the Pan Am W orld Games in Brazil this summer. H er ultim ate dream is to play on the U .S . team in the 1984 Olympics. After graduation, Pollard, a phys ical education m ajor, plans to assist coach Bonvicini, but eventually she w ould like to coach ju n io r high or high school basketball. "T here are so many good players LaTaunya Pollard (left) holds Wade Trophy after receiving tha covatad award for being votad tha 1983 Collaga Baakatball Woman Playar of tha Yaar. Tha trophy la ñamad for Margarat Wad« (right) who halpad plonaar tha woman's baakatball movement In tha Unltad States. admits. RUNYAN S 880 STORE Famous photographer dies W o rld -re n o w n e d pho tog rap her James Van DerZee died at approxi m a tely 2 :3 0 a .m ., M a y 15, at H o w a rd U n iv e rs ity H o s p ita l in W a s h in g to n . D .C . O n the day before, he had received an honorary degree o f hum ane letters fro m H o w a rd at the u n iv e rs ity 's 115th commencement exercises. The cause o f death was cardiac arrest. H is l i f e ’ s w ork o f over fiv e decades as a p h o to g ra p h e r in H a rle m recorded life fro m the streets there and the portraits o f the great and n ot-s o -g re at w ho cam e through the doors o f his studio on 135th Street. N o t u ntil 1969, how ever, when the M e tro p o lita n Museum o f A rt exhibition "H a rlem on M y M in d ” displayed his w o rk, was he finally recognized nationally and internationally as a great photo graphic artist. Born in 1886, in Lenox. Mass., he was trained in both music and art, and excelled at piano and violin. In 1906 he m oved to New Y o rk C ity and by the end o f W orld W ar I, he had opened G u a ra n te e P h o to Studio, later changing the name to G G G S tu dio , where his customers included M arcu s G a rv e y , h eavy weight champion Jack Johnson, Bill " B o ja n g le s ” R ob in so n , Florence M ills and A dam C . Powell Sr. For m any years M r . V an D e rZ e e also played as a m usician in various bands, in c lu d in g his ow n and Fletcher Henderson’s. Although he stopped taking pic tures in 1969, in 1980 at age 94, he came out o f retirement and some o f his recent p o rtra its included M u h a m m a d A l i , B ill C o sb y, L o u Rawls and Eubie Blake. The honorary degree he received fro m H o w a rd was his fo u rth . H is o th e r honors inclu d e the L iv in g Legacy A w a rd , w hich he received fro m Presid en t Jim m y C a rte r in 1978. M r . V a n D e rZ e e ’ s p h o to graphs have tra ve le d in exhib its th ro u g h o u t the c o u n try and a num ber o f books o f his p h o to graphs have been published. Rumors of CIA action persist (Continued fro m page I column 6) reports do not have to be filed. S m ith , a fo rm e r p a ra tro o p e r, started out w ith one helicopter in 1959. Evergreen has grow n since then into an in te rn atio n al em pire, including not only helicopters but large jets hauling charters and cargo all over the world. Evergreen A v ia tion, Inc. and its subsidiaries, Ever green H e lic o p ters, Inc. and E v e r green In te rn a tio n a l A irlin e s , em ployed 2 ,3 0 0 people at 12 bases around the United States, and sales last year approached $175 million. E verg reen 's h elicopters are in volved in logging the mountains o f Oregon and W ashington, off-shore o il in the C aribb ean , construction on the east coast, and spraying usLsaaajau w - crops in the south. They sprayed the entire state o f Pennsylvania one summer, and have been busy along the O regon Coast spraying controversial herbicides. In 1974, E vergreen sprayed 6 0 0 ,0 0 0 acres o f stricken rice fields in Pakistan with pesticides. O il e x p lo ra tio n and o il d rillin g support comprises a m a jo r part o f E ve rg re en ’ s w o rk . In 1974, the com pany w orked on contract w ith Sun O il C o . to fly d rillin g rigs into remote jungle areas o f B olivia and Peru. Suspicions o f an Evergreen con nection with the C IA began in 1975 when it bought In te rm o u n ta in A v ia tio n . In te rm o u n la in had c a r ried out covert o peratio ns fo r the • • , ■ ». C I A . W hen a p ro fit-m a k in g C I A au to parts shipping scam was un covered in 1979, Intermountain was revealed as one o f the a ir carriers involved, and Evergreen, which also carries auto parts, was implicated. (M o re next week.) Tha Community's Auto Repair Hra. 9:00 a.m. to 0:30 p m . Bdayaawaak Complota auto servie« 1640 N .E . Kllllngawortb 264-0131 . Owner n n » V • • i ; L •• ; ••• • •• a » » ♦ . a ♦ . •Aur Closed Sunday 3716 N.E. UNION
