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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.
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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
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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
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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.)
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