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PORTLAND OBSERMER
Volume XIV, Number 29
May 9, 1984
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Jackson maintains momentum
The finish line in the race for the
Democratic presidential nomination
seemed to be in sight for W alter
M ondale— until
Tuesday’s four
primaries, that is. Jesse Jackson's
strong showings in M aryland and
North
Carolina,
Tuesday/which
came on top o f recent victories in
Louisiana and Washington, D .C .),
combined with G ary H a rt’s narrow
victories Tuesday in O hio and In­
diana to keep the race alive.
Keeping the race alive apparently
has different meanings for the three
candidates. After the vote counts
Tuesday night, M ondale and Hart
talked o f the days events primarily
in terms o f their delegate counts,
while Jackson continued to stress
the issues.
“ Welcome to the fourth quar­
ter,” was H a rt’s m ajor comment
and
M ondale
once
again
proclaimed, “ I will get the delegates
that I need to be nom inated.”
Meanwhile, Jackson spoke about
the political significance of the
campaign. "M o re poor people have
Herb Cawthorna and hi* mother, Edytha Cawthorna, share a quiet
moment.
(Photo: P C. Perl)
A very special mother
by Kathryn H a ll Boyle
The speaker at the lectern com­
pleted his address to the assembly of
high school principals, college
professors and civic leaders o f Port­
land.
He
nodded
his
head
repeatedly in acceptance o f the hear­
ty and prolonged applause for the
things he had said. He gathered his
notes from the lectern as the ap­
plause diminished a trifle, and while
he gathered the pages o f paper, his
eyes eagerly sought the eyes o f one
person in the audience.
The speaker was Herb Cawthorne,
orator, educator, historian, P o rt­
land school board member. The
person he sought was Edythe
Cawthorne, his mother. Their eyes
met. His eyes were questioning, her
eyes were approving, proud. She
smiled almost imperceptibly. He
smiled in response, relaxed and
unobtrusively took his seat.
Sometime much later, this writer
asked Herb Cawthorne about his
mother, a retired librarian of note
who keeps a low profile in the city.
She plays a tough game o f bridpe.
plays a little backgammon when she
can find a partner, crochets and
does a lot o f interesting needlepoint.
“ All that is true,” Herb said, “ but
there is more. Whatever I do, there
is the image o f my mother in the
back o f my mind. She taught us in­
tegrity and the ability to struggle
without
complaint.
Her
own
achievements were against great odds.
She took on the burdens o f life
with a grace that gave us confidence
It is hard to feel sorry for your­
self when you have a mother who
has been through the struggle and
never allowed herself to lose her
stride, no matter how difficult it
may have been.**
How did Edythe Cawthorne view
herself and her mothering of her
four children? " I had no time to feel
sorry for myself,’’ said M n
Cawthorne, almost matter-of-fact
in her tone. “ I was young and
divorced when Herbie was two years
old. O f the other children, my
daughter, Edythe, was seven, John
was six and Elsa was only three
years old. I had no support from
their father. I had to scramble.
“ O n the positive side, 1 had
grown up in a fatherless home in
Des Moines, Iowa with my mother
and grandmother looking after me.
M y mother had been a housewife
for the first years o f her marriage
and had worked to put herself
through school as a teacher as I
grew up.
"W h e n I was through high
school, I entered How ard University
and transferred to Lincoln Univer­
sity where I received my degree I
had lived as a spoiled child all
through the depression years; never
feeling deprivation in those years. I
can realize now that it was a fairly
sophisticated situation for me. In
our fam ily, it had become the prac­
tice to, early in life, talk about
college attendance, as college was
regarded as a part o f the education.
I had completed college before my
marriage and before my mother's
death. When I divorced my hus­
band, I was really all alone, but I
decided to attend graduate school. I
later was graduated with a degree in
Library Science.
“ I ran my house (an apartment in
a housing project) with the help of
the older children. Everybody had
their chores to do. But, at the same
time, they knew that their school
homework was their real job. They
all knew I would not do it for them.
Edythe, Jr., and Johnny were good
students; Elsa and Herbie were good
too. One o f the kids was always
‘vice-president’ in charge o f school
lunches; Edythe, Jr., cooked and I
shopped and cooked, too.
**I was not heavy with my
motherhood. I spanked when they
were little, took away privileges
when they were older and gave oc­
casional 'lectures’ . M y children
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voted in this campaign than ever
before,” he said, and " w e ’ll keep
working for those boats stuck on the
bottom .”
Tuesday's events were viewed by
commentators as a blow to M on-
dale's expectations for rapping up
the nomination before the conven­
tion and, as a great boon to the
campaigns o f G ary H art and Jesse
Jackson.
H a rt’s campaign appeared to be
losing momentum prior to Tuesday’s
primaries. H e had taken a beating
last
Saturday
with
his
poor
showings in Texas and Louisiana
(where he placed second and third
respectively).
Jackson
won
the
cities
of
Baltimore, G ary, Indianapolis and
Cleveland.
He
placed
second
statewide in M aryland and finished
a very strong third in North
Carolina.
Jackson continued to add to his
Black support significant vote counts
in white districts o f several major
cities
in
Tuesday’s
primaries.
“ When Blacks w in ,” said Jesse,
"th at also means progressive whites
win, and we're allies.”
The
results
of
Tuesday's
primaries are:
Maryland with 99 percent repor­
ting: Jackson had 27 percent, M o n ­
dale 43 percent and Hart 25 percent.
O hio with 95 percent reporting:
H art led with 42 percent to M o n ­
dale's 40 and Jackson's 17. Indiana
voted in virtually the same propor­
tions as Ohio: Jackson received 14
percent. M ondale 40 and H art 42.
North Carolina was the closest of
the primaries where M ondale won
the state with only 36 percent and
was followed closely by H art with
30 and Jackson with 25 percent,
Jackson to make
Olympic plea
Jesse Jackson would like to dis­
cuss the decision to withdraw their
Olympic Team from the Los Angeles
games with Soviet officials. H e has
asked to talk with Moscow’s Ambas
JESSE JA C K S O N
sador to the United States and he is
scheduled to meet with him Thursday,
M ay 10th, in Washington, D .C .
CAMPAIGN '84
M eet the four mayoral challengers
by Chuck Goodmacher
One by one, established liberal
politicians lined up to the starting
block for the mayoral race here in
Portland, and one by one, they
stepped down. City Commissioners
Charles Jordan. M ike Lindberg and
Margaret Strachan considered the
race, but walked away. City Club
president Pauline Anderson and
Southeast Portland State Represen­
tative Rick Bauman also tested (he
track. Frank Ivancie seemed to ex­
perienced politicians, unassailable.
Five lesser-known citizens came
forward by the filing deadline
anyhow. O nly one. Bud C lark, 52,
had much previous citywide ex­
posure (when he threw Budweiser
out o f his tavern in objection to a
campaign tactic against an Oregon-
style bottle bill in C alifornia), and
only one, Stan Kahn, 42, had any
serious previous electoral experience
(he received 47 percent o f the vote in
his race for a Southeast Portland
M etro Board seal.).
The other candidates in the race
are Norm an A . Berberick, an elec­
tronics products manufacture con-
sultant and Joe Kear, a socialist ac­
tivist now working as a water meter
reader. Jeffrey J.J. Liddicoat, 25,
who is staff chairperson o f New
Clear Vision, has withdrawn but
will still appear on the ballot.
Frank Ivancie seemed, to political
experts, assured o f four more years
as mayor.
Frank ivancie’s steamroller may
finally be running out o f steam.
W ith less than a week before the
election, he is vigorously stepping
up his campaign efforts. I f he fails
to win 50 percent plus one o f the
vote M ay 15th, a ru n -o ff election
will be held with the runner-up in
November
J.E. (Bud) Clark has clearly
emerged as Ivancie's main op­
ponent. A recent poll shows Clark
receiving the support o f 32 percent
o f the voters and Ivancie with only
47 percent— three percent less than
he needs to win. S u n Kahn, who
personally has canvassed almost 50
precincts, is the likely third place
finisher. I f the contenders continue to
rise, they could pull o ff one o f the
largest upsets ever in Portland’s
history.
Don't forget to
VOTE
Tuesday
May 15th
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to
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ternationally
Clark says he would place a strong
emphasis on program utilization in
inner Northeast.
Clark likes Gladys McCoys idea
for a local youth conservation corps
to provide job training and needed
public services. " W e need to get
kids plugged into meaningful jo b s ,"
says Clark. " I f they’ re not plugged
in, they’ll find another niche” in
society.
We also need to take a look at the
city’« affirm ative action program,
says C lark, and " I f it's not being
strictly enforced, it should be.”
Clark is also strongly for equal pay
for work of comparable value.
BUD CLARK
C lark, a Portland native, presents
voters with a clear alternative to
Ivancie in both style and substance.
C la rk ’s positive-oriented campaign
stresses support for small business,
vigorous enforcement o f affirm ative
action, strong neighborhoods and
management o f city government
“ from the bottom u p .”
Clark says he’s running for many
reasons, but prim arily because "the
people o f Portland feel disenfran­
chised.”
Clark
says
Ivancie’s
mayoral style is like that o f " a true
tyrant really, and it’s not that he’s
the tyrant, it ’s the people (behind
him) who pull the strings."
"Sm all businesses," says C lark,
"grow into larger ones and that’s
where I would place my emphasis."
He proposes a Small Business
Development Division with:
• A Portland Development Fund
to provide venture capital for
new small businesses and job
expansion money for those
businesses currently here;
•A
city-wide Neighborhood
Credit Union to make secure
short-term loans to individuals,
neighborhood
organizations
and cottage industries;
STAN KAHN
Stan Kahn entered the race
"when it was clear no one would
run with a chance to beat Frank on
the first ballo t.” He hopes to draw
enough votes from Ivancie to keep
him from winning on the first
ballot; thereby forcing a November
ru n -off.
Much o f Kahn’s campaign has
been concentrated in North and
outer Southeast Portland He hopes
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