Mrs
U n i’
C’flSp3
1C5S
oRon
U b r s ry
ty c f
¡5 OrcRor 97403
)09
“il
Margaret Carter Speaks to
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Breast Cancer Detection
Awareness Project Underway
Page 5
Page 4
25C
ERVER
PORTL
Campaign ’88: Harvey Lockett
by Nyewusi Askari
According to Harvey Lockett,
Candidate, Portland City Coun­
cil, Position #4, “ Leadership is
the act of one going before and
showing the way, of guiding in
direction, course, action or opi­
nion.”
In a position paper entitled,
“ Perspectives On Important Is­
sues Facing The City Of Port­
land,” Lockett charges his oppo­
nent, Comm issioner Dick Bogle,
w ith ineffective leadership and
says he (Lockett) is running for
City Com m issioner Position No.
4 because the “ City deserves a
candidate w ith clear vision, a
strong com m itm ent, personal
vigor, and dedication to quality in
carrying out the public tru st.”
Lockett believes a leader must
be capable of “ aniticipating pro­
blems before they occur, verify­
ing the existence or likely oc­
curence of problems; discussing
and educating the public on the
facts associated with issues and
opportunities; developing poli­
cies to guide strategies and pro­
grams; and acting to adopt pro­
grams and strategies to improve
service, meet com m unity needs
and get the City moving in a
positive directio n."
On the isue of public safety,
Lockett says “ my opponent has
made only one major policy in­
itiative — the Fire Bureau/Am-
bulance Proposal. It had little
public input and after much time
and money spent, it succeeded
only in raising a restraint of trade
issue with private com panies.”
Lockett goes on to say that while
Bogle has made no secret of his
desire to run the Police Bureau,
“ he has offered no major policy
or program initiative on either
crim e or public safety issues.”
L o c k e tt’ s p o s itio n p a p e r
makes other charges against
Bogle: (1) that when Com m is­
sioner Bogle was in charge of the
Personnel Bureau for the City, he
failed to develop policies for im­
plem enting the residency re­
quirement for City employees, a
law which was put in place by the
voters; (2) that Bogle let the City
go w ithout an affirm ative action
plan, leaving the City out of com­
pliance w ith federal regulations
and bringing a threat from the
Reagan adm inistration of a cut
off of federal funds until a plan
was adopted; (3) that while in
charge of the Environmental Ser­
vices Bureau, Bogle was handed
re s p o n s ib ility fo r fo rg in g an
acceptable residential recycling
program, and even though the Ci­
ty was already late in meeting a
state-m andated d e a d lin e for
subm itting the program, Bogle
handed the unresolved issue to
another Com m issioner when the
Mayor reassigned bureaus; (4)
H arvey L o c k e tt
that while serving as the Com­
m issioner in charge of the O ffice
of General Services, Bogle in­
structed the staff to remodel the
offices of three Commissioners
Although an amount of $7,800
had been budgeted for City Hall
remodeling, the final cost was
$71,850, or nearly ten times as
much. Bogle’s office alone cost
$14,473; and (5) that Bogle has
the O ffice of Neighborhood As­
sociations and has proposed a
policy that w ill not allow recogni­
tion of established Planning
G roups in re ce n tly annexed
areas of the City. Lockett says
"non-recognition of these plan­
ning groups w ill result in con­
siderable tim e being required to
organize these areas. The pro­
posed policy fails to recognize
and build upon significant con­
trib u tio n s made by Planning
Groups over the years.”
Lockett proposes the follow ­
ing solutions to elim inate Port­
land’s pressing crime problems;
e lim in a te c a u s e s o f a n ti-
social/crim inal behavior by ac­
tively seeking full employment
and economic opportunity for all
citizens through sound econo­
mic development policies; sup­
port and expand public and pri­
vate alcohol and drug rehabilita­
tion programs; support state pro­
grams and private e ffo rts to
break the child abuse cycle; in­
sist on and support early id entifi­
cation of children most likely to
engage in anti-social behavior
and support policies and pro­
grams to meet th e ir special
needs, and support and en­
courage schools and com m unity
juvenile programs that address
the needs of youth who are in
trouble but not yet engaging in
crime; continue to expand pro­
grams that help citizens and
neighborhoods help themselves,
seek flexible and creative law en­
forcement techniques and find
more ways to be effective and
support those changes determin­
ed through performance audits
that increase more police on
patrol; support judicial reform
by I.R. Macrae
and trial modernization; support
and accomodate new state pro­
Crime and youth are two words
grams calling for medium and
that are too often spoken in the
minimum security facilities.
same sentence. Giving teens a
safe, supervised environment to
Lockett notes that “ the police
hang out together and enjoy po­
are angry because they lack ade­
sitive activities is recognized by
quate resources and coordina­
experts as one of the keys to
tion to combat crime; judges are
crime prevention. Yet in a city
angry because people are being
where the crime rate is the hot­
released from jail and are back on
test topic around, neighborhood
the street before they even ap­
drop-in centers for teens are far
pear in court; county com m is­
and few between. Likewise, the
sioners are angry because need­
few supervised recreational op­
ed jail space exceeds the dollar
portunities which exist are often
amount authorized by the voters;
too expensive for low-income
and most im portantly, citizens
youth who need them most. And
are angry because they no longer
to make a bad situation worse,
feel safe in their homes and
the city's budget for parks is in da
neighborhoods. What is most
nger of suffering drastic cut­
needed is leadership, a desire to
backs, a prospect which w ill
take responsibility for crim e pro­
mean reduced access by teens to
blems in our com munity, and the
healthy pastimes and sports in
com m itm ent to work toward de­
their own neighborhoods.
veloping solutions that can arise
All in all, it’s enough to give
only through improved coopera­
both adults and teens a case of
tion and coordination through­
the “ summertime blues” . But a
out the entire crim inal justice
growing number of citizens are
system.”
making up their minds to do what
Saying he would encourage
the official bureaucracy won't
and support holding the C ity’s
do: they're going to create those
budget to current levels, Lockett
recreational and educational op­
believes “ The Contingency Fund
portunities on their own, with or
must be rebuilt to an acceptable
without the help of City Hall.
level to protect the City in case of
At a m e e tin g of the St.
fiscal emergency.” His platform
Andrew’s Neighborhood Action
also calls for the City to continue
Committee, a group operating
its efforts in “ attracting large
under the auspices of the Port­
employers," and that "greater ex-
land Organizing Project, (a grass
phasis should be directed toward
roots organization sponsored by
assisting small business deve­
14 metro-area churches), discus­
lopment and expansion.” Citing
sion centered on how to provide
an example, Lockett says the Ci­
youth with positive alternatives
ty of Portland should move quick­
to the drug culture. Agreement
ly to establish a Pacific Coast/
on three major initiatives emer
Pacific Rim economic trade fair
ged from the gathering at the
featuring the products and ser­
church’s com munity center at
vices of regional small busi­
NE 8th and Alberta on Monday,
nesses.
March 21: a neighborhood drop-
Lockett’s campaign proposals
in center where youth w ill find
encourage the City to improve its
re c re a tio n a l a c tiv itie s , jo b ­
e ffo rts to provide affordable
finding assistance and help with
housing and play a more active
academics; networking among
role in improving its public hous­
existing youth-oriented organiza­
ing stock for low-income fami­
tions to ensure that their services
lies. He says that “ much of the
are accessible to youth in the
abandoned housing stock in
parish; and a strong political
Portland was retained for the pur­
fight to resist further cuts in the
pose of meeting future housing
c ity ’s budget for programs rela­
needs. It was anticipated that the
ting to youth, especially those of­
conversion of apartments to con­
fered through the Portland Park
dom inium s would create a hous­
Bureau.
ing shortage, but this has not oc­
While the initiatives are still in
curred. Presently, many aban-
the discussion phase, com m it­
donded houses are used to
tee chair John Villaume noted a
manufacture and distribute il­
consensus of opinion has emerg-
legal drugs.”
Lockett says Commissioner
Bogle “ has proposed to cope
with the abandoned housing pro­
blem by spending approximately
$100,000 to board them up, even
though the law requires the own­
ers of these properties to board
them upattheirexpense. My pro­
position is sim ply to enforce the
law, and to redirect the proposed
funds to a better use,” Lockett
said.
C itize n s c o n c e rn e d a b o u t our y o uth m e e t at St. A n d rew s.
P hoto by R ic h a rd J. Brown
ed at earlier meetings on the
need to respond to the needs of
youth in the neighborhood. At the
Monday night meeting, specific
options for action began to be ex­
plored: making local gymna­
siums available to kids in the
afternoon and evening through
the summer; refurbishing vacant
buildings to use as drop-in cen­
ters; inviting local youth employ­
ment programs to establish a pre­
sence at such drop-in centers;
s e ttin g up “ co ffe e hou ses”
under the auspices of the church
where teens can socialize and en­
jo y free e n te rta in m e n t; de­
manding that the Park Bureau
open up its com munity centers
on weekends; and insisting that
the city cease charging fees for
youth-oriented activities at those
centers.
Father James Coleman, pastor
of St. Andrews, cited the success
of self-enhancement programs
of the sort run by Jefferson High
School counselor Tony Hopson
under the auspices of the Albina
M inisterial Alliance, and noted
that Hopson himself has also ur­
ged the establishment of new
com munity centers. Participants
also agreed to identify other
existing programs and ascertain
how much of their resouces are
being devoted to the area near St.
Andrews. Villaume made a point
of emphasizing, however, that
any youth project would be open
to all neighborhood youth, not
just St. Andrews parishioners.
“ What we're doing in this parish
does not have a fence around it,
he said.
One participant referred to his
experience as ayouth growing up
in Harlem to support the concept
of a neighborhood drop-in center.
While drugs and crime were as
much a problem then as now, he
said, access to such centers —
and the opportunities for person­
al growth which they provided —
made a huge difference in his
own life. Likewise, com m ittee
member David Hupp cited a per­
sonal experience in working with
a neighborhood teen to support
the idea that simple, low-cost
youth activities can be enor­
mously successful. Referring to
an occasion when he com pli­
mented the troubled youth for a
task well-done, Hupp said the
boy’s response convinced him
that that occasion was the first
time anyone had ever praised
him. Many teens who seem de­
stined fo ra life of crime, Hupp in­
sisted, can be diverted from that
course through contact w ith car­
ing adults in a secure setting.
“ There’s a lesson in all of this,”
he said, "If you provide oppor­
tunities modestly and with care
— with the sim ple things in mind
. . . you can make progress.”
Villaume noted that the St. An­
drew group is not the only one in
the Portland Organizing Project
concerned w ith the problems of
youth. Several other member pa­
rishes are also investigating the
options for im proving recrea­
tional and employment opportu­
nities for youth, he said.
Julia H icks. P res, of A m a lg a m a te d
C lo th in g a n d T e x tile W o rk e rs
U nion , s p e a k s o u t a g a in s t th e
P re s id e n t s e n d in g U.S. troo p s to
H o n d u ra s , re m in d in g th e n e a r 5 0 0
p e o p le th a t tu rn e d out fo r a rally at
the Federal Building, that 40 percent of
the U.S. Army is African-American: and
she did not want her son fighting as the
result of misguided foreign policy.
Lessons from History
Queen N 'Z ^ a .e p re s e n .s .h e s .-e n g .h o.
country. The Portuguese used every trick against her country to aivioeanu u
™ < X , e , lig h t Io, them, and c e a .e d friction
Photo by Richard J. Brown
.
m
victory after victory. Her quick attacks became legendary N Zinga - the African o
« •”
«“ ,
9
asked
y°ea,s A,