Page 8 • Portland Observer
M arch 14, 1990
Oregon’s Sen. Mark O.
Hatfield To Be Honored
With National Award
O n May 31, 1990, U.S. Senator
M ark O. Hatfield is to be honored by the
American Lung Association of Oregon
with their national award, the Gold
M edallion for Humanitarianism.
Standard Insurance Company, which
provided a generous grant to underwrite
the event, joins the Lung Association in
recognizing Senator Hatfield for a life
time of achievements and contributions
to both Oregon and the nation. The Gold
Medallion, never before presented in
the Northwest and only awarded seven
times since 1984, will be given to Sena
tor Hatfield as part of the Lung Associa
tion’s annual spring gala, The Portland
Affair. Proceeds from the event held at
the Portland Hilton Hotel, benefit pul
monary research and children's pro
grams.
Ticket prices are $175 per person
for dinner, the award ceremony and
admission to a private reception hosted
by Standard Insurance in the Senator’s
honor, or $ 150 per person for dinner and
the award ceremony. Tables of ten are
available. Personal congratulatory
messages can be purchased in the eve
ning's commemorative program.
Tickets are available from the A m al
ean Lung Association of Oregon. For
more information,contact Rosalie Karp
at the Lung Association, (503) 224-
5145 or 1 (800) 545-5864.
aboutyour
S ocial S ecurity . . ,
CITY OF PORTLAND
[For Social Security or Supplemental
Security Income assistance telephone
1(800)234-5772, speech and hearing im
paired assistance, call 1(800)325-0778.1
Q U ESTIO N : Are the requirem ents
for disability benefits u nder the supple
m ental security Income (SSI) program
the same as those u nder Social Security?
If a person is denied under one program ,
m ight he or she be eligible u nder the
other?
ANSWER: The medical requirements
for determining “ disability” are the same
for SSI as for Social Security. However,
there are certain differences in other aspects
of the two programs. A certain number of
work credits is required to be insured for
disability under Social Security. The SSI
program has no such work requirement. On
the other hand, since it is a program based on
need, the SSI program has limits on assets
and income which determine eligibility. For
example, a person who is determined to be
disabled, but who has not earned enough
work credits for Social Security disability
benefits, may be eligible for SSI if his or her
income and resources do not exceed the SSI
limits. Contact Social Security for further
details.
SCHOLARSHIP
DEADLINE
BUSINESS CLASS!--Elizabeth BuLson, (center), Vice President, New Products,
Philip Morris U.S A ., discusses plans for construction of a company-sponsored
Model Office Classroom at Mabel Dean Bacon High School in Manhattan.
With her are Louis Santiago, (left). Principal of the school and Reese Stone,
Manager. Corporate Media Relations, Philip M orris Companies, Inc. The
classroom will simulate a corporate office environment for the purpose of
acquainting predominantly African-American and Hispanic students with the
business community. Students will be able to familiarize themselves with the
latest in business office technologies, interview techniques, appropriate business
attire and will interact with business volunteers. Spokespersons for the Board
of Education and the M ayor’s Voluntary Action Center welcomed the Model
Office Classroom, stating that some of the city’s top high school graduates had
been apprehensive about applying for jobs at major corporations because of a
lack of familiarity with business operations.
Questions and Answers
„t* se«viQ j
High school students who are
interested In applying for $1,000
college scholarships should request
applications by M arch 16,1990 for
E d u catio n al
C o m m u nicatio n s
Scholarship Foundation, 721 N.
M cKinley Road, Lake Forest, Illi
nois 60045. To receive an applica
tion, students should send a note
stating th eir nam e, address, city,
state and zip code, approxim ate
grad e point average and year of
graduation. Slxty-flve winners will
be selected on the basis o f aca
dem ic perform ance, Involvement
in ex tra-cu rricu lar activities and
need for financial aid.
QUES TION: How d oesa person with
AIDS qualify for disability?
ANSWER: People with AIDS or AIDS
Related Complex (ARC) may qualify for
disability under Social Security or supple
mental security income (SSI) or both. The
condition must be expected to keep the
person from working for a year or more, or
to result in death.
In addition, certain rules apply to each
program. For Social Security, these include
having sufficient Social Security quarters of
coverage and a 5-month waiting period. SSI
payments may be made if the person has
limited income and resources. Not only is
there no SSI waiting period, but temporary
payments may be made for up to 3 months
while the claim is being processed.
People with the AIDS virus who do not
have fully-developed AIDS, and are unable
to work because of illness caused by the
virus, may also qualify. Claims for persons
with ARC (AIDS Related Complex) are
evaluated on a case-by-case basis. To apply
for benefits, telephone 1 (800) 234-5772.
Burrell Public
Relations
Names Senior
Vice President
Asked how he could fight for a
country that discriminated against
him, Morton-Finney, who served
in World War I, said, “ It was still
my country. There was no country
in Africa that I belonged to. This is
where I lived. I believed I should
fight for this, my country. And I
would do the same today.”
Bom in Uniontown, Kentucky,
after his father had been freed by
President Lincoln’s Emancipation
Proclamation, Morton-Finney de
veloped a penchant for learning
early on that has never stopped.
“ A cultivated man would never
say, ‘I finished my education' be
cause he graduated from college,”
he declared. Fluent in six foreign
languages, Morton-Finney holds
bachelor’s degrees in mathemat
ics, French and history and mas
ter's degrees in French and educa
tion. He taught school until he was 81 and
still practices law. In his 60s, he started
college all over again, earning his fourth
bachelor’s degree at 75.
There Is Nothing Better Than Love___
by Ullysses Tucker, Jr.
Recently, I was asked if I had the
capacity to love and if I had ever been in
love. According to the individual directing
the question, my writing style suggested
that I was selfish, cold, insensitive, de
tached emotionally, and close-minded when
it comes to the mate selection process.
While my writing style may be a tad bit
frank, realistic, and based on my own per
sonal experiences, I am no worst than your
average human being. Being in the publics
eye, I guess you could say that I ’m more
assessable than most people and more often
than not. I ’m held hostage for my opinions.
It’s one of the hazards that come with the
job. Today, my topic is loving. Do you
remember the first time you fell in love? I
was a senior in high school. Her name was
Patrisha Frazier.
People have the tendency to base love
on the amount of time they spend with
another or base it on sex. You do not have
to have sexual intercourse or spend ten
years with a person for it to be classified as
love. When I met the aforementioned per
son, I was no more than a “ slickster’ ’ on the
move after another pretty face and in tune to
only what I wanted. She resisted my ad
vances and started a reformation program.
All she talked about was what ‘ ‘street life' ’
would do to me, where (jail) I would end up
at, my potential as an athlete, writer/poet,
and how I took life/opportunities for granted.
Furthermore, she questioned whether I was
willing to give up the future for a little cash
today. I had never reflected, seriously, about
some of the questions she directed to me.
All I cared about was making m oney. When
she asked me what my parents would think
of me in light of my lifestyle (both parents
were deceased), I felt ashamed because
they went to their graves with a terrible
perception of me and it was then that I
question my life direction. Sure, coaches,
teachers, and police had told me the same
thing she did. However, I was not in love
with them. Love will make you change in a
minute. She taught me to love without
making love. It was not a sexual relation
ship, but a truly spiritual and mental en
counter. Wise beyond her high school years,
she taught me to cross the ocean of life and
stood by the shore. Why? God only knows.
Once I entered college, she drifted away
and to this day I will never know why. In
this relationship, I learned to share pain,
hurt, and more importantly, I learned to
trust someone with my emotional baggage
and feelings. She also helped me to build
self-esteem.
Loving, indeed, is very difficult. We
all desire to be loved and supported em o
tionally by mates or family members. Some
people never learn to love. In many cases,
a person can look as far as their family,
childhood experiences to check one’s ca
pacity for love or foundation for love. People
get abuse psychologically, emotionally,
sexually, mentally, and in a host of other
ways. These experiences can kill a person’s
ability to trust, bond with others, and create
a dysfunctional personality. Furthermore,
take a look at the modem day gang structure
and see that it has replaced the traditional
family for many youngsters. The “ gang
family" offers love, support, bonding spiri
tually, protection, emotional support, and
several ways to build esteem, all the things
family used to--and still docs in many cascs-
provide. I'v e always asked who is taking
care of the children and loving them when
most single mothers are out working (60%+
head households. Black families that is ...)
and the father is absentee, dead, or in jail.
Forty-three percent of the total prison
population consist o f Black males. Who is
teaching future generations to love?
Love involves taking risk and not hold
ing on to past pain. The worst thing in the
world is to let what was prevent you from
living or loving today. Love is growing
through pain and dark moments. Love is
Top Ramen noodles and cheese toast. Taking
back those empty bottles to buy milk and
bread for the kids. Love is accepting a
person's shortcomings without using them
as a means to hurt, crush their esteem, or as
a means to humiliate. Love is not having
expectations. Love is letting go and getting
on with your life. Love is being sensitive to
the needs of others as well as your mate.
Love is freedom of self, expression, thoughts,
feelings, insecurities, and sharing the dreams
that mean the most to you. Love is learning
to love yourself before attempting to love
another person. Love is peace, happiness,
joy, and raising your children with values,
self-esteem, and morals. Love is dignity,
regardless of what you do and don’t think
you deserve. I can go on and on about love.
Love is life.
To know the thrill of love-and I havc-
is the ultimate feeling. One is truly de
prived if the joy of love is never experi
enced. If we all can learn to love, our
families, neighborhoods communities, and
nation might be a better place.
The door to the human heart can be
opened only from the inside . . .
PROPOSALS DOF. 2:110 P.M. ON VARIOUS DATES
Sealed Proposals will be received at the Bureau of Purchases and Stores,
Room 1313, Portland Building, 1120 SW Fifth Ave., Portland, OR
97204 for the projects detailed below until 2:00 P.M. on the dates
indicated.
Plans and Specifications may be obtained at the above address. For
additional information, telephone Buyer at number listed.
Unless otherwise stated in the individual proposals listed herein, no
proposal or bid will be considered unless accompanied by a bid surety
for an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the aggregate of the
proposal.
The City encourages bidding by MBEs and FBEs and will assist such
firms to understand and participate in formal bidding process.
NON-DISCRIMINATION: No proposal or bid will be considered
unless the bidder is certified as an EOE/Affirmative Action Employer
as prescribed by Chapter 3.100 of the Code of the Cijty of Portland.
PROPOSAL DESCRIPTION
OPENING
NO,
DATE
82
S.E. Flavel 6" & 8” & 6" Water Mains.
Call Michele Ackerman, 796-6854.
Prequalification in Class 11-Water Lines
Required
3/20/90
84
SW 1st & Taylor Sewer Replacement
Project. Call Michele Ackerman, 796-6854.
Prequalification in Class 8-Sewer Lines
Required
3/27/89
C-9688
SE Long, Liebe, 58 HCD Street Improvement
Project & Sanitary Sewer Extension. Call
Michele Ackerman, 796-6854. Prequalification
in Class 2-Street Improvggemcnt Required.
3/27/90
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
BROKER OF RECORD FOR EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
The Metropolitan Service District, Portland, Oregon is soliciting pro
posals from qualified firms to serve as Metro's Broker of Record for
Employee Benefits. Interested firms should contact Sarah Keele at
(503) 221-1646 to obtain detailed proposal information. Written
proposals must be received in the Metro Offices, 2000 S.W. First
Avenue, Portland, OR 97201, no later than 5:00 p.m., PSTon March 28,
1990.
Metro reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals and to
waive any irregularities.
Black Man With 11 College Degrees Says
Young Must Be Encouraged To Learn
[Permission to print courtesy
o f Parade magazine, New York,
NY.]
NEW YORK, N Y -T he 100-
year-old son of a former slave, who
has earned 11 college degrees,
including five in law, believes that
Blacks are finally making progress
and said the young must be encour
aged to take advantage of i t
“ There is less prejudice to
day,” John Morton-Finney told
Parade Contributing Editor W al
lace Terry, who interviewed him
for this Sunday's issue of the
magazine.
“ Educated Black people are
getting along fairly well,” he said,
“ although I worry about those with
no skills. Jesse Jackson did some
thing no one imagined when I was
a boy-run for President When Doug
W ilder was elected governor of
John Morton-Finney (Photo by Robert Stalcup)
Virginia, it was the biggest surprise to me
man ,to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
since a Black man was elected mayor of
Staff means to me, an old soldier. It turned
Chicago. And you don’t know how much
the world upside down.”
the appointment of Colin Powell, a Black
INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
PHYSICAL PLANT DEPARTMENT
ADAMS HALL * CORVALLIS, OREGON
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
WEST HALL CAFETERIA RF.ROOFING
Michelle Flowers,
Senior Vice President
Burrell Public Relations
CHICAGO--D. Michelle Flowers, Vice
President o f Burrell Public Relations Inc.,
has been named Senior Vice President, James
H. Hill, President and Chief Executive offi
cer of the three-year-old, Chicago-based
company, recently announced.
“ M ichelle's outstanding contributions
to the agency have greatly enhanced its
overall growth and development efforts and
has had management responsibility for many
of the agency's major accounts.”
According to Hill, in her new position,
Flowers will continue to be responsible for
new business development, agency admini
stration and account management.
Flowers joined Burrell Public Relations
in 1986 as assistant Vice President. In August
1987 she was named Vice President. She
supervises the Kraft General Foods, Brown-
Forman, Black Child Development Insti
tute, Proctor & Gamble, Leadership for
Qual ity Education (a coalition of businesses
and community organizations), Illinois
Department of Public Aid, Citicorp Savings
of Illinois, Citicorp/Citibank and Burrell
Advertising Inc. accounts.
Sealed bids for the West Hall Cafeteria Reroofing project will be
received by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education until 2:00
P.M., local time, April 3, 1990.
Additional information may be obtained by contacting the OSU Physi
cal Plant, Adams Hall, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-2001 or telephone
(503) 737-4921.
REQUEST FOR
SUBCONTRACTOR/SUPPLIER BIDS
FOR MCKENZIE BRIDGE MAINTENANCE STATION
MP 50.33 ON HWY. 126.
MCKENZIE BRIDGE OREGON
W ORK CONSISTS OF DEMOLITION & NEW CONSTRUCTION.
PREBID MARCH 16TH @ 10:00AM
BID DATE MARCH 30TH, 1990 @ 3:00 PM.
PLANS MAY BE EXAMINED IN OUR OFFICE OR SEVERAL OTHER
LOCATIONS. PLEASE CALL IF YOU NEED MORE DETAILS.
MORRIS P. KIELTY
GENERAL CONTRACTOR, INC.
301 MONROE STREET * EUGENE, OREGON 97402
(503) 687-2287
We are an equal opportunity employer and request sub-bids from small
business, minority and women-owned business, and disadvantaged
business enterprises.
1RS Harrassment of Black Leaders Expose«
[Permission granted fo r the reprinting
o f this articlefrom FreedomNews Journal]
Internal Revenue Service documents
recently released from the National Coali
tion of IRS Whistleblowers have revealed
an intelligenceoperation conducted against
Black leaders in the 1970s through harrass
ment by selective tax audits and other means.
According to the documents, IRS agents
conducted extensive surveillance of fans
attending the 1970 Muhammad Ali and
Jerry Quarry fight, aimed at gathering a list
of influential Blacks from around the county.
A memo to the director of the Intelli
gence Division of the IRS’ national office
in Washington, written on November 5,
1970, indicates that boxing enthusiasts from
all over the country later became targets of
the IRS.
One document notes, “ Attached are
lists by states (other than Southeast Re
gion) of the more expensive automobiles,
with their respective license numbers, that
were in Atlanta for this occasion. The list
was compiled from automobiles observed
at the better hotels and motels where fight
fans were lodging in and around the M u
nicipal Auditorium, the site o f the fight.”
According to Paul DesFosses, presi
dent of the National Coalition of IRS
Whistleblowers and a former senior IRS
agent, IRS surveillance at the fight was
aimed at gathering a list of influential Blacks
from around the county who could then be
harTasscd through illegal tax audits and
other forms of IRS assault.
A separate list shows a number of
organizations targeted by the tax agency.
The list includes the Congress o f Racial
Equality, the Black Panther Party, and the
Nation of Islam - Black or predominately
Black organizations noted for their activ
ism in the 1960s and 1970s.
DesFosses, a 20-ycar veteran of the
IRS, noted that the IRS has conducted
numerous campaigns against selected tar
gets that have included accountants, small-
business men, churches and political fig
ures.
“ In Operation Bird dog, IRS Intelli
gence officials weren 't taking these actions
because they were concerned about collect
ing taxes,” he said. “ They were targeting
people because the IRS was intent on wip
ing out key leaders of Black groups around
the country and attacking the individuals
who supported those groups and leaders.”
“ The Nation of Islam, the church to
which Ali belonged and of which he was an
outspoken supporter, was on an IRS ‘hit
list’. The IRS no doubt figured that Black
leaders would be the ones most likely to
come to sec the Ali-Quarry fight and tar
geted them for harassment. They w eren't
trying to isolate only nationally known
Black leaders; they were also trying to
identify key people all the way down to the
community level,” he explained.
Owners of the vehicles, according to
DesFosses, were identified by sending li
cense numbers to stat * and local law en
forcement officials, asking them to provide
individual names for each license numbd
Once individuals were identified, DesFos^
said, they were singled out for harassmei
A November 8, 1971 memo from tl
chief of the IRS Intelligence Division ind
cates that Operation Bird Dog continuf
for at least a year.
A report, headed Operation Bird Doj
refers to “ five Missouri license num bq
noted on expensive automobiles at the At
Quarry fight in Atlanta, Georgia, on Oc(
26, 1970," and went on to state, "InquirJ
regarding the identity of the individuals .;
. resulted in die requisition of their 196(
and 1969 income tax returns." The memt
notes, “ The returns of these individual!
with the exception of [name deleted] havt
been returned to the Midwest Service Center
It is believed that the recent returns o f M(
[name deleted] . . . warrant forwarding t |
the Audit Division for possible exam in^
lio n . . . ”
.2
According to DesFosses, Operation Bird
Dog was just one part of a larger IRS pla^i
aimed at attacking influential leaders in
churches and political groups throughout
the country.
The National Coalition of IRS Whii-
tlcblowcrs wants to help anyone who his
been abused by the IRS. If you have bc^i
abused or know of someone else who h is
been abused please call or write your loci]
chapter of IRS W histlerblowers, sponsored
by the Church of Scientology Office | f
Special Affairs as a part o f its campaign pt
improving life in a troubled world.