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Education For Economic Gain, Continued:
“Ain’t Nobody’s Business But My Own!”
T hat’s right! And as I would say in my
classes, “On the one hand, this business of
making a dollar is truly a private affair; Your
responsibility, not that of your friends, rela­
tives or neighbors— nor the responsibility of
the government, banks, schools, organiza­
tions or consultants. And. further, note that
usually these people ARE NOT OPERATING
SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES”.
But, having instilled that caution against
anticipating scape goats or a system to blame
in case of any setback, I would continue.
“However, on the other hand, any or all of the
individuals and institutions nam ed1 may’ have
valuable information and support to offer.
Their adv ice, promises and rhetoric should be
carefully weighed and ev aluated before incor­
poration into your game plan— actions you
would take in dealing with any other part of
your environment.”
Keep in mind there really has been an
“information explosion” and that you must
develop an effective system to handle the
‘assault’. Unless you meet this onslaught with
carefully organized (and labeled) files and
notebooksyou will be absolutely overw helmed
At the same time one must early on develop a
technique for separating the "wheat from the
ch a ff'—that is the valuable materials from
junk mail and the suspect
Above all you need an adequate library,
but take your time in making selections—
question those in business or management in
whom you have confidence, and ask for their
opinion before buy ing expensive books cited
inbusiness magazines, publisher’scatalogsor
Gladys McCoy
Mourned By Many
Nearly 1,000 mourners gathered at the
Holy Cross Catholic Church in north
Portland to say goodbye to Multnomah
County Commissioner Gladys McCoy
last Thursday. McCoy had finally lost
her battle with cancer. She will be greatly
missed.
Blazers Made It
The Blazers made the Western Confer­
ence Clyde Drexler the star guard for the
Blazers will not participate in the re­
maining regular season games because
of his injured hamstring. He plans to
save himself for the first round playoffs.
Jury Acquits Two:
Finds Two Guilty
Two Los Angeles police officers, Sgt.
Stacey Koon and O fficer Laurence
Powell, were found guilty by a second
jury in the beating of Rodney King. They
were considered as the two that did the
most of the beating.
Ohio Inmates Still
Holding Guards
Hostage
There were still six prison guards being
held hostage on the 10th day. One body
of a guard was found and at least seven
inmates have died since the stand-off
began. The riot was alleged to have
started over the Black Muslims refusal to
take tuberculin tests.The 450 inmates
are said to be willing to die if demands
are not met, rather than give in.
T V. commercials.
These people are ‘marketing’ just as,
hopefully, you will be doing— trying to make
a dollar. First, check out the main public
library, business section, for there are many
highly useful manuals and guides which the
ordinary person can not afford. Several were
listed last week, rev iew this.
mcaiions u that
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There are other publications
Marcia Moskowitz
Given Softened
Sentence
Branch Davidson
Religious Cult Ends In
Tragedy
Fire destroyed more than 80 followers
and approximately 24 children in an
unpredicted alleged suicidal pact. The
American way o f life has been shook
again by other “Jones Day ritual.
The FBI tried to break into the com­
pound after a 51 day stand-ofl, and it
resulted in the horrifying blazing fire
that destroyed the entire facility in a
matter of minutes.
Clinton Potpourri
Considering national sales tax; Battling
over jobs bill; Health plan may cover
abortions. Plans a full investigation of
the Branch Davidson catastrophe; He
backs Janet Reno’s decision for the FBI
to go ahead with the assault.
Gladys McCoy. 1 knew she was waging a battle
with a serious illness But I expected her to
stage a comeback and eventually win this w ar,
like I ve seen her do so many other times, even
against such a formidable foe as cancer. 1 was
beginning to think Gladys was invincible.
Anybody who has watched her public life
knows that you could never count her out.
Glady s is gone now, but other Blacks in
leadership roles, and those aspiring to be
leaders, particularly those already in the sys­
tem, ought to use her courageous examples of
working on behalf of African-Americans as
an object lesson. I did not always agree with
Glady s, I often felt she was too conservative
and restricted herself to w hite folks notions
about what was good for African-Americans.
And. I frequently urged her to do more But
Gladys was one of few local politicians. Black
or white, that I could respect.
Gladys earned a lot of peoples’ respect
when she w on election almost single handedly
Gladys McCoy
to the County Commission several years ago
BY JAMES L. POSEY
From w hat I could tell, she did not get as much
Like a lot of people, I was stunned by the
support from the Black community as she
death of Multnomah County Chairwoman
“Portland Trail Blazers
Present: ‘Straight Shooting’”
... A project that w ill put cam eras... into
the hands o f at-risk, gang-affected youth.
...A ges 14-21 will participate from clackamas, W ash­
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would hav e liked And even a few of the so-
called, community-based Black leaders were
down right nasty in opposing her. Although
she must have felt hurt and frustrated, she was
willing to listen and change in response to
community criticism
It was always evident that Gladys under­
stood that she represented a broader constitu­
ency then just the Black community. But it
also became clear in this last administration
that she was going to be more aggressive in
helping to solve problems that have been
plaguing the Black community for years For
example, it was Gladys who lead the all-out
efforts to rehabilitate Columbia Villa, and it
was she who nude the first real commitment
to community policing. She sponsored the
first viable group to look at funding a disparity
study that could aid minority contractors in
documenting discrimination claims And, she
was the main one responsible for the turn­
around in the low numbers of Blacks and other
minorities that were being hired by the County
Gladys was very influential in seeing that
abandon housi ng was turned over to the North­
“The Norman Sylvester
Band”
With Psychiatric care mandated under this
proposed "universal coverage" the indepen­
dent business owner has to include mental
health care in basic benefit package
Boogie C a t Productions présent Norman
Sylvester and Isacc Scott the Blues Broth­
ers at the Cascade Tavern.
RELIGION
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w hich prov ided the essential housing base for
the Nehemiah project. She did all she could to
help bail out the Urban League and other
programs and projects which were failing or
in trouble She aided and assisted a wide-
range of community-base programs involving
health care, youth gang activity and many
others too numerous to mention
But more than that, you could always talk
to Gladys. She never got too high-minded She
always eventually returned phone calls and
would willingly meet with anyone who had a
legitimate concern. She also made every
attempt to attend community meetings, even
during the period when she very ill. Above all,
Glady s was not inclined to hold grudges, and
she ■refused to function within clicks, like
some Black leaders tend to do
In addition to the positive efforts Gladys
had been making, I liked her efforts to shake
up the ‘ good ole boy' contract ing system at the
County. This reflected a change in her think-
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“National Health Care Reform;
Mandated Mental Health Care”
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very. very helpful to either a newcomer or one
who has been in business for some time. For
example, I heartily recommend that on that
first trip to the library’, ask for “G ale's Ency­
clopedia of Associations". As I did here five
years ago and during my stint as a Minority
Business Adv isor during the urban economic
development days of programs like “Model
Cities", I found it necessary to do first things
first. “Gales" book will greatly help in ex­
panding your frame of reference' for under­
standing
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j u u i u h i j America’s business
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— community
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A Study In Black Leadership:
Portland Loses “the Real McCoy
Steven Moskowitz, a Portland lawyer
pleaded with the judge to be lenient and
consider their daughter in the sentenc­
ing of his wife who shot him and he
nearly lost his life.
ENTERTAINMENT
role models of a management or control na­
ture Very seldom, then, are they privileged to
the day operations, tools or advisory of the
‘trade’.
Having said th a t let us take a close lookat
that encyclopedia of associations and why 1
present this manual (and those last week)
as essential tools for understanding and oper­
ating within the mainstream of American
commerce. First, America is the “most join­
ing” country in the world! For profit or plea­
sure, people with common interests of every
imaginable kind have come together in formal
organizations to promote and enjoy specific
interests. To understand this process is to
understand America—or the world. But for
now, we simply want to know how this trans­
lates into a money -making perspective
Secondly, the index to this volume will be
a revelation itself, a business (and social)
education itself. We quickly see that every one
of those thousands of commercial enterprises
listed in that "Standard Industrial Classifica­
tion Manual" also appear in this manual, but
grouped or classified according to traditional
‘standards’: Genetic (Farming Forestry, Fish­
ing, etc ); Extractive (Petroleum, Mining,
Gas). Manufacturing (Auto Appliances, Cloth­
ing. Office Equipment, Construction Equip­
ment, Sports, etc ); Food Products (Package
and Bulk).
There are many other large groupings
like “Service Industries” with subheadings
like: Financial, Medical, Food, Legal, Social
and
the like”—and of course a correlative
understand very well that our northeast com­
listing
of “Professional" Organizations of
munity is comprised of a multicultural popu­
Doctors,
Accountants,Lawyers, Welfare work­
lation and that there are various levels of
ers,
etc.
More
closely addressing the catego­
business perceptions, expertise or experience
ries
of
organizations
from which northeast
in activities leading to a better-than-average
residents
can
gain
immediate
and useful infor­
familiarity with the overall infrastructure.
Certainly, we are referring here to socio­ mation, take forexample the Restaurant Asso­
economic differences among the population, a ciation, clothing store groups, direct mail
principal position being that more African vendors, auto serv ice firms of all kinds gro­
Americans than whites will be found in non ceries, convenience stores specialty contrac-
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superv isory jobs—and that, further, the blacks
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will generally be from families prov iding no
On the Job
training
through Job
Corp an
other agen­
cies can
provide
trainees
permanent
employment
with higher
wages.
BY PROFESSOR MCKINLEY BURT
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