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Volume X X V Number 11 Serving the community through cultural diversity Join In Celebrating Our Jefferson Marches To Finals l he Democrals are lhe hig surprise in lhe Boys TA Siale High School Tournament. March 15, 1995 Dancers Set Series Of Shows The highly acclaimed Jefferson Dancers are hack fo r a series o f performances. See Metro, inside. (Lhe ( er 250 Spring Break To See Curfew Enforcement REW C Hatfield Push May Backfire Bureau. Voters are likely to admire Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore. for voting according to his conscience rather than the Republican Party line on the Balanced Budget Amend ment, says University of Oregon political scientist PriscillaSouthwell. Southwell also says a threat to withhold GOP election funds from Hatfield is virtually meaning less because candidates today don’t de pend on the party for campaign funds. Ron Brown Criminal Probe Sought The enhanced focus on juvenile cur few is part ofthe police department’s effort to provide a safe and responsible environ ment during spring break. The school va cation period will also see an added em phasis on traffic safety'. The added enforcement and educa tional efforts begin Thursday and continue through March 26, officials said. The effort is being made to reduce the problems associated w ith minors on public streets. A similar curfew operation was conducted during Spring Vacation last year Portland’s curfew law makes it illega for children under 18 to be out on any street, park or other public place between 10:15 p.m. and 6 a m. before a school day The curfew hours are midnight to 6 a m. on nights when there is no school the follow ing day. For minors under the age of 14. the curfew is between 9:15 p.m. and 6 a m. on school nights, and 10:15 p.m. to 6 a.m when there is no school the next day. The law does not apply to children accompanied by a parents, guardians or other persons 2 1 years of age or over who are authorized by the parent or by the law to have care and custody o f the minor Children engaged in a school activity or a job that might make it necessary to be out in public during the curfew periods are also given an exception. Officials said children taken into custo dy for curfew violations will be taken to the Northeast Precinct where they will meet with counselors from Juvenile Court. Par ents will then be contacted to pick them up. The Police Activities League also has planned a variety' o f spring break trips and activities for youth. These include basket ball, swimming, roller skating and trips to the beach. OMSI and Mt. Hood. For additional details, you can call the Police A ctivities League office at 823-5786. N ortheast E yesore T o G et F acelift Rep. William F. Clinger Jr., R-Pa. has outlined what he said were 16 violations of | Ground breaking cerem onies were h eld last w eek fo ra Portland Habitat For H um anity project to turn the former S h a g s Arena criminal law by Secretary o f Commerce building into a H om e Housing Center. The renovated building, a t northeast 15th a n d Killingsworth, would give the ecum enical Ron Brown. Clinger has been one of the Christian housing group new offices, a carpentry shop, sp a ce for h o m e m aintenance cla sses, a con feren ce room kitchen (Photo by Donn ThOmas) facilities a n d dormitory for up to 10 college students.___________ leaders of a group of Republicans trying to force Brown from office because o f his personal business dealings and financial disclosure reports. Brown has refused to respond to the Republican charges, but his lawyer labeled the campaign “a partisan Bv P romise K ing the hope enclave of SEI, he has personified effort to influence the investigation." success as surmountable forthe willing-heart rowing up amidst poverty in ed the ragged streets of Alberta Foster Labels Hopson worked as a head basketball did not deter young Tony coach, coordinator, motivator, teacher, and Opponents Extremists H opson fro m e n h a n c in g h is counselor, after graduating in psychology President Clinton’s nominee for Sur potentials. and sociology from Willamette University in geon General has suggested his opponents Nor did life's frustrations drive him into Salem. are extremists. “I ask for your help and drugs. He sorted through the travails of life, On the other hand, he was organizing prayers in working with me to fight the and today, Hopson is sitting at the helm of basketball summer camps for neighborhood latest attacks from white right-wing ex Self Enhancement. Inc., a S1.7 million annu kids. It was through this vision that Self tremists that are using my nomination to al budget agency and dining with top corpo Enhancement Inc. was born in 19 8 1. achieve their radical goals,” Dr. Henry rate and political leaders. “SEI began as an effort to deal with Foster said. The opposition to Foster is I le looks back with nostalgia to his strug Afro-America athletes who were pursuing coming from conservatives and anti-abor gling days, when it was him and his friends in the dream ofthe N. B. A. We were an outlet for tion groups. The White House has main the Fellas. Ray Leary. Gregory Brown. Don them to realize their full potentials. No one tained its support for Foster, but tried to Lewis, Carl Berd and R. Cole. was talking to them about academics." Hopson distance itself from the suggestion that Hopson said the group gave him hope recalled. those leading the attacks were racists. Portland’s Tony Hopson, director o f and strength to get along positively. Under the auspices ofthe Albina Minis S e lf E nhancem ent, Inc. “We had good academic intentions and terial Alliance. SEI started as a one week Bosses Who Sabotage good athletic abilities and everybody in our in Hopson, as you begin to sift through his summer camp committed to improving colle- Your Career group went to college," Hopson recalled. life’s accomplishments. And from the hoops ▼ It happens more often than you think, The determination to succeed runs great Continued to page A4 at Jefferson High School in the earlv 70s, to bosses who sabotage the careers of their i employees. According to University o f | Oregon professor Marianne Koch. the most insidious sabotage may come from a boss who knows an employee is making him or i m M ichael L eighton come with rent and purchase subsidies based her look good and w ho doesn' t want to lose on income. that advantage. If attempts to resolve the group representing north, Rep. John Schoon. chair of the Ore Leaders of the east side organization problem fail. Koch advises you to find n o rth e a s t and s o u th e a s t gon House Comm ittee on State and School opened negotiations with city council mem another job. “Don't let yourself be victim Portland has found fault in a Finance, promised Portland Rep. Marga bers over the plan with a meeting this w eek at ized,” she said. city plan calling for the construction ret Carter 10 years ago if he ever became Holy Redeemer School in Northeast Port of thousands of new homes and chair of the committee, he would intro land. Family Income Stagnant condominiums in the Union Station duce a tax credit bill for employers of Rev. John Rodgers, a member of the area of northwest Portland. gang-affected youth. Since ‘69 coalition and pastor of Vernon Presbyterian At issue is what the Portland Organizing Carter, a Democrat who represents Church, said his group wants new commit According to the latest government Project calls “balanced development for the inner north and northeast Portland, said ments to affordable, mixed-income housing figures, when inflation is considered, the whole city, not just downtown districts.” this year. Schoon. a Republican, assumed I average income of black American fami- "across the city" and to jobs and job-training The Portland City Council’s River Dis the chairmanship and made good on that tied to family wages and benefits. | lies has not risen in nearly 25 years. The trict Plan would eventually bring 5.500 new promise. Rodgers said too many area residents Census Bureau said that during the period, units ofhousing for 15.000 people to the west right now are suffering financial hardships the real, inflation-adjusted income o f Afri- Continued to page A3 side inner city. Some ofthe housing would I can-American families remained stagnant because housing costs continue to increase. I while that for white families rose by 9 percent. Hopson: Portland’s Prince Of Hope G Gang Youth Employment Bill Supported Group Says River Plan Ignores Rest Of City A Melee Follows Shooting Dozens of young blacks took to the I streets in Paterson, N J. recently to protest the police shooting of a 16-year-old high school student fhe youth was unarmed and not posing any threat when he was shot and critically wounded by a rookie officer. Fhe protests led to rock and bottle throw ing and scattered looting. Mayor William Pascall Jr. met with the angry students and promised a grand jury investigation. EDITORIAL A2 urfew violations and traffic safety is getting a boost in p r io r ity , a c c o rd in g to o fficia ls of the Portland Police while incomes have not. For example, he said, 107,000 people in Multnomah County make $8 per hour or less, while rents and housing purchase prices hav e risen about 50 percent over the last three years. “Our families are being crucified in this income,housing squeeze," Rodgers said. The organization has issued a proposal called “Covenant for he Common Good," which calls for housing equity . The group is comprised o f 18 churches in southeast, north and northeast Portland with 7,000 member families. See related sto ry on Housing, page A6 County Names New Juvenile Justice Head lyse Clawson, an assistant Beverly Stein. "H er extensive p ro fes d ire c to r of the O regon sional experience in both adult and j u Department of Corrections, venile corrections make her uniquely has been hired as the new director of qualified to lead our d iv isio n .” the M ultnom ah C ounty Ju ve n ile Stein said Claw son would be called on to Justice Division. help the county adopt to the changes brought E Clawson replaces Hal Ogburn who retired in Decem ber “ We are very fortunate that Elyse is willing to take this challenging posi tion," said M ultnomah C ountv C hair HEALTH SPORTS A5 B2 on by Oregon’s new anti-crime initiatives and the increased inv olvement ofjuveniles in the adult justice system. “ She shares our com m itm ent to a balanced approach to ju venile justice. ENTERTAINMENT B3 • protecting public safety while working to rebuild the lives o f troubled youth,” Stein said. Prior to coming to Oregon, Clawson worked in Utah, primarily as the director of two private agencies providing social servic es and treatment programs to corrections and juvenile justice agencies. She was appointed by the G overnor of Utah to serve as a m em ber o f the Com mission on Crim inal and Juvenile RELIGION B4 Justice and as chair o f the Juv enile Ju s tice Delinquency Prevention Board. Clawson has also worked as a special assistant to the administrator ofthe Oregon Children's Services Div ision and as a thera pist in the Utah State Prison and as a teacher and counselor for emotionally disturbed chil dren. The Multnomah County Juvenile Jus tice Division has more than 200 employees and a budget of about S16 million AUTOMOTIVE CLASSIFIEDS B5 B6 .**£* <’ * . .