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A p ril 10, 1996
Annie Pearl
Franz Week
Mark Twain
Cedric Walker s restaurant
finding its nitch.
Bakery culminates its
90th anniversary.
Hal Holbrook returns in
award winning role.
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See Metro, page BI.
See Entertainment, Page B3.
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Budget Cuts Leave Schools Decimated
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orth and northeast Portland res
idents will have to take over
from decimated public school
staff if they want their children to have
the same services and quality of educa
tion.
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Officials say Kaczynski
Is Unabomber
Federal officers say they are 99 percent
sure that John Kaczynski is the Unabomber.
The mathematical genius turned Montana
loner is being held on possession of bomb
components, but officers say evidence is
mounting against him. A grand jury will
hear evidence April 17. The jury will only
consider offenses committed in Montana.
Because the bombings occurred in other
states, officials are considering where he
should be tried. Three persons were killed
in a string of bombings that began in 1978.
Hispanic Beatings
Reveal Police History
The two deputies videotaped beating
two Mexican nationals have had previous
complaints against them. Kurtis Franklin
was disciplined once for beating a person
he had already arrested and was sued for
ramming his patrol car into another vehicle
while driving at high speeds on a Riverside
street. The other deputy, Tracy Watson,
vas transferred to court duty after report
edly being part of a group that was sued
unsuccessfully, for beating a Hispanic
youth. People are likening the incident to
the beating of Rodney King in 1991.
Hood River Man
Charged In Blast
Ray Hamblin of Hood River was charged
with one count of possession of a Hand
grenade after a series of explosions de
stroyed a truck and a shed last Wednesday
on his property near Mosier. Alcohol To
bacco and Firearms officers said the site
contained registered and unregistered fire
arms and more explosives than it took to
destroy the Oklahoma Federal Building.
Military and survivalist literature was also
found in the rubble. Hamblin, whom neigh
bors call a survivalist, had a permit to sell
firearms and to possess the explosives
Carl Stokes Dies
Former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes
died o f Cancer April 3. He was 68-years
old. Stokes was praised as a pioneer and a
life-long role model for all citizens. The
two-term mayor took office in 1968, be
coming the first elected black mayor o f a
major US city. “As mayor, Stokes inspired
14-year-old Mike White’s dream to be
come mayor of Cleveland,” said Cleve
land mayor Michael White.
UO Letter A Hoax
A letter stating that the University of
Oregon was cancelingall race based schol
arships was mailed to minority student
leaders at the college over spring break
Typed on UO letterhead, it announced a
public meeting April I. University offi
cials called it a malicious April Fools Day
prank. Minority students called it another
example of the hostility directed towards
students of color on university campuses.
"W e're being targeted," said Jan Harada
o f the Asian/Pacific Islanders Student
Union. “They're letting us know they know
who we are and they know were we live.”
US West Threaten
Rate Increase
Last week US West was sanctioned for
excessive customer complaints. This week
the utility says it want to raise its rates 55
percent from $12.80 for an average phone
bill to $20 to $25. No request for an in
crease has been filed with the Public Util
ity Commission, but after customer com
plaints rose 250 percent in two years, their
chances convincing the PUC are consid
ered slim.
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That was the story from three area princi
pals last week after handing out termination
notices to firs, and second-year teachers and
“re-assignment" notices to veteran staff. The
older staff will continue to work for the
district, but not at their present posts Jefferson
High School principal Alcena Boozer says.
Jefferson lost five rookie teachers, two
from the science department and one each
from English as a second language, music
and art.
It also lost a half-time counselor, one of its
two vice-principals, two teachers in both the
business and math departments, one and three-
quarter positions in English, and one each in
computer science, family and consumer stud
ies, health, physical education and social
studies.
The Financial Services Academy, which
helped students get temporary job experi
ence in their future careers, lost 20 percent of
its staff.
One entire department - the television
production magnet program - was eliminated
because, ironically, it served the local com
munity too well. Since only eight of its stu
dents come from outside the Jefferson dis
trict, it was deemed to be failing its purpose
as a magnet.
None o f these things are really accept
able to this administration, but you do what
Alcena Boozer Principal Jefferson High School
you have to do,” Boozer says.
She remembers receiving layoff notices
herself during her first three years of,each ing
in the 1970s, and she can identify with the
probationary staff being eliminated “You
need a mix of young and experienced teach
ers," she says. “The probationaries are eager,
young, enthusiastic, and bring spirit and in
spiration. They'll very likely move to another
district, and some may even rethink whether
they want to remain in education.”
As for Jefferson she says, "It will take a
long time to rebuild a system as excellent as
this one was ’ She adds that if community
members want to volunteer their services
through the district’s volunteer coordinator,
“We could use them.”
King principal Joseph Malone couldn’t
just use volunteers, he’s counting on then,
His casualties include a fourth-grade teacher,
an outreach coordinator, a half-time physical
education instructor, a secretary, foureduca-
tion assistants and a basic skills teacher. This
last teacher was able to "pull students who
were having trouble out of their classroom
and give them some one-on-one instruction.”
I his had a lot to do with King meeting its
Polk Test score goals
Despite these losses, Malone temains sur
prisingly upbeat. “ We have volunteer tutors
and we’ll continue to have them,” he says.
“Parents are already calling to ask what
they can do for us. The last two days have
been a very difficult time, but we’re not going
to give up. We still have high expectations of
our students.”
Laverne Davis of Humboldt is also seek
ing help ■ in desperation to keep some basic
programs and services going They have lost
all their music staff and half of their library
services The first means that “the rest of our
teachers, whether they’re musically inclined
or not, will have to teach some music.” The
library cuts hit particularly hard, since the
Humboldt library has ju s, been up
graded to a "state o f the a rt” facility with
books catalogued by bar codes, and new
com puters with CD Rom programs. “Just
when we have the system in place, th ere’s
no one left to teach the children to use
it,” she says.
At least not unless community volunteers
step forward.
Humboldt also lost four classroom teach
ing positions. For the fifth grade, this will
mean 3 1 students per classroom.
"It's devastating for Humboldt School,"
Davis says. “We’re losing some of our best
teachers. Our morale is way down in the
dumps.”
No Leads Yet On
Wyden Tours
Portland Homicides YouthBuilders' Site
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P romise K ing
Iggee Jermaine was inside her
house when a haze of assail
ant’s bullets cracked through
the window killing her.
The date. March 6, 1993.
And still there are no clues on who fired
the shots that Killed Jermaine.
Her case represents thirty other homicide
puzzles that Portland Police are still grap
pling with.
Sgt. Frank Shipley o f Portland police ho
micide unit, said the police are relentless in
finding clues to the pending heinous crimes.
Out of 38 murders committed in Portland
in 1994, police have been able to clear 26
cases. Fifteen homicides were solved last
year. There are still no clues on who killed
thirteen others.
In 1993 alone about 34 lives were brutally
taken in the North/Northeast area o f Port
land, so far the police have been able to clear
all but six cases.
The majority of the unsolved cases are
those that occured in the inner-city, accord
ing to official figures.
Police sources say that without good leads
or information leading to suspects, these cas
es would be hard nuts to crack.
The city police are asking citizens with
information to come foward. There are re
wards for any useful leads according to Crime
Stoppers.
You cannot stop homicides because no
one can predict when it’s going to happen,
but you can take precautionary measures and
that's what we are doing,” says Commander
Alan Orr, Northeast Precinct.
Pending unsolved homicides in 1994/’95:
6316 N. W illiam s. Thomas, Dan M. Shot
during a residential robbery. 12/6/94
• 600 block N orth H um bolt
Jansson, Sven. Shot while making a drug
purchase. 12/7/94
1430 NF. Cleveland/NE Beech. Taylor,
Cory. Died during a possible gang related
shooting. 4/29/94
705 N.E Skidmore. Johnson, Raymond.
Multiple stab wounds, possible burglary.
5/8/94
• 5811 NE K illingsw orth.
Hayes, Tyrone. Gun down in a drive by
shooting. 5/11/94
• 6435N.Gay. Hill, Brian. Shot while stand
ing in his driveway. 5/19/94
• SW 2ND / Burnside. Thomas, Eavell.
Stabbed after selling drugs to the suspects.
6/27/94
• 4200 block N. Albina. Broadnax, Dou
glas. Found shot in the street. 6/29/94
• 2329 NE I5TH/NF. Going. English,
Darryl. Killed during a drive by shooting
11/11/94.
• NE 42nd/NF. Alberta. Morgan, Eddie
Shot while standing on sidewalk.
• 420 SF, G rand. Stevens, Roderick. Died
through stab wounds. 12/28/94
• 3543 N. Missouri. Taffolla-Sanchez, M.
Shot by acquaintances. 11/7/95
• 5000 NE 9th. Cordova, Federico Shot in
parking lots after an argument. 4/3/95
• 1624 N. Jessup/N. Albina. Hedgmon,
Bennie. Bludgeoned to death.
5/15/95
• 3330 SF. 143rd. Jordan, Erik. Shot at his
residence. 6/14/95
• 526 NF. Ivy. Martin, Toya. Shot while
asleep. 6/22/95
• 1200 Block NE Failing. Curry, Patrick.
Gunned after an argument. 6/27/95
• 2330 N. Williams/N. Weidler. Wilson,
Kenneth. Shot during a robbery. 9/9/95
■ 20 NW Fourth. Joe. Bing. Shot during a
robbery. 9/15/95
’ 2025 SF. Ash. Branch, Anthony. Shot dur
ing a residential robbery. 9/18/95
’ 4801 N. Interstate. Forillo, Anthony. Was
shot io <» pai king lol after an argument.
9/24/95
1805 Block NF. 13th. Tacker, Jesse. Shot
while walking by a park. 11/3/95
4345 NF. Hazelfcrn Place. Mitchell, Brian.
Shot multiple times as he exits his car.
11/14/95
SE 2/SE Oak. Rios, Jose. Beaten to death
after a large fight. 12/2/95
9339 SE Ramona. Ezell, Darrin. Shot
during a residential robbery. 12/20/95
EDUCATION
HOUSING
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enator Ron Wyden and local
community members of the
Portland YouthBuilders pro
gram led a tour Monday through one of
the two homes currently under con
struction. Once complete, the home,
located at 5125 NE 14th PI., will pro
vide affordable rental housing for a
Portland family.
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Portland YouthBuilders, a non-profit or
ganization, offers education, leadership de
velopment and vocational training to young
people ages 16-24. Most o f the participants
are high school dropouts and teen parents
who have had previous contact with the
criminal justice system and have chosen to
make changes in their lives.
The program, that started in January, is
funded by a grant from the Department of
Housing and Urban Development. It inte
grates basic education with vocational train
ing and employment related to housing con
struction. During the first year, 30 partici
pants will rehabilitate and construct eight
units of affordable housing in their commu
nity.
Participants work in crews spending half
of their time in the classroom working to
wards a high school diploma and GED and
the other half at the construction sites.
The construction projects are in partner
ships with Franciscan Enterprise, NE Com
munity Development Corporation, Hous
ing Authority of Portland, and Portland
Community Reinvestment initiatives.
The students receive skill training, a
wage stipend and the opportunity to partic
ipate in decision making. It is affiliated with
AmericaCorps and they are eligible receive
an education award.
Secretary Brown Dead
ommerce Secretary Ron Brown
he was the consummate broker.”
and 34 others on a Balkan trade
“I don't consider myself to be colorblind
mission died last Wednesday
but race isnot something I’ve been obsessed
when their plane crashed into a Croatian
with,” Brown said in an interview for Wash
hillside during heavy storms.
ingtonian Magazine.
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Brown came from the hard streets of
Harlem and rose to the top of political and
corporate power. He made it clear he aspired
to the post of Secretary of State in a second
Clinton administration.
He was a black man who stepped beyond
the bounds of race. “He was able to walk
between both worlds: progressive black pol
itics and party politics,” said Howard Uni
versity professor Ronald Walters "Inasense
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Senator Ron Wyden
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I le was an aggressive proponent o f free
trade; practicing a form of commercial di
plomacy. He influenced US policy toward
China, Russia and South Africa He encour
aged business to invest in those hot spots
and was doing the same in Bosnia.
Brown believed that the United States
had to take risks so that its workers could
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