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Committed to cultural diversity.
Eighth Annual
Homowo Featival
Mullins joins Bird
African Royalty brings
traditions to Portland.
Golden State star traded to
Indiana.
See Arts & Entertainment page B2
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Automomie consumers
magazine takes you on
high speeds.
See Sports page A 6
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Demolitoli eyed for Cascade Hall
PCC gets ready for another new
building, more growth
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Unions Back UPS
Strikers
The A FL -C IO offered m illions o f dollars
today to help T eam sters w age a long strike
against United Parcel Service, and the com
pany w arned o f thousands of jo b losses as
both sides dug in for the fight. The an
nouncem ent that the federation o f 78 unions
would aid the striking T eam sters w as a
dram atic sign that the nine-day-old strike
was taking a bitter turn. The A tlanta-based
com pany stiffened its position, taking out
ads in new spapers to tell its story. UPS also
warns that T eam sters will lose jo b s if the
strike is not settled quickly.
Clinton Hails
Welfare Progress
C linton said the w elfare caseload has
fallen by 1.4 m illion recipients in the year
since he signed a R epublican-backed w el
fare law . T he law en d e d the federal
governm ent 's g uarantee o f federal aid and
led to dire predictions about the f uture o f
the underprivileged. Since he took office in
1993, the num ber o f people receiving w el
fare benefits fell by 24 percent, or 3.4 million
recipients, w hich C linton called the largest
U.S. decline ever in the w elfare rolls.
Bomb Defense Wants
Trial Moved
The second O klahom a City bom bing
trial should not be held in D enver because
potential ju ro rs in C olorado are too em o
tionally involved w ith the blast victim s,
defendant Terry N ich o ls’ law yers argued.
Instead, they said in a court filing that the
trial should be m oved to San Francisco.
The law yers said new s coverage o f the
Tim othy M cV eigh trial focused so heavily
on em otional aspects o f the bom bing that
“D enver had becom e a ‘siste rc ity ’ toO kla-
hom a C ity ” by the tim e the proceedings
were over. M cV eigh w as found guilty in
June and sentenced to death for the 1995
bombing.
ortland C om m unity C o lleg e’s C a s
cade C am pus plans to rem ove the
building that bares it’s nam e as it
prepares the site for an eventual new
ing and a grow ing student population.
C ascade Hall was built in 1946 for the
form er C ascade C ollege and now sits in the
heart of the cam pus at 705 N K illingsw orth.
“W e w anted to restore the building, but
the costs w ere prohibitive," said M ildred
O llee, executive dean.
C ollege officials say the structure was
built w ith cheap m aterials and has little his
torical or architectural significance.
T he building is plagued with toxic asb es
tos and lead paint throughout; does not meet
earthquake codes; has substandard ven tila
tion and dry rot. T he structure also needs
new w iring, heating, cooling and handicap
access.
PCC estimated a cost of $4 million just to
bring the building up to code, which would have
to be done before any remodeling could begin.
“W e ju st d o n 't think th a t’s a wise use of
public funds. For the sam e expenditure, PCC
could build a new and far more functional
building," O llee said.
Cascade Hall serves a growing Portland Community College population, but will
come down to make room for a new, larger building.
(Photo by M. Washington)
Groundwork laid forpolitical movement
ortland activists are involved in the launch o f the New Party,
a progressive political party building support across the U.S.
T am m y Johnson, organizer with the New Party affiliate in
M ilw aukee, W ise, has been assisting the local effort in a visit to Portland.
She has met w ith local com m unity groups such as the Rainbow
C oalition.
Local m em bers o f a New Party exploratory com m ittee include Port
land School Board M em ber Joseph Tam , M acceo Pettis o f the Coalition
o f Black Men. Ben Priestly o f the Black United Front, G loria G onzales
o f the Hotel and R estaurant E m ployees and Jam es Posey o f the A ssocia
tion o f M inority C ontractors.
“W e see ourselves as a different kind o f political party, that runs on
people pow er, not corporate m oney," Tam said.
By starting sm all and thinking long-term , New Party leaders are
building a m ulti-racial, lively and creative political organization. They
expect, over tim e, to break the stranglehold that corporate w ealth and
corporate m edia have over the political process.
T he N ew Party runs issues as well as candidate cam paigns. It works
inside as well as outside the D em ocratic Party.
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James Riley and Joe
Banks missing after
boat capsizes
New Party organizer Tammy Johnson (left) and Jamie
Partridge of the Portland Rainbow Coalition discuss the
launch of a progressive new political party.
The crew o f the space shuttle D iscovery
aim ed a telescope at C om et H ale-B opp
today hoping to learn m ore about the for
mation o f our solar system . A stronaut Steve
Robinson, on D iscovery ’s darkened low er
deck, focused a 7-inch diam eter ultraviolet
telescope through a sm all porthole in a
cabin hatch to catch a glim pse o f the com et.
It was the second tim e the astronauts had
viewed H ale-B opp since they rocketed into
orbit last T hursday.
Teaching Hospitals
T eaching hospitals may be better for
your health than local com m unity hospi
tals. T h at’s according to a new study.
R esearchers at the Case W estern R eserve
U niversity School o f M edicine in C lev e
land found the death rate was 19 percent
low erat teaching hospitals. They also found
that the length o f stay was generally 10
percent less. The findings are based on a
review of nearly 90,000patients in theCleve-
land area w ho were treated at various teach
ing and non-teaching hospitals for stroke,
heart attack, pneum onia and other co n d i
tions.
HEALTH........................ A7
ARTS & ENT............... B3
METRO......................... B I
SPORTS........................ A6
FAMILY.......................... A5
CLASSIFIEDS............... B4
A team of professional builders set a record as they construct a two-story townhouse on Northeast Cleveland Avenue in just
one day.
(Photo by M. Washington)
Habitat townhouse built in a day
team o f 50 professional build
tow nhouse from floor to roof, com pleting
ers did their part to com bat costly
fram ing, roofing and w indow and door in
housing by building an afford
stallation on the site at 4 8 3 1 N E. C leveland
able tow nhouse in northeast Portland
in a
Avenue.
single day last week.
Portland H abitat invited the public to sup
H ome B uilders A ssociation volunteers,
port the hard work o f these skilled volun
in a stunning blitz o f construction, built the
teers by w itnessing this astounding event
A
Portland
men feared
drowned
Shuttle Crew
on Comet Watch
EDITORIAL.................. A2
"Still, it will be m issed by the college and
the com m unity, O llee acknow ledged, "and
we will ju st have to work on designing a
build
replacem ent building th at's even m ore co m
m u n ity -frie n d ly an d p ro v id es m o re r e
so u rce s.”
I he north Portland college is planning
for new program s and expanded services and
capacity in the future, according to O llee.
"C ascade cam pus is serving the co m m u
nity well now , but we plan to do a lot more in
the future. In fact, we believe we . an seise
twice as m any students in the not loo distant
future if we plan carefu lly ." O llee said.
“T he changes at C ascade these past two
years have been dram atic. The cam pus looks
more like a college now, and we are able to
give m uch better services to our students."
O llee added.
“O ur new library building is m ore than
double the size o f the library we had before
and the new student services building pro
vides a central place for students to go for
support serv ices,” she said.
C ollege officials say the work to tcardow n
C ascade Hall could begin as early as this
sum m er o rearly fall.
“T o my know ledge," said Home Builders
A ssociation m em ber Terry Voss o f Voss
Fram ing, Inc. “No one has ever put up two
tw o-story attached tow nhom es in one d ay .”
The blitz-bui'd marks the second partnership
between Portland Habitat anti the Home Builders
Association of Metropolitan Portland.
he M ultnom ah County R iver Pa
trol was continuing to search the
W illam ette R iver near T erm inal 4
Tuesday for tw o men m issing alter the boat
in w hich they were riding capsized M onday.
The m issing men are Jam es E. Riley. 28.
of southeast Portland and Joe A Banks. 44,
o f Troutdale. John Lee, 53, o f northeast
Portland survived, and was pulled from the
water by a passing boater, Tom L augle of
Oregon City.
The search for the tw o men continues by
dragging and using an underw ater video cam
era.
A ccording to Lee, the boat, a 12 foot
alum inum craft ow ned by Banks, began to
lake on w ater due to w aves created by a
passing barge and pleasure boats. T h eir e f
forts to bail out the w ater were not success
ful, the boat sw am ped and capsized.
Lee was able to hold on to Riley for a
short tim e, but was being pulled under and
was unable to hang on. Banks attem pted to
swim to shore.
Al ter being pulled out by Laugle. Lee and
Laugle tried to m ake it to one of the men,
who was struggling, but were unable to reach
him before he went under.
Laugle said he had to m ake a quick deci
sion on who to try to rescue first. He first
went to help the man struggled in the water,
extending an oar to him.
"I was ju st three feet aw ay." he said "I was
scream ing at him to stay up one m ore tim e."
Lee was barely hanging on Io the boat's hull
was also scream ing for the man to keep Ins
head above w ater But the man s head ducked
beneath the murky w aters o f the W illam ette
I had to m ake the call," Laugle said. "Get
him or the one I know I can save. He turned
his attention to Lee w ho was hanging onto
the capsized boat's hull.
He w as loo ex h a u ste d to clim b into
Laugle's boat, so Laugle tied him to his craft
At that point, som eone on another boat hail
arrived called 9-1-1 and ano th er person
donned a life vest and ju m p into the water
and com pleted the rescue.
R e scu e o f fic ia ls c o u ld ndt c o n firm
w hether the tug's wage caused to boat to
capsize but are investigating
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