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Page A2 îl?c JJorthutò (iDhscruer Investments to Boost Northeast continued from Front T h e fe d e ra l m onies will also help fund a mixed developm ent o f b u sin e sse s and housing on MI.K at F re m o n t S tr e e t. th e cleanup and re vitalization o f the a b a n d o n ed and once heavily pol lu te d G ra n t W arehouse, and other run-dow n p ro p e rtie s c o n tributing to the blighting o f sur photo by M ark W ashington FT he P ortland O bserver rounding neigh Mayor Vera Katz (from left) joins community leaders Ray Leary, Noell Webb, Carl Talton and Wyman Winston at the b o rh o o d s. announcement o f $100 million in tax credits and loans to be filtered into northeast Portland development projects. Hate Crime Victim’s Grave Defaced (AP) — The tombstone o f a black man who was dragged to his death was found broken with a racial epithet carved into the granite, Jasper, Texas police said. “We hoped he could rest in peace,” said Stella Byrd, the mother of 1998 dragging victim James Byrd Jr. “T hey've done enough to him already.” Police Chief Stanley Christo pher said the desecration is being investigated as criminal mischief, he said. There have been no arrests. Byrd was on his way home from a party June 7,1998, when he crossed the path o f three white men who had been out drinking. Two were convicted and sen tenced to death; one received lifein prison. Jasperisabout 110 miles northeast o f Houston. Goldschmidt’s Secret Former mayor confesses child sex abuse (A P )- Nei 1 Goldsch mitdt, a former Goldschmidt said he has lived Oregon governor and transporta with “enormous guilt and sham e” tion secretary under President Carter in the 30 years since the relation has admitted to a sexual relation ship, which started in 1975 when he ship with a 14-year-old girl in the was 35. He was married at the time. 1970s, when he was m ayor of Port Goldschmidt said he agreed to a land. $250,000 Financial settlement with Goldschmidt, 63, who served as the woman in 1994. governor from 1987-1991, told The “How can such behavior be Oregonian about the relationship erased when the damage to others on Thursday after hints o f his sexual and to m yself lives on?” he said in impropriety was disclosed by the a statement. “ I have sat in places of Willamette Week. worship each year at Yorn Kippur, Earlier in the day, citing only heart the day o f atonement in my reli arrhythmia and blocked arteries that gious tradition (Judaism), reading put him at risk o f a heart attack, in silence, searching for personal Goldschmidt relinquished his posts peace. And I have found that the Disgraced former Portland from the Oregon Board o f Higher answer to that question is that it Mayor and former Oregon Gov. Education and a firm that has been cannot be erased. Neil Goldschmidt trying to acquire Portland General “The pain and damage that I have Electric. caused have been with me constantly. I have known all According to Oregon laws in 1975, sex with a girl along that my private apologies and actions, deep and under 16 constituted third-degree rape, but the statute true though they were, would never be enough. I o f limitations expired in 1979. apologize now, publicly and com pletely.” I,,r ^¡Jortlanh (JDhscrncr USPS 9 5 9 -6 8 0 Established 1970 4 747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Portland, OR 97211 E d it o r - in - C h ie f . P u b l is h e r : Charles H. Washington E d it o r : M ichael L eighton D is t r ib u t io n M anager : M ark W ashington C r eative D irecto r : Paul N eu feld t O f f ic e M anager : K athy L inder R e f o r t e r : Jaym ee R. C uti The Portland Observer welcomes freelance submis sions. 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P ostmaster : Send address changes to Portland Observer P 0 Box 3 1 3 7, Portland, OR 9 7 2 0 8 Periodical Postage paid In Portland, OR Subscriptions are $ 6 0 .0 0 peryear 5082880033 FAX 5 0 8 2 8 8 - 0 0 1 5 neivd3ttirtlaxlobsener.com sdosaxbonrsttjrtlarxlobserva.com adsttlpxtjandobsener.coin d a ^ S s ^ t t x t la xIobserver.oom Subscribe! Fill out. Clip out & Send to: Porthtnb <Jf)b#eruer Attn: Subscriptions PO Box .3137, Portland OR 97208 s u b sc rip tio n s are ju st $60 per yea r (please include check with this subscription form) N ame ::. A ddress : T elephone : . Historic Murder Case Reopened Mississippi death galvanized civil rights movement (AP) — The federal govern ment said Monday it is reopen ing the investigation into the 1955 murder o f Emmett Till, a teenager whose death while vis- iting Mississippi was an early catalyst for the civil rights move ment. Till was abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Miss., on Aug. 2 8 ,1955. The mutilated body o f the 14-year-old from Chicago was found by Fisher men three days later in the Tallahatchie River. P ic tu re s o f th e sla y in g ». Emmett Louis Till shocked the world. Two white men charged with m urder — Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. M ilam — were acquitted by an all- white jury. Both men have since died. The N A A C P and other indi viduals and groups have called rep eated ly for reopening the case, w hich has been the su b je ct o f docum entary film s and books. In a 2003 letter to M is s is sip p i o f fic ia ls , N A A C P P resident K w eisi M fum e said it w as “tim e to address w hat rem ains an ugly m ark" in state and U.S. history. O ther civil rights-era killings in M ississippi have been re opened with mixed results. In 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was convicted o f the 1963 mur der of NAACP Field secretary Medgar Evers. But there has been little progress in an effort to bring m urder charges for the 1964 slayings o f three civil rights w orkers in N eshoba County, M iss. T h o se k illin g s w ere chronicled in the film “M issis sippi Burning.” May 12. 2004 American Beheaded Called revenge killing for prisoner abuse that we offered the U.S. ad m in istration to exchange this h o s tage w ith som e o f the detainees in Abu G hraiband they refused," one o f the men read from a state ment. (AP) — A video posted Tues “So we tell you that the d ig day on an al-Qaida-linked Web nity o f the M uslim men and site showed the beheading an w om en in Abu G hraib and o th American civilian in Iraq in what ers is not redeem ed except by was said to be revenge for abuse blood and souls. You w ill not o f Iraqi prisoners. receive anything from us but The video showed Five men coffins after coffins ... slau g h wearing headscarves and black tered in this w ay.” ski masks, standing over a bound Photographs o f Iraqi prisoners man in an orange jum psuit - similar to a prisoner’s uni fo rm . T he man identified himself as Nick Berg, a U.S. civilian. The men were seen pulling the man to his side and p u ttin g a la rg e knife to his neck. A sc re am so u n d e d as the A video from an al-Qaida affilated website men cut his head shows a group o f five men standing over a o ff, sh o u tin g bound man who identified him self as Nick “Allahu akbar!” - Berg, a U.S contractor in Iraq, shortly before “G od is g rea t!” he was beheaded. (AP photo) They then held the head up to the camera. being humiliated have reverber The slaying recalled the kid ated throughout the Arab world napping and videotaped behead and have intensified anti-W est ing o f Wall Street Journal reporter ern sentiment. Daniel Pearl in 2002 in Pakistan. Seven soldiers from the 372nd Four Islamic militants have been Military Police Com pany face convicted of kidnapping Pearl, but charges in the mistreatment of seven other suspects - including prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. those who allegedly slit his throat The first one to go to trial, Spc. - remain at large. Jeremy C. Sivits o f Hyndman, Pa., “F or the m others and w ives faces a court-martial in Baghdad o f A m erican soldiers, we tell you nextweek. Local Man Put Under Suspicion in Terror Case Lawyer linked to attack in Spain veillance for several weeks after a single fin g e rp rin t w as found. M ayfield was ar re ste d by FBI agents Thursday at his office in subur ban Portland. He is being held as a m a terial witness, which allows the govern ment to detain him without filing formal charges, to allow time for further in (AP) — The first American arrested in th e d e a d ly tra in bombing in Madrid is a former Army lieu tenant and a con vert to Islam who Brandon Mayfield lives in a n onde script suburban home and faith vestigation. fully attends a nearby mosque. “I think it’s crazy - we haven’t Family members say Brandon been outside the country for 10 Mayfield is innocent and has never years,” said his wife, Mona. “They even been to Spain. But law en found only a part of one finger forcement officials there said Fri print. Itcouldbe anybody. He was day that his Fingerprints had been in the Army and they’re ju st try found on bags containing deto ing to fit a certain profile.” nators o f the kind used in the Brandon Mayfield’s father, Bill, March 11 attack, which killed 191 agreed, saying “They picked him people and injured 2,000 others. out because they wanted som e Two senior U.S. law enforce one who fit this profile. This was ment officials in Washington said the closest they had, and he was Mayfield had been under FBI sur a Muslim.” New Columbia Construction Begins continued fro m Front First, the streets will connect with the Portsmouth neighbor- h(xxl, breaking the physical and economic isolation its residents once experienced. The project also has plans for public art, a “main street,” a park, the name of which will be an nounced later this month and pos sibly a library and an elementary school, which are still in planning stages. The main street will feature commercial retail space, class rooms for Head Start, workforce training and youth development, a community center with meeting places and connections to social services. The project is also creating approx i mately $ I (X) mi I lion in eco nomic opportunities to stimulate the economy. It’s taking strides to ensure that no one is left out by awarding 20 percent o f construc tion and professional services c o n tra c ts to m in o rity - an d women-ow ned businesses and emerging small businesses. Last month, an established New Columbia Resident- liason Leslie Esinga and New Columbia Construction Superintendent Chuck Moore stand on newly constructed streets in the future new neighborhood of affordable homes on the site o f the now demolished Columbia Villa. The project also has plans for public art, a main street with stores, a park, and possi bly a library and an elemen tary school. photo by M ark W ashington / T hf . P ortland O bserv er hom e d ev e lo p m e n t com pany The lots, ranging from 2,280to and a non-profit hom e devel 3 ,5 0 0 sq u a re feet, av erag ed oper entered into collaboration $42,(XX) per lot, which is higher with New C olum bia to build the than the approxim ately $31,500 first 76 hom es for sale. average lots price set by the Legend Homes Corporation agency in its original proposal. and Home Ownership a Street at a This marks an early success Time (HOST) Development will for New Columbia. build 27 homes in NewColumbia’s “Clearly, this proposal is a vote first phase o f residential housing. of confidence by home builders that the concept o f a neighbor hood that mixes homes for sale with rental housing that is afford able to people at different income levels is a viable one," said Kandis Brewer Nunn, chair o f the hous ing authority’s board o f com m is sioners. This will be Legend’s first ven ture into north Portland, while HOST has considerable experi ence in the market with its Charles ton Place development, also in north Portland. “This is a great opportunity to work on acom m unity venture that we believe will have a tremendous positive impact in north Portland." said Jim Chapman, president of Legend Homes.
