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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.”
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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.