Northwest Defender

NORTHWEST DEFENDER Published at 3928 ~. Williams For ever On Guard SPECI.AL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BE 4-7265 TERRY L. BLACK ••• , ••• , • , , , , , , , , • Publisher jimmy "Bang-Bang'" Walker , , • , • , , , , , , , , , Editor Anle Wllson • , • , , ••••••• , • , , • , , Sports Editor jeanette Waliter •••••••••• , • • • • • • • Social Editor Anella Dorsey • , •••• , •••••• , • , • , Fashion Editor Can;lell Mathews ••••••••• , • Circulation Manager Defender readers please note the BWI!neaa, Manufacturer-a, Professlonat"Peoples, whose firm ads appear In tbls paper, We ask all our readers to patronize them, Please mention you saw It In The Defender. "VIews express by DEFENDER columnists and contribu– tors do not nec:essarUy reflect the policies of thla news– paper." circulation by Mall - Newsboys - Business Please ForNard All Mall/Advertising To: Northwest Defender, 3928 N. Williams, Ponland, Oregon EDITORIAL ~reatest Negro History Yet To Be Written The blindest of racists, even Gov. George Wolloce of Alabama, should perceive that, if he bannot extend the hand of equality to fellow citizens with a black skin because that is the right thing to do, he should because it is the wise and necessary thing. We believe our Negro citizens can be lifted up and integrated in· to every weave of the Oregon fabrics. But the public decisions re– quired to accomplish this will be made only if the nature of the problem is fully understood. In Oregon the need of the Negro citizen is not civil rights. These he hos. His need is the substance behind civil rights: equal oppor– tunity for jobs, for housing, for an education. Yet even when the substance is granted him, he too often finds it is ashes in his hands. What does equal opportunity for a job avail him, when too often because of lack of education and training he cannot compete on on even basis with white candidates for that job? What real meaning does equal opportunity for decent housing have to him, when too often joblessness and poverty gind him inescapably to the block slum ghetto? A job, a decent home, an education - these are the three legs of the stool the Negro citizen must hove to climb into the Oregon sun· light. All are indispensable. But the education must come first. With it, oil is possible. Without it- nothing. Yet the unhappy fact is that vary large numbers of Oregon's Negro children (and children of certain other minorities, too) are not getting an adequate education. It is there to be had. But they foil by the wayside because they cannot keep up with their classes. They con· not keep up because they come from families imprisoned in illiteracy, poverty and indifference to learning. We are convinced that this grim lockstep of functional illiteracy must be broken quickly, and that no task is more fundamental to a :.oi:.J~1cro ,..r ~he Negro problem. Unemployment Benefit Law Changes Billed The new year will bring sev- • THE DEFENDER ADVOCATES A GREATLY EXPANDED PRO- eral changes to Oregon unem" GRAM OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION FOR THESE CHILDREN ployment insurance benefits IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE PROGRAM SHOULD INCLUDE ALL law, according to the state de- , STEPS OF EVERY KIND NECESSARY TO LOCATE AND LIFT UP partment of employment. THESE CHILDREN IN THE EARLIEST GRADES, THUS PLACING First, the new law increaseE ' THEM ON AN EQUAL FOOTING WITH OTHER CHILDREN AS ALL the maximum weekly benefit MOVE ALONG TOGETHER IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS. amount from $40 a week to $44 a week and the minimum from e THE DEFENDER BELIEVES THAT, WHEN THIS SPECIAL HELP $15 to $20. IS GIVEN THE DISADVANTAGED, FULLY INTEGRATED SCHOOLS Second, the weekly benefit ARE IN TRUTH GOOD FOR EVERYBODY. WE SUPPORT ALL will now be figured on the REASONABLE MEASURES TO BRING DE FACTO SEGREGATION basis of 1.25 per cent of the TO AN END, SHORT OF BUSSING OR ABANDONMENT OF THE .claimant's total base year NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL PATTERN. wages, rather than 1/26th of P rtl d the .claimant's highest base a THE DEFENDER ADVOCATES THAT . 0 an AND year quarter wages. . OTHER CORE CITIES MAINTAIN HIGH QUALITY iN THEIR PUB- Since a number of claimants LIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS AT ALL COSTS, AS ONE OF THE MOST who filed in 1963 will have EFFECTIVE MEANS OF PREVENTING THE EXODUS OF WHITE claims carried over into the CITIZENS TO THE SUBURBS. new year, the benefits division a THE DEFENDER REMINDS THAT THE EVILS FOUND IN of the department of employ- ment has had to refigure thou– SLUMS.••HIGH CRIME RATES, HIGH RATES OF ILLEGITIMACY, sands of claims because of IDLENESS, ANTI-SOCIAL ATTITUDES ••• ARE THE COHSE- these changes inJhe QUEHCES OF IGNORANCE, POVERTY AND THE SLUM EHVIROH- ........ -~~;;_;.,;~··-r MEHT, HOT ATTRIBUTES OF RACE. STACEY'S CLEANERS BUDGET SAVER DRYCLEANING SALE Reg. $1.19 .....ssE CLEANED & PRESSED Bring your Drycleaning with your Laundry and Shoe Repairing to any STACEY'S DRYCLEANING and LAUNDRY STORE 2000 N. E. ALBERTA 3207 N. WILLIAMS Corner N. E. 20th 3 Blocks S. Fremont 6826 N. E. SANDY 5745 N. E. PRESCOTT Near 68tr 1 Block W. 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