Clinton St. Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 2 | Summer 1979 /// Issue 2 of 41 /// Master#2 of 73

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POLITICS!SEX!VIOLENCE!	1
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Summer 1979	2
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QUARTERLY	2
Patriotic Reporter	2
Patriotic Reporter	2
A gram of salt	2
A gram of salt	2
Before everyone forgets here are some facts about nuclear war and SALT II.	2
OVERKILL is when you can kill more than 35 percent of your enemy in a first strike. The US and USSR both have overkill up the kazoo. In fact if the US were to lose all of its home 1 ed nuclear capa­bility it still could, using what’s i le air and under water (SAC and Polaris subs) at a mes destroy the J do it unto us. SALT II. of course, will not change this at all.	2
Russians. Of course, they could a:	2
THE NEUTRON BOMB DOES NOT WORK. As a deterrent to a Soviet thrust at Western Europe, the number of neutron weapons needed to stop Soviet armor would make Europe a desert. And the Soviets are equipping many of their tanks with radiation pro­tected interiors.	2
SALT II WILL INCREASE DEFENSE COSTS AND UP NUKE PRODUCTION. For example, to pass SALT II the administration plans to build the complex, gigantic and very expensive MX Nuke Missile system. That’s mobile missiles in trenches always on the move or ready to go over an area of hundreds of square miles. And MX is just starters!	2
THE US POLICY OF LIMITED NUCLEAR WAR WON'T WORK. The Soviet Union has already an­nounced that they will make no distinction between strategic use of Nukes and all-out war.	2
If SALT II WON'T CUT DEFENSE COSTS OR MAKE US SAFER. WHAT IS IT FOR? SALT II will set a sort of equality of destruction at a cost so high as to give the US and USSR a near monopoly on nuclear war in the foreseeable future. Salt II will also relieve the pressure from the people of both nations for an end to the arms race.	2
Nixon’s revenge	2
Nixon’s revenge	2
THE SUPREME COURT IS OUT TO LIMIT YOUR RIGHTS. Recent decisions by the Nixon court point to a rapid erosion of basic freedoms for the press and the individual. Now the authorities can demand not only reporters’ notes, but their state of mind aS well. Newspapers and other print and nonprint media offices can be searched by the Law in fishing expedi­tions for unspecified things. This is a direct abridge­ment of the Constitution. Court rulings allowing prior censorship of the Progressive magazine and limiting	2
Coming soon?	2
Coming soon?	2
If the US courts are walking off with the Bill of Rights, in West Germany the government has taken any vestage of freedom left visible. Using the terrorist issue as an excuse, the German government keeps people from working because of vague political asso­ciations. It even stamps folks’ passports with negative comments and warnings to other governments.	2
In West Germany every day for a half-hour on TV wanted posters are flashed on the screen. People all over Germany call in to inform on the hapless folks whose faces appear on the screen. A nation of finks. Is Germany showing'the path we soon may follow?	2
The Last Laugh	2
The Last Laugh	2
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE. If Skylab hasn’t fallen when you read this...TH£ CLINTON STREET QUARTERLY ANNOUNCES.. .THE SKYLAB IS FALLING, THE SKYLAB IS FALLING LOTTERY .. .Just be the first to name the date and place where Skylab falls, and YOU will win a trip to the actual Skylab crater site (along with the U.S. Government’s own Skylab team of scientists, a doctor, and a PR per­son) or a full tank of gas, whichever costs more.	2
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HARD NEWS	3
The Black Hills of South Dakota are sacred to the Sioux people. In 1868 the U.S. gave the hills to the Sioux. But the land has gold and whites The major villain in all of this is the moved in in 1874. Protecting the white Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA); miners was the Seventh Cavalry, which which along with other public and was destroyed along with General private interests plan to tap into Custer, in 1876. In among the white underground water supplies to carry reprisals that followed, the land was ore to	3
Now the Black Hills have been thing of a radioactive moonscape. The	3
found to have valuable mineral poten­TVA is seen by Indian activists like tial. Uranium and other fuels lie Russel Means as a governmental foot beneat the land. The Sioux stand once in the door for 26 mining companies	3
more to see their special spot made who stand to profit if the region is into a white mans mine. This time, the opened for mining. leavings of mining will leave millions Indian and environmental group	3
of tons of proven cancer causing opposition is growing but like the Four tailings behind. The water table in Corners Coal Power Plant in the western South Dakota will be per­Southwest which uses ground water to manently depleted. ship coal slurry, the oil cruch is a	3
popular and effective excuse to plunder yet another hunk of Indian	3
"One does not	3
"One does not	3
land in the once open west.	3
sell the earth upon which the people walk"	3
—Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)	3
—Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)	3
—Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)	3
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The Texas Jaycees have named	3
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JA Y CEES	3
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JA Y CEES	3
mutilation murderer Ben Lach one of the “Outstanding Young Men ' of America for 1979” . Lach was convicted of murder after	3
NAME	3
removing the head of a university cleaning woman with a scalpel. The woman died and Lach is doing time.	3
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The Jaycees say that next year they will take a closer look at their nomination procedure.	3
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“ We have come a long way in a veryfew yearsfor having loved the salmon to death. ”	4
“ We have come a long way in a veryfew yearsfor having loved the salmon to death. ”	4
KILLING THEM SOFTLY	4
KILLING THEM SOFTLY	4
By Bill Bakke	4
By Bill Bakke	4
By Bill Bakke	4
Few of us look at it or even spend much time by it or upon it. The Columbia River flows by silently, a grey flood of water, a massive stream in winter or a blue, sky-reflecting mirror in summer. Yet this river has been the home of salmon and trout for thousands of years and the center, the beating heart, of Indian culture in the Northwest. The Indian and the salmon were linked in time, but we have inherited this ancient river and the land it flows from only recently. We reach back to the mythologies of Euro	4
As we have reshaped this land we have come to realize that its bountiful resources are not infinite. Bonneville Dam was originally designed without fishways. An engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers said, at the time Bonneville was built, that the Corps could not babysit the salmon. In 1978 an ex-director of Washington State Department of Fisheries, now repre­senting the Public Utility District dams on the mid-Columbia, said in a public hearing, that, “we can’t love the salmon to death.”	4
Perhaps we have not loved them enough. In the late 1800s the non­Indian commercial fishery harvested 30 million pounds of salmon annually from the Columbia River. Today, these same salmon stocks which sup­	4
Perhaps we have not loved them enough. In the late 1800s the non­Indian commercial fishery harvested 30 million pounds of salmon annually from the Columbia River. Today, these same salmon stocks which sup­	4
ported this early commercial fishery, the spring and summer chinook, are being reviewed for possible inclusion on the List of Threatened and En­dangered Species. We have come a long way in a very few years for having loved the salmon to death.	4
As we lose the salmon runs, we change the life styles and economies of the people living in the Columbia River Basin. As the salmon resource fails, the competition between the user groups becomes bitter and angry as they fight over the few remaining fish. And while they fight each other, the development interests in the Basin have a free hand.	4
As we lose the salmon runs, we change the life styles and economies of the people living in the Columbia River Basin. As the salmon resource fails, the competition between the user groups becomes bitter and angry as they fight over the few remaining fish. And while they fight each other, the development interests in the Basin have a free hand.	4
Grand Coulee Dam blocked 1,000 miles of spawning and rearing habitat. These were some of the largest chinook in the river, and the commercial sal­mon fishery greatly benefited from their presence. But there has never been any compensation for that loss.	4
even though 30 years have passed since its construction. Twenty years have elapsed since the salmon run was killed off at Brownlee Dam on the Snake River.	4
The young salmon migrating to the sea in the spring encounter as many as eight dams on their way downriver. It has been determined that a 15 percent loss occurs at each project, yet these losses remain uncompensated. The Columbia River is operated for power production by Bonneville Power Ad­ministration (BPA) and, in the spring, when the juvenile salmon are descend­ing the river toward the sea, the flows may not exist to move the salmon through the reservoirs, and during low flows many are consumed in hungr	4
The young salmon migrating to the sea in the spring encounter as many as eight dams on their way downriver. It has been determined that a 15 percent loss occurs at each project, yet these losses remain uncompensated. The Columbia River is operated for power production by Bonneville Power Ad­ministration (BPA) and, in the spring, when the juvenile salmon are descend­ing the river toward the sea, the flows may not exist to move the salmon through the reservoirs, and during low flows many are consumed in hungr	4
and.that requires adequate flows at the right time to move the salmon seaward. In 1974 there wasn’t enough water, and the juvenile salmon moving down out of the Snake River system sustained a 95 percent mortality at the dams. It has also been found that delay in their seaward migration can cause them not to adapt to salt water; the delay is a function of low flows and dead water in the reservoirs.	4
Only 50 percent of the Columbia River Basin, which was once available for salmon production, is now acces­sible to them, and what remains is largely degraded so that the salmon habitat is producing less than its potential. Our rivers are like our farm lands, for they are a fertile, food­producing resource. It is accepted that we protect farm lands with land­use planning, but we continue to lose our salmon rivers because fish produc­tion has not been considered impor­tant enough when decisions are made to lo	4
The loss of our salmon resource is a very complex problem caught up in heated political struggles and biologi­cal shortcuts. The traditional spokes­men for the salmon have been the biologists, and they have been notori­ously unsuccessful; partly because they are too careful, they are not good	4
KyNGHARVEST NATURAL FOODS	7
Payingthe pricefor a high	7
Payingthe pricefor a high	7
Payingthe pricefor a high	7
These scenes are true. Only the names and places have been changed to protect the guilty.	7
The summer of love-peace and good vibes — the dawning of a new age. For a young fella just out of high school, the burgeoning scene around Lair Hill Park was an easy ride on Trans­Love Airways to an exciting new life. The fuel for that flight came in 95dollar, 2.2-pound bricks that seemed to make everyone grow into cosmic-politico new beings. What could be neater than to supply all of your friends with this wonderful substance and at the same time make rent for your $99-a-month hippie shack,	7
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A dozen years later our friend Emmett is in a warehouse on the out­skirts of the city awaiting the shipment of a precious substance. Around him are men dressed to kill — with bulges at their waist and holsters at their side that would do Don Corleone proud. The lastest drought has put many of these folks in perilous financial straights that only a big score can reverse. Everyone is screamin’ and yellin’ to get their bid in to Mr. Big who is in touch with the proceedings by telephone.	7
The tensions and the octave level gets higher and higher as Mr. Big’s agent refuses to let the dealers see any of the offered merchandise. The agent threatens to cut off telephone contact with Mr. Big unless everyone agrees to the then unheard of price of $500 a lb. Finally Emmett cuts the tension and at the same time almost cuts his own throat by breaking into the bags of this suddenly very precious substance.	7
The 10 pounds Emmett will pur­chase are already spoken for. Tomorrow his phone will be con­stantly chiming with requests for more. There’s never enough to satisfy the habits of a generation hooked on weed — needing better and better stuff to satisfy their habits. Hooked	7
The 10 pounds Emmett will pur­chase are already spoken for. Tomorrow his phone will be con­stantly chiming with requests for more. There’s never enough to satisfy the habits of a generation hooked on weed — needing better and better stuff to satisfy their habits. Hooked	7
like they warned us in Reefer Madness? Well, not exactly — but veteran dopers have built up a toler­ance level that continues to require high grade reefer. And as the dope culture has spread far and wide across	7
These men are believed to be ARMED AND DANGEROUS	7
America, the demand has far ex­ceeded the supply. It’s a seller’s market and they’ve discovered, as have most American businessmen, that the consumer will pay any price for the desired product.	7
Just like the oil companies dis­covered in 1973, major marijuana	7
Just like the oil companies dis­covered in 1973, major marijuana	7
dealers in Portland have found that holding the product back just whets the consumer’s appetite. Our man Emmett, up until December ’78, was able to get bales of high-grade Colom­bian for $350 a pound — then before	7
Drug dealers are circulating these composite drawings of two young men wanted for several recent armed robberies in Port­land’s drug community. The sus­pects burst into their victim’s home, often when children are present, demanding money and contraband.	7
the holiday season, the big operators held back and only sold the old, dried-out summer leftovers. This garbage went like hotcakes through the holiday season and encouraged the top echelon to raise bale price to an aver­age of $450 a pound. It also encour­aged the big timers to continue to	7
the holiday season, the big operators held back and only sold the old, dried-out summer leftovers. This garbage went like hotcakes through the holiday season and encouraged the top echelon to raise bale price to an aver­age of $450 a pound. It also encour­aged the big timers to continue to	7
short shrift the average buying public. The 5-10 top cats are making so much money (a great deal of which comes from coke sales) that they no longer care to serve marijuana smokers with any kind of quality product at a reasonable price. When a number of middlemen refused to move the low-grade holiday smoke, they we-e sum­marily cut off. Most of these folks believe in the magic of the weed and try to provide the best possible produce at the lowest possible piice. They came into the business when it was a fam	7
And or else has not been very pleasant of late. It seems that a number of people who have been fronted large quantities of weed have suddenly been ripped off — putting your local tradesmen forever in the debt of certain businessmen — while other tradesmen seem to be setting up private fiefdoms in certain sections of the city that will be defended at all costs. Usually an anonymous tip to the gendarmes will do the trick in moving a tradesman out of the wrong neigh­borhood.	7
The few remaining respectable dealers like Emmett are facing serious problems. Because of the high demand for weed, the quality con­tinues to be more and more suspect. A lot of the seedy shit movin’ about of late is just the Columbian Connection trying to make weight in a year of severe drought through most of Colombia. If it’s not drought, then it’s increased drug enforcement practices by the U.S. government. The good ol'	7
U.S. of A. ruined the Mexican Con­nection (remember Acapulco Gold, Oaxacan, and Michoacan) and is now stopping some ships beyond the 2(X) mile limit. Combined with the avari­cious nature of those at the top of the trade and the enormous demands of local consumers, Emmett has his work cut out for him if he's to in any way stay true to the vision of that first joint those many moons ago in Lair Hill Park.	7
Whatever Happened to the Mexican Connection?	7
Whatever Happened to the Mexican Connection?	7
The cutting off of the supply of Mexican weed to the U.S. began with ex-President Nixon’s worldwide “war on drugs” in 1971. The program called for economic assistance to foreign governments, tightening world drug laws and building what Nixon called a CIA-style intelligence opera­tion in the Drug Enforcement Admin­istration, and training foreign nar­cotics police to form a frontline defense against illicit substances headed for America.	7
The cutting off of the supply of Mexican weed to the U.S. began with ex-President Nixon’s worldwide “war on drugs” in 1971. The program called for economic assistance to foreign governments, tightening world drug laws and building what Nixon called a CIA-style intelligence opera­tion in the Drug Enforcement Admin­istration, and training foreign nar­cotics police to form a frontline defense against illicit substances headed for America.	7
In 1975, the State Department, CIA and DEA drafted the Narcotics Control Action Plan for Mexico. The State Department channeled funds and equipment through its Office of International Narcotics Control Mat­ters (INC) to the Mexican attorney general’s office.	7
The equipment included over 30 helicopters, remote sensing devices, high aerial reconnaisance, computer	7
The equipment included over 30 helicopters, remote sensing devices, high aerial reconnaisance, computer	7
terminals, and telecommunications systems. Combined with the DEA sponsored spraying of paraquat, Operation Condor proved remarkably Successful in disrupting our most sub­stantial source of marijuana.	7
The Mexican government’s accep­tance of the program was largely the result of their desire to acquire more police hardware to supress peasant insurgency movements in the moun­tainous northwestern Mexican states of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihauhua (The Golden Triangle) where peasants were trading drugs for guns.	7
The DEA sponsored Operation Condor has led to a system of illegal arrests and tortures that makes a mockery of President Carter's Human Rights Policy. Craig Pyles in the June 4th Village Voice reported that “during the two years it was in Culiacan Mexican Operation Condor arrested over 2.000 people — all duly	7
The DEA sponsored Operation Condor has led to a system of illegal arrests and tortures that makes a mockery of President Carter's Human Rights Policy. Craig Pyles in the June 4th Village Voice reported that “during the two years it was in Culiacan Mexican Operation Condor arrested over 2.000 people — all duly	7
labeled “narcotraficantes” (narcotics traffickers). But according to a studyin the Culiacan correctional facility in 1977 by the Prisoners’ Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, 90 percent of the 457 inmates interviewed were not major narcotics traffickers but poor peasants from the sierra and juveniles from the towns who had been illegally detained and forced to sign confessions under torture in the Ministerio Publico.	7
The method of obtaining these confessions is called by both prisoners and police “la calentada” — the “heat-up.” Specifically, the methods include beatings by fists, rifle and pistol butts; smashing inward with palms open over both ears to break the eardrum; bondage in extended posi­tions, often to extreme dehydration in the hot sun; forcible induction of car­bonated beverages through the nasal passages; electric shocks administered	7
The method of obtaining these confessions is called by both prisoners and police “la calentada” — the “heat-up.” Specifically, the methods include beatings by fists, rifle and pistol butts; smashing inward with palms open over both ears to break the eardrum; bondage in extended posi­tions, often to extreme dehydration in the hot sun; forcible induction of car­bonated beverages through the nasal passages; electric shocks administered	7
over a wet body, especially on the genitals; rape of detained women; submerging the head in buckets of excrement; cigarette burns; prying apart fingers — and toenails, and various spontaneous inventions.	7
“Since the United States continues	7
to fund the Mexican program with an	7
estimated $12 million a year, con­	7
tinuation of that funding should be	7
subject to the constraints of the	7
Harkin Amendment, which prohibits	7
the granting of military and economic	7
aid to countries that engage in a con­	7
sistent pattern of gross violations of	7
internationally recognized human	7
rights.	7
Given the level of concern shown by the government for the health of America's pot smokers; a turn for the better amongst our Mexican Connec	7
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■tions is as likely as Doonesbury’s Duke being appointed head of the Drug Enforcement Administration.	7
“Firstgas, now roads... ” _____________________________________	8
“Firstgas, now roads... ” _____________________________________	8
Front St. Shutout Makes Neighbors Roar	8
Front St. Shutout Makes Neighbors Roar	8
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By Penny Allen	8
By Penny Allen	8
“ First they take our gasoline! Now they take our roads!!" shouted one angry and alienated man from Mult­nomah neighborhood as he stood outside Multnomah Elementary School. Despite the school’s top­	8
“ First they take our gasoline! Now they take our roads!!" shouted one angry and alienated man from Mult­nomah neighborhood as he stood outside Multnomah Elementary School. Despite the school’s top­	8
notch academic standing in Oregon, it has just been closed and many local residents see the closure as a gerry­mandered rip-off. No wonder they aren’t too interested in the finer details of “The Plan to Close Front Avenue.” You can’t kick a strong community too many times before it learns to bite.	8
On June 4th, people from every southwest Portland neighborhood gathered to hear Mayor Neil Gold­schmidt field questions about his Planning Bureau’s South Portland Circulation Study. The traffic-pattern Study was undertaken originally several years ago to straighten out the mess at the west end of the Ross Island Bridge. Since that time the report has grown to a thorough and futuristic proposal which recommends not only the removal of Front Avenue between the Corbett and Lair Hill neighbor­hoods but also sug	8
But most southwest Portland res­idents from anywhere further out than Corbett and Lair Hill are having no truck with the Study, and at least a thousand of them have signed peti­tions protesting the closure of Front Avenue. The whole complex plan has been reduced to a single rallying cry: “They’re closing Front!” Indeed, indignant participants at the June 4th meeting seemed finally to have found an out-let for the general frustration wrought by our eroding gasoline­based system.	8
As a matter of fact, timing of the event just after the school closure, coupled with Goldschmidt’s super­ficial presentation of the issues (never once mentioning housing) made the whole show look like a deliberate kill. Ernie Munch of the Planning Bureau, who has spent at least five years pre­paring the South Portland Circulation Study, no longer defends his plan 'well in public. He has also never had the time for small-scale in-depth presen­tation of his plan in the outlying	8
As a matter of fact, timing of the event just after the school closure, coupled with Goldschmidt’s super­ficial presentation of the issues (never once mentioning housing) made the whole show look like a deliberate kill. Ernie Munch of the Planning Bureau, who has spent at least five years pre­paring the South Portland Circulation Study, no longer defends his plan 'well in public. He has also never had the time for small-scale in-depth presen­tation of his plan in the outlying	8
southwest communities, and of course no idea as radical as removing a high­way to build housing could ever make sense without grass-roots support. Goldschmidt distracted the angry crowd by joking about “having already spent enough money on the project to get everybody worried.” The Mayor also agreed with those who suggested that closing Front was one sure way for him to lose an election. Ernie Munch looked like a patsy.	8
Closing Front Avenue certainly would be a hot potato and could indeed inconvenience a great many people. It would also be very expen­sive. The only trade-off that seems worth all that is housing for Portland’s displaced — sweat-equity housing to be built and owned by those who would live there, a project to be under­taken by a neighborhood-based com­munity development corporation. For anything short of that, closing Front Avenue should be forgotten.	8
Closing Front Avenue certainly would be a hot potato and could indeed inconvenience a great many people. It would also be very expen­sive. The only trade-off that seems worth all that is housing for Portland’s displaced — sweat-equity housing to be built and owned by those who would live there, a project to be under­taken by a neighborhood-based com­munity development corporation. For anything short of that, closing Front Avenue should be forgotten.	8
On page forty-two of Munch’s South Portland Circulation Study it says,	8
“The new housing should encourage an occupant mix in terms of age, income, family size, owner and renter, and occupation. An em­phasis should be placed on the pro­vision of low income housing to assist those low income families and individuals who are currently being forced to leave Corbett/Lair Hill (or you can add Northwest or Albina or inner Southeast) because of rising rents and property values.”	8
“The new housing should encourage an occupant mix in terms of age, income, family size, owner and renter, and occupation. An em­phasis should be placed on the pro­vision of low income housing to assist those low income families and individuals who are currently being forced to leave Corbett/Lair Hill (or you can add Northwest or Albina or inner Southeast) because of rising rents and property values.”	8
Such a good and honorable idea! But many another high-flown inten­tion has somehow slipped out of sight between the neighborhood level and the City Council vote, especially when low-income housing was at stake. “Displacement” may be a fancy word in Mayors’ conferences, but we are unlikely to see Goldschmidt and his people really do anything about it.	8
Blacks Bumped As Rents Rise	8
Blacks Bumped As Rents Rise	8
By Joe Uris	8
By Joe Uris	8
Portland’s Black population is facing a forced migration from Port­land. As property values rise poor people face an increasingly difficult time finding and keeping affordable housing. While all lower economic levels are effected, the housing squeeze is particularly hard on minority groups.	8
Example: The Irvington neighbor­hood. By the late ’60’s Irvington was experiencing the fate of many other good inner city areas throughout the nation. Middle class white families faced with an increase in rental properties adjacent to black Albina reacted in terror as black people rented or bought into this once middle class stronghold.	8
Example: The Irvington neighbor­hood. By the late ’60’s Irvington was experiencing the fate of many other good inner city areas throughout the nation. Middle class white families faced with an increase in rental properties adjacent to black Albina reacted in terror as black people rented or bought into this once middle class stronghold.	8
Whites sold fine homes for a frac­tion of today’s worth. Those with the cost of a down payment benefited, but all too few of those were poor people and even fewer were black. Some home owners, unable to sell for a decent price, rented to blacks and others under a program of federal housing for the poor program. The result was some crowding, but also the creation of Portland’s first truly inte­grated neighborhood.	8
Now all that has changed. Irvington, long popular with the liberal smart	8
Now all that has changed. Irvington, long popular with the liberal smart	8
set, is now an “in” area. Federal housing money and low cost loans during the Model Cities program, (created to help minorities and the poor in the early ’70s) saved the area from urban decay.	8
The money often ended up being used to stop black movement into a “ good” neighborhood. The white middle class became interested. Many wanted a “tame” integration experi­ence for themselves and their kids. The fine older homes and convenient location, together with a school whose curriculum is well larded with federal bucks designed to help the poor, has drawn more and more of the new middle class to the area.	8
The result is a boom in the housing market. And the result of the boom, ironically, is the forced disappearance of many black families from Irvington. Blacks who are less than middle class no longer can afford to live in this new middle-class ghetto. The black pop­ulation of Irvington is down. The white middle class — up. Example: Albina. Once the only neighborhood where black people were allowed to settle, Albina is seeing more and more speculators moving into the area. The reason? The houses are old, well	8
As an immediate result, the amount of available housing for poor people and black workers is diminishing. And this in a city with a less than 5 per cent vacancy rate!	8
As an immediate result, the amount of available housing for poor people and black workers is diminishing. And this in a city with a less than 5 per cent vacancy rate!	8
Portland has never welcomed the black community. Oregon excluded black folks from the state as part of the compromise which created the state. In the 20’s the Ku Klux Klan was active enough to control much of the state’s politics and to terrorize many minority and Catholic people. The few black people who settled here were mainly laborers, servants and railway workers.	8
The Second World War brought Oregon and Portland it’s first large influx of black people. They came to work in the shipyards. Many brought their families and stayed on after the war.	8
By 1948, most of Portland’s poor arrivals and their war worker white friends were living north of Portland in a federal housing development	8
called Vanport, the state’s second-largest city. In that same year Vanport was allowed to flood out. The disaster left many homeless. Those that didn’t get the message moved into Albina and the area of what is now the Memorial Coliseum.	8
Since that time Portland’s black population has been forced to move	8
Since that time Portland’s black population has been forced to move	8
repeatedly. The construction of the coliseum created one such move, the creation of the I-5N freeway another forced move. The expansion of Emmanuel Hospital destroyed 33 blocks of working class black housing as well as a number of popular commercial establishments along Williams Avenue.	8
Similar forced black and white migrations took place on the west side as well. The urban renewal of the South Auditorium area and down­town took their toll. As Lair Hill Park and Corbett became popular with the newly moneyed set, these neighbor­hoods were upgraded by Portland Development Commission loans and aid. The result? The black popula­tion of these areas has virtually dis­appeared.	8
Similar forced black and white migrations took place on the west side as well. The urban renewal of the South Auditorium area and down­town took their toll. As Lair Hill Park and Corbett became popular with the newly moneyed set, these neighbor­hoods were upgraded by Portland Development Commission loans and aid. The result? The black popula­tion of these areas has virtually dis­appeared.	8
While it is obviously not just black people who have suffered these dis­placements, the black community, because of its perilous economic situa­tion, has been hardest hit.	8
The city of Portland through such agencies as the Portland Development Commission, has been following a policy of exclusion toward the lower economic group. This has hit hardest at the most visible and culturally unique of Portland’s poor, its black people.	8
Florynce Kennedy, lawyer, activist, and political maverick, visited Port­land recently to address a feminist conference, and to teach a two-week course in The Politics of Oppression at Portland State University. Thefollow­ing remarks were excerpted from a tape-transcript of a conversation with her one evening.	9
I’m best known as a feminist because the first work I did nationally that came to a lot of people’s attention was for the feminist movement. But I would call myself a general practi­tioner rather than a specialist.	9
Most people in politics specialize, like in homosexual rights because they’re homosexual. Naturally, I would be more interested in racism because I’m black, and feminism because I’m a woman. But if a new disease developed, I would be inter­ested in it.	9
Recently I’ve been traveling to nuclear rallies and more black studies groups. I went to Black Power confer­ences in the past, but because of media whiteout it was rarely given national attention.	9
I’m older so I’ve been into more things. And I didn’t get involved only because of things that happened to me personally. I think there are several kinds of people who get involved in these kinds of things. One is the kind who is uncomfortable with the world—personally uncomfortable. They get involved usually on the basis of their personal discomfiture.	9
At this point, I’m not personally discomforted. In fact, I would tend to avoid getting involved where I’m personally discomforted, if possible. I fight with my landlord only when I’m outraged by something he does. But I do not, as a matter of course, get involved in tenant affairs because my landlord is giving me a problem. I think that splinters people too much. I prefer to move from one area to another, depending on what seems to be the hottest and the most appro­priate.	9
As a person who opposed the war in Vietnam, I oppose nuclear prolifera­tion and the Trident missile sub­marine, which is nuclear powered, I believe. The cost of nuclear prolifera­tion has always been one unfavorable aspect. And then anything that causes women to give birth to 12-toed babies is something you couldn’t very well overlook.	9
I naturally believe that there should be consumer action against the oil companies, on grounds of violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and other trade regulations. This is clearly evi­dence of runaway corporate anarchy.	9
The tendency is to try to make it look like the OPEC countries are responsible. But the oil companies, the Seven Sisters—Exxon, Mobil,	9
Gulf, Texaco, Royal Dutch, Shell,	9
and Standard of Ohio—are far more	9
responsible and corrupt and greedy.	9
They thought they could steal oil from	9
foreign governments, but the govern­	9
ments are refusing to let them do that.	9
Chase Manhattan and other banks lent millions of dollars to the oil companies, and perhaps the Shah, to hold and control oil. When the Shah lost power, they’re sitting, waiting for their money back. Khomeini is not necessarily going to even recognize the Shah’s debts. So they’re trying to get their money back out of us.	9
Third Party Politics	9
I’m pretty interested in the Freedom Democratic Party. I think that’s pretty important. A lot of people are nervous to work outside the so-called two parties. I like a statement that Dr. George Wald made recently when asked if he thought we -weeded a third party. He said, "I think we could use a second party.”	9
The Freedom Democratic Party is more a caucus within the party. It started with the 1964 challenge to the Mississippi delegation by the Missis­sippi Freedom Democratic Party led by Fannie Lou Hamer, who has since died. The idea of the people who are working on the Freedom Democratic Party project is to revive Fannie Lou Hamer in terms of gathering black votes to pressure for issues more than to pressure for candidates, although there may come a time when we would conceivably back somebody like Dick Gregory.	9
Niggerization of Homosexuals	9
The Harvey Milk situation, I think, is clearest evidence of the niggeriza­tion of the homosexual community. It is clear evidence that the community is' held in the lowest possible regard. I mean, there is no lower regard than anyone can be held in than to be killed.	9
If a board of supervisors’ member and a mayor are killed and you give the person who kills them a seven­year sentence, that’s just like saying they’ve got a hunting license. So that requires coalition. The gay issue is no longer an issue of sexual preference, as 1 see it. Because niggerization is political murder, and the killing of	9
If a board of supervisors’ member and a mayor are killed and you give the person who kills them a seven­year sentence, that’s just like saying they’ve got a hunting license. So that requires coalition. The gay issue is no longer an issue of sexual preference, as 1 see it. Because niggerization is political murder, and the killing of	9
Harvey Milk was a political murder.	9
But the main reason a coalition with the gay community is important is because they are the only ones that seem to have sufficient pride to be enraged and to make an appropriate response to niggerization. Their expression of indignant rage was something that deserves our respect. They may not have a socialist perspec­tive. but 1 haven’t seen any socialists break windows on appropriate occa­sions lately.	9
1 happen to think violence is most appropriate and most necessary in a country which devotes as much of its gross national product and national budget to violence. One part of the budget a city almost never cuts is the police budget. I mean violence is what keeps the whole establishment going.	9
One difference between me and a lot of people is that I don’t expect people to do what I do. I don’t expect people to approve of what I do. I don’t wait until everybody decides that this is the thing to do.	9
I rarely quarrel with people over priorities. Because one thing about coalition, as I view it, you accept people where they are, and you proceed from that acceptance to get whatever you want done. 1 don’t try to persuade anybody that I’m right nor that they’re wrong. I'm not inclined to tell people how they should express themselves. But I am prepared to show admiration for those people who do what I think ought to be done. So my admiration for the homosexual would not necessarily be shared by everybody.	9
In Defense of Ray	9
I represented Jerry Ray, James Earl Ray’s brother, in front of the sub­committee of the House inquiring into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. I was only there one time.	9
They were attempting to cover up the conspiracy in the Martin Luther King case. They were accusing Jerry Ray of having robbed a bank, along with his brother James, in order to account for the money that the FBI or CIA or police or Ku Klux Klan or whoever really was in on it had given him.	9
It was obvious. You know, small­time criminals do not have their nose fixed and get passports and go to' London. That’s strictly the CIA’s modus operandi.	9
They had decided to try to tie the	9
brothers into a bank robbery. The	9
bank had already indicated earlier this	9
year that they knew there was no	9
involvement by the brothers because	9
they had film of the robbery. But the	9
subcommittee was going to use that	9
bank robbery story as a cover-up even	9
though they knew that the brothers	9
were not guilty.	9
So we went down there and pointed	9
out that the bank had already indi­	9
cated they weren’t guilty and that was	9
not the way they would be able to	9
cover up the money. Even though	9
these people all were racists, they just	9
didn’t happen to have killed the guy.	9
At least, if James Earl Ray killed	9
King, he did not do it alone. And Jerry	9
did not collaborate on a bank robbery	9
to get him the money for a nose job.	9
Even if he had been able to get his	9
nose fixed, he couldn’t have gotten a	9
passport unless he had certain help	9
from the government because he got it	9
almost instantly. The real point of it	9
was not to permit them to cover up the	9
story.	9
It was very confusing for a lot of	9
people because they couldn’t see me	9
representing this redneck murderer.	9
But I don’t expect to be popularly	9
supported. I just do what I think	9
ought to be done. And I hope that	9
most people don’t totally reject it.	9
For example, I would like to have	9
seen the Oglala Sioux take the money	9
that they were offered for their land.	9
In that sense, 1 would be against the	9
general feeling. I’d like to see them	9
take the money and buy guns and then	9
take the land. But it’s highly unlikely	9
that they would do that.	9
Pathology of the Oppressed	9
It’s the pathology of oppressed people not to be angry enough to fight their oppressors. The average kid with parents who abuse him doesn’t usually grow up and kill them. The average woman whose husband beats her does not usually kill him. It is not in the nature of the oppressed mentality to respond appropriately to oppression.	9
But I never would have predicted that the Iranians would have blasted forth the way they did. Of course, they got rid of the Shah for Khomeini. But you can’t predict when people's cups will be full enough.	9
That's why it's worthwhile to push. Because the grass is very dry and you just keep dropping sparks, hoping it might catch on.	9
9	9
Will Seagram’s 7 Crown Downtown?	10
Will Seagram’s 7 Crown Downtown?	10
Seagram is interested in buying a sizeablechunk of stock in downtown Portland	10
Seagram is interested in buying a sizeablechunk of stock in downtown Portland	10
By Kevin Mulligan	10
By Kevin Mulligan	10
“The basic issue we raise is a moral one, which seems to have been over­looked in the excitement generated by this huge proposal. It concerns the city’s use of its powers of condemna­tion for the benefit of one developer,” said Lyndon Bowman, President of the Oregon Society of Industrial Realtors.	10
“This appears to be a case where city officials have met with a developer in private, worked out plans to condemn private property, and agreed to resell it to them at a loss. We know for a fact that a good many of those property owners have never been contacted, or nothing was ever dis­cussed with them,” Bowman said.	10
“Now, I don’t know many of these people, and we have no axe to grind, although there are a good many eco­nomic axes being ground in connec­tion with this thing,” he added.	10
And those economic axes are starting to cut into a lot of people’s hides.	10
The development in question is the now nearly famous Morrison Street Project which is being proposed for the belly of downtown Portland by the Cadillac Fairview Company. De­scribed by the developer as a project which will give Downtown “a focal point, a global civic attraction,” the four-block proposal will level the entire area between SW Morrison and Taylor, and 3rd and 5th avenues, and replace it with an ultra-modern, mixed-use project involving two new department stores, a hotel, office and parking towe	10
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The benefits of this project for Portland are mentioned in terms of $70 to $85 million in new investment, 1,300 new jobs, approximately $1.7 million per year in hotel and property taxes, and the establishing of a “retail mix” which will allow Downtown to “ become competitive with most suburban shopping centers.” All worthwhile goals.	10
The benefits of this project for Portland are mentioned in terms of $70 to $85 million in new investment, 1,300 new jobs, approximately $1.7 million per year in hotel and property taxes, and the establishing of a “retail mix” which will allow Downtown to “ become competitive with most suburban shopping centers.” All worthwhile goals.	10
However, in the haste to welcome a	10
development of this type into the	10
Downtown, the powers-that-be seem	10
to be ignoring a very vital fact. That is,	10
the area which has been proposed for	10
this development is already a healthy,	10
and somewhat happy, retail and resi­	10
dential community. And for the most	10
part, the people who do business in	10
that area are not interested in being	10
moved out to make room for a gleam­	10
ing steel and glass temple of	10
consumption.	10
It appears to be of small conse­	10
quence to the city council, or the	10
Portland Development Commission,	10
or the Cadillac Fairview Company,	10
that this project, if and when it wins	10
approval, will wipe out several	10
historically important buildings, a	10
valuable downtown hotel, and several	10
valuable downtown hotel, and several	10
thriving restaurants and businesses which combine to provide perhaps the greatest retail “mix” of anyplace in the city.	10
Nor does there seem to be a great deal of concern for the fact that this project will bring thousands of addi­tional cars into the downtown area each day, fouling the air, clogging the streets, violating the intent of the Transit Mall, and laughing in the face of the gasoline shortage.	10
However, perhaps the greatest injury to be committed in this case will be against the spirit and strength of our entire community. At no time in the development of this project have local merchants, property owners, developers or concerned citizens been contacted to solicit and gain their opinions and suggestions. In fact, both the developer and the PDC have repeatedly demonstrated an arrogant and selfish attitude toward the people who have been making their living in this area for decades. For the most par	10
Finally, as in the case of the Wacker electronics company, which this paper reported on last issue, the PDC and the city are again offering concessions and assistance to a foreign developer that have never been offered to local businesses or developers.	10
In June of last year, representatives of the PDC and the Portland Bureau of Planning traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Urban Land Institute Development Confer­ence. There, the City gave a presenta­tion to the 17-or-so developers that were in attendance, telling them about the needs and, one would think, the requirements for developing this area of Downtown. Significantly, the area which was pinpointed for development by the PDC was circled in red on the map. which the developers saw, and i	10
Although the Cadillac Fairview	10
Although the Cadillac Fairview	10
Company wasn’t at the PDC presenta­	10
tion, they soon heard about the possi­	10
bilities and put a full contingent of	10
professional planners, architects, law­	10
yers and civic hustlers on the trail of	10
Portland Prime (land, that is).	10
Just when, or by what criteria, the	10
Just when, or by what criteria, the	10
PDC selected Cadillac for this devel­	10
opment remains a mystery. However,	10
we do know that at least two other	10
companies were interested in working	10
with the PDC to develop a proposal,	10
but, according to a source at a leading	10
Portland architectural firm, the PDC	10
responded like the auctioneer in the	10
“It’s a big rip-off, if you ask me,”	11
“It’s a big rip-off, if you ask me,”	11
“It’s a big rip-off, if you ask me,”	11
FtiWfy	11
said Sandra Runstein, owner of the	11
KeigHmMuMul State	11
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Yamhill Market... ”	11
Yamhill Market... ”	11
at Emupitted	11
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Henry’s beer commercials, with a firm tion drive to save the area, said, “The but polite answer that the “bidding PDC hasn't taken the time to have any was closed.” awareness of this area. They don’t	11
But was there any bidding to begin know the people here or how many with? Many landowners and develop­businesses are thriving. We all admit ers in Portland argue that there that this area needs development, but wasn’t. not this type of blanket destruction	11
“ I don’t believe they approached and development. Cadillac Fairview is any of the property owners,” said destroying small-time shops and Richard Amato, a spokesman for the people in favor of chain stores and Amato Brothers Enterprises, owners fancy dress shops. And the PDC won’t of several lots in the project area. “ I even consider another approach.” know we were never contacted con­The PDC explains that they feel cerning involving us in the project, or that to create the retail action and the selling or	11
The Portland Development Com­Company likes to own the track as well mission has declared that Cadillac has	11
as the record. tried for several months to buy land in The Cadillac Fairview Company of the area but that it wasn’t “available.” Oregon is a wholly owned front group So, rather than taking this as a sign of for the Cadillac Fairview Ltd. Corpor­strength for the interest and vitality of ation of Toronto, a North American the area, and looking into why these conglomerate with holdings of $1.7	11
people wanted to hold onto their prop­billion and developments ranging erty and businesses, the PDC from industrial parks, shopping promised the Cadillac Company that centers and office towers, to the	11
they could obtain the land through the planning and management of ‘new powers of eminent domain and told communities.” them to proceed on course with the In a move described by Business development. Week as an effort to “circumvent what	11
However, this action, though they consider to be restrictive laws and believed to be legal by most experts, is an anti-growth attitude at home,” beginning to draw blood with many [Canada], the northern giant moved people. heavily into American development “ I’m of the old school,” said Paul and land holdings in the late 1960s. Gold, a long-time property owner and Since that time, the company has Downtown “fat cat” —“which says developed major retail and civic that the city doesn’t have the right to centers	11
take property from one person and Atlanta, Palm Beach, North Carolina, give it to another person. I don’t think and Houston, to name but a few. All urban renewal is right and I’ve always told, the company has developed more	11
than 40 shopping centers, 29 urban	11
fought it.”	11
Said another developer, “We have developments, 60 industrial buildings, reservations as to whether this project and two planned communities. One of warrants the use of condemnation to these communities, Erin Mills, outside begin with. But if it should be used, of Ontario, Canada, is designed for a we believe that the principle involved planned population of 170,000 people. should be the same in all cases, and Almost half the size of Portland! that is, established, open and And of the more than 40 million co	11
Bill Kloster, owner of the Looking thirds. Clearly this company, which Glass Bookstore and a leader of a peti­was founded on the fortune of the	11
We’re mad as hell, And we’re not going to take it anymore	11
We’re mad as hell, And we’re not going to take it anymore	11
A group in opposition to the Cadillac Fairview proposal has been formed to apply pressure on the City Council to defeat this development. SOLD (Save Our Liveable Downtown) urges people to call City Hall and tell the Commissioners that you are against this form of development Downtown. Call:	11
Mildred Schwab............................................................ 248-4180 Frank Ivancie.................................................................... 248-4151 Charles Jordan.................................................................. 248-4682 Connie McCready............................................................ 248-4145 Mayor Goldschmidt.......................................................... 248-4120	11
The city council will be considering this development at a meeting on July 24. The Clinton Street Quarterly urges oppo­nents of this development project to attend this meeting.	11
Bronfman family, owners of the	11
Seagrams 7 line of whiskeys, is not	11
interested in development alone. They	11
are interested in buying a sizable	11
chunk of stock in downtown Portland.	11
Exactly what the company expects in terms of cooperation and conces­sions was outlined by Cadillac Fair­view’s project director Gordon Hors­man. He explained that the city’s assistance would be “essential” in acquiring the four blocks for the project. The city will be required to condemn the land, purchase it from the present landowners, and then resell it to Cadillac Fairview at a	11
financial loss.	11
The way this little number works is that the city will “write down” the value of the land after it purchases it through the condemnation process, but before they resell it to Cadillac. The company argues that the land is zoned for office space “at its highest value,” but since they are bringing a multi-use complex they don't want to pay the going rate for office property. So, in return for its service of keeping the Downtown from Incoming a “forest of office towers,” as one PDC spokesman said, the company w	11
In addition, the city will be involved in financing and managing one or two parking garages in the giant retail complex. We will also have to pay for the moving of the utility lines and pipes along the Mall (just after we finished two years of upheaval and construction along the Mall), and the city will have to “grant the right of way” for the air and ground space where the retail tunnels and walkways will be located.	11
The original plan for this develop­ment calls for a series of “retail walk­ways" below the ground, and “sky­bridges” above the street, connecting the complex with nearby retail stores and parking lots. This could mean as many as three levels of shops above 5th Avenue and Morrison Street, creating a tunnel effect in Downtown and preventing the sun from ever again shining on that corner. To top it off. the city may be “involved in the financing of those skybridges." according to one PDC official.	11
In return for these considerations,	11
In return for these considerations,	11
what do we get? Well, if you listen to	11
some business interests and the	11
mayor’s office, Portland gets financial	11
“leverage” to the tune of $70 to $85	11
million, to do a project which we	11
“couldn’t otherwise handle.” We also	11
get the increased tax base, several	11
hundred new jobs, and somewhere in	11
the neighborhood of 2,000 man years	11
of employment during the project’s	11
construction phase.	11
However, if you listen to other	11
However, if you listen to other	11
people, we get “screwed, insulted, and	11
ripped off.”	11
“It’s a big rip-off, if you ask me,” .said Sandra Runstein, owner and operator of the Yamhill Market at 5th Avenue, a friendly place to stop for fresh fruit along the Mall. “This store­front is prime Downtown land. They say about 60,000 people a day go byhere. So the city comes along and condemns it. I know for a fact that people have been trying to buy prop­erty on this mall since before it was built, but nobody wanted to sell. Now the city comes along and gives it away.”	11
Richard Amato also expressed	11
Richard Amato also expressed	11
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getting. “What really bugs me is the way Cadillac goes about doing its business with the city,” he said. “ Not only are they asking for a break on the price of land, but they are only offering the city $50,000 option money for the property while they hold it off the market for 18 months. And to top it off, if the project .doesn’t go through, they want their money back. That's an insult.	12
“ If Cadillac wants to come in here and disrupt business, tenant life, and our environment to determine whether they want to get into our pockets or not, let them put up half a million dollars. If they buy the property, the half million is credited towards the purchase, but if they don’t buy, they forfeit to the city. But this deal they are getting is too much.”	12
Yes. this deal is too much. Not only is Cadillac coming into Portland at rock-bottom prices, and with a devel­opment whose size and scope will completely dwarf the Pioneer Court­house and surrounding businesses in the community, but they are also operating, with the tacit approval of the PDC. as chief judge and execu­tioner of the businesses in the area. In deciding which businesses are “appro­priate” to the development’s achieving its retail makeup, the Cadillac people swing a very sharp axe.	12
“We were never informed that the	12
“We were never informed that the	12
project was coming." said Bill Durk­	12
heim. owner and manager of Mr. D’s	12
restaurant, a popular lunch and	12
breakfast place. “The first I heard	12
about it. and I think this goes for most	12
of the merchants in the area, was from	12
the PDC in a hand-delivered letter,	12
which 1 received about 15 minutes	12
before I read about it in the Journal.”	12
This was confirmed by Bill Kloster at the Looking Glass, who said, “The only thing we heard was that a public hearing was happening to discuss the proposal. We didn't even know the area was being considered for develop­ment. let alone that a company had already been selected and a plan was ready.” Like most of the merchants in the area, these two have received no word from Cadillac Fairview asking them if they would be interested in moving into the development.	12
One business that Cadillac Fairview did talk with was the Yamhill Market. Said owner Sandy Runstein: “Oh yeah, the Cadillac people were around. They told me that they didn’t know if the project would have a market; they said they would have to see if it fit into their retail scheme and requirements, though they didn’t say what those were." (Under the guide­lines of the Dow ntown Plan as adopted several years ago, there shall be “a farmer's market-type of facility in Downtown, either in the existing area alo	12
Runstein went on to add that,	12
Runstein went on to add that,	12
“They told me that it doesn't matter	12
that my business is already here and	12
Since 1905—	12
Since 1905—	12
established. I have no exclusive right to move into the new development. Cadillac said that even if they do have a market, they might select someone else to operate it besides me.”	12
The Cadillac Fairview Company seems determined to pick and choose the people they want in their develop­ment and move the pieces around until they arrive at the proper “mix,” regardless of the history of this unique shopping community and the many merchants who have stuck by the Downtown through some lean years.	12
The Cadillac Fairview Company seems determined to pick and choose the people they want in their develop­ment and move the pieces around until they arrive at the proper “mix,” regardless of the history of this unique shopping community and the many merchants who have stuck by the Downtown through some lean years.	12
This writer learned that the Cadillac Company is interested in locating a “smoke shop-magazine store” in the complex, but instead of talking and working with a merchant in the area who already offers this type of business, the 5th Avenue Smoke Shop, the company contacted Rich’s	12
Cigar Store to see if they would be	12
interested in relocating.	12
"We did have a feeler from Cadil­	12
lac," the owner of Rich’s told me. “ It	12
came through a mutual friend, but it	12
wasn’t really a direct offer; anyway, I	12
don't know if we would be interested	12
in moving."	12
When I contacted the busy manager of the 5th Avenue shop, he said that, "we haven’t heard a word. Just the let­ter [from the PDC|, that’s it.” When I questioned if he would be interested in moving into the new development, he shot me a quick and puzzled look as he viewed the 15-or-so customers in his store and asked, “Why move?”	12
From the fruit and vegetable mar­	12
kets to the availability of specialty	12
kets to the availability of specialty	12
foods, shoe repairs, loans, dentists, beauty shops, neckties, books and magazines, and the best drinking deal in town at the Harvester bar (Dollar Doubles all day!), this area provides a real “mix” of activities. A natural mix.	12
Bill Klosterman: “There are articles of merchandise available in these four blocks, little pleasures of life, not to mention nice people who have built their lives here, and if this goes through, those things won’t ever be available again in Portland.” When asked if he would be interested in relocating in the complex. Klosterman replied, “ No, we won't move there. It isn’t for our kind of customer. They want the fancy shops and the national chain stores; they want predictabi­lity.” And that was the reaction	12
Sadly, many of the merchants in the area will not be locating anywhere if this project goes through. “No, I doubt that I’ll start over someplace else,” said one merchant in the Yamhill area. “ I’ve been here for almost thirty years and I’m too old to begin over. I guess I’ll just retire, though I don't really want to.”	12
Opposition and concern about this development has come from several fronts and organizations who fear for the historical, residential and commu­nity aspects of Downtown. At a meet­ing held in April, many representa­tives of the Burnside Council, the Downtown Community Association, the Historical Landmarks Commis­sion, and interested architects, planners and other citizens, expressed	12
THE WHITE EAGLE GAFE 8 SALOON	12
their complaints and, in some cases, outrage over the proposal.	12
their complaints and, in some cases, outrage over the proposal.	12
"The Downtown Community Asso­ciation does not feel that it can sup­port this development,” said Martin Gix, a representative for the group. “We feel that it would destroy the character and identity of a very special part of Downtown. We feel that the special character of the retail on 5th and Yamhill has a kind of very special landmark quality in itself.”	12
Mari Burke, also of the DCA, voiced similar concern when she said, “There are goals and guidelines that it doesn’t fulfill. It is obvious that this project is not rehabilitation and con­servation. It’s land clearance and renewal.”	12
Historical Commission concern focused around three buildings: the Goodenough Building and the Gilbert Building, which are potential histor­ical landmarks, and the effect the project would have on the Pioneer Courthouse, which is already a recog­nized National Landmark. Concern for the Courthouse focused primarily on the fact that it would become “lost and minimized” by such a large devel­opment right across the street.	12
The Gilbert and Goodenough buildings are scheduled for demolition if the plan goes through. The Gilbert houses the Taylor Hotel, a 40-unit, low-income hotel for pensioners and old-timers who mostly work doing odd jobs and handy work in the stores and restaurants of the area. The demoli­tion suggestion raised several com­plaints from the Portland Tenants Union and the Burnside Community Council, who argue that the Down­town Plan was designed to protect housing, particularly low-income housing, in the area.	12
“The city made a commitment to	12
the principle of one-for-one replace­	12
ment housing in the area,” said Tina	12
ment housing in the area,” said Tina	12
Frost of the Burnside Council. “Since	12
these guidelines were passed, just	12
about one-third of the housing units in	12
one area have been lost through demo­	12
lition, conversion or closure. There	12
lition, conversion or closure. There	12
has been zero replacement of low-cost,	12
single-room occupancy housing in the	12
downtown area.”	12
While the PDC admits that they	12
might seek to “amend” the Downtown	12
Plan to bring this proposal within the	12
law, they argue that it wasn’t the	12
intent of the Downtown Plan to pre­	12
vent new development. “We’re only	12
vent new development. “We’re only	12
talking about a few blocks out of a	12
large area. I don’t think it violates the	12
plan.” said Oliver Norville, PDC	12
attorney.	12
But critics say what this project	12
actually does is break up the patterns	12
of the city, and focuses all of the atten­	12
tion of itself. Said architecture student	12
tion of itself. Said architecture student	12
David Bales: “The project developers	12
aren’t really concerned with the fact	12
that this development is for Portland,	12
as opposed to one for Toronto,	12
Quebec, or any point in the world.”	12
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This sentiment was echoed by George Sheldon, former president of the Portland Planning Commission, who said. “What is bad about this proposal is that it’s going to read like a monolith; the skyways will make it read like a unit. That’s atypical of Portland, where most of the blocks have more than one existing building. The incorporation of the existing tenants would help alleviate some of the problems.”	13
As for the increased night life in the area, Tina Frost from the Burnside Council made a very interesting point, and one which is rearing its ugly head with more and more regularity in city shopping centers and malls.	13
“People have said that this project would assist in making there be a nightlife in Downtown,” she said. “However, if you make night life in an area which has no housing, you simply make the area extremely dangerous for people to be in at night. The downtown area is fast becoming notorious for rape, which seems to be taking place in those parking garages, and they are not taking place where I work, which is north of Burnside, where people live and are on the street.”	13
Despite all of this discussion and genuine concern for not only the design of the project, but the toll it will have on people's lives and interaction, the PDC viewed the problem as merely cosmetic in nature.	13
They returned the originalproject to the architects, Bob Frasca of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, the same people who developed the PGE “space station” along SW 1st Avenue, and suggested another “approach.” And another approach is what they got back.	13
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Instead of looking at some of the substantive issues of design, and going into the community to look at alterna­tives, they came back to the PDC with a “cut-and-paste” job that presents the same design with a few minor and, in some cases hideous, changes, which are hoped to placate the historical buildings question and to have the project look “ more outward instead of inward" (have some storefronts open­ing onto the sidewalks).	13
The revised plan calls for taking down the facade on the Goodenough Building and rebuilding it, brick by brick, into one of the other walls of the retail building. The building would tower above and around this patch­work veneer, giving it the look of a young boy in old man’s clothing.	13
As for the Gilbert Building and the Taylor Hotel, they would be moved, in total, across the street from their present location to a site along “porno alley” on 3rd Avenue.	13
However, this is not what most of the people at the PDC hearing were after. Those were not the changes they had talked of. So, for perhaps the first time in the history of Portland devel­opment fights, a group of people is getting together to “not only try to bring political pressure on the situa­tion, but to look at alternative ideas and see if a plan cannot be developed which would not only provide the area with the needed development, but would include the merchants and the people down there in the desig	13
“It isn’t just an issue of merchants who are defending their own inter­ests,” said Reid. “Everyone who uses the downtown area will be changed by this development. It affects the entire city because of its potential impact on housing, air quality and historic preservation.”	13
Many merchants in the area, along with some architects and planners, feel that there are several possibilities for development of the area into a	13
Many merchants in the area, along with some architects and planners, feel that there are several possibilities for development of the area into a	13
stronger retail center without the search-and-destroy program being advanced. “They could start with the lots that are being used for parking,” said Bill Kloster of the Looking Glass, “or they could look at something that wasn't so large, so imposing, a two-or three-story development.”	13
Said one planner for a major Port­land architectural firm, “When you are talking about something this big, you have to leave room for mistakes; you have to leave yourself a way out. This project doesn’t do that, and if it doesn’t work it is something we will have to live with for a long time. That area should be built in sections, pieces that blend but can stand together on their own.”	13
This writer is suggesting that there are many possibilities for development in this area which will not only “make it a competitive retailer,” but can maintain and enhance the charm and quality of the area.	13
The large parking lots which sit on the better part of half of two of the blocks are ripe for development. Either into medium-sized office buildings or retail stores, perhaps even mixed use. And whatever does go on those blocks, it is vital that there be retail shops and food outlets along the ground floor.	13
Let’s be daring in the area, but let’s not live among the giants. Mixed use for this area could just as easily mean the blending of art galleries, work­shops, service offices such as doctors and lawyers, below-ground parking perhaps, a plaza or fountain, several restaurants, book stores, an expanded fish and vegetable market.	13
But not, cried the voices, not another mall.	13
The efforts of Ms. Reid’s groups will be to show the city council that there is sizable opposition to the plan as it now stands, and to try to force the council into considering some other methods of achieving the “ retail strength” of Downtown while preserv­ing the community. At last count, the city council seemed prepared to give the project the go-ahead in late July or August, though there appears to be some signs of weakening within the ranks.	13
One downtown restaurateur I spoke with told me that he had met with Commissioner Charles Jordan, and Jordan said that he “didn’t think the development was appropriate, but I know I am a minority of one.”	13
However, in recent weeks Commis­sioner Connie McCready was quoted as saying that, “We have to be abso­lutely sure that with our awesome powers of acquisition [and condemna­tion] we don’t move through the city with a sieve.” McCready was also quoted as saying that she wondered if “there are other avenues we can pursue.”	13
If some of the merchants in the area, working with Kay Reid’s organi­zation, have their way, there may be some alternatives to pursue.	13
“We are trying to say, hey, wait a minute. Retail strength isn’t the only thing that makes a Downtown viable,” said Reid. “What we need for this area is a mixture of shops and galleries and workshops and markets, places where people can meet, and go Down­town for reasons other than	13
shopping.”	13
In what may make for an alliance of	13
In what may make for an alliance of	13
some of the strangest bedfellows in	13
Portland politics, a group of property	13
owners, lawyers, tenants, folks from	13
the Taylor Hotel, representatives from	13
several neighborhood groups, the	13
Downtown Community Association,	13
the Burnside Council, artists, plan­	13
ners, some city developers, musicians,	13
barkeepers, and other interested	13
people are going to try to stop this	13
development.	13
“We feel that these businesses have	13
“We feel that these businesses have	13
shown their faith in Downtown	13
through the years, and they've stuck	13
by Downtown. It wouldn’t be fair to	13
sweep them aside to make room for	13
the types of people who have fled to	13
suburban centers.” said Martin Gix of	13
the Downtown Community Associa­	13
tion, “and we don’t think it would be	13
appropriate for the city to have a place	13
in displacing them."	13
“ I don’t know what action we will	13
“ I don’t know what action we will	13
be taking,” said Reid, “but a lot of	13
people with some good plans are inter­	13
ested in the problem. There may be	13
some lawsuits, and there may be peti­	13
tion drives to stop the development at	13
city hall. Or. if things work out,	13
maybe the landowners and the	13
merchants can work with the develop­	13
ers in Portland who are interested,	13
and convince the PDC and the city	13
that there is another way.”	13
However, if this project does come to pass, and the efforts of this commit­tee and all of the other interested parties go for naught, there will be one small consolation that will warm the hearts of many. For with the same construction ball that levels Dave’s Deli and the markets and the book­stores and all of the other pleasures of this area, the Armed Forces Induction Center, the scene of many demonstra­tions and much heartache during the Vietnam War, will also crumble into history.	13
The public condemnation/private development modus operandi which the Cadillac Fairview Company has pursued in Portland in recent months is strikingly similar to the approach which the company used in the devel­opment of the Pacific Center complex in Vancouver, B.C., several years ago.	13
Pacific Center, a $120 million multi-use office and shopping center, was the focus of a bitter, four-year battle between the merchants and landowners in the proposed develop­ment area, and the City of Vancouver. The question at that time concerned the legal right of the city to purchase and condemn private commercial property for the purpose of selling it to a private developer. In effect, turning one business out into the streets to allow another business in.	13
The battle went to the Provincial Supreme Court of B.C., which ruled in favor of the merchants and land­owners and returned the proposal to the city, telling them that the condem­nation route was indeed illegal. Not to be stopped, however, the city went to the British Columbia Legislature and received a special legislative act which allowed for the condemnation action. This act, which had to pass a vote of the people, became law in 1968.	13
Ultimately, only seven of the 18 merchants who were doing business in the development area decided to relo­cate in the new steel and glass center. They argued that the Pacific Center was too expensive for them to rent space in, and that the stark, dominat­ing building with its underground shops and walkways was not conducive to their type of business. The major complaint, however, was similar to the complaints being made by merchants in Portland. The fact that Cadillac Fairview refuses to consult or involve	13
Although the Pacific Center has been considered a financial success, it bas come under severe criticism for its architectural style and ultra-modern veneer. In fact, Cadillac Fairview is already considering a major facelifting which would make the structure, which is barely 10 years old, more of a “people place with softer colors and more light,” according to Ray Spaxman, a planner for the City of Vancouver.	13
Today, the building permit which marked the beginning of construction for the Pacific Center hangs on the wall of Cadillac Fairview’s office as a symbol of victory between the public good and the corporate purse.	13
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Circa 1920—The government’s deportation machinery, is working at full speed but quietly. Many reds are being exiled, but with little adver­tising. Dispatch of another “Soviet ark” is opposed by Secretary of Labor	14
Wilson, due to the notoriety it gives	14
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the reds, enabling them to pose as plane carrying 800 gallons of insecti­martyrs and resulting in agitation cide into Big Eagle Lake in the Alla-against deportation.	14
A pilot ditched his four-engine	14
gash Wilderness Waterway in north­Radicals are now being “exported” ern Maine after the cockpit caught in small batches on regular passenger steamers.	14
At about the same time, the pilot of Ellis Island is reported a smaller aircraft carrying the chemi­crowded with red arrivals from all cal orthene had engine problems and, to lighten his load, released all 250 gallons of that insecticide on an unin­habited area in western Maine.	14
parts of the country.	14
A texas-born American of Mexican descent has filed suit against the	14
WHEN THE LAW AND THE COURTS BACK UP	14
director of the Oregon district of the	14
THE TRAINED POLICEMAN IN USING HIS GUN.	14
Immigration and Naturalization Ser­	14
WHENEVER AND IF HE DEEMS IT NECESSARY,	14
vice, claiming his civil rights were	14
WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING CENSURED.	14
violated when he was arrested in HARASSED, OR INDICTED -STREET CRIME January and transported to Mexico. \ CAN BE REDUCEP 50% IN THIRTY PAYS.^ Jorge Luis Rodriguez claims he was	14
living in Astoria with five other men in January and that five days after he found work as a tree planter, agents	14
knocked on men’s apartment door, forced their way in without a warrant and interrogated him.	14
He was arrested, detained five days in an Astoria jail without being allowed to use a telephone, and on	14
Jan. 27, placed on a bus with 15 Mexican nationals and taken to Mexi­President Carter has decided to cali, Mexico. move into full-scale development of a	14
Nearer My God	14
PririK Up	14
huge new mobile missile designed to foil any Soviet surprise attack on the	14
huge new mobile missile designed to foil any Soviet surprise attack on the	14
A study of last year’s prime tele	14
U.S. land-based striking force in the	14
U.S. land-based striking force in the	14
vision time shows that sex ws down	14
1980s and beyond, administration	14
1980s and beyond, administration	14
compared with the previous season	14
officials said.	14
officials said.	14
but drinking was Researchers	14
The plan calls for mounting 200	14
The plan calls for mounting 200	14
found that alcohol was consumed 2.5	14
new MX missiles, each with 10 power­	14
new MX missiles, each with 10 power­	14
times per hour and intimate sexual	14
ful nuclear warheads, on some form of	14
ful nuclear warheads, on some form of	14
references were made about once	14
rail system that would shuttle them	14
rail system that would shuttle them	14
rail system that would shuttle them	14
hourly.	14
among 8.000 to 9,000 “hardened” launch shelters so the Russians would be unable to knock them out in a first strike. The system will cost an esti­mated $30 billion to $32 billion and will involve wide areas of U.S. govern­ment-owned land in four states.	14
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Sen. S. I. Hayakawa (R-Calif.) said the way to cut gasoline consumption is to let the price rise—because it will get poor people off the roads.	14
“The important thing is that a lot of	14
“The important thing is that a lot of	14
poor don't need because they’re not working,” Hayakawa told reporters after the California congres­sional delegation met with President	14
Operating on the assumption that if Carter at the White House. you give the U.S. government a target “Wealthy people are driving around to shoot for. it's bound to miss, an in their private jets and Cadillacs and organization called the Skylab Self­they’re going to do that whether they Defense Society (see men in helmets) have to pay 95 cents for gas or $3 for has been formed to promote T-shirt “targets.” The society hopes to protect Hayakawa said he favors eliminat people from falling Skylab debris. ing pr	14
Jealous Husband Shoots Beauty Pageant Director	15
— Naked Lover Flees	15
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The direc­tor of the Little Miss Tennessee pageant was shot four times in the back and killed and her male house guest was seriously wounded re­cently when the couple was found together nude by her husband, po­lice said.	15
The shooting occurred when Ramsey Kilgore said he awakened to the aroma of marijuana and searched the house. He found his wife and her associate in a basement den, police said.	15
Metro Homicide Lt. Sherman Nickens said Patricia Kilgore, 34, was shot four times, and Gene Riordan, 22, of Oak Ridge, the	15
Metro Homicide Lt. Sherman Nickens said Patricia Kilgore, 34, was shot four times, and Gene Riordan, 22, of Oak Ridge, the	15
sound director for the pageant, was hit twice by .38-caliber slugs.	15
Riordan fled the house wearing only a sock, ran to a residence across the street, and reported the incident. He was taken to General Hospital, where he was listed in serious condi­tion with wounds in the neck and abdomen.	15
Kilgore, 36, a self-employed air conditioning repairman, suffered an epileptic seizure after the shooting and received emergency treatment at the hospital. He was then taken to Metro Police headquarters, where officers he made a state­ment.	15
Police said Kilgore will be charged with murder and assault with intent to commit murder.	15
“ I shot them both and there’s my wife lying right there,” police quoted Kilgore as saying when officers ar­rived at the house.	15
“ Mr. Kilgore told us he walked through the house, and when he got to the top of the basement stairs, he saw his wife and the other man lying together on a table,” Detective Frank Pierce said.	15
“He said he does not recall taking a gun with him, but that the instant he saw them there together, some­thing snapped and he began wres­tling with Riordan.”	15
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