Oregon Advance Times_1968-02-29

Model OEO Work Evaluation Being Set The War on Poverty pro– gram in Portland is going to be evaluated to determine whether it is efficient, waste– ful or part of each. In addition to this evalu– ation - a routine require – ment for all OEO programs - the city and Multnomah County have to decide this year whether they want the program to go on as it has been or whether some ad ministrative changes are wanted. As explained by Mayfield Webb, director of the Metro– politan Steering Committee, the city and county have been asked by the OEO to give a tentative decision by March 15 on whether some changes may be wanted. The authorization for the :.l~t" ~~t-1'-'l•Lau .::; ... ~c r iiit::, Cv1n– mittee as head of the War on Poverty program expires a year from now. The city and county could decide to put their O. K. on the Steer - ing Committee as it now is or they could decide to make it a public agency, resulting in some changes. Meanwhile, Webb said .the Review and Evaluation sub.. committee of the Steering Committee is at work on a recommendation for the best means of evaluating the work being done under the present plan. He said one proposal was to join in a regional evalu– ation center with all com– munity action programs in the region financing an evaluation, This was attacked by both city and county officials as being a self– evaluation. Webb said that was only one suggestion. Others be– fore the subcommittee, he said, are offers from five colleges to contract to make evaluations, as well as a proposal that a research staff be hi red to do the work. The Steering Committee board will act when the rec– ommendation is presented. Webb said a decision was needed about April 15. Flint Mayor Speaks Here Floyd McCree, Negro mayor of Flint, Mich., will be the keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the Urban League April 17, at the Jefferson High School auditorium. McCree pushed hard for the recently passed open housing bill in Flint and said he would resign as mayor if the ordinance did not pass. The ordinance did stand up under referendum balloting. The Oregon ADVANCE Portland, Oregon Thursday, February 29, 1968 Cities Demos Aslced To Worlc Hard The Democratic Party can build faith in the party among Black people by working harder to alleviate racial in– equities in the American society, Thomas Vickers, president of the Portland Branch of the National As– sociation for the Advance– ment of Colored People, told the Young Democrats Club at a recent meeting. He called for a strong civil rights plank in the Democratic Party Platform for 1968 and asked for suP– port of three NAACP– sponsored bills that will be introduced to the Oregon Legislature when it con– venes. Vicker s said the bills would add mandatory penal– ties for persons found guilty of discrimination in housing and public accommodations and place all employers under Fair Employment Practice Commission laws. Young Democrats shouta be interested in revising civil right laws, Vickers said, noting that Oregon has not passed a civil rights bill since 1961. He called upon the Young Democrats to SUP– port the Civil Rights legis– lation now before Congress. The bill would make it a federal offense to intimidate, molest or murder civil rights workers. Vickers was critical of the Portland Model School pro– gram and said the program was a segregated one and harmful to the students. Easter Dawn Work Nears A new housing improvement project in Albina will start in about a week, renovating the first of a series of sub– standard houses, Vernon Summers, presi– dent of Easter Dawn Proper– ties, Inc,, a non-profit corporation, told the Advance Times that work on Project No. 1 would start sometime the first week in March. Project No, 1 consists of five houses, located in scat– tered parts of the northeast district. When these homes have been renovated and brought up to standard, they will be put on the market for sale to low income families, They can be bought for a minimum $200 down payment. The plan also calls for houses to be available for rent or for leasing on the rent– subsidy program. The U. S, National Bank is the lending agency for the project. The FHA has ap– proved it. Interest rates will be 3 percent. Summers said all work would be done by local con– tractors, Area Goes to Polls Saturday Ca B •• -- Candidates I istened as details of Model Cities election were explained Monday evening. They are now campaigning for votes in Saturday's election. Citizens Campaign for Votes More than one-hundred residents of the 1'.orth/North– east district, incorporated in the Model Cities program, are candidates for the 16 places on the Citizens' Plan– ning Boa1,;, They met Monday evening and heard John Whitesides, Ellis Casson and Paul Schulze of the Model Cities staff out– line the general program. They follow that this Thursday evening with meet– ings at the grade schools in the district, giving voters an opportunity to become ac– quainted with them. Following are the names of all the candidates, listed by the school attendance area in which they will run. Their occupations are in– cluded in those instances where they provided them to the staff at the Monday meet– ing: BOISE SCHOOL R. L. Anderson, 4045 N, Missouri; Clifford E. Daniels, 73 N, E. Monroe, Retired; Matt Dishman, 4035 N, Com– mercial, Deputy Sheriff; Es– tella A, Ehelebe, 229 N, E, Fargo, Area Representative - Job Corps; Minnie Belle John– son, 623 N, Morris, House– wife; Ruth H, LaBate, 206 N, Shaver; AltMcNeal, 4327 N. E, Cleveland; Edward A, Mon– roe, Jr., 63 N, E, Cook, Re– tired military; Viktor Pache, 4057 N, Mississippi, Florist; Nathan J, Proby, 3927 N, Michigan; Samuel Johnson, 3526 N, E, Rodney, Youth Counselor; Walter Morris, 3232 N, Michigan; Rev. Roose– velt Rogers, 4057 N, Albina, Retire<;! Minister; J. Speigi– ner, 4107 N, Kerby, Electri– cal technician; Pleasant Session, 3715 1'. Commercial, Pullman porter; Thomas "Tom" Wilson, 3617 N. Haight, Job counselor. ELIOT SCHOOL Lawrence Alberti, 1759 N, Ross, Vehicle supervisor, postal; Dick Celsi, 2733 N, Kerby, Work counselor; Eu– gene Boyd, Jr., 1828 N. E. 1st, Minister; Mrs. Alex Cook, 2007 N. E, Rodney, House- wife; Alberta H. Hill, 126 J\i. E, Thompson; Rev. Edgar Jackson, 117 N, E, Stanton, Pastor; Mrs. Freda V. Mc– Ewen, 239 N. E. Graham; Mrs, Helen Medlock, 27 N, E, Sacramento, beautician; James H. Mitchell, 229 N, E. Monroe, Manager of Cleo– Lillian's Social Club; Gladys F, Smith, 27 N, E, Thomp– son, Housewife; Mrs. Rozelle J, Yee, 202 N, E. Graham; Mrs. Artie M, Williams, 1718 N, Benton. HUMBOLDT SCHOOL Wendell E, Brown, 220 N. Humboldt, Apt. 2; Lillie J, Calvert, 4607 N, Borthwick; Mrs. Willie Davis, 4734 N. Kerby; Fred Flowers, Jr., 339 N. Shaver; Mrs. Willie B. Jackson, 4320 N. E. Cleve– land (Withdrew); L. J. Kelley, 4536 N, Kerby; Larry Lakey, 4515 N, Borthwick(Withdrew); Azzree Lathan, 4716 N. Gantenbein, Pre-school teacher; Luther A. Lockett, 647 N. Sumner, Utility Work– er; James Loving, 4028 N. Michigan, Custodian; Vallie Manning, 5707 N. Haight, Jan– itorial Service; Percy N. Manuel, 4750 N, Kerby, Pro– duction Scheduler; Maye Beta Penton, 4603 N. Kerby; Hazel A, Polk, 4762 N. Vancouver, Bank Teller; Nonnan V. Schroeder, IO N. E. Ainsworth, Teacher; Mrs. Luther Strong, 5021 N, Williams. HIGHLAND SCHOOL Emmett J, Baskett, 4917 N, E, Mallory, Building con– tractor; George E, Carter III, 4222 N, E, 8th·; Doshie L, Clark, 835 N, E, Jarrett (Withdrew); Evelyn Crowell, 5036 N, E, 14th Place, Li– brarian; Darlene Y. Easley, 842 N, E. Killingsworth, Sec– retary; Andrew B, Haynes, Jr., 3945 N, E, Union; Faye E, Lyday, 4057 N, E, 7th; Curtis L. McDonald, 4924 N, E. Rodney; Matthew B, Maberry, 5328 N. E, Cleve– land; Otto G, Rutherford, 833 N, E. Shaver, Director of Housing at the Albina Neigh– borhood Service Center; R, William Rasmussen, 4722 N. E. 14th; Manuel Scott, 725 N, E, Sumner, Businessman; Albert B. Shankland, 1118 N, E, Emerson, Retired; Viv– ianne C, Smith, 640 N, E. Simpson; William E. Smith, (Continued on Page 6) McConnell Appointed By McCall CONRAD N. McCONNELL Conrad N. McConnell was recently named by Gov. Tom McCall to serve on the Ore– gon State Board of Health. The four year appointment will be effective March 6, McConnell is the chief phar– macist at St. Vincent Hospi– tal, Portland, where he has been employed for 10 years. He currently sexves as presi– dent of the Oregon Society of Hospital Pharmacists and was recently awarded thator– ganization' s first presidential plaque. Born in St. Louis, Mo., McConnell served in the U.S. Air Force, attended Colorado University in Boulder, Col. where he received a B,S, de– gree in pharmacy in 1956. He came to Portland in 1957 where he worked as a phar– macist at the Veterans Ad– ministration regional office for several months before his employment at St. Vincent. McConnell and his wife, Geraldine, have a son, Peter, 15, who attends North Catho– lic high school in Portland. Plan Board Race Draws Long List The election to pick 16 members of the Citizens Planning Board for the Albina Model Cities program will be held Saturday. Every resident of the area will be eligible to vote if he is at least 14 years old, or, if younger, is in high school. The 16 candidates will run in the attendance areas of eight schools and two will be elected from each. There are 103 candi– dates - the list is started in another column of this page - with nearly a score competing for the two places in some of the districts. Residents will vote at the school in whose attendance area they live. They are: Woodlawn, Vernon, Sabin, lr– ,1ngton, Highland, Humboldt, Eliot and Boise. The polls will open at 10 a.m. Saturday and remain open until 7 p.m. For those who may not be able to vote then, ballots may be cast Thursday or Friday at the Model Cities Office, 5329 N. E. Union. The League of Women Vot– ers will be in charge of the voting. It will handle the ballots and count them when the polls have closed. It will decide any questioned points, including whether a person is properly a resident of the area in which he seeks to vote. The address on a letter has been suggested as ade– quate proof of residence. Ellis Casson, deputy direc– tor of the Model Cities pro– gram, s&fd there could be no reasonable guess on how long it would take to count the ballots and find out who had been elected to the board. The time will depend on how many show up to vote. He said he was optimistic about a big turnout because of the large number of can– didates for places on the board. However, there has been no experience with the way the younger voters might turn out. Dropping the age level to 14 - in order to give young people a chance to say how they want their community to develop - is an experiment that might swell the vote total consider– ably. The candidates had a brief– ing Monday evening from the Model Cities staff. Thurs– day evening they will be at the schools in their districts where the people can meet them. After the people have elected 16 members of the board, the mayor will aP– point another 11 from the city at large to complete the group that will advise, and have--a veto, on how the Model City plan should be.