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About Oregon mirror. (Portland, Oregon) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1962)
R E F L E C T IN G VOL. A C H IE V E M E N T S , IN TERESTS PORTLAND, OREGON 11 N O . 8 S a f e w a y h ir es n e w CHECKER AND PROGRESS W e d n e s d a y , M a y 9. F iv e Cents 1962 New Club Crowns Queen c Verna Smith, 446 N. E. Fargo Street, moved here nine years ago from New York City where she was employed fo r five years by the Lord and T aylor department store. A fter arriving Portland,M rs. Smith was em ployed by Lipman-Wolfe Company and by J. J. Newberry Company. She was employed by Safeway Stores, Incorporated, on April 27, 1962 as a checker in the store located at 2432 N. E. Union Avenue. Mrs. Smith has three children, Jacquelyn, age 7; Randy, age 5; and Joycelyn, age 3. Pictured above with new employee is M rs. Ruth Reed. FACTS ON SCHOOL LEVY ISSUE GROWTH IN ELEM ENTARY SCHOOL ENROLLM ENT During the next ten years the overall growth in the number of children in the lementary schools w ill level off. There are some areas in Portland, such as the southwest, north, and southeast, where school population w ill con tinue to increase. As an example, there is presently an overcapacity in the southwest area. By 1965- 66 the capacity of elementary schools in southwest Portland will be exceeded by 685 pupils. In the north section of the city it will be necessary to continue using em er gency World War II buildings to handle the increase. In some e le mentary schools courses in in dustrial arts, home economics, and special education have already been discontinued in order to pro vide additional space. OVERCROWDED CLASSROOMS With the elementary school en rollment leveling off, it w ill be possible in some schools to de crease class size. This school year 792 classrooms exceed the State Standard of 30 pupils per classroom. The School District receives over $7,500,000 of its operating income from the state through the Basic School Support Fund. The receipt of this money is contingent upon meeting the State Standards. Periodically the State Department evaluates all the schools in the state, and the last report, dated February 1962, in dicated that of our 87 elementary schools, 35 were rated substandard because of class size. Another problem is the matter of providing classes for the mentally retarded children. By 1964 the District w ill be required by state law to have classes fo r all mentally re tarded children in the School Dist rict. Presently, in some schools no mentally retarded programs can be provided because of lack of space. This is also true of the special programs such as remedial reading and speech correction. It has been necessary to eliminate industrial arts and home eco nomics in some elementary schools in order to provide more classrooms. LADIES ADMITTED FREE (WEDNCSDA r NIGHT IS ' L adíes Night")- POS T TIMI 7 30 EVERY RACE A QUIN ELLA Ample free parking. Racing every Monday, Wednesday, Fri day and Saturday through June 9th Phone BU 5 9144 for reservations / riviullw homr-oirnrtl PORTLAND " Photo by BALTZKGAR A newly organinized club, “ KINGS and QUEENS” , composed of young m arried couples had it’ s first affair Sunday, May 6, held at the Cotton Club. Queen Maxine I was chosen from the members of the club for her poise, personality and ingenuity to reign over the club's first May C ele bration. The Queen, Mrs. John Dyton, was also presented with a dozen and a half red roses. The club was presented with two very lovely center pieces from the Royal Esquire Club of Portland, and they has as their M istress of Ceremonies gracious Mrs. Kathryn Williams. It was a colorful and gala affair. The members wore the club’ s colors, red and gold. The club has only been organized since January of 1962. It’ s purpose is “ Society and plans to become Charitable.” It’ s Motto is: “ Do the best you can with the few tools you have to work with.” Also the club’s flow er is the Red Rose Bud. Members of the club are: Mr. and Mrs. John H. Dyton, M r. and Mrs. Levi R. Elliot, Mr. and Mrs. John K eller, Mr. and Mrs. Robert P erry, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Phillips, and Mr. and M rs. Robert Washington. The club plans to invite new couples in. Photo by BAlT'/liGAR OTIONNELL SEEKS RE ELECTION John J. (Jack) O’ Donnell, com pleting his twelfth year as Auditor of Multnomah County, seeks ré élection on his record in office. As the "Watch Dog” over the expenditures of County funds, and Auditor of the financial records of all County departments and divi sions, John J. (Jack) O’ Donnell has modernized his office pro cedure to curtail expenses. The progressive changes have won nationwide approval among Gov ernmental experts. Said the Municipal Finance News of Chicago: The new system in stalled “ resulted in substantial savings in material and tim e.” Other savings have been made during John(Jack)0’ Donners three terms as Auditor: centralized pay roll systems; punch-card, group- control of County owned property; internal audit program; and a con tinuous improvement of accounting and inrernal audit procedures, that has also won commendations in the independent Auditor's Multnomah County “ Report of Examination” of June 30, 1960. The March third current edition of the Oregon Voter carried an article of improvements in Multnomah County’ s Book keeping and Auditing procedure made by Auditor O'Donnell and commends his annual report for "fin e chart” and “ compact fo rm .” John J. (Jack) O’ Donnell is qualified fo r re-election to the position of County Auditor by training as an accountant, and as administrator through experience. John J. (Jack)O'Donnell is active in community affairs since re turning from active service with the U. S. Marines in World Warll. Me is currently Public Infoi mation Chief for Multnomah C ivil Defense; also Past Chairman for County Government participation in the United Fund, United States “ E” Savings Bonds, American Red Cross Blood Bank, and March of Dimes drives. He has been active in Youth groups through the Boy Scouts of America and Y M C A programs. He is a member of the Elks. He and his wife, M ane, reside at 7626 S. W. View Point T e rra ce, Multnomah County, Port land, Oregon. His pledge for re-election: “ I will continue to serve as County Auditor with honesty and energy. I « i l l always protect the interest of the taxpayers and guard the handling of their money.” R E -E LE C T JOHN J. (J A C K )O ’ - DONNELL COMM ITTEE: Julia Brown, Martha Pazina, llah M c- Alpine, Elsie Welby, Helen Eggi- son. Gold Seger, Mildred Burns, John Sayler, Jr., DanChristianson, John Gillard, L. D. Peterkin, Ray Sweeney, je r r y Thorn, P. G. Moore, Lorenz Brunn, M r. and M rs. Dan F raser. jv jpm ■■■■ l *. v i j \ 1 ■|| flPP »»> . Photo by BALTZEGAR Bro. Thomas W ilbom ,Jr., Vice- President of Portland Elks Shrine Department was appointed P re s i dent, upon the resignation of Bro. Joseph Walters. Bro. Wllbom holds many titles. He was appointed Recording Secre tary of N. W. S. Association, by the Grand Exalted Ruler Hobson Reynolds. He is Vice Chief Antler of past Exalted Rulers’ Council number 29B, and past Esteemed Leading Knight of B illy Webb Lodge number 1050.