Students study
Hitler propaganda
by Joanie Kramer
“Some students around West
Linn need to be shook up,”
frowned Allen Webb, social
studies/English teacher.
Webb is teaching his Mass
Media classes how to understand
the society through Hitler pro
paganda studies. “Hitler had
ways to get to people,” he com
mented.
He added how students
around WLHS get caught up in
such things as fashionable
clothing and what they’re going
to do for the weekend. They
look right through starving peo
ple around the world. “Students
don’t look ahead to see if they’ll
always have food. They just
assume,” said Webb.
The students have read “The
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”
by William L. Shirer. They’ve
also watched the film “Hitler’s
Germany” which showed ex
amples of propaganda.
Mass Media student Jodi
Padrta did a report on the Hitler
propaganda subject. After
reading the book and watching
the film Padrta said, “You could
see what was actually happen
ing.”
AuCoin endorses jobs bill
for
unemployed
youth
WASHINGTON, D.C. - and 25 would be eligible for
Year-round and summer jobs
are in store for unemployed
Oregon youths if a bill backed by
Congressman Les AuCoin is ap
proved by the Senate and signed
by President Reagan.
AuCoin said that if all goes
well, jobs could begin this sum
mer in the American Con
servation Corps. By an over
whelming vote of 301 to 87, the
House of Representatives ap
proved the legislation on March
1 and sent it to the senate.
Teenage unemployment is 22
percent in Oregon.
“For the sake of so many
young people in Oregon who
are eager for jobs and for the
sake of our public lands and
resources where so much work is
needed, the sooner this bill
becomes law, the better,” Au
Coin said.
The American Conservation
Corps is patterned after the
Civilian Conservation Corps,
which Congress created in the
1930s to combat widespread
unemployment during the Great
Depression. One of the most
successful jobs programs ever
established, the CCC put
thousands of jobless Americans
to work building roads, bridges
and improving public resource
lands when no other jobs were
available.
During the 1970s, similiar job
programs — the Youth Con
servation Corps and Young
Adult Conservation Corps —
were in effect. Both have been
terminated under the Reagan
Administration. AuCoin said
studies of the two programs have
shown that for every dollar
spent, more than a dollar’s worth
of benefits were gained.
Nevertheless, the White
House may try to block the new
jobs program, AuCoin warned.
Administration officials have call
ed it a program of “make-work”
and “leaf raking.”
“It is neither of these things,”
AuCoin said. “It is critical work
that will pay dividends to our
country by maintaining and im
proving the productivity of our
resource lands.”
Under the American Con
servation Corps, young men and
women between the ages of 15
and 21 would be eligible for the
summer job program, while
those between the ages of 16
year-round jobs. The bill also
specifies that youths cannot be
paid less than the federal
minimum wage of $3.35 an
hour, AuCoin said, and requires
that special consideration for
jobs be given to the disadvantag
ed, and to areas of high
unemployment.
In Oregon, the estimated
unemployment rate among
young people in the 16-to-24
age group averaged over 22 per
cent last year, AuCoin said. Thai
was nearly twice as high as the
unemployment rate for all age
groups, which averaged 11.5
percent last year.
AuCoin said the kinds of pro
jects for which young people
would be hired include:
• Forestry conservation (such
as tree planting and erosion con
trol), rangeland conservation,
and improving fish and wildlife
habitat;
• Developing, maintaining
and improving recreational
areas;
• Projects to revive urban
areas and preserve historic and
cultrual sites;
• Maintaining and improving
roads, trails, streams, lakes, har
bors and ports, and pollution
control projects;
• Erosion, flood, drought and
storm damage assistance and
control;
• Fire prevention and control
of insects;
• Energy conservation pro
jects.
Besides putting an emphasis
on areas of high unemployment,
the bill specifies that preference
be given to projects that provide
long-term benefits to the public,
meaningful work experience to
the young people participating,
and work that can be planned
and put into effect promptly.
AuCoin said the beneficial ef
fects of reducing youth
unemployment while carrying
out critical conservation work on
our public lands will be even
greater in Oregon if a similar
youth jobs bill now being con
sidered by the Oregon
Legislature is passed. The state
bill, which would be to establish
an Oregon Civilian Conservation
Corps for youths between the
ages of 17 and 23, is aimed at
400 to 500 jobs on state con
servation projects.
DID YOU
KNOW
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by Heidi VonTagen
Canned
Food
Needed
The need for emergency food is immediate:
- In December, unemployment was 10.8 percent in metropolitan
Portland
In the year 2000, the first - Budget
cuts in food stamps and other social service programs,
February 30th will exist. It will be
along with unemployment compensation running out, have
a leap century and will not occur
caused more Oregonians than ever to seek emergency food aid
again for another 100 years. If a - Holiday
donations to helping agencies do not last into the spring
child was born on that day, it
summer months
would not be legally one year old - Over and 100,000
people in the tri-county area are now living in
for another 100 years.
poverty
- The demand for emergency food in the three counties has risen
over 50 percent in the last year
Where the Food Goes
If a cannon ball was dropped
into the deepest part of the The helping agencies which distribute food collected by Project Se
Pacific Ocean, it would not cond Wind to individuals and families in need, include: Snow-CAP,
touch bottom for about three Francis Center, St. Vincent DePaul, Kendall Center, FISH, Tualatin
valley Food Center, LIFE Center, Molalla Service Center, and
hours.
Salvation Army Family Services.
Stop Hunger Now!
Exactly one percent of the soft Project Second Wind involves students, local business people, ser
drink “Coca Cola” is made up of vice clubs, churches, youth and other community organizations in
a secret ingredient that is known collecting food by going door-to-door and at drop-off sites in schools,
by only 10 people in the entire businesses, grocery stores, and apartment buildings. In 1982, 80
area schools helped collect over 70,000 lbs. of canned food. In
world.
response to rising demand for emergency food, Second Wind’s 1983
goal is to involve 100 schools in collecting 120,000 pounds of
desperately needed food.
If a dime was dropped from
You Can Help
the top of the Empire State
Building it would fall to earth We need your help! If you can provide transportation, want to go
with such speed and velocity that door-to-door in your neighborhood, or can help organize collecting
if it landed on an unassuming canned food donations at your business or local grocery, call the
pedestrian’s head, it could shat Food Bank at 223-1050. Project Second Wind is May 2-9, 1983.
ter his skull.
718 West Burnside
Portland, Oregon 223-1050
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Walker new
national
champion
by Kris Warner
photo by Greg Wahl-Stevens
Board
discusses
news
also be leaving at the close of the
by Joanie Kramer
West Linn High School’s most
recent school board meeting,
April 14, covered some very im
portant news concerning those
students who won’t be returning
next year.
The school board meeting also
discussed leaving staff members.
Curriculum/operations Vice-
Principal Ernie Gettel is planning
to retire after 35 years of service
to the school, students, and
community. The board accepted
his request to retire early with
much gratitude.
After 19 years of teaching
language arts, Phillis Swank will
year.
Tom Green is not returning
next year, but he is not retiring.
He is merely taking a one year’s
leave. Green, social studies
teacher, will be on a bicycle tour
of study through 47 countries.
Next year’s school budget was
adopted by the school board
with no comments from the
public, and a May 17 election on
the levy amount of $1,940,351
was authorized. This is about 4
percent lower than the 1982-
1983 budget, but it does meet all
guidelines made by the board
and budget committee.
by Staci Johnson
The project will be finished by
the end of April. As the girls’
locker room approaches com
pletion, consiruction of the boys’
locker room can begin.
Sophomore Robin Restock
says, “Maybe this sudden urge to
improve facilities will spur on
more excitement to improve
other lacking facilities at WLHS,
such as a needed gym or football
field.”
Athletes acquire new locker room
To the pleasure of female
athletes, students, and PE
teacher and coach Pia Leonard,
a new girls’ locker room is now
getting the finishing touches.
The new locker room will con
tain a team room, a much larger
office for PE teachers, many
more lockers, and more needed
space.
Trials rider junior Vance
Walker traveled to Texas for
three of the eight rounds of Na
tional Trials competition. The
trials were held April 9, 10 and
16 at San Antoino, Austin and
Gainsville, Texas.
Walker placed first in each of
the three rounds with scores
tower than his tough com
petitors, Mike West of Ten
nessee, and Dean Dorcas of
Washington. “My competition
was really tough so I was not sur
prised to see how close the
scores were,” stated Walker.
West was rated as Trials Cham
pion last year and Dorcas was
rated fourth.
“The courses were really quite
easy for national championship
rounds,” stated Walker. He con
tinued saying, “I had no idea
how I was doing until the scores
were posted since everyone was
doing so well.”
Although there are five more
rounds still to ride, as Walker
stated, “The motorcycle
magazines are already naming
me as National Champion. I just
hope I don’t let them down. I am
still healing from tendonitis so I’ll
just give it my best shot.” The re
maining five rounds will be held
in May and June in California,
Arizona, and on the East Coast.
This is Waker’s last year to
compete in the high school divi
sion. “I have been number two
for two years in the nation, so I
hope to enter the next division,
Championship, as the High
School Division Champion,”
stated Walker.