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About Opportunity news. (Woodburn, Oregon) 1965-1968 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1966)
Page 2 OPPORTUNITY NEWS, Friday, M ay 13, W HAT IS THE VALLEY MIGRANT LEAGUE DO ING THIS WEEK? O P P O R T U N IT Y (Continued from page 1) N E W S Driver training classes meet Mon day and Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Woodburn Center. The class in structor is David Martinez, VISTA Volunteer. * Vol. 2, No. 19 Friday, M ay 13, 1966 This newspaper Is a publication of the VALLEY MIGRANT LEAGUE P. O. Box 128 Woodburn. Oregon Valley Migrant League phone 981-3171 Newspaper phone 981-9711 Will P. Pape, Executive Director Gary Lansing, Assistant Director * * . * Don Wilcox, Editor Rick Simon, Assistant Editor Priscilla Carrasco, Editorial Assistant and Circulation Manager Samuel Hernandez Translation Assistant Judi Jarvill Secretary * * * OPPORTUNITY NEWS is published weekly for free distribution to seasonal farm workers of this area, and to per sons Interested in the activities of the VALLEY MIGRANT LEAGUE. “We must open the doors of oppor tunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.” Lyndon B. Johnson President United States “Surely, it is not beyond our re sources nor our ingenuity to include in our war against poverty these always ‘excluded’ Americans (the migrants)." Sargent Shriver Director Office of Economic Opportunity The VALLEY MIGRANT LEAGUE, sponsor of this newspaper, is a part of the President’s War on Poverty and is funded by the Office of Economic Op portunity, Washington, D. C. HO W M UCH DO MIGRANT WORKERS EARN? In a recent-Sunday issue of the Oregon Statesman there appeared an article by Al Den Beste entitled "Poverty War Helps Valley Mig rants." Many persons have spoken words of praise for this article. One of the statements which Den Beste made about migrant workers was, "No official records are avail able of what these workers make." Jn most kinds of Work, the earn ings of laborers are well known. But it is difficult to gather accurate statistics on how much the migran? worker and his family earn. Per haps it w ill never be possible to as semble exact information on these earnings. But the labor officials of the state and also of the nation w ill surely find it useful to have close estimates of these earnings. We may expect the state of Oregon to find ways to guage these earnings. How much the migrant worker is able to earn—how much he does earn—makes a difference to all of us.-D.W. LETTER RECEIVED FROM GRACIELA DE TREVINO (Continuación de la p. 1 Clases de preparación pa examen de choferes se reun lunes y jueves a las 7 p.m. Centro de Woodburn. El pr de la clase es el Voluntar VISTA, David Martínez. Reading and w riting classes are held in the St. Paul Grade School. They meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Tues day and Thursday. George Ham,- berger, VML research director, teaches this class. Clases de escribir y leer lugar en el St. Paul Grade Se Se reúne a las 7 p.m. los martes, y jueves. El profesor d clase es George Hamberge director de "research" del V/V The Independence VML Home making Class had 18 visitors last week. They were ladies from the Falls City Home Extension Club. The purpose of their visit was not to teach, but rather to learn. The ladies of the Independence class taught the Falls City ladies how to make tacos, enchiladas, tortillas, and chicken rice casserole. La clase Hogareña de Ind dence tuvo 18 visitantes la se pasada. Fueron las Señoras del de Extensión de Falls City, de su visita no fue a enseñar,® aprender. Las damas de la cía Independence enseño a las d de Falls City como hacer enchiladas, tortillas, y s o p fl gallina. Dear Mr. Pape, This letter is written in hope of being published in the. V.M.L. News, mainly because I wish to greet all my friends, V.M.L. staff and migrant friends. To those friends to whom I promised to write, I .wish to let them know, that for health reasons I was unable to do so, but I w ill start writing you all now that I'm able. To you sir, and the V.M.L. staff, I wish you the best of luck throughout the coming years, arid I thank you for the newspaper. Salem Center starts new eli Keep up the good work and keep smiling, these were your words, with which you greeted me, if you w ill remember. Thanks again. Sincerely, Grace L. Trevino 538 Allen Parkway Village Houston, Texas. 77012 JOB CORPS FRIEND WRITES Dear Mr. Chris Bernard, I read the "Opportunity News" and found under the word heading "SEA and MICAP invite CAC; meet ing OK—Independence": Jose Garza, president of the Spanish American Organization of Independence, Joseph Urso, president of the Polk-Marion County Community Action, Eva Garcia, president of the Women's Auxiliary, and you, Chris Ber nard, as Area Supervisor of the Independence Opportunity Cen ter. I am having very great opportun ity from the training that I'm get ting. I am training myself for Radio & TV repair. Chris, I never had met many people as in Camp Gary Job Corp Center as I see them daily. Your great friend, Arturo Vasquez LATIN-AMERICAN DANCE When: May 21st, 1966. Where: Laurel I.O.O.F. Build ing Association (In the St. John's district.) Portland, Oregon. Music by "Conjunto Salinas" Time: 8:00 in the evening. The President who is putting on the d a n c e is Mr. Berrera. It's $1.25 for a single person, 75c for teen-agers and $2.25 for a couple. There w ill be Mexican food and other refreshments prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ruiz. MEMBERS of the new Spanish Club, L. to R: Reginaldo Ortega, Virgilio Abrego, M ax Alvarado, Teodoro Morales and Eustaquio Reyes listen QUENTIN ROWLAND, left, o f ® Employment and Sam H e rn a ® VML, discuss our common g o flt QUENTIN ROWLAND, iz q u B to Quentin Rowland of the State del Servicio de Empleo, y ® Hernández, VML, duscuten n u ^ B Employment Service. tros fines mutuos. The Valley Migrant League Op portunity Center in Salem has start ed a Spanish American Club. The twenty members attend regular Sunday meetings. El Centro de Oportunidad^^ Valley Migrant League de Sale® empezado un Club Latino A ® cano. Los 20 miembros asistan® reuniones todos los domingo j f Recently Mr. Quentin Rowland of the Oregon State Employment Service met with the club. They dis cussed finding new jobs for sea sonal farm workers and the possi bility of opening seasonal farm la bor offices. Mr. Rowland stressed the fact that the Employment Ser vice by law has to show preference to a veteran over a non-veteran. This is when both men are equally able to do the same job. After Mr. Rowland spoke, there was a question and answer period. Sam Hernandez, assistant supervis or for VML in Salem, was the trans lator. The Spanish American club has invited several speakers from d if ferent government agencies. The members w ill receive first hand in formation about how the govern ment can help the seasonal farm worker. Recientemente el Sr. Qu® Rowland del Servicio de Enripie® Estado de Oregon habló al K Discutieron el problema de eH» trar trabajo nuevo para trabaja® de agricultura y la posibilida®^ iniciar oficinas de trabajo d e ® ; cultura. El Sr. Rowland acce®; que el Servicio de Empleo seg®fe .ley tiene que dar preferencia® ' veteranos. Entonces, cuando u B erano y un no veterano con h®as dades iguales hacen aplicación® el mismo trabajo, el veterano K e a recibir. e j ■ Después de que habló el Sr.Dn land hubo preguntas. Sam He dez, sub-supervisor del VMv1s Salem, hizo las traducciones. De El Club Latino Americano by A vitado a varias personas de d is ® “ agencias del gobierno a hábil■ Los miembros recibirán inforn® de primera sobre como el gob® U: puede ayudar el trabajador cfc,f. Q ricultura. f.!
