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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.!