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OPPORTUNITY NEWS, Friday, July 15, 1966
Pag© 2
VAIL adult education looks to new job opportunitie
By Don Wilcox
If 1000 migrant and other farm
workers learn new skills and get
better jobs during the next 18
months, our nation w ill be a little
stronger. According to Sarah Hall
O P P O R T U N I T Y
N EW S
Vol. 2, No. 28
Friday, July 15, 1966
Goodwin, director of VML adult
education, the Valley Migrant Lea
gue has been planning since last
March fo r a program that w ill a-
chieve this goal. This is a part of the
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
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long range plan of the VML adult
education department, in response
to many requests by VML staff
They w ill help farm workers f
job training and better jobs.
members and farm workers.
Now the first step has come. The
Office of Economic Opportunity of
Washington has granted $234,490
for an 18 month program. The pro
gram is called Job Development,
Counseling
and
Placement.
Bob
Wynia of the VML adult education
department has been named voca
tional coordinator by W ill Rape,
executive director of VML. Six job
counselors and seven counselor
aides w ill be employed. They w ill
w ork in each opportunity center.
Boxing classes are popular at Eola
DAY CARE, CLOTHING NEEDED
Can you give shoes, sweaters,
clothing of any kind for some little
tots at Dayton Day Care?
It's an urgent request, says Ru
ben Contreras, supervisor of the
VML Opportunity Center at Day-
ton. Anything at all that might fit
little children, from infants up to
the age of five, w ill be useful.
Day Care at the Dayton Gram
mar School, Dayton, w ill receive
your donations w ith appreciation.
MIGRANT FAMILIES
NEED MATTRESSES
Migrant families in the Yamhill
county areas need mattresses, espe
cially fu ll size mattresses for dou
ble beds. If you can donate a mat
tress, please notify the Dayton Op
portunity Center.
partment w ill also assume V
■a
w ork loads. Lane Williams wi
Be
the consultant for the teach
iris
staff of Spoken English, G.E,
Ch
and Basic Education classes.
ime
This newspaper w ill bring enti
additional stories about Job Dei
ad i
opment, Counseling and Placem |r<
as the program develops.
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AT THE DAYTONA THIS WEB b
Paul Ratliff, owner of the D
tona Theater, Dayton, sends us
Don Wilcox, Editor
Rick Simon,
Assistant Editor
Priscilla Carrasco, Editorial Assistant
and Circulation Manager
Julie Behar, Editorial Assistant
Leonora Guinazzo
Samuel Hernandez
Translations
Judi Jarvill
Secretary
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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
I “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 toy the Office of Economic Op
portunity, Washington, D.C.
As Wynia turns to these
time responsiblities, other mbps
bers of the VML adult educationbnl
announcement: The double feati
for this Saturday, July 16, at 7
and Sunday, 17, at 2:30 wi
SIGUIENDO PISTAS, with Adrij
Welter and Armando Silvestre;
LOS APUROS DE DOS GALLI
with
Miguel
Aceves Mejia
Marco Antonio Muniz.
THE SMILING MAN in the center
of the picture is John Smith, Mc
Minnville, a former Golden Gloves
boxer. He has volunteered to or
ganize boxing classes at Eola Vil
lage.
By Bob Watt, VISTA
John Smith, an interested citi
zen from McMinnville, has started
a boxing class at the recreation hall
at Eola Villuage. The class meets
twice a week and so far the atten
dance has grown at each meeting.
Smith is with the Soil Conserva
tion Service of McMinnville and is
a former heavyweight Golden
Gloves boxer. Bob Watt, VISTA Vo
lunteer, assists Smith with the class.
They both hope to have many gra
duates by the end of the summer.
The class is very popular in Eola
Village.
The gloves were donated by Mr.
Worthman of the First National
Bank of McMinnville.
Paul Ratliff, proprietario del C
Eh
Daytona de Daytona, nos ha m
dado el siguente noticiario: El f
grama doble este sábado, el
de julio a las 7:30 y el dominge
17, a las 2:30 será — SIGUIENg
PISTAS con Adriana Welter y
mando Silvestre; y LOS APUROS
DOS GALLOS con Miguel Ace
Mejía y Marco Antonio Muñiz.
Texas teachers tour d ay care
By Julie Behar
Two teachers from McAllen,
Texas, Mrs. Cynthia Love and Miss
Minerva Castro, are touring the
day care and summer schools of
VML as well as other summer care
and educational programs for mi
grant children in Oregon. They
teach at the Central Elementary
School, a migrant school in Mc
Allen, Texas.
Mrs. Love and Miss Castro are
one of twelve teams touring the
migrant programs for children in
12 states (Oregon, Indiana, Idaho,
Ohio, Michigan, Colorado, Wiscon
sin, California, Washington, Minne
sota, Nebraska, and Illinois). Their
goal is "to correlate our w inter pro
gram with the summer programs in
these 12 states," explained Mrs.
Love.
In 1963, the Central Elementary
School in McAllen was one of five
migrant schools in Texas that had a
6-month program w ith a longer
daily schedule (8 hours) and fewer
holidays. Today there are 40 such
schools. This 6-month program
gives the migrant children an edu
cation equal to the instructional
hours required in a 9 month school
year.
"So far we have visited Dayton,
Independence, North Plains and
Woodburn, and we are very im
pressed w ith the day care that
VML provides," said Mrs. Castro.
"It's just wonderful," added Mrs.
Love.
A t the end of the interview Mrs.
Love volunteered, "You know, your
newspaper influenced my coming
n,
c
to Oregon a great deal. I read
from cover to cover and I was v
impressed. . .Yes, we were V
fortunate to be able to come
Oregon."
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