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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1970)
.</f Northwest's Newest — Most Provocative — Newspaper This is your paper, because you have demanded it. V o l. 1 No. 6 Portland, Ore. - Something of interest to everyone. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Thursday, Nov. 5, 1970 10 Per Copy P.o.l.c "cue heLp ouRseloes” ‘ sc I f help’ Key to employment growth Ls Portland O pportunities In d u s tria li zation Center, headed by Executive D ire cto r Eugene Boyd, Jr. Patterned after pioneer com munity-based job trainin g and devel opment program in Philadelphia, POIC plans expanded ties w ith private sector business and industry in m etropolitan Portland. Center provides an open door Portland’s Opportunities In- d u s t r a l l z a t l o n Center, Inc. (POIC) an organization which has been patterned from the Opportunities Industrialization Center founded In Philadelphia in 1964 by the Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, has now been op- e r a t iv e for two years. Rev. E u g e n e Boyd, J r. is Executive D ire cto r. The non-profit P.O.I.C. o r ganization is exclusively for disenfranchised people who are out of work o r out of school, and who come from Impoverished environment and are not equlped to benefit from regular occupa tional o r educational training programs. The program is structured to include such things as counsel ing, guidance, testing, basic e d u c a t io n , social adjustment, job development and placement - with follow-up service being provided along with other con structed o r special services ta i lored to meet the needs of indi vidual enrollees. P.O.I.C, is operated mainly for adults who have been denied, for whatever reason, the bene fits of education o r training. Believing that no one is too old to learn o r to begin, the up grading process P.O.I.C slants its program to this type of edu cation In an e d u c a t i o n a lly oriented society. P.O.I.C. currently has a con tract with Concentrated Em ployment Program (CEP) whereby re fe rra ls are accepted from this source alone. Rev. Boyd, the D irector says, how ever that plans are being laid now to extend the services of P.O.I.C. to private industry. The student who comes to P . O . I . C . has learned, through many failures, that employers are constantly searching for better qualified workers; thus at his wits end the student turns as a last resort to P.O.I.C. The P.O.I.C. staff Is well qualified to receive such a per son as an enrollee because the members of the staff have also suffered the same disenfran chisement at sometime o r other. The P.O.I.C. student comes from any and a ll types of impov erished people. The students do not want to be labeled o r characterized o r labeled-hard core - m ilitant - white - black - chlnco, they sim ple want to be known as people who are trying hard to better themselves by being able to get and hold a job they can be proud of. The P.O.I.C. student is work ing hard to become an accepted member of society with dignity and pride. P.O.I.C. wants busi ness and Industry to give these people an opportunity to try th e ir new wings. As Rev. Boyd states, ‘ ’ How w ill they know they can fly unless they have the chance to t r y . ” The non-profit P.O.I.C. O r ganization is part of the nation- al-international O.I.C. fam ily that is operated from Alaska to S o u th Am erica and A frica to Hawaii. The local P.O.I.C. is a state chartered organization that was organized by a group of m inis ters of the Albina M inisterial Association (when Bishop L. McKinney was president) con cerned with the welfare and enrichment of life for a ll the c it izens of our community. N E W E M A N U E L E X T E N D E D C AR E, w ill hold its open house Thursday, Nov. 22 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Emanuel Extended Care invites public viewing Some 40 people - fu ll o r part- tim e - went on the neighborhood payroll th s Fall with the opening of the new Emanuel Extended Care, a $2 m illio n addition to the hospital’s health care cam pus now being developed. A public Open House is plan ned In the unit Nov. 22 from 1:30 to 3:30. Extended Care is part of the ’ ’progressive care” Idea in which patients get the kind of specialized treatment they need as they make progress in recov- ering from the illness o r d is patients exercise. A special ease which brought them to the ’ ’ s w i n g ” lifts patients out of hospital. Cost is substantially wheelchairs and into the water. less in Extended Care than in T h e building is two blocks the general hospital because north of the present general hos less nursing care is required. p ita l. By 1975, a new and Patients help themselves get larger hospital building w ill b e t t e r . The new building has stand on the block between, and equipment to help get muscles the three buildings w ill be con back into use so that patients nected by tunnels and hallways can get as much as possible above the present street. back to "n o rm a l daily liv in g ." Local residents interested in Popular equipment includes a seeing the new Extended Care special * ’ s w im m in g pool," building are invited to p a rtic i where trained employes help pate in tours planned for the Open House on Sunday, Nov. 22, according to Edward Schott, director of the unit. Voters make few city hall changes Only one new face w ill be on the Portland City Council when it meets after Jan. 1. The elec tion Tuesday was a day for in cumbents, although some of th e m were only recently ap pointed to f ill vacancies. Neil Goldschmidt w ill be the entirely new council member. The 30-year old lawyer who won over Shirley Field w ill be the youngest city c o m m is s io n e r since the Rose City adopted the commission form of government in 1913. Connie McCready, form er leg islator and newspaperwoman who was o rig in a lly appointed to h e r position, defeated Doug Baker, newspaper columnist on leave. Francis J. Ivancle, seeking a s e c o n d term , defeated Tom Walsh, to be the one long fa m i lia r face around city hall. Lloyd E. Anderson, another incumbent appointee, scored a substantial win over James M. Gleason. Voters returned a ll congres sional incumbents in the four Oregon D istricts keeping an even party division with Repub licans elected being Wendell Wyatt, firs t d is tric t; A1 Ullm an, second d is tric t; Edith Green, Portland's th ird d is tric t; and John Dellenback, for the south ern Oregon fourth d is tric t. Governor Tom McCall won over Robert Straub, Democrat and state treasurer making his second bid for the highest exe cutive post. N o rm a n Nilsen was elected for another term as labor com m issioner defeating his Repub lican opponent Robert Knudson. Financial measures carrying the suggestion of taxes were un popular. A victim of voter re jection was a city Income tax proposed for the firs t tim e. Courthouse bonds appeared to be losing, but by a sm all margin on earliest returns. Portland- Itock consolidation carried by a substantial margin. PCC enrolls 17,231 for state high Portland Community College now has a total enrollm ent of 17,231 on its fourth week atten dance report according to sum mary given to the l>oard Monday evening by D r. Amo De Be m a r- dis, president. Conversion of the head county figures to full time equivalent students the enrollment is about 8,000 full time students. The largest increase in the enrollment was in technical-vo cational and community educa tion departments with lib e ra l arts courses for college trans fer stabalized. The Cascade Center in north east Portland accounts for atiout 600 of the enrollment total. The head count figure gives Portland Community College the largest enrollment among state institutions of higher learning.
