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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1970)
WELFARE “Open Wider, Please ,5 New PCC Slogan PORTLAND/OBSERVER Dec. 24, 1970 By W ILLIAM DEIZ The Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives - a Republican — recently announced the appointment of a task force to take a "hard-nosed lo o k " at the welfare situation In the state. Robert Smith of Hums says there are currently 100- thousand welfare recipients In 'Now, If you’ ll Just open a bit wider, please," is the often-re peated phrase at Portland Com munity College dental hygienist classes in the Failing Building. A Whole group of dental hy- g le n e technology students are operating in a public service p r o g r a m designed to bring teeth-cleaning and fluoridation treatment to selected children and youth, at low cost. The students gain invaluable experience, under the close su pervision of highly-skilled and qualified instructors, and tlie patients get im portant dent J care not otherwise easily avail able to them. The new public service pro gram is an outgrowth of PCC's fir s t year in the new Dental Hy giene Technology p r o g r a m , after several years of training dental assistants, who do c h a ir- side work, and dental techni cians, who make bridgework and dental plates. Many of the children served in the new PCC program come from public Itousing and from re fe rra ls by public health agen cies, on a minimal fee. The program is open to the public, including adults, at a regular fee of |4.00. The program operates Tues days and Thursdays from 8 a.m. t il 8 p.m., in Failing H all, Room 1A, at 049 S.W. Porter Street, except during school holidays. D r. Lawrence S. E llis is Coordinator of the program for PCC. Information about the pro gram is available by calling 244-6111, X 313. Carlos •Body and Fender Repair •M o s t reaso n ab le shop in to w n 2 8 7 -8 5 2 9 2 6 0 9 N . V ancou ver A ve. Portland, O re. BONDED IN S U R E O J pacific coast I P A IN T IN G COM PANY C O M M E R C IA L fi, R E S ID E N T IA L P A IN T IN G 3 0 3 / N E UNION AVENUE • PORTLAND. OREGON 97212 287 2331 PORTLAND CLEANING WORKS NORTH & N.E. PORTLAND ONE DAY SERVICE KNIT BLOCKING OUR SPECIALITY W ILLIAM R. DEIZ Oregon and he fears the number w i l l continue to grow to the point that Oregon may become a "w e lfare sta te " by the end of the 70* s. In a speech to the General Association of Contractors meeting in Portland, Smith out lined various abuses of the wel fare system by certain re cip i ents, but he failed to point out that most studies show welfare In Oregon serves a real need for nearly A LL of the re c ip i ents; and not, as he would im ply, is it a luxury. Just what Smith means by a "w elfare sta te " he didn’t say, but his Implication Is that the numbers of recipients alone have a lot to do with his defini tion; and that the reason for the Increasing numbers Is a p a rtic f ular attitude - o r lack of char acter - on the part of those who receive this aid. The Speaker feels If the wel fare philosophy were changed to that of the "han d-up" rather than the "han d-out" everything might lie cozy once again. Nowhere in his speech (which DR. JA M ES B. DEM ING, PCC instructor in dental hygiene, I must assume was carefully dem onstrates for student hygienist Carolyn Burns, of (915 Bul prepared) did the Speaker men lock» Lake Oswego, the careful technique required for proper tion that Oregon’ s unemploy clean in g of te e th T h e p a tie n t is T errisa S chuck, from th e ment rate is currently among the highest In the nation; that Marcus W hitman School in Portland. PCC’s new Dental Hy training programs to lienefit the giene Technology program is servicing selected children in a "h a rd -co re unemployables’ ’ - com m unity service teeth-cleaning and fluoridation program. meaning for the most part the (PCC photo by Paul Blixt) poor, the urban, and the black - are not keeping up with the need; that major firm s - such as Tektronix near Portland - are laying off workers left and rig h t; that like it o r not we are in an economic slump...and that when the economy is ailing, so W/VSHINGTON, D.C. - A b rie f " I t is important that this Is the welfare picture. filed in UJ5 Supreme Court is court resolve the question once The trouble with welfare is contending that people not rep and fo r a ll, " Sedler told the that too many people want to resented on draft boards should J u d g e s . "T he government de think the worst about those who, not have to obey orders of such mands that young men comply because of circumstances, must boards. with the Selective Service Act aj»ply for its benefits. Songs like The b rie f was filed on Nov. and threatens them with im p ris "W elfare C a d illa c" sell thous 10 in the case of Walter C ollins, onment when they do not. ands of copies while feeding the a black draft re siste r from New Excuses myth of tlie welfare "con art Orleans. "B u t whfen the government i t is t " who has found an easy and C ollins is under a five-year self is shown to t>e in violation safe con game. sentence for refusing to tie of the law, it invokes concepts In the meantime, agencies drafted because his board had such as ’de facto political au like the Salvation Arm y, FISH, no black members and the board th o rity ' to excuse its violation. OEO, HUB-CAP, etc. are slow chairman didn’t even live in the There should be one law fo r the ing sinking in the m ire of an county. governors and the governed, economic slump. Tlie Blanchet His b rie f was filed by Robert binding both alike. house fed a near-record number A. Sedler, law professor at the "A draft board not constituted of hungry people at Thanksgiv U niversity of Kentucky, in re in accordance with the statute ing dinner, and officials say sponse to statements to the and regulations is a 'lawless they expect even more for to court by the U.S. Department of board' without the power to m orrow 's Christmas ineal. Justice. classify at a ll o r to issue valid B u s in e s s m e n tell us the 'De Facto’ Board orders to report fo r induction." current slump should end, that The department had told the Sedler asks: "Why should Ne because of "e a sie r money" Justices that it doesn’t m atter if groes lie expected to serve in production should pick up early the government fa ils to comply the armed forces when Negroes in 1971 and therefore more with the law. S o licito r Gen. a r e not considered ’ worthy people w ill have Jobs. Erwin Griswold argued that e n o u g h ’ to serve on local In the meantime overtime C o llin ’ s Itoard is a "de facto" boards? liours (meaning extra pay) have board, although made up in such White Boards been pared on many Jobs in the a way as to violate the Selective "W hy is it that Negroes are state, a lot of people Just plain Service Act. expected to accept decisions aren’t working at any Job - and th e ir plight has more to do with that most people DO view wel concerning th e ir very life that the economy than with any fare as a temporary condition to are made by whites, but whites "sh iftle ss attitu de" on their be avoided i f possible and to be are not expected to accept deci part. endured only until something sions concerning th e ir lives that Hopefully the legislative task tietter - like a Jol> - comes are made by Negroes - which presumably is the reason why force WILL take a "hard-nosed along. Negroes are not allowed to lo o k " to see what is wrong with It is too bad that the abuses welfare in Oregon. They may o f a few must constantly tie serve on local boards, even in an area that is tw o-thirds Negro find, like Richard Geisert who trumped out at the expense of in population? is a member of the Inter-Agen the many to paint a picture of "M ay there perhaps lie some cy Welfare C ris is Committee in welfare that is not only d isto rt correlation between the absence the Portland area, that the real ed but, in the end, harm ful. of Negroes on local boards and problem is that too much of the As G eisert says " I t ’s hard to the fact that Negro combat aid is drained off by the welfare picture a welfare fam ily of four de.Klii in Vietnam are p ro jio r- bureaucracy before it reaches wliich receives about $192.00 a tionately double those of those for whom it is intended; month in aid, livin g in lu x u ry ." whites?" 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