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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1971)
T he C h em ist A nd T h e C om p ou n d — A F ab le By W ILLIAM DEIZ And so he did. His book sold tliousands and thousands of cop ies, newsmen Interviewed him dally, and his name, once again, became a household word. With the royalties from his book he even bought the housekeeper a new apron, and gave her the gift of an extra day o ff a week - paid of course. Meanwhile In big towns like New York C ity and In little burgs like Portland, Oregon drug sections of re ta il stores l»egan setting up displays quot ing the doctor’ s took and push ing the mysterious Vitamin C. A local Portland wholesaler re ported orders for the vitamin were coming In S to 10 times above norm al. WILLIAM H. DEIZ Once upon a tim e a Nobel prizewinning chemist caught a cold and had to miss hours and hours away from his laboratory In the plney woods. This made the chemist very very angry so when he got lietter he went right back to his lab determined to come up with the secret of com- b a t t in g the nasty cold. He worked long and hard and, lo and l»ehold, he began sniffling and coughing again. In despera tion he grabbed a txottle of little orange p ills his housekeeper had left behind, swallowed a half dozen and, to tils amazement, his cold m isery began to abatel S tu n n e d , he turned the bottle around and read the label - V i tamin C. "E u re k a l" he cried, " i f It w o r k s for me maybe It w ill work for others as w e ll|" (Oth e r s besides my house-keeper who has been te llin g me for months that tills vitamin - and a little rest - were all that I needed to keep colds away - but I was too stubborn to listen). " I must te ll the w o rld l" he cried. But researchers In the medi cal profession were grumbling. After a ll, why hadn’t they been the ones to break the news of tills great "d is c o v e ry ." Hadn’t they been working with cold vic tim s - and hadn’t they them selves suffered the effects of a cold from time to time - for most of t h e i r professional lives? Some of them began checking back Into their file s and found that YES, they had conducted tests with the vitamin but that MO It didn't seem to have the preventative and curative pow ers described by the nobel prlzewlnnlng chemist - at least not from a scientific standpoint. They did find that the tody got rid of the vitamin when people took too much of It, so people couldn’t "overdo se" themselves and get sick from tryin g to get well. Some of the doctors also dis covered that laboratory co n fir mation o r no, the vitamin DID seem to work for them. (Maybe not for all th e ir patients, but certainly for them). And their nurses kept right on taking the vitamin for THEIR colds as they had all along — even before the nobel prizewinning chemist blew th e ir "s e c re t" remedy right out of the water. And sales of the chem ist’ s book began to trip le as orders came in from all over the world. And he got so generous * lth his new-found wealth that he gave his housekeeper AN OTHER day o ff and took her to dinner and they both got plas tered. When they returned to the h o u s e she Immediately pulled out her handy packet of vitamin C and told the good chemical doctor it was also dandy for hangovers. When he woke up the next morning feeling good he decided to te ll the world, and since It was the day before New Y ear’ s the press picked It up and he was able to. This p r o n o u n c e m e n t also didn’t hurt the sale of his book, and the royalties began flowing in at an even faster rate. He decided to fire his house keeper because she was getting "too expensive" what with all that free time he had "g iv e n " her, and the house just didn’t quite look the same. He couldn't understand why she had been so unhappy lately anyway, \yjiy, she even acted BITTER at tim es. Hadn't he given her every thing? And tie kept sipping the last cup of coffee she had prepared fo r him before she left and won dered why he was getting so dizzy. (The m oral: If you've got a se c re t" remedy that everyone knows about already, it's best to keep it to yourself. If you do decide to te ll the world, you'd better make sure you m arry your housekeeper firs t). School Change Dates King District meets for recreation at Highland Center. Gulf Oil Employee Helps Black When the Gulf OH Company granted Raymond Clayton a leave of absence from his Job, It helped open the way for a slg- n l f l e a n t new contribution to black economic development In Pittsburgh. M r. Clayton took on the chal lenging task of establishing and putting Into operation a plaster figurine plant run entirely by black people. I t ’s a big change from his work as a computer operator at G ulf’s Neville Island Term inal. The plaster figurine plant is a project of the Business and Job Development Corporation, and Is designed to aid black economic growth by employing and developing the s k ills of dis advantaged black workers. Plaster statuary making Is a ra re a rt, and a plant of this type completely run by blacks Is unique. Most of the Items being p r o d u c e d there now are coin banks, but diversification Into other plastic and ceram ic statu ary Items such as ash trays and vases is being considered. When the Business and Job Development Corp, was making final plans to establish the plant last year, Paul Nelson of the B JD planning staff thought M r. Clayton would be the ideal per son to head the project because of his training and experience In the field. He had been employed in a s im ila r plant in Pittsburgh after graduating from Fifth Ave. High School In 1954. M r . Clayton Joined Gulf In 1967 as an order cle rk at the c o m p a n y ’ s plant In McKees Rocks. He was later promoted as c o m p u t e r operator and transferred to the Neville Island Installation. Gulf o fficia ls granted him a leave from his Job last July, and In August he went to the Sllves- t r l Brothers figurine plant In Pittsburgh for three months of further training In plant opera tion techniques. The Business and Job Devel- (Contlnued on page 8) PORTLAND/OBSEPVEK Jan. 14, 1971 AU three area advisory com mittees in the Portland School D istrict have cancelled th e ir regular January meetings and w ill meet instead on Monday, February 1, school o fficia ls have announced. The committees, which o rd i narily meet on the th ird Monday of each month, were established this year as part of the decen tralization of the Portland Dis tric t into three adm inistrative areas. The nine-member committees advise the area superintendents concerning the buildings and ed ucational programs within th e ir respective areas. The member ship of each committee includes two students and seven adults. T h e committee fo r Area 1 (the west and north sections of the d is tric t) w ill meet at Roose velt High School. The Area 2 committee, serving the eastern portion of the d is tric t, w ill gather at Woodlawn Elementary School. Grant High’ School w ill be the site of the meeting for the Area 3 committee, whose schools are located In the cen tra l portion of the d is tric t. A ll three meetings w ill begin at 7:30 p.m. Members of the public are encouraged to attend the area a d v is o r y committee sessions and to a ir their views on any school-related topic. Carlos give to the march of Dimes W» feature I hug* Mlectiont Large Sizes Dresses, Knits, Coats, Costumes & Raincoats Designed for flattery at Discount Prices Sizes 14!/, to 3 0 '/, - 38 to 6 0 SINGER DRESS CO. 803 S.W. Morrison St. Corn. 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