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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1971)
Shortcuts and by M o rrie Turner Money Savers “ Communication is ttie l riv ing force of world economy, and we aie able to guarantee t o t a l communication.** I hese are the woids o l M r. SamS.Markson, HAVE T 0 \ MUCH NIPPER B .Ä .IP No need to buy wooden hangers fo r heavy duty stor age Jobs; w ire hangers can be strengthened to do the Job as well, sim ply tape three of them together at the base of the “ question m a rk" and at each end of the crossbars. You’l l have a hanger sturdy enough to hold a man’ s suit. Clean, empty ro ll-o n de- ordorant containers make convenient dispensers of to i let vater and cologne. They tak‘- up no space In the drawer o f a kitchen cabinet or a desk o r your handbag - right where you want them fo r a quick fresh-up. When an electric plug won’ t pull out of the wall socket easily, you can loosen It up by rubbing an ordinary lead pencil over the prongs. The lead, or graphite, In the pen c il, does the " o ilin g .” Give your old car a new look. Wipe the chrome trim with a cloth dampened In clear and undiluted ammonia. The shine w ill come up witlxjut streaks. well IT'S NOT MT TAULT SOMEONE HtSN INVENTEP SILENT W0OP VET / lesslonal Translators. This Isa new, sophisticated service o r- speciallzlng In quick, accurate ti anslutions from or into any of nearly twenty-live foreign lan guages. Professional Transla tors say tliey candellver Insur ed, certified translations w it h accuracy, speed and dispatch. T h e ir service Includes not only th e usual G e rm a n , French. Kalian, a nd Spanish, but also other European longues such as K u s s la n , P o lis h , Finnish S w e d is h , Norwegian Portugese, Greek. Dutch, and Hungarian, asw ellasthe m o r e e x o t ic J a pan e se, Chinese H e b re w , K o re a n , Kikuyu, S w a h ili, Vietnamese, and Y iddish. Professional Ira n sla to is is X " n ï , o „ Ü1 u " nh.” cem ™ 1 f ' X °! X Î Ï Â u” T C(^ . ^ l . l t .1«. cafxble of handling a variety o f language problems, including faM.OacarOuauf.on.Jen» » i■ m ,-X' i T ""• business forms and letters, contiact bids and specifications and legal documents, (m eclient Flve Portland non-profit than adequate land was pur - Insure quality control and hospitals liave formed a co a lawyer, had the problem o f chased and the building's ex standards exceeding those set operative co r|« rn tlo n for the pansion lo te u tla l Is being legal papers In Greek .O n e o f up by the Public Health Ser purpose of Ixilldlng and oper maximized. tlie translators began work, and by Joyce H lfle r vices. Linen specifications ating a central laundry t > v -r - soon realized that nearly half o f and standardization liave a l vice their tnetltutlo 1« Wnen In itia lly , the laundry w ill th e document was sheer non ready been agree-1 upon by the A spark In tim e may be that flnlnlied and operating till- pro ess twelve m illio n po inds sense. A Greek lawyer, whose partlcliiatlng hospitals. liappy wtdstle la the dark that autumn. It w ill be the largest of linen a year hut w ill liave home office is Athens, Greece comes to change my mind from laundry In the stale of Ore « capacity of fifteen m illion The total savings accruing gloom to something worth think was apparently trying toconfuse gon. Cooperating tiospltal* pounds, Approximately sixty ing about. You know, we do not his American friend with reams to the hospitals Is expected to ure: Providence, Emanuel, persons w ill he employed on have to see the flowers to catch be In the neighborhood of o f t o t a l l y u n n e e d e d v e r- Hess Kaiser, Physicians and a '-day, 4 0 -(io ir weex to s e r- th e ir fragrance--the good In *300.000 a year. Today all Surgeons and Holiday Park. v k e over 1 son patients per day blage. However, as the transla hospitals are searching for to r was a native of Greece, and fluence wafts everywhere. o f the rive hospital*. A single How often the things remote m eans of cutting costs and the while the document did present hospital i« tle n t averages are those which lif t and sus ampliasi* on a community ap Construction of the one and eighteen pounds of clean linen so m e difficu ltie s, a fu ll, ac tain us. Someone’ s whistle proach to capital needs la ec one-half m illio n d o lla r total » day, making a total of curate translation was available some unasked favor, fo r which onomically a giant step fo r fa c ility liegan with site prep approximately 3<>,000 poinds in hut a lew days. M r. Markson we know no reason except that ward. By entering Into such aration In mid-June on a ten daily. This represents ap leels very strongly on this point: someone wanted to give. What a cooperative venture the five acre plot In Fairview nt N.E. proximately a f»r>”; greater the only people lie w ill hire as an overwhelming Investment In Portland hospitals Insure ef Halsey and Arata Hoad. Plans poundage than Is tietng pro fective cost containment In translators are native speakers other people, that added spark were 1 re ;« re I by Richard Eh- cessed by any Oregon laundry th is Important area. I once saw M r.M arkson turn o f life that may well be the reas mann, Architect, and the today. 11 Is an down an application from an A - on fo r life Itself. building contract was awarded Investment that w ill return a- niencan w ho had learned A central laundry fa cility to w.C Slvers Company, a In accordance with prede galn and again to give us cour has many advantage«. Most Portland construction firm . termined standards, the faci French in anAmerlcan Uni age. hospitals today are faced with The txilldlng of tllt-u p con versity and had lived several lity w ill process, make-up a need for expanslo 1 and/or crete construction w ill contain and deliver linens in bulk to years in France. He later ex modenilzatlon of th e ir pre <2,000 square feet and w ill Ihe five hospitals. Each In- plain»! that the goal of Profes sent Inplant operations If they be equipped with the most s tltu tlo i w ill 1« responsible sional Translators Is total com have them. They find them modern laundry machinery a- fo r Internal distribution. All munication. and feels that t h i s vallable. selves hard pressed tor both soiled linen win be pick»! up ca n only be accomplish»! by space and funds especially tlon date Is November. More' In < ontnmlnatton-free bag« p, ‘ mother - tongu»l" personnel when professional depart who understand all the Idiomatic ments are also clamoring tor connotations and hidden mean equipment and addltlo utl ings of a language. room. This strain on hos- 1 ltal finances does not solve Man - days of Idleness re the liandllng of hospital lin sulting from work stoppages ens, a complicated process. accounted for 2.4 w o r k in g Likewise, sm aller hospitals days per 1,000(.24percent) In who previously could not af May, according to the UjS. De ford Inplant laundries are The word "c lin k was partment of Labor’ s Bureau of finding commercial service coined during the 14th Cen RFCAP SPECIALISTS Labor Statistics. T h is w a s cost Increasingly high be tu ry to Indicate a chain and above the 1.4 working days per cause of th e ir own In sti the sound It made when 1,000 fo r A pril,but consider ____ "MUff SUO" tution’ s quality demands and dragged across the floor. ably below May 1970's figure of rigorous schedules. In the 16th Century .. Its 5.5 working days per 1,000. meaning was changed to Indl T h e 580 stoppages that Automation In a large cen cate a prison o r Jail because started tn May exceeded the tra l laundry Is another factor o f the sounds coming out of 3368 N E. UNION 540 total for A p ril, but were favoring substantial econ England’ s infamous Southwark below the 750 for May of 1970. omies a.s very few hospitals prison, where the convicts T h e number of w orkers In alone can Invest In such costly were tied together by chains volved In stoppages beginning machinery. Also, cooperation around their feet. in M a y w as substantially In this type of service relieves As they shuffled over the higher than In April o r May adm inistrators from such stone floors th e ir chains made 1970. Man-days Idle In May, managerial duties and assures loud clinking sounds, causing while one-half again as high as them the tieneflts possible people outside to re fe r to the A p ril, were about the same from a self-owned linen sup gloomy prison as "T he proportion below the May 1970 p ly . They are guaranteed C lin k ." Those on the Inside figure. lu a ilty standards mid a prompt were considered "In The In total, 790 stoppages were delivery service and a rt ,>ro- C lin k ." In effect during May 1971, with tpeted against In fo c tlx i. The Although prison Inmates are 774,000 workers o u t and p ric e they ;iay l s low to begin no longer chained, the phrase 3,437,000 man - days lo st. The ■ Mb as wcii a.« in the 11 i r .. “ In the c lin k ” has survived comparable figure f o r the Average overall costs In the over the past 400 years. previous m o n th a r e 750 Portland fa c ility are projec One General location, Albina & Killinqsworth strikes tn effect. 254,000 ted at l t ( a (mind which In w orkers, and 2,184,000 man- 283-3171 — 9 to 5:30 not» cludes depreciation and com days Idle. Stoppages 1 n effect IUNOATS plete linen replacement. tn M a y 1970numbered 960 Idled 580,000 workers, and The 1960’ s saw a worldwide lasted 7,965,00c man-days. swing to cooperative central Seven large strikes (5 000 ized hospital laundries. The NOT DAMAGED DR S O IltO ' o r more workers lnvolved)ac- f ir s t such large scale Amer KARKKI I KI> C HICKEN counted fo r 74.5 percent of the ican enterprise was started in total number of workers out Boston In 1961 which In five Place broiler-frver chicken and 41.3 percent of the man- year’ s time had grown to In halves or quarters, skin side days Idled. The stoppage in the clude twenty participating up. on grate 3 to 6 inches railroad Industry alone In hospitals. from charcoal briquettes at volving 540,0OPworkers’ ,was the light-gray ash s ta g e responsible for 69.8 percent of In Portland the fir s t such Sprinkle chicken with salt the total figures. step in this direction occured and pepper Cook until ten Two of the seven stoppages, In July 1967, when In itia l dis der, turning and basting oc cussions evolved lntoa search casionally. Allow 45 minutes at Teledyne M ^orsand Crown 7ellerbach Cor;'., were c a r r i and eventual hiring of a con to 1*4 hours total cooking ed over from the previous sulting firm , the V icto r Kra time, depending on weight of Special Discounts To Duonlity Royers month. The Teledyne stoppage m er Company of New York chicken and distance from ended in May, as did walkouts C ity. Eight local hospitals heat About 15 minutes be S O M E T H IN G N E W IN P O R T L A N D at two other firm s. At the end participated In the feasibil fore chicken is done, begin of the month, workers rem ain ity study which was completed brushing frequently with a ed Idle at Crown - 7ellerbach, In A p ril. 196«. barbecue sauce To test for Consumers Tower Corp., in doneness, leg should twist Jackson, Michigan, and the easily out of thigh joint and construction Industries In the pieces feel t e n d e r when Delaware - phlladephla area, probed with a fork and tn Harrisburg. , £ ju , iaJ £ j,r T h in k on those th in g s Work stoppage statistics R - ^ IL C<mc$ie S 'In the Clink' 5— T pj CPA G ra n ts To Blacks The American Institute of C ertified Public Accountants has promised grants totaling $250,000 to five Black colleges to aid needy students majoring In accounting. The institutions that w ill receive $50,000 each over a three year period are Howard U niversity, North Car olina Central U niversity, South ern U niversity, F lorida A S.11 U niversity and V irginia State College. The US Department of Labor estimates that 32,000 new accountants are needed each year but only 16,000 are being graduated annually. MQNRlF- B lack & P o p u la tio n Becom es U rb a n Far C o m m e rc ia l Loans OWNER MUSTSELL!! 2 beauti 3 Bdr. House, new o il furnace ful bdrms., 2 fireplaces,double basement, fru it trees, 50x100 garage, only $12,500. corner lot. REDUCED PRICEI Nearly half of the nation’ s Black population lives In 50 cities and a th ird of the total In 15 cities. Blacks are a ma jo rity In six cities: Washing ton D.C. (7L1%); Compton, Cal. (71%): East St. Louis, HL (69.1%); Newark, N. J. (54.2%); Gary, Indiana (52%) and Atlanta i/1.3 )). New York City has the most Black resldens, about L7 m illio n , although they make up Just 21% of that city’ s population. 5625 N. E . 13th, 2 BR. 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