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by M o rrie Turner
Money Savers
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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.
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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
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'In the Clink'
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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.
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&
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Becom es
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C o m m e rc ia l
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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. House,
We have deals fo r investors
Brick fro n t,2 fplcs..C m t. base-
M-3 lots 3 E R , fix e r on car
mentjOil furnace,dbbl .g a r.50X lot, $5,000.
100 level lot, $14,500 or offer.
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