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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1971)
A n ,us' f7-s" Chief Education Officer of Kona,nigeria, Portland guest A. Lee Henderson, Publisher P.O ., .shehu Iwwnkl, Nigerian g u o T t^ ü jo h n SU« Ä 2 d W. UkiW,e’ ^ - T ^ Ä S e r , P .0 . to r» Inspector, Vice Principal, Teacher of Mathematics, and is presently Chief Education Advisor for the state of Kano, which is one of 12 states in Nigeria. His parents are subsistance farm ers in Kano, (they raise just enough for their own needs). His two brothers and sister are also farm ers. Dawaki, a soft spoken man, has de finite feelings about politics in Africa. He believes, and hopes, that one day all of Africa will be united in a feder ated way. Although he feels it will be many years from now, it would provide facilities that are not available under the present system. Soon after Nigeria gained her independence from I.ngland in 1960, some people there tried to create a division between the Mohammedan majority and the C hrist ian minority. Today politics are not related to religion. There are some 250 dialects and languages in Nigeria, but Africans feel a brotherhood with other Africans. He of course, speaks perfect, textbook Eng lish and had a ¿light problem when he arrived to attend school, because of the term s and usage of American English that are not in books. However, his keen mind overcame that quickly. Prof. Lkaeje is a Nigerian who shares the same African nationalist sentiment as Dawaki. Dawaki, who lived in the United King dom from 1965-66 while attending the University of Southampton, visited Aus tralia for three months in 1969. Shehu Dawaki, Chief Education Ad visor, Kano State, Nigeria has just com pleted a six weeks course in math at Western Washington College, Belling ham, Washington and is now touring the United States under a Ford Founda tion grant under the auspices of the State Department. Accompanying him to the Portland Observer offices were Glenn W. Carey, State Department tour guide and Prof.’ Inno Ukaeje of Portland State Univer sity. Explaining that less than one percent of the residents of the state of Kano attend college, he added that perhaps less than nine percent of the children between the ages of 6 and 12 are in school. Not too long ago in Nigeria, education was linked with Christian m issionaries, and since the country is predominantly Moslem, there has been great resistance to sending children to school. When asked how he happened to have attended, he said that the B rit ish began an apprenticeship program for clerks and his grandfather was asked to place someone in the program. He happened to be the right age and he was trained. He attended Government Secondary School, Z aria, 1950-55, re ceived his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Ibadan in 1964; then received his Post Graduate C e rti ficate in Education from the University of Southampton in 1966. He was employed as a Senior Inspec- predicted in Medical study This “ y o u f p a p e r , b e c o m e yo u h o v e d e m a n d e d it. - V o l.l N o . 4 5 P o rtla n d , O re A N E Q U A L O PPO R TU N ITY EMPLOYER T h u rs d a y Public Jobs answer to problem of poor Two areas of national concern t h e c r i t i c a l slnrtage of Important public services and needs of the disadvantaged fo r expanded work opportunities may each carry the solution to the other. This Is the rationale f o r a program to stimulate public employment of the disad vantaged. But there are obstacles to such a strategy for attacking poverty throigh public-sector employment, and these go far beyond straightforward racial discrimination. A p a r t fro m local budgetary or flac”! con siderations, there are many in stitutional barriers, frequently bound up with the administration o f civil service. These often have llttleor nothing to do w ith race (although minorities ap parently suffer dlsproiiortlon- ately b e c a u s e o f th e se barriers). Among th e most serious of these Institutional barriers are the lack of out reach recruiting, th e nearly wholesale use of written exams for all classes of Jobs, and the Insistence upon frequently Job- I r r e le v a n t e d u c a t io n a l credentials. T h e r e are at least f i v e reasons why a |>ubllc employ Business reco very in O re ment program can be expected gon continues to run ahead of to Improve t h e e c o n o m ic other P a c ific Coast ststes, welfare o f the disadvantaged, although the seconl q uarter particularly f o r those living l>ece was somewhat slowed within the corporate boundaries fro m the firs t q u a rte r, re of the nation’s cities. ported D r . Edw ard W. Reed, F i r s t , the public service Is vice president and economist growing much faster than tlx»* private Industries tn which the fo r United Ststes National poor liave traditionally b e e n Bank of Oregon, in the bank’ s employed. Morever, th e poor c u rre n t o ieg o n Economic a r e technically qualified ( o r B a ro m e te r. n e a r l y so) for a substantial I he bank's economic in s h a r e of these public sector dex for tlie state moved up Jobs. n early two points during the Second, government Jobs pay second q u a rte r to an e s ti substantially higher wages- mated 119.8 at the end of especlally at the entry level June. T h is upward move th a n the poor are currently earning. In fact, there are rela m ent continued a trend that tively fewer "workingpoor" In started In Ju ly, 1970, the low the public sector than In the pri point of the recession In this vate sector. state. T h ir d , there are Important Unemployment dropped fra c nonwage benefits uniquely as- tionally fro m 6.4 percent In l.it.d with public employ M ay to 6 J percent In June. ment, Including virtually auto W hile not at pro sp erity lev matic tenure and secular Job e ls , the figure was consider stability. To a group such as the ably better than C a lifo rn ia 's disadvantaged — many of whom have come to regard legal work 7 J percent and Washington’ s opportunities as Inevitably Ir 12.5 [leicen t, and also clo s e r regular — the stability of public to the national average. employment m ay be exactly Some of the greatest gains what Is needed. Havejtou tried our cD irqefs? ra o c H A L Your dimes can become dollars in a hurry if you keep them in a dime saver. Soon as it s full, you have $3.00 to add lo your savings account. Dimers are fun, and educa tional loo. They’re Free to savers at the Benj. Franklin. Q I t < i iik Iin a a v iM a * * lo am N o lw rl II H a ,a n Pro» • 14 O liic a » • P hnnn ??4 ,1331 Mum« O llu n I ra n k iin ll li lq P o rtla n d O f» o tm »7ZO4 10< per copy Model Cities Election S ta ff S a r g e a n t Joe Smith New Army Recruiter Assigned Here public of Korea, Smith holds a good conduct medal, nation al defense medal, Korea Ser vice and Army Commendation medal. From November, 1968 to May, 1970, Smith was assigned to the Recruiting Station In Cambridge, Massachusetts as a field recruiter. He wlllnow make his home In the Port land area with his wife Minnie. 4-C picks AMA T h e A lb in a Ministerial Alliance was selected by t h e Board o f Directors of th e M e t r o p o lit a n Area 4 -c Council to be the sponsor for the Family Day and Night Care arM tran' f° r 0,8 M<X,el C1U,S wood employment was at the highest level tn two years. The health of the lum ber and plywood Industry can lie traced to the persistent strength In housing, which presently Is continued on page 3 Chicago. U n its , Incorporating new p rincip les of teaching by objectives, w ill be developed fu rth e r by each individual p articip ant over the next three y e a rs . 1 never worked so hard - nor had so much fun doing it, M r s . Golden M id > • ■» - hausting w eek-long schedule. The program is being deve loped by the C e n te r fo r E d ucational Developm ent of the U n iv e rs ity of Illin o is College of M ed ic in e . P articip an ts in the task force w ill make semi annual trip s to Chicago fo r s im ila r w eek-long sessions during the th re e -y e a r study. M r s . Golden has been ac tive ly involved in the more than 3 0 -y e a r old School of M ed ic a l Technology at Em an uel since 1964. The School, a 12-month program combin ing academ ic and clinical e x j« rle n c e , is open to students who have completed three o r fou r years of prescribed undergraduate work: grad uates a re e lig ib le to take the National Registry E xam i nation fo r accreditation as a M ed ical Technologist as de fined by the A m eric a n Society of C lin ic a l Pathologists. Thu Portland Model Cities Planning Board Election Com mittee Is reminding residents that filing deadline tor candi dates is August 27, at 5 p.m. Eight positions on the board will be filled as the result of the election representing each of the Model Cities areas. Filing applications are available at the Model ClUe6 Agency, 5329 NE Union, NDO M e d g a r Evers College In #1, 5630 NE Union, NDO #2, Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant 3605 NE Union, NDO #3, 10 area has opened Its doors to 40 NE Graham St., and NDO #4, school students, thus beginning 3726 N. Kerby Ave. A per an e x i s t e n c e fraught with son 18 years of age or older contradictions. The leadership and who Is a resident of the of the college, according to th e same Model Cities Area In Community N e w s Service Is which he Is a candidate may well aware of the contradictions file. which include the responsibility to be an experimental college, but also a part of the traditional C it y University of New York s y s t e m ; to s e r v e a pre dominantly black and Puerto Rican population In Central Brooklyn, while being non-dls- crlmlnatory in its practices; and to involve the community In decision - making, buttofoliow, A new exhibit has been add at the same time, the mandates ed at the Oregon Museum of of CUNY. j Science and Industry’s Leh The president of the college, mann Memorial Agricultural D r. Richard Trent, a 46-year- Hall. Sponsored by the Ore old black educator, has taught In gon Poultry Council, the Ghana, Puerto Rico, and most $4,800 display was financed recently, at Brooklyn College. by a fund drive among Council Trent, like the vast majority o f m embers. the school’s 100 professors has Featuring Humpty Dumpty h 1 s Ph.D. "The staff was re on a brick wall, with donors* cruited with the Idea of finding names on the Individual young, well-trained professors bricks, the display tells the w ho are mission oriented," story of life with an Incuba Trent explained. tor, baby chicks and older The school will operate on a chicks. $3.1 million a n n u a l budget, Three years In planning and supplied by the city and stateand construction, Humpty Dumpty supplemented by community is eight feet tall and weighs e f f o r t s . Plans are to enroll approximate}' 300 pounds. 1,000 full-time students, tuition Each of the three main ex free. Despite the contradictions hibit areas - incubator, hatch Inherent In Its existence, Trent ing area and live enclosure - believes the biggest o b s t a c l e has Its own temperature and confronting Evers College will humidity controls. be finances. Evers College Opens Staff Sargeant Joe Smith, 33, lias been assigned to the Portland pioneer Us Army Recruiting Station. Smith Joins SFC Mike Ber- mejo, SFC Charles Maecker and station commander SFC Richard Kuhklck In manning the Portland station. Son of Mr. and Mrs Levi Smith, the recent returnee from Camp Casey In The Re It’s an easy way Io save. com pounded daily p a id q uartnrly A u g l 2 1971 Oregon Economy during die firs t half of 1971 have been In lum ber and wood products. Em ploym ent In the industry In June was 3,300 above the same month a year ago, reaching 72,400, a level never attained last y e a r. P ly - p a r annum S o m e th in g of in te re s t to e v e r y o n e Enthusiastic a fte r her firs t session with colleagues in a unique national educational task fo rce , M r s . Thelm a Golden, head of the Em anuel Hospital School of M edical Technology, p redicts sub stantial benefit fro m a new th re e -y e a r study. M r s . Golden, P re s id e n t of the Oregon Assn, of M edical Technologists, is one of eight m edical technologists from throughout the U . S. named to p articip ate in the teaching training pro ject funded by the Kellogg Foundation. Ten X - r a y Technologists are also involvai in the p rogram ; the combination of the two closely related but Independent d isci plines is one of the unusual and prom ising facets of the p ro gram , M r s . Golden says. T ask force m em bers began developing indlvklual units of instruction incorporating new p rincip les of teaching by ob jectives at the in itia l week long session ju s t concluded in Metropolitan A r e a 4 - c Council holds the contract tor t h e M o d el Cities Com prehensive Child Care Com ponent and sub - contracts tlie Individual programs to other agencies o r organizations. The Family Day and Night Care program was operated by th e Metropolitan Area4 - C Council until It was sub-con tracted to AMA on August 4 1971. ’ The Family Day and N ig h t Care Program provides child care for 165 Model Cities children In family homes that are evaluated and certified by t h e p r o g r a m . Supportive services provided Include training, medical services, nutrition counseling, social services, and transportation. Organisations holding sub- conracts tor other child care services I n c lu d e Berean Baptist Church, Bethel AM E Church, New Hope Baptist Church, Albina Multi-Service Center and Parent-Ch’’ < Humpty Dumpty at OMSI Three Wheeler *<• TA L\ Zi « 3 d^ ‘Or told Mrs* Allce A l a n i s , who lives on thai as thera»)>' for her heart trouble rldt ’ blke’ We * onder U realized that she would b e w n e known tor her bicycle. Mrs. Williams was b°™ . ?Urh^ 1’ North Carollna and has been a Portland CMFd8^h„rrh 28 .>ears- sf>e Is a member of Allan Temple K.“ acUve Participant. Now 70 years old, she rides her bike with tlie agility of a teenager. She Is t’ecHnre<L r lt^hh0r blue irtnged surrey top, suitable tor pro tection from the sun. F ‘A IF YOU SEW p o u r own things, you’ll be ahead to check our fabrics: polyesters, ve-| hours,and cottons in lots of co-ordinat- ling colors. Trims to match and patterns| I for anything von want to make. (Discount prices at our retail ware house: Kandel Knit 4834 N . In te rs ta te P o rtlan d O re g o n
