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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
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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.
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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
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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
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