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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1972)
■ ; ,• 2 r’ Î Il Pige 6 Portland ’Otwervei Thunday July 13, 1972 Pierson performs in Portland Young Indians begin apprenticeship Edward Pleraon, baas- Some young Indians on the (heir fam ilies but also to make before the prog 1 am Is com baritone with the New York Warm Springs Reservation of able to ( m s s the GED test and pleted. City opera, w ill perform at jefferson County, many of valuable contributions to the are ready to enter employ Otegon economy amt the Warm 8 p a n , Tuesday, July 18 in whom once considered v ir Lecturers from the Bureau ment or go after further « fu - C o n fe d e ra te d the Lincoln Hall Auditorium of Labor ami the Bureau of tually unemployable, are not Springs catlon. The ones who entered T u b e s ." "Forgotten Am ericans" when Apprenticeship ami painin g « Portland state University. college, didn’t know exactly There Is plenty to be learn have stress«) the Importance The program w ill Include it comes to getting help for what to do in (lie way of work. ed from field trips on the of goal work habits rather entering skilled employment operatic arias by Handel and They are attending Haskell Reservation asavastenlarge than the particular skills M ozart. Aaron Copland’ s Old and in particular apprentice Institute, a respected Indian ment project at the famed ship and industrial and ser necessary in any one parti American Songs, four son# college at I awrence, Kansas, Kah-Nee-Ta Hot Springs re cular trade. vice training. by Brahms and spirituals. and Central Dtegon Com sort is in full swing. Also, The singer w ill be accom I he construction industry A f«lerally-fum led program munity College. s project has been started has been lnoperatlonforabout panied by Robert Guralnlk, has cooperated in many ways. Except for those going to by the Federal Department of New York pianist and resi nine months designed to help In one Instance, some of the college, the inteieats of those Housing and Urban tor the con dent artist with PSU’ s P o rt- these younger tribe members enrollees partlclpat«! in a enroll«! mainly have been struction of 50 houses in tlie larxl Summer Concert Series. enter the world of work with summertime training pro centei«l on carpentry, opera- village of Warm Springs. Pierson has sung over 30 specific targets in the various gram co-sponsored bytheAs- lion of heavy equipment, These construction projects roles since Joining the Lincoln apprentlceable trades and aoclated General Contractors plumbing, auto mechanic provide apprenticeship op Center New York City Opera skills. To date, those con and labor groups ami held at work, drafting ami meat cut portunities for some of those in I9t>o. He has also loured necter! with the program have Camp Rilea near Gearhart. ting. Thus fa r, all of the en ro ll«! in the program. with the New York Pro sakl the results have been "graduates" appienttc«! have Students generally stay in Other opportunities are ex highly gratifying. Muslca, p e r f o r m e d in a the program until they are entered carpentry. pected to develop in the Cen variety of musicals and ap With only about 10 per cent tral Oregon area, according of the participants high school peared with such orchestras to Hank Greening of Bend, graduates, six of those pre as the Hollywocd Bowl Sym the Chairman of the Central phony, the Chicago Sym viously involved in the pro Oregon T rades Apprentice phony, the Cleveland Pops gram now are apprentices. ship anti Training Committee. Orchestra and the Brooklyn Three more a re a ttemllng col O rder» »o go Call 2 8 2 -6 3 6 3 Excellent cooperation with Philharmonia. lege while another dozen are the program has been 1 eceiv«i The singer was the reci employed in skilled work at from organiz«l labor and the Warm Springs Forest pient oi a 1967 Martha Baird Cafe O pen 5:30pm Except M onday many construction firm s ami Rockefeller grant fo r the Praiucts facility. associations. Visiting lec study of German and Wag Officials of the various co turers, who give actual Fly Boy Special ordinating agencies and the nerian roles and another 1968 demonstrations of skills, ha\e Rockefeller award for the program instructors expect come from the electrical study of Italian roles. outstanding results by the 6 Wing» A $1.40 trades, tlie Carpenters, the program’ s end. The federal Pierson has teen artis t- cement masons, the machi funding runs out in A p ril. in-residence this spring at nists, the sheet metal work "What has been accom local private ami community ers, the constiuction laborers plished thus far has been colleges through the sponsor and the meat cutters. ship of tlie Sears Foundation, particularly outstanding ui the Experts from many other light of the participating the Affiliate Artists, In c . the ttades, such as the plumbers, National Endowment for the group, says George Smith, are expected to impart know Employment and Vocational Arts and the G reater Cul ledge of (heir particular skills tural Affairs Board. (raining o ffic e r at Warm Springs for the Bureau of In dian A ffairs. 'Most of the group parti cipating have in the past been unemployable because of social reasons, lack of edu finest cational background and lack of motivation. Thus in terms M ike Walsh, U.S. Congres of the human element, this sional candidate challenging porgram has been a huge suc 18 year Incumbent Edith cess thus fa r ." Green, said today that the " It has been one of the recently completed SALT prim ary goals of the Oregon talks and the agreements Bureau of Labor to have more reached with the Soviet Union of our Indian residents enter should be ratified by Con apprenticeship," says N or gress. man o . Nilsen, the Chairman At a noon speech before of the State Apprenticeship the Broadway Toastmasters, Council and State Labor Com Walsh said there are two basic missioner. agreements undei 'onsaiera "T h is program is an ex tion. "o n e would lim it each tremely valuable means for nation to two antiba 11 istlc mis helping to achieve this goal. sile sites, and the other would We expect those Indians train 2125 N. V an c o u ver Ave lim it strategic offensive wea ed under this program not pons' , he said. only to benefit personally and Walsh said, "these agree to thus help the members of ments were not r e a c h e d hastily but over a long period of time with full realization by both parties of the expense and uselessness of a con tinued arms race". B. Que In Town Fries Food A Drinks GENEVA’S <228 N . W illiam s EDWARD PIERSCN Psychologist learns firefighting The name of the game is seif-esteem,’ says D r. Clay Colwell. " . . . Maintaining self-esteem while functioning in a setting where people have misconceptions about what you do is difficult." Clay Colwell. Ph£) and counselor, speaks with under standing of the firefighters who are enrolled in his class on Human Relations at Port land Community Col lege. Col well can speak from firs t hand experience because as pan of his preparation for class he has spent complete 24-hour shifts with the West Slope F ire Station and the Tigard F ire Station in the Tualatin F ire Department Number 1. The form er sociology and psychology instructor at Long Beach State says he welcomed the chance to work with the firefighters b e c a u s e the "character of my class was determined by vocation - - everyone in the class was a firefighter, so I had to deal in very specific terms and with very specific situations." By spending complete shifts in the Washington County fire stations, Colwell was able to experience many of the inter nal and external situations encountered by the men. Bruce Casner, a firefighter for more than 12 years who lives at 6855 S.W. Imperial in Beaverton, says D r. Col well’ s eagerness to see for himself what goes on in a fire s t a t io n "gives him more credibility . . . we’ ll know that he knows what he’ s talk ing about now." his ciass he has found that men choose to become fire fighters through a desire for excitement, accomplishment, challenge, public service, close group relations,danger, and Job security. But he says that the firefighters believe their public image is more negative than positive and in The men inColwell'sHuman clude such stereotypes as Relations class are working "card players" and " g ir l for their Association in Applid watchers’*. Science degree in F ire Pro tection Technology at PCC, exit of his experiences, Col well’ s class in Human Rela and many of them like Casner tions has developed one main have spent years in the fire objective: to help the fire fighting service. fighters to an honest ap Colwell reported on time praisal of themselves, their w it h the rest of the fire fighters on his shift at the own interaction on the Job, and with the community. Colwell West Slope station on Friday hopes to provide a classroom morning. He was immediately climate which will help each assigned a position to ride on person to feel worthwhile. the equipment and issued ap Casner says that his ex propriate clothing. When not pectations of the class were performing tasks as pan of simply to "help me under the company. Colwell spent stand people," but that he has his time talking with the men learned more "how I feel to find out why they became about myself and how others firefighters and how they felt feel about m e ." about their profession now. Colwell, who lives at 1850 He says, " I wanted to do this S.W. Midvale Road in the Lake fo r me, firs t of all, to crack Oswego area, is a graduate my own stero types. I was of San Jose State.LnionTheo really surprised at the en logical Seminary, the Univer thusiasm of the men; I think sity of Connecticut, and H art they felt good about somebody ford University. Before com wanting to know about their ing to Oregon in January, he experiences." taught and had a private prac Servicemen and their fam Colwell says that through tice in Southern California. ilies at F t. Carson, Colorado, are doing their thing In the battle to preserve our natur al resources. A container has been placed behind the main post exchange so that they may drop off cardboard boxes once the con tents have been removed. The cardboard Is then collected and recycled for reuse. George Cottam of Beaver Approximately 600 pounds ton, Ore. has been appointed of cardboard is collected each Regional C a r Distributor for day, and a private firm pays the Portland Region of the the government $4 per ton. Nissan Motor Corp. inU.S.A Specialist 4 Edward H. distributors of Datsun cars Leek, who is p rim arily re and pickup trucks throughout sponsible fo r the ecology pro the U.S. ject, points out that reproces sing of cardboard enables tht In his new capacity, Cottam, nation to make more complete 25, will be working with Nis use of the timber already cu’ san’ s newly-appointed Re from its forests. gional C ar Distribution Man ager, Ed Brusher. "Basi THE NAME GAME cally, my responsibility is to make sure Datsun passenger While we are on the sub cars and pickup trucks are ject of the 4th Infantry Div G. COTTAM distributed to the 84 Datsun ision, I thought I ’d give you a dealers located in our re rundown on the many famous gion," Cottam explained. He P rio r to his recent appoint names in the division. added that Nissan's Portland ment, Cottam worked In dis According to tie personnel Region, with headquarters at tribution at Nissan’ s Los people, you will find George 9575 S.W.SchoolsPerry Road, Angeles R e g io n a l Office. Washington. John Hancock, U. currently encompasses Ore Rounding out his 2-1/2 years S. Grant. Robert E . Lee, An gon, Washington, Idaho,Alas with the Datsun auto d is trt- drew Jackson and John Adams. ka, and all of Montana and tu tor, he worked In Nissan's Then, there are Gary Cooper, parts of California. accounting department and James Mason and Robert area sales department. Ryan, F o r the mod group, Originally from Bellflower, there are JImmy Brown,Dave Handling an average of 2,000 California where he studied Clark, Eddie Fisher arxl units per month, Cottam stated data processing at Cerrltoa James Brown. that coordinating the d istri College, Cottam and his wife, bution of cars with dealers’ There are also men named Ann, have a two-year-old son Castle, King and Knight, a sales is an important func and a six-monrh-oiddaughter. House, a Kitchen, five Banks, tion of his job as Regional He and his family have now C a r Distributor. and three Barbers. There are settled In Beaverton, O r. also ten Carpenters and one Distributor named H GREYHOUflD flC T io n Lam er F1IGHT TOMGHT GEN ADM 25« POST TIME 7 30 FREE PARKING COMPLETE DINING I BEVERAGE FACILITIES NO SUNDAY RACING (Sorry, h o t ng C o m m o tio n prohibit» • d m ittt o n o l c h iltfr m u n d ir 12 ) DAILY DOUBLE 2ND a JRD 10TH 8 It T H RACES (u/dartie FRIRVKUI PARK MULTNOMAH KENNEL CLUB N E 223RD 4 HALSEY EAST OUT BANFIELD FREEWAY (SON) PHONE 665 2191 Walsh likes pact rOlHAND'S • Enjoyable, relaxed atmosphere • Live music Thursday through Sunday f eaturing name recorded a rtists and local a rtists • Private parties, receptions, group functions Open; Monday - W«lneaday, 5:00 pan. - 2:30 a an Ihursday - Friday. 11:00 aan. - 2:30 aan Saturday - Sunday. 1:00 pan. - 2:30 a.m. • Ask about yearly club membership Jesse and Peggy Hudson --Owners Alameda Theater 3 0 0 0 N. E. Alberta St. M allett. We already mentioned that you would find a Kitchen. You’ ll also find 21 Bakers, 19 Cooks, and Rice, Broccoli, Fish, Bacon, Pizza, Pepper and M ustard. 287-2887 SIDNEY POtTIER FACTS ABOUT THE ARMY Did you know —-T h a t the Arm y prepares and publishes Its meal menus six months ahead of time? Planning agead enables the A rm y to buy food in bulk, thus saving money. —That Army cooks served more than 100.000 hot meals and approximately the same number of emergency rations to Americans following Hur ricane Cam ille last year? J HARRY m m m The fig h t w as against the raid ers- but the feud w as betw een them selves! / IJUESTION We’ re often asked this one. I ’ve received my induction no tice from the draft board. Can I now join the A rmy? Each legistrant who in quires regarding enlistment, after an order to report for Induction has been issued to him, w ill be informed that, supported by convincing evi dence that a representative of any of the Regular Armed Forces Is prepared to enlist him on or before the date set foi induction, he may request the Stat D irector of Select ive Service to cancel his or der and 1/ the State D irector 1 does not approve his request, , he may appeal to the Director of Selective Service, who will normally cancel thatorderand permit him to enlist. J COLUMBIA ACTUAL S Presents ™ BUCK and The PREACHER " RUBY DEE ’ CAMERON MITCHELL- » I Open JOLI GUCKMAN- S i K knot ypooi EH Co-Feature starrin g Music by Anderson Tapes $e<1n Connery Quincy Jones W eeknights 7:15p.m. Sunday 5:00
