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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".
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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
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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?
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The fig h t w as
against the raid ers-
but the feud
w as betw een
them selves!
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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.
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