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Page 4 P o rtle n d /O b o e rv e r Thu rada y. M a rc h 8, 1973 Tea honors Ruth Haefner Master doll crafter teaches doll making What can you do with a sense of humor and an en joyment of sewing? Make a doll. A doll can be a playmate for a little girl, a powerful social commentary for a big girl, a pillow for your sofas, and a reminder to tickle the “funny bone”. Dolls make great presents, money makers, a n d conversation items in your home. Master doll crafter Eleanor Van DeWater will conduct a special one-evening workshop on dollmaking March 15 at Portland Community College, Cascade. Eleanor will help participants construct a basic doll using a nylon stocking and dacron batting. The in formal session will also fur nish ideas for various types of dolls, with a demonstration in making and cutting simple dolls and clothing. Mrs. Van deWater will also show slides of her work. The nylon stocking dolls were chosen as a group project for the workshop be cause of their rapid construc tion features, plus the wide variety of expressions which can easily be created. Parti cipants are asked to bring a long sharp needle, scissors, dark brown thread, and a good nylon stocking. The dacron batting will be pro vided. The workshop will be held at PCC's Cascade Com mons. 705 N. Killingsworth, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $1.00. For more information contact PCC Community Ser vices, 244-0111. The Portland B r a n c h . American Association of Uni versity Women is holding a Fellowships Tea expressing the wider meaning of Fel lowships by honoring Miss Ruth Haefner at Westmins ter Presbyterian C h u r c h . 1624 NE Hancock, Saturday, March 10. from 2 to 5 p.m. A book has been compiled from letters received from all over the world honoring Miss Haefner's 79th birthday and it will be presented to her. Her involvement in com munity affairs started im mediately after college and still continues. Few people reach this age with so large and consistent a contribution to the cause of public affairs and human rights. More amazingly, she still continues to undertake new projects, speaking out with courage verbally and with deed. Miss Haefner has spent many years b e h i n d the scenes, contributing towards reconciliation a n d under standing in the cause of justice. She has volunteered her time and resources to organizations such as the NAACP. the Womea's In te r national League for Peoee and Freedom, the Albiaa Neighborhood Council, which she chaired in 1964. and the Ad Hoc Police-Coaaraaity Relations Committee. She First joined AAUW la 1BBB and has initiated the “W e, the People" study group la the fields of Black Studies. Indian Studies and Penal Reform. She was honored by AAUW last spring by having a Name Grant Scho larship named for her. 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Priced «nth trode Low Cost 3 0 " R ang* YOUR CHOICE • Easy Sat Ovan Timar Blacks and hypertension: Mystery within a mystery (First of a series) DR JEFFREY BRADY MODEFN DENTAL PLATES P A R TIA L PLATES A N D EXTR A C TIO N S ! Immediate Restorations ^aeHad v I^Pv^r - e t^ ^ser are ««tree ted •PwtiflPlfltM • Deatal Plates SLEEP DURING EXTRACTIONS SOOWM PINT0TNM « IV IN IT tlC IJ T H ID ANISTMITIST PA W m i ANY P A W N SHOP LOT NMBSt Weekday« I J S le S d S te te rd e y S J S t e t < S NO APPOtNTMMT NKtSSASY DR JEFFREY BRADY DENTIST SEMlfR BUILDING S A 3rd A M o rm o n P o rtla n d Oreqon Phone: 228 7545 High blood p r e s s u r e , known medically as hyper tension, is one of the un solved mysteries of science. For Black Americans, it is a mystery within a mystery. Why? Because, in over 90 per cent of all cases, the exact cause of hypertension can't be determined. Because sci ence has not found a cure - only ways to keep it under control. And because sci ence also doesn't know why this killer disease is particu larly volne'able to Black Americans. Consider these facts: •Black Americans are twice as likely to have high blood pressure as white Ameri cans. •When a Black American develops hypertension, h e will probably do so at an earlier age. It will be more severe and more deadly. •In most c a s e s , a Black American will die seven years sooner than a white American who' develops hy pertension at the same age. The cause of death, in all probability, will be heart attack or one or more of the complications of high blood p ressure - h yperten sive heart disease, kidney failure or stroke. What causes this abnorm ally high incidence of hyper tension among Blacks? Sci ence doesn’t know for sure. But there are theories and a leading one is heredity. Suggests the Americn Heart Association: “Take a hard look at your family history. How many people in your family • par en ts and grandparents, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts develope high blood pressure early in life? How many died of stroke, heart Attack, kidney failure or hypertensive heart di sease • usual end results of hypertension? If they have, there's a good chance you have inherited an abnormal tendency for high blood pressure, high blook choles terol or diabetes." This applies to Americans in general, and to Black Americans in p a r t i c u l a r . For, although it has not been proven that heredity plays a major role in causing more high blood pressure in Black Americans than white Americans, it is known that an abnormal tendency toward hypertension can often be inherited. Doctor Frank A. Finnerty Jr., professor of medicine at G e o r g e to w n U n iv e r s ity Medical Center in Washing ton, D.C., believes heredity is a key factor. He con tends that Black Americans “inherit bad blood vessels" from ancestors not too many generations removed. He also points to the high salt content in the diet of most Black Americans and the stresses of ghetto life - two factors missing from the life style of Africa. “Blacki in the inner cit ies,” he says, “eat a tremen dous- amount of food high in salt. Blacks in Africa don't have sodium level in their diets, and aren't subject to the same stresses as Black Americans. And A f r i c a n Blacks have no more hyper tension than whites from the same areas." Doctor Jeremiah Stamler, professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, contends: "Hy pertension is THE most im portant disease of Black Americans." The late Doctor John B. Johnson, who at the time of his death last December was director of cardiovascular diseases at Howard Univers ity in Washington, D.C., agreed. The famed Black cardiologist drew a sharp distinction between sickle cell anemia an ethnic blood disease which aifects Blacks almost exclusively and hy pertenaion: Only one in every 500 Black Americans has sickle cell anemia. One hundred in every 500 Black Americans have high biood pressure. He told an American Heart A ssociation panel during the organization's 1972 annual meeting: “Sickle cell disease is rel atively unimportant in com- p a r i s o n to hypertension Yet, it is recognized as a public health problem. Ve nereal disease is less epi dem ic among Am ericans Black and white. VD. too, is considered a public health problem. Why not hyper tension?" During his long career. Doctor Johnson was a major spokesman in his specialty of cardiology, and throughout the medical and health pro fessions. And before his death at age 60, Doctor Johnson saw evidence that his years of effort to have h ypertension declared a public health problem, and to bring about a significant government effort to detect, treat and control this di sease among thousands of hidden hypertensives, had borne fruit. I^ast July, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare launched a program to set standards for treat ment, to shape an educa tional program for both the public and the profetsiona and to study the "impact of an expanded hypertension program on the health care delivery system, and (to provide) an assessment of the need for additional re sources.” At the beginning of 1973, the HEW launched the initi al phase of its program to seek out hidden hyperten sives. This action, in a sense, stands as a monument to Doctor Johnson, one of the prime movers in the field of heart diesases. 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