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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.
Miss Gail Strong, teacher
at Sabin Elementary School
and Oregon District winner
of the Metropolitan Opera
audition, will sing at the tea.
She will be accompanied by
Mrs. Lucille Wyatt.
Mrs. John Clark is general
chairman for t h e event.
Miss Maurine Laber is in
charge of refreshments and
the Recent G r a d s Study
Group will provide the de
corations.
The public is invited to
come and greet Miss Haef
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Blacks and hypertension:
Mystery within a mystery
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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.
It
was Doctor Johnson's hope,
and is today the hope of
those who carry on hit work
at Howard University, that
the HEW program will
evenutally provide new clues
to the mystery of hyperten
sion, and the mystery within
the mystery of hypertension
and Black Americans.
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