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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1973)
Page 4 Porti and/O baa rva r Thursday. March IS. 1973 G loria Lorentz, wife of John Lorentz, Portland State Uni versity assistant professor of Persian language and literature, demonstrates one of the native Persian dances which w ill be performed on the Persian New Y ear, M arch 18, Persian New Year brings festivities Noruz. the Persian New Year, will be celebrated on Sunday, March 18th at Port land State University. The festivities, marking I r a n s first day of spring, start at 5:00 p.m. with a Persian dinner and continue until midnight with entertainment that includes Persian dances, dramatic satire and f o l k songs. Open to the public, the celebration is sponsored by the Iranian Student As- sociation of Oregon. Dating back to 1352, Noruz is traditionally celebrated by family, neighbors and friends greeting each other to renew vows of friendship. Tickets for the celebration, including dinner, are $3.50 for adults. Children accompan ied by parents may enter free. Reservations must be made by March 15 by calling PSU’s Middle East Studies Center at 229-3610. Voter league begins annual fund drive The League of Women Voters needs money, like everybody else these days. Inflation affects non-profit or ganizations which serve the public just as it does indivi duals and businesses. Thus the Portland League kicked off its annual finance drive Monday. March 5, with an appeal to the city's busi ness community for $5,000, one-third of its current oper ating budget. The purpose of the League of Women Voters, since its inception in 1920, has been to promote political response biiity through informed and active participation in gov ernment, P e o p l e have learned to rely on its in formation as factual a n d unbiased, a reputation it has worked hard to achieve and intends to keep. During the past year the League has covered two elec tions and nine study items. Its success in doing so is indicated by an increase in requests from the public and government for its services. The Portland League raises about half its operating bud get from member dues and member contributions. An other 18 percent comes from the sale of la-ague publica tions. The remaining thirty two percent is raised during the finance drive. During last year's election, the League published two VOTE newspapers listing all candidates, with their ans- wers to pertinent questions, and full explanations of state and local ballot measures. Candidate Fairs were held, both live and on television. Members of the Portland League’s Speakers Bureau addressed over 200 groups to explain b a l l o t measures. Voter registration d r i v e s were conducted and Portland voter registration is now at an all-time high. The L e a g u e publishes studies on a variety of issues based on in-depth research by its committee members, the entire membership being asked to express their posi tion on some of them. In addition, individual members serve on a number of govern mental c o m m i t t e s and boards, both locally and at the state level. Portland Community Col lege’s Adult Tutoring pro gram needs volunteer tutors to teach English to people who cannot speak the lang uage. Knowledge of a for eign language is not neces sary; PCC will provide train ing for tutors in the method for teaching English as a second language. Tutors are needed throughout the Port land area, Beaverton, and all of Washington and Columbia counties. For further infor mation call Portland, 224- 2135. St. Helens and Scap poose, 397 0028, and in W ashington County, 648- 6646. W e Take C ar* of All Arrangements Expertly... Because the good w ill of (he families we serve is our most valuable asset. C. Don Vann V A N N ’S MORTUARY 5211 N .W illiam » Avenue 2S1-2S36 Portland,Oregon Farmworkers launch King fund The United Farm Workers Union has established the Martin Luther K i n g . Jr. Farm Workers F u n d for Nonviolent Social Change. The new fund, announced in New York at a rally for the workers' lettuce strike, will provide assistance for the study of the nonviolent struggle for justice and also aid projects such as a retire ment village, health care clinics, and day care centers for the workers. Mrs. Coretta Scott King spoke in support of the farm workers movement : “I have a deeply personal reason for supporting Cesar Chavez and his union boycott. During this period of violence, po larization and despair, he has fought nonviolently against Himalayan odds; and through his struggle he has brought a new life to tens of thousands of farm laborers." Mrs. King, noting the po verty wages and oppresion imposed on farm laboreres across the nation, said; "Most landless farm workers are Black and brown, though many ly are white poor. They are the most forgotten of the wretched of America Squalor and merciless ex ploitation should not be tol erated." Mrs. King said that her husband was assassinated in a struggle with the same aims as the lettuce strike and boycott With Martin Luther King's many asso ciates and friends, we are honoring his memory and advancing his life work by participating in the singular struggle for economic justice and simple human dignity," Mrs. King said. The way in which Cesar Chavez is fighting Martin Luther King fought Moral means achieve moral e ids the beloved community in a society with justice, peace and brotherhood.” The rally was part of a nation wide tour by Cesar Chavez seeking support of the boycott of lettuce pro duced by non union workers. White psychiatrist obsolete for Blacks "Racist social conditions and recent heightened B l a c k awareness have designated the white therapist as some one not to be trusted unless his individual behavior proves otherwise," James B. Comer, M.D.. a Black r psychiatrist, thus ex ____ „ plains why Black people re fuse to seek help tor emotion al problems from white pro- fessionals. In the January is sue of MH. the quarterly magazine of the National As sociation for Mental Health, released recently, ( omer dis cusses the distressing shortage of Black therapists. One solution is to upgrade the educational efforts avails ble to Blacks; but. ( omer says, "Aside from the cost, there is little time. 1 he de mands are pressing and ur gent. The need is now." He suggests that "if Blacks gain sufficient economic and politi Panel discusses work . A panel to d i s c u s s “The Changing Work Ethic" wi„ heW juesdav. March jg „ Koosevelt High School in Portland. Sponsored by the River gate Career Education Pro gram at Roosevelt, the panel will examine the present day values connected with the world of work in an attempt HEALTH CARE to offer new insights. Panel members are Wil The Free Cline, at 4919 N. E. 9th Avenue | basement) liam J. Moshofsky, president. offers health education in Georgia Pacific Corp.; Mrs. formation, referral services, G Prentiss Lee, past presi preventative medicine and dent of the American Me h e a l t h screening. Open dieal Association Auxiliary; Monday - Thursday 7:30 • E. Shelton Hill, executive 9:30 p.m. Call 281-4429 director of the Urban Lea tdayl or 282-6675 ¡night |. gue. Father Paul W a l d - schmidt. C.S.C.. president of the University of Portland; Sidney Stoddard, business agent for Iron W o r k e r s Union lx>cal 516. and mode rater. James O’Gara, career education specialist. Portland Public Schools. The panel was organized by John Ries, director of the Rivergate Career Education project. Ries said the panel discussion was set up to involve teachers and the community in Area 3 of the school district in an analysis of current day values con cerning work. Hypertension: A silent and mysterious killer High blood pressure is a major killer of all Americans, Black and white. It afflicts more than 21 million persons in the United States and their numbers are growing every year. And countless thousands whose cause of death is officially determined to be another heart or blood vessel disease have h i g h blood pressure lurking some where in their background. The tragedy of this epi demic disease: half of those who have high blood press ure don't know it. And 50 per cent of those who do aren't being treated ade quately or at all. High blood pressure is a silent killer - silent because it does not have characteris tic symptoms. High blood pressure is a mysterious killer -- myster ious because, in over 90 per cent of the cases, medical science is unable to deter mine the exact cause. What happens if hyperten sion goes uncontrolled? It can trigger a heart attack or stroke or lead to hypertensive heart disease or kidney failure. And while there usually are no symptoms for hypertension the only way to find out whether you have it is to get a medical checkup - there are early warning signs to watch for if you are stroke prone. These, according to the American Heart Associ ation. are worth remember ing: • S u d d e n , temporary weakness or numbness of the face, arm or leg. • Temporary difficulty or loss of speech, or trouble understanding speech. • Transient dimness or loss of vision, particularly in one eye. • An episode of double vision. • Headaches that a r e unexplained or a change in the pattern of headaches. • Dizziness or unsteadi ness. • A recent change in personality or mental ability. According to the Heart Association's C o u n c i l on Stroke, a profile of the stroke patient includes high blood pressure and a history of brief, intermittent stroke like episodes, in which some of the warning signs outlined above might be experienced. Foundation. "There's no use How can hypertensive pa mounting a huge detection tients be helped? By screen ing and follow up ca n . By effort onlv to be frustrated by a lack of long term care. expanded and improved re habilitation facilities. By a It's needed not only for the nationwide educational pro population as a whole, but gram. complete with facts especially among Blacks who and figures designed to mo are poor, who move more tivate Americans. Black and often, who have many social white, to change their dietary problems, who live in rom habits and life styles. By an munities where medical rare all-out war on ghettoes and is often slim or virtually nil," crowded l i v i n g conditions, Tn Washington, D.C.. sig suspected to be breeding nificant programs are under grounds for hypertension. way to detect and keep The immediate need: find hypertensives under c a r e , hypertensives, treat t h e m and to cope with one of the and keep them under treat tragic end results of hyp ment. But once found, will ertension stroke. Both they cooperate? projects at D.C. General “Telling a person he has a Hospital and at Freedmen's disease isn't enough. If he Hospital operated by Howard doesn't feel bad. he's not Universtiy - involve Black going to go to a doctor, or inner city residents almost continue treatment once he exclusively. And both offer has been examined." vreat promise for the future. “Detection is not the real Next: Personal Care Homes: problem,” insists Dr. Jere freedmen's Hospital's pilot miah Stamler, director of the urogram for stroke patients. C h i c a g o Health Research c#| power within the total S(M,ia| system, the reluctance and refusal to be treated by ____ therapists should de white etinw.** Comer is Associate Profes sor of Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center and Asso date Dean of the Yale Medi cal School. He is author of " R e b in d Black a n d vvlsit«“’", a psychosocial ana lysis of American racial con Comer is also a member ,,f ,he NAMH Panel of Pro feMjona| Consultants, Also featured in the Janu ary issu,, of M1, are articles Gy Gloria Steitiem on assert j„g women's rights in society, an(j jyr Peter Breggin on w||y lobtttomy must be slop ped, plus a four page color portfolio of art by mental pa lie nts. MH ls published in July, October. 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