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. January and April,
The Annual subscription price
is $10. Contact the National
A ssosciation
for
Mental
Health. 1800 N. Kent Street.
Arlington. Virginia 22209.
Binyon Optical
Di$pensers of Fa$hion Eyew ear
6 3 0 SW B ro ad w ay
2 2 6 -6 6 8 8
Jantzen Beach
2 8 3 -3 1 9 5
SDNEY THOMAS
DISPENSING OPTICIAN
Dr. L. W e sle y A planalp
O ptom etrist
Soft and R eg ular contact lenses
Assoc late optometrists:
BRIGGS, HATTEN, MILLER A STKNCER
Penney Days
fabric sale. 20% off.
Our answer to the
high cost of high style.
Penneys is the
one place to go
if you sew.
i
S a le 71®*
Reg. 89« yd. Rayon/cotton broadcloth
solids in all the new fashion colors
Machine washable Crease resistant 44 45
Reg. 95< yd. Create a little fashion
magic ol your own this spring with
rayon/cotton broadcloth prints
Penn-Prest 44/45"
S a le 132*
Reg 1 65 yd. You re ready tor the
sporting life with this 2-ply woven
cotton sportswear labric in solid
fashion colors Penn-Prest 44/45 "
S a le 2 »
Reg. 2.6» yd. Dress yourself up in
lovely Kashmir' acrylic crepe screen
prints Bright and colorful patterns
Machine wash, tumble dry 44/45”
Reg. 2.98 yd. Printed polyester
crepe in many tashion colors
Penn-Prest 44^45
Sale price« etfectlve through Sunday
Thads when lower Long Distance
rates begin on weekdays.
T he best time to share the good times in the
northwest is after 5 PM on weekdays. That’s when
lower Long Distance rates begin. And that*s when
you're likely to find friends and family at home.
So go ahead and spread the good word.
Long Distance calls get people together.
Pacific Northwest Bail
O»ei ft y«p»4Hf r«t«g apply txt ceil« p ieced w th ., operetar where dtei iBCthdae ere not e*e»iebie
Die* direct reuw do no» eppiy io com - redd card coHaci r * * * ’ 'o person
end hotel g«»ea» cone or to c e n t r heraed to enother number
Lowar Direct D»«fenc,e Dteiad retes eppiy enywhem w.fhm the conbnamei United State« except Aieeke
4*