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Page 8 Portland, Observer Thursday, November 15, 1973 Resuscitation Trail Blazers assist community efforts SUPPORT YOUR ADVERTISERS class held by Paul Knaulu SAVE TODAY! 17.0 cu. ft. Refrigerator only 30 wide Wally Scales. Public Rela tions Director for the Port land Trail Blazers, is very active in the Black com munity. Working with the players and some of the larger companies, including Carnation Milk Company, Converse Rubber Company, and Safeway Stores, speak ing engagements and promo tions keep Wally busy. On November 11 over 350 persons received free tickets to the Trail Blazer game on November 12 for taking the Sickle Cell Anemia Test. Three Black community lun cheons were held and mem bers of the Black community were invited to attend to express their views as to what the Trail Blazers could do for the community and w hat the community could do for the Trail Blazers. The Trail llazers have al ready done many things for the community. The Blazers gave awards and acted as MCs for the Miss Black Ore gon Pageant, and sponsored basketball scholarships to summer basketball camps. The Trail Blazers are work ing with the P8U Educa tional Center to get it open on a full time basis for 1974. The Bruce Thompson Me morial Center has received monetary contributions from the Blazers and have been on the half time show at Me morial Coliseum. There are five Black ball boys that must keep their grades up to keep with the team. The Blazers and Carnation Com panv donated milk, ice cream and other dairy products to the Community Care As sociation. On November 5th and 6th the Trail Blazers were models in the Multi Service C enter’s Fashion Show, and Wally Scales was MC! The Blazers have worked with com m unity agencies such as the Urban League, Manpower, National Alliance of Businessmen, Albina Ac tion Center, the Albina Youth Opportunity School and many others. The Trail Blazers offer so cial clubs the opportunity to make money on home games. The club can buy six dollar tickets for four dollars and resell them, giving the club the profit. The Oregon Heart Assaria tion announced that two separate classes in Cardio pulmonary R e s u s c ita tio n iCPRI. the emergency treat ment given to heart attack victims, will be offered Nov ember 28th and 29th at the Memorial Coliseum. The two day long classes, which are limited to 100 each day and will draw from qualified CPR personnel throughout the state, are sponsored by the Dll A in co operation with the American Red Cross. According to Dr. William Olson, Chairman of the OHA Cardiopulmonary Resuscita tion Committee, persons at tending the instruction will first be certified and then return to their home areas to in turn teach the methods of CPR locally. This is the first time the certification classes have been offered in Oregon. Portlander’s attend Recovery meeting Three members from the Portland area attended a national training conference of Recovery. Inc., in Chicago on November 2 anil 3. 1 hey were: Mrs, Shari Love, Leader Training Chairman and Leader of the Door group; Mrs. Marian Fox, Public Relations Chairman: and Mr Elliott Snedecor, psychiatrist. Dr. zKbraham A. Low. at the Psychiatric In stitute of the University of Illinois Medical School. To day there are over 1,000 w e e k ly g rou p m e e tin g s throughout the United States and Canada with Fifteen groups in the Portland metro politan area. The Recovery group leaders who attended the recent conference are former pa FROST PROOF.. . GLIDES OUT ON ROLLERS You'll nowar, awor ha wo to dofrott thii 17.0 cu. ft. Frigidairò robigoroter It'» 100% Frort-Proof And you get moro room mudo with lost bulk outudo this 30" wide model featuring organized storage space throughout. If you change your mind, you con change the doors. Reverso-doors hinge either right of left. Cleaning behind ond beneath is mode eosy by the smooth-glide rollers. 328 EASY TERMS Afinen...at S M ITH 'S SHOP « TO « «SOM TMRU M l SAT YM « lOoeed Finally, a painless way to save. Now there’s a painless, almost fool proof way to save. Save-O-Matic. It works very simply. You tell us how much you’d like to save each month, and we'll transfer it from your First National checking account to vour savings account. Automatically. You'll never miss the money. Hardly even realize you’re saving it. Until, of course, you look at your savings account. It’s a pleasant surprise. And completely painless! F IR S T N A T IO N A L B A N K OF OREGON M em b er F D IC 1. Dial direct whenever you can. When you dial interstate calls direct from your home or office phone without operator assistance, you can almost always save. 2. (aH at the times when rates are lowest. Interstate Long Distance rales—especially dial-direct rates—are lower on week ends, in the evening and late at night. Savings can be big. whut you wish to talk ubout - perhaps even make some notes—you'll be able to share ntore news and get more accomplished in less time And this will save money. 4. ( all person-to-person only when absolutely necessary. Pcrson-to-pcrson calls arc far more expensive than station-to-station calls— especially dial-direct station calls. In some cases, you can get more than two dial-direct calls for the price of one pcrson-to- pcrson call. P»cibc Northwest Boll Pilots must have gotten a kick out o f a World War I arm y regulation that required a flying officer to wear spurs. PGE Customers Report: is the prime consideration. In both centers there is order. The rooms are cheer ful in decor and divided into centers of activity where various types of material; belong and where they are used. T h ere is su p e r v is io n . Friendly adults circulate among the centers to show the way to constructive play and “to play with” the chil dren. Yet there is freedom. The children choose what they will do and how they will do it so long as their methods are not disruptive or de structive. Disagreements are settled calmly, gently, and firmly. The children who attend PCC’s child development cen ters are the children of PCC students and staff members with limited income. Fees are on a sliding scale ac cording to income. The teachers, aside from the instructors, are second year PCC students in the Early Childhood Education program, who are working for associate degrees, and who have completed one year of study and observa tion. answers Z J to turkey fcf questions /I _ How to save money on your Long Distance calls. 3. |'|an your conversation in advance. If you know in advance College provides child care centers With more and more mothers going off to jobs outside the home, the role of the child care center is be coming increasingly impor tant, and Portland Com munity College is aware of the needs for people trained to work with young children. Model child development centers have been established at PCC’s Sylvania and Cas cade centers. They differ from one another in a t mosphere and in physical aspect: Cascade shelters the children in the homelike surroundings of a roomy old house, filled with stimulating materials and flanked by a yard full of apparatus for active play. Sylvania offers spacious rooms in a modern college building with outdoor play space in a mall area. Cascade is licensed by the state to accommodate 30 children on a full-day care basis. (PCC limits enroll ment to 24 to avoid crowd ing.) Sylvania is licensed for 36 children on full-day care. A separate "drop-in” nursery is licensed for 12 children at a time. The objective of the two centers, however, are alike. The development of the child Oregon Area Leader. Recovery, Inc., the Assorts tion of Nervous and Former Mental Patients, is a self help aftercare organization whose purpose is to prevent re lapses in former mental pa lients and chronic symptoms in nervous patients. T he o r g a n iz a tio n w as founded in 1937 by the late tients who have been thor oughly trained in the self help techniques and all serve on a volunteer basis. The organization is non sectarian, non profit, and there is no charge for atten dance. For further informu tion concerning the organiza tion, write Recovery, Inc., 7124 S.E. 20th Avenue, Port land. Oregon 97202, or call 223 9000. by Martha Logan Q . H ow do you kn o w w h en a t u r k e y is d o n e ? A. Begin to test for doneness an hour before the end of the suggested time. Use these 3 tests: 1. Check the roast meat thermometer inserted in the center of the thigh next to the body, not touching bone. The thigh temperature should be 180 to 185’ F. 2. Protect fin gers with paper; press thigh and drumstick. Meat should feel soft. 3. Prick skin of thigh. Juices should no longer be pink. Watt Watching # Works Saved 30.7%* Saved 30%* Saved 22%* D. S c h m e is e rs o f W est Linn R. S ta v e rs o f B e a v e rto n D. M c C a ffe rty « o f M ilw a u k ie The children were real cooperative Tim kept bugging Terry to turn off the lights Armed with a batch of fluorescent "Turn Off the Light stickers and the PGE Watt Watchers Guide. Mr and Mrs Don Schmeiser began a test period to see if they could really save watts and dollars They turned down their heating from 72° to 68° and found it comfortable They cut down on TV watching and remembered especially to turn it off when they left the room They cut the use of major appliances Mrs Schmeiser even began drying her clothes outside again on nice days And of course, the kids helped by reminding each other to turn off the electricity when it wasn t being used. The results'? The Schmeisers not only cut their electric usage by 30 7%, but also found a guaranteed formula for saving watts in the future. "I believe the things we've done are what every family can do. and be able to see the results right away' And see the results, they did' The Stavers are successful and conscientious watt watchers The first thing they did was turn down their water heater 10° Next Mrs Staver began a quick n easy collection of no-bake cookie recipes to try out on her two young children (Dad loved them, too!) She also put a three second time limit on the refrigerator door being open Besides using less hot water at bath time and air drying their washed clothes, the Stavers also insulated the heating pipes under the house But the thing I feel made the most difference" Mrs Staver revealed, is not turning on the hot water during the day You d be surprised how little you really need" If people don t start saving electricity now they re liable to be without it later on The McCaffertys know how important saving electricity is When you ve got a two-level, six-bedroom house and three teenagers, you know you ve got your work cut out for you So while Mrs McCafferty cut down on the oven, dishwasher, washer and dryer use the rest of the family helped out by limiting their use of conveniences They eliminated the use of the air conditioner entirely No radios were left on There was no TV watching before 6 30 p m They took short showers instead of baths (' saves about half the hot water") We even had a general rule in force where a person would be fined a dime for leaving the lights on in the room!" "I don't want to lose my electricity this winter. Mrs McCafferty concluded "Everybody s going to have to help tp make watt watching work Join the PGE Watt Watchers above Your voluntary help now may help head-off enforced curtailment later during this critical period Here s why: every kilowatt-hour of electricity you use means either some water must be released from reservoirs behind a dam. or some thermal fuel burned to generate that power The long-term solution is the building of new generating plants, transmissipn lines and other badly needed electrical facilities without imprudent delay PGE joins 109 other utilities in the Pacific Northwest in urging customers to save energy now to help avoid enforced rationing in the months ahead For a free phamphlet of ideas on conserving energy in your business, home or community, write: Q . 1« t h e r e a n e asy w a y to I r a n . f e r a h o i. r o o k e d t u r k e y f r o m p a n to p la t t e r ? A Yes. A cord lifter comes with all Deep Basted Butter- ball Swift's Premium Turkeys (10-24 lbs). The lifter is placed lengthwise under pre pared turkey. By bringing up lifter ends a cradle is formed to make it easy to lift the tur- kev into the roasting pan. When the turkey testa done, it is easy to grasp the loopa firmly and lift the turkey from pan to platter. Q . I f th e t u r k e y is n o t s t u f f e d , w ill th is a f f e c t th e r o a s tin g lim e ? A Yes Reduce the cooking time Vi to 1 hour. f The electricity you save now is vital in avoiding an energy crisis. Please help ... Watt Watching really works. -The percentage reduction Itom average weekly uae in kilowatt hours of the preceding three months Portland General Electric Company Conservation Center 621 S W Alder S t . Portland, Oregon 97205
