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m Program elimination leaves families helpless Mr». Pricilla Colvin credit» the Public Health Nur»e» ol the county'» “mental emo lional" program with saving her marriage and probably saving the life of one of her sons. Due to county budget ruta. thia program no longer exists and other families like the Colvins will have to do without this service. The Colvin's 13 year old aon Steven grew so violent that he became a physical danger to the other children in the home. Although Steven has always exhibited emotional problems, Mrs. Colvin managed to contain him with the help of in («rested teachers until he reached the seventh grade. At home, Steven terrorized his four brothers and kept the family in a turmoil. As he entered the seventh grade, Steven became aware that adults could not control him. He began skipping school and refusing to do his school work. He led a gang of (toys that burglarized the neighborhood but was clever enough to establish alibis for himself. About the time the school expelled Steven, they re ferred him to Queenie W il son, the Public Health Nurse who spent a half day or more each week ut Beach School screening children for physi cal problems, teaching health education, advising teachers on behavior problems, and discussing children whose behavior brought them to the attention of the teaching tla ff looking for children whose families might need help and whose problems might be dealt with before they became too severe. Mrs. Wilson visited the Colvin home and found Mrs. Colvin needing help but not knowing where to turn. The family had gone to a psy chologist, who told them he could not help. They ha< gone to the church, but found no one equipped to deal with their problems. Mrs. Wilson began looking for help for Steven and found nothing available. He was too old for children's treat ment programs like Edge field I<odge, and too young for adult programs. After many phone calls and con ferences, she located the adolescent program at Ore gon State Hospital. The family visited the hospital I Please turn t o pg. 3, col. 5, V Jones joins P arole B oard Governor Tom McCall has announced the appointment of Chalmers Jones of Salem to the three member Oregon Board of Parole and Pro tuition. Jones will resign as om budsman to assume the full time parole board position. He succeeds Philip S. Hitch cock of Sisters, who resigned effective June 30th. Jones' term will expire in June. urn. He has been ombudsman since October of 1973. Pre vtousiy he was administrator of special programs for the Department of Human Ke sources McCall also announced the appointment of Ted Winters, assistant ombudsman, to the l«»ition of Ombudsman to succeed Jones. Jones. 4H. was horn in St. Joseph, louisiana. He re reived a harhelor of science degree in business ad ministration from Southern University, Baton Kouge. He worked with the Em ployment Division for I I years. He was program coordinator and manager for the Youth Opportunity Cen ter in Portland. He later became responsible for de vein,ting the North Portland Placement Office of the De partment of Employment. Jones became supervisor of Target Area Programs in Portland including the Con rentrated Employment Pro gram, North Portland Multi Service Center and NAB JOBS placement unit. H r is a past president of the Oregon State Employees Association, member of the Personnel Advisory Com nutter to the State Civil Service Commission. Port land Metropolitan Steering Committee and the Portland Model Cities Planning Board. Jones currently is serving on th«- Health Facilities Cost Review Comm ission, the State Health Commission and th e Public Employees' Re tirement Board W inters, 49, previously supervised the State Office of Economic Opportunity and was administrative assistant to the human resources co ordinator. He is a member of the hoard of directors of the American Corrections As sociation and on the board of the Migrant Indian Coalition for Child Care. He was a member of the Governor's C o o rd in a te d C o m m u n ity Child Care Committer*. Defense Appropriations Bill reaches the floor of the House for consideration of amendments sometime in mill .1 uIv. 1974. This demonstration marks the first s lip in an intensive organizing e ffo rt to be carried out in Congressman Wyatt's district in the days before the final vote on the Defense Appropriations Bill. As many of his constituents as possible will be contacted via telephone, mailings, and public letter writing tables. They will be asked to send telegrams and letters to W y a tt expressing th e ir feelings on the m atter of TB by saving a t th© Benj. Franklin A neat little cam era Is yours, free with a new deposit of $250 to $5.000 or more Free Snapshooters and Kodak s Hawkeye Instamatics, or buy Kodak's Hawkeye movie camera at $9 95 with a $5.000 deposit One cam era per account, while supplies last, cameras cannot be mailed See them in person at any office 5.25% per annum on Passbook Accounts; Certificates ot Deposit at higher rates. Franklin •«VIM«« • bSSM « ••• Home Ottica: Franklin Bldg . Portland, Oregon 87204 Hobart H Mazon, Piss. • 28O«lc Itcas • Phono 248-1294 I*. fili» n ua* I 14 < >« i it 1 :i I Emanuel Hospital launched its new building program with groundbreaking cere monies for a $406,000 struc ture that will connect the School of Nursing building with the main hospital. Emanuel Hospital presi dent Roger lairson presided at the ceremony, which in rluded members of the board of directors, the medical staff, employees, and mem beis of the community. A pledge of $250,000 from IDEA chooses Key The Institute for Develop ment of Educational Activi ties, the educational affiliate of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, announced that Ms, June R. Key, Vice Principal of Adams High School, has been chosen as an ID E A Fellow. She is one of 400 outstanding educators throughout the country selected to participate in a Peace campaign hits Wyatt The Portland Indochina Peace Campaign, with the coofieration of other local anti war and service organi rations, held a demonstration at the benefit dinner for R e p r e s e n t a t iv e W endall W yatt Saturday, June 29th. at the Hilton Hotel. The purpose of this demon stration was to attempt to communicate to Congress man W yatt the feelings of his constituents that he should vote for the amend ment to the Defense Ap propriations Bill that will substantially reduce military aide to the Saigon govern ment of South Vietnam. The Emanuelresumesexpansion one w e e k s e m in a r th is summer designed to give p articip an ts a thorough grounding in some of the new and emerging problems and practices effecting secon dary education. The topics and presenters will range from "The World Crisis in Education" by Ian Lister of England's York U n iv e rs ity to "T ea ch er Unions May Soon Control Public Education" by David Seeley, director of the Public Education Association of New York City. Each Fellow will also re reive a prepubliration ropy of the report of Task Force “74. a National Task Fore« for High School Reform. Working in small groups, the Fellows will discuss the im plications to education of the report which includes analy ses ot educating adolescents for responsibility, the role of citizens in high school re form, and complementary learning programs for secon dary level students. Th«* report points to new directions of citizen and student involvement in the educational planning. The experiences of on-site in vestigations of fledgling e f fort» to be related bv mem bers of the Task Force to th« seminar group will confirm th«* benefits of a working relationship between stu dents, school, and com munity. Many of those who ap|M*ar«*d before the Task Force will In- sharing their programs with th«* Fellows. The ID E A Fellows In slitutes are the oldest in service program for school administrators in the nation Over 3,100 elementary and secondary educators from North America and oversea} have participated in thif program. continued U.S. military aid to General Thieu's govern ment. The Indochina Peace Cam paign is a member organiza lion of the Coalition to Stop Funding the W ar, 110 Mary land Avenue, N.E.. Wash ington, D.C. A recent in dication of the Coalition's success in its national or ganizing drive in key con gressional districts was the House rejection last April of a $276 million supplemental appropriation of military aid to General Thieu. Kepre sentalive W yatt was the only Northwest congressman to vole for this boost in aid. Earlier this month the U.S. Senate narrowly defeated 146 401 an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill that would have sharply rut military aid to Thieu. O bjection to continued massive military aid to the Saigon government arises from the contention that the granting of such aid, which takes the form of U.S. mili tary advisor, fighter aircraft, tanks, communications equip ment, rifles, anti personnel weapons (napalm, fragmen tation bombs), artillery, con strurtion of prisons and training of police, etc,, is in direct violation of provisions of the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement. In particular, the U.S. violates Article 4 of the Agreement, which states "The United States will not continue its military involve ment or intervene in the in ternal affairs of South Viet nam." The U .S . through its various aid programs pays for approximately 90% of The United Affirm ative G eneral Thieu's budget, Action Committee will hold enabling him to preside over an open meeting at 11 a.m. one of the world's most Saturday. July 6th at 106 repressive regimes. N.E. Morris Street. t h the i* P .r tm m ia s l Emanuel The air conditioned Oregon Coast beckons vacationers who want to escape the heat and confusion of the city. A Auxil n v il Hospital lary helped kick off the hos pital's capital fund raising drive "Operation Update". The Wives of Emanuel Medi cal Staff pledged $50.000. Everyone attending the ceremony - they had been asked to bring their own shovels was invited to participate in the ground breaking. Following the ceremony, Mayor Goldschmidt, lairson, and other dignitaries had a short ride in a hot air balloon, which was used as the symbol of the new ex pansion. The project is partially funded througn a grant from the federal government. Upon completion of the connecting link, non patient relat«*d services will be re- locat«*d in the School of Nursing building which will be known as Emanuel East. The glass enrlos«*d, split level link will house the new lobby. "The relocation of the lobby and non patient related services will allow for the expansion of the laboratory and x ray d ep artm en ts. Presently, both departments are critically overcrowd«*d." I .arson said. Th«* accounting, keypunch, collections and general ad ministration offices will be the first to be relocated in the Emanuel East building. This will allow for the re modeling necessary for the expansion of the laboratory. The connecting structure will join on the main hospital and School of N u rsin g buildings on the north end. The link will be 42 feet wide on the hospital side and 27 (Pleas«* turn to pg. 3. col. 7) (Photo by Nitina Chav an I B eth u n e m e m o ria l d ed icated Mary McLe«xf Bethune, distinguished educator, hu m anitarian and church woman, was a living legend. Born the fifteenth child of freed slaves in Mayesville, South Carolina, she grew up to b<* an advisor to four Presidents of the United States and Founder of Bethune-Cook man College in Daytona B«*ach, Florida. She was Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administra lion under President Frank lin D. Roosevelt. She was the founder of the National Council of Negro Women, which sp,*arh«*aded the drive for the Memorial as author iz«*d by the 86th through the 92nd Congress and the President of the Unit«*d States. On July 10th. a memorial to Mrs. Bethune, the first memorial to a Black Am eri can or a woman to be er«*ct«*d in a public park in our nation's capital, will be unveiled by the Department of the Interior and the National Council of Negro Women. July 10, 1974 marks the n in ety -n in th a n n iv e r s a r y since Mrs. Bethune was born of slave parents. It also marks a century since the (Please turn to pg. 4. col. 6) UAAC meets Commissioner Charles Jordan receives a western hat from Miss Oregon Rodeo Kathy Weick, and Dick Davenport of the Mollala Buckaroo Association. Miss V/eick was chosen Miss Oregon Rodeo from among former rodeo queens. She. will compete for the national title in Oklahoma this December. The Mollala Buckaroo, which is held each year during the 4th of July holidays, is one of Oregon's best known rodeos. I People First requests injunction A suit has been filed in federal court asking an in junction to prevent M ult nomah County from cutting its social service programs to m«*et budget demands. Multnomah County faced a budget deficit of $4 million for Fiscal Year 1974 and the larger portion of the cut was made in the Department of Human Services, which is the largest department. The Department of Human Ser vices will receive $16.923,760 to provide services to chil dren, the elderly, youth, and emotionally and physically handicapped individuals. The suit was filed by "P«*ople First", an organiza tion of county employees and concerned citizens who be lieve the county Board of Commissioners could have found better ways to save money than rutting essential human services. Some of the programs that have been eliminat«?d are: home health nursing; the m ental-em otional program, which includes services in child abuse, pre-commitment screening, counseling in drug and alcohol problems, and counseling following crib- deaths; routine inspection of nursing homes, child care centers and homes for the ag«*d; health education pro grams: protective services for the elderly, school nurse services, which screens 32.000 school children an nually. The juvenile court has lost 25 percent of its counselors, leaving only 17 counselors to handle 10,000 cases of dependent or delin q u e n t c h ild re n s e rio u s enough to have reached the co u rt’s a tte n tio n . The mental-health clinics have been cut by over $175,000 at a time when two of the five clinics are able to take only emergency cases and elimi nation of other services will make the need greater. “People First" questions other county expenditures they feel are less essential - $300,000 will be sp.-nt for air conditioning in the County Court House. $415,000 will be spent to remodel the Gresham roller rink for a Senior Service Center, but the staff of that center has been reduced by more than one-third. $80,000 will be spent for four new administrators. "People First” urges those citizens who are concerned to contact Commissioner Don Clark and demand documen tation that the cuts are ne«*essary. Eighth graders win OES scholarships Kim R itte r and Bill Dawson will be new students at The Hall this fall. They're the first recipients of two competitive scholarships cov ering full tuition costs. It ail happened when the Board of Trust«*es. early this spring, established a scholar ship program open to eighth graders not currently a t tending the school. Criteria for acceptance: the strongest combination of scholarship, citizenship, and ability in creative arts and athletics. Kim and Bill excel in all these areas very well. Bill Dawson, a former student at Madeleine Junior High, resides in Northeast Portland with his family, the Russell Dawsons. He enjoys French, drama, journalism, swimming and track the best. This year he was founder and editor of his school paper. “The Monitor", and taught journalism classes on the side. In his "spare time". Bill plays the violin, the viola, takes music lessons, theory and solfeggio classes at the Community Music Center and plays in their inter m«*diate orchestra. He also formed a ten piece orchestra within the Jack and Jill Or ganization, which often has its rap sessions in his home. Earlier this year Bill par ticipated in another of his oves, public speaking. He took first place in the district competition at the Optimists Club Public Speaking Con test. Less recently, when Bill's family lived in Seattle, he was an actor in children's theater and took drama classes at the University of Bill Dawson and Kim R itter peruse a school catalog. Bill, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Dawson, resides in Northeast Portland. Kim is the daughter of M r. and Mrs. Thomas R itter of Beaverton. W ashington from Agnes Haaga. professor o j drama and head of its department. Bill's looking forward to his career at The Hall. "The teachers and classes have so much more to offer; students are challenged to the point where everyone likes to learn. And, the school has more learning m aterials, too," he said. Bill's father. Russell Daw son, is the area director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment. He has three sisters and one brother. Kim Ritter's specialities are music, language arts, and English, and she does them all well. Most recently Kim produced her own play, and she did solo work for the Forest Grove Barbershop Quartet Contest. Kim has also b een playing the French ’ lorn for four years, and next year anticipates par ticipating in oand work through the Extension D ivi sion of Lewis and Clark College. W riting short stories and poetry is another one of Kim's delights. And, in her “free time" Kim makes and sells macrame and does photographic work site's anticipating her work at The Hall because "I like small classes; it's easier to get to know the teachers, (Please turn to pg. 3, col. 3) »
