Oregon poverty increasing Edacational Center expands programmln3 Oregon continues to have lower level* of poverty and income concent rat ion than I he United State* a* a whole, although the gap In-tween the state and nation appear* to be nar rowing. This i* one o( the main liudings of Janie* It. Fitch, assistant jirolessor ol agri nlliiral economic* at Ore /.on State University, and John E. Schefler, a gradu ite student in that depart iio-nt, as reported in "In ' ome Distribution Pattern* in Oregon: A Comparison of O r eg o n C o u n tie s through Time." Oregon's lower than average index of inrome onrenlration was retained hi spite of an apparent increase in concentration in" the slate during the I960*," «ay* the study, which used income concentration a* a measure of economic in equality. "As was pre viously known from census publications. Oregon drop ped behind U.S. per capita and median income norm* in IMB for the first time in recent decades." The two economists re lied on median family in come, index of income concentration, and the per rentage of fam ilies in poverty to avoid the di* advantages of using a single statistic. The study revealed strik mg contrasts in changes of income pattern* for the different regions of the state. Cut h eatin g costs ttelore the shock of higher home heating coat* has gone away, lake some step* to make next month's hestmg bill lower, suggests Dorothy F. Brown, Oregon State University Extension housing apecialial. ('heck the inermoslat. 1* it working properly? It might not be accurate, so your house may be warmer than 66 degrees. Eor every one degree rise in average house temperature, heating costs go up three percent. Wall thermostats should be cleaned every year. Take off the rover and blow out the dust with a hair dryer. Dr use a brush, being very gentle. Electric baseboard heater thermostats wear out over a period of years. Keplar ing the thermostats ran result in considerable cost savings on heat bill*. To check any thermostat, put a thermometer at about four feet above the floor on an inside wall away from heat sources such as fireplaces. When the thermostat reads 66 degrees, what does the thermometer say? You ran adjust your thermostat set ting to keep the heat at 66 degree*. What about wasted heal in the upper part of rooms with lofty ceilings? An electric ceiling fan will send the warm air bark down where it will do some good Don't forget to check the filter in a forced air furnace. Dirty filters block the movement of air and greatly increase heating costs. Also be sure the cold air return registers are clean and not blocked by furniture. A furnance cannot operate efficiently unless the cold air gets bark to it for re warming. Biggest saving* in heat mg costs will come from added insulation in ceilings, walls and under floors, advises the OSU Extension specialist. Adding insul a lion will save more money each month on the heating hill than you would pay if you borrowed money to buy the insulation. So it really pays to put in added insulation, Mrs. Brown says. Each month you will havjj more money to spend for other necessi lies. Wacks ln Sports Hv t rm on I M wi . soh The great th in g I love a- w ith a lot «if b rail nod a lot lioui athletics is that ii has of heart, he’s never going to the potential 10 lea« h an i n ­ come «iff the field second. " R u n n in g a football d iv id u a l much more than team is no d iffe re n t from how lo gel along suicess fu lly on (he playing field. ru n n in g anv ««her kind of o rg an iratio n — an arm y, a I h i* article, w ritten by the laic Vince I.o m b a rd i, one p olitical party, a business. I'he principles are the ol the greatest football same. The object is to win coaches ever to live, demon, — to beat the other guy. strates this point. M avlie that sounds hard or cruel. I don’t th in k it is. Y O U 'V E G O I T O " I l ’s a reality «if life that P A Y I I I I : PR IGF " W in n in g is not a some- men are tomp«-titive and tim e th in g ; it's an a ll the- the most com petitive games lim e th in g . You don’ t win draw the most io m |ie titive once in a w hile, you don't men. T h a t ’s why they’re do things rig ht once in a there— lo compete. T hey w hile, you do them right know the rules and the ob­ all the lim e. W in n in g it a jectives when they get in habit. U n fo rtu n a te ly , to is the game. T h e objective is lo w in — fa irly , squarely, losing. " T h e re is no room for decently, by the rules— but setond place. I here is only to w in. one place in mv game and that is first place. I have fin ish rd second twice in mv tim e at G reen Bay and I don't ever want to finish second again. T h e re is a second place Imwl game, hut it is a game for losers plaved by losers. Il is and always has been an A m e ri­ can real lo be first in a n y ­ thing we do and lo win and to w in and to w in. "E v ery tim e a football player goes out to ply his trade he's got lo play from the ground up— fro m the soles of his feel rig ht up to his head. Every in« h of him has to play. Some guvs plav w ith th e ir heads. I hat's O .K . Y o u ’ve got lo lie smart to Ire No. I in any business. Hut more im p ortan t, you've g«it to play w ith your heart— w ith every f i ­ ller of your body. I f you’ re lu«kv enough to fin d a guv "A n d in tru th , I ’ve never known a man w orth his salt who in the long ru n . deep down in his heart, d id n ’t appreciate the g rin d , the discipline. T h e re is s«imething in good men that really yearns for, needs, discipline and the harsh reality of head-to- head combat. " I don’t say these things because I lie live in the ’b ru te ’ nature of man or that men must lie b ru ta l- ired to lie combative. I be­ lieve in (.««I, and I believe in hum an decency. But I firm ly believe that any man's finest h o u r— his greatest fu lfillm e n t to all hr holds dear— is that mo­ ment when he has worked his heart out in a good «ause and lies exhausted on the field of battle — vic­ torious." PEPI’S BOTTLE SHOP * la-t Pepl's Hottie Shop he your headquarters for ehant pagne, wines, mixers . . . at the lowest prices in town. Lloyd Center Next to the Liquor Store I’epi's one and only store. Open 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. daily. Sundays: Noon to 4:00 p.m. 281-2731 “Considering all three asports of inrome distrihu lion, the counties in the Willamette Valley moved from fthghtly better lo slightly worae than aver age. and the non Valley western region of the alate moved from a sligjitly worse to a considerably worse than average posi lion." The study ia part of "Man's Activities as Belated to Environmental Quality," a multi disciplinary, multi departmental look at Ore gori's present and future growth and environmental problems. It is funded by the Itorkefeller Foundation. Copies of the report are available without charge from the OSU Graduate SrhtMil. Students request asylum Political asylum for Ore gon State University stu dent Nguyen Dong, and seven other Vietnamese students, is being sought by the Northwest Regional Peace Education Committee of the American Friends Service Committee. Leslie Gray, Chairperson of AFSC's Committee, has asked Albert Conversano, Jr., District Director of the Immigration and Naturali ration Service in Portland, to interc«-dc on behalf of Nguyen Dong, a graduate student at OSU now living in Corvallis. Dong, as well as seven Vietnamese stu dents in California, have received deportation orders from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. AFSC has also requested assistance for the eight stu dents from the U.S. Attor ney General, area Senators and Congressmen, and Leo nard Chapman, Commis sioner of INS in Washing ton. D.C. The AFSC Committee urges that the students be granted political asylum in the United States “until such time as the Paris Peare A greem ents are seriously respected and fully implemented in Viet nam ." Gray cites Article 243 lh| of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Art which states that: "The Attorney Gen eral is authorized lo with hold deportation of any alien within the United States to any country in which in his opinion the alien would tie subject to persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion ..." Nguyen Dong was brought to the U.S. five years ago by the Agency for Inter national Development under its l-eadership Scholarship Program. Dong, age 25. graduated from the Univer sity of California at Berke ley in Chemical Engineering and is now doing graduate work at OSU in Forestry Products. Dong points out that implementation of the Peace Agreements would allow him to return home safely and to use his degrees to help his people According to its director, Lucius links, the Portland Stale University Educa lional Center will once again offer college courses at tremendously less than the usual college costs. The fees for enrolling in one class for credit is only SH.tXI. Those who do not wish college credit may still enroll and the fee will only be (I.(MJ per class. This is the only program of its kind in the state of Oregon. The Educational Center is a college of the streets in essence. It offers regular college courses to the com munity at a tremendous discount. This winter term the Center is continuing its GED program. In this program a person ran gain credit for high school com pletion by enrolling in a series of courses. The stu dent progresses at his/her own rate and is not ham pered by hard competition. It cost (1.00 to enroll in the GED program and the stu dent ran begin at any time. The Center still offers many academic courses for college rr«-dit too. This term special interest courses have been added, some of which are in response to demands from former en­ rollee*. "The History of Black Women in America" is de signed to investigate the evolution of Black women from pre slavery to modern times. Black pioneers will be viewed from the per spective of participants in anti slavery, suffrage, and civil rights movem ents. Modern com plexities of psychological conflicts and insecurities, economic sur vival. maternal power, and se x u a l je a lo u s ie s are studied. The instructor for this course is Ms. Bessie Fields. It is sch«*duled for Wednesday evenings from 6:45 to 9:30 p.m. A sp«-cial course. "Person al Finance", will be appro­ priately offered this term. The primary objective of the course is to provide in­ dividuals in the community with a systematic way of ap proach ing econom ic choices. Some everyday but complex personal eco nomic issues will be ana lyzed. The major units of study will be fmxl costs, inflation, how one gets into debt, credit, savings, in­ vestm ent*, and inrome trends. This section will be held on Tuesdays from 6:45 to 9:30 p.m. The instructor is Mr Ken Alexander. In response to the many requests the Center has received for a math course covering a variety of prob lems which are relat«»d to the businessman, it is of fering Tntr«»duction to Busi ness Mathematics”. This course will apply mathe matics to a variety of prob lems in the business field, including simple and com pound in terest, payroll preparation, pricing, invoice preparation, trade dis counts, cash discounts, property taxes, deprecia lion, fire insurance, simple statistics and graphs. Mr. Leonard Roland is the in structor and class will b< offered on Monday evening; from 7:(MJ to 9:30 p.m. Again the Center will offer 'M athem atics for Elementary Sch«M»l Teach ers" by Ms. Mildred Ben nett. This is the first of two terms of mathematics required for certification as an elem entary teacher. Topics include set*, mathe matical systems, ancient systems of numeration, non decimal number bases, his torn-al methods of multipli cations, operations on in tegers. This course will be held on Mondays from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. For the first time, the Center will offer “Minorities in Communications", taught by Mr. Ken Berry. This course will be held on Thursdays from 6:45 to 9:30 p.m. The primary goal is to expose the radio industry and the effects it Hack, a new pamphlet by Willie Mae Reid, Peter Camejo. and others, explains the issues in the Boston hi sing controversy and the vital importance of mobilizing to defeat the racists. The contents of this 32 page pamphlet (selling for 50c) includes: "Boston Crisis: Little Rock of 1974", by Willie Mae Reid; "KKK Scum in Boston: 'Real Issue is Niggers'", by Willie Mae Reid; “Behind the Government Retreat on Desegregation", by Fred Halstead; "Busing: What Are the Issues?, Ten of the Most Important Questions", by Peter Camejo; “Maoists Join Segrega. tionists in Boston, The He v o lu tio n a ry U nion and Busing", by Dave Frankel. In addition to probing the issues in the busing con troversy. it supported the "Freedom March for Human Dignity" in Boston on December 14th and con tinued solidarity actions with the Boston Black community. It explains what is at stake and why all people who sup port the gains of the civil rights movement should mobilize behind the Black schoolchildren in Boston and their attempt to desegregate schools. "The eyes of the nation and the world are now focused on Boston." said state senator elect William Owens of The Massachusetts Ia*gislalive Black Caucus in calling for the December 14th national march. This pamphlet is a weapon in that struggle. The pamphlet may be ordered from Pathfinder Press, 410 West Street, New York, New York 10014. Price is 50c each, with a 40% discount for* 25 copu or more. gies. including governmwnt contracts. Licenses, per­ mits. site selection and zon­ ing ordinances will be con sidered, as will environ­ mental limitations. Per sonnel and training prac­ tices will be examined. 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