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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1976)
■ Page 6 1W P artU ad Have a safe Halloween « F a ** up to a safe Halloween th a year One way a to use makeup instead of wearing a mask Not only is makeup more creative and more comfortable. but it keeps v ism » clearer during trick or treat p h M- Halloween accidents, particularly tra f hr hazards and deadly candy, face children who go out on the street trick o rtre a tin g One alternative is giv mg out candy to trick o r treaters is McDonald's Halloween p i t certificates. Available at McDonald a io books of SO for M OO. each certificate is redeemable for a regular or sugar free soft drink at any of the participating restaurants. Another way to prevent Halloween accidents is to ask children to follow some simpler aafety rule*. L ike these: 1. Bring treats home for parents to 2. Don't eat treats that are not wrapped or sealed 3. T nck a r treat early and be home by f t W p m. 4. T nck or tre a t ta a fam iliar neighborhood Plan a route with parents before going out. 5 Stay out of strange homes and apartments. 6 Skip houses that don't have outside 'fights on 7. W ear light colored clothing and reflector tape so children can be seen in the dark. A C arry a flashlight not a candle. 9. Don't wear flamm able clothes or costumes that are easy to trip on or that might catch on bushes or fences. 10. W e a r make-up ra th e r than a mask to keep v ision clearer 11. Avoid whiskers, beards, wigs or veils that are flammable or obstruct SANDY L- HENDERSON Port hires affirm ative action officer Sandy L. Henderson, form erly with the Civil Rights Divewon of the Oregon Bureau of Labor, has joined the Port of Portland in the position of Personnel Asststaat and A ffirm ative Action Officer. She w ill be responsible for recruiting, interviewing and hiring at the Port in conjunction w ith her duties as a liaison between the Port and c m l rights enforcement agencies. Ms. Henderson came to the Port directly from the Bureau of Labor, where she had served during the past four years investigative and investigator of plaints. She graduated from le w is and Clark College in 1970 w ith a degree ta journalism and sociology, and has also been a newspaper repo rter and public relations assistant in th e Portland area D rew Lippay. personnel manager for the Port said. "I look to M s Henderson to increase awareness of Port job openings throughout the Port D istrict She w ill maintain direct contact w ith the many organizations able to refer qualified applicants to the Port, and w ill help us be sure the Port's hiring practices comply w ith the spant and the le tte r of the la w .* In addition to her other duties. M a Henderson w ill be updating the Port's A ffirm ative Action program and w ill serve as in house consultant for the program. She w ill also conduct training seminars for managerial staff and w ill be actively involved in employee o oentat Tbe job of A ffirm ative Action Officer was made vacant when Ivory Nicholas resigned from the position in July to go for himself. Vaccine exp ert questions swine flue shots by David M Health. Education and W elfare, insists, however, that “ail the test results so far and the evidence in had do not indicate any connection between the vaccine and the reported deaths.' D r. M orris disagrees. It is bis belief that a swine flu outbreak is highly unlike ly. that the immunization program is in itself dangerous, and th at the vaccine in use is ineffective in any event. D r. M orris believes it was just suck criticism, expressed in a letter to Food and D ru g Commissioner Alexander Schmidt in July, that resulted in his firing tw o days later. to use The g o ' ernment's initial Rorvik (P N S ) - The recent deaths of elderiy persons following vaccinations for A New Jersey influenza. or “swine flu.” have prompted strong new enucisms from the scientific community over President Ford's already controversial mass mununizatmn program. Government health officials maintain that among every 100.000 individuals over the age of CO. 10 or 11 can be expected to die in any given 24 hour period - enough to account for the re parted deaths But D r. J. .Anthony Mom s , who recent after D r. M o m s discovered that the when injected into acce 1er ated the formation of mammary cancer. Scientists then attem pted to make an effetive vaccine out of killed influenza virus - something D r. M o m s doubts can be done. He explained that, because the A New Jersey strain of flu - which some say resembles the swine flue virus that re sulted in the 1916 eptdem » - did not grow fast enough to prepare the vaccine in sufficient quantity, an unusual tech nique was adopted. The A-New Jersey virus was gen et» ally combined w ith the n u d e » add of a fast-growing influenza virus. The resulting mutation was then able to repb cate rapidly when incubated in eggs, from which the vaccine now being used is derived. A fte r billions of doses erf the genetically engineered vaccine had been manufac tured. D r M o m s says, it was shown that one of the essential factors necessary for protection against influenza of his strain - an “antigen" - was missing from the long term sks " If the government really believes th at these people who are dying fail within the anticipated statistical grouping of 11 per 100.000. then why wasn't the pub)» alerted to the fact" that natural deaths would occur before the program began? “The tru th is.- says D r. M iller, “th at there has never been a program in which you line up people 60 years old and older, many of them w ith bad hearts, make them stand in line for 30 minutes or an hour, and then, on top of that stress, stick a needle m them .“ M o m s adds. “In the past, older people who wanted to be vaccinated went to th eir own physicians who could examine them, and then if they appeared pale, feverish or sick, tell them to come back a t a later tune for th eir vacnnatioo." D r. M o m s was fired from his post as chief vaccine control officer of the D m sion of Biologies - w here he had worked since 1940 - and director of the govern m ents Slew Latent and Tem perate Virus Branch last July following his criticism of the vaccine program then. James S. T urner, cheif counsel for a W a s h in g to n . D .C . based N a tio n a l Comm ittee for Responsible Science, which is seeking to review national vac cinatioB policy adds u> the criticism, as serting: “A substantial number of people who died afte r receiving those shots would be alive had it not been for the vaccination program." Turner, author of The Chemical Feast, a book based on Nader $ Raiders invest! gallons of the Food and D ru g Admuus tratfon. agrees that the stresses aaaon ated w ith the immunization program. if not the vaccine itself, are responsible for many of the deaths. Government health officials declare that the benefits of protection against the “«wine flu" outw eirh the risks of stress D r. Theodore Cooper, assistant secre tary for health in the Departm ent of “T h is .“ he says, "is just one of its documentable defects.” O ther scientists have asserted that there is no hard evidence that the A-N ew Jersev virus w h » h killed one person at F t. D ix. N J ., last w in ter - ■ even related to the swine flu strain. And even if it is. says D r. M artin Goldfield, one of of the doctors who dis covered the new virus, “swine flu was unable to compete w ith A Victoria at F t. D ix Swine flu is certainly no more virulent and possibly is less virulent than A -V icto ria.“ “I f it w ere up to roe,” said D r. M o m s last summer just before he was fired. “I wouldn’t even start making the vaccine.” D r. M orris claims that immediately following his tetter to Schmidt in which he warned of the possible dangers and ineffectiveness of the vaccine, he was SH O P lENOW'S FOR ordered to “be out of the building by July 16th." He says F D A officials then seized his papers and killed some 500 test annuals be had been experim enting w ith for three years in an effort to determ ine long term effects of the flu vaccine. According to F D A officials. D r. M orris was fired for -insubordination.* The live animals, they say. w ere destroyed because asswats used in one experim ent cannot be used in another. Researchers who had been working with D r. M orris comprising the only team m government working on long vaccination effects were assigned w ere i ity - experiments, and that his evidahee was indicating th a t many, and perhaps all flu vaccines can induce hypersensitivity in significant numbers of persons Hypersensitivity means that an indivi dual who gets a flu shot and is later exposed to the flu may actually get a more severe case of the disease than if be had never taken the vaccine. D r. M orris contended in an article m Seieace magazine th at the deaths result mg from Hong Kong flu in the U .S. in the late 1960s were the heaviest in the world, despite the fact that the IL S . population was the most heavily immunized against rt He also cites a 1970 W orld Health Organization survey that showed light incidence of flu in areas where few people were immunized and very heavy incidence in areas where many were immunized. A similar 1966 study conducted in the Caroline Islands - where there had never been a flu epidemic reported found that five months a fter an intensive vaccination program SIZES vou w a n t The Friendlies* Stores In Tow n| Since 19 0 8 6 I • fl 4 ♦» » • launched the islanders Copyright PNS, 1976 VOTE PORTLAND CLEANING WORKS NORTH A N X PORTLAND O N I DAY SERVICE mt B a e f o r s -N a C W g » Qf UNITED G »O < k» ù a light layer of cold cream over real eyebrows. Then pat face powder into the cream. Use Black eyebrow pencil to paint on drooping eyebrows. Use black eye brow p eicil to draw wrinkles under the eyes. Paint the entire nose with lipstick. W ith unc oxide, paint a sad mouth over your ow n mouth. For ragged heard, use a course sponge to tap on gray or dark brown cream eye shadow. CAL TOKAN BO « N E L S O N Home 267-405U SELLING YOUR HOME? C a ll Col or Bob at Stassens H o lly w o o d O ffice. Col a nd Bob or© e ffe c tiv e in fin d in g buyers fo r hom es m o il p rice ranges They w o rk th e ir listings and do the extras that b rin g results. Cal a nd Bob's co m m itm e n t to the co m m u n ity com bined w ith Stassens H om e Folks p rogram m akes a com b notion hard to beat C all Bob or Cal fo r an update on the present v alue of your hom e. N o o b lig a tio n , o f course. E. G. Stassens, Inc. Realtors Hollywood Office 288-8871 E.G. 3635 N f . m iti. m i e only way to get over is to vote. Black America has paid a high price for the vote From the un-kept | p ro m is e s o f re c o n struction. to the vio lence that threatened voter registration of the 60s. Blacks have filled h is to ry pages w ith pleas, con fron ta tion , and finally struggle t o . win their franchise as H American citizens i Now as a result of voting power Blacks have becom e a viable political force in Am erica The 1970s have witnessed the lelection of num erous ■officials on every level of government Blacks ¡have won mayorships in many cities And per haps the most signifi c a n t o f all a c h ie v e ments. the creation of one of the most impor ta n t c o n g re s s io n a l powers in history The Black Caucus Its a fact of Ameri N ik k i Ciovaaai can life that real change in terms of politics only comes through voting Whether it's getting a bill through Congress, or having the sanitation department do a better job at collecting the gar bage It s the people you put into office that make these things happen be cause they represent you and your willing ness to sha pe y o u r environment People like Willa Benge. Community Re lations Specialist for the Gulf Oil Corporation; Ossie Davis, Actor/D i- rector; Willie Stargell. one of Baseball s greats; and Nikki Giovanni. Au thor and Poet urge you to vote They are all in fluential in their ow n right, and their knowl edge cf the Am erican s y s te m has h e lp e d them get over But when it s time to make a per sonal political state ment, they vote Do you7 282-8361 KNIT BLOCKING OUR SPECIALTY 39 56 N. WWoms Ave. « V iv f t f f c was experienced their first flu epidemc». D r M o m s says the issue of hyper sensitivity should be thoroughly invest! gated and that until the vaccine can be shown to be safe and effective the immunization program should be halted. B R A N D S you k n o w V A R IE T IE S you like 12. Use sidewalks, cross streets only at intersections. Don't run between parked ears, across yards or through em pty lota. Parents should also make sure that c h ild re n » costumes are fire rwa^tewu Most store-bought paper costumes are treated for fire resistence Cotton cos tumes can be treated a t home by thoroughly w etting the garm ent in a solution of 9 ounces Borax. 4 ounces boric and and one gallon of water. W ring costume by hand and hang to dry. Masks can also be a Halloween hazard because they obstruct vision. Make up is safer, and more creative, too. Children can create their own Halloween character with easy-to-get make-up items. S tart w ith lipstick, liquid base for face. tare pancake make-up. eyeliner, face rouge, eyebrow pencil, eye shadow and « face powder. You can use x u k oxide to I fgake the face and features w hite and corn starch to white the hair Be sure to apply a layer of cold cream before applying m akeup It w ill make cleaning up easier. A convincing painted face can add the finishing touch to any coatume. Take a hobo for example The costume is easy to do. Just dress up in old clothes you find around the house. Buy a derby in a dime store or use an old battered bat. To make up. bock out eyebrows by applying N. Alexander, Proprietor G olf O il Corporatioa. Its bam aa rerrgy tfeat really caaata
