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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1978)
p®0« 14 Portland Obaarvar Thuradav, N ovam bar 2. 1878 Counselors assist career, college opportunities PORTLAND — B etterin g O regon's O pportunity fo r Saving Talent (B O O ST), a program funded by the D e p a rtm e n t o f H e a lth , E d u c a tio n and W e lfa re and a d m inistered by the O rego n State System o f Higher Education, has hired three counselors to advise low- income Portland youth o f career and post-high school opportunities. The counselors replace three who resigned this summer to take other jo b s and return to school. Each counselor will earn an annual salary o f 5 12.000. L e tte H a d g u , 28, a n a tiv e o f Ethiopia, received a Master's degree in counseling from the University o f Oregon in June, 1977. She completed her u nd e rg ra d u a te studies at S ou th ern O reg o n S ta te C o lleg e. Before joining B O O S T , she was a counselor fo r the N orth P ortland Youth Service Center. Philip Moore, 27, is a graduate of Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Active in many community projects, he was chairperson o f the security and transportation committee for the N A A C P convention held in Portland last July and has served as an Urban League volunteer. H e left the Alber tina Kerr Center for Children where he was a child care worker to join B O O ST. Denise M a rs h a ll, 2 2 , a 1977 g ra d u a te o f L in fie ld C o lle g e , is working toward a Master's degree in counseling at Portland State Univer sity. She has worked as head dor mitory counselor for the University o f Oregon Upward Bound program and as a tutor at the U O and L in field. Joyce M a rs h a ll, D ire c to r o f BOOST since July, says the coun selors will try to reach 1500 Portland youth during the next year. Under D epartm ent o f H ealth , Education and W e lfa re regulations, B O O S T staff can counsel individuals 16-27 years old who live w ith in neigh borhoods in which at least 25 percent o f the residents meet poverty incqme guidelines. The counseling includes advice about career opportunities and programs at public and private colleges and u niversities, in fo r mation about student financial aid eligibility and how to apply for it and help in seeking adm ission to a college. B O O S T recently moved from a southeast Portland office to the King Neighborhood center in Northeast Portland. SETTING UP NEW SYSTEM — Pacific Northwest Bell technicians Dave Hams (left) and Rich Nelson consult on testing of new computerized equip ment that will serve PNB customers in North and Northeast Portland starting November 4th. New $2.5 million Electronic Switching System win serve PNB customers who have phone numbers with 285 and 289 prefixes. PNB expands available services Telephone users in the central por tion o f North and Northeast Port land will soon notice new sounds and signals in their phone service On Saturday, November 4th , a computeT-operated Electronic Switch ing System (ESS) will start serving some 15.000 Pacific Northwest Bell customers whose phone numbers start with the prefixes 285 or 289. Introduction o f ESS completes a 52.5 m illio n service im provem ent project, according to PNB Division Manager Roy Schnaible. C om puterized telephoning first came to the north part o f Portland in 1975 Cost o f the initial project to provide ESS service to 8,700 PNB customers with 283 numbers came to $4 m illio n . The work included a building addition to the company switching o ffice at 2150 N . Lom bard. ESS provides several service changes, S chnaible poin ts o u t. Customers whose phones have a two- bell ring on an incoming call will receive only a one-bell ring. T he c o m p u te rize d system w ill provide dial tone for fifteen seconds. I f a caller hasn’t started to dial by that time, the dial tone will drop o ff. Dialing a call from one extension to another in a home will be a thing o f the past. A new way o f placing calls be tween phones on a party line wiil go into effect. Persons with party-line service will receive instructions from PNB. F o u r new custom er callin g features will be available at an ad d itio n a l m o n th ly charge. T he features are: Speed Calling — dialing frequent ly called numbers by use o f a one or tw o-digit code instead o f the fu ll phone number. T hree-w ay C allin g — adding a third person to a conversation by depressing the receiver button and d ialin g the th ird person's phone number. C a ll F o rw a rd in g — a u to m a tic diverting incoming calls to another telephone by dialing a special code and the number o f the phone the calls are to be forwarded to. Call W aiting — a momentary tone indicating another incoming call is waiting to be answered. Tw o versions o f the measured ser vice are also a v a ila b le w ith ESS equipment. A t a basic monthly rate o f 5 3 .9 5 , tw o -p a rty m easured residence service includes ten outgoing calls. Calls over that limit are billed at 10 cents each. O ne p a rty o p tio n a l measured residence service costs 56.55 in Port land. T h a t’s 51.50 less than the one- party flat rate for residence service. Included in the 56.55 is 53.00 worth of outgoing calls, charged at a rate o f 10 cents each fo r th e firs t fiv e minutes or fraction thereof. There is a 2 cent charge for each minute over the initial five. When the monthly 53.00 allowance is used up, a d d itio n a l calls are charged at the same rate. Discounts o f 35 percent are provided for calling between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m . on weekdays, and all day S a tu rd a y , Sunday and holidays. The service provides for unlimited incoming calls. Dialing o f long distance calls over seas to 47 countries will be another service made possible through the computerized phone system. W'ith the switch to ESS service November 4th, the PNB office on North Lombard will be the third in m etropolitan Portland to be com pletely computerized. The other two serve P N B customers in downtown and Southwest Portland and Oregon C ity. P N B expects all its switching of fices in the Portland area will be ESS equipped by about 1983. American State Bank "TheBank that integration built" 2737 N.E. Union 282-2216 Let Dick introduce you to some of the world s most talked-about p e o p le -a n d what they talk about. Ad Prices Good thru Tues., Nov. 7 s ta ll Portland reaSafewa^». Add Beauty to your Home & Yard with Beautiful Plants * r Pothos Golden Pothos on a 6-inch Pole Reg. *5.98 Save *1 Diffenbacl Coasters For Plants Palm Leaf Pot Covers (La i ■ *1^1, •ti D y oar eta y — garvaa plants bita Cavers, Mixed Varieties 6-in. 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