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Counselors assist career, college opportunities
PORTLAND
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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.
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