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l i r a F ra n c e s S c h a c n -’.'e w s -a p s r Eooa U n 'v o r s l t y e f . .rn -y Juvenile p ro stitu tio n in Portland District 18 legislative race pa9®2 NBA Playoff Report Page 11 Page 6 § LU LU I PORTLAND OBSERVER May 6, 1982 Volume XII, Number 30 25C Per Copy Two Sections USPS 959-680-855 High school grads find times tough by Allison Engel Pacific News Service T IL L A M O O K , O R E .— l l was prom night at T illam ook H igh. But the pride and festiveness o f previous proms was wearing visibly thin this year as students c o n fro n te d the m eaning o f a c o m m u n ity in the throes o f 20.2 per cent unem ploy ment. tend the prom at all. “ A lot o f guys ju s t d o n ’ t have the m o n e y,” she said. Kim Burnham, 15, attended with a new pair o f shoes and a heavy load o f g u ilt. “ M y parents have sacri ficed more than they ever did before fo r us to be h a p p y ,” said K im , whose father has been unemployed since October and whose mother has gone to work part-tim e. “ M y Mom hasn’ t had a new p a ir o f tennis shoes in so long, and she needs them because she works as a waitress. She bought me a new p air o f shoes to wear to the dance. I appreciate that •wore than my parents know .” These are hard tim es fo r T illa m o o k, and fo r hundreds o f o ther communities which are experiencing record-high joblessness. But fo r the young people in these communities —those who have been taught that security lies in hard, steady w o rk — the hard times have a special poig nancy. Many have experienced their parents’ shock o f finding themselves unemployed after decades o f hewing to the hard w ork ethic. M any now question the value o f that ethic and are asking themselves whether they have not become redundant before they even have a chance to enter the w o rk force. A nd m any are being forced to fo r fe it the pleasures o f Jackie M cH enry exhibit* m other'* love. (Photo: Richard Brown) H ow M other's Day was born Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the Baltic Hymn o f the Republic, made the firs t know n suggestion fo r a M other's Day in the United States in 1872. She suggested that people ob serve a M other's Day on June 2 as a day dedicated to peace, l or several years, she held an annual M other's Day meeting in Boston. Mary Towles Sasseen, a Kentucky schoolteacher, started conducting M other's Day celebrations in 1887, Frank E. H c rin g o f South Bend, In d ., launched a campaign fo r the observance o f M o th e r's Day in 1904. Three years later, Anna Jarvis o f —— . . . . G rafton, W. Va., and Philadelphia, began a campaign for a nationwide observance o f M o th e r's Day. She chose the second Sunday in M ay, and began the custom o f wearing a c a rn a tio n . On M ay 10, 1908, churches in G ra fto n and P hiladel phia held M o th e r’ s Day celebra tio n s . The service at Andrew s M e th o d is t E piscopal C hurch in G ra fto n honored the m em ory o f A nna J a rv is ’ ow n m o th e r, M rs. Anna Reeves Jarvis. At the General Conference o f the M e th o d is t E piscopal C hurch in Minneapolis, M in n ., in 1912, a dele ' ' gate fro m A ndrew s C hurch in tro - ducted a resolution recognizing A n na Jarvis as the founder o f M other's Day. It suggested that the second Sunday in M ay be observed as M other’s Day. M o th e r’ s Day received nationa l recognition on May 9, 1914. On that day. President W o o d ro w W ilso n signed a jo in t re s o lu tio n o f C o n gress recommending that Congress and the executive departm ents o f the governm ent observe M o th e r’ s Day. The follow ing year, the Presi dent was a u th o rize d to p ro c la im M other's Day as an annual national observance. .. i ... h i y o u th to become early b re a d w in ners. “ I know a lot o f graduates,” said C hristine. “ They talked about big dreams, about going to college. I see a lot o f them working at gas stations and restaurants. Some got married. They had big dreams. But they got shot dow n.” In the h a rd -h it c o m m u n ity o f Rom ulus, M ichigan, near D e tro it, jo b placement counselor Alice Bar ringer echoes the sentiment: “ I hear o f a lo t o f kids w ho take o f f fo r Texas. Then I hear o f them coming back from Texas. I don’ t hear any success stories.” Even before they leave school, the c h ild re n o f the unem ployed get a painful education in the meaning o f recession. In T illa m o o k, a tax levy failed to pass in M arch and school a d m in istra to rs are preparing c u t backs in program s fo r next year. Some extra-curricular activities w ill probably be suspended. But many students have already dropped out o f the programs. Some high school g irls recently q u it the school m usical because they c o u ld n ’ t a ffo r d the long dresses needed fo r costum es. W hen the g ir ls ’ b asketba ll team to o k th ird place in the state this year, m any students couldn’ t attend the out-of- town tournament because the char tered fan bus cost $3. Attendance at dances like the prom , which require fo rm a l w ear, is d o w n , and the search for after-school jobs is defin itely up, say school administrators. Said Joyce Gleiss, a school coun selor in the D e tro it suburb o f W oodhaven: ’ ’ There are kids here who w ork t il m id n ig h t and 2 a.m . There are even kids w o rk in g fu ll time and going to school.” Increasingly, she said, students are using the m oney they earn to help put food on the table. “ It is not uncom m on fo r parents to te ll me that their child is the only one in the fam ily w orking.” Absenteeism is up, as are the number o f sleepy students, she said. “ I see students w ith fa llin g grades, not able to come in fo r help sessions because they c a n ’ t stay a fte r school.” Karla M iller, 17, had to take a job at a clothing shop to save money for college, since her parents are unem ployed. In order to w ork, she had to quit the flag corps, a group she was in fo r two years. She said the jo b al so has affected her grades. “ I had a B average, and now i t ’s about a C .” Dating also is scaled dow n— few er movies, dances, restaurant d in ners. K a rla and her unem ployed b o y frie n d m o stly ju s t w atch T V these days. “ O n ly a h a n d fu l o f k id s ” ate going on the tra d itio n a l senior trip to F lorida, said C arol P raw dzik, a counselor at Carlson High School in G ib ra lte r, another D etroit suburb. O f 250 seniors, p ro b a b ly o n ly 50 w ill go, she said. C ounselor A lic e B a rrin g e r o f Romulus H igh said she sees adults com peting fo r jo b s once reserved fo r youth, particularly homemakers w ho are ta k in g lo w -p a y in g , p a rt- tim e sales jo b s. Students are also w o rk in g n ight s h ifts as aides o r orderlies in nursing homes. “ Wlien- ever th e re ’ s a p la n t clo sin g , kids po u r in to my o ffic e lo o k in g fo r jo b s , saying, ‘ M y fa m ily re a lly needs the money.’ They don’t seem to correlate that there are even less jobs as adults are laid o ff.” (Please turn to page 4, column 4} C om m unity discusses options The m ediation groups represent ing the School District and the com m unity presented fo u r options to a public meeting at Tubm an M iddle School Tuesday night. The m eeting was the fir s t o f a series o f three—-the second to be at Boise on Wednesday and the th ird at King on T hursday— designed to give in fo rm a tio n and receive input from parents. Bob H ughes, m e d ia to r fo r the U.S. Justice D epartm ent, said the fo u r options presented were those that both sides had agreed to pre sent. Others had been discussed but were not acceptable to one side or the other. Plans presented were: — — — — — Boise 1 Tubm an w ould be located at the Boise b u ild in g . The 125 Boise 6-8 grade students w o u ld attend T ub- m an; the 333 Boise P-K students would attend Eliot. E lio t w ould have 333 Boise stu dents and 40 Eliot resident students, leaving space fo r 200 transfer stu dents. C a p a city o f the m iddle school would be 750. The ca p ita l o u tla y w o u ld S3.2 m illio n to renovate Boise; S300.000 to expand E lio t’ s capacity from 475 to 600. These w o u ld include five portable classrooms. T ra n s p o rta tio n costs w o u ld be $145,000 in c lu d in g S125.000 fo r Tubman students. Boise Plan 2 T ubm an w o u ld be located at Boise. Boise 6-8 students w ould go to T ubm an. B oise’ s K-5 students w o u ld be assigned to E lio t and Beach. This plan w ould place 213 Boise and 40 Eliot children in E lio t, leav ing space for 347 transfer students. Capital outlay would be $3.5 m il lio n , w ith tra n s p o rta tio n cost o f $245,000. Boise Plan 3 T ubm an w o u ld be located at Boise. Boise 6-8 students w ould go to T u bm an. Boise P-5 students would go to Tubman Boise P-5 stu dents w o u ld go to Beach, E lio t, Hum boldt, Irvington, King. (Please turn to page 4, column 4) __________________________________________________________________________________________ Happy Mother's Day from the Portland Observer
