Portland Observer, August 11, 1982 Section II Page 13
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City exceeds minority
purchase goals
Follow ing a report that the C ity
o f Portland has exceeded its fiscal
1981- 82 goal for purchases o f sup
plies, services and construction
w ork fro m m in o rity and fem ale-
owned businesses, the Portland City
C o u n c il this week set an o ffic ia l
goal o f making more than $10 m il
lion in such purchases during fiscal
1982- 83.
A report from the Bureau o f Pur
chases and Stores, which is overseen
by Commissioner Margarat Strachan,
indicates that for the 1981-82 fiscal
year com pleted June 30, the city
made 10.9 per cent o f all its con
struction, service and supply p u r
chases from city-certified m inority
firm s , w h ile the goal was 7 .3 per
cent. In actual d o lla rs , the p u r
chases from m inority firms totaled
$4,389,000 in fiscal 1981-82.
A t the same time, the C ity had a
1981-82 goal o f making .3 per cent
o f all its purchases from certified fe
m ale-owned businesses. The total
was far exceeded— reaching 10 per
cent, fo r a to ta l d o lla r am ount o f
$4 million.
" A s o f June, 1982, we had 238
m in o rity firm s and 130 fem ale-
owned firms certified to do business
with the city. O u r m inority and fe
male Business Enterprise Program
appears to be making steady strides,
Barbara, of Friday's Beauty Salon (N.E. 16th and Frsmont).
Has many roles
p a rtic u la rly in the fem ale area,
where we have significantly raised
our goals for the current fiscal year.
While the City certainly must strive
in many other areas to ensure a ffir
m ative a ctio n , this a rea — one in
which our C ity dollars are put d i
rectly in to the hands o f m in o rity
and female entrepreneurs— is m ak
ing a s ig nificant c o n trib u tio n ,”
Commissioner Strachan said.
Under the C ity ’s m inority Busi
ness Enterprise Program, contract
ors receiving awards on any C ity
construction contracts o f more than
$100,000 are required to spend at
least 10 per cent o f the con tract
amount on minority subcontractors.
In other areas o f city purchasing,
such as supplies and services, p u r
chases by city bureaus are not re
quired to be from m inroity and fe
male firm s , but goals are set and
actively pursued. T o become
certified with the City purchase pro
gram, a firm must be at least 31 per
cent owned by m inorities or fe
males.
The fiscal 1982-83 goal set this
week by the C ity C o un cil fo r
minority and female purchases was
9.39 per cent o f all purchases from
certified m in o rity firm s and 2 per
cent from female firms. Oollarwise,
these percentages represent about
$10.2 million.
Cosmetologist
A hairdresser job is not just sim
ply dressing hair. The cosmetologist
has many roles. They arc part o f a
multi billion dollar industry.
Besides being highly trained in a
variety o f beauty services, these
would include h air co lo rin g , hair
conditioning, permanent waving,
haircutting, hair styling, m anicur
ing, facial massage, and make-up;
you also know how to deal effective
ly with the public. Since you are a
beauty professional, you are not so
much selling services as you are ad
vising your clients on what is best
for them to im prove their appear
ance. You are, so to speak a
"beauty doctor.”
I f you become a salon ow ner or
manager, you must also become
well versed in business practices.
How to buy most eco n o m ically,
how to m aintain accurate records
and how to get and keep loyal em
ployees— these will be part o f your
required abilities. Hairdressers with
outstanding talent are often asked
to become p la tfo rm artists. Here
agian, you must widen your skills
and take the necessary training to
become a public speaker or at least a
very good dem onstrator. Talented
persons are also called upon by
magazines to do hair style and what
are known as technicals, detailed
procedures or professional tech
niques such as cu ttin g , colorin g ,
conditioning, and permanent wav
ing. This means you must know how
to work in front o f a camera or for a
camera. You should also be able to
a rtic u la te the hows and whys o f
what you are doing. The entertain
ment industry, theatre, film s, and
television, the world o f couturiers
and fashion, the big hair color and
cosmetics m an ufactu rers, the
beauty publications for the profes-
ion and fo r the p u b lic — all these
huge commercial activities require
the artistry o f the professional hair
dresser and cosmetologist. It is ob
vious that the op p ortu n ities are
highly rewarding. But how far you
go and how much money you make
depends on you. Some hairdressers
never make more than a modest in
come, and not in freq u e n tly they
prefer it that way. Some attitudes
might be: “ I don’t want the respon
sibility o f running a salon.” **l like
living in a sm all com m unity and
serving the women I know ,” ” , en
joy my work but I like a co m fo rt
able, easygoing schedule.” O r
another hairdresser might say: ” ,
have a small salon— just two other
operators and m yself. I t ’ s big
enough: I make an a ttrac tive in
come, there’s no strain, no pressure.
I ’m happy just as I am .”
These are some o f the viewpoints
and certainly they are valid ones—
that usually m ilitate against one’s
ever attaining a large salary or high
profits.
One o f the attractions o f a hair
dressing carreer— and this is import
ant— is that you can be as small as
you like or as big as your talent and
im ag in atio n w ill a llo w . A n o th er
plus for beauty culture as a career is
age, sex, color, or creed. Any man
or woman, regardless of age, can go
that no discrim ination exists as to
to a beauty school, put in the re
quired num ber o f hours and
eventually a fter passing the State
Board Examination, get a license to
practice. This presupposes o f course
that the person has the academic
background required by the state; in
most states it is quite modest. Men
and women are equally welcome in
(his field. Statistics no doubt w ill
show that m any m ore women are
practicing hairdressers; at the same
time another set o f statistics will in
dicate that o f the w orld’s most out
standing stylists, the m a jo rity are
men. The color o f the skin is o f mi
nute significance in the w o rld o f
hairdressing. M any black hair dres
sers, o f course, open salons in pre
d o m in an tly black com m unities.
M any beauty shops, however, are
com pletely in teg rated , both as to
personnel and the clients they serve.
Taste, talent and personality—
perhaps more than in most voca
tions— are the determ ining factors
in a hairdresser cosmetologist’s de
sirability to employers and clients.
O f course, not everyone is tempera
mentally suited to becoming a hair
dresser.
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KAREN G. SLOAN
Sears names new manager
Karen G. Sloan, form erly mana
ger o f Sears, Roebuck and C o .’s re
tail store in Longview, Washington,
has been named manager o f the
co m p an y’s V ancouver store, an
nounced Robert S. Foster, general
manager o f the com pany’s Pacific
Northwest retail district.
Sloan replaces Rudy H . Steiger,
who left the company.
Sloan jo in ed the com pany as a
salesperson in the Salt Lake C ity ,
Utah, store in 1972. After a brief as
signm ent in personnel, Sloan be
came a managem ent trainee in
Boise, idaho.
She managed a number o f m er
chandise departments in Boise and
M urray, U tah, before being named
as personnel m anager in Ogden,
Utah in 1977.
The fo llo w in g year, Sloan was
prom oted to assistant manager in
Moscow, Idaho. She was appointed
manager in Moscow in 1980.
In 1981 she advanced to L o n g
view as manager, the assignment she
held prior to being named as mana
ger o f Vancouver.
Active in the community in Long
view , Sloan was on the Board o f
Trustees o f United Way and a mem
ber o f Altrusa and the Chamber o f
Commerce.
A native o f Minneapolis, M inne
sota, she attended schools in U tah.
She graduated from the University
o f U tah w ith a degree in P o litical
Science.
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TELEPHONES
Marina Air Reserve Corporal Gregory Solas, of 6247 N.E. Killings-
w orth. Portland. Ora., racalvaa diploma upon graduation from a
tw o-w eek m ilitary pollca coursa given at Saddlaback Community
College, Miaalon Viejo, Ca. Solas la attached to Marina Air Base
Squadron-46, Detachment A, Whldbey Island, We., as a military po
liceman. In civilian life ha works for Columbia-Edgewater Golf and
Country Club.
THE BEEPER PEOPLE.
7 1 3 S . W . 1 2 th S tre e t
C a ll 2 2 4 - B E E P f o r a fr e e d e m o n s tr a tio n .
July 20 - 31
The City of Portland is now accepting
applications for
OFFICERS
Approximate monthly pay rate:
$1648 starting
$1856 after one year
-—
$2094 after three years
$2349 after five years
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To qualify applicants must:
- Be a high school graduate or have passed the GED
eqivalency test
- Have completed 90 quarter or 60 semester hours of
liberal arts curriculum at an accredited college 01
university or must do so within 5 ’A years of appoint
ment
- Be at least 21>years of age by their date of employment
- Be a U.S. citizen by the date of their employment
- Possess a valid Oregon Driver's License
- Not have been convicted of a crime, the punishment
for which could have been imprisonment in a State or
Federal Prison
For further information contact:
Portland Police Bureau-Personnel Division
222S. W. Pine
Portland, Oregon 97204
Paul M a x e y (503) 248 5653
The City of Portland Civil Service Board
510 S W. Montgomery St.,
Portland, Oregon 97201
248 4352 for applications.