Page 4, Portland Observer, November 6, 1906
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Stop-smoking class
I manuel Hospital w ill otter its
" I resh Start Smoking ( lass" Nov
12, 14, 19 and 21, coordinated to etui
on the (neat American Smokeout
I fctv
Ibe class w ill be at 7 p in . those
nights at I manuel Hospital Cost is
$2'. which is deductible as a donation
Io the 1 manuel Medical ( enter I oun
elation.
To register call I manuel Hospital's
Occupational Health Department at
2Rtk42H2 I he class is coordinated with
the American ( .nicer Souelv
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John C aw thorne and Heidi D urrow share experiences from their trips to Cen
tral A m erica C a w thorne visited Costa Rica and D u rrow spent tw o weeks in
(P h o to R ic h a rd J B r o w n !
Nicaragua
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letlerson High students Heidi
Durrow and John (a w ih o rn e
brought back different impressions
from their recent visits to neighboring
(ential American countries
D urrow , 16. ju n io r class vice
president at let), spent two weeks in
August visiting towns, museums,
hospitals and government ministries
in Nicaragua
( awihorne, also 16 and a junior
guard on the letlerson basketball
team, won a scholarship to studv tor
sis months at a private school in
Alajuela. ( osta Rica Irotn I ebruatv
to Jills He was the only American in
the school, and studied Spanish,
chemistry, mail, and plulosophv all
in Spanish
Durrow said she was struck hv
Nicaragua's povertv She saw bullet
pocked buildings and slogans written
in animal blood near the war zone,
and she was impressed with
Nicaraguan teenagers who were more
politically motivated and who took on
more responsibilitv at an earlier age
than those in the I tilled States, she
said.
“ I just can't describe tiow poor
they w ere," Durrow said about the
people she met " I hev pist d id n 't
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Jefferson students talk about Central America
by Jerry < turner
Mayor Bud ( lark told a gathering
ot C ity Club members that the top
priorities ot bis administration are to
restore the city’s financial condition,
reform the civil service system, and
improve crime prevention
I lark made the announcement
during bis stale-ol-the city speech last
I riday at the M a rrio tt H otel. " I
believe that my agenda for the city is
that ol the people ” During the
speech, I lark said that bis agenda
cannot be fu lfille d unless the city is
fiscally sound, unless homes and
streets are in the bands ol responsible
citi/ens vs bo can live wit bout tear, and
unless there are jobs for all the
people.
I be Mavor said that be has tour
goals tor tlie fiscal administration ol
Portland. " I lie lust is to develop a
city wide perspective to determine
what services are needed Mv second
goal is to maintain basic services at
acceptable levels." Clark said, crime
prevention services and neighborhood
police patrols w ill be the ad
ministration's highest priority in the
fiscal I9K7 K7 budget
( la r k 's th ird goal is to build up
linancial reserves I be Mayor said
that in the last lour years ibe c ity ’ s
reserves have dropped from $27
m illion to $10 m illion. " I have set a
goal ol building our reserve level back
up to J percent o f the city's general
lurid by I9KR " Ibe M ayor’s fourth
fiscal goal is to retain the city's I riple
A bond rating
On the subject o f crime: the only
thing the Mayor said about crime
problems was more ja il space was
needed, and tile Multnomah County
( onimissionei should provide the
space, ( onimissionei ( aiohne Miller
responded by saying ( la r k “ was
talking largely Irotn ignorance of the
jail problem in his speech."
I he Mayor stated he would reform
the civil service system by a charier
amendment on the I9K6 ballot
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have the things we lake tor granted,"
sueli as toilets and fresh water, she
said During a trip to the beach, site
said, child,en came up and asked lor
scraps let lover from a meal they had
lust eaten "One girl was happv when
I gave her a pen,” she said.
Durrow described her teelings ot
tear while traveling through the war
zone to the bombed out town ot
Ocatal. In tlie town, people were
living in tlie ruins ol buildings that
seemed uninhabitable " I , was rub
hie, it looked really poor,” she said
I aler, in the town ot I steli,
Durrow and others m her private lour
group tieard guntire coming from the
hills at night, she said "W e saw
soldiers every where," said Durrow A
peasant told tier, "W e deal with this
every dav "
teenagers serve as soldiers and
community leaders, D unow said
I hev go to school, wo, k . and oI ten
volunteer lot sentrv dutv at nigh,
"People out age tiere don’t do halt ot
wtial kids do there," she said
She described chemistry students
who were halted in their studies due to
lack ol books " I hev want to learn
but can't," while students in Portland
have the books but d o n ’ t want to
studv, she said
" I hev weie reallv aware," she said
about the Nicaraguan teenagers
" Iliev wanted to know what we were
doing about apartheid, the ku klux
klan, neo Nazis, and they wanted to
know what Black roles were in the
l.'.S."
( awihorne slaved w ith a ( osta
Rican family who had a nice house
and were lairlv well o il because the
tattler was a gv „ecologist I tie oldest
bov, who was IT, had a home com
(inter, and the food they had most (it
ten lor dinner for steak. ( awihorne
said At the parties he went to about
once a week, tie said, (Osta Ruan
teenagers played the lastest American
music and they wore American style
clothes But during trips to the
capital, San Jose, ( awihorne said he
saw mans beggars living in the streets
( awihorne said tie toured I tie couti
trv as a guard on tlie school basketball
team, which was ranked third in the
DmsMfe
country.
(. osta Rican students were curious
about the United States because the
tiny country looks to the United
States for protection, but for the most
part they aren't interested in politics,
( awihorne said. Some o f the players
on the team were u nfrien dly to a
Nicaraguan boy, however. "T h e y
don’t like Nicaragua,” he said
Cawthorne said he had studied
Spanish for three years, but getting
started in conversations was s till
rough at first. He spent two weeks
reading children's books in Spanish to
get prepared, he said
" I just kind o f caught words for
the first couple o f weeks and they
went easy on me." He received credit
for his studies in Costa Rica, and his
Spanish improved greatly during (tie
trip—( awihorne made a presentation
in Spanish about his trip to his
Spanish class at Jefferson, he said
Teenagers were curious about
American dating customs in both
countries, said the two students In
( osta Rica, said (aw ihorne. "They
thought American girls were loose so
I had to straighten them out on it,at
Durrow said she went to Nicaragu.
to see conditions first hand "B u t
most ot the time it got too tieavv with
all tlie p o lilis .il s t u lt , " so she just
asked people about their lives, she
said, with the help ol a translator
Durrow and ( awihorne agreed that
meeting people from a d iffe re n t
culture was the best part ol their trips
( awihorne found tlie relaxed attitude
ol ( osta Ricans to be a pleasant
change trom that ol Americans who
are alw as s in a tun r v " I lie v made
vou leel wanted," lie said
Durrow recalled tlie Irieudlv people
in I steli w),o would talk to tie, on tlie
street and invite her into their homes,
and a woman who gave tier an em
broidered handkerchief
( awihorne said he learned more
than lust about the countrv and
people. "Y o u learn about sour sell,
first ot all, tlie first tune vou step ott
that little plane." lie said
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The Sandinistas
and w om en
An ev ewitness account and
slideshow on tlie changing role ot
women m Nicaragua will be featured
at a meeting ot Radical Women.
Guest speaker fem inist activist
( liavatha Phelps will discuss tlie im
pact ol tlie revolution on women in
the family and the laboi force, and as
leaders in b uilding a new socielv.
Ihursday, Nov 14. 6 J() p in at the
Multnomah ( ouniv ( ential I ibrary,
SOI S W Itfth Ave Everyone is
welcome I ot more information call
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