Page 4, Portland Observer, November 6, 1906 No Need to Fear Low Prices are Here! METROPOLITAN State of the City from Clark 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 zz . Z1 f 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 /n K o b e n I o lb h in 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 A * ,*»7 c f s t V I FT I I I I Mt S * ' , - -1 " - NA . ' • • J NAu I MAN „ CALL 253 5138 C H IN A SILK N A IIS DESCRIPTION SHORT SCULPTURE or ACRYLIC NAILS iNO LIFT 2 WEEKSI SILK W RAP N L W flL L PEDICURE MANICURE REG I 52M ST 24 ■ zr 17* \ 14Kt GOLD NAIL JEWELRY WE'VE GOTTHE MOST BEAUTIFUL POWDER AND LIQUIDS YOU'VE EVER SEEN THAT WILL NOT LIFT OR POP OFF 'Special 2 0 % D 'scount ° H Requla' Pn' ’ Cal. tn Advance for an Appointm ent 253 51^_ / r - Underwear Socks Stockings 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 Men Women 1 >*» V» • » M 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 Kids ................ 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