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Roberts Testifies On Behalf Of
Hatfield’s “ Motor-Voter” Bill
World War II Hero
Admiring the Dorie M iller photograph which will be included on the bronze plate which AKA has commissioned in honor
o f M iller’s heroics are AKA board members, the plate will be dedicated Oct. 11 at the U.S. naval Base, Pearl, Harbor.
With AKA international president Mrs. Mary Shy Scott (far R) o f A tlanta, Ga. (L-R) are Ms. Y vonne Perkins, Central re­
gional director, Indianapolis, In.; Mrs. Johnetta R. Haley, international parliam entarian, St. Louis, Mo.; and Mrs. M artha L.
Perine, international treasurer, also of St. Louis.
Old School Building To Get New Life
A recycled school building becomes
a daycare center for 240 children in
North Portland after a million-dollar
fundraising project. The 1923-vintage
Blessed Sacrament School - closed since
1985 - will become the Peninsula
C hildren’s Center when remodeling is
com pleted in August.
The 'wo-story woodframe and brick
veneer building occupies a city block at
4720 N. Maryland and has its own
playground. Following closure of the
Catholic school, the facility was oper­
ated from 1986 to 1990 for alternative
education as the W aldorf School, and
has been vacant since.
It was purchased from the A rch­
diocese o f Portland, according to Mike
Purcell, developer and president of the
general contracting firm, R.A. Gray &
C o.-Purcell., He said remodeling work
on the project began in the middle of
March, following asbestos abatement.
Purcell said the architect-designed
renovated daycare building will be­
com e one o f the largest and best in
Portland.
W hen it is completed by August,
enrollm ent will be 240 children, ac­
cording to Tom El Salvio, projectcoor-
dinator with Peninsula. ‘ ‘We could en-
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‘‘Increasing layoffs and an aging
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The 12-page booklet lists the vari­
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tions and IRA rollovers, and the steps
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roll that many today, if we had the facil­
ity,” he said. Peninsula Children’s Center
currently operates on North Farragut in
North Portland as a non-profit corpora­
tion. It was founded in 1970 by a group
of mothers to service 20 children, he
said. Now it has a staff of 35 and is one
of the larger employers in North Port­
land.
He said two thirds of the daycare
center’s clientele is low-income, and
70% are single parents. About 25% of
the children are minorities, including
African-Americans, Asians and Hispan­
ics, according to Del Salvio.
Purchasing the building gives Pen­
insula Daycare Center a home that is
specifically designed for children. Sara
Packer, executive director, said the
daycare center now operates in a con­
verted convent. Many children at other
centers area cared for in rented space,
but Del Salvio said ‘‘childcare centers
lead nomadic lives, never sure how long
they will have their rented space.
‘‘Purchasing the school gives Peninsula
a permanent home, large enough to
service the growing demand in North­
east Portland.
Peninsula is the only daycare cen­
ter in North Portland where school-age
Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles To Appear
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle ap­
pearances and free carnival rides will
highlight family festivities kicking off
“ farewell to membership” celebrations
at HomeClub improvement warehouses
in the Portland area on Saturday, April
6 and Sunday April 7 from 9:00 a.m. to
6:00 p.m.
A Teenage M utant Ninja Turtle,
clowns, free balloons, live music, a
free carnival ride, refreshm ents and a
“ nursery extravaganza” will be part of
each of H om cClub’s ‘ ‘Grand Re-O pen­
ing” carnivals. A Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtle will greet fans and pose for pho­
tographs on Saturday and Sunday, and
carnival rides will be available on Sat­
urday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. A band will serenade cus­
tomers on “ Saturday from 10:00 a.m.
to 2:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00
a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and clowns will give
away balloons.
Festivities will be held at Home-
Club warehouses located in Portland at
1950 N.E. 122nd Avenue and in Beav­
erton at 11055 Southwest Canyon Road.
COMING SOON
fJOMES^VANTED
APRIL
17 & 24/
Ninth Annual Tom McCall
Run & Walk
The largest-evcr TO M McCALL
RUN & W ALK is scheduled this year
for Sunday, April 7 ,1 9 9 1 ,8 :4 5 a.m., in
Tom McCall Waterfront Park, SW Front
& Ash Streets downtown, everyone is
invited io attend.
In 1990, nearly 3,000 runners and
walkers turned out under beautiful blue
skies to participate in the event. Loaves
& Fishes anticipates a record-setting
attendance again this year.
Runners will eagerly be awaiting
this third running event o f the 1991
season. The Run draw s w orld-class
com petitors of all ages, including
wheelchair partieipants. Senior citizens
from all over the tri-county area are
planning to com pete in this year’s
walks thon.
L oeves & Fishes Centers welcomes
the addition o f W illamette Egg Farms
children can be dropped off by parents
going to work, be taken to either Penin­
sula Elementary or Boise-Eliot schools
by bus, and be picked up after school
and cared for until parents return. Del
Salvio said Peninsula also participates
in the Teen parent program, through
which teenage mothers are reimbursed
through the Portland Public Schools as
long as they stay in high school. Penin­
sula is also one o f the few that cares for
children as young as six weeks through
preschool.
Del Salvio said fundraising efforts
have netted S300.000 in low interest
loans, as well as S400.000 in grants,
including S220.000 from the Fred Meyer
Charitable Trust and SI 00,000 from North
Portland enhancement, that contributes
proceeds from the St. John’s Landfill.
The agency is also selling its current
facility as part of its fundraising plan.
Others are making in-kind contri­
butions, Del salvio said, such as plum b­
ing and insulation. He said the Portland
City Forester required the school to plant
20 to 30 trees, and a crew of community
service workers will plant the trees, that
have been contributed. He said Penin­
sula is still seeking S 150,000 in grants or
loans.
as a major sponsor to this year’s event.
They join K ATU Television, The O re­
gon Lottery and W estern Family in
promoting good health and vibrancy in
Oregonians of all ages.
Entry fees are $5 ($6 on day of
event); T-shirts arc available for $11
each. Com plim entary fruitand muffins
from Loaves & Fishes kitchens and
boiled eggs from Willamette Egg Farms
will be available for all participants.
THE TOM McCALL RUN &
W ALK proceeds benefit Loaves &
Fishes/M eals-on-W hcels. Now in its
21 si year, Loaves & Fishes scrvcs4,(XX)
m eals each day to senior citizens in the
tri-county area.
For more information, contact: Julie
Piper Finley, Loaves A Fishes Centers,
777-2424 or Steve Hamilton, Hamilton
Racing, 655-4245
H om eC lub launched its new
‘ ‘ lowest prices to everyone, every day
plan chainwidc in March with the re­
fund of pro-rated membership dues to
current HomeClub members. Under the
former policy, warehouses were open
to everyone, with members paying posted
prices and non-members paying five
percent more.
Committed to providing respon­
sive custom er service, HomeClub of­
fers over two acres of quality brand-
name merchandise at a substantial dis­
count to consumers every day. Each
warehouse has 14 departments with an
extensive variety of products, ranging
from hardware and hoses to windows
and wallpaper. HomeClub also features
a Kitchen Design Center, Custom Paint
Center and Project Center, all supported
by trained, helpful staff.
Based in Fullerton, California,
HomeClub, Inc. is one o f the nations’
leading warehouse-style home improve­
ment chains.The com pany currently
operates 67 locations in 10 western
states.
“ A Spoonful Of Sugar
Helps The Medicine Go
Down”
Sucrose is an effective pain­
killer for newborn infants undergoing
painful medical procedures such as
circum cision and heel-prick blood
c o lle c tio n ,
N IC H D -su p p o rted
investigators have found, fifty-four
infants at Howard County General
Hospital in Colum bia, MD., and St.
Agnes Hospital in Baltimore were
enrolled in the study, which compared
the effectiveness of sucrose versus water
or no intervention in reducing crying
duration during these procedures.
During blood collection, infants
given 2 mL of 12 percent sucrose cried
50 percent less than infants who were
given 2 mL of sterile water.
During circumcision, infants
who received no intervention cried 67
percent of the time, while those who
received a pacifier flavored with sucrose
cried only 31 percent of the time. Infants
who were given a pacifier dipped in
water cried 49 percent of the lime.
These findings indicate that
infant pain during these procedures can
be successfully reduced by giving the
infants sucrose. (Pediatrics, February
1991. Vol. 87, No. 2)
Survey Finds Oregonians Favor Basic Elements
Of Kitzhaber’s Oregon Health Plan
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spect to health care and medicine. Forty-
six percent said high cost was the m ajor
problem , ten percent identified the cost
o f insurance,and another ten percent
said the poor and elderly w ere particu­
larly vulnerable.
Other survey results indicated most
people w ant to control how their health
care is provided rather than having the
state tell them. Fifty-seven percent said
they’d rather pay more m oney out of
their own pocket directly to doctors
and hospitals, with government involve­
ment only for people who c a n ’t pay for
their own care, while thirty-nine p er­
cent said they would rather have the
state in charge o f organization and de­
livery o f health care services.
O ther highlights from the survey
show;
* A m ajority o f health respondents
(62% ) think they receive as good or
better care than people in other indus­
trialized countries.
♦Exactly half the Oregon respon­
dents feel the quality of Medicaid health
care is low er than that received by the
general population.
♦Forty-one percent o f the Oregon
public feel the care available to the
elderly through Medicare is lower quality
than that to the general public.
♦A sizeable m ajority (64% ) of
respondents feel that upscale elderly
patients should pay a percentage of
their health care costs.
the idea.
“ W hat all this boils dow n to is that
the citizens o f the state favor the basic
elem ents o f Senator K itzhaber’s health
care access plan enacted by the legisla­
ture in 1989,” said O M A President
M ichael H. G raham , M.D. “ W e are
very encouraged by the results o f the
opinion survey and think it will also
encourage the legislature to adequately
fund the Kitzhaber plan and perhaps
the federal governm ent to grant a
M edicaid w aiver so that it can be im ­
plem ented. After all, if the people di­
rectly affected are behind the concept,
public decision-m akers should give it a
chance to w ork.”
The O regon plan w ould expand
Medicaid coverage to more poor people
and require Oregon em ployers to pro­
vide insurance to fund coverage for a
package o f basic health care benefits at
least at the level o f the M edicaid pro­
gram.
W hen asked w hat the best method
to increase health care funding for the
poor was, respondents indicated they
strongly favor “ sin ” taxes as opposed
to concrete proposals on payrolls, in­
com e, professional or m edical serv­
ices. Seventy-eight percent favor use
of state lottery funds as a funding method
and 64% agree with a tax on alcohol
and cigarettes.
O regon respondents identified the
cost o f care and insurance as the m ajor
problem facing the country w ith re­
O regonians favor a tax-supported
system to finance health care to the
poor and those w ithout insurance, ac­
cording to the results o f a gallup poll
com m issioned by the O regon medical
Association.
It was also revealed at a press
conference today that an overw helm ­
ing 68 percent o f respondents said they
would support such a system even if it
meant they would pay more taxes.
The survey conducted in mid-Janu­
ary was part of a larger American Medical
Association research project on public
attitudes about physicians and health
care. Some 400 Oregonians selected at
random responded, a confidence level
to which the G allup organization as­
signs a plus or minus five percent error
rate.
Fifty-four percent said they favored
a health care system totally paid for and
operated by the state; but when probed
for details, tended to opt themselves
out o f such a system if they w ere in­
sured (86% were). Sixty percent fa­
vored a government plan only for people
who don’t already have insurance, while
only 28% favored a governm ent pro­
gram that covered everybody.
Sixty-three percent said “ y e s”
when asked if governm ent should re­
quire all em ployers to provide health
insurance, but give special tax breaks
to small businesses. Another 11 % fa­
vored such a requirem ent with no spe­
cial treatm ent and only 22% opposed
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tal right.”
Hatfield em phasized that the pur­
pose o f voter registration is protect the
“ integrity o f the votes cast.”
“ U nfortunately, we m ust protect
the rights of eligible voters by ensuring
that only those who are eligible to vote,
will vote. We have to rem em ber that
the purpose o f registration is not to
keep any elem ent o f society from exer­
cising their right to vote, the purpose of
registration is to protect the value and
integrity o f the votes cast.”
Among the groups endorsing the
legislation include the League of Women
Voters, People for the Am erican W ay,
the Rainbow Coalition, Rock the Vote,
and others.
nor Barbara Roberts and W ashington
Secretary of State Ralph Munro.
“ Given O regon’s and my strong
com m itm ent to voter participation, I
enthusiastically support the provisions
in the bill before you which provide for
motor voter registration,” Roberts said,
“ O urchallenge is to make sure citizens
have access to the political process, not
barriers before them. This act is an im ­
portant step in that direction.”
“ The sad slate o f participation in
our electoral process should be o f con­
cern to all A m ericans-of w hom , less
than 40 percent participated in the 1990
general election,” Hatfield said. “ In
my state the turnout was higher than the
national average but as a nation, we
have failed to exercise this fundamen-
The Senate Com m ittee on Rules
and A dm inistration today held the first
of two hearings on the National Voter
Registration Act o f 1990, a bill d e­
signed to simplify the voter registration
process and provide for sim ultaneous
registration to vote along with an appli­
cation for a driver’s license.
Referred to as the “ m otor-voter”
bill because o f the sim ultaneous regis­
tration provision, the Voter Registra­
tion Act has been introduced by Sena­
tor Mark Hatfield, R-OR., and Senator
W endell Ford, D-KY. The legislation
is based on successful program s cur­
rently operating in W ashington state
and W ashington D.C.
The list of distinguished witnesses
at the hearing included Oregon Gover-
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