Page 6 —The Portland Observer-June 5,1991
The Small Business Bottom Line Report"'
Howto
increase your sales
bv27%.
A leading national daily business
journal reports that up to 2 7 % o f all
customers w ho get a busy signal on
their first call, go elsew here. What are
busy signals costing your business7
Here’s how to make sure you don't lose
the 27%your competition may be gaining.
Adequate Phone Lines: By making
certain you have enough lines for customers
to get through, especially during peak
business hours, you may eliminate losing
_mru_. sales to a busy signal.
In-Com ing vs. Out-Going
Lines: By assigning some
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lines only to in-coming calls
and others to out-going, you
increase your productivity.
Clients are less likely _
to get a busy signal
calling in and you are more
likely to get a line out.
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Bo Knows Sex Counselor! Bo Jackson, the two-sports superstar, gets
acquainted with Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the well-known television
“sexpert, ” during a break in the well-known television “sexpert," during a
break in the recent filming of a scene from the “Pepsi Summer Chill Out'
advertising campaign. Lifting the diminutive Dr. Ruth on the beach at
Santa Monica, Cal., Bo asked on lookers, “can I take her home?" Dr.
Ruth, one of several celebrities to appear with Jackson on Pepsi’s multi­
million dollar TV advertising campaign, planted a kiss on the athlete's
cheek before telling a reporter: “Psychologically speaking, the Pepsi
Summer Chill Out gives us permission to let our hair down." A “non-stop,
summerlong celebration"advertising campaign, the chillout aims top
involve consumers through: a contest with more than $74-million in
prizes-including 150 convertable cars: a $5 rebate on the video of the
very popular movie, “Home Alone," and discount cards for 10-million
teenagers and the introduction of a new, hand dance.
Lines for Fax and Data: By putting
your fax machine on its own line, you
eliminate callers hearing fax tones, and you
can be on the phone and the fax at the same
time To make sure your lines for talking
business stay open with
less chance of callers
getting a busy signal,
transmit all your fac­
simile and data on lines
just for fax and data
Increase your oppor
tumties to do more
business by reducing
busy signals during your busy hours.
Call a U S WEST” Communications small
business specialist to order the phone
lines you need.
Summer Camping
With Camp Fire
rounded by great hiking trails. Two
eight-day sessions are available run­
ning July 8-18 and July 22-August 1.
Each session is affordably priced at $40
per child and is open to all boys and
girls entering grades 1-7.
O vernight camp sessions are also
available. Located on a beautiful 600
acre site on the Sandy River, Camp
Namanu is open to boys and girls enter­
ing grades 2-12. All camps provide
friendships, outdoor skills, crafts and
sum m er fun. Call Portland Camp Fire
at 224-7800 for a counselor application
or camp brochure and set o ff on a
sum m er experience to remember.
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day cam p program s in the North and
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volunteer as a day cam p counselor
receive training, learn new skills and
their children, ages 3 and above attend
for free. Volunteer positions are open
to 8th graders through adults. Many
more volunteer counselors are needed
to make these cam ps available to more
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INTERM EDIATE THEATRE
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Born in Mobile Alabama March
12, 1918 to Mrs. Rebecca and W illiam
Turner. In their home town Colum bia,
M ississippi, they were slaves on the
farm in Mississippi.
My mother said to my father, “ I
do n ’t want my children to be bom in
this town. She told my dad this before
any o f the children were bom. She and
my dad moved to the city o f Mobile
Alabam a, where 13 children were bom.
My mother was a hard working woman.
She did washing and ironing for
the white race in Mobile io help lake
eare o f the family. My father worked
on the railroad, not being paid very
much money, working hard for us to
survive. W hen I was seven or eight
years old some people mother knew,
asked her to let me work for them
fixing meals while they worked in the
wood yard. My mother did not like the
idea because of being so young and the
only one at the house wilh her at that
time. But she said O.K.
I started work at a early age. It
cam e tunc for me to attend school. I
went to Council School the first seven
years and finished. I did not finish high
school because o f a tragedy in my life.
I had to slop school for a while. The
school did not have the same books the
white children had. Our books were
different books for whites and blacks.
O ur school was different.
Wc were not taught the same things
as the whites in a Jim Crow town. I had
to slop school and go to work on a
better jo b to support my mother and
family.
Having a child at fourteen years of
age put me back a ways, but with G od’s
help, in a while, I decided to go to
beauty school to make a little more
money than I was getting on the job. I
worked two jobs sometimes to get things
going. My mother passed when my
baby was two years old. I had a sister in
Houston Texas. I moved from Mobile
to Houston with my sister. There I went
to beauty school.
I was there about twenty years. 1
worked in a white beauty shop and also
work in my own shop to make a living
for my son.
One day a Baptist minister came to
Houston to a convention. 1 m et him,
and he invited me to Portland, Oregon
in the northwest. I pondered over this
for a while. I left my home, car and my
business in September 1966.
I tried to get a beauty license here
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to work. The people were so preju­
diced. 1 was told I did not have enough
hours to get a license here. I w ent to two
beauty schools in the northwest. I went
to Board Beauty Culture. I w as turned
down. I got angry and w ent from there
to nutrition. This job paid very little
money. I quit the job and w ent to Provi­
dence Hospital to train as a nurses aide.
I worked this job until an accident
stopped me. I retired.
I work with Faith Tabernacle
Church. I am a very active member,
mother, teacher and prayer warrior. In
19901 was asked by my pastor Bishop
Grace C. O sbourn if I would run for
Queen o f African American Associa­
tion. I could not turn her down. 1 had to
obey her, but had no idea I would be the
queen that they would choose.
It’s been w onderful working with
the group. The Royal C ourt I have been
with arc some very nice people to work
with. I have enjoyed every minute o f it.
1 hope I have been o f some help to the
Association.
I also work with the King Neigh­
borhood Clean Up.
Now may God for ever bless you
all.
M other Cora Lee Benjamin