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Y o u th fu l D riv in g E x p e r ie n c e :
O r e g o n a n d U .S . F a c t S h e e t
Mutoi vehicle crashes are the
leading cause of death among young
Americans.
In the United States during the
1980s, more than 140,000 youths aged
15 to 24 were killed in car accidents,
more than died from all diseases com
bined.
Although teenage drivers account
for only six percent of the national
driving population, they represent 14.5
percent o f drivers involved in all acci
dents and 13 percent of drivers in
volved in fatal accidents.
On the rverage, every two or three
weeks the equivalent of a senior class at
a typical high school is wiped out on our
streets and highways.
Oregon youths face a significant
risk on Oregon highways.
Although representing only 15 per
cent o f the 2 million licensed Oregon
drivers, on the average young people
between the ages of 15 and 24 are
involved in almost 40 percent of the
total auto accidents reported in Oregon
each year.
In 1990 young adults, aged 15 to
24, accounted for over 43 percent of all
Oregon traffic injuries and deaths.
In addition to the loss of lives and
human suffering, motor vehicle acci
dents take a huge economic toll.
In 1990 the total economic cost to
Oregon from motor vehicle accidents
was over $2.2 billion. This amounts to
roughly $350 in total costs for each
Oregon family.
The National Safety Council (NSC)
estimates that the financial toll is at
least $27 billion annually for medical
insurance costs, property damage and
lost wages resulting from accidents
involving 15- to 24-year-old drivers.
Young drivers ages 15 to 19 are
still involved in a disproportionately
high rate of alcohol-related crashes,
despite an overall decline over the
past few years of these types of acci
dents.
During 1990 40 percent of all traf
fic fatalities for Oregonians aged 15 to
20 were a result of drinking and driv
ing.
Last year in Oregon 60 young
adults between the ages of 15 and 24
were killed in motor vehicle accidents
in which one or more persons had a
BAC (blood alcohol content) of .08+.
Sources: 1990 National Safety
Council and Oregon Traffic Safety
Commission statistics, and “Keep your
Teenage Driver Alive,” Reader’s Di
gest, June 1991.
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K a tz . Lzliy N e e d s lO m r e lUU
More Police Officers
Revlon Continues To Support United Negro
college Fund With Donation To Colleges, Student
Emergency Assistance Fund
Katz says a 2% Savings in the General Fund Budget
Could Fund Police and Other Priority Programs.
Insisting that the City of Portland
needs more police officers to fight
crime, State Representative and may-
oral candidate Vera Katz urged the
Portland City Council to approve the
Police Bureau’s request for 100 addi
tional officers.
Katz said the Police Bureau may
receive as few as 40 additional offic
ers instead of the 100 requested. Port
land Mayor B ud Clark was quoted last
week saying, “I think we’re going to
get at least 40. 100 would be very
difficult."
“Either the City Council is serous
about fighting crime or not-adding
only 40 new police officers is not
serous,” said Katz.
“I am going to be adamant about
this," Katz said. “Public safely is my
number one priority and I intend to
keep the pressure on the City Council
to do more.”
In a letter to the Council, Katz
pointed out that Portland’s overall
crime rate is higher than San Fran
cisco or Los Angeles. “We can no
longer deny the fact that we have a
big-city crime problem,” she wrote.
“I urge you to approve the Police
Bureau’s request for 100 new police
officers for the next fiscal year,” Katz
said in her letter. “I believe that ap
proving funding for 100 additional
police officers is the point at which
rhetoric about public safety becomes
a real commitment to public safety.
“It is time the City Council make
the same kind of major commitment
to public safety and fighting crime in
Portland that we did at the Legislature.
“I urge you to take the extra time
to examine the base budget expendi
tures of every bureau, line item by line
item. I believe you can find the neces
sary funds for police new hires w ithoul
cutting services. It might delay the
budget process a couple weeks, and it
will require a closer review of all
budgets. But if you can find more
money for law enforcement, I think
the benefits will be well worth it.
“After all, a 2% savings in the
general fund budget, combined with
the money currently available for on
going and one-time uses could gener
ate the funds necessary to add 100
police officers and still have money
available for selected add-on programs
and/or restorations.
“I hope that we are past the point
of raising the false fear of “deep cuts in
other services” as a legitimate excuse
for falling short of what needs to be
done to meaningfully increase the
public’s safety.
“As we face the prospect of
500,000 new residents in the Portland
metropolitan area in the next decade,
along with an increasingly competi-
tiveeconomicenvironment.ourcity is
poised on the threshold of tremendous
change. The consequences of the
choices you make today will be felt for
many years to come. I believe making
our City safer and more secure is the
most important task before you as you
face these choices.”
BOSTON’S MINI MARKET
NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!
Marking 35 consecutive years of support for the United Negro College
Fund, Revlon presented the fund with a $75,000 donation earmarked for
UNCF colleges and the Revlon UNCF Student Emergency Assistance
Fund. Shown at the recent presentation ceremony in New York City are
(left to right): Paul Block (President, Revlon Professional Products
Group), Virgil Ecton (Sr. Executive Vice President, - UNCF), Joshua
Givens (Vice President Marketing, Retail Ethnic-Revlon), William Peters
(Director Greater New York Campaign-UNCF).
At a recent ceremony in New York
City, The Revlon Foundation and the
Revlon-Realistic Professional Products
Group reaffirmed their long-standing
commitment to the goals and activities
of the United Negro College Fund
(UNCF) through a donation of $75,000.
Marking 35 consecutive years of
Revlon support for UNCF, the dona
tion includes both a $25,000 contribu
tion from the Revlon Foundation, pre
sented by James T. Conro, Senior Vice-
President for corporate Affairs and Spe
cial counsel, Revlon, Inc. to the Rev-
lon/UNCF Student Emergency Assis
tance Fund and a $50,000 contribution
presented by Joshua Givens, Vice Presi
dent, Director of Marketing, Retail Eth
nic Markets, Professional Products
Group for distribution to UNCF Col
leges.
The Revlon/UNCF Student emer
gency Assistance Fund contribution will
provide financial support to students
who have exhausted all other financial
resources.
The Professional Products Group’s
contribution was made possible through
the Group’s Black History Month Cel
ebration, a retail promotion now in its
tenth consecutive year, and will be used
by UNCF colleges to expand curricula,
hire teachers and help defray similar
expenses.
UNCF member institutions cur
rently includes 41 historically black
colleges and universities, enrolling
50,800 students.
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provision of specialized transportation
services for elderly or handicapped
persons. The funds may be used to plan
services, purchase equipment, and op
erate service. Area o f operations must
be limited to Marion or Polk County.
Approx imately $503,000 is expected to
be available in FY 92-93 in the Special
Transportation Fund (STF).
Any person or organization, public
or private, interested in providing spe
cial transportation services and apply
ing for STF funds should contact John
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1992.
Minority Coordinator to
Speak at Women’s
Caucus
Shelley Matthews, Minortiy Out
reach Coordinator to Speak at Women’s
Caucus for Art
Shirley Matthews, minority out
reach coordinator from the Metropoli
tan Arts Commission will be the guest
speaker at the next meeting of the
Women’s Caucus for Art On March
23rd at 5 PM. Her topic “ MAC: What
it is and what it can do for you” will be
relevant to women artists at all levels of
accomplishment. The WCA, which
meets thc4th Sunday of each month, is
a networking organization promoting
the political and financial parity for
women artists. The meeting will be
held at the downtown YWCA. 111 SW
10th Avenue, in conference r<x>m 2,
main floor.
Can Penicillin Really Prevent Fatal Infections in
Infants with Sickle Cell Anemia?
Sickle cell anemia is an inherited
blood disorder causing frequent bouts
of pain and in some cases causes fre
quent hospitalization.
The Sickle Cell disease branch of
the NIH established a Study Group in
1983, utilizing 23 medical centers, to
find out if daily doses of oral penicillin
could prevent severe bacterial infec
tions in young children with Sickle Cell
Anemia.
Investigators sought a way to re
duce the death rate in young children
with sickle cell anemia. Despite great
improvements in detection and treat
ment during 20 years, there has been
almost no reduction in the incidence of
the severe infections which can kill
Sickle Cell Children under 3 years of
age.
Young children with Sickle Cell
Anemia often may develop a serious
complication called bacteremia caused
by pneumococcus bacteria. The pneu
mococcus bacteria is one of the germs
that causes pneumonia. Bacteremia
means bacteria in the blood. Young
ch ild ren
w ith
p neum ococcus
bacteremia can go from fever to death
in less than 12 hours. About a third of
the young children with bacteremia die
from it. Young children with Sickle
Cell Anemia arc also likely to develop
other life-threatening infections from
the pneumococcus germ such as pneu
monia and meningitis.
There were 215 children ranging
from ages 3-36 months participating
for 15 months. 105 children were given
2 small (125 mg) daily doses of penicil
lin pills and 110 received a placebo,
that means a substance that could not
prevent infections. ViuuninC was used
in this study. Neither the medical center
staff nor the parents knew which chil
dren were getting penicdim and whieh
ones were getting vitamin C pills.
Upon completion of the study they
found that the preventive treatment
worked in their study. Only 2 of the 105
children who received penicillin devel
oped p n eu m o co ccal in fectio n s.
Whereas 3 of the 110 treated with vita
min C developed a pneumococcal in
fection. There were 3 deaths-all in the
group receiving the placebo or Vitamin
C.
Over 2,000 children are born with
Sickle Cell Anemia in the United States
yearly and only a very small percentage
of them are allergic to penicillin. Should
the child be allergic to penicillin, your
doctor can prescribe another effective
antibiotic such as erythromycin. We
recommend that treatment begin when
babies arc 4-6 months old and until at
least their 6th birthday. If you know
your child has Sickle Cell Anemia,
contact the Portland Sickle Cell Ane
mia Foundation immediately, if you
have not already done so, at 249-1366.
Many people confuse Sickle Cell
Disease with Sickle Cell trait. These are
two different conditions. Sickle Cell
Trait is a condition in which a gene for
sickle hemoglobin is inherited from
one parent and a gene for normal hemo
globin from the other. This is what we
call the carrier state; it cannot change to
become the disease and is not conta
gious. Persons with Sickle Cell Trait
should avoid unpressurized planes and
high altitudes, and should remember
tirai should theircompanion have Sickle
Cell Tran, they become a couple at-risk
for having a child born with Sickle Cell
Anemia.
The other condition is the result of
a person inheriting a gene lor sickle
hemoglobin from one parent and a gene
lor either a normal hemoglobin or a
gene that limits hemoglobin production
from the other parent. Examples are
Sickle Cell Anemia, Sickle Cell C-
H em oglobin D isease and Sickle-
Thalassemia Disease respectively.
In patients with Sickle Cell Dis
ease, stroke typically develops between
the ages of 9 and 15, with a picture of
ischemic infarction that mimics what is
seen in older patients with carotid oc
clusion from atherosclerotic disease.
Infarction occurs mainly in younger
patients and hemorrhage in older ones.
A study reported in the New England
Journal of Medicine, Adams et al., re
veals that future studies can provide
further validation of the transcranial
Doppler ultrasonography technique, per
haps, by using magnetic resonance
angiography, and can assess the effects
of transfusion therapy to prevent strokes
in patients with Sickle Cell Disease.
The racial groups with Black Afri
can ancestry whether living in the United
States, Caribbean, South America or
Pan American countries are groups at-
risk. In addition, Italians, Sicilians, and
East Indians arc affected as well. The
incidence of Sickle Cell Trait varies
tremendously in these racial groups,
being very low in the latter group. Sickle
Cell Trait is present in 10-12 percent of
Black Americans and Sickle Cell Ane
mia occurs in one out o f400 to 500. The
Portland Sickle Cell Anemia Founda
tion hopes to have the incidence rate in
other races upon the completion of a
research project.
The Foundation is seeking volun
teers lor their speakers bureau, for grant
writing, fund-raising activities, out
reach, and telethon. They are also hop
ing to have a van donated to be utilized
as a small mobile unit for testing in the
community. Persons who desire to be
tested or who are seeking additional
information should call 249-1366.