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Volume XXV, Number 35
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Ad2 Campaign To Focus
On Portland Area Kids
Windows 95
Makes Big Splash
amp Fire Association has
vision, radio and print ads, annual reports,
received a major boost from a
brochures, logos, public relations campaigns,
Portland advertisin g and
fund-raising, transit and outdoor boards and
public relations group to promote other
anti­ projects depending on the campaign
gang program s in the Portland
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metropolitan area.
Gang Peace, a program run by the Port­
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Some local stores stayed open past
midnight last week for the introduction
of the new Windows 95 computer soft­
ware by Microsoft. The new program­
ming is leaps and bounds better than
Windows 3.1 in speed and ease of use,
according to Dan Albrich, a microcom
puter network specialist at the Univer­
sity of Oregon. But the new technology
is not compatible with many older per­
sonal computers and to upgrade can be
expensive
Ad2 Portland, a non-profit organization
of the advertising, public relations and mar­
keting professionals, selected Cam p Fire ’s
Gang Peace Program as the focus of their
annual public service campaign.
In the past, Ad2 has worked on public
service campaigns for the Boys and G irls
Club, the Burnside Com munity Council,
Neighborhood Health C lin ics, The Portland
Education Network and Se lf Enhancement,
Inc.
Turner Considers
Bid For CBS
Marcus Burkhalter of Portland is in Camp Fire's Gang Peace program, the anti­
gang effort to foster positive peer relationships and leadership skills.
A new Iowa poll shows that Sen.
Bob Dole's once-sizable lead in the race
for the G O P nomination has shrunk by
30 percent since he tied for first with
Sen. Phil Gramm in a recent Iowa straw
poll. An A B C national pool had Presi­
dent Clinton beating Dole by 51 to 42
percent, a drop of 6 points in a month.
Zaire Expels
Refugees
Setting fire to huts and looting aid
camps, Zairian soldiers forced thousands
o f refugees home to Rwanda last week.
Another 60,000 refugees fled into the
hills to escape the expulsions, appar­
ently fearing slaughter in their home­
land.
W hile Jay has not made any formal
announcement, businesses and individuals
from St. Johns to Lake Oswego and beyond
are ready to throw their support behind the
48-year-old native Portlander.
Several weeks ago, C ity Council mem­
ber M ike Lindberg, announced that we would
not run for re-election. Since then several
other Portlanders have already declared their
candidacy for the office.
Roy Ja y ’s office would neither confirm
nor deny that he is considering the possibility
o f entering the race.
draw support from throughout the area.
Jay has served on numerous civ ic boards
and committees and has been instrumental in
community involvements over the past 20
years.
‘If he announced that he is going to run,
I know many people, especially in the busi­
ness, legal and ethic communities, that w ill
gladly support him" said a Portland stock­
broker.
“ I ’m not sure if C ity Hall is ready for
Roy Jay, said one of his business associates.
"He's not a politician.”
The school bell is about to ring for
Portland area students.
The first day o f school for all schools
in the Portland School District is Tues­
day, Sept. 5.
School officials are projecting en­
rollment, overall, will be down from a
year ago, from 56,899 students to about
55,710. But the number is only a guess
until after classes begin.
School officials said they will pro­
duce their formal head count in October.
The last day o f school this year is
June 12.
Roy Jay
Smith's Files For
bankruptcy Protection
m ith’s Home Furnishings,
a portion o f its debt and creditors’ debts
which operates 17 stores in
sometimes are transformed into stock - an
O regon, W ashington and
equity ownership in the company.
Idaho, asked for C hapter 11 In papers it filed in Portland’s U .S. bank­
bankruptcy court protection from its
ruptcy court, the company listed about $20
creditors last week.
m illion in unsecured debt. Sm ith’s told the
S
In a three-paragraph announcement, the
Portland-based furniture, appliance and home
electronics chain said it would permanently
close five o f the stores sometime after Labor
Day.
A11 stores were closed over the weekend
and remained closed through Wednesday.
But store officials were optimistic.
“ W e’re not going to go out o f business,”
Mootz said o f chain. “ We still have some o f
the best financing and prices in town That’s
what’s going to get us through this thing,” a
store manager in Bellevue, Wash. said.
A Chapter 11 proceeding basically is a
reorgan izat ion Businesses typical ly seek such
protection when they're faced with tempo­
rary financial problems or cash shortages.
Under normal circumstances, top man­
agers o f the company remain in place as they
either plan with their creditors to rehabilitate
the business over a period o f time, or liqui­
date it. The business typically w ill discharge
State Fair Opens
In Salem
The Oregon State Fair opened last
week under the theme “Your fun goes
further at the fair.” The annual event
with rides, food and entertainment run
through Labor Day at the state fair­
grounds in Salem.
Idaho Siege
Under Scrutiny
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School Bell
Tb Ring
Tuesday
um ors are b e g in n in g to
Portland insiders believe that Jay, a well
surface throughout Portland
known, outspoken yet compassionate, busi­
about the p o ssib ilities of
ness entrepreneur has the potential of being a
Portland business entrepreneur landslide
Roy
candidate. Some think that he is
Jay running for Portland City Council.
probably one o f several in (he city that could
Portland plans to welcome interna­
tional travelers by swapping many
printed signs in the city with new ones
bearing international symbols instead of
words. People who don’t read English,
yet want a variety o f things ranging from
ice cream to coffee, w ill be able to
follow signs bearing the pictograms.
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Last year's campaign was for the Urban
League of Portland, focusing on their 50th
Anniversary.
The campaigns generally consist o f tele-
Is City Hali Ready For Roy Jay?
Portland Goes
International
F B I Director Louis J. Freeh says
cover-up allegations in the Ruby Ridge,
Idaho siege are not only “shocking and
grievous” but also the most serious that
can be leveled against law enforcement
officials.
land Area Council o f Camp Fire, focuses on
violence reduction by fostering positive peer
relationships and leadership development to
prevent gang involvement.
Gang activity in the Portland metro area
has increased over the past years.
The Gang Peace program works to com ­
bat that trend by its efforts to improve behav­
iors and attitudes o f youth. The goal is to give
kids skills to interact, cooperate and make
appropriate decisions and take leadership
roles in positive ways.
During the 1994-95 school year. Gang
Peace served 450 boys and girls at 10 sites in
Washington and Multnomah counties
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Dole's Lead
Shrinks
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Light To Shine On Gang Peace
REVIEW
Ted Turner is considering a com­
peting bid to buy C B S . The C B S board
accepted a $5.4 billion cash offer from
Westinghouse Electric Corp, earlier this
month. Turner owns Turner Broadcast­
ing, C N N and otherentertainment enter­
prises.
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With fabric to be donated at a fundraising luncheon in support of the fight against
breast cancer are Joan Barron (from left), manager of the Calico Comers fabrics
store in Tigard and Bobbie Carr of Tualatin, co-chair of the luncheon and a cancer
survivor. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's Survivors' Luncheon
will be held at the Red Lion Inn on Sept. 16.
court that among its largest creditors, it owed
the Washington State Department o f R ev­
enue $ 1.4 mil lion and Spring A ir Northwest.a
Tacoma mattress company, $904,798
Last month, Sm ith’s paid a $450,000
settlement in a Washington state attorney
general’s lawsuit accusing the chain o f de­
ceptive advertising and sales. State investi­
gators accused the company o f practicing
bait-and-switch sales tactics. It alleged cus­
tomers were lured by ads for items at reduced
prices, then were told the items were out o f
stock. A sales person then allegedly would
try to sell customers more expensive items
Besides its troubles with the state. Smith’s
has been beset with mounting competition
from aggressive, w ell-financed national
chains that moved into the Northwest the past
three years. Mootz said the company has
been in business nearly 50 years, most o f it in
Oregon. The pas, three years, it mounted an
aggressive expansion.
Labor Day is observed as a national holiday
on Monday, Sept. 4.
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