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No shots mean no school for Oregon children
Last February, 22,285 parents throughout the state received
reminder letters from their local health department, letting
them know which immunizations were stil I required for their
child. A total o f3,652 children ended up being excluded from
school in 1998. That number was a 55 percent increase over
the previous year.
We believe the change in immunization requirements last
year was a big reason so many more children were excluded
from school, Romey says. We expect a higher than average
number again this year, because this is only the second year
o f the new requirements.
State administrative rules now require that kindergartners
receive vaccines for Hepatitis B and a second dose of
measles vaccine. Children attending preschool or child care
also need the Hepatitis B vaccine. The rules went into effect
with the 1998-99 school year.
These requirements protect a new group ofOregons children
against the potentially deadly hepatitis B virus and its
complications, said Romey. Hepatitis B vaccine has been
proven to be highly effective and safe, and has been a
routine infant immunization since 1991. The second measles
containing vaccine has been recommended since 1990.
Romey emphasized that it iscriticalforchildren and students
to receive recommended immunizations, particularly because
disease is easily spread in schools and child care centers.
Parents seeking immunizations for their children should
contact their private provider, county health clinic or call
Oregon SafeNetat l-800-SAFENET,or 1-8OO-723-3638.
Those who li vein the Portland metro area can reach SafeNet
at 988-5858..
• Students w ill not be allow ed
into school if they are not
im m unized by February 16,
D epartm ent o f H um an
Services says
A higher than normal number o f children face possible
exclusion from school or child care facilities this month
because they have not met expanded immunization
requirements, according to public health officials at the
Department o f Human Services.
The final deadline for bringing a child's immunization
record up-to-date is Feb. 16, says Karin Romey, health
educator at the Oregon Health Division. On that morning,
children and young people who do not have their
required immunizations will be sent home from their
school or childrens facility until they can provide proof
ofadequate immunization.
Z ac Vasilinda, CHN, provides immunizations for children Sunday.
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Portland police investigate murder of Portland cab driver
for T he P ortland O bserves
The Broadway Cab Company said
one o f its drivers, shot to death over
the weekend, was not the kind of
person who would have fought with
a gunman. The company says 30-
year-old Jonathan Johnson would
have willingly given up whatever
money he had.
Johnson was found dead in his cab
early Saturday morning in Northeast
Portland.
Police say the killer may have called
for a taxi from a phone booth in
Southeast Portland, near 17th and
Tenino. Officers dusted the booth for
fi ngerprints over the weekend. Pol ice
say they have not yet established a
motive for the murder.
The crime sent shockwaves through
Portland’s taxi community. “It shakes
you up inside. You feel sorry foryour
fellow driver and his family,” said
D riv e r
B utch
M iller.
Tim Kuppenbender from Radio Cab
said the killing is a sharp reminder of
just how dangerous the job is, “It
makes everybody aware, how bad it
can be out there and (that) they’re in
danger.”
A celebration of Black History Month
Homes collide
during the
Vanport flood o f
1948.
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fin d The
Portland
Observer's
special on the
era o f 1900 to
1950 during
Tiger's on a streak
That Tiger Woods has won six
straight PGA Tour events is hard
enough to believe. No one has
won more than three in a row since
the year Dwight Eisenhow er
moved into the White House.
But while Woods streaks toward
history, the 24-year-old is quickly
carving out a niche as perhaps the
most exciting player golf has ever
seen.
His amazing comeback Monday
at storied Pebble Beach was a
com posite o f the best traits
belonging to the best players —
the skill o f Ben Hogan, the thrill of
Arnold Palmer, the will o f Jack Tiger Woods follows his shot
Nicklaus.
from the fourth tee o f the Pebble
“I’m just trying to make golf shots
Beach G olf Links during final
and give myself a chance to win,”
round
play o f the AT&T Pebble
Woods said Monday after his
victory in the Pebble Beach Beach National Pro-Am in
National Pro-Am, where he was Pebble Beach. Calif, Monday,
seven strokes behind with seven Feb. 7, 2000.
holes to play.
B la c k
H is to r y
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Friday
Weather
cloudy
Through t he weekend
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Inside-A
Week in Review................... 2
Alaska jet has an emergency
landing..................................... 3
High blood pressure seminar
offered.................................... 5
Burger King releases warning of
Pokemon toy........................... 6
Metro-B
Interstate MAX is on its
way............................................1
Agassi on a
streak.........................................2
Trailblazers on top and on a
roll.......................................... 3
El Observador....................... 4
This Week
in History
On February 11, 1990
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A lter 27 years in a South African prison, 7 1-year-
old Nelson Mandela was finally released
On February 12, 1909
The National Association for the Advancement o f
Colored People (N A A C P ) was founded in New
York C ity by a group o f black and white people
O n February 13.1946
The w orld's first fully functional electronic digital
computer, the Flectromc Numencal Integrator and
( alculator I N I A C ) was turned on for the first time
On February 14, IR76
At noon inventor Alexander Graham Bell applied
for a patent for his new invention the telephone
r w o hours later his rival. Flisha (ira y . applied for a
similar patent Bell's patent was granted
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