10 (See. 2)-Statmn, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 1, .1 9S.
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to
'Starting
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: By CONRAD PRANGE
t Staff Writer, The Statesman .
I Such everyday facets of mod
ern living as nimmase sales, baby
Showers, picnics, health lectures
and celebrations were participat
ed in this summer by thousands
f migrant crop harvesting fam
ilies in Oregon. L .,
Work, among i the migrants,
sponsored by the Oregon Council
of Churches in' coopf-ration with
local churches and civic groups,
is "beginning to- roll,", it was in-
flicated at a state meeting in Sa
le m Wednesday.,' ,
Six Areas - " :"" -
- "This summer 30 paid and full
time volunteers worked in six
migrant areas," said "Miss Betty
Whitaker. state director of " the
field program of the Orepon Mi
grant Ministry. She ii a repre
sentative of the1 National Cofincil
of Churches. - '
"Although this represents an
Increase of about 30 per cent in
personnel, she i said, "we need
more workers. There are about
a half-dozen - migrant-gathering
areas1 in the state we haven't even
touched. We figure we reach
about one-tenth of the total mi-
grant population in uregon. we
tvant to reach more."
: Longer Program' '
- Aim of the Oreeon Council of
' Churches is for an eventual vear-
, found. prtfgrair for migrant fanv
lies based on local community
' articinat;on. This vould include
work in educational, spiritual,
Vocational, social and health
fields. - !
; The Council also is setting up
plans to study basic problems of
migrant families, such a; employ
ment, health, sanitation and edu
cation with a view to initiating
Heeded legislation, she sai.'.
''. A big problem of irig ant crop
Wnrkpr is acceDtai'c , bv com
munities in which they are work-,
, ing. Already, i Miss Whiteker
said, Migraut MinMry workers
have helped here -
Big Fiesta
At Nyssa the local residents
.. were guests recently of Mexican
American crop workers at a. big
fiesta. There the work among
migrants is pushed by the local
Chamber of commerce. It was
"Also at Nyssa where 15 exp ectant
mothers -were the object of a
mass' "baby shower? -complete
with nearly 70 women quests and
. boxes of gifts, f t
A highlight of the harvest sea-
' son for the past three years in
the Hillsboro area has been a
picnic participated in by coni-
" munity and migrant families,
Mobile Program
The migrant program in the
Salem-Independence-w tayton area,
if
sponsored by the Salem Council
of Churches," is unique, Miss
Whitaker said, because it is a
mobile one. A number of camps
are visited daily by mobile ;nita
of Migrant Ministry workers In
other sections of Oregon thej Mi
grant programs are established in
semi-permanent locations. I
' The program is now being! car
ried out in these areas: Hillsboro,
Eola Village - near Mf Minnville,
Milton-Free 'ater, Salem, i
Nyssa. A fall program will
soon' in the Klajnath Basin for
the potato harvesters
At Wednesday's meeting
group of Migrant Ministry work
ers told of various experiences
in dealing with migrant pro:fems.
House Payment
There was the hard-working,
five-children harvester family at
Hillsboro bent on saving at, least
$100 from this summer's earnings
of a
in order to start purcliai
two-room house in Portland
A 13-year-old- partially
girl, working in a Stayton
deaf
bean
yara, was enrolled in the ; State
School for the Deaf in Salem
through efforts oL the, Migrant
u;n: i !;
Health Kits
At Nyssa health kits containing
among other things, tooth bashes
ana loom paste, was given
children of Mexican families
several days, reported the!
grant Ministry ; worker in
area, parents couldn't drari jtheir
youngsters from the bathhouses
where they" wera spending all
day b ushing their teeth! s over
and over.
At independence a nine-year-old
Spanish-speaking ; boy Spent
iwo hours a day for several heeks
with a Migrant Ministry Ttrker
taking English reading and (writ
ing lessons. And, report ; the
worker, judging from tne pmer
ent styles of handwriting ajpjpear
ing on the boy's homewofk pa
pers, his entire family benefited
by the lessons.
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