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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1963)
Hkftad SmJ'Ptts' thwlty SfaBvTo SHknat .tiki V r rr WHAT ARE THEIR DREAMS? These toti napping at the Waverly Baby Home may be where they are be cause their parents proved inadequate to the task of rais ing children to the point where a local court had to inter vene to see that the children received proper care. The children might be returned to their natural parents after the grown-ups have been counseled or they might be readied for adoptive homes. Care of four Klamath chil dren during 1 96 1 -62 cost the home slightly under $2,000 while they received less than $600 as a result of Klamath donations. - - WHMHHK AGENCY OPERATION EXPLAINED Col. Ida N. Spiess, executive director of The Volunteers of America of Ore gon, Inc., points out some of the outside recreation fa cilities at the agency's mothers and children's home in Portland to Gaylord Upington (right), end other volun teer members of the Klamath United Fund organiiation (left to right), Don Bingham; Paul Meier, dean of instruc tion, OTI; Sam Ritchie, manager of PP&L; and Herb Shults, rough lumber supervisor at Weyerhaeuser. This is ffntfp 0 J & if K WHO'LL TAKE ME? This is one of the many babies at the Waverly Baby Home in Portland, one of the aqencies supported by funds from the Klamath County United Fund. The babies have been abandoned or have been neglected to a point where they -have been placed in the home by the court. Many of the tots are placed in foster homes. the only agency in the state that takes care of a mother and her children under the same roof in an attempt to keep the family together. A great many of the mothers who apply for help or who are referred, receive coun seling in their own homes. Four Klamath children were eared for during 1961-62 by the "Volunteers" at e cost of $752. The agency in turn received $286 from Klamath County's contributions to the Oregon United Appeal through United Fund. HAPPY ORPHANS The children at the Waverly Baby Home can enfoy life like other youngsters, but they sense that they're not quite like others and the fate of living without mother and father does leave its mark. Their eyes have a certain longing a person can never forget. Many go into adoptive and foster homes, but the rate it never fast enough to stem the overcrowded conditions. From the Camp Fire Girls to a home for unwed mothers I Twenty-four agencies serving' the physical and spiritual needs' of Klamath County citizens re ceive their support from the Unit-!1''" Home, Christie School, Gre ed Fund. Sua Council on Crime and Delia- The fund is conceived as a 'flf?. Our Lady of Providence device to efficiently raise money The agencies include the Al-I bcrtina Kerr Homes, Americanl Social Health Association, Boysl and Girls' Aid Society, Catholic I Service (or Children, Children's! for these organizations without wasteful duplication of effort.' This year, the goal Is $148,311 and it will be assaulted In a 30- day concentrated effort by hun dreds of volunteers. Already, about $S0,0( of this has been raised in a pilot cam paign among 12 of the largest firms in the county and their employes. The regular campaign begins Monday with a kickotf breakfast youth homes, and will end, it. is hoped, vrithJ another meeting announcing the' successful attainment of the goal. Mondays breakfast meet ins' will be held at the Winema Ho tel, starting at 7 o'riorit. The pub lic is invited and the cost of breakfast is $!, served by the Camp Fire Girls and Girl Scouts. Early arrivals will receive free J shoeshines from (he Boy Scouts. I The keynote address will be de-l livcred by the Rev. Laing Sib-I belt, pastor of the Peace Memo rial Presbyterian Church and a member of the United Fund Board of Directors. . The board of directors Is com posed ot 59 local men and women most oE tliem heads ot business! turns or government or qgencics1 or outstanding professional people. ine ooar a sets the annual United Fund budget after receiv ing the requests of the agencies served by the campargrr. in addition to tire board, the United Fund has a full-time sec retary-manager, Phillip Parsons, and a one-girt office staff. Most of the money collected is used by local agencies, but of the $148,311 goal, $20,971 is sent to the Oregon United Appeal for use in other agencies which aid local1 persons. i In July, representatives of most I of the firms in the pilot campaign visiiea inese out-ol-town agencies ine greatest number of which are m Portland. (Photos on this page are of that trip. Nursery, St. Mary's Home for Boys, United Service Oreajtiea- lions, Villa St. Rose, Volunteers of America Mothers and Children's Home, Waverly Baby Home, YMCA of Oregon Slate University. YMCA-YWCA of (he University of j Oregon, and Youth and Govern ment. Local funds go to these agen cies only tor the care and serv ices to local persons about 73 In all. An esample is a Klamaih Falls oy in one of the Portand 'Your fair share" asked ot em-1 ployts is one hour's pay per month for a year. The donations may be deducted from the em ploye s check each month by (heir firm. For salaried employes, the Unit ed Fund Is asking one per cent o the monthly salary loc a year. United Fund Hieetings will be field in est-h of the city's busi nesses for employes. After Monday morning's kick- off breakfast, there will he noon luncheon meetings each Monday during October for progress re ports. But throughout all of the! "Giving everybody an oppoc- month's furious, activity, o a ejtunity to give and to know what theme will he overriding'. they ace giving for." 3&aiWiM KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER, WA IdcaJh, the acencv recoivind the most support from (he United: fund is (he American Red Cross, which is budgeted for $32,010. The Boy Scouts receive $18,396 and the Salvation Army, $17,507. Other lo cal agencies and the amount they receive are YMCA, $15,009; Camp Fire Girls, $14,000; Girl Scouts, $9,828; and White Shield Home, $1,500. In addilion of the $148,311 goal, M.suo is set aside tor reserve i for pledge loss." Campaign ad ministration is budgeted for $7,415 and (he year-around United Fund administration receives $7, 175. Contributors to the campaign may designate the agency which their money will aid. The pilot campaign began Sept. 1 among the !2 large Srms and as designed to get these com panies cleared in advance, andi also (o gain experience in cam paign techniques. The pilot goal was $35,405, leav ing $112,906 for the regular cam paign beginning Monday. ine campaign is being con ducted through tl division chair men and the divisions are broken down into units, each of these having a chairman. In addition. each chairman has B staff of vol unteers who will actually be solici-1 ting among the firms and organ Hat ions involved. A special silts' division will solicit large individu- jal donations. I I - Vi' I I ''.Hify'i,. s I i j ii.ni. i .i in.i-VW i m iiiMnii imiLMi l, "kjki gJ9Sk n " p? FACES OF THE HOMELESS These children at tke, Waverly Baby Home in Portland have a dream. They dream about having motKec and. f atKet , M day. The horn : is one of the units supported in part, by tH Oregon Umttd. Appeal wKich in turn ii; aided by the United Fund. Recently gc-up of locsl UF volunteari toured varna of tn: agencies and home in Portland that received !ecl aid through UF, They learned thaV 73 Klamath Falls children trtd older boys nd girlj were- taken care- of m 10 o the-ssf-agencies during 1W1-62 at a cost of $64,314. Forth children of oar own toantr" the agencies received $21,45? in support from local corrMb-iftJe'rrs. Pietirred alona thsi- fence are Mrs. Ross Ragfand and Harold Howard f partially obscaredf. LOCAL MEN TAKE TOUR BREAK Part of the group of UF volunteers from Klamath that recently toured agencies that care for the state's needy children pause outside a house connected with Villa St. Rose, a home and school for court committed girls between the ages of 12 and 21. St. Ursula's residence is a transition house where a limited number of girls live after leaving the school and while continuing their education or work in the communi ty after leavinq Villa St. Rose. Pictured are (from left!, Charles Johnson, Klamath Lumber and Box; Paul Meier, OTI; Gaylord Upington, UF board member; Phil Parsons, executive secretary UF; Ed Isensee, Cascade Laundry; Herb Shults, Weyerhaeuser, and Don Bingham, Klamath Plywood. F ''''-' i" ,1 pJirv--rai I I , H i V I II ipmmiPiDi i in j. FACILITIES AT LOUISE HOME Mrs. Ross Ragland and Herb Shults view the laundry facilities at the Louisa Home for court referred wayward 9sls and imwad mothers, ift Portland. The home, one of the Albertin Karr homes, gives temporary cr for about 200 girfs each year between the ages of 12 to 21. Most of the oirli ar court lom miffed, but fhere are some voluntary referrals and some by parents and rae&anka-a-. agencies. DORM AT CHRISTIE SCHOOL Two court-committed and two welfare children from Klamath County were received at the Christie School in 1962. The Christie proj ect it mainly an attempt at social adjustment through group therapy, but there is a pro fessional staff available to handle mora sarioui individual problems. Emotionally dis turbed children will be taken car of by outside professional people if the problem It too big to handle at th school. All the agencies mate full use of outside professional service and usually on a "gratis" basis. I t GIRLS LEARN BY DOING The girls at the Villa St. Rosa home and school have an opportunity to master the. art of kitchenry for future family life or for outside em ployment after they leava th home. The oi.-ls have an opportunity to continue thair education in either academic or trad subjects during their stay at Villa St. Rosa. Each year a few of th girlt from th home anter colleges end universities of thair choice after obtaining teholarthipt m ttiff competition with public high school stu-dents. CHEERFUL NURSERY WARD The cheerful atmosphere at tha Prodnc Nurnry in Portland hides th cherlit fact fhaf fit children af the nursery are either abarr doned, neglocted or retarded. Most of the children af Provldenc, who are abfo, ara sent to edoptive homes when they ar ttill very young. Th nw parents are tern thoroughly and thara is seldom trouble after placement. Accordinq to a published financial statement tha nursary had a $3,000 deficit at tha and of 1962. Car of four' Klamath youngstars cost tha nursary $2,707, but thay taceivad only $920 from local donations. . " . f ' 1
