Oregon Advance Times_1968-07-11

Page 4 The Oregon Advance/TIMES July 11, 1968 Wise Employment Pratice Pays Off by George Christian is John Williams, a Negro. The recent march of the Williams meets all custo– poor made many people stop, mers with a courteous smile, think and take a second look a good attitude and is re– at their hiring practices and ceived much in the same way. their treatment of the poor Also with Cohn Bros. is and the poor black in par- Hansen Davis and Lowell ticular. Motey in the rug department. There are those, however, who had no such second thoughts and no need for guilt complexes as far as their hiring practices are con– cerned. One such is David Cohn of Cohn Bros. Furni- ture Co. In a recent interview with Mr. Cohn, l found out that he has employed Negroes for many years and has hired them according to their de– sires and abilities. One of his top salesmen These two gentlemen have been with Cohn Bros. for years and are experts in sew– ing and installing fine car– peting. They said they have no problems and are also received well when sent on a job. Cohn Bros. feels that to lose any of these men would be a great loss for the company. "It would appear to me that other companies might take a lesson from these wise em– ployment practices," Cohn said. Here we see salesman John Williams as he waits on cus– tomer at Cohn Bros. Furniture. Hansen Davis and Lowell Motey examine carpeting in Cohn Brothers rug department. Ben I eonard Ask The Man from Equitable about Living Insurance -Fa1nily Style BENJAMIN M. LEONARD 2040 S,W. FIRST AVE , PORTLAND, OREGON 97201 BUS. PHONE: 222 - 9471 The EQUITABLE Life Assurance Society of the United States NEW YORK, NY. Crops Need Pickers - Unemployment Benefits - (NOTE: This column is written weekly and published by this newspaper as a public and educational service. If SALEM (Special) - Largest you have questions with re- shortages of pickers reported gard to the Oregon State Em– by the Department of Em- ployment Service, Unemploy– ployment's Rural Manpower ment Insurance and/or refer– section at present are at ral to the Job Corps, Neigh– Portland where there is a borhood Youth Corps or shortage of 100 strawberry training under the Manpower pickers and 200 caneberry Development and Training pickers; in the McMinnville Act, please address your area short 200 cherry pick- queries to the Department of ' Employment, attn. lnforma- ers; Lebanon .area, short l~O tional Representative, 402 strawberry pickers, and m · Labor and Industries Building, Eugene area, short 150 straw- Salem, Oregon 9731 O.) berry pickers. Otherwise, the weekly farm labor report states that the strawberry harvest has about a week to go in the Willamette valley; in Hood River valley, QUESTION: If l work oruy part- time, am I entitled to unemployment ins u ran c e benefits if I am laid off or two weeks. A shortage of if l continue to work for the SO strawberry pickers was reported at Albany, with no housing available. Other cherry picker short– ages were reported at Eu– gene, short SO, with no hous– ing available, and at Salem, short 75, with housing avail- same employer part-time, am I entitled to partial un– employment benefits? ANSWER: If you continue to work for your regular em– ployer, but because of re– duced hours of work earn able. Other Willamette val- Classes End ley areas have adequate cherry picker labor and one week of picking left. The Dalles area cherry picking is practically complete. La Grande area· cherry picking is to start July 15, with a poor crop reported and ade– quate labor. Sour cherry harvest is to start July 15 at Eugene with adequate labor. Other caneberry picker shortages are reported at Albany, short 50, with some housing available; Lebanon area, short 75, with no hous– ing available and Salem area, short 100, with no housing available. A bumper pole bean har– vest is to start July 20 to 29 in the Willamette valley. The following shortages of pickers are anticipated dur– ing harvest of the more than 11,000 acres of beans: Al– bany area, short 200 by July 25, with housing available; Salem area, short 500 by August 15, with housing avail– able. Training Available The u. s. Department of Labor announced recently ap .. proval of two JOBS training proposals in Portland to provide permanent employ.. ment to 60 hard-core un.. employed at a federal cost of $238,549. Regional Manpower Admin– istrator Kenneth C. Robert– son said the contracts had been signed with the Albina Corporation and with the Portland General Electric Company. Albina Corporation will train 50 disadvantaged workmen in various boat building occupations while the P. G. and E. will train 10 workers. Robertson said the con.. tracts were the latest ap– proved as part of the Pres– ident's JOBS (Job Opportuni-– ties in the Business Sector) program undertaken jointly by the National Alliance of Businessmen and the U. S. Department of Labor. For over five years, the Oregon Bureau of Labor has sponsored a program of job information and motivation. The program was called the Creative Job Search Tech– nique (CJST). The method was developed by Ray Zigler and was to be– come !."O effective a method of training the unemployed and the underemployed that its fame spread to foreign countries as an accepted and effective method of rehabili– tating the unemployed. This same method has been used for over a year at the Albina Neighborhood Service Center every Thursday even– ing under the direction of George Christian and has helped many Albina residents not only find jobs, bur better jobs in many cases. The classes will end Thurs– day, July 25. Ray Zigler has been commended for his training of the counselors, George Christian and Clinton Jenkins. The Neighborhood Center and its director, Ro– zell Gilmore, provided much help and many courtesies during the life of the classes. Career Position A challenging career of community service. No experience necessary. If you are a high school graduate (or equivalent) age 21 through 29 (ex– servlcemen to 34) and at least 5' 9" tall, you may qualify. Monthly salary starts at $674 with annual increases to $735 in three years. On-the-job training, paid vacation, sick leave, in. surance and retirement plan plus other benefits. Apply now at Portland Civil Service, 115 s. W. Fourth Ave. THE Li 'I Rooster Drive-in * Quick Service • Orders To Go • Good Food IS OPEN Delicious Hamburger Golden French Fries Chicken to Ah - Go - Go Vancouver & Russel I St. less than full-time wages you may be entitled to re– ceive partial unemployment benefits, The Department fur– nishes employers with a form, "Notice and Verification of Partial Employment," on which they certify to an em– ployee's partial unemploy– ment. You in turn complete a portion of the form and mail or deliver it to the lo– cal Department of Employ– ment office. If you are in all other respects eligible and qualified, you will be paid for the week or weeks that you were partially employed. Of course, if you are working part-time and are laid off, you will be eligible for un– employment benefits. pro– vided you worked at least 20 weeks with average earn– ings of $20 per week in em– ployment subject to Depart– ment of Employment law and you were paid total wages of at least $700 in your base year. M©NY MUTUAL OF NEW YORt< MATTHEW CHAVIS FIEL D UNDERWRITER 710 S. W. SECOND A VE. P Ol~T LANO , O R E, 97204 OFFICE 228-1105 RES. 775-9840 "BECAUSE I MUST SLEEP AT NIGHT .•. " by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman I Have Increased My Insur– ance - Because I have lost heavily on other: investments I had made to secure my old age and the future of my children. Because men as good as I, or better, have seen their own business collapse. Mine may follow theirs, despite all I can do, and if it does, I want to save some assets for my wife, to whom my poli– cies are made payable. Because do not know whether my health will stand the strain of these harrowing times. Deaths among men of my age are increasing omi– nously. I can name a dozen of my intimates whose busi– ness losses and worries have pr ovoked maladies that were fatal to them. I owe it to my family to make the best effort I can to keep myself physically fit. But I also owe it to them to give them, as far as l can, an income that will compensate for my salary in case l drop from heart disease, which is in– creasing at a rate that will soon make it responsible for one death in five among middle- aged men. Because I know that my children are going to have a tougher time than I had in making a living. I was born and grew up to manhood in an age of large opportunity. Promotion came steadily to me because in America of that day there was a scarcity of skilled men. It is not go– ing to be so for my children, Standards are higher. The pace in the race for the prize is much faster. I cannot guarantee my children suc– cess, hut by sacrificing a little to increase my insur– ance, I have made it as .:er– tain as anything can be that they will get an adequate ed– ucation and thereby a better start in life. Because I must sleep at night and I do not want my dreams to be haunted by the fact that those I love will be added to the unhappy and hungry thous ands that walk the streets. - Richmond News Leader Dr. Freeman is a distin– guished editor, anc! author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bio~raphy, "Robert E. Lee." Jobs Available Portland Concentrated Employment Program Title: CEP System Coordi– nator Project Limit: Position fund– ed only through August 31, 1969 Salary: Maximum of $850 per month with limit of 20% above current salary Title: Transportation Super– visor Project Limit: Position fund– ed through August 31, 1969 Salary: Maximum $625.00 per month subject of 20% above previous salary Title: Community Represent– ative (4) Project Limit: Position fund– ed through August 31, 1969 Salary: Maximum $500.00 per month with limit of 20% above current salary Title: Supportive Service Co– ordinator Salary Range: Maximum $750 per month with limit of 20% above current salary Title: Outreach Coordination Project Limits: Position funded through August 31, 1969 Salary: Maximum $750.00 per month with limit of 20% above current salary Title: Transportation Spe– cialist Project Limit: Position fund– ed through August 31, 1969 Salary: Maximum $400.00 per month with limit of 20% above current salary Portland Metropolitan Steering Comm.- EOA (Inc.) Position: Housing Coordina– tor Salary: Up to $750.00 per month (limited to 20% in– crease over previous sal– ary) Position: Neighborhood Or– ganization Specialist Salary: Up to $750.00 per month (limited to 20% in– crease over previous sal– ary) Position: CAP Program Co– ordinator Salary: Up to $900.00 per month (limited to 20% in– crease over previous sal– ary) Position: MIS Reports Spe– cialist Salary: Up to $500.00 per month (limited to 20% in– crease over previous sal– ary Position: Bookkeeper Salary: Up to $400,00 per month (limited to 20% in– crease over previous sal– ary) Position: Property Manage– ment Specialist Salary: Up to $500.00 per month (limited to 20% in– crease over previous sal– ary) Portland Concentrated Employment Program Title: New Careers Project Director Project Limit: Employment Guaranteed only through August 31, 1969 Salary: $900 to $1,050 per month limited to 20% above current salary Title: Career Development Specialist Project Limits: Employment guaranteed only through August 31, 1969 Title: Curriculum Specialist, New Careers Project Limit: Employment guaranteed only through August 31, 1969 Salary: $700 to $800 limited to 20% above current sal– ary Title: Project Secretary Project Limits: Employment guaranteed only to August 31, 1969 Salary: $5,356.00 annually T itle: Secretary (Continued on Page 9)