Oregon Advance Times_1968-03-07

Page 4 The Oregon Advance/TIMES February 8, 1968 Library Has Self-Help Boolcs Math, Grammar, Vocabulary Do you want to increase your vocabulary, improve your grammar, or brush up on the multiplication tables? Do you feel that you need Revival Meeting Open March 10 Rev. Charles WIiiiams Revival meetings will be conducted by the Rev. Charles Williams at the Emanuel Free Methodist Church, N. Ivy and Gantenbein March 10 through March 17 at 7:30 p.m. Slide films of Africa, England and the Caribbean will be featured at the meetings which are open to all persons. A newcomer to Portland, the Rev. Mr. Williams from Pittsburgh, Pa., has travel– led extensively as an evan– gelist. He is interested in establishing a branch of the National Negro Evangelical Association. practice using basic math skills or that your spelling needs improvement? If so, don't be ashamed of it. We all lose skills if we don't use them, The impor– tant thing is that you can do something about it if you want to. Many books are available to help you at your local branch library. If mathe– matics is your problem, you will find "Mathematics Sim– plified and Self-Taught" very helpful. It includes basic information on fractions, dec– imals, percentages and al– gebra and gives many exer– cises that you can use in practicing. Answers to the exercises are provided. Another helpful book is Albert Klaf's "Arithmetic Refresher for Practical Men." Its coverage of addi– tion, subtraction, multiplica– tion and division is presented in a simple question and answer method, If language is your prob– lem, ask for "Vocabulary, Spelling and Grammar." It provides basic instruction and many practice sections designed to help you increase your vocabulary and improve your grammar and spelling. Norman Lewis' "Thirty Days to Better English" is arranged in daily lessons and can be used to improve all of your language skills in only 30 minutes a day. Ask for these and other helpful books at the Albina Branch Library, 3630N, Van– couver, Community Worker Job Open For low-Income Applicants A job opening for a parent– child community worker is reported by the Portland Metropolitan Steering Com– mittee. Both men and women are eligible if they are within the low-income designation, live within the target area, are receiving welfare as– sistance and can read and write the required reports, The pay will be between $4,200 and $5,400 a year. The work will be to be the link between families to be served and the service agencies, The successful ap– plicant will have a three– month training period in the program of working with the Child Development Worker in assisting in stimulating very Alameda Theatre 3000 N.E. Alberta 284-9448 Fri, - Sat.Nite Open 7:00 Sat.-Sun. Matinee open 12:45 .All Color I. Gorgon • 2. Curse of the Mummy's Tomb 3. • Mothra Admission: $1.00 - .1S - .SO young children to their max– imum development, as well as to encourage a feeling of family unity and worth. Those who are interested should apply to the Parent– Child Services, in care of the Metropolitan Steering Committee, 718 W, Burnside St,, Portland 97209. Benson Rotstein is director of plan– ning, After an application is re– ceived, an interview will be arranged. On The Record A song of the San Fran– cisco area, "Dock of The Bay," by the late Otis Red– ding, is No. 1 on the list of records this week, accord– ing to Mel Renfro's House of Sounds. This is the top 15: l, Dock of the Bay ... , ••. Otis Redding 2. Wish it Would Rain Temptations 3. l Thank You • , ••. , .•. Sam & Dave 4. We're A Winner .••.•. Impressions 5. La-La Means I Love You. Delfonics 6. Since You've Been Gone •. Aretha Franklin 7, Men Are Gettin' Scarce .• Joe Tex 8, There Is •• , The Dells 9. End of the Road , .•...• Gladys Knight 10, If You Can Want, ••• , • , Miracles 11. There Was a Time •.•.• James Brown 12. Born Free •. Hesitations 13. I Got the Feelin' ••.•.• James Brown 14. Security • , , Etta Jame::; 15. Dance to the Music • Sly & Stone Family Northwest Children Voting on FavoriteBooks More Nurses Needed Supervisor Directs Staff of 12 During March, children in school and public libraries in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and British Columbia will have a chance to vote for their favorite book from a list of books published three years ago, and chosen for their proven popularity, Locally, there will be bal– loting in Vernon, North Port– land, and Albina branches of the Multnomah County Li– brary, This year, children will place their votes in ballot boxes which will be in the shape of an Indian potlatch house, This will help em– phasize the Pacific North– west Library Association origin ,(Jf-rhe award given, and should make the voting more fun as well, All children in the area are urged to vote for their favor– ite book for this year's Young Reader's Choice Award when they stop in at the library for books, The votes in all the participating states and Brit– ish Columbia will be counted in April and the winner w111 be announced at that time, Last year's award went to Ian Fleming's only juvenile title, ''Chiny-chitty-bang– bang," the story of a magical car, This year's official bal– lot contains the following books: "The Black Cauldron". by Lloyd Alexander, This book is part of a series and in it, Prince Gwydion' s warriors decide that the cauldron that gives a zombie life to the dead warriors on the enemy's side must be destroyed, "Matthew Looney' s Inva– sion Of The Earth" by J e– rome Beatty, Disturbed by moon-shots coming from the earth, some ''moonsters" land in the Florida ever– glades, Matthew Looney runs afoul of security on Cape Kennedy, in the center of an inter– national espionage ring, "Soldier and Me" by David Line, A Hungarian refugee boy overhears a plot to kill another refugee and a ter– rifying chase ensues, "Gentle Ben" by Walt Morey, The original idea for the TV series is an even bet– ter story, in this gripping, believable tale of a boy's re– turned affection for a huge Alaska grizzly bear, "Berries Goodman" by Emily Neville. The humor– ous-sad account by a boy of his family's move to the suburbs, "The Velvet Room" by Zilpha Snyder. Half roman– tic mystery, half realistic, this is the story of a 12- year-old migrant worker girl who is given the key to the library in a deserted house, "Bushbabies" by William Stevenson, When she cannot find the permit needed to take her pet tarsier out of Kenya, the daughter of a former gamewarden leaves the ship to find the African headman · who will return the pet to the game reserve, The ship sails without her, A beauti– fully told account of Kenya as well as a suspenseful one, "The Noonday Friends" by Mary Stolz, Papa is an art– ist and finds regular jobs re– strictive. Mother works, and Franny can have friends only at noon, This is a warm family and school story, "Durango Street" by Frank Bonham, This is the power- ~ ful story of a Negro teen- * ager who moves into Durango Housing project and is under pressure to join a gang, al– though this would mean violation of his parole, Popular in junior high, this is really an older title than most on the ballot. "The Empty Schoolhouse" Mrs. Hazel Warren is one of four public health nursing supervisors in Portland and the only one who is a Negro. She supervises 12 nurses, all assigned to the Albina area working in the schools, in all the OEO programs, stressing communicable di– sease control, maternal and child health and chronic di- Mrs. Hazel Warren 'Play Ball' little league Time Again . If you're years old, wants you. 9 through 12 Little League Boys interested in playing ball can sign up for the Sportsman Little League at Holy Redeemer Schoo 1 March 19, High School March 20 and Eliot School March 21. The hours are 7 to 9 p,m, and boys must bring their birth certifi– cates, "Tryouts will be at Farragut Park March 30, April 4 and April 13, start– ing at 10 a,m.," said Sam– uel Jackson, league presi– dent. "Our first game will be April 27." • Mrs, Hazel Hays, a member of the board, and Dan Hayes, editor of the Advance Times, look over story for news– paper. by Natalie Carlson. The so– cial life of a whole com– munity is threatened when outsiders interfere in the operation of a newly inte– grated parochial school in Louisiana, • DANCING ''The Mouse and the Motor– cycle" by Beverly Cleary, A boy who loves model cars meets a mouse who has been tempted to ride the boy's model motorcycle, With half of a ping-pong ball for a crash helmet, he finds ad– venture. • ENTERTAINMENT • LIVE MUSIC • SOUL FOOD sease and home care. Mrs. Warren is· a gradu– ate of Lewis and Clark Col– lege. She is a graduate of Vancouver, Wash., High School, a member of the last graduation class under that name, The school then took the name Fort Vancouver. She married Johnnie Warren in August, 1958. Mrs, Warren worked for Kaiser Hospital full time and at the same time carried a full load of work for nearly three and a half years at the University of Oregon Medical School. She has just returned from Denver, Col., where she at– tended a 12- week workshop on control and eradication of tuberculosis, She remar ked, ''There are many needs in the area. One of them is the problem of a local clinic and more wel– fa i:·e child conferences. "We need to have more c"mmunity involvement in p, ogram planning, transpor– tation and better dental serv– ice. "Did you know?" she asked, "that most of the people of the poverty pocket areas voted down fluoride and they need it most. Venereal di – sease is rising among our teen.-agers, Unwed mothers are another pmblem in our community and a school has recently been started through the Model School program for seventh through tenth grade rs." .\!rs. Warren continued with, ''We neeu more nurses. We have a ratio of one nu r se to 10,000 residents through – out the city, It should be one to 25 in an area as large as Albina. I certainly would encourage l\egro girls to he .. come nurse s.'' :Mrs. Warren suggested the Seal antic Program for girl <; who are unable to make up their minds about nursing as a caree r , or who need spe cial guidance or tutoring, Gi rls who wish mo re in-– formation about the Seal an . tic Program are ur·ged to call Mr s. Alice Cice rich at the Lniversity of Po r tland, phone 289-5541. "Drop Dead" by Julia Cun– ningham, An orphan boy is placed with a strange man who keeps his dog in a cage and who is building a larger one for,,,? with wall-to-wall soul. "Ghost In The Noonday Sun" by A\bert Fleischman, A pirate who".believes a Nan– tucket boy can see ghosts, kidnaps him to help locate pirate treasure. "North To Freedom" by Ann holm. This prize-win– ning Scandinavian book tells of a boy escaping from prison camp, wandering through Europe hunting for home, "Arm Of The Starfish" by Madeleine L'Engle. A bril– liant high school senior working in marine biology ha:, a chance to work with a famous scientist as a lab as– sistant. He find s hi msdf FLOOR SHOW TUES. thru SUN. MUSIC by THE PASSOVERS SUNDAY IS LADIES' HITE DOOR PRIZES !No Cover)