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Area Volunteers Help The Salt Lake Tribune -- - - Sundav,: February 12, 14 A3 Teach Language, Filming By David Johnson Los Angeles Times Writer At aging and LOS ANGELES overcrowded Rosemont Avenue w here 1.200 students speak 18 languages, Felipe Carlos, 6, is struggling to learn English His teacher, Suzy runs a quiet and orderly classroom, but she has 23 first-an- d -graders to educate, and most of them speak limited English On Thursday morning, though, Felipe and his classmates often get tutoring from Wally Baker to polish their language skills Baker, 34, is a gas company conservation representative who soends 39 hours of the company's time each w eek advising people how to cut their gas bills by ustalling shower insulation and heads Then Baker devotes two one on his own time hours a week and one on the gas company's helping Rosemont students learn basic skills that will influence their success both m school and as adults Baker is one of hundreds of people who volunteer their talents te the Los Angeles Unified School District with the support of their employers School just west of downtown, second- low-flo- through the district's Adopt-A-Scho- Nearly 220 corposervice organizarations, tions and other employers have adopted schools in the city, providing them with volunteers who rnn organize field trips, counsel students and perform al- program non-prof- it mini-course- s, most any other task the schools need and the volunteers can meet Dodgers Teach Students The Los Angeles Dodgers teach students at Solano Avenue School near Chavez Ravine how a major from mainsports business runs taining the playing field to group ticket sales to how pitcher Fernando Valenzuela grips baseballs The Medical Center of Tarzana. in the suburban San Fernando Valley, a hospital owned by American Medical International, teaches lab science and nutrition to youngsters at an elementary school Before it went up for sale, Francis Ford Coppolas Zoetrope Studios in Hollywood ran an extensive apprenticeship program for Bancroft Junior High across the street in which the students learned, in teams, about writing, directing, cinematography d skills and other Southern California Gas Co workers have brought m trucks, bachhoes and cherry pickers to show Rosemont students how tools work On one recent Saturday morning, Baker and six painted the school library, the teachers' lounge and a storage room sky blue, applying fresh paint for the first time in nearly 20 years, principal Lu Hish-mesaid Major Theme of Reagan The Los Angeles program is indicative of several significant trends in volunteerism, the promotion of which was a major cause of liberal groups in the 60s and now is a major theme of the Reagan administration For many years, volunteering was lagely the province of middle-clas- s housew ives, but surveys m recent years have found that men are increasingly volunteering through formal programs such as profit-makin- g film-relate- h Adopt-A-Scho- Adopt-A-Schoo- l. There also is a growing movement toward volunteering help to government agencies, such as public schools, in addition to the private, organizations that tradihave depended on volunteer tionally non-prof- it help. And growing numbers of employ- ers are encouraging their workers to be volunteers and are allowing the work place to be the focus of volunteer organizing efforts. The Los Angeles program had its beginnings in 1972 in an effort by the University of Southern California to build better relations with the surrounding neighborhood USCs Joint Education Project has involved 18,000 students as volunteers, most of them earning course credits, at s eight public schools, two centers and two health clinics. senior-citi-zen- Schools Help InDcr-Cit- y The concept I started out with was to help inner city schools, which I see as less than equal even though there is extra federal money for most schools in economically disad- Barbara Bathgate, above, and Marcia Secord help paint school as part of program. Adopt-A-Scho- ol vantaged neighborhoods, said Barbara Gardner, who started the USC program "My youngest kid went to South Shores School in San Pedro, which had less money to educate her than schools, but with monin inner-cit- y ey alone you cant equalize . .My daughter had a lot of stuff schools can t give you like wonderful role models to read her stories and teat h jazz dancing and take her on trips the stuff that makes you a successful student My boys got to sail boats in San Pedro harbor In 1978, Gardner approached Atlantic Richfield about starting a similar program for inner-cit- y schools Today four schools get regular help from Arco volunteers The Los Angeles Herald Examiner also has adopted Berendo Junior High Arcos involvement, by far the most intensive in the district, includes granting emplovees from clerk-tjpist- s to middle managers two hours of paid time each week to volunteer, along with bus fare or use of a company car to travel to the adopted schools Skills They Can Use One of Arcos philosophies has been to teach people skills they can use to help themselves, according to Caran Neal, the Arco project coordi- nator Neal tries to match 55 Arco volunteers to the needs of teachers at 10th Street School m the area, one of the poorest in the city. The school s main building was finished in 1880 The school is crammed into one small city block that was designed as a learning center for 300 children but now serves six times that many, all but a handful of them Spanish-speakin- g Many are refugees from violence and poverty m Central America Neal has helped coordinate nuefmerous community-bettermen- t forts, including cleaning of trash from nearby streets, painting rundown buildings that face the school, planting a community garden and arranging for one woman to learn exercise skills so she could teach them to other women Neal, a paid consultant to Arco, also arranged for periodic gynecological examinations and instrucfor tions in breast women in the neighborhood until budget cuts forced the USC omen's Hospital and the Cancer Education Program for Women at Martin Luther King Jr Hospital to end their free outreach services Stress Involvement William J Johnston, the former Los Angeles school district supenn-icnden- t Pico-Unio- n who now is a executive, said, "The philosophy when we started was to have involvement . To this day, we never have defined involvement as requiring a monetary contribution Johnston, and others, have encountered both cynicism and a belief that the problems of public education in Los Angeles are just too big for volunteers No one can lay a handle on it or see any results, so the argument goes The funds just seem to disappear and the amounts needed are so large But were focusing on specific problems Arco says, lets paint the buildings around a school. California Federal Savings says, let s work on security at a school and Southern California Gas says, let's help tutor kids at another school. This isn't giving to charity in a general way, but a very directed way And it personalizes the objectives and the goals while communicating the schools problems in a very real, tangible and believable way, Johnston said public-affair- s Study Shows Anethesias Oblivion Not Total New York Times Service NEW YORK The banter of the operating room may have to be toned down, if new research on unconscious awareness in patients under total anesthesia is borne out Surgeons have taken their patients' oblivion as license for talking as though the patient were not there even racking remarks that patients would find frightening if they heard. But two research groups report that w hat anesthetized patients hear can affect them "What the patient hears say, a could remark like. He's a goner' conceivably have an adverse effect on his recovery, says Henry Bennett, one of the researchers In one study, anesthetized patients heard a taped voice tell them during surgery they should signify having heard the message by touching their ears m a postoperative interview. Later, in the interview, the patients tugged at their ears, although none could recall having heard the message, nor were they particularly aware of touching their ears Dr Bennett, a psychologist now at the University of California Medical School at Davis, reports that when patients were given the suggestion during surgery that one hand was becoming warmer and the other cooler, the hands' temperature did so This suggests, says Bennct, inadvertent negative remarks such as, Holy Moses, this is a terrible bone could interfere with recovgraft ery Under anesthesia. "Patients may be more vulnerable to upsetting remarks they might hear, Bennett says Their normal coping techniques aren t available, since they are drugged Other research involving patients undergoing back surgery suggests possible beneficial applications Assoc toed Prev Photo Izzy Yanay bolds Muscovy male duck at farm be runs in Mongaup Valley, N.Y. The Catskills Farm Raising Ducks With Gourmet-Size- d Livers By Mary Esch Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES How many propellers have I made and repaired9 Art Frilzen, 76, repeated the question and thought for a moment. Enough to fill this building at least half a dozen limes with sawdust and shavings from the wood props alone " Fntzen has beon a prop man for 60 years, ever since he rebuilt a propeller for his Jenny in 1923 when he was 16 years old California Fntzen Propeller Co is the name of his outfit, and he once had as many as a dozen people working for him In recent years, however, Fritzcn has been content to run a shop The walls of California Fritzen are filled floor to ceiling with photos of airplanes from the 1920s to the '80s, all equipped with Fritzens handcrafted props e Photos of pilots l.ke Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, close friends of the veteran prop maker, also decorate the building ILs shop is filled w it h prop liirs from classic planes brought or sent to him from pilots fmm across the United States He makes and n pairs wood props and metal props. one-ma- old-tim- i sauteed foie gras in truffle sauce. He has compared the product from Sullivan County to the best foie gras of - In MONGAUP VALLEY, N Y long, white buildings behind chain-lin- k France French foie gras, however, cannot be shipped fresh to America because of laws against importing raw meat Lntil now, American chefs could onlv get foie gras in tins, at prices up to $10 an ounce, precooked and often fences festooned with "Keep Out1 signs, thousands of ducks patter around the sawdust floors of big, airy pens These aren't your ordinary ducks, as one senses from all the warning signs threatening intruders with prosecution These ducks, which are artificially inseminated, carefully coaxed from their eggs and nurtured to robust maturity by waterfowl experts imported from Israel, produce gourmet-prized livers that sell for nearly $50 apiece Rubin Josephs, a citizen of Israel and the United States, and his son Howard, are investors They formed Commonwealth Enterprises Inc. and bought this former chicken farm m the Catskills for $1 million two years ago, with the intention of raising moulard ducks, a cross between the Pekin and the Argentinian Muscovy They now raise the only moulards in the United States The farm, outfitted with about $1 million worth of equipment, started marketing moulard meat and foie liver last Ocbuttcry-ricgras tober, according to Howard Josephs The response from French chefs across the country, who never before could get fresh foie gras m Amcnca, has been enthusiastic Andre Soltncr, chef and proprietor Of Lutece retaurant in New York City, prepares a $25 entree of black-and-whit- e with various additives For the uninitiated, foie gras is not chopped chicken liver The moulard liver is pale beige, about the size of a grapefruit. The taste is deli-ratlike unsalted pistachios, the texture silky and buttery There is no resemblance to beef or chicken liver The finest livers are sauteed with mushrooms, wrapped in a cabbage f leaf, or served in a salad of lettuce Those marred by bruises liver spreads are used for pates Milton Rocgner of Sealion Seafood Corp. in Eldred, N Y , is developing the market for the Josephses He says the prime liver sells for $45 a pound at the Caviarteria in Manhattan, and $49 95 at Karl Ehmer Quality Meats in White Plains. N Y. Rocgner says he also sells to restaurants in Boston, Atlanta, Washington. DC.. Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Toronto Anyone can order the foie gras direct from Sealion, and have it delivered air freight on ice the next day It took a few years to get the proper birds for the parent stock to make the moulard. says Josephs 'They started to produce them in France a long time ago." says Izzy e, red-lea- n ' I Propeller Maker Has Perfect Item For Your Boat , Airplane or Movie By Charles Hillmgcr Los Angeles Times Writer big livers of these special ducks are used for foie gras and sell for nearly $50 each. , yf j L 1 half-centur- X kyo He is currently makirg half a dozen eight bladod wind machines for the film industry Fntzen was approached not long ago to build a wmd propeller I knew it would never work on the stand they had for it and I told them so he re- t jt 4 5 " Hr: :? ' ;f t ir rl 7 f q -- I 1 : t v 4 165-fo- . called The company that wanted me to budd the prop laughed at me when I turned them down " He reached into a drawer and polled out a copy of a new sp.a per wrh a photo of the bp propeller on jt stand Then he pichod up a copy published a few days later The propeller had collapsed You know who hid the last laugh." he said X r, t - ' L ; ie T b P vto Art Fntzen displays an propeller he made for the mot ie industry. He has been a prop man for 60 j ears. eight-blade- s bearded, muscular, Yanay dressed in olive-dra- b parka and rubber boots is the key to the success of the farm It is Yanay who developed methods of insemination and A normal duck egg, you could hatch in your pocket," he says But the moulard egg needs special conditions I change the temperature and humidity m the incubator racks every few days At the crucial time when the farm was just starting, Yanay was called into the Israeli army We had all these baby ducks running around with no father, says Josephs But the government didn't care. Now Yanay has a special visa to We stay in the United States proved to immigration that no one else can do what he docs, says Josephs The farm has a slaughtering and packing house, where about 2f0 birds, weighing about 10 pounds each, are butchered and dressed by hand each day The farm employs 56 people, with a weekly payroll of about $10,000 It has about 50 0O0 ducks We ve spent a lot of money developing the market, and we haven't turned a profit yet, says Prxgner 'But when we take it to a French chef and sav, look what were in the Catskills, they say fantastic ' They say it s as gfx-i- or better anyth. rg they've gotten m g 1 1 props for airplanes and boats, for movie wind machines, wind-powgenerators, wind tunnels, orchard wind machines, for aerospace companies the military and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Fntzen is licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration He is one of only a handful cf craftsmen still building wooden airplane propellers y Many airplanes in films over the last have been outfitted with propellers handcrafted by Fritzen His work, for example, includes replicas of the' Wright Brothers' biplane that flew at KiUy Hawk, N C , and the for the film 20 Seconds Over To- Israeli who Yanay, a runs the breeding operation They let the ducks run around the farmyard, all kinds of ducks. In spring, they are mating all over, Pekin with Pekin, Muscovy with Muscovy The Pekin male is very small and cute and delicate, he goes to the Muscovy and what comes and she likes him out is a moulard The French like it and start to produce it on purpose In Israel," says Yanay, we tried something different The French moulard is too small So we took the Muscovy male, who is very big, with large breast, strong legs, and mated him with the Pekin female The only problem is, the Pekin female is too big, the Muscovy can't inseminate her. says Yanay So we had to come up with a way to do it artificially It was never done before in waterfowl, but we came up with a way It is top secret The moulard, says Yanay, has the somewhat taste of a Muscovy the Pekin, like not but greasy gamy, the common duck raised for meat in the United States "Because it is a crossbreed, it has hybrid vigor, says Yanay. Cold or heat doesn't affect it It doesn't get diseases like geese. And it has a big liver six times the size of a normal duck liver Josephs says his farm does not force-feeand no hormones ere used to fatten the birds The ducks "a secret cat green food pellets from narrow-troughrecipe, mostly com pro-duei- France " r Jt |
