Erotic writer offers
individual fantasies
BELLINGHAM, Wash.
(AP) — Custom-tailored ero
tic fantasies, written to your
specifications, money-back
guarantee
A 30-year-old free-lance
writer who uses the
pseudonym 'Jenny" offers
that tor $20 per story
She says she turns to pen
ning "erotica" when regular
free-lance business falls off
Many customers "want me
to write my fantasies," she
says Others want a graphic
account of her real-life sex
ual experiences, or fictional
pieces involving a "sexual
kind of party” with two or
more couples
"They don't want straight
sex, but they're not really off
the wall," she says of her
customers, eight so far from
the Bellingham area
Jenny says she started
producing custom erotica in
1979 when she lived in Vir
ginia, borrowing the idea
from an article she read
about a Boston woman who
offered a similar service
Her first mistake, she
decided, was setting her
rates too low
While she started out
charging a $5 initial fee fol
lowed by $10 per erotic story,
she said she still made $300
her first month
While some might call her
work pornography, Jenny
doesn't see it that way
"There are certain things
I'm not willing to write
about," she says "I really
believe fantasy is a really OK
thing and that anything in
fantasy is fine
"But it doesn't work, for
me. to write about real in
tense violence or child por
nography."
She recalls only a couple
of requests for such off-limits
topics
Prospective customers re
plying by mail to her clas
sified ad, which reads: “Sen
suous woman writer, writes
gratifying fantasies What
would you like? Write Jenny,
P O Box ” receive a
cover letter spelling out her
prices and her restrictions
Many don't reply after that,
she says Some really want a
date and she has a strict
policy against meeting
clients in person
She did once agree to an
erotic telephone interview
with a man who requested it
"I debated about it and
debated about it, ’' she says
When the client agreed to a
higher fee, she did it
Jenny says she has never
written pornography to sell to
an x-rated publisher, prefer
ring the personal approach
She says she offers a
harmless outlet for her cus
tomers, only one of whom
has been female Besides,
she says, "It's a nice easy
way to make money — I
shouldn't say it's totally
easy I have to work at it
Jenny says she worries at
times that “maybe I'd get so
involved in this, writing about
different sex acts would be
so routine for me. that I'd
lose the magic of it myself “
So far, she says, that hasn't
happened
Why would a customer pay
$20 for one story when he
could purchase several
erotic magazines for that
amount?
"This is an individual
woman writing them a tailor
made story, exactly as they
want it,” she says "Or else
she's revealing to them
truths about her own past I
think that would be very tan
talizing."
Last locomotives lug logs
BEATTY (AP) — Paul Bunyan
used Babe the Blue Ox, most
timber companies now rely on
trucks, but some firms still haul
logs out of the backwoods of the
Pacific Northwest by train.
Near this Southern Oregon
town, about 50 miles northeast
of Klamath Falls, a 42-mile
stretch of railroad is a working
symbol of logging trains that
criss-crossed the timber lands
of Oregon and Washington
Trucks have replaced trains
as the most economical method
to get a log from its stump to the
mill But a woods train near
here, owned by Weyerhaeuser
Company, remains a justifiable
expense
"I think that many people
have discovered after they tore
out their railroads that they
made a mistake,” says Finley
Hays, editor of a newspaper for
loggers in Chehalis, Wash
Only a half-dozen other log
ging railroads still are running in
the two states
The train hooks up just east of
here with a common carrier
railroad, the Oregon, California
and Eastern, acquired by
Weyerhaeuser in 1975, that
carries the logs another 50
miles to the west
The combination provides the
massive wood products com
pany with a direct line from the
back woods of Klamath County
to the company's sprawling
complex in Klamath Falls
The woods train, owned by
Weyerhaeuser since 1938,
makes a small concession to
modern methods Huge trucks
carry their loads from nearby
logging sites and the train rarely
stops anymore where the trees
are toppled
The oversized trucks are too
wide and heavy for public roads,
but roam logging roads to three
sites where their 45-ton loads
are transferred to the railroad
Glenn Fleet, 29, of Beatty,
handles the controls in the
woods train locomotive as Tom
Titus, the trainmaster, surveys a
loading operation.
Fleet s promotion to engineer
three years ago came after a
humble beginning as a main
tenance worker on the railroad
“I used to be pounding rails.''
The train can carry as many
as 85 cars crammed with logs as
it snakes through isolated
woods and the Sycan Marsh,
where coyotes sometimes howl
at night.
Fleet is one of four employees
who work on the woods train,
with six diesel-electric locomo
tives at their command Four
other 30-year-old locomotives
sit unused and for sale at the
Sycan shop
The railroad cars themselves
can handle more than 16 mas
sive logs each, or between
14-16 cunits or 1,600 cubic feet
of timber Standard-sized log
trucks that rumble on public
roads handle less than half that
load.
There are other woods trains
left, including one near Spring
field, two others near Chehalis
and Shelton, Wash., and a line
near Mount St. Helens that was
damaged by the volcano’s mas
sive eruption in May 1980
Protein may heal bone ills
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists around the
world are racing to unravel a rare natural sub
stance. which, a pioneering scientist says, may
revolutionize treatment of a rogue's gallery of
bone diseases, defects and damage.
One of the newest and most interesting
developments (in bone research) is the discovery
of bone morphogenetic protein," says Dr. Mar
shall Urist, who heads UCLA's bone research
laboratory. ‘ BMP is the breakthrough that is
bound to bring about important applications.”
Urist, whose lab discovered the protein and
reported just three years ago that it could be
isolated from bone, said in an interview, "BMP is,
at least theoretically, the active ingredient in bone
renewal — in bone regeneration for healing frac
tures and in bone grafts."
The team also includes Gerald Finerman and
Robert DeLange of the University of California at
Los Angeles and Paul Price of the University of
California-San Diego
The protein, if it lives up to its potential and
becomes available in usable amounts, could
prove invaluable in stimulating new growth to
rebuild bones shattered by accident or left unfin
ished or misshapen by birth defects.
An assortment of diseases that damage bone
or reduce its healing power might be diagnosed
and treated more effectively. Even the age-related
brittleness and healing problems that make bro
ken hips common and often devastate the elderly
might someday be eased with the substance
But before the promise can be fulfilled, or
even confirmed through a long process of labor
atory, animal and finally human tests, scientists
must characterize the protein.
A biochemist at another university cautioned,
"The final outcome with respect to clinical im
portance, will have to await its characterization.”
He added, however, "Urist has absolutely
been a major force in this area of research.”
Once the protein is unraveled, Urist said,
genetic engineers should be able to build an
artificial version of the gene that produces BMP
and splice it into bacteria, which would become
tiny factories for producing the protein.
MEETINGS
The Japanese Bible Study meets every Saturday at 4
P m at 735 E 17th Ave Apt 36 Any Japanese speaking
person is welcome For more information, call 687-8684
Campus Crusade tor Christ s weekly meeting gets
underway today at 6 31 p m at the Newman Center
corner of 18th Avenue and Emerald Street featuring
Christian fellowship singing teaching and lots more
The Student University Affairs Board will meet today at
3 30pm in Room 37 EMU to approve IFC appointment
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship will hold their
meeting today at 7 15 p m at the Wesley Center Guest
speaker Bruce Erickson will talk about Campus Evan
gelism
The International Christian Fellowship will meet today
at 7 30 p m at 1332 Kincaid St for a Bible study led by Or
tong
A women's support group will meet today at noon in
Century Room F EMU Drop-ins are welcome Spon
sored by Women s Referral and Resource Service For
more information call 686-3327
SPEAKERS
C. WHired Griggs, an associate professor of ancient
scripture, history and classics at Brigham Young
University, will be speaking at a luncheon-forum today at
12:30 pm at the IDS Institute of Religion, 768 E 16th
Ave A light lunch will be provided for a small fee The
public is invited Sponsored by the Latter-day Saints
Student Association
FILMS
"Image Before My Eyes," a documentary film about
life in Jewish Poland before World War II, will be shown
Saturday at 8 p m at Temple Beth Israel, 2550 Portland
St Admission is free
MISCELLANEOUS
One Way Ministries Bible study and Christian fellow
ship tonight at 8 in the EMU Forum Pastor Dan Johnson
will lead study All are invited
The University Gay Peoples Alliance will be holding
the first Backdoor Coffeehouse this Saturday from 7
pm to midnight at 1414 Kincaid St Stop by for a relaxing
evening of coffee and good company Play a game of
chess, cards, pente Your choice For more informa
tion stop by the Gay Peoples Alliance, Suite 318, EMU, or
call us at 686-3360
The Northwest National Security Conference needs
volunteers for a variety of different tasks If you are
willing to help contact Dave Isenberg or Bev Shoopman
at the ASUO, Suite 4, EMU, or call 686-3724
The United Methodist Campus Minister, Alice Knotts,
will be present in the Carson Hall Dining Room today
from 11am to 1 p m for all who would like to join her for
lunch and conservation
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