Page 2— Vernonia Freedom
Thursday, February 21,1980
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Public Forum Page
Mow Hear This
The "Exxon War"
by G. G. Connely
I get a gnawing sensation in the pit of
my stomach every time I hear the
commercial on T V by Rosalynn Carter
planHing for support of the American
people on behalf of the starving and
diseased Cambodians. I most certainly
have compassion in my heart for starving
sick children and adults but, for once I
would like to hear from someone near the
status of Mrs. Carter, come up with a
commercial asking for the American
peoples support of money and food for the
thousands and thousands of those, who
live here in the United States of America,
starving and dying with disease every
minute of every day. A s I have said
before, un til the bureaucrats in
Washington decide that we cannot feed
the whole world nor, be the worlds
bredbasket we are in trouble.
Jimmy Carter’s profession of being
bom again has rubbed off on several
people in the recent past, including a
congressman from Illinois, who, by the
w ay is s till a candidate for t h e •
Presidency, as well as some of those who
were caught up in the Watergate scandal.
It has been said that the President prays
daily for our country and its people. I’m a
firm believer in prayer and I am glad that
our President thinks about us in our great
time of need. I wonder if Chicago’s Mayor
Jane Byrne is on the President’s prayer
list? She needs all the help she can get.
Mayor Rym e undoubtly dreams of that
Hell fire we hear so much about these
days, with the Chicago fire department
out on strike and all.
I often wonder ju st how long it will
take for the bureaucrats in Washington to
come to the conclusion that Russia cannot
be trusted . . . in anything? One reason
that SA L T II has not been ratified by the
, U.S. is because we know they, the
R ussian, w ill not live up to their
commitment. What ever dealings that
we might have in the future, with the
So viet Union, w ill be to no one’s
advantage but theirs.
It seems strange to me, that when we
have foreign dignitaries visitin g the
United States they are never taken into
the ghettos of our b ig cities but, rather to
the plush sections, where they are wined
and dined at the tax-payers expense.
These visiting foreign dignitaries, in my
opinion, should also visit our ghettos and
see th a t we have thousands and
thousands of poor, under fed, starving,
diseased men, women and children the
same as they have. The foreigners come
over here for a hand-out for their
starving people while, we have no where
else to go but down. Instead of our
government helping their own people,
they finance foreign countries to support
theirs. However, during an election year,
a few dollars are doled out for the needy,
unemployed, and food stamps and, of
course, we do not want to forget higher
interest rates.
I beleive honestly, that the only way
this country will every be’able to survive
in this crazy world, is that the voter must
come out of their shells and start taking a
good hard'look at the facts and tell our
President and the members of Congress,
that we want better representation for our
tax dollars, instead of pork barrelling
agencies that have no effect on our
economy, especially the space program.
I am against any type of conscription
and registration, for a military draft, of
either men or women, in peace time. In the
case of an emergency, such as WW II, we
were of a diffemt knowledge of what we.
were fighting for. During the Korean and
Vietnam police actions, our military
forces in the fieldcame to the conclusion
that they were fighting for the interest of
big business and, they were right. If we
engage the Russians in the Persian Gulf,
the same thing happens all over again.
So, those who are coming of draft age will
just have to use their own judgement to
decide whether or not to register for a
draft or not.
Three neighborhood reporters fo r you to call!!!
Please call in birth s, marriages, significant travels or visitors, the kids
away from home etc. or any significant event in your neighborhood.
Julie Smith
w ill report for
Timber Rt. including Timber
Rt.,
47.
Let
Treharne, and highway
her
know
happenings
of
in
the
your
neighborhood, call 4 2 9 -1 8 6 1
anytime.
DOT YADON w ill be reporting
fo r
Pebble
Creek
and
Riverview. Call her a t 429-
5312
WEBBER w ill report fo r
Capitol and Cory Hills. You can
get a message to Dixie to call
you back by calling AOL Radio
C o n tro l
4 2 9 -4 6 7 1
Dixie will have her own phone
soon.
Left top; B etty Roberts, Appeals Court Justice, talks with David Crawford; top right,
Hal Everson, Director of State Elderly Affairs, speaks with Dwayne Samples; bottom
left, Robert Thuemmel, Portland attorney listens to discussion and bottom right, Kip
Lombard, State Representative eats lunch with prisoners in mess hall.
From Behind the Wells
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by Larry Baker, OSP Coorespondent
The question, m ost asked of this
coorespondent this week was “ Why isn’t
the mood inside the Oregon S tate
Penitentiary the same tension as New
Mexico?”
My response was because bur-doors are
always open for the people in our state to
walk in and inspect merely by a phone call
to H.C. Cupp, superintendent at this
prison. But more than that, we must give
credit to his staff, administration and for
the training they are receiving. Greg Morton,
O.S.P. Training Officer on how to respect a
prisoner’s rights and treat them as human
beings. When an institution has nothing to
hide then that institution has nothing to
fear.
The Oregon State Penitentiary hopefully
will never have to be a New Mexico, and at
the pace it is going it will never be. Cupp
has established a volunteer program
behind his prison walls that would match
any prison in the nation. Volunteers flood
his vocational training and education
department under the guidance of Charles
Keaton, Education Program Manager.
Volunteers education inmates in the
academic and vocational trades. D.A.
Verstrceh, Activities Manager skillfully
encourages volunteers to become
acquainted with the inmate governed dubs
and sport activities. Cupp relies on the
wisdom of Harold Whitley, his chief of
security officer to keep his correctional
officers sharp and open minded to the
prison’s population and its problems.
Thomas Burt might only operate a type
writer through the day as a correctional
officer, but he is just as capable of making
the right decisions in case of a prison up
rising.
Who knows? Maybe these are just some
of the reasons the Oregon State
Penitentiary is not a New Mexico hell-hole.
Volunteers from all over the state come
to the Oregon State Penitentiary, even
from Vernonia, St. Helens, Scappoose and
Astoria, people from all levels in life.
Behind the walls will be exposing many of
the defeated individuals in following
issues. People make a prison, prison
doesn’t make people.
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