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Thursday. June 24. 1976
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Onus on accused
The taw is nearly identical to the 1959
Prisons A ct which made it a crime in
South Africa to publish photos or “false
information" of prisons or prisoners. In
each case, the onus is on the accused to
prove that "reasonable steps" were taken
to verify the information. One mistate-
ment can lead to conviction and a one-
year jail sentence.
Since passage of the Prisons Act, South
African papers and magazines have pub
lished little about prison conditions.
But major newspapers have spoken
out strongly against the new censorship
bill.
According to an editorial in the Rand
Daily Mail. "Sealing off mental institu
tions -- because that is what it means --
merely shows that there is something to
hide."
The Cape Times joined the criticism:
"The new bill appears to be another
move to clothe the doings of officialdom
in secrecy . . . Where will it stop?”
The scandal was sparked by reports
in the Johannesburg Sunday Times that
shareholders in Smith Mitchell were
reaping huge profits from the shabby
institutions. The article likened the pri
vate asylums to'"A South African ver
sion of the Dickensian workhouse, an
uncomfortable reminder of the bad days
in Bedlam . . . "
It quoted a retired mental health
commissioner who described the hospi
tals as “human w arehouses rendering
only custodial care."
The scandal peaked in January with
the publication of photographs of patients
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Thomas R. Vickers, Most Worshipful
Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand
Lodge of Oregon and Its Jurisdiction, has
called the Grand Lodge into its Sixteenth
Annual Communication on Monday, June
28th at 9:00 a.m. at The Town Hall, 3425
N. Montana Avenue.
Also meeting is the Fifteenth Annual
Communication of the Grand Chapter of
Oregon. Order of Eastern Star.
Events to which the public is invited
are: the Annual Promenade, Town Hall
Ball Room, June 26th from 10:00 p.m.
until 2:00 a.m.
Thanksgiving Serivces, Bethel A.M.E.
Church, 5828 N.E. 8th Avenue, Sunday,
June 27th at 11:00 a.m.
Annual Banquet, Town Hall. June 28th
at 7:00 p.m. Senator George Fleming
from the State of Washington is quest
speaker.
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Charles Czarnecki is
an experienced man
behind the wheel He
was a private chauf
feur before he started
driving buses. And his
10 year Safe Driving
Award proves he's a
professional.
Chuck has been
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development of Washington Square, nis con
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Patton hosts
program
c e iv e d by WHO or th e Red C ro ss.
"We phoned the office of the President of
the International Red Cross in Geneva
eleven days after Mr. Van Der Merwe
made known his invitations." Portland
Church spokesman, Steve Tiger, explain
ed. “The Secretary to the President,
Madame Cellerier, told us that no such
invitation has been received. We then
telexed the International Headquarters
of WHO. also in Geneva, and in a telexed
reply were told that Dr. Mahler as well
had received no invitation."
The existence of the privately owned
"mental" camps first came to light on
August 9, 1970, when a Church of
Scientology researcher stopped at the
Rand West Sanatorium to ask directions
to get to Johannesburg. He discovered
that he had stumbled upon one of a
network of mental institutions owned by
Smith Mitchell and Company.
Among the dominating figures of the
company is David Tabatznik, a multi
millionaire of Polish origin. Tabatznik is
president of the Board of Protea, a
public international corporation. He also
governs the Smith Mitchell network.
According to the article published in
Dagens Nyheter the biggest share hold
er in Protea is the Standard Bank of
South Africa, which is largely control
led by the Rockefeller owned Chase
Manhattan Bank in New York.
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and interviews with hospital staff mem
bers in the monthly journal Peace and
Freedom, published bv the Church of
Scientology. .
The journal reported that the gov
Le Roy Patton, advisory specialist in
ernment pays Smith Mitchell a fee of
2.50 rands per patient a day for whites Area II of the Portland Public Schools,
and one rand for Blacks - about half the will be the new host of "People Perspec
cost of maintaining patients in state- tive", the interview program with Port
Ians area Black citizens, aired on KBPS
owned institutions.
The Health Ministry promised in a every Friday evening at 7:00 p.m.
On July 2. Patton will interview Mrs.
recent report to Parliment to undertake
Osley Gates and Mrs. Zack Ph.llips, rep
new construction of state owned institu
tions. But Health Minister Dr. Schalk resentatives of the Afro-American Heri
van der Merwe conceded it will take up tage' Quilt Committee. Mrs. Gates and
to 15 years to "clear the backlog." Mrs. Phillips discuss the Aro-American
Meanwhile, Smith Mitchell plans to erect Heritage Exhibit on display at the Ore
two more private hospitals for another gon Historical Society from the 1st of
July thorugh September 30th.
2.400 African patients.
Under the new law, South Africans
won't learn much more about the mental
health crisis.
The Rockefeller connection
In a television interview last week
the South African Minister of Health,
Schalk Van Der Merwe, accused the
Church of Scientology in South Africa of
being the motivating force behind the in
ternational expose and vehemently de
nied the existence of the camps. Van Der
Merwe publically extended an invitation
to the World Health Organization and
the International Red Cross to investi
gate psychiatric facilities in South Africa.
It now appears that the investigation will
not be permitted after all. “I think this
invitation was absolutely necessary,"
sta te d Van D er M erw e. “ It w as
necessary for the image of psychiatric
services in South Africa and in particu
lar for the image of the Department of
Health, because we have been accused
of keeping labor camps for Black pa
tien ts - Black psychiatric p atients in
South Africa - and this is absolutely
false. I therefore invite the Director
General and the World Health Organi
zation, Dr. Mahler, to personally and with
any other person that he may decide on to
accompany him, or as an alternative, the
International Red Cross Organization, to
come and personally investigate the con
ditions of psychiatric treatment in South
Africa."
Officials of the Church have charged
that Van Der Merwe's invitations were
intended solely for the press and public.
They say that no invitations were re
and
to South Africa
Racial bedlam in South Africa
(Coot from page 1 col. 3)
asylums because the state lacked funds
for new state hospitals.
“These allegations that we are acting
improperly to save money, or that mil
lions of rands (South African monetary
unit about equal to the dollar) are being
made out of madness. . . well, that's
nonsense," Gilliland said.
“We've got nothing to hide," he added.
The censorship bill was approved two
weeks after the interview , with G illi
land's support
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