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Portland Observer Thursday, July 7, iV TI From behind the wall Dale Hetland Russ O Bromski - these two do all the watering of the garden. They also help in the other things. Rick Butter - Helps with all aspects of the garden. Don Roeaeker Ray Middleton - help with complete garden and primarily now in control of taking care of the trees and flower garden which has just been started. I personally extend my thanks to all of these fellows and hope they shall keep up the good work. With the continued support of everyone of us and the staff, we will have one of the best gardens anywhere in the state. by Dan **a Wlfo V Wte OJB-F. On Wednesday, June 22, 1977, M r*. Pat Straub, Barbara Hanneman. George Burrell and Capt. Bob Birr keen, along with a photographer from the Statoamaa Jearaal visited the State Pen aa guests of the Lifers Club. Mrs. Straub was appropriately attired in a gray pantsuit for the occasion. She brought along several comfrey plants to proas at to W .D . Norris who tends the garden. Also Mr. George Burrell brought I A M A S LA V E soma Rosemary plants. Mrs. Straub was wall impressed by the efforts of the Lifers in having a well producing garden which in turn provides fresh produce for the population, while also saving money for the State Pentiten tiary. Also in attendance at Mrs. Straub's tour were staff members, M r. Hoyt C. Cupp, M r. John Keeney, M r. Dudley Janaway and M r. John Newell. Inmates WJD. Norris, Lifers Garden Project Coordinator; Bill O’Hara, Preaidant of Lifers Unlimited; Don Roeaeker. Pro gram Chairman and fallow Lifers who have put a lot of time and money into making this a working project: Dale Hetland, Russ OBromski. Ray Middleton A Rie Butter. Tbeee inmates are the work force that keeps almost three aerea of garden free of wands, plants watered, picked and taken to the kitchen for the population. We all owe a vote of appreciation to Dale and Russ for their hard work and continuing efforts to improve and add to the garden. W e new have IS fruit trees that will and are bearing fruit. Tbeee were by inmate HeRland and i Cupp and donated to the Lifers. To give proper credence for work done I believe it would be nice to let everyone know who does what. WJD. Norris • Rototills, by J< la m a slave. No man I don't mean a Black Man kidnapped from his mother land and forced to pick cotton in the foreign terrifying the fields of Alabama or Georgia. No man, Tm a different kind of slave, a twentieth century slave, my master-tbe chemical substance known as H ER O IN . Whew we-e-e-e when under its influence I am mindless of life around me selfishly thinking only of my own well being. But bow did I a young man of Afro descent of middle class up bringing become exposed to such a fate? (when) Everyone knows that only those helpless souls of the ghetto’s know the evil and oppression of the killer. For isn’t it true that they are the ones that must remain submissive else they entertain the thoughts of freedom? The cry far rehabilitation was raised when and only when the killer H ER O IN crceped into the W H IT E M ID D L E CLASSES C H ILD R E N , only then when it’s implication came to light did the white middle class call far help against the most evil of invaders. fertilizes, stakes plants, picks plants, sprays, plants and takes care of the herb garden. mors willing to level with a doctor We can only suspect that the government's r instead of an authority! There is nothing well laid traps eaught those they wish not but a fact because there remains a very to catch, their blunder opened the door of hard line between the criminal and the fa n dom to those who need it the most • authorities over him. This feet la proven the poor BLACK, BROWN A W H IT E by the dangerous harm that criminals and M A N. officers receive from each other dafly I am now in a state criminal institution T H A N K YOU M ID D L E CLASS..... myself. This is why I can see what is badly needed. Thia is nothing but the Thank you - have you now the development of M E N T A L H E A L TH . opportunity to free yourselves of the Yes, every day I walk around, looking at killer???? away mental disorders and defects in this I institution. Yet what is being done for the criminals? NO THING . This is exactly why such a high percentage of inmates are returning consistently for WHY DOES CRIME CONTINUALLY the same type of crimes. Instead of all GROW IN AMERICA? the sports, body building, etc. lot’s start helping the criminal find a brighter road in life to travel on. We ean surely do this by Claud LampUn, Jr. 2 M M by helping the criminals find T H E M I feel that this is a question that all of SELVES! I can certainly see that by the people in our country should ask their aetioos, many of them are loot. Yes, themselves. Yes, I believe we all should they are going through life guessing try to find out what are the main because they do not know which way perpetuating factors of crime today. We they should go. When when you have need to find the original sources of crime people serving time, don’t just make it a before we can ever try to reduce it. How period of time for negative punishment, ean you ever really stop a dangerous ball let this be the time for positive punish you can’t even see? It's very simply, ment. Let’s help all criminals develop a YOU C A N T I The purpose of this article better style of Ufa. By doing this we ean is to let the people know what needs to be make the former criminal a very con done in order to reduce our ever-boosting structive citizen in our society here in America. NOT A SORRY DEN O U NC ED crime percentage. First of all I feel a major point is being OUTCAST! There is also something else I believe left out by our public authorities who deal with erime. These authorities are our all readers of this article should know. In police officers, judges, state personnel, the executive department of the United etc. The major point that is neglected is States there is g big error being made. that all criminals are human organisms, This is that to much crime by your known as people. They are not animals or eathcritfoe is taking pice to supposedly any other sub-human types. They all catch the criminal. This has been also have the natural senses of any other proven true. Many of the officers have person in our society. When you have resorted to wiretapping, illegal home people in custody always treat them as searches, etc. Many of our very faithful so. I f not, you indirectly are developing a citizens have received hard treatment from our city police. I f you really want to very « sd person. I believe that every convicted criminal reduce crime, you must release the should always receive an interview. This, criminals you have on your forces. Until to be beneficial, should take place astride you are willing to accept this fact there the court room. Yes, in a private area will always remain a very hostile line with no one except a well trained between the police and the public. Don’t psychologist present. This way we will fight crime with crime! Well this is all I have to say right now have a lot more insight upon the motiva tion of certain crimes that occur frequent but I hope you have benefittod by reading ly. I t should always be a psychologist or a this article. I t was written for all psychiatrist. Not a judge, officer, or a executives as well as criminals. Both can lawyer. The criminal will always be much benefit by reading it. tar the chief evils against which ■mar Bfoek Panther Minister of directs his famous rhetoric and Black militancy. And among the chief supporters of the incorporated crusade are some of the leading luminaries of the predominantly white, new right evangelism. Looking like a preacher and sounding like a politician, Cleaver dishes out a hearty Mend of old-time religion and fundamental, conssrvative politics. And his missfon-spart from keeping him out of jail-appeers to be bridging the wide gap between the Black and white even gelist movements-. feat that, if aecom pliahed. could cement a powerful new conservative political coalition. The anti-communist nature of Cleaver's new crusade has renewed charges among his critics that his actions and statements rince Ms return from exile in November 1978 ore basically “opportunistic." clever ctrategems designed to win him public approval in Ma bid for freedom. Cleaver still faces charges o f^aaaault April. 1 9 « shootout with Oakland police. His trial la expected to begin in Septom I bar. The former radical who may soon become the Reverend Eldridge has consistently denied all charges of collab oration. “I have not made a deal with anyone except Christ,” Cleaver declared before an all Black congregation of San Francisco’s Providence Baptist Church in mid-June. His defense committee was headed by Bayard Rustin, chairman of BASIC (Black Americans for a Secure Israel Committee). And one of Cleaver’s first published articles was an attack on the United Nations for passing a resolution equating Zionism with racism. When he declared that Castro’s Cuba displayed a form of racism more insidious than South Africa’s, critics bscame con vinced that Cleaver's statements were bought and paid for. But apart from small contributions to the defense committee, by March 197«. still in the Oakland jail, Cleaver had yet to find a consituency with enough re sources and power to support Ms legal battles. He found it in A rthur DeMoes, a Philadelphia millionaire who is chairman of the board of the National Liberty Corporation and a top financial contribut or to the ultra-conservative Campus Crusade for Christ and the Christian Freedom Foundation. DvMuse visiUu Cleaver ia jail follow ing contacts that indicated the former Panther might be ready to become a born-again Christian. DeMoes provided 8100,000 for Cleaver's bail and sufficient living expenses to maintain a 8100,000 home in the plush Los Altos Mils south of Ban Francisco. Along with Cleaver and his wife Kath leen, DeMoes is an officer in the Eldridge Cleaver Crusades Corporation. Since then. Cleaver has gone on the religious lecture circuit, appearing at some 80 colleges, more than 20 churches and virtually every major religious T V talkshow. AUTO INSURANCE Age 28A4 With Less Than 1. Accident A 1 M inor Violation 2. M inor Violation Compare Your Present Auto Ratos ’76 ASPEN Age Grp 2-symbol 5 15 0 $104; 18-80-10 U .M . P .I.P. 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William» He and Kathleen were baptised in October, 1976 and placed their two children in a Loa Angelas Christian school. “I don’t want my children corrupted by bearded teachers who don’t agree with me." said Cleaver. Cleaver's first appearances were limit ed to white evangelical groups who responded enthusiastically to his “testi mony” about bow an ex-communist and Black militant had become one with Christ-even though there ia no evidence Cleaver ever was a communist. When skeptics charged that he was avoiding Black audiences, Cleaver began appearing at all-Black churches such as the Providence Baptist Church, whose pastor, Calvin Jonas, is a locally well- known conservative and a sponsor of the Eldridge Cleaver Crusades. His recap tion there, while not overly enthusiastic, was approving. During Ms testimony, Cleaver criti cised San Frnadaco Sheriff Richard Hongisto and state Assemblyman Willie Brown for campaigning on behalf of gay civil rights in Florida. With a bitterness that seemed to contradict his claim to love everyone, including Ms enemies, he dismissed Cali fornia's leading Black poUtidaaa-indud- ing W illie Brown, Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley-because “they did not lift a finger to help me." “I appeared before Lionel Wilson, a Black judge, and ha raised my bail from 860.000 to 8100.000." Cleaver complained. Judge Wilson, ironically, haa since become Mayor of Oakland, with the full support of the Black Panther Party. Throughout Ma testimony, Cleaver subtly hinted that white political control is closer to the proper order of things. Upon Ms return to New York from Paris, he said, two F B I men, one Black and one white, arrested Mm. “The brother had a big Afro.” said the now short-haired and clean-shaven Cleaver, “and it came dear later that the white mail was in control. I knew then that I was in the right place." Cleaver said his friend, Billy Graham, had told him he was glad that Black people were receiving the evangelical message, because “white people won’t listen to wMto people anymore." Says one long-time Black activist in Oakland who haa followed Cleaver’s byzantine career from the beginning. “Eldridge's religious message seems to be one of convincing Blacks to chain themselves to the rock of ages after they steal away to Jesus.” In fact, Cleaver's brand of Christian activism is closely related to the kind of evangelism that ia the past has bean characterised as decidedly anti-Black. Some of ha key supporters among the leading wMto evangelist powers have carried the anti communist seal to un critical support for the white minority governments of Rhodesia and South Africa. While Cleaver has avoided embracing such a position publicly, bo privately lakes a hard, critical line toward the Black African states involved in southern Africa’s racial wars. 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