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Thursday, June I , 1878
Child stealing: No protection from law
Behind the wall
by Gaylord Drew *34493
“Oh give thanks to the Lord, (or he is
good; for his loving kindness is everiast
ing. l,et the redeemed of the laird say so.
whom he has redeemed from the hand of
the adversary, and gathered from the
lands, from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south. They
wandered in the wilderness in a desert
region. They did not find a way to an
inhabited city. They were hungry and
thirsty; their soul fainted within them.
Then they cried out to the Lord in their
trouble; He delivered them out of their
distresses. He led them also by a straight
way. to go to an inhabited city. Let them
give thanks to the Lord for his Loving
kindness, and for his wonders to the sons
of men! For he has satisfied the thirsty
soul, and the hungry' soul he has filled
with what is good.” Psalm 107:1-9 NAS.
Many times prisoners are accused of
being a bunch of insane fanatics with no
good in us. W ell I'm telling you that this
accusation is not true. However. I also
want you to know that 1 lost my mind
since becoming a resident of this prison.
But I lost my mind to Jesus Christ and
have been made whole again.
For the greater part of my life I have
been a ward of the state. Since my
youngest years I have been in some type
of custody, beginning with the famous
foster homes for trouble children. I have
been counseled, therapied by profes
sionals, given chances, punished, coach
ed. locked up and double locked. But
until Christ entered my life nothing
changed. In Christ I have become a new
creature. And would like to share the gift
of his miraculous power to change lives
with you. It is important that this world
finds some power that will unite all
mankind together.
You may find out more about this life
saving power and the miracles Jesus
Christ is working behind these prison
walls. Uhuru's Religious Club is presently
in the process of sponsoring a praise
gathering for all who feel led by the spirit
Gavlord D rew , |a
O.S.P.
usieauig to a special religious program at
to learn more about prison ministry. This
gathering will be held in Salem, Oregon
at a ranch owned by some Christian
friends of ours. There will be live gospel
music, testimonies from prisoners and
free people, and the message will be
preached to all that want to know who
Jesus Christ is.
Our hope is to bring all people involved
in Prison Ministry together and to pro
vide a means for strengthening of the
prison ministry so the needs of men will
be met as they find the Lord.
If such a gathering interests you - if
you would like to be on the coordinating
committee - if you feel you could he
available for two days during the month
of August as a speaker, or to serve in
some other capacity, piease contact me at
O.S.P.. 2605 State Street, Salem. Oregon
97310. We are expecting this gathering
to be spiritually blessed by the Lord but
it will take a lot of work to bring this
about. Additional information is avail
able.
Our entire organization is looking
forward to the success of this event. We
feel a tremendous urge to inform the
President Carter gives a W hite House tour to visiting D r.
Kenneth D. Kaunda. President of the Republic of Zambia,
during a state visit by the African leader.
The two leaders held intensive talks during President
citizens of this state about the true and
sincere concern we have for the welfare
of the people of this state. It is my
knowledge that crime is the result of lives
spent in wandering apart from God.
God bless you all and we will be looking
forward to hearing from you. If for no
other reason than to get to know you.
What the Education Department has
done for me as a Black man in O.S.P. - I
got involved in the Education G.E.D.
Department in January of 1977 to work
towards my high school diploma. I work
ed with Mr. Bohles my instructor in
reading, dealing with past presidents in
history and present presidents in dif
ferent countries, this course was very
interesting.
I also worked with my english teacher.
Mrs. Hande in a very interesting course.
I'm still working on my diploma -
studying hard. So I can hope to be
scheduled for college around September
of 1978.
I am getting A grades in my classes
and excellent school reports.
I’O visit to Washington.
President C arter bailed
President Kaunda as “a man whose integrity has never been
challenged, never been doubted."
United Farm Workers Union
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orange dry, you throw it away. But
what will we do once w e’ve been thrown
away? W here can we go?"
There are rumblings within the UFW
that Chavez and other union leaders have
not done enough in the battle over
mechanization.
Some workers openly
question union policy and tactics.
A young strawberry worker from
Watsonville said, “The union leadership
is not facing up to the threat of mechani
zation. I went to a union meeting in San
Jose and I got no answers when I stood
up to ask, ‘What are we going to do to
save these jobs?’ ”
Another Salinas worker, an early sup
porter of Cesar Chavez, said, "Don’t
count on me to be non-violent if they
bring the machines in to replace us in
Salinas . . . The day they try to bring a
machine in to replace me, there’ll be no
holding me back. And I'm not the only
one.”
“We have a large number of farm
worker families stranded in our commu
nities by the tomato harvester," admitted
Richard Johnson, a social worker at the
Farm Worker Service in Woodland.
Many of these families have had to turn
to welfare, a prospect unwelcome in
Salinas.
Stranded families have checkered the
map of farming communities across the
United States this harvest season. But
growers, given a choice, have been using
single male farm workers, and that has
exacerbated the pressure of mechaniza
tion on farm workers.
Single male
illegals are generally younger, more
adventurous and easier to get rid of when
the picking is over. The UFW also has
had less success in organizing single
migrants than those with families who
dream of settling down.
Many observers see union expansion as
the only way out of the squeeze. “The
union has to spread,” a celery worker
from Watsonville insisted. “Salinas is the
French Riviera of farm work, and unless
the rest of the country is organized, we’re
sitting ducks. The growers here aren't
going to be able to compete without
mechanizing if rates across the country
continue to be so far below what we get
•here."
Manuel Chavez. Chavez's cousin, has
been sent to reassert a UFW presence in
Texas, a move certain to heat up the
union's fight with Antonio Orendain's
Texas Farm Workers. The UFW Execu
live Board has also been discuasing
moving into Florida again.
The most promising recruitment effort,
however, may be taking place inside
Mexico. The union may soon begin a
campaign to educate and recruit Mexican
farm workers before they enter the
United States.
“Of course, we're negotiating with the
Mexican government to be able to do
work on the Mexican side,” said Gross
man. “We don’t have permission yet, but
we're hopeful to have it soon.”
In November, 1975, Diane Ulseth was
married, the mother of a 16'A-nionth-old
boy nnd thinking about leaving her
husband.
“He found out about it somehow," she
said. “One day he took the baby out for a
drive and never came back."
Now, two and a half years later with
still no sign of her missing son, Mrs.
Ulseth has organized a special Illegal
Child Siezure Forum to be sponsored by
the Portland Downtown YWCA, 1111
S.W'. 10th Avenue, on June 13th at 7:30
p.m.
Child snatching is the brutal but official
term for the abduction and concealment
of a child by the parent without custody
from the parent with custody. It sounds
like kidnapping, but in the eyes of the
law, child snatching is not a crime.
“We want to bring people together who
have had similar experiences and to
educate the general public about this
growing problem," explained the 29-year
old mother.
“So many people just sit back and cry
when something like this happens." Mrs.
Ulseth said. "People in my situation can't
figure out why, when you call the police,
they say nothing can be done.”
One reason for this is that once a child
has been taken out of their territories,
both city and county officials are helpless.
A recent "80 Minutes" broadcast on
CBS noted that, outside the originating
state, “a custody decree isn't worth the
paper its printed on.”
Through persistent letter writing and
knocking on the doors of virtually every
official she could think of, as well as
complex legal maneuvers. Mrs. Ulseth
finally began receiving federal help.
“But my situation is unusual," she
warned. "The FBI is looking for my son,
but I don't think they are looking very
hard.”
Of course, nothing can be done while
the parents are still married. “Divorce is
the first step.”
At the present time, federal kidnap
ping has specifically exempt parents of
minor children.
According to Mrs.
Ulseth, there are five bills currently
pending in Congress which would include
child snatching within federal kidnapping
laws. Also, attempts are being made to
set up a uniform custody law to discour
age potential snatchers from fleeing to
states with conflicting laws.
On hand at the YWCA forum to explain
current legislation and offer advice to
parents will be representatives from the
offices of Senators Bob Packwood and
Mark Hatfield. Representative Les Au
Coin, District Attorney Hart Haas, a s*
well as a family psychologist and other
experts.
Mrs. Ulseth said the Justice Depart
ment has objected to child siezure legislu
tion because of worries about increased
case load. She pointed out, however, that
such laws operate efficiently in Canada.
Currently working as a directory assis
tance operator and part-time potter, Mrs.
Ulseth is writing a hook giving step-by
step pointers to parents with abducted
children.
While most parents victimized by child
snatching are women, an increasing num
her of men, having gained custody
through progressive custody laws, are
having their children taken.
“But it is the children who really get
hurt,” Mrs. Ulseth said.
In fact, according to a publication put
out by Children's Rights, Inc., a Washing
ton D.C. reform group, “Child Snatching
is not a custody problem, but is actually a
form of child abuse and should he (routed
as a crime against the child.”
Marriage: First step on the road to obesity?
“It's been said that marriages are made
in heaven. With June being the most
celestial month for weddings, all seems in
heavenly perfection.
The perfect bride and groom soon find,
however, patterns of living developing to
challenge that perfection. Habits are
taking hold and adjustments are being
made around almost everything; from the
division of labor to toothpaste cap cover
ing. The kitchen routine, being the least
consciously planned, can be a source of
some important problems in the young
couple's future.
Exotic cooking experiments in a state
of euphoria, as well as the frenetic eating
that can also occur during the early days
of marriage, can lead to accompanying
weight gains for the unwary; weight
gains that can affect a couple's social life
as well as earnings potential.
‘The way you begin a marriage," says
Jeannine Cowles, President-Director for
Weight Watchers of Oregon, Inc., “is
often the way you’ll go on. The habits
begun in the early days will be hard to
break. But although this can be consider
ed a hazardous time in a marriage's life,
it's only so if the couple lives it thought
lessly. It can be the perfect time for
newlyweds to develop positive habits,
planned with forethought. If, at this
point, they can know they want control
over their life together, they can begin to
exercise that control immediately - be it
over the budget, the level ot sharing and
communication, or who takes out the
garbage.
Developing control over the table can
be one of the most important sets of
habits they will form. An intelligent
approach to food, from the beginning, will
most likely foreshadow an intelligent
approach to feeding the whole family, as
it grows."
Weight Watchers International sug
gests that at the heart of such an
approach to control is awareneas of what
you are eating, when you are eating, and
why. The start of marriage is the perfect
start for developing this awareness and
educating yourself about the foods you
eat.
Here are five suggestions for actions
which, if developed early in the marriage,
will be of aid both to bride and groom
throughout their lifetimes in combatting
the onset of overweight.
1. Deliberately plan to make a habit of
some regular exercise together. It can be
a daily walk, or perhaps regular partici
pation in a sport you can both enjoy.
Moderate exercise can help burn stored
energy reserves, may actually reduce
hunger, help you feel better because of
physical stimulation and the knowledge
that you're doing some good for yourself,
and will give you general physical condi
tioning by developing muscle tone and
maintaining proper function of the heart
and its related systems.
2. As in any new situation, there will
be the problems of anxiety, of anger and
hostility, or of depression that will have
to be confronted. Make a conscious effort
to turn to solutions instead of food.
3. Make meals with your huaband/wife
a pleasant experience. Schedule them for
regular, consistent times. Turn off the TV
or radio, and spend the time at the table
with each other. Make mealtime relaxed,
and eat slowly. It takes 20 minutes from
your first bite for your body to know it’s
no longer hungry.
4. Begin at the beginning. Educate
yourself to nutritional guidelines. Don’t
stock the common snack foods that lead
to the common complaint of overweight,
like potato chips, cookies and candy.
Keep all food in the kitchen and out of the
living room, bedroom and den, or you
may wind up eating without even rsaliz
ing it. Food that is out of sight, is often
out of mind.
5. As a new bride or groom, you won't
have developed a routine yet. There may
be times when you'll he bored. There
won't be enough to do, or perhaps too
much to do that you find dull. Be aware
that people often eat as an inappropriate
response to boredom. Uiok for aiterna
tive actions to take. Turn the TV or radio
on while doing housework you hate. If
you have extra time on your hands, fill it
with activities you like. Reading, crafts,
sewing, getting together with friends,
involvement in community service an- all
profitable and pleasant ways to keep
yourself busy and happy.
Finally, as a last note, Weight Watch
ers International would like to offer one
more service by offering a free copy of its
award-winning pamphlet, "Nutrition,
Weight Control and You!" to every new
bride and bridegroom.
It’s an excellent background in the
basics of nutrition, written in an easy-to-
read style.
For a copy, just write
Jeannine Cowles, President-Director,
Weight Watchers of Oregon, Inc., 92(H)
S.W. Barnes Road. Portland, Oregon
97225.
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