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Behind the wall
JuUu. D. S m w 4 m «38013,
Poetry Editor
O.S.P. inmate« catch a quick call home.
C O N G R A T U L A T IO N S T O
V E R N E L L F R A N K L IN , JR. for the
appointment of assistant correspon­
dent to the “ Behind the W a ll”
column’s staff.
Franklin was born in Fort Worth,
Texas, attended I .M . Jr. H igh
School in Fort Worth before moving
to Berkeley, California, where he at­
tended high school in 1965. In 1970
Franklin joined the United States
Marine Corps and for the following
four years participated in ’special
search and rescue’ operations with
the 33rd Marines A ir Unit in Viet
Nam. He received the following ser­
vice medals for his heroic duties: Viet
Nam Service Medal; Phillipifles
Presidential Unit Citation; National
Defense Service Medal; and Gold
Jump Wings Medal. ,
Discharged in 1974, Franklin set­
tled down in Klamath Falls, Oregon,
but there was only one thing wrong.
W h ile in Nam Vernell F ranklin
became addicted to drugs but return­
ing to the States Franklin tried to
curb his addiction by obtaining em­
ployment as a counselor for one year
with the Klamath Alcoholic Drug
Abuse Program. A fter the funds ran
out for his position, Franklin began
working at various saw mills until
many employees were laid o ff. It
wasn’t long after Franklin started
back using drugs and became in­
volved with those within the drug
traffic atmosphere, which'eventually
brought about his arrest and convic­
tion. He was sent to O .S.P. for five
years.
F ra n k lin im m ediately enrolled
w ithin the O .S .P . Educational
Program and with the help ol their
instructors soon became aware o f his
abilities to w rite. Franklin con­
tributes much o f his motivation for
being successful in writing to the
patience and guidance o f the
educators at O .S.P. It is we, the
staff o f the “ Behind the W a ll”
column who now are grateful to have
the talents o f Vernell Franklin, Jr.
Tricky dick got richer
writing his memoirs
And My Lia is as
real as Nagasaki
Hiroshima, Angola
Mozambique
the Antipathy in South Africa
But these don’t count
Commands
and
bells
ring you
aline
sleepwalker
prison
life is
cell in, cell out
yard line
pill call
aspirin cures all
commands
and bells
you wash
ya arse
2 days
a week
mail call
best
thing
being here
lock
up
who needs
yellow
pages,
tier
runners
do the
walkin’
iife
here
is R A W .
Like those left over from ‘ Nam
the armless, sightless
legless, drug addicts
the one who remember bombs
dropping . . . the flashes when
they hit, the screaming
and dying
waking in a cold
sweat, still remembering
But these don’t count
Consumers should also guard
against buying produce that has been
held at warm temperatures, Groder
advises. “ Even if the produce was
picked just a few hours ago, it loses
quality when held at warmer tem­
peratures,” he says. Once fruits and
vegetables are picked, the natural
sugars begin changing to starches.
R efrig eratin g the produce in ­
creases its shelf life by several days.
However, some products, such as
bananas, cucumbers, squash and
tomatoes, must be kept at warmer
temperatures.
As part o f a nationwide effort to
encourage farm er to consumer
m arketing, G ro d er and H arvey
M eie r, O S U food d istribu tio n
specialist, recently received a $61,000
grant through the federal govern­
m e n t’ s F a rm e r-to -C o n s u m e r
Marketing Act o f 1976.
Their grant is part o f a regional
project involving the state depart­
ments o f agriculture in Washington
and Oregon and the Extension Ser­
vices at Washington State University
and OSU.
As part o f the project, Groder,
Meier and their assistants will inven­
tory existing direct markets and
study the economics involved in start­
ing one. They will also look at ways
state agencies can participate in
. . . UNIO N OR COMPANY
DENTAL INSURANCE
is a valuable asset . . .
your health
and
appearance
COMPLETE COOPERATION
ON AI.I.
DENTALINM KANCE CLAIMS
WE HANDLE ALL THE DE I AILSOE
COMPLETING 3 01 K CLAIM FORMS
N O APPOINTMENT NEEDED
Coma in at your convenience
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HOURS- We*td“J'».»:30«.«>. t«6p.m.
Saturday 8:30. m. Io I p m.
Dr. Jeffrey BRADY, Dentist
s W 3RD a VAMHILI. SI . POKI LAND, OREGON
I ARE EI.E3 A TOK TO 2ND EMM Mt 3RD S I. EN I It INCE
a n rtT /
Vernon Broadnax
m arketing schemes and develop
teaching aids to help farmers.
Working with the Oregon Depart­
ment o f Agriculture, they will assess
the needs o f consumers and commer­
cial farmers, and will begin working
on a statewide d irecto ry to list
market locations, their products and
dates available.
Although Groder is just beginning
to collect data, he believes direct
farm markets now distribute only
one or two percent o f the product
sold in Oregon. “ That figure is now
likely to rise above five percent in the
near future,” he estimates.
¿T’ k ® * ' adm'ni’
r®t,r,no Vanc°uver PTA council president,
tr8tor at Pan Terra School, were
h
TA 8Ward f° r their dedication to young people
Mitchell is a former director of the North Branch YMCA in Port­
land and was Northeast Quadrant Director for Multnomah
Ask Dessie Woods, Joan Little
the Wilmington 10, the Jackson
Brothers, Leonard Peltier
the Jobless, homeless
the boasted life o f a
child who came to be
because o f want
or was it greed
But these don’t count
Direct farm to consumer selling increasing
Farmer to consumer marketing is
creating a great deal o f interest
throughout the country as food
prices continue to rise.
“ Direct farm marketing may be
one avenue for reduced food costs,”
suggests Roland G roder, Oregon
State U n ive rs ity Extension h o r­
ticultural marketing specialist.
Direct marketing includes roadside
markets
and
stands,
u-pick
operations, farmer’s markets, rent-s­
u m operations, farmer and con­
sumer cooperatives, and gift baskets
or mail order gifts.
A t a direct market, consumers
may choose from a wide array o f
high quality, farm-fresh produce,
says Groder. For home canning and
other uses buying directly usually
means fruits and vegetables are
fresher.
In addition to cost savings and
freshness, Groder believes many
consumers now buy directly from
farmers because they like the per­
sonal attention the farmer gives them
and because they like to make such
a purchase an outing.
Consumers must weigh their
produce costs against the time and
cost o f traveling to the farm outlet,
he adds. In some cases, it may not be
any cheaper to buy fru its and
vegetables directly from the farmer.
Justice is not blind
the bombing of a church
in Alabama . . . four
little girls dead
Meger Evers
M artin Luther King. Jr.
Malcolm X, Robert L. Jackson
Fred Hampton, Mark Clark
George & Jonathan Jackson
But these don’t count
American State Bank
2 7 3 7 N.E. Union
A mis-used and abused
prison system
political system
prison system
ecology
over-crowded
prison
money pockets
systems
life death
life death life death
life and
money in pockets and
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FOR
BRANDS you know
V A R IE T IE S y o u lik e
S IZES y o u w a n t
death *n prison
system *n
politics ‘ n pocket
o f many systems
and justice ain’t blind
and justice ain’t blind
and justice ain’t blind
------ only cripple.
by Julius Snowden
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by Harold C. Williams
Today’s society has many faces.
Unfortunately, for racial minorities,
they are struggling with one face and
that is the face o f survival. It has
caused a division o f power instead o f
people o f color pulling together, they
are divided. This adds fuel to the
flame o f chaos and distrust. What I
worry about most is not the division
between the people o f color but the
division between the Black woman
and Black man. It is time that the
two strongest people that walk the
face o f this earth become united as
O N E . Individually they give the best
o f themselves to other people but
when it comes to giving to one
another they seem to drop the ball.
The Black man appears to smile with
a gleam in his eyes when he’s with
women o f other races but when he’s
with a Black woman the sparkle
seems to fade away. The Black
woman can applaud the victory and
triumph o f men o f other races but sit
silent when the Black man has
achieved.
The Black woman and Black man
can’t continue to make excuses and
give the blame o f fa u lt to one
another. Time won’t wait, children
need to see that the Black woman
and Black man can love and care for
one another. It is important that
Black women and Black men be able
to embrace in public as well as in the
room o f privacy.
Every race o f people on the face o f
the earth copy the good graces o f the
Black woman and Black man. It is
time that the Black woman and
Black man copy themselves and give
the best o f giving to one another.
’ ave and peace to the Black woman
and Black man, there is none greater
than you.
Moncock
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is
an i l l n e s s ,
2.
I t can be t r e a t e d
3.
Many a l c o h o l i c s
4.
P e rso n s a f f l i c t e d w ith th e d is e a s e o f a lc o h o lis m
l a s t t o r e c o g n i z e o r t o a c c e p t t h e i r p r o b le m .
1978
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a l c o h o l i s m ^ 3 COTnlnunity h a s r e c e n t l y a c k n o w le d g e d f o u r s p e c i f i c
1.
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fa c ts about
n o t a m o r a l p r o b le m .
s u c c e s s fu lly .
a r e w o r th t r e a t i n g .
a re o fte n
th e
W ith a ? ^ h n i p e r y e n t ,(5% ’
$h o 1 ; . In a la r g e
s e ^ en
Fd U C A t i ™ ^
Cg h ? ? 8m h a s
10%) o f t h e emP l o y e d p o p u l a t i o n a r e i n t r o u b l e
p r o p o r t i o n o f t h e s e c a s e s , t h e p r o b le m h a s
y e a r s b e f o r e b e c o m in g s o o b v i o u s t h a t a c t i o n i s
^ e e n l d e n t l f i e d fay t h e D e p a r tm e n t o f H e a l t h ,
g d p c a t i o n ftn d W e l f a r e a s t h e n um b er o n e p u b l i c h e a l t h p r o b le m i n t h e it s A
O n ly t h r e e p e r c e n t (3%) o f t h e s e a l c o h o l i c s a r e o n s k i d r o w , t h e o t h e r
n i n e t y - s e v e n p e r c e n t (97%) a r e f o u n d in h o m e s, o f f i c e s a n d f a c t o r i e s .
A lc o h o lis m t u r n s o u t t o b e t h e b i l l i o n d o l l a r h e a d a c h e .
i n d u s t r i e s $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 .0 0 ( f i f t e e n b i l l i o n d o l l a r s ) ,
Muchn o ? Uf h e r l n ? t ? t h e a ? c o h o l i c h i m s e l f , h i s f a m i l y a n d
c h o f t h e i n f e r i o r w o r k m a n s h ip in m any o f o u r d o m e s t i c
s e r v i c e s may b e d u e d i r e c t l y o r i n d i r e c t l y t o t h e d i s e a s e
A lc o h o lis m c o s t s
n o t t o m e n tio n
h i s e m p lo y e r ,
p r o d u c ts and
o f a lc o h o lis m .
? h X C° n’p a n ie B a r e d e a l i n 9 w i t h t h i s d i f f i c u l t a n d c o m p le x p r o b le m ;
t h e i r e x p e r i e n c e s we g e t t h e f o l l o w i n g p r o f i l e :
fro m
H e /s h e i s l i k e l y t o b e 38 t o 56 y e a r s o l d ; an e m p lo y e e o f
f a i r l y lo n g s e r v i c e i n whom t h e com pany h a s a c o n s i d e r a b l e
in v e s tm e n t e s p e c i a l l y i f h e / s h e i s in th e e x e c u tiv e r a n k s .
^ e o n e i n v o l v e d w i t h p e r s o n s , e m p lo y e e s , f a m i l y o r
e n d s i n t e r e s t e d i n a l c o h o l i s m e d u c a t i o n an d t r e a t m e n t .
T he H o u se o f
Exodus w iH be h ap p y t o s h a r e s p e c i f i c f a c t s r e g a r d in g th e d is e a s e o f
a lc o h o lis m .
T he H o u se o f E x o d u s w as i n c o r p o r a t e d on t h e 9 th d a y o f A u g u s t, 1 9 7 7 , ‘i n
t h e S t a t e o f O re g o n a s a n o n - p r o f i t c o r p o r a t i o n f o r t h e s o l e p u r p o s e o f
e s t a b l i s h i n g an a lc o h o lis m e d u c a t i o n a l an d tr e a tm e n t c e n t e r .
T he g o a l s
a r e t o im p ro v e t h e h e a l t h , p h y s i c a l a n d m e n ta l w e l l - b e i n g o f i t s
c lie n te le .
T he p r i m a r y o b j e c t i v e i s t o e d u c a t e a n d t r e a t , t h r o u g h
c o u n s e lin g and o th e r s u p p o r tiv e a c t i v i t i e s , p e rso n s a f f l i c t e d w ith th e
d is e a s e o f a lc o h o lis m .
S e c o n d ly , o u r o b j e c t i v e i s t o f u r t h e r r e s e a r c h
th e s o c i a l and m e ta b o lic e f f e c t s o f a lc o h o lis m and o th e r s u b s ta n c e
a d d i c t i v e s in o r d e r t o f in d c a u s e s , c u r e s and p r e v e n tiv e c o n t r o l s .
E xo d u s R e s e a r c h F o u n d a t i o n i s a p p r e c i a t i v e o f a l l c o n t r i b u t i o n s d o n a t e d
t o a - d f u r t h e r r e s e a r c h in t h i s a r e a .
Make c h e c k s p a y a b l e t o :
E x o d u s R e s e a r c h F o u n d a tio n
1518 N .E . K i l l i n g s w o r t h
P o r t l a n d , O re g o n
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