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Page 4 Portland Observer Thursday, November 30, 1978
American State Bank
Behind the wall
Larry Baker 935021,
O. S. P. Correspondent
MEET TH IS IN D IV ID U A L
IN PRISON
.Nothing can bring you peace,
but yourself .
Nothing can bring you peace,
but the triumph o f principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
One might find it abnormal to
acknowledge a picture o f people
exercising uniqueness w ith in the
midst o f a prison, but it happens.
It happens, because it comes in an
in d iv id u a l manner and not in a
collective body.
Yes there are people who live,
work and even visit our compound,
filled with dusty multi-colored cells
and paint peeling from the walls.
This week the column is going to
dedicate itself to recognizing just a
few o f those individuals and their
unselfish deeds.
M ale Prisoner of the M onth
_
’ ' The Bunk that integration built ' ’
2737 N.E. Union
behind these walls. With the Black
population growing as rapidly as it
has been this year, Clarence Martin
is going to need all the outside and
inside help he can get. This very
capable young man is in the pro
cess o f restructuring the whole
organization; so it w ill present a
more positive meaning and meet the
needs o f all.
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M A R K LAUDAHL
A man who works with prisoners
as people and not case loads. Mark
Laudahl worked sixteen years as a
guard (1959-75). His lifelong am
bition was to some day be placed in a
position where he could contribute
his experience by helping those who
were willing to receive help in coun
seling. Mark Laudahl looks pretty
healthy for as long as he's been here,
but he w ill be retiring in the near
future, just when a counselor such as
Mark is needed the most.
CLARENCE M A R T IN
Congratulations to this young man
fo r dem onstrating leadership by
winning the position “ Coordinator”
in the election held by the members
o f the Black Culture organization
here at O.S.P. The column looks
forward to seeing great things hap
pen for Blacks who are incarcerated
Julius D. Snowden 938013
Poetry Editor
Female Prisoner of the M onth
Peggy Joseph-Graves
Personal & Business Insurance
283-5012
Mark Laudahl counseling his inmate client.
purpose o f submitting material to the
“ Behind the W all” column. This has
been the first real effort any of the
ladies has made since the column was
established in March 1977.
M OSETTA DISNEW
This woman has spent many
hours volunteering to have the other
women inmates at the Oregon
Women Correctional Center set up
a writing and editoring staff for the
Visitor of the M on th
m a r y M c C auley borrow
Mrs. Borrow, State Representative
from Eugene, spent an evening with
I he New York Life agent in your
community is a good person to
know.
thirty inmates at O.S.P. in a dialogue
session surrounding the different
parts o f state crim inal law. Mrs.
Borrow strongly believes that in
dividuals who are trained to know
the laws will respect those laws. Also
it was important to Representative
Borrow to become personally in
volved with individuals at this level
of society so that she may be able to
be o f some assistance to her district
when com m unity correctin p ro
grams are more established.
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y o u r h e a lth
KPBS series features First Amendment rights
How the process o f free com
munication under the First Amend
ment o f the Bill of Rights contributes
to the democratic process w ill be ex
plored in a thirteen-week series o f
programs to begin on KBPS-1450
AM Thursday, December 7th, at
5;3O p.m. "T h e First Amendment
and a Free People” is co-produced by
the Institute for Democratic Com
munication and W GBM National
Public Radio member station in
Boston. Dr. Bernard Rubin, IDC
Director, is host.
Divided into three groupings un
der the headings, “ Government and
the M edia,” “ International Jour
nalism, “ and “ Specialized Groups
and Media,” the programs w ill focus
on issues surrounding freedom o f
expression and responsibilities o f
mass media.
The opening program on “ Film
Censorship” features Deke Russell,
curator of the Museum o f Fine Arts,
Boston, and Roger M a n ville,
Professor o f Film, Boston Univer
sity. Others in the series are:
December 14th — Children's TV,
with Peggy Charin, director o f Ac
tion for Television.
December 21st — Government &
Media” Jonathan Moore, director o f
John F. Kennedy School o f Politics,
Harvard.
December 28th — “ Human
Rights: A Look at Dissent and
Human Rights.” Houghston Ryan,
professor o f diplom acy. T u fts
University.
January 4th — "Alternative Jour
nalism ,” Howard Z inn, p o litica l
scientists and playwright.
January 11th — “ Censorship &
the C .I.A .,” A lan Kershow itz,
professor. Harvard University Law
School.”
NAACP election: Jackson
(Continued from page 1 col. 3)
telegrams about the CETA a ffa ir
also.
1 had several television shows with
people accross the state on em
ploym ent. I fe lt that the death
penalty was against minorities and
low income people and I wrote a
couple o f articles and appeared on
television about that.
1 also worked in the area o f ac
tivities in the community — like the
A lb in a A c tio n Center and their
money problems and being refun
ded. I worked with that for a while to
help them get refunded. I worked
with the A M A to take over the PM
SC Headstart program after PMSC
faded out. I worked w ith senior
citizens to try to get some changes in
their program. 1 worked closely with
the Foster Grandparent Program to
get some adjustments in their money.
I ’ve made speeches in schools, for
groups, about N AAC P activities. I
made numerous speeches at the time
the Convention was here.
I instigated the investigation o f the
prison. I persuaded Hooks to bo
down there. Then the Justicae De
partment sent two men to talk to iw
before they went down there. 1
revealed to them the list o f greviences
the men at the penitentiary gave me.
I ’ ve been in contact with the inmates
and have suggested tra in in g
programs I hope can function. There
seems to be a problem in getting fun
ded. That is kind o f up in the air
although I promised to keep working
at it. I haven’t been down there lately
but I have turned that over to Burna
Plummer. She is the one who is
making the contacts now.
I didn’ t attend the meetings o f the
Coalition, but I ’ ve attended at least
four of the area meetings. I ’ ve also
had conversation w ith
Herb
Cawthorne about it and I ’ve worked
with A M A to get the brethren in
volved. O f course, I opposed the
Newman plan, which set the whole
thing in motion.
When the School Board was
ready to appoint a new person I was
pretty close to that - involved in a
group going around to see the School
Board members to see why we
couldn’t get a candidate before the
School Board. From some o f the
Board members, it was disturbing to
learn that they were committed to the
person going o ff, to let that person
name the replacement.
I ’ ve attended several Urban
C urriculum retreats. I ’ ve tried to
make comments on what I think
should happen. A t the final meeting
next month, we’ ll see how many
suggestions are incorporated in the
effort to develop curriculum to help
with some o f the student probems
and teacher problems in the urban
area.
The
Education
Com m ittee
w orked. The Labor Com m ittee
worked. We didn’t get all the jobs we
wanted but the Northwest M inority
Contractors, Eugene Jackson, got a
lot o f jobs for people. We were joint
sponsors o f a state funded youth
employment project. They made
inroads into some positions where
they were caught up w ith union
problems -- couldn’ t get into the
unions.
Legal Redress sort o f eased off. I
have Keith Bums’ resignation and
his suggestion that we form a group
o f lawyers. He things that because
o f the Bakke decision there w ill be a
lot o f work for lawyers. I am in the
process o f getting names o f lawyers
who will be part o f a committee.
I talked with U.P. Cannon some
time ago because Benjamin Hooks
suggested that we meet with some of
the unions and try to work out some
relationships because there are issues
on which we have the same point of
view. We need to find out i f the local
unions are concerned w ith the
problems that are coming from their
national offices. We have in the
hopper two meetings with decision
makers in the unions.
We’ ve had several dates with the
outgoing governor and we will set up
a date with the in-coming governor. I
had talked to Atiyeh before the elec
tion but it was just general. We are
going to put before him a similar
proposal as we put before Governor
Straub. In the main, the issue is that
you can’t do much in the local area
until we get money in the local area.
Rather than for us to go downtown
and get slots, the money ought to be
out here. We ought to be able to set
up a program and begin to deal with
the people. We need that kind o f
program We can pick the people
and try to work with the community
to give those people jobs. I don’ t
know how responsive Atiyeh will be
to that. Governor Straub had ex
pressed a desire to work with us and
I ’m hoping Atiyeh will.
We set up a special committe to
bring to the Branch their recommen
dations on the ballot measures.
I have had to neglect some o f the
things that I need to do for the chur
ch - visits to the sick, home Bible
study - some o f the things I want to
do and should do. So I tried like the
dickens to get someone else to run
for president but no one wanted to
do it. The problem I have with the
people who are running is that they
have no track record and 1 think you
ought to have a track record. Now I
know you can come in and be func
tionable, but you think how they set
up the executive board. We used to
set up the board so you had represen
tation - someone from each o f the
churches and the Elks and other
clubs, so some one would be there to
sell memberships.
I guess our emphasis had been on
getting memberships and raising our
money for the national office more
than on program. Maybe it would be
better to go the other way - if you
had a good program the member
ships would come. Our membership
committee has done a good job. The
Christmans Seal committee did a
good job with the grandmother con
test. We were supposed to raise
S I,500 and we've raised $2,600 or
$2,700.
O f course, the National Conven
tion took a lot o f our time. We had
to spend time on that instead of on
local problems. I appointed Bobbie
Nunn to head that committee and it
worked out well.
I f I’ m re-elected, I plan to appoint
new chairmen to the committees.
When I was elected 1 talked to Ellis
Casson, the outgoing president, and
asked for his suggestions.A few o f
them have functioned but not all. I
think my major e ffort w ill be to
organize the committees and get
people who are willing to work.
My hours are flexible. I am able to
spend time at the office and doing
work that some could not because o f
their jobs. That is a great help. There
is a lot s till to be done and the
NAACP should be the organization
to lead the fight.
January 18th — "Black Owned
Newspapers,”
M elvin
M ille r,
publisher o f large Black-owned
weekly.
January 25th — “ Media and the
T hird W o rld ,” W illia m W orthy,
author.
February 1st — “ Feminist Jour
nalism,” Wilma Scott Heide, former
NOW president.
February 8th — “ Soviet Media,”
Soviet dissident Ephram Brooke.
February 15th — “ A British Look
at Media,” Henry James, director of
Central O ffice o f Inform ation in
Great Britain.
February 22nd — “ V ietnam ,”
discussion o f the fall o f Vietnam and
American reaction to it by author
Phillip Caputo.
February 29th — "C h in a After
Mao,” Ross Terrill, journalist.
and
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VOLUME VI
NOVEMBER 1978
SERIES I
In keeping with Exodus Community Service
Policy, Exodus will host a Symposium on
Alcohol and Substance Abuse Problems.
Exodus will do this in coordination with other
agencies providing similar services.
The General Public is invited. The Symposium
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Wednesday, November 15, 1978 while there is
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