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Page 12 Portland Observer, November 5, 1981 Cell Talk by Asmar A bdul SetfuHah Carolyn Colbert, wrapped in a cocoon, waits to lose inches (Photo: Richard J. Brown) Losing inches the easy way Exciting new services are now available to this area. The Ultimate G oal skin treatm ent salon has a wide range o f products that deal with the cause o f skin problems rather than masking over the ef fects. Marianne Smith and Penny Con nor are well qualified to deal with skin problems. M arian n e is a licensed cosmetologist for the past eight years; Penny has been a li censed cosmetologist for the past 14 years. Both women have completed extensive training dealing with causes o f skin problems and n u tri tion. “ We are proud to be certified consultants with the Fani Organiza tio n ,” states Penny C o nn o r. “ A long w ith providing the Salon Service we try to impart a better un derstanding and knowledge o f cause dealing with skin problems.” “ Our salon exclusively uses Fani products,” explains M s. Sm ith. “ The products are not cosmetics (lipstick, eyeshadow), and they are not skin care (body lotions). They are skin treatment products which prom ote the natural function o f healthy skin.” She continues, "Fani products contain natural herbal in gredients. The natural base creme is not rejected by the body, it pene trates to the cellular layer and ac tually treats the cell. Various herbal and natu ral vitam ins are added to work on a variety o f skin condi tions.” Salon services include: C o nto u r wrap— This is a 2-hour process in which the individual loses inches and works on cellulite. Cellu lite is an unorganized fat cell that has toxins, gases and wastes trapped in it. This creme is not a diuretic. A diuretic tends to extract water from the cells leaving a tem porary inch loss. The Fani C ontour Creme ac tually penetrates to the cellular layer releasing toxins and gases which means an inch loss that can be main tained. Ms. Connor believes that the inch loss is an incentive for a realist ic diet. F ac ia l— The salon uses specific cremes for the face and neck. Also a masque that hydrolizes the dead skin cells, through reverse osmosis it cleans the pores, and tones and tightens facial skin and muscles. It actually gives the appearance o f a face lift. Body lifts — The masque works on toning and tightening skin and muscles. A ctually lifts breasts and derrieres. Works on upper arms, ab domens and calves o f legs. Foot care— Fani Callous Creme works great on uncom fortable cal louses and corns. Fani R o ll-o ff creme is great on removing dry dead skin. It also removes odors and dries and cools the feet. The salon features an anti-fatigue creme called Procaine. It relaxes the skin and opens and expands the cap illary system bringing nutrients back to the tissue to rebuild new cells and carry away wastes. The Fani Products are reliable, but only a fte r receiving a dem on stration on their use, Ms. Connor explains. The reasons for this is be cause the products work. To obtain the right results they must be used properly. The U ltim a te G oal is located at 917 S.W . Alder. Learn TV A one-day workshop is designed to help people wanting to learn tele vision production skills. “ Cable T V : Program m ing in the S tu d io ,” sponsored by Portland Community College, will be held Saturday, Oc tober 10 from 9 am to 5 pm at the PC C Sylvania Campus, C om m uni cations Technology Building, Room B-4h. Cost o f the workshop is $12. The workshop explores the roles o f director, camera person, talent, audio technician, flo o r d irecto r, switcher and producer. G roup exer cises give participants “ hands-on” experience as part o f a studio pro duction crew. Actual television pro grams will be produced. This workshop builds on skills de veloped by participants in another P C C works “ C able T V : Portable Video Production,” which is a pre requisite to this workshop. Prison is filled with people from every w alk o f life . Social, ethnic, political or economic status does not exempt anyone from becoming one o f the thousands o f inmates now housed in maximum security institu tions all across the country. A hodge podge o f human flesh o f every col o r. size and description can be found behind prison walls. Mentali ties and personalities o f every sort exist in abundance and there are both law-breakers and law-makers confined in prisons all across the country. C rim in a lity is not a prerequisite to incarceration because people are sent to prison for m any d iffe re n t reasons. Courts must assess degrees o f aggravation and m itig atio n in sentencing procedures. It is possible as in the case o f many homicides for the culprit to have lived a crime-free life up until the commission o f the crime. There is a distinct difference between law-breakers and criminals. Laws are broken every day by countless numbers o f people in soci ety but society doesn't view them as crim inals. The average person doesn’t equate the m inor offenses he com m its d aily w ith a crim inal act. But given a swift change in leg islation or the enforcement o f any given law, many people would find themselves on the wrong side o f the wall. T h in k about the hard-w o rkin g citizen who has spent his entire life building a home for his family— one day he has a little too much to drink and gets into a fight that results in a death. O r how about the jealous lover who kills in a fit o f passionate rage but is o rd in a rily a good Joe. There are the drunk drivers who at any given moment can cause the loss o f one or more lives. When we con sider the present economic crisis and the high rate o f unemployment that exists nationwide, we certainly can look for increased crimes o f survival or crimes com m itted purely for economic subsistence. The point in question is that m any people are confined that are not necessarily criminals. Circumstances can arise that can place any one o f us in physi cally compromising situations like prison— this is especially true in the case o f all Black people. Six years ago R an d o lf Smith was a policeman on the U ta h police force but today he is a prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary. Because o f his ex-vocation he was trans ferred to O regon under the in te r state compact laws to serve his time. H ad he stayed in U tah to serve his sentence he would have had to spend 23 hours a day locked in a cell for his own protection. But because Oregon State Penitentiary is consid ered one o f the safest prisons in the country, Randolf Smith has found a safe haven to serve his time. T o R andolf Smith *43839 prison must be a nightm are come true. It has to represent for him an experi ence totally removed from his wild est dreams. Each day is filled with anticipation o f physical assault be cause his past is common knowledge among the brothers. Being Black has not done Randolf any good be cause o f the attitu d e that most Blacks have concerning policemen. To many o f us a Black policeman is like a surrogate overseer. We arc re minded o f the Judas syndrome and there is little if any sympathy given* to members o f the race that become law enforcement officers. A ll o f us have had a negative experience at the hands o f the law and in some cases we were abused by Black policemen m ore so than by white ones. It has been the experience o f this writer that a Black policeman is harder on his own kind because he subconsciously wants to prove to his counterparts that he is fa ir. W hat better way to prove your fairness than to ride herd on your own kind. Charles Moose, a Black policeman on the Portland force is a good ex ample o f an insensitive Black officer and these type o f brothers do more damage to public relations than the average racist redneck cop. It stands to reason that someone must do the policing and I believe there is a need for Black policemen. But the Black policeman must not become an enemy o f the community — he must become an extension o f the com m unity. He must not lose his identity at the pinning on o f a badge, his badge must be his love for the community and its ultimate good must be foremost in his mind. R andolf Smith is relearning that he is Black. H e knows just how Black he is now because he is in the white man's prison. He understands that his safety is in the hands o f peo ple like him becausethe system that he vowed to protect has turned its back on him . The prison adm inis tration knows that R andolf's cover has been blown but it has left him to survive on his own. I just can't be lieve that the system would leave a white ex-poljceman in (he'same po sition that it has left R a n d o lf in. R an d o lf is not in any danger from Black prisoners but the same can’ t be said for the rest o f the po p ula tion. I f something should happen to him I wonder what the adm inistra tion would do— it certainly can't say it protected him when every con on the yard knows he was a cop. Once again we need to bear in mind that color has to be given consideration in this situation because there is a crew o f white inmates that live, eat, sleep and work in the prison hospi tal and all o f them have question able backgrounds. They never have to hit the mainline unless they want to — why can ’t R an d o lf Sm ith re ceive the same treatment? Portland w o m en visit Barbados, Trinidad Six members o f the Rose C ity M inisters Wives were among one thousand ministers’ wives and w i dows who attended their convention on the Caribbean island Barbados. Those joining the tour from Port land were: Sis. E lizabeth W a rre n , President; Sis. N ata lie Law rence, Financial Secretary; Sis. Glendene Isaac, Recording Secretary; Sis. Louise Pritchett, Regional Director; Sis. Ernestine Banks; and Sis. Ber nice Hunter, Treasurer. Sunday was spent in Sunday morning service with National Pres ident M uriel Johnson o f Roosevelt, N . Y. Everyone joined in a commu nion service that evening. On M o n d ay there was a Jolly Roger tour on the Caribbean, with lunch at sea. Some o f the members took the opportunity to swim in the clear, blue waters. Tuesday began w ith a picnic at the nation's largest park, followed by classes in leadership, music, elec tions, etc. W ednesday brought a tour o f the island and a shopping spree. Following the close o f the conven tion, the Rose City Ministers* Wives took a tour to Trinidad. There they stayed at the upside-down H ilto n Hotel in Port-of-Spain and enjoyed the tro pical splendor o f that city. Rosa City Ministers Wives visit Barbados Am ong the sites visited were G o v ernment House and Savanah N a tional Museum. On Sunday m orn ing some women visited St. John Baptist Church while others traveled to La Brea, T rinidad, to attend the Independent Baptist Mission and Mount Pleasant in Sabo village. The visitors saw cocoa, sugar cane, bananas and nutmeg g ro w ing, and saw the lake where tar is mined. 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