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. They enjoyed the friendship
o f the local women they met in Bar
bados and Trinidad.
There are alternatives'*
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