Page 2 Portland Observer, April 1,1982
Kelly heads Home Improvement Council
NEIL KELLY
Neil Kelly has been elected presi
dent o f the N a tio n a l H om e Im
provement Council.
C hairm an o f the Board o f P o rt
land’s Neil Kelly Designer/Remod
elers, Kelly was unanimously elected
at N H IC ’s Board o f Directors meet
ing held during the C o u n c il’ s na
tional convention in Houston, this
month.
C iting the rapidly increasing de
mand fo r rem odeling through the
United States, Kelly said he would
dedicate his year as president to en
couraging more effective use o f the
association’ s legislative voice, in
creasing national and chapter mem
bership and renewing efforts to help
contractors become m ore profes
sional and proficient.
Kelly has been active in the N a
tional Home Improvement Council
for more than fourteen years. In ad
d itio n to serving as president o f
N H I C ’ s Oregon C h ap ter (O regon
Remodelers A ssociation) he has
»k* national organization in
many capacities, the most recent
being first vice president and C o n
vention Program Committee C hair
man.
K elly is a frequent speaker at
home building and remodeling con
ferences throu g h o u t the U n ite d
States, and his firm is one o f the 10
largest in gross sales in the United
Prostitution:
The police hold no answers
Part IV
by Harris Levon McRae
Irate citizens ask why prostitutes
cannot be taken o f f the streets.
Where are the police?
The law states that a person who
agrees to a sex act for a fee is com
m itting prostitution; all that is ne
cessary to break the law is to agree
to com m it the act fo r a specific
price. So why are the prostitutes still
on the street?
Even thous the law forbids both
pim ping and buying sex fro m a
prostitute, the prostitutes and not
the pimps or customers are usually
arrested. Still, many Portland citi
zens do not feel that enough prosti
tutes are being arrested.
“ I think prostitution is immoral.
Now the cops even chat with them.
There is much more o f it these days.
I know the police have their prob
lems but they could slow it down—
c o n tro l it; it's way out o f hand
now,” said one business person.
I talked to several business
owners in areas that prostitutes fre
quent and then went downtown to
talk to Captain Tobin, head o f the
Drug and Vice Division o f the Port
land Police Department, to get to
day’s story.
One shop owner told me, “ I t ’ s
embarrassing fo r me and my cus
tomers to see ’hookers’ out there on
the comer. It doesn’t add to a busi
ness atmosphere. The more you call
the cops, the more prostitutes are
out there. I have seen the police jo k
ing w ith them and bringing them
coffee.”
I asked Captain Tobin about this
and he shed some light on the sub
ject:
“ Prostitutes are a good source of
in fo rm a tio n fo r a police o ffic e r.
The prostitute on the street sees and
hears a lot. M any o f the bad guys
talk to prostitutes all the time. There
isn’t an awful lot a uniformed o ffi
cer can do about pro stitu tion . He
can watch a person for a while and
then make a loitering arrest if a per
son is engaged in conduct sufficient
to show that they are loitering for
prostitution,” he said.
There is a very thin line though
between loitering, and, say, waiting
for a ride from a friend.
“ I f a woman keeps waving cars
over, talking short periods o f time
and sometimes getting into the car
and sometimes not, we know some
thing is going on. Out o f 72 prosti
tu tio n charges last m o n th , eight
were fo r lo ite r in g ," the C ap tain
said.
1 told Captain Tobin that a couple
o f prostitutes seemed to have the
vice squad’s bust pattern down pat.
H e rep lied, “ Prostitutes on the
streets usually think they have our
pattern set. This gets them in to
trouble with us as well as the other
prostitutes that they tell the pattern
to .”
N o t all business people are
against women being on the street
selling sex to earn a living. One busi
ness owner told me th a t, “ They
know their lim its, they know what
they can or can ’ t do. They d o n ’ t
bother business people that much.
I t ’s the oldest game in the world—
they ain’t gonna stop it now.”
I m entioned e a rlie r that even
though the law forbids both
pim ping and buying sex from a
prostitute, it is usually the prosti
tutes who are arrested. One result o f
the prostitutes being defined as
criminals is that it leaves prostitutes
unwilling to turn in their pimps—
and i f the pimps a ren ’ t turned in,
they can’t be prosecuted.
“ There is a lot o f pressure from
the community for the police to ar
rest the John [customer]. We have a
lot o f fem ale o ffic ers used as de
coys. The John will drive up and ne
gotiate the whole deal with a female
officer and she will make the arrest
(w ith the help o f back-up u n its),”
Captain Tobin said.
Street prostitution is prevalent all
over the city o f Portland: on Sandy
B lvd., on U nion A ve ., downtown,
on Burnside— all over.
“ There are a lot o f women that
have chosen p ro s titu tio n as their
profession. They may have chosen it
for any number o f reasons— lack o f
training skills, no motivation to go
to school, no matter what you do to
force some o f these women in to a
rehabilitation program, they will go
back,” Captain Tobin said.
One thing that business people
and police officials alike believe is
that “ prostitution is here to stay.”
Captain Tobin: “ Hard time in my
opinion is not the answer but the po
lice or criminal justice system has to
provide an a lte rn a tiv e . M ayb e a
work release program. I know that
in P o rtlan d we need to be able to.
take the prostitute o ff the street and
put them into some type o f govern
ment custody.”
There are several ways that wom
en can be helped and supported as
far as leaving prostitution or never
getting involved in it. W e— our so
ciety— need to have a large-scale
program o f support and services
which realizes how severe the situa
tion o f a woman trying to stay out
o f p ro s titu tio n is. T h e support
should include food and a place to
sleep, counseling and help in devel
oping other economic alternatives
such as a jo b or educational p ro
gram.
“ Some o f the churches have been
trying to help women who are in
volved in p ro stitu tio n . They con
tacted the girls personally in a lov
ing approach. They have had some
positive response. Some girls are
leaving the streets and starting to at
tend church,” Captain Tobin said.
“ There is a need to keep teen-age
girls from going into prostitution. I f
you can get them when they are
young, you have a good chance o f
being able to help them. When they
are 18 and over it is usually their
chosen profession and very little can
be done to keep them from going
back to the street.”
India studies CIA activity
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has
announced a juridical committee to
investigate C IA a ctiv ity in In d ia .
The magazine In d ia Observer has
charged that a large number o f
In d ia n intellectu als, po litician s,
jo u rn alists and businessmen are
working for the C IA .
Interest in C IA activity was re
cently renewed by the expulsion of a
U .S. research team for neighboring
Pakistan. David N elin, head o f the
Medical Research Center o f P aki
stan, in Lahore, was asked to leave
the country follow ing the publica
tion o f an article on his work in th
Soviet magazine L ite ra tu rn a ic
C azeta. Nelin said, “ O u r jo b is to
develop a new type o f super mosqui
to ” that would elim inate the com
mon mosquitos that are the carriers
o f m alaria and other diseases. He
admitted that the experiments could
also be used for biological warfare.
T he research center headed by
Nelin was a branch o f the University
o f M a ry la n d and its work was
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supervised by the U.S. consul in La
hore and a local representative o f
the Agency for International Devel-
opment (A ID ). Some o f A ID ’S staff
is reported to w ork fo r the C IA .
Two generals o f the Pakistani army
also are on the staff, as military ex
perts.
The magazine article charged that
N elin was developing m osquito-
borne bacteria for use against A f
ghanistan.
Although the C IA dismissed the
report as “ Soviet propaganda,” the
State Departm ent confirm ed that
Nelin was deported and the research
center closed. A s im ilar research
center was closed in In d ia in 1972
when evidence was produced to
show that it was involved in C IA
plans for biological warfare.
The appearance o f mysterious vi
ruses in crops and outbreaks o f
strange diseases lead to the fear that
India is the target o f U .S. chemical
and biological weapons.
Cases o f sudden diseases o f the
liver and outbreaks o f conjunctivit
is, meningitis, and encephalitis have
been reported in d ifferent parts o f
India since mid-1981. Agricultural
workers have been seriously affect
ed by the mysterious appearance o f
the so-called “ green disease.” T o
bacco workers are hit by the strange
disease that causes respiratory dis
orders, vomiting and dizziness.
Experts were taken by surprise by
the destruction o f large fru it and
vegetable plantations north o f New
Delhi this fall.
Indian media has warned (hat In
dia and other nations bordering the
Indian Ocean may become guinea
pigs in experiments w ith new U .S .
chemical weapons transported by
U .S. ships operating in the Indian
Ocean.
An article in the N ational H erald
warned o f the peril o f chemical war
fare being developed by the U .S .,
pointing out that chemical and nu
clear weapons at the Diego Garcia
military base, just 1200 miles from
India, have a range o f 4,000 miles.
States.
The N a tio n a l H o m e Im p ro v e
ment Council is the largest trade as
sociation representing all segments
o f the remodeling industry. Its 3,500
member com panies include con
tracto rs, m a n u factu rers, w h o le
salers, utilities, lenders and publish
ing concerns.
Kelly and his w ife , A rlene, have
eight children.
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