Portland Observer, May 8, 1985, Page 3
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Heidi Durrow. City Hell intern, with Mayor Bud Clark
(Photo Richard J Brown!
Durrow: next mayor?
by Robert Lothian
Heidi Durrow wants to be Presi­
dent o f the United Stales someday.
But first, she'd like to be mayor o f
Portland.
The ambitious 15-year-okl Jeffer­
son High School sophomore is getting
a head start on her political career by
interning at City Hall.
Learning the ropes, Heidi helps out
in the various departments o f the
mayor’ s office, doing typing, paper­
work and odd jobs. She attended a
dinner with a member o f the mayor’ s
staff, and she listens in on City Coun­
cil sessions.
Heidi gets school credit for her vol­
unteer work, about six hours each
Wednesday.
Once, she called someone on rou­
tine C ity Hall business who was over­
joyed to gel a call from the mayor’s
office.
’ ’ And that’s pretty neat, to be the
mayor’ s office,” said Heidi. "The
guy was really impressed.”
On a recent Wednesday she typed
a volunteer list for the Guadalajara
sister city organization. She worked
with Gloria l.eon-collins, assistant to
the mayor for sister city programs
Heidi said her political involvement
began last fall and winter in the Herb
Cawthorne campaign. She pul in
many volunteer hours canvassing,
phoning and relating the Cawthorne
message with a bull horn on election
morning.
During the campaign she met Ollie
Smith, now the mayor’s assistant
for youth affairs. Smith approached
her about volunteering at City Hall
“ The main reason Heidi is here is
lo learn what goes on in city govern­
ment,” said Smith. “ She’s got some
definite purpose in life. She’s a prov­
en leader already.”
The ambitious teenager sets high
goals — she would like to go to H ar­
vard and study law, she said
An actress, Heidi has performed in
19 student play productions at the
Interstate firehouse Cultural Center,
where she is student director A pic
ture o f Heidi in her "T ig e r" suit ap­
peared in the Oregonian when she
performed in “ Winnie the Pooh.”
Heidi said that the first lime she
met Bud Clark she was in her Tiger
suit. "T h a i's how he remembers me,”
she said. She has also met commis­
sioner Mildred Schwab
"T hey're all politicians,” she said
" I hear how they relate. You hear
little bits but you learn a lot bs just
being around.”
" I t ’s exciting, seeing all these peo­
ple" when big issues like the nuclear
free zone and the C orinto sister city
resolution are being debated, she said
If she could be mayor for a day.
Heidi said she would get all the ethnic
organizations and constituencies to­
gether and have them choose repre­
sentatives. “ Then we could sit down
and see if we could work out a plan
and do something. And I ’ m sure we
co u ld ," she said
Gn youth, " I think they should get
involved and they need to learn to
express themselves. A lot o l people
dye their hair and other things but
they aren't being heard.
"Y o u don't have a lobby, and we
don't have a vote. In some ways,
we’ re not really people But we can
still be heard if we get involved.”
Smith described Heidi's work d u r­
ing the Cawthorne campaign as im ­
pressive. "W e ’ve got to recognize
some o f these young folk who are
leaders in the com m unity,” he said
Smith announced that the mayor's
office, in conjunction with the Private
Industry Council, has budgeted
$700,000 tor up lo 2,500 youth sum
mer jobs.
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281-4372
Lloyd Stevenson Fund
The Royal Esquire Club is spon­
soring a community program for
youth and underprtvHedged citizens
o f North/Northeast Portland.
The program A.D.S. (Addiction
Diagnostic Services) provides alcohol
and drug treatment services to youth
and underpriviledged citizens. It is
located at 1223 N. E. Alberta. P ort­
land. A.D .S. has enjoyed widespread
support from citizens, businesses and
professional offices in the Albina
area, as well as the Portland Metro
area in general. A.D.S. is the only
diagnostic service for "P o ly Intoxi­
cants A d d ictio n " (P I A .) in Oregon
but receives no federal, state, county
or city funds A.D.S. receives refer
rals from schools, businesses and
many private citizens throughout
Oregon and Washington, requesting
diagnostic and treament services.
The Royal Esquire Club is proud
to jo in a long list o f community sup­
porters to help provide this most
valuable community service.
Thomas Boothe, president o f
A D S ., says as far as he knows he
heads the only alcohol and drug diag­
nostic and treatment service in the
Northwest to use a “ poly intoxicants
addiction" procedure. Boothe lurthcr
said “ that treatment centers private
and publicly funded treat either alco­
hol or drug symptoms: for instance,
an alcohol treatment center claiming
success for a client/patient results in
the person becoming alcohol free But
more often than not, the person be­
comes addicted to valium, marijuana,
cocaine and other non liquid drugs,
along with a measurable increase in
coffee consumption and cigarette
smoking A drug treatment center
claiming success for a client/patient
often results in the person becoming
addicted to beer, wine and licit drugs
including methodone in many cases.
Boothe goes on to say that he believes
before a treatment center can pro­
vide g ixxl long term treatment, it
must provide accurate diagnosis. In
our society itxlay, the alcoholic
and the "ju n k ie " are no longer spe­
cific terms describing people with
drug problems. Today and esjxcially
among our young people, they take
many chemicals into their bodies in
many wavs in order to become intoxi­
cated Most young people have lateral
addictions involving several chemical
substances, which I call "p o ly
intoxicants." Treatment centers in
this area have no procedures nor
treatment plans for effectively treat
ing poly intoxicants addiction, with
the exception o f A D S., o f course.
Boothe concludes by saying "he
plans to train alcohol and drug treat­
ment counselors in the skill o f diag­
nosing and treating poly intoxicants
addiction, thus providing a higher
quality o f care for their clients, plus
a better prognosis for the client."
tact the N N A A C at the Portland
A rt Museum. A ll entries must be in
by August 30, 1985. People wishing to
join the Council can call the Portland
Art Museum, 226-2811, membership
dues are $50.
“ The N N A A C is an educational
group whose goal is to stimulate inter­
est and increase knowledge about In ­
dian art. It brings together Native
American artists, other individuals,
and groups who share enthusiasm for
this a rt." said Barbara Becker, Pres­
ident
The Northwest Native American
Arts Council o f the Portland Art
Museum announced today a competi­
tion to create an original logo for the
newly formed organization. Any
Northwest Indian is eligible to submit
a design, and the winner w ill be
awarded a prize o f $350. the logo,
which w ill be used on all the Council’ s
printed material, should feature a
fusion o f design elements typical o f
northwest interior and coastal Indian
an Native American artists wishing
to enter the competition should con-
advi r u m m i n i
Scientologists Are Solving
The Problems of Drug Abuse
In early 1984 the C hurch ol S cientology
subm itted docum ents to the Canadian M inis
ter ot External Attairs and to the U S Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) revealing that the
Canadian. U S and B ritish p sych ia tric com
m um ties had received tunds from the U S and
C anadian governm ents to carry out secret and
brutal m ind con tro l experim ents Between
1956-1965 these experim ents were c o n ­
ducted on u n w ittin g Canadian citizens w ith
such m ind bending drugs as LSD
Canada was chosen as the site lo r these
tests It was not until 1960 that Canada had a
Charter o f Rights to protect its citizens from
such abuses At the tim e ot the C hurch's s u b ­
m ission nine victim s ot these savage e x p e ri­
ments were suing the CIA for $ 1 m illio n apiece
(Or the harm they had sustained at the hands
ot the psychiatrists
The C hurch asked the Canadian govern
merit to investigate and prosecute the actual
crim inals
the psychiatrists who had taken
the paym ents and then brutalized innocent
people N o investigation has occurred how
ever to date
The treatm ents used by the psychiatrists
in clud ed dru g-in du ced deep sleep periods
lasting up to 60 days du rin g w hich the unw it
ting and often un w illin g subjects were given
n u m e ro u s d e va sta tin g e le c tro c o n vu lsive
shock treatm ents Subjects were also given
repeated applications of m ind a lte rin g drugs
such as LSD. often against their will
The C h urch has also exposed the reckless
testing of deadly chem ical substances on
u n w ittin g Am erican citizens by the C IA and by
other U S governm ent agencies
These
exposes have detailed tor exam ple how some
1 000 U S fig h tin g men were used as hum an
guinea pigs in m ind c o n tro l'' experim ents
w ith LSD and other even more pow erful m m d-
bendm g drugs at the Arm y s Edgewood A rse­
nal and elsewhere from 1954 to 1975
Irresponsible actions such as these by our
own governm ent help to explain why drug
abuse in Am erica has been allow ed to reach
such alarm in g pro po rtions
A ccord in g lo recent estim ates the United
Stales has some 32 m illio n m arijuana users
m ore than 30 m illio n people who take p s y c h i­
atric drugs 492 000 heroin addicts and more
than 12 m illio n cocaine users
W hile the federal governm ent estim ates that
an in cred ible $53 b illio n are spent by A m e ri­
cans on illic it dru gse ach year, there is rem a rk­
ably little governm ent e ffo rt to handle drug
problem s and still less work to prevent them
For nearly 35 years, the C hurch of S cie n to l­
ogy has seen that drugs are a destructive in flu ­
ence in life and has helped tens ot thousands
of in dividu als recover from their dam aging
effects
The C hurch's work in the prevention and
re d u ctio n o t drug abuse and drug-related
crim e expanded greatly in 1966 when a heroin
addict serving tim e on his fo u rth sentence to
Arizona State Prison. W illie Benitez found
that his 19-year drug a d diction problem ,
w hich had forced him in to a life ot crim e
resolved throu gh his studies ot the w orks of
S cientology Founder L Ron H ubbard
Determ ined to help his fellow inm ates w ith
sim ilar drug problem s Benitez founded an
organ izatio n called Narconon The word
com es from non-narcosis, m eaning fre e ­
dom from the stupor produced by drugs
Narconon grew spreading beyond the A ri­
zona prison s walls as men and wom en found
they cou ld live a new happier and m ore p ro s ­
perous hie
w ithout drugs
N arconon today is thriving w ith hundreds
ot staff operating dozens ot centers in the Unit
ed States and in many countries overseas
W ith nine new centers opening in the United
States. Holland Spam and Italy in 1984 N a r­
con on is the fastest gro w in g d ru g re h a b ilita ­
tio n program in the world
As the C hurch ot S cientology itself has
expanded, its work has im proved the lives of
hundreds of thousands of people W ith its
strong em phasis on the value of d ru g eduea
tio n the C hurch has been d ia m e trica lly
opposed to massive governm ent support ot
program s w hich foster drug use in c lu d in g the
b illio n s spent each year on psych ia tric drugs
A ltho ug h the effectiveness of our technol
ogy m salvaging people from the dam aging
in flue nce ot drugs and our exposes of brutal
go vernm ent-funded psychiatric experim ents
have met with op p o sitio n Irom vested in te r­
ests w ho stand to pro fit from a drugged Amer
ica ou r work in m aking these abuses know n
and freeing people from drugs w ill con tinu e
The C hurch of S cientology, in its c o n tin u ­
ing war against the harm ful effects of drugs is
daily b rin g in g about the m iraculous freeing of
in dividu als Irom these to xic substances
Success stories by the thousands have
poured in from people all over the world
The C h urch has observed in case after
case that an in dividu al who has been freed
from the nu m bing effects of dru gs is better
able not only to help him self, but to take
greater resp on sibility lo r others around him ,
and for the society as a whole
An in dividu al thus freed is m ore him self and
is better able to pursue his ow n true goals in
life un clouded by the tog o, drugs
The C hurch o l S cientology w ill con tinu e to
expose those who w ould betray their fellow
man for the personal pro fit to be had in p e d ­
d lin g drugs The C hurch is com m itted to fre e ­
dom for the individual, and freedom from
drugs m ust be part of this
For lurthor information, call Toll-Free I 800-36 7 8 /8 8
Desegregation
com. to meet
C hurch o l S cie n to lo g y*. O ffice ot Special Affairs
1413 N Berendo St , Los Angeles. CA 90027
The
desegregation
M onitoring
Advisory
Committee
w ill
meet
Wednesday, May 15, 1985, 7:00 to
9:00 p m at Vernon Elementary
School 2044 N T Killingsworth.
The agenda w ill include a report by
Betsy Geddes, Vernon principal;
completion o f report by Aletha Cha-»'
vis on the district's stragegy for A f
firmative Action in staff hiring, and
follow up plans for an evaluation o f
the individual school reports.
Phone 284 2157 for more inform «
tion.
Between Realms
African Art from Portland Collections
M a v 10 - June 14.1985
( )|K*ninuReception l-ïiday May l<>. 5-Kpni
Grant writing
workshop offered
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The ( enter for Urban Education
will offer a two-session workshop in
grantwriting in May.
Wnting Grants: From Start to Finish,
a two-session workshop is set for May
9 and May 16, from 8:30 a m. to
11:30 a m. The steps involved in
grantwriting from conception to the
final product w ill be analyzed and
practiced.
Cost o f this two- session workshop
is $50 (CUE Associate $45).
Pre-registration is required. Con
tact the Center for Urban Education,
0245 SW Bancroft. Portland 97201
or call 22UNR4 for more information
We would like to announce the creation o f a trust fu n d to aid the fam ily o f
Lloyd Stevenson, who died from a police choke hold, April 20. 1965. Mr. Stev­
enson ’s death leaves his fam ily with not only the terrible loss o f a husband
and father, but o f a hard working bread winner as well. Those who wish to
help with any amount, big or small, should make t hecks pavable to: Lloyd
Stevenson Trust Lund, c /o Urban League. 10 N. Russell. Portland. Oregon
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Littman Gallery, White Gallery, and the Silver
Gallery Second Floor, Smith Memorial Center,
1S25 S W. Broadway, Portland State University
"Opening Reception featuring African Music
AN D Drum m ing by O bo Add^ “
97227.
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