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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OSSCON First Full-Fledged California Honor Camp wvaiMT. Aoaotr n im By ANN H. PEARSON United Press International Susanville, Calif. -flIPJJ- Man and nature are conserving each other in a unique prison without bars near here in a valley ringed by the Sierra Nevada. The California Conservation Center, with 1,200 inmates, is a new approach to penology. Here, social outcasts are learning to take their place in society by protecting and developing California's vast forests and recreation lands. The center was dedicated this summer to the proposi tion that inmates - and the state that confined them -can help themselves by help ing each other. The brick, buff and blue complex sprawls over several acres of a dry, flat, brushy valley. The inmates, in blue shirts and blue jeans, work inside and outside its walls learning how to fight forest fires, build trails, develop firebreaks, clear streams fight forest pests and diseases, replant lands, and perform many other tasks for the state. The center grew out of the honor camp program. It is the I detergent. ' first time the honor camp concept has been applied to a full-fledged prison. The center will serve as a training ground. From it, men will be funneled out to Cali fornia's growing chain of con servation camps - now 34 - to work in the woods for the state division of forestry. California pioneered the honor camp about 17 years ago. The Magalia camp is typical. Enclosed only by a low split-rail fence. Its wooden buildings nestle in the trees. Its 80 inmates live in dormi tories and work in open shops, fields, or deep in the forest. When a fire call sounds, crews board a bus, armed with axes, picks and saws, for what may be days and nights of dirty, exhausting and danger ous work. The pay for in mates is $15 a month. The conservation center's job is to fill these camps with men who are trained and con ditioned for the heavy work. No Guards in Towers The center is constructed of huge quadrangles, enclos ing yards that will be planted with grass. The building walls are the only walls. There are no guards in gun towers. Nor are there bars. The men live in dormitories, which also serve as units for coun seling. There are 290 correc tions and forestry officers. Statistics have proved the value of the honor camp pro gram. Many of its carefully selected inmates have return ed to society as responsible citizens. Only a few inmates have chosen to walk way. The same success is forecast for the center. What makes the difference between this and conventional Approved prisons? Corrections officers - and prisoners - cite two main fac tors: the work, and the free dom. The work, by its nature, is a challenge. To fight a fire, break a trail, or clear a stream requires physical fitness, de termination. Each inmate wants to prove himself as good as the next man. The work, at the same time, provides a sense of accom plishment. The men seem to appreciate the value of pro tecting and rehabilitating for ests and of constructing rec- by B 3 Siaie reatton facilities. The work also puts prison ers side-by-side with forestry personnel, from whom pris oners learn there are ways of combatting life's problems without violating laws. Reipeci Good Deal Inmates make a point of the "freedom." They say a man will try hard to keep in line because he knows he has a good deal at the center or at a camp, and he doesn't want to go back to the cramped cells and idleness of a conven tional prison. Gov. Edmund G. Brown put it this way when he dedicated the center: "Not many years ago . , . prisons were crime schools which men left bitter and vengeful . . . these build ings represent hope." And, he - said, "without these inmates, California could not afford these proj ects." The public reaction to the program has changed from concern to appreciation. The city of Auburn, where prison crews held back a for est fire from the city's edge, said in citation "there was averted by and through the WHITE MAGIC Make your next wash . bright like magic. 49!4 Oz. Pkg. add e S II U I auce HIGHWAY Especially good to serve with delicious Safeway pork. No. 303 can (0) $ FOR aby Food wtm Strained fruits and vegetables, and fruit juices in glass. 4'a oz. $ FOR Folge Save on Coffee! Mb. Can rs Mbi. 97c 3 , b, $1.45 Instant 4 es. 99c ,o.,. $1.49 Deviled Ham Instant Coffee Dessert Topping Underwood. Whole ham goodness. 2Vi oz. can Sunshln. famous fudge cookie. - 16 or. pkg. Chase & Sanborn 6 oz. jar Town Pride. 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Each Fresh end Head Peaches, or Graventtein Applet Your A Choicel U lbs. 15c 15c 49c Onions u."bunh..3 1 Sc Bell Peppers 5Ci 5c assistance of these men a tragedy which would have scarred our community for years to come." A resident near the Magalia camp wrote: "We feel it is a great advantage to have the camp close to our home . . . in fact, they've been the best of neighbors." The state's confidence in the program Is demonstrated by its plana to open three more centers. By 1967, plans call for more than 7.900 men in centers and camps. . Outdoor Cookery Contests Planned At Oregon Event CorVallla nuMnn. mnk. ery contests will be included for the first time this year in 4-H events at the lafla rtr. gon State Fair. Several other contests will have a different look. Outdoor cookery, a fast- growing 4-H educational pro gram, has been represented in the past only by exhibits, reports Miss Lois Redman, Oregon State university state 4-H agent. The new contests are planned for an outside area near the 4-H-FFA build ing and should prove popular with fairgoers, she said. Outdoor cooks in the 12 to 14 age bracket will be requir ed to build a fire and prepare meat and one other dish. In the senior contest, partici pants will be asked to prepare a complete meal and to serve it. Dollar Dinner' Another food preparation contest will be found under a new name this . year. The dollar dinner," long a stand ard 4-H name, has been re placed by meal preparation contest. The name, which originally meant serving four people fir $1, has outlived its usefulness, she explained. However, the purpose of the contest is still to teach 4- H club members to serve eco nomically priced meals that are nutritious and pleasing to the eye and taste. Some of the contest rules are new this year also. In the intermediate division, the young cooks will be asked to prepare . only a two-course luncheon instead of the full course dinner of past years. Senior girls will still prepare a full dinner. For the first time, girls may work in teams in both divisions. - Participants in the interme diate luncheon contest must not exceed 80 cents per per son in costs. The senior din ner contest maximum is fl per person, Miss Redman said. Find Som. Chang. Fairgoers who like to watch the young 4-H cooks show their skill In food preserva tion also will find . some changes In that contest this year, Miss Redman noted, as efforts are made to increase the educational value of the event to the 4-H club member. This year, intermediate contest participants may show their food preservation skill by either canning or freezing or by making Jam or jelly. In the past, the con test was limited to canning. In addition to showing their skill in food preservation, the contestants will be asked to show one way of using the food that was prepared. Entrants in the senior food preservation contest will not be asked to freeze or can food during the event this year. Instead, they will bring food witii them that is already processed and use It to pre pare a quick meal for four people. They will be judged on both their food preserva tion and meal preparation. Oranges Juicy Sunklst Valencies. 5 SI Gang Beating Nets 10 Years in Prison Salem - (On - William L Roy Berry, 18, Salem, was sentenced to 10 yean in the state penitentiary Wednesday for his part in the gang beat ing of John Parchman, 78, at his South Salem home May 29. Berry was the third of five youths charged in the attack to be sentenced. Parchman remained in crit ical condition at a Silverton nursing home. Berry was accused of stab bing Parchman in the eye when the five youths -raided his shack. Louis Zahler, a companion, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. ( ' Another of the youths, Don ald Dow, 19, was committed to MacLaren School for Boys. John Blschoff, 18, and Dale Wheeler, 19, pleaded guilty last week to reduced charges of assault and battery and are In jail awaiting sen U. 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