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First Full-Fledged California Honor Camp
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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