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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1970)
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Rada Family Has Reunion Here 3—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Aug. 13, 1970 IA, Salem Scene Guest of honor for the large I by Jsck Zimmermsn reunion of the Rada family, former long-time residents WORK RELEASE PROGRAM here, held at Fishermen’s Bend GOOD TRANSITION PLAN ticipants are being trusted for on Sunday, August 9, was Think it’s tough finding the first time and there is an Emil Rada of Vlrovitica, Yugo I work right now? element of risk. slavia, who arrived for his first You ought to be in prison “If we didn’t take any chanc visit to the United States on and try getting a job. es,” he decleared, “the percent- July 22,it also being his first Even when times are good : age of failures might be as low trip by air. He was the broth you’d imagine it would be dif as three per cent.” er of Frank Rada, Louis Rada, ficult finding work under Participants naturally are and Frances Moravec (Mrs. those circumstances. Neverthe carefully screened by prison Antone), all former residents less, during the last four years rehabilitation people and close of Mill City for many years, some 367 Oregon businesses, in ly supervised throughout the but now deceased. dustries and institutions—qui program. Average tenure in Most impressed by Ameri etly and without fanfare, have work release is about six can mechanization, especially employed 1,230 prison inmates. months before the inmate wins on the farms, and the auto They have worked for almost parole. matic operation of so many of every type of employer imag The State Employment Divi ! our commonplace appliances inable and collectively have sion recently has been assist and equipment. Mr. Rada will ‘ earned $1,466,278. ing the Corrections Division in (drive to Los Angeles with Dr. This segment of the Oregon actual job placement. Men ! and Mrs. Edward Rada and labor force came into being chosen for work release live family and Is to return to Yu- after the 1965 Legislature pas in closely supervised quarters, | goslavia on August 26. The sed a law creating the Correc travel to and from work on a sole surviving Rada aunt is tions Division’s “work release” strict time schedule by public Mrs. Anna Rada of Virovitica program. Work release is de transportation and are requir where both Frank Rada and signated to provide transitional ed to “bank” their earnings his wife originated. employment prior to parole with the program. The John Martins (Mary and release. There’s no stopping off for a Rada) of Portland, the Rudy ‘“It goes a long way toward beer with the boys on the way Radas of Pendleton, and the easing the shock between the. I home from the job for work Ed Radas of Pasadena, Calif., hignly structured life behind! | release participants. Visits to have each visited their aunt bars and the freedom of the girlfriends, owning or driving and uncle in Yugoslavia with outside world,” according to a vehicle of any kind and many in the past three years. Mrs. Garland D. odby, director of other restrictions mean an ex Martin was born in Yugo transitional programs. tremely stranght and narrow slavia, Rudy and Eddie in Mill And it’s proving its worth path they must follow. City. A result of their visit also in inmate rehabilitation And for those who flunk the 1 was to arrange for Emil Rada’s and as a saving to Oregon tax experience, it’s likely to be one trip to the United States. payers. Those same gainfully of these transgressions that About 95 persons attended employed 1200-odd work re put them back behind bars the reunion, most of them rela- lease participants have paid rather than an outright escape I tives of the visitor who is the something like $300,000 in taxes or -etum to crime. I brother-in-law of Mrs. Mary during the four-year period, Work release is not unquie Rada Caswell of Springfield; another $320,000 has been re to Oregon. It had its U. S. be uncle of Mr. and Mrs. Tom turned to the Oregon economy ginnings in Wisconsin in 1913, I Morris (Barbara Rada) of Mill for purchases of clothing, In extended into North Carolina | City, Mr. and Mrs. Copeland cidental spending money, trans in 1958 and today some 34 (Carolyn Rada) of Springfield, portation and minor medical states have similar programs. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moravec expense. And a like amount Firmly established in Ore of Eugene, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie has been “saved” because work gon now, the program has few Moravec of Gladstone, Mr. and release participants pay their critics and is well accepted by Mrs. John Martin (Mary Rada) own board and room. employers throughout the of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Ru Gov. Tom McCall,, then se state. But work release partici-! dolf Rada of Pendleton, and cretary of state and long an Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rada of advocate of prison rehabilita pants do have something in' Pasadena, Calif., also Mrs. tion reform, hired one of the common with their so-called Rose Capek from Lisle, Ill., first two work release appli free segment of the labor force. cousin of Mr. and Mrs. Ed cants as a Capitol grounds They obtain and hold their Drapela of Milwaukie, Mrs. keeper. Another went to worv. jobs on their own merit When Mary Harper of Grants Pass, for the governor as a field em jobs are scarce they find it as cousin by marriage of Mr. and ploye at $500 a month less than difficult as anyone else to get Mrs. Joe Toman of Stayton, two years ago and now is be work. and Mrs. Frank Drapela of ing considered for an adminis Usually there are from 10 to Eugene. trative position direction 14 15 qualified work release appli Children of relatives present: other persons at $1,100 a cants waiting for jobs. Today, with Oregon employment at re Mr. and Mrs. James Ray( Tam month. ara Morris) and daughter of Another outstanding example lative high levels, the Employ Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Terry of the program’s value involves ment Division reports 20 to 35 Morris and son, Mill City; Mr. a participant employed as a work release applicants willing and Mrs. Russell Strand (Lin teacher In another state insti but unable to work. da Copeland) and two sons, tution. He enjoys his work so and Miss Barbara Copeland, much he turned down parole Springfield; Mr. and Mrs. Mich to stay on the job and has ael Moravec, Gladstone; Mr. $4,000 in the bank. and Mrs. Patterson (Carol Mor These are exceptions, maybe. avec) and daughter, Mulina; And not all applicants find Mr. and Mrs. McDowell (Gloria their niche in work release. Martin), two daughters and Over the 4 yeares administrat one son, Portland; Mrs. Helen ors report 77 per cent have Martin Gately, son and daugh-j been returned to society in a ter, Oregon City; Mr. and Mrs.! productive capacity — with a Robert Rada, Portland; Mr. job and money in their pockets and Mrs. Roger Rada, La- on their day of release. Grande; Paul Rada of Pendle Of the remaining 23 per cent, ton; Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ra Gov. Tom McCall, then se- da, Cheyenne, Wyo.; David Ra improper to label them all da of Pasadena, but now with failures. "The percentagle is ‘toler Forest Service at Enterprise; Eddie Rada of Pasadena; (the able,’,” the governor claims. fourth son, Bill, his wife and “Seldom are perpetrators of baby daughter are in Taiwan); violent crimes permitted to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Drapela. participate in work release. two sons and two daughters, Nonetheless, many of the par- and Dan Drapela, all of Mil waukie, Ore.; Mr. and Mrs. Blacksmith (Edna), a son and a grandson, Grants Pass; Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Judy) and son, Lake Oswego; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Drapela and two sons and two daughters, Salem; and Ch» Bibit i Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Drapela, Pray for one another. | two daughters and one son, of —(James 5:16) I Eugene. In praying for another, our I Among special family friends ¡attending the affair were Mr. prayer should first of all be a I and Mrs. John Klotz (cousin) recognition of him as a child of Beaverton, and niece, Gloria of God, a spiritual being. Our Bahnik, who arrived from Yu prayer should be a prayer of I goslavia on the same plane faith that sees him as filled | with Mr. Emil Rada (Mrs. with God’s Spirit, as possess | Klotz was a niece of Mrs. ing strength and abilities and ' Frank Rada); Mrs. Ida Carey powers that enable him to meet of Mill City (sister of Mrs. and overcome his problems. Mary Caswell) and her son, Our prayer for him should be Phil Carey and children; and a prayer of thanksgiving. Cecil Wilson of Canby (hus- [ band of Anna Moravec, deceas- | ed). Mr. and Mrs. Munson Dowd, sister and brother-in- | law of Mrs. Ed Rada, were also here from southern Cali- ' fomia, and will join other rel- I atives of their family in a re- ' union next Sunday, August 16. 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