PAGE I Monday, March 15, 1963
Women Prisoners Find Gratifying Future In Hospital Labor
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SALEM ilTi'-"I came into the
penitentiary without a future, no
interests, and I've found some
thing very gratifying and I'm
building a life of it."
The speaker was one of 11
women who dun special uniforms
in their prison cells here each
morning and drive off to put in
hard day's work in the State
Mental Hospital.
They are biking part in a pio.
necr program believed the only
one of its kind in the nation.
Dr. Harry Cloyd and Warden
Clarence Gladden say the pro
gram has seemed to contribute
substantially to rehabilitation.
CANCER VICTIM hOLDS HOPE Diane lindstrom, 1 8,
a Rockford, III., high school student, is shown in the
Chicago waiting room of the Illinois Masonic Hospital
Friday where she reported tor treatment with the con
troversial cancer drug Krebiozen. The drug reportedly
has arrested the tumor spread after four week s treat
ment. It was previously recommended that Diane's left
leg be amputated to halt the disease spread.
UPI Telephofo
Salinger Strikes Back
At Managed News Count
WASHINGTON (UPI) - White
House Press Secretary Pierre Sa
linger, striking back at critics of
the administration's information
policy, has accused unspecified
editors of publishing false or bias
stories amounting to "news man
agement in its purest form."
for the most part the news "is
being managed fairly by the news
organizations," Salinger told the
Women's National Press Club. But
he said there had been many laps
es recently.
Salinger, a former night city cdl
tor of the San Francisco Chronicle,
suggested a study to determine
"whether news is being 'managed'
In the public Interest" by the
press.
Tho statements were in reply to
charges by a group of editors
publishers and broadcasters who
told a House subcommittee Tues
day that the administration lied to
(lie press during the Cuban crisis.
The chairman of that subcom
mittee. John E. Moss, said he had
no doubt that somo editors "take
great iirjcnics witn tne news.
But he said this was not within
the scope of his information sub
committee, nor any other congres
sional committee.
Salinger said that "we in gov
ernment arc neither stupid enough
to believe wo can fool you or
clever enough to do it if wc
wanted to."
''We do not want to nor will we
deceive the American people. We
hope that you, as Journalists, will
uphold your vital (miction in the
role of telling the American peo
ple tho fuels."
Salinger said the government did
not lie to the public.
"The activities in Washington
Even numbers are unlucky to
the Malays, so they build the
stairs to their elevated homes with
an odd number of steps.
and around the world arc too
closely covered by the press to
make this possible," he said
even should an administration
have such a desire and I assure
you that lias not been and never
will be the policy of this administration."
He said his denial applied to
even the worst phase of the Cu
ban crisis.
"We did not lie to the American
people," Salinger said with re
spect to the Cuban crisis. "We
did not deprive the American peo
ple ot any information except that
which, for the highest national sc
curily, had to lie withheld from
our adversaries."
Typewriter
Purchase OK
SALEM I UPI i - The legisla
lure's recent purchase of electric
typewriters was conducted in a
proper manner. Legislative Fiscal
Officer Kenneth Bragg told the
Ways and Means Committee Friday.
The committee had asked for
the study after some legislators
criticized the purchase, which was
made without advertising (or bids.
The legislature purchased 45
IBM electric typewriters (or $19,
296. Bragg said the law docs not re
quire bids for such purchases by
the legislature or any constitution-
al office.
The order was placed by the
legislature with the assistant sec
retary of state, which ordered the
Finance and Administration De
partment to make the purchase.
Finance and Administration got
the governor's approval to make
the purchase without bids, Bragg
explained.
Bill Levels
Population
SALEM (UPI) - Rep. John
Mosscr, It Beaverton, introduced
bill Friday to redraw Oregon's
four congressional districts so that
each would have nearly the same
population.
The plan would divide Multno
mah County at the Willamette
River. The districts would be:
First: Benton, Douglas, Lane,
Unn and Marion Counties.
Second: Baker, Coos, Curry,
Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Hood
River, Harney, Jackson, Jeffer
son, Josephine, Klamath, Lake,
Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Uma
tilla, Union, Wallowa, Wheeler
and Wasco.
Third: Multnomah County cast
of the Willamette.
Fourth: Clackamas, Clatsop,
Columbia, Lincoln, Polk, Tilla
mook, Washington, Yamhill, and
Multnomah west o( the Willam
ette. . I
Eating Bad.
Says Dieter
LONG BEACH, Calif. UPI) -
Mrs. Mary Ferguson said today
her plan to shed 50 of her 244
pounds by fasting "is making a
new me out of me.
"I've found that eating isn't loo
terribly necessary," said Mrs.
Ferguson at the halfway point ot
her two-week (ast. "It's really a
very bad habit wc acquire to
compensate for our feeling of in
adequacy."
Since confining hersclt to a ho
tel last Sunday, the 5-foot-2, 3G-
year-old Mrs. Ferguson said she
has lost a total of 10' pounds.
She said she is fasting before she
buys a new Easter dress.
Cheered on by letters sent by
rooters across the nation, Mrs.
Ferguson said she spends most of
her lime knitting, watching tele
vision and answering letters. Site
is on a liquid diet of coffee, tea
and bouillon.
This fasting seems to bring
wonderful tranquility to you," she
said, "and 1 highly recommend
it."
jticipate and proud of their work.
And, says Dr. Cloyd, the girls
are helping to fill a need at the
hospital. Without them, the work
they perform just wouldn't be
done.
The women have committed
crimes ranging from bad checks
and thievery to murder. They
come into prison, say Cloyd and
Gladden, "loners, isolates . . .with
personality problems and no sene
of living in society."
"In this program, for many of
them, it's their first experience
in working beside people who are
living normal lives.
"They see patients worse off and
realize they are not so bad off.
"The social and psychological
training may be more valuable
than the nursing training.
"The ultimate test depends on
whether they do ,a better job of
living when they get out."
The idea started two years ago
in the mind of an inmate who
belonged to Dr. Cloyd's therapy
group. She suggested h 0 s p i t a li
training, and noted it w ould help I
inmates get jobs in hospitals and
nursing horpes after release.
Plan Approved
The doctor and the warden, ;
working together, drew up the
plan for giving the women train-!
ing and work at the nearby state!
hospital. Others involved gave it
their blessing.
In December, 1961, the first
class of carefully -chosen prison
ers began two months of train
ing. Since then, 22 women have
graduated and 11 now work at the
hospital. Some have been re
leased from prison and found
similar jobs outside.
The inmates are driven to the
hospital at 8 a.m. after breakfast
with other inmates at the, over
crowded prison. They wear grey
pinafores over white blouses, de
signed by an earlier class.
During training, they learn how
to apply dressings, turn patients,
care for bed sores, handle sup
plies, make beds, take tempera
tures.
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Families are invited to special
graduation ceremonies. The wom
en receive shoulder emblems des
ignating them as "nursing assist
ants." After graduation, each trained
inmate is assigned to a ward,
usually containing bedridden or
elderly patients. They care for pa-
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tients and help with recreation
and occupational therapy.
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