European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Hobby come at san Quentin gives prisoners a Chance to become expert craftsmen. They make everything from kitchenware to musical instruments. Buffalo a negro artist who had never painted before developed his Talent in the Hobby shop. He specializes in colourful motifs for elaborate greeting cards. San Quentin craftsmen photographs by r c. Coleman in in prison s Hobby classes hundreds of in mates develop their latent artistic talents. When a Lone inmate of san Quentin started a Small Hobby shop for himself years ago he was laying the foundation for what is now an important occupational therapy program in the prison. Today More than six Hundred prisoners spend five nights a week attending classes where they learn to make a variety of articles Whicha Jiey sell for pocket Money. Model ships leather goods Silver chains and picture frames Are among items lining the shelves of the prisons crafts store which has been set up in the prison waiting room. The prisoners share of the profits is divided into two parts 20 per cent is automatically banked for them by the prison authorities until their release the rest they Are allowed to keep with them. Crofts store Sells articles made by prisoners to outside Public. Ten per cent of sales goes to shop maintenance remainder to craftsmen and their families. United the postwar Northwest Portland Oregon he Pacific Northwest like the rest of these United slates is concerned among other things with housing atom bombs returning veterans and , for instance Rich land. Washington a Boom town devote to the making of plutonium for the atomic Energy commission. Demercer formerly of Idaho Falls Idaho is typical of the seventeen thousand civilians concentrated at Richland s Hanford War Veteran. Mercer is mar ried and has a fifteen month Oldson. He pays eighty dollars a month rent for a thirty foot Square tent in which he had to Lay his own floor. During the recent cold wave Mercer Esti mated it Cost him a Dollar a nigh just to keep the tent House warm. He lugs water from a nearby pipeline by bucket and plumbing facilities Are strictly the out House general electric As sub contractor from the dec Hasin turn More than sixty sub sub contractors employed on the project and envisages the Day in the not too Distant future when there will be More than 25,000 residents in Richland. Permanent personnel on that Happy Day when the housing problem a Richland. Is solved will be settled in on the scene Homes. Right no Barracks and trailer Camp facilities Are being established at Nort Richland for the temporary construction government in Rich land is one of the most unusual in. The nation. Richland has no City Council no mayor dior other comparable officeholders or Agen cies that Are found in the Ordi nary american Community. Resi dents pay Only the 3 per Cen Washington state sales tax and Federal income workmen at present commute daily from As far Wayas Yakima Walla Walla and pros ser Washington. The Case of George f. Black of Portland Ore gon is not unusual. Black maintains a permanent Home in port land nearly three Hundred mile from Richland and sees his wife and Young son infrequently. Pfc William Patrick. Coty of Forest Grove Oregon has an entirely different housing and i Twenty six year old Bride formerly of Tehran Are spending Coty s furlough together but after that s up it will be an army Barrack at some yet indefinite Post for the re enlisted pfc. Coty was awol in Tehran in1943 when he met Soghra Lavan Asi in a cafe. He spotted her walked by carrying a tray and asked his waiter to introduce the girl. They fell in love. When Coty returned to his Post at Kaz Vin he was court Martiale and restricted for two weeks. R5enied leave he broke his glasses and had to go to Tehran to get new lenses. After that i went to Teh ran As often As i could break my glasses he Twenty nine year old Ore Gunian left Tehran nearly three years ago and upon discharge from the army made arrange ments to bring Soghra to the United states. In the meantime Coty had t found a Job and despairing of Soghra s Ever arriving in the states decided to re enlist in the army in the Hope of being assigned to Iran. Coty re enlisted on january 7 and two Days later Learned Soghra was a the . Now Coty Hopes that the array won t Send him to Iran. On the local military front colonel William d., Jackson of Portland has been appointed brigadier general in the Oregon National guard and will serve As artillery commander of the forty first infantry division. Headquarters and Headquarters Battery of the division artillery will be As signed to Oregon and at All times. Oregon will have two generals inthe National guard. Citizens of the Pacific North West Are not unaware however of world problems. Or. U. G. Dubach professor of political science at Lewis and Clark College i Portland and formerly Dean of men at Oregon state is one of the Pacific Northwest s most colourful and dynamic Public speakers. And he s giving his All both on the Campus and off these Days i support of the european recovery program. He manages to Sandwich in at least one Public address daily and frequently three. And i intend continuing my efforts As Long As there s life inthe old boy he says or As Long As there Are people in the world suffering from the ravages of War " and who Are cold and German extraction Dubach tells his mixed audiences that had not decided to Gamble All and come to americ Ayears Back i might Well be a Small Farmer in Bavaria today wondering where my next care package is coming favors Aid not Only to european nations but to Chin and India As Well. When a former student of his Rose to the rank of colonel in the army and returned to this country following several years of duty in China Dubach and the colonel went at it hot and heavy. What s wrong with the Chi Nese Dubach , they smell the colonel of course they. Smel Dubach countered. An you too Why Don t you know that a chinese can smell a Whiteman a Hundred Yards away the colonel then stated that the chinese had the bad habit of stealing. Steal Dubach exclaimed. Why of course they steal and did t they learn that Fine Art from the White Man i spent years of my life in China Lon ago and judging from what you your self have told me the chinese Are Only now perfecting the Art of thievery. That s because they have at Long last come to know the ways of the White Edwin Dowell web Fkd punish a Tatry we .1 Klimt Ubl. . Hoe. Com a. Tor a
