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almanac 2 farm forest 4 Statesman-Journal, Monday, September 10, 1984 noBrorthwg D) Burma Shave type signs N-freeze group posts message for 1-5 motorists ffi MA rv 15 BAD K9 Ithe nuclear iiiwi'ti' lrlll Cm i r. 4 Vfd FOR CE ARMS A r7 7" l- AC'S I -cfZ- fjr Oregon State Police agreed with group members who said the demonstration, staged just off the blacktop portion of the freeway, was legal. And effective, Bergel said. He said his group estimated that 20,000 or more people whizzed by on the highway during the demonstration. That's probably 10 times more people than the group would have reached with a moro traditional demonstration, and the novel highway tactic was also more likely to catch the eye of protest-weary media, according to Bergel.

The freeway sign scheme was based on old "Burma Shave" national advertising campaigns in which a series of fence-post signs offered motorists rhyming jingles which always ended with the name of the shaving cream, Bergel said. But the message carried Sunday was far more serious than shaving cream. A halt in testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons by the United States and the Soviet Union is the goal of nuclear freeze backers, said 33-year-old Phil Carver, who held a sign for the group. And with the November presidential election right around the corner, "we're hoping to sensitize people to the issue of nuclear arms" so the public will keep it in mind when going to the polls, Bergel said. By KEVIN McKENZIE Of the Statesman-Journal Groups pushing for a nuclear weapons freeze and protesting U.S.

policy in Central America found a captive audience Sunday afternoon the public motoring along Interstate 5 in Salem. Inspired by an old advertising gimmick, the protestors stood beside the interstate for about three hours displaying a series of large signs that spelled out their concerns: "Look The national debt A staggering sum More taxes for missies Is just plain dumb," said one series of signs held up for northbound traffic. "Jobs Not war U.S. out of -El Salvador," said another series held up by supporters of the Salem Committee on Latin America. The Salem-based group that organized the demonstration, Citizen Action for Lasting Security, also posted signs along the southbound lanes, ending both series of nuclear freeze messages with signs bearing the group's Salem phone number.

Nuclear freeze backers held similar sign demonstrations Sunday along highways in several other Oregon cities including Albany, Lincoln City and Portland, said 40-year-old Peter Bergel, director of the nuclear freeze group. It has 10 chapters in the state, he said. Statesman-Journal photo by Gerry Lewin Susan Garrett, of Dallas, and the Rev. Austin Richardson of Jason Lee United Methodist church hold a sign along 1-5. although there was some debate as to whether truckers' hand signals were mostly friendly or not, they said.

Bergel said said he hoped the public would be impressed by the variety of people concerned enough about their cause to participate in the demonstration. Nearly60 people held signs Sunday, he said. "If a variety of different folks say, 'I'm concerned enough to stand out here for three Bergel said, gesturing to the passing traffic, "that's got to impress someone." He returned from a trip to Europe about three weeks to ago and found that members of the European peace movement are more apprehensive about U.S. actions than the U.S. public realizes, he said.

In West Berlin, for example, Richardson said he found that people there feel that Eastern-bloc influence is on the wane and that they know how to deal with Russia. "But they don't know how to deal with Reagan," he said. U.S. support of "police states and dictators" in Central America is His group is non-partisan, but a separate group called Political Action for Lasting Security has endorsed Democratic State Sen. Ruth McFarland over Repulican Congressman Denny Smith, said Susan Garrett, a Salem attorney holding a sign for the group.

And several nuclear freeze backers openly supported the Mondale-Ferraro ticket over re-electing President Ronald Reagan. Austin Richardson, minister of Jason Lee United Methodist church, held one of the nuclear freeze signs. also an important issue, and the Reagan administration policy "is just the opposite of what we'd like to see," said 48-year-old Dave Worth-ington, spokesman for the committee on Latin America. "They believe in military solutions," he said. Participants in the demonstration said the honks, headlight flashes, hand signals and other responses from motorists were mostly positive.

Participants figured that highway truckers were the most responsive, Apartment woes finally corrected Housing program one big headache for Pedee woman five months ago. He and his brother, the Rev. Larry C. Taylor of the same church, also helped move her six doors down to her new apartment. Jerry Taylor said Garver didn't live up to a promise to fix the hot-water problem.

And he said that after Crum's long wait, she may have to pay to have her phone installed in the new apartment. Taylor said Crum's major problem was "she doesn't speak up." And he suspects it is a problem many older people share. Crum said the only reason she stuck it out at the apartment was her tight financial situation. "If I had the money, I'd have moved someplace else, but I can't afford to," Crum said. She lives on a $706-a-month budget that is split between her and her 37-year-old handicapped son, Richard.

He was born with palsy and Turn to APARTMENT, Page 3B. By SUZANNE MACKIE Of the Statesman-Journal When 80-year-old Thelma Crum moved into her new apartment in Northest Salem, she never expected to share it with cockroaches or wait five months to get hot water from the kitchen sink. But that's how long Crum had to wait before Perry Garver, manager of the Murphy Manor Apartments at 478 24th St. NE, took steps to alleviate the problems. Garver's solution was to let Crum move to another one-bedroom apartment within Murphy Manor.

The move satisfies Crum, who says, "I just want to get where I can get some hot water and get away from those bugs." But her minister, the Rev. Jerry Taylor of Seventh Day Pentecost Evangelical Church, is angry about the situation. He's known Crum for years and helped move her into the apartment for another $565 this summer to repair part of her roof. Tarter, who drives a van for the Polk Senior Transportation District, says the project has left her with little more than problems since it was completed and approved by a federal government inspector on May 28, 1981. "Without a new chinmey, I've been afraid to light the wood cook-stove for breakfast then go to work with a fire still going," she says.

Ironically, Tarter says, back in 1981 she got an Independence contractor to estimate the cost of repairing a chimney. The most expensive job would have been $500, she says, and that included a new stove. What Tarter got was: An extra layer of shingles on a two-year-old roof that wasn't built to take the added weight. A new block foundation installed under the house for $4,825. A $2 00 bathroom remodeling job.

$1,600 in electrical work. Months of grief last winter as rain leaked through the roof into the ceiling of her service porch, down the rafters and into the back wall of her house. Tarter said the rafters and wood in the wall have rotted. The ceiling has fallen away, and the smell has become overpowering. Tarter's son-in-law, Jim Johnson, who has rebuilt several homes, said the problems can be corrected.

But before any work can be done, he said, a new chimney still needs to be installed. Tarter said that after a series of complaints, she finally got the Polk Housing Authority to listen to her problems. But she said the agency balked when she presented an estimate for $917 In repairs. By THRON RILEY Of the Statesman-Journal A Pedee woman who entered a Polk County housing rehabilitation program four years ago because she needed a new chimney got more than she had bargained for. Instead of repairing the.

chimney, overzealous housing officials ordered $12,500 worth of repair work on other portions of Elma Tarter's house at 18720 Pedee south of Dallas. The work was paid for out of low-interest loans and grants. But it was done so badly that Tarter had to appeal to the Polk Housing Authority Salem diver's body found NEWPORT The body of a 30-year-old Salem man who drowned Saturday in a diving accident was recovered Sunday morning from Yaquina Bay, Coast Guard officials said. They said a pleasure craft reported spotting the body of Michael Joseph Sullivan abdut 10 a.m. The Coast Guard recovered the body near a buoy in the bay a half hour later.

Sullivan, no address available, was scuba diving with Michael Harry Berringer, 30, also of Salem, when he was trapped in rocks off the south jetty by a heavy wave. Berringer escaped by clinging to jetty rocks, officials said. A high tide and rough water prevented rescue workers from recovering the body Saturday. Sullivan's body was taken to Ba-teman's mortuary in Newport, officials said. Retired state Archivist, James D.

Porter, dies KEIZER-Retired state Archivist James Donald "J.D." Porter, 66, died Friday following a brief illness. Statesman-Journal photo by Gerry Lewin Elma Tarter of Pedee entered the housing rehabilitation program to have her roof repaired. Porter, of 362 Hollyhock Place Keizer, was appointed the state's second archivist in 1972 following the re-tlrement of David Duniway. As archivist, Porter was re search value, are sorted by trained records examiners from those which have no further value to the state or its citizens. Porter also was responsible for setting up the Archives Division at its current location at 1005 Broadway St.

NE. Porter began working as a state records examiner and archivist in 1962, following his retirement from the U.S. Air Force after 20 years of service. He retired this May. His position has been filled on an interim basis by Dale Hildebrand until the Secretary of State's office completes a nationwide search for a new archivist.

Finally, she said, she agreed to have the work done herself and accept the housing authority's check for the lesser amount. And she had to sign an agreement not to hold the housing authority liable for any future or past repairs to the roof. The housing authority's Rita Grady admits that the program had its problems and said it was questionable whether Tarter's home needed to be worked on. She said the people in charge of the work felt the repairs to the bathroom and the foundation were more important than the chimney. And once that was done, Grady said, there wasn't enough money to stop all the leaks in Tarter's roof or fix the chimney.

She said the program has been revamped to correct some of the problems Tarter encountered. sponsible for J.D. PORTER preservation of governmental records for all state agencies, counties and cities. The stored records, kept for their legal, administrative or re- If practice makes perfect, what will floating do? cork. And that, says Wade, Is the idea.

The weightlessness and warm water give the viewer a free-floating feeling. And in this relaxed state, Wade says, people are very receptive to learning and suggestion. Football teams like the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowbbys have employed the technique to inspire their players. i In Wade's chamber, lesser athletes watch Images of perfectly executed sports maneuvers and listen to soothing music from speakers both above and below the water. There is no verbal Instruction.

The pictures are supposed to directly teach the mind how to execute the turns, lobs and swings. The four cassettes Wade currently offers feature some middle-aged sports talent. Jean Claude Killy is shown skiine, Stan Smith plays tennis, Al Geiberger golfs and Dave Peck plays racquetball. There are some bumps on this particular road to sports excellence and tranquility. The tank is not completely dark.

Despite the availability of ear plugs, voices from outside intrude on the chamber. And the condensation that forms on the roof of the tank plops at chilly intervals on the floater's exposed body. Nonetheless, Wade says, about a dozen people had used the $6,000 floatation tank room before he hooked up the cassette Machine last week. Since then, there have only beentwo people who also saw the cassette while floating In the dark, one of them a report watching videotapes. Other sensory deprivation chambers have been used to treat patients with mental and emotional disorders.

But Wade says this one is the first of Its kind in the Northwest and is recreational, not medical. Wade Installed the chamber In his tanning parlor Just two weeks ago. It Is a fiberglass tank 98 Inches long, 43 Inches tall and 48 Inches wide with a retractable cover. Visitors to the tank pre select a cassette of their sport and are led to a cozy room which contains the tank and a shower stall. After a shower, they slip Into the tank, which Is about one-fourth full of water spiked with 700 pounds of epsom salts.

Thus, anyone who enters even with the heaviest muscle mass will bob like a By THERESA NOVAK Of the Statesman-Journal You may think the way to develop a tennis stroke like John McEnroe, a downhill turn like Phil Mahre, or a' golf swing tike Jack Nicklaus is to practice, practice, practice. Wrong, wrong, wrong, says DeVon Wade. Wade, one of three owners of the Peak Tan Trim salon in Salem, claims there is another way to learn to carve that cure that slice and ace that serve. For a price, Wade offers customers an hour in a modified sensory deprivation chamber at his Commercial Street salon. He says customers can Improve their games in the dark as' they float nude and weightless In 12 inches of warm salt water er.

Wade currently charges $12 for an hour in the chamber, and has sprinkled half-price coupons around town to sweeten the offer. He says the price eventually will rise to $18 an hour. Wade says he has high hopes for the device, which has gained popularity since being introduced in Denver as a way to cure the ills of a stressed society. If his venture Is successful, Wade says he will order more tapes. The possibilities range from "Hypno-As-trology" models which promise to "help you rise above your sign," to subliminal persuasion tapes which show ocean waves while delivering messages that help you do everything from lose weight to Increase your sales ability.

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