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STATESMAN JOURNAL INSIDE Television: 2 People: 4 Comics: 5 THURSDAY January 20, 1994 Salem, Oregon Life Editor Grant Butler 399-6767 SAWYER BROWN: Country with rock roots 1 ft I Max GutierrezStatesman Journal FRIENDS OF THE CEMETERY: Virginia Felton and Carlos Lopez spread bark dust at the Salem Pioneer Cemetery. Salem's historic cemetery needs help Where to write Tax-deductible donations may be sent to: Friends of Pioneer Cemetery co Pioneer Trust Bank P.O. Box 2305 Salem, OR 97308 Cr Curb Records By Hank Arends The Statesman Journal Those resting peacefully in the Salem Pioneer Cemetery have a much better environment than they did just a few years ago. The historic cemetery, which occupies a hillside along Commercial Street SE, had become an overgrown weed patch. "It was an eyesore for decades," Virginia Felton, chairwoman of the Friends of Pioneer Cemetery, said.

Her group was formed in 1986, and its members immediately began showing respect for the pioneers buried there. Untold hours of brush cleaning, planting and tombstone repairs have begun recapturing the 16.4-acre site. Among the burials in the cemetery are Capt. Charles Bennett, who fought during the 1850s Indian uprising; Asahel Bush II, early day newspaper publisher and banker; Dr. William Holden Willson, Oregon's first treasurer Who donated the land for the first Capitol; Samuel Roy Thurston, a lawyer who worked for property rights for women; and Issac Prown, a whiskey-loving ex-seaman who grew produce for early Salem.

The 500 members of the COMING TO PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS: The country western band Sawyer Brown was discovered on "Star Search." Finding its own sound. Friends of Pioneer Cemetery pay dues that pay for two year-around maintenance workers. Felton said the cemetery is like a typical back yard: if it is neglected it soon becomes unmanageable. The friends also have a $106,000 irrigation project under way to water the grass, trees and landscaping during the dry months. About a third of the project has been completed on the cemetery area fronting Commercial Street.

The support group has been issued a $25,000 challenge by the Meyer Memorial Trust in Portland. If the group can raise that amount by the end of the February, the trust will match it. Felton said the $50,000 would allow the irrigation project to be finished. About $1,700 has been raised. By J.

Michael Stockman The Statesman Journal Television has been a major marketing factor in country western music. It was Sawyer Brown bass player Jim Scholten's introduction to the genre. His father used to watch programs that featured Buck Owens and Porter Wagoner. "I got a kick out of the outrageous costumes that people like Porter Wagoner would wear," he said. More than a decade later, television gave his band its start.

Sawyer Brown released its self-titled debut and the No. 1 single Step That Step after winning on the television talent program Star Search in 1983. "It was a mixed blessing," Scholten said. "When we put out that first record, we really hit the ground running. On the other hand, a lot of writers thought we were a made for TV band, a bunch of country monkeys." Scholten said his earliest music influences include such pop rock acts as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

During the early 1970s, he toured Mid-West clubs where rock acts Cheap Trick and REO Speedwagon played. Then groups such as Black Sabbath changed his vision of rock music. Please see Country, Page 3D Sawyer Brown, Diamond Rio, Clay Walker When: 7:30 p.m. today. Where: Memorial Coliseum, Portland.

Admission: $22 plus handling charges. When: 7:30 p.m. Monday. Where: Oregon State University's Gill Coliseum, Corvallis. Admission: $21 plus handling charges.

Information: (503) 224-4400. Cholesterol screening launched to save lives First female black lawyer SERIES: Black Pioneers 11 vVfi 1 'tf Who to contact Dr. Roger R. Williams has invited any Americans with those cholesterol levels to contact him at the University of Utah. He said he will send them a questionnaire to help confirm their diagnosis.

If they are suffering from FH, he will arrange for a referral to a doctor who knows how to treat it Williams can be contacted at the MED PED FH Coordinating Center, 41 0 Chipeta Way, Room 1 61 Salt Lake City, Utah 84108. Klan. The controversy eventually led the Portland City Council to pass an ordinance against showing movies that incited racial hatred. When Cannady saw the communities of Veronia, and Longview, denying The Associated Press I CLEARWATER, Fla. A nationwide screening program has launched to find 500,000 'Americans with a form of high 'cholesterol that causes 20,000 preventable deaths each year, a researcher said Wednesday.

The disorder called familial 'hypercholesterolemia, or FH can be treated with drugs to prevent most of those deaths, if the victims can be found, said Dr. R. Williams of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. "Preventable deaths from FH year are equivalent to 10 to 20 jumbo jets crashing," he said. even more tragic, 500,000 persons in the United States with FH already hold reservations on some future fatal flight, most of them without even knowing it." Men with the disorder frequently die of heart attacks by age 45, Williams said.

Williams and colleagues around the country have begun a campaign to find the victims of FH and get them to doctors who can treat them. The screening program began with a grant from the U.S. Cen- The following is part of a series of profiles of blacks who helped shape the Northwest. The information and illustration is used with permission from Northwest Black Pioneers, A Centennial Tribute, by Ralph Hayes and Joe Franklin. The Northwest Black Pioneer exhibit will be on display Jan.

24 to Feb. 4 at Historic Mission Mill, 1313 Mill St. SE, Salem. The Marion County Historical Society, 260 12th St. SE, Salem, has Black Pioneers in the Oregon County on display from 9:30 a.m.

to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, through Feb. 28. Fighting for rights Beatrice Morrow Cannady was truly an advocate for better conditions for Oregon blacks. She was a college graduate and the first black woman lawyer in Oregon.

An original member of the NAACP, she was among those protesting the arrival of D.W. Griffith's 1915 film Birth of a Nation. The film had inaccurate portrayal of blacks and a heroic representation of the Klu Klux Gerry LewinStatesman Journal AMATEUR HISTORIAN: Alan Yoder speaks in Salem tonight. Antique-laden Aurora: Oregon's first commune Beatrice Cannady: Fought for voting rights ters for Disease Control and Prevention, and $150,000 from the Merck which is among the pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs, he said. Many doctors do not properly diagnose FH, Williams said, even though its victims have extremely high cholesterol levels.

The best indication of the disease is a cholesterol level of more than 360 in men older than 40, or a cholesterol level above 270 in children and teen-agers. access of black children to public schools, she organized NAACP chapters to challenge the action. The children were eventually allowed in public schools. She published a newspaper, The Advocate, which promoted the successful constitutional amendments revoking the Oregon laws excluding blacks from living in Oregon from voting. Yoder, an amateur historian, Aurora rests on the bedrock of a rare Pacific Northwest social experiment a German Christian commune and the Northwest's only version of the Amana, Harmony and Shaker communities of the era.

Please see Aurora, Page 3D By Ron Cowan The Statesman Journal AURORA Visitors to modern Aurora might think this small and picturesque Willamette Valley town represents only the virtues of selling 19th century antiques in the 20th century. But, according to Alan Parents: How to take action when children misbehave Friend of the Family Rene Manley natural and logical. A natural consequence is one that naturally occurs because of the behavior. Touching a hot stove results in a burn, dawdling means you are late, and forgetting homework causes a bad grade. These are sometimes not the best ways to teach kids, though, because of safety and other reasons.

We don't want learning a lesson to require an injury, and other times the natural consequence may not matter to a child does he care if his grade is bad? This is where logical consequences come in. Logical consequences are outcomes that a parent makes happen, but that logically follow from a certain behavior. Losing TV because you didn't finish your dinner isn't a logical consequence because there is no connection between watching TV and eating dinner. Losing TV as a result of sneaking to watch an off-limits program is a logical outcome. Here are some guidelines to help apply logical consequences: Give the child a choice may wear a coat outside, or stay inside to Make sure the consequence is logical, i.e., connected.

Give choices you can live with (remember overhearing, "if you do that one more time, we're leaving" until you wanted to throw the family out Give the choice one time, then act (see above). Maintain a confident voice and attitude, but not angry firm but friendly. Expect testing and the need to follow through with your consequences. Always remind kids that they'll you to put your clothes where they belong." The second step is to provide a consequence. The two steps often are separated by only a breath.

Consequences are important for several reasons, but the basic idea is to put a crimp in someone's style. If something is gained from a certain behavior, the behavior will continue. If nothing is gained, the behavior will change. Kids make decisions about their behavior the same way adults do with an eye toward attention, protection, withdrawal or power. If the goal can't be obtained by positive behavior, most kids will still aim toward their goal by using negative behaviors they know will get a reaction.

After all, who knows better how to push your buttons? Consequences come in two flavors, "He acts as if it doesn't matter a whit." "It's like talking to a wall; she completely ignores me." "We've tried everything; he just doesn't care!" Parents sometimes describe difficult situations with phrases such as these. Why are these kids ignoring any request to change? Because in lots of cases, they have no problem. While last week's column covered the handling of problems that belong to the child, this week the focus is on the problems that are the rightful property of the adult. Parents must use communication and take action to resolve these unacceptable situations. The first step is an "I-message." This gives the child information verbally about how their actions affect you: "When you leave your clothes on the floor, I feel annoyed because you know that's not where they belong.

I want have another chance. This is a wonderful discipline tool because it removes me, the parent, from the bad guy role. Once kids understand they are making the choices, not only is the behavior improved, but I can control my anger. We both know the choices. We both know the consequences.

We both know undoubtedly that the consequences will really happen. I'm no longer the Big Mean Mama. I can honestly say my son chose to lose his legos for a day. Heck, I can even be empathetic, and talk with him about getting another chance tomorrow. We can move on, without taking our anger with us.

We can both have a better day and with luck a better tomorrow. Rene J. Manley, MS, is a nationally certified and state-licensed counselor. Write to her co the Statesman Journal, P.O. Box 13009, Salem, 97309-1015..