FSW: Safety Dub #2; Steve Amen

Who is it? Yes? Yes. Who is it? Yes. Yes? Yes. Yes. Yes. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Crime. We know it's going on all around us. We've heard all this before. But what you may not be aware of is that the criminals are targeting more children for their crimes than ever before. In 1985, there were over 7,600 crimes reported involving juvenile victims in the Portland area alone. And just one year that figured jump 29% to almost 9,900. The crimes ranged from obscene phone calls and petty thefts to sexual assaults and murder. Lieutenant Weber of Portland's Juvenile Services Unit uses the analogy of life in the wild to help explain just why it is criminals are going after the children. He says street

criminals are like hungry wolves, and children are the defenseless, wounded animals limping behind the herd. What you do that is equivalent to a limp may be to carry yourself in a very timid and weak manner to keep your eyes on the ground and not look at people. And these are the kind of things that draw out. If there's someone watching you that is a criminal type that is looking for something weak, this may draw them right to you. And then when they get to you, they approach you, they do things to further examine your weakness. And if your further actions show, confirm their estimation of your weakness, then it's all downhill from there and pretty soon you're victimized. Whereas our programs try to teach you to walk without that so-called limp, to look where you're going, to look about you, to have a look in your eye, that you're confident, that you're in your familiar surroundings, you know what you're doing, and that you can deal with if anybody messes with you. Jennifer Wise is one of the people who does the teaching. She is the director of Portland's Youth Sexual Assault Prevention Program. The program was started in April of 86 by the

Crime Prevention Unit of the Portland Police Department. The ultimate goal is just to instill kids between the grades of 4 and 12 with some basic problem solving skills and what to do if they get into a dangerous situation, ways that they can figure it out for themselves. Today Jennifer is working with a girl scout troop made up of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, the topic is personal safety and the subject's range from how to handle a bully to sexual abuse. Eventually you may have a friend who's being abused by somebody that she knows, or he knows, and you're going to need to know what to do. So it's important to kind of think about what if, you know, what would I do if, or just be aware of what's going on around you. If somebody's doing something that's making you feel uncomfortable, then it's time to become assertive and say, knock it off, or I don't like what you just said to me, or I don't like the way you're looking at me.

For the next hour, Jennifer and the kids openly discussed the wadifs and how they can deal with him. The girls I talked with seem to have a very good understanding of the sensitive topics, but we're a little nervous in front of the camera. What did you learn from today? I should have, I should think about things, but before it might happen so I can be safe. You should plan things before they happen. There are those who feel a nine-year-old is just too young to deal with subjects like incest and sexual abuse. Jennifer disagrees. You know, in a nine-year-old they're articulate, they're able to understand the concept of their body and of, you know, of having rights over it and being able to say no to somebody who'd want to take advantage of that situation. Dr. Albert Greenwood has been a child psychologist for the past 12 years. He encourages programs like Jennifer's, but says there are dangers involved. In guys of education, sometimes we have a tendency to over-educate. And while we need these kinds of programs to educate people to very real things, I think there's a point that

we get where with kids we can over-educate them to where it becomes either alarming to them or not useful to them. Dr. Greenwood says there are signs we can look for in our children that tell us when this is happening. If a child becomes preoccupied with the information or it seems to have a bigger part of their life, then you'd expect in a normal day-to-day routine of a child. If the word strangers comes up more than, then you'd think would be normal in a day-to-day situation. If dangers are talked about more frequently, I think that's a point where we might say again we might be into an alarm situation. The police department is aware of this and it makes a point of constantly re-evaluating the program's offered. We have turned down or steered away from techniques that were suggested to us by other people or programs that seemed to be appropriate in other places because we felt that they were pretty much along the line of what you were saying. More inflammatory than was called for by the circumstances and we try to be very careful not to create problems where

none exist. The department has designed another program that centers on honest and open communication between the kids and their parents. It's built as a self-defense class for mothers and daughters, but the emphasis is on communication. My mom and I didn't talk a lot about sexuality or sex at all. She left it up to me to find out at school or every time something sexual would come up, she'd turn red in the face and immediately switch the subject. Have you guys ever experienced anything like that? My mother never told me anything about sex. I could probably sum it up in two cents which you know me. And so I always sit to myself when I grew up and I became a mother and I had a daughter that I try to be more open. That seemed to be the desire of most of the families we saw. When the subject turned to peer pressure and sex, both generations spoke out. I asked them about if there was peer pressure, if there's school about that. They said no. It's open. Like some of my girlfriends talked about what they do, but you know there's

no pressure to go out and do anything. It's just no young or own. Any pressure that I felt was when I was quite a bit younger and once I got really into high school, it just went away. Sessions like this show the girls they don't have to resort to any kind of peer pressure. That any decision they make is theirs and theirs alone. But there may come a time when someone may try to make that decision for them. And that's when the self-defense training can come in handy. And there's an increased crime rate in the community and I worry about her safety. And so if she is attacked or runs into some problems, I want her to know where options she has available. At first I was kind of nervous, but then I thought it was a good idea to learn how to defend myself. I think it's important that all females know how to defend themselves. And I especially

wanted my girls to know that. It makes us more confident. We know we can do it. Hit, now, hit, now, hit, now, hit, now, good. It all started when I found myself in my old neighborhood and decided to pay a visit to the small store where I spent much of my youth trying to read the latest comics for free. But it's all changed. Now the store is huge and incredibly clean. It has enough produce on hand to feed a small town. And there appears to be a dress code. I mean, look at these ladies. They dress nicer for shopping than I do for work. Rob, can you come to the deli? Please, Rob, to the deli? The music used to be an old radio blasting out the latest hits from behind the counter. Now it's piped in through a innocuous speaker's planet in the ceiling. They still have beer for sale, but I don't believe in drinking anything I can't pronounce. And the coffee doesn't

come in cans anymore, but design or packets. And everyone knows you can't serve gourmet coffee in a regular coffee pot. So for your convenience, the store offers stainless steel pots complete of 24 karat gold handles. It's all just a bit much, but the visit did leave me with an urge to rediscover the past. And I did. Pulling into a small town like Curtin Oregon is like tuning into your favorite black and white program on cable. Andy, Barney, Aunt B and Goober may not be around, but you can always rest to spell with Elaine Kitcher. Folks around here call her mom. What's your name? Elaine and her husband Bill run the Curtin General Store, which is just off interstate five north of Drain. The store is more than just a place to buy the necessities that will tide you over and tell you can make it into a big city like Cottage Grove. It's the hub of this logging community and has been since around the turn of the century. Why was

just 50 years ago that Charles Matt and started courting Dorothy? She was the store owner's daughter. I was 16 and she was 16. I heard that Mr. Holton bought the store and we lived just across the track over there. So I had to come down and see the new girl in town. The kids still meet at the store when school is out for their daily ration of carbonated sugar in conversation. They all admit there's not much else to do in Curtin, but all you need to do is spend a couple of hours in the store and you'll see just how much fun conversation without commercial interruptions can be. It gives you the chance to meet people like Ed and Claire. Ed's claimed to fame as a number of jobs he's had. How did you come about with 149 jobs? They're awfully ambitious, they're awfully lazy. Ed has one other quirk. He's not too good with money. So come pay today. Claire makes sure she's around when their checks are handed out. You can probably tell by now there's a lot of laughter in this store. That's one of the reasons Elaine doesn't think of it as a job.

I couldn't stay here for 9 o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock at night and have it be work. And that's another thing. The store hours may be posted, but that doesn't make them official. They know we're open till at least eight. But if somebody comes and needs something and we're still in here and we're still working, it's not. I'm sorry. We're closed. Well, and you have some pretty interesting items for sale here. I mean, it's the first time I've been in a store that has an outpack of fur coat from Peru on sale. Yep. How does something like that come about? Well, the guy that delivers our McDonald's on Thursday has a fiance that lives in Peru and he had gone down there and he brought back some of these things and he said, see if he can sell them. And I said, for how much? And he put a price on them. Have you sold very many of them? No. When they're ready, you've got the deal. The kitchen is also lend a helping hand to people in need from surrounding communities.

Corey lives in drain, but the general store in Curtain is a center of a fundraising drive to help the 14-year-old battle a disabling disease. In this community, they all help each other. It's not unusual to see neighbors like Pam or Colleen stop by and pitch in so a lane can take a break from behind the counter. Everyone seems to get along in Curtain. When the work day ends and the sun goes down, many of the locals grab whatever form of transportation is handy and head to the store for a little relaxation. Tonight's entertainment is courtesy of Tom Edwards, Larry and Iris Parkmeyer and Tom Kooke. Just a few of the locals who like nothing better than an impromptu jam session at the end of a long day. We have a good time.

These girls are doing more than just having fun with a few close friends. They're taking part in a tradition that dates back at least 4,000 years. Dolls are truly the universal toy they can be found all over the world and regardless of what country they're from, children inherently treasure, care for and collect dolls. These collections inevitably disappear

as children get older, at least that was the case until the beginning of the 20th century when adults discovered the magic and doll collecting gained prominence. That's also about the time 91-year-old Hazel Lacey saw her first doll. Now she has over 4,000 of them on display. Hazel started collecting dolls about 60 years ago. I wanted a little girl and didn't have her and the neighbors had a little girl and she didn't have any dolls and I'd given her a dollar to and she broke it and she cried her head off. Her mother never replaced her and didn't even force so I decided I'd collect dolls and the kids would come in and I'd just say when I had a house full every weekend for your little kids to come. It's just the idea that I wanted children to sit the dolls and I wanted something of everything so that I could have a collection when my husband took it over and he was the doll collector. I'm just going to sit and be worth it to

canary and he did it day off that he heard there's going to be an auction someplace and he could go get a permission to leave and he'd go and he'd come home bring it all to me. Of course I had done wrap it right now let them tell you the camera I was hit full lady. Hazel's incredible collection is a journey through time giving us all the opportunity to see how dolls have evolved. There are examples of wooden dolls from Germany, rag dolls from the U.S. and so-called Chinaheads like this 4-foot-tall English companion doll that is 127 years old. She has bisque dolls which are unglazed porcelain usually tinted, dolls with human hair and even a few examples of her own work. I started it at one time taking characters that's your sharp quartz head. I love them all and I dress them all because for many of them I get them more dressed. There may be one or two in the buns that had

to dress them but during them though I dress the biggest part of them. I have doll books and doll patterns and just patterns and then pictures. I just like pictures. I cut my own patterns. I love the babies. I thought there was this cute little devil. I wish they'd have gotten more. Hazel is also proud of an extremely rare complete set of Japanese ceremonial dolls. The pieces were sent over one or two at a time by a missionary friend of Hazels who spent years gaining the trust of the Japanese craftsman who made them. Hazel's collection has long been regarded as one of the finest on the West Coast. A few years back she decided to share her dolls with the world and opened a museum. You're encouraged to take as much time as you want looking but don't even think about buying. They're mine and they're here to look at. No I'm not selling. I haven't

sold any of them and I will come in big form and I said no they're not for sale. Well you could take this one out and nobody missed it as it I would. I just love them all. Yeah yeah sorry I'm late. They couldn't get a celebrity host that had worked past 11. So they sent me at the last minute. I don't even usually do this. In fact I'm not even sure what I should do. I don't know. Have some call I guess. Okay you can call. No they can't call. The volunteers have gone home. Can they write? Yeah you can write. Show them the address. There's no one else here. All we have is this. Okay what's this? Okay well it's the address. So you can write. Right now. I'll wait. I'm not buying it I can

tell. We got to do something else. All right all right. Don't panic. Navatures. Play this. Okay okay now we're cooking. We've been saving this just for you. You're going to love it. Three. Three two. Three two one. I don't hear anything. And say something. All right all right. Oregon Public Broadcasting is known for its many special performances featuring artists from around the world. Yes we offer plenty of blockbuster entertainment. I'm an idiot you are. And our shows aren't just entertaining. They're educational too. Why only on PBS can you learn about the sibling rivalry that's so rampant in the Mongoose family. Yes we offer a variety of nature shows that feature animals you normally wouldn't be able

to see. It's exciting it's rewarding. And where else can you get the latest in British humor. You don't have to watch the Cosby Show to enjoy good family humor. What are you doing here? Wanted to have my baby at home. There's also a lot going on in the local front. Every Sunday Dan and Bob take a serious look at the fascinating world of the collectors. That was quite a collection. Don't forget Tuesday nights hard hitting news magazine show Front Street Weekly. Every week award winning reporters like Marilyn Deutsche investigate the stories that affect us all. You can't go down and do our shopping every day without fear of being just, well splattered as a word I can't. No you can't find reporting like that on

the other channels. But we need your support if we're going to keep it up. Now I know most of you weren't watching me. So I'm assuming you left the room to get a pen and paper so you can write down the address. After all the more you send the better the chance they'll be able to get some real talent in the do these spots next year. So please for the sake of TV worth watching send your check to Oregon Public Broadcasting Post Office Box 5787 Portland Oregon 97228. Thanks. Pound for pound the fruit cake has to be one of our more unusual holiday traditions. Not to mention spendy 449 a pound and that's the super savor price. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned but I don't trust any cake that lasts for months and is sold next to a pharmacy. Apparently

I'm not alone just listen to what this guy has to say and he's a baker. Do you like fruit cakes? No. No. What is it about the fruit cakes that you don't like? It tastes like wax. Scotty. Have you tried your fruit cakes? Yes. Same. This gentleman tells us he has eaten fruit cake in 10 years and you want to know why? I don't know that stuff was fruit for what did they do to it. I don't know to make it like it was. Your typical fruit cake does conjure up a lot of questions like what are those bright red and green things and how can it go for months without spoiling. Being an investigative reporter I decided it was time to find out. My next stop was coffee laboratories, one of the leaders in environmental testing. Dr. Haney. Steve, in front of you weekly. Yes, I've been expecting you. Damn. Would you take the specimen out of the bag and put it on the sample preparation

table for me? Okay. Excuse me, Steve, while I put my safety mask on. It can never be too cautious when you're dealing with the unknown. I understand. I think what we'd like to do is we'd like to dissect off a small piece of this cake and subject it to our spot test for filler's acceptance binders and stabilizers to begin with and depending on our findings, we'll go from there. That should be nicely. Now let me put it into the transfer beaker. Again, you can never be too cautious when you're dealing with an unknown sample. Okay, Steve, we've got the specimens into the transfer vessel now. Let's try the red spot test for filler's acceptance and binders. Okay. Let me select a specimen here. If we get a slight pink coloration, that's indicative of a positive result. Got here. I've got a lot of positive reactions, Steve. What should we do now? Yes, Steve, it would be my recommendation we proceed to atomic spectroscopy and get this thing on

the diffraction grating for a full sequential elemental analysis. Basically, we ought to look for every element in the periodic chart. So, Dr. Drew, I did one of these tests indicate how good this tastes. Now, Steve, I'm afraid neither one of these instruments have organic detectors on them. Next step is the gram stain. We want to put this thing under the microscope. We want to look at the little bitty parts of it, stain it and see what we can identify. Microscopic exam is good for bacteriological identification. This is our last stop. This is our nutritional shelf life study. What we'd like to do here is get some baseline information on the nutritive qualities of the specimen. And to do that, we've played it out on an auger plate. And the first incubation period is over. And it looks to me like we've got nothing that would support life here, Steve. I should qualify that. That's microbial life. That's not to say it wouldn't taste good, Steve. So what's the bottom line, Dr.? We've been through all these tests. Can we eat this fruitcake? Well, everywhere we went in the laboratory, it didn't seem to hurt my instruments

any. So I think the conclusion is that it boils down to the basic age-old question of technology versus taste. Children, Herbert Hoover once called them our most valuable natural resource. But that was a long time ago, before there were so many of them. And whatever happened to the yaddies that the little darling should be seen and not heard. Here's an all too common scene. Friends getting together, only to form a circle and spend the next six hours watching the children play. The only thing encouraging about a display like this is that the ruffians may wear themselves out. Now this is a pretty picture. And so is this, a deserted sofa in a quiet room. It gives one the opportunity to reflect on the single life and its many

advantages. Thanks to modern technology, the little cherubs don't even have to be around and monopolize our attention. We can now see them preserve forever in living color. And unlike film, videotape is cheap. Why you can get two whole hours of action like this for only a couple of dollars. At least this keeps the proud parents glued to the tube so people like me can slip away and pretend to be interested in, oh say a collection of time life books. Steve, there you are. I've got a few pictures for you to see. Sit down. Look at these. Here's Nick when he was just a little guy, isn't he cute? And here he is. He took his first

airplane ride with his three months old. Can you believe it? It was great. Here he is at the... Baby pictures. A growing problem of international proportions. They're cheap, portable, and parents don't need any fancy equipment to show them off and show them off they do to anyone, any place at any time. Now tell me the truth. Only a parent would keep a picture like this, right? Or this. You know, I really wouldn't mind looking at the pictures if I could just figure out what or who it is I'm looking at. And that's where Rebecca Phoenix comes in. She's considered one of the nation's best children's portrait specialists. Working for Sears, she photographs about 4,000 children a year. Of course, they do it a little differently now. Now we're talking high-tech photography with the new video vision camera complete with remote control and a TV monitor. With equipment like this and a reputation to match, I figured Rebecca would be just the person to help. Oh, that was pretty. You know, baby pictures will always be around. So the trick is to give the parents

some tips that'll make them as attractive as possible. Absolutely wonderful. A real pleasure to photograph. And what can they do to make sure those pictures are palatable for someone like me? I think the first thing to do is to relax. That way the child is going to be more relaxed too. And you're just going to have a much better expression and better picture in the end. Here's a pretty girl. Here's a pretty girl. I'm going to go, a boom, a boom. Here comes Erica. He's going to get you. Good. She's all done. If you're photographing a person, you want the person to film most of the frame. If you're photographing a small child on the other hand, just make sure that the clothes are pulled down, that the diapers are tucked, that the clothing isn't all rump up on them. Beautiful. Is there a better time of day to take a picture of a baby? The best time of day for the child, for any child, is after they've been fed and they've

had a nap and their diapers are changed or that they're feeling comfortable. Oh, perfect. Absolutely perfect. Couldn't have asked me to do any better on that. It's amazing what you can get when you know what you're doing, but I should warn you. Working with Rebecca does have its drawbacks. I'm a parent too. And so I love the opportunity to whip out my little wallet of size portraits and to show those up and to skip backward because we could go with so many. This is my little boy at four months. This is Jordan. I love to put hats on him. Of course, we have him in some different poses, such as the Popeye pose here that he came up with all by himself. And then we go back to three months and then two months. It wasn't all that long ago that the local barber shop was more than just a place to get clipped. It was also the hub of the community. Yesterday's barber doubled as the unofficial

town crier, keeping you posted on all the latest events. Now days it's tough to find a barber. Oh, sure, there are plenty of hairstyles around, but not many barbers. Money wants a barber shop. Bob? What's Bob? Oh, yeah, Bob. I just don't know what to tell you. I kind of booked up this morning. Wes Hebron is always busy. He may start off the morning with an empty blackboard, but by 10, he's usually looking at a full day. And on those rare occasions when he has free time, he's been known to donate his services. Like the time he met a woodcarver from Hungary who was down on his luck, so he offered to cut his hair for free. And he says, I'm no bigger, mister. I know, but I'm the boss here. I says, if I don't want to charge you, the only way I want you to pay me is every day I want you to go by here

and stop and say hello. And then I says, that's the only way to pay me. And he started to cry, you know? He got his tools and he carved me that eagle on my birthday for 1976. Wes will also make an occasional house call for regular customers who are sick and can't make it into his shop in Hillsboro. You can charge extra when you go to their home. But no, I really don't. I usually get 10 bucks. A lot of times I do it for nothing. I mean, the guy said, hey, you're crazy for doing that. You know, you're not, are you? You accommodate people? I think that's part of life. Wes's outlook may be old-fashioned, but he makes it a point to stay up to date when it comes to his job. While he still sees himself as a barber, he was one of the first in Oregon to go through the training necessary to become a hairstylist. That was back in 63. He tells us some of his first customers didn't know what to make of the new Wes the hairstylist and his modern approach to grooming.

Some buddy would come in and say, hey, that's for women. I said, yeah, they used toilet paper, too, do you? Man, I'll tell you, that's setting him up so quick that I started saying that to everybody. Wes has always been colorful. All you need to do is take a look at the outside of his shop to see that. There's no mistaking what this man does for a living, but this is a sign that really got our attention. He calls it advertising. I call it asking for trouble. He asked me this question, you know. He says, it says on the back of your card, babies have cuts of privilege. It must be crazy. I'm not crazy. I feel honored. I'm the first guy that had a chance at this. This is Joshua. He's a year and a half old, and this is his first trip to the barber's chair. It really shakes parents up when they cry. Well, you know, when they cry, they're not being a naughty boy at all. That's when we're natural for them to want to cry. I think I'll tell you, he has been good. I have had kids jump up and down like this and take

a half an hour more to get him calmed down. Just don't take anything away from him. It just lets you know he's a good player. He's going to put up a fight if he plays football. Aren't you Josh? Okay, daddy. It's okay. It doesn't that nice. I'm going to give him his haircut award now. West turned 69 in January, but that doesn't mean he has any thought or retiring. When you're home, who comes to see you? Everybody's busy, but now look at he's here to see me. He's came to see me. He's came. You, gentlemen, came to see me and I got people come in and that's what keeps you going. I've locked out. I mean, I'm a very fortunate person, I think. You know, I'm business for myself and I don't know. I'm wealthy with being content and happy what I'm doing and you can't buy that. The job corps has been helping the disadvantaged youth of our country since 1964. Currently, there are about 41,000 young men and women in 105

centers around the nation. The program is subsidized by the federal government and it's not cheap. Last year's budget was over $700 million. But despite that hefty price tag, the job corps is one of the few social service programs that is not being hit with budget cuts. In fact, over the past eight years, Congress has actually increased its funding on a regular basis. Is that money well spent? I think it is when you consider the kids are taking from around the country, training them for jobs and placing them in jobs and the kids are doing well. I think it's worth the money. And Senator Packwood isn't alone in that assessment. During the past six years, there have been two major independent audits done on the job corps. In both studies, the findings are the same. For every dollar invested, the taxpayer gets back about $1.40 in savings. The benefits are computed by taking into account welfare and incarceration savings during and after the program and money that will be coming back into the system from taxes once the men and women are working.

You have to look at the outline and say, you know, which cost more? The let them stay out there on the street and steal from us or do we train them, get them involved in society and keep going forward with it. Eric, who is now working for the job corps, is a good example of its success. He joined up in 1981. He says he couldn't find a job and while he had not turned to a life of crime to survive, it was only a matter of time. The street atmosphere was around me. There was always the potential there to go sorry. You stand a bad environment long enough, pretty soon something to catch up with you. Eric stayed in the corps for two years, learning a couple of trades and then went into the private sector to work. He's now back with the corps as a group leader, helping the newcomers adjust. I made a whole lot of money out there on the private contract, working on my construction field. But it wasn't as rewarding as this is. Eric's story is not unusual. The corps has a documented success rate of 80 percent. That figure is all the more impressive when you realize the high-risk

group of men and women with which the corps works. We're as going probably would be in jail, because it's just getting more violent and violent all the time. I was on the street and I was doing drugs and I said I need something better than this because I am a good person. I'm better than this. I don't need these people. People I'm associating with, the drugs, and everything. I didn't want to push the go, so if I got caught by the cops, it's like free room and board for a while. Not all of the students joined the corps to escape a life of crime. Some realized they didn't have the training necessary to land a good job. They were working, but... Not jobs I want. I was working in restaurants and stuff. I wanted to get some more career-wise, just for rest of my life. Others see it as a means of improving their education. I had no other way to fund college. I was living in the streets and there wasn't any programs out there for me to get money to get into college. And then there are those who just want to get away. I needed some place to go, some place where I could find myself and find out who I was and what I wanted to be. I wanted

to accomplish something with my life. I wanted to do something, but at the time I didn't know what or where or even how to do it. The program is voluntary, but there are certain restrictions, the biggest being, that you must be between 16 and 22 years old to join. Some centers have recently started a new program for men and women up to 24 years old. The typical youth is 18, comes from a poor family, has never held a full-time job, and is a high school dropout reading at the elementary school level. So what do you do here to find out which divide this and this? Everyone coming into the corps is tested in mathematics and reading, and then is placed in the proper level of the basic education program. This program is set to run on an individual basis, allowing them to work at their own rate of learning. Under the program, the corps members spend half their time in basic education and half in vocational training. This hands-on experience is available in a variety of skilled occupations, including cement

masonry, painting, building maintenance, word processing business and clerical, and food service. These are only a few of the training areas available, depending on the center. The students work with counselors to figure out the area that's best for them. Seven months ago, James was living on the streets, wondering where his next meal would come from, and now he's cooking for hundreds of people. I feel good about myself and what I'm doing, and the direction that my life is going, and I'm making some goals that I'm trying to keep. And thanks to the support of a number of national labor and business organizations, the corps offers special programs, like Seamanship Training, at the Tung Point Center near Astoria. Is there any way they can get this kind of training outside of the corps? Not really. This is the only training program like in the nation. It's a shot that a lot of us at the Ben and Industry Hall wish we had when we started. The program takes anywhere from a year to a year and a half, basically, to complete. We let them work pretty much

at their own pace. They can stay in the corps up to two years, occasionally longer under special circumstances, but most of the students get out earlier. While they are in, they are paid wages ranging from $40 to $100 a month. After they've been in the corps six months, they are also eligible for a trust fund that is set up for them to use when they leave. This is so they'll have enough money set aside to live on while looking for work. Richard Hittisto? Lisa? Cadlus? No, Lisa. A few years back, the job corps decided it needed to do more than just teach the students a vocation and how to read and write. It discovered that while the graduates knew how to work, many of them did not know how to find that work or manage their budget once they did. Now they

go through a two-part program called World of Work. It teaches them everything from writing resumes to how to act on a job interview. Instructors like Johnny Christensen also show the young men and women how to get credit, balance their budget, and a wide variety of other day-to-day activities that many of us take for granted. There have been a lot of misconceptions about job corps and its population, and yes we deal with disadvantage youth, but those youth are strong and vital and intelligent and in most cases a joy to work with and that's seeing the growth of your students and seeing them go and develop and achieve what it is that they've set out to do. The job corps is not easy. For most of the students it's the first time they've had to share close quarters with strangers. The corps is constantly changing to help make the transition from civilian to corps life easier. In the beginning the men and women were taken from

one area of the country and shipped to another. I mean they said they said women from the Virgin Islands up to Poland Springs main and thinking this would help them be successful in life and it turned out to be a disaster. Now the nation is divided into ten regions and the students can select a training center close to home and most of the centers are also becoming co-ed. I wouldn't have it any other way. I was here when it was all females and it was tough. It's just a young man and young women belonging together. I don't care what people say. As you would expect there are a lot of rules. The first month is always the toughest. When I first came in I had a few problems, got into some trouble. The job corps was just an escape for me when I first came in here. I had no respect for this place. I had no respect for anybody. I thought what am I doing here Chris? What did you go and sign your life away for you know? And we were very much afraid because we knew that if we tried we might fail but in the back of our minds was always the point that if we didn't try we were sure to fail.

So many times you feel like quitting. You say I want to terminate tomorrow and all your friends help you because they want you. They're not doing it for themselves. They want you. They want to see you make it. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it. I got in trouble. My first month and a half or so and now I got in trouble. I went A-Wall. Tina admits she was a real problem when she first went in but as soon as she ran away she says she knew she had made a big mistake and this time she did something about it. I surprised everybody including myself. It kind of really blew me away that I went back and said I want to give it a try you know and that was when I first started really feeling that maybe there was something I could do for myself. I needed to succeed for me you know because I had never succeeded in anything. I had never completed anything. It was always easier to run away. Tina was accepted back into the program and recently graduated with training in the printing industry. She found work within a month of getting out of the core. My feeling of success just really did me wonders because now I feel like I'm a success story.

My own success story. I succeeded in what I needed to succeed in. These people are Oregon State police officers but their beat isn't on the streets. It's in one of seven crime detection laboratories spread across the state. They are called criminalists. They are currently 34 full-time criminal state-wide dealing with over 13,000 cases a year. Most of those are drug related. The crime lab bureau has been in effect since the late 30s and is financed through the state's general fund to the tune of about $3 million

a year. It is a crime lab's role to furnish information to all of the law enforcement agencies and the courts through scientific analysis of evidence. We're not in the adversary system in court. We're in a neutral position. We're simply there to provide scientific information, whichever side that helps so be it. Most of their work is routine, but there are those cases that simply wouldn't be solved if it wasn't for the work of the criminalist. Homicide detective looks at the whole scheme of the investigation. We're working in a very narrow area, the physical evidence. In order for you to get a better idea of just how the crime lab works, we thought it would be interesting to show you what takes place behind the scenes of a major murder investigation. This is a case that involved pieces of evidence that on their own were merely circumstantial, but stacked together formed the framework for the prosecution. The crime occurred in southern Oregon in October of 1983. 15-year-old Kelly Waller was riding her bike to her after

school job when she disappeared. Her body was discovered the next day in your readsport, and criminalist David Schmirbach was called in. I was summoned to the scene to process the scene for evidence. When I arrived, we found her body laying right here in this kind of a circular drive. It's a dirt drive off of this old section of highway. We're probably 300 yards from the new highway 101. Her throat had been cut. She also had a stab wound on her right chest. The evidence that we found was a piece of green, wine bottle that the car had driven over. Right as it left the paved portion and entered this dirt portion, it had a tire print on it. We also took pictures and measurements of the tire prints in the dirt area. The tire prints, and it is important, showed that the two rear tires were of one manufacturer, and I believe there were about five and a quarter inches across for tread width. The front left was of the same manufacturer as the two rear tires, but they were five and

a half inch wide tire width. In the front right had a completely different width and tread design. It was completely different. We had kind of a profile on this vehicle that was quite distinct. We felt that if we found the vehicle, we would know we had it. Then the car went through a ditch here. There was some scrape and a gouge as it went through there. We collected all the evidence from immediately around the body and the body itself, her clothing and things like that. The evidence wasn't enough to point to anyone suspect in the investigation stalled. Family and friends of the victim put up $15,000 reward for information. Three months later, it was bumped up to $100,000 and still no leads. As far as the Oregon State Police in this area concerned, I can't speak for other areas. This was higher priority cases we've ever had. We had no intentions of ever giving up.

The authorities eventually came up with composite sketches of three possible suspects, but still no indefinite. Law enforcement agencies from around the country were asked to help. There were many suspects. We talked to everybody that was involved in any kind of a crime similar to this all over the United States. Seven months after the murder, the police had a suspect who had lived in this Roseburg home at the time of the crime, but there was a catch. The only real link to the murder was a tire tracks, but the suspect had recently moved to California and sold his car. The California police did manage to track the car down and Schmierbach went to the San Francisco Bay area to check out the tire prints. And all those designs matched back to what we had out at the crime scene. So we were pretty sure we had the right vehicle. We purchased the vehicle and we took it back to Oregon where we processed it for trace evidence. The evidence that we found were inside the vehicle, we found spots that tested positive, presumptively for blood on the dash area.

The blood stains indicated that the passenger's visor had been up and the driver's visor down when the blood was splattered. The route that the suspect would have had to have taken from where the victim was abducted to where we found her would have been driving directly into the sun at the time of day that the sun would have been setting. So this further led me to believe that we were talking about the right vehicle. We also found some metallic blue over brown paint chips. I was the color that the car was originally. It had been repainted. We found that the car had been recarpeted with this reddish brown house carpet. It wasn't a normal car carpet as issued by the manufacturer of the car. When we revisited all of the victims clothing, we found that in the Toe of a Right shoe, there was a tar-like smear on the toe and in it were these metallic blue over brown paint chips, real minute.

We found on our socks some of these reddish brown carpet fibers that matched the carpet that was in the car. We found in the debris, in the carpet, in the car some pieces of glitter. The shirt that the victim was wearing at the time had some glitter on it. Detectives then tracked down the shirt's distributor and from there to the manufacturer of the glitter. And he was eventually with the aid of these photographs, able to say not only was this piece of glitter out of the car similar to the glitter off the shirt, but he felt that it was out of the same batch or the same manufacturing line. That evidence was crucial in establishing a strong possibility that the victim had been in a suspect's car at one time. When Schmierbach turned his attention to the outside of the car, he discovered more pieces to the puzzle.

On the outside of the car, we found a piece of sheet metal in the area of the left or the right rear bumper that was pulled away from the car. And when we drove this car back through the crime scene, we could reconstruct where that piece of metal had made one of the marks in the dirt when the car had gone through a deep ditch. The other mark we attributed to the differential on the car. Then finally, we had some marks on the bicycle that she was driving at the time she was abducted. And we looked at it in comparison to this car. There were marks on the bumper of the car on the front left side that matched in height and approximate location that could have made the marks on the bicycle fender. There was some paint transfer as well as the scratches that were transferred across. The paint was tested and it matched. And the marks were eventually tested and found

that what we call a tool mark fit, that the mark is characteristic of only that one item and that we could say from our examination that that mark from that bumper had made that mark on the bicycle fender. With this last bit of evidence, the Douglas County District Attorney felt he finally had enough evidence to go after the suspect who had owned the car when the murder took place. The Oregon State Police arrested Cecil Lewis-Norton in Martinez, California for the murder of Kelly Marie Waller. This information was presented to a jury in Douglas County over about a three-week period and they eventually returned guilty verdicts on all four counts in which he was charged. Just about the best way to tell if Billy's home is to listen for the sound of music.

You sure you love music, don't you? It's my life. I had to play a piano then and I wore that out. Billy's a man of incredible energy. When he's thirsty, he just stops playing long enough to grab an empty gallon jug and start walking. Billy's idea of running water is a hose he used to tap into a mountain spring further up the hill. Billy's loved this land since the first day he saw it. That was back in 1918. Twenty-five years later he'd saved up enough money to buy 135 acres. I don't want to go anywhere else. I go to town strictly on business. I don't care for

city life. Where's your outhouse? You're in primitive area. Thank God I'm the country boy. Country boy is right. Why Billy doesn't even have electricity. Now this is the time of the year for the days and nights are equal. What do I need with electricity? I'm getting all the daylight like that I want right now. Billy is an expert at making do. He used to have a goat named Babydoll and every morning that goat would get fed and milked at the same time and all in the comfort of Billy's living room. You see Billy's not known for his house keeping. I'm not a housekeeper. That's a woman's work. I can hardly keep them out. There always want to clean that. It's kind of insulting. I don't like any reflection on my housekeeping. Billy's not much of a cook either. He used to love making up a big batch of hard boiled

eggs. It was easy and the eggs would keep for a long time. I should have run out in my years. I'm sick of them. Over the years Billy's found a new breakfast favorite. One he says may be the secret to his good health and long life. I don't want to make any statements I can't prove. All I got to say is I'm 91 years old and I like weedies and I eat a lot of weedies and helping those milk. As you can probably tell Billy's a little set in his ways but he says that's not the reason he's still a bachelor. When I was young, I would like the older girls. And I'd like the older, I like the younger girls. That's my first choice. What happened with her? Too lightheaded. Come on here, get moving. Horses, not women, have always been Billy's constant companions. During World War I, he was in the Calvary. It was his job to break the wild horses. After the war,

he returned to Oregon and delivered mail on horseback. Then he bought this land and settled down to farm, raise cattle and sheep. The sheep are still around but Billy's retired. Until now that is. I'm starting out a new career. What's your new career? Music. Well, I'm not really started on it because it's about the only thing left that I can do. Billy, along with his young friend Chris, loves to entertain. Billy thinks they're good enough to go on TV. I've been watching the TV shows and I'm confident that we can put on a better show than he does. Billy says it was his family that encouraged him to take up music. When I was 15 years old, I had an Indian boy. I wanted a saddle. And my sister wanted to get a violin instead of a saddle. She said, and I got to heaven, I could play the violin.

The saddle wouldn't do me any good. And I've come to conclusion that she was right because I can still play the violin and I don't care for writing anymore. Nights coming on and it's been a busy day for Billy. Who wouldn't like to get on TV? Oh, it was a chance of a lifetime. But Billy knows fame is fleeting so he still has one more chore before the sun goes down. The nights are chilly and that means he'll be using his homemade wood stove again tonight. Despite the fact that he is in such good shape, Billy's been doing a lot of thinking lately about getting older. Well, it's true I have God's thanks. Don't forget, I never smoked, never drank. If I'd done those things, I feel safe to say, I wouldn't be living in this world today. I'm proud to say that from my loose, I follow the pathway of virtue and truth. And then at the last time I've come to old age, it's nice to have be healthy and wise to say it.