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Tuesday, October 23,1973
University Daily Kansan
Inmate Condemns Drugs
By ROY CLEVENGER
Kansan Staff Reporter
His name is dimmy Washington. He's 27, black, married with three children, and he is an inmate at the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing.
He was convicted of burglary, a crime he committed to support a $100-a-day drug habit.
His troubles started early, he said Friday as he told his life story to students at Lawrence High School.
"My mother died when I was four and we moved from Texas to Wichita," he said. "From then on, I've been more or less on my own.
"When you're on your own, you go out in the streets to get what you want. You get your own group and you try to enjoy yourself."
Washington said his addictions started with wine when he was in high school because he lacked education and couldn't cope with his environment.
cope with his environment.
He started using drugs out of curiosity.
He started using drugs out of "Someone offered me some stuff and said, 'Sure, I am hip. You can try it, I want beautiful.' The crowd. The highs are beautiful," he said, "but you don't realize that the time will come when you've got a babalt."
Washington said he started snorting heroin and within a few weeks was shooting it. He progressed from using $10 in drugs a day to $25 a day and soon to $100 a day.
"No man where I come from can make $100 a day," he said. "So you start yourself a little game with steelhead and you don't think about it when you're on the drugs."
he said he was busted less than a semester before he would have graduated from high school. He spent three weeks in jail.
"When I got out, I married a girl I got pregnant. Things didn't get any away."
Last year he was arrested for burglary, convicted and sentenced to three to 10 years.
"I could have gotten 15 to life. I know that." he said.
Washington said he found himself at a crossroads in his life.
"I said to myself, 'Now who in the world is gonna give a damn unless you want to help yourself?' I was a junkie," Washington said. "In order to defeat my problem I had to realize what it was. The first thing I had to do was face reality."
He said he asked himself why he lacked confidence and why he needed stimulants to do that.
"I decided I should be myself and enjoy myself" he said.
At the penitentiary he joined the Seven- Step Foundation, a rehabilitation program.
Step Foundation, a rehabilitation program. "I'm changing because I want to change. And the Seven-Step gave me the motive for that change," Washington said.
He also joined a black awareness program and started taking junior college courses.
Washington said he was legally separated from his wife and his children, ages seven,
"We separated because of the drugs and a lack of understanding on my part," he said. "At the time, I wanted drugs more than I wanted them."
He said his children visited him at Lansing.
"They know where I am," he said, "but they aren't really aware of what I'm doing."
At Lansing, Washington works six hours a
at five days a week, in the tool and die
department.
Washington said Kansas had a poor prison rehabilitation system.
"The penitentiary makes them dislike laws and all that goes with them. It makes them bitter. It took all time out of my life and wasn't beneficial to them or me."
"They should ask why they committed a "crime." They won't find that out in prison," she said.
He said drug users should be taken to hospitals for therapy, not to prisoners for addiction.
"It's a slow process, but you can see it changing," he said. "The pen does not rehabilitate you. You have to do it to yourself."
Washington didn't urge the students to avoid drugs, but he offered himself as an author.
"I'm not telling you to stay away from drugs," he said. "Experience is a good thing, but it can be difficult to find out what you're doing to yourself. You should be mentally ready for what you're doing, but you can never get ready for anything else." If you do get strung out, remember me. "If you do get strung out, remember me."
Washington said he expected to be released in another year. He said he wanted to see him in the hospital.
"I had a chance before and I turned it down," he said. "Everybody needs some kind of help, and if I can help kids that's what I'd like."
Washington was brought to the school by State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence.
Hitchin'
Pablo Casals, Famed Cellist, Dies
Casals entered Auxilio Mutuo Hospital after age after suffering a heart attack.
SAN JUAN (AP)—Pablo Casalis, the world renowned cellist who used his musical genius as an instrument of protest against tyranny, died yesterday at the age of 96. His 36-year-old wife, Martita, was at his bedside.
Casals will be buried today in a black Italian granite vault at the Puerto Rico Memorial Cemetery, only 100 yards from the Caribbean Sea and less than a block from his home. Burial will follow a requiem Mass at 1:20 p.m. offered by Carla Laíso Aponte Martínez at Our Lady of Mercy Parish Church.
Food Draws the Crowds At Baldwin's Fall Festival
Food was the big attraction at the 14th Annual Maple Leaf Festival at Saturday in Palm Beach.
chronic bronchitis, a kidney failure, high fever and circulatory ailments.
Starting the two-block lineup of boots was the Eastern Star's booth serving homemade beers down their steps away, then they braved bellow smoke to line up for the Jabercie's barbecue.
The festival's name, he said, came from the unusually large number of hard maple trees in Baldwin. He said the maples came to the area about 75 years ago when a group of men built them and it mutually sent to Baldwin by the Santa Fe Railroad and the trees were planted.
In the next block, were booths for snacks and popcorn, pre-packed cotton candy and crispy chips.
Across the street from the cotton candy booth, Baldwin High School's French club offered cookies, and the Spanish club served tacos.
A clown roamed the parade route tossing candies to youngsters, local 4-H clubs presented four floats and a band of young leaders brought up the end of the marchers.
Sen. Robert Dole and Lawrence Mayor Nancy Hambleton rode a car atop Capetres and Shriners raised their miniature tin lizzi in circles, followed by more Shriners on minibikes. Antique cars, Shetland ponies, mules and horses completed the transportation show.
The Maple Leaf Festival was planned to coincide with the peak of the trees' fall
The eaters took a break at 1:30 to watch the festival's hour-long parade.
More than 4,000 people watched the parade, according to Baldwin Mayor C. V. Reeves. The purpose of the festival, Reeves was to show the beauty of Baldwin City.
There was something for everyone:
adders, Abdullah Shrimers, beauty queens,
12-year-olds.
EARLIER, Casals' body will be on public view at the Puerto Rican capitul building. The world of music, which had acclaimed a cultural tradition of his time, paid tribute to his memory.
"This year the color is not as high as some years," he said.
Other festival events included "The Ballad of Black Jack," a musical about Baldwin's civil war days, and a crafts show. Predominant in the crafts display was a table of Raggedy Amu doll, watched over by an animal costume, including orange mops for hair.
Said Russia's *Matislav Rostoprovich*, considered the best cellist since Casila was in his prison: "I have lost not only a great friend, the friend. I feel a great personal grief."
There were hourly bus rides to local historic and scenic sites, including the nearby community of Vinland and the original Santa Fe trail ruts.
Eugene Ormandy, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, said: "Pablo Casals was one of the greatest musicians of all time and the greatest cellist. He was a strong example of humanity at its finest. His work has touched us for his rich and long life. His passing is a tremendous loss to the world of music and a great personal loss to my wife and myself."
Galen Whitman wasn't elected to the Student Senate from Oliver College, reported by the Kansan Friday. Greg Morris won the seat.
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James Schneider, forrest Junction, Wi., doctoral candidate, is the 1973-74 recipient of the 800 David Schulman Award for his performance in clinical psychology.
Pharmacy Meeting
R. K. Moe, director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory and professor of electrical engineering, returned last week to Moscow for a visit. Mr. Moore was a delegate to the 14th International Astronautical Congress at Baku, Russia. Last summer Moore visited Moscow by invitation of the Soviet Academy of Radio Engineering and Electronics.
Fifty members of the Student American Pharmacy Association will represent the University of Kansas at its annual Region VI meeting November 1-3 at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. We will lead the delegation. The three-day meeting will include workshops and programs on current topics and problems in pharmacy.
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More Discrimination Charges Filed by Union Against Haskell
Two more charges of unfair labor practices at Haskell Indian Junior College will be filed today with the U.S. Department of Labor. The National Federation of Federal Employees,
The charges were similar to two others filed previously with the Department of Labor which claimed that Haskell discriminated against vocational and
technical faculty in granting promotions,
James Luther, Local 45 president, said last week that the charges would be filed with the labor department because Haskell administrators had failed to respond to the charges during the 30 days allotted.
Use Kansan Classified
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is currently conducting a job classification review requested by Wallace Galluzzi, Haskell superintendent.
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