1 October – 1976 \u2013 Friday<\/strong><\/p>\nPut my timecard in.<\/p>\n
Made some corrections in the contract of Philippe Lamy which took only an hour,<\/p>\n
The rest of the day I\u00a0 worked on my journal entry for Wednesday which was very long.\u00a0 Put it on MagCard.<\/p>\n
I ate lunch at my desk.<\/p>\n
Went to the post office and mailed letters to my sisters.\u00a0\u00a0 ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ for the Fresno Four.\u00a0 Under separate cover I sent them copies of an issue of the Temple newspaper.<\/p>\n
At home I prepared dinner, ate and washed dishes.<\/p>\n
Magnolia called me about 7.30 saying Marshall was there.\u00a0 It took me about 15 minutes to get ready.\u00a0 We arrived at the Temple about 8.00.<\/p>\n
Announcements were being made by Dale Parks.\u00a0 He asked for volunteers to deliver newspapers, got mostly seniors.\u00a0 He then asked for volunteers to clean the Temple tonight.<\/p>\n
Dale took the offering.\u00a0 I participated.<\/p>\n
Testimonials, following which children sang, \u201cFreedom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mother came on podium at 9.00.<\/p>\n
She took another offering.\u00a0 There had as yet been no change on the floor.\u00a0 The lack of organization distressed her.<\/p>\n
She had the children sing and was firm when they started to shove.<\/p>\n
One of Jim\u2019s tapes.<\/p>\n
Anther offering.<\/p>\n
Meeting ended about 11.00.<\/p>\n
Home with Marshall.<\/p>\n
Bed at 12.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
2 October – 1976 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 8.00.<\/p>\nRheaviana called and arranged to move me today.\u00a0 She said she would be around with a truck and a crew about noon.<\/p>\n
I packed all day.\u00a0 Had one trouble. Some honey leaked in one of the boxes getting on most of the other cans and jars, on my clothes and even the rug.<\/p>\n
Listened to Jim\u2019s broadcast.<\/p>\n
Ate a meal about 1.00.<\/p>\n
Dick Tropp phoned and then came to see me.\u00a0 He had 3 letters for me to write for the Temple.\u00a0 One was to Dick Nolan, a\u00a0 SF Examiner columnist, concerning something said about Jim by a Sun Reporter columnist, Tom Fleming.<\/p>\n
I continued packing.\u00a0 Rheaviana phoned again in the middle of the afternoon and finally called about 5.00 that she was on the way over with a pick-up truck in a few minutes.\u00a0 I waited downstairs.\u00a0 Ray Jones was driving.\u00a0 4 young men, one of them Preston Wade, came to help.\u00a0 They loaded everything quickly.\u00a0 I was not even able to get everything nor sweep out and vacuum the place well.<\/p>\n
Ray got off at the Temple and Rheaviana drove up to the Geary Boulevard apartment.\u00a0 It is 1029 Geary, between Van Ness and Polk.\u00a0 We parked in the alley.\u00a0 Everything was put on the elevator and unloaded in my apartment, No. 47, which is on the 4th floor.\u00a0 The boxes were put mostly in the closet in the bedroom.\u00a0 Rheaviana gave me keys.<\/p>\n
Though there was a Temple service, I didn\u2019t go.\u00a0 I dressed and went out about 7.30 and walked around looking at the neighborhood.\u00a0 It seems an interesting and diverse area with numerous people on the street.\u00a0 I ate dinner in a restaurant.\u00a0 Had prawns with soup, salad, baked potato, peas and carrots, and tea.<\/p>\n
I unpacked a few boxes.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 12.00.\u00a0 I slept on the couch in the living room as my bed and room were too cluttered.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
3 October – 1976 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 9.00.<\/p>\nI typed on the Temple letters for Dick Tropp.\u00a0 The typewriter and extension cord worked fine on the electrical outlet in the apartment.<\/p>\n
Prepared breakfast.\u00a0 I had an egg and toast.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t go to the Temple service today.<\/p>\n
At 10.00, I went to my old apartment.\u00a0 Took the Geary bus to Marina and walked the rest of the way.\u00a0 I had left some cleaning material and took some things.\u00a0 Borrowed a vacuum cleaner and broom from Mrs. Heitmeier.\u00a0 Called Lor and had a healthy talk with her, telling her about my move.\u00a0 Cleaned the apartment thoroughly, washing shelves and refrigerator and stove and sweeping floors.\u00a0 At 2.00 I took time to go to the Hayes Street Coop to get bread and fruit, but not much was available.\u00a0 Continued cleaning until 5.00.\u00a0 Packed up my items which I had left on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Saw Mrs. Heitmeier and gave her my new address.\u00a0 Paid her at a daily rate for 3 days rent, $14.01.\u00a0 She told me the cleaning deposit was $100.00\u00a0 The owner had to approve a repayment and it would be sent to me if it was approved.<\/p>\n
I took a taxi.<\/p>\n
Stopped at the Temple and delivered the three letters to Dick Tropp who was in the law office.\u00a0 There was going to be an evening service and Terry Carter was in the office waiting to receive and record a call from Jim.<\/p>\n
My key to the building wouldn\u2019t work.\u00a0 Last night and tonight another tenant let me in but a woman from the office came out and helped me. She said her name was Ruth and she was very pleasant.<\/p>\n
I prepared a meal, ate and washed dishes.<\/p>\n
Straightened up the apartment.<\/p>\n
Read the newspapers for an hour.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 10.30.\u00a0 Slept in the bed having cleared the room of the objects which had been in my way.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
4 October – 1976 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nUp at 6.00.\u00a0 Encountered some difficulty finding what I needed to get breakfast.\u00a0 Put up a lunch and dressed, but left the apartment close to 7.30. And I was at work on time.<\/p>\nDor had dome some more work on her reports over the weekend but was not up to date yet.\u00a0 Betty needed them for a meeting and was disappointed the Dor did not have\u00a0last week\u2019s.\u00a0 She took the rough materials and put Brenda at them which disturbed Dor. Actually Brenda had problems arriving at the necessary information was not through by noon.<\/p>\n
Work poured in. All of us were at the machines all day, Dor and Marquita at ATS and I on MagCard.\u00a0 I put in 6 hours on another deposition in a US vs. Bechtel court case.<\/p>\n
Had time to make only a few notes for journal entries.<\/p>\n
Jim Mansfield came in at 4.30 with a man from Mining and Metals, Donald Greenfield.\u00a0 They wanted extensive revisions in the Suez Cement contract , as well as considerable new material.\u00a0 They inquired whether they could have a print-out in the morning, but Dor was not in a mood to work late.\u00a0 They later left word that tomorrow morning would be time enough.<\/p>\n
After work, I took the bus to the Coop to buy some fruit and a few other things needed.\u00a0 Had an ice cream cone.\u00a0 Made a few purchases in the new Coop basic food store.<\/p>\n
I had 2 heavy loads and carried them around for some time before I found the bus stop.\u00a0 Took the No. 19 and got off on Geary.<\/p>\n
Prepared and ate leftovers and washed dishes.<\/p>\n
Put away kitchen utensils, silver and so forth in the kitchen, trying to get it in order.<\/p>\n
Read the newspapers for an hour.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 11.30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
5 October – 1976 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nBecause of the infrequency of Muni buses, I spend as much time getting to work as before<\/p>\nI telephoned PG&E and Pacific Telephone and had service discontinued.\u00a0 Put in a change of address to the post office.\u00a0 The three of us in the office spent the greater part of the day\u00a0 on the Manfsield Suez Cement contract.\u00a0 I typed a portion n MagCard for ATS.\u00a0\u00a0 We ordered an express print-out.\u00a0 The Mansfield and Greenfield had wanted it by noon, by the time we ran off copies on the xerox, it was 4.00.<\/p>\n
I had some time to work on journal entries.<\/p>\n
The noon films were, \u201cThe United Way is People,\u201d which showed interviews with recipients of aid and people on the street expressing their views and \u201cThe Faces of the Sea,\u201d about the life of Maine Fishermen.\u00a0 I ate my lunch in the assembly room.<\/p>\n
The temperature these days has been very warm.<\/p>\n
I had seen Viola Godshalk when I left the building in the morning.\u00a0 She had been waiting for a ride to the Temple with Bob Houston, who didn\u2019t come.\u00a0 I told her I\u2019d drop in and see her after work.\u00a0 She shares an apartment with Rocki Breidenbach.\u00a0 The apartment was filled with knick-knacks, almost all of which are Rocki\u2019s and Viola says she keeps bringing in more, including plants.\u00a0 She had pictures of her family displayed.\u00a0 I asked Viola how she got money to buy so much, as communal members are not supposed to have private funds except an $8.00 a month.\u00a0 Viola didn\u2019t know, In addition to the disorder in which she lives, Viola is handicapped by lack of transportation,\u00a0 The person who usually gives a ride is on the Temple trip. She has been going for treatment to Laguna Honda.\u00a0 She had no way to go to the Temple to eat so was making herself some pancakes.\u00a0 Rocki had borrowed a Temple car but had to return it.<\/p>\n
I prepared my dinner, ate and washed clothes.<\/p>\n
I put away almost everything in the kitchen, working until 10.00.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers until 11.00.\u00a0 I was so tired I didn\u2019t even make a Sanka but drank quantities of water, as it was very hot in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Then went to bed.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
6 October – 1976 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nDor gave me no work to do today.\u00a0 She spent most of the day on the computer herself, working on 2 items which she considered too difficult for Marquita and me.\u00a0 One was another litigation report.\u00a0 Butler has decided on another format which had to be worked, but in addition, the copy was difficult to work from.\u00a0 The other item was a tale of contents to the Venezuelan metro contract, which Galbraith wanted in an unusual and time-consuming format.\u00a0 Either of these items she could have shown us how to do, but Dor has a tendency not to delegate work.<\/p>\nMarquita did have an ATS job part of the time.<\/p>\n
Dor told me Jim Cromin ___\u00a0 who used to be responsible for the litigation report, was unhappy because it has been taken over by the legal department, who are having so much trouble establishing a suitable format.<\/p>\n
I may buy a floor lamp and a half size mirror for the apartment and I got advice from others as to where I might get the former.\u00a0 At noon, after eating my lunch at my desk, I walked up Mission to 3rd Street, where Kate Walker thought there were some second-hand stores, but I found they had only office furniture.\u00a0 I was told, however of a lighting equipment store on Mission between 6th and 7th.\u00a0\u00a0 Kate offered to help me bring a lamp home if I found what I wanted, as she has a car.<\/p>\n
When I got home tonight, I washed and mended my dress.\u00a0 Started to the Temple for dinner and the Wednesday night meeting.\u00a0 I got a ride with Tom Partak, who had brought Chris Kice down to stay with Elsie Ross who is ill.\u00a0 When we arrived at the Temple, I found that almost everyone had left for the Democratic Rally at the Civic Center to watch the Ford-Carter formal political debate.<\/p>\n
I was given a plate of macaroni salad, frankfurter and pudding, the first meal I have eaten as a communal member.<\/p>\n
Got a ride with Claire Janaro who with several others had driven down from the Valley to the rally.<\/p>\n
Sat with Doreen Greaves.<\/p>\n
Crowd predominantly of common people. Cheered progressive statements.<\/p>\n
Moscone presided.<\/p>\n
Marcy was on platform.<\/p>\n
Cecil Williams gave invocation.<\/p>\n
John Tunney said a few words.<\/p>\n
Willie Brown took up a collection.<\/p>\n
Carter and party arrived about 8.30.\u00a0 Governor Jerry Brown introduced Carter.<\/p>\n
Rally ended 8.49.<\/p>\n
Came back with Claire.\u00a0 As I got in car was greeted by Betty Barclay who was going to offer me a ride.<\/p>\n
Service at Temple.<\/p>\n
Bob Christian handled rides.<\/p>\n
Wesley Johnson gave announcements<\/p>\n
I helped take offering.<\/p>\n
Comments from service on events tonight contrasting Ford and Carter with Jim Jones.<\/p>\n
Tape of Jim\u2019s sermon.\u00a0 I may not be good looking and I may not be intelligent businessman but I do know I am a worm in the honkeys\u2019 ass.\u00a0 Time is coming when it won\u2019t be safe to be black in this country.\u00a0 Minorities don\u2019t last down through history.\u00a0 They are wiped out and left to die on the desert. (apparently given in LA).<\/p>\n
Mike Cartmell took another offering.<\/p>\n
Marcy on podium about 10.45.\u00a0 She tells of introducing her to Rosalyn Carter who introduced her to Jimmy.<\/p>\n
Wesley took a count-down offering.<\/p>\n
Marcy gave revelations from Jim.<\/p>\n
Meeting dismissed at about 11.30.<\/p>\n
Joyce Rozynko took me home with others.\u00a0 She explained to me some of the procedures, such as getting lunches.\u00a0 This one will give me some problems unless I can use a variation.<\/p>\n
I ate some toast and jam and read newspapers.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 1.30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
7 October – 1976 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nI had no work again today.<\/p>\nFinished all journal entries including the one for Wednesday 29 September which was quite long.<\/p>\n
Marquita and I had a conversation about Dor\u2019s keeping us unoccupied and not passing work along.\u00a0 I have had 2 entire days to be charged on my time card as administrative overhead.\u00a0 Marquita also thought it was unfair that she has to do all the Litigation Reports, as they are tedious.\u00a0 Marquita, when unhappy, first gets moody and then angry.<\/p>\n
I ate lunch at my desk.\u00a0 Went to the bank. I intended to cash a check for personal needs and give my salary check to the Temple, but I forgot and deposited it.\u00a0 I went to the post office for more change of address cards.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon I wrote a memo to Betty on Dor\u2019s condition and work habits.\u00a0 I told Betty I feared for her mental stability.\u00a0 I marked the memo confidential.\u00a0 Told Marquita that I had written a memo to Betty on the office situation but did not show it to her.\u00a0 One of my motives is that when Betty sees my time card tomorrow, she is likely to notice that I had 30 hours of administrative overhead.<\/p>\n
A few minutes after I delivered the memo to Betty, Dor took in to show her the latest litigation report the office had received.\u00a0 She wanted to show Betty how sloppy the material was.<\/p>\n
I have noted or overheard remarks of several others in the department concerning Dor\u2019s unreasonable behavior.\u00a0 She reacts to unusual requests in an uncompromising way which offends people.<\/p>\n
Dor asked me to take the forms for the United Way, for which she is one of the canvassers, to the people on her list.<\/p>\n
I did my laundry in the washer and dryer in the basement of the apartment house.<\/p>\n
Prepared and ate some food and washed the dishes.<\/p>\n
Did personal chores.<\/p>\n
Washed my hair.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers for an hour.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 1.30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
8 October – 1976 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nBetty told Dor, as Dor reported to me, that she should give work to be done on the machines to Marquita and me, that she did not want to see one of us idle while Dor was on the computer.\u00a0 Dor split up the Litigation Report about which she complained among the three of us.\u00a0 It turned out to be not so difficult as it had at first seemed.\u00a0 I spent 5 hours on the report.<\/p>\nAte outside on the PG&E steps.<\/p>\n
After work I tore up some packing boxes to throw down the garbage shoot.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple by bus about 6.45.\u00a0 Dinner had not been served yet, as the Temple was fumigated today.<\/p>\n
I took upstairs my week\u2019s pay to give to Terry Carter.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t in the office and Carolyn Layton said she would give it to her.\u00a0 Several people were counseling Nawab Lawrence.\u00a0 I also left the last journal section for Tim Stoen.\u00a0 I talked with Carolyn about the journal.\u00a0 She assured me the manuscripts would be taken to Guyana with us.\u00a0 She mentioned that some day we must get at editing it, as it will be the record of the movement.<\/p>\n
When I went downstairs, food was being served.\u00a0 Joyce Rozynko told me of her difficulty in getting some plates to take to some ailing members at the Herman Street commune.\u00a0 Some children in the line were noisy and she tried to curb them. The service began about 7.45.\u00a0 Dave Garrison and Wesley Johnson presiding.<\/p>\n
There was so much disorder and noise that Leona Collier from the podium had to address the congregation and insist on an attitude of reverence.\u00a0 She decided to seat children with adults.\u00a0 I had 2 children beside me.<\/p>\n
The children were allowed to come to the platform to sing.<\/p>\n
Tom Adams took the offering.\u00a0 He told how Bob Stroud was saved from fire while welding.<\/p>\n
Three children and 5 adults testified<\/p>\n
Miller Bridgewater sang 2 songs.<\/p>\n
Rob Christian took a second offering.<\/p>\n
Don Beck gave his impressions of the promised land.<\/p>\n
The Gospel Singers sang.<\/p>\n
Tim Stoen took another offering, after speaking about Jim\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n
Dick Tropp spoke on the overthrow of the democratic government in Thailand and establishment of a military dictatorship.\u00a0 He played a tape of Jim speaking at the testimonial dinner.<\/p>\n
Wesley came out to raise some $300 more to make the budget.\u00a0 He succeeded with what people promised to bring tomorrow night and a large contribution from himself.<\/p>\n
(I kept no further notes for this date-Edith)<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
9 October – 1976 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 8.00.<\/p>\nWent to the Moulin Rouge, an attractive petite restaurant, about a block down on Geary, for a good breakfast.<\/p>\n
Took the bus to Bechtel to get my clipboard which I had forgotten.<\/p>\n
Then took a bus up Market to Powell Street at 10.00\u00a0and went to the Marinello School of Beauty, where I had a permanent.\u00a0 I asked for a tight curl.\u00a0 I had 2 good operators, a Filipina and a young man from Bolivia.\u00a0 The charge was $15.50.\u00a0 I was through about 12.30<\/p>\n
I went home on the bus, ate a couple of apples and a cup of Sanka.<\/p>\n
I then took the bus to the Coop and bought several grocery items, mostly fruit, besides shampoo and hair rinse.\u00a0 It was quite difficult walking to and from the bus with my paper bags.<\/p>\n
After I had my purchases in the apartment, I went out again to buy tomatoes at\u00a0a shop on Geary at Hyde, as the Coop tomatoes have been too expensive.\u00a0 I also bought some grapes.<\/p>\n
The day was pleasant and sunny.<\/p>\n
I drank some Sanka and read the Sunday paper for a few minutes.<\/p>\n
Had a nap from 5.15 to 6.15.<\/p>\n
Dressed for the Temple service.<\/p>\n
Caught the bus about 6.30 to go up for dinner.<\/p>\n
The quantity of food was small thought the food, roasted chicken, green beans and chocolate pudding, was very good.<\/p>\n
I had a talk with Viola Godshalk.\u00a0 She and Rocki were moved from the 5th to the first floor.\u00a0 4 are in their apartment instead of 2 and she will share a room with another person.\u00a0 She said she finally spoke to Rocki about keeping such a clutter in the living room.\u00a0 Unfortunately lost her ____.<\/p>\n
The service began at 7.30 with making ride arrangements announcements, congregational singing.<\/p>\n
Harry Williams took the offering.<\/p>\n
Testimonials, among which Marcy told us of plane which blew up from a bomb placed on it.<\/p>\n
Marcy had all the children line up and march to the front to sing their song.<\/p>\n
Bob Christian took another offering.<\/p>\n
Tape of one of Jim\u2019s sermons.<\/p>\n
Dick Tropp reviewed instructions from Jim to remind us of what happened in Thailand this week.\u00a0 The democratic government which the city had enjoyed for 3 years was over.\u00a0 Thrown over by a fascist dictatorship in a matter of hours amidst horrible brutality.<\/p>\n
The offering was inadequate.\u00a0 Mother decided to come down and take the money.\u00a0 She became indignant about those who don\u2019t give in his absences.\u00a0 She collected $300.<\/p>\n
Marcy announced that Jim had speaking engagements in New York.\u00a0 Would be back after this unless appointments were arranged for him that were necessary for the family\u2019s protection.\u00a0 The others on the trip are on the way home.<\/p>\n
Marcy gave some revelations from Jim.<\/p>\n
We again filed up to touch Jim\u2019s robe.<\/p>\n
Meeting was dismissed at 11.30.<\/p>\n
I had a ride with the same 3 women with whom I went home last night.<\/p>\n
Straightened up the apartment, putting in better order the boxes which I have not yet unpacked.<\/p>\n
Intended to read for an hour but dozed off in my chair and didn\u2019t get to bed until 3.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
10 October – 1976 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nUp at 9.00.<\/p>\nShowered, ending with cold water.<\/p>\n
Breakfast: orange, ground turkey meat, toast and Sanka, washed dishes.<\/p>\n
Dressed.<\/p>\n
Took the bus to the Temple. \u00a0Dorothy Brewer was on the bus.\u00a0 She said in addition to working on a job, she is taking a technical course and can\u2019t find time to study, as the 3 women with her talk to her all the time.<\/p>\n
We were about half an hour late.<\/p>\n
The crowd was larger than any I had seen since the trip started.<\/p>\n
Dave Garrison took the offering.<\/p>\n
Mother Jones on podium about 1.00.<\/p>\n
Marcy told as she had hope of going back to the Methodist Church in Indiana she had attended as a child and in which she and Jim were married.\u00a0 She explained her philosophy of doing something about other\u2019s misery instead of leaving it all to God and introduced Jim Jr. as her son.<\/p>\n
At start of testimonials, children sang.<\/p>\n
A long line of people testified.\u00a0 Some sang and some talked.<\/p>\n
Guy Young took second offering but Marcy told again of bomb placed on plane meant to kill Jim.\u00a0 Marcy told of Sandy Parks who left the cause because of involvement of her husband.\u00a0 She just operated on for cancer of uterus and vagina may lose her husband because of it.<\/p>\n
Commendation for Patty Pettit who instead of shoving around Ever Rejoicing ___\u00a0 ___ helped her up.<\/p>\n
Marcy answered our questions on her life with Father.<\/p>\n
(1) Jim\u2019s first evidence of some ____ ___\u00a0 her sense of responsibility it would place on him.<\/p>\n
(2) Marcy\u2019s feelings about treatment she received on adoption of Jimmy.<\/p>\n
(3) Did you develop you consciousness about social injustice from your association with Jim?\u00a0 Answer: yes.<\/p>\n
(4) Tell about your time in Brazil ___ children and putting ___ ___ ___<\/p>\n
(5) Mary Wotherspoon, Jr. (little Mary, child).\u00a0 How did she and Father meet.\u00a0\u00a0 I was a nurse and he was an orderly. Helped me prep the body for burial of a young girl who died of trichinosis.<\/p>\n
Video tape of a sermon Jim gave in August.\u00a0 Crew was being trained.<\/p>\n
Wesley with Bob Christian\u2019s support took offering.\u00a0 Marcy suggested contest between the two.\u00a0 Bob\u2019s side won.\u00a0 Over $500 was raised.<\/p>\n
Marcy gave revelations from Jim.<\/p>\n
Congregation filed up touching Jim\u2019s robe.<\/p>\n
Service dismissed at 3.30.<\/p>\n
Communal people were served dinner.\u00a0 Those who are not communal could be served on payment of $3.55.\u00a0 Dinner was very good: ham, spinach, Jell-O with peaches.<\/p>\n
I decided not to stay for the evening service and went home on the bus.\u00a0 My watch had stopped and I couldn\u2019t get the time.\u00a0 ___ ___ ___ ___ ___that it was an hour. Then it was\u2026???<\/p>\n
Pressed ___ ___ ___<\/p>\n
Typed in my journal for 2 hours.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at about 1.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
11 October – 1976 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nHad only a short expense account to do for Mansfield and a power of attorney for Maggie on MagCard.\u00a0 Nevertheless I didn\u2019t even finish Sunday\u2019s journal entry.\u00a0 Marquita and Dor were doing some typing for one of the new attorneys.\u00a0 His handwriting was hard to decipher and his grammar questionable.<\/p>\nI left about 10.00\u00a0for an appointment with Dr. Schaupp for my regular gynecological exam.\u00a0 As Lor had told me, he has closed his Stonestown office.\u00a0 He had found no problems.\u00a0 I asked him about the advisability of my continuing to take premarin, in view of its supposed carcinogenic properties.\u00a0 He thought the risk was outweighed by the benefits.<\/p>\n
I ate lunch on PG&E steps. The day was quite warm.<\/p>\n
Went directly to the Temple as I wanted to eat early and get home to work on my journal.\u00a0 Many of the sisters were folding Temple newspapers for delivery.\u00a0 Food service started about 6.00.\u00a0 Had gone upstairs and gave Jean Brown information about a possible job opportunity for one of our girls as a Medical Assistant for Dr. Schaupp.\u00a0 I had to wait for her to wait for corn bread to bake.<\/p>\n
The meal was too heavy with starch, since there was a big helping of rice with beans.\u00a0 I found it unpalatable.<\/p>\n
Many of the young people left to distribute newspapers.<\/p>\n
I gave to Dale Parks to give to Joyce Parks a note about what vitamins will be authorized for me, as I learned only vitamin C is supplied to all communal members without a revelation from Father.<\/p>\n
When I got home I typed in my journal for 3 hours with a break to wash dishes.<\/p>\n
I read newspapers and ate a salami sandwich.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 1.00.<\/p>\n
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12 October – 1976 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nDor gave both Marquita and me a pro forma<\/em> contract from Rita with annotated section which by an \u201cedit\u201d command can be excluded from the print-outs.\u00a0 Marquita had done some of this annotation previously, but it was my first experience with it.\u00a0 Dor is quite proud of the procedure which she says she adapted for the department\u2019s needs from the basic instruction.\u00a0 The 2 documents needed revisions which involved several different types of annotated entries, as well as the usual type of revisions.\u00a0 I worked on this document 5 hours before and after lunch.\u00a0 I then had about an hour\u2019s work on a revision of a short Galbraith document.<\/p>\nHad very little time to work on journal entries.\u00a0 Did yesterday\u2019s entry.<\/p>\n
At lunchtime I went to see a film in the energy series called, \u201cThe Road to Energy\u201d with Bob Hope.\u00a0 It was a Texaco film which showed various actions of the oil industry, the main effort being directed to telling the viewer how expensive it is to search for oil and that environmental considerations are always in the company\u2019s mind.\u00a0 At my lunch in the assembly room.<\/p>\n
I intended to go home for a few minutes before going on to the Temple tonight, but it was well that I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 The family had arrived from the trip in the morning.\u00a0 Large numbers were in the dining room and food service started about 5.45.\u00a0 The meal was very good.<\/p>\n
It seemed that papers listing our personal needs were to be turned in later but I didn\u2019t want to wait.<\/p>\n
I worked on my journal, finishing the typing of the 16-31 October 1975 section, proofed it.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers.\u00a0 Went to bed at 12.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
13 October – 1976 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nThe Schuman pro forma<\/em> documents were done by both Marquita and me came back with some errors in them.\u00a0 I corrected mine in about half an hour and ordered an express print-out of both documents just before lunch.<\/p>\nIn the meantime I had taken some dictation from Philippe Lamy, an amendment to a Reynolds Metals contract, which I put on MagCard.\u00a0 I made him a draft and at the close of the day had not yet received it back.<\/p>\n
At lunchtime I saw a Canadian Film Board picture (out on video tape), \u201cWet Earth, Warm People\u201d showing experiences of a group of white people among the people of Indonesia.\u00a0 Ate my lunch in the assembly room.<\/p>\n
At 3.00 Dor, Marquita and I met with Betty Vasil to discuss the office procedures and our differences.\u00a0 Betty allowed each of us to express our opinions.\u00a0 Dor was very defensive and made complaints about both of us, in my case that I conspired with Marquita against her. She explained her assignment of work and the fact that I was not given much on the computer, alleging that I was slow and she made a practice of mentioning lateness of arrival and conversation in the office against both of us, while ignoring her own culpability in these regard.\u00a0 Marquita and I put the emphasis on her tendency to give minute and unnecessary work directions and I mentioned her habit of giving out work at the end of a day and her failure to appreciate the passage of time. Betty said, as she had previously told Dor, that Dor was to give Marquita and me operation of work before she did any herself, leaving herself free to handle administration and talk to anyone bringing in work.\u00a0 Betty thought some progress had been made and promised a meeting again next week, workload permitting.<\/p>\n
I went home, washed and took the bus to the Temple.<\/p>\n
Saw Phyllis Houston at the bus stop.\u00a0 She had just moved to San Francisco.\u00a0 She had been driving to LA every week and worked in the garage 2 days a week.<\/p>\n
Took the bus to the Temple and had dinner.\u00a0 I tried to find people who could answer some of my questions.\u00a0 JoAnn Davis said she had sent vitamins to Rocki Breidenbach for people in our commune.\u00a0 I went up to the law office and saw June Crym who told me the routine which was followed with respect to the week\u2019s needs, getting prescriptions filled, breakfast supplies and so on, but she advised me to see Terry Carter who would put me on the communal rolls.\u00a0 I went upstairs to find Terry but saw Vernell and Maria first.\u00a0 Vernell said she would see me later tonight.<\/p>\n
Announcement that meeting tomorrow night at the Temple on social security, welfare, medical with Laura Efrein.<\/p>\n
Lee Ingram warned that too many complaints had been received against children misbehaving at school.\u00a0 Any child so reported will be dealt with severely. All students in Opportunity School must be on Temple bus at 1.15, 3 times a week to distribute newspapers.<\/p>\n
Bob Christian took the offering.\u00a0 I was not asked to participate.<\/p>\n
Security meeting mandatory for all security personnel form San Francisco, Los Angeles on Thursday night,<\/p>\n
Harry Williams asked new members who came back on the trip to stand and the congregation greeted them.\u00a0 LC Mitchell told of being cured him of heart trouble after he had fallen from the roof.<\/p>\n
Norman Ijames led some congregational singing,.\u00a0 He took a second offering<\/p>\n
Following testified concerning the trip, CJ Jackson. St. Louis, Kansas City, Detroit, Chicago.\u00a0 Jim had trouble with his throat and was in pain but spoke endlessly.<\/p>\n
The new people were introduced and spoke .<\/p>\n
Reverend Edwards.
\nDale Parks took another offering.<\/p>\n
Tapes of Jim\u2019s ____ This undoubtedly one of sermons given and trip can\u2019t referred to church in which group were meeting it very frankly deals with the topics of the Bible, its promise of heaven in contest with the actuality of the p.l.<\/p>\n
Wesley Johnson took an offering by sum in an effort to make the budget.<\/p>\n
Dale gave revelations from Jim.<\/p>\n
The congregation filed up to touch Jim\u2019s picture.<\/p>\n
The meeting was out at about 12.30.<\/p>\n
Lela Murphy and I, with several others were supposed to go home to 1029 Geary with Johnny Mae Yates, but she had to take another load first.\u00a0 I went out to bus No. 12 with Lela to get her suitcase. Picked up my lunch for tomorrow \u2013 unhappy because it contained white bread and bologna sandwiches which we had had for dinner.\u00a0 Had waited throughout the service for Vernell to talk to me about communal procedures, as I have made no progress at all in getting breakfast supplies nor my month\u2019s allowance.\u00a0 I saw Rheaviana who still has not given me a key for my mailbox.\u00a0 All the above activities were frustrating.\u00a0 Johnny Mae did not come to take us home until about 1.30 and I was on the point of taking the bus with Lela, who seemed to be behaviorally disturbed.\u00a0 I was worried on account of the lack of sleep.<\/p>\n
I did receive my vitamins from Rocki Breidenbach who was distributing them in our building.<\/p>\n
I ate a piece of honeydew melon.\u00a0 Got to bed at 2.10.,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
14 October – 1976 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nIn the office we worked on the Litigation Reports on the ATS.\u00a0 Marquita had an original entry one.\u00a0 I was revising one. At lunch time I went over to California Street where at the Chartered Bank of London the Magna Carta was being displayed.\u00a0 This was the last day and there was quite a long line, but it moved fast.\u00a0 I got several copies of the Magna Carta and of an amusing item on colonial days which I brought back for Dor and Marquita.<\/p>\nDor had been holding herself in and the work went smoothly until the end of the day.\u00a0 Dor left the room and I took advantage of her absence to call Lor whom I had been trying to get throughout the day.\u00a0 Marquita sprang to my machine to try to help me.\u00a0 Dor returned and was upset because Marquita had thought my material was original entry and had inserted unwanted material.<\/p>\n
Dor said angrily, \u201cNeither of you know enough to help the other.\u201d Dor was shaking and her voice was edgy.\u00a0 We finally decided to delete, store and end.\u00a0 I was out 15 minutes late.\u00a0 Saw Betty Vasil in the elevator and told that again I couldn\u2019t get out of the office on time.<\/p>\n
I went to the Temple to eat.<\/p>\n
Washed clothes downstairs in the apartment building.\u00a0 Talked to Jewel Wilson who has moved up from Los Angeles. Did personal and household chores and bathed.\u00a0 Packed for the Los Angeles trip.<\/p>\n
Read the newspaper. Intended to go to bed at 12.00, but I fell asleep in my chair and didn\u2019t wake up until 1.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
15 October – 1976 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nWas later this morning.\u00a0 Dor had picked up the print-outs.<\/p>\nMarquita was angry about last night\u2019s events and told me \u201cthat bitch has branded all _____ about getting even with us.\u201d\u00a0 Dor started ___ captiously speaking that neither of us knew enough to help the other.<\/p>\n
She started explaining to me what further had to be done with the Litigation Report.\u00a0 I asked her to let me do as much as I could on the other MagCard.\u00a0 The job was very difficult, as corrections had to be made, new entries made and closed cases moved to a new section at the end.<\/p>\n
At lunch time I went to the meeting of the BWAA. A communications consultant Chris Schneider, spoke on \u201cCommunication as a Skill.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 ___ ____ was ___ ___ and she seemed to me quite ____ ___ and ____ info and ____ .<\/p>\n
Dor went out to lunch with _____ .\u00a0 Some work had come in which she had left for Marquita.\u00a0 It included some ____, some typing and material to put in the mail.<\/p>\n
I started to show her how to prep materials for mailing when Dor returned.\u00a0 The ___ material was for J.C. Stromberg, new to the ____ department, a high-ranking official.\u00a0 He and Betty Vasil came down to explain the material was urgent so I got off the computer and typed a long memo for him, while Dor did the xeroxing and mail distribution.\u00a0 We finished the \u201cjob\u201d on time.<\/p>\n
Dor\u2019s attitude improved during most of the afternoon and I was allowed to continue my work on the Litigation Report unimpeded.\u00a0 I did not finish before closing time.<\/p>\n
I finished packing at home and put up a lunch for tonight.<\/p>\n
Took my luggage to Rocki\u2019s apartment for her to bring in the van, as she said she would last night.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple by bus at 6.30.<\/p>\n
For dinner we had roast chicken, macaroni salad, fruit.\u00a0 Sat beside Jean Brown, who isn\u2019t teaching now.\u00a0 She is working at the Housing Authority.<\/p>\n
Vernell was there and spoke to me, said she would see me about submitting my needs on Monday night.\u00a0 I asked her what I could do about getting a lunch on week days.\u00a0 She said to speak to Irra and perhaps I could get some supplies to make my own lunch.<\/p>\n
I turned my check over to Vernell.<\/p>\n
Service started at 7.30.\u00a0 Dave Garrison opened it.<\/p>\n
Frances Johnson explained the new policy of placing children among the adults in the audience and requested people to be cooperative.\u00a0 The aim is to cut down on noise and confusion during the service.<\/p>\n
The Gospel Singers presented 2 numbers.<\/p>\n
CJ Jackson led some congregational singing.<\/p>\n
Wesley Johnson made announcements.<\/p>\n
Bob Christian handle rides.<\/p>\n
Dale Parks took charge of the meeting and after leading a song took another offering.<\/p>\n
The ministers testified: Guy Young, Dave Garrison, CJ Jackson, Bob Christian, Wesley Johnson.<\/p>\n
Norman Ijames took another offering.\u00a0 Contributions seemed very poor tonight.<\/p>\n
Diane Wilkinson sang and played \u201cSummertime.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tape of one of Jim\u2019s sermons.<\/p>\n
Wesley took another offering.<\/p>\n
Two young girls in my area had been very inattentive, talked throughout the offerings and were unresponsive to my appeals to them.\u00a0 I finally, with the help of a security man, took their names to turn in.\u00a0 I was met with a hostile attitude.\u00a0 Some neighboring women, to whom they had given trouble, let me take their names as witnesses.\u00a0 Later I learned from others that they were form LA and had behaved badly on the bus.<\/p>\n
Dale Parks gave revelations from Jim.<\/p>\n
The congregation filed up to touch the altar.<\/p>\n
The meeting ended about 12.15.<\/p>\n
Vera Talley and I tried to find Rocki and the van, to get our luggage, and wandered around a long time in the parking lot and among the buses until she finally arrived.\u00a0 I believe her son, Wesley, had had the van.\u00a0 It was especially difficult to get a seat on the bus because I was late but bus 12 had space for me next to Viola Moton.<\/p>\n
I ate my lunch.<\/p>\n
Viola had a tendency to talk all the time, but I went to sleep shortly after the buses left at 1.15.<\/p>\n
I got up at the first stop, went to the bathroom and ran.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
16 October – 1976 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nWe arrived at Buttonwillow at 7.15 and stayed about an hour.<\/p>\nI ran, started my lunch.\u00a0 Viola Godshalk had told me last night she\u2019d like to speak to me, so I found her and talked with her.\u00a0 I been afraid she had had more trouble with Rocki and was going to ask if she moved in with me as my room mate.\u00a0 Although I like Viola, she is a rather talkative and looking and after her transportation and perhaps other needs might be time-consuming, but I would have found it hard to refuse her, especially as she and Ray Godshalk had been good to me when I was new in the Temple.\u00a0 I had been right about trouble with Rocki.\u00a0 Rocki had been rude and unfriendly with a black woman in her 80\u2019s and Viola had argued with her.\u00a0 Later, however, Rocki had apologized to her.\u00a0 Viola said she didn\u2019t want to trouble the Temple to move her when they had so much to do.<\/p>\n
I read the newspaper, then slept.<\/p>\n
We arrived in Los Angeles at 11.15.<\/p>\n
I changed clothes on the bus.<\/p>\n
I had enough time to eat breakfast at the Temple.\u00a0 Had shredded wheat and a pair of cinnamon roll.<\/p>\n
Sat in the back of the Temple and wrote in my journal.<\/p>\n
Had a picture taken for a membership card in the annex, as I had lost my previous one.\u00a0 Mike Rozynko is still in charge of the operation.<\/p>\n
The service started at 2.00.<\/p>\n
Rides were arranged.\u00a0 Attendance seemed sparse and responses came slowly.<\/p>\n
Norman asked for a special contribution, everyone to handle a need which had to be taken care of immediately.\u00a0 Response seemed good.<\/p>\n
Rob Christian asked for food donations for tonight\u2019s dinner.\u00a0 Norm made an appeal for help in distributing the Temple newspaper today and for pamphleting.<\/p>\n
Norm described the ___ ___ in the p.l.<\/p>\n
Norm took offering by sum.<\/p>\n
Johnny Brown testified.\u00a0 He said on this trip Jim preached as he never had before, particularly in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Other testimonials.\u00a0 Mary Wotherspoon was raised from the dead on the trip in Harlem , New York.<\/p>\n
Another offering taken.<\/p>\n
Choir sang.<\/p>\n
Another offering.<\/p>\n
Tape of Chicago sermon.\u00a0 Pentecostalism if practiced would save the world.\u00a0 Muslims in Day of Pentecost had all things in common.\u00a0 No church manifested int.\u00a0 People do not ever get ____ of life.\u00a0 Explanation of holiness, unselfishness.\u00a0 When you see him you will have to be like him.<\/p>\n
Jim\u2019s coming soon referred to throughout the service.<\/p>\n
Johnny Brown gave revelations from Jim during which he made another appeal for offering.<\/p>\n
Congregation comes to altar.<\/p>\n
Service out about 6.15.<\/p>\n
Saw Beulah.\u00a0 She said she was all packed, ready to move to San Francisco and hoped I could find another place to stay.\u00a0 I was resigned to staying in the church.\u00a0 Few people stayed to offer rides. A woman volunteered to take Lela Murphy and me.\u00a0 Several others probably did not get places to stay.\u00a0 I saw downstairs Tom Fitch and Betty with 5 weeks old baby who apparently had to stay in church.<\/p>\n
Lela and I ate downstairs.<\/p>\n
Our hostess, Nina Saunders, took home besides Lela and me, her grandmother, Lillian Johnson, her friend, Newhuanda Darnes and the little 6 year old Naja Darnes.<\/p>\n
We got home around 7.00.<\/p>\n
I read in Radicalism in America<\/em> for a while.\u00a0 Went to bed at 9.00.\u00a0 Lela and I had a bed and room to ourselves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
17 October – 1976 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nUp at 7.30.\u00a0 First in bathroom.<\/p>\nBreakfast.\u00a0 Plenty but starchy: hot cereal, toast, grape jelly, fried potatoes, gravy, cinnamon rolls, Sanka, with orange juice for young people.<\/p>\n
Nina a little fussy about housekeeping but remarked that we were \u201ccongenial.\u201d\u00a0 She used to work for a millionaire in the East for years in charge of everything.\u00a0 Then she was a worker in dietician\u2019s office in a hospital, had much responsibility.\u00a0 She had drawn away from old religion realizing people were supporting their preachers in luxury.\u00a0 She was very independent, afraid of giving it up in communal living.<\/p>\n
We left for Temple at 10.15.<\/p>\n
Lela told me Mother LeTourneau was not well, son came to get her, she with him now.<\/p>\n
Talked with Muriel Yaley and Mildred Madison.\u00a0 Muriel just had another operation for tumors in the bladder.\u00a0 Mildred was questioning why? When Jim cold cure them with a wave of the hand.\u00a0 Hey said they were uncertain about moving to San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Rob Christian opened service at 11.00.\u00a0 He announced our Father in the body was present.<\/p>\n
Jim appeared a little after 12.00 during testimonials.<\/p>\n
Rick Cordell told of some episodes of the past few weeks.<\/p>\n
Choir sang.<\/p>\n
Rejoicing and congregational singing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have just returned from heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n
We won the case involving the custody of children.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t get children and has to pay child support.<\/p>\n
From June to 1 October, 8 new buildings, lake stocked with fish being constructed.\u00a0 Met government officials.\u00a0 All American projects closed down.\u00a0 Referral to Cuban [Cubana Flight 455 October 6. 1976 near Barbados]\u00a0 plane brought down.\u00a0 Caribbean brought closer together.\u00a0 Several people rounded up who were involved.\u00a0 Jim prevented from getting on that plane.\u00a0 Left there Friday night.\u00a0 Instead of people demoralized, big gatherings in Havana and in Guyana in show of solidarity.\u00a0 Couldn\u2019t have been more help.\u00a0 Kill off of socialists, draw all other socialists together.\u00a0 Plan to murder Castro and plan foiled.\u00a0 Venezuela cooperated.\u00a0 Tuesday Jim will meet Mondale.\u00a0 Political system wants our support.\u00a0\u00a0 Jim going to warn Carter of CIA threat. They will kill other presidents.<\/p>\n
Guyana officials say American economic system about to collapse.\u00a0 Will lead to ___ ___ ___ of moving much more promptly our elders need to relax.\u00a0 Some people didn\u2019t come to church, offerings fell down.\u00a0 Have to buy freighter. Will move ___ food supplies we ant to sell, will come right to our property.\u00a0 Will carry 200 people.\u00a0 No mosquitoes bite us in the p.l.\u00a0 Americans were expelled.\u00a0 They were growing opium.\u00a0 We could use generator.\u00a0 We need more equipment.\u00a0 Jim saw what Grubbs could achieve if sent to p.l.\u00a0 Has set up socialist work study program.\u00a0 Darren Swinney didn\u2019t know his alphabet, now reading a 4th grade level.\u00a0 Tommy Kice remarkable improvement.\u00a0 Ronny Beikman couldn\u2019t see relationships. Now doing math.\u00a0 Have thoughts of educating children of rich to raise money.\u00a0 Marrian Griffith child straightened out.\u00a0 ____ who is well and won\u2019t steal anything.\u00a0 Tommy Bogue was using drugs there, made fudge in p.l.<\/p>\n
Need $30,000 for freighter, with $50,000 for engine.\u00a0 We are going to get smaller airplane.\u00a0 Government will cover medical expenses and all travel for those over 60.\u00a0 Government wanted to make 60 retirement age.<\/p>\n
Need diesel generators for back-up.\u00a0 Have to store food so no one will ever be hungry.\u00a0 Government will give us fish to stock the lake,\u00a0 Pop Jackson has built 3 miles of walkways.<\/p>\n
Need vehicle, Toyota land Rover. $11,000 to go shopping, to go fishing, have to have at least 10 in the end.\u00a0 Workers have learned by revelation to repair generators.\u00a0 Mike Touchette is best bulldozer operating in the country.\u00a0 70 acres cleared for our housing.\u00a0 We need a market in town to sell our produce.<\/p>\n
$200,000 for steam generators.\u00a0 A man, white member died agonizing death while Jim gone.\u00a0 Took off while Jim gone and was crushed to death with in a few hours.\u00a0 Woman had a stroke because she questioned what Father did.\u00a0 You\u2019d better stay thankful and stay where you are.\u00a0 Have to have a freighter.\u00a0 Have to build a dam for lake.\u00a0 Philip Blakey licensed as Captain by Guyana.\u00a0 Licensed as to bring in our presses and have our own newspaper.\u00a0 People who want to come can send us some money.<\/p>\n
Jim took the offering, starting about 3.00 o\u2019clock and continuing for an hour.\u00a0 HE described the items in the p.l. which were needed and pledged with the people to give or pledge the sums necessary.\u00a0 He had budgeted all we will need for a year, including ____.\u00a0 Among other items were archery sets for fishing and hunting, as well as the generators for the freighter.\u00a0 He included many illustrative details.<\/p>\n
Revelations were dramatic.<\/p>\n
The meeting ended about 4.30.<\/p>\n
We had dinner downstairs.<\/p>\n
We left LA at 6.00.<\/p>\n
I read Radicalism in America<\/em>.<\/p>\nAbout an hour or so out of LA, the buses came to a halt and we heard over the intercom concerning an accident that had occurred.\u00a0 Police were mentioned and Jim\u2019s voice came over.\u00a0 Asking someone if he was hurt.\u00a0 We learned that someone had thrown something, into the windshield of the lead (Jim\u2019s) bus.<\/p>\n
The police had come; the buses went on their way after reporting the incident.\u00a0 Some had been slightly injured by shattered glass but Jim said hospitalization was not necessary.<\/p>\n
I slept.<\/p>\n
When we had a short stop at Buttonwillow, everyone was allowed to look at the bus.\u00a0 The missile thrown had not made a hole and was apparently not a bullet but had hit the glass with terrific impact.\u00a0 I saw Mike Prokes, the driver, and Karen Layton, who had been cut with glass, got it in their eyes and swallowed some, and had been cut and covered with blood.\u00a0 All wounds had healed and only some effect on Mike\u2019s eyes was visible.\u00a0 Mike had been miraculously able to park the bus safely at the side of the road. (Jim told us later that his son Steve had also been struck by the glass but it was also all right.).\u00a0 Jim had been standing near Mike but had moved a few minutes before.<\/p>\n
I had Viola Moton as a seat partner again.\u00a0 She told me all about a son who plays in the movies and whom she saw in Los Angeles.\u00a0 However, she stopped talking after a while and I had a comfortable night.<\/p>\n
I ran at the last rest stop.<\/p>\n
We arrived at San Francisco about 4.00.<\/p>\n
I went home on the bus with Dorothy Brewer.<\/p>\n
I lay down until 6.00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
18 October – 1976 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nMarquita went home ill.<\/p>\nI am working on the Litigation Report, making final corrections.\u00a0 Did a memo for Fletcher on MagCard.\u00a0 It was on labor relations.\u00a0 He was annoyed because some xeroxing done under Dor\u2019s instructions was carelessly done.<\/p>\n
Dor was very tense all day.<\/p>\n
Had lunch in the office.\u00a0 Bought a birthday card for Mabs [Edith\u2019s sister], though her birthday was 3 days ago.<\/p>\n
Tonight I got off the bus at Hyde and bought some grapefruit at the stand there.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple about 6.30.\u00a0 Talked with a number of people.\u00a0 Sharon Amos has a job as legal assistant in a law firm and is also learning office procedures.\u00a0 CJ Jackson and I discussed the international situation.<\/p>\n
The day for putting in for need in the communes has been changed from Monday to Tuesday.<\/p>\n
I typed in my journal 2 hours from 8.30 to 10.30.<\/p>\n
Read the newspaper, having some grapes.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 12.15.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
19 October 1976 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nI spent all day on another litigation report, making revisions.\u00a0 Butler\u2019s office seems to be trying to finish these in time for the annual seminar of the department which starts Thursday.<\/p>\nDor is still tense and Marquita is better.\u00a0 Marquita says she is waiting until she can take sick leave and look for another job after 6 months on the job.<\/p>\n
I ate lunch in the office as the weather is cool.<\/p>\n
When I got home I exercised for 15 minutes.\u00a0 This is the first day I have done my daily exercises since moving except for running at the rest stops on the LA trip, although I had a good deal of physical activity while moving and unpacking.<\/p>\n
I changed my clothes.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple on the bus.\u00a0 I knew that the members who weren\u2019t working had gone to the Democratic rally for Mondale at noon.\u00a0 I had the impression there wouldn\u2019t be a communal meeting.\u00a0 I was later for dinner and they were out of everything but macaroni with frankfurters and fresh peas but these were good.<\/p>\n
I heard there was to be a communal meeting at 8.30, the hour probably chosen because the young people were pamphleting.<\/p>\n
I went to the auditorium where in the back the \u201cneeds\u201d procedure was taken care of.\u00a0 The individual fills out forms and submits it to his or her counselor listing the items desired with estimated cost.\u00a0 On Wednesday night the money will be provided.\u00a0 Receipts must be retained.\u00a0 A separate form is filled out for food times, which are furnished from kitchen supplies.\u00a0 Vernell Henderson is my counselor and she showed me how to make out the forms.<\/p>\n
I had had a call from Renee LeRoy in Dr. John Shaupp\u2019s office asking whether I would be able to send anyone to her from the Temple for a part-time job as a Medical Technician, as I had mentioned the possibility.\u00a0 I had turned in the request to Jean Brown when I first received it.\u00a0 I spoke to Vernell about it and she suggested I tell Thelma Jackson, who is just finishing a Medical Technician course.<\/p>\n
Christine Bates told me she was to be my new room mate. Rheaviana had shown her the apartment this afternoon. Christine is a senior who has been in rather frail health.\u00a0 She is a quite _____, hot-tempered person but hard-working, used to be in charge of the vitamin stand. She may be hard to get along with.\u00a0 Liz Forman in her early days in Ukiah shared an apartment with her and they had some stormy incidents.<\/p>\n
The communal meeting opened at 8.30, Lee Ingram presiding.<\/p>\n
Announcements were made.<\/p>\n
Jim came in at 8.45.\u00a0 He gave pans of pop corn to the children who passed it to the auditorium.<\/p>\n
Lee spoke on the proposal of all for seeing that food was not wasted. He said people were avoiding work by hiding out in the communes, even missing meals.\u00a0 All had to be on hand at 8.00.<\/p>\n
Jim spoke of those who attended the political rally today.\u00a0 Some were more interested in getting autographs than in making known they were members of the Temple.<\/p>\n
Jim met Governor Brown and John Tunney.\u00a0 Carter is offering a government post to Jim.\u00a0 He had a possibility of being appointed ambassador to Guyana.\u00a0 It would mean $40 or $50,000 which would be turned over to the cause.\u00a0 Jim said he can’t see any other post in government which he wanted.<\/p>\n
Jim mentioned the attack on the bus Sunday night and described how Steve was hurt.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll support Carter.\u00a0 Jim told Mondale of events in Guyana.\u00a0 The US is trying to squeeze a socialist country out of existence.\u00a0 The CIA brought down the plane in the Caribbean.\u00a0 78 young people were murdered.<\/p>\n
[Name withheld] (and Vance?) are being sent out.\u00a0 [Name withheld] was involved in drugs.<\/p>\n
Bob Houston was the man who went out while Jim was away and who was killed within a few hours, crushed by a train.\u00a0 Jim was not responsible; he had removed himself from protection.<\/p>\n
Jim said that in the p.l. he didn\u2019t need to raise his voice once.<\/p>\n
Jim said the bombing of the Cuban place had united the countries located in the region.\u00a0 A plot to kill Castro was uncovered.\u00a0 Cuba denounced the treaty under which it had agreed to send plane hijackers back as the US had not kept its word to stop terrorist attacks.\u00a0 The US had threatened Russia and was told \u201cDon\u2019t threaten us.\u201d\u00a0 144 million would die in the first strike of a thermonuclear war.<\/p>\n
Jim mentioned equipment we need in the p.l.\u00a0 We need a noodle machine and restaurant\u00a0 equipment.\u00a0 We will buy another freighter.\u00a0 We are moving from a big to a small airplane. A freighter can move 200 people.<\/p>\n
Jim estimated 500 people will go to the p.l.\u00a0 We have 300 communal people.<\/p>\n
We need at least 10 Toyota station wagons.\u00a0 We need to raise $550,000.\u00a0 When we have I, we\u2019ll see the church and apartment buildings.<\/p>\n
A school for our children has been set up by Tom Grubbs.\u00a0 It is better than the government seeks which are better than American schools.\u00a0 In the p.l. they told us to send four of our worst problem children with a supervisor and they will straighten the children out.<\/p>\n
Jim had worked on a budget for the p.l.\u00a0 $44 was planned for food per person, $100 for clothing.\u00a0 We need $360,000 a year for 500 people.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t cover equipment.\u00a0 We ought to do everything in our power to get what we need.<\/p>\n
New people who had joined us on the trip were asked to say a few words.<\/p>\n
A young person, Bertha X, 16, was brought on the floor.\u00a0 She took off without permission.\u00a0 She said she had never seen anything loving from Father.\u00a0 She had been involved in questionable activities.\u00a0 She wants to go to her grandmother.\u00a0 Her mother thought this arrangement would be hard on her grandmother.\u00a0 The mother is not communal\u00a0 The girl has been up many times before,\u00a0 The mother said the girl had bruises, said she had been beaten by the counselor.\u00a0 Questioned, Bertha admitted she had hit her own arm and that she could always manipulate her mother.\u00a0 Jim recalled that she said she had always hated her mother.\u00a0 Jim said: the next person who criticizes me behind my back can pack.\u00a0 Bertha was asked whether she wanted to stay.\u00a0 She replied she doesn\u2019t want to be communal, chose to go.\u00a0 Jim is therefore sending her to her grandmother.\u00a0 Linda Mertle said she had been with Bertha, now had no tie to her.\u00a0 Jim said: arrange for the earliest bus to Vicksburg, Mississippi.<\/p>\n
Jimmy Gold was put on the floor.\u00a0 Jim had a report that he and [Name withheld] had engaged in sex acts.\u00a0 He is very effeminate.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t do any work and speaks insultingly to seniors.\u00a0 He talked of having a sex change operation.\u00a0 He put Kotex on his needs list.\u00a0 The statement brought much laughter.<\/p>\n
Jim said to bring people into the earth with confused sex identity is a cruel hoax, but \u201cI won\u2019t tolerate his saying \u2018Kiss my ass\u2019 to my seniors.\u201d\u00a0 Jim showed sympathy but wants an example and work from him.\u00a0 5 people were appointed to supervise his work tonight.<\/p>\n
The meeting ended at 12.00 after a song and a few healings performed by Jim.<\/p>\n
I spoke to Don Jackson about the Med Tech job opening with Dr. Schaupp and sent a note to Thelma by him, asking her to call the office tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Rheaviana told me she was going to move Christine Bates in with me.\u00a0 Bates has been staying at night at the laundry where she works.<\/p>\n
I rode home in the van with Rocki.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 2.00. Read newspapers and ate some toast and jam and toast and peanut butter.<\/p>\n
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20 October – 1976 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nDor, Marquita and I were busy all day on making revisions and getting express print-outs of litigation reports, Dor indicating corrections and Marquita and I on the computers.\u00a0 Marquita\u2019s computer stopped and was out of order for a good part of the day.\u00a0 Dor was in a much better humor; she was on her best behavior because we were to meet with Betty this afternoon.<\/p>\nThelma Jackson phones me this morning as I had requested and I told her of the job possibility in Dr. John Schaupp\u2019s office.\u00a0 I then phoned Renee LeRoy on Schaupp\u2019s office and told her I had asked Thelma to get in touch with her, that although she was black, I thought she would be satisfactory.\u00a0 In the afternoon Renee called back and said she was talking with Thelma and she was very pleased with her.<\/p>\n
I ate lunch in the office.<\/p>\n
Dor inquired whether either of us wanted to work overtime.\u00a0 Marquita had a class and I didn\u2019t want to miss or be later for the Temple meeting.<\/p>\n
At home I changed clothes and washed dishes.\u00a0 I wanted the kitchen in order on case Rheaviana brought Christine Bates in.<\/p>\n
Didn\u2019t get away for dinner until later and then had to go back for my Muni pass.\u00a0 Crowd at the Temple at about 6.45.\u00a0 Ate quickly, as Jim\u2019s voice came over the intercom telling of a program at Opportunity school at which the African Dancers were to appear.\u00a0 Members who were dressed appropriately were allowed to go in the buses.\u00a0 Jim also announced a rally tomorrow at Civic Center to protest the Supreme Court decision on admitting minority students to educational institutions.<\/p>\n
We arrived at the school at 7.30.\u00a0 Yvonne Golden started the program at 7.45.<\/p>\n
Faculty introduced themselves.<\/p>\n
Golden says truly very fortunate in having ___ ___ who brought in special group.\u00a0 She describes Jim\u2019s activities, introduced Jim.\u00a0 Gave check of $200 for PE equipment.\u00a0 We chose this school, best principal and teachers, desirable variety of curriculum, practical, open inquiry.<\/p>\n
African dancers.<\/p>\n
One teacher says changes in curriculum would be implements,\u00a0 Have students go to various colleges and audit classes; outdoor activities, survival techniques, job training, apprenticeship, students to have input, parental interest.<\/p>\n
All the teachers pay and save administrative costs and teacher do clerical work.<\/p>\n
A teacher explains cutting and penalties.\u00a0 After dance important to fulfill our responsibilities.<\/p>\n
Golden.\u00a0 We believe students should be taught all systems of the world, not just capitalism.\u00a0 Ashe mentions Supreme Court decision that special admissions projects are unconstitutional.\u00a0 Demonstration tomorrow.<\/p>\n
A teacher describes special program for minority students: Upward Bound<\/em>.\u00a0 EOP<\/em> [Educational Opportunity Program<\/em> \u2013 State University system in financial support of minorities students to college].\u00a0 Students get financial aid.<\/p>\nGolden says breakdown barrier.\u00a0 Students call teachers by first name.<\/p>\n
Meeting ended at 8.30.\u00a0 Refreshments served.\u00a0 We were invited to see the facilities.<\/p>\n
I sat beside Patti Chastain on the bus going back.\u00a0 She gave me some details about Bob Houston\u2019s death.\u00a0 He had been negative in conversations for sometime.<\/p>\n
We returned to the Temple about 9.30.\u00a0 Jim was going over topics previously discussed; financial and supply needs of the p.l. in effort to raise funds,\u00a0 Political events such as attempt to kill him on Cuban plane.\u00a0 Results of that CIA bomb explosion were to bring socialist countries closer.<\/p>\n
Some of you here tonight will die before you go.<\/p>\n
We have to get all the votes out for Carter because we have connections with democrats.<\/p>\n
Jim wanted to stay only his love for us made him come back.\u00a0 Hard to protect us against enemies who come out when he\u2019s gone.\u00a0 He mentioned Liz and Bob Houston.\u00a0 Latter would have helped our enemies.<\/p>\n
Jim\u2019s acceptance of Mayor\u2019s appointment on the Housing Commission.<\/p>\n
Jim mentioned trouble in China.\u00a0 We\u2019re meddling over there.<\/p>\n
Jim took offering.\u00a0 Counting down from $10,000 and he got some larger contributions.\u00a0 One man gave a four family building.<\/p>\n
On China again.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry about China.\u00a0 Shall come through all right.\u00a0 Some countries all go through a nationalistic period.<\/p>\n
Young people in a ___ ___ on floor for placing newspapers so that they blew away.<\/p>\n
Carrie Langston took charge of care home in Redwood Valley so others could go on trip.<\/p>\n
Irra Johnson. Takes responsibility in LA in kitchen and nursing.<\/p>\n
Kim Brewster. Good worker on Archie Ijames\u2019 construction crew.<\/p>\n
Debbie Evans made a counselor.<\/p>\n
Jim passed 47 people of the trip over the recommendations of the medical people,\u00a0 All came home fine.<\/p>\n
Erma Winfrey made $236 pamphleting though once considered crippled.<\/p>\n
Jim Alexander has been writing notes to Vera Young, flips out if she\u2019s kind to him and flips out if she\u2019s not.\u00a0 She says that he can read a person\u2019s thoughts.\u00a0 He says he can\u2019t read thoughts, reads gestures.\u00a0 He talked of suicide.\u00a0 Jim says suicide is caused by hostility and he won\u2019t be intimidated by it.\u00a0 He goes on to explain reincarnation.\u00a0 Sexual love is bullshit.\u00a0 Vera says she\u2019s uninterested in him except as a comrade in the movement.\u00a0 Jim had told her to be kind to run 3 years ago because he was suicidal.\u00a0 Jim indignant because of his narcissism.\u00a0 Asks Vera to tell how she feels.\u00a0 She wonders why he pays no commitment.\u00a0 __ so she avoids him. \u201cI\u2019d rather ___ ___ and than him.\u201d\u00a0 Jim asked again how she felt.\u00a0 She ___ ____ he still thinks she actually ___ __ and really wants a relationship with him.\u00a0 He wants her to talk to him.\u00a0 Jim says he wants nothing of people he loves except their happiness.\u00a0 Jim reiterates that women cannot possibly like men.\u00a0 No one can like the oppressor.\u00a0 Women just want you to be nice,\u00a0 Jim complimented Jim Alexander because he could bring him up and let him hear the truth because many men out there couldn\u2019t take it.<\/p>\n
John Gardener on floor.\u00a0 Molested a little girl.\u00a0 Jim says he\u2019s going to cure him.\u00a0 He\u2019s going to the p.l. and be on a work crew. Jim allowed the child\u2019s mother to beat on him and some of the men to inflict pain on him so that he will connect child molestation with pain.\u00a0 John\u2019s going to the p.l. because his mother is communal.<\/p>\n
Garnett Johnson.\u00a0 Ronny Dennis numerous instances of sexual play with little girls.\u00a0 Also they are lazy, run away from newspaper distribution.\u00a0 Mothers of the girls are cleared to hit them. Tom [Thomas] Kice going to p.l. ____ ___ \u201cWe have been looking for someone to cut the wood for the p.l.\u00a0 Tonight we have solved the problem.<\/p>\n
Jim turned to discuss the legal details with his attorneys while he had Wesley Johnson take another offering, as there would be more expense involved in sending the young men to the p.l.\u00a0 [John Gardener, Ronnie Dennis, Garnett Johnson, Thomas Kice are listed as arriving in Guyana on Oct, 24, 1976]<\/p>\n
It was now 1.00 and I decided that I had to get home and to bed, as I was late last night and faced a hard day tomorrow.<\/p>\n
I took the bus home.<\/p>\n
Read the newspaper and ate some toast and peanut butter and toast and jam before I went to bed at 2.10.<\/p>\n
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21 October – 1976 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nI was on ATS with a Litigation Report most of the morning.\u00a0 The other machine is still out.<\/p>\nThe annual seminar of the legal and insurance department began today.\u00a0 Carol is here and I talked with her a brief while.\u00a0 She has accepted a transfer to Bechtel\u2019s Washington, DC, office and nothing was said about her earlier decision to resign.\u00a0 I had heard, however, that she had personal problems with Charlie Schwaub, her supervisor in Gaithersburg.\u00a0 Andras has a job in Washington and Carol will commute with him.\u00a0 She says they are remembering their house<\/p>\n
The entire legal and insurance staff was invited to the opening luncheon of the seminar.\u00a0 I sat at a table including John Stewart, Mike Fletcher, Marie Crivello, X and X.\u00a0\u00a0 We had a quiche with ham, a salad, sherbet and cookies.\u00a0 Many people did not get enough to eat.\u00a0 Cap Weinberger presided.\u00a0 Mayor Moscone was a guest, spoke briefly and left.\u00a0 Willis Slussan spoke.\u00a0 He particularly noted the acquisition of large coal interests from the Kennicott Copper Company.\u00a0 Bechtel is forming a holding company with four other firms called, \u201cThe Peabody Coal Company.\u201d\u00a0 Two guests who had worked on the organization gave more details.\u00a0 The luncheon lasted until 1.30.<\/p>\n
I had a 3-page memo requiring many citations and much underlining wanted by one of the legislative assets by morning.\u00a0 As I couldn\u2019t stay late tonight, I decided to come in early tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n
I went to the Temple on the bus from work,\u00a0 I ate my dinner early.<\/p>\n
I had a security shift from 6.00 to 8.00, the first I have ever done.\u00a0 Michaeleen Brady, who was my partner, and I examined people at the back door, checking their bodies and possessions.\u00a0 It was not very hard, as the traffic was not very heavy at this hour and there were no strangers.\u00a0 Michaeleen is in one of the communes, works on lunch-making for the Temple, is not able to handle a regular job yet.<\/p>\n
Household supplies and food items were distributed by Rheaviana and workers.\u00a0 I asked Rocki, who had the van, to take mine home.\u00a0 I was given hot and cold cereal, Sanka packets, sugar packet and dried non-fat milk.<\/p>\n
Tyrone Duncan relieved us on the security shift.<\/p>\n
I went home on the bus.<\/p>\n
I washed clothes.<\/p>\n
Did personal chores, cleaned the bathroom.<\/p>\n
Washed and put up my hair. Read newspapers. Went to bed at 12.30.<\/p>\n
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22 October – 1976 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nI got up at 5.00.<\/p>\nLeft the apartment at 6.35.\u00a0 Arrived at the office at 7.10 to work on the item for the legal assistant.<\/p>\n
Made out my time card.\u00a0 Put down an hour of overtime for Thursday to cover the above job.<\/p>\n
I spent the rest of the day on the Litigation Report, the only one not finished.<\/p>\n
At lunch time I went to a program on prevention of heart disease, a video tape dramatized the most common causes of diseases of the heart and circulatory system and members of the auditorium were requested to take a Heart Health Exam.\u00a0 I got a better than average but not excellent score.<\/p>\n
Dor, Marquita and I met with Betty at 2.00.\u00a0 No one had much to say.\u00a0 We agreed that relations had improved.\u00a0 I suggested morale would be raised if each of us knew what the workload status was at the beginning of a day, so that we would have more flexibility in planning our workday, that Dor and Betty thought the nature of our office and its requirements to respond immediately to requests would make this aim difficult to achieve.\u00a0 Betty suggested we meet at 2.00 on the third Wednesday of the month.<\/p>\n
This is the last day of the Legal and Insurance Department seminar and at 3.45 the non-professional employees were invited to come down and hear Steve Bechtel give the closing speech.\u00a0 An attorney, Bob Bridges, who had been a close colleague of Mr. Bechtel since the founding of the firm, gave a year by year account of events in its history.\u00a0 He went past closing time and then Mr. Bechtel gave his remarks until 5.15.<\/p>\n
I had not finished the Litigation Report and so signed up again and worked for an other hour.<\/p>\n
I was later in getting home.\u00a0 Got cleaning up, instead of going to the Temple for dinner, I ate Chinese food __ the store in the ___ ___.\u00a0 I had shrimp, rice and vegetables.<\/p>\n
I pressed clothes.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers. Went to bed at 12.30.\u00a0 I had trouble getting to sleep.<\/p>\n
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23 October – 1976 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 8.00.<\/p>\nI intended to work on my journal for 2 hours, then to listen to the Temple broadcast, then to go to the Coop.\u00a0 Later in the day I intended to clean the apartment and find places for items I had not yet unpacked.<\/p>\n
I made notes for current entries, on which I have fallen behind during the past week.\u00a0 I finished reading the 1 to 15 November items.<\/p>\n
Prepared some leftovers to east and ate while the broadcast was on.<\/p>\n
Jim started the forum program with a discussion of the Cuban plane which went down from a bomb explosion believed by the South American nations to have been caused by the CIA. He and various speakers wondered why the US so often supports dictatorships instead of democratic countries.<\/p>\n
As I was finishing my meal, the door rang.\u00a0 Christine Bates had arrived.\u00a0 I had begun to think plans had been changed and that perhaps Council had countermanded Rheaviana\u2019s decision.\u00a0 Christine had her personal supplies with her and 2 men from the Temple brought her bed and mattress.\u00a0 She had to have a block to raise her up.\u00a0 I decided to get out of the bedroom, so the men put my bed in the living room.\u00a0 Christine took the couch in with her.<\/p>\n
Washed the dishes.<\/p>\n
Christine gave me a list of things she wanted and I left for the Coop at about 2.00.\u00a0 It’s got newspapers.<\/p>\n
I bought an ice cream cone.<\/p>\n
Bought some grocery items and also what Christine wanted.\u00a0 She had given me $10.00.\u00a0 Among other tings she wanted materials to make candy to sell.\u00a0 I bought most of my fruit at the Hyde Street market as their price and quality are very good.<\/p>\n
Rheaviana had come and helped Christine to finish rearranging the furniture.\u00a0 They had prepared the living room as my bedroom and straightened up everything.<\/p>\n
I lay down to rest for a little.\u00a0 Took an hour and dozed off.<\/p>\n
Christine and I got ready for the service.<\/p>\n
Christine and I took the bus to the Temple at about 6.30.\u00a0 She took with her blankets for a woman who had expected to stay with her.\u00a0 The bus was as crowded as on week days.<\/p>\n
We were late for dinner and not much was left.<\/p>\n
Turned in my check to Maria Katsaris.<\/p>\n
Service started at 7.30, Wesley presiding.<\/p>\n
Mom Taylor\u2019s seniors group has taken on the job of making 200 bibs for our toddlers.\u00a0 She recruited people to make them.<\/p>\n
Brother Christian handled rides.<\/p>\n
CJ Jackson leading the congregation singing, called upon Polla Matteras to sing \u201cHow Great Thou Art.\u201d\u00a0 She lifted the audience mood to a high point, when ____ __\u00a0 maintained through several other numbers.<\/p>\n
Jim came on podium at 8.45.<\/p>\n
Dale Parks started offering.\u00a0 Jim took over.<\/p>\n
Film, \u201cThe Klansman\u201d with Richard Burton [1974].<\/p>\n
Jim took another offering after a reel and another after the film.<\/p>\n
Several healings were performed.<\/p>\n
Service dismissed about 12.30.<\/p>\n
Christine Bates, Lela Murphy and I had a ride with a woman going to San Jose.<\/p>\n
Christine went to bed.\u00a0 I read newspapers and had some toast, peanut butter and toast and jam and Sanka.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 2.30.<\/p>\n
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24 October – 1976 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nChristine got up early and left about 7.30 to help with the breakfast at the church.<\/p>\nI was awakened and got up at 8.00 wanting to get some work done on journal entries.<\/p>\n
Bathed, dressed, had breakfast and washed dishes.<\/p>\n
Baked a loaf of frozen bread.<\/p>\n
Didn\u2019t have any time to spare, as it seems to so long to get anything done.\u00a0 I thought it was late, as I couldn\u2019t ___ ___ ___ announcement list might not __ ___ __ at 12.00.<\/p>\n
Sat beside a woman who has moved up from LA who wants a live in job caring for an elderly person.\u00a0 I told her to bring the want ad section from the Sunday paper.<\/p>\n
Guy Young opened the service.<\/p>\n
Wesley gave announcements.<\/p>\n
The Apostolic Singers gave 2 numbers.<\/p>\n
Testimonials.\u00a0 Among them Marie Lawrence said her son, Nawab Lawrence [arrived Guyana October 24, 1976] had been sent to the p.l.\u00a0 Jim on the podium during testimonials at 1.15.<\/p>\n
Norman Ijames took offering.<\/p>\n
Much singing, rejoicing, dancing.<\/p>\n
Jim said there was much energy with this.<\/p>\n
He went directly into healings during which he took another offering.<\/p>\n
He ended the meeting about 3.30.<\/p>\n
I ate downstairs.\u00a0 No chairs were available so I sat on the stair rails.<\/p>\n
Bought some concentrated orange juice at the vitamin stand.<\/p>\n
____ was extremely tired and inefficient which was frustrating as I wanted to go home.<\/p>\n
Left at 4.30 and got the bus.<\/p>\n
Ate some salted peanuts ____ ____ with Sanka.<\/p>\n
Got some items which members had wanted: information from Want Ads section on a job caring for the elderly and some laundry detergent.<\/p>\n
Returned on a bus caught about 6.00 and the evening service at 6.30.<\/p>\n
Karen Layton\u2019s mother Lea Tow ___ ____ \u201cJust a Closer Walk With Thee\u201d\u00a0 ___ ___ a tribute to Jim, saying it was ___ ____ who was in that bus and ___ ___her face shattered and who was saved from having cancer.\u00a0 She was grateful for what this man \u201chas done for her family.\u00a0 But he is just a man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vivian Gainous sang, \u201cI Hear Thee Every Hour.\u201d\u00a0 She has a new baby, a girl which I saw at the meal break and again at the beginning of the service.<\/p>\n
Norm took offering with Jim on the podium.<\/p>\n
Renee Gieg.\u00a0 Report she beats her child.\u00a0 She is constantly sullen and cross, says, \u201cTop it, (blank),\u201d\u00a0 all the time.\u00a0 Wakes up Laurie Efrein who works full time job and writes letters to all hours.\u00a0 Renee says she only occasionally spanks Jason.\u00a0 Jim says she doesn\u2019t give much affection. She\u2019s expecting another; Jim asks why.\u00a0 Lee Ingram said she used to smother him, wouldn\u2019t allow him in children\u2019s program.\u00a0 Bob gives instance of throwing child in back seat,\u00a0 He says relationship practically terminated.\u00a0 Carolyn Looman gives an instance of affection between Renee and child.\u00a0 Jim says sometimes more harmful than continuing hostility.<\/p>\n
Jim on lack of participation of son ___ ___ ___ ___ by such lack of enthusiasm, you may be condemning your child to death.\u00a0 Those who think their intellect is so great that they are scornful of people who believe in something, are guilty of class consciousness.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t want any more ironic laughter when somebody shouts or runs up and down they aisles.\u00a0 You don\u2019t understand how a movement has been built which was able to get the Fresno Bee Four out of prison and which powerful politicians respect.<\/p>\n
Diane Lundquist loved so much that she let Dov go to the p.l. to save him.\u00a0 Discrepancy between reports of others.\u00a0 Jim says she has lied previously before this body.\u00a0 Jim says she dislikes the point of the child which is ___ new husband. [????makes no sense at all]<\/p>\n
Jim rebukes those who ignore this process as if it was none of your concern.\u00a0 Jim said child was doing well when being taken care of\u00a0 by the collective, changed drastically for the world when you came the scene.\u00a0 People do better when they understand themselves.\u00a0 He\u2019d like to see someone give a child up out of love.\u00a0 Can\u2019t call on you to do what others haven\u2019t done.\u00a0 If you love someone, you will free them.\u00a0 Renee and Rob Gieg both say they can\u2019t do it.\u00a0 Jim says we must all work on this.\u00a0 He did it and would have been successful if other people had not interfered.\u00a0 Marcy says she has never understood the hostility of Renee and Rob.\u00a0 Jim didn\u2019t want past difficulties to be reviewed.<\/p>\n
Renee has made decision not to have the baby. Jim says show more affection to Jason, allow him to develop creativity.\u00a0 Jim asks if she didn\u2019t use children to get out of collective work, she admitted, Jim said.\u00a0 No ___ ___ government don\u2019t do this ___ any more.\u00a0 Renee asks if Rob can quit smoking, she thinks bad for Jason. Jim: also bad for Rob. Prevents him from being able to defend socialism on our home ground.\u00a0 Rob says he\u2019ll give it up.<\/p>\n
Florine Dyson brought up.\u00a0 In coma.\u00a0 Jim says don\u2019t worry, she\u2019s supposed to be communal, but she\u2019s not, reason this happened.<\/p>\n
Letter from Jim Pugh on Eva\u2019s leaving for p.l. Wants to work in ___ but in any case will do his job. (Wednesday, ask him)<\/p>\n
Alexei Blair.\u00a0 Wants to leave cause.\u00a0 Asked for consultation with Jim. Have to be ____.\u00a0 She not in auditorium tonight.\u00a0 Sent delegate for her.<\/p>\n
Dyson walked back to seat with a nurse.<\/p>\n
Clarence Klingman very unruly.\u00a0 Willie [?? No such person\u00a0– perhaps Tad] Jensen insulted by him.\u00a0 Martha writes.\u00a0 Mike doesn\u2019t show authority.\u00a0 He admits the charges.\u00a0 Martha thinks working in publications was good for him.\u00a0 He left because when tried to correct him, he didn\u2019t like it.\u00a0 Todd says mother doesn\u2019t show concern.\u00a0 Both parents have more time for each other.\u00a0 Todd thinks she likes if I ____.\u00a0\u00a0 Jim recommends that time is spent with whole family.\u00a0 Debbie Blakey says as counselor she thinks Mike and Martha ___ ____ sex.\u00a0 Jim agrees.\u00a0 Mike ___ says Clarence came back to publications.\u00a0 Jim speaks in ___ of Mike who took the whole family, doesn\u2019t talk about April at all,\u00a0 Barb Farrell says Martha called children \u201cmotherfuckers.\u201d\u00a0 Jim never calls any child names, not even stupid.\u00a0 Jim asks everyone in family to do their part.<\/p>\n
Alexei Blair.\u00a0 She says she not happy here, can\u2019t contribute. \u201cWhat makes you think you\u2019re worth being happy?\u201d\u00a0 Jim asked.\u00a0 She intends to remain in San Francisco.\u00a0 Jim saved her life as a child.\u00a0 She had infection in her lymph system.\u00a0 Mother confirms.\u00a0 Jim says great difference between being in and out.\u00a0 Nothing that can\u2019t be resolved when you\u2019re in.\u00a0 When you are out, there are many pitfalls.\u00a0 She was prostitute in Japan.<\/p>\n
Jack Beam says we all brought here for this day.\u00a0 She interested in dancing.\u00a0 Jim says breast dismemberment in her future.\u00a0 Polla Materas describes what men do to girls out there.<\/p>\n
Jim: America is going into dictatorship, our people will be destroyed.\u00a0 In the p.l. we\u2019ll have companionship.<\/p>\n
Mexican woman speaks disparagingly of blacks.\u00a0 They fight all the time, shove on the bus, compares them to Mexican and Indians to their discredit ____ Jim says Indians who came for the [Dennis] Banks demonstration the most selfish he has ever seen. All people too selfish. She says very hard to find responsible persons in charge of anything. Jim says: why don\u2019t you come over here and help organize?\u00a0 Anita\u00a0gives partial catalog of what we can do.\u00a0 Jim: a lot gets done.\u00a0 She thinks highly of our leader but observes that the members don\u2019t obey him.\u00a0 Anita says think of effect words have on this sister planning to go out.\u00a0 Jim says she made mistake.\u00a0 Took deal in racial generalizations.\u00a0 Jim described demonstrations on Supreme Court decision.\u00a0 Other groups wanted to perform.<\/p>\n
Jim asks Alexei whether she has made up her mind to stay?\u00a0 She says Yes.\u00a0 Jim: talk to Council.<\/p>\n
In the meditation period, among other protections and healing, there was a \u201ccycle\u201d revelation in which Jim asked for everyone who had an Aunt Minnie.\u00a0 He had difficulty in getting them all to respond.\u00a0 He emphasized the importance.<\/p>\n
The meeting was dismissed at 10.30.<\/p>\n
I picked up a lunch for tomorrow, but decided I didn\u2019t want it, as white bread was used for the sandwiches.\u00a0 I gave it to Lela Murphy.\u00a0 Brother and Sister XX took Lela, Christine and me home.<\/p>\n
Christine saved me a plate of food from the kitchen which she said was for my lunch.<\/p>\n
Christine went right to bed.<\/p>\n
I read newspapers, had some toast, made from the bread I had baked and cheese.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at about 1.00.<\/p>\n
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25 October – 1976 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nDid a document on MagCard for Maggie.<\/p>\nHad very little work. I didn\u2019t feel well all day.\u00a0 Marquita was the first to notice my facial symptoms.\u00a0 I told her and Dor that I had had a hard weekend.\u00a0 In addition to the heavy load in the office last week, and working from 7.00 to 6.15 on Friday, I had been under pressure at home, with the strain of moving and adjusting to new people.\u00a0 Marquita and Dor, as well as others, such as Kate Walker urged me to got to a doctor or go home.<\/p>\n
I was afraid, first of all, that I might have a reoccurrence of my eye trouble or might have had a slight stroke.\u00a0 I decided to see Dr. Tournande at Kaiser.\u00a0 I had difficulty in getting through to his office, finally called the general Kaiser information number and told them I had an emergency involving my eyes.\u00a0 I was put through right away to the Eye Clinic.\u00a0 They wanted me to come in right away.<\/p>\n
I took the bus about 3.45.<\/p>\n
Dr. Tournande isn\u2019t at Kaiser any more.\u00a0 Dr. W.E.Winn saw me. Although rather abrupt, he seemed thorough and efficient.\u00a0 He told me I wasn\u2019t in any danger of a detached retina.\u00a0 He consulted the Ear, Nose and Throat office and sent me to see Dr. John E Hotchkiss, Jr.\u00a0 After examining me, Doctor Hotchkiss said I had Bell\u2019s Palsy, a quite common complain.\u00a0 The cause is not known and the cure not ___; but most patients recovered.\u00a0 He said he did check the things others did.\u00a0 In addition I was concerned that the discharge in my nasal passages.\u00a0 He took some material from my left nose__ and try analysis.\u00a0 Then he gave me an inoculation in my nose.\u00a0 He gave me several prescriptions and told me to come in once a week for two months for an injection.\u00a0 He wants to see me next week. I am to see Dr. Wiss in 3 or 4 months.<\/p>\n
I took the material to the laboratory but was too late to get my injection.<\/p>\n
I went home with Bates.\u00a0 We cleared up the apartment a little and rearranged some furniture.\u00a0 We vacuumed the rugs.\u00a0 One person cannot run the cleaner, alone, the reason it has to be held in the electric outlet.\u00a0 Typed in my journal for 2 hours.\u00a0 I had a good it of difficulty concentrating because Bates talked to me now and then but she tried to be cooperative.\u00a0 She was concerned about me and wanted me to go to bed.<\/p>\n
I read newspapers until 12.00 then went to bed.<\/p>\n
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26 October – 1976 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nAs I had to go back to Kaiser to get my injection, I slept until 8.00.<\/p>\nI intended to call my office at that time.\u00a0 I had forgotten I didn\u2019t have a telephone.\u00a0 I had some breakfast and dressed.\u00a0 Then on my way to Kaiser I telephoned work from the corner phone.\u00a0 Dor was quite worried as she didn\u2019t know whether I was in the hospital or what had happened to me.<\/p>\n
After getting my shot, which was in my hip, I took the bus to the office arriving about 11.00.<\/p>\n
At noon I went to see a film in the employees series called \u201cLand,\u201d which is the first in a series about the history of American economics. It recreated the early American settler\u2019s life.\u00a0 The photography was well done.\u00a0 The film was done with the production of leading economists and issued by Philips Petroleum Company.\u00a0 It was laudatory about American skill.\u00a0 I ate my lunch in the assembly room.<\/p>\n
I took some dictation from Steve Butler.\u00a0 Some had already been drafted.\u00a0 It was a report on the litigation reports and included some updating and reports already done.<\/p>\n
I exercised tonight when I reached home.<\/p>\n
Then went to the Temple to eat.\u00a0 We had been told there was going to be a communal meeting but were informed there would not be one.<\/p>\n
I saw Vernell in the auditorium and put in my needs.\u00a0 Bates arrived and put in for our food needs.\u00a0 Prescriptions we put in the nurses\u2019 box at the clinic and ordinarily should be ready the next day.<\/p>\n
Bates got a ride for us with Barbara Hoyer, who has moved down from the Valley.\u00a0 She is driving a bus in the Alameda Contra Costa system.\u00a0 She likes it better than her jobs in the Welfare Department in Ukiah.\u00a0 She gets much more time, but taxes take a good bit of the extra money.<\/p>\n
I typed for about an hour and a half in my journal.<\/p>\n
I went to bed at 12.00.<\/p>\n
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27 October – 1976 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nMost of the day I spent on Butler Litigation Report summary.\u00a0 He had revised the first draft and dictated some more material.<\/p>\nAlthough I felt better this morning, I got very tired and my left eye was giving me some trouble, so I had a hard time doing work.<\/p>\n
I ate my lunch at the office.<\/p>\n
I decided to go home about 2.00 as I wanted to sleep before tonight\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n
I had a 2 hour nap.<\/p>\n
Went to eat at the Temple late. Went up to the nurses\u2019 office to get my prescriptions but they weren\u2019t there yet.<\/p>\n
CJ Jackson started the meeting.\u00a0 Brother Keaton took care of the rides. Wesley Johnson made announcements.<\/p>\n
Testimonials.<\/p>\n
Jim on podium at 8.50.<\/p>\n
Jim met Ralph Nader.\u00a0 Has totally given up on America.\u00a0 He thought wisest thing any people could do is have a refuse in Southern Hemisphere.\u00a0 Dupont owns Delaware.\u00a0 General Motors could buy out several states with one hour of its earnings.<\/p>\n
Jim: denounced some who talked to apartment managers about conditions in their apartments.\u00a0 Don\u2019t ever go to authorities about dispute between members.\u00a0 Don\u2019t call police on a member if they\u2019re black.\u00a0 They may spend their life in jail.\u00a0 Bring them up to the church. You must not bring on problems before the carnal mind, before the system.\u00a0 Jim described 2 events in Indianapolis.\u00a0 One when a black man was set up to stab him; one when racists attacked and police didn\u2019t come for over 2 months.<\/p>\n
Jim took offering by countdown.<\/p>\n
Jim spoke on those who have overdrawn the account they have in his bank.\u00a0 Be sure you put all you can in the trust account with Father.\u00a0 Can\u2019t draw out more than you put in and some of you haven\u2019t put in much.<\/p>\n
Films of the p.l. taken on last trip.\u00a0 Some scenes of Georgetown and bauxite mine. Much new timber clearance, new crops put in, new buildings put up.<\/p>\n
Jon Stoen in p.l. permanently.<\/p>\n
Jim:\u00a0 Some people (probably seniors who talked to apartment manager) this time get private counsel, but this is the last time.<\/p>\n
Jim asked if anyone had a complaint of any kind, bring it up.<\/p>\n
Mexican woman says son should be here but isn\u2019t. Problems with him.\u00a0 He\u2019s 18.\u00a0 Jim recommends private counsel.<\/p>\n
David Goodwin. Told teacher he was a member of Peoples Temple.\u00a0 Talked about Jim Jones.\u00a0 Teased other children about going with persons of different color.\u00a0 Had fights with Mike Daniels.\u00a0 Urinated on gym wall.\u00a0 Frances Buckley had fight with another girl.\u00a0 Assigned 4 hours of work, plus special work on buses.<\/p>\n
Question of guardianship came up.\u00a0 Jim asked everyone who caring for children. Write a letter explaining whether you have legal guardianship, adoption, court order.\u00a0 We have to know to get your child to freedom.<\/p>\n
Jim tells of meeting attended with Ralph Nader.\u00a0 Said the country was going to have more murders than Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n
Jim asked attorneys to get list of people not sure of custody of children they have.<\/p>\n
David called Kelly Grubbs, a honky and a fag because her carried Odesta Buckley\u2019s flute and helped her with studies.\u00a0 Jim angry.\u00a0 Anybody who calls someone a fag has a problem with himself.\u00a0 He has a reputation of trouble.\u00a0 Jim spoke with approbation of white brothers who marry black sisters. New word \u201chench\u201d for henchman or flunky. Unpopular to do anything for anybody.\u00a0 Jim: Going to get spanked if he doesn\u2019t show remarkable improvement.<\/p>\n
Jim spoke of situation in country.\u00a0 Criticized for working for doing something for someone.\u00a0 Standards of the world different than ours.\u00a0 Thinks system trying\u00a0 to make animals of our children.\u00a0 So they can round up our people.\u00a0 Country not interested in education, won\u2019t pay money for schools.\u00a0 Rich will turn out\u00a0 to vote.\u00a0 We must do all we can to get people out to vote.<\/p>\n
Jim asked how many willing to use cars on election day.\u00a0 All hell going to break loose after election day.\u00a0 Ford coming out for segregation.\u00a0 Saying he could stop segregated schools and welfare over bussing but he won\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
None of the newspapers told a word Nader said.\u00a0 He told how the crops are poisoning the rivers.\u00a0 Wallash present.\u00a0\u00a0 Cecil Williams couldn\u2019t get more tan 2 people to come to my testimonial.<\/p>\n
Jim made reference to persons who didn\u2019t want to live with anyone.\u00a0 She\u2019s going to share.\u00a0 She can go back to LA.<\/p>\n
Jim took another offering.<\/p>\n
Jim: I will mot live here.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been in it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want it.\u00a0 I can\u2019t stand phony damn sell outs.\u00a0 Not going to stay here and eat their shit.\u00a0 If you make it impossible for us to get out, get ready for the biggest fight in your life.<\/p>\n
Roosevelt Turner got his ass in jail.\u00a0 Raised a fist to a sister.\u00a0 Police pressed charges though she didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Explaining need for station wagon.\u00a0 Some of you so lazy you won\u2019t walk two feet to piss.\u00a0 Lt. Governor Dymally knows they\u2019re going to get him.\u00a0 He\u2019s rich.\u00a0 You haven\u2019t a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out.<\/p>\n
Jim: attack on people who want to take all their belongings.\u00a0 One woman said: \u201cFather, how you going to get my house trailer on your boat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Avis Garcia [Breidenbach] called on floor.\u00a0 Last name not mentioned. He saving her from jail.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t like white man she is going to marry.\u00a0 Who the hell are you to say?\u00a0 Wesley Breidenbach will to do it.\u00a0 Sharon Amos says she objects to men we chose for her.\u00a0 Romance out of the question.<\/p>\n
Jim says last two days he doesn\u2019t want shave, bathe or eat.\u00a0 Only living for you so many people displaying ingratitude.\u00a0 I\u2019m a born fighter, can\u2019t stand dealing with people who are fussing and griping all the time.<\/p>\n
Doesn\u2019t trust Russia, China or US.\u00a0 Only one socialism is Jim ones.\u00a0 China and Russia will come through but it\u2019s a long process.\u00a0 Madam Mao arrested.\u00a0 She said there had to be a constant purge.\u00a0 Best socialist leaders in the world in the little country, Guyana, Russia and China have too much nationalism. But some of them will survive nuclear war and come together in the end.<\/p>\n
Several people were healed in the meditation period.<\/p>\n
Vernell brought around the money for my needs but the nurses brought my prescriptions back to me, telling me to fill them at Kaiser.\u00a0 They thought I could get them for a minimum fee.<\/p>\n
The meeting didn\u2019t end until 1.30.<\/p>\n
Bates got some one to take us home.<\/p>\n
I decided to stay home tonight. Read for a while.\u00a0 Went to bed around 2.30.<\/p>\n
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28 October – 1976 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nBates woke me up before she left.\u00a0 I gave her my laundry (sheets, towels, home dresses) which she will have done at her son\u2019s laundry.<\/p>\nI stayed in bed until 8, got a few clothes on and went out to phone Dor that I had decided to stay home.\u00a0 Got a newspaper.<\/p>\n
Left about 9.00 to go to Kaiser.\u00a0 Got my prescriptions filled. Decided to walk.\u00a0 The day was sunny but brisk.\u00a0 Stopped at a little second-hand store near Fillmore and bought a pair of gloves for 25\u00a2.\u00a0 It took me about 25 minutes to get to Kaiser Medical Building.<\/p>\n
Had to wait about half an hour for my prescriptions.\u00a0 There were 4 items which cost $7.60.\u00a0 I do not know whether there was a reduced price or not.<\/p>\n
Walked back home.<\/p>\n
Prepared lunch: leftover bamboo strips, noodles, fresh tomatoes, and some \u2026.
\n[page\u00a0 C-1-A-5 (108) was totally unreadable.\u00a0 Some \u201cdots \u201c on the page]<\/em><\/p>\nOut of sympathy Rocki Breidenbach insisted on finishing my security assignment.<\/p>\n
I took the bus home.<\/p>\n
To my surprise, I did not see Bates at church and she wasn\u2019t home either.\u00a0 She had got her keys yesterday but possibly they wouldn\u2019t work.\u00a0 She had told me that she might stay at the Laundry sometimes so that I wouldn\u2019t worry.<\/p>\n
I did personal and household chores and washed my hair.<\/p>\n
Washed my underwear by hand to save a fee for the laundry machines, since I had my underwear.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers and ate some grapes and salami sandwiches. Went to bed about 12.30.<\/p>\n
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29 October – 1976 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nI felt much better today.\u00a0 The muscles in my mouth have much improved.\u00a0 At first my eye was still itching but that stopped later.\u00a0 However by the end of the day, I was very tired.<\/p>\nI had little work to do.\u00a0 About 11.00, Dor gave me some material for MagCard to be fed into the ATS computer for storage purposes.\u00a0 Titles had to be underlined in the computer.<\/p>\n
Marquita was working on another draft of the material for Butler which I did Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Butler saw Dor about his plans for updating the Litigation Reports once a month.\u00a0 Many changes in the order, in addition to revisions in the text, would have to be made and at first it seemed an impossible task. \u00a0However, Dor called the Data Center and they explained how it could be done by use of the \u201csort\u201d command.\u00a0 Dor was praised for the way in which the reports had been set up, which much pleased her.<\/p>\n
When I got my check from Betty, we talked about Kaiser Medical Care, as she had been there when I was there Tuesday.\u00a0 She isn\u2019t very happy about the service at Kaiser and told me of some of the problems she has had.\u00a0 I said I thought they were overcrowded and were neglecting many needs.<\/p>\n
Dor had an appointment for lunch at 12.00.\u00a0 Marquita and Denise always go out for lunch on Friday (on other days they are dieting), so I stayed in the office until 1.00.\u00a0 I ate at my desk.\u00a0 Walked up to the bank and cashed a check.<\/p>\n
Marquita and Brenda brought some items which they displayed at the reception desk for the celebration of Halloween and I had some fun wearing a mask around.<\/p>\n
When I got home, I prepared to go to the Friday service.\u00a0 I put up a lunch for Bates with a salami sandwich.<\/p>\n
I had heard Jim say the other night that Tim Tupper Jones had married a black girl and they were going to have a baby and that he was adopting Larry Tupper, her youngest child.\u00a0 I saw Rita Tupper tonight and she said Tim had married Lisa [Sandy] Cobb.\u00a0 Tim is 17 and Lisa [Sandy] she thinks is 19.\u00a0 ____ ___ never been interested in anyone else.\u00a0 ____ is living in his quarters now with his other sons.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of service, CJ Jackson tried to keep people quiet(perhaps because Jim may have been trying to sleep).<\/p>\n
Brother Tom handled rides and had a good deal of difficulty, as volunteers were few.<\/p>\n
Wesley made announcements.<\/p>\n
Robin Tschetter gave out Muni passes and I tried to get one but she didn\u2019t know whether she had enough, although Vernell told me I would get one tonight.<\/p>\n
Gene Chaikin asked to see all the people who are getting social security or any kind of pension or retirement in the Gold Room, unless they had been with Temple workers to the bank (probably to make arrangements for getting checks overseas).<\/p>\n
Jim came in during testimonials at about 8.50.<\/p>\n
After congregational singing, Jim announced that there was a ___ ___ ___ ___ wanted to nip ___ ___ __of young black woman who died.<\/p>\n
Jim got out of jail the man who was in a fight with a woman as he had _____ told him not to do it again next time he would die.\u00a0 Brother Turner, Roosevelt.<\/p>\n
People were recruited for attending Third World Rally this weekend, also some to canvas for a political candidates.\u00a0 Those not going to LA.<\/p>\n
Ron sought for Examiner reporter who wrote article on Sister Duckett.\u00a0 His wife left him, he drinks too, is afraid of suicide, doesn\u2019t want to be alone.\u00a0 He has feeling unusual for a white man.\u00a0 Cried when Jim got Banks free.<\/p>\n
Tom Kice got to p.l..\u00a0 He said he won\u2019t be back.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t believe before, said he wished he had gone sooner. Took a number of conniving youngsters, barely got them there, are now digging the well in ___ ___ they tried to run away.<\/p>\n
Praise the Lord, to make mosquitoes to bite you.<\/p>\n
We have been at this date rehabilitated.<\/p>\n
15 or 20 young people.\u00a0 If you\u2019re communal or committing 33 1\/3 of your income, you can\u2019t lose.\u00a0 We have put $2,000,000 into the p.l. 12 miles long, 7 miles wide, 27,000 acres.\u00a0 Jim started offering.<\/p>\n
No minority can survive ___ ___\u00a0 Nader says \u201ccomparing stories\u201d rating the 25 big companies paying workers in food. Appeal for turning over property tonight. Don\u2019t have to move out.\u00a0 Tonight is a warning.\u00a0 I see, 3 in terrible tragedy.\u00a0 One woman who just arrived said she wanted to turn over property.\u00a0 Roosevelt Turner has 2 pieces of property he wants to give.\u00a0 Jim counted to 10 for people to sand.\u00a0 Viola Moton owns home with husband, will give her share.\u00a0 Jim asked for any jewelry to be turned in.\u00a0 Protection won\u2019t be given to those who won\u2019t protect themselves.\u00a0 Turning over what you have of worldly goods is the place to start.<\/p>\n
Mark Rose has been ___ ____ ____\u00a0 Ricardo Arterberry minded little. [?]<\/p>\n
Jim gave voting recommendations, how he was going to vote.<\/p>\n
Mexican woman asks about Peter Conejo.\u00a0 Jim not sure, skeptical, one theory is that they are CIA plans.\u00a0 We\u2019re only interested in saving ourselves.\u00a0 Don\u2019t throw weight around.<\/p>\n
Vote for David Harris instead of McCloskey.<\/p>\n
I raised spirits by my voting in the precinct since I moved.\u00a0 Mike got answer if I moved prior or after ___ no. [?]<\/p>\n
Jim emphasized importance of getting out the votes for Tuesday.\u00a0 We need supervisors reflecting us from our districts.<\/p>\n
Michael Hastings worth\u00a0 __ __ with children\u2019s program.\u00a0 Nat Walker good behavior.\u00a0 Ricky Cordell drew very good picture of Frederick Douglas.<\/p>\n
Clark Grubbs and Chris Buckley were smoking.\u00a0 Jim sent Harry Ellis for a black mean cigar in a car.<\/p>\n
Betty Gill ___ ____ ___\u00a0\u00a0 ___ her fine watch.\u00a0 ___ ___ ____ ___ Jim assigned her to work all night on the bus.<\/p>\n
Bill came back with 1 cigar , administered them to the 2 boys.\u00a0 Congregation hilarious.<\/p>\n
Jim took another offering.<\/p>\n
Liane Harris makes suggestion about rewarding children for good homework and distributing newspapers.\u00a0 Older children to supervise.<\/p>\n
Alysha Williams served food generously and competently on Bus No. 9.<\/p>\n
Women overheard saying Bertha Ford probably told truth though Jim said she not telling truth.\u00a0 Woman not brought up this time, must write apology and raise $2,000.00<\/p>\n
Martin Amos continues losing clothes. He smart talks to all of his supervisors.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t respond to teaching.\u00a0 Says black girl should make his bed.\u00a0 Jim said any more trouble, you get to make a well in the p.l..\u00a0 He is difficult with teacher.<\/p>\n
Vickie Dover and Juanita Bogue late to plumbing class.\u00a0 Jim: 21 days to collect $20.\u00a0 Their instructor likes us and gave them those jobs.\u00a0 You are spoiling our reputation.\u00a0 Martin Amos suggests he miss the Halloween party in LA.\u00a0 Jim add pamphleting.<\/p>\n
(I had no further notes for this day. Edith)<\/p>\n
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30 October – 1976 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 8.00.<\/p>\nWrote some journal entries.<\/p>\n
Walked up to the Temple to look for my laundry which Bates brought back and I think I left at the Temple last night.\u00a0 Most people were gone to the Third World election rally and I couldn\u2019t find out anything.\u00a0 Walked home.\u00a0 It wakes about 15 minutes each way.<\/p>\n
Had some lunch from leftovers.<\/p>\n
I scrubbed the kitchen and bathroom and sorted and pout away a few items.\u00a0 I have everything fairly well arranged now from moving.<\/p>\n
Went down to Hyde Street and bought tomatoes and fruit.<\/p>\n
Went to Lor\u2019s [friend from SF State]\u00a0 on the bus.\u00a0 I took the Geary bus to the terminal and then an \u201cM\u201d car, for which I had to wait a long time.\u00a0 Arrived at Lor\u2019s about 6.00.<\/p>\n
We had dinner.\u00a0 She served some red wine and I had 2 glasses.\u00a0 Told Lor of my nervous problem.\u00a0 She thinks I should avoid strain or taking on any extra work.<\/p>\n
Lor was interested in Jim\u2019s recommendations for the election on the propositions and some minor candidates.\u00a0 She is going to write-in Eugene McCarthy or President.<\/p>\n
She told me of her daughters\u2019 actions at the moment.\u00a0 Beth is helping in Dylan\u2019s school and waiting for a librarian job to open up.\u00a0 Ryn is teaching at the University of Oregon on a fellowship and has an apartment of her own near Beth and Carol is back at the\u00a0 University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n
Lor said Barbara Pease was back in the mental hospital again, but she expected her to be out sooner.\u00a0 She inquired whether I thought Barbara might benefit from People\u2019s Temple.\u00a0 She is lonely and needs people.\u00a0 She loves children.\u00a0 She believed Barbara was a Christian Scientist, now adheres to a vague mysticism.\u00a0 She thought Barbara\u2019s biggest handicap might be her dependency on men.\u00a0 She did not think she had any racial dislikes.\u00a0\u00a0 I told her to have Barbara get in touch with me when she gets back.<\/p>\n
After having a glass of sherry, we went to bed about 11.00.\u00a0 Both of us read in bed for a while,\u00a0 I was reading Freedom at Midnight<\/em> and read aloud a few funny excerpts to Lor.<\/p>\nPerhaps because of the wine, I woke up during the night and couldn\u2019t go back to sleep.\u00a0 Lor was awake too and she went downstairs and made some hot chocolate and a piece of toast.<\/p>\n
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31 October – 1976 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nI slept until 8.00.\u00a0 Lor gave me breakfast of toast and 2 eggs.<\/p>\nLor was going to go to get as swine flu shot this morning and afterwards visit one of Bill\u2019s sisters who is in the hospital, but it would have taken me out of my way to go with her.<\/p>\n
I left about 10.00 by bus.<\/p>\n
Worked on journal entries.<\/p>\n
I thought Ingmar Bergman\u2019s film, \u201cThe Magic Flute,\u201d was showing at the Richeleiu a theater half a block up on Geary.\u00a0 Lor had praised it highly and at 3.30 I went to see the matinee.\u00a0 However, I had mistaken the date.\u00a0 It closed yesterday.<\/p>\n
I walked down to Post Street to Union Square and then up Sutter.\u00a0 Coming back along Post, I saw the first of the revelers who gather on Polk on Halloween.\u00a0 Here is the transvestite gathering place of San Francisco and many of those parading were men dressed up as women.<\/p>\n
I prepared a meal of macaroni and cheese and canned tomatoes and ate and washed dishes.<\/p>\n
About 9.00 I took down to Rocki a few more items for her to sell.\u00a0 I knew she had stayed back from LA in order to go to the flea market.<\/p>\n
I went out for an hour to see the festivities on Polk Street.\u00a0 A huge crowd of both participants and spectators jammed several blocks on Polk.\u00a0 Police were letting traffic through on cross streets.\u00a0 The most interesting sight was a young man in tights who expertly juggled a wand.\u00a0 At one place two dressed as gorillas were standing. I teased them and one asked me to dance, which I did.<\/p>\n
When I returned I typed in my journal for about 2 hours.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers. Went to bed at 12.00.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>October 1976 Journal References<\/strong><\/p>\nTemple \/ Members <\/strong>
\nTom Adams
\nMartin Amos
\nSharon Amos
\nJim Alexander
\nRicardo Arterberry
\nChristine Bates
\nRheaviana Beam
\nDon Beck
\nAlexei Blair
\nJuanita Bogue
\nMichaeleen Brady
\nRocki Breidenbach
\nWesley Breidenbach
\nDorothy Brewer
\nKim Brewster
\nMiller Bridgewater
\nJean Brown
\nJohnny Brown
\nChris Buckley
\nFrances Buckley
\nOdesta Buckley
\nTerry Carter
\nMike Cartmell
\nGene Chaikin
\nPatti Chastain
\nBob Christian
\nLisa Sandy Cobb
\nLeona Collier
\nRick Cordell
\nRicky Cordell
\nJune Crym
\nMike Daniels
\nJoAnn Davis
\nNaja Darnes
\nNewhuanda Darnes
\nVicki Dover
\nTyrone Duncan
\nFlorine Dyson
\nRev. Edwards
\nLaurie Efrein
\nHarry Ellis
\nDebbie Evans
\nMarshall Farris
\nBetty Fitch
\nTom Fitch
\nFather = Jim Jones
\nBertha Ford
\nVivian Gainous
\nAvis Garcia [Breidenbach]
\nDave Garrison
\nJason Gieg
\nRenee Gieg
\nRob Gieg
\nBetty Gill
\nRay Godshalk
\nViola Godshalk
\nJimmy Gold
\nDavid Goodwin
\nDoreen Greaves
\nClark Grubbs
\nKelly Grubbs
\nLiane Harris
\nMichael Hastings
\nVernell Henderson
\nPhllis Houston
\nBarbara Hoyer
\nArchie Ijames
\nNorman Ijames
\nLee Ingram
\nCJ Jackson
\nDon Jackson
\nThelma Jackson
\nClaire Janaro
\nIrra Johnson
\nLillian Johnson
\nWesley Johnson
\nJim Jones Jr
\nMother = Marcy Jones
\nRay Jones
\nTim Tupper Jones
\nMaria Katsaris
\nBrother Keaton
\nChris Kice
\nCarrie Langston
\nCarolyn Layton
\nKaren Layton
\nMarie Lawrence
\nCarolyn Looman
\nDiane Lundquist
\nMildred Madison
\nPolla Materas
\nLinda Mertle
\nLC Mitchell
\nViola Moton
\nLela Murphy
\nDale Parks
\nJoyce Parks
\nTom Partak
\nPatty Pettit
\nEva Pugh
\nJim Pugh
\nMike Prokes
\nEver Rejoicing
\nMark Rose
\nElsie Ross
\nJoyce Rozynko
\nMike Rozynko
\nNina Saunders
\nTim Stoen
\nBobby Stroud
\nVera Talley
\nMom Taylor
\nDick Tropp
\nRobin Tschetter
\nLarry Tupper
\nRita Tupper
\nRoosevelt Turner
\nPreston Wade
\nDiane Wilkinson
\nHarry Williams
\nJewel Wilson
\nMary Wotherspoon
\nMary Wotherspoon , Jr.
\nMuriel Yaley
\nJohnnie Mae Yates
\nGuy Young
\nVera Young
\nNat Walker
\nAlysha Williams<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Anita
\nBertha X
\nDorothy X<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Apostolic Singers
\nBanks demonstration
\nBell\u2019s Palsy: Edith Oct 25
\nBob Houson Death
\nPolla Materas, \u201cHow Great Thou Art\u201d
\nDiane Wilkinson: \u201cSummertime\u201d
\nFresno Bee FourGospel Singers
\nPeoples Forum (newspaper)
\np.l. = promised land
\nThird World Rally
\nVivian Gainous, \u201cIHear Thee Every Hour\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Temple Members in JT<\/strong>
\nRonnie Beikman
\nPhilip Blakey
\nTommy Bogue
\nJohn Gardener
\nMary Marrian Griffith
\nTom Grubbs
\nPop Jackson
\nTommy Kice
\nNawab Lawrence
\nDov Lundquist
\nJon Stoen
\nDarren Swinney
\nMike Touchette<\/p>\nApostates<\/strong>
\nLiz Forman
\nBob Houston
\nMother LeTourneau
\nSandy Parks
\nVance Smith
\nGrace Stoen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Non Temple Names<\/strong>
\nGov Jerry Brown
\nJimmy Carter
\nRosalyn Carter
\nCastro
\nPeter Conejo
\nTom Fleming (Sun Reporter)
\nGerald Ford
\nFresno Bee Four
\nYvonne Golden
\nDavid Harris
\nMrs. Heitmeier (landlady)
\nDr. Hotchkiss
\nRenee LeRoy
\nEugene McCarthy
\nMcCloskey
\nMondale
\nMayor Moscone
\nRalph Nader
\nDick Nolan (SF Examiner)
\nDr. John Schaupp
\nDr. Torande
\nLea Tow
\nJohn Tunney
\nCecil Williams
\nDr. W.E. Winn<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Edith\u2019s Sisters\/Relatives<\/strong>
\nMabs [dob Oct 13]<\/p>\nLor [SF State friend]
\nBarbara Pease
\nBeth
\nCarol
\nRyn<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Bechtel \/ People \/ Edith Work<\/strong>
\nBetty Barclay
\nSteve Bechtel
\nBob Bridges
\nSteve Butler
\nDor
\nMarie Crivello
\nJim Cromim
\nMike Fletcher
\nDonald Greenfield
\nPhilipe Lamy
\nJim Mansfield
\nChris Schneider
\nCharlie Schwaub
\nWillis Slussan
\nJohn Stewart
\nJC Stromberg
\nBetty Vasil
\nKate Walker
\nCap Weinberger<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Andras
\nBrenda
\nCarol
\nDenise
\nFletcher
\nGalbraith
\nMaggie
\nMarquita
\nRita<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Employee films: \u201cLand\u201d from Phillips Petroleum
\nEmployee films: Wet Earth, Warm People from Canadian Film Board
\nEmployee films: The Road to Energy with Bob Hope from Texaco
\nEmployee films: The United Nations is People
\nEmployee films: The Faces of the Sea
\nATS
\nBWAA
\nBechtel Washington,DC
\nButler Litigation Report
\nKennicott Copper Company
\nLegal & Insurance Dept Seminar
\nLitigaton Reports
\nMagCard
\nMinings and Metals
\nMansfield Suez Cement contract
\nPG&E steps
\nPeabody Coal Company
\nReynolds Metal contract
\nSchuman documents
\nUS vs Bechtel<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Works\/Places<\/strong>
\nButtonwillow, CA
\nChicago, IL
\nDetroit, MI
\nDeleware
\nGaithersburg, VA
\nGeorgetown, Wash DC
\nHarlem, NY
\nIndiana
\nKansas City, MO
\nSt. Louis. MO
\nVicksburg, MI<\/p>\nBarbados
\nBolivia
\nBrazil
\nCaribbean
\nChina
\nCuba
\nRussia
\nVenezuela<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Chartered Bank of London
\nCIA
\nCubana Flight 455, Oct 6, bombed near Barbados
\nDay of Pentecost
\nDemocratic Rally
\nDupont
\nEOP: Equal Opportunity Program
\nGeneral Motors
\nHousing authority
\nKaiser Eye Clinic
\nMagna Carta
\nMarinello School of Beauty
\nMethodist Church (Indiana)
\nMoulin Rouge restaurant
\nNazi Germany
\nOpportunity School
\nPentecostalism
\nStonestown
\nSupreme Court Decision: no to special admissions
\nUnited Way
\nUpward Bound<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
SF Examiner
\nSun Reporter
\nLarry Collins and Dominique, Freedom at Midnight<\/em>
\nSidney Lens Radicalism in America<\/em><\/p>\nFilm: \u201cThe Klansman\u201d w\/Richard Burton 1974
\nFilm: \u201cThe Magic Flute\u201d Ingmar Bergman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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