November 4, 1977 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nChecked on W\u2019s work.\u00a0 Dor had had to correct a few errors.\u00a0 Also, for some reason Butler\u2019s office wanted the report in larger type and she had had to run all the pages again on the computer too.<\/p>\nDid a little work on my journal.<\/p>\n
Had forgotten that the annual legal and insurance seminar was scheduled for Thursday and Friday.\u00a0 The luncheon to which the secretaries were invited was today.\u00a0 In addition, Weinberger had personally told the secretaries they could attend any seminar sessions in which they were interested, if work permitted.<\/p>\n
Talked with Carol Emory before we ate.\u00a0 She was interested in my health and job.\u00a0 I told her I was still assigned to the Word Processing Center that was not physically in the room with Dor on account of her smoking.\u00a0 She thought I was justified and told me of a government ruling (OSHA) that no worker could be forced to work in a place where others\u2019 smoking endangered their health.\u00a0 She said she\u2019d send me details.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have time to learn of Carol\u2019s home circumstances (she is working in the Washington office) and didn\u2019t get a chance to talk with her further.<\/p>\n
For lunch we had a salad, a steak, squash and pudding and cookies.<\/p>\n
Among the people seated at our table were D.J.Wardle, insurance Manager in the Bechtel Toronto office and Terry Brown, a new French-speaking attorney who I had thought was an Algerian.\u00a0 However, Terry told us he was born in the Mid-West, is a rather fair-skinned black, is usually taken as a native of any city he happens to be in,\u00a0 He learned his fluent French at one of his African posts.\u00a0 He is a vegetarian.\u00a0 Wanda told Dor Stookey that he was born in England.\u00a0 After the war he said he had presented the disastrous changes that were coming and he came to England to escape.\u00a0 His word for the dictator was \u201csocialism\u201d and he was sorry to see the United States following the same pat.\u00a0 He and Dor agreed that people now wanted something for nothing and failed to see that all benefits had to be paid for<\/p>\n
The speaker was Parker Hart, a former U.S.Ambassador to several Arabian countries.\u00a0 He is now employed by Bechtel.\u00a0 He is knowledgeable about and sympathetic to the Arabs, knows the language.\u00a0 He presented many details about the various Muslim countries, particular Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
With several other secretaries including new secretary, Lucile Sutherlin.\u00a0 I attended the next seminar session at which John Stewart spoke on negotiating contrasts in international business.\u00a0 He has been involved mostly with the Jubial contract and is leaving shortly for Saudi Arabia again.<\/p>\n
Various secretaries had taken turns at a desk downstairs to take messages for participants in the seminar I have volunteered to sit at the desk from 4:00 to closing time.\u00a0 I had hoped to make some progress with my journal but Lucile whom I relieved stayed and talked.<\/p>\n
She is a middle-aged woman with a grown son.\u00a0 She is concerned to make progress in her career and is taking para-legal courses.\u00a0 She lamented the condition of Bechtel secretaries who are treated as if they had no brains.\u00a0 She quoted a remark made by Rita Schuman who when she learned the secretaries would attend the seminar today said, \u201cI hear the slaves will be there today.\u201d\u00a0 Lucile said she had been reliably informed that her supervisor John Stewart had blocked her from obtaining the job as Weinberger\u2019s secretary.\u00a0 She said he was influence with Weinberger because of his color and Weinberger may be afraid of threats of a charge of discrimination.<\/p>\n
Lucile also told me of telephone calls she had received from \u201cirate women\u201d revealing that Stewart\u2019s marriage ethics were not above board.<\/p>\n
Lucile said Mary Avalina was leaving Bechtel to take a job in southern California with her husband-to-be.\u00a0 Her family objects to her marriage.\u00a0 They are Catholics and her fianc\u00e9 is not.\u00a0 Her father is a doctor and thinks her fianc\u00e9 who is a computer processor, is below her standard.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t go to dinner as I had had a large lunch.\u00a0 I hoped to get an early start tonight so as to get back home in time to hear the beginning of the opera.\u00a0 However, I had promised to get some items fro Viola and went to check with her.\u00a0 She told me more details of the relationship between Rocki Breidenbach and Roosevelt Turner and Rocki and Mabel Johnson.\u00a0 Rocki was going to San Jose this weekend ostensibly to the flea market but actually to be with Turner.\u00a0 Viola said Rocki gave Mabel Johnson rides in her car whenever she wanted to go.\u00a0 In turn Mabel gave her rewards of special food, the money ostensibly coming from Mabel\u2019s son or daughter, though Viola thinks Mabel may have another source of income.\u00a0 She continually wears new clothes.\u00a0 Mabel seems to think her son and daughter are going to go to Guyana; however, the son has recently married a woman who doesn\u2019t look like \u201cTemple material\u201d and the daughter is married and takes no interest in the Temple.<\/p>\n
I shopped quickly at the Coop.<\/p>\n
I missed the beginning of the opera, which was a live broadcast from the San Francisco Opera \u201cTurandot.\u201d I missed the story of the first act.\u00a0 The singers were ___ as ____ and ___ as ____.\u00a0 [blanks in original notes, to have been filled in later]<\/em><\/p>\nI listened to the radio in the kitchen while I pressed my clothes.\u00a0 During the intermission Carrie Langston arrived from the Valley. The people who bought the nursing home at\u00a0 which she and the Sneeds [Willie and Clevyee] have been working, took it over this week.\u00a0 The Temple phoned her Friday that she could leave Monday, so she was down to do some shopping.<\/p>\n
There was a good deal of noise and confusion in the apartment.\u00a0 Jossie was already in bed and I believe was disturbed by it.<\/p>\n
I moved the radio back to our room and listened to the last act of \u201cTurandot.\u201d\u00a0 Jossie did not awake.<\/p>\n
After reading and eating a snack, I went to sleep about 12:00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 5, 1977 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nAbout 5:00 o\u2019clock I awakened when Jossie turned the light on, rummaged in her dresser drawers, opening \u2013 closing them, rustling paper.\u00a0 After awhile she went back to bed and I went to sleep.<\/p>\nWhen I got up about 8:00, she turned on me in a fury, accusing me first of taking her garlic and then complaining because I had unpacked her belongings.<\/p>\n
I told her she had given me permission to do so but she couldn\u2019t be placated.\u00a0 She \u201cdidn\u2019t appreciate it.\u201d\u00a0 I was just nosy.\u00a0 She can\u2019t find anything.\u00a0 She made reference to the confusion in the apartment, noise all night long, everybody was so selfish which led me to believe that she wanted some medicine in the night and couldn\u2019t find it (she hadn\u2019t made any attempt to get things in order.).<\/p>\n
I reacted with surprise.\u00a0 I went to the kitchen and told Wanda and Lav [Lavana James] that she was on the rampage.\u00a0 Jossie came out and repeated her grievances.\u00a0 Wanda tried to mediate, checked our room where Jossie claimed I had more than my share of the room.\u00a0 It is true that I have more of the shelf space but she has the bigger bureau and nothing that there is not room for.\u00a0 Jossie said she was going to write to Father.<\/p>\n
I was discouraged because I had made a considerable effort to treat her kindly.\u00a0 I went to the Temple for breakfast.\u00a0 Then I saw Viola and Judy.\u00a0 Judy had more details of Rocki\u2019s behavior.\u00a0 Rocki had brought Turner into the room Judy and Rocki share.\u00a0 He was asleep on the bed at midnight.\u00a0 Judy sleeps on the floor.\u00a0 Judy intends to talk to Jack Beam,\u00a0 I encouraged Viola to write to council about Rocki\u2019s use of the car and gasoline.<\/p>\n
Seeing Jean Brown, I talked to her about the steps I should take with regard to resigning from Bechtel. Told her I have just put in for my Social Security retirement benefits but could cancel the application if the Temple wanted me to continue working.\u00a0 I thought perhaps I should talk to Council.\u00a0 Jean didn\u2019t seem to know anything about it but did ask what I wanted to do.<\/p>\n
I went upstairs and told Betty McCann the details about the use of Rocki\u2019s car.\u00a0 She said she would let Jack know for further investigation.<\/p>\n
I took the bus to Haight Community Store.\u00a0 We had a little rain last night and it was a trifle windy but the day became warmer and sunnier.\u00a0 The store did not open today until 10:30.\u00a0 I walked up Haight Street to find a Chronicle.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t taken my cart as I didn\u2019t want to take the time to wheel the cart home.<\/p>\n
I took the bus home at 11:00 and put my purchases away.\u00a0 I had intended to go to Macy\u2019s last night on the way home to buy some Berkshire stockings which were on sale but I forgot.\u00a0 Today was the last day of the sale, so I went down on the bus.\u00a0 To my surprise there was no bad crowd and they still had four pair of a pretty color.<\/p>\n
I decided to go to the office supply company to get my typewriter, although I knew they might be closed. They were. I was getting hungry and hunted for a caf\u00e9 to have some toast and eggs.\u00a0 I ate at a place on Kearny Street, then took a bus home.<\/p>\n
I had a nap for about an hour and a half.\u00a0 Then dressed and went to the Temple for dinner.
\nWanda had told me there were some more affidavits to type and I did three.
\nWorked on my journal a while.<\/p>\n
Marcy returned last Wednesday night.\u00a0 She came in to the service after Hue\u00a0 [Fortson], Wesley and C.J. [Jackson] had taken care of preliminaries.\u00a0 She took an offering.\u00a0 She said she was happy to see us but she wasn\u2019t happy to be back.\u00a0 She had no interest in anything in the outside world.<\/p>\n
Marcy said she was ready to return four or five times and once got as far as Georgetown when Jim decided that it was not safe.<\/p>\n
She brought with her motion picture film which had been made at the mission and it was shown.\u00a0 The film which had sound, lasted about an hour.\u00a0 It showed scenes which all age levels:\u00a0 the toddlers, children in class and at play, young people working in the fields, the carpentry shop, the kitchen, construction work, the piggery, the chicken coops, the cassava mill, the medical facilities with Dr. Larry Schacht and the nurses.\u00a0 Several young people explained their work and told why they liked Guyana.\u00a0 Several seniors including [Christine] Bates, described their life ecstatically.\u00a0 Mike Prokes asked questions of many people.\u00a0 There were several shots of Jim and the audience applauded vociferously.\u00a0 John Stoen was shown and described as healthy and happy.<\/p>\n
Marcy told of several miracles, performed by Jim.\u00a0 Most startling was the healing of\u00a0 X [name to have been added later]<\/em> Williams, who was hit in the back with a boom and paralyzed from the shoulders down, with spinal fluid issuing from his mouth.\u00a0 Dr. Schacht removed a steel fragment from the eye of Paul McCann, receiving instructions by radio from an ophthalmologist.<\/p>\nThe service lasted until 10:00.<\/p>\n
I was very cool to Jossie.\u00a0 I want her to know I am not going to make any more concessions and I am going to stand up for my rights.\u00a0 She tried to converse, but I replied very curtly.<\/p>\n
I read for a while and ate a snack.\u00a0 Went to bed about 12:30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 6, 1977 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nIntended to sleep later and got to Temple for breakfast, as I feared with Carrie it would be too confusing in apartment.\u00a0 However, I was awakened about 8:15.\u00a0 My cold was better. Jossie was friendly and our relations are good.\u00a0 I am determined to be firm about having my rights respected and for the time being she seems to accept the situation.<\/p>\nTried to call Esther Jensen Anthony whom I met going to Haight Community Store, to tell her Temple service was open today, but there was no telephone listed.<\/p>\n
At the Temple where I ate about 9:00, we had cream of wheat.<\/p>\n
I typed one affidavit.<\/p>\n
Worked on my journal in accounting office until service started.<\/p>\n
The assistant ministers took care of preliminaries.\u00a0 Guests admitted at 12:30.\u00a0 At 1:15 Charles Garry and three other guests arrived.\u00a0 They were introduced.\u00a0 One was Mary Warner, who was chairperson of a commission on human rights.\u00a0 She wrote a book on harassment of minority officials.<\/p>\n
Garry spoke on his trip to our mission in Guyana.\u00a0 Expenses paid for by the Temple.\u00a0 He was there from Wednesday night through Sunday.\u00a0 He was extremely enthusiastic.\u00a0 He was particularly impressed with the medical care facilities and some of the agricultural innovations, the happy faces.\u00a0 He said there was no racism, no sexism, and no ageism.\u00a0 The entertainment talent was astonishing, though he had only met Jim several times, did not know him intimately, started to give his reactions to Jim, but went on to other topics.\u00a0 He said although Guyana government was socialist, not as far advanced as we were.<\/p>\n
Viola gave me a note saying Ray had told Archie [Ijames] I had been good to her.\u00a0 Archie said to Ray that he heard a classroom was being prepared for me.<\/p>\n
Service not dismissed until 3:00.<\/p>\n
Went home and prepared my dinner: fried chicken, green beans and salad.\u00a0 Wanted to broil the chicken to save time, but the pilot light had gone out and\u00a0 neither Lav, who had come home to eat, nor I could figure out how to light the oven.\u00a0 Lav ate quickly, as she had prepared her food this morning. Carrie didn\u2019t come to the apartment.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t have time for a nap.<\/p>\n
I saw Laurie at the temple and got directions from her concerning letters requested by Dick Tropp from Guyana to Andrew Young supporting him against impeachment attempt and to the Burtons, Cranston and Clausen as they have been approached by anti-Temple interests.<\/p>\n
The evening service was at 6:30.\u00a0\u00a0 We saw the Guyana film again with some additional ones.\u00a0 Marcy warned those going to the field not to take candy and gum thinking they could give it to a specific few.\u00a0 She said people could plant flowers or fruit trees around their cottages, but \u201cdon\u2019t think they are yours, they are ours.\u201d\u00a0 Marcy was very firm with some boys who had been talking while she was talking.\u00a0 She said adults too had been displaying anarchy, not doing their share of the job and this must end.<\/p>\n
I sent a note to Marcy asking for advice on the elections.\u00a0 She told the congregation to follow the recommendations of the Sun Reporter.<\/p>\n
The service was out at 10:00.\u00a0 C.J. has been taking some of the 1029 Geary seniors home but they have had to wait for him, so I continued to take Muni.<\/p>\n
I wrote short letters to Gene Chaikin, [Christine] Bates, Magnolia Harris and Helen Love for Carrie to take.\u00a0 I read newspapers, ate a snack and listened to the last of \u201cLucia di Lammermoor\u201d [opera].\u00a0 Jossie was quite sweet and did not fuss.<\/p>\n
Went to bed about 11:30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 7, 1977 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nI did some work on my journal during the morning on weekend entries.\u00a0 Then had a small memo from Dale Huffman which had to be typed and then retyped.\u00a0 He is over solicitous and annoys me.<\/p>\nCalled Lor to tell her I can\u2019t visit her on Friday as planned, as the Temple is going to L.A.<\/p>\n
At lunchtime I went up on the bus to the office supplies store and got my typewriter. Ate my lunch at my desk.<\/p>\n
The afternoon was very confusing.\u00a0 I drafted and typed a letter to Andrew Young and had to do some more work for Huffman.\u00a0 I started to list items to include in the letters to the legislators Dick [Tropp] had requested.<\/p>\n
Norma offered me a ride so that I could take my typewriter home.\u00a0 She goes to class at San Francisco State on Monday nights.<\/p>\n
Dinner at the Temple was very good: ribs with gravy, green beans, spaghetti and cantaloupe.<\/p>\n
Viola told me she gave a written report to Council on Rocki\u2019s behavior.\u00a0 They must have talked to Rocki, who was treating Viola very coolly.\u00a0 Viola told me that Archie was displeased that she had told me about his statement concerning a classroom for me.\u00a0 It was supposed to be a surprise.<\/p>\n
Heard that Carol McCoy (Dennis) is leaving tonight.\u00a0 Carrie said she got $100 for purchases and is returning $18.<\/p>\n
Laurie was not in the Law Offices.\u00a0 I left the Young letter for her.\u00a0 Had hoped to get a Sun Reporter from her.\u00a0 Wasn\u2019t able to find one on the newsstands.\u00a0 I got a Bay Guardian with election recommendations from the Temple.<\/p>\n
On arriving home I got a cleaner from the office and vacuumed all the rooms and the hall.\u00a0 Our room was very dirty.<\/p>\n
Prepared tomorrow\u2019s lunch.<\/p>\n
Read, listened to the radio and ate a snack.\u00a0 I gave Jossie coffee, toast with peanut butter.<\/p>\n
Judy Merriam came in.\u00a0 She was extremely angry because Rocki allowed Turner in their quarters.\u00a0 She was envious of Rocki and was tempted to accept Turner\u2019s offer of hundred dollar bills to have sex with him.\u00a0 I scolded her for not writing it up for Council, how Rocki was misusing the communal homes.\u00a0 I suggested she write to Mother [Marcy].<\/p>\n
I went to bed about 11:00.\u00a0 I was troubled with a good deal of coughing, as I have not recovered fully from my throat congestion.\u00a0 I must have disturbed Jossie who got up and heated water and put wet packs on my chest, then covered me with blankets.\u00a0 She called on Jim\u2019s name and put his picture on my chest, but she went through some voodoo ritual, calling on the demon to come out \u201cin the name of Jim Jones.\u201d\u00a0 It was a weird expression and I believe I would have gone to sleep sooner without her aid but she was moved by loving feelings.\u00a0 This took place about 1:00 and I didn\u2019t get to sleep for at least another hour.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 8, 1977 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nVoted before going to work.\u00a0 The polling place was the Jack Tarr Hotel. I voted for Arnold Townsend, black activist, as supervisor in District 4, although inclined toward Ella Hill Hutch and for the airport bonds, for purchase of the International Hotel by the City for the rejuvenation of Fleishacker Pool and for phasing out billboards.<\/p>\nHad a revision of typing jobs to do for Huffman, with the usual over-surveillance.<\/p>\n
In spite of this, however, I managed to do some work on my journal and to draft a letter to be sent to Representatives John and Philip Burton, Senator Alan Cranston and (with changes) to Representative Don Clausen on the campaign against the Temple.<\/p>\n
At noon I saw the employees\u2019 film \u201cDiscover Nova Scotia.\u201d\u00a0 Ate my lunch on the PG&E steps.\u00a0 The day was very warm.<\/p>\n
Betty Vasil told me that, as Cathy Costello work load is too much for her, Virginia Duncan had suggested I take over the stockroom duties.\u00a0 Betty did not think this job would be suitable for me as it required lifting heavy boxes nor make use of my talents.\u00a0 I told her I was uninterested in the job.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I noticed a new man in Dor\u2019s office and guessed he might be Marquita\u2019s replacement.\u00a0 Today I was introduced to him.\u00a0 His name is Brad _____ [last name to have been added later] <\/em>and he is to work with Dor.\u00a0 Brenda told me he is from personnel and he\u2019s had computer experience but he does not appear to have been hired as Dor\u2019s supervisor.<\/p>\nI forgot my receipt for the stockings purchased Sunday, so I had to go home after work before going to the Temple to eat.<\/p>\n
At dinner talked to Patti Chastain who is making tapes of music of other cultures to use in Guyana.\u00a0 She wants to get some revolutionary and protest songs from the library at San Francisco State.\u00a0 I think Lor might be willing to check some out for us if I go over with Patti to select them.\u00a0 Patty says Publications in Guyana will be in Georgetown.<\/p>\n
Preparing to turn in my needs slip, I found that I had left the envelope at home.\u00a0 Vernell said I could put it under her door at 1029 Geary.<\/p>\n
I showed Laurie the draft of the letter to Cranston et al. She approved it with a few changes, complemented me for my writing ability.<\/p>\n
At home, I put my towels in the dryer.\u00a0 I have not been paying the money to get them completely dry as they usually dry in the closet.\u00a0 But as the weather gets colder, they have been staying damp.<\/p>\n
I did my exercises and took a bath.<\/p>\n
Prepared my lunch for tomorrow. Lav had a tantrum because I always move her food supplies from the lower shelf to get at mine which are in the produce compartment below.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think she has any suggestion except that she prepare to live alone and not accommodate her needs to others.\u00a0 I made up my mind that at the next opportunity I shall tell her firmly what I think of her continual bad temper.<\/p>\n
It was 10:00 o\u2019clock before I came into my room.\u00a0 Jossie had been in bed when I arrived home.\u00a0 My radio awoke her and although she has stopped complaining, she talked steadily and I had difficulty reading the paper.<\/p>\n
Heard a few election returns before going to sleep around 11:00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 9, 1977 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nGot some of the election results by radio in the morning and learned the remainder later.\u00a0 Hutch, a black woman, won a clear victory in District 4.\u00a0 Harvey Milk, a gay, won in Upper Market and the Haight.\u00a0 Carol Ruth Silver, a liberal, won in the Mission.\u00a0 John Molinari won easily in North Beach and Nob Hill.\u00a0 Quentin Kopp was unopposed in Parkside\/Lake Merced. The Board will at least be more representative of the poor and minorities than was previously the case. The airport bonds passed, renovation of the International Hotel lost, the renovation of Fleishacker Pool was approved.\u00a0\u00a0 The billboard measure failed.<\/p>\nBefore I left for work, another silly argument developed with Lav over the possession of some wash cloths.\u00a0 She could have made a pleasant request but chose to be nasty.\u00a0 I stood my ground though somewhat inhibited by the presence of Wanda.\u00a0 I resolved that tonight if Lav complained that I disturbed her food in the refrigerator, I was going to recite all my grievances against her.<\/p>\n
At work I had some items for Huffman, who is scrutinizing my work most of the day, but I did manage s final version of the letter to Burton et al. and type material on the Mag Ed copies for the two Burtons and Cranston.\u00a0 Also wrote yesterday\u2019s journal entry.<\/p>\n
At lunchtime I went to the Safeway to by some food for lunches next week as I will not have the weekend to shop.\u00a0 I got oranges for fruit, a few raw vegetables and a few cans of beans and chili. At the Embarcadero shopping center I saw a movie-making crew but did not see the actual filming.<\/p>\n
I ate my lunch at my desk on my return.<\/p>\n
Just by closing time Dale Huffman asked me to make a chart, showing various Bechtel entities and officers.\u00a0 It had no heading which was purposefully left off, but Dale told me it showed the entitled doing business in South Africa.\u00a0 I was a little late getting out.<\/p>\n
I took part of my groceries home.\u00a0 Only Lav was there.\u00a0 I put my provisions away without calling her attention.\u00a0 I washed and changed clothes.<\/p>\n
Did not arrive at the Temple for dinner until after the 6:00 o\u2019clock closing time, but I had planned for a late plate.\u00a0 Talked again with Patti [Chastain].<\/p>\n
Got envelopes from Laurie for my letters.\u00a0 She gave me a report on the court hearting on the Dennis Banks case.\u00a0 He was being tried for contempt of court.<\/p>\n
I read my newspaper in the accounting office until service time.<\/p>\n
In the service Hue\u00a0 and others told of the Banks hearing.\u00a0 The Temple had 47 people there.\u00a0 Only 12 other Banks supporters came.\u00a0 Hue\u00a0 put great effort and emotion into an appeal for people to go to Sacramento tonight to back up Banks in court on his extradition hearing.\u00a0 Temple members had gathered numerous signatures to petitions to Governor Brown and Brown had refused Banks\u2019 extradition.\u00a0 The hearing is an attempt to overrule Brown.\u00a0 Several emotional statements helped persuade more people to go and Marcy continued the effort when she appeared.\u00a0 Security shifts were taken care of, Opportunity School students allowed to go, members urged to take sick leave or a vacation day from their jobs.<\/p>\n
Two offerings were taken.
\nHue\u00a0 asked for donations for food for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
Mother pleaded with young women to hold off\u00a0 becoming pregnant, as the cost of providing for new mothers and babies will become a serious burden.<\/p>\n
The service was out at 10:45.\u00a0 Rocki picked me up at the bus stop.<\/p>\n
I prepared my food for tomorrow.<\/p>\n
When Lav and Wanda arrived their conversation revealed that Lav is leaving for Guyana at last, but no information was given to me or Jossie.<\/p>\n
My chest cold is not completely over and gets worse when I don\u2019t have much rest.\u00a0 It was bad this week.<\/p>\n
I went to bed at 1:00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 10, 1977 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nAgain did a number of small jobs for Huffman, interspersed with journal entries and running off of the Temple letters to John and Philip Burton and Alan Cranston.\u00a0 Changed the letters somewhat to conform to Representative Don Clausen\u2019s conversation.<\/p>\nLucile Satherlin continues to tell me of the problems the secretaries have with Huffman.\u00a0 Fundamentally he is very demanding, though his attitude is not offensive.<\/p>\n
Ate early at my desk and went to see a half-hour film at PG&E on Alaska — some facts of early history as a Russian possession, the sale to the U.S., its early use, development, the Gold Rush and later economic activities were detailed.\u00a0 There were many shots of beautiful scenery.<\/p>\n
Mary Avalina\u2019s last day is tomorrow.\u00a0 John Stewart is leaving soon to work on the Jubail contracts.\u00a0 Bob Owen, I hear, with his secretary Sharon, will be moving up to our end of the floor to look after work of Stewart and John Miller, who left to work for Gaithersburg.<\/p>\n
Dor told me Brad is taking the advanced course in Word One.\u00a0 Denise told me she is going to Word One class.\u00a0 With Sharon moving, there will be no one to do the workloads reports for her section.\u00a0 Dor does not like to have more people trained on the computer.\u00a0 So the arrangement was made privately with the computer, etc.\u00a0 She said Virginia Duncan was not aware of the plan.\u00a0 Even financial reimbursement is to be made clandestinely with payment to the computer center of legal services.<\/p>\n
Dale Huffman, obviously concerned about his own secretarial assistance, talked to me later.\u00a0 He wants a secretary of his own.\u00a0 He may have been sounding me out.\u00a0 I told him the way in which I get assignments.\u00a0 He will be sharing Louise with Terry Brown, which is not satisfactory to him.<\/p>\n
Huffman, in his conversation, reveals a strongly conservative bias.<\/p>\n
Had to stay late to correct the first page of the letter to the Burtons and Cranston and put on a card the draft to Clausen.\u00a0 Left the office at 5:15.<\/p>\n
Got dinner at the Temple.\u00a0 C.J. Jackson told me of the day\u2019s hearing in Sacramento. It was on a suit brought by the state of South Dakota against Governor Brown for refusing to extradite Dennis Banks.\u00a0 The decision of the court has not been announced yet.<\/p>\n
Took the Temple letters up to Laurie.\u00a0 She made a change or two in the Clausen draft.\u00a0 She showed me the Sun Reporter account of Charles Garry\u2019s talk at the Temple on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Jossie was in bed when I arrived home.<\/p>\n
Seeing no signs of packing, I asked Lav whether she was leaving for Guyana as I had thought.\u00a0 She said no. I had probably misconstrued conversation between her and Wanda about tonight\u2019s trip to L.A.<\/p>\n
I got my laundry ready but had to wait for a machine.
\nDid personal chores in the kitchen.
\nWanda arrived home.<\/p>\n
I put my laundry in the machine.
\nWashed my hair.
\nDid my hand laundry.<\/p>\n
Read and listened to the radio in the kitchen.\u00a0 Ate a snack.\u00a0 At the office different people had given me a bag of lunch,\u00a0 a sandwich and a sweet roll.\u00a0 I ate the sandwich and the sweet roll.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 12:15.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t try to do my packing.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 11, 1977 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nI got up 15 minutes early, so as to pack my suitcase.\u00a0 I took it down to Judy to put on the bus.<\/p>\nPut my time card in.<\/p>\n
Brenda was needed in Weinberger\u2019s office and I was asked to take over the reception desk in the morning.\u00a0 While there I made yesterday\u2019s journal entry.<\/p>\n
I ate outside.\u00a0 The weather was windy.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon Karen took the reception desk.\u00a0 I had work for Huffman, [Zaid] Jawadat (as Norma had gone home earlier) and finally Larry who dictated to me a memo which will have to be transcribed Monday.<\/p>\n
I got done one page of the letter to Clausen.<\/p>\n
Only Virginia was at home.\u00a0 She had been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n
I had some dinner, put up a lunch for tonight and tomorrow and packed what I needed on the bus, getting ready only at 8:30.<\/p>\n
I had the first part of \u201cI Puritani\u201d by — [composer to be added later: Bellini] , starring Beverly Sills.<\/p>\n
Took the Muni to the Temple.\u00a0 Marcy was not in the service yet, though she came out later.\u00a0 The audience was small.<\/p>\n
The service was out about 10:30. And we boarded the buses. Four were taken to L.A.<\/p>\n
Judy had saved me a seat on which was also Jossie, Lavana and herself.\u00a0 Wanda changed to another bus.\u00a0 I ate my lunch.<\/p>\n
I fell asleep before we left S.F. but woke up when the buses started up.\u00a0 It was about 12:30.\u00a0 I sat beside Betty Fitch who slept all the way.<\/p>\n
I got up at the first stop about 3:00 and jogged.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 12, 1977 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nThe buses arrived at Buttonwillow at 6:30.\u00a0\u00a0 It was quite chilly.\u00a0 I washed, ran, ate the food I brought.\u00a0 I heard we were staying two hours and was going to run again but we left after one hour and I didn\u2019t get my teeth brushed.<\/p>\nI read the Friday newspaper, then slept.<\/p>\n
Carol Stahl who was acting as hostess on our bus was reading a translation of a novel in Spanish written by an Argentine.\u00a0 She told me she was reading it for Don Beck who was taking classes four nights a week at Sonoma State in order to get a bilingual teaching credential.<\/p>\n
We arrived in LA at 10:30.\u00a0 People on the buses had been asked to list where they were going before service if they weren\u2019t staying at the Temple.<\/p>\n
We were served breakfast.<\/p>\n
I sat in the shade in front of the Temple for about 2 hours working on my journal entries, trying to avoid conversation with a young man named Victor, who said he had let his Temple membership card lapse but who wanted to attend today.\u00a0 I told him I didn\u2019t think his chances were very good and he eventually left.\u00a0 As far as I know, he didn\u2019t come back.<\/p>\n
I then tried to take a nap before the service on the bus but was frustrated by some young men carrying on a conversation. Some\u00a0 \u2026<\/p>\n
[page missing\u00a0 C-3-A-6 (44) was not copied.\u00a0 Can see (44) reading through from backside of\u00a0 (43), so it was there]<\/em><\/p>\nDorothy Malone whose baby is about due, the small daughter of B.\u2019s youngest daughter who has been to the Temple and Tina Malone who was released from the reformatory (B. said Jim got him out ahead of schedule)<\/p>\n
I told B. my news.\u00a0 She said the father of the Malone child was eligible for Social Security disability benefits which his child could share and she was trying, upon agreement of the Temple to get the funds for the child.\u00a0 It were not for that, she was ready to leave.\u00a0 She said her husband, R.D., now says he wants to go to Guyana, is getting his passport with approval of the Temple, but she was not sure he would follow through.<\/p>\n
We had dinner: chili, chicken wings, bread, peas and I ate a banana and an apple and some cake.<\/p>\n
Read my newspapers and B.\u2019s Time magazine.\u00a0 Went to bed about 10:30.<\/p>\n
Heard an argument Beulah was having with Tony.\u00a0 She later told me he was complaining because he didn\u2019t hear from xxxxxx?\u00a0 Threatened to go to the Temple and find out what \u201cthey\u2019re doing to my brother.\u201d\u00a0 Beulah said he has always hated Jim, bit Jim got him out of jail.<\/p>\n
The air was terribly polluted and I had much trouble breathing.\u00a0 I coughed half the night. Was afraid I was bothering Beulah.<\/p>\n
I heard Tony out on the porch talking so loudly that I went out and asked him to be quiet.\u00a0 Then I heard him talking loudly on the telephone and again asked him to keep his voice down.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 13, 1977 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nI had eventually gone to sleep and felt better.\u00a0 I got up at 8:00, asked Beulah whether I had disturbed her.\u00a0 She said no; she had too many other worries.\u00a0 Her concern was to get these children to a place of safety.\u00a0 With their background (and I added \u201cenvironment\u201d) there was no hope for them after 12.\u00a0 Beulah has been having some trouble with her heart and the doctors are monitoring it.<\/p>\nI had for breakfast an egg, bacon and toast.\u00a0 R.D. took us to the Temple for service; he was an hour late.<\/p>\n
Beulah said Tony was in the custody of one of her daughters and would be joining us in a few days.\u00a0 Dorothy\u2019s coming baby will be an additional problem.\u00a0 She said she felt so burdened that she felt like forgetting about the Social Security funds for the children and telling the Temple she was ready now.<\/p>\n
The main feature of the day\u2019s Temple service was a skit portraying the black struggle for independence.\u00a0 Prominent parts were taken by Bob Rankin and Pat Patterson, both on Archie\u2019s work team.<\/p>\n
The films of Jonestown will be shown again in L.A. on Thursday night.\u00a0 Marcy conducted a question period.\u00a0 One woman asked whether bicycles could be used at the mission.\u00a0 Marcy said they would be more useful in Georgetown.\u00a0 A woman named Lois inquired whether tours to Jonestown would be arranged as they used to be to Redwood Valley.\u00a0 Marcy asked her whether she intended not to go to live at Jonestown.\u00a0 Lois claimed she would not feel right about enjoying comfort when her black sisters and brothers were still suffering, making her appear more compassionate than Jim.\u00a0 Marcy responded to her very well, said that tours might be conducted eventually but people would probably have to pay their own way.<\/p>\n
The service was out at 3:00.\u00a0 Dinner was not served until 4:00.\u00a0 So I read The Silent Language on the bus.<\/p>\n
For dinner we had chicken, peas, mashed potatoes with gravy, lettuce with mayonnaise and cake mixed with jell-o.<\/p>\n
I talked a few minutes with Bob Davis who is on the work crew.\u00a0 He thought a target date of the end of the year would be planned for most members to leave.<\/p>\n
The buses left at 5:30.\u00a0 I read The Silent Language.\u00a0 Slept a half hour or so before we got to the rest stop at Buttonwillow.<\/p>\n
I ran.<\/p>\n
I was a long time going to sleep again.\u00a0 Judy Merriam behind me has her light on and was reading.<\/p>\n
We arrived in SF around 1:30.\u00a0 Most of the people from 1029 Geary were on our bus which took us home at 2:00.<\/p>\n
Lav had collected another plastic bag of items to take with her.
\nI unpacked.\u00a0 Put\u00a0 up my lunch for the morning.
\nWent to bed at 3:00 and slept soundly.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 14, 1977 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nI felt fairly well today.<\/p>\nFinished typing Philippe Lamy\u2019s dictation and made revision for Dale Hoffman or a memo he wrote Friday.<\/p>\n
Corrected and ran off the Temple letter to Representative Don Clausen.
\nStarted on my journal entries for the weekend.
\nI found it too cold to eat outside..\u00a0 Ate at my desk.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple to eat.\u00a0 Very few people were there. Opportunity School was having an open house and people were going at 7:30, but I didn\u2019t want to go.\u00a0 C. J. Jackson has been preparing a list of\u00a0 books by black authors to take to Guyana.\u00a0 I urged him to include works by black poets and found the names of some to give him.<\/p>\n
I\u00a0 delivered the Clausen letter to the law office. Put in a request for having my prescription filled again and put it under the door of the clinic.<\/p>\n
Went home with Jossie.<\/p>\n
She went to bed.\u00a0 I put my foodstuffs in better order on my shelf.\u00a0 Put away my light clothes in my trunk so as to give Jossie more room in the closet.<\/p>\n
Did my exercises.
\nMended a few pieces of clothing.
\nWanda came home later from the Temple.
\nShe told us there was to be a special meeting tomorrow night at the Temple.<\/p>\n
Rocki came by and mentioned an article in the Sunday Chronicle and Examiner featuring accusations against the Temple by Joyce Shaw.\u00a0 Viola sent word she would save the paper for me.<\/p>\n
Wanda had seen Estelle in L.A. In addition to her work settling estates, she has a job taking care of a sick person bringing in money to the Temple.<\/p>\n
I finished the day\u2019s newspaper and ate a snack.
\nWent to bed at 11:30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 15, 1977 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nAbout 9:00 called Lor.\u00a0 Asked her plans for Christmas.\u00a0 She is not going to Eugene.\u00a0 She said Dor [Edith\u2019s sister] can stay with her if she comes to SF.\u00a0 I will come to stay all night Friday.<\/p>\nCalled Dor at her office.\u00a0 She plans to visit me in SF for a week and a half starting 17 December.\u00a0 I can meet her at the airport.\u00a0 She asked me whether I could eat out with her.\u00a0 I told her of my recent actions.<\/p>\n
Has most of the day to work on back journal entries.\u00a0 A number in October had not been fully written out.<\/p>\n
Saw the film in the employees\u2019 film series, \u201cNow That the Dinosaurs are Gone,\u201d pushing nuclear energy, a very simplistic treatment.\u00a0 Ate my lunch.<\/p>\n
Zaid Jawdat had a memo which I started toward the end of the day.<\/p>\n
Went home directly. Lav was still in apartment.\u00a0 The others had gone.
\nI washed, changed clothes.
\nWent to the Temple and ate dinner.<\/p>\n
In the Law Offices read the Sunday Examiner article.\u00a0 It was about the Houston family, main source said to be Joyce Shaw and Bob Houston\u2019s father.\u00a0 Write was sentimental about Bob and his children, described \u201chardships\u201d forced on him by the Temple, leading him to his death.<\/p>\n
The meeting was to have started at 7:30, but didn\u2019t get underway until about 8:00.\u00a0 Wesley Johnson conducted it.\u00a0 Marcy was not there.\u00a0 After opening with singing and an offering, we were told we were going to march around the Examiner building tomorrow to protest their coverage of the Temple.\u00a0 We would start at 7:00.\u00a0 Marcy and others are going to ask for an interview with the editor.\u00a0 The Temple will hold a news conference at 12:00.<\/p>\n
All except those who are handicapped were expected to go.\u00a0 Those who work were asked to call in sick or take a day\u2019s leave.\u00a0 Those who have baby sitting or transportation problems will be given aid.<\/p>\n
The security staff, headed by Jim McElvane, conducted demonstrations and practice in resisting provocation.\u00a0 We are to avoid violence.<\/p>\n
We were dismissed about 10:30.<\/p>\n
I prepared my lunch for tomorrow. As I have used a good deal of my sick leave recently and have work tomorrow, I cannot participate in the picketing.<\/p>\n
I had a snack and read the newspaper.
\nWent to bed at 12:30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 16, 1977 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nWanda and Virginia were up and left for the temple to picket the Examiner before I got up at 6:00.\u00a0 Lav and Jossie did not go.<\/p>\nI worked most of the day on 3 memos for Zaid Jawdat.\u00a0 At the end of the day I left with Norma one memo I had started, as I did not know whether I would be in.<\/p>\n
Ate my lunch at my desk.\u00a0 Took Muni to Union Square for a program arranged by the American Cancer Society to publicize a non-smoking day tomorrow.\u00a0 The day was beautiful.\u00a0 Ted Shawn was master of ceremonies.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t see over the heads of the crowd, but climbed a ladder to a platform where I got a good view.\u00a0 Petitions for an initiative measure to ban smoking in public places were circulated.\u00a0 Literature on the hazards of smoking was available.<\/p>\n
Made yesterday\u2019s journal entry.<\/p>\n
In the middle of the afternoon I asked Lav to find out whether she had seen anything on TV news about the picketing.\u00a0 She had not.\u00a0 The Temple when I called then knew nothing either but said the picketing was still going on.<\/p>\n
I decided to go tomorrow if the temple was picketing again, by taking a day of annual leave.\u00a0 That someone connected with Bechtel might see me on TV will be unpleasant but not particularly harmful at this stage, I should think.\u00a0 I told Dor that I had a personal matter to take care of.<\/p>\n
A woman passenger on the #38 bus going home was thrown to the floor when the bus turned a corner at a fast speed.\u00a0 All passengers got off and had to take other buses.<\/p>\n
At home I called the Temple to ask them to save me a plate.\u00a0 Learned that Temple members had not come off the picket lines yet.<\/p>\n
After washing and changing clothes for the Temple service, I went to the Temple. Got there just before the bulk of the members came from the Examiner.<\/p>\n
Talked to Ray Godshalk who drove a bus up from LA. \u00a0The work crew was brought for the demonstration showing how important it was thought to be.\u00a0\u00a0 Ray was very tired, having driven from Buttonwillow and then walked all day.<\/p>\n
I saw Laurie.\u00a0 She had not been in the line, as she had to work.\u00a0 She showed me a very short article from the Examiner stating the Temple had 70 people in the protest, whereas we had five busloads of people there which equals several hundred people.\u00a0 Laurie let me have a copy of Charles Garry\u2019s report on Jonestown in the Sun Reporter.<\/p>\n
The service began with Wesley Johnson presiding with the usual songs, getting rides home and making a few announcements about members money-making projects.\u00a0 Leona Collier helped with taking the offering during which Marcy came on the platform.<\/p>\n
She greeted the audience as \u201cyou beautiful people,\u201d expressed pride and amazement that they had marched from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm.\u00a0 She said the meeting would be very short.
\nMarcy read aloud a statement issued to the public and press giving the facts on the Bob Houston story.\u00a0 Phyllis Houston had spent much time with the writer of the objectionable article; nevertheless, the paper used only a snippet from her and the rest of the information was completely distorted.<\/p>\n
Marcy and some others conferred with the Examiner management. She told them we were determined to end the hostile coverage the Temple had received from the newspaper.\u00a0 One of the editors had said Jim makes himself look guilty by staying in Guyana.\u00a0 Marcy got in touch with Jim by radio.\u00a0 He said to tell them why he was staying in Guyana. The reason was the safety and future of a child.\u00a0 Marcy said the press would not be given information which was not available to the members.\u00a0 Therefore Jim had instructed her to tell us of the events regarding the birth of John Stoen.\u00a0 She described the selfish desire that Grace, a potentially hostile person, had for Jim, his consultation with the leadership, their joint decision that Jim should satisfy Grace\u2019s wishes, to which Marcy had consented.\u00a0 The baby John resulted. \u00a0Marcy said she felt sure Jim had told us of this which he had.\u00a0 She asked whether anyone had any problem with this.\u00a0 No one publicly admitted having a problem.\u00a0 Marcy had not stated the names, but most members could not fail to identify the persons involved.<\/p>\n
Marcy said the newspaper had until Monday to apologize and change its policy.\u00a0 If they did not, we would resume picketing.<\/p>\n
The service was dismissed at 9:00. I arrived home earlier than anyone else.\u00a0 The others waited for rides.<\/p>\n
Since Lav\u2019s luggage has been in our room, especially as Jossie hasn\u2019t been feeling well after the L.A. trip, our closet is in a mess of Jossie\u2019s belongings, so that I have trouble finding my own clothes. Before Lav got home, I complained to Wanda about it.\u00a0 She said not to worry.\u00a0 Lav is leaving tomorrow.<\/p>\n
I read and ate a snack.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 10:30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 17, 1977 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nHad a dull day at work. Did a few items for Zaid Jawdat.\u00a0 Both Weinberger and Virginia Duncan were away and O\u2019Neill was alone in the office.\u00a0 So I sat in for him when he took a break and went to lunch.\u00a0 After finishing yesterday\u2019s journal entry,\u00a0 I read The Writer magazine given to me by one of the secretaries.\u00a0 I want the list of possible markets in there.<\/p>\nAte my lunch at my desk.\u00a0 Then went over to Front and Howard Street to look at some inexpensive clothes at a factory outlet Nicky Maris had told me about.\u00a0 They had blouses, sweaters, pants ranging in price from $2.00 to $10.00.\u00a0 I may come again and buy some denim pants.\u00a0 The clothes are made in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Tonight went directly to the Temple to eat.\u00a0 Lav came about 5:30.\u00a0 She said she had packed all day.\u00a0 She was nervous, went to the bathroom and vomited.<\/p>\n
I received a note from Viola, who wanted me to see her.\u00a0 She suggested we go out on the front step, so I knew she had something to tell me.\u00a0 I went to her apartment an proposed she come p to my apartment as I expected only Jossie would be home.\u00a0 I gave her a cup of coffee.\u00a0 Before Viola could give me her news, Virginia arrived, then Wanda came in with a woman named Susabelle from L.A. who will stay in Lav\u2019s room until Sunday.\u00a0 Viola managed anyway to tell me that Rocki is leaving Monday.\u00a0 Rocki is very angry because she doesn\u2019t want to leave Turner.\u00a0 Viola thought she might have been responsible because of her note to Council.\u00a0 Viola was wondering how she and others would get to the doctor now.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know whether Wanda and the others heard what Viola told me.\u00a0 Jossie who was in bed, asked me why Viola had come up and I told her.\u00a0 She was happy as she thinks Rocki won\u2019t give her rides.<\/p>\n
Wanda told Viola that Ray and therefore Viola, would not be leaving for two months.<\/p>\n
Wanda announced that we were going to get the kitchen cleaned up.\u00a0 During the day Lav almost monopolized it\u00a0 and she was very messy, a bad dishwasher.\u00a0 The refrigerator was three quarters full of her food, must of which was unpalatable looking.\u00a0 She did not clean it out, though she did give some items to Wanda.<\/p>\n
The laundry downstairs is now open only between 4:00 in the afternoon until 9:00.\u00a0 I had to wait for the use of a dryer.<\/p>\n
Did personal chores in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
Put up a lunch for tomorrow.<\/p>\n
I have missed my exercises several times lately, tonight because of my conversation with Viola and because there were people in the kitchen and Jossie in bed in our room.<\/p>\n
Washed my hair.
\nDid my hand laundry.
\nAte a snack and read in the kitchen.\u00a0 I had brought my radio out so as not to bother Jossie.<\/p>\n
I went to bed at 12:30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 18, 1977 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nDid some work for Jawdat and sat in Weinberger\u2019s office for two hours.\u00a0 Virginia is away in Washington.\u00a0 There is no other secretary to relieve Bob O\u2019Neill<\/p>\nI made a journal entry.<\/p>\n
I had a letter from Eddie [Edith\u2019s sister Edna]. She says she wants to come to visit me at Christmas time, \u00a0She apparently does not know Dor is coming.\u00a0 She will spend part of her vacation with Alma Green, reminding me that Carl died last year.<\/p>\n
Jossie was taken to the hospital today. Was not back yet.<\/p>\n
I changed clothes and packed my suitcase as I was going to Lor\u2019s to stay all night.\u00a0 I took the Geary bus to the terminal and from there it\u2019s a street car through the tunnel.\u00a0 By getting on at the starting point I assured myself a seat.\u00a0 I was, however, late in arriving.<\/p>\n
Lor prepared dinner for me.\u00a0 She told me of the trouble on the S.F. State campus lately.\u00a0 Several women have been raped or threatened, including the Vice-President in the ladies room of the administration building.\u00a0 Lor kept saying the city was falling to pieces.<\/p>\n
We went to bed rather early.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 19, 1977 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nRyn called Lor from Tunisia this morning at 7:15.\u00a0 Lor had not heard from her for sometime.\u00a0 For some reason Rayn\u2019s letters hadn\u2019t gotten through.\u00a0 The two talked for a long time.\u00a0 Rayn said Tunisia had decided not to take Peace Corps workers for teaching assignments such as she is doing next year, so she can either be transferred or terminated.<\/p>\nI had some Sanka.\u00a0 Then Lor gave me orange juice and toast.\u00a0 We had a long talk.\u00a0 I told her about living with the seniors.\u00a0 Lor at length expressed herself more frankly than she usually does on Temple practices.\u00a0 She disapproves of separating babies from their mothers.\u00a0 We had a long discussion about family life and child care.<\/p>\n
Lor intended to make some more breakfast but I had to get back home.<\/p>\n
I asked Lor about the possibility of using her library card to take out some records from the S.F.State library to tape for our mission school, as Patti Chastain wises to do.\u00a0 Lor is willing to do it but she lost her card when her purse was snatched and has to be renewed.<\/p>\n
I left about 10:30, got home about noon.<\/p>\n
Jossie had returned from the hospital although they had wanted her to stay.<\/p>\n
I took my cart to the Haight Community Food Store and bought vegetables and fruit.\u00a0 I had a roast beef sandwich and a Pepsi Cola at the delicatessen on Haight Street.\u00a0 The sun was shining warmly through the window. I stopped at Lucky food store to get decaffeinated coffee and three items for Jossie: a chicken, sweet pickles and some unsalted butter.\u00a0 I thought she had specified unsalted margarine, which I couldn\u2019t find.<\/p>\n
Jossie was in a very bad humor.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t want the unsalted butter and said I could take it back.<\/p>\n
I had a nap.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t have any dinner.\u00a0 Arrived late at the Temple service.\u00a0 Jane Mutschmann came to pick up some of the seniors but missed them, so I went with her.<\/p>\n
I learned that Wanda had had difficulties with Jossie last night.<\/p>\n
I went up to the Law Offices.\u00a0 Laurie showed me an article in the SF Examiner which stated that Tim Stoen had come out in favor of Grace Stoen\u2019s custody of John, saying he believed she would be a good mother.\u00a0 It seems clear that earlier reports that Tim had left the Temple are true.\u00a0 I also realized that he was the friend that Jim warned me would turn against me.\u00a0 Laurie also showed me a letter to the Berkeley Barb that Garry Lambrev had written in heavily adjectival prose and containing the worst insinuations yet concerning Jim Jones and the Temple.\u00a0 Laurie wanted me among others to write to the Barb as they have been printing our letters.<\/p>\n
During the service Leona Collier told me Marcy wanted to see me upstairs.\u00a0 I went up to her quarters.\u00a0 Marcy asked me whether I had seen the article on Tim.\u00a0 I told her I had.\u00a0 She said Jim was concerned about how I was feeling. \u00a0I assured her that she and Jim did not need to worry about me. Although I felt badly about Tim, my own loyalty to the cause is unshaken.\u00a0 I repeated a statement that Tim continually made to me about Jim that he never thought of himself.\u00a0 She said Jim felt Tim must be under terrible pressure, perhaps blackmail from an enemy.<\/p>\n
I took the opportunity to ask Marcy whether she could find out if the Temple wanted me to quit my employment at Bechtel\u2019s at the end of the year.\u00a0 If so, it would be advantageous for me to give notice at the beginning of December.\u00a0 She said she would find out.<\/p>\n
When Marcy came on the platform she told the congregation about Tim\u2019s conduct, saying as she had to me that Jim felt the greatest sympathy for him.\u00a0 She also told the congregation the reason that Jim is not coming back to the U.S. It concerned the custody case of a child, not his own welfare.\u00a0 Without giving names she stated there had been a young woman who was hostile to the Temple and threatened to do it danger.\u00a0 She, Marcy had perceived that the young woman felt a sexual attraction to Jim and she suggested that he satisfy her desire.\u00a0 The Council approved and Jim was willing to gain time for the Temple.\u00a0 The child was the result and he was beautiful.<\/p>\n
The service was out at 10:00.<\/p>\n
I went home with Vernell.\u00a0 I ate a snack and listened to the radio.\u00a0 Jossie was fussing about my having the radio on.<\/p>\n
During the night I was awakened when Jossie got up.\u00a0 She sorted through papers. Then I heard her try to place a call on the telephone which was in the hall.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know whether she got through or not.\u00a0 It was four o\u2019clock.\u00a0 I had difficulty getting back to sleep and was worried that Jossie may be intending to leave the Temple.<\/p>\n
November 20, 1977 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nJossie got up about 7:30 and may have tried to phone again.
\nI got up around 8:00 and put a pot roast on to cook.\u00a0 Bathed.<\/p>\nI told Wanda of Jossie\u2019s behaviors last night and of her early morning telephone calls.\u00a0 Wanda informed someone, probably Vernell Henderson.\u00a0 Judy was asked to check with the telephone calls placed last night on our telephone.<\/p>\n
Wanda said the hospital had found Jossie in poor physical condition.\u00a0 She is subject to diabetes and has been eating the wrong foods.\u00a0 She should not have had the sweet potatoes I got for her.\u00a0 Wanda said her physical condition is accountable for her temperamental mood.\u00a0 Wanda wrote a report on Jossie\u2019s behavior when she was with her and on the medical aspects and asked me to write my observations.\u00a0 I did so, typing my report on the kitchen table although I had intended to write the Barb letter for Laurie and I had a stack of healing affidavits to type.\u00a0 I also typed Wanda\u2019s report.<\/p>\n
Wanda had talked with Vernell Henderson about Jossie\u2019s situation.\u00a0 She said various plans had been suggested.\u00a0 Florine Dyson might be moving in Estelle\u2019s room.\u00a0 Estelle is coming back.<\/p>\n
I went to the service late.\u00a0 Wanda stayed with Jossie as it was thought she should not be left alone.<\/p>\n
Mother made the same announcement and explanation concerning Tim Stoen and Grace and Jim\u2019s reason for staying in Guyana as last night.<\/p>\n
The service was out at 2:00.<\/p>\n
I went home, had the pot roast with potatoes and green beans and salad.
\nI had a nap in Estelle\u2019s room.<\/p>\n
I went to the evening service at 6:00.\u00a0 Wanda again stayed with Jossie.\u00a0 She said it was now proposed that Pauline Groot should come and stay with Jossie.<\/p>\n
During the service, Marcy, finding that five people who were present had not heard the announcement concerning Jim\u2019s stay in Guyana and the parenthood of John Stoen, she repeated it.\u00a0 She looked very tired.<\/p>\n
Service was out at 8:00.\u00a0 Marcy asked the heads of departments to stay for a discussion on the program of the week.<\/p>\n
When I reached home I cleaned out some shelves in the pantry and moved food which I had been keeping in the closet in our room.\u00a0 I had kept it in our room because I was afraid some of the residents would take it.\u00a0 I cleaned up the closet too.\u00a0 Jossie had complained she did not have a fair share of the room.<\/p>\n
I read and ate a snack from 10:30 to 11:30, then went to bed.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 21, 1977 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nHeavy rain fell during the night and most of the day.\u00a0 This is the first good rain, the papers say, that we have had for three years.<\/p>\nWanda arranged for Jossie to be taken to the doctor for an exam.
\n\u2018
\nAt the office I did an hour\u2019s Xeroxing for Weinberger at O\u2019Neill\u2019s request .\u00a0 Among the papers was one showing that Cathy Costello is to get a $500 bonus for good work (deserved, I believe), another indicating that Weinberger has accepted a position on the board of Quaker Oats and has received xxxx shares of stock valued at xxxx [info was to be filled in later].<\/p>\n
I called the Social Security office and was told I would get $244 a month and I believe this sum will be increased after my 1977 earnings are counted in.<\/p>\n
I had no time for personal tasks.\u00a0 I had wanted to get down to the post office to buy stamps so as to send a letter to my sisters.<\/p>\n
At lunch I went to a program arranged by the BWAA.\u00a0 Glenda Hope, the Episcopalian minister who helped BWAA organize and who has been at the Temple twice, has arranged a series of programs on women and health.\u00a0 I missed the first one or two.\u00a0 Today\u2019s was on medication. Called \u201cPills \u2013 Yours, Mine and Theirs.\u201d\u00a0 It was given by Dr. Linda Cleaver, an occupational therapist.\u00a0 She was quite good.\u00a0 She is cautious about prescribing and taking drugs.<\/p>\n
I spoke to Glenda Hope, saying I had seen her at the Temple.\u00a0 Though she was polite, I had the impression that she would rather have had any association with us ignored.<\/p>\n
I ate my lunch at my desk.
\nHuffman gave me work just before closing time and I told him I could not finish it.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple for dinner.\u00a0 We had a good dinner with fried chicken.<\/p>\n
Jossie was home from the doctor.\u00a0 Wanda said they had wanted to keep her there but she had insisted on coming home.\u00a0 Her sugar level was high and she had brought on trouble by eating the wrong foods including the sweet pickles she had asked me to buy her.\u00a0 She was given medication to take.<\/p>\n
I exercised and put up my lunch.<\/p>\n
I sorted newspapers read parts of them, threw many away.\u00a0 I really made progress in getting them weeded out.<\/p>\n
Went to bed at 11:00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 22, 1977 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nDid some typing for Huffman and a distribution job for Weinberger.<\/p>\nThe film at noon was \u201cThe Bolero\u201d which showed a performance of Ravel\u2019s composition by Zuben Mehter and the L.A.Philharmonic Orchestra.<\/p>\n
Norma, who is Filipina, gave me some pancit<\/em> she had made, which I ate while looking at the film.<\/p>\nFor Garb I made a trip downtown to get some certificates of notarization for two powers of attorney.\u00a0 I had first to get some money at the cashiers.\u00a0 I then went to the City Clerk at City Hall and to the Peruvian and Australian Consulates.\u00a0 At both of the latter I spent some time waiting.\u00a0 At Woolworth\u2019s, which is near the Peruvian Consulate, I bought some lipstick and some candy. After I got the Australian documentation, I went to the post office and bought stamps for my sisters\u2019 letters.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t get back to the office until a little after 5:00.\u00a0 Garb was still there.<\/p>\n
I took Muni to the Temple to eat.
\nI again read back newspapers tonight.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 23, 1977 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nMy work day was quite heavy which often happens on the day before a holiday.\u00a0 My afternoon was especially hectic.<\/p>\nGarb learned he had to go to South Africa in connection with a project there on the first of December.\u00a0 I typed two short contracts for him.\u00a0 Jawdat and Huffman also were making demands of me until late.<\/p>\n
At the same time I was trying to finish and get off my letters to my sisters.<\/p>\n
In mid-afternoon Betty Versil came and told us that Weinberger said we could go home half an hour early.\u00a0 However I was not able to.\u00a0 I finished Garb\u2019s work.<\/p>\n
Then I finished the two letters to my sisters and ran off four copies as the Xerox facilities were closed.\u00a0 I kept one copy and addressed and mailed a copy to each sister.\u00a0 I gave them the names and rates of three places they might stay, the Lombard Hotel next door to me and two motels which are inexpensive and not too far away.<\/p>\n
I borrowed five dollars from Dorothy and ate dinner at the Chinese restaurant across from our apartment building on Geary.<\/p>\n
I dressed and went to the Temple service which was out early.
\nAfterwards read before I went to bed.
\nGina Severns is going to take the Geary seniors home now that Rocki has gone.
\nJudy told us that Turner has taken a room in the building.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 24, 1977 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nToday was Thanksgiving.\u00a0 At Bechtel we have Friday off as well as today.<\/p>\nI got up at 8:00.<\/p>\n
Took my laundry to the Laundromat at Hyde and O\u2019Farrell, as the one in our building is closed until 4:oo.\u00a0 It was a pleasant day.<\/p>\n
I defrosted the refrigerator and cleaned it out.\u00a0 I asked Virginia and Jossie to identify anything they have in it.\u00a0 I threw away numerous items which had spoiled or dried up and then washed the inside.<\/p>\n
The Temple service was at 12:30.\u00a0 The number of people in attendance was small, many members having gone to celebrate their holiday with relatives.\u00a0 Judy told me Mabel Johnson was with her sister.\u00a0 There were several musical selections.\u00a0 Marcy took the microphone around the room so that each one could tell in one sentence what he or she was most grateful for.<\/p>\n
Dinner was planned for 3:00.<\/p>\n
Andy Silver asked me to come with a group to visit Dennis Banks and his organization, American Indian Movement at 2:00.\u00a0 He said Marcy also wanted to see me.\u00a0 I went upstairs to her quarters, but she had been called to the radio room and after that was on the platform.\u00a0 I guessed that she had an answer to my inquiry about resigning from Bechtel at the end of December.<\/p>\n
With Andy, Betty McCann, Vera and another young woman, and I left to go to West Oakland where Banks group has a bar and meeting room called La Pe\u00f1a.\u00a0 I thought we might be served food but all that was available were drinks to be purchased from the bar.\u00a0 We went across the street to a little grocery where we bought snacks.\u00a0 A donation of $2 was requested but Andy took care of that in some way.<\/p>\n
We greeted Banks and his friends and looked around the room which was decorated with Indian and Mexican woven materials.\u00a0 Few people were in the room but more began to arrive.\u00a0 They were of all ages, with several small children.\u00a0 None talked to us.\u00a0 Two films were shown.\u00a0 The first called\u00a0 \u201cThe Longest War\u201d featured Dennis Banks and was about the white man\u2019s campaign against the Indians, but mostly showed the struggle in South Dakota of the past few years.\u00a0 The other film we had seen at the Temple, the one on Battle Mountain and the Shoshones of Nevada.<\/p>\n
We went back to the Temple at 5:00, where dinner had been saved for us.\u00a0 Even the turkey was not particularly good, perhaps because it had been warmed over.<\/p>\n
I inquired concerning Marcy but she was out.<\/p>\n
I spent a couple of hours in the accounting office going through the healing affidavits, verifying my initial impression, that almost all of them had missing items.<\/p>\n
Rocki left for Guyana tonight.\u00a0 I heard Phyllis Houston, who does some of the processing for those departing, phone her at about 7:00 o\u2019clock, asking her if she didn\u2019t know she was later for her transportation.\u00a0 I learned later she was still deciding what to take with her, although she had had several days notice.<\/p>\n
I was going home about 9:00 when I met Andy Silver.\u00a0 I told him I had been unable to talk to Marcy.\u00a0 He called her room.\u00a0 Sandy Bradshaw, who seems to be staying with her answered and Marcy came on the line.<\/p>\n
She said she had an answer for me about resigning from Bechtel.\u00a0 I was to give notice and make necessary arrangements for leaving at the end of the year.\u00a0 I suppose I can expect to be sent to Guyana not too long after that.<\/p>\n
I got a ride home and told Wanda.<\/p>\n
I did personal chores, then washed my hair.\u00a0 I did not, however, put any color rinse on it, nor put it up in pin curls as I was too tired.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 25, 1977 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 8:00.<\/p>\nWent with Viola to breakfast at the Temple.\u00a0 We telephoned,\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t known they now serve only to 9:00 but they gave us some.\u00a0 We had pancakes and molasses.<\/p>\n
Laurie asked me about writing for the next issue of the Forum.\u00a0 I have had lately an acute sense of oppression from being confined in such close quarters with seniors and from worry about all I want to get done and haven\u2019t had time for writing letters and articles for Laurie as well as my journal entries.\u00a0 I told Laurie about the Temple\u2019s approval of my resignation from Bechtel, but she had learned it from Marcy.<\/p>\n
I took the Fillmore bus to the Mission District and shopped for clothes at two second-hand stores, the SF Thrift Store and the Purple Heart, having received $10 from the Temple on this weeks needs.\u00a0 I bought several blouses, shirts, pants, and a pant suit.\u00a0 They cost a little over $12.00.\u00a0 I paid for the extra out of my own funds.<\/p>\n
I got home about 2:00 o\u2019clock and had some lunch.
\nI shopped an hour and a half.
\nWent to the temple to eat.<\/p>\n
Gina Severns brought home the seniors from 1029 Geary at 6:00.
\nI took the Muni to the Northpoint Coop and bought a few items.<\/p>\n
At home I pressed clothes, including a few of my new purchases, while listening to Verdi\u2019s \u201cUn Ballo in Maschera,\u201d with Katia Ricciarelli, Jose Carreras and Yuri Mazurok singing the main parts, a SF Opera production.<\/p>\n
I had a snack and read for an hour.
\nWent to bed at 12:00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 26, 1977 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 8:00.<\/p>\nWent to the Temple for breakfast.\u00a0 It was an excellent breakfast with scrambled eggs, a big slice of bacon, baking powder biscuits, some preserved fruit and coffee.<\/p>\n
Carol Stahl, who has been examining text books we have with a view to sending to Guyana worthwhile ones, asked me to look at and give my opinion of the English and some other social studies books.\u00a0 I spent some time looking at them.<\/p>\n
Took Muni to Haight Community Food Store and shopped for vegetables and fruits.\u00a0 Pushed my cart home arriving about 12:15.<\/p>\n
Ate some lunch.
\nHad a nap.<\/p>\n
Jossie has been in a good humor for the past few days and I have had no trouble with her.\u00a0 She went out and bought a chicken and some greens and cooked them, instead of going to the Temple.\u00a0 Judy said the landlady had seen Roosevelt Turner hitting his dog with a belt and she was indignant.\u00a0 It was a dachshund given to Turner to take care of.\u00a0 She later told me there wasn\u2019t much the Temple could do about it.\u00a0 I gather the Temple is afraid that antagonizing a member may drive him to complain to our enemies and cause us trouble.<\/p>\n
I had dinner at the Temple.<\/p>\n
I went upstairs tried to translate for Sue Ellen Williams a song in Russia by Tchaikovsky.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t make much out of it but I made a Xerox of it to take to the office.<\/p>\n
I wrote a letter to the Berkeley Barb about a letter published by them written by Garry Lambrev on the Temple\u2019s supposed brutality and so on.\u00a0 I had not been able to find the time earlier.<\/p>\n
The service at which Hue\u00a0 Fortson and Marcy presided had no unusual features and was out early.\u00a0 I did not see Mabel Johnson.\u00a0 Viola told me she had Thanksgiving with her daughter.<\/p>\n
With the other 1029 Geary residents I waited for a ride home with Gina Severns, which caused a small delay.<\/p>\n
Rosie Ijames has come up from L.A. and stayed with us, sleeping in Estelle\u2019s room.\u00a0 I had a snack, read, went to bed at 12:00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 27, 1977 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nJossie was up about 7:30 and awoke me.\u00a0 I got up at 8:10.\u00a0\u00a0 Bathed.<\/p>\nI got breakfast for Rosie Ijames and myself. I made biscuits, a fried egg and beef sausage for myself but Rosie would only have a piece of toast, a poached egg and some sausage, besides grapefruit, as she is on a stress reducing regime.\u00a0 Rosie is cooking for the workers in L.A.\u00a0 Inez Wagner helps her.<\/p>\n
Venell Henderson took us to the Temple at 10:30.<\/p>\n
Laurie liked my letter concerning Garry Lambrev.\u00a0 I signed it and addressed the envelope.\u00a0 Laurie and I discussed briefly what I might write on for The Peoples Forum.<\/p>\n
The Temple service, conducted by Hue\u00a0 Fortson and then Marcy, was not very well attended and was short.\u00a0 We were out at 1:30.<\/p>\n
I went home on Muni and had the dinner I prepared last night with Jossie and washed the dishes.<\/p>\n
I slept for an hour and a half.\u00a0 No one else came home.
\nI spent an hour making journal entries on which I have gotten much behind.<\/p>\n
Took the bus to the Temple for the evening service at 6:00.\u00a0 Judy Merriam and Lillian X, another senior who has been moved in on the second floor, were on the bus.\u00a0 Judy was still very agitated about Turner, who is apparently still flaunting hundred dollar bills.<\/p>\n
In the service people were recruited for two events: a reception for a Soviet trade unionist at the American Russian Institute Tuesday night (I arranged to go) and a court hearing tomorrow morning in which Ron Dellums is interested.\u00a0 It proved to be very difficult to get enough volunteers for the latter.<\/p>\n
Most of the service was spent in looking again at the complete set of films of our agricultural mission.\u00a0 Although it was intended for those who had not yet seen them.\u00a0 I believe not many attended tonight except nucleus membership.<\/p>\n
We were dismissed about 9:30 and were asked by Marcy to touch the altar.<\/p>\n
Although Gina was a little late I decided to wait for her.\u00a0 Mabel Johnson, who had not been in the morning service and whom I had not seen earlier tonight, was on the sidewalk raving about something.\u00a0 I almost took Muni home to avoid unpleasantness as there were more people than Gina cold carry in one load, but it was decided she would come back for Julie Runnels.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t realize it at the time but I found that Virginia and Jossie took Muni home rather than put up with Mabel.\u00a0 Judy came up to our apartment and from the discussion Mabel insisted on her right to be in the first load all the time.<\/p>\n
I prepared a snack and read a while.\u00a0 Both Jossie and I went to bed before 11:00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 28, 1977 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nJossie got up at least three times during the night and woke me up three times. I had expected her to sleep well as she was at the Temple all day yesterday and I did not go to the trouble of moving my bedding into the other room.<\/p>\nAt the office I told Betty Vasil of my intention to resign at the end of December.\u00a0 I told her I would appreciate it if she didn\u2019t say anything to anyone else that I expected to get a teaching position with an organization rehabilitating young people in South America, but was not sure of the details.\u00a0 I think she actually admired and envied me.\u00a0 I told her I would take a few days off when my sisters came.\u00a0 She will take care of the necessary resignation details.\u00a0 I told her I intended to speak to Virginia Duncan.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t have much work.\u00a0 I did a number of personal tasks.\u00a0 I phoned Social Security to make sure my last year\u2019s earnings would eventually be included in the amount of my monthly check.\u00a0 I called Norah Schweitzer to ask her if she would translate the Tchaikovsky song for Sue Ellen Williams, but she won\u2019t be in until Wednesday. Barbara Vas, one of the secretaries who most dislikes smoking had obtained some of the petitions circulated in order to put a smoking regulation initiative on the ballot.\u00a0 I notified some of the other secretaries who agree with out sentiments on the subject that I had the petitions and I phoned for more copies of the petitions.<\/p>\n
For Garb who is leaving for South Africa tonight, I went to the bank to get an advance for him.\u00a0 Also typed a memo for him.<\/p>\n
At lunch I went to the BWAA to hear another in the health series.\u00a0 The speaker was Cheryl Brown who is director of \u201cForty Plus,\u201d a woman\u2019s center for middle-aged women.\u00a0 She discussed menopause.\u00a0 Her material and her presentation were excellent.\u00a0 The group was small.\u00a0 Glenda Hope introduced her. After the meeting when Brown was discussing communal living for seniors, I told her I was a member of Peoples temple and remarked that our seniors lived communally, but we believed in all ages living together.\u00a0 I felt, as I had with Hope, that her reaction was negative to the Temple.<\/p>\n
I told Cathy Costello of my retirement plans and asked her not to tell anyone else.\u00a0 I like Cathy better than anyone else at Bechtel.\u00a0 Norma Bendoe also knows that I am leaving, as she heard me calling Social Security.<\/p>\n
I worked on my journal for an hour or two.<\/p>\n
The last hours of the day I was on the reception desk.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple for dinner.<\/p>\n
Gina took the seven of us home.\u00a0 When we started talking about Mabel Johnson, she cut us short and insisted that we not indulge in gossip but if we had complaints to turn them in to Mother.\u00a0 She said she had taken the same attitude with other seniors earlier in the day.\u00a0 Gina is on the Council and is quite principled.<\/p>\n
At home I exercised.<\/p>\n
Worked for an hour on my journal.<\/p>\n
I had a snack and read newspapers.<\/p>\n
At 10:00 I moved to the other room.\u00a0 Read for an hour and swept the floor.\u00a0 Went to bed at 12:00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 29, 1977 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\n[Insertion point indicated here for material to have been added but was not to be found]<\/em><\/p>\nHad no work all day except one short memo for Huffman at the end of the day.<\/p>\n
Spent a good deal of the day catching up with journal entries.<\/p>\n
My right arm has been gradually getting better and I have decreased the medication I was taking to about one a day, but doing so much writing did cause me some pain.<\/p>\n
At lunchtime I saw the Bill Cosby film on \u201cPrejudice.\u201d\u00a0 I have seen it at least once before.\u00a0 Then ate my lunch.<\/p>\n
Went to the library for an hour or so.\u00a0 Was looking at the Encyclopedia Britannica to see if I could find any information about American ownership of Philippine plantations, as I thought I might write on poverty in the Philippines, using for basic material a series of articles which ran in the [SF] Chronicle recently.<\/p>\n
Huffman tracked me down to the library to give me some work to do, which I just finished by closing time.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple for dinner.<\/p>\n
Had a conversation with Gina Severns.\u00a0 Told her I admired her for taking a stand against the backbiting we indulge in with regard to Mabel Johnson, but did mention that it would be easier to refrain if all who made decisions did not allow her to take advantages all the time.<\/p>\n
Gina said Irene Eddins would be going to Guyana shortly.<\/p>\n
I put my needs in.<\/p>\n
Those who had volunteered to go to the reception of the visiting trade union delegation gathered in the eating room and we left in several cars about 6:30.\u00a0 The reception was held at one of the union halls near the waterfront.\u00a0 Elaborate refreshments were set out on tables as well as wine and vodka.\u00a0 For about an hour people conversed, ate and drank.\u00a0 We were told we could drink.\u00a0 There were 18 delegates of the trade unions from the Society Union and I had some conversation with a few of them and practiced my Russian.\u00a0 A large number of American Union people and others friendly to progressive causes were present.<\/p>\n
A program followed.\u00a0 A Soviet speaker with a translator gave a history of the Soviet to union movement, members of the delegation were introduced.\u00a0 Then questions from the audience were answered, again with an interpreter.<\/p>\n
The meeting ended at 11:00.<\/p>\n
I was home by 11:30.\u00a0 Virginia had gone too.
\nI prepared vegetables for my lunch tomorrow.
\nWent to bed about 12:00 in Estelle\u2019s room.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
November 30, 1977 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nI had very little work to do.<\/p>\nI solicited signatures for the regulation of smoking petition.\u00a0 Learning people\u2019s reactions, whether they are smokers or non-smokers.\u00a0 Their motivations are diverse.\u00a0 For instance, Lynn Schroeder, although a smoker, signed the petition as she would feel better having places reserved for smokers where she wouldn\u2019t be offending others.\u00a0 Cathy Costello, also a smoker, goes so far as to wish cigarettes to be banned, obviously because she wants to quit smoking and needs help.\u00a0 On the other hand, Penny Porter cannot sign because she\u2019s not a registered voter, although she hates smoking and tobacco smoke.\u00a0 Bob O\u2019Neill who smokes heavily said, \u201cI\u2019m not going to sign that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Phoned Norah Schweitzer about translating the Tchaikovsky song.\u00a0 She is very busy but let me bring it down to her just before lunch.\u00a0 She said she would take it home.\u00a0 She never learned to write Russian.\u00a0 When she started school, instruction was in English.<\/p>\n
It was a warm day. I ate outside.\u00a0 Then I went to the post-office and bought stamps.<\/p>\n
Phoned Dor at work.\u00a0 She said she was arriving on 17 December but had to return on the 26th.\u00a0 Edna was arriving later, was going to spend sometime with Alma.\u00a0 Dor doesn\u2019t want any lodging with meals; otherwise, any arrangement I\u2019ll make will be acceptable.<\/p>\n
Betty Vasil needed some information from me on my resignation and a memo from me stating my plans so I also filled out a statement on which one can state the reason asking for early retirement.\u00a0 I wrote a page expressing my feeling about the deterioration of American life, without saying that Bechtel was in any way to blame.<\/p>\n
Took Muni home.\u00a0 I cooked the rest of the lamb stew meat and some green beans and cauliflower to put with leftover vegetables and made a salad.\u00a0 Ate.\u00a0 Also prepared vegetables for tomorrow\u2019s lunch.<\/p>\n
Dressed and took Muni to the Temple.\u00a0 I was about half an hour late. \u2018
\n\u2018I was asked to help with the offering.\u00a0 Lately I haven\u2019t been serving as an offering taker.<\/p>\n
Marcy through the course of the meeting made some important announcements.\u00a0 She said that Betty McCann had instructions to check by radio on any spending requests . Even Jim with his love, intelligence and ESP always consulted others before making decisions.\u00a0 At another point, Marcy said, as she often has before, that we must be kinder to each other.\u00a0 She denounces talk of \u201cwhite and black,\u201d said she wanted it stopped.\u00a0 If anyone had any real complaint, he or she should talk to her.<\/p>\n
Marcy said she had talked with Carlton Goodlett about the conspiracy against us.\u00a0 We now know that it reaches into high levels of the government.\u00a0 Goodlett said he was only surprised our enemies waited so long.<\/p>\n
Marcy said we should feel honored that we were feared as a threat to the system.\u00a0 A hundred years from now people would be talking about what happened in Peoples Temple this year.<\/p>\n
We saw the films from one of the vacation trips, from another one taken a couple of years ago, the buses stopped at Richmond, Indiana, so members could see where Jim lived in his youth and some of the people who befriended him.\u00a0 There were shots of Jim addressing a meeting and cutting the cast off a woman\u2019s leg.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know whether I have seen these films before.\u00a0 They were very unfamiliar to me.\u00a0 We saw the movies taken two years ago in Guyana and slides taken recently.<\/p>\n
A second offering was taken, as had been done recently.
\nThe meeting was not dismissed until about 11:00.<\/p>\n
Gina had to go to work so Barbara Hoyer took some of us home and Chris Kice came back for others.\u00a0 Mabel Johnson was her usual unpleasant, pushy self, saying she couldn\u2019t stand and\u00a0 if she didn’t get in the first load, she was going to go home on Muni.\u00a0 She got in the first load.<\/p>\n
Got home. Washed my dinner dishes. Took a shower, as I had missed my bath last night.<\/p>\n
Ate an apple and read a few minutes.
\nWent to bed at 12:30.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Nov 77 Roller Journal<\/strong>
\nTemple Members<\/strong>
\n[Christine] Bates
\nJack Beam
\nDon Beck
\nSandy Bradshaw
\nRocki Breidenbach
\nGene Chaikin
\nJossie [Chambliss]
\nPatti Chastain
\nBob Davis
\nFlorine Dyson
\nLaurie [Efrain]
\nBetty Fitch
\nHue\u00a0 Fortson
\nRay Godshalk
\nViola [Gotshalk]
\nFrankie Grigsby
\nPauline Groot
\nMagnolia Harris
\nVernell Henderson
\nPhyllis Houston
\nArchie [Ijames]
\nRosie Ijames
\nIrene Eddins
\nC.J.[Jackson]
\nWesley Johnson
\nLav [Lavana James]
\nMabel Johnson
\nWesley Johnson
\nMother = Marcy
\nMarcy [Marceline Jones]
\nWanda [King]
\nCarrie Langston
\nLois (Visitor)
\nHelen Love
\nDorothy Malone
\nR.D. (Malone)
\nTina Malone
\nJudy Merriam
\nJane Mutschmann
\nEstelle McCall
\nPaul McCann
\nBetty McCann
\nCarol McCoy (Dennis)
\nJim McElvane
\nBeulah [Pendleton]
\nPat Patterson
\nMike Prokes
\nJim Randolph
\nBob Rankin
\nDr. Larry Schacht
\nGina Severns
\nAndy Silver
\nSneeds [Willie and Clevyee]
\nCarol Stahl
\nJohn Stoen
\nSusabelle
\nTony
\nDick [Richard] Tropp
\nRoosevelt Turner
\nVirginia
\nX Williams
\nSue Ann Williams<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Apostates<\/strong>
\nBob Houston
\nGarry Lambrev
\nJoyce Shaw
\nGrace Stoen
\nTim Stoen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Non-temple names<\/strong>
\nEsther Jensen Anthony
\nDennis Banks
\nCheryl Brown
\nGovernor Brown
\nRep. John Burton
\nRep. Philip Burton
\nJose Carreras
\nDr. Linda Cleaver
\nBill Cosby
\nRep. Don Clausen
\nSen. Alan Cranston
\nCharles Garry
\nCarlton Goodlett
\nHouston Family
\nGlenda Hope
\nElla Hill Hutch
\nQuentin Kopp
\nHarvey Milk
\nJohn Molinari
\nZuben Mahter
\nYuri Mazurok
\nLA Philharmonic
\nRavel
\nKatia Ricciarelli
\nBeverley Sills
\nCarol Ruth Silver
\nArnold Townsend
\nVictor
\nMary Warner
\nAndrew Young<\/p>\nEdith\u2019s Sisters\/relatives<\/strong>
\nDor
\nEddie (Edna)
\nAlma Green
\nCarl (Green)
\nLor [de la Fuente friend at SF State]
\nRyn [Lor\u2019s daughter in Peace Corps inTunisia]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Bechtel \u2013 Edith\u2019s Workplace<\/strong>
\nMary Avalina
\nBrad X
\nTerry Brown
\nButler
\nCathy Costello
\nVirginia Duncan
\nCarol Emory
\nBob Garb
\nParker Hart
\nDale Hoffman
\nZaid Jawadat
\nKaren
\nPhilippe Lamy
\nLouise
\nNicky Maris
\nPenny Porter
\nDenise Price
\nMarquita [Scarbery]
\nLynn Schroeder
\nRita Schuman
\nNora Schweitzer
\nSharon
\nJohn Stewart
\nDor Stookey
\nLucile Sutherlin
\nBetty Vasil
\nD.J.Wardle
\nWeinberger
\nBarbara Vas<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Works\/Places<\/strong>
\nThe Silent Language <\/em>by Edward Hall, 1959
\nTime Magazine
\nThe Writer (magazine)<\/p>\nOpera: \u201dTurandot\u201d
\nOpera: \u201cLucia di Lammemoor\u201d
\nOpera: \u201cI Puritani\u201d
\nOpera: \u201cUn Ballo in Maschera,\u201d<\/p>\n
SF Chronicle
\nSF Examiner
\nSunday Chronicle & Examiner
\nSun Reporter
\nBerkeley Barb
\nBay Guardian<\/p>\n
Jack Tarr Hotel
\nInternational Hotel
\nFleishacker Pool<\/p>\n
Film: \u201cDiscover Nova Scotia\u201d
\nFilm: \u201cNow That the Dinosaurs are Gone\u201d
\nFilm: \u201cThe Bolero\u201d
\nFilm: \u201cThe Longest War\u201d
\nfilm \u201cPrejudice\u201d<\/p>\n
Peruvian Consulate
\nAustralian Consulate
\nAmerican Indian Movement (AIM)
\nSan Francisco State
\nSonoma State
\nOpportunity School
\nAmerican Cancer Society
\nBWAA
\nAmerican Russian Institute
\nMacy\u2019s
\nSocial Security
\nSalvation Army
\nOSHA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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