December 3, 1977 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nUp at 8am.<\/p>\nToday started a week\u2019s diet in order to lose a few pounds. Basically I\u2019m taking only fruit juices, buttermilk, and fruit in the morning.\u00a0 I shall have some more solid foods and some raw vegetables for lunch.\u00a0 This morning I had some hot cereal — even this was difficult to prepare as Wanda who usually doesn\u2019t cook anything was in the kitchen with the rest of us.<\/p>\n
I went to the Haight Community store about 11:00 am on Muni \u2013 bought only a few items.<\/p>\n
On the way back I stopped at the Executive Motel on Grove near Gough to see about housing for Dor and Eddie [Edith\u2019s sisters Dor and Edna] \u2013 a double room will be $14.85 a night, a room with a stove and refrigerator for a weekly rate is $68.00 \u2013 only in the latter case would it be necessary to make a reservation.\u00a0 I looked at one of the rooms and it seemed adequate. The location is fairly good. It is near a Hayes Street bus stop and only a block from Van Ness so that it would be easy for me to reach.<\/p>\n
At home I boiled 2 eggs which had been cracked on the way with a piece of toast.
\nI took a nap for two hours.<\/p>\n
Just after I got up Estelle came in.\u00a0 She had come on the Temple bus for the weekend and is going back Sunday night.\u00a0 I told her I was sleeping in her room and described the situation in the apartment. Estelle said Jossie had no relatives that would take her in, that they had in fact put her in a mental hospital.\u00a0 She said the difficulty about Jossie\u2019s passport is that no record of her birth exists and she was included in the census only in 1924.\u00a0 Estelle confirmed what Judy Merriam had said, that Jossie was a helper of Rev. Ike.<\/p>\n
I walked out on Geary for a Sunday newspaper.
\nHad some juice and buttermilk.
\nTook Muni to the Temple.\u00a0 Took some newspaper clippings to Laurie.<\/p>\n
Turned in my check.\u00a0 Debbie [Blakey] told me she and her mother, Lisa Layton, were leaving for Guyana on Monday.\u00a0 Terri Buford will come back to take Debbie\u2019s place.\u00a0 I told Debbie I was scheduled to follow sometime in January and she gave me money to buy what I needed.\u00a0 I thought people were given $100 but she gave me $150.<\/p>\n
I saw and talked with Beulah who was up from L.A. She said she had been asked twice whether she could get ready to leave and she felt she had to put her transportation off because she is still trying to get her Social Security allowance for the child to which they are entitled because of their father\u2019s disability.\u00a0 He is always drunk.\u00a0 I asked if she wanted to stay with me but she said she had other plans.<\/p>\n
The service consisted mostly of music.\u00a0 Sue Ellen Williams on the trumpet and Laurie on the piano did the Tchaikovsky song but did not read the words till the end.<\/p>\n
Some ragtime was played and some people danced.<\/p>\n
Marcy looked very tired. She said that everyone had to get approval on the radio for any expenditures for their department, that Betty McCann had instructions to enforce this demand.<\/p>\n
Dennis Banks asked to use our building for what Marcy thought was to be a rally to raise funds for his defense but it turned out to be a rock concert to be held next Thursday night and many problems could ensue and tomorrow night we will discuss how to handle them.<\/p>\n
The service ended at 10:00pm.very<\/p>\n
While waiting for a ride home I talked to Virginia Duncan. She said she was waiting to go to Guyana until her husband sold the building they loved in.\u00a0 Then he wants to go to Guyana and explore the possibility of investing the money there.\u00a0 He had put up $1500 to pay the fare to Guyana and return for the two children so that they could have a vacation there.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know how this unique approach would affect Jim nor whether the Duncans have been encouraged or discouraged but I was not surprised that transportation had not been arranged for the child!<\/p>\n
Barbara Hoyer and Chris Kice took 1029 Geary people home.
\nI read a while in Estelle\u2019s room.<\/p>\n
Estelle spoke of the death of Earl Poplin, Oreen\u2019s husband, in L.A.\u00a0 Marcy had told us about it in service.\u00a0 Oreen, whose name was Alexander, is the woman whose body was eaten up by bone cancer as if by termites whom Jim healed.\u00a0 She is very appreciative and wants all her donations to the Temple known. She dresses very spectacularly.\u00a0 Earl was blind and didn\u2019t get along very well.\u00a0 They moved up to S.F. but did not become communal.\u00a0 Estelle said Hue [Fortson] conducted the funeral service.\u00a0 Oreen has Earl\u2019s ashes to take with her to Guyana.<\/p>\n
I went to bed at 12:15am.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t asleep when Judy came to ask help in getting Julie Runnels in her bed.\u00a0 She is so crippled she can\u2019t get up by herself and so heavy her apartment mates can\u2019t help her.\u00a0 I went down and helped them hold a chair while she pulled herself up.\u00a0 I scolded Judy for the impatient way she speaks to Julie.\u00a0 Judy says she won\u2019t make any effort for herself but Viola says, and I agree, she can be greatly encouraged by others\u2019 attitudes.<\/p>\n
I slept in Estelle\u2019s room. She was in the other bed.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 4, 1977 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nJossie got up and took a bath around 5:00 or 6:00 o\u2019clock and from then on people were stirring and so I didn\u2019t get much more sleep.<\/p>\nI got up at 8:00am \u2013 took a bath and had some grapefruit juice, cheese and toast for breakfast.\u00a0 I am going to have something substantial for breakfast every morning.<\/p>\n
I had time to make a few notes for journal entries before leaving for the Temple service.<\/p>\n
Before service I gave my pay check to Debbie Blakey.\u00a0 She told me she and her mother, Lisa Layton, were leaving for Guyana on Monday.\u00a0 I took some newspaper clippings to Laurie.<\/p>\n
In the service I didn\u2019t see Jossie.\u00a0 She and Virginia have places in which they usually sit. I could not locate them throughout the service.<\/p>\n
There was a good-sized crowd in the service.\u00a0 Marcy issued some instructions.\u00a0 Among others: we are to stop using the expressions \u201cnigger\u201d and \u201chonky\u201d about each other, even in a jocular vein.<\/p>\n
Marcy said Ever [Rejoicing] was getting ready to \u201cgo over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wanda had a cold and stayed in bed all day. \u00a0When I came home after the service about 2:30, she was worried about Jossie.\u00a0 A cousin brought her some dinner.<\/p>\n
I went to the fruit stand on Hyde and Geary and bought some grapes.<\/p>\n
Had a salad, fruit juice and buttermilk and some grapes for my mid-day meal.\u00a0 Estelle came home to eat.\u00a0 She has been watching her diet and has lost much weight.<\/p>\n
Estelle and Wanda discussed Wanda\u2019s passport problem.\u00a0 No record of when her birth was made and she wasn\u2019t included in the census until 1924. Estelle suggested other acceptable sources of information, such as school records.<\/p>\n
I took a nap for an hour and a half.
\nWent to the evening service at 6:30.<\/p>\n
Visited with Lisa. She will get full retirement income from the University of California,\u00a0 Berkeley, also disability from Social Security.\u00a0 I asked what job she wanted to do in the mission, she wasn\u2019t sure, perhaps canning or serving in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
Most of the evening service was spent in making arrangements for the Banks rock concert next Thursday, in addition to regular security personnel, a list of volunteers was taken.\u00a0 I did not volunteer, as I have enough to do with my regular job, very tight and careful security will have to be maintained because the Temple might be up for a charge of law violation, particularly if marijuana is brought on to our premises.\u00a0 There was discussion about the age limits for attendance of our young people.\u00a0 It was decided that children would not be admitted under the age of 15, though there will be babysitter services provided.<\/p>\n
The service was out at 9:00 pm.\u00a0 Those serving at the rock concert met in the Gold Room to get their assignments.<\/p>\n
Mike Klingman told me that the Temple building in the Valley has been sold to another church.\u00a0 Mike lives at the Ranch up there.\u00a0 When he comes down on weekends, he spends time in the Law Offices, writing letters among other things.<\/p>\n
Gina took us home in two loads.\u00a0 I was in the second.<\/p>\n
We learned that Jossie had helped in the kitchen throughout the morning service.\u00a0 She was happy at feeling herself useful and also hopeful because Jim Randolph had told her they were looking at her papers.<\/p>\n
I read newspapers, drank some Sanka and had an apple while reading newspapers.
\nI had trouble getting to sleep, partly because Virginia got up a good deal.\u00a0 I finally read from 1:30 to 2:00 am.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 5, 1977 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nDictated a memo for O\u2019Neill from Weinberger\u2019s office.<\/p>\nWrote a few journal entries, trying to bring my journal up to date.<\/p>\n
At lunchtime took my diet lunch at my desk.\u00a0 Then tried to find the BWAA meeting in the health series but couldn\u2019t — I learned that they weren\u2019t having a meeting this week.<\/p>\n
Dor Stooker is out ill, but the new young man takes care of the work.\u00a0 I have decided to tell Dor of my plans before the week gets around.\u00a0 Bob O\u2019Neill learned because my papers were processed through Weinberger\u2019s.<\/p>\n
I looked for paperbacks to try to find a book Lisa Layton could read on her trip.\u00a0 I finally bought Third Reich<\/em> by Speer.<\/p>\nVirginia Duncan sent me to buy stamps for her and Weinberger.\u00a0 There was a long line at the post office as the Christmas rush has begun.<\/p>\n
I typed a draft of some notes for [Zaid] Jawadat\u00a0 and then did the final version.
\nSigned 2 papers for Betty Vasil in connection with my resignation.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple tonight to give the Third Reich<\/em> book to Lisa.\u00a0 I saw Debbie [Blakey] who said she was asleep.\u00a0 Debbie was afraid the book would not be a good choice for her mother (I suppose it would recall memories which are too terrifying), so I took it back with me.<\/p>\nTook Muni home.<\/p>\n
I cleaned up my dresser top, putting papers and books wither in my trunk or in dresser drawers, put some clothes in the trunk, checked my journal pages and in general put things in order.<\/p>\n
Jossie and Virginia came home. Virginia had gotten the mail with the help of the manager (Estelle apparently took the mailbox key).\u00a0 I had a letter from Edna; she is arriving on the 22nd, and will leave the 28th.<\/p>\n
I had vegetable juice and pineapple juice.
\nPut up my lunch.\u00a0 I am taking for lunch either buttermilk or hot vegetable juice, raw vegetables and an orange.<\/p>\n
Did my exercises.\u00a0 Read newspapers, ate some grapes and an orange.\u00a0 Took a bath.<\/p>\n
Wanda, who had been out all evening, came home.\u00a0 She had apparently been at the home of her cousin who is leaving tonight.\u00a0 She had several pieces of clothing which might fit Virginia, left by her cousin and other items.\u00a0 Her cousin, whose name I do not know, is non communal.<\/p>\n
Wanda and Virginia talked a good deal until after midnight and I had trouble getting to sleep, as there is no solid wall between their room and Estelle\u2019s, where I am sleeping.<\/p>\n
I did go to sleep about 12:15.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 6, 1977 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nJossie got up in a very bad mood this morning.\u00a0 She complained about the living quarters, \u201cnever had lived in such a dump.\u201d\u00a0 The fellow residents \u2013 \u201cwe call people like that negroes<\/em>,\u201d lastly saying I was nice.<\/p>\nDor Stooker is out again.\u00a0 Results of the State Bar exam are out.\u00a0 Dale Huffman didn\u2019t pass and was very down cast.\u00a0 I worked most of the morning on my journal entries.\u00a0 I sent my change of address for my driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n
Called Mabo [Edith\u2019s sister]. She was in the mindset of a tutoring seminar and not take to be interrupted, but I spoke to her for a few minutes.\u00a0 I told her that the Temple had given me permission to resign from my job and wind up my affairs.\u00a0 I probably would leave the first part of January.\u00a0 Her only response was a sharp intake of breath.\u00a0 As Dor and Eddie are both coming to San Francisco for Christmas, I inquired whether it might not be possible for her to come.\u00a0 She said no, it might be her last chance to spend Christmas with Miranda who is going to move elsewhere.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t like her boss and has some good offers.\u00a0 She has a man friend, who is an environmental engineer.\u00a0 Mabo likes him.\u00a0 He is writing a book and can go anywhere.\u00a0 Tagare is in the first grade and doing remarkably well.\u00a0 When I mentioned to Dor that we might see each other soon again, and she could come to see me on a holiday trip, I thought her reaction was very cold.<\/p>\n
I got confused about the time, ate my diet lunch and went down to see the noon film.\u00a0 I found that I was an hour early.\u00a0 I went again an hour later.\u00a0 It was \u201cSailing in Newfoundland,\u201d and showed a family with a small boat using the waterways and harbors of the Newfoundland coast.<\/p>\n
Spent a good part of the afternoon typing some articles for Weinberger, which he is trying to sell to a newspaper.\u00a0 The text was a revision of typed versions which had clearly been submitted once.\u00a0 They were on political subjects.<\/p>\n
Wrote a letter to Eddie telling her Dor and I could meet her at any time.<\/p>\n
After work I dropped my basket at home. The moment I opened the door I perceived that someone had turned the oven on for heat and left it on.\u00a0 And no one was home.\u00a0 I turned it off and opened the windows.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I went to Safeway and got more fruit juice and buttermilk and some grapes.<\/p>\n
Went the Temple to turn in my needs list. For some reason the bus drivers delayed about 20 minutes.\u00a0 I saw Vernell at the needs table.\u00a0 I told her about the oven being left on because I thought Jossie had done it.\u00a0 She said Jossie has been very unhappy at the church today and that she had told her she shouldn\u2019t come when she didn\u2019t feel well.<\/p>\n
Gina Severns gave me a ride home. She said Terri Buford has arrived from Guyana.\u00a0 Terri says Jim wants to get people out of the States as soon as possible. When asked, \u201cWhat will happen to the church?\u201d he said \u201cI don\u2019t care \u2013 let them have it\u201d<\/p>\n
At home I learned it was Virginia who had left the oven on.
\nI had my buttermilk and juice.
\nDid my exercises.<\/p>\n
Wanda came home and prepared her dinner.\u00a0 The doctor said she must eat 2400 calories a day, a high protein, low carbohydrate diet, which she finds difficult.<\/p>\n
When she was finished, I prepared lunch for tomorrow.\u00a0 Estelle had cleaned out her closets and threw out a coat which Etta had.\u00a0 It seems to be in good condition and fits me reasonably well.\u00a0 The collar was dirty and I tried to clean it up with soap and water.<\/p>\n
Read newspapers and ate some fruit.
\nWent to bed at 11:15.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 7, 1977 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nSpent most of the morning on journal items.<\/p>\nDor Stooker was in and I told her of my imminent retirement.\u00a0 She said she had given some thought to doing the same herself.\u00a0 She will be 62 in February. She doesn\u2019t like \u201cthe way things are going\u201d in the department, meaning that Virginia Duncan\u2019s management is unpalatable to her.<\/p>\n
At lunch I ate quickly and went to hear the lectures of the \u201cBechtel Forum,\u201d which this month featured Richard Godwin, a Director and Vice President of Bechtel Incorporated.\u00a0 His topic was \u201cFocus: Middle East\u201d and was mainly devoted to the Bechtel jobs in that part of the world.\u00a0 They seem to be a great part of Bechtel\u2019s occupation at the present time.\u00a0 The assembly room was packed and we were taken to an additional room and heard lecture in that room.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon I spent most of the time typing Weinberger\u2019s articles.<\/p>\n
When I got home tonight I ate some leftover vegetables (which were not on my diet, but I didn\u2019t want to waste them and Jossie hasn\u2019t been eating at home lately.). Washed and changed clothes.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple service at 7:30. Very few were present at the beginning, though attendance increased later.<\/p>\n
Marcy said up to midnight last night she had received telephone calls inquiring about the supposed deaths of several people in Jonestown.\u00a0 All these rumors are untrue.\u00a0 There is daily radio communication and Father does not keep anything from us.<\/p>\n
Marcy said visitors from other countries continually arrive in Guyana to see a model plan of living.<\/p>\n
Terri Buford had brought a tape made by Jim for broadcasting in South America.\u00a0 It was played for us. On it Mike Prokes interviewed him.\u00a0 Jim was referred to as \u201cBishop Jones\u201d and the content was geared to the religious background of the listener.\u00a0 Marcy reminded us that Jim starts where people are, as he did with us.\u00a0 In Guyana we won\u2019t have church, just rallies.<\/p>\n
Apparently few attended the required security meeting last night for the Banks event on Thursday.\u00a0 Ted Holliday started to give the instructions for security which members, all of whom with the exception of seniors, are supposed to help with.\u00a0 However, attention to those was not good so it was decided people would stay after the meeting and get the instructions.<\/p>\n
The meeting was over at 10:00.\u00a0 I would have been in the second load, but Viola Godshalk gave me her place because I had to work tomorrow.<\/p>\n
I prepared tomorrow\u2019s lunch.\u00a0 Then pressed my coat.\u00a0 I had washed the collar of the one I inherited from Etta. Read the newspaper while I ate some fruit and had some Sanka.\u00a0 Went to bed at 11:45.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 8, 1977 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nFrom Weinberger\u2019s office — I was asked to run off on the Xerox and distribute a memo concerning the annual Christmas lunch of the Legal Department which is to be Wednesday, 21st of December at noon on the second floor \u2013 cold cuts, bread, punch and coffee are to be provided and each person is asked to bring a dish.<\/p>\nI wrote the names of some 70 employees on the memos and distributed them.\u00a0 This took about 2 hours.<\/p>\n
Most of the rest of the day I spent typing Weinberger\u2019s articles. There were four in all and they came to four pages each, double-spaced.\u00a0 Finished these in the late afternoon.<\/p>\n
Made yesterday\u2019s journal entry.\u00a0 Ate my lunch inside.<\/p>\n
Betty Vasil asked if I would be able to go to lunch with the administrative group on Thursday the 22nd, as I had told her it depended on what time of day Eddie arrived.<\/p>\n
Norma Bondoc asked me to go to lunch on Thursday the 15th.
\nI received a letter from Weinberger thanking me for my services in glowing terms.<\/p>\n
After work I went home, ate my diet food as I didn\u2019t know whether I would get any dinner at the Banks affair tonight.\u00a0 Changed clothes.<\/p>\n
Jossie came home early, rather than staying for the concert.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t feel well and was in a complaining mood.<\/p>\n
Judy and I went to the temple tonight about 6:30.\u00a0 Not many people had arrived but gradually the auditorium filled up.\u00a0 Most of those attending were Native Americans, many with small children.\u00a0 They were on the whole quite well-behaved, except that there was much talking throughout all the proceedings and for a period of drumming which seemed to have religious significance.\u00a0 At a table downstairs there were pamphlets and other handouts on the American Indian Movement, a raffle was being conducted and petitions signed.\u00a0 Temple people unostentatiously watched what went on at all entrances, hallways, stairs and in the auditorium itself.\u00a0 Most of the people sat together near the door. I sat with Virginia.\u00a0 After one number I joined the food line in the lower level. Had a cucumber salad, a very hot soup, some hot mixed potato salad, an excellent bread fried in deep fat, and honey dew melon.<\/p>\n
Dennis Banks and one of his lieutenants sat down beside me and I had some conversation with him, though I don\u2019t think he knew me.<\/p>\n
Several musical numbers were presented by bands and soloists — a Native American poet from Arizona, Simon Ortiz, read his material.<\/p>\n
Banks came to the podium.\u00a0 He told of a Congressional proposal to abrogate all the Indian treaties and said all the donations should go toward fighting this rather than for opposing his extradition, the announced purpose of the concert.\u00a0 He paid a very nice tribute to the Temple and Jim Jones.\u00a0 He introduced his wife and some of his children including Iron Door Woman.\u00a0 He then took the offering and got announced sums of money.\u00a0 He is very natural and quite at ease.<\/p>\n
We stayed for another number of presentations.\u00a0 The hall was getting crowded, the music louder and offensive in content to some Temple members.\u00a0 I found Gina, as I was getting tired, and she took several of us home about 10:30.<\/p>\n
Jossie was awake and still unhappy.\u00a0 I prepared my lunch for tomorrow.
\nRead and ate fruit, going to bed about 12:00.<\/p>\n
I awakened slightly when Wanda came in.\u00a0 She told me later the concert, supposed to end at 12:00 was extended a half hour and then another half hour.\u00a0 People were dancing and\u00a0 having a good time.<\/p>\n
At 3:10, the telephone rang.\u00a0 Someone at the Temple was calling for Judy, who had not come to relieve him at a security post.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to go down to the second floor and get her and told him to send someone for her.<\/p>\n
I had a hard time getting back to sleep.\u00a0 It was a cold night and I had to put on an extra blanket.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 9, 1977 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nDidn\u2019t have any work today.<\/p>\nTalked to Lor on the phone.\u00a0 She has not been at her office for some time.\u00a0 I called her at home.\u00a0 She has been suffering with an infection of the liver and the doctor says she can\u2019t go back to work until after Christmas.<\/p>\n
Word got around the office about my leaving.\u00a0 I suspect Virginia Duncan may have told Denise.<\/p>\n
I cleaned out my desk drawers.<\/p>\n
Went through October journal entries to find items omitted or on which I need further information.<\/p>\n
I ate lunch at my desk.
\nAfter work I went home first.\u00a0 No one was there.<\/p>\n
Took the bus to the Northpoint Coop.\u00a0 Had an ice cream cone.\u00a0 Got a few items. Bought a bottle of hair color rinse in the drugstore.<\/p>\n
At home I had some juice.\u00a0 I\u2019m still on my diet except for having had the ice cream.
\nDid personal chores.\u00a0 Washed my hair.\u00a0 Read and had some fruits.\u00a0 Went to bed at 12:00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 10, 1977 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nI was up at 8:00.<\/p>\nWanda was getting her breakfast in the kitchen and she seemed to prefer not to be disturbed by others working around her.\u00a0 Since I was in a hurry I didn\u2019t wait to get anything to eat.<\/p>\n
I took my laundry to the laundromat on Hyde and O\u2019Farrell.\u00a0 Wanda took her laundry out too but happened to go to another place.<\/p>\n
I then took the Muni to the Haight Community Food Store.\u00a0 I was an hour later than usual but was able to select quickly what I wanted.\u00a0 Pushed the cart home.\u00a0 I was home only about an hour later than usual.<\/p>\n
I had decided to stay on my diet for one more day to make up for the food I ate at the Banks affair on Thursday.<\/p>\n
I had missed my new manicure scissors Friday night.\u00a0 I remember using them one day last week while sitting on my bed and I probably left them on the dresser.\u00a0 I looked for them diligently but didn\u2019t find them.<\/p>\n
I started to search again, intending to pull out the dresser and look behind and under the bed.\u00a0 I came upon a hamper which Jossie keeps near her bed.\u00a0 It was filled with small pans, some of which we have feared missing, a china bowl and plate, which I have also been missing, and several pieces of silverware, as well as 2 or 3 kitchen knives, and several paper cups.\u00a0 There was also a half lemon which had spoiled.\u00a0 I have been looking for a particular paring knife but didn\u2019t find it.\u00a0 In a sack which she usually deposits near my dresser (and which I thought merely contained dry groceries, purchases and an occasional carrot or bunch of celery) there were more dirty glasses and dishes.<\/p>\n
Jossie was at the Temple but I called Wanda.\u00a0 She was particularly aghast at the knives and wanted me to turn in all the knives we had to the Temple.\u00a0 We both felt that the mystery of the missing paring knife and probably my manicure scissors was solved; however I did not find them.\u00a0 Jossie\u2019s bureau drawers are a jumble of clothes and other items, as is the floor of her side of the closet, but I did not have time to search further.<\/p>\n
I had left a folder at the office with materials in it which I needed so I decided to go down by bus and get it. I also brought back some 3-hole binders which one of the secretaries gave me.\u00a0 I went down and back in less than an hour.<\/p>\n
Napped for an hour and a half.\u00a0 Ate my diet meal.\u00a0 Went to the Temple service.\u00a0 Turned in my check.\u00a0 The service was dismissed at 10:00.<\/p>\n
I read and had some fruit, keeping to my diet.\u00a0 I have lost from 2 to 3 pounds.
\nWent to bed at 12:00.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 11, 1977 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 8:00.
\nBroke my fast.\u00a0 Had grapefruit, biscuits, an egg, beef sausage.
\nTook Muni to the Temple service.<\/p>\nMarcy seemed very distraught.\u00a0 I feared that something had happened to Jim, but she said he was alright.\u00a0 She had talked to him as recently as noon Saturday.<\/p>\n
Marcy had met recently with Dick Gregory.\u00a0 He is an old friend of Frances Johnson.\u00a0 However he said he had known of P.T. for a long time.\u00a0 He said he was only surprised that the harassment directed against us had not taken place much sooner. Jim had put a call through to Cecil Williams after the outbreak of the conspiracy against us and Cecil wouldn\u2019t even come to the phone.<\/p>\n
Marcy showed us small toys made in Jonestown out of waste wood left over from building.\u00a0 She also had a small black doll called a \u201cMarcy Doll\u201d made by Bev Livingston.\u00a0 It is planned to sell the dolls for next Christmas.<\/p>\n
The service was designed to wake up fervor and loyalty.\u00a0 Marcy spoke strongly against materialism and preoccupation with such things as TV. Marcy had us all come up to the altar and touch Jim\u2019s picture.<\/p>\n
The service was out at 2:00.\u00a0 I went home to eat.\u00a0 I had steak, green beans and a salad.<\/p>\n
Judy [Merriam] came up to use the telephone.\u00a0 She and Wanda had been having an argument lately.\u00a0 Judy wants the telephone downstairs.\u00a0 She says she needs one to do her work with the seniors on the second floor.\u00a0 Sometimes no one is in our apartment and she has trouble getting messages.\u00a0 Today she told me of a problem concerning a TV which was being used by Lillian Taylor, a senior who is not well.\u00a0 The owner returned from a long absence and took it back.\u00a0 Lillian is agitated and tried to get help from various people to get another TV.\u00a0 Judy was disgusted since people had just listened to Marcy on the subject of materialistic concerns but Wanda was sympathetic.<\/p>\n
Instead of taking a nap as I usually do on Sunday, I returned to the Temple at 4:30.<\/p>\n
I worked with Patti Chastain for two hours proofing the new issue of People\u2019s Forum<\/em>.\u00a0 We conversed a good deal, particularly on what might happen in the future.\u00a0 I told Patti that Judy said Mabel Johnson had remarked she thought she would wait to go to Guyana until Father provided us all with a house of our own.\u00a0 Patti and I agreed that it might be some time before we could have a house.\u00a0 It is much more likely that as persecution in this city increases, a flood of refugees will have need of all the housing we can provide; we can\u2019t see Jim Jones providing us with separate housing while others are without.<\/p>\nWhen the service began, we could hear it over the loudspeakers.\u00a0 When Marcy arrived on the podium, an effort was made to get people into the service.<\/p>\n
On the loudspeakers I heard Marcy start to tell about Chris Lewis being killed last night.\u00a0 He had gone to Guyana but didn\u2019t want to stay.\u00a0 Against Jim\u2019s advice he insisted on leaving.\u00a0 He got drunk and damaged some Guyanese property which would have hurt our relations with the government had not Jim established good feeling.\u00a0 Chris came back and went into areas Jim had told him not to go.\u00a0 So he is dead because he disobeyed instructions.\u00a0 He had been in and out of services.\u00a0 Marcy emphasized that Jim loved him and was sorrowful because of what happened to him.\u00a0 We love him and miss him.<\/p>\n
I had gone into the auditorium.
\nI noted that Mabel Johnson was not in service, as she had not been this morning.<\/p>\n
Marcy counseled us all to care for each other. On the occasions when she had put material things first, she had learned bitter lessons.<\/p>\n
The service was out shortly after 8:00.\u00a0 Marcy asked us to shake hands with her and pass by the altar.<\/p>\n
A man gave Wanda a ride and then me too.
\nI prepared tomorrow\u2019s lunch.\u00a0 Read newspapers and had a snack.\u00a0 Went to bed at 11:15.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 12, 1977 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nGard [at Bechtel] was back from South Africa today.\u00a0 He told me he was there while momentous events took place: the election returning Prime Minister Vorster to office, the Biko decision and the establishment of another native \u201chomeland.\u201d<\/p>\nJim Mansfield had returned from his trip of several months to Saudi Arabia and asked me to type up the last page of his expense report (the major part was done in London) and distribute the total figure among the various jobs.\u00a0 I got the amounts by using the calculator.<\/p>\n
I made journal notes from the weekend.<\/p>\n
This morning I lost my Bechtel badge, missed it in the elevator which was crowded.\u00a0 I expected it to be turned in sometime during the day but didn\u2019t hear anything.<\/p>\n
I ate lunch at my desk.<\/p>\n
Went to the BWAA meeting, another of the series on health relating to women. Attendance was very small. The speaker was Mary Foran of the Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women.\u00a0 She explained the meaning of \u201cinformed consent\u201d and women\u2019s rights in their medical treatment.\u00a0 A great deal of the inadequate medical care and lack of understanding she blamed on the ultimate concern for making money.\u00a0 She gave out some printed material for the Coalition which also emphasized that it was the desire for projects which resulted in poor medical care.<\/p>\n
Went to the Temple to eat tonight.<\/p>\n
Spent an hour proofing the rest of the [Peoples]<\/em> Forum<\/em> for Patti.<\/p>\nGot a ride home with Chris Kice.\u00a0 I told her of my sister\u2019s visit.\u00a0 She was concerned that we get the apartment cleaned up and was apprehensive over their seeing Jossie.\u00a0 I told her both were in the educational field and used to seeing people of every type.\u00a0 After all, it is to our credit that we look after older people whom no one else looks after.<\/p>\n
Work on Jossie\u2019s passport seems to be proceeding but she is still fussing.\u00a0 She objects to listing information about all her relatives, why, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Wanda told me her real name seems to have been registered as Joseph and it upsets her to use it.<\/p>\n
I did my exercises.\u00a0 Prepared tomorrow\u2019s lunch.<\/p>\n
On Sunday at the break between services, a number of members interested in education and procurement — Andy Silver, C.J.[Jackson], Wanda [King], Carol Stahl \u2013 had met and discussed trying to get more textbooks from McGraw-Hill.\u00a0 We have some catalogs from them and Wanda let me have one listing their professional book titles.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t clear what they wanted but Wanda thought they wanted me to list titles of books we wanted and draft a letter to McGraw-Hill.\u00a0 I went through it listing books from the categories in which I have an interest.<\/p>\n
I read newspapers, had a snack.
\nVernell came up with a TV set she had gotten somewhere for Lillian Taylor.
\nI went to bed about 11:15.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 13, 1977 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nDid another short expense account for Mansfield.
\nWorked on a long memo for Jawdat most of the day.\u00a0 It was a report on a seminar in L.A.<\/p>\nThe [SF] Chronicle ran an article about the shooting of Chris Lewis in Hunters Point.
\nAte lunch at my desk early.
\nSaw the Bechtel film, \u201cThe Pinto Valley Project,\u201d on copper mining in Arizona.<\/p>\n
My Bechtel badge was found in the elevator pit by a building worker, after Betty Vasil had suggested this possibility.<\/p>\n
Norma asked me to give her some suggestions on what I might want as a gift, leading me to think that a group of the secretaries are planning to go together to get me something.<\/p>\n
Late in the day I was asked to put in an hour on the reception desk.\u00a0 I worked on journal items.<\/p>\n
Left work. Went to the Temple to eat.\u00a0 Turned in my needs slip.
\nJane Mutschmann took us home.\u00a0 I did my exercises.<\/p>\n
Prepared tomorrow\u2019s lunch.\u00a0 Did some more work on the McGraw-Hill book list.
\nRead newspapers and had a snack.\u00a0 Went to bed at 11:15.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 14, 1977 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nIt rained most of the day.
\nI had no office work, except a slight revision of Jawdat\u2019s seminar report.<\/p>\nSpent most of the day on a bunch of personal tasks, in particular going through the McGraw-Hill catalog choosing books which I would like to use in my teaching.\u00a0 I copied a sample cover letter for use in requesting the donations.<\/p>\n
Wrote a letter to Leona Collier letting her know I would not be going to L.A. this weekend.<\/p>\n
Made a request for four days\u2019 vacation while my sisters are here.<\/p>\n
Ate my lunch at my desk.\u00a0 Then I went down to see a short videotape on Bechtel\u2019s world-wide construction at LNG facilities.\u00a0 Went to the post office to buy stamps. Because of the rain, the line was surprisingly short.<\/p>\n
Went directly home after work.\u00a0 Changed clothes.\u00a0 Went to the Temple to eat.<\/p>\n
Talked with Andy Silver on the McGraw-Hill book order and got his suggestions.\u00a0 He told me the general method we use regarding donation.\u00a0 Several contacts should be made by letter and phone, impressing the persons in charge with the Temple\u2019s work and our needs.\u00a0 Then when they have goods which for some reason they can spare, they may let us know.\u00a0 We have to be ready to go after the goods immediately.\u00a0 We cannot expect to get precisely what we wish.<\/p>\n
I showed Wanda the book list I had prepared.\u00a0 She and another nurse will be making recommendations in the medical field.\u00a0 I read the paper until the service started.<\/p>\n
During the service, when Marcy appeared on the podium, she was very serious.\u00a0 She spoke of people who don\u2019t do their share and are jealous of others\u2019 imagined privileges.\u00a0 There is still some racism manifested.\u00a0 She commanded that the use of terms such as \u201cnigger\u201d and \u201chonky,\u201d even in fun, cease.\u00a0 \u201cBe kind to each other.\u201d\u00a0 She named some people who work very devotedly.\u00a0 Among them were Tim Clancey and Laurie Efrein.<\/p>\n
As bad attendance was one cause of complaint, Marcy then called the roll.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know whether it was composed only of those living communally or all those in the area claiming membership.\u00a0 Some were not on the list.<\/p>\n
Those who weren\u2019t going L.A. were asked to stand and were put on the list to do security on the weekend.\u00a0 I got my name on the list thinking that could spend 3 hours during the weekend.<\/p>\n
Another serious problem was the number of members who accumulated parking tickets.\u00a0 The sum during the month came to $450.\u00a0 During the discussion on the subject, Marcy said Betty had orders to refuse a car to anyone who was delinquent in fines.\u00a0 Fines will be paid from people\u2019s allowances.\u00a0 I suggested that those incurring fines should be brought up before the group for public examining, as children were for bad behavior.\u00a0 Marcy replied that no one, not even children were being brought on the floor in Jim\u2019s absence.\u00a0 Jack Beam said he didn\u2019t know how many of those responsible for the fines could stand being put on the floor.<\/p>\n
Marcy commented on a newspaper article concerning a foundation called the Pioneer Fund which had given support for the \u201cresearch\u201d of geneticists such as Arthur Jensen [included a note from Edith Roller to add more names later — such as: William Shockley,\u2026]\u00a0 who claimed blacks are racially inferior.<\/p>\n
The service was dismissed at 10:30.<\/p>\n
I applied to June Crym for addresses to give for official (Bechtel and other persons) use and for personal use.\u00a0 She will let me know.\u00a0 Talked with C.J. [Jackson] who is the chairman of the McGraw-Hill project committee.<\/p>\n
The seniors were taken home.\u00a0 Washed my hair. Read newspapers and had a snack.\u00a0 Went to bed at 1:30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 14, 1977 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nHad no work all day.\u00a0 I made a revision in the McGraw-Hill list and ran off Xerox copies.<\/p>\nAt 11:30 I left with Norma for lunch.\u00a0 I thought probably others were involved.\u00a0 In the women\u2019s room Helen Lowe gave the plan away, saying she was sorry she couldn\u2019t make my party.\u00a0 I could tell Norma was extremely annoyed but I pretended not to notice.\u00a0 At the elevators I saw Brenda and Bob O\u2019Neill, dressed up and assumed they were going.<\/p>\n
Norma and I walked to the Embarcadero and she had a little difficulty in finding the restaurant.\u00a0 We ran into John Foster who was looking for it too.\u00a0 The restaurant was Japanese, the Fujiya.\u00a0 When we came in, I saw two tables with approximately 24 people seated including three attorneys, Garb, Jewett and Huffner, Betty Vasil and Virginia Duncan were there also and most of the secretaries with whom I have had close relations.<\/p>\n
A big package was at my place at the head of the table.\u00a0 I left it to be opened later. I ordered prawns.\u00a0 Other choices were steak and chicken.\u00a0 The food was cooked in front of us.\u00a0 I had a Martini.\u00a0 Dor Stooker arrived late. Cards for my birthday and congratulating me on my retirement had been signed by everyone.\u00a0 Kate Walker had written an amusing poem on my retirement.\u00a0 I opened my gift.\u00a0 It was a blue suitcase..<\/p>\n
On my retirement plans I have told everyone that I am going to do voluntary work for an agency which has a rehabilitation project for delinquent U.S. youth \u201con the borders of Venezuela\u201d and that I would be teaching English.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon I did some work on journal entries.\u00a0 I was very sleepy.<\/p>\n
After office hours went directly to the Temple where I told of the lunch and gift.\u00a0 Talked with C.J. on the McGraw-Hill project.<\/p>\n
Four of us went home on the Muni bus.
\nI put my laundry in the machine.
\nDid my exercises.<\/p>\n
Started to do my personal chores. Couldn\u2019t find some more items: my eyebrow tweezers, razor and the holder given to me by my dentist to hold a toothpick for dental care.\u00a0 I told Wanda.\u00a0 I searched my drawers carefully.\u00a0 We awoke Jossie and asked her about the missing items.\u00a0 Wanda went through her drawers but with no luck.\u00a0 Jossie denied taking anything, saying she had no use for any of the items.<\/p>\n
C.J. arrived to go over the McGraw-Hill letter.\u00a0 He brought letterhead paper.\u00a0 We discussed the wording and forms of the letter.<\/p>\n
After C.J.\u2019s departure, Wanda and I continued to question Jossie about my missing items.\u00a0 She, obviously distressed, left but Wanda was not afraid she had left the building as she hadn\u2019t taken her coat.\u00a0 I was worried, however, and after a while Wanda went to look for her.\u00a0 When Wanda returned after some time, she said Jossie had been talking with Vernell Henderson.\u00a0 Vernell suggested I move my belongings to Estelle\u2019s room and sleep there.<\/p>\n
I continued with my personal chores. It was after 10:00.
\nI had a snack and read until 11:30.<\/p>\n
I told Jossie intensely that I would like to see my things returned in the same manner as they had disappeared.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 16, 1977 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nTime cards were due early today.<\/p>\nHad to retype the McGraw-Hill book list because one tab was off on the column and I couldn\u2019t find a way to correct it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then, I typed C.J.\u2019s letter to McGraw-Hill and ran it off on Temple stationery.<\/p>\n
Ann Stokey is going on a vacation starting today until 12 January. She told me she is moving to Arlington where she and her son have purchased rental property.\u00a0 She left me a gift of a pretty engraved jade necklace.\u00a0 Dor has had a much better attitude toward me recently.\u00a0 When I told her I was resigning, she said she was thinking of doing the same thing.\u00a0 She will be 62 on 28 February<\/p>\n
Dale Huffman\u2019s wife Cynthia came in.\u00a0 She is a teacher of English as a second language.\u00a0 She is now teaching at Armstrong College in Oakland.\u00a0 Most of her students are Iranians who pay enormous fees. Armstrong is mainly a business college. Cynthia is putting gin an application to a foundation for teaching Vietnamese at Laney College, which would be at a good salary.\u00a0 I typed a resume for her at Huffman\u2019s request.<\/p>\n
More money came in from the legal staff as contributions to my present and Norma gave it to me.<\/p>\n
Nora Armstrong gave me a tote bag in very good condition, which matches my new suitcase.\u00a0 Betty Barclay gave me a purse which I might be able to use.<\/p>\n
Rain was heavy this afternoon.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I went home this evening on leaving to get changed clothes.<\/p>\n
Virginia came home after me and we went to the Temple together on Muni and had dinner.<\/p>\n
Gave\u00a0 CJ [Jackson] the list I had written to McGraw Hill.<\/p>\n
Turned in my check.<\/p>\n
Tried to find June Crym to get an answer on the address to use.\u00a0 Didn’t find her. Read the newspaper in the accounting office until time for service.<\/p>\n
The service was over early but the congregation was told the buses wouldn’t leave for LA until 12.00.<\/p>\n
I thought Ted Holliday would give me my security assignment for the weekend but I didn’t see him.\u00a0 I presumed there were enough people to cover the posts without using seniors.<\/p>\n
I went home.
\nRead before I went to sleep.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 17, 1977 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nGot up at 8:15.\u00a0 Had some breakfast.<\/p>\nI moved my belongings from the drawers in the room I occupy with Jossie to the drawers in Estelle\u2019s room.\u00a0 Then I cleaned out both rooms and went through Jossie\u2019s drawers and the closet.\u00a0 While going through my things I found my razor and tweezers, though not my manicure scissors. I couldn\u2019t get a vacuum cleaner to clean the floors.<\/p>\n
Left at 10:30 for the airline terminal.\u00a0 It was raining.\u00a0 Took the bus to the SF airport.\u00a0 Read the newspaper while waiting for Dor.\u00a0 Dor\u2019s flight from Chicago was scheduled to come in at 12:05.\u00a0 The time was changed to 12:24, then 12:31.<\/p>\n
Dor recognized me before I did her.\u00a0 She wore a long good-looking raccoon hat.<\/p>\n
We went to get her luggage.\u00a0 She did not get one bag, a denim one in the shape of a large drum, containing a red cape, shoes, underwear.\u00a0 She put in a report at the TWA operations and they arranges for interchanging calls on the loss.<\/p>\n
We took the airport bus into the terminal.\u00a0 We ate a little lunch at the Mark Twain Caf\u00e9 near the terminal.\u00a0 I had a hamburger which was very good<\/p>\n
We took the Muni to the Excec Motel, transferring twice.\u00a0 The motel gave her a weekly rate of $60 for a double room with a stove and refrigerator, though she did not intend to prepare any food there.<\/p>\n
I took Muni to the Haight Community Store and bought a few things and some fruit for my breakfasts and lunches next week.\u00a0 Was interested in a young woman on the Haight bus who was carrying a coat in a basket over to Oakland.<\/p>\n
Dor and I dressed and took the bus down Market to Powell.\u00a0 We decided to eat at Bernstein\u2019s Fish Grotto.\u00a0 Price for meals were quite high and we chose the cheapest items on the menu.\u00a0 She had red snapper and I had cannelloni (squid) with macaroni.\u00a0 We had some white wine.\u00a0 On receiving the bill we found that together we were a little short of having enough money to pay.\u00a0 Dor had brought little cash and two payroll checks.\u00a0 We succeeded in getting the management to cash the smaller check.<\/p>\n
I stayed with Dor tonight at the motel.\u00a0 The room had not been meticulously cleaned.
\nWe went to bed at 12:30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 18, 1977 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nDor and I woke in the dark and talked.\u00a0 My watch had stopped.\u00a0 We had no clock and there was no radio in the room, so we didn\u2019t know what time it was.<\/p>\nDor told me about her stay with Paul and Polly.\u00a0 Although she likes Polly, she said Paul was like Matthew.\u00a0 He can\u2019t get along with his mother when his wife was present.\u00a0 However, she told me that an incident in which it seemed to me she was criticizing Polly and comparing her treatment of Paul unfavorably to Peas, his mother.\u00a0 Paul has apparently become quite mercenary, though as a small boy he knew how to handle money to his advantage.\u00a0\u00a0 He suggested to Dor that she sell some property and give him half to put into his business.\u00a0 She had already lent him $4,000.\u00a0 She refused.\u00a0 He has his own construction business.\u00a0 Dor thinks Polly doesn\u2019t have any intention of having children soon.<\/p>\n
Dor said Mabo sees much less of Miranda and Tagare than she had hoped.\u00a0 Miranda is very busy.<\/p>\n
All three of my sisters had planned to be in Colorado in a few years.\u00a0 Mabo plans to move to Boulder when she is 60.\u00a0 Dor had talked of getting into a condominium in Denver. However, she may change her mind.\u00a0 She likes her house and green house.\u00a0 She has organizations she is active in and she does some traveling.\u00a0 She has gone on architectural and horticultural tours.\u00a0 She attends the conventions of Madelyn Murray O\u2019Hare and she\u00a0 goes to plays and the opera.<\/p>\n
While it was still dark, we got up and went up to catch the bus on Van Ness.\u00a0 We found as the sun came up, it was about 7:00 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 We had coffee in Zim\u2019s and prepared breakfast in my apartment.<\/p>\n
Dor telephoned the baggage claim office at the airport, but her bag had not been located. She was authorized to spend $35 to replace needed clothes.\u00a0 Wanda, who had not gone to L.A. either, phoned.\u00a0 Dor went out to buy something at the drugstore.<\/p>\n
While Dor was gone, I suddenly remembered this was my birthday.<\/p>\n
I prepared a steak dinner for us.\u00a0 Besides the meat, we had beans, corn and salad.
\nFrances came. Dor liked her.\u00a0 We then took the bus to Union Street, walking along and looking at the shops.\u00a0 Had coffee in a caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
We saw the film “Julia” with Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards.\u00a0 It was based on a story by Lilian Hellman, a true happening.\u00a0 All the principals gave magnificent performances.\u00a0 The clothes and backgrounds were superb.\u00a0 The details of the story were gripping, though I was not sure the audience as a whole saw the significance.\u00a0 I was of course particularly interested because of the connection of Fonda with the Temple.<\/p>\n
After the show we walked along Union looking for a place to eat.\u00a0 We wanted a light meal and couldn\u2019t find any restaurant where the prices were not too high.\u00a0 When we got to Van Ness we turned and walked along it and finally turned off on Polk where we went in an Italian place and Dor had spaghetti and I had a sardine sandwich.<\/p>\n
We walked home.\u00a0 Dor stayed with me in my apartment. During the night we heard as we thought, Jossie and Virginia returning from L.A.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get to sleep again until nearly morning.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 19, 1977 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nIn the morning we saw that Virginia\u2019s bed was empty and we got the impression from Jossie that she had gone to the Freedom Land.\u00a0 Wanda was surprised so we\u2019d have to ship her luggage later. Dor was quite interested.<\/p>\nI went to work.\u00a0 Did several items for Gert.\u00a0 Dor came in to the office.\u00a0 I introduced her to my friends.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She liked Norma, Kat and Shirley Lawry.<\/p>\n
At lunchtime we went to the Hyatt Regency which was presenting free the Oakland Ballet in excerpts from \u201cThe Nutcracker.\u201d\u00a0 We went up to the 3rd floor from which we got an excellent view.<\/p>\n
I met Dor for dinner.\u00a0 We went up Polk Street looking for a good place to eat.\u00a0 We chose a Mexican restaurant.\u00a0 We shared several items and each had a little Mexican beer.\u00a0 For dessert we had a custard with sauce.<\/p>\n
When we got home, we found Virginia had not left.\u00a0 When the buses got in last night she had merely gone to the Temple to sleep.\u00a0 Dor thinks she and Jossie are interesting.<\/p>\n
Wanda suggested Dor sleep in our apartment, which she did.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 20, 1977 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nI woke early.
\nHad breakfast and prepared lunch.<\/p>\nDor called some friends whom she had known in Chicago and the friends invited her to visit in their apartment.<\/p>\n
I went to work.\u00a0 Left for an eye exam at 11:20 at Kaiser.<\/p>\n
Dr. Takahashi examined my eyes to see whether I needed a new prescription.\u00a0 He found little difference in my eyes, but he wanted a change of prescription as it is hard for me to see small print in the telephone book and dictionary.\u00a0 I decided to get new frames and keep my old glasses as a second pair .\u00a0 The exam at Kaiser is free but the lenses and frames cost $64. A deposit of 80%\u00a0 was required but I had only $23 which I gave them.<\/p>\n
Ate lunch at my desk.<\/p>\n
I went home after work. Changed clothes.\u00a0 Took my needs slip to the Temple.<\/p>\n
Dor\u2019s friends lived near Union Street.\u00a0 I thought I could catch the right bus on Sutter at Fillmore, but none came so I phoned.\u00a0 I had to take the Fillmore bus #22 to Union and transfer to #45.\u00a0 Dor\u2019s friends, a Jewish couple, had a pleasant apartment on Greenwich Street.\u00a0 Their daughter was also present. We had wine, crackers and cheese.\u00a0 Conversation was of the liberal variety about books and life in SF.<\/p>\n
We went to dinner at a home-style Japanese restaurant.<\/p>\n
The friends took us to the motel. As Dor had not been there for several days, the manager didn\u2019t know what had happened to her.\u00a0 He said the day following her checking in, the airport had delivered her missing bag.\u00a0 The baggage records were not very accurate, for Dor had been phoning about it every day.\u00a0 She had spent some of the money authorized to replace her underwear and so on.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 21, 1977 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nI took a day of leave from work<\/p>\nDor and I had breakfast at the Hilton near the Airline Terminal.\u00a0 The food and service were disappointing. \u00a0Dor was sharp with the waiter because the muffins were not hot.<\/p>\n
We took the bus to the airport and met Eddie who flew in\u00a0 (her plane came in at 1:00)\u00a0\u00a0 after getting her luggage, we rode the bus back to the terminal and had a coke.<\/p>\n
The office party was today and I had thought of coming in and seeing whether I could get some food for Eddie and Dor but I decided against it. The crowds were so dense on the public transportation that I didn\u2019t even want to do any more traveling.\u00a0 I eventually bought some nuts which I had roasted to take to the office as my share, later learned that they had been used at the reception desk rather than in the party.<\/p>\n
We went to the Exec Motel.\u00a0 Eddie thought it was much better than had been described.\u00a0 I had brought some cleaning materials and scrubbed the stove and cabinets and washed the dishes which were furnished.<\/p>\n
We all talked about our recent activities.\u00a0 I went to the Temple to eat and to the Wednesday night service.\u00a0 Eddie and Dor\u00a0 ate at the place in the Civic Center area near the hotel.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 22, 1977 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nWent to the office today. Betty Vasil gave a luncheon for the administrative staff at the Poodle Dog.\u00a0 We had cocktails and wine.\u00a0 I ordered a martini and saut\u00e9ed sweetbreads.<\/p>\nI telephoneded the Economic Benefits office and got some advice on my retirement funds.\u00a0 Eddie and Dor came to the office and met various people.<\/p>\n
We went home together. The rain was heavy.\u00a0 We went to Stacey\u2019s\u00a0 Bookstore and I\u00a0 looked for a book for Lor as a gift for Christmas.\u00a0 I decided to buy The Book of Lists.<\/p>\n
I went to the Temple to eat.\u00a0 I learned later that Dor and Eddie ate at the Chinese restaurant across the street from our\u00a0 apartment house only because it was raining but they enjoyed it.<\/p>\n
At 9:00 we went to hear Anita O’Day at the Macambo, which is on Polk a few blocks up.\u00a0 She is a singer of another era who has \u201ccome back\u201d after troubles with drugs.\u00a0 We were late and sat upstairs. She was an excellent performer with out a great deal of variety.\u00a0 We had two drinks apiece. At intermission we went downstairs and saw Bob O\u2019Neill, who had told us he was coming tonight with some of his friends.\u00a0 We joked with them for a while.<\/p>\n
I had Eddie and Dor take a taxi home.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 23, 1977 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nToday was a Bechtel holiday.<\/p>\nI shopped at Safeway for chuck steak and broccoli.\u00a0 I had invited Laurie Efrein, Gina Severns and Patti Chastain to lunch, thinking that Dor and Eddie would enjoy meeting them and learning of their backgrounds.<\/p>\n
When my sisters came, we prepared lunch.\u00a0 They helped with salad.\u00a0 I intended to broil the meat but the broiler didn\u2019t get hot enough so I had to put it on top of the stove. Laurie and Gina arrived; Patti called that she couldn\u2019t come, as she had to make posters for a Temple march tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The food was enjoyed but Dor was especially unpleasant with the guests.\u00a0 When I tried to draw Gina out about her experiences and she told of coming to the Temple, Dor thought she was being propagandized and started to tell about her association with Veterans for Peace.\u00a0 Laurie was very shy about revealing anything unusual about her past.\u00a0 Neither of my sisters were impressed with Gina or Laurie, though with Patti, they are three of the best friends I have at the Temple.\u00a0 Perhaps their youth and inexperience with sophisticated older was a handicap to them.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, Eddie, Dor and I went to the Haight on a shopping expedition.\u00a0 We stopped at the old Haight Community Food store on Hayes Street which is now a general coop store.\u00a0 I had read they had some Indian material.\u00a0 I bought a piece for a bedspread for my bed in Jonestown. Then we went to Haight Street.\u00a0 I bought some groceries at the Community Food Store, while Dor and Edna [Eddie] looked around Haight Street.\u00a0 Dor wanted to buy some \u201cfunky\u201d items in a second-hand store.\u00a0 She bought a blouse and a felt hat.\u00a0 We had coffee mocha in a coffee shop which had been recommended to us.<\/p>\n
We went home on the bus. After they got off, I rode to Geary on the Folsom bus and took the Geary bus home.\u00a0 On reaching home I discovered that my wallet had been stolen.\u00a0 It contained not more than ten dollars, I figured, my Muni pass, and my driver\u2019s license, plus a few other docs.\u00a0 I imagine it was stolen when I got off the Geary bus.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 24, 1977 \u2013 Saturday<\/strong>
\nDor and Eddie arrived about 9:00. We rented a car from an agency on Van Ness next to Zim\u2019s hamburger place. We got a small wagon.\u00a0 I had looked forward to doing some driving.\u00a0 If it had been a weekday I could have gone to Department of Motor Vehicles and gotten a substitute license. The man in charge of the agency especially emphasized that our insurance would be void if an unlicensed driver was at the wheel.<\/p>\nEdna drove.\u00a0 It was a beautiful day.\u00a0 We drove to Napa, had lunch and did some shopping.\u00a0 Then we went to Sonoma, did some sightseeing of historical spots, stopped at a couple of wineries and sampled wine.\u00a0 We visited the Vallejo home on the way back and spent some time there, then returned to SF, getting in after dark.<\/p>\n
We went to Clement Street and looked for a good restaurant.\u00a0 We settled on an Armenian restaurant.\u00a0 We each had a lamb dish. We didn\u2019t have any drinks as Edna was beginning to worry about expenditures.<\/p>\n
I missed the Temple service.
\nEdna dropped me off at 1029 Geary and took the car to the motel.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 25, 1977 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nChristmas Day
\nEddie and Dor left the car at the agency.\u00a0 Everything was alright.<\/p>\nWe had a pancake breakfast for Judy Merriam and Viola Godshalk.\u00a0 I invited Jossie and Virginia but they can\u2019t eat pancakes.\u00a0 Dor again got into controversial matter, bringing up the subject of the Temple with Judy.\u00a0 But she didn\u2019t much trouble Judy who stood her ground.<\/p>\n
I went to the Temple at 12:00 for the first part of the service.\u00a0 The tables were set upstairs for dinner.\u00a0 Vernell Henderson knew that I had to be with my sisters.\u00a0 She said that perhaps it could have been arranged for them to come in the Temple and have Christmas dinner, but I think that Dor in particular would have preferred not to.<\/p>\n
I left at 1:40 and we three left to visit Lor, who had invited us for Christmas dinner.\u00a0 Barbara Peas and Dor [from Bechtel] were also guests. The two young Japanese \u2013 Mari and Herm — were present and had prepared and served the dinner which consisted of Japanese food.\u00a0 Although interesting, I would have preferred to have turkey.\u00a0 Lor is having another Christmas dinner tonight for the young people, at which I believe she ordered a pre-cooked turkey.\u00a0 I received gifts from all, although I brought something only for Lor.\u00a0 Dor and Edna brought her wine.<\/p>\n
Mari was leaving shortly for Japan to be married and home after all.
\nLor is better and will be returning to work after Christmas.\u00a0 She had infectious hepatitis.<\/p>\n
Dor asked Lor whether she would add the $62 I owed her (Dor) to the other money she was keeping for me for the postage as a kind of nest egg so that I would have something if I changed my mind and decided to come back to the U.S. She would give it to me only under this condition: we both agreed. Although after a passage of time, I expect to claim it, if I haven\u2019t taken it out in books by then.<\/p>\n
We left at 8:30.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 26, 1977 \u2013 Monday<\/strong>
\nToday was a holiday.\u00a0 Eddie liked to have breakfast in the motel.\u00a0 We had bought some sweet rolls and made Sanka.\u00a0 Dor left and I took her to the airport.\u00a0 Eddie did not accompany us.<\/p>\nWhen I returned Eddie and I went to North Beach.\u00a0 We kept looking for a good place to eat, but many restaurants were closed.\u00a0 We especially wanted a regular Christmas dinner with turkey and didn\u2019t find any restaurant with such a menu.\u00a0 We went past the Pyramid and into the Financial District and still did not find a good place to eat.\u00a0 We took a ride on BART so that Eddie could see what it was like.\u00a0 Getting off at Powell Street, we walked up to Geary.\u00a0 Rain which had been falling all day was heavy.\u00a0 We decided to eat at David\u2019s and did have turkey, but I did not think it was exceptional.<\/p>\n
We returned to Eddie\u2019s motel.<\/p>\n
There was a big color TV set in the room and we watched a film on the Strauss family, but not too attentively.\u00a0 I was also reading the newspaper finding that the Strauss family film was a documentary on the Greenpeace demonstrations.\u00a0 This was an attempt to stop the slaughtering of whales by intercepting the ships engaged in it, which were Soviet.\u00a0 They came very close to the ships, had some success in forcing them to abandon their purpose and got some fascinating film footage.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 27, 1977 \u2013 Tuesday<\/strong>
\nI took the day off.\u00a0 Eddie and I had sweet rolls and Sanka in the hotel again.<\/p>\nWe took the bus to Fisherman\u2019s Wharf, walked down Beach Street.\u00a0 We intended to buy some seafood at dinner, as both of us were tired of eating in restaurants. We didn\u2019t find anything but crabs and finally bought some which the proprietor cracked for us and French bread.<\/p>\n
We went on to the coop, got some vegetables for salad and sauces for the crab and then went to Cost Plus.\u00a0 Eddie bought several items. They had a sale on Indian materials and I decided to buy a bedspread, although I had already bought some Indian cloth for me.\u00a0 I thought I could use them both.\u00a0 I also bought another Indian cloth bag.\u00a0 I had promised Viola the one I had.<\/p>\n
We went to my apartment and prepared the crab, on which we put a sauce of ketchup and horseradish, and a salad with oil and vinegar and the bread.<\/p>\n
No one else was at home.\u00a0 We went back to the motel for the night.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 28, 1977 \u2013 Wednesday<\/strong>
\nI took this day off.
\nWe had sweet rolls at the motel.\u00a0 I cleaned up and Eddie packed. Eddie checked out.<\/p>\nIt was raining.\u00a0 Eddie had so many bags (she always brings much more than needed)
\nthat we had difficulty carrying them all and I became a little annoyed with her.\u00a0 We took the bus to O\u2019Farrell.\u00a0 I left her at the corner while I took my bag to my apartment.<\/p>\n
We took the airport bus.\u00a0 Edna was short of cash, having spent more than she had counted on.\u00a0 I paid my own way.\u00a0 Edna\u2019s plane was at 12:15.\u00a0 She has coffee and I had Sanka.\u00a0 I questioned her about the financial situation of each sister.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have much time before Edna\u2019s plane.<\/p>\n
I went home, then returned to the office.
\nWorked on the McGraw-Hill book lists until closing time.
\nAttended the Temple service.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 29, 1977 \u2013 Thursday<\/strong>
\nWent to the office.\u00a0 Worked on the McGraw-Hill book lists.\u00a0 Did a page an hour.<\/p>\nWashed my hair tonight.<\/p>\n
Wanda told me about Ron Owens KGO call-in radio program.\u00a0 Peoples\u2019 Temple was the subject to be discussed tonight with Temple representatives to be questioned.\u00a0 It was scheduled to start at 10:00.\u00a0 I had been assigned to try to get on the line and ask a question.\u00a0 I was to say I saw the Temple protest march the other day and noticed a sign saying they were being persecuting; I wanted to know what they meant by that.<\/p>\n
I got on the line by calling as soon as the program started.\u00a0 Marcy, Jim McElvane and Jean Brown were among the Temple speakers.\u00a0 Marcy opened with a statement referring to the conspiracy against us.\u00a0 She told how our crates had been broken into, our Social Security checks not allowed.\u00a0 Wanda had told me that the affidavits concerning healings had been destroyed.\u00a0 Ron Owens, while claiming to be impartial was unfriendly, showed little concern over the charges of harassment.\u00a0 He questioned Jim\u2019s absence, kept emphasizing brain washing, wondered why anyone would want to persecute us and charges that people had been organized to call in.<\/p>\n
After I had been on the line an hour waiting, I was cut off without explanation.\u00a0 I dialed again and after numerous attempts got on but had another long waiting period.\u00a0 When I did find myself on the air, my question seemed unnecessary because it had been already answered but I insisted I didn\u2019t understand and was allowed to give it.\u00a0 This gave Marcy a chance to make some conditional points. The program was on 2 hours.<\/p>\n
I had a snack and read an hour.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 30, 1977 \u2013 Friday<\/strong>
\nI put in a work day today, but did no official work.\u00a0 I had planned to work on the McGraw-Hill book list, but did not make much progress.<\/p>\nI had a check list made by Cathy to take around.\u00a0 I was cleared on all the items.\u00a0 Cleaned out my desk.<\/p>\n
Mare had arranged to take me to lunch but she phoned saying she had had trouble with her sister, had a problem with the car.\u00a0 She talked mostly about Deb Bower, who she thinks is malingering.\u00a0 She has a new job she will start on will start on. She plans to come on Tuesday and take me to lunch then.<\/p>\n
Weinberger dismissed us at 2:30.\u00a0 I went around and said goodbye.<\/p>\n
With Cathy, Brenda, Betty Barclay and a friend of Brenda\u2019s we went to the Hyatt-Regency for drinks.\u00a0 I had two martinis.<\/p>\n
I went home by bus, arriving about 6:00.<\/p>\n
Jossie told me Oreen Poplin (she didn\u2019t know her name but described her) had come to stay and would be in with me.\u00a0 I had looked forward to an evening alone.\u00a0 I went out again and found an Italian restaurant where I ordered dinner.\u00a0 Had spaghetti and meat sauce and two glasses of wine.<\/p>\n
Oreen was in my room when I arrived home.\u00a0 I went to bed and to sleep. Was awakened by Judy who came in to make a phone call about 10:30.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get back to sleep for hours.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
December 31, 1977 \u2013 Sunday<\/strong>
\nI was up about 8:00.<\/p>\nOreen was up too.\u00a0 She brought much food in for herself.\u00a0 She talked steadily much of the time about her money.<\/p>\n
I took my laundry to the laundromat.\u00a0 Went to the Haight Food Store by bus.\u00a0 Bought peas, vegetables for salad, grapefruit.\u00a0 Had lunch at the Temple.<\/p>\n
Phyllis [Houston] lent me a tape measure to measure my suitcases.\u00a0 Bette Guy and Jim Randolph were not in.\u00a0 I started to walk home but was given a ride by Roosevelt Turner, Rockie\u2019s friend.\u00a0 Slept three hours<\/p>\n
Dressed for the temple meeting.\u00a0 Oreen and Virginia went to the Temple to meet people coming from L.A.<\/p>\n
I went to the Temple with Gina at 5:30.\u00a0 Took my TV in for Bryan to look at.\u00a0\u00a0 The bus from L.A. had broken down.\u00a0 Another bus was sent to get the passengers.\u00a0 I ate dinner. Attended Temple service.<\/p>\n
==========================<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Roller Journal Names December 1977<\/strong><\/p>\nTemple Members <\/strong>
\nOreen Poplin Alexander
\nJack Beam
\nBette Guy
\nSandy Bradshaw
\nJean Brown
\nDebbie Blakey
\nBeulah
\nTerri Buford
\nJossie [Chambliss]
\nPatti Chastain
\nTim Clancey
\nLeona Collier
\nRon Crawford
\nYulanda Crawford
\nJune Crym
\nVirginia Duncan
\nLaurie Efrein
\nHue Fortson
\nViola Godshalk
\nVernell Henderson
\nTed Holliday
\nPhyllis Houston
\nBarbara Hoyer
\nCJ Jackson
\nFrances Johnson
\nMabel Johnson
\nMelvin Johnson
\nWanda Kice Johnson
\nChris Kice
\nWanda [King]
\nMike Klingman
\nBryan [Kravitz]
\nLisa Layton
\nChris Lewis
\nLu Esther Lewis
\nEstelle McCall
\nJudy Merriam
\nBetty McCann
\nJim McElvane
\nJane Mutschmann
\nEarl Poplin
\nMike Prokes
\nJulie Runnels
\nMarcy [Marceline Jones]
\nJim Randolph
\nEver [Rejoicing]
\nGina Severns
\nAndy Silver
\nCarol Stahl
\nEtta [Thompson]
\nLillian Taylor
\nRoosevelt Turner
\nVirg (Virginia)
\nKeith Wade
\nHarry Williams
\nSue Ellen Willams<\/p>\nNon Temple Names<\/strong>
\nDennis Banks
\nDick Gregory
\nBiko Decision
\nJane Fonda
\nMary Foran
\nLillian Hellman
\nArthur Jensen
\nMadelyn Murray O\u2019Hare
\nSimon Ortiz
\nRon Owens (KGO)
\nVanessa Redgrave
\nJason Robards
\nWilliam Shockley
\nDr. Takahashi (Edith\u2019s eye doctor)
\nTchaikovsky
\nPrime MinisterVorster
\nIron Door Woman<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Edith\u2019s Sisters\/relatives<\/strong>
\nDor (sister)
\nEdna (Eddie) (sister)
\nMabo\u00a0 (sister)
\nTagare
\nMiranda
\nPaul & Polly
\nLor [friend at SF State]
\nMari & Helm
\nMatthew
\nBarbara Peas
\n(Matthew\u2019s mother)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
BECHTEL \/ PEOPLE<\/strong>
\nNora Armstrong
\nBechtel LNG [world-wide construction management]
\nBetty Barclay
\nNorma Bondoc
\nDeb Bower
\nBrenda
\nCathy [Costello]
\nDenise
\nVernelle Duncan
\nJohn Foster
\nBob Garb
\nRichard Goodwin
\nDale Huffman
\n[Zaid] Jawadat
\nKat
\nShirley Lawry
\nHelen Lowe
\nMag Card [IBM Selectric with memory]
\nJim Mansfield
\nBob O\u2019Neill
\nDor Stooker
\nPinto Valley Project [copper mining]
\nBetty Vasil
\nKate Walker
\nWeinberger<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Works<\/strong>
\n\u201cMarcy Doll\u201d [made in JT]
\n\u201cwooden toys\u201d [made in JT]<\/p>\nInside the Third Reich<\/em> by Albert Speer
\nBook of Lists<\/em> compiled by David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace<\/p>\nFilm: Pinto Valley Project<\/em>
\nFilm: Julia<\/em>
\nFilm: on Strauss Family<\/em><\/p>\nMcGraw-Hill<\/p>\n
Peoples Forum<\/em>
\nSF Chronicle<\/em><\/p>\nCoalition for the Medical Rights of Women
\nPioneer Fund
\nOakland Ballet
\n\u201cThe Nutcracker\u201d
\nGreenpeace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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