Bulletin Daily Paper 10/02/10

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Military’s attempts to prevent suicides fruitless

DISTRICT 54

Jason Conger

The Washington Post

“Every one of these is tragic. It’s personally and professionally frustrating as a leader.” — Maj. Gen. William Grimsley, Fort Hood, Texas

CALIFORNIA: Governor reduces penalty for pot possession, Page A2

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Sudoku

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Crossword B5, E2

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Editorial

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Vol. 107, No. 275, 80 pages, 6 sections

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By Cindy Powers The Bulletin

Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Michelle Day-London, 36, middle, holds her 14-month-old daughter, Zeriah London, on Friday during a break from moving into her new northeast Bend apartment with her husband, Bennie London, 51, in green. The couple, who are going to be living in The Bend Sanctuary, a new affordable housing complex for people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, got help with the moving from friend Kevin Holliday, 28, far left, and Day-London’s sister, Jennifer Wilson, right.

Clean path to a new home Bend Sanctuary offers long term housing for recovering addicts By Erin Golden The Bulletin

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or the first time in a long time, Dolly Haney feels like she’s found a place to plant her feet. After a three-year struggle with methamphetamine got her thrown out of her house and landed her in jail, the 39-year-old Bend woman decided to turn things around this spring. She started going to treatment and moved into a transitional housing facility. With several months clean, Haney felt like she was on the right track, but was struggling to find long-term housing on a limited budget. This summer, however, Haney got some good news. She’d been selected for one of four spots in a new longterm, affordable housing complex for people in recovery — a type of facility

“If I suspect one of our neighbors is using, I will be the first one to call the proper authorities, because I’m going to hold other people accountable too.” — Michelle Day-London, resident, Bend Sanctuary

that’s rare in Central Oregon. Haney will pay rent at a reduced rates, submit to regular drug tests and won’t be allowed to stay if she doesn’t stay drug-free.

She hopes The Bend Sanctuary, a project funded with a state grant and affordable housing money from the city of Bend, will be the right place for her and her 17-year-old son to make a fresh start. “I know that stress levels are a lot of what guide people, what would guide me to want to use,” she said. “I know that making sure that it’s a safe, non-toxic environment for both of us is a huge relief.” The project was launched by Pfiefer and Associates, a drug and alcohol treatment provider based in Bend. Executive Director Sally Pfiefer said Bend and other communities in the area have a few transitional housing options for people in drug and alcohol treatment and recovery. See Sanctuary / A6

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With less than two weeks until ballots land in Oregonians’ mailboxes, the three candidates for Bend’s seat in the state House are getting detailed about their stance on issues affecting Oregonians. Incumbent freshman State Rep. Judy Stiegler, a Democrat, is asking voters to send her back to Salem. Bend lawyer and Republican Jason Conger, along with Mike Kozak, an unaffiliated owner of a real estate investment company, are her challengers. All three have given in-depth interviews to The Bulletin on a wide range of topics. This week, Stiegler discussed her voting record and clarified her position on raising taxes, teacher compensation and her support of labor unions.

ELECTION

Measures 66 & 67 Stiegler’s opponents have criticized her support of two Legislature-referred ballot measures that raised income taxes on Oregon’s higher-wage earners and corporations. Measure 66 raised the personal income tax on joint filers with taxable income of at least $250,000 and single filers with taxable income of at least $125,000. See District 54 / A6

Supreme Court weighs whether Medical historian uncovers funeral protests experiments on Guatemalans cross the line Subjects were infected with syphilis by American doctors to test antibiotics

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Candidates detail plans for office

By Ann Gerhart Fort Hood’s leaders have tried nearly everything to stop the suicides. There are support groups and hot lines, counseling sessions and Reiki healing therapies, and strict assessment guidelines for commanders. But the soldiers keep killing themselves. This past weekend, four more were dead at the Texas post, all of them decorated veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, three of them officers, two of them fathers of young children. All four appear to have shot themselves, according to preliminary reports gathered for the Army’s Suicide Prevention Task Force. Their deaths, which did not appear to be related, came within a few days of a visit from the Army’s vice chief of staff, who reiterated his urgent plea for hurting soldiers to seek help. “Every one of these is tragic,” said Maj. Gen. William Grimsley, who commands Fort Hood, the nation’s largest Army post. “It’s personally and professionally frustrating as a leader.” “It came out of nowhere,” said Spec. Dana Blomquist, 23, whose former squad leader, Sgt. Timothy Ryan Rinella, 29, was found dead Saturday in nearby Copperas Cove. “He always had a smile on his face. He cared for so much for his soldiers and people that weren’t even his soldiers. There are so many people who are feeling guilty, but he never really showed any of the normal signs of people needing help.” See Suicides / A6

Mike Kozak

By Robert Barnes The Washington Post

By Donald G. McNeil Jr. New York Times News Service

From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin. American tax dollars, through the National Institutes of Health, even paid for syphilis-infected prostitutes to sleep with prisoners, since Guatemalan prisons allowed such visits. When the prostitutes did not succeed in infecting the men, some prisoners had the bacteria poured onto scrapes made on their penises, faces or arms, and in some cases it was injected by spinal puncture. If the subjects contracted the disease, they were given antibiotics. “However, whether everyone was then cured is not clear,” said Susan Reverby, the professor at Wellesley College who brought the experiments to light in a research paper that prompted American health officials to investigate. The revelations were made public Friday, when Secretary of State Hill-

Bryce Vickmark / New York Times News Service

Susan Reverby, a Wellesley College professor who’s work uncovered a U.S. study in Guatemala, is seen at her home in Cambridge, Mass. Top American officials described the study, in which government medical researchers deliberately infected prison inmates, soldiers and mental patients with syphilis, as “clearly unethical.” ary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized to the government of Guatemala and the survivors and descendants of those infected. They called the experiments “clearly unethical.” “Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are

outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health,” the secretaries said in a statement. “We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research practices.” See Syphilis / A7

TOPEKA, Kan. — A filmmaker several years ago tracked Shirley Phelps-Roper and her family members as they went about praising God for killing U.S. soldiers and picketing their funerals — their way of putting the nation on notice about the Almighty’s wrath. He called the documentary “The Most “The question our Hated Family in Amer- case presents is: ica,” and Phelps-Roper had only one real Can (free speech) regret. survive a few “If he had just called it, ‘The Most modest words Hated Family in the from a little WORLD,’” she said. In the last hours of church — less the last days, she ex- than 70 souls, in plained, Jesus said his the middle of the chosen will be “hated nation — about by all men.” Phelps-Roper, along your sins?” with her father, the Rev. Fred Phelps, and — Margie Phelps, other family members lawyer, Westboro who make up West- Baptist Church boro Baptist Church, may yet get their wish. The family’s inflammatory picketing — “Thank God for dead soldiers” is a favorite sign — has prompted more than 40 state legislatures and Congress to pass laws. Next week, the Supreme Court takes up the battle over how the Phelpses spread their message: that the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality has drawn God’s condemnation. See Westboro / A7


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