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Gi FEBRUARY 15, 1971 NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE IL 7\ ,....... 01 I ION I ION I OM I MN I OM I OM I In 11 NM I =I I IMO II MO III MOO I 1111111 O I WM I OM I NEI I =II MN 1 MI I MN No r r "if rrr,r, sr Name Address City State Zip ■ Adventist Campaign Rates for "LISTEN": Please give this form Sponsoring Supporter 100 Copies Monthly $250.00 with your check to ■ Missionary Sponsor 50 Copies Monthly 125.00 your church lay ac- LISTEN Sponsor Leader 20 Copies Monthly 50.00 tivities secretary or ■ Regular Sponsor 5 Copies Monthly 12.50 Book and Bible Add to your sponsoring: a personal subscription to House before March sfrair hnrna arirtrace at k^7 Ffl Trt tal 77 1071 ■ Gleanef Please, 'LISTEN Most people shy away from "bad" boys and girls. They Official organ of the North Pacific Union make contributions a substitute for compassion. They give Conference of Seventh-day Adventists money to the United Fund and feel that they have discharged 10225 E. Burnside Box 16677, Portland, Oregon 97216 their responsibility. 255-7300 (Area 503) "Let the social agencies or the juvenile courts handle the problems," they say, "I don't want to get involved." But can February 15,1971 red-blooded Christians accept this philosophy? Volume 66 Number 4 Picture the widower wearing overalls. He moonlights in order to feed his family. "My boy was out with his buddies. Editor Cecil Coffey They saw a car with keys in it. They didn't mean any harm. Assistant Editor Janice Erntson Copy Editor Helen W. Cross They just went for a little joy ride." But the police picked them up—with the stolen car. The boys were high on Contributing Editors: J. C. Hansen, marijuana. Alaska; C. H. Hamel, Idaho; G. C. William- Then there is the case of a girl—multiplied many times— son, Montana; D. G. Matthews, Tom Calkins, Oregon; R. E. Eckerman, Upper who rebels at her parents' authority and who winds up with Columbia; Don Blehm, Washington; older men who make her feel grown up by freely offering Laurice Armstrong, Walla Walla College. cigarettes and alcohol, thereby adding to her deliquency, ruining her and her chances for future happiness. Layout Ronald L. Kwiek Production Manager John D. Wohlers Of course, you have heard some people speak out of a Printer College Press wealth of inexperience by saying that marijuana is less injurious than alcohol. But Doctor Cohen, in an article in the Los Angeles Times, thinks otherwise. "While alcoholism con- stitutes a major social problem, surely it is not valid to justify Contents the adoption of a new abuse by trying to show that it is no Please, "Listen" 3 worse than a presently existing one. The result could only be News of the Conferences 4 added social damage from a new source. Moreover, marijuana, unlike alcohol, is nearly always consumed by its users for the News by Dateline 13 express purpose of attaining a 'high,' a disorientating intoxica- General News 14 tion. Just because alcohol is bad doesn't mean that marijuana is good." 16 Special Trip to Milo Doctor Cohen knows. He's been "where it's at." Good Reading 21 Where do you as a Christian fit into this picture? Future vents 22 Here are some tips: First, try commending your children frequently. Use a low voice when correcting them. Pray for Obituaries 23 them by name. Make sure the Listen journal is a regular Weddings 26 monthly visitor in your home. Listen tells it the way it is. Order your Listen subscriptions through your church Lay 27 Night Shift in the Hospital Activities secretary. Price? Only $2.50 per subscription during February. A. R. Mazat, Manager Cover Periodical Department To beat, or not to beat? This dramatic Pacific Press Publishing Association inside-the-heart picture is printed courtesy of Listen magazine and Pacific Press Publishing Association. Notes on this issue When Your Address Changes The cover picture shows the normal aortic arch of a healthy heart. It is one of 25 Send your new address with zip code spectacular full-color photographs of the heart, inside and outside the organ, contained number to North Pacific Union in a remarkable insert that is part of Listen this month. Step by step, the insert booklet GLEANER, College Press, College Place, shows what smoking can do to the normal and healthy heart... Don't miss Listen for Washington 99324. Include your name February and throughout the year... The well-written and photographed news from and old address as it appeared on previous Walla Walla General Hospital appearing in recent issues is the work of Jim Aldred, a issues (if possible, send address label). 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GLEANER February 15 1971 page 3 MN IT ET WENN alaska First 4 DK Plan in Alaska The first Four-Dimensional Key to the Cause of Alcoholism program to be held in Alaska concluded recently in Ketchikan. This new approach to ALASKA President: J. C. Hansen that which is a real problem in many Alaska towns was well received. In an editorial entitled, "A Start at Last," the editor of the Ketchikan Daily News commented: Frank W Baker "After many years of reporting problems growing out of excessive use oregon of alcohol, it is encouraging to report that some steps are being taken in Full-Time Temperance Man Ketchikan to attack the problem of Represents Oregon Adventists alcoholism." He went on to mention that the 4 By recent conference committee action, Frank W. Baker, Oregon youth IDAHO President: F. W. Bieber DK program, sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is a director since 1965, will become full- start in the right direction, since "the time temperance director, representing four-day series is a ... detailed pro- this phase of Adventists' right-arm gram for persons who want to start message throughout the state. now to curb the disease of alcohol- The newly created position will ism." The 4 DK Plan was presented in The Milo Academy Ketchikan by Pastor Douglas Cooper Class of '71 and Mrs. Cooper, a registered nurse, Presents in Drama MONTANA President: G. C. Williamson assisted by Dr. Audrey Mertz, M.D., a psychiatrist from the Ketchikan Mental Health Center. "The Twenty individuals attended at least one of the four nights. Among Hoosier the group were people who were interested in learning more about how Schoolmaster" to work with alcoholics, as well as people with drinking problems. Follow-up for the program was cor- February 27, 8:00 p.m. related with Alcoholics Anonymous. Family, $3.00 During the week that the 4 DK Plan Adults, $1.00 President: W. D. Blehm OREGON was being presented in the evenings in Students, $.75 a classroom at the local high school, MILO ACADEMY GYM Ketchikan TV station, KATV Channel 2, televised each night the films that accompany the 4 DK program, as well as all the other films on the subject of AMVS alcoholism from the film library of the AMATEUR North Pacific Union Conference. 1971 HOUR Nearly five hours of television time UPPER COLUMBIA was donated by the station for this featuring President: R. C. Remboldt purpose. Guest Artist-Richard Lange At the close of the Four- Master of Ceremonies—Ron Wisbey, Dimensional Key program, an attorney New Oregon Youth Director who had attended the series because of Academy Invitational—Winner of this his interest in alcohol education, event will receive a $100.00 requested permission from the church scholarship. for his making a personal appeal to the Mental Health Board of Ketchikan to February 20, 8 p.m. sponsor the 4 DK program again soon Portland Union Academy in the city so that even more people Lyceum Rates WASHINGTON President: W L. Murrill would have a chance to attend it. GLEANER February 15 1971 page 4 entail presentations to all levels of contend—without question—that it's churches with Ingathering by taking Adventist and public schools through happening there. part in caroling and soliciting. public lectures, demonstrations and Beginning with the fall Week of At Christmastime the student asso- films. Baker will oversee all temper- Prayer conducted by Daryl Ochs, ciation played host to the Presley ance activities such as the 5-Day Plan, Hazel Dell district pastor, students and family of Days Creek. They gave each 4-Dimensional Key to alcoholism pro- staff renewed vows to make Christ child gifts and the parents an abundant gram just starting, community involve- known to all the world. supply of needed food. Mrs. Presley ment and participation along temper- said it was their best Christmas ever. More than half the student body ance lines.