panoramic view of the entire reactor, and it was here that I found the hottest contraband. The word must have gotten out that a patrol was on its way because I had found only a few tattered copies of Playboy and Penthouse, but in the crane operator’s cubicle I found one of those green- covered novels from the Olympia Press in Paris. It dealt with various activities of randy young schoolgirls, dirty old men, and big German shepherd dogs. Moral: always watch your step around cranes— the driver might be going blind. The Pink Slip One day the big news over lunch was that the plant superintendent, taking a federal inspection team on a tour of the facility, had walked right into the middle of a big poker game taking place behind a boiler in the turbine building. The poker players had been “severely reprimanded,” but when the work was nearly completed and I got laid off, the poker players were still on the job. Yes, after a month that old pink slip turned up in my pay envelope, and Counting up the totals I found that I'd averaged better than $100 a day, with only three or four days off in that time. Wine, women, and song soon ate up all that easy money and I quit the laborers’ union. Soon afterwards, I returned to Trojan for a series of protest demonstrations, aiming to bite the hand that had fed me so well. One morning I spotted the plant superintendent, Bart Withers, in a white hat, strolling just inside the fence. We had a brief conversation through the chainlink mesh. “I worked here during the shutdown this year,” I told him. "Why was there nothing for us to do?” “Well... uh,” he replied, “we had some delays getting some of our materials.” ■ Joseph Stevenson is a resident of Astoria currently in Sri Lanka, moving around the world on a shoestring. Kent Dixon is a Portland artist and nurseryman. | Our publisher Ross Hall has some words about EFOLDING OF WILLAMETTE ' WEEK Rumors have it we’re folding. The truth is we’ve been around 8 years, and intend to stay around a lot longer. Subscribe, and not only will you receive Fresh Weekly every week, but you'll see just how Willamette Week folds. Icecream worth crying over. How it's done. . . Dropping your ice cream is always sad. But dropping : YeS, Iwant Willamette Week folded in my mailbox. • Enter my subscription for ; [Jlyear$15 t 02 years $26 ; D3 years $36 t □ Payment enclosed VISA # ; □ Master Charge # & Card expiration date Name. optional -.4 fold V • Address_________________________________________________City ; State___________________________________________________ Zip____________________________________ • Phone_____________________________________ : 320 SW Stark St. Portland, OR 97204 26 Clinton St. Quarterly Fratelli’s Ice Cream Supreme is, well, a small tragedy. Rich cream and whole eggs make Fratelli’s unbelievably delicious. And we have some flavors, like Grand Marnier and Cappuccino Chip you won’t taste in any other ice cream. The only place in Portland that scoops Fratelli’s is one block north of Bybee on Milwaukie Avenue. .the. inside scoop ice cream-sandwiches-espresso•desserts•coffeebeans \ f finecandies 6654 SE Milwaukie Avenue □rtland, OR 234-1255 _....
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