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Feb 3, 2009
Will the L. Ron Hubbard house turn a Camelback neighborhood into a Scientology recruitment Mecca? — Phoenix New Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Robrt L. Pela
Source: Phoenix New Times
On a recent December Sunday, on a still street nestled against Camelback Mountain, a party is in full swing at the L. Ron Hubbard House. It's meant to be a holiday open house, to show off the stunning renovation of the simple brick dwelling where Hubbard founded Scientology a half-century ago, and to smooth relations with neighbors, some of whom have lately been up in arms about plans to turn the house into a Scientology museum. These concerned neighbors, none of ...
Dec 3, 2008
Valley troupe stages a child-acted satire with Scientology at the core — East Valley Tribune (Arizona)
Type: Press
Author(s): Craig Outhier
Source: East Valley Tribune (Arizona)
The young cast of the Valley’s newest holiday pageant is all atwitter. Opening night is only a week away, and for the first time, the pre-teen actors are getting a glimpse of their costumes. The young cast of the Valley’s newest holiday pageant is all atwitter. Opening night is only a week away, and for the first time, the pre-teen actors are getting a glimpse of their costumes. But something is profoundly askew at Tempe’s Stray Cat Theatre. Where one might ...
Sep 4, 2008
Will Smith targeted by anti-Scientology group — Arizona Republic
Type: Press
Source: Arizona Republic
On Wednesday morning Anonymous activists picketed outside the New Village Academy private school in Calabasas, California, which is funded by Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who is a follower of Scientology. Protestors - dressed in Guy Fawkes masks - held up placards emblazoned with the words 'Scientology disconnects families' and 'what church stalks critics? Scientology'. Passing children on their way to the nearby Arthur E. Wright Middle School shouted at several people, believed to be Scientologist investigators, who ...
May 1, 2008
Scientology and the state: Narconon’s influence in the prison system
Type: Research
Author(s): Drew Tewksbury
Abstract: Scientology has never been a stranger to controversy and now an alternative prison rehabilitation center based on Scientology drug treatment stirs concern with medical experts. The Second Chance Center is a small facility outside Albuquerque, N.M., which uses the Scientology-based drug treatment program called Narconon. It is the first prison-based rehabilitation center in America that was designed specifically to foster the Narconon system, and its founders hope that it will be the model for more centers around the country. The ...
Feb 27, 2008
Brash Johnson fires from hip in Legislature — East Valley Tribune (Arizona)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mary K. Reinhart
Source: East Valley Tribune (Arizona)
Karen Johnson still remembers how it felt to watch parades as a youngster in her northern Illinois hometown. SLIDESHOW: Sen. Karen Johnson has represented Mesa for nearly 2 decades Templar: Sen. Karen Johnson impresses with upbeat attitude —– [Picture] QUITE A PERSONALITY: Mesa Sen. Karen Johnson is a conservative pro-gun, anti-abortion Republican who has championed the rights of juvenile sex offenders and chastised the Bush administration as being too compassionate and extravagant. Paul O'Neill, Tribune —– “When the bands and the ...
Feb 10, 2008
Masked 'Anonymous' group protests Scientology — Arizona Republic
Type: Press
Author(s): Astrid Galvan
Source: Arizona Republic
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 5, 2007
Museum for Scientology founder may open in Arcadia — Arizona Republic
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Aug 15, 2007
Scientology founder's Phoenix home restored — Associated Press
Type: Press
Source: Associated Press
L. Ron Hubbard had a restlessness that led to a lifetime of traversing the globe. So it was scarcely three years that the eclectic writer and adventurer lived at his "House on Camelback." That modest home in Phoenix, recently restored to how it looked in 1952, is regarded as a religious historic site _ the birthplace of Scientology. "For it was here that he developed the first exteriorization process and advanced fully into the realm of the human spirit, and here ...
Feb 8, 2007
Arizona to extradite Scientology protester to Riverside County — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Kenny Klein
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Arizona to extradite Scientology protester to Riverside County LAW: The fugitive will be sent to Riverside County. He fled before sentencing on a misdemeanor in '01. 10:00 PM PST on Thursday, February 8, 2007 By KENNY KLEIN The Press-Enterprise A Scientology protester who fled to Canada before he could be sentenced to 180 days in county jail in 2001 has been arrested in Arizona and will be extradited back to Riverside County, officials reported. Former Palo Alto resident Keith Henson, now ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 11, 2006
Scientology group finds support in Legislature — Arizona Republic
More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Amanda J. Crawford
Source: Arizona Republic
A group affiliated with the Church of Scientology has forged close ties with several influential members of the Arizona Legislature as part of a nationwide battle against the mental-health industry. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights has courted key lawmakers with trips to glitzy Scientologist events in Hollywood. And, observers say, it has been the force behind more than two dozen bills in Arizona in recent years, including measures to restrict prescriptions of Ritalin and mood-altering drugs. One of the measures ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 30, 1995
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlatans — Phoenix New Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Tony Ortega
Source: Phoenix New Times
Clients of deprogrammer Rick Ross call him a savior. Perhaps that's why people he's branded cult leaders want to crucify him. Rick Ross is describing how Arizona's cults use mind control to exploit their members. He warns about 70 people gathered at Arizona State University's Memorial Union that they are prime targets for groups that tend to prey on university students. The Moonies have a house on North Central. Scientology has a church in Mesa. There's Scottsdale's CBJ, whose members believe ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 29, 1991
Scientology? No way, send me $200,000 — Arizona Republic
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Kim Sue Lia Perkes
Source: Arizona Republic
Look, all you have to do is pull out your checkbook and write a check for $200,000. Oh, and make it out to me. No strings attached. That should give you the inner peace you have been searching for. In return for your donation, you'll receive absolutely nothing, and I'll never ask you for a donation again. True, if you do this, I will lose my job. However, if only five of you send the money, I'll be able to retire. ...
Feb 11, 1983
Note is evidence founder is still alive, Scientologists say — Arizona Republic
Jul 14, 1982
Inside Scientology: Son of Scientology — News-Herald (Santa Rosa, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Dennis Wheeler
Source: News-Herald (Santa Rosa, California)
He's been called the Son of Scientology. His name has been changed from L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., to Ron DeWolf, and he's the firstborn son of the former science fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology. It's been 23 years since hes seen his father, and he suspects that the founder of what many people call a destructive cult may, in truth, be dead. "To be perfectly frank, my life's been pretty much of a disaster and a miserable mess ...
Aug 16, 1977
Scientology church files suit — Prescott Courier (Arizona)
Jul 10, 1977
Some areas in government easy targets for spies — Prescott Courier (Arizona)
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Source: Prescott Courier (Arizona)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say some parts of the government are remarkably easy targets for outside spies such as the Scientologists allegedly planted in government jobs to steal confidential files. "If they're qualified for a job and there's no arrest record, they can sort of swoop right in," said Justice Department personnel officer. Take the case of Gerald Wolfe. According to the FBI, the Church of Scientology planted Wolfe in a clerical job at the Internal Revenue Service so he ...
Feb 23, 1976
Narconon founder calls idea a 'definite' success — Denver Post
May 6, 1973
Scientologists making impact on West Side // Church largest and fastest growing of its kind in the area — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): John H. Hall
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Despite a 10-year running battle with the Food and Drug Administration and the American Medical Assn., Scientology appears to have finally arrived on the West Side. Aided by a 1971 federal district court decision, the Church of Scientology is not only a recognized religious science but the largest and fastest-growing pandenominational church in this area. And the greatest concentration of its members may well be here. There are 75,000 Scientologists in Los Angeles, according to the Rev. Glenn A. Malkin, executive ...
Aug 17, 1972
At St. Vincent de Paul // Prison worker hits poor reform — Montreal Gazette
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Mary Janigan
Source: Montreal Gazette
Few inmates become reformed at St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary because prison rehabilitation programs are negligible, a Toronto prison worker said yesterday. Phil McAiney, director of the rehabilitation program Narconon, spent two days recently at the Special Correction Unit of the maximum security institution. He classified relations between the staff and inmates as "open warfare where hatred and fear are the weapons". And he charged that rehabilitation programs consist only of baseball and a weekly visit by the prison psychiatrist. "The ...
Aug 28, 1971
Miami Scientologists seek drug programs in prisons — Miami News
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob Wilcox
Source: Miami News
Representatives of the Miami Scientology Church, aderents of a controversial but growing religion, are to meet with state drug abuse officials soon. They want to put a Scientology rehabilitation program into the state's prisons. The subject of much criticism since its founding in the 1950s, the church has recently gained official status as a religion from the courts, and along with it permission to use a crude lie-detector device in its psychiatric counseling. Counseling is at the heart of Scientology. Scientologists ...
Jun 19, 1970
The A-R-C School — Arizona Living
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Arizona Living
Joyce Houghton has lots of A-R-C (affinity, reality, communication). So does her school, the ARC School of Progressive Education in Phoenix. It's a happy working-and-recreation place. The visitor becomes aware of what must be a basic agreement between staff and students – that affinity, reality and communication equals understanding – of subjects, their application in daily living, of personal ability and goals. In talking with Joyce we learned the ARC School functions to allow students to use their own thinkingness and ...
May 20, 1970
Narconon to give awards — The Star
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Star
A former mayor and police commissioner, Scientology representatives, and former inmates will be participating in a special awards event at the Arizona State Prison on May 22. The event is sponsored by NARCONON, Scientology-based rehabilitation program, which is also active in California and Illinois. The awards will be presented to prison officials by NARCONON's nationwide supervisor, Arthur J.Maren. Recipients of the awards will be the Assistant Superintendent of Custody, Dale F. Brandfas, and John Russell, Construction Foreman, NARCONON's first sponsor. "The ...
May 19, 1970
Narcotic-rehabilitation efforts to be rewarded — Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)
Two Arizona State Prison officials will receive special awards Friday for their efforts with a narcotic-rehabilitation program at the prison. Dale F. Brandfas, assistant superintendent of custody, and John Russell, construction foreman, will receive awards from Arthur J. Maren, nationwide supervisor of Narconon. Narconon is a rehabilitative program for prisoners who are addicted to drugs, and is based on a body of philosophy known as scientology. The prison officials are receiving the awards for their contributions of "support, time and effort" ...
May 15, 1970
The Now generation — Arizona Living
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Jr. Schlichting
Source: Arizona Living
The Now generation is to be commended and congratulated for its initiative in keeping pace with the tremendous strides, both materially and spiritually, which mankind has made in the past two decades. There is an evolution, a gradual evolving, taking place which is far better than the usually catastrophic revolution. A large majority (not the small minority who are creating the furor on our college campuses and protest marches of today) are leading the way in a search for a better ...
Apr 30, 1970
Scientology presents Narconon program — Wilshire Press
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Wilshire Press
The Church of Scientology of California's "Narconon" presented "Clergymen and Educators Drug Abuse Conference," April 29, at the Los Angeles Hilton. "The conference presented current programs effective in alleviating drug problems. No program which employs drug or electric shock therapy was presented, as it has been discovered that groups which condone these techniques have only been pretending to be effective in drug rehabilitation," said Max Prudente, Scientology spokesman. Narconon, an addict rehabilitation program sponsored by the Church of Scientology of California ...
Apr 23, 1970
Drugs conference open to everyone — Westlake Post
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Westlake Post
The "Clergymen and Educators Drug Abuse Conference," sponsored by the Church of Scientology of California, will feature drug abuse information on programs which are producing results in the alleviation of drug problems, officials announced. The conference will be held at the Los Angeles Hilton Hotel Sierra Room Wednesday, April 29, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Church of Scientology announced that programs which condone the use of drug therapy, electric shock and other crude, psuedo-scientific techniques will not be included in ...
Feb 5, 1970
Drug abuse Confab termed a success — Wilshire Press
Jan 28, 1970
Narconon offers convicts new rehabilitation program — Pali Press (Hawaii)
Jan 1, 1970
Scientology: the Now Religion - Chapter 4: Scientology — Delacorte Press
Nov 16, 1955
Minister's trial reset here — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
Trial of Edd Clark, 56, a minister in the Church of American Science, yesterday was reset for Jan. 3 by Superior Judge Fred J. Hyder. Clark, who resides at 1811 N. First Ave., was scheduled to go on trial yesterday on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Harry A. Stewart Jr., attorney for Clark, advised Judge Hyder he had been ill several weeks and had been unable to properly prepare his client's defense. Charles C. Stidham, chief deputy criminal ...
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