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CHORAL SOCIETY PIANIST Martha Plimpton, above, is pictured at the concert grand during a
recent rehearsal of the Roseburg Choral society. The choral group will present Handel's "Mes
siah" Tuesday at 8 p. m. at the junior high school auditorium. The 50-voice chorus and nine solo
ists will sing the Christmas oratorio under the direction of Charles A. Ricketts. Accompanying
group are Mrs. Plimpton and Esther Ceddes, organist. (Staff photo).
Indian Prince Has Labor Troubles, Servants Strike
BOMBAY, India, -AH) The
lavish-spending Gaekwar of Bar
oda is having labor trouble In his
palace. His 250 servants have or
ganized a union and are striking
for higher pay.
The Gaekwar, whose state le
gislature once accused him of
squandering $10,000,000 In a six
week spree, returned from Eur
ope last week to find his ser
vants out on strike. About 100
have been arrested.
Later 4,000 municipal workers
in Baroda, a city of more than
100.000 people, also w e n t on
strike in support of the GaeK
war's servants. The city was in
darkness for an hour.
The Bombay government,
which now administers the state
of Baroda for India, would like
to intervene, but can't under the
law. When the Gaekwar turned
his princely state and Its 3,500,
000 persons over to the dominion
of India last May he became a
private citizen. His servant trou
bles are outside the government's
jurisdiction now.
Legislative charges that the
Gaekwar misused $10,000,000 in
state funds were dropped as he
bowed to the legislature's de
mand last May that he cede his
state to the central Indian government.
ACID TEST AT EUGENE
Parents Will Face City's
Law For Delinquency Of
Children In Petty Cases
EUGENE, Dec. 17,-OB-When a child turns Into a budding
burglar, whose fault Is lt?
"The parents'," decided Eugene's city councilmen this week.
And they backed up their decision by passing an ordinance that
the parents not the child should be punished.
It's fairly stiff punishment, too: up to $200 fine or 100 days
In jail for a parent judged responsible for conditions which have
led his child Into delinquency.
Eugene Is the largest Oregon
city to base penalties on the
growing sociological theory that
a child takes the criminal path
because his parents, unwittingly
or not, have shoved him that
way.
In a gallup poll taken last
spring the majority approved the
Oregon (it started in Baker,
Ore.) "parental delinquency"
filan. Social workers, increasing
y, blame parents, and In Chi
cago this week a Judge bitterly
condemned the parents of a much
older criminal.
Judge Julius Miner, hearing the
trial of a 21-year-old mother who
had strangled her infant, called
the mother's parents before him.
"I have been shocked by the
testimony about your treatment
of your daughter," Judge Miner
told Mrs. Chester Lamont of As
toria, Ore. "No one Is more re
sponsible than you for the fact
that she Is on trial for murder."
Murder or other serious crim
es would not come under Eu
gene's new parental delinquency
control. It applies only to the
light offenses with which a child
usually starts a delinquent ca
reer: petty theft, disorderly con
duct, other misdemeanors.
Eugene thinks it will work. It
has in the small city of Baker,
Ore., where police Chief Guy V.
Church dreamed up the Idea two
years ago.
Church was being plagued by a
teen-age club known as the "Pan
ther gang," whose purpose was
stealing, and whose entrance re
quirement was theft and the kill-
WINS SCHOLARSHIP
TACOMA (.P) Ingman Sahln,
Klamath Falls high school sen
ior, has won a $300 scholarship at
the College of Puget Sound with
two water-colors.
The scholarship pays for a full
year's tuition at the school.
inree nonorabie mentions also
were given to pupils of the same
Oregon school where Robert
Baluster Is art Instructor. These
were Betty Scott, Mark Simons
Jr., botn with watercolors, and
Paul Patterson with a block
print.
ing of a certain number of cats.
The members used an aban
doned movie house to hide loot
from their thefts. The boy who
committed the most crimes was
rewarded by election as leader.
"After taking these boys into
custody on numerous charges o!
burglary and house breaking,
and turning them over to the
Juvenile courts, it seemed to us
that little was gained by con
victions," Church said.
It occurred to him to try pun
fohinp the bovs' Darenls. Instead
Backed bv Mavor Alenz e Mc-1
Kim, an ordinance was passed
Aug. 11, 1947, providing up to
$200 fine and 100 days in jail for
parents whose children commit
misdemeanors.
The "Panther Gang" broke up.
Baker's delinquency rate drop
ped sharply; some estimates were
as much as 90 percent.
It worked wo well that the or
dinance has been Invoked only
six times in the two years since.
No parents have ever been
Tuts., Dec. 20, 1949 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 9
Husband Takes S Of Wife'
HAMILTON, O., (JP) Ce
cil Gwaltney, 47, will have to
spend the next 60 days In jail if
he doesn't return to his estrang
ed wife the five shoes he has
jailed. Twice the maximum fine
was levied, but suspended later
and the parents put on probation
instead.
One father paid $50 because
his son caused continual trouble.
A mother paid $25 after her boy
was found drinking on the street.
And some other parents were fin
ed the same amount because
their youngsters were tossing
beer bottles from a car.
The town of Lakeview, Ore.,
copied Baker's ordinance this
summer. Other towns are cpn
sidering it.
But Eugene, a city of 36,000,
will provide the first major test.
s Shoes, One Of Each Pair
taken from her one shoe from
each of five different pairs.
Mrs. Gwaltney has had a di
vorce suit pending against her
husband since last February. She
also has a restraining order to
prevent him from bothering her.
She had her husband hailed In
to common pleas court for vio
lating the restraining order. She
testified before Judge P. P. Boii
that, among other things, her
husband went to her home, scat
tered her clothes around: held
parties and ate up all her food:
and took the shoes.
Judge Boli sentenced Gwatney
to five days in Jail for contempt.
Then he Issued an order to Gwat
ney which said there would be an
extra 60-day sentence If the
shoes were not returned Immed
iately on his release from the
five-day term.
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