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’itrlland Olpwrvt-r Thursday, November 10, 1077 Pag* 3 From behind the wall by Larry Baker O.S.P. Cerrea,M>odeat - SINCERELY YOURS. A candy bar. a cigarette. A stack of dusty letters, To thumb through An iron bunk. An old thin mattress. And a worn out blanket. Becomes my only companion. All of a sudden, - With ten more years to go. A smelly toilet, and a sink, Thirteen rusty bars to look through. A cement floor, a couple of books. Becomes my closest friends. All of a sudden - With ten more years to go. “to restore to a former state," and if used in this sense it may be a realistic approach with former law-abiding dti A couple of sheets of paper zens who have made a mistake. A blank envelope. However, there are many criminals With pen in hand, who because of environmental or other I sit down to write. reasons have not learned to respect the rights and feelings of others, nor do they But why? comply with the expectations of society. Or how? To turn all of these different kinds of people loose, all at once, would surely be All of a sudden, there’s no one stupidity. There - and the night grows cold. But they should be entitled to a program alto, to eliminate their negative With ten more years to go. feelings. W hich again is of little concern to society. Society nor administrative staff can say that punishment is not a deterrent to crime. Sure society needs to be safe guarded against dangers. Let's not only proceed on the basis of by Skillful Davis «36651 safe guarding society from those who prey on the innocent by sequestering or Prisons, KehabiUtalion and Recidivism srff^Kating them apart from society, permanently or semi permanently. Espe Society feels that rehabilitation some how isn't working in institutions, and cially dealing with first or second offenses their tax dollars are being wasted. There dealing with harmless crimes. Let's also let society do other construc are numerous institutions that have college programs for prisoners who are tive things. Instead of sending first offenders off to prison, which serves as an seeking higher education. But what's one to do if he should or undergraduate school for crime for pe would like to learn some vocational riods of even a year to five years. Let's trade? Does the prospect of becoming a give them a deeply frightening exper short order cook or a dish washer sound ience of prison, of no more than two or inviting? There are a few more menial three months. Let's do something effec vocations that are offerred, and in my tive on a national scale to enable released eyes these programs defeat the purpose convicts or should I say inmates, to earn a of rehabilitation. These types of pro living honestly. Perhaps counseling on experiences, in grams have not supported their effective regards to conditions of institutions, to ness in reducing recidivism. Society is responsible, to a large prevent younger people from making extent, for producing criminals and an mistakes that can be corrected, or go intelligent and humane society would vernment work as last resort. attempt to eliminate these conditions. CAN YOU REMEMBER Their backs should not be turned to a prisoner who is advancing back into the Can you remember community. But should lend a helping waiting hand toward an individual to become a in line to productive member of society. take a It also remains highly unlikely that bath crime will ever be eliminated entirely, down at but with just a small amount of concern the harbor and attention crime will decrease consid erably. The word rehabilitation means * Vice Principal enthusiastic over Jefferson by l^auri Green EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the 3rd in a series of interviews with Jefferson High School administrators. JHS - This year is Ms. Shirley Hakan son's second year as vice principal of Jefferson High School. Before working at Jefferson, she worked throughout other western and midwestern states as a teacher, counselor for a junior high school, psychometrist, and budgeting and testing coordinator for the Area I office. She received a bachelor's degree in teaching from the University of Northern Iowa, a masters degree in counseling and guidance from Indiana University, and she's had additional course work at Portland State University, the Univer sity of Portland, and Stanford Univer sity. REPORTER: What are your goals for this year? HAKANSON: I'm aiming for more organization in the performing arts unit. I'd also like a more effective recruiting system for the magnet programs and to establish special education programs that are consistent in meeting the state laws. I want to provide efficient student pro grams but most of all, to have a smooth school operation. REPORTER: Do you feel kids are getting a better education these days? HAKANSON: I think in general, kids get a far better education now. There's a lot more to be taught than there was twenty years ago. Considering the amount to be taught, we do a good job. REPORTER: How do you feel about Jefferson? HAKANSON: I love it! It's a neat school. I don't know of any other school , where we could be playing a champion ship football game and also have a dance company of national reputation perform ing to a public audience all in one evening. This is an exciting school. REPORTER: How do the students relate to you? HAKANSON: In general, I think they like me. They're friendly to me. REPORTER: Do you feel that the students activities are working out well? HAKANSON: Yes. I’m pleased with the growth in both quantity and quality. There are still more things I would like to do. It's not ideal but I am pleased. REPORTER: Which budgets are you in charge of? HAKANSON: I'm in charge of the preparation for all of them. I share the authorization for purchase with the other administrators. We all have a conference to discuss the budgets and how the spending will be dealt with. However, all the paperwork goes through my office. REPORTER: How are decisions made on what to spend on and how much should be spent? HAKANSON: The adm inistrators share those decisions. We discuss it among ourselves and-then with, the unit leaders and/or program leaders.r-' Yaty few decisions are made alone by one administrator. REPORTER: Are you optimistic about this school year? HAKANSON: Yes! Definitely! W ere going to have a good school year. We’ve already had one and that's how it will continue. Ms. Shirley Hakanson is an optomistic and cheerful vice principal. Her attitude rubs off on the students as one revealed “Ms. Hakanson is a pretty dedicated person who wants to make this school and the students something important. I don't know her really well but I like her." sieve's house beyond the junk yard can you remember the early morning at that Ital., restaurant (the women really dug paul) and making a fire in that old pot belly stove Can you remember the abolone $reg & Steve turned us onto & the puppies (all thirteen) plus dog and the turtle remember the elec., blanket and the tai sticks wine and music, casper's inn where we had the run in with the pigs A the next day when you & paul come to bail me out can you remember going back to S.F. in the turtle when we stopped in that field to give thanks to such a beautiful ni ;ht ca 1 you remember c in you remember leaving the turtle for a bus - Legal technicality may reopen King murder case by Donald Freed MEMPHIS, TENN., NOV. 7 |PN S| - Lawyers for James Earl Kay are confi dently predicting that the convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will get his day in court in the form of a full re hearing into the King murder case. Attorney Mark Lane, recently hired as Ray's principal defense lawyer, claims he has uncovered a rarely used provision in Tennessee law that guarantees his client the new trial he has been seeking for the past eight-and a-half years. According to Tennessee Statute 17-117, if a defendant appeals his convic tion but the trial judge dies before rendering a decision on the appeal, then the defendant wins a new trial. This, according to Lane, is precisely what happened in the James Earl Ray case. Ray pleaded guilty on March 10, 1969, then fired off a letter and a motion for a new trial to the judge who presided over his case. W. Preston Battle. However, Judge Battle died suddenly of a heart attack less than three weeks later without ruling on the Ray motion. Ironically, Judge Battle was found slump ed over his desk top with Ray's petition beneath him, according to the court clerk who discovered the body. As Lane reads it. Statute 17-117 is so specific that it alone would be enough to guarantee Ray his first full-length public hearing into the evidence of the case. Lane's staff is currently preparing the motion for a new trial. “If the law of Tennessee is respected by the courts of Tennessee, then Ray will get a new trial," Lane said. “If he does, we are confident he will be acquitted.” However, one Tennessee prosecutor was not convinced that Ray's guilty verdict would be automatically reversed. The prosecutor, who did not wish to be quoted beause of pending litigation in the case, said the statute may only apply to civil and not to criminal proceedings. Kay's attorneys have filed nearly a dozen other legal challenges in an effort to win a new trial, including motions on these issues: • Ray contends he was “coerced" and even blackmailed by the FBI 'nto plead ing guilty by threats to put his elderly father into prison. In an affidavit, Ray claims that just two days before he went to trial in 1969, both he and his brothers were visited by federal agents who claimed to have discovered that Ray's father, George Ray, had violated a parole condition in the state of Iowa in the mid-1920s. According to the affidavit, Ray was told by the FBI that his father “would be returned to die in prison” if he (James) failed to cooperate with prosecutors by pleading guilty to King's murder. • Ray also alleges in a similar sworn statement that an FBI agent named Robert Jensen, the special agent in charge of the Nashville office, visited him in prison within 48 hours of his conviction in 1969. Ray charges that Jensen warned him to “go along with the Bureau” by not appealing his conviction. He claims Jensen told him he would be "sorry” if he attempted to win a new trial, and says he was warned that if he persisted in his appeal efforts, one or two of his brothers would join him in prison. Even if Ray does not win a new trial, he may get his chance to speak out publicly in the King case - if he chooses to do so. According to Lane, the House Select Committee on Assassinations has said it would like to question Ray about the King assassination during open, public hearings in Washington, D.C., perhaps next spring. Lane reports that, in preparation for the upcoming public sessions. House investigators are scheduled to question Ray in his Brushy Mountain penitentiary cell on November 14th. Power Saver Center Locations If you re ready to start saving money this winter, come by and visit our Power Saver Center We ve a library full of free advice As well as the materials you II need to get the iota Bressia Electric Company Portland Buriitt Plumbing, inc. Portland Cornell's Woodland Park Lumber, Inc. 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