Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, March 13, 1952, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text.Page 4 Reeisfer-Ouard. Eugene, Ore.,TIiurs., Mar. 13, 1!)52 I" Parole Board Faces Critics on All Sides Backers of this change say a part time board cannot stuuy cases thoroughly enough, and cannot see enough prisoners often enough. SOME STUDENTS of the prub- llem would give the board more (sweeping powers. They favor the maximum sentence ' system ur.ed I in Washington and California. Un- . . ' ithn maximum sentence. A full- . mission. time parole board sets ;he j.. Correspond or associate with mum without reference to a , an ex-convict or visit a penal in- "one-third rule." J stitution. I Such a system, its advocates ar- f Own or carry a weapon, in-rgue, would eliminate some of the eluding a knife with a blade long- inequities in the sentencing sys- er than three inches, a blackjack, ' tern. Now, they say, two almost 5 slingshot, sandbag, or unprotected identical cases will receive far clif- (continued from page one) '.J vlct, the parolee is not a free man. ..He is still a ward of the state, subject to a string of strictly cn t: forced regulations.' Violation means return. ; Here are a few of the "don'ls' "with which a parolee is faced. ( He must not: NEWS HRIEF ' razor. V amnspmnnt nr Initpr nnnn ihp streets at night." Buy a car. " Drive a car without permis ? sion. f Marrv without aDDroval of !sa.Y'si citizen is concerned, he's at the bottom of the barrel. He's a fail- Police Report Quiet Month Springfield police listed 11 in juries from .traffic during Febr uary, and there were 47 accidents, Chief Harry W. Howard has re ported the department had a rela tively quiet month, with many routine assignment. There were 609 prowl checks made, and po lice found 11 open doors and two open windows. Police wrote 208 traffic citations. The . department investigated 479 cases. There was one auto theft, cleared by arrest; one break und enter, one theft over $50, 12 under $50, and four of these clear ed by arrest. ferent sentences from diffuren Drink. judges or from the same judge on Frequent "improper places (.f different days. nut wnaiever cnanges :ire m;yie, Randall is sure the problem of pa role will continue to. be a tough one. "The man we see might be the best convict in the pen," he 'but as far as beine a eood Iho hnarrt ? Fail to suonort his family. t Move or change jobs without ure before we even see him." permission. S In addition he must keep in touch with the parole officer, re s' porting at least monthly. A slip-up means return to the 8 penitentiary and forfeiture of J "good time" the man may have J had when he was paroled. Thai's g why many convicts refuse parole. Warden Virgil J. O'Mallcy and Hal M. Randall, secretary of the t parole board, can cite many cases i of this kind. They run like thU: Man with 12-year sentence has good record and can get out in : eight years with "good time." 5 After four years he is refused pa Jrole. After seven years he has t chance to be paroled. He refuses. I He feels he's better off to servo thc extra year and then be free, Mhan to be on strict parole for five Jyears and possibly be returned as technical violator. I, The board usually won't see a convict until he has served a third (I of his sentence. The Oregon "one ryear rule" Is arbitrary, although it is In line with the legal provi sions of 17 states and the federal J government, " Oregon law does f provide a seven-year wait before t a person serving life for murder y can see the board. Others serving life terms must wait seven years as a matter of board policy. CONDEMNED men and persons serving life as habitual criminals arc never eligible for parole. J In some cases, Randall admits, the one-third rule is not followed. J That, he says, has sometimes been t true with the young, first offender .with a long .sentence. The board j has sometimes felt an urgency to ,gpt mo youth bnck to school, i Generally, however, the rule is r strict. "If we relaxed it," says 1 .Randall, "we'd have families lined "up from here to the corner and at Jbonrd members' homes." r Board members already have t enough to do. The three, James iJ. Richardson of Portland and ! Harry V. Collins and Charles H. 5 Muggins, both of Salem, meet i weekly at the pen to interview 'prisoners. They get $10 a meeting. !i i RANDALL estimates that these ' part-time board members spend Hwire as much time at home, f studying cases, as they do in mect ' ings. They don't get paid for their homework. j The board scps about 20 persons I each week. In the last five months of 1951 the three men saw 402 I prisoners, and paroled about 40 I per cent of them. If parole Is re 'fused, the case Is rarely closed. It Ms "continued." Randall says even In lifer can aeo the board again in Diamond Center Looted By 2 Thieves in Miami MIAMI, Fla. tP) two thieves looted the Miami diamond center of between $100,000 and $125,000 in cut diamonds Wednesday. They escaped afoot into the busy down town section. Police said one robber decoyed one of the store owners out of his office in the pretext of a sale while the second robber slipped into the vacant office, lifted a large jowelery box from a desk drawer and fled. 'Woo Woo' Comedian Dies in Hollywood I NORTH HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Comedian ' Hugh Herbert, 1 (16, whoso, fidgety hands and giggling "woo woo" brought chuckles loi movie and theater goers for four decades, died suddenly at his home Wednesday night of a heart attack. The smiling little comedian with the baggy eyes succumbed shortly after 6 p.m. PST, to end a career of performing, writing and direct ing that included nearly a quarter of a century In vaudeville. LANDS LIKE CAT FORT WORTH, Tex. U.R As a paratrooper in World War II, J. B. Fowler, Jr., never had to worry about which end would land first. The 6 foot 7W inch Forth Worth man wears a size IB shoe. SHOWERS U. S. WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST: Eugene and vici nity: Mostly cloudy with occa sional showers Thursday night and Friday. Little change in temperatures. Western Oregon: Showers Thursday night and Friday. Loral Statistics: Highest tem perature Wednesday, 50; low Thursday morning, 36: rain in 24 hours ending 10:30 a. m trace; total for month, .67 inches normal for month, 4.66 inches: stage of river at 7:30 a.m., minus 0.3 feet: wind at 11:30 a.m., S 20; prevailing Wednesday, S16. Sunrise and Sunset (PST): Friday, 6:27 a.m., and 6:17 p.m. Saturday, 6:25 a.m., and 6:18 p.m. ROAD REPORT Willamette and Sanllam Passes: Motorists advised by the State Highway Commission to carry chains. One inch of new snow fell during the night. A NEW MANAGER has been named for College Crest Water District to fill the vacancy left by the late Fred H. Getchcll. He is John Gregor, who should be called at 5-2583 regarding service and other district business mat ters. A CHINCHILLA show will be held at the 4-H Club building atlam Parenfs Protest Discipline Ads No Action Taken By School Bjoard COTTAGE GROVE The Lath Jury Voids Contract'hhm For $1088 Record ror Drinkf: It didn't take long for a circuit, was labedel "Appearance Blank." t r a tht franrf in-1 Witnesses -testified that as they court jury to find that faud in-, where hear validated a contract Dy wmm the Lane County Fairgrounds Sunday, March 16, sponsored by complaints the Western Oregon Chinchilla ninarv .Minn School Board met in special session Wednesday evening to hear i ng was held tney were asKea io local man bound himself to pay sign this. They were then asked of a Columbia if they wanted a transcript or me Droceedings. opening tne cara branch of the: for a transcript Basin hearing at $1088.40 a copy, ... .;, IOC pidllllllt, 11. O. 1 arising out oi u.i .,, from'-af of "S 9ft nir fnlin of one hun Leads to Trouble -Tlir T , - iu r. ounn Cit. i thought they coulH ?. of straight "M proceedings. upenms me uaiu.i - wni5kfv they signed an "order form"mSt ' were reprim,i which called for payment at thej"eTld crt Thursday , N T. P. Otto, -1040 Horn Lane, Eu- !Fred G. Knox, who was one of.adred words." A rate, as defehse Breeders Club, Chinchilla Assn. of America. En try of animals will.be from 12,ene' noon to 1 p.m., with judging; otto has been principal at thereafter. Animals must be four, Latham School for two vears. Al- months or older. The public is in- though several complaints were Pnc'- ,VI!a.almi.; L Vnci-iboth sides had agreed that the U.. nAwenne Tlrt aftinn Pullci im" J vited. For further information call Mrs. G. W. Wooge, 6-2855. JUNCTION CITY Jeanette j number of local men who agreed to buy the manuscript at wnai later turned out to be a $1088.40 price. Middlemiss was a "court re i attorney Windsor Calkins pointed out, of one fith of a cent per word. In his instructions to the jury, potluck luncheon. Mrs. R. S. Rog ers will be the hostess. A DRAIN soldier, SFC Thomas R. McDonald Jr., is aboard the Navy transport Gen. R. L. Howze due to arrive at Seattle Friday with 1376 troops from the Far East. KENSINGTON Club of Spring field will meet Friday, March 14, 1:30 p. m., with Mrs. Ed Privat, 506 E. G St. Mrs. Phil Bartholo mew will assist. lloyd m. Mcdowell, 1335 1 ' Madison St., was arrested bv Eu-1 t . gene police at 4:50 a.m. Thursday, Jj U f - - me innuence of intoxicating liquor. Taken into custody at 6th anrl Fi llmnro Ct Aff.nAH.nll released on $200 . bail, nendinei YeP! Under a new Oregon driv- court aoocaranco Mar 51 i'ng law, it's perfectly okay Star Club will meet at Masonic I Register - Guard correspondent, Temnle Monday at 1 n m. for a after the meeting, that Otto, as tne rmy ciigi I , .,,,,, . f ... .. : ... . t-anennnt ftf .hp ; Lull ll ai. - o .. .. was taken. Members of the school necr? " u "' """", KnoxlHe only asked the jury to deter- r"" P '1. i .no rvn.ntvimine if there was any element of board told Catherine Sedergren, Has to Stop "GOOD IS ALWAYS PRESENT' to 'make a right turn into a two-way street against a stop light. But pointing this out Wednes- -Guard is the subject of the transcribed program from The First Church day a sFtory in tne Register-Gu of Christ, Scientist, m Boston, 1 didn.t mention what should be mnssacnuseus. wnicn will be obvious fact-yet probably isn't heard over Station KERG Satur- fully realized by all drivers, day morning, March 15, at 7:45 Tne iaw says you gotta stop o'clock. Harry C. Browne will be Vinfnva vni. malfe that rioht turn. emiuca , stoo and be sure that the way is clear traffic-wise and that no pedestrians are in your way. The well as the seven teachers at the school, has been offered a contract for the next school year. The physical education teacher and coach, Alfred Grubb, told the board he will resign, Mrs. Seder gren said. . The principal also teaches two eighth grade classes. The board also reviewed the budget election held Monday in which 31 persons voted in favor, j 10 against this year's $60,090.45 budget, an increase of $2034.25 ; over last year. The board accepted the bid of $7225.02 from the Ed Lorence Co. of Eugene for a new school bus. There were six bidders. is chairman of the Lane L-ounty , committee of the Willamette Bas in Project Committee. fraud or trickery involved in the presentation and signing of the contract. court heard testimony of The THE CONTRACT by which he made his services available to ,several local people present at the civilians attending the Portland imeeting in February, 1949: Fred hearings was introduced in evi dence. It consisted of a folded card, much the same in size and shape as a' Christmas card. The front the speaker. The solo "The Lord Is My Shepherd" will be sung by Frederick Jagel. A COOKED food sale will be held Saturday by the. Women's Society of Christian Service at Eb bert Memorial Methodist Church in Springfield. The sale will take place at Irish-Murphy Store, 448 Main St., starting at 10:30 a.m. t OREGON RAMBLERS Motor cycle Club of Springfield will meet at 8 p. m. Thursday on S. E. iJarK. visitors are welcome, cars on the two-way street to which you're gonna turn and the pedestrians in the crosswalk in front of you both have priorities to the right-of-way. It's about the same, thing when you want to make a turn against a traffic light into a one-way street. The correct procedure Is: (1) stop for the light (in the proper turning lane); (2) check J. DOUGLAS ADDISON. 1474 iIor Peaesir ansann cars on tne W. 6th Ave., sales representative other street; (3) if the way is for Johns-Manville Building Pro- c'"rJ g. ' .u . g 1 I .1 ducts Division, was graduated I J"ldjd' of course, that you don't Wednesday from aji advanced I head out he ;vrong way on that training course in modern sales lonc"way street- techniques at the Johns-Manville Training Center, Manville, N. J. niKS. JUNE Walker Standafer, aaugnter of Mrs. Dora Walker, 39 Jefferson St., Eugene, Ore., has enrolled at Anderson College, Ind for the spring semester of the 1051-52 schooliyonr. Mrs. Walker, a senior, is majoring in public scnooi music, and minoring in English. JAMES COLHURN of Eugene has been initiated by the Oregon State College chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, national freshman scholar ship honor fraternity. Colburn, freshman in engineering, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Colburn, 107 Hansen Lane, Eugene. ALL MASTER Masons are In vited to attend the regular stag dinner to be held March 19, at 0:30 p.m. in the Masonic Hall, loth and Olive St. The dinner is to be prepared by the famous "chef, Brother Harold Jensen. There will be a Stated Communication and work In the Fellowcraft Degree, loiiowmg the dinner. Master Ma son visitors are also welcome. George D. DeLamater George David DeLamater, 51, of : field College 321 Mill St., Springfield, died Wednesday in a local hospital. Born at Baker, Ore., June 27, 1900f he married Anna J. Reed at Redding, Calif., July 12, 1943. He was superintendent of the Northwest Industrial Laundry and and had lived in Springfield seven years. A veteran of the first world war, he was a member of the American Legion. Surviving are the widow, Anna J. DeLamater, Springfield; two sons, Max, Springfield, and How ard, Glendale, Calif.; two daugh ters, Doris Allock, San Francisco, Merel Frijito, Chula Vista, Calif., a brother, Homer, Klamath Falls; two sisters, Myrtle Corbett, Springfield, and Clara Rada baugh, Baker, and three grand children. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Bartholomew-Buell Chapel. Students Win Speech Honors Three Eugene students from the University of Oregon won five places and one tie in the 22nd annual interscholastic forensic tournament of champions at Lin- last weekend. Seven Eugene students took part, including Bill Ruiter, Don Mickelwait, Robert Glass,' Karl Peterson, Nancy O'Connor, and Nancy Yates, all from the Univer sity of Oregon, and Gene Paul, from Oregon State College. Nancy Yates won a first in im promptu speaking, a. second in after dinner speaking, and a third in extemporaneous' speaking, all in the senior women's division. Nancy O'Connor took a second place in both impromptu speak ing, senior women's division, and the Lincoln-Douglas Debate.' Robert Glass tied for second in extemporaneous speaking, Junior men's division. Approximately 600 students from nearly 40 colleges in the western states attended the three day conference, one of the oldest invitational forensic meets held annually in th& United States, on March 6 to 8. ijarry uurt D.. " .tyjodry Main St. at 2:45 .-m.TkJ mer 19 who-pleadw paroled to Jim Mu" tion City on d.!.? havior and hi, lir. pended six monthi-o;!! fined $10. ' The youths, under !(ais possessing alcohnl 3?! had bought from a soldier. who jL!, aciea line he needed liTJ They said the iim,"l into an empty fifth 1 basketha Win,l.attl Wednesday night. ' Municipal Judge Lei, loln. me Boys, 'Wjl fools with hard liql chump; you are no eraj ziSalem Von Held for M Charles Albert Maui.. Salem, was charged ait-coy inursaay mono,J He waived preliminaij j and statement and ua ted to the county jail $500 bail. J Also in district tori 1 Castro Yanez, 46,' ol CkJ Mexico, pleaded guilt; IfJ of being drunk in a M and was sentenced to twJ in ii.c wuii.jr jail. Brenne, secretary of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce; Dr. A. T. Oberg, who also signed the. con tract, and is chairman of the Chamber's flood control commit tee; Elmo B. Chase, who bought a transcript; and Knox, of the Willamette Basin Commission. THEY TESTIFIED they had at tended other meetings of this and had received voluminous nrinted material for nothing. Dr. Oberg exhibited what he called "about eight pounds of books" which he said he received at basin Droceedings for nothing. They also said there was a certain amount of confusion attendant to register ing and signing the order form. In his summation, Robert B. Carmichael, attorney for the plain tiff, stressed the difference in ap pearance in the order blank and th'e attendance card and the care with which Knox had filled out the contract. He said this indi cated that the defendant knew what he was doing. Herman Hen dershott, the other 1 attorney for the plaintiff, asked that the deci sion be made on the basis of the evidence submitted and not on the opinions of the attorneys. "What would you do?" Calkins asked the jury in his summation. "You go to a meeting of a bureau of the federal government sign up in the confusion for a record of the proceedings and end up with $1088.40 worth of books you would never read." He said Knox had a right to rely on procedure followed at previous meetings. The jury took, only 15 minutes to reach a decision favoring Knox. John Frederick Cm John Frederick Culml son of Mr. and Mrs. Silt: ver, Rt. ,2, Eugene died il cal hospital Wodnesin, i 12, 1952 at the ageo(fa Beside his parents, ktil vived by one brother, Dm ert, at home; and his pj ents, Mr. and Mrs. M Culver, Springfield, Graveside services mil Laurel Hill Cemetery lil March 13 at 3:00 p. il Louis Sohler officiating. Sdl mew-Buell Chapel wasii f five years. (However, the January issue of (the prison magazine, "Shadows, t complains there are now in the Jpen 22 lifers who last saw the iboard eight or more years ago.) "Parole is not lenience or for nivpiipss." savs Randall. "It is not reward." The board, he says, rec- 'nenizps that It must protect fciety from felons. It also rccog Jniios, however, a responsibility ttn the inmate who can make good. rAnd, n.indall points out. the sys tem saves the state money. I LAST MONTH there were 1500 convicts in tho penitentiary. An other 1500 were on parole. One Mhousand were on probation from Ijcourls and were supervised by the 'board's stuff of 15 parole officers. Nt costs $(5 a month to keep a Jman locked up, It costs $8.81 a Jmonth to supervise a man on pro bation or parole. The $50 more It j.would cost to keep these 2500 locked up amounts to $140,000 a tanonth. And that dopsn't take into consideration the npeded pxpenses for more cells and longer walls Jwhich would havp to be built. Randall's favorite statistic con cerns the family man now being suprrvlspd at a cost of $S81 a finonth. Ho has a wifp and nine rhildrpn whom he supports. In the Mien hp was cOstinc. the state S65 SR month. His family was costing "hc state, through public welfare, Smother J-'tifl a month. A man's family responsibilities are somptimps rnnsidrrpri when Jip is parolrd, Randall admits, bin jthp main factor is the man him ;pf, and how well he can do on ihe outside. A HtlSONKU, Hniut.ill 5!,VSi .reaches a "peak" In his sentence when he icalir.px the prior of his Svays and is determined to gn Straight. He should be released then, according to Randall. J O'Mallcy uses the "apple en a rpp" comparison. "If you rat a v'lern apple, ynu net it stomach tiche," he says. "Let a man out too joon, and society gets a stomach chr. But leave an apple too leng Jind its gets rotten. You ra:i t a ;itomach ache from rotten apples, oo." " There has been agitation went r for full-time parole bonul. ROIIOCKANDCa KENMORE ROTARY Sewing Machine 20.00 down 7.50 Month Round Bobbin Sews double lock stitch, forward or backwards. Sows over Pins With attachments Point Feed 20 Yr. Guarantee Free Home Service and Instruction Trade in your old Machine Today 3 Day FREE Home Trial- just Call 5-1S61 vt pnt mMty Atai' jLHlw Corner tilth Ch.irnrlton rhone 5-156 1 2 Hours Free firkin JOHNSON FURNITURE CO. sreii OPENING CHROME DINETTE SETS Brighten every hour in your home . . . 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