.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.
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