Tig 1 Secttoii 2 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Salem, Oregon", Monday, February 18, 1957 LAWS 'WITH HEART' GOAL Rep. Grace Peck Displays Interest in Less Fortunate Br GORMAN HOGAN Auoclated Pren Writer Liws "with a heart" in them are (he goal of a sweet faced, gray haired woman starting her second term in the Oregon Legislature. That's why Rep. Grace Olivier Peck. Portland Democrat whose initials are. G.O.P., devotes her major attention to such things as legislation for a new women's prison, assistance for the blind and tighter laws on divorce and marriage. Mrs. Peck, who "never was blessed with children and not tal ented enough to write great music or prose," thinks maybe her "reason for being here" is to try to help those less fortunate than she is. Has Practiced Side Yet Mrs. Peck, a Portland real estate saleswoman and legal sec retary, has her practical side. She knows that help lor the unfortun ate costs money, and she thinks the state should make the most of the dollars it spends. She has introduced a bill asking one million dollars to build a new women a prison. While she knows that the pressing financial affairs of the state may make an lm mediate appropriation of this amount impossible, she does hope this Legislature will at least ap . propriate funds to plan such an Institution. "Anyone who visits the women's division of the prison knows how crowded and outdated it is," says Mrs. Peck, who is inspecting the institution from too to bottom. Little Rehabilitation Chance "The oclls may be decorated with perky curtains and smell good, but there is no chance for recrea tion and less for rehabilitation, We provide these things for the 'men in prison, why slight the women? The state owes aa much to them as it does to the men be hind bars." Mrs. Peck concedes there is an average of only about 3.1 women In the prison at one time. But to make a new women's section eco nomically sound she would make it available under a fee system for county prisoners as well as those under stata jurisdiction. I She point out that as many as 800 women go through the county and state courts annually. Many Sentences Suspended But many of the women, she contends, receive suspended sen tences because the counties have no place to keep them. "So they return to the same old environment, finally become hardened and the chance for their rehabilitation is gone forever," she says. Rep. Peck is encouraged, though, by developments in the men's division of the prison since 1049, the last time she served in the Oregon House. She's "amazed" at the ele mentary school where the prison crs "seem to be studying and learning." And rehabilitation proj ects such as the tailoring, furni ture and craft shops seem to Mrs. Peck to be making headway. On a recent visit. Rep. Peck says she met "one of the boys" she had talked to in isolation while inspecting the prison in 1949. Attitude Chanjri Eight years ago he was sullen, unhappy and despondent. This time she found him happily at work in the craft shop making jewelry. "He looked good, was in terested and told me he had given up his old ways, she says, smil ing at the recollection. This she sees as an encouraging sign But Mrs. Peck says segregation and isolation practices of the prison are still bad, though pos sibly somewhat better' than eight years ago. She feels, too, that "the boys" in prison should be provided glasses and dental care at slate expense as an aid to re habilitation. These things now are financed by the prisoners them selves and she says many can't allord it. Visits Prison Mrs. Peck, once secretary to a member of the California Parole Board, has visited the prison about three times a year since serving her first legislative term. Her political career has been a disappointing one for her. Until last November she failed to win re-election after serving the 1949 Housewives in South Fight Move to Ban Trading Stamps NASHVILLE (UP) Stamp- saving housewives, prodded by lo cal merchant and inspired by "gift" catalogues, worked today to beat down a south - wide drive to outlaw controversial trading stamps, Legislative moves (o do away wlut the so-called bonus or dis count stamps have been reported in three southern states but so far, none has passed. A bill that would place a lax of from $300 to $M0 a year on the stamp companies and a two per cent levy on gross receipts of mer chants using the stamps has won senate approval in the Tennessee legislature. However, the bill Is presenlly stalled in a house committee and a recent motion to bring the meas ure to the house floor was tabled. Committee Chairman Damon Headden said the committee wants more time to study the bill. It was reported that one stamp company alone sent our 30,000 pro test letters in an attempt to stir up housewives and letters are be ginning to pour inlo the law makers, and the measure is meet ing new opposition. A flood of mail from Indignant housewives is also slacking up in the South Carolina State House. Most of the letters are protesting an anti-trading stamp bill that is before the legislature there. In order to keep the letters flowing, a number of South Caro lina merchants are furnishing sta tionary, pens ink and even stamps for customers who wish to protest. session. She feels she could have accomplished much in the Legis lature in the interim. She wonders why Oregon, where "the people are so fussy about gambling laws and regula tion of pinball machines, are so careless about the divorce and marriage laws." None of those serving In the last Legislature when the three day waiting period marriage law was repealed "can remember why they voted for the change," Mrs. Peck says. She believes those really serious about getting married don't mind the three-day waiting period. And she sees it as a deterrent to those who might elope and regret it later, or to elderly people, for ex ample, who might be hoodwinked into marriage by the unscrupul ous interested in getting hold of their property. As for divorce, she wants a law providing for an interlocutory de cree with a final decree six months later. Oregon's present law provides for a final decree immediately but with a ban on remarriage for six months. This leads, she says, to manv illegal marriages which "must be straightened out in batches" by nianKot legislation passed at in tervals to protect property rights. ane icols, too, that many mar riages are salvaged as a result oi interlocutory decree regula tions. The daughter of a Portland and Alaska rivcrboat captain, Mrs Peck calls herself a child of di vorce. She knows from exper ience, she says, what a mark a broken home can leave on children. As chairman of the Public Health and Welfare Committee, she believes that despite the need to calculate problems in cold dol lars and cents, "We can nut i heart into the bills which come before us. Norblad Greets WU Girls iTWli Claims Famed Small Egyptian Probers Study Union s Books SEATTLE m Agents of the Senate subcommittee investigating union activities are in Seattle go ing over the books of the Western Conference of Teamsters, an at torney for the conference report ed Sunday. Samuel B. Bassett said the rec ords are the same ones the un ion refused to show in January to the permanent Senate Subcom mittee on Investigations. They do not, however, Include the personal records of Dave Beck, International president of the Teamsters. Sen. McClellan D-Ark), chair man of the Senate subcommittee conducting the union investiga tion, also has asked to ace Beck's personal records, Bassett said. R. FERGUSON ILL FALLS CITY (Special) Rufus Ferguson of Falls City, who has recently been a patient at the Bar- tcll Hospital, has been transferred to the Veteran s hospital in Port land for treatment of arthritis. p Mm Pianist Hofmami, 81 I LOS ANGELES un Death has .certs playing as many as four a ! ended the long and varied career! week. The tour ended alter a con- . . . . . .... ...i cut.. rnM D-a Itep. Walter Norblad, Joyce Hill of Portland and Dixie Ruud of Molalla (left to right) are pictured here In front of the John McLoughlin statue in the Capitol In Washington, D.C. Both girls are students at Willamette university and are in Washington for a one-term seminar at American university. Miss Ruud is a graduate of Woodburn high school, (Capital Journal Photo) Charge Egypt With Training More Raiders JERUSALEM UV-The Tel Aviv newspaper Davar today charged that Egypt is forming new bands of fedayeen commandos to he smuggled into the Gaza Strip for raids across the border into Is rael. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Israel has had some reports confirming Egyptian attempts to "reorganize fedayeen gangs." Cit ing several recent reports of mine explosions along the Gaza fron tier, he said new fedayeen groups obviously had sneaked through the buffer zone guarded by the U.N. Emergency Force. Extension Meets At Middle Grove MIDDLE GROVE (Special) Mrs. Paul Schlag was hostess for the february meeting of the Middle Grove Home Extension club. Assisting hostesses for the luncheon hour were Mrs. William Massey and Mrs. Le Roy Austin. Mrs. Harry Phillips and Mrs. Paul Schlag discussed the project of the day "Keeping up With New .Methods of freezing. Mrs. Wil bur Wilson assisted by Mrs. Gerald Jaffe and Mrs. John Anglin dis cussed the industries and agricul ture of Holland. Mrs. Jaffe as pro gram planning chairman, listed TOE MIIGHW CHRYSLER Most glamorous car In a generation subjects chosen by members for next year. 11M '.rV urn JOSEF HOFUANN of famed pianist Josef Hofmann. j The Polish i born musician I celebrated first, at 5. as a piano prodigy died Saturday at in a Los Angeles nursing home Physician s blamed a heart attack for hi. death. He hari been hospital ized only four days. Hofmann's genius included such achievements as: A finished concert pianist; a composer: a teacher of gifted pu pils; a director of a great con servatory; and, amazingly, as an inventor of mechanical devices and auto accessories, for which he held more than 60 patents. As a boy he took time from concert tours in Europe, Scandi navia and the United States to in vent extension pedals and heel rests so his short legs could ma nipulate piano pedals. In 1924, Hofmann became the director of the newly founded Curtis Institute, endowed by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok with 12Vi million dollars. He was a United States resident since 1900 and a resident of Los Angeles and near by Long Beach since 1930. Surviving are his widow Betty; three sons, Anton, 32, and Peter, 20, of Cambridge, Mass., and Ed ward, 26, an Air Force man sta tioned at Lake Charles, La.; and a daughter, Josefa, of Aiken, S C. Hofmann first came to the Uni ted States in 1887 at the age of 11. He began a series of 80 U.S. con certs when the Society for Pre vention of Cruelty to Children in tervened. Alfred Corning , Clark, a New York philanthropist, gave the boy's father $50,000 so the young genius could resume his musical education in Poland. His identity as Hofmann's benefactor was kept secret for 38 years. At 16 Hofmann became the first and only pupil of the celebrated Anton Rubinstein. Knowland to Fight Aid to Polish State CHICAGO Wl-Sen: William F. Knowland (R-Calif), the Senate minority leader, says he'll at tempt to block any administration move to offer U.S. assistance to Poland or other Communist-dominated countries. In a Lithuanian Independence day speech yesterday, Knowland described Poland's Communist government as untrustworthy and asserted: "I shall oppose the taking of a single dollar from the overbur dened American taxpayer to build the economic strength of any Com munist country behind the Soviet Iron Curtain or to give military aid to any Communist state any where in the world." Knowland's stand apparently placed him in opposition to the Eisenhower administration's offer to Poland to negotiate 100 million dollars in credit to buy American cotton, farm and mining machin ery, fats, oils and other products. Ship Squeezes Through Canal First to Complete Full 103-Mile Trip Since Fighting Started SUEZ, Egypt W Squeezing nast obstructions, the little Egyp tian ship Ramses has traveled the entire length of the Miez tanai the first commercial vessel to complete the 103-mile trip since last November's fighting. The vovace of the 322-ton Ram ses, little bigger than a tug, did not mean the waterway is cleared for ordinary shipping. There are still three major obstructions ' blocking the channel the U.N. sal-: vage fleet hopes to open by March 10 for medium-sized vessels. Some circles in Cairo believe that Egyptian President Nasser may Isow or halt the clearance work to pressure the West into1 forcing Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Aqaba. The Ramses carried a cargo of medicines from Port Said to Suez, i at the southern end of the canal, j . Egyptian authorities still have not given the U.N. salvage fleet permission to start work on the sunken tug Edgar Bonnet, near the middle of the waterway, nor the sunken Frigate Abukir, four miles north of Suez. The Egyptians say their divers must remove explosives from the Edgar Bonnet before the salvag ers can go to work. The U.N. ships began work yes terday on the third major obstruc tion, a sunken bucket dredger six miles north of Suez. PROLIFIC POP DETROIT lUP)-Harold Emery believes his German short-haired pointer, the Duchess of Heidel berg, set some sort of a record Sunday when she gave birth to 18 pups. The pups were sired by Prince Von Schoenherr who is the father of 45. A d i e s e 1 locomotive contains more than 70,000 individual parts. , If-4 James Taft NIAGARA LA PAD The only health or physical therapy equipment ever ap proved for advertising in Good Housekeeping Magazine. 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