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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crowded and outdated it is," says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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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