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ETGHT MTOrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE rrldar. March 18, 1958 Law Against Juvenile Smoking Creates Problem at State Training Schools WE'RE DELIVERING LOTS OF 1955 DE SOTOS . . . They are not very tall, barely five feet, the 126 inch wheel base provides a good understanding, and they drive as good as they look. Jit y rs ?r i V V 1 t-0et . V " Check Our Deal WE'RE OUT FOR THE BIGGEST DESOTO MONTH EVER. Our tremendous increase in volume lets us make YOU a BETTER DEAL. Dick M 33 South Riverside 1 Phone 2-5203 helped make the difference L .r AN EXCITING VIEW of the -Grand Canyon wm the WgJv spot of the evening with an old-fashioned stereopticon. Today, the scene from our living room has been widened enormously. The whole world is on display. The magic of radio and tele vision brings news and entertainment to millions of Americans. But to mass produce mttBons of radios and television sets," manufacturers must be able to sell them by the million. Only by advertising can a manufacturer talk to million of people at the same time, ' -ADVERTISING TELLS the 'story of newer radio and television "sets . . . and helps sell them. The more it sells, the more must be made keeping the production lines and the jobs, going. The result: newer, better sets at prices more people can afford to pay. Advertising helped make the difference in radio and television, and in out American way of. life. Bedford Mail Tribune Superintendents Favor Repeal of Criminal Status Salem (U.R) Juvenile authorities are agreed that an Oregon law which makes a minor who smokes cigarettes a criminal creates a disciplinary and rehabilitation problem at both the girls' and the boys' training schools. And Father H. B. Laner Jr., Albany Episcopal minister and chaplain at Hillcrest school for girls here, goes a step further. He says the legal ban creates a much more serious moral prob lem lying and stealing, which are expressly forbidden in the 10 commandments. Favors Repeal The superintendents of both boys and girls training schools spoke in favor of a measure in troduced by Sen. Stewart Hardy (R-Condon) which would repeal a law making a juvenile who smokes a criminal. He made it clear yesterday before the Sen ate Judicial Committee headed by Sen. Warren Gill (R-Leb-anon) that his bill does not re peal the statutes which prevent the selling of tobacco to minors without written consent of the parent or guardian. Not Enforceable Sen. Hardy pointed to the law, which says any minor under 18 who smokes a cigarette in public place shall be fined $1 to S10 or imprisoned up to two days. He said the prevalence of smok ing among teenagers in all parts of Oregon show the law is not enforceable. James Lamb, superintendent of MacLaren school for boys at Woodburn, said the ban against smoking, mandatory for the in stitution under the law, creates the biggest problem his staff faces. Narcotics No Problem Drinking and use of narcotics present little or no problems. But most of the boys have be come used to smoking before they get to MacLaren school. A boy driving up with a sheriff's deputy, may be smoking in the car. But the minute he gets to the school he is cut off. The re sult is constant attempts to smuggle in cigarettes, both by the boys coming back from off campus chores, and by their par ents visiting them. Miss Marjorie McBride, sup erintendent for Hillcrest, said her staff faces precisely the same problem. She said most of the girls over the age of 12 have smoked before they got to Hill crest. Both superintendents fav ored supervised smoking so they could confine it to safe areas. During the 1850s, some 13, 000,000 feet of lumber was lightered to seagoing vessels for shipment to San Francisco from what is now Lighter Wharf at House Members Vote To Go Along With Plans for Saturday Work Salem (U.R) Members of the Oregon Heuse voted yesterday to go - along with speaker Ed Geary's recommendation for Saturday sessions at 9 a.m. Geary encountered opposition from several members who con tended they should have Satur days to attend to their private affairs and from those who doubted much work would be accomplished on Satur days. Geary said Saturday sessions would force members to remain in Salem Friday afternoon for committee meetings. The Senate decided earlier on Saturday sessions. Leavenworth Penitentiary Has Few Jitters Over Riots Leavenworth, Kan. (U.R) There are a few riot jitters in the federal penitentiary here al though more than 2,500 of the second-toughest convicts in the country (incorrigibles are sent to Alcatraz) are walled in on a little patch of Kansas plains. Most of the inmates are ap proaching middle age. The aver age age is 35, nearly 10 years higher than the average in the nation's prisons. Warden C. H. Looney, the man in charge of one of the fed eral government's two No. 2 "big houses"- the other is in Atlanta, Ga. said that flareups elsewhere generally are sparked by hot-headed youngsters. But he added that the big reason there has been no attempted break or riot scare here in more than 10 years is the prisoners' eternal effort' to accumulate "good time," or days subtracted from a maximun term for good behavior. Paroles are the exception at Leavenworth. Looney said, and even the long-termers shun any form of trouble as a threat to their carefully hoarded "good" time. Yet 60 per cent of the men discharged from here return. Looney, a soft-spoken, cheerful, part-time farmer, worries about that rate. He blames the re habilitation program, in whose successes he. otherwise takes pride, for shortcomings some where. He holds backgrounds partial ly responsible. Files in the place ment office, he said, show that many of the inmates never held a job. The records are a mono tonous pattern of early truancy. correctional schools, minor thefts and major crimes and prison. Many of the men here have spent most of their lives behind bars, he pointed out. Lifetime patterns like that are hard to break, and a man who serves his time here docile ly, as most do, still finds it hard not to fall back into the old life outside. Looney is much like a small town mayor. He knows his com munity well. He says "Hello boys" on his way through the doublegated corridors and quiet ly keeps an eye on potential troublemakers. A former rural school teacher in Missouri, Looney has ended nearly every day of his 22 years on the staff with a tour of the prison farms. His own farm is at nearby Atchison and his home is on the grounds here. The warden seldom uses the grapevine method to check a trouble pulse and is proud of the federal standards for guards. He is a respecter of the prison code against "copping" (informing on fellow inmates) and demands testimony about what goes on in the cell blocks only when grand jury action is involved. The only investigations held in years here involved fights among prisoners. Only six guards are armed. They watch the yards from towers. Talk among convicts is restricted to allotted times and industrial shops are designed both to keep the men busy and prison chatter to a minimum. Only 212 inmates, including lifers, are serving terms of 25 years or' more. Some of the underworld's biggest names have chalked off days into old age here. Machine Gun Kelly died inside. Harvey Bailey, another notorious kidnapper of the 1930s still is here, approaching 70. The "big name" convicts, Loo ney added, keep pretty much to themselves. They dodge those who seek to associate with the famous. The House, in informal cau cus, also agreed to convene each morning at 9:30 instead of 10 and to move morning commit tee meetings to 8 o'clock instead of 8:30. Loyalty Oath The House yesterday approv ed a bill providing a loyalty oath for persons to be employed or associated with civil defense agencies. The bill was previous ly sent back to committee be cause of strong objections by Rep. Alfred Corbett (D-Portland) that it infringed on civil rights. As amended and brought back yesterday, the objection able features were eliminated to the satisfaction of most mem bers except Rep. Harvey De Armond (R-Bend). He said he ob jected to penalizing persons who had recanted earlier associations with Communist organizations and had become reliable citi zens. The loyalty oath approved yesterday requires civil defense workers to affim that they nev er belonged to a party or organ ization "they knew" advocated the violent ovethrow of the gov ernment. Tax Bill Monday Also passed was a bill grant ing uniform exemptions throughout the state for prop erty taxes assessed against war veterans and their widows. On today's calendar were 11 bills including one to remove the state from the flax and linen business. The bill 1 restrict fishing derbies was up '..r final passage after yesterday's debate over adoption of the majority report. The resolution favoring remo val of the present ban on emer gency clauses on tax measures was set for special order of busi ness Monday. The majority re port on that measure was adopt ed yesterday by a vote of 34 to 26. FREE FREE Once again it is time to sign up for your FREE chicks. Just come into MEDFORD FEED & SEED and sign a card. 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