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o o o D Inmates at Soledad Paraphrase Romans 8:31 as Prayer of Hope Soledad, Calif. TP "If God nd NA be for us, then who shall be against us?" This paraphrase of Romans 8:31 is the prayer of hope adopt ed by a group of inmates at Soledad State prison who band ed together this fall in "Narcot ics Anonymous." (NA). All members of NA have two things in common: They are former narcotics addicts. They don't want to resume the habit upon their release. Approximately 400 of the 2, 000 inmates of this medium se curity institution were sentenc ed for narcotics violations. About 100 of them pass up television and library privileges every Thursday night to attend NA meetings. Patterned after Alcoholics An onymous, Soledad's NA mem bers freely discuss their prob lem and the background factors that caused them to turn to nar tics. Attending the meetings in an advisory capacity are W. T. Kie- pura, correctional classification officer, and Dr. Thomas H. Boone, consulting psychiatrist. Associate Warden Dr. Norman Fenton helped guide NA in its formative stages. "Each man must admit to his fellow man that by himself he is powerless to control his ad diction, and he must turn to his fellow men and to God for the necessary help," Prison Supt. Lawrence E. Wilson said. An example of the type of man working hardest for NA is the group's secretary, Don B. He was sentenced for possession of narcotics and will be paroled soon. His addiction dates back to 1950 and he has served sev tral years for it before his cur rent term. Wilson said Don realized that unless he does something now, "chances are high that he will revert back to his habit within a short time after his release." So he embraced this program to help prepare himself for his fu ture and to gain additional strength to permit a successful parole. Don B. described NA and its goals this way: "The beauty of this whole thing is we are both doctor and patient at the same time. You write, talk, read and listen. I read, listen, write and talk. The resulting fellowship of mutual aid will cancel our need for nar cotics and replace it with a satis fying NA way of life." The membership puts out a monthly bulletin called "Pre scription NA." It is filled with pep talk in the form of poetry, short essays and slogans. Wilson said it is too early yet to tell how effective Narcotics Anonymous will be. None of the members have faced the supreme test of fighting off temptation upon their return to society. "But I'm tremendously im pressed with the sincerity of the men attending the meetings," Wilson said. "They seem to realize that they must make a cleancut break from narcotics or spend the rest of their lives in prison." Aufoisis Warned of 'Dears Crossing' Portland (TP) Motorists driv ing by the intersection of 145th ave. and Southeast Division st. today saw housewives holding signs that say: "Dears crossing, drive slowly." It refers to some 200 children who cross the busy intersection to and from Southwest Lynch school each day. A group of Portland mothers took up the sign-bearing duties Monday and said they would continue the watch in shifts un til traffic lights are installed at the intersection. A child was killed at the in tersection by a car about three weeks ago. RAZING FOUR STORKS in Villa Rica, Ga., gas explosion kills 15, injures 25. Several of the dead ?ere o badly ngled as to defy identification. (International Soundphoto) Quigg Cites Four Fool-Proof Rules To Enliven Your Holiday Celebration By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York flfl We Ameri cans do things efficiently, in - eluding killing each other on the highway. Last year, 40,000 of us were murdered in traffic accidents; thousands more were maimed; jnd property damage ran into the millions. This year, these tord figures may be equaled, or (jfven excelled, with tha- aid of reerious planning. ?or far too long now, motor- sta,flrf'been haphazard in their jrmnner of motoring mayhem "t if needed, if more lives are t Sen Ifld more damage tflone, if mort method in our ftt&ngBg. With this thought in o .ftn6 ir "four rules to f t o?er the Christmas-New YeSt'i holiday." (Sfht9 jll f Otl-Proof T&tf Ml been pre-tested and ri fou!l Ibol-proof. If your year pi celebrating drags a little, try $r$, a evrtl, of these sugges- go$ TR irill send you right O eaf W yuf orid. 1. no attention to speed limit!, esp ecially if the weather ft $a3. Keep the accelerator down to the floorboard all the iray to the morgue. Toss down several double shot on-the-rocks before leav- ' ing that party. Go for dead with an alcohol and gasoline cock tail. 3. Start a long holiday drive when you are dog-tired. Drive Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Georee Edward Duare. 22. of Med ford no Oreeon driver's license and vehicle registration expired, two days in jail. $58 fine. Harry K. Danieison, illegal U turn, $5. Donald LeRoy Swanson, failure to yield the right-of-way. S10. Ruben Albert Johnson, disobeyed traffic sien. S3. Eva Wileen Richardson, disobeyed stop sign. $5. : Clarence C. Williams, disobeyed '. traffic signal. So. Clinton Bonser Endicott. violation J of basic rule. S10. f John Louis Martin, disobeyed traffic ! signal. S5. Henry Rudolph Byers, violation of basic rule. S15. ; Lloyd Raymond Thompson, viola tion of basic rule. S10. steadily without stopping for cof fee-breaks and rest along the way. Doze off behind the wheel. Have a big sleep. 4. Ride the bumper of the car in trom 01 you, no matter now fast you both are going. Always pass on a curve, or at any other point where you can see no farther ahead than 10 yards. Vis ibility is bad, too, from six feet under. Every word up to this point in Alaska Plane Crash Claims Five Persons Ketchikan, Alaska OP) Five persons were killed when a new float plane crashed into the wa ter at Hollis, about 50 miles west of here Monday, the Coast Guard reported. The victims, all of the Ketchi kan Pulp Co. logging camp at Hollis, were identified as pilot Don Morgan and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams and their two children. Other pilots said they be lieved Morgan ran into a fog bank and struck the water be fore he saw it. The wreckage was sighted by another flyer, Wes Sande of Ellis Airlines. The Coast Guard cutter Kim ball was due here with the bod ies early today. Philadelphia (IP) Jules Falk, violinist and former musical di rector of the Steel Pier at Atlan tic City, N.J., died at his home here Sunday. Falk organized the Steel Pier Opera company in 1928. this column was written by a publicity man. Here is where I take over. The man sent us the preceding eight paragraphs of eloquent periods, sermonizing semicalons, and righteous com mas with the appended note that here was an "off-beat" idea for the holidays that they might help halt public self-slaughter. The man who wrote this is getting paid to publicize a prod uct. Take a look back over his composition. See anything? No? All right, look again at rule No. 3. The publicity man has sue ceeded. His job is to get the word "coffee" before the public, That's it, pure and simple. Sell coffee. I like coffee very much. drink three containers of it ev ery morning out of our office vending machine, black, no sug ar, no cream. And furthermore I don't object if the man's eight paragraphs of safety preachment appear under my signature. I en dorse every word. Let us not kill each other with stupidity on the highways. But there is a nagging and dis quieting voice in my makeup that keeps muttering, "what is the morality of our times." I am not capable of answering. I be lieve morality means, In essence "right conduct." Think it over, including the man's inverted advice, God help us, we all need. I believe the man is motivated by the highest motives, including the profit mo tive and his advice will do hu manity some good this Christ mas. Please be careful on the highways. And pour coffeee all over yourself, if you want to. TO FIGHT CUTS Washington OPi Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich), says he will fight any attempt to cut govern ment "humanitarian programs" next year to save money for sat ellite and missile development. Dingell said in a statement it would be "false economy" to re duce such programs as old age assistance, school lunches, dis abled veterans benefits and oth er "humanitarian" projects. WHAT DOCTOR ORDERED Pittsburg (IP) Detective George Weidl always gets his man. Weidl, hospitalized for a checkup, spotted a visitor pass his room Monday. He leaped out of bed and arrested William E. Swindell Jr., 28, of Etna, Pa., a suspected check forger who Weidl had sought for several months. Tuesday, December 10, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVH Officials Seek Cause Of Fire at Slayfon Stayton (IP) Firemen and sheriff's officers today searched charred ruins of the Michael Pollreisc home in an effort to learn the cause of a fire which destroyed the house Monday. Three of the Pollreisc children perished. Victims of the fire were Mary Jean, 7, Josepr Wesley, 4 and Jerry Neal, 2. The three were trapped in a downstairs bed room. Pollreisc, his wife, Lola and a fourth child, 13-month-old Al bert LeRoy were sleeping in an other downstairs bedroom and managed to escape In a class by itself since 1830 66 PROOF Blended Scotch Whisky Schieffelin & Co:, New York n e IflScHEwlJ LJ USE TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED ADS! .nisTRtrr court J Norbert Richard Schieber, drunk in public place. S30, bail. I Wayne Anson Spencer, violation of I basic rule. S15. Doris Louis Abbott, violation of I basic rule. S15. Ralph Hartley, failure to stop at I traffic sign. $10, bail. Albert Henry Nixon, reckless driv ting. S30. . . . Donald Lieberth Stathos, violation of basic rule. $15. . Elmer Marion Adams, truck speed ing. $15. ... I ' Thomas Elliot Spatz, violation of basic rule. $15. James Wayne Lick, violation of basic rule. S15 Frank Forman Lyon, failure to sig nal for left turn. $10. Henrv Alan Dahlke, failure to dim deadlights. $10. Thomas James Cook, defective rbrakes. $6. Duane E. Zamozla, illegal changing Tot lanes. $13. bail. CIRCUIT COURT . Marion Ann Cummings vs. William G. Cummings, divorce complaint. j -MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATION ' William Edmond McCracken, 620 West Eleventh St.. Medford, and Mvrtle Anna Coggins, 708 !,a West Sixth St., Medford. Trimmings Skimpy This Year? Come To Us loans from $25.00 to $2,500.00 Automobile Furniture Salary COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL FINANCE CORP. 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