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o O o o SIX MEDrOUD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 18, 1957 Louisiana Contemplates Death Penalty for Selling Narcotics Br UNITED PRESS The State of Louisiana is con templating death in tht electric chair for an adult convicted of selling narcotics to any boy or girl under 21. It marks the extreme to which authorities in some areas are ready to go to combat one of the most vicious criminal pursuits in dope to juveniles. And more im portant there can be no parole, probation or suspension of tence! r narcotics A legislative committee head-states first offense. Second offenders cannot receive probation. Ohio sen- takes into account the record of convictions in other the United States, ed by State Rep. Richard Bert rand is to consider new legisla tion changing the maximum pen alty to death. There already are penalties of up to 50 years for traffic selling narcotics to other adults which wrecks human lives by the thousands and breeds more crime. A federal attorney told a re cent hearinjf in New York City, itself branded the nation'g capi tal for the narcotict trade, that outstanding jobs of combatting the narcotics racket had been accomplished in Louisiana and Ohio and in the cities of Balti more, Seattle and Honolulu. No Parol in Louisiana The United Pres queried its bureau9in those places to find out how it was done. Here is the rep'jrt: Louisiana already hag law, MS4eti to 1956, providing impris onment of not less than 30 nor mora than 99 years for selling and Gov. Earl Long has refused to reduce the sentence of any narcotics offender. Get Tough Law Ohio's Gov. C. William O'Neill wrote his state's "get tough" law in 1955 when he was attorney general. Before that Northeastern Ohio had been pin pointed as the narcotics distribu tion center of the Midwest. There were an estimated 15,000 addicts in Ohio alone spending $75 million a year for narcotics and costing the state S375 mil lion when they turned to crime to buy the drugs. The new laws provide prison terms of 30 years to life for sell ing narcotics to minors and a minimum of 10 years for any At the end of the first year, narcotics violations were re duced by about 700 per cent. In Baltimore, Capt. Joseph Carroll, head of the city narcot ics squad, attributes success to excellent cooperation from the Federal Narcotics Bureau and the state courts which convicted 141 out of 144 arrested last year. His squad needs no arrest war rant. It is-even an offense to be caught with a syringe if there is a past record. Bail is very high and cases are heard quickly so defendants are "not left out on the streets three and four months to get money to defend themselves." Relentless Pressure Seattle attributes its success largely to the relentless pressure that is kept on narcotics peddlers and users plus tough state laws. Sgt Wendell Paust, head of the police narcotics detail, says one important factor is that the city & ' r - 73 n I CTEASES ROYALTY Hiree year old Princess Lalla Arolna teases her serious-raced father, King Mohammed V of Morocco, at a reception in the monarch's honor in New York. The reception was tendered by Dr. Ahmed LataH, chief of the Moroccan UN 0 delegation. At left is Princess Lalla Alsha, 27, the King's oldest daughter. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Glenn Stewart Paxon, violation of basic rule, S15. John Frank Harder, failure to stop at traffic light. S6. Glenn Elvis Cave, violation of basic rule .S15. William George Harrison. Modoc orchards, drunk on a public highway, S30. Joe Everett Robertson, failure to stop at traffic sign. $10. Richard L. Wheeler, overwidth, $15. Elmer Smith, Grants Pass, drunk on a public highway. $24. Wilma May Atteberry, no operator's license, $5. Wayne Willard White, overheight, $25. Larry Clifford Arant, switched ve hicle tabs, S25. Charles Herbert Elmore, truck speeding. $15. Oval James Dawson, violation of ba sic rule. S15. Gaston Leon Elonx, driving without lights. $5. George Leroy Asher, obstructing vision. S6. William Stilwell. Klamath Falls, drunk on a public highway, forfeited, $30. CIRCUIT COURT Susan F. Jackson vi. John B. Jack ion, divorce decree. Betty Jean Holman vs. Robert Earl Holman. divorce decree. Bea M. Dorrough vs. Everett C Dorrough, divorce decree. MARIAGE LICENSE , APPLICATIONS ' Paul Weert Worth, route 3. box 202C, Medford, and Beverly Diane El lis. 209 Tripp st., Medford. Edgar Worth Coulson, Scotts Mills and Alice M. Roberts, route 1, Central Point. Michael James Kaiser, route 1, box 98E. Eagle Point, and Patricia Ann Goode. box 384, Shady Cove. Burton Lloyd Clifford, San Bema dino. Calif., and Eleanor Celia Martin, 829 Bennett St.. Medford. Carl Wayne Perdue, box 254, Tal ent, and Wanda Louise Oden, 77 Gran ite St., Ashland. has no problem obtaining in formers about who is selling narcotics. "People hate narcotics peddlers and don't hesitate to inform." There Is also excellent cooperation from federal au thorities, particularly customs inspectors. Palm-bedecked Honolulu was once the gateway for the illicit drug traffic from the Orient and there was an estimated 2,000 ad dicts in the Territory of Hawaii in the year 1924. As late as 1952 more than 109 persons were charged with narcotics crimes. Last year there were exactly two arrests one an ex-convict Hawaiian carrying mariquana ci garettes and the other a Chinese carrying heroin strapped to his leg and believed bound for the mainland. The anti-narcotics campaign really hit stride in 1951 when the Territorial Legislature slammed through a 20-year-jail sentence for selling to minors. Then a stronger congressional law against narcotics in 1954 gave federal judges another wea pon and they cracked down harshly. As Albel S. Fraga, chief of the narcotics division, says: "Hawaii has taken the monkey from its back." Santa Says : Come to.... RaEDFORD for TOILETRIES for tycry member of the family! FOR HER . . . o o Mry Chess Marcel Rochas PEIFUMES and COLOGNES REVLON futurima Cases $1.25 up Love Pat in Compacts Colognes Spray or Regular Bottle Bath Powders COTY GIFT SETS Bath Powder and Colognes A FOR HIM . . . 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All it takes is some postage stamps, United States or foreign. But do not send any common one, two or three-cent U.S. al though commemoratives are fine. There are many wounded col lectors at San Diego Naval hos pital, and doctors there say there is no better way to help speed recovery of wounded or ill men than to get them interested in postage stamps. And some of the doctors are collectors, too. After the pa tients have taken what they want from the stamps the pub lic sends them, the doctors are allowed to pick over the re mainders. The Red Cross sponsors the stamp-collecting program at San Diego Naval hospital, where thousands of servicemen are treated each year, but the heart and mind of the stamp club which has been formed there is a retired University of Pennsyl vania professor J. L. Zerbe. Zerbe devotes several hours each week to Instructing patients about stamps and showing them how to mount them in albums. His work, of course, is strictly a labor of love. But with all his great knowledge of stamps, Zerbe Is not a collector. The men at the hospital are always asking for more stamps, and of course they can use hinges, tongs, albums and cata logues as well. Stamps and philatelic material can be sent to the following address: Naval Hospital Stamp Club, Building 7, U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego 34, Calif. Hoffa Acquittal Held Possible New YorkflP) The federal wiretap conspiracy trial of James R. Hoffa was expected to go to the jury today with indi cations the fiery little teamsters official may be acquitted. In its summation to the jury Tuesday the government admit ted its star witness may have been in error when he placed Hoffa at the Detroit teamsters headquarters July 9, 1953. The defense had presented a string of witnesses who testified that Hoffa was in Seattle, at tending a teamsters convention and banquet from July 6 to July 10. A strong point in the govern ment's case, before the defense rebuttal, was the testimony of Rudolph Doelicke. He told the jury Hoffa was in Detroit July 9 to receive instructions on the use of wiretap equipment Hoffa had ordered installed. Hoffa, president-elect of the giant Teamsters union, along with Owen Brennan, president of the Detroit Local 337 and Bernard Spindel, a professional wiretapper, are on trial in fed eral court charged with illegally tapping the telephones of the Detroit office of the Teamsters union. We Keep Colors Bright With We Retex All of Our Dry Cleaning at No Extra Charge Medford Gleaners Hale & Kathryn Wheeler 34 No. Holly, SP 2-6500 Free Pickup and Delivery Cambridge, Mass. (IP) Regin ald H. Johnson of Cambridge hasn't missed a Harvard-Yale football game in 67 years. A lawyer, graduated from Harvard in 1895. 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