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G O MAIL TRIBUNE, MeoW, Oregon, Tuesday, Jum 24, H3t 1 o 0 0 & 3 TreniTowflfd Younger Untt Shorfertsffia o Editor's te: 9his j ilcoil on m series of four Articles a tBe Oreiqg SjfcKg penitents. ' fiict Buff i auv T UajtteJ Vrp IstMMtiaaal Sgiem PI The average agofn ftml to9y in Ore on 9&ta) jtnitentijry is 23.3 yeS- H fl two years ago. Th rrjo jtpuItion trend is to)r$r younger men with shorter Sentences. MayiS) of theso men can use vocational or regular eSuca etjgyi$n thft' what the classi fication Committed tries to gi trl.o Th lfrf committee in- cfadtt tht) counselor assigned to thajPmJn, both ieputy war der, th gtychologist, direc- iurorriiiv(uuii ma vucauun- 1 trjininj. Joth chaplains, Hiroli C. Stone, Head of the dmigpior? end orientation bloc ajflert lh man has been paying during tiis first three dayjj in prison, and classifica tion officer John Aiken. It's a day ot tension for men waiting quietly down the hall from the committee room. In terviews are brief, but human, and the committee seems gen uinely drying to give each man an assignment in line with his desire and abilities. Alray,in School If a man does not have a fifth grade education he is re tired to go to school and scugie men spend their entire sentence in all-day classes. Statistic studies by War den Clarence Gladden indi cate that most men at OSP have normal intelligence ' but little education3. Just over 100 men now in jar ison gre illiterate, 705 have i&njlth 4pd education level (itf it tt a th grade or bet- (S- Aft ttjulf chool courses Sist tmAif 1 radings are (JfiH iftmttes. & m high e II 0 . . MAW 7C7E FARE Tgbo jour family on United! Unit? walcomas your family aboard with an econ omy plan. Dad buys just one First Class ticket, &Iother and children travel for half-fare! United1 of era ths fiamily plaa on any flight from 12:01 p.m. Monday through noon Thursday. So take the yfl os your rawt trip more fun for everyone. ja f eatr Hmwti mmmt 4TT faV14C Mtl OM D0DE0TS0N SCHOOL OF 49 M. tivftrsiafe Hlfra1, Orej a 19 I 4144 Summer Term Beginning July 7, 1958 PAY SCHOOL SCHEDULE o o S:0 Beg. Typewriting if :0 A""i"aj 1-1 M-Key Punch Beg. Typewriting Dictation 1t:Q ertfcsiwl 1 IBM-Key Punch Beg. Typewriting Speedwriting M: BMinecsLaiwl IBM-Key Punch Business Math Q eeea1BMiying IBM-Key Punch SpeedBuilding Office Pract. Q BnV Machine IBM-Key Punch Bus. English Letter Writing gO Bus. Machine IBM-Key Punch typewriting 2-3-4 Typewriting 1 Age off ing chool diploma while in pris son and college extension courses are available through the general extension divi sion. Last year, 52 men got high school diplomas and 150 or more are now enrolled in col lege extension courses, lomt High IQs In addition, there are cell study courses run by inmates. the librarian can set up read ing programs and a "great books" program is available for the cognoscenti; 31 men have IQs of 120-129 and five are over 130 on the Stanford Binet scale. Inmates are avid readers Books help out the bars and ease the deadly monotony of confinement. The 10,000-book library re ports from 12,000 to 14,000 Progress Noted Since First Jail Built in Oregon Territory Salem (UPI) J. R. Johnson, security officer of Oregon Stale penitentiary and an expert on its history, thinks there has been a lot of progress since the first jail was built in the Oregon territory at Oregon City in 1145. It was a two-story block house. Prisoners were taken to the second story by an outside staircase and drop ped through a three-foot hole in the floor down into the first floor area. A guard was stationed up stairs and if a prisoner made so bold as to stick his head through the hole, he got a sharp whack with a club for his pains. The jail was burned down in 1946 possibley with a little help from one who got whacked. yisists a month and most men check out the maximum of four books ,a visit. They also are permitted to subscribe to a number of. magazines and newspapers which are deliv ered uncensored. Most men who appear be fore the classification commit- UNTCP, THE ft ADA ft LINE 430 S.E. Jackson, Raseburg, Oregon OR 3-7256 UNITED j gem tee want vocational education of some sort and they have to want it before they can get it. Workine or eettine trainins from civilians in a prison shop or industry is a privilege that must be won by good behavior at OSP. . In general, younger men are sent to school and the more mature given assignments industry. Flax Plant Gone m Maintenance shops include the heating plant, print shop, sign shop, drafting and blue print shop, carpenter, plumb ing and electric shops. The industrial program i; extensive, centering around i furniture factory which re placed the old flax plant, an upholstery and mattress plant, a shoe shop, a laundry, a tail or shop, sheet metal and ma chine shop and a large can nerv. ' Men who earn the privi lege of working in prison in dustries may make from 25 cents to SI a day plus getting credit for two days a month "good time" toward their eventual parole or release The best of the men who work in prison maintenance shops also are paid on the same scale and many would be competent journeymen on the outside. The difference between shops and industries is that the industries do work for other state institutions that would cost more if ordered outside the walls. Hospital Laundry Done . Currently the furniture shop is producing stakes for the highway department desks, chairs, church pews and other items as good as can be obtained commercially. The. laundry handles 450,- 000 pounds, of dry wash a month. 75 per cent of it for the state hospital. The tailor shoD makes den im uniforms for the pen and other institutions and the shoe shop handles shoe repair prob lems for several institutions as well as making braces and other special equipment. The sheet metal shop is now welding bunks for the inter mediate penal institution and the cannery processed one million pounds of tomatoes in 1956. Prison officials are frank in saying they don't know ex artlv what use is made of vo cational training when a man sets out. but they also say that, for some men, prison work is the first useful thing they've done in their lives. Work, even monotonous work, also makes the days go faster and up to $15 a montn may be spent in the prison canteen for cigarettes, candy, shaving lotion and other ex tras. Bulganin Given Remote Post Moscow (UPI) Former Soviet Nikolai Bulganin has been assigned to the regional economic council in Stavropol in the North Caucasus, it was reported today. If the reports are true it would indicate the white- bearded Bulganin has been considerably dow ngraded. There have been reports in recent weeks he might be. Bulganin lost his job as pre mier at a March meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the du ties were assumed by Nikita Khrushchev, already leader of the Communist Party. He was assigned then to the presidency of the state bank, a relatively high post. But it was reliably reported he never assumed the job. The former premier disap peared from the Moscow scene for some time, but when ques tioned about it at a British Embassy party June 12 Khrushchev told newsmen that Bulganin had been in the hospital for an operation. BUSINESS 411 Main Klamath Falls, Oregon TU 2-4126 remtentiary o 'BIRTH' OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSION These two photographs show, for the first time the birth oif a nuclear explosion. They were taken at the Nevada Test Site of 'the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), by the famous "Rapatronic Camera." The photo at left1 shows the "cab" atop the steel tower, illuminated from within by the fiery start of the chain reaction. This is during the first sub-millionth of a second. The photo at night, taken only a few millionths of a second later, shows the fireball emerg ing and enveloping the cab. An infinitesimal fraction of a second later, the searing heat of utter destruction covered hundreds of acres surrounding the tower. The blast was timed, fired and photographed for the AEC. The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consists ot a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article !s a summary ot an actual report The Family Council does not give advice; it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Natalie R My daughters abused me. Louise R. How could she stoop so low? Natalie R I am a widow of 45 with two daughters, ages 22 and 24. We are all work ing and maintain a lovely apartment. Since my husband died three years ago, I have gone out with a few men, but the prospects of marriage just don't seem very bright. I have been bitterly lonely and re cently jgot involved in an af fair with a married man. I'll admit I did wrong, espe cially im having him stay over at our home, but I don't think I deserve the kind of treat ment I got from my daughters as a result of this. They abused me in a disgraceful way, calling me the worst names. Now they say they want their own apartment even though I have promised nothing of this sort will ever happen again. Louis R. I don't know how other young women would react to waking up in iy Johns-Ma nville Scal The buff 4ses are' . fy ft . by son's heat. BahaaaaaaieaaeBieaAaMB 8 fear el tfcs&se in wind cen't est under r Trs&tional shingle design. This development of Johns-Man ville re search is the most important contribution to roofs in the last 20 years. Seal-O-Matics seal themselves down grip the 32 W. m the morning to find a strange man in the house, but I know my sister and I were never more horrified in Our lives. It is hard to believe our moth er could stoop so low. Our father worked himself to death to provide for us and to leave us with enough to be descent human beings, even after he was gone. Just his memory and respect for him should have kept our mother from behaving - as she did even if she didn't have enough respect for us. My sister and I know when it's time for us to step out of a miserable situation and that's now. The way we feel now we don't want to have anything more to do with Mother. ' The Council Louise's sense of shock and bitterness are un derstandable, but we cannot condone her abuse of her mother. She should remember she is not God and it.is not her responsibility to condemn or punish the mother who evi dently brought her up with a strong taste for morality. Louise should recognize that - 0 - r.latic Asphalt Shingles They hold tight in high winds because they ore Self-Sealing Here's the secret: The automatically because resin cement strip sealed down hish wind . . the shingles. shingles underneath with bulldog tenac ity. Cost but little more than ordinary shingles. Your choice of many colors and blends. Come in and see them! Budget Terms QJKl I. IVtiLQ 6th, -jit Fir Mate her abuse of her parent may be considered an equally seri ous breach of morality. We will not undertake to recommend any particular course of action to these two sisters. If they feel their home conditions are intolerable they are certainly old enough to live on their own. It would be a mistake for Natalie to try' to stop them. She couldn't do this and she only places herself in a shame fully abject relationship ' to them. Natalie should realize, how ever, that whether or not her daughters remain with her she has a good deal of think ing and planning to do about the future course of her life. She should- recognize that her desperate action was no cure for loneliness : In fact, it will bring on greater loneliness than she has ever known. She will lose even the comfort of her own self-respect. Natalie needs to take some constructive steps ' to enlarge her activities, her circle of friends, her interests. We cer tainly can't promise she'll never be lonely, and heartsick, but we believe she'll find more pleasure, comfort and human warmth than she would in a series of illicit af fairs. (Copyright 1958. General Features Corp.) sun's heat teals the tab of a special petroleum o the underside. -1 X I Phone SP 2-6251 Drops 4-H Prefair Set At Central Point A 4-H club Prefair will be held at the Crater High school cafetori um at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Miss Marilou Garner, 4-H club extension agent here. Members of the Central Point-Westside area clubs will prepare demonstrations and exhibits in foods, clothing, flowers and knitting. A judg ing contest, open to all club members in the county in home economics, is planned in conjunction with the exhibits. The prefair isa preliminary to the county fair and is de signed to train club members to prepare and judge exhibits, and to give demonstrations. In the judging contest, trained judges rate the exhib its first and then contestants judge the same exhibits. The contestants are scoredd on the basis of how nearly they come V . It's hard to be sure you're getting a bargain when you can't look inside to "see what makes it tick". . So why gamble? Best way to avoid buying mistakes is to use the basic rule of sound buy ing: A good brand is your best guarantee. Whatever you buy, you know' the maker stands behind a good brand. You can't go wrong. The more good brands you know the surer you are. Get to know them in this newspaper. They'll help you cut buying mistakes, get more for your money. BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION .Ineorpontos A Non-Profit Educational Foundation XT West 57th Street, New York J9, New York Crater High to rating the exhibits the same as the judges did. Prefair judges include Miss Garner, judging contest; Miss Mary Pat Lucy, foods and clothing exhibits; Mrs. Lester Gordon, flowers, exhibit; Mrs. Beverly Lyons, foods demon stration, and Mrs. Don Brad shaw, clothing demonstration. No judge has yet been named for the knitting exhibit. ' Butte Falls Man Given Suspended Sentence Lester Lee Price, Butte Falls, was given a suspended sentence and three years pro bation by Circuit Judge H. K. HannaTMonday morning. Judge Hanna previously found Price guilty on charges of taking three electric mo tors from the Reter Fruit com pany, Medford, on March 9. SENDER'S MILK 1 Civil Service Jobs Available in Northwest Applications for manage ment analyst and budget ex aminer positions in the North west states and Alaska are be ing called for by the Seattle regional office of thi Civil Service commission. University graduates and persons experiencedd in budg et preparation and the devel opment of new and improved procedures and systems .are encouraged to apply. Additional information may be obtained at the Medford post office. BOMB SCARE New York (UPI) The Montreal Limited was held for more than one hour at its platform in Grand Central terminal early today while police checked a report that a bomb had been placed aboard the train. No explosives were found. 7i ffl3GtfUQU6 GXDUQGXNSO ffik3nGU&U MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE s ! s
