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Wiretapping Left in Confused Legal Status by Court Verdicts Washington - (UPD - Eaves dropping on private telephone conversations by tapping wires is a technique that law enforcement officers find ex tremely useful. But is it legal? The way things stand now, it is all right under some circum stances and all wrong under others. A series of court de cisions and legislative enact ments have left wiretapping in a weird and confused legal status. The legal confusion started more than 30 years ago with the conspiracy conviction of a Seattle, Wash.,' bootlegger named Roy Olmstead. At his trial, the government introduced evidence obtained by tapping Olmstead's office telephone. His lawyer argued that this invasion of Olm stead's privacy violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which protects Americans against "unreason able searches and seizures." Right Guaranteed The amendment guarantees "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, hous es, papers, and effects." . The Supreme Court in 1923 upheld Olmstead's conviction by a 5-4 vote. The majority said the Fourth Amendment refers to material things not to "evidence secured by the sense of hearing." In cases similar to Olm stead's which have reached the high court in recent years, some justices have disputed the 1928 ruling. Among them were Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas, who are still on the bench. Edward Bennett Williams, the famous defense lawyer, now is giving the issue an other whirl. He is waiting for a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals here in a big gambling case marked by gov ernment eavesdropping. The ruling can then be appealed to the Supreme Court. A decision that wiretapping or eavesdropping is unconsti tutional would relieve the confusion engendered by Con gressional passage in 1934 of the Federal Communications Act. That law makes it a crime for anyone to tap tele phone lines and divulge what is heard. Ruled Not Admissible In 193t, the Supreme Court ruled that the act applies to Federal agents and that wire tap evidence is not admissible in Federal courts. It reversed the convictions of some alco hol smugglers headed by Frank C. Nardone, against whom wiretap evidence had been used. Later, the court expanded this concept to cover evidence drawn indirectly from wire tapping as well as transcripts of intrastate messages. Next came questions about state court practices. The Su preme Court ruled 8-1 in 1952 that wiretap evidence may be admitted in state courts de spite its exclusion in Federal courts. Meanwhile, some states passed laws permitting wire tapping by law enforcement officials. New York state amended its constitution to permit wiretapping by state and local officers. In its last important ruling on the subject, the Supreme court in 1957 held 9-0 that wiretap evidence obtained by state officers may not be used in Federal criminal trials. The ruling also made clear that local police are open to prosecution under the Federal Communications act if they divulge what they hear over a tapped wire. Prosecution Not Tried The Justice department, however, has never attempt ed to prosecute state officers who testify in state courts about wiretap evidence. The FBI, the department's own In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is a strange world, and the news is produces every day is a strange mixture. There is the case, for in stance, of little Vicki Pilgrim and her algae cookies. VICKI'S father is the head T of the BIOCHEMISTRY unit of the Boeing Airplane Company, in Seattle. What's biochemistry? Webster tells us it is "the chemistry of plant and animal like." That prompts another ques tion: Why is Boeing, whose chief business is building airplanes (the bigger the better), and missiles, interested in bio chemistry to the extent of m a i n t aining a biochemical unit headed by a distingushed biochemist? Eagle Point Girl Is Stale 4-H Winner Two Oregon 4-H members are winners of state honors in the citizenship program, it has been announced. Patsy Charley, Eagle Point, and David Schaad, La Grange, each received a certificate of honor awarded by the Cooper ative Extension Service, Chi cago, in memory of Thomas E. Wilson. Miss Charley is an office holder and junior leader of local 4-H clubs. A senior at Crater High school, her award was based on her team work and assistance in Jackson county projects as well as at the state fair. Schaad is a student at Ore gon State college and has been active in 4-H work for 10 years. TT'S A LONG story. We'll merely brief it here. Boeing, is interested in mis siles. Missiles (in addition to carrying warheads that can blow our enemies, if they get too brash, into Kingdom Come) are the vehicles by means of which space travel ers hope eventually to reach the unknown worlds that spin in outer space.. This is the point: If mundane travelers (mun dane meaning of or pertain ing to THIS world) are to reach these other worlds that spin in outer space, THEY MUST HAVE SOMETHING MUNDANE TO EAT ON THE WAY THERE AND BACK. ( Lucky You! Hop to It For: yTop Value j Top Trade j Top Choice On NEW or USED CARS 2nd Big Week "OPPORTUNITY DAYS" at Your Volume Dealer COURTESY CHEVROLET 9th & Bartlett Medford See our ad in classified rFHAT'S WHERE Dr. Pil grim and his Boeing bio chemical unit come in. He thinks that maybe ALGAE may be IT. Algae is not only a possible source of food for mundane beings. It is also a possible source of OXYGEN, which mundane creatures must also have if they are to go on living. So he has been fooling around with it in his biochem ical laboratory (we lowbrows call it fooling around: the sci entists call it researching.) Dr. Pilgrim's research has made one thing plain to him. Algae has a drawback. Its drawback is that is looks like scum and tastes like hay. If space trav elers are to take to it willing ly, it must be improved. As nearly as one can gather from the souped-up story when a Seattle feature writ er got through with it, Dr. Pil grim blanched some of the green stuff under flourescent lights, and it came out looking somewhat like ordinary white flour. THHAT'S WHERE Vicki; comes in. I She baked some of the I green stuff and some of the white stuff into cookies. The green ones came out of the oven still looking like scum and tasting like hay, but the white stuff came out LOOK ING LIKE COOKIES AND TASTING LIKE COOKIES. So- You see A long step forward in the conquest of outer space may have been taken-and all be cause of a little girl who liked to put on her apron and fool around in the kitchen. The next time YOUR little girl wants .to fool around in the kitchen, don't discourage her. You never can tell what may come of it. TN CONCLUSION a thought: A Here in our State of Jef ferson, this algae business in terests us. In Upper Klamath Lake and the lakes down in California's Lake county we have enough of it. it some times seems to us, to feed all the space travelers that may ever take off into ;the far reaches of outer space. " investigative arm, does a good bit of wiretapping itself. It acts on specific, written au thority of the U.S. Attorney General. A department spokesman said the practice has been in effect since World War II with the approval .of the President, it is used only in kidnaping and national se curity cases such as espion age. Presumably, the material could legally be used for secu rity purposes but not as evi dence. Former Attorney General Herbert Brownell asked Con gress in 1952 to authorize in troduction of wiretap evi dence in Federal courts. But the legislation was never passed. Attorney General Wil liam P. Rogers has not re peated the request. The Senate Constitutional Rights subcommittee recently held public hearings on the wiretap controversy. It heard sharply conflicting views. Paul W. Williams, former U.S. attorney for southern New York, said the FBI, nar cotics agents and other Feder al law enforcement officials are "fighting with one hand tied behind their back" be cause they cannot use wire tap evidence in the Federal courts. He urged passage of a law similar to what Brownell recommended. But Harris B. Steinperg, former New York state prose cutor, told the committee that electronic eavesdropping is "a dirty business" and the gov ernment should not allow representatives of the law to stoop to it. Executives Among Newcomers Here More than 15,000 persons who are newcomers to Med ford were contacted last year by the Newcomers Service, ac cording to Mrs. Olive K. Lory, owner and operator of the Medford business. Of these persons nearly 3,000 employed families who are now permanent residents were reviewed. Mrs. Lowry reported that of the permanent families contacted 24.4 per cent had executives or professional per sons as head of . the family; 10.3 per cent operated their own business, and 35.6 per cent were skilled workers. There was a noted increase in retired families in which the head of the household was under 60 years of age. The re tired group totaled 6 per cent, it was stated. Of the new families con tacted 21.4 per cent bought homes immediately; 17.6 per cent expressed plans to buy; and 4 per cent said that they planned to build and were looking for suitable sites. These families had 474 pre school children and 550 chil dren from 6 to 18 years of age. Making personal contacts for the Newcomers Service are Mrs. Douglas Roach, as sisted by Mrs. Ronald Hall. London - (TJPD - Soviet scien tists have discovered a new drug which "completely cures the paralysis caused by po lio," Radio Moscow said Sun day. The broadcast said the drug, known as Karantonin, was processed from a peren nial herb found growing in central Asia. Private Investigator Relates Beatnik Life Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- O EORGE HOUDESHEL, o York, Pa, turning 78 but spry as any rock V roller, has been eavesdropping on. some very old conversations, to hear him tell it: 1. The cowboy who en tered a record shop and announced, "I want to get a long little doggie." He was told, "You're in the wrong store, son: go to that pet shop over there and ask for a dach shund." 2. The meeting be tween Mr. Stone and Mr. Wood. Said Wood, "How are Mrs. Stone and all the little Pebbles?' An swered Stone, Tine. And how are Mrs. Wood and all the little Splinters?" Mr. H.'s grandson had a friend who boasted, I.fy gram paw's 75 years old." "That's nothing at aiy scoffed young Houdeshel. "My gramp's anoctogeranium., Mama, who fcnew her young son very weH, had one fast ftt etruction for him before he went off to a. classmate's birthday party: "Now don't you forget. Before you come home, go up to your classmate's mama and apologize!" C i960, by Bennett CerC Distributed by 5ng Teatnres SrftdTeata PHI JAMES CROW created the first modern bourl 1835 TASTE THE iREATIVESS of James Crow s bo- Masterpiece B)MD C3R,G)W Born 124 years ago. Americas favorite E mm today. I! $325 'JfiL j pi. mm IULUIKUHI V Qt. 1 I San Francisco -(UPD- A rri- vate investigator who gather ed evidence for a major nar cotics raid in the North Beach district here, estimated today that 75 per cent of the beatnik inhabitants of the area smoke marijuana at some time or an other. Robert A. Estes, 29, a form er professional baseball play er, lived as a beatnik with two state agents to gain evi dence that resulted in 23 ar rests in nightlong .raids Fri day. He told of being forced to take part in robberies and witnessing sex orgies while gathering evidence. Estes grew a beard, wrote poetry and sat on the side walk playing a harmonica while acting his Bohemian role. He admitted that his fel low beatniks did not like his poetry and found it "too square." Smoke Marijuana "I estimate that 75 per cent of the beatniks on the Beach smoke weed (marijuana) at some time or another," Estes said today. "I hate what dope does to people. I will for the rest of my life." He said that he and state Agents Jack Sutton and Hen ry Lopez were forced to go along on robberies or lose their status with the beatniks. In one case, he said, they man aged to tip police so that their companions were arrested. He said he attended a par ty at the house of a prostitute in the Fillmore District. 30 at Parly "There were about 30 peo ple there. By midnight, there was weed all over the place," he said. "In the bedroom, there were six guys and one girl. We were in a fix. We were undercover, yet this girl was being raped. Finally we persuaded two of the other girls to help her." "They started putting her clothes back on, but the host ess shouldered them aside. She took the girl to her car and drove her to a hotel. She sold the room key to a man and he stayed all night," Estes said. What is Estes' opinion of the city's much-discussed beat nik population? "For my money, they're dirty, they're lazy, they're bums and they're crooks," he said. "For the most part they have deep inferiority com plexes that only disappear when they mix together." MAILTRIBUNE, Medford, Or. C Monday, Jan. 25, 1960 Four separate makes of cars-each offering from 6 to 24 different series and models -were produced for the first time in 1959 by the major U. S. auto manufacturers. RICE RON I oast?!? J Everybody loves Hamburger so by serving it you're Serve it as Hamburgers Meat Balls Meat Loaf as a WWww" S0 Steak or in combination with Macaroni and Cheese. 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Cook until meat loses its red color, stirring with fork to break up meat. Add wine, lemon juice, bouillon cubes, and water. Simmer, uncovered, 1 0 minutes. Add noodles, cover, and simmer about 15 minutes, or until noodles are tender, adding more water if necessary. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in sour cream, and heat gently. Sprinkle with paprika and parsley. Makes 4 servings. Ask Gretchen for her wonderful recipe without wine. LOOK AT THE MANY TASTY DISHES YOU CAN PREPARE FROM GROUND BEEF For complete recipes get a copy of February "Woman's Day" at our checkstands only 10ev Hamburger Steak Hamburger Patties Barbecued Meat Balls Hamburger Potato Cheese Pie Hamburger Cups with Mushrooms Cheese Meat Loaf Beef Patties Parmigiano Swedish Meat Balls Barbecued Hamburger Steaks Sauer Brafen Hamburgers Pot Roasted Meat Loaf with Vegetables Hamburger Stew Hamburger Pepper Steaks Beef and Noodle Stroganoff BIG FREE PARKING LOTS . . . Room for Nearly 100 Cars! PORTER'S ELBOW MACARONI 14-ox. 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