Chessman Offers Hos Lilfe To Bring
End To law on Capital! (Punishment
Sacramento. Calif. - (DM
t-aryl Chessman, who fought
tor more than a decade to
avoid death
er, offered his life today in
""J Dame against capital pun
ishment. v
The 38-year-old convict-au-
inor made his offer in a 1p.
ter to Gov. Edmund G.
Brown, who was expected to
comment on it at his press
conference today.
The 19-page letter was de
livered to the governor late
Monday, as the California
Legislature opened a special
session to consider abolition
of the death penalty for the
ninth time. . It has defeated
similar bills on eight occasions
in the past 27 years
Before Legislature
Brown put the matter be
fore the Legislature again on
Feb. 19, when he granted
Chessman a 60-day reprieve
Just 10 hours before the con
victed robber - rapist was
scheduled to keep his eighth
appointment with the gas
chamber,
Chessman praised Brown in
his letter for refusing to bow
down to political expediency1
in granting the reprieve. But,
the condemned man said his
case had so inflamed the Leg
lslature that "my continued
existence ... threatened to
throttle" action on the death
penalty.
Chessman said he had asked
himself over and over again
what he could do "to divorce
the ugly, emotion-inflaming
image of Caryl Chessman
from the grave social issue of
capital punishment.
' He said that he decided that
he could, "without theatrics,"
offer his life
; "If the hysteria and the
mob wrath that surrounds the
problem only can be propi-
tated by my death and if oth
erwise they (the legislators)
agree that the death penalty
should be abolished, then I
earnestly urge the members
of the legislature to. frame
'their bill in such a way as to
exclude me," the Chessman
letter said. -
: "You can do this honorably
by taking my life back into
your hands alone," the appeal
to the governor said. "You
can let me die."
Chessman gave his "solemn
word before the world" that
he would never "challenge"
the proposed anti-capital pun
ishment law in the courts and
would "disavow any attempt
by any attorney purporting to
act in my behalf."
Governor Criticized
i The convict-author in turn
criticized Brown for refusing
to investigate the claim he
made in a Feb. 18 letter that
he was innocent of the Los
Angeles kidnap-sx attacks for
which he was sentenced to
death in 1948.
4You declined to listen to
the evidence I have, to probe
for the truth," Chessman said.
"Thus my last hope that a re
sponsible public official would
look into the case was
dashed."
. He also scored Brown for
telling a recent news confer
ence that he would not push
his appeal for capital punish
ment abolition in the legisla
ture. "Hence, any proposal for
abolition or a moratorium is
plainly foredoomed," Chess
man said. "Those who know
that gas chambers have no
justification in our society are
without a leader now."
The governor delayed the
death penalty fight in the leg
islature Monday while he met
with liberal leaders to map
strategy. It was doubtful that
the issue would come up for
debate before Wednesday.
Something Fishy
About Water Pressure
Rector, Ark.-Richard Snel
lon thought there was some
thing fishy about his water
supply and he was right.
Experiencing low pressure,
Snellen removed the kitchen
spigot and out rushed the
water and a small fish.
Court Records
MUNICIPAL COURT
William Earl Lock, disobeyed
traffic signal. $10.
James Franklin Neelon. violation
of basic rule, $10.
Elbert Volner Kellogf, disobeyed
traffic signal. $5. .,,,
Stella Hays Pardee, violation or
basic rule. $10. . ..,:..
i Joseph Avery Botvdoin. failea to
yield right of way SIS.
Richard Eugene Fields, no regis
tration in vehicle. $10. '' ' .
Richard T. Huckaba. disobeyed
traffic sign. $3.
Roberta Lee Misener. no Oregon
driver's license. $5--
Donald Lawrence Blake Sr., no
operator s license in possession. $5.
Kenneth Wayne Butler, dis
obeyed traffic signal. $10.
Edwin Russell Blair, disobeyed
traffic signal. $10. ,,,
Gerald LeRoy Hartley, wrong
wav on a one-way street, $10.
Ernest Guy Dahack. improper
leil Turn. j. . -
Addison Martin Keplinger. viola
tion of basic rule. iu.
Harold William Knips. violation
of basic rule. $10. . M
Mary Allen Atterbury, violation
of basic rule. $10.
Jchn Joseph Murphy, excessive
nOofina "Lucile Reddington. viola
tion of basic rule. $10. . ,
Marian Joy Farnham, violation
of basic rule $10. ... M
Donald Grover DarneUle, impro
per turn. $10. ji.v.j
Shirley Alice Bos wall, disobeyed
traifle tigatl, 110.
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CAMT6IVEV0U Y Jjgr fjS TVr
euberger
Legislative
Close To Success
(Continued from Page 1)
Neuberger listed two legis
lative projects he regards as
"hopefully close to success.
These include creation of a
Seashore National Park on
the coast and legislation set
ting up- a Columbia river reg
ional ""development corpora
tion.' . .
Among his accomplishments
he listed:. ;.. v,V
1.-. Sponsorship pf a bill
authorizing $90 , million to
save pine 'forest and wildlife
marshes of the" Klamath Basin
and Indian reservation.
Historic! Shrine
2. Sponsorship of a bill for
a historic shrine at Fort Clat
sop.
3. Sponsorship of first fed
eral legislation setting stand
ards for protecting roadside
scenery along the 42,0000-mile
Interstate highway system.
4. Inclusion in the water
ways bill authorization for the
Yaquina bay project. ';
5. Sponsor l n g of an in
crease in the federal gasoline
tax so the U.S. highway net-
Search Continues
For Missing Plane
San Francisco - (DPB - An air
search continued today for a
civilian plane with two Air
Force men aboard missing
since Friday on a flight from
Klamath Falls, Ore., to Cris
sey Field at San Francisco's
Presidio.
The men, Capt. Norman D.
Morgan Jr., 27, and Airman
1C Robert E. Brown, 31, both
of Larson Air Force Base,
Wash., were members of an
Aero club at Moses Lake,
Wash., and were flying here
on a pleasure trip.
Their plane was due at 11:35
pjn. Friday.
Air Force spokesmen said
today the search for the plane
had covered a 100-mile wide
area from here to 60 miles
north of Klamath Falls. Sev
eral reports of wreckages
failed to check out.
Training Manual
Hearings Ordered
Washington (UPD A House
armed services subcommittee
today ordered public hearings
starting Monday on why the
military issued training man
uals on washing dogs, mixing
martinis, and watching for
Communist sympathizers in
churches.
Chairman Melvin Price CD
Ill.) said Defense Secretary
Thomas S. Gates Jr. and Air
Force Secretary Dudley C.
Sharp probably will be "the
first witnesses.
He said the subcommittee
will explore the whole prob
lem of military manuals. One
it wants to see if it exists
is a master manual on how
to prepare manuals, Price
said.
State Prison Annex
Inmate Walks Away
Salem (UPD - An inmate of
the state prison annex, John
Grady Pippen, walkedfcway
Monday night and was still at
large today.
Prison officials said he was
missed at a 10 p.m. bed check.
The annex is a minimum cus
tody institution.
Pippen, of Winston, was
serving a two-year term from
Douglas county on a burglary
charge. t
Time :
Lists
Work
work could be kept on a pay-as-you-go
basis.
6. Sponsorship of fair
across-the-board increases in
all classes of postal revenue
to reduce the fiscal deficit in
the Post Office Department.
7. Sponsorship of a volun
tary health - insurance and
medical program for-public
employees.
8. Leadership in increasing
federal funds for medical re
search, cancer in particular.
.He said he had no apologies
for cooperating with the Eis
enhower . administration in a
bi-partisan manner when he
felt it was in the public in
terest, particularly in foreign
policy.
Man Injured in N
Station Accident
Bridine L. Sanderson,
owner of Sandy's Service sta
tion, 1504 North Riverside
ave., was Injured yesterday
when a car he was working
on rolled in reverse knocking
him to the ground and run
ning over his leg.
Sanderson was reported in
good condition at the Rogue
Valley hospital tPday where
he is recovering from a la
ceration on his Head and a
broken leg.
Medford city police said the
accident occurred at 12:25
pjn. at the service station yes
terday while he was inspect
ing a universal joint of a car
operated by Howard Eugene
Garlets, who gave his address
as the Grand Hotel.
Sanderson was reportedly
on his hands and knees look
ing under the left side of thel
car when he asked Garlets to
put the car In gear. Garlets
told police he accidently hit
the accelerator instead of the
brake and the car went in re
verse, the open door striking
Sanderson on the head knock
ing him to the ground where
one of the wheels then ran
over his leg.
He was taken to the hospi
tal by Medford Ambulance
service.
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By Jimmy Hatto
Excuse no.38,421-
NOT ANOTHER
BUSINESS FDR MILES
GROUND-BUT HE'S
GONNA BUY
LOCALLY'
Real Estate Study
Course Scheduled
To Begin March 8
A real estate study course
will be held in Medford start
ing Tuesday, March 8, accord
ing to an announcement by
William Frohnmayer, presi
dent of the Medford Board
of Realtors.
The course will consist of
six sessions of one or two
hours each held Tuesdays at
7:30 pjn. at the Medford High
school. A registration fee of
$5 will be charged.
Registrations will be ac
cepted at the Southern Ore
gon Title company office, 112
West Main st., or at Frohn
mayer's office. All brokers,
salesmen and other interested
persons may attend.
Lecture topics will include
real estate as a vocation, what
makes value in real estate?;
salesmanship; the listing
agreement, the earnest money
form and legal pitfalls; financ
ing the sale; title insurance,
conveyancing and legal de
scriptions; and ethics, the Ore
gon real estate brokers law
and the state examination for
brokers and salesmen.
Instructors will include Don
ald E. Herried, E. L. Bartholo
mew, Robert Stokes, John
Chaney, Wallace W. Yatkins,
Donald E. Walters, and Frohn
mayer. Several of the sessions
will he in the form of a panel
discussion.
Timber Bids
Readvertised
Portland - (CPS - The imme
diate readvertisement of bids
for sale of three Klamath In
dian timber units valued at
$21,235,030 was ordered to
day by the Interior Depart
ment. Bids will be opened J3.ec. 1.
Sale of the units will be
governed b y specifications
and minimum requirements
for sustained-yield manage
ment under provisions of the
Klamath Termination Act.
At the same time the In
terior Department said there
would be no readvertisement
for three other units on the
Klamath reservation for
which bids will be opened
April 1 and for four other
units with bid opening Aug. 1.
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vAUGNET,
Roundiable Hears
About Railroad's
Electronic System
A film depicting a new
communications system called
Car Fax, which is being used
by the Chicago and North
Western railroad was shown
at the Medford Chamber of
Commerce roundtable lunch
eon Monday by Ernest T.
Hadley Jr., general agent of
the railroad's Medford office.
The system, which is com
pletely electronic, keeps con
stant track of the railroad's
50,000 box cars, loaded or un
loaded, and can tell, by means
of electronic punch cards,
where they are headed, when
they will arrive, what they
contain, which train is pull
ing them and what their loca
tion is at any given time.
The network was put into
operation by Chicago and
North Western in 1957 and
they are the only railroad to
have one at the present time,
although Hadley pointed out,
other railroads are now study
ing -similar systems and can
be expected to put them into
operation before long.
That Chicago and North
Western even had an office
in Medford, came as a surprise
to some persons at the round
table. Hadley pointed out
that this is primarily a sales
and service office and one of
their main functions is to sell
their route to shippers.
Eastern Shipments
Although most shipments
from this part of the country
are loaded on the Southern
Pacific railroad's cars, he
pointed out, many of these
carloads are headed for mid
west and eastern destinations
and there are several com
petitive routes that can be
used.
Hadley and his office at
tempt to "sell" both Southern
Pacific and the shippers, on
the idea of using the Chicago
and North Western's tracks
through the midwest states,
instead of their competitor's
routes.
The Chicago and North
Western operates primarly in
nine midwest states having
their main offices in Omaha,
Neb. -
Because of their far-reach?
ing communications system,
which is rented from the In
ternational Business Machines
corporation for $l1 million
a year, they know where any
one of their cars is at any
given moment and when it
will be available for another
shipment. They can dispatch
their boxcars to needed points
with the least p o s si b 1 e
amount of trouble.
Hadley noted that when
shipments are transferred
from one railroad's tracks to
another's,-the using road pays
the originator $2.75 p.er d.ay
for the use of the car.
At next - Monday" noon's
roundtable, West Coast Air
lines, in cooperation with Pan
American World Airways,
Will put on a promotion show,
including guitar players and
hula girls, to call attention to
Pan America's jet service to
Hawaii which puts Medford
only six hours from that
state.
Mother's the Law
In California City
Culver, Calif. - An under
privileged junior citizen got
a discouraging lesson in law
from the desk officer at po
lice headquarters.
"It's nice outside and my
mother won't let me go cut
and play," the young caller
told the sergeant. "Is it legal?
Can she do it?"
The sergeant had to tell the
young prisoner that mother
was the law in that area.
Four-Year-Old Scores
As Ace Troublemaker
St. Louis Four - year - old
Dickie Wylie, who was taken
to police headquarters after
being found wandering near
his home early one morning,
exposed at least nine persons
to his measles before his fa
ther arrived to fetch him
back home.
Next day, Dickie managed
to set fire to his mattress and
suffered first and second de
gree burns.
About 2,600 crossties are
used in every mile of rail
road track.
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AND YOUR
JOB
Medford Mail Tribune
hitchhiker Picks Good
Place To Be Injured
Buffalo, N.Y. - Stanley Her
bert hitched a ride with three
men in a pickup truck. As he
attempted to climb in back
Herbert slipped and hurt his
back, through not seriously
While comforting Herbert
the three men introduced
themselves. One was a doctor.
Another was a minister. And
the third was an undertaker.
LAW DEAN DIES
Atlanta (UPD William Mc
Guffey Hepburn, 59, dean of
the Emory University Law
School since 1950 and a na
tionally known authority on
labor-management, died Sun
day. 'Coffee Time'
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Group Discusses
Salem -(UPD- More than 600
business and professional men
from Oregon and Washington
were here today for the Na
tional Chamber of Co m
merce's fourth annual "air
cade for congressional ac
tion." The session opened with
panel discussions on control
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tion, and tax reform and social
security issues.
Afternoon panels" empha
sized federal intervention in
business and community af
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Tuesday, March 1. 1960 .
Mail Gets Through
29 Years Later
-Winchester, Va. - On Dec.
14, 1930,- Mrs. Carter Shea of
Richmond mailed a birthday
card to her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Edna Dulcett.
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livered-29 years late and long
after the deaths of both
women.
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