Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 25, 1960, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Textw o - -Ml HOW TIMES CHANGE! Did they really have cars like that? That seems to be the thought in the mind of Gail Leach, 9, of Cassopolis, Mich., a visitor to the General Motors exhibit at Chicago s Museum of Sci ence and Industry. Admitting the early 1900's one-cylinder Oldsomobile called "Old Scout" is "kind of funny," Gail stands be hind GM's experimental gas-turbine "Fire bird III." Both cars are part of a dramatic display of the motor industry's vital role in America's past, present and future. (UPI Telephoto) Individual Ceils, Soft Music Feature Reformatory in Ohio Fdilnr't Note: last ffk nhi oiiriird a SIMIOO.UOU rrfornialorv fur first ufOiictrrk, a prUon irlilo gUts and prison aulhnrtllrs Ihr t'ountry nvrr will uilrh tilth lll-tr-rrst. The siiprrtiitriiflrni askrd for Ihe job alter uatrhltig 53 i rriitloni dtirinf II years at nardrn at Oliio I'rnltc ntiary. A tor rrtponrieiu tells about Alvis' views on capital punishment, and prisons in the following dlspatvb. By JOHN E. SIMONDS Lebanon, Ohio - 'I'M - The witnesses cast their trailing glances at the masked body slumped in the oaken chair and filed out of the glaring yellow room into the prison courtyard. For most of them, it was a first experience of this kind but for husky Red Alvis it was number 53 - the 53rd execution he had directed as warden of Ohio Penitentiary. Today, worlds away from the tihastly prison and the electric chair Kalph V. Alvis has set out on a new career as tile first superintendent of a new prison for first offend ers. Prison authorities all over the country are watch ing this new model prison with interest. Several years aijo. Bis Red as he is ki.own. told Ohio of ficials lie would like to head the new $12,000,000 Lebanon Reformatory. It is ultra modern. with individual cells and soft music, hut there is nothing soft about the former professional football player who runs it. Says Not Elaborate "There is nothing elaborate , about a toilet without a seat. sinks without pluys, and a ! window witli bars." lie said of j the life the 1.500 men will lead in the new prison. ! All during his 12 years "s warden ;.t Ohio PrnitontU'rv in C'oliiiiibu.v, .h is kept quiet about capital punishment. But, now thai lie no longer ' must direct the exeeulions. he ; has become an outspoken foe of capital puni-hnu ill. "I tan mil see where it does any earthly good,'' he told a committee of the Legislature i studying proposals to abolish i the death penally. i Alvis came here last fall to get ready for the first prison ers who arrived last week. ' Here, he -ill supervise the ' social repair of first offenders between the ages of 16 and 30 who will live in single cells. There arc no killers here, there will be fc-w escape at i tempts, a maximum popula j tion of 1.5U0, and no electric chair. Each of the cells is painted in pa.-lel gray or green. Loud ; speakers pipe soft music into the recreation rooms. The ; men sit in chairs at small I tables in the dining room in- siean oi ocnencs at long tables. The prison has a 42-bed hospital, a 8.000 volume li brary, a gymnasium, and a chapel with a rotating altar to permit Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish services. "Every man will have a I job." Alvis said, "not just M.llTHIIUNt, M.Jor, Or. O Wcd.t.aar, M.y 25, l?tO A J something to keep him busy but something of value to him when he gels out." A G DICK MODEL 101 PHOTOCOPIEI Makes perfect, non -fading copies Coniesartythingnnrted, mitten, drawn, duplicated. Call for ftee demonstration. C & E Business Machines 218 South Central SP 3-4895 9 9 9 Great straight... superb in mixed drinks! VIV.V.V.V.V, Ol-A -J 1 CORONET V". 4 I Q . a.'-. 1 j, i'latiii- -V. DIIUtt3 CO I MM1" RANDY DIST. CORP, 350 FIFTH AVE , N. V CALIF. GRAPE BRANDY, 84 PROO 7 a Foreign Relations Major Issue in Fall Campaigns Raleigh, N.C. - IUPU - Roger Tatarian, managing editor of United Press International, said recently that foreign relations will be a major is sue in the fall campaigns be cause of the collapse of the summit conference. Tatarian, a veteran foreign correspondent, spoke at the annual meeting of United Press International newspaper editors in North Carolina. Tatarian, former general European news manager for UPI. said that .while Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has not stated a preference among the presidential candi dates he has made it clear he "doesn't want Nixon." Tatarian pred icted the months ahead would be very disturbing. "Even if a new summit con ference is called, we have no assur, nee anything will come of it," he said. "Berlin is the key issue. and it can only be resolved if one side capitu lates." Rhea T. Eskew, southern division manager for UPI, told the editors that UPI was ex perimenting with new devices and equipment "to make the product that we gi'e you more easily usable." Violations Related To Traffic Deaths Statistics for the first three months of lf)60 were offered today by Medford Chief of Po lice Charles P. Champlin to point up the dangers of vio lating traffic laws even in relatively slow-moving city traffic. Chief Champlin said that one-half of the drivers in volved in fatal accident in ur ban areas throughout the state from January-March were vi olating a traffic law at the time. Leading causes were speed ing which was evident in about 33 per cent of the urban fatal crashes; making a left turn in front of oncoming traffic, 16.7 per cent; and fail ure to yield right of way to pedestrians, 25 per cent. The statistics, he said, were pro vided by the department of motor vehicles. Disregarding a traffic sig nal, driving on the wrong side of the road and intoxication also figured in the state's ur ban fatal crashes, he said. The chief said the figures indicate the need for contin ued enforcement efforts and prove the validity of the oft repeated slogan, "Where traf fic laws are obeyed deaths go down." Horses in the world have declined 22 per cent since 1940. Look how much you get for your money in a new O LOS ! I, a.- ... ..v,TOWMMBMJti uawwMwm )tMHMM.:wjaim. inuMMiiT' $&MltilMlitmmHmm When you step out in a new Olds, you get styling that stays in style! You get value that holds while you drive and when you tradel You get many extra features not found oh other cars in OldsmobUe'8 price class! Check the value score . . . Olds gives you more! It's the finest the medium-price class has to offer! YOU'LL DO, BBTTMH AT YOUR OLDS DIALER'S DARRFLL MILLER CO., 415 S. RIVERSIDE Mat trr tw c . . . wast rvvt wiw . . . omot cmwnt Teacher Pleads For Freedom of Class Discussion San Antonio, Tex. - tUPF - The teacher who was fired for taking the side of Russia a classroom discussion of the U-2 spy plane has made a plea for freedom of discussion in the schools. The teacher, Winston Mc- Daniel, 32. also said he would not appeal his dismissal be cause he believed he couldn't get a fair hearing. McDaniel, formerly of Jef ferson, Wis., said he probably will go to California or Wash ington to look for a new job. He released a copy of a letter he wrote to Dr. A. G. Bradford, president of the Northeast Independent School district. The district includes Robert E. .',ee High school, where McDaniel taught until Thursday. Question Important "Please be advised that rather than personally request a hearing on my recent sus pension, I would prefer to leave to the residents of the district the ultimate decision as to whether or not contro versial issues should be fully and openly discussed in the classroom," the letter said. "This question is, I believe. so basic and so important that it should not be allowed to evolve into a purely personal issue. "Consequently, I have de cided to withdraw myself from this controversy in the honest and sincere hope that the only real question volved - that of freedom of classroom discussion - might be discussed and decided upon by the residents of the district in as calm, dispassionate and impersonal a manner as is pos sible." Taps Recording Mad "In addition, my decision has been prompted by the re alization that the attitudes of some of the district's influ ential residents would pre clude impartial reconsidera tion and by the fact that I could not, in all good con science, continue to teach in the district knowing that I no longer had complete freedom of classroom discussion with mv students." McDaniel said he allowed a tape recording to be made of the discussion. The school board fired him after hearing the recording. In it, he called Russian Premier Nikita Khru shchev the world's greatest politician and said the U-2's pilot, Francis G. Powers, should be executed by his Russian captors. Fourth District Population Figured Eugene - ITU - Oregon's fourth congressional district has a population of 458.145, census officials said Tuesday. Lane county led with 160, 742. Others included Curry, 13, 869; Linn 58.477; Douglas 67,703; Coos 54.388; Josephine 29,650 and Jackson 73,316. 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