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CONVOY Part of a 44-man, seven-truck convoy of Com
pany E, Second Battle Group, 186th Infantry, Medford's
Oregon National Guard unit, is shown preparing to leave
en route to summer encampment at Ft. Lewis, Wash. The
group which left Friday morning, met other units along
the way to finally total about 87 local men. First Lt.
Lyle R. Brown is convoy commander for the entire battle
group. Training this year will be at squad and section level,
and the units will be evaluated by Army officers on the
same basis as the regular Army troops. The Medford con
voy will return to the Armory Saturday, June 25, follow
ing the two-week training period.
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Spot of Old Japan Still
Preserved in Taiwan City
Taipei, Formosa - (UPD - A
spot of old Japan is still pre
served in this former Japan
ese colony.
Yang Ming Shan (Grass
Mountain) park, built by the
Japanese on the outskirts of
Taipei, is one of Formosa's
most popular scer.c attractions.
The park's preservation al
most as Japan built it is sym
bolic of a unique cultural re
lationship between Tokyo and
its former colony.
Unlike South Korea and the
Philippines, Formosa harbors
few resentments against its
ex-occupiers.
Trade with Japan Is one of
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Formosa's major businesses.
Table reservations at the
Friends of China club are sold
out days in advance when
Japanese floor show is book
ed.
Japanese basketball teams
which play in the annual
President Chiang Kai-shek In
ternational tournament gen
erally lose but invariably win
the highest praises for sports
manship.
Japan air lines added Taipei
to its international schedules
last year on the hunch that
Formosans would like to fly
with Japanese. The air line
was right.
The Nationalist government,
controlled largely by the 2
million mainland Chinese who
followed Chiang into exile 11
years ago, has done little to
discourage Formosan interest
in things Japanese.
Japan's import film quota
assigned by the Nationalist
government is second only to
the U.S. quota.
Many Japanese athletes and
musicians are invited to Formosa.
Japanese technicians have
performed a variety of jobs,
including installation of radio
photo equipment for the Kuo-
mintang's largest newspaper
and operation of television
equipment for the Broadcast
ing Corporation of China.
But the Chinese government
has taken some steps to dis
courage use of the Japanese
language, which nearly all
native-born Formosans above
the age of 25 speak.
Foreign missionaries com
plained recently that the gov
ernment ordered them to stop
using Bibles printed in Japan
ese.
A private club asked a For
mosan decorator to remodel
its lobby. Mainland Chinese
members were startled when
the decorator unveiled a fish
pond complete with a Japan
ese stone lantern.
The lantern was quietly re
moved.
But these were exceptions.
During his long rule, Presi
dent Syngman Rhee of South
Korea refused to repair or oc
cupy the capitol built in Seoul
by the Japanese.
But President Chiang s of
fice is located in the building
from which Japanese gover
nors once ruled Formosa.
The Victorian mansion built
by the Japanese for their gov
ernors residence is Nationalist
China's number one guest
house, its Japanese-style gar
den unchanged.
CLIFFORD D. BAILEY
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BAILEY'S
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Central Point
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(Formerly with Central
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Mrs. Duncan and Two Hired
Killers to Die on June 27
San Quentin, Calif -IUPD-,
Unlcss California's Governor
or the U.S. Supreme court in
tervene, the lives of Elizabeth
Duncan, 56, and two hired
killers - Luis Moya and Au
gustine Baldonado - 'will be
taken in San Quentin's gas
chamber June 27 in settle
ment of their bargain for
death.
Their victim was comely,
Canadian-born Nurse Olga
Kupcyzk Duncan, 30-year-old
pregnant wife of mother Dun
can's attorney-son, Frank, 31.
The time of the killing: Nov.
17, 1958. The price: A $175
down payment and a promise
of $6,000.
The Reason?
The people's prosecutor -District
Attorney Roy Gustaf
son of Ventura county - pic
tured it as Elizabth Duncan's
distorted mother "love," so in
tense it sheltered her son like
a banyan tree, allowing no
room for Frank's wife.
All Sentenced
Mother Duncan was convic
ted March 20, 1959, of first
degree murder. Both Moya,
21, and Baldonado, 26, confes
sed, lost their pleas of inno
cent by reason of insanity and
were condemned to die with
Mrs. Duncan in California's
second triple execution. Early
this month the three lost an
appeal for a stay of execu
tion. However, the originally
scheduled execution date of
Friday, June 17, was moved
back to June 27 last week by
Supreme Court Justice Wil
liam O. Douglas. The stay will
allow the Supreme Court to
act on already filed appeals.
The trio's second hope lies
in an executive clemency
hearing which Gov. Edmund
G. Brown has scheduled for
today.
The execution cate in the
state's apple-green gas cham
ber was set against arguments
over the death penalty. In
May, California executed
Caryl Chessman after nearly
12 years on death row.
Opponents of the death pen
alty might ask: What mortal
can say where the Duncan
case began? Was it a product
of Mrs. Duncan's 10 to 20
marriages and separation
from perhaps a half dozen
children, leaving her with her
only son, Frank? Is the defi
nition of legal sanity - know
ledge of right and wrong -sufficient?
Is the death of Mrs.
Duncan, Moya and Baldonado
justice, retribution or re
venge? What does society gain
by executing the three?
But proponents of capital
punishment can point to the
prosecutor's case - a case con
vincing enough to lead 12
persons to convict the three.
Hires Killers
The facts as presented by
the prosecution:
On Nov. 13, 1958, Mrs.
Elizabeth Duncan struck her
bargain with Moya and Bal
donado in a tavern in rich,
sedate Santa Barbara, Calif.
Mother Duncan offered thou
sands for her daughter-in-law's
death but had no money of
her own.
Four nights later - quite
late - Olga Duncan - clad in
a nightgown - was lured from
her apartment with a story
that her husband, Frank, was
hurt or drunk outside in a
car.
Moya and Baldonado seized
the nurse, forced her into an
old, rented car and began the
killing. Olga did not die
easily.
The nurse was choked, bat
tered on the head with a bor
rowed pistol and driven to
the Casitas Pass area north of
Ventura, Calif. She was not
dead, yet.
The killers dragged her
from the car. Baldonado
choked her while Moya dug i
a grave with his hands in a
soft highway fill. They
changed places and Baldon
ado dug while Moya strangled
the nurse.
At last, Olga was still. One
of the killers placed his head
over her heart to listen. No
heart beat, but the killers
were not certain she was
dead. They covered her with
dirt, left and returned the
blood-stained car to its owner.
Mrs. Duncan accused the
killers of trying to blackmail
her, apparently to stop the
two from trying to get their
full payment for murder.
Moya and Baldonado were ar
rested. Baldonado confessed
and led authorities to the
body Dec. 21, 1998.
Many Crimes
At her trial, the prosecution
dug into Mrs. Duncan's life.
Gustafson accused the gray
ing defendant of murder,
fraud, soliciting for prostitu
tion, adultery, aiding and
abetting sexual perversion,
incest, soliciting and abortion,
defrauding a landlord, obtain
ing money by false pretenses,
perjury, extortion, soliciting
mayhem, kidnaping conspir
acy, bribery, forgery, grand
theft and bigamy.
Gustafson pictured Frank
Duncan as "spineless," with
out enough courage to make
room in his life for his wife,
Olga. He called Duncan
"Frankie," and accussed him
of having no real love for
Olga.
The District Attorney said
Elizabeth Duncan hated any
one who tried to take away
her son - hated enough to
kill.
Mercy Asked
In their closing arguments,
the attorneys for the defense
and prosecution argued' the
fundamental question of life-
for-life punishment.
Mother Duncan's attorney,
S. Ward Sullivan of Los An
geles, appealed to emotion,
religion, forgiveness and the
Bible.
". . .. some 2,000 years ago
Christianity was born with a
doctrine of mercy and for.
giveness. Christianity that has
changed the ancient laws of
Biblical times did away with
the law of life-for-a-life, an
eye-for-an-eye and a tooth-for-a-tooth,
and installed one of
charity and mercy and love
and forgiveness.
"Nothing you can do can
bring back Olga. Olga has
gone to her eternal reward.
Perhaps where Olga is now
where all is forgiveness-if
she could raise her hand to di
rect you in your deliberations,
she would say to you, 'Don't
take the life of Elizabeth
Duncan. Spare her life but
put her where she belongs,
away from society in prison.' "
District Attorney Gustafson,
cold and methodical in his
prosecution, said:
"The brutal, calculated re
volting killing for hire of
Olga Duncan is one of a num
ber of horrible crimes which
have recently been committed
in California.
"I simply cannot under
stand bow some of our lead
ers, in the face of these events,
can seriously contend that the
death penalty is not appropri
ate punishment for the perpet
ration of such a crime.
"Many persons contend that
the death penalty does not
deter crime. Frankly, I am .
sick of this illogical argument.
Of course penalties do not
completely deter crimes. Jail
sentences do not completely
deter drunk drivers or any
other criminals, and death
penalties do not completely
deter murderers but there is
no reason to dispense with
penalties.
"Retaliation is a basic in
stinct of the human race. Ia
civilized societies, the govern
ment takes over from the in
dividual the job of retaliating
against a wrongdoer. From
Biblical times a life for a life
has been recognized as Just
and fair."
Gustafson said: "The reason
for punishment is to inflict a
penatly and, of course, taking
a person's life is the supreme
penalty."
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