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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1961)
Second in a Series Men Convicted in Huge Conspiracy Said Highly Respected in Community Editor'i note: This Is the xerond of three dispatches reporting in depth on the recent electrical Industry anti-trust case. By JACK V. FOX UPZ Correspondent Elmo Smith and John H. Chiles Jr., are in the same cell block at Montgomery County Prison at Norristown, Pa., near Philadelphia. Smith, 29, is a murderer. He faces mandatory sentence to the electric chair for the sex killing of a 16-year-old girl. Chiles, 57, is serving 30 days. He is a vice president of Westinghouse. His crime was that he violated the nation's anti-trust laws for profits for his company. Chiles, along with 47 other executives and 29 corpora tions, pleaded guilty or no de fense in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids in the $2 billion annual sales of the heavy electrical industry. Six other men were sen- Dividends To Be' Paid on Policies Portland-Under a new step ped up payment of GI Life Insurance dividends, 58,000 Oregon veterans will receive nearly $3 million before the end of March, 'manager R. J. Novotny, of the Veterans Ad ministration regional office at Portland, has announced. The first 12,000 checks, to talling 5540,000 will be mail ed immediately. By March 4, 14,000 more payments, adding up to $630,000, will be in the mail and the remaining 51, 800,000 will reach 32,000 more policy holders before March 30, he said. The payments are the regu lar annual dividends to hold ers of World War I and World War II insurance which nor mally are paid over a 12 month period. The current speed-up is made by order of President Kennedy as a stimu late to the national economy. Nation-wide the VA is paying a quarter billion dollars to more than five million veter ans. tenced with Chiles. One is William S. Ginn, a $130,000-a-year vice president of Gen eral Electric. They are in six of the 36-adjoining cells of the block, dressed identically in blue denim prisoner uni forms with the initials "MCP" over the shirt pocket. Each man has a space 9 by 12 feet with a toilet and wash basin. For the 30 days, if they wish, they can do nothing. Or they can work in the pris on laundry, boiler-room, as fil ing clerks in the office or in the library. Grant Postponement One man, J. M. Cook of the Cutler - Hammer Co., was granted a postponement in be ginning his jail term so he could be present at a long planned party to announce his daughter's engagement. Almost all the defendants were highly respected individ uals usually referred to as "pillars" of their community. Was prison too stiff a pun ishment for their crime? The government thought not. It asked jail sentences for 30 men but U. S. District Judge James Cullen Ganey gave suspended sentences to 23. The prosecution - which be ean unrlpr tlm Kisnnhnwpr ad ministration and was approved By the Kennedy - pointed out that the victims of the price cartel inclurleerl the armpri forces, the Atomic Energy commission, the Tennessee Vallev Authority, state and municipal governments a s Scout News Back 4 Cub Scout Pack 4 will hold their annual blue and gold dinner Thursday, Feb. 23, at 6:30 p.m. at the Oak Grove school gymnasium. Parents will be contacted regarding potluck dishes, and each family is to bring their own service. Coffee and ice cream will be furnished by the pack. The opening ceremony will be conducted by Den 4. There will be presentation of awards and other entertainment is planned. Plumbing-Contractor City and State License ST' , CALL SP 3-3503 "Misa, STEVENS PLUMBING & HEATING well as private utility com panies. Judge Ganey had some un compromising words as he passed sentences. "I am convinced that in the great numoer of these de fendants' cases, they were an approved corporate policy with the rewarding objectives of promotion, comfortable se curity and large salaries," he said. "In short, the organization or the company man, the con formist, who goes along with torn between conscience and his superiors and finds balm for his conscience in addition- A case In point is Chiles, al comforts and the security on the day he was sentenced, of his place in the corporate he WM reelected vice presi. Friends, Neighbors Shocked Many of their friends and neighbors in home towns are thoroughly shocked by jail sentences. Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 UM l,.fll.l.lill,.jH,l ACCEPTS COPY Chief Justice William M. McAllister (right) of the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon, formerly of Medford, accepts a copy of the just-published "Hand book for Jurors" from Dean F. Bryson of Portland (left) president of the Oregon State Bar. The booklet was prepared as a public service by the state bar. McAllister com mended the bar for the publication which he praised as "an excellent and Informative guide." Thirty-one Oregon county govern ments cooperated in the project by under writing printing costs for a supply of book lets to be distributed in their respective judicial districts. dent of the United Fund Or ganization in the community of Sharon, Pa., a town of about 65,000 50 miles from Pittsburgh. The Rev. Malcolm MacMil- lan, pastor of St. John's Epis copal church in Sharon, where Jurors Handbook Prepared by Bar; Being Distributed Salem - "A Handbook for Jurors," prepared as a public service by the Oregon State Bar, has been published and currently is being distributed to county courthouses throughout the state, accord ing to Dean F. Brayson of Portland, state bar president. It is the hope of the bar that a copy of the booklet will go to every Oregon citi zen called to serve on a jury, Bryson said. The contents of the book let, written by a special com mittee of the state Bar, work ing with the bar's public serv ice and information commit tee, deals with the role of the jury and juror, examina tion of jurors, evidence, types of cases, definitions of terms commonly heard during a trial and other subjects per tinent to jury duty. Commends Book The public service project brought words of commenda tion from Chief Justice Wil liam M. McAllister of the Supreme Court of the Stale of Oregon who said: "The Handbook for Jurors pre pared by the Oregon Slate Bar for distribution in our trial courts is an excellent and informative guide which I am sure will be of great value to our citizens in per forming their duties and ob ligations as jurors." Thirty-one of Oregons 36 county governments cooper ated in the publication of the Handbook for Jurors by un derwriting the cost of print ing copies to be distributed to jurors in their respective judicial districts. Baker, Ben ton, Klamath. Lane and Mar ion counties did not partici pate in the project, according to the state bar office. Of the total press run of 50,000, the Multnomah coun ty commissioners purchased 10,000 copies to be given out to jurors in the Fourth Ju dicial District. Chiles has served as senior warden, the highest lay office, i said: "The vestry still feels' Mr. Chiles is a man of high i integrity and we have every I confidence in him." j One of his close friends re marked bitterly that Chiles was a "fall guy for the com pany." A man who worked with Chiles during 35 years of civic service, which included a cita tion last year for his work with crippled children, said: "I think that the only thing John could be guilty of is do ing his job with the same con scientious attitude with which ho goes about everything that he undertakes." Leniency Sought Chiles, a small man with goldrimmed glasses, has said nothing in his own defense. He stood with his head slight ly bowed as his attorney Philip H. Strobing of Phila delphia, sought leniency from the court. "No further punishment is needed to keep these men from doing what they have done again.'' Strubing said. 'These "on were not grasp ing, greedy, cut-throat com petitors. They devote much of their time and substance to their communities." Chiles did write a letter to the Sharon Herald, ex pressing his gratitude for the sympathy he had been shown. "These heartwarming mani festations of support have erased any personal fear of what I may face In the next few weeks," he said. Kansas City Man Sentenced to Jail A 20-ycar-old Kansas youth was arrested on a charge of vagrancy early Friday morn ing after he chose a men's lav atory in the Goldy building, 1U8 bast Main St., as a place to spend the night. Robert Cecil McCleary, Kansas City, told police he had been unable to find lodg ing for the night so he entered the unlocked Goldy building and himself al home in the lavatory. But McCleary's sleep was interrupted about 6 a.m. by a janitor. The janitor tried to catch McCleary, but he ran away. A short time later, how ever, McCleary came back to the building to retrieve his coat, and this time the janitor caught him and held him for police. McCleary entered a plea of guilty to the vagrancy charge in municipal court, and was sentenced to two days In jail. GOING ON SALE 9:30 A.M. 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