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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1961 Prison Branch of AA Helping Men Make It Outside Cummings Prison Farm, Ark. (UPD - Arkansas Prison Supt. Lee Henslee had a long distance telephone call late one night from Chicago. The man at the other end had violated his parole from the Arkansas penitentiary by getting drunk, and was ready to return and "face the mu sic." Henslee sent him a bus I v fit . V" ' DR. T. M. COLASUONNO Receives Study Grartt SOC Instructor Jo Attend Institute Ashland - Southern Oregon college faculty member, Dr. Thomas M. Colasuonno of the science-mathematics depart ment, has received a summer institute grant to study in radiology at the University of Michigan medical school at Ann Arbor. The grant was sponsored jointly by the Atomic Energy commission and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Colasuonno, who is cur rently instructing biology and zoology at SOC, is one of 20 U.S. college teachers in the field of biology who has been selected for the award. Materials for the eight-week institute will be used toward developing a knowledge of the main areas of research in biology which are ameanable to attacks with radiation and radioactive isotopes. The course will also involve funda mental data in the areas of genetics, embryology, mor phology, and research in phys iology. Singer Will Be Sentenced Tuesday New York-fflPD-Folk singer Pete Seeger, 42, will be sen tenced Tuesday on a contempt of Congress charge for refus ing to answer questions of the House Committee on Un American Activities in 1955. Seeger was convicted by a federal court jury Wednesday after a three-day . trial. He faces a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a $10, 000 fine on each of 10 counts of contempt. The banjo player and singer had refused to answer the committee's questions about his associates and political be liefs on the ground they viol ated his rights under the First Amendment, which guaran tees freedom of speech and assembly. The committee was inquiring into communism in the entertainment field. Coege Enrollment Reaches 989 Students Ashland Enrollment at Southern Oregon college has reached 989, an in crease of about 6 per cent over the 930 students who had reg istered on a comparable date last year, college officials said today. The last day of registration is April 3. Last year's total spring term enrollment was 1,116. ticket, and the man returned and served out his sentence. Henslee heard from the man again recently. He had taken a job, received promo tions, and was in the $15,-000-a-year income bracket -strictly legitimate. The superintendent attrib utes the man's comeback to membership in an organiza tion set up at the prison farm ; eight years ago-the Arkansas Fellowship of Alcoholic Pris oners. It is a branch of Alco holics Anonymous. It was Henslee himself who j had the idea for the organi-1 zation. j Fast Living "Most of the men are in the penitentiary because of fast living, drinking, gambling and women, and it usually started from drinking," Henslee said. Approximately 300 prison ers who have joined AA dur ing their stay at the prison are now "on the outside," Henslee said some of them have slipped and returned, but many of them have be come sober, useful citizens. A recent anniversary meet ing drew former inmates from all parts of the nation, and more than 200 are ex pected for the 1960 event. Henslee said 17 men were in the original group. The or ganization now has 177 active members. A chapter for wom en prisoners was organized in 1952. Many of the alumni keep in touch through the secretary, who usually is one of the con-vicl-aides to the superintend ent, or through the superin tendent himself. The units meet one night each week. Each Sunday aft ernoon all seven units meet in the prison dining room. An open meeting is held the fourth Sunday in each month, and outside members of AA may attend. The units receive two mim eographed publications each month, published by the in mates. Continuing Problem Henslee said alcohol can continue to be a problem aft er the men are committed to prison. One of the trusty truck drivers recently took In a bot tle of vodka. He gave another trusty part of it to bury the bottle in a stall in the horse barn. Prison officials heard of the contraband through the grape vine, and confiscated more than half the contents of the bottle. Several years ago, Henslee sponsored legislation which made it a felony for any per son to take alcoholic drinks onto prison property. The trusty faces from one to three additional years for violation, will lose his privileges and be returned to the ranks to work in the fields. Rep. Edith Green, Husband Separate Portland-IIM - Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), was granted a legal separation from her hus band, Arthur, in the Multno mah County Court of Domes tic Relations Wednesday. The separation was granted by Circuit Judge Virgil Lang try at a proceeding which lasted 10 minutes. The two were married in 1933. The separation became effective immediately. A statement released by the Greens through their attor neys said in part, "Our close friends know that this is a step which was contemplat ed some years ago. At that time we concluded that our household should be main tained together until our fam ily was raised irrespective of personal difficulties." The couple has two sons, James Starrett Green, 26, and Richard Allen Green, 19. COSTLY SMOKE New York - (UPD - The To bacco Institute reports that to bacco was worth its weight in silver in 17th Century England. Straub Says Durno's Vote Defeated Bill "Two and a half million American working families have lost their chance of being guaranteed a minimum decent wage by the single vote of Congressman Dumo of the fourth district," State Senator Robert W. Straub, Democratic state chairman said today. In a special release to the Mail Tribune, he addedr "The $1.25 minimum wage bill pro posed by the national admin istration would have given almost 4 million workers the modest weekly base pay of $50 per week, but this was too much for the newly elect ed Republican congressman from this district who voted to cut 10 cenLs an hour off of the minimum and so reduce the coverage by 2' j million working families. As a direct result of Durno's vote, the proposed bill lost by a single vote, 186 to 185. 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