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Civil Rights Panel Witness Testifies He Was Tortured Twice by Southern Police Washington (UPD A civil rights panel Saturday plan ned to hear more lntegration ists' stories of suffering they said they received at the hands of southern police. A number of witnesses Fri day told the two - day hear ings set up by Congress of Racial Equality that Integra tionlsts, whether white or Ne gro, facpi torture, beating, trumped up charges and other illegalities in the south ern legal process. The panel includes such prominent figures as Elea nor Roosevelt and Socialist leader Norman Thomas. Real Feeling "We have to awake this country," Mrs. Roosevelt said. She said she thought the South would "respond to real feeling among the people of other parts of the country." One witness, Eric Weinber ger of Norwich, Conn., claim ed police in Brownsville. Tenn., tortured him with an electric shock probe and wrist clamps because he help ed evicted Negro sharecrop- ed down to the screaming per s earn a living. I point and shaken The 30-year-pld teacher I Passed Out Counties Ask Aid In Starting Local Mental Clinics Salem - (UPD - State mental health director, Joseph Tre leaven, has announced that 13 applications have been re ceived from counties and otlv ers seeking state funds for creation of local mental health clinics. Six other coun ties are Interested, Twelve of the applications are from counties, or groups of counties. They include Coos and Curry together, Crook' Deschutes Jefferson com bined, and Clackamas, Ben ton, Marion, Yamhill, Lin coin, Douglas, Jackson, Klam ath, Tillamook and Washing ton. Private Croup The 13th application is from a private group in Portland, the Community Child Guid ance Clinic. A 1961 appropriation of $200,000 for such community health clinics will be avail able starting July 1. The $200, 000 Is for the second year of this biennium, which starts the first of July. Other counties that may submit applications, Dr. Tre leaven said, include Linn. Clatsop, Polk, Lane, Multno mah and Columbia. The doctor said that if clin ics are established in all of the areas applying, nearly 80 per cent of all Oregon cit izens will be close to a local mental health clinic. Trcleaven'i mental health division was created by 1081 act, under the State Board of Control. Woman Overcome By Butane Gas Bend - (UPD - A Portland woman, Mrs. Herman Ker char, was overcome by fumes from a butane camping stove at South Twin Lake, 30 miles south of here Saturday. She was taken to a Bend hospital where her condition was not immediately known. State police said she was discovered in her tent by her husband and sons after they returned from a morning fishing jaunt. Artificial res piration was applied by a state policeman who was called. said he was tortured twice this spring, and once Sheriff Tip Hunter operated the wrist clamps. Wrist Clamps In Tennessee, Hunter Im mediately denied that Wein berger was tortured. He said wrist clamps had to be used to try to get Weinberger's fingerprints. But the sheriff said Weinberger was so "un cooperative" that even with the clamps they were unable to obtain clear prints. Weinberger charged that the Brownsville police "used a high-voltage electric shock probe the type they use to make cattle move" on sensitive parts of his body. "I was beaten by Deputy Anderson and four others, some in blue uniform, some in plainclothes," he said. "The wrist clamp was screw- "My fingers were bent back, my pants slashed torn off and a high-voltage electric probe applied," Wein berger told the panel. "During the beating I pass ed out two or three times, but was revived each time by slaps so that the torture could continue. "On Saturday, with the sheriff present, I was again dragged from the cell, and tied face down on the floor in an adjacent cell. The wrist cuff was applied again, plus pliers to hold the fingers." Weinberger, who still leaching the sharecroppers to make tote bags but does not risk leaving his workshop. said his sight was temporarily impaired by a punch in the eye ad the back of his hand was partially numbed from the clamps. Hatfield Charged With Making a Deal to Veto Two Labor Measures Page 2A Medfqrd. Tribune MEDFQRD. OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1962 Marilyn Takes Swim in The Buff in Movie Scene Hollywood (UPD Marilyn Monroe, who gained national prominence as a nude calen dar girl, enhanced her stand 1 n g as Hollywood's No. 1 glamour girl last week by splashing in the altogether for a swimming scene in her lat est movie. The blonde glamour girl stripped to the buff on orders from George Cukor for a swimming pool scene in "Something's Got To Give." Something did Marilyn's flesh-colored swim suit. "I had been wearing the suit, but it concealed too much," she said. "And it would have looked wrong on the screen." Close Their Eyes "It s the first time I've ever worked in a movie without any clothes on. The set was closed, all except for mem bers of the crew who were very sweet. I told them to close their eyes and turn their backs, and I think they all did." Cukor, a calendar fun, said Marilyn's figure was better than It was at the time the calendar was published. "She has a beautiful body, better than ever." Martin Absent Miss Monroe, giggling like school girl, said it took al- State GOP Leaders To Attend Meeting Portland - HIP1I - Oregon Re publican Chairman Phillip J. Roth said Saturday about a dozen state GOP lenders and candidates will attend a Re publican National committee meeting in Seattle June 11-12. Aim of the meeting will be to shape campaign strategy. Roth said likely delegates include himself, v GOP vice chairman Mrs. Paul Daughtry of Portland, secretary Mrs. Forrest Hedges of Grants Pass, and treasurer Joseph Burns of Hermiston. They also include GOP national com mitteeman Lowell Paget of Portland and national com- mitteewoman Mrs. Collins Moore of Moro. most all day Wednesday to shoot the scene. Her costar, Dean Martin, was absent. "I think he was out play ing golf," Marilyn said. Asked if she was embar rased by her over-exposure, Marilyn laughed again and said, "Actresses are always embarrassed when they are acting. "I was a little embarrassed by the fact I don't swim very well. I only dog-paddle but I'm buoyant and I can float. I only went under oncp. hut I popped right back to the surface. "There was a lifeguard on the set to help me out if I needed him. but I'm not nr it would have worked. He had his eyes closed too." Head State Capitol Guide to End Work Salem -(UPD- The most fa miliar figure to visitors of the Oregon Capitol building, Gene vandeneynde, is retiring, the Oregon Highway Department has announced. He heads the Capitol guide service. Vandeneynde, 65. has been the Cupitol guide since No vember, 1953i He has shown the Capitol to tens of thou sands of persons. When he first Joined the guide service, it was under the secretary of state's office. The service was shifted to the travel Information division of the highway department in 1959. Melvin Cleveland, director of the Oregon Civil Service commission, said that recruit ing is in progress for a suc cessor. The salary range is $3,500 to $4,500 a year. The guide Is not only re sponsible for showing visitors through the Capitol, but deliv ers talks about the exhibits, history of the building, and history of the state. Applications will be receiv ed through June 8. Salem - (UPD - An employer spokesman said Saturday that a 3-way workmen's compen sation bill will be introduced in the 1963 Legislature and there will be "no compro mise" on guts of the proposal. A similar plan caused one of the hottest controversies of the 1961 session. The heat was so great that it - and a lot of other legislation In the final hours - died. At the same time the spokesman, Attorney Keith Skelton of Eugene, charged that Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield made "a deal with labor last year to veto two bills if they got to his desk. One of these was 3-way and the other was the "Little Lan-drum-Griffin" labor bill, Skel ton said. Little Landrum-Grif-fin also perished. turn ffj Hatfield's opposition to 3-way and Little Landrum Griffln, labor agreed to sup port Hatfield in the election this year. "Labor will now y off on ithis" in November, Skelton said. Hatfield did not support the 3-way bill in 1961, but he had his own "2-way" proposal. This died also. Skelton Sponsored Last year Skelton was coun sel for the Committee for Competitive Workmen's Com pensation, the wheelhorse and , sponsor of the 3-way bill. He said that while he wexrt be counsel for the committee ac;i this session, he repre- ! sents some firms "interested in such a plan for improving j worknjrn s compensa 1 1 o n. and therefore will have a role in the 1963 effort. At present the state has all but a monopoly in workmen's compensation insurance, through the Oregon Indus trial Accident commission. Better System A number of Oregon em ployers say that 3-way is the only answer to a "better sys tem. The three ways wouHi let an employer insure his workers through: (1) the state, (2) a private carrier, or (3) self insurance. Opponents of 3-way say this can be done under existing laws, but Skelton insists it cannot. The 1961 legislation is now being reviewed and modified by the employer committee. Kkdtnn saiH it will h snh. cations in such areas as funding. Elide The ins To Memory Gardens on Memorial Day (See Paper on Monday Salem - I1IPII - The gover nor's office just before noon Saturday issued a strong denial that any "deal" had been made last year with the AFL-CIO ever a 3-way workmen's compensat ion bill that died In the last legislature. "This is the familiar sour grapes explanation a lob byist of Skelton's ilk gives to the high-paying clients when he fails to get a bill through the legislative branch of government made up of a majority of his own political party," a spokes man for Governor Hatfield said. 1 TfhdUw PlSffljB Skelton said that although neither bill made it to Hat field, they would have been i killed there under "a firm ! agreement, a deal" with the ! Oregon AFL-CIO. The former legislator from Lane county said that in re- Governor Slates 3 Speeches This Week Salem -(UPD- Three speeches I and a round of other events are on Gov. Mark Hatfield's agenda for the coming week. Monday he speaks in Port land to the Pacific Coast Seed- men's conference. Wednesday afternoon he will be at Depoe Bay for the Fleet of Flowers ceremony and Thursday night he delivers a commencement address at Salem Academy. Friday morning Hatfield will be in Jackson county for dedication of a new stretch of the Pacific freeway, the north Grants Pass interchange j unit. Saturday night he ad- i dresses an alumni banquet at j Willamette university here. I Sunday afternoon he will attend commencement at Wil- ! lamette. I Goldberg Hopes tor Shipping Settlement Portland - (UPD - Labor Sec retary Arthur Goldberg is hopeful a settlement will be reached in the west coast mar itime dispute, but if not, he made it clear the government will act. "It is important and im perative that the parties make settlement . . . and I urge them to do so," he told a news conference Friday night. 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