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8ECTI0N D PAGES 1 to 10 MedfordTribune MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1962 Tape Recording of Priest's Interview Rapped by Lawyer Vancouver, B.C. H'PD A lawyer criticized police today for making a secret tape re cording of an interview be tween a Roman Catholic priest and a woman accused of attempted extortion. Lawyer John Macey, de fending the woman and her husband against a charge of trying to extort $15,000 from a 77-year-old widow, said the police action undermines the whole foundation of religion. Macey's accusation came after Prosecutor Donald Mor rison sought to introduce in court tape recordings made at police headquarters durii.g an interview between Mrs. Elea nor Lloyd, 23; and the Rev. Alousius Craven. Left Alone The interview took place in the office of Detective Inspec tor Ian McGregor, head of the city's criminal investigation branch, the day after Mrs. Lloyd and her husband, Don ald. 26, were arrested. Police arranged the inter view after Mrs. Lloyd asked to talk to a priest. The two were left alone in the office. Father Craven called the incident "sneaky." If the recordings are al lowed as evidence, "perhaps the greater crime will have been committed by the police and prosecutor's office," Ma cey said. Macey also said in future lawyers will not be certain that their talks with clients in the police station are not being recorded. Under the law such conversations are privileged and cannot be in troduced as evidence. Phone Call Recorded Macey was given until next Thursday to prepare an argu ment to support his objection to introduction of the re cordings. Earlier in the trial, Macey did not object to the introduc tion of a tape recording made of one of four threatening telephone calls received by Mrs. Mary McDonald at her home on Nov. 15 by an uni dentified man. The man said: "This is a kidnaping case. We are hold ing your foster daughter, Shirley Bishler, for $15,000." "If we don't get the money by 5 p.m. today she will be killed," he said. Mrs. McDonald said she was ordered to put the money in a shoe-box, call a taxi and place the box under a mail box in Vancouver. Police prepared a dummy package and arrested the Lloyds after staking the mail box area. Eastern Private School Head Reports on Segregation There See ... Fabulous display of the world's most famous Diamonds including replicas of The HOPE Diamond & TIFFANY Diamond to help celebrate Member FDIC E. Medford 701 E. Jackson St. 773-7315 Oregon Will Take Part in ADC Check Salem - H'Pli - The Oregon Public Welfare Department said today it would partici pate in a nationwide eligibil ity check of Aid to Dependent Children recipients. The three-month study was ordered by the Senate Appro priations Committee. The De partment of Health, Education and Welfare said the study, spurred by discovery of wel fare cheating in the District of Columbia, will cover about 2 per cent of the national case load. Oregon Welfare Adminis trator Andrew Juras said 146 cases will be investigated in Oregon. They will be drawn at random from the files, he said. Former Senator In Poor Condition Providence, R. I. -ten- For mer Sen. Theodore Francis Green, 95. the oldest person ever to serve in the U.S. Sen ate, was in a coma and in poor condition today at Jane Brown Hospital. He was admitted Wednes day after being stricken at his home, but his precise ailment was not disclosed. Green was a member of the Senate for 24 years, but was not a candidate for reelection in 1960 because of failing sight and hearing. i BY LOUIS CASSELS United Pretl International Danbury, Conn.-flJPD-The more easy victories we can win over segregation," said the Rev. John D. Verdery "the fewer the really difficult battles will become The Rev. Mr. Verdery is headmaster of Wooster school, a small but excellent college preparatory school delated to the Episcopal church Seven years ago, Wooster had an all-white student body Today it has the highest pro portion of Negro students about 6 per cent-in any inde pendent school in the east The integration of a boy's boarding school in New Eng land is' an "easy victory," the Rev. Mr. Verdery said, com pared with the admission of a Negro student to the Univer sity of Mississippi. Worth Winning But Wooster's experience has convincd him that easy victories are well worth win ning. "Prejudice hits men where they're weakest," he said in an interview. "Why don't men hit prejudice where it's weak est? "Pressing the issue of inte gration a little harder, in situations where the opposi tion is likely to be weakest, is a tactic that has been too much neglected in our pre-J occupation with the tough-nut cases." The tall Episcopal minister acknowledged he had some trepidation about admission of Negroes to Wooster. An inde pendent school, even though it is located in the north, is exceedingly vulnerable to economic pressure. No Negro Applied He also had a handy ration alization for dodging the whole issue. Like many other private institutions, Wooster could honestly claim that no Negro had applied for admis sion. "It took us some years to face honestly the simple fact that Negro parents, like other parents, are not eager to place their children in an environ ment in which they have rea son to believe they are not really wanted," the Rev Mr. Verdery said. "From a pract ical standpoint, the institution that wants Negroes must at first ask them to come. If it has none, it is fair to say that Sheridan Attorney Has Trial Recessed Portland -IUPD- The tax eva sion trial of Sheridan attorney and businessman Otto Heider Sr. Wednesday was recessed until Jan. 28 to allow govern ment and defense attorneys to discuss Holder's financial records. Heider is charged with evading federal income taxes on 5127,000 during 1953 and 1954. Federal Judue Gus J. Solo mon called the recess to allow attorneys to investigate cer tain discrepancies in their figures. is simply doesn't want them Wooster went out and in vited qualified Negro students to apply, and offered them sholarship aid, if they need ed it. The first Negro stu dents were admitted in the fall of 1955 "without a single incident and with hardly a murmur of protest from any quarter." Problem of Conscience Then the Rev. Mr. Verdery found himself confronted with another and more subtle prob lem of conscience. The fash ionable thing to do was to ad mit one or f o "symbolic Negroes" as proof that the school had no color barrier. But he felt such token in tegration of a private institu tion was a fraud. "Morally, the symbolic Negro, except as a first step, is a dishonest gesture," he said. Wooster now has eight Ne gro boys in a student body of 140. Far from causing diffi culties, they have fitted into school life so quietly that the Rev. Mr. Verdery wonders why he ever worried about integration. Applicable Elsewhere "I suspect that some of the lessons we've learned here may be applicable to many other situations," he said. "A few white people of leadership and conviction could break the color line in thousands of schools, colleges, clubs, professional organiza tions and business offices, with hardly a blow being struck in opposition. "We shouldn't scorn the easy victories. Much progress is being thwarted by a kind of prejudice which is not real ly deep-seated, which is noth ing more than irresponsible lethargy." Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Phoenix, Ariz. - Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) in an nouncing that he would not run for the vice presidency in 1964: "After watching the greatest magician in the White House make LBJ (Vice President Lyndon Johmon) diiappear, I don't want to become lero," Albany, N.Y, - New York Supreme Court Justice Russell G, Hunt, ruling that a Communist has no right to lecture at a state university or college: "We should be mindful that the freedoms are dependent upon the survival of constitutional government, and that for the latter to survive it must have the power to protect itself against unlawful conduct end whatever is harmful to the public welfare and interest." 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