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WisU T wonT to vjdana uers U if 7 I' X) I I i . .frisk. 2 HEATED ELECTION CAMPAIGN - During or with real political punch. Suzanne is one student council elections at the Odana Ele- of 30 grade schoolers running lor the first mentary school in Madison, Wis., Suzanne student council organization in the school. Myers' campaign manager gave her a post- (UP1) Rogue Valley Edition Medford. Page 2A Tribune MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1963 Order For Electric Typewriters Causes Stir In Salem By ANN H. PEARSON United Press International Salem - (UPD - Another elec trical device was sending a shock through the legislature as the 1863 session Saturdiy ended Its seventh week. Last week It was a speaker system. This week, it was an electric typewriter or rath er 45 of them ordered for use of house and senate em ployees at a cost of $19,206. Republican Shirley Field late Friday termed the order a "colossal blunder" on the part of the Democratic leg islative leadership. As she spoke, the Ways and Means committee already had moved earlier in' the day to ward off blows expected over the typewriter order. The committee ordered Its fiscal officer to study the or der and report back. The budget cutting com mittee has been eliminating such modern equipment from state agency budget requests. "We may be accused of act ing at cross purposes," Rep. Stafford Hansell told other Slight Earthquake Felt In Portland Portland - (DTD - A slight earthquake was felt In the Portland area at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, but no damage was reported. Dr. Peter Dehlinger, Ore gon State university, said the temblor was "barely percept ible" on the university's seis mograph. He said it probably centered near downtown Port land was not felt over a wide area. committee members, "for the legislature using different equipment than we are allow ing." House Speaker Clarence Barton called the order an economy move. He said the old typwrlters required a full time repair man. The new ones, he said, would go to state agenoies after the session. Miss Field said an exces sive sum was paid for the machines. She said Barton ex ceeded his authority. She added she has been told many of the secretaries do not even know how to use electric typewriters. There was some progress on serious matters during the week. Thoughts of Senate and House Tax committee mem bers began to jell on how to meet the state's revenue prob lem. The Informal outlines of their concensus Indicated more Incomes taxes, a ciga rette tax, and some minor revenue measures, but noth ing drastic. . Members of the two com mittees have been meeting together at times in an ef fort to avoid an Impasse be tween the two houses later on. Barton and Senate' Pres ident Ben Musa predicted their cooperation would shave weeks off the length of the session. Musa pegged it at 120 days for a mid-May adjournment. The House and Senate com mittees on constitutional re vision completed policy de cisions on most of the first section of a proposed new con stitution. GENERATORS j jS ABSORBERS Wagner BRAKE SHOES AUTO ACCESSORIES OPEN SUNDAYS! 1 FUEL PUMPS TRAILER HITCHES THRIFT AUTO SUPPLY ujsr AUTO iUPPlV Medford, 801 N. Rivenidt-Grsnls Past, 529 S I. 6th The Store With 10,000 It.mi Lower Telephone Rates Within State Proposed Salem - (UPD - A plan for lower long distance rates on telephone calls made within Oregon between 9 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. has been filed here. Pacific Northwest Bell filed the plan with the Public Utili ty Commissioner Friday. The Oregon plan corre sponds to a national plan for lower rates on night calls re cently requested of American Telephone and Telegraph Co. by the Federal Communica tions Commission. Pacific Northwest Bell is a subsidiary of AT & T. T. E. Bolgcr, general mana ger for the Oregon area, said the instate plan, to be effect ive about April 1, would mean reductions of from 9 to 45 cents on station calls. The lower rates would apply on station calls between points at least 01 air miles apart. Sample Changes A night station call from Portland to Eugene would drop from 60 to 50 cents for three minutes. A call from Portland to Ontario would drop from $1 to 70 cents. The telephone company also filed minor revisions in day and night person - to - person long distance charges in Oregon. The company said the ad justments would mean small decreases for some persons and increases for others. More Than 30 Testify On Proposed Tougher Sex Offence Laws Grenfell Found Guilty By Jury Portland - (UPD - William Grenfell, a former state sen ator whose political ambitions were dampened by a fatal traffic crash last year, was found guilty Friday of fail ing to remain at the scene of an accident, A Circuit Court Jury of eight women and four men returned the verdict only a little more than an hour aft er being given the case. The vote was 11-1. "I think the Jury made a terrible mistake,," .Grenfell calmly told newsmen after receiving the decision. "I still claim my inno cence." His attorneys said I they would appeal. Sentencing Set i Circuit Judge Virglal Lang- try scheduled sentencing for i next Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Grenfell, a 37 year - old ; Portland fireman, was a can S dldatc for Multnomah coun , tv commissioner before the fatal two car accident in ! North Portland in October, I He was badly beaten In the November election. Harold Jones, 61, Buttle Ground, Wash., was killed in the crash. Grenfell was in lured. The conviction in the trial ; which began Monday carries ! a maximum penalty of five 1 years in prison, a $5,000 fine or both. By ZAN STARK United Press International Salem (UPD Spectators sat breathlessly silent as two parents of children who had been molested pleaded for en actment of tougher sex of fense laws. The testimony came during the first public hearing Fri day by the House Judiciary committee on a 5-bill package of sex offender laws. Five hundred people were on hand when the session began, and more than 100 remained five hours later when the session was recessed until March 12. More than 30 witnesses op pcared. Mrs. John Gaugher, Port land, told the committee a man who molested her 6-year-old daughter and the 10-year-old daughter of a neighbor was still free. She said the attacker, 60, had admitted his crime, but was free on bail. "Why?", she asked. James Montgomery, a mem ber of the Portland YMCA board, told of his 10-year-old daughter being molested. He recited how he tried in vain for three years to get the man convicted. Montgomery also told the shocked audience that he had been molested at the age of 12. He explained he lived in a thinly populated rural area, and was afraid to mention the incident to his father, and "had no neighbors to talk to." In a sometimes halting voice he related how the ex perience did not excite his emotions at the time, but as he grew older and his emo tions matured he began to feel his normal urges were immoral. "I had an unbalanced eval uation of sex," he said. "I didn't know if I was wrong or that childhood experience was wrong." He pleaded for enactment of the five sex bills, espe daily the controversial civil commitment measure. Portland Attorney Jonathan Newman presented the Amer ican Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argument against the civil commitment bill. He said the measure, HB 1129, would allow civil com mitment under a process not tolerated in criminal law. He said the bill was of doubtful constitutionality. He stressed that a person is entitled to the safeguards provided by criminal statutes. He said the bill did not call for findings of fact before commitment could occur. Multnomah County District Attorney George Van Hoom issen said he supported all five bills, but warned they would not solve the problem. He termed the civil commit ment bill "most modest," and recommended the wording of the proposal be simplified. Van Hoomissen said "no other area of mental illness is less understood than the definition of what is a sex deviate." He said non-violent moles tation of children did not leave a lasting impression on the child, and advised there were known "treatment or cures" for the sex deviate. He warned it is nearly im possible to clinically isolate a sex deviate, and said devi ates are mostly under-sexed persons, with the exception of rapists. Frustration of witnesses who complained at the lack of convictions under present laws was dumped on Van iHoomissen's shoulders. One after another mothers and representatives of church and social groups paraded to the witness table and urged the committee to adopt the bills. The bills give jurisdiction in sex cases to circuit courts, raise penalties in specific cases, set penalties for "peep ing toms," eliminate county court jurisdiction in judicial matters, and provide lor civ. il commitment and treatment of persons adjudged to be sexually dangerous." Committee Chairman Berkeley Lent (D-Portland) said he had received hun dreds of requests to testify. At Friday's hearing petitions with nearly 5,000 names were submitted urging support of the bills. You Specify. . . ... 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