MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEOFOHD, OREGON
THURSDAY. MARCH
Kidnaper Meted
Double Sentence
Eugene -0.TO- Edward Dean
Riley, 22, Cottage Grove, who
pleaded guilty to a charge
of kidnaping, received two
concurrent 15-year sentences
in Circuit Court Wednesday.
Riley was charged in the
kidnaping of Cottage Grove
policeman James Cornell, his
wife, Catherine, and Raymond
Harris, last Dec. 29.
Shirley Mae Huckins, 22,
Eugene, accused of being Ri
ley's companion in the a 1mc
tion of tlie three persons,
was found guilty of kidn p
ing by a Circuit Court jury
here last month.
Brown Asks Legislature to Abolish 'Split Trials' in Insanity Pleas
Majority of Students
Would Accept Negro
Troy, Ala. - HOT - Seventy
per cent of a group of Troy
State college freshmen said in
a poll released Wednesday
that they would not object to
a Negro classmate.
But 53 of 65 of the youths
and coeds polled in connec
tion with a sociology study in
the bio-social classes said they
would not care to sleep in a
dormitory room with Negroes.
Sacramento - (UPI - Gov.
Edmund G. Brown asked the
legislature today to end "split
trial" procedures under which
defendants who plead insanity
must have two trials.
In a special message on in
sanity and criminal offenders,
Brown told the lawmakers
steps were needed to guaran
tee the rights of the criminal
whose "basic problem" is
mental disorder.
However, he shied away
from asking the lawmakers to
repeal the historic 120-year-old
M'Naghten rule on crim
inal insanity, which Brown
has criticized many times as
not up-to-date.
"I believe individuals of
sound mind must be held re
sponsible for their acts which
violate our laws," he said, be protected from violence.
"No person should be tried, Dangerous persons wheth-
convicted, sentenced or exe- er sane or insane should
cuted if he is insane." be quarantined. They must be
"Society, however, must freed only when it is certain
Summer Workshop On Television Slated
Eugene-The University of
Oregon's fifth summer work
shop on educational television
has been scheduled for June
10 to 21.
The two -week workshop
will involve a concentrated
course in television produc
tion for specific educational
purposes. Lecture- demonstra
tions will be given and studio
activities will make use of
the university's professional
facilities.
Dr. J. R. Shepherd, associ
ate professor of speech and
coordinator for KOAC-TV,
university campus, will be
workshop director. He has
been associated with educa
tional television for the past
15 years.
that their presence in society
no longer poses a threat to
the lives and property of their
fellow citizens."
The governor commended
his special commissions on in
sanity and criminal offenders,
who have been studying the
problem since 1960.
He said that although that
the commissions agreed the
M'Naghten rule is no longer
a satisfactory test of legal san
ity they could npt agree on
the question of a new test to
take its place.
In simple terms, the
M'Naghten rule says that a
person must be in a state to
know that he is doing wrong
when he commits a crime in
order to be responsible for his
actions.
"In my opinion, any change
at this time would do more
harm than good because it is
clear that prosecutor and psy
chiatrist, defender and judge
have not yet found common
ground for discussion and de
cision," Brown faid.
Better Test
As a result he asked the
legislature to continue through
an interim committee "a
Office Seeker Asks Change of Slogan
Portland-OJrU-A Republican
congressional hopeful doesn't
like the state's anti-forest fire
slogan, "Keep Oregon Green."
In fact, he wants it changed.
Jim Bacaloff of Portland,
who plans to run against
Democratic Congresswo m a n
Edith Green in 1964, said "the
real purpose of the slogan is
to keep the word Green be
fore the public."
He suggested it be changed
to "Keep Oregon Growing."
broad search for a better le
gal test of sanity."
On the subject of bifurcated
or split trials, Brown pointed
out that under present law
one trial is held to ascertain
guilt for a criminal act and
a second to decide whether
the defendant was insane
when he committed the act.
"Our experience with this
system . . . indicates that all
the facts should be presented
in a single trial," Brown said.
The governor said this i
would assure the defendant j
of his right to speedy trial I
and a verdict based on all the
facts. '
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HAIR RAISING PROBLEM
Reno, Nev. -UPli- Police ad
mit they really have a prob
lem in trying to find 20 wigs
valued at S3, 200 stolen from
beauty salons in the past
week. "We can't very well go
around pulling everyone's
hair," one officer said.
Three basic minerals cattle '
must have the year 'round are j
salt, phosphorus and calcium. :
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"WEDDING INVITATIONS-Socialite Hope Cooke, 22 gets
lome wedding invitations ready in her hotel in New York
City Wednesday. It is to be a royal wedding. Her fiance is the
Waliarajkumar (Crown Prince) of Sikkim, who is 40. The
marriage ceremony is scheduled for March 20 in his palace
In Gangtok, Sikkim's capital. (UP!)
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By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc.
Editor's note: Sylvia Porter is on vacation. During her
absence a column by Ralph McGill is being substituted.
McGill is currently on a lour of African nations, about
which he is writing.
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THEY TALK OF THE SOVIETS
West Africa - Ghana has been shocked by the police
ection against her students in Bulgaria. The comment was
that the Bulgarians had acted somewhat like Mississippians.
Ghanaian boys had been arrested and roughly handled by
officers because of their insistence on forming an African
students league. The Bulgars allowed only one - a Commu
nist league.
In Guinea there was another Soviet show which disturbed
the people of that small, hard-pressed country of good-humored,
earnest people. It, too, reveals a part of the Soviet mind
which troubles the average African, even though his leaders
may not speak of it or allow it in the local press. (Ghana did
publish and broadcast the indignities against her students.)
One day not so long ago, the story goes, two Russians
appeared at the Conakry airport at the time of the arrival
' of the Soviet plane which calls there once per week.
: They had a young woman with them, a Miss Svetlana
I Ushanova, a teacher and interpreter who for some lime
i had been in Guinea as one of a number of Russian aid
I personnel. One of the men put down what purported to
I be the girl's passport. The Guinean officer noted that
the picture was not really that of the girl. He said so.
The Russians were said to have tried to bluster it
through. (Many persons were, of course, looking on.)
' The ofticial called the airport commander who, after a
look at the passport, also asked what was up. The Soviets
departod in anger.
An hour and a half later, as reported by some who were
present, the airport commander saw the Soviet crew come
through. A uniformed hostess was with them. But, alas, it
was the same girl they had tried to take through with an
invalid passport. This time, it was said, the Soviet ambassa
dor appeared and also sought to talk down the Guinean
authorities. They stood firm against what seemed an illegal
act. The Russians again left, furious.
Later, so the tale runs, there was a call saying there was
n sick passenger. Permission was asked to lake an ambulance
direct to the plane. Authorities said of course, but they
would have to see the patient. There was no ambulance. i
Police found the girl and two Russians in a cafe. They
took the girl to one side and asked her what was going on. 1
She reportedly replied she was being taken out of Guinea
against her will because they had said she had been going
to dances and hud, through her class contacts, fraternized
with Guincans. She was removed to the home of a Guinean
official and the Russians, after arrest and interrogation were
released.
This, plus the action in Bulgaria, disturbs African
leaders. They do not wish to have a breach with the
Soviets. But the plain people talk. They do not like the
fact that the Russians, in all countries in Africa (and
elsewhere) keep entirely to themselves save for the one
er two persons designated to attend protocol diplomatic
affairs. The Soviets (and the other Communist' bloc
members, including the Chinese) do not engage any local
servants, cooks, waiters, or chauffeurs, as do other
embassies. Nor do they invite local persons, outside the
diplomatic set. to their receptions. No matter how large
or small the country they fetch along their own maids,
chefs, drivers, maintenance persons, and all other help.
(The charge by the Soviets that one of their teachers
had become friendly with the people did not, ol course,
please the Guineins.)
The Soviet aid program in many African countries is
substantial But while they have reached some intellectuals
and politic.il leaders, none of the Communist delegations
have proved themselves to be comrades or shown any will
ingness to be one with "the people "
This dors not go unnoticed. What it will mean, in the
long struggle tor the minds of men, remains for the future
to reveal.
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