, . MKUrOKIl MAIL TKIBUNE. MEDKOHD. OHKliUX THURSDAY. OCTOBKH 17, 1963 Q J
Judge Says Df Parents Don't Spank Authorities Must
By BARNEY SEIBERT
United Press International
Jailing lawbreakers only "fes
ters criminals," the whipping
judge of Wilmington, Del, be
" lieves.
; "All I know is, physical pun
; ishment seems to work," the
. spanking judge of Whiting, Ind
' maintains.
"It's a better lesson than just
being fined," insists the justice
of the peace at Woodstock, 111.,
who ordered five teen-agers to
remove the trash from along 150
miies ot msnwavs,
Thev are amnni a small hut
: growing minority of jurists who
are outflanking the rnnsHt-.itinn.
, al prohibition against "unusual'
punishments.
. Municipal judge William Ober
miller of Whiting believes
there is nothing unlawful about
unusual punishment so long as
the recipient accepts it willing
ly. The recipient's other choice
is generally a heavy fine or a
long jail term.
Scrub City Hall
, This summer Obermiller or
dered a group of underage
drinkers to work off their ex
cess energy scrubbing floors at
the Whiting city hall. Teen
agers caught stealing hubcaps
were put to work manicuring
the public library's lawn.
"Last year we had 50 arrests
over the 4th of July weekend,"
Obermiller says. "This year we
had one.
"Apparently, the word got
round."
In 1962 following a series of
arrests at Whiting's Lake Michi
gan Beach, Obermiller ordered
public spankings, beach clean
up details, shaving of duck-tail
locks, essays on the constitution
and Declaration of Independ
ence; and book reports on the
"Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire."
"Every home needs a wood
shed," Obermiiller says.
He adds that if parents won't
spank their children, authorities
must.
Superior court judge Stewart
Lynch of Wilmington, Del.,
probably would agree with
Obermiller.
Student Lashed
Lynch resurrected a 268-year-old
law and sentenced a man
to 20 lashes with a Cat-O' -Nine-Tails
and 25 years in prison for
s mugging.
CLEAN UP PARK The group of youths ar
rested for disturbances in Whiting, Ind., re
port to jail to work out sentences of cleaning
up beach park imposed on them by Judge
William Obermiller, who stands at left in this
photo. He supervised the clean-up detail. The
photo was taken July 7, 1962. (UPI)
A youth was sentenced to 20
lashes for violating probation
for auto theft. Execution of that
sentence awaits an appeal to
the U. S. Supreme court.
New York Resident
Buys Oldtime School
SALISBURY, N. Y. (UPI) -
Richard Miller had fond mem
ories of the old one-room Paper
Mill district school near this
central New York hamlet.
Miller, at 80 one of the oldest
residents in the district, re
cently purchased the building,
its pot-bellied stove and an acre
of land for $1,200 at an auction.
Miller served for many years as
a trustee of the school which
closed five years ago.
them sort the
beer cans by brand and write
essavs on "why teen-agers
drink."
Lynch says "institutionalism I But their penance was not
is only to keep bad dogs off the ! complete,
street. It doesn't do anv eood. ' R'tter made
I want to punish.
"Somebody should think of
the victim, not the criminal."
A like thinker is justice of
the peace Joe Ritter of Wood
stock, 111., who contends, "levy
ing fines on teen-agers only pen
alizes parents."
Last Christmas, five teen-age
boys were hauled before Ritter
on charges of beer drinking. He
sent them out to collect empty
beer cans discarded along high
ways in McHenry county north
west of Chicago.
Two weeks later, the five re
turned and presented Ritter
with 1,280 empty beer cans.
Protein Consumption
Mainly Animal Foods
FARGO, N. D. (UPI) - The
average human consumption of
protein is no different today
than it was 50 years ago about
100 grams a day says the North
Dakota State university agricul
tural extension service.
The only difference is that
right after the turn of the cen
tury only half the protein came
from animal foods. Today, the
percentage is two-thirds.
Juvenile drinking dwindled in
McHenry county, Ritter said.
Prefers Razor Strap
In the same rank is judge
Walter G. Tanner of Muncie,
Ind., another advocate of
razor strap persuasion.
him to take his son to another
room.
"Pants down, and I want to
be able to hear it out here," the
judge ordered.
He heard it.
Judges J. Sidney Hoffman of
Philadelphia and Anthony Cham
pa, of Shelbyvillc, Ind., believe
Last spring a 19 - year - old ' there is nothing like good, hon
youth was brought before Tan-jest labor to deter wrong doing,
ner on charges of beating his i Superior court Judge Champa
mother, chasing his sister out ; . 16-year-old ambulance
, ' B . ... thief to give the ambulance two
of the house, and assaulting a j waxjngs.
policeman. I City court judge Hoffman
Tanner handed the youth s gave Arthur J. Brookes, 16, the
father a leather belt and told
More Homes Have
Air Conditioning
SYRACUSE, N. Y. (UPI) -Investment
of $9.7 billion for
central air 'conditioning in the
seven largest markets . for the
industry's products during the
five-year period of 1964-68 was
predicted here recently b y
Russell Gray, president of Car
rier Air Conditioning company.
The equipment will go into
homes, office buildings, apart
ments, hotels and motels, fac
tories, hospitals and schools
and colleges.
By 1968, Gray said, one new
one-family home out of every
four will be centrally air con
ditioned, in contrast with the
one-out-of-six ratio in 1953.
option of reform school or taking
a $2 an hour job as a hod car
rier. Huffman specified that
Brookes pay half his wages for
the next five years to the family
of a printer who lost a foot when
he was struck by Brookes' car.
Brookes took the job.
A week later, when Brookes
proved physically unable to car
ry heavy bricks, Hoffman
agreed to let him take a lower
paying job as a car washer
providing he turned over three
fourths of his earnings to the
printer.
Hoffman's Aim
Hoffman's aim in handling
juvenile cases, he said is to "re
habilitate the children and pro
vide some security, some safety
and some benefit for the public
too."
County judge Sid Caillavet of
Orange, Tex., considers ridicule
an even more effective weapon
against juvenile offenses.
Teen-age boys brought before
Caillavet are ordered to wear
girls' dresses for 30 days. Par
ents are warned they will be
jailed if they allow the youths
to take off the dresses.
Caillavet said he learned the
punishment from his mother.
"It sure worked on us," he said.
Ritter considers the crowning
accompulishment of his unusual
punishments came in summer.
Three boys and a girl were
brought before him for posses
sing beer. Ritter fined them
$100, but agreed to suspend tho
find if they would work two
weeks at a clinic for crippled
children.
The four labored at the clinic,
painting and making minor re
pairs, until their sentences were
completed. But they continued
to report to the clinic afterward.
Three of them staged a picnic
for 35 of the handicapped chil
dren from the clinic. They also
launched a fund raising drive.
"It's a better lesson that just
being fined," one of them told
Ritter.
Realtor Combines
Art With Business
NEW YORK (UPI) - A real
tor who also is a patron of the
arts made his hobby pay off.
After leasing a Fifth Avenue
store, H. K. Ncgbaur got per
mission to use the store's win
dow to announce he had leased
it.
He then went to an art gal
lery and obtained the loan of an
eye - catching copper sculpture
of a woman's torso, called
"Nocturne." He placed the art
in the store window with a sign
identifying it and adding: "This
store will soon house an out
standing national concern. It
was leased through H. K. Neg
baur and Company." Thou
sands of Fifth Avenue strollers
are now aware of the realtor.
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