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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24. lflSB HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. ORECON PAGE 3 B Prison Officials Seeking Better Parole Services By PACL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM (API - Release of all discharged prison inmates on pa role is the ideal sought by Ore ion's parole and prison officials for many years. Now, about 30 per cent of the discharged prisoners go out on parole. They have the help and guidance of the 21 overworked pa role officers. The other 70 per cent are re leased after serving their senten ces. They drm't get any help from the state. They are just turned loose, to sink or swim. The National Probation and Pa role Assn. report on the Oregon parole system urges a big expan sion. It wants a full-time parole board and 26 more parole officers, Oregon's Parole Board and its staff is in general agreement with the report. They would like to ex- pand, too. They recognize the desirability of placing all dis charged convicts on parole. But it would cost a lot of mon ey. Whether the money - short Legislature can be sold on the idea remains to be seen. Oregon's parole and probation system costs about $300,000 a year. If the report's recommenda tions are adopted, the cost would be something more than one mil lion dollars a year. Parole systems save money though. It costs $1,380 a year to keep a man in the Oregon Peni tentiary. That is 7.7 times as much as it costs to supervise a man on parole. Oregon's parole officials believe the best system is that in effect in Washington and Idaho, where the parole board sets all mini mum sentences. A principal difficulty in Oregon is that 17 per cent of all convicts are serving one-year sentences It's hard to find out much about a man, and to plan a program for him, when his sentence is so short. He can't be kept under su pervision after his year is up. If the board had authority to fix all minimums, it could keep a man under supervision for long er periods. The national board doesn't think Oregon's parole board meets often enough. It meets two to four days a month. It also was critical that the average appearance before the board is 10 minutes per man. And the board spends only a minute or so discussing each man's case after he appears. The board members do get airly complete reports on each man before he appears. The national association thinks the board is loo strict in that it doesn't grant enough paroles. The chief causes for refusing to grant paroles in Oregon are: ex tensive past record of criminal behavior, attitude and habits, a request by an inmate to be de nied parole, untavorable psychi atric report, and unsuccessful previous parole experience. It might seem odd that some prisoners don t want paroles. Some of them, especially those serving short sentences, would rather serve out their sentences than have to submit to supervis ion by parole officers. Every offender s release should be by the method of pa role, the survey report says 'The proper goal is 100 per cent release with supervision, at the right point in each individual's prison term. Several states re lease 75 per cent and above." The report has been sent to members of the Legislature. All it takes now is money. ; . If nvb aP- Air Official Aids Mo l her OKLAHOMA CITY (API A young mother was all smiles to day waiting to fly home to Penn sylvania. Mrs. Shirley Weber, 23, was re turning home from a visit with her soldier husband, Raymond, at Kt. Sill, Okla., when the stork surprised her. She entered a hos pital December 14 and Sherry Lynn was born. An airline official heaid of Mrs. Weber and began trying several nays ago to help nor get home Mrs. Weber hoards the plane this I'lternnnn. Mie will spend Christ mas with her husband who went ;ihead son Joseph, 2. and the couple's parents at Hellam and Lancaster, Pa. Bus Company To Drop Trek SALEM (API-Western Grey hound Lines was granted permis sion Tuesday to discontinue one round trip daily bus trip between Portland and Waldport. The order, by Public Utilities Commissioner Howard Morgan, provides that the company shall continue three daily round trips over the route. Morgan also granted a 10 per cent fare increase to Wallowa Valley Stages, which operates be tween La Grande and Wallowa Lake. In another order, Morgan ap proved the sale of Cottage Grove Gas Co. to Cottage Grove Distri bution Co., for $30,000. The purchasing company is a subsidiary of Suburban Gas Ser vice Inc., which distributes liquid propane gas in 19 Oregon cities. DETAILS of the newly created Andrew Loney Jr. music scholarship award are yet to be worked out, but wheels wars set in motion when Dall Smith, right, presented Loney, music director of Klamath Falls city schools, with a plaque bearing name plates for future recipients. The presenta tion was made during a Rotary Club luncheon at the Wil lard Hotel. Dell Smith Is president of the a cappella choir. Morse Gives Gift To School Grocery Store Robbed Twice PORTLAND (AP)-A gunman walked into Mrs. Bill Linden's little grocery store here Tuesday nighty and robbed her of $50. About an hour later three masked gunmen walked in and robbed her of $56. Mrs. Linden walked out and lockedi the store. "Twice in one night is just loo much," she said. "I'm going home where things are nice and quiet and the holdups are on tele vision. .. WASHINGTON (AP)-The Uni versity of Oregon received a Christmas present Tuesday from Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore) his official files dating back to 1030. "It is a matter of great gratifi cation to me to present it to the University of Oregon library as a token of appreciation for the 15 happy- and stimulating years which I spent as a teacher on the. , .campus," he said in a statement. Morse, one-time Oregon law school dean, said, "I am advised there is no other place, including the Library of Congress, where duplicates of much of this materi al can be obtained. The material, Morse said, in eludes work of the Oregon Crime Survey, the Oregon Crime Com mission, the Governor's Commit tee and Judicial Procedures and the Governor's Committee on Pa role and Probation during 1930-38 "I decided to select the Univer sity of Oregon . . .," Morse said, because the University of Ore gon law school is located on the Eugene campus and I feel that this material should be available to legal scholars as well as to scholars in the fields of political science, economics, business ad ministration and history." The collection was valued at SR.0O0 for inventory purposes, Dr Martin Schmitt. director of the special collections division of the library, said. Railroads May Cancel Pact NEW YORK (UPI) - America's major railroads were expected to day to follow the lead of the New York Central Railroad in cancel ling their contracts with the fi nancially ailing Railway Express Agency.- The Central, largest stockholder Railway Express, announced Tuesday that it would cancel its contract effective Jan. 1, 1960. Al- ffed E. Perlman, president of the Central, said his railroad was los ing 11 million dollars a year on the Railway Express operation. Central owns 14 per cent of Amer ican Express s outstanding stock. Perlman said the Central would develop a "more efficient and sat isfactory small shipment service of its own. According to industry sources. other Eastern lines probably will abandon the mu'.istry-owned trans portation service too. Clair Rod deweig, president of the Associa tion of Western Railway Execu tives, said the Western railroads would follow suit if the Eastern railroads withdrew. Rorideweig said the Railway Ex press' plight was due to a chang ing pattern of transportation, par cel post and government sub sidized competitors, and increased labor and other costs. NOT GUILTY PLEA Isaac Nails, 38, pleaded not guil ty to a charge of giving liquor to a minor in district court Mon day, and asked for a trial without jury. Judge D. K. Van Vactor set the trial date for February 10 at 10 a.m. in his court, and Nails was released on bail. Nails is charged with having furnished liquor to a 17-year-old boy. He was arrested with Jack Lipberg, 48. who was similarly charged in the same case. Lipberg pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in jail and a $250 fine, in district courtj'riday. Radio Station Gets Application WASHINGTON (AP)-The com munications Commission granted an application for a new radio station to the Seaside Broadcast ing Station, Seaside, Ore., Tuesday. me license assigns tne station 30 kilocycles at 500 watts for daytime broadcasting. The commission also annroved the assignment of the license for KWRC at Pendleton to WSC Broadcasting Co. of Oregon for $37,500. COMPLAINT THROWN OUT A complaint against Lloyd Ebin ger of the Asphalt Paving Com pany, was thrown out of munici pal court Monday night. Ebin ger had been charged on Novem ber 2. with unauthorized use of a taxi strip at the municipal air port. The case was thrown out of court by Judge Clarence Humble on the grounds that the city or dinance prohibited only the un authorized "crossing" of the strip, and not unauthorized "use." Eatery Granted Liquor License PORTLAND lAP'-The Orppnn Liquor Control Commission erant- cd a liquor license Tuesday to Viewpoint. Inc., for the liilivilla Restaurant here. The restaurant s license, nrevi- ously held under the name of owner Edward Palaske, was sus pended When Palaske was ac cused of bringing liquor to Oregon from British Columbia. He is president of Viewpoint, Inc. Youths Accused Of Vandalism EUGKN'E (AP '-Three Eugene high school youths were charged Tuesday with defacing public properly and their rase was turned over to juvenile author ities for action. The three, two from South Eu gene High School and one from North Eugene High, are accused of painting on the side of an Al bany High School bus Dec. 16, Capt. Del Cash of the Eugene po lice said. PARTY LIVE LONDON il'PH Michael Hughes. 20, and Henry F. Ker ridge. 24, were fined $20.60 Mon day for stealing a milk churn, an ash tray. u0 telephone books and a pepper pot They told police they were tak ing the items to a party. Ll'MRERMAN DIES PORTLAND (AP) Long-time Oregon lumberman John Leal died Tuesday at 70. A former president of the now defunct Innian Poulson Lumber Co. of Portland, he was associat ed with Georgia Pacific Corp. at the time of his death. OSBORN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. I. J. ft. Karlr J lHf Praprltlr Thoroughly Modern Christmas les City, Bus Firm Reach Accord PORTLAND (AP)-An agree ment to extend bus service in Portland at least until Oct. 31, 1959, was reached Tuesday he tween the Rose City Transit Co and the city. Cityi Commissioner William A Bowles said the details of the agreement would be presented to tne city council tonight. The pros- cm permit expired uec. 31. Ouf warmest wishes to you wishes -yt end your dear ones foe o joyous Holiday. From The Staff At Downtown and Town & Country :A T k ft, 0 fx 1 o All - at tills merry t. nrisirna i imei Department Store OBEDIENT CAT DROITWICH, England (UPD At a carol program Tuesday night organist Gordon Banner struck the first chord of "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful" and a big black cat jumped out of the organ. Chas. J. Cizek . TAILOR Suits' t Slacki M Is Order Perfect Fit Guaranteed 119 SOUTH 7th i To Our Friends & Patrons I The Entire Staff Of THE V1LLARD HOTEL Wishes You anc! 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