WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24. lflSB
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. ORECON
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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.
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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.
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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.
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