Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, June 12, 1959, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textk" V ?j&iHm:rm.--A''l ' l' Jriv AT .am" -. ' PAGE 2 A 'DENNIS THE MENACE" HERALD ANT) NFWS. KLAMATH FALLS. ORErSrr - - - Granting Appeals Tough Says Ex-California Chief ' Ate.vWisoM tfusr rW rich we said he'd give a M'WOV IP WED AKXe By BOS Bl'RTOV tailed Press Inlemalioaal LOS ANGELES ll'PI' Former Gov. Good in J. Knight, reflect ing on live years and three months as chief state executive, said today the worst duty ol the otlice is reviewing appeals for clemency from men sentenced to die. "I'd bleed from every pore each time i went over a case, said. You realize that all you have to do is scratch your name on a piece of paper you do it as gov- C-47 DITCHES IN SEA TRIPOLI, Libya (LPP-A U.S. Air Force C-47 transport en route to Tripoli from Germany was ditched in the Mediterranean Sea Sunday with the loss of one man. It was reported today. The plane's captain, identified only as Guy M. Allphin. 34. went down with the sinking craft and was pre sumed dead. Seven other crew members were found floating on a rubber raft and were saved by a rescue plane. Omm TMito :4$l C1lHaeua Set. Sun. nds SATURDAY! A MAN PAST FAITH... A WOMAN PAST INNOCENCE! M!f nFRflRAU VFRD.VIII RDVIiKCD I j 1 J,, iinil Itbllll I US, WI1II1I1LII 1T ANATOL UTVAICS T- THE JOURNEY mi moriey itmm -JO ROBIBOJ, JR m mctrocolo an albv wtcrumt Skirts SUNDAY! "YOU KKOIV 17IIY IVE DID IT? CECAU5E WE DAMN WELL FELT LIKE DOING IT!" Te wtrt tkttitf' WEiiES-DiWlf V,RSl-nfAfJ SIOCKMll BRADFORO DIllMAt'J - r x,.,, ttmtlw. tthtir tw,M4 flnw trim tftht wrW ' 0M Ttnit 4:30 -Contirttjevt Sat. 4 Sua frm U:4S Mi SATUKDAT io:irj WAVHEDEAn niflnriri iicnrriE&sonsniocnAyo i traora ma mm ma ton icc.o. Starts SUNDAY! JAMES CAGNEY DON MURRAY DANA WYNTER GLYNIS JOHNS v":? dL MRS. V. E. O'NEILL Local Woman Wins Award msmj- m lis A .III LA fflfiQ I II MICHAEl tlOGRAVf t SYUl THONQil( Mrs. V. E. O'Neill received the Oregon Technical Institute Great est Service Award, conferred an nually, during commencement ex ercises on campus Friday afternoon. Great Service Awards went to Mrs. Josephine Kittredge of Eu gene, formerly of Klamath Falls: to Mrs. Dorothea Buck of Klam ath Falls and. in absentia, to Clay ton Hannon of the Portland Jour nal, formerly a Herald and News reporter. These are , citizens judged by 0T1 officials to have done out standing service to the school. Honored guests at the service were Mrs. William Smullen. wife of the keynote speaker at the cere monies: Mrs. S. E. Brogoitti. wile of the chairman of the Stare Board: searched each case. of Education, who also was pres ent: Mrs. Kittredge. Jess Bell of Portland, chairman of the OTI Ad visory Council: Mrs. O'Neill, past president of the hoard of .educa tion, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rranchfield of Medford. Branch held is a member of the advisory council. The school's director. Win ston D. Purvine, also was honored as a guest. ernor about 20 times a day. any how and a man can live. In a temptation to commute a death sentence. A flick of my wrist, and I can let him breathe. I'd tell myself. And if you did, not many people would know. "Seventy-five to SO per cent of the people sentenced to die are not well known, and their cases haven't been well oublinrpH Th Knight I public really isn't deeply con cerned with exexcution. "Executive clemency appeals are strenuous and the toughest! u"" a covernor nas lo tace. The evening before the day of an ex ecution isn t pleasant." Knight said he commuted three death terms sentences to life im prisonment, in the 20 to 25 cases he reviewed in office. He said he had some doubts about several cases but resolved them all and is proud that there never has been new eviaence in any case which, as he says, he "let go." Knight said pros and cnn f capital punishment didn't enter his! consideration of executive clemen cy aunougn he favors capital pun ishment. The farmer governor said he al ways made himself available. evenings and mornings of execu tions in case any new evidence were found to warrant a reprieve. He had a direct phone from his office to the prison. He said he was usually arret. sible to the public as governor. Hei wouio review each case, write his conclusions in lonehand in f rnnl of the case file, sign it and make n available to anyone who wanted to see it. Sometimes a file would oe given to a person who wanted to consult Knight on a case. t saw most of these Dtonlc personally, but some 1 had In re fuse to preserve my sanity," he said. Knight, now living in a Los An geles apartment with his wife. irgima. took time out from a busv schedule of speeches and getting resettled to recall his inner man struggles with death sentences. "I was always deeply concerned over this great power in the hands of one person, he said. "You're court of last resort. You can give back property but not life. and when you've rung this bell, you can't unring it. I never treat ed it casually, and while I'm not infallible, I've had no regrets about my handling of it. And I had three excellent executive clemency Secretaries who re- r Mir FRIDAY. Jt'NE 12. Ifl.iO ONE OF THE HEADQUARTERS buildings visited by many of the 7,500 Christian Scientists attending the annual meeting of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, it tht block-long edifice of the Christian Science Publishing Society. This building houses the Christian Science Monitor, the denomination's international daily newipaper, at well as the weekly, monthly and quarterly religious publications. Hubby Dies; Wife Accused GRANGE NEWS F.ASTSIDE GRANGE NEW i PINE CREEK-Eastside Grange met in regular session re cently. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mill sap's application was read and relerred to the membership com mittee, and acceptance was rec ommended. Bill Barington re ceived the obligation. It was decided to take action on the Home Economics Club's proposal to clean the cemetery. A plat will be made and brought up to date while there are still those who can identify the graves. The master appointed a commit tee to do this: Fred Fi.-her, Mrs. Ethel Cundilf, Jack Hinlon, Alice Allen and Irvin U. Fans. - Holding a grange picnic on July 4 was discussed, but tabled until the next meeting because of con flicting events. The use ol the hall was granted lor a meeting to the Goose Lake Valley T V. Club. A grange lair booth was brought up but tabled, as it is not definitely known if there will be a Cedarville Fair this year. There was discussion on the Modoc Coun ty Fair, which may not be held, using the money instead for a Modoc County exhibit at the Sac ramento State Fair. This was thought to he a mistake since the fair usuallv stimulates consider able activity among the local! granges It was worst on cold. wet. windy nights. I'd be sitting home enjoying myself, watching TV with my lovely wife and maybe having a glass of Ringer ale or a coke. Then I'd look out of the window and see the wind blowing tne trees, ana it could become bit eerie. "I'd lie awake thinking about some cases. Once I was particu larly disturbed about one 'Burton Abbott i and asked a guard to get the file. He brought it back to the executive mansion, and I reread the entire thing all seven or eight ' inches of it. I finished at 2 a.m. It was all circumstantial, but it was overwhelming. so 1 let rum go. ARTIST AWARDED LONDOX (UPI - The U.S. Air. Force Thursday awarded its hish- est civilian honor the excep tional service award to London artist Frank E. Bereslord who' painted pictures of American air men in Britain during World War It. SILVERTO.N (API Archie Goodwin, who had been uncon scious since Monday when he was hit on the head with a sledce hammer, died today at a hospital here, police said. A complaint charging assault with a dangerous weapon was tiled Wednesday against Good win s wife. Josephine. 36, in con nection with the bludgeoning. Goodwin, ao, sutfered a severely crushed skull in the attack and failed to regain consciousness. Marion County District Atty Hattie Kremen said under Oregon law she would now be required to tile murder charges against Mrs. Goodwin. Action on the charge of assault tiled Wednesday was delayed be cause Mrs. Goodwin is expecting a sixth child in the immediate fu ture. She was temporarily committed to the Oregon State Hospital at Salem. She had been released from that institution Sept. 5, 1958 Police said .Mrs. Godwin told them at a Silverton hospital the night of the slaying where to find the sledge hammer and admitted hitting her husband. She was taken lo the hospital, officers said, for treatment for an overdose of sleeping pills. .Neighbors called police to the modest Silverton residence of the couple alter the two fought vio lently in the back yard. All of their children were away from home at the time of the incident. LIKES HIS PAPER LOS ANGELES A noisy bur glar proved no match for a testy newspaper reader Thursday. James A. Wigmore, 85, lust can't stand to be bothered while reading his paper in the dignified California Club. The burglar rattled the window climbing in. "Get out of here: shouted Wig- more. The burglar got. 6 , v. , MRS. KATHRYN F. Church Group Names Leader Mrs. Kathryn F. Cook of Boston waa recently named president of The Mother Church. The First Church ot Christ. Scientist, in Bos ton, Massachusetts. A native of South Bend. In diana, she has devoted her entire time to the practice of Christian Science healing lor many years. Her husband was George Shaw Cook. A tormer Christian Science lecturer, teacher, and editor, he served as president of The Mother Lrturcn 20 years ago. Mrs. Cooks appointment was announced by The Christian Sci ence Board of Directors at the annual meeting of The Mother hurch. She succeeds Leonard T. Carney, a member of the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society. Mrs. Cook will serve a one-year term. Active in various capacities in the Christian Sripnr mnt-MmM she accepted a position in the of. tice of the Committee on Publi cation for Indiana in 1J24. Since that time she has kpoa 9lm.i continuously engaged in some phase of Christian Science work. SEGREGATIONISTS KILL BILL MONTGOMERY. Ala. HTH Segregation leaders 'in the Ala bama Legislature killed a bill Tuesday that would give ordained ministers the right to refuse to testify in court about confidential talks between pastor and parish ioner. Rep. Hugh Locke of Bir mingham said he saw a "poten tial danger" that such a right would benefit Negro pastors lead ing a drive for racial integration in Alabama. GOOD w COOK Girl Wears Dress For Graduation CEDAR SPRINGS. Calif. (API Patricia Gitt was the only grad uate Thursday of the Cedar springs elementary school. It was a big day for Patriria She wore a dress We almost never do ud here in the mountains, vou know " sh explained. "We wear jeans in the summer and ski clothes - in the winter. Cedar Springs is high in the mountains northeast of Los Ange les. It has the last one-room schoolhouse in Los Angeles coun ty, with IS pupils. s APPOINTMENTS EXPECTED TEHRAN. Iran (UPI Gov ernment sources said today that three new ministers will be named next week to replace the cabinet members who resigned Thursday in an 'internal" dispute. 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Tisdalc. vice president and manager of the Klamath Falls branch ol the state wide bank. The bank has followed a policy of holding one meeting a year in communities outside Portland where the bank operates branch es. Tisdale said, and this is the first time in the S.Vyear history of First National that the directors will gather in Klamath Falls for a meeting G. C. Lorenz. Klamath Falls busi nessman and longtime director of i the bank. Tisdale. Myron E. Shan non, manager of the South Sixth Street branch, and John A. Ver nard. manager of the Merrill branch, will be hosts for the visit ing business leaders. ' Planned as a saluie to the Klamath Basin area, the session OPEN DAILY 7:00 P. M. NOW SHOWING! irHiwonos MOST HONOJtfO SNOW 52UST nauu ft AWARDS If A WOULD I WIDl JS. HONORS Michael Terid't , WIG . 80 astfS FRIDAY ft4 SATUKDAT First Show At t:10 UN Uv At 10:00 ADMISSION MICE ADULTS 1.00 Junior (12-U) wrrh perenti 75c AM CfciUr (U4er 12) 2S will give the hankers an oppor tunity to strengthen the manv sig nilicant ties between the bank, its ollicials and the citizens of this area." Tisdale explained. "The visit will give the delega tion a close look at the economy of the Basin, and allow the di rectors to meet many ol the hank's customers in the district," he added. The group will visit the two First National branches in Klam ath Falls and the Merrill branch while on a tour of the agricultural di.otrict prior lo the board meet ing Tuesday afternoon. C. B. Stephenson, president of the bank, will head the delega tion scheduled to fly into Klamath Falls airport early Tuesday. June 53. Accompanying him will be E. B. MacNaughton. chairman of the board, and 22 other directors. The group includes Dr. Burt B. Barker, vice president emeritus, t'niversity of Oregon: Henry F. Cabell. Henry Failing Estate: Ben R. Chandler. Coos Bay: Ted Gam hie, president. Mt. Hood Radio and Television Broadcasting Corp.: John D. Gray, president. Omark Industries. Inc : A W. Groth. re tired banker: William A. Hasel tine. president. J. E. HaselUne Co : L. H. Hollman. Hotfman Con struction Co: and Oscar H. Keller.1 president. Firstamerica Corporation. Also visiting here for the meet ing will be J. H. Mackie. retired hanker: Lynn S McCready. vice president and manager of the hank Eugene main office: Paul Neils, chairman. J. Neils Lum ber Co: Wade Newbecm. presi dent. R. M. Wade ft Co : V. V. Pendergrass. attorney: John V. G. Posey, president. Posey Lumber. Inc : William Swindells, president. WiJJamettt Valley Lumber Com pany; Charles W. Wentworth. pres ident, Wentworth and Irwin, Inc.: Ralph E. Williams. Investments: Thomas W. Young, president But tertield Brothers: Herman Oliver. John Day cattleman: aat Tom F. 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