Legal Death
Moratorium
Faces Test
By DE VAN L. SHUMWAY
SACRAMENTO (UPD - Gov.
Edmund C. Brown's proposal for
a four-year limited moratorium
on the death penalty faced its
first legislative test today.
It was expected to squeeze
through.
The bill, actually introduced by
Assemblyman Lester A. McMil
lan, D-Los Angeles, began its
long trip through the California
Legislature with a hearing be
, fore the Assembly Criminal Pro
; cedures Committee at 1:30 p.m.
j As it now stands the bill would
. close the doors of San Quentin's
; gas chamber to all but double
, killers, twice - convicted slav-
ers, kidnap-murders or prisoners
: wno Kill peace oflicers. It would
j' not apply to prisoners now on
.death row.
j, This is substantially the same
bill, also authored by McMil-
; lan, that lost on a nearly un
' precedented 40-40 tie vote in the
! Assembly in 1951.
', Brown, long an opponent to
capital punishment, obviously
I doesn't expect serious trouble in
the Assembly with this year's;
, version. But he conceded a month
' ago that there is little chance of
, Senate approval.
' Although the governor supports
'. outright abolition, he pleaded in
; a special legislative message for
a moratorium to "end our mod-
crn equivalent of the Roman cir
. cus."
' Despite the advance head count
! which showed the bill would have
little difficulty reaching the low-
er chamber floor, proponents
; called in some heavy artillery,
. Late last weke Richard A. Mc
' Gee, administrator of the Califor-
i nia Youth and Adult Corrections
; Agency, announced his support of
the bill.
, Then Brown's office made pub-
lie a letter from Dr. Karl Men-
.' ninger, director of the Mennin-
eer Foundation and Clinic in To-
peka, Kan., calling the death
1 penalty "a fruitless and barbar
! ic" relic from the past.
1 Dr. Thorsten Sellin, a Univer-
i sity of Pennsylvania criminolo
' gist, told a news conference in
i Uie governor's council chamber
1 yesterday that homicide rates
: have nothing to do with exis-
, tence of a death penalty.
i He said that a successful mor
! atorium would show the people
i of California there was no close
I relation between the use of the
i death penalty and homicide rates,
! Sellin was among those sched-
uled to testify this afternoon.
1 Opposition to the bill was being
' handled by freshman Assembly
man C. George Deukmcjian,
'R-Long Beach, who introduced
s-three bills early in the current
; legislative session to increase the
v.use of the death penalty.
Among his list of witnesses
a was J. Miller Levy, Los Angeles
wCounty deputy district attorney
who prosecuted the sensational
Caryl Chessman case.
Chessman, convicted of kidnap-
ing and sex perversion, was exe
cuted in the gas chamber tnree
years ago after a 12-yoar court
battle to save his life. He was
known as the convict-author be
cause he wrote a best seller while
in prison.
Other action in the legislature
Drugs Sen. John A. Murdy,
R-Santa Ana, said he would at
tempt to water down his bill to
clamp strict controls on the drug
Chloromycetin in an attempt to
boost it from committee and onto
the Senate floor.
Education The Senate voted
final approval of a measure ere
ating a new educational program
for "culturally disadvantaged
children." The bill was intro
duced bv Sen. J. Eugene Mc
Atcer, D-San Francisco, at the
request of Gov. Edmund G.
Brown.
Automation An administra
tion bill to establish a state com-
mission on manpower, automa
tion and technology was approved
by the Assembly Ways and
'Means Committee and sent to the
lower chamber door. The com
mission would study the impact
of automation on employment in
California.
Abortion Assemblyman An
thony C. Beilenson, D-Bcverly
Hills, introduced legislation lib
eralizing abortion laws. The bill
would permit operations when
the pregnancy involves a substan
tial risk to the mother or wnen
it resulted from rape or incest
Park Approved
SALEM il'PI The Oregon
Scenic Area Commission has ap
proved a scenic area starting at
tv uest ritv limits of Salem and
extending three-fifths of a mile
along the south side ol relocated
Hichwav 22 in Polk County.
Views of the Willamette Uiver
were considered in establishing
the billboard-free area.
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HOSPITAL REPS- ATTEND REDMOND MEET Mrs. Fred Ehlers, left, secretary of
the board of trustees of the Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, and Mrs. John
Howard, center, wife of the architect of the proposed hospital, attended the annual
meeting of the hospital auxiliary area held at the 86 Corral Club in Redmond
Wednesday, April 3, to talk with people representing hospitals of other areas. Mrs.
Ehlers explained plans for the new Intercommunity Hospital to the group. To the right
of Mrs. Howard is Mrs. Wilson Appelgren of Hood River, chairman of the hospital aux
iliary Area No. 6.
ice Probe Two Accidents
Two accidents, one involving
major damage to two vehicles
and the other a hit and run
crash, were investigated by city
police over the weekend.
A hit and run crash at Main
and Twelfth streets was re
ported to city police at 9: 17 p.m.,
April 5. The witnesses said the
hit and run vehicle was drivin'
at a high rate of speed and side-
swiped a parked pickup as it
tried to pass another vehicle on
the right side. The hit and run
Evangelist
Plans Return
HONOLULU (UPll - Billy
Graham, feeling fit after two
months of recuperation here,
planned to return to the mainland
today to prepare for next month's
European crusade.
The evangelist underwent a fi
nal physical examination Monday
and was pronounced almost fully
recovered from the recent intes
tinal disorder which forced him
to take a two month rest in the
islands.
Graham, said he was "feeling
very well." But he added that
his role in the forthcoming cru
sade in France and Germany will
be limited to one talk a day.
TOTAL PERFORMANCE:
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Ddytona's big, banked oval puts unbelievable stresses and
strains on engines, steering gears and frames. The l ords that
won at Daylona took all the punishment this famous track
could dish out over 500 miles of grueling competition with
out missing a beat.
In this toughest of all slock car esents, mechanical failures
claimed over fifty per cent of the starting field. But of twelve
Folds entered, nine went the distance, ford took six of the
lust ten places.
Fie-hundred-mile events like Daylona are a public demon
stration of toughness, reliability and sheer engineering excel
lence that are part of the new generation of Fords. A test like
this can't be duplicated on anybody's testing grounds it's run
tight out in the open. Any car can enter. But only the car that
has the best total combination of strength, balance, precision
IN KLAMATH
IN LAKEVIEW SEE".
driver was proceeding south on
Main Street at the time of the
accident,
The witnesses said the hit and
run car was "a red and white
1957 Ford. They said the vehicle
was traveling so fast that they
couldn't get the license number.
The parked vehicle received mod
erate damage. It is owned by
Merlin Pulliam, 2039 Manzanita,
Two drivers escaped injury
when their cars collided and
were damaged extensively at 4:30
p.m. Saturday at the intersection
of Main and Mortimer streets.
Grady D. Sanders, 34, 535 La-
guna Street, driver of one of the
cars, was cited for failing to
yield the right of way to a ve
hicle driven by Ron G. Head, 17,
321 Haskins Street.
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The accident occurred when
Sanders was pulling out of a lot
near the intersection and collided
with the other vehicle while Head
was turning left from Main onto
Mortimer.
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Here's what you'll find: a new kind of total-car durability, a new
kind of handling ability, a suspension that is starllingly smooth
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Four-Cent
SALEM (UPI - A 4-ccnt a
package cigarette tax bill worth
$15 million in the next biennium
was defeated 33-24 in the Oregon
House of Representatives Monday
in a slap for the governor and
the House tax committee.
Rep. Clinton Haight, D-Baker,
changed his vote to "No" in erder
to be on lite prevailing side so
that he could seek reconsidera
tion of the measure later.
The House passed, 33-2fi, and
sent to the Senate a companion
bill to raise $11.5 to $13 million
in the next biennium by speeding
up employers' payments of with
holding taxes to the slate.
The cigarette tax, a key part
of Gov. Mark Hatfield's revenue-
program, went down on a mixed
party vote.
Rep. Victor Atiyeh, R-Bcaver-ton,
said Oregon was the only
state in the Union without any
tax on cigarettes. He said it would
raise the added revenue for Ore
gon on which any reform in other
tax fields must depend.
The state must raise some $60
million in new money to balance
a $385-405 million 1963-155 budget.
The final figure depends on the
ways and means committee.
Rep. Jake Bennett, D-Portland,
spoke fur some 40 minutes against
the cigarette tax. He reminded
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Democratic colleagues their party
platform opposes a sales tax.
Bennett said the cigarette tax is
a selective sales tax, and he pre-
dieted it would go up. He also
called the proposal "unholy" for
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