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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1963)
HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon Friday. August 23. 1963 PAGE 7 GRANGE NEWS The Orcson Stale Grange mas ter, Allen Wheeler, addressed the joint Lake and Klamath Pomona Grange picnic at Joe Potucek's on Aug. 4. Other distinguished guests were' Mrs. Wheeler and R. A. James, Jackson County: R o s c o Roberts, state ceres: Wilber Cooper, Lake state ceres: Wilbur Cooper, Lake County deputy, and Donald Sinims, Lake Pomona master. Winning the prize for coming the greatest distance was Mrs. Florance Fields of San Bernat- Idino, Calif., who traveled approx imately 700 miles. Also honored were Elmer Ahlstrom, 86, oldest man present and Helen Oldell 83, oldest woman present. Jack Biem of Klamath Falls was named the best fiddler. Following the potluck lunch, the program included swimming softball, three-legged races, sack race, potato rolling contest and horseshoes. Klamath Pomona won the at tendance contest w ith 60 members present. 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He spent his early years in the Eastern United States and during the time he lived in Chicago, he was a mem her of the famous Caledonian Bagpi))c Band. He moved to Montana after his marriage and in 11)18. to Cali fornia. He arrived in Klamath Falls in 1936. He was a member of the First Baptist Church. Survivors include the widow. Bervie this city: two sons. John of Klamath Falls ami Russell of Grass Valley. Calif., two daugh ters. Vivian Holzhouser, Klamath Falls, and Virginia Noble of Fres no: 15 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. Convenient Credit We givo Green Stamps .COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO 730 Main rK. Omnr J. iNulet tnd Itoliert I'rtcTk Post Office Boasts Staff Of 1500 Agents To Protect Against Fraud And Obscenity By HARRY FKRGISON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPH The United States mail service has achieved such a solid reputation for fast and sate deliver tliat mil lions of dollars worth of jewels move through its channels every months. Most jewel merchants prefer the U.S. mails to trans portation bv private guards and armored trucks, and in 1S58 when the Hope Diamond nas sent from New York to the Smithsonian In stitution here it came by regis tered mail. This high record of perform ance, of course, tempts thousands of peddlers of fraudulent schemes and merchants of pornography to use the mails. To fight them the Post Office Department deploys 1.500 postal inspectors around the nation. These men seldom perlorm deeds that create big headlines as, for instance, does the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nor do they attempt to wrap themselves a thick coat of secrecy as ao the men of the Central Intelligence Agency. But they are among the most effective of all federal investiga tors. The pay-off is not how many persons you arrest in a year, but how many convictions you obtain. The postal inspectors move quiet ly, gather their evidence care- WALLS CLEANED BY MACHINE Dctrrgrd (or perfrct rnutla. 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But the Post Office Department can say with certain ty that the figure is at least $83 million annually because it has a record of those cases. Year after year people fall (or the same fraudulent tricks. Stephen Singer was convicted ol mail Iraud in Los Angeles early this year for telling people he would get their songs played on the radio. Postal inspectors say he took in $200,000. Kenneth P. Chamberlain was convicted in Wilmington, Del., of defrauding 125 persons of about $400,000. He sold counterfeit stock certificates or, in some cases, altered legiti mate certificates and sold them. Hundreds of persons are con victed every year for swindling the public with promises of pro viding lucrative work that can be done in the home. Heavy Traffic There is a heavy traffic in por nography through the U.S. mails, but a good bit of it is on a small scale. Sometimes it involves only one or two persons who exchange obscene letters and photographs. Usually these cases are disposed of with a fine of $500 or less and a period of probation. The pun ishment is heavier if it is devel oped in court that the accused person is a wholesale dealer obscenity. Another quick way to get into trouble with the postal in spectors is to mail obscene ma terial to persons at random. Charles J. Nalewak of Shamokin Pa , got a prison term of from three to five years because he had been mailing obscene material to all young women whose names or photographs appeared in the news paper. Most of these cases are dis posed of quietly, but occasionally the postal inspectors become in volved in litigation that gets in ternational attention. Sometimes it calls for a judicial opinion in answer to this age-old question: Is it art or is it obscenity? One of the biggest such cases went to trial in Philadelphia in June before federal district Judge Ralph C. Body sitting without a jury. The defendant was Ralph Ginzburg, publisher of Eros Maga zine, Documentary Books, Inc., and Liaison News Letter, Inc. In this case the Post Office De partment was nudged into action by the public. It got more than 35,000 complaints from citizens who received through the mails advertising describing Eros Mag azine as "a new quarterly devot ed to love and sex." The ad vertising also offered a publica tion called The Housewile s Handbook on Selective Promiscu ity." Acted Openly Ginzburg had acted openly with no attempt to be secretive about his project. Advertisements for Eros and his other publications had appeared in magazines and had reached nation-wide distribu tion. His case was that what he was distributing was not obscene. The court disagreed and on June 14 found Ginzburg guilty on all 23 counts of the indictment. He filed a motion for arrest of judgment and was released in $10,000 bail pending a hearing next month. The Post Ollice Department regards this as a notable victory (because it is a sort of legal precedent on the distribution of magazines through the mail. It also encourages the public to take an active interest in the fight to keep obscene material out of the mails. Any time a federal depart ment gets 35,000 letters it knows it has to act and quickly. One job the Post Office De partment does not particularly relish is dealing with the 2.5 mil lion pieces of propaganda mail that comes into the country each month from behind the Iron and Bamboo curtains. Since January it has been required by law to impound Communist propagan da and so notify the person tOjCommunist propaganda away whom it is addressed. Unless he requests that it be forwarded, it is destroyed after 20 days. The purpose of the law is to keep from Americans wlio have no in terest in leading it, but it is an added and heavy burden on the Post Office Department. ntim..Ma..a.aaiTM,jTi11.;w?rT1ffi Demo Picnic The 15th annual family picnic of the Jackson County Demo cratic Central Committee will lie held Sunday at the Touvelle Slate Park on the Rogue River from 10 a.m. to dusk. All interested Klamath Falls residents are invited to attend. For tickets and further informa tion call TU 2-1561. AT&T Retains Payment Rate NEW YORK UP1 - Hopes of more than 2,200,000 stockholders of American Telephone k Telegraph Co. that they might be in line for a higher dividend were dashed to day when the world's biggest cor porate entity announced no change in the payment rate. The AT&T directors voted to continue paying the 90 cents a share which has been paid since July. 1961, when the dividend was raised from 82',j cen's. The latest dividend is payable Oct. 1 to hold ers of record Aug. 30. However. 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