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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Services for James Bcattie Hope,
87, will be held from the chapel
of tt aid s Klamath Funeral Home
at 10 a.m. Friday. Aug. 23. Fin
al rites and interment will be in
the Bedlield Cemetery.
Mr. Hope died Aug. 21.
He was born in Evanston, Illi
nois, while his parents were m
the United States on a business
trip from Scotland. The family
returned to the United State:
when he was 17. 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.
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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-
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The American public is highly
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get-rich-quick scheme. It is im
possible to say how much
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cause many of the suckers are so
ashamed that they never report
their losses. 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.
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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. Wall Street foresaw
the possibility ot an increase in
the dividend later this year if the
giant utility s earnings rise to the
estimated a share for all of
I this year compared with $.5,70 last
'year.
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PHOENIX. Ariz. UPI- Two
suspects in a Portland, Ore. hold
up were arrested here Tuesday.
Detectives identilied them as
William Kilmon and Frank Har
ris, both believed to be of Phoe
nix. Police said they are charged
with armed robbery of a Safeway
store in Portland Aug. II.
They were held on $5,000 bond
for Oregon authorities.
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