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Christinas Day Time To Reflect By ANN LANDKRS Editor's Noir: Eight , years aco Ann Landers wrote a special column for Christ mas. Reader response was overwhelming and she has repeated the column an nually with some Topi cal modifica tions. Here is Ann Landers' Christmas mes sae (or I3. Tomorrow is Christmas. We hear talk of peace on earth and good will toward men. Vet we know that in some parts of the world there is no peace and in the hearts of some men there is no good w ill. Always there have been among us prophets of pjoom and doom those who have c o m plaincd that civilization is out of joint those who have given voice to a desire to resign irom the human race. And there have been moments in history when the prophets hardly could be faulted. For who among us did not bow his head in shame last Nov. 22 when our gallant leader was cut down by a snip er's bullet fired from a $12.78 mail-order rifle? What kind of world do we live in when the swooping tide of history can be altered in a split second by a tortured and tw isted mind? Where is t h e (iood and Almighty God? Where is justice? We could spare this man least of all. An outraged world cries out (or the answers. Rut the answers can be found only in our hearts. God is good. He is the arch itect of the master plan. There is method even in madness. Perhaps the death of the man Tax Office Hours Told The local office of the Inter nal Revenue Service at 728 Wal nut Street will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:43 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 2. and each iMond ay thereafter until .April 13 to as sist taxpayers in filing their 13 income lax returns, A. G. Erickson, District Director of the Internal Revenue Service I Portland I has disclosed. Meanwhile, the district office at Portland will be open during the same hours, daily, from Jan. 2 through April 15, Erick son said. "The taxpayer coming in for help will be asked to (ill out as much of his return as possible, and he will be given information needed to complete the return," he said. Erickson suggested that t h e laxpayer telephone for infor mation before going to an In ternal (Revenue Service office, because essentially the same service is available by telephone as at the office. Near Riot Revealed SALEM ( t'Pl A near-riot by five women prisoners erupted at the State Penitentiary Nov. 18 when condemned child slayer Jcannace June Freeman was placed in isolation after trying to drown out organ music from the prison chapel by blast ing her cell radio at top volume. Warden Clarence Gladden said as a result two tables were smashed, 76 w indows were shat tered, bending in several cells was filled with glass, a wash basin was torn from a cellblock wall, and mirrors, lotion bottles and other personal effects were smashed. During the cleanup, prison au thorities found a passionate three . page letter from Miss Freeman to another woman prisoner. The disturbance came to light after George F. Neavoll of Eu gene wrote Warden Gladden charging he had heard Miss Freeman had been placed in isolation "for an undetermined length of time." Neavoll, who last year person ally appealed to Gov. Mark Hat field to commute Miss Free man's death sentence, also called upon the warden to grant Miss Freeman an exercise pe riod. 1961 Conviction Miss Freeman. 22. was con victed of the Wl slaying of a 6-year-old boy Slie would be the first woman to be executed in Oregon. The titate Supreme Court re cently turned down her plea for a new trial. Further appeals are expected on behalf of Miss Freeman, who has had three stays of execution. PrLon records show Miss Freeman was placed in isola People SPOT ADS you art y. with the wheat-colored hair and I the mischievous Irish grin was part of a master plan to teach the world, with stunning impact, a philosophy of love and peace and equality and brotherhood. Perhaps there was another lesson to be learned from this tragedy that in religious faith there is strength and solace. The courage and self-possession of the magnificent widow and other members of this closely knit (amily were rooted in reli gious faith. Every mother, wife, sister and brother felt some thing of their pain. Yet. min gled with grief for our fallen chief was an overwhelming feel ing of admiration for the quiet strength, the composure and the dignity o( those closest to him. Perhaps there Is still another lesson to be learned that trou ble and death are the common denominators of living. No one escapes these handmaidens of earthly existence. On this Christmas day we should re flect on these things. We should reflect on life in this America of ours and on the principles for which John Fitzgerald Ken nedy lived and died. Father Theodore Hesburgh. president of the University of Notre Dame, summed it up best when he said he didn't believe it would matter much who got the first man on the moon if we dawdle here on earth, nurs ing our prejudices, flouting our constitution, ignoring the central problems of our times and ap pearing hypocrites to all I h e world. It has been said that a man. like a tree, is best measured after he is cut down. If this is true, the brave and buoyant words of our late President, words from his inaugural ad dress are more meaningful to day than when he uttered them three years ago. "Now the trumpet summons us again not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need not as a call to battle, though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twi light struggle, year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, a struggle against the common enemies of man tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. I do not shrink from this responsibility I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. ..." ' It is my earnest conviction that had the choice been his had he been able to foretell what this "dangerous and un tidy" world had in store for him John F. Kennedy would not have changed places with any other man. Ann Landers' frank and in formative new book, "T e e n Agers and Sex" (S2.95, is now available at your book store. Ann Landers will be glad to help you with your problems. Send them to her in care of this newspaper enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. At Women's Pen By Investigation tion Nov. 18 when she became violent after being ordered to turn down the volume of her radio. She had turned up the volume to drown out the organ music from the prison chapel. At 8:30 p.m. the same day. two women prisoners became violent in protest against 'Miss Freeman's being placed in iso lation. At 9:10 p.m. another woman prisoner became violent, then in quick order, two more women began breaking up their cells, and screaming wildly at prison authorities. The disturbance was quelled at 10:30 p.m., and the five wo men were placed in isolation. Privileges Cut Out Miss Freeman was moved back to her cell, which had been stripped of all its furnish ings. She was deprived of priv ileges, her radio and television, for 18 days, Warden Gladden said. The letter to another woman prisoner was discovered by au thorities as they cleaned out her cell. The official report on the in cident terms Miss Freeman "sadistic." and includes the no tation "during the past 11 months. ..disturbances can be traced to Miss Freeman." After Miss Freeman had been placed back in her cell, she shouted encouragement to the other women involved in the disturbance. Gladden reported. FRIENDLY HELPFULNESS To Every Creed and Purse WARD'S Klamath Funeral Horn Morjuerite Word ond Sow 25 Hh Mi. TU 2-M04 'DENNIS THE MENACE" '0UT,IUCW! SWM CUllS VXTCWB IH THE fMVTIXXXl GOP Back CHICAGO (ITU - A group of Illinois Republicans said Mon day they would run Sen. Mar garet Chase Smith of Maine in the Illinois presidential primary next April. State Rep. Lew is V. Morgan Jr. from the GOP stronghold of suburban Whcaton, said Mrs. Smith actually wants to run (or the GOP vice presidential nomi nation, "But .we're going to run her for president," he said. Morgan displayed a telegram signed William C. Lewis Jr., whom he identified as the sen ator's administrative assistant. The telegram said: "While Senator Smith has not yet made her decision on wheth er to enter presidential prefer ence primaries, the action of your group does her great honor and absolutely will be a significant factor in her ulti mate decision." Morgan, who heads the Smith forces in Illinois, said he visit ed the senator last week in Washington. "She gave me indication she will have no objection to being on the Illinois ballot," Morgan said. "If she does object," she can remove her name under Illinois pre - election procedures," he said. CIIRISTMAS-HOLLADAY ST. LOUIS, Mo. (LTD Mrs. Christmas and Mrs. Holladay and the new babies are fine to day, thank you. ' Mrs. Kenneth B. Christmas, of Rock Hill, gave birth in St. Jo seph Hospital in suburban Kirk wood to a 6-pound, 13-ounce boy Sunday. Her roommate, Mrs. Raymond Holladay of Web ster Gloves, Mo., gave birth to a 13-pound, B-ounre boy Wed nesday. Gladden said Miss Freeman's privileges have now been rein staled and there has been no re cent trouble. He said while men on con demned rcw are given about 40 minutes of outside exercise each week, Miss Freeman gets no such exorcise. "We don't have any place to exercise her. I can't let her out side the walls, and I certainly won't let her into the exercise yards used by the men," Glad den said. He said she is not allowed to mix with other women pris oners. He said any abnormal activi ties among the women prisoners "were confined to letters," and that Miss Freeman was always under full supervision whenever outside her cell. r v.- 1 I'ivi : FREE DELIVERY SERVICE ON ANY ITIM IN THI STORE Phene Ui Yeur Neee". Deliveries Each Day at 11:00 - 2:00 . 4:00 I IN THI VILLAS! ! COUKT Sen. Smith "I think she would be an ex cellent vice presidential candi date running with Sen. Barry Goldwatcr," Morgan said. SINCE 1372-SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR RftT" - X ; I fSSS ti TO W 111 lis "r WWm V': 9TH & PINE STORE OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT TILL I Special Dart Gun Will Increase Information On Elephant Seals NEW YORK i I'PI '-Science's knowledge of the elephant seal is now going to increase by leaps and bounds. The scientists dedicated to understanding this weird nosed ocean mammal have a wand which can compel them to he still. To study an animal scientific ally you must be able to handle it. Elephant seals are good natured in a seally fashion but it doesn't care to be handled by scientists, t'p until now it has been able to enforce this preju dice. Even the most svelte of the females weigh around 1,100 (minds and are 8 to 9 feet long, wluie the largest males weigh over tliree tons and reach a length ot 16 to 2 feet. Like all seals, they're both slippery and agile. Urarh Party Every car tliey come out of the sea onto beaches in such droves the sands are all but covered with them, and they slay around for weeks, making love. You can imagine the frus tration of scientists who have walked among these swarms I able to touch but helpless to mmim coat JU 1 Versatile) car coats Handsome, wearable casual styles Natural and dyed fur-trim Vinyl suedes in mellow colore Popular, dressy wool zibeline Favorite wool chinchilla cloth Wool tweeds in jewel colors Wool alpaca pile zip-out linings Warm acrylic pile linings Go-with-everything neutral colore Black favorite dress-up color Fur products lobtl.d Is ahow country of ortgia rt Import. fi M g " ''l make any of them stay still for inspection and experimentation. The wand is the invention of tire Australian seal scientists, John K. Long and David G. Nicholls. With it, they reported, they have "immobilized" seals up to 15 feet long and weighing up to 5.000 pounds. It can be assumed, they added, that it will work with even larger seals. This wand is a light metal tube, three feet long. At one end is a long-needled syringe. It is connected to a rod inside the tube which can be unloaded from the other end. 1 With this wand in hand, Hie scientists now, in picking their way among beach-wallowing seals, may choose the one they want to study and then ram the needle-end into the brute at the base of the tail. Then they push the rod which releases succinylcholine chloride, a mus cle relaxant. It relaxes muscles so com pletely movement is impossible. An animal so relaxed is con scious, its organs and chemistry function normally but for the time the drug effect lasts it lies 1 DRESSY COATS! CASUAL COATS! CAR COATS! MISSES', JUNIOR, WOMEN'S, CUSTOM PETITE SIZES were snn B Ml 19.98- f ' fW I I 1 22.98 LJ LA f ftf HI 1 I j wc )IT Hmtl It 34.91- C I 1 ! ' N still and submits to an thing. Muscle relaxants have been used to immobilize even the largest land mammals. The drugs are contained in darts which are shot into the beasts w ith dart guns. That would be an impractical method for elephant teals because they have too much blubber to propel a dart through without damaging the animal. Another achievement of the Australian scientists, who re ported to the technical journal. "Nature," was working out dosages which immobilize ele phant seals as long as 45 min utes without harming them. The scientist with the wand esti mates weight from the animals' approximate length and config uration. These estimates he applies to a mathematical formula which gives him the correct dosage. It works In 31 out ot 45 tries, they said. The dosages are heavy, because of all the blubber, but approximates (pound for pound I that required to immobilize the domestic hog. 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