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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
Elephant seals range in the
(Pacific (rom California to Ant-artica.
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