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Under the Act of March 3, 1879
Newsmen, State Bar Representatives
Study Policies of Pre-Trial Publicity
Newspaper editors, television and radio broadcasters, and
representatives of the Oregon state bar met at the Supreme
court in Salem recently to take another look at their 1962
joint statement of principles regarding pre-trial publicity.
The group reaffirmed the joint statement, recommending its
consideration to the many organizations throughout the U. S.
that are now studying the*
problem.
formed nor an individual’s right
Robert C. Notson, manag to a fair trial are sacrificed.
ing editor of the Oregonian, | Joint Statement Reprinted
pointed out that Oregon was the
Oregon’s joint statement is as
first state to try to develop guide follows:
lines in this area. This was ac
Oregon’s Bill of Rights provides
complished before the tragic
events of November 1963 brought both for fair trials and for free
the problem to the attention of dom of the press. These rights
the public and before the Warren are basic and unqualified. They
commission had issued its injunc are not ends in themselves but
tion to the press to sit down with are necessary guarantors of free
the bar and devise a code of ethi dom for the individual and the
cal conduct for both in handling public’s right to be informed. The
necessity of preserving both the
of criminal proceedings.
right to a fair trial and the free
Other Stales Tackle Problem
dom to disseminate the news is
In the past year attempts have of
i concern to responsible mem
been made in other states to bers of the legal and journalistic
solve this problem by curtailing professions and is of equal con
the flow of information from cern
I
to the public. At times these
lawyers and law enforcement of two rights appear to be in con-
ficials and by restricting the press ; flict with each other.
in its coverage of criminal affairs.
In an effort to mitigate this
These attempts seem to have cre conflict, the Oregon State Bar,
ated more problems than they the Oregon Newspaper Publishers
have solved.
Association and the Oregon As
Oregon considered, and reject sociation of Broadcasters have
ed, formulation of hard and fast adopted the following statement
rules in 1962, adopting instead a of principles to keep the public
broad statement of principles fully informed without violating
which must rely, for their en- 1 the rights of any individual,
forcement, upon the integrity of I Principle* Lilted
the press and the bar and upon I
1. The news media have the
an interested and informed pub
right and the responsibility to
lic.
print and to broadcast the truth.
No Abuse Reported
2. However, the demands of ac
In nearly three years no serious curacy and objectivity in news
abuse of these principles has been reporting should be balanced
reported to the joint committee, with the demands of fair play.
chairmanned by Justice A. T. The public has a right to be in
Goodwin of the Oregon Supreme formed. The accused has the right
court, which was established to to be judged in an atmosphere
hear possible conflicts.
free from undue prejudice.
The group meeting in Salem
3. Good taste should prevail in
expressed their continuing confi the selection, printing and broad
dence in the ability of men of in casting of the news. Morbid or
telligence and good will to work sensational details of criminal be
out the solution of specific prob havior should not be exploited.
lems in such a way that neither
4. The right of decision about
the right of the public to be in- the news rests with the editor or
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month for the first container, and 25 cents per
month for each additional container. Garbage
containers must not be larger than 30 - gallon
capacity.
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Youth Observance
To Be Held Sunday
At Methodist Church
C?WF Groups Discuss
FARM BUREAU Variety of Topics
At Recent Meetings
FURROW
_ Members of group one of the
By T. M. B.
According to the Rev. Ralph A.
By SCOTT LAMB
Lawrence, Sunday will be observ
CWF
met
during
the
afternoon
,
It’s that time of year! The
Information Director
And marriages probably will
ed as “Youth Day” in Nyssa
of Jan. 7 in the home of Mrs. national congress and state legis continue to break records since
Methodist church, with the accent
Don Perdue. Mrs. Ewen Chard latures are in session. Budget draft exemption is now assured
on young people ages 13 through Is Agriculture
presented the program and Mrs. boards for counties, cities, schools by taking the vows.
19. All youth of the parish have
Ed Pruyn led devotions.
•
e
e
e
and colleges are wrestling with
been invited to attend the morn A Minority Group?
Mrs. Wallace Pro well reported their problems. It’s a period of DID YOU KNOW . . .
ing worship service, together with
Agricultural speakers at some on an article entitled “The Cam dread for conservatives who fear
In 1962 of young men drafted
I time during their speeches usually pus Without God.”
| their parents.
more inflation.
almost half failed their military
Leaders of the Methodist Youth point out that agriculture is a
Group two met that evening
LBJ offers another record-high examinations? The figure was
Fellowship will participate in the minority group in our society in the home of Mrs. Bill Hamil budget of $99.7 billion as a first 49.8 percent, with 22.7 failing the
worship service. Several will ush and getting more so all the time. ton. Mrs. Elvin Ballou was in year starter for his “Great So physical, 21.5 percent the men
er and others will sing in the
This sounds good for those charge of the program, “From ciety” program . . . Idaho’s Gov. tal and 2.6 turned down for ad
seeking pity, but it is certainly Colony to Nation,” which dealt Smylie asks for a 50 percent in ministrative reasons.
chancel choir.
Sermon topic of the day will not true. Farmers make up 8 with the role of the church in crease while Oregon’s Hatfield
Printed cookbooks appeared in
be “To Tell the Truth . . . Who percent of the population. This the new nations. Mrs. Carl Line- asks for a 26 percent increase Italy during 1474? That if all
is
more
than
one
can
say
for
just
gar
gave
devotions.
Speaks for Teenagers?” Follow-
over the last biennium. And it the railroad bridges in the U. S.
, ing the service, a “coffee and about any other vocational or General Meeting Held
will be an unusual case that local were laid end - to - end, a train
punch” fellowship time will be professional group.
governments
will not also see could travel from San Francisco
The general meeting was held
For instance, there are more
held in the church social hall,
need for an increase.
to New York without touching
during
the
evening
hours
of
Jan.
served by a committee of adult farmers than school teachers,
Ho hum! It's only money and rails laid on the ground? That
19
at
the
church.
Mrs.
Ronald
truck drivers, steel workers.
counselors and youth workers.
since it comes from the govern there are 163,000 titles in print?
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♦
grocery store owners, druggists, Batt was in charge of the pro ment, why worry? (Income
Or that 7,500 welfare work
gram
and
also
gave
devotions.
doctors, lawyers and just about
METHODIST SCHEDULE
tax paying time will affect few
ers in New York City are on
Program
topic
was
“
A
Young
Per
any occupation one can name.
OF SUNDAY SERVICES
strike—when the law says it's
son’s Choice.” This brought out er with the addition to welfare
9:30 a.m. — Church school at In fact, there are even more problems that face young people rolls.)
illegal? And that other than
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farmers than there are unem
Apple Valley.
wanting more pay they are
in
deciding
their
vocations
and
'
ployed people in the U. S., and
CRIME ON INCREASE
9:45 a.m. — Church school
griping about the paper work
the
assistance
which
can
be
given
the unemployed are probably
From FBI Director J. Edgar demanded to give out checks?
Nyssa.
by church, minister and parents.
11 a.m.—Morning worship ser the second largest single cate
Hoover:
“The moment has ar- One worker said, "It took 24
Hostesses for the evening were
gory, economically speaking.
vice.
Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Stanley rived when we must face realis separate pieces of paper to give
6:45 p.m. — Methodist Youth
tically the startling fact that one of my welfare recipients
The AFL - CIO has federated Sisson.
Fellowship meeting.
since 1958 crime in this country her first check."
many occupations into one union
has increased five times faster
numbering about 12 million. Agri i
According to an article in an
than our population growth.”
culture, too, is federated through
American medical publication,
Among the findings of the heating and cooking do not re
economic ties with many seg
Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile move or destroy poisonous foods,
ments of the economy. Since
By Oregon State Bar
Delinquency were (1) More than and that there are no safe tests
farming is a basic industry, dol
20 million children watch net I by having birds or animals try
lars start moving through the
work TV from 7 to 11 p. m., I what may be poisonous?
farming process and snowball to RESPECT YOUR NEIGHBOR
giant proportions into the pro
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Most neighbors make it a point “prime time” hours devoted to
cessing, wholesaling, retailing and to apply a little extra kindness crime and violence; (2) In 1954 ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
STATE OF OREGON
16 to 20 percent was devoted to
transportation trades. Agriculture to each other.
House of Representatives
Small boy to his mother as he
crime
and violence; (3) In 1964 was being dragged to the batly
has many friends purely (because
Salem
It’s only common sense that
of the economic ties with other neighbors should be on better these types of shows increased tub: “But why can’t you just
January 21, 1965
industries.
dust me off like you do the fur
than average terms. You may be 200 percent.
Mr. Ted M. Brammer
We
don't
favor
more
govern
niture?”
So
important
is
agriculture
to
living
next
to
them
for
the
rest
Gate City Journal
A man watching a small boy
all people, the nation could not of your life, so why not regard mental controls but the future
Nyssa, Oregon
"Great Society" might have a
proudly display a cheap watch:
endure a strike of farmers such your neighbors with respect.
Dear Ted:
better footing if this were stop
"Does your watch tell time,
as those performed by other
However, from the proportion
According to ORS 236.405 et segments. Such a strike would
ped, especially in light of the
sonny?"
of
civil
suits
which
today
are
seq., it becomes my responsibility bring ruination to the entire
government
providing
for
all
"No, sir," was the serious re
going through our court* in
to appoint emergency successors economy and would not be tol
our needs.
sponse. "You gotta look at it."
volving
neighbors,
you
might
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to the office of Representative of erated even if it were possible.
Tom Anderson commenting on
believe that the command,
the 26th district. This statute was
Men,
don
’t downgrade the Norman Thomas’ statement about
Agriculture
is
not
a
minority
"Love
they
neighbor,"
is
losing
enacted for the purpose of con
housewife . . . she may be your TV making a Garden of Eden out
ducting government in case of occupation. It is the heartbeat of its meaning.
“bread and butter” in the near of a desolate valley, “Just shows
the
nation
and
its
influence
is
Here is an example:
enemy attack or any emergency
future.
They constitute the lar what God could have done if He’d
felt daily throughout the land.
A few years ago a landowner gest occupational group in the had the money.”
condition.
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built a cement drive on the boun U. S., holding stock in industries
It is my privilege to appoint
dary line of his property. When (27 percent); have 25 percent of CLOSING THOUGHT . . .
you as one of my successors with Bandages Prepared
he had finished, the drive was all savings accounts and 59 per
“Better stand up and be count
the knowledge that you have all By Nazarene Youth
four feet higher at one end than cent own life insurance.
ed
lest you be counted out.”
the qualifications necessary to
A meeting of the Hamlin
perform the task involved in the missionary chapter of the Naz the level of his neighbor’s land.
This presented a problem. Where
office of State Legislator.
arene church was held Jan. 18 would drainage water go?
Sincerely yours,
at the Wilbur Anderson home
Rather than have rain water
with 13 teenagers in attendance.
BOB
The business session was called wash back on his own property,
Robert F. Smith
to order by Sandy Bogle, presi- or install a drain, the landowner
Representative
saved himself some trouble by
dent.
VISITORS FROM MINIDOKA
Devotions Were led by Colleen allowing the water to drain onto
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sparks Gifford and Linda Price gave the his neighbor’s land.
Actually, however, this un
and family of Minidoka, Idaho, lesson on “Recent Happenings in
On All Dogs in the City of Nyssa
were weekend guests of Mrs. Japan.” Larry McArdle present thinking landowner caused him
self more trouble than he saved.
Hannah Burbank, Mr. and Mrs. ed “Meet Your Missionary.”
Over 8 Months of Age.
The draining water from his
Lester Burbank.
Following the business meet higher driveway caused dam
ing, the group worked on band ages to his neighbor's land and
news director. In the exercise of ages to send to mission fields. home which amounted to a size
judgment he should consider that: Refreshments were served by able sum of money, which the
(a) An accused person is pre Mrs. Anderson and Cheryl.
neighbor recovered in a law
sumed innocent until proved guil
suit.
CHURCH
CLASSES
HELD
ty;
The general rule of law govern
(b) Readers and listeners are
Additional sessions for children ing the rights and duties of ad
potential jurors;
in grades one through six began joining landowners requires that
(c) No person’s reputation Jan. 20 at Nyssa Methodist church. each use his own land in a reas
should be injured needlessly.
Classes are held each Wednesday onable manner with due regard
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after school hours and are open for the rights and interests of
Public Entitled to Information
to all children of the area.
the others. Each person must use
After above date any unlicensed
5. The public is entitled to
Study topic is “Spanish Ameri his own so as not to injure his
know how justice is being ad
dogs will be impounded and own
neighbors unnecessarily.
ministered. However, it is un cans.”
(Oregon lawyers offer thi*
professional for any lawyer to
ers are subject to a misdemeanor
column as a public service. No
exploit any medium of public in GENERAL MEETING SLATED
General
meeting
of
the
Wo
person
should
apply
or
inter
formation to enhance his side of
penalty.
a pending case. It follows that mans Society of Christian Service pret any law without the aid of
o
the public prosecutor should avoid of the Methodist church will be an attorney who is completely
held
at
2
p.m.
Feb.
4
in
the
church
advised of the fact* involved.
taking unfair advantage of his
position as an important source parlor. The program entitled Even a slight variance in facts
of news; this shall not be con “Hearing God Speak Through the may change the application of
strued to limit his obligation to Bible” will be presented by mem the law.)
make available information to bers of the Lowry circle.
Classifieds Bring Results!
Prayer group will meet at
which the public is entitled.
In recognition of these princi 1:45 p.m.
ples, the undersigned hereby tes
He who shovels his own coal
tify to their continuing desire to
achieve the best possible accom- keeps warm.
modation of the rights of the in-
dividual and the rights of the
public when these two funda-
mental precepts appear to be
conflict in the administration
justice.
Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association
Between now and spring many times carpenters are
Oregon Broadcasters
without jobs to do because of cold wet weather . . .
Association
Oregon State Bar
Why not complete that inside job that you have been
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