THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON
THURSDAY. AUGUST 28. 1965
IT'S YOUR LAW
By Oregon Stai« Bar
Bertha Culbertson,
Mother of Nyssan
Dies in California
Final rite» for Mr«. Bertha Paul
Culbertson were conducted at 8
o'clock Tuesday evening, Aug 17,
1005, at a funeral chapel in Mar­
When our liberties are protect­ tinez, Calif. Interment wan made
ed in our courts, it is often in in the cemetery at Roscoe. Mo
She was the mother of Charles
cases which appear unsavory, un
worthy or even trivial. The direct Culbertson of route 1, Nyssa, and
attucks on our rights as in the succumbed Aug. 15 nt Martinez
Peter Zenger case for freedom of following a brief illness.
Mrs Culbertson was born Sept
the press seem to have given way
14, 1886, at Dunnigan, Mo. Iler
to indirect attacks.
Thus, todays comic books aren’t husband, Bill, died in 1935 in
so very funny. Some of them are Missouri and the following year
sadistic. Many have aroused op­ she moved to the Owyhee com­
position to their sale
especially munity. A son, Ix-e, succumbed
in 1938 and a daughter, Arleta,
to children.
died the following year at Nyssa.
And so somo years ago, one
After leaving the Owyhee area
California county made it un­
i and moving to California in 1942,
lawful to recount certain crimes
Mrs. C u II h rtson had visited at the
or io soli "crime” comic books
i home of her son, Charles, on many
io youngsters under 18. The law
occasions.
expressly exempted newspapers
Three other surviving sons are
or books telling of historical or
l.ester of Odessa, Mo., Dale of
religious stories.
Andersonville, Tenn., and J V.
The California Supreme court
Culbertson of Kirby, Ore Also
found that this ordinance (1) vio­
surviving are three daughters,
lated freedom of press, (2) was too
Mis. Phyrnc Rector of Concord,
broad and arbitrary and (3) de­
Calif, Mrs. Loga Burkhart of
nied comic book sellers equal pro­
Osceola, Mo., and Mr«. Juanita
tection of the law.
Powers of Martinez; 19 grand*
The trouble with such laws,
children and 27 great-grandchil-
among other things comes in
dren.
their drafting. This law. for ex­
Mr and Mrs. Charles Culbert­
ample, could have stopped a book
son recently returned home after
showing Bugs Bunny snitching
attending the California services.
carrots or Donald Duck laying a
trap for his pursuers. It is just
hard to write a law in general
terms that marks off a biblical
murder from a private eye story.
Th® First Amendment of tho
U. S. Constitution covers comic
Services for Boisean Charles.
books as well as movies, news­ Cornelius Cotton. 86, who died I
papers. magazines and pamph­ Monday morning in a Boise nurs- i
lets. Unless real dangers are
ing home, will be held at 2 o’clock 1
clearly present, the speech or this afternoon, Aug. 26. 1965, at |
writings in any media are en­ Lienkaemper chapel in Nyssa Of- i
titled to full freedom, barring ficiating will be the Rev. Wallace
libel or en invasion of privacy.
M I’tuwell of N v. a Fust Chris- |
But the law. as the court sees tian church.
Mr. Cotton was born Feb. 5.1
it. must be limited by its terms
to such dangerous publications 1879, in Alabama. When a child, j
The (¡ISC before the Suplenie he moved with his family to Colo­
court was not dangerous
But | rado, then in I960 to Blackfoot, i
even if some comics were clearly Idaho, by covered wagon. He \
dangerous, the law was otherwise filed a desert claim near Fairfield i
so broad that it covered all sorts in 1904 and 15 years later moved j
of publications.
to Nyssa where he opened and |
Besides it’s too much to make a operated two garages. He was
bookseller read all his books and married in 1920 to Susie Mary I
judge whether they depict crime Claeborn.
A law which prohibits comics
The Cottons later disposed of
from giving an "account of a their garage« and hegnn farming
crime" is too vague. The book­ in the Kingman Kolony area until
seller could not well know if he Mrs. Cotton died in January 1955.
broke the law. Such laws arc un­ Shortly thereafter, Mr. Cotton
constitutional.
moved to Boise.
(Oregon lawyers offer this
Survivors include a nephew,
column as a public service. No i William J. Colton of Boise; three
person should apply or inter­ step-sons and four step-daughters
pret any law without the aid of
Interment will be in Nyssa I
an attorney who is completely I cemetery under direction of Lien- .
advised of the facts involved.) ’ kaemper funeral home.
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Charles C. Cotton,
Former Nyssan, Dies
In Boise Rest Home
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