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Show f THE DAILY PAGE EIGHT San Francisco Jail Work Plan Open to Women The SAN FRANCISCO (ACCN) City and Coanty of San Francisco has been ordered by a federal judge that it must accept women into its county jail work furlough program. U.S. District Judge Oliver J. Carter, staling from the bench that the discrimination was a clear violation of equal protection, gave the county until Feb. 4, 1972, to come up with a voluntary plan for placing women in the program. The suit, brought against San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, and other officials alleges that the restrictions' of the work furlough program to male prisoners is an unconstitutional capricious and arbitrary, unreasonable discrimination on the basis of sex. The work furlough program permits a county jail inmate to go to work each day while he is serving his jail term. Some of the money he earns goes to the county for the inmates room and board, some is sent to his family, and the rest is put into a savings account for him. The program thus saves money for the county as it rehabilitates the prisoner. The county claims that the program is closed to women in San Francisco because there are no housing facilities for them to return to at night. The male inmates on work furlough do not sleep in the jail but in a separate corrections residential facility. The attorney for the women prisoners pointed out, however, that in many counties with the same program, inmates simply return to jail after work, and, in fact, San Francisco male prisoners were furloughed from the jail for two years before the work furlough facility was constructed. The suit was initiated at the urging of Angela Gibson, who was released from the San Francisco county jail before she, herself, could bring suit. Another plaintiff, Brenda Dawson, has since been released. The remaining plaintiffs are Betty Winn and Patricia Brown, acting for themselves and all the other women prisoners in county jail. Mrs. Winn, of four the mother and children, alleges that exclusion from the work furlough program is harming her children as well as denying her the benefits of a rehabilitation program. sole-suppo- rt Nighties Urged By ATL Patricia McCormack YORK (UPI) The Trial American Lawyers Association (ATL) has called for - By NEW legislation requiring that all nightwear sold in the United States be made of fabric. flame-resista- nt flammability demonstration a news conference during dramatized the need for such A legislation. A childs 100 per cent cotton gown was ignited by a match from a matchbook. Flames reduced it to ash in IS seconds. While the nightgown was burning, a blow torch was held to a pair of childs pajamas treated to retard flames. The butane blow torch left a scorched surface where the flame was aimed. Herman B. Glaser, New York SACRAMENTO, A Commission has been named lt yesterday to formulate a auto insurance plan for California. The committee to be headed by Donald A. Ruston, Fullerton, representing the Association of Southern California Defense no-fau- In naming the commission, Song said he is convinced the legislature will pass a no fault bill next year and the real fight is over what kind of nofault bill is adopted. Various insurance companies are pressing their own plans upon us, Song said. The task of the Jewelry Theft Suspect Faces advisory commission will be to work out a lt plan that will assist not no-fau- just one or another insurance company but the car owners who Murder Counts pay the bills and should receive the benefits. - Tom Lester PHOENIX (UPI) Pugh, held here as a suspect in three jewel robberies, faces three murder charges in Oklahoma. Complaints filed November 24 by Tulsa District Attorney S. M. Falls charged Pugh, of Glenpool, Okla., with the shooting deaths of Mrs. Cleo Epps, Charles Delbert Self and Tommy Martin Edwards, all of Tulsa. Authorities said the victims had been witnesses before a Tulsa grand jury which investigated a series of bombings and killings which began in 1964. The body of Mrs. Epps was found Nov. 12, 1970, in an abandoned well southwest of Tulsa. Self was found fatally shot in his rented room in Tulsa Mar. 31, 1971; and Edwards' body was found last July 15 in a shallow grave in Osage County, Okla. Oklahoma officials said Albert McDonald, 45, Dewey, Okla., also was charged with the Epps and Self slayings. McDonald is held in Tulsa for extradition here where he is a codefendant with Pugh on one of the robbery charges. Authorities said Pugh and McDonald also were charged with the Aug. 25, 1970, bombing of a station wagon owned by District Judge Fred Nelson of Tulsa. Local charges against Pugh involve the robbery of jewels valued at more than $123,000 from the Litchfield Park hotel room of a Tulsa couple, and from homes here and in nearby Paradise Valley. The robberies occurred in late 1970 and early 1971. Notes Mark At Present Site n Boys-Tow- Boys Town has observed its 50th anniversary at its present location. The late Father Edward J. Flanagan opened the doors of his first home for boys in an old y brick building at 25th and Dodge Streets on the fringe of the business district in Omaha, Boys Town Times, published by its two-stor- student body, points out. Five boys, three from the juvenile court and two homeless boys, were the first citizens on Dec. 8, 1917. Before Christmas there were 160-acr- s Councils, was named by State Sen. Alfred H. Song, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. CALIF. (ACCN) citizens advisory some 25 boys at the Home, and soon the building was crowded. In June of 1918, Father Flanagan moved his little band to the German-America- n Club on So. 13lh Street in Omaha, which was standing vacant because of feelings existing during World War I. There was room for additional boys, but in several years these attorney and chairman of the ATL quarters also became crowded, and personal injury (tort) section, ap- with the war ended, the German-America- n plied the match. Prof. James M. Club wanted to return to Church of Columbia University its facilities. operated the butane torch. He is an Father decided that his internationally recognized authority next moveFlanagan would be his last, and he on textiles who during World War II looked about for a place, outside the helped develop flame retardant city, where there would be room to clothing for GIs. expand if the need arose and conChurch, former chairman of the ditions permitted. National Fire Protection In the spring of 1921 he bought the Association, also called for ime Overlook Farm 10 miles proved design of sleepwear, giving it west of Omaha and construction was features that make for fast escaping started on temporary, barracks-typ- e in the event it catches fire. to house the citizens buildings He was particularly critical of of Father Flanagans Boys Home, women's nightgowns that come off who now had grown to number more by being pulled over the head. than 200. i SALT Delegations Get U.S. Students Disarmament Plea 'No-Faul- OMAHA (ACCN) Spokesman TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1971 California Legislature Names t' Commission to Study 50-Ye- ar Flame Resistant RECORD In September, the Judiciary Committee killed the last surviving no-fau- plan before the lt 1971 legislature. The State Bar Board of Governors recently in a surprise move approved the general concept of nofault auto insurance. Meeting in San Francisco the board November 19 announced that it had formed a broadly based five member committee to draft lt legislation that would help lower no-fau- no-fau- Bar Associations General Practice Section, has American retained the services of students and personnel of of Law, in San Hastings College to and collect research Francisco, data on various lt plans. Larry Sipes, a spokesman for the ad hoc committee said that the panel, slated to exist only until May, no-fau- will present its findings and recommendations to the Legislature sometime before it disbands. This years legislative session saw bills introduced, as wel four lt as an extensive package of bill: aimed at altering the existin system of tort reparations. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (UPI) -- Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell has warned 100 Reform, that unless Americas prisons are brought into the 20th century all other efforts to combat crime will be frustrated. didnt need San Quentin or Attica to tell us we had a problem in corrections, he told a police appreciation day luncheon here. The state of Americas prisons comes close to a national shame. No civilized society should allow it to continue. Four out of every five felonies committed in the United States are the work of a person with a criminal record, Mitchell said. And two out of every three men released from prison are back in trouble with the law again in a very short time. It does little good to train and equip our police forces if our prisons are turning out criminals faster than they can be rounded up, he said. Certainly we need firm law enforcement, but theres more to reducing crime than making arrests. Until we bring our corrections systems into the 20th century, all our efforts will be frustrated. In his first speech on the nation's prison problems since 43 persons died in the uprising at the Attica State Prison in New York, Mitchell said November 19 that the Nixon administration realizes it cannot combat crime without also attacking prison problems. As long ago as 1969, Mitchell said Nixon directed him to mobilize federal- resources to improve - corrections, noting that the American corrections system presented a convincing case of failure.1 Mitchell also stressed the need to learn to use the time a man serves in prison to equip him for a useful life in the community. Teaching him a useful trade is an toward step rehabilitation, he said. Making license plates, for example, is useful in the sense that it takes up a prisoners time, but theres only one place that he can practice his trade important thats in prison. We have wasted enough time, he said. We have to bring the rise in violent crime to a halt, and we will. But to do so, we have to put our correctional reform program into high gear. and Savings Banks Told They Help Fight Inflation no-fau- Mitchell Says We that SALT "might at some stage fulfill the goals you are seeking." But the Soviet delegation accepted it privately only as an "information item" on grounds that it really was directed to the U.S. government. The petition was signed by student body presidents and campus newspaper editors. It was brought here by Willis Edwards, 25, of Palm Springs, Calif., a Vietnam veteran and student body president at California State College in Los Angeles, and Michael Hackard, 21, of Sacramento, Calif., a student body president at Sacramento State College. press The U.S. delegation E. Nedville Nordness, spokesman, accepted the petition on behalf of the delegation leader, Gerard C. Smith, Nordness said Smith stands for the terms you have set forth. The Senate Judiciary Committee is not alone in its desire to study nofault. The Select Committee on Trial Court Delay, a special ad hoc committee appointed by California Chief Justice Donald R. Wright, is also engaged in a lt study. The in committee, conjunction with the Women Lawyers World Group Meets In Chile Administration Goal Is Prison VIENNA (UPI) A disarmament petition by student leaders from 380 American colleges and universities was presented November 26 to the Soviet and American delegations to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). The U.S. delegation accepted it in a formal ceremony with the wish administrative Song said the commission would report back to the committee by Jan. 31 with its recommendations. . auto insurance premiums, lead to faster payments for medical costs, lost wages and property damages and reduce court congestion due to auto accident litigation. The committee was directed to report its findings on the proposed legislation to the board within 90 days, with a view to placing the bill on the State Bars 1972 legislative program in Sacramento. - PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UPI) By encouraging personal savings, thrift institutions are helping to counter the inflationary pressures generated by a high level of spending on national priorities, Dr. Grover W. Ensley, executive vice president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, has declared. Addressing the annual trustees conference here of the Mutual Savings Banks Association of Rhode Island, Ensley said that the cost to meet national goals in the areas of housing, education, environmental quality, and defense alone could easily approach $2 trillion between now and 1980. This assumes that defense expenditures will remain near the present $72 billion annual level, he pointed out. Furthermore, it does not take into consideration the cost of meeting other equally pressing national priorities health care and SANTIAGO (ACCN) More than 21 from countries delegates participated in the 16th biennial conference of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, held here, November 15-2-2. The conference focused on the The Status of Women in the Civil Law. It was opened with welcoming addresses by President Salvador Allendes minister of justice and by the chief justice of the Chilean Supreme Court, whose differing viewpoint indicated that freedom of speech is well exercised in Chile. central theme of At the closing session, the following fewly elected officers of the Federation were installed: President: Lady Beng Oon of Penang, Malaysia; First medical research; space ex- ploration; and the vast range of social welfare needs. Vice-Preside- Inflationary pressures generated Helga Stoedter, Gerl: Secretary-Generamany; Raquel Moch de Martinez, Mexico; Recording Secretary: Leah Weinberg, Israel; Treasurer: Winifred U.S.A. Doherty, (Boston); by this massive spending requirement could make obsolete these figures overnight and place an even greater burden on the economy, Ensley continued. To counter these Senilla, monetary control will be required, Historian: J. Lelia f: Eileen Philippines; Mitchell Thomas, Canada; Associate Editor: Erica Dais, Greece as well as nine regional from Argentina, Iran, Finland, Philippines, U.S., Bermuda, Indonesia, Chile and Ghana respectively. Los Angeles attorney, Adele I. inSpringer, was ternational chairman of the Federations committee on world peace through law. The new president of the international organization of women lawyers, the Hon. Beng Oon, O.B.E., of Penang, Malaysia, was the first woman lawyer in Malaysia. She was first called to the Bar of Inner Temple, London, in 1926 and then in Malaysia in 1927 when called to the Bar in the Straits Settlements, a then British Colony. In England she also made history in having been the first brother and sister team to be called to the Bar together. She has since been in the practice of law, at times with her brother and at times individually and is now a member of the family law firm of Lim, Lim and Oon. Ten members of her family are lawyers, including her son and daughter-in-laFrom 1948 to 1955 she served on the Federal Legislative Council of Malaysia, one pressures, rigorous fiscal and Editor-in-Chie- First Negro Joins Military Appeals Court vice-presiden- ts, re-nam- ed w. of two women members. among 75 council - WASHINGTON (UPI) Robert M. Duncan has been sworn in as a member of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, the first Black to sit on the bench. In a courtroom liberally sprinkled with officers in military uniform, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird The oath was administered by three-memb- er Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart. Duncan is a former justice of the Ohio Slate Supreme Court and Stewart is an Ohioan whose father sat on the Ohio Supreme Court. term expires Duncans May 1, 1986. The post pays $42,500 a year. Duncan said he appreciated the heavy load of awesome responsibility which attends this position. Among the cases to confront him and other members of the highest military court in the fairly near future will be that of Lt. William 15-ye- ar - Calley, convicted in connection with the My Lai deaths in Vietnam. |