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Show KEEPS "OPEN HOUSE" FOPv PAROLED MEN PORTLAND, Ore., May 14. Joseph Krllax, state parole officer, held a unique ! reception here today, when lie kept "open i house" at the courthouse for men on parole from the Oregon state prison. More than 200 paroled convicts had been notified by mall to report. Only one was , out of employment. The others, according to the parole offi- ; cer, were all work in tr steadily in Portland, Port-land, and their average monthly earnings were estimated by him to approximate $Sa each. Many of them showed bank passbooks, indicating that they had started savings accounts. One was about to make an initial payment on the pur- : 1 chase of a home. |