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Show Also in this section: Landers A8 Business Aio Tuesday 21. 1989 ifestyle February At It isn't trivia... Felons don't accept blame for their actions By RENEE C. NELSON Herald Today Editor Most inmates blame others for their problems, according to Victoria Palacios, chairman of the Utah Parole Board, who addressed members of Women in Management (WIMCO) on Thursday. "Many put the blame on their parents or on society," she explained. She pointed out three typical excuses parolees give for doing what they do: "I committed the robbery because I wanted to take my girlfriend to the state fair," one parolee explained. Another noted that he didn't attend his sex therapy class "because I couldn't get up in the morning." Still another said, "Sex therapy? I was going to do it when I got out." experts," Palacios said, Sometimes these parolees are extremely clever. cluding social workers, courts and the people who have "We are at the mercy of experts, including social workers, courts and the people who have worked with the inmates." Victoria Palacio, chairman Utah Board of Pardons "In one case we asked an inmate guilty of aggravated robbery why he only got five years to life imprisonment, and he replied, 'Well, man, he wrote down what a sad life I had and they went for it.' " "We are at the mercy of worked with the inmates." She called attention to the felon who was indicted for a stabbing murder with sexual overtones. He feigned crazy in order to get a lighter sentence, talking about his personal cockroach friend. "They took a heap o' livin' - Edgar It DETROIT (AP) A. Guest, sometimes called "the poet of the plain people," was a child of 10 when his parents came to this country as immigrants from England in 1891. While still a teenager, Guest became an office boy for a local newspaper. He later was a police reporter, then a daily columnist for the paper. n Guest began including verses and jingles in his column and they quickly proved hom-sespu- in 300 papers. first-nam- Street?" "No, I mean Perry Mason." But she found that reality was nothing like Perry Ma- son. Jeanine Wyatt, luncheon chairman of WIMCO, conducted the meeting at the Excel- sior Hotel and introduced both the main speaker and Suzanne Borchards, Excelsior Hotel manager, who discussed the Seven Peaks Resort (formerly Heritage Mountain). The hotel is part of the ski resort complex, which will also encompass a Water Park scheduled to open just prior to Memorial Day. ys As the single (widowed) mother of two children, she fears for their safety as well Caesars were still romping around Rome (89 A.D.) One billion hours ago, man was a newcomer on earth (112,000 B.C.) 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