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14-Y ear
Prisoner
Freed
NEW YORK (UPI) —Edgar
H. Smith Jr., who spent 14 ywn
in the diadow of the electric
chair at Trenton State Priaon,
was free today rfter pleading
guilty to a murder he sweara he
did not commit.
Freedom, the feelings of his
daughter, who he has not seen
since she was an infant, and
money, he said, meant more
than vindication.
Smith,a 37-year-old exMarine,
entered a technical plea of guilty
Monday to the murder 14 years
ago of a 15-year-old high school
cheerleader.
Superior Court Judge Morris
Pashman, acting just four days
before Smith's new trial was
scheduled, took into account the
14 years Smith already has
served and sentenced him to
four years probation.
Contradict* Self
"Did you and did you do alone
kill Victoria Zielinski on March
4. 1957," Pashman asked Smith.
"I did,” Smith replied.
But just hours later Smith told
columnist William F. Buckely,
who has supported Smith in his
bid for freedom:
“I left her there alive and what
happened after that I don't
know. But I left her there alive,"
Smith said during a taping for
Buckley's television show.
Smith said that after being in
jail for 14 years and nine mon-
ths, he did not think a new trial
would have cleared him in the
minds of the public.
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“If I went to trial, there would
be doubt if I was acquitted,” he
said. “I think that people would
still believe I'm guilty.
“There was a monetary
reason —I spent as much money
on my appeals as I ever made,”
he said. “My former wife ...
would have to be brought back
as a witness and my daughter,
who never found out what
happened to me, would be told
what happened to her father.”
Smith won the right to a new
trial this year on his 19th appeal,
when a U S. district court judgg „
ruled he had been coerced by
police into giving evidence
damaging to his case.
Smith, who lived longer under
the death penalty than anyone in
America, was a high school
dropout when he entered prison
but later schooled himself in
law, helped draft some of his
legal briefs and wrote maga-
zine articles and two books.
Northeast
Highways
Hazardous
By United Press International
Traveler and hazardous driv-
ing warnings were posted in the
Northeast and West today and
parts of the three southeastern
states were warned of possible
flash flooding.
Freezing rain and snow lashed
northeast New York, Vermont,
New Hampshire and Maine
early today. Traveler and
hazardous driving warnings
were posted in the area. The
storm Monday forced the closing
of schools in upstate New York.
In the West, heavy snow
warnings were in effect for
Wyoming, the mountains and the
northwest section of Colorado
and in the northeast and central
mountains of Arizona.
Snow in excess of four inches
was expected in the area. Three
inches of snow fell atCedar City,
Utah, and Lander, Wyo., and two
inches at Billings and Broadus,
Mont., and at Salt Lake City,
Utah, in a six-hour period.
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east of the divide in Montana,
northeast Colorado, extreme
western Nebraska and the
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New Mexico.
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North Dakota and extreme
western South Dakota.
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effect early today for Montana
and northern Idaho with near
cold,wave conditions expected in
the Dakotas.
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IS TO KEEP OUR INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY ACUTE.-
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(C 1971 King Feature* Syndicate, Inc.)
The Worry Clinic
Double
Jeopardy
•y GEORGE W. CRANE
Ph. D..M.D.
CASE S-sas: Rev. Andrew is
troubled.
“Dr. Crane,” he began, “isn’t
there a legal taboo on what is
called ‘double jeopardy?'
"As I recall, a man can't be
tried twice for the same crime.
"Well, it appears to me that
our faithful church folks are
subjected to something very
much like ‘double jeopardy’ as
regards demands on their
pocket books.
“For Uncle Sam now levies a
terrific tax on Americans to
support thousands of indolent
families, who should really be
out working for their own food
and shelter
“Then the United Fund
launches its annual drives to
extract more money for relief
and welfare, usually Upping our
faithful church families again.
“For the church people are the
most generous and also the
typical targets for such
altruistic causes.
“But then our church mem-
bers are also asked to support
their local church, as well as
furnish the money for our own
missionaries at home and
abroad.
“Since only about 65 per cent
of all Americans are even
nominal members of the Jewish,
Catholic and Protestant faiths,
why should they suffer not only
'double jeopardy’ but actually
‘triple jeopardy?”
Competing Referee
Our Founding Fathers ex-
pected Uncle Sam to be an
impartial referee or umpire on
our national “gridiron.”
He was to stay on the sidelines
and merely make sure that the
laws of fair play were obeyed by
the taxpaying players.
Grocer could then compete
with grocer, farmer with far-
mer, manufacturer with
manufacturer, doctor with
doctor and even church with
church.
Remember, Unde Sam was
NEVER to invade the playing
field itself and thus compete
with the players over whom he
was intended to serve solely as
an impartial referee!
But progressively in this
rjntury Ungle Sam has begun to
operates over 700 corporations
(tax-exempt, of course) in open
conflict with our tax-paying
firms.
Unde Sam even plays “hog"
with the coerced taxes of or-
dinary Americans, which then
are wasted at Washington on
boondoggling and unnecessary
welfare.
Note, for example, that
Connecticut ritizens must pay
$1.70 in taxes to Unde Sam for
every $1.00 that is returned for
use by their own state.
Paid Got Back
Connecticut $1.70 $1.00
Illinois $1.65 $1.00
Ohio $1.45 $1.00
Kentucky .5$ $1.00
Alaska .33 $1.00
Of our 50 states, 20 paid Uncle
Sam more than they got back,
which means their dtizens are
thus supporting their own, as
well as the welfare recipients of
the other 30 states!
Religion is being threatened
because Unde Sam has barged
upon the field of private charity
and philanthropy!
Such invasion is just as wrong
as for Unde Sam to compete
with railroads, factories,
fanners or barbers, butchers
and doctors!
One reason why it is in-
creasingly difficult to raise
funds for private churches, the
YMCA and Red Cross, is this
unfair competition by Unde
Sam via our coerced taxes!
So send for my booklet “How
to Save Our Republic,” en-
closing a long stamped, return
envelope, plus 25 cents.
(Always write to Dr. Crane in
care of Sapulpa Herald, en-
dosing a long stamped, ad-
Dowdy
Bribe
Denied
BALTIMORE (UPI)- Leon-
ard Wilson admitted under in-
tense cross-examination he does
not remember what the weather
was like Sept. 22, what route he
took to get to the Atlanta airport,
or what kind of airplane the man
he met arrived in.
But Wilson insists he’s certain
about one thing that day:
Rep. John Dowdy, D-Tex., did
not receive any package or
briefcase whatsoever — end
therefore could not have re-
ceived a $25,000 bribe as the
government has tried to prove.
Wilson, 35. of Jasper, Ala.,
surprised the prosecution in
Dowdy's trial last week when he
testified he was with Dowdy the
entire time the East Texan was
in the Atlanta airport Sept. 22,
1965, and said Dowdy accepted
no packages, briefcases —
nothing, in fact but some re-
freshments.
But Monday, government at-
torneys chisled at Wilson’s ver-
acity, implying he was lying on
the witness stand.
Wilson testified he had driven
to Atlanta that day to deliver a
$500 campaign contribution to
Dowdy on behalf of a white
segregationist group in Ala-
bama, the Citizens Council, but
he was unable to answer gov-
ernment questions about the
weather or the route he took or
the kind of plane Dowdy came
in.
Wilson had backed up his tes-
timony with a personal appoint-
ments book from 1966 containing
entries indicated he did meet
Dowdy.
But Prosecutor Stephen H.
Sachs challenged the entries as
having been written recently
and post-dated. Sachs said the
entries concerning Dowdy were
written in a “bolder” handwrit-
ing and printed, whereas the
other entries were written in
longhand.
“Isn't it a fact that you wrote
the entries sometime in 1970 and
1971?" Sachs asked.
“No, sir,” Wilson said.
“Isn’t it a fact you were not in
the Atlanta airport on Sept. 22,
1965, with Mr. Dowdy?”
“No, sir. That is not a fact. I
was there," Wilson said.
Sachs then introduced a daily
work report for Sept. 22 an which
Wilson indicated to his boss he
spent the day from 10 a.m. to 11
pm. in his office — “working on
the Houston and Jefferson
County membership lists in
preparation for central billing "
“Is there any reason why you
couldn't tell your boss in Jack-
son why you met Mr. Dowdy?”
Sachs asked.
“I didn’t lie to him. I just
didn’t tell him all the facts,”
Wilson said.
No. 2 Foundation
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.
(UPI) —The Robert Wood
Johnson foundation, established
in1936 by the former chairman of
Johnson A Johnson medical
products firm, has become
nation's second largest founda-
tion with assets of more than $1
billion, it was revealed Sunday.
The foundation had been
relatively small, giving away
only some $5 million since its
inception, mostly to support
several local hospitals. It is
second only to the Ford Foun-
dation in total assets, and the
only other foundation ever to
have more than $1 billion in
assets.
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Sapulpa (Okto.) Herald, Tuesday, December 7, 1971—PAGE SEVEN
Reds Shell Phnom Penh
CLOWNING AROUND always helps brighten a parade, as
this mini-bike propelled jester proved Monday night at
Sapulpa’s Christinas Parade. (Herald Photo)
ANCHORAGE'S STAR
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI)
—Anchorage has its own star in
the east today, thanks to the U.S.
army.
The electrically-lighted star,
containing 250 bulbs, was turned
on at the top of an army missile
site 4,000 feet up the slopes of
snow-blanketed Chugach
Mountains.
JET STUDIES
KAMMAZOO, Mich. (UPI>-
Westem Michigan University’s
Transportation Technology De-
partment received two F84 jet
aircraft from the government
for its aircraft technology
courses. Delivery was made by
giant “Sky Crane" helicopters
because there was no runway
near enough to land <xi.
PHNOM PENH (UPI)—North
Vietnamese troops bom bared
Phnom Penh and ita airport
today in attacks that killed two
Cambodian soldiers and injured
aix other persons. It was the first
shelling of the city since the war
broke in Cambodia 30 months
ago.
Three 122mm rockets hit the
city and eight more of the sixfoot
missiles struck Pochentong
International Airport. Two other
rockets landed harmlessly on a
soccer field.
Two women and two children
were reported injured in the
rocket attack on the city and two
soldiers were killed and two
woisided in the airport bom-
bardment.
The women and children were
injured when a rocket destroyed
a small house.
Although it was the first rocket
attack against the Cambodian
capital, the Viet Cong attacked
Pochentong Airport in January,
again on Nov. 10, and several
times since then. The attack
nearly a year ago destroyed 75
per cent of Cambodia’s small air
force. No significant damage
was reported in today's attack.
Many Phnom Penh residents
believe the guerrillas have not
shelled the capital because they
did not want to riak killing Queen
Sisowath Kossomak, mother of
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the
former chief of state now living
in exile in Peking.
In today's attack, the shells
landed on the opposite side of the
city from the queen's villa.
The situation was reported
relatively quiet north of Phnom
Penh where Cambodians aban-
doned two towns along Highway
6 last week. The Cambodian high
command said six of its
helicopters were being used to
evacuate some 500 wounded
civilians and soldiers, some of
whom have gone without
medical treatment for a week.
Military sources in Phnom
Penh and Vientiane, I-aos said,
meanwhile, that troops of both
nations were forced out of two
key positions Monday despite
heavy American bombing and
strafing support.
A Royal Lao Army battalion
pulled back from the highway
town of Saravane in the Laotian
panhandle 45 miles west of the
South Vietnamese border after a
seven-hour North Vietnamese
attack, one source said. Com-
munists seized the railroad town
of Badent IS miles north of
Phnom Penh after two days of
mortar bombardment.
In Saigon, the military
command said South Vietna-
mese paratroopers and Rangers
fought North Vietnamese regu-
lars in eastern Cambodia and
the Central Highlands of South
Vietnam Monday but little other
action was reported inside South
Vietnam.
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