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17 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1970 High Court Lifts Stolen-Gun Sentence Albert Finney Getting Raves For Lucky Role in 'Scrooge' Kaiser to Cut News Service; 60 to Lose Jobs Dissenting were Justices Cohen, Michael Egan and Henry O'Brien. By MIKE TOLLMAN Of The Inquirer Staff A defendant cannot be guilty of receiving stolen goods unless it is proved he knew they were stolen, the State Supreme Court said The women claimed their right to vote was diluted by the liberal use allowed of absentee ballots, contending that such use was improper. By a 4-3 decision, the court said their case was based on an assumption that absentee voters would vote for candidates other than those the two women selected. DE 1-1777 INTRODUCTION, INC. 7236 Fkrl.

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12-4 Ssked DE 8-4499 The Oldest A Molt Retpecter Introduction Service in Phile. Albert Finney, gettting rave reviews in "Scrooge," is lucky to have gotten the role. Richard Harris was originally set for it, and the director and producer were sold on the film on the basis of Harris' starring in it. Harris suddenly got a chance to direct a movie called "Bloomfield' and asked "Scrooge" producer Robert Solo if he could be released from his commitment. It happened that they could get Rex Harrison for the part, so they In other action, the court's granting of a hearing to a man convicted in 1947 of first-degree murder in Lackawanna County drew an outburst from the dissenter, Chief Justice Bell.

It was a 5-1 decision. "Is there no way to end a murder case?" he asked. "No wonder the courts are bogged down with colossal backlog of criminal cases, and speedy justice is a joke." The defendant, John J. Gilmer, began seeking his freedom three years ago, contending he didn't realize he was waiving his right of appeal in 1957. COMMISSION UPHELD In a Dauphin County case, the court upheld the right of the State Real Estate Commission to examine the records of a.

real estate broker and revoke his license when he refused to permit the examination. Lenerte Roberts, licensed Kaiser Broadcasting announced Thursday it is eliminating full news service and news staffs in its UHF stations in Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland and Detroit. Kaiser owns WKBS-TV (Channel 48) in Philadelphia. Fourteen technicians and newsmen were given dismissal notices Thursday. The station is eliminating its 10 P.

M. news which has been in that time slot since March 1968. A soft economy is given as the reason for the cutback. All told, some 60 employes are being laid off, a company FORREST 6 Diyt Nov. 16 thr Nor.

21 Phone: 3-1515 1114 WALNUT ST. Only SEATS NOW AT BOX OFFICE Thursday in vacating the three-year sentence of a Pittsburgh man. The decision came in the case of Thomas Lee Owens, who was accused of having a stolen pistol in his possession. Heretofore, the court opinion said, "It has been reasoned that such knowledge may be presumed from evidence of mere possession." But it said this no longer holds. 4-3 DECISION The opinion, written by Justice Samuel J.

Roberts, said recent U. S. Supreme Court cases and other legal materials "leave us little doubt that the knowledge presumption concerning receiving stolen goods is constitutionally infirm, at least as applied to circumstances of this case, and we so hold." It was a 4-3 decision, with Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr. and Justices Herbert Cohen and Thomas Pomeroy dissenting.

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ALBERT FINNEY released Harris immediately. The producer even got the brilliant idea of having Rex's talented son, Noel, play Scrooge as a young man. The whole deal was worked out. Then Rex Harrison took ill and had to bow out of the movie. Cinema Center Films was about to cancel the entire project wrhen they received a call from Albert Finney saying he wanted the part.

Seems Bob Solo is a good friend of Finney's. Since Finney had told him he no longer wanted to act and was only interested in directing, Solo never even thought of him for "Scrooge." Finney nappened to see a copy of the script on a friend's desk and began to leaf through just to pass the time. He became so engrossed he read the whole script. When he finished, he called Solo to say, "I want to do this part." The director of the film, Ronald Neame (he directed Maggie Smith in her Academy Award performance in "The Prime of Miss Jean might very well do the same thing for Albert Finney this year. The competition for best actor so far is Finney versus "Patton's" George C.

Scott. Totie Fields is extremely fond of a Greek priest in Las Vegas, Father Adams. She says he has done so much for the people there. Well, Totie and her husband, George. The coo! since 1936, contended he was a private individual, his records were not public and he had a right to keep them private because of his privilege against self-incrimination.

Justice Henry O'Brien wrote the opinion. It was a 5-2 decision. VOTE CASE REJECTED The court threw out a suit by two Philadelphia women Sylvia Kauffman and Phyllis Gitlin against the Philadelphia County Board of Elections which contended the state's Absentee Ballot Law is unconstitutional. Canadian. $5.40 Left Meet at the WATERFALL ENTERTAINMES1 NIGHTLY ft official said.

They will be given severance pay and assistance in finding other employment. Carlo Anneke, of Villanova, general manager of WKBS, said the station "is entering into a period of hiatus in terms of a full news service." He added that "While the local outlet had experienced consistent growth in audience acceptance and advertiser reaction, it does not justify, in our present economy, the heavy financial losses we have incurred." Anneke said that in the two-and-a-half years the news has been broadcast at the night hour, the station spent over $1.5 million. Anneke said that the station's news editor, Carl Grant, has been asked to remain. 45 QUART RETAIL PRICE lucky to get role Johnson, own a Lincoln Continental but they live in New York where they have little use for it. They keep it in Las Vegas for when they are there.

Father Adams is being transferred to another town and when they heard he needed a car, they offered him theirs. But they had a tough job getting him to accept it. He kept saying, "How am I going to drive up to my new parish in something like this?" They finally talked him into it by saying he could trade it in for a smaller car and donate the difference to a charity. STjEfirhti sag McMASTER'S IMPORT (DIV. OF 'HEUBLEIN, INC.

1970) HARTFORD, CONN. showed how he acquired the pistol and that his possession of the weapon was "unexplained." This, he said, did not help substantiate a charge of receiving stolen goods. 1947 MURDER CASE The case began in 1967. Owens was found guilty in a non-jury trial and sentenced to three years in prison. An appeal for a new trial was denied in 1969, and he appealed to the State Supreme Court.

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