Statesman Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 2

2-(Sec I) Statesman, Salem, Mar. 18, 74 Rehabilitated Convict Is Fighting Return to California Prison times. In his parole files he has more than 50 highly favorable recommendations from prison guards, officers and counselors. He has been the communications minister for the Lifers Club, worked for 4-H Foundation, Camp-fire Girls, Boy Scouts, and as speaking representative in the prison for many years. Last year Burns won a circuit court decision to be placed on $3,000 bail.

For nearly six months he was totally free. He didn't run or hide and he knew he could be arrested at any time. He started a business with his brother James and earned a living making pool tables. But after the courts decided that he should not be granted good time he was returned to prison on a technicality. It may have been a good thing for him because California may have taken him then.

For years Oregon authorities have cooperated in an attempt to free Burns from the California hold. Many lawyers before Gatti have tried. JHE OREGON Department of Parole and Probation believes Burns should go free, as does the governor's office, Oregon Correctional Division, Supt. Cupp and ev eryone else familiar with Burns. Burns, the court and the know that Burns has no legal right to bond on the district attorney's office all state later notified him that the authority had rejected It is discretionary on the part of the court, says Gatti.

Gatti says, "It's our only hope to keep him free in order to appeal the extradition clear up to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary." Gatti isn't a practicing attorney but he has learned a lot about the criminal justice system since he began the case seven months ago. He was given $200 to look into the case and he has been doing it on his own time while serving as a law specialist for the State Department of Education. He graduated from Willamette University in 1973. REHABILITATION WILL not be considered in fighting the extradition, explained Gatti.

The only question is whether the warrant is valid. California failed to exercise that warrant three times when it could have, and in 1972 California said it was no longer interested in Burns. Gatti went to California in November to ask the Adult Authority parole board to let Oregon hold a parole hearing or at least until its parole board makes an evaluation. Burns and Oregon officials fear that he will have to prove his rehabilitation all over again. BURNS DIDN'T actually shoot the California highway patrolman but was with two others at the time of the shooting near the Nevada-California line on Nov.

15, 1963. Six hours prior to the shooting the trio had robbed the Bank of America at Sacremento of $40,000. They were stopped on a routine check by the patrolman, and while Burns remained in the car Roger Mealman panicked and killed the officer. All were captured by the following day, and the money was recovered. Mealman also accidently wounded Burns in the shooting.

Mealman is in San Quentin and possibly could have been paroled by now except for an attempted escape last The other partner, Clifford Toycen, was paroled last month. ALL WERE sentenced for life and Bums served almost five years in Folsom before being returned to the Oregon State Penitentiary in 1968 because he had been on parole for an Oregon crime since 1963. A California detainer was placed on him at that time. Burns says he needed $10,000 to get his brother James, in failing health, paroled from the Oregon prison. By ALLEN MORRISON Staff Writer, The Statesman Oregon correctional authorities see Robert Lee Burns as a totally rehabilitated prison inmate who should go free.

California authorities look at him as a "cop killer" who should be returned to their state. Both states are probably right from a legal point of view. The 42-year-old Burns has been caught in the middle of rehabilitation vs. punishment for more years than probably any other inmate in Oregon history. He has lived in fear for five years of being returned to Folsom or San Quentin maximum security prisons in California.

TODAY BURNS who has served 19 years in prison, will stand before Marion County Circuit Judge George Jones to plead for a bond so he can remain free while fighting a California extradition warrant. His 27-year-old attorney, Daniel J. Gatti, Salem, will represent him in the bond proceeding, his last remaining hope to escape California authorities. A number of correctional officials, including Oregon State Penitentiary Supf. Hoyt C.

Cupp, will be at the 1:30 hearing to support Burns. All Oregon authorities familiar with Burns say he is rehabilitated by any standards, but California wants him returned to complete a felony murder life sentence. Burns, one of 11 children of a midwestern family, was thrown out of his home at the age of 11 and never returned. He drifted until the age of 16 when he entered the Army. After honorable discharge he turned to petty crimes.

In 1954, at the age of 24, he attempted to rob a store and was apprehended, receiving 20 years on a jury conviction. He has never had a disciplinary report from any prison since 1957. ENTERING THE Oregon pris-on with a. fourth grade education, he soon became keenly interested in education. He graduated from high school and has taken over 31 graduate courses from the University of Pennsylvania and University of California.

He read over books, many from medical schools. His studies included anthropology, psychology and sociology. He learned several skills, including X-ray technician, painting, masonry, cooking and craftsman. He is the first man in "Oregon history to be granted minimum custody status with a felony murder detainer hanging over him. He has been out of the prison 100 times on temporary leave, including a number of 52-hour passes without supervision.

BURNS HAS BEEN a counselor to other men in prison, and while housed at the Oregon Forest Camp he could have escaped many Back to Prison? Robert Lee Burns, said by Oregon authorities to be totally rehabiliated during 19 years of prison confinement, sits in Marion County jail waiting to be returned to California to complete a sentence of a felony murder conviction in 1 963. (Statesman photo) Implants of Carbon May Soon Replace Lost Teeth 'Car' Brakes Fail on Hill; 2 Youths Hit in Bush Park Rand to Join Race For Salem Council driven by another youth, also placed second in the championship race run by winners in the six age classes. Other Mid-Willamette Valley division winners were sociation's Council on Materials and Devices has tabled the vitreous carbon implant "experimental" and cautions 28" wide, 34" high 16" deep 4 Drawer Chest Roll Top Desk sggoo 279S Boston SOC95 Rocker OJ Gay Dublin Parade Notes St. Pat's Day for Burns on behalf of California. But somehow, due to a change in administration, Gatti's request apparently got mixed up because that his request to free Burns.

Gatti wrote California Gov. Ronald Reagan a letter Friday, again asking for a parole hearing in Oregon to which California could send representatives to judge Burns' rehabilition. Today in court, representatives from the 4-H Foundation will testify that they want to employ Burns for $500 a month with room and board. MANY OBSERVERS look at this case as a real test of the criminal justice system, particularly the always-controversial division between rehabilition and punishment. Gatti said in his letter to Gov.

Reagan that further imprisonment of Burns would "do absolutely no good, not only for Mr. Burns but the people of the State of California and Oregon. "Your system and ours have worked." "This man has shown it works, and now it's time to show that we can follow through It's not an empty request. It's one based on belief in the system, and one that is based on the evidence of this man's rehabilitation." that much more work is needed to gauge the safety and effectivness of the mate-. rial.

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Only 12 per cent of the junior and senior high school students polled said they intended to join the armed forces after graduation, compared with 43 per cent two years ago. 6 DAYS A WEEK Dewey Rand general manager of the Capitol Press agricultural weekly and recently retired president of the Salem Planning Commission, announced Sun-' day night that he will file for the Ward 4 City Council position now held by Steven Stewart. Rand, 47, 554 Snow White Way SE, said he is seeking the position "because I feel very strongly about the implementation of Salem's comprehensive plan and the Urban Growth Boundary." As a member of the planning commission since 1970, Rand helped develop both those plans, which have since been approved by the City Council. In addition to his work with the Capitol Press and the planning commission, Rand also has been a member of the Salem Hospital's Ouster of Nixon Would Be Tragic, Sadat Asserts NEW YORK (AP) The impeachment of President Nixon would be a "real tragedy" for the Middle East and the rest of the world, says Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. In an interview published in this week's edition of Newsweek magazine, Sadat said the Nixon administration has "revolutionized the thrust of U.S.

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Bandleader Joel Thomas said, "We are looking forward to many long visits." The bands stepped smartly down a rain-slick O'Connell Street, Dublin's main thoroughfare, as 50,000 spectators lined the two-mile route. The three-hour parade lived up to its reputation for color, gaiety and rich pageantry, and some of the spectators didn't seem to mind the rain. "God bless them, ain't they lovely," cried an apple-cheeked street vendor hoisting her shamrock-bedecked grandson to her shoulders so he could see the miniskirted majorettes do their stuff. "I've stood here for two hours just waiting to see these lovely lasses, and it was worth every minute," the woman said. Among the spectators were some 5,000 foreign visitors, including many Americans.

Ten bands from Northern Ireland took part in the march, and as part of their precautions, police cleared the parade route three hours before the first groups stepped out. Two Seriously Hurt in Crash Two person were admitted in serious condition to Lebanon Community Hospital Sunday night after a two-car collision about 4:30 p.m. Sunday 20 miles east of Sweet Cleo B. Gast, 51, Philomath was in the intensive care unit with rib and wrist C. Schmidt, 55, Lebanon Star Rt.

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60 56 53 59 52 52 35 47 .72 .27 .30 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Portland, Vancouver and vicinity Partly cloudy through Tuesday with patchy morning fog. Highs both days in "mid 50s. Lows in mid 30s. Chance of measurable rainfall less than 20 per cent through Monday night Oregon Coast Winds be-, coming mostly northerly Monday and Tuesday. Partly cloudy with local morning fog.

Western Oregon Partly cloudy through Tuesday with highs in 50s. Lows in 30s and low 40s. Patchy morning fog. Eastern Oregon Partly cloudy through Tuesday with highs mostly 50-55. Lows in 20s and low 30s, locally in teens.

Extended outlook, Wednesday through Friday: Western Oregon Mostly dry with some cloudiness at times. Highs in 50s to low 60s. Lows in 30s to low 40s. Eastern Oregon Fair. Highs mostly in 50s.

Lows in mid 20s and 30s. Tide and Sun. TIDES FOR SIUETZ BAY (Lincoln City, Ore.) Daylight Tin HIGH LOW March Tim Fact 9:02 a.m. 5-t 11:03 p.m. 5.0 1CH4 a m.

5.8 11:32 pjn. 5.3 10:54 o.m. 5.9 Tim 3:38 a.m. 4:36 p.m. 4:37 a.m.

5:20 p.m. 5:26 a.m. 5:58 p.m. 6:12 a.m. 6:30 p.m.

6:50 a.m. p.m. IS 2.8 0.4 2.4 0.3 2.0 0.3 1.5 0.4 1.1 0.6 19 20 21 a.m. 11:42 a.m. 12:25 a.m.

12:24 p.m. 5.6 6.0 5.9 6.0 22 (To obtain tho tides tor Newport using tho Lincoln City schedulo: For highwater subtroct "4 minutes and add 1.4 feet; for low water subtract 31 minutes and add 0.4 feet.) Sunrise 7:19 a.m. 7:18 a.m. 7:16 a m. 7:14 o.m.

7:12 o.m. Sunset 7:22 p-m. 7:23 p.m. 7:24 p-m. 7:26 p.m.

7:27 p.m. IS 19 20 21 22 Forecast (from National Weather Service, McNary Field, Salem): Partly cloudy through Tuesday with local morning fog. High both days in mid 50s, low tonight in low 30s. Less than 10 per cent chance of measurable precipitation through Tuesday. Willamette River 19.35 feet.

Freezing level at 4 p.m. yesterday 4,200 feet. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since start of weather year Sept. 1 To date Last year Normal 52.26 24.37 32.64 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 24 hours ended at 4 p.m. Sunday: Max.

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