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The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 8

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Blytheville, Arkansas
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I A A A PAGE EIGHT BLYTHEVILLE (ARK.) COURIER NEWS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1949 A AN Ed usuals a ba RIVAL UNIONISTS ON THE -The 150-year-old home of John La Lewis, United Mine Workers' boss man, in Alexandria, is getting its first coal of paint in 12 years. The job on the historic showplace is being done by painters amlialed with the AFL, from which John L. and his miners "disefiliated" some 1ime 040. Civil Rights Congress Out $23,500 Because Gerhart Eisler Jumped Bail Be Clark Beach WASHINGTON, Jumping buil cal: be pretty espensive, as in, the Gerbart Fisler the peopte who put up the bail. But tine people who furnished Eisler's bai! aren't in so bad a hole as they would hose been once upon a time.

Fister's bailers. the Civil Rights! Congress, put up $23.500, which the goverment is now in the process ct seizing. Under ald English law, bailers were personally responible if the defendant was not on hand when the court demanded his presence. The bailers were jailed and were RICh whatever punishment world have been mcled out to the defendant. Now the only bail that 1s required is money or a bond.

But the oblisations and right of bailers are still The bailer becomes, elregarded very seriously by, the fect, the jailer of the person for whom he has furnished a bail band. He can personally take him into custody any time he deems it necessary (o assure the presence in court. It he thinks the man ts preparing to lice he cass put handcuffs on him and turn him loser to the police. If the defendant has already fled the bailer can go after him and arrest him just like a policeman. Most baiters are professional remarks.

But Is Jackson. the dissenters' chlet spokesman in this case. a A friend of his says that Jackson, former New Deal politican. once told him "I believe in liberal laws, strictly construed." Two Men Killed By Dynamite Blast At Pipeline Site IRVINGTON, June Two men were killed and several were Injured by a dynamite explosion seen milles west of here late yesterday. The blast occurred at the site n1 the laying of A gas pipeline for the 'Texas GAS Transmission Corporation, with headquarters al Owensboro.

Breckenridge County Coroner Harry 'Dhonau ndentified the dead AS Robert Hall, 45. of Providence, and Hughes De Jarnett, 48, of Cloverport. inson Rardy, cuts. bruises The infured Include: Dale Roband concussion, and John Hawkins, 23, Welford, cuts, bruises and shock, Poland Lights Up Farms WROCLAW, Poland (A) Poles are pushing A broad program af "Let there be light" in the farming areas surrounding this former German city of big electrification drive underway. The Lower Silesian Associated Power Plants reported electricity service had been supplied to 67 villazes thus far this scar.

That Inclues 14,000 rural homesteads. The association plans to extend service to 280 more rural communities by the end of 1949. Read courier News Want Ads posts collateral with the company, and the company furnishes the courl with A bond which will be forfeited it he skips. As the survey companies work it, the transaction is in the nature of a loan. and it isn't a very profitable business, as the maximum amount the company can charge In most jurisdictions Is two percent.

Professional bandsmen sometimes 1851 to 15 percent of the amount of the bond. Many jurisdictions set the maximum charge at live precent. When you want to get A protessional bondsman to bail you out of jail, he'll often check on your record. see if you've ever been arrested before. see if you are holdEng A steady job.

learn something about your general reputation and find out what property you own. Many times, however, the bonds. mAn is satisfied in the course of a half -hour interview. He is used to working with persons in the tolls pt the law and can size them up with uncanny accuracy. If the bond isn't more than $500 or $1,000, and if the prisoner is an average citizen.

he knows it is unlikely that the man will try to Even IL the prisoner is underwork character, the bondsman often knows all about him and his associates. He knows what the man is likely to do, whether he will be a good risk. and if he jumps bail he knows where he can find him. Dail jumping doesn't happen frcquently. If it did.

professional bondsmen could not stay in business. And many ot them have flourished for years. WATER IS FREE! Wherever you find it, water is free, Deep in a well or out of the sea. Get all you want wherever you the simple directions below. Put a barrel under the spout, Collect the rain the clouds give out; But watch for wiggler and bugs are almost sure to kill us.

Melt yourself: a pan of snow! (It's a crystal form of H20) Or just apply a little heat To frost or ice or hail or sleet! Dig a hole both deep and round, That's where lots of water's found. Pumps are needed. so are pay for them -with more than thanks! Put muddy water in a kettle, Leave it for the mud to settle. Even the water in the sewer Is -nine one hundredths pure! Build a dam across a creek And do it well so it won't leak. Then lay a pipe.

('I'he cost ain't hay; Be sure to get a right of way.) Wring the water from a blanket of log! Strain the tadpoles out of a bog! Get up early and gather dew! Sprinkle a cloud with C02! With a bucket you can bring All you want from pond or spring. Two hundred trips or so a day Are really fun when you don't pay! Your water works adds this last line: Delivery is where we shine! leis We can't. sell water because il's free.We sell ouly PRESSURE and PURITY! BLYTHEVILLE WATER CO. "Water Is Your Cheapest Commodity" INS I TAX IN THE ST a LOUISIANA'S CREPE- mournful motorist pulls up to a draped gas pump in New Orleans. 1.a., where he'll shell out anywhere 3014 to cents per gallon for gas.

Demonstration marked "Black Tuesday," first anniversary of the twocent gas tax increase passed by the Louisiana State Legislature. 10101 SANS NOT The elephant is the only mammat that kneels when reclining. His knee joint rests on the ground white his hind foot sticks out backward. The ant has two stomachs: one for himself. and the other for food to be shared with other ants.

In the nest. KENTUCKY'S KEY TO HOSPITALITY Perfect partner to gracious hospitality is the generous flavor of Kentucky's favorite sour mash hourhon. Naturally distilled on one family recipe since 1870, OI.D FITZGERAL.D is proudly Old Fashioned, yet all the more in sayle. OLD At salt in style OLD FITZGERALD Sittigit torom Refits Distribuled by Moon Distributing Co. Little Rock.

Arkansas CENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 100 PROOF BOTTLED IN BONO A Conservatism Vs. Liberalism Efforts to Prove Status of Courts Prove to be Futile WASHINGTON There's not much use in a layman's attempting to make up his mind whether the present Supreme Court is predominantly "liberal" or The Terminiella decision au May 16 proved the fulliry of 11, if any proof had been necessary. Experts 0:1 constitutional law often attempt to figure it out by making a statistical analysis of the vote in civil righis cases. But their conclusions don't prove much. In the first place, what is liberal to one man seems conservalive to another.

"The words don't have any clear meaning. And often in so-called elvil rights case the court's decisions are based on legal points quite apart from the main Issue. "1 don't beltere I know what they mean when thes talk about a lihera! or conservative judge." 4.C legal authority recently eminent. reporter. "It is not a ferld in witch the term is applicable.

"I know what a liberal politician is. But a judze can't be either Jibera! or conservative. He Is capable or incapable. 11 he La good judge, all he seeks to do Is base his opinion on the law and the Constitutian." Terminieno case involred the right of free speech, whether the cite of Chicago could convict a man! of disorderly conduct for giving an Inflammatory talk when the dience and the rrowd outside in a condition of near riot. The Supreme Court has repratedly recognized that the right of tree speech Is not absolute, that there are time and places wivere a man cannot be permitted to say everything he wishes.

But you'll never know whether the majority or the court believes! Terminiello overstepped the bounds. That wasn't decided. The court reversed Terminiello's conviction. But the case was not decided on the content of his speech or the circumstaures of its delirery. In reading, through the record.

the stopped short when It came upon the trial judge's charge to the jury, and it never went any further. The trial Judge, Interpreting the Chicago ordinance undecon which Terminielio had convicted. said that "misbehavior may constitute a breach of the peace it it stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest or creates a disturbance." Justice Douglas. writing the opinton of the Court maJority, sald: "A funntion of free speech under our system of government is to Invite dispute. 14.

may, indeed best serve its high purpose when it: induces a condition, ot unrest. creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they Are or even stirs people to anger." The parts of the ordinance concerned in the case. as construted by the trial judge, were declared unconatitutional. Whether they would have been it the trial Junige had SAid somelhing different. or notliing al all.

one can only guess. Voting with Douglas on the 8113 fority side were Justices Reed, Morphy, Black and Rutledge. The rest. of the court, dissenting, thought the majority was entirely prong in hinging its decision on the trial judge's remarks. They pointed out that the defendant had taken no exception 10 them and that none of the lower courls had taken any notice of the juage's charge.

ft hadn't become an issue. as Chief Justice Vinson pointed out in A dissent, until the U. S. Supreme Court "ferreted 1: out of A lengthy and somewhat confused record." On this general contention, the other justices, Frankfurther, Burton and Jackson. agreed with Rut they didn't with "the Chief" on another point.

Vinson in his dissent indleated trial judge's statement. He said that that he too was shocked at the it defendant had made an issue of it, he would have agreed with the decision of the majority. Jackson. however. in a 25-pace dissent not only depiored the manner in which ther court had reached its decision.

He also defended Chicago's rich: to punish for his utterances. He even spoke of the trial judge's TOPS FOR TWO-TONE SHOES GRIFFIN ALLWITE Cleans and whitens the white part. like new! GRIFFIN LIQUID WAX SELF POLISHING Shines and re-colors the leather trim without brushing or rubhing. in brown, tan, ox-blood, black. GRIFFIN ALLWITE and LIQUID WAX Production Targets Met by "Work Races" WARSAW --(P)- The national conterence of metal workers here reported nearly 42,000 employes now are participating in "work These workers, evetecha pledged themselves to production targets assigned to them, receive: extra, pay 19,000 bonuses.

workers were enlisted in "work races" year ago. Read Courier News Want Ads. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Richardson has filed application for a permit to construct a tile or bricki building on Lot 2 Block A of Hollandale Addition, This building to be used as a grocery mud meat market business. Any protest should be in writing and illed in the office of the City Clerk within 30 days. Dated: 6-14-49 City of Blytheville By Roy Little bondsmen--persons who make their Diving furnishing bail to defendants in criminal cases.

A lot of them get into trouble with the authorities from time to time for abuses, such as around courthouses and working in cahoots with shyster lawyers and corrup! policemen. But many are respectable budsnessmen. And in almost all jurisdictions they have these approved buy the business. court before can set up The court must be satisfied not only that they are financially able to furnish but also that they are law -abiding. reputable citizens.

In any case they frequently offer the only hope of a prisoner's being released from jail pending his trial appeal from conviction. the judge won't release a prisoner no bis own recognizance (meaning he doesn't have to furnish bail), he bas few alternatives. If the court has said it will free him provided ne furnishes a certain amount of bail rit 1s usually a malter for the court's discretion), he can do one of four things: 1. Deposit his own cash with the court give the court a lien on any real catate he owns. 2.

Get a friend or a friendly ganization, such as the one Fisler used. to post cash or a bond. 3. Engage a professional bondsman. 4.

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