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The Bakersfield Californian from Bakersfield, California • Page 19

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Student Gets Life Term in Fraternity; in Drinking Party COLUAIBUS, Common Pleas Jtadge held up a.former Ohio' State University freshman as an example to all students yesterday in sentencing him to life in prison for a fraternity slaying. 1 A jury convicted 21 year-old James D. Heer of Euclid, Ohio, of second-degree murder in the homecoming shooting of Jack T. McKeown of Norwood, in front of fraternity house in which both lived. Judge JohnyJBT.

King, obviously disturbed' talked to 'the student body" and to Heer before pronouncing sentence. "There is a challenge and every one said Judge King. "Rules and regulations are for the benefit, health and protection of-the student body. "Education, after all, points the to to live." Judge King referred to drinking which preceded the fatal shooting on the eve of the school's homecoming football game last November 12. Trial testimony showed Heer and other students had been drinking at a Delta Tau Delta fraternity house party before McKeown tried to persuade him to give up a .45 caliber automatic pistol.

Liquor is not allowed by Ohio State rules. Judge asked Heer if he had anything to say before sentence was pronounced. The former marine replied: "I have only to say that in time perhaps this thing will be for- UFE IMPRISONMENT-- James D. Heer, 21-year-old Ohio State university student, yesterday was sentenced to life imprisonment for the shooting of a fraternity brother. gotten by most people, me it never will be forgotten." It was the first time Heer, a former pledge of Delta Tau Delta, had spoken in court since his trial began May 1.

He did not testify during the trial. McKeown, 21, was an active member of the same fraternity and managing editor ot the student newspaper. The judge remembered Heer's statement later: "There is no punishment which the law could mete out to you as great as your conscience will mete out." he said. "I can not express my feelings. You expressed" volumes a little while ago (referring to Heey's statement).

It is the sentence of the court that you be confined 1 to the Ohio penitentiary for and during your natural life. And may God have mercy on you." The slim former student cried at the verdict, again during the judge's lecture, and later shouted at news photographers. After he has served 20 years in prison, Heer will be eligible for a parole bearing. Heer's attorneys have three days in which to Me a request for a new trial, which they must do if they intend to appeal. Judge King had instructed the jury not to consider acquitting Heer.

Heer's defense had been that he was so drunk he did not have mental ability to form intent to kill. The judge said drunkenness does not reduce crime below the status of manslaughter. REDS ON MOVE TAIPEI, sources said today that Chinese Communist invasion forces had started moving down the Yangtze river for the attack on the Nationalist-held Ghusan Islands. Hurse Favors Fathers in Delivery Room SAN FBANGISCO Sometimes it is a good idea to let the expectant father into the delivery room instead of shoving him into a waiting room or corridor when his wife is having a baby, America's nurses were told today. This practice often increases the emotional security of parents, said Miss Hazel Corbin, general director of New York's Maternity Center Association, in an address for the biennial nursing convention.

Emotional security, Miss Corbin said, is highly prized by present-day young couples. One of the ways to foster that kind of security, she added, is to keep parents and child together as much as possible. In contrast, she said, hospitals traditionally separate husband and wife when he brings her to the institution. The baby is taken from the mother as soon as it is born. "Often the mother is not even consulted about whether she will nurse her J)aby or not." Hospitals which hare adopted "unorthodox" practice of letting husbands remain with their wives in these periods have found that it pays off "in the blossoming of security in the faces of both parents," Miss Corbin asserted.

TO ASK BIDS will soon be asked for a new $700,000 health center building on the College of Agriculture campus here, Knowles A. Eyerson, assistant dean, announced today. (Ealltotttett Thursday, Mqy i 1, Counterfeit Ring Smashed New York BUFFALO, N. O.S. secret service claimed today it had broken op a million-dollar counterfeiting syndicate that allegedly operated in 28 states and in Canada.

A printing press and plates were seized yesterday in a raid on a house in suburban Depew. Two men were arrested. U. E. Baughman, chief of the secret service, said.

in Washington it was probably the most important crackdown against counterfeiting in years. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder said the arrest of Matthew Zlodin- ski, 37, and Bernard Neuner, 30, appeared to wind up the More than 10 men had been arrested previously as principals in the syndicate. Sixty-four others been charged with passing bogus tills in various cities. an artist for a lithographic, firm, was accused of plates used to print $300,000 in bogus Canadian money and about the same amount in American notes. Zlodinski was alleged to have printed 34 separate issues of counterfeit $10 and $20 drawn on 10 of the 12 regional federal) reserve banks.

The exceptions the federal reserve banks at Chiago and Kansas City. The press was in the basement of Zlodinski's home. Arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Boyce H. Butterfield here last night, the pair waived hearings.

Butterfield set bond at $100 000 each. Baughman said the ring had passed about $45,000 in bogus money "from Connecticut to California, and Maine to Texas." Another $280,000 was seized before it was put into circulation, Baughman added. Investigators have beea unable to account for more than $150,000 of U.S. counterfeits. Some of these may be in the hands of "passers," Baughman said, although ring members claim to have destroyed them.

Some of the $500,000 in Canadian money was passed in Toronto, but, the counterfeiters destroyed most of it as "too defective," the secret service chief said. Baughman asserted the project was ''conceived" by Anthony and Samuel N. Saili of "the outgrowth of experience had in wholesale counterfeiting: OPA gasoline, sugar and meat tion stamps during the war." The ease broke first in New City, when $200,000 worth of bills were "sold" to a secret agent. COLLEGE YEARBOOK Bakersfield College's twentieth annual Eenegade Raconteur, 18-ij page yearbook, will be issued stu dent, faculty, and alumni ers May 25 and 26, Zelia Blakecey. business manager, announced LOW MOTHER' HTTLE HELPERS Sunshine Crackers.

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1907-1977