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THE FEUQCIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUART , 1967. V PAGE FIVE SAYS .1. . rvrm i ft MORGANTON--Anticrime, President expressed . at the legislation is sure to. get more attention in. tfhe 90th Congress. Crime rates- hvi tontintied to soar in J recent ( months, and the National i , Crime Commission; which is a J. conducting a stutfyon the problem, reports ' t H a a r great proportion, of .crime is x Pot : even- reported! itt these rates. ' . ' ' . - , Recommendations j to curb crime often get bogged down s, in controversy. Congress has faced the situation' for. some time. The hope . that the first meeting of the National Crime ' '.Commission ' in . Sep tember,U965, that crime will be banished '- has come to grips with the problem more recently". - Congress came up with a long studied crime bill , for the District .of Co lumbia at.hjie.. last ' gessioij :$tyd passed" it.;, Jt suffered a Presidential veto. Few, now look' for any easy solutions to crime. . .- " ,Two Presidential eommis. sions, one ' to study national and one to study District of .1. "1 iii n . o LP-Gas is delivered automatically We check your supply regularly. If you need more, we make a ne delivery automatically! Let us start today, uau ssol PHONE 426-5458 SjBERTFORD A MEW IN ei oOR HEATING COMFORT Dig super heating performance in a i - . ,...,...,., COMPACT CABINET! T hh J tkbfchitsidations of theite'ewnlrtisaidhs; are cer tain to get nuch attention,) but it is Well to remember that almost everyone has an opinion about how to Cur tail crime. ' Congress, the President, and the Courts have been having a say about the1 subject since it be came t national issue. ; There ' is ' an ;' overriding concern . which it would be well to emphasize again. The truth is that recent Supreme Court rulings ' have, been ruling ut reliable Evidence Jpecause4he Jtiajority of the .Court hbs diaagi'ijed with the way the police havs gathered it.' The latest' step Which the Court tqok in this direction came last June , when the Miranda r; decision reversed stated eourt convictions for kidnaping) tita,pe, and rob bery, and a federal court The ictions were' . based' upon Vol confessions made bt 1 the ac qq$ed while they were being questioned by la w enforce ment officers who had them in custody. As a result, law enforce ment ofificers and the trial courts are experiencing more difficulty and oftentimes the impossibility of getting con victions against confessed criminals. Justice Harlan appraised aright the major ity decision in the Miranda case when he declared in his dissenting opinion that "the decision, of the court : repre sents poor constitutional law and entails harmful conse quences of the county at large." ' , ' The1 court decisions cannot be' overlooked in ; .any ap praisal of the crime situa tion, They have erected ar- I tificial ; rules to protect .the accused on the theory that society 'needS ' fittte protec tion .frwi ( criminals. ; 0ver rkldenf is 'the fundamental purpose of criminal law which is to protect society against criminals. True, the law desired to avoid convic tion of any inhoceAt person, and establishes the legal presumption of innocence in favor of the accused at every stage of his trial. From time to time the law haS erected many Safeguards to insure that the accused has a fair trial. UoUl recently, however, it has not sought to erect barriers to the truth. j Formerly the courts relied pn 'Hue judgment of the trial judge who performed the Jask of ruling oh the admis sibility of voluntary con fessions. The artificial bar riers set by the Supreme Court have imposed' unne cessary burdens on law en forcement officers, the trial courts a'nd society. Law abiding citizens have rights, too, and I think it is time to secure those rights. r n For this reason, I plan to reintroduce jny ' proposed constitutional amendment to restore society's fight to have greater" protection from crim inals whcJ confess their guilt voluntarily in federal and state courts. HONORED ON BIRTHDAY Mrs. Mary '.B. Keaton was recently honored on hef 79th birthday at a party given by her children at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Math ews of Windsor, Va. The house was beautifully decorated in keeping with: the Christmas season. . i The table was Jbvely with' a cut work cloth, candles and decorations. The cen terpiece was a beautiful red and white four-tiered birth day cake. ' ' ; Thoso enjoying the, calerli bration .. were . Mrs;' Mary Keaton, the, honoree, f Hert ford; Mr. -and Mrs. Fred Mathews, Sr., Windsor?' V.:; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mathews, Jr., and children, Kay, Bet sy, Fred and Mafty, Suffolk, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Mathews and son, John, of Suffolk, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Benton, Mr. and Mrs. FiOyd Benton and sons, Doug and Greg, Mr. and Mrs. John White and sons, John and Mike, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. Dk'k Long and daugh ter, Judy, Bob ' Keaton and children, 'Don and Bobbie, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer. Wood and Lee Brabble, all of Hertford; ,M,iss, Blenda Epleyr" .Valdese;-. V:; Mr. and Mrs. J., W. Paul -and children, Jimmy and Cathy and Mis. Lottie Paid, of Amelia, 'Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Seth. 'Spivey, Richmond, Va., and Mr.-and Mrs. E.VE. Britt and daugh erstLjnda and. Patsy, Suf-folk.'Va.'- ,rn 'V tlRCLRg MEKT 1 The f Iriabdle Coleman Circle of the Hertford Bap tist Church will meet Mon day night, January 9, at the home of Mrs. J. H. To we, Sr., with Mrs. C. E. . Pritch afd as hosttss. The Bessie "Pritchard Cir cle will meet Monday night, January 9, with Mrs. Carroll Williams. 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