Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 August 1973 — Page 15
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Wednesday, August 22, 1973
Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana
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Juan Corona Says New Trial Will Clear Him
More Women Enter Medical Practice
By DOUG WILLIS Associated Press Writer VACAVILLE Calif. (AP) - Emphatically proclaiming his innocence, Juan Corona says he lives in faith he will win a new trial and prove he did not murder 25 itinerant workers near Yuba City, Calif., in 1971. That was the nation's largest mass murder case until 27 bodies were unearthed in Texas this month. The former farm labor contractor said it is impossible for him to think of spending the rest of his life in jail, despite the sentence of 25 consecutive life terms.
“No! No! No! Whatever they accuse me for, I know it is not true, and God knows it is not true," the 39-year-old Corona said. “Why does an innocent man spend his life in prison if he didn't commit a crime. I think that justice will be reasonable... “I never put it in my mind that I’m going to be here forever, because it’s not right, because that’s impossible.... They will have to prove the truth." He said he is ready and willing to take a lie detector test, if the authorities will give him one.
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Asked if he knew who did commit the murders, Corona replied: “I don’t know, sir." Dressed in blue prison denims, Corona appeared relaxed and in good health during an interview Monday at the California Medical Facility 50 miles northeast of San Francisco. He blamed his conviction on his attorney’s decision not to let Corona or any other defense witness testify in the six-mo nth trial that ended last February. Corona said he wants another trial to tell his story. Corona’s former attorney, Richard Hawk, had promised in opening arguments of the trial to rebut prosecution evidence against his client, but he didn't present a single witness. Asked Monday if he thought that was a mistake. Corona replied, “Naturally.... 1 didn’t decide (to rest the case then). My attorney was sure that the prosecutors proved nothing.” Several members o f the 10man, two-woman jury that convicted Corona said after the trial that they had wanted to hear his story and that Hawk’s decision hurt Corona’s case. Corona also discussed some of the circumstantial evidence against him, but he offered no explanation not raised during his trial. Corona said another prisoner told him his name has been in newspapers recently because of comparisons of his case with the Texas mass murders. But Corona said he didn’t read any of those stories or watch television news accounts—“No. No. I’m not interested. I’m sorry about how they found those bodies. 1 don’t read (about such things) in the newspaper.”
By JEANETTE JOHNSON For The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Women currently compose fewer than 10 per cent of practicing physicians in the United States, but their number is slowly increasine. Estimates are that approximately 19 per cent of students entering medical school this fall are women, compared with 16.8 per cent in 1972, 13.7 per cent in 1971 and 11.1 per cent in 1970. At Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, one of the nation’s largest colleges of medicine, with an enrollment of more than 800 medical students, women will make up 21.8 per cent of this fall’s entering class. Dr. Jerome Parnell, chairman of the committee on admissions, says the increase in the percentage of medical students represents a sharp increase in the number of women applying for admission to medical schools. Figures compiled by the Association of American Medical
Colleges indicate that, in 1972, 16 per cent of all medical school applications came from women and in 1971, 12.8 per cent. The upsurge in admission of women to medical schools comes little more than a century after Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from a school of medicine in the United States. Random interviews with several of Downstate’s women graduates suggest that one would be hard put to make generalizations about women physicians, whose motivations, talents and personalities are as varied as those of their male colleagues. Dr. Dorothy Bocker was Downstate’s first woman student. She was graduated in 1919 and recently retired from practice. Today she is 89 and lives in Daytona Beach, Fla. Dr. Iris Slater was one of nine women who graduated in 1961 in a class of 135 students. An ophthalmologist, she has a private practice in Manhattan,
Cost Council Prods Auto
Ind. For Price Hike Hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Cost of Living Council has challenged the nation’s auto manufacturers and steel companies to justify at public hearings proposed price increases they announced last week. Council sources say the action is designed in part to show the public that the administration plans strict enforcement of its new Phase 4 anti-inflation
program. Hearings
will be held in
West To Midwest Pipeline Studied
CHICAGO (AP)—Eight large natural gas firms, including a subsidiary of Peoples Gas Co. announced Monday they are studying the feasibility of building a new $1.3 billion gas pipeline from the western U.S.-Ca-nadian border to the Midwest and Eastern United states. The firms said the line would be linked to the proposed Cana-dian-Arctic gas pipeline system, which would run south from gas fields on the North Slope of Alaska and Canada’s Northwest Territories. A second leg under consideration by another group of companies would serve the Pacific Coast. The eastern line would extend 1,725 miles through nine states and bring as much as 3 billion cubic feet of gas a day to Midwestern and eastern markets, the firms said.
A spokesman for Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, a subsidiary of Peoples Gas, said an eight-company consortium was organized in February to handle the project. The name of the consortium is the Northern Border Pipeline Study Group. The group estimated that the line could be in operation by the late 1970s if no delays are encountered. Other firms involved in the consortium are Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., a subsidiary of the Columbia Gas System, Inc.; Consolidated Natural Gas Co.; Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Co., a subsidiary' of American Natural Gas Co.; Northern Natural Gas Co.; Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.; Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., and Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES Notk* i« K*r«by given the taxpayer} of Putnam County, Indiana, that the County Council at their regular meeting place, on the 3rd day of September, 1973 will consider the
following budget.
BUDGET ESTIMATE BY FUND AND BY OFFICE OR DEPARTMENT COUNTY GENERAL FUND
Clerft of Circuit Court County Auditor County Treasurer County Recorder County Sheriff County Surveyor County Coroner Prosecuting Attorney County Assessor Township Assessors/Trustees: Jackson Township Franklin Township Russell Township Monroe Township Clinton Township Floyd Township . Marion Township Madison Township Washington Township Warren Township
ESTIMATE OF COUNTY FUNDS TO BE RAISED
‘33,490 56
Goverdale Township
1,100 00
34.137 39
Greencastle Township
8,620 00
30.600.64
County Election Board
41,400 00
.17,395.43
County Cooperative Extension Service
30,585 00
46.467 00
Aviation
6,000 00
.10.878 00
Veterans Service Officer
4.635.23
.3.941 92
Cemetery
3,000 00
6.200 87
Civil Defense
1,260 00
.16.586 16
County Commissioners
110.800 00
.... 840.00
Court House County Jail
41,940 00 21,800 00
900.00
County Home
36.890.80
840 00
Circuit Court
61.350 00
915 00
Bd of Health
28,161 43
1.025 00
Pork
150 00
825.00
TOTAL COUNTY GENERAL FUND
‘607.440 43
1.000 00
COUNTY HIGHWAY FUND
698,382 00
840 00
CUMULATIVE BRIDGE FUND
122.000 00
.1,065.00
COUNTY WELFARE FUND
349,859 00
900 00
HOSPITAL BOND REDEMPTION FUND
25.250 00
900.00
Federal Revenue Shoring Mental Retardation
‘18.000 00
FUNDS REQUIRED FOR EXPENSES TO DECEMBER 31st OF INCOMING YEAR:
Total budget estimate for incoming year ‘607,440.43 .
Necessary expenditures, July 1 to Dec. 31 of present year, to be made from
appropriations unexpended. .. 290,000.00. Additional approp. necessary to be mode July 1 to Dec. 31 of present year 10,000.00 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Total funds required 907,440.43 .
FUNDS ON HAND AND TO BE RECEIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED TAX LEVY:
Actual balance, June '*0 of present year 198,491.00. Taxes to be collected, present year 194,813.00
Miscellaneous revenue to be received July 1 fo present year to Dec. 31 of incoming year:
o Special taxes 51,952 00 27,261.00.. b. All other revenue 194,454.00 298,021.00
Total funds.. 639,710.00. Net amount to be raised for expenses to Dec. 31st of incoming year Operating balance Amount to be raised by tax levy 367,730 43 .
PROPOSED LEVIES COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED
Net Taxable Property 61,000,000.00
Amount to be
FUNDS levy on Property Raised Collected 1971 Collected 1972 Collected 1973 To be Collected 1974 General - 903 367,730.43 404,152.00 384,956.00 476,412.00 367,830 00 Welfare 234 139,535.00 136,614.00 167,596.00 189,878.00 142,740.00 Bond Hoepitol Redemption 017 10,370.00 22,769.00 25,740 00 25,736 00 10,370.00 Cumulative Bridge - 20 122,000.00 113,845.00 114,400 00 114,384 00 122,000.00 Property Reassessment 02 12,200.00 12,200.00 Hospital Cum. Bldg 35 213,500.00 199,230 00 200,200 00 200,173.00 213,500.00
1.424
Hospital
Federal
General
Welfare
Bond Redemp.
Revenue
Fund
Fund
Fund
Sharing
‘607,440.43
‘349,859 00 ..
‘25,250.00
‘18,000.00
290,000.00
212,827.00
10.250 00
.10,000.00 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
907,440.43
562,686 00
35,500 00
18,000 00
.198,491 00
11,352.00
12,238 00
.194,813.00
161,517 00
11,132 00
27,261.00
264.00
.194 454 00
298,021.00 ....
2,032.00
639 710 00
498,151.00
.. 25 666 00
.267.730 43
64,535.00
9.834 00
.100 000 00
75,000.00
367.730 43
139,535.00
9,834.00
TOWNSHIP POOR TAX LEVIES AND RATES
Township Amount Required for Poor Relief Jackson 1000 00 Franklin 2000.00 Russell 1000.00 Monroe 1000.00 Clinton 1000.00 Floyd 1000 00 Marion - 1500.00 Greencastle 25,000 00 Madison 1,500.00 Washington Warren
Net Poor Relief to be Levied Net Assessed Valuation 275.00 2.750.880 00 402 00 4,022,630 00 257 00 2,568.140 00 954.00 3,179,160.00 223.00 2,233,940.00 373 00 3,736,480 00 756 00 3.788,890 00 12,310.00 24,620,170 00
555.00 1,853,860.00 1 000 00 318 00 3,178,120.00 01 ‘■OOO 00 211.00 2,111,700.00 01
PROPOSED LEVIES For Poor Relief 01 01 01 03 01 01 02 05
.03
Jefferson 1,000.00 2 59.00 2,594,260.00 01 O^'wdole 2,000.00 .872.00 4,361,770.00 02
61,000,000.00
Taxpayers appearing shall hove a right to be heard thereon. After the tax levies have been determined, and presented to the county auditor not later than two days prior to the second Monday in September and the levy fixed by the county tax adjustment board, or on their failure so to do, by the county auditor, ten or more taxpayers feeling themselves aggrievea by such levies, may appeal to the
Dated August 9, 1973
state board of tax commissioners for further and final hearing thereon by filing of petition with the county auditor on or before the fourth Monday of September or on or before the tenth day after publication by the county auditor of tax rates charged, whichever date is later, and the state board will fix a dote for hearing in this county. John Carson, Auditor of Putnam County Aug. 15-22-2T
Washington Aug. 28 on the auto price increases and Aug. 30 and 31 on the steel price hikes. The nation’s major steel companies, including U.S. Steel, have advised the government of their intentions to increase prices on some steel products by as much as 5 per cent. The four big auto manufacturers have announced increases on 1974 models, led by General Motors’ proposed $102 average increase per car. A council spokesman said he could not rule out the possibility that the council would reduce or postpone the increases, which it is empowered to do under Phase 4. Concern over the impact of the increases by the industrial giants on the nation’s economy was reflected in Monday’s announcement of the hearings. “We are particularly interested in examining the potential impact the prenotified price Increases in the auto and steel industries could have on the total economy,” said John T. Dunlop, director of the council. In another Phase 4 development, the council Monday granted an exception to Cross Brothers of Philadelphia, a major meatpacker, to add to prices its increased costs of buying beef. As a result, the company, which suspended operations earlier this month, announced it would resume operations today. The firm employs 390 persons. A council spokesman said it was the 15th exception granted to the meat industry out of 129 requests. Although the administration has stood firm in continuing its price ceilings on beef until Sept. 12, it has adopted what a spokesman described as a more flexible policy in granting exceptions.
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appointments at Flower and Fifth Avenue hospitals and New York Medical College, where she is involved in research in glaucoma. She says she does not feel she encountered any particular problems in medical school because she was a woman, but feels she was treated differently when trying to obtain a residency. “The interview at one of our more illustrious institutions really turned me off. The chairman did not ask me once about my medical interests,” she recalls, “but he did spend a great deal of time on my social life." Dr. Marie Zeterberg, class of 1954, chose pediatrics, the specialty that is by far the most popular among women physicians. “Pediatrics is a natural field for women. You feel very much at home here,” says Dr. Zeterberg, who maintains a practice in Brooklyn. Dr. Barbara Delano, class of 1965, says that her husband influenced her decision to study medicine. “I was always interested in medicine, and for a while I thought about being a nurse. I didn’t want to give up the opportunity to be a wife and mother to be a doctor, but my boyfriend in college, who’s now my husband, encouraged me, and made me realize that I could be a physician as well as a wife and mother.” Until July 1, when she completed her training and relocated to a hospital near Ixjs Angeles, Dr. Jacqueline Struthers, class of 1965, was chief resident in cardiac and thoracic surgery at the New York Hospi-tal-Cornell Medical Center. She was the first woman accepted for the medical center’s surgical training program, and, obviously, the first to finish. Dr. Struthers concedes that she has made sacrifices for her career. Recently married to a helicopter pilot, she says she wanted very much to get married when she was an intern, but waited six more years because she did not feel she could handle marriage and surgical training at the same time. Also, she says she does not plan a family.
her before she reveals that she will be their surgeon. “They’re generally a little doubtful at first. Then they start thinking, ’Gee, if she’s the only woman surgeon here, she must really be good.’ The first thing you know, they're bragging about having a woman surgeon.” One of two Downstate graduates who specialized in neurology, Dr. Iris Fletcher Norstrand, class of 1941, an attending neurologist at the Brooklyn Veterans Administration Hospital, says her career has been “a struggle every inch of the way.” Her parents bitterly opposed
her plans, and refused to help finance her medical education. Her sister, playwright Lucille Fletcher, put her through medical school. “A woman has to be three times as good as a man to get the job a man gets,” says Dr. Norstrand. “Promotionwise, I believe I’ve had an extremely difficult time. One has to spend so much energy fighting that should be spent taking care of patients and teaching and doing research.” Dr. Norstrand has taken out some of her frustrations in writing. She is looking for a publisher for a novella she finished about a woman physician.
Dr. Struthers feels that women patients will seek her out because she is a woman, and can establish better rapport with them. With male hospital patients, she generally waits a day or two to let them know
PIONEERING women are not unusual in the medical profession. Dr. Iris Norstrand, top, performs a neurological examination on a patient at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Brooklyn. Dr. Jacqueline Struthers, center in bottom photo, chats with nurses at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. She was the first woman physician accepted in the hospital’s surgical training program.
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