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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 16, 1961
Jail Sentence too Stiff?
Exec, Slayer Share Cell Block
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Elme Smith and John Chiles,
Jr. from the Montgomery block at
Montgomery County prison at Norristown,
Pa., near Philadelphia.
Smith, 29, is a murderer. He faces mandatory sentence to the electric chair for the sex killing of a 16-year-old girl.
Chiles, 57, is serving 30 days. He is a vice president of Westinghouse. His crime was that he violated the nation's anti-trust laws for profits for his company.
CHILES, ALONG with 47 other executives and 29 corporations, pleaded guilty or no defense in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids in the $2 billion annual sales of the heavy electrical industry.
Six other men were sentenced with Chiles. One is William S. Ginn, a $130,000-a-year vice president of General Electric. They are in six of the 36 adjoining cells of the block, dressed identically in blue denim prisoner uniforms with the initials "MCP" over the shirt pocket.
One man, J. M. Cook of the Cutter-Hammer Co. was granted a postponement in beginning his jail term so he could be present at a long-planned party to announce his daughter's engagement.
ALMOST ALL THE defendants
Spring AFROTC Officers Selected
Lt. Col. Robert P. Ash, professor of air science, has announced the names of the Air Force ROTC cadets who will lead the cadet group during the spring semester.
Their cadet positions are: group commander, Lt. Col. John C. Durrett, Prairie Village; deputy commander, Major Donald L. McMillen, Chanute; administrative officer, Capt. David K. Winn, Homewood, Ill.; operations officer, Capt Gerald E. Gordon, Lawrence; personnel officer, Capt Gary W. Bergmann, Lenexa.
Materiel officer, Capt. John L. Stevens, Ames, Iowa; inspector, Capt. John F. Hansan, Tonganoxie; information services, Capt. Roy Gallagher, Overland Park. Squadron commanders are Captain Paul D. Dozier, Herington; Capt. Richard A. Claflin, Kansas City, Capt. George A. York, Osawatomie; Capt. Harold W. Bergmann, Lenexa, and Capt. Gerald E. Brown, Kansas City. All are seniors.
L'Ecole des Femmes Presented Saturday
A matinee performance of 'L'Ecole des femmes" of Moliere will be presented Saturday at the University Theatre by M. Jean Rigault and his company. This production is part of a series of performances at university theaters in the United States.
A detailed summary of the plot is available in the French Department. Tickets can be purchased in 120 Fraser any time during the week for $1.50 and $2.
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was prison too stiff a punishment for their crime?
were highly respected individuals usually referred to as "pillars" of their community.
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The government thought not. It asked jail sentences for 30 men but U. S. District Judge James Cullen Ganey gave suspended sentences to 23.
The prosecution — which began under the Eisenhower administration and was approved by the Kennedy — pointed out that the victims of the price cartel included the Armed Forces, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Tennessee Valley Authority, state and municipal governments as well as private utility companies.
JUDGE GANEY had some uncompromising words as he passed sentences.
"I am convinced that in the great number of these defendants' cases, they were torn between conscience and an approved corporate policy with the rewarding objectives of promotion, comfortable security and large salaries," he said.
"In short, the organization or the company man, the conformist, who goes along with his superiors and finds balm for his conscience in additional comforts and the security of his place in the corporate setup."
Many of their friends and neighbors in home towns are thoroughly shocked by jail sentences.
A case in point is Chiles. On the day he was sentenced, he was reelected vice president of the United Fund Organization in the community of Sharon, Pa., a town of about 65,000, 50 miles from Pittsburg.
THE REV. MALCOLM MacMillan, pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church in Sharon, where Chiles has served as senior warden, the highest lay office, said: "The vestry still feels Mr. Chiles is a man of high integrity and we have every confidence in him."
One of his close friends remarked
A man who worked with Chiles during 35 years of civic service, which included a citation last year for his work with crippled children, said:
bitterly that Chiles was a "fall guy for the company."
"I think that the only thing John could be guilty of is doing his job with the same conscientious attitude with which he goes about everything that he undertakes."
CHILES HAS been with Westinghouse ever since he got out of college. He was born at Brentwood, Tenn., near Nashville, one of five children. He was the first in his family to break away from the farm and come North to stay.
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