PAGE 0, THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday, October 13, 1977

No doubt Oswald did, says wife

NEW YORK (Reuter) —
Marina Oswald Porter said
here Wednsday her late
husband, Lee Harvey
Oswald, was guilty and
acted alone in the assassi-
nation of President John F.
Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

“I have never doubted
that Lee was guilty,” she
said during a promotional
appearance for the for-
theoming book Marina and

The book is a bio raphical nati

account riscilla

by

Johnson McMillan who
worked for 13 years through
interviews and research to
reconstruct the lives of the
Oswalds and the events
surrounding the assassi-

on.
“I never thought he would

Physicians angered at law

Committees stall requests

EDMONTON (CP) — The
Alberta Medical Association
strongly recommended
Wednesday abolition of
therapeutic abortior
committees asa step toward
more efficient processing of
abortion applications.

The association attacked
the report of a federal study
on the operation of the
abortion law. The report,
réleased in January, said it
is ‘Canadian people, their
health institutions and the
medical profession’’ whe
are responsible for inequi-
ties in the abortion law,
rather than the law itself.

But Dr. Lioyd Johnston,
past chairman of the
association's committee on
maternal welfare, said the
association believes the
problem is with the law.

ohnston said the report was
far too critical of the
medical profession.

Both the Alberta and
Canadian

medical

associations recognize that
therapeutic abortio
committees are ‘“‘just z
bureaucratic step whict
delays prompt attention ta
these women for whom
therapeutic abortion is the
treatment of choice.” Law
requires establishment of
such committees in
hospitals where abortions
are performed.

“The profession has been
unfairly indicted for being
major contributors to the
delay which occurs between
the time the patient is seen
andthe time that the
therapeutic abortion is
performed,” Johnston said.
POSSIBLE DELAYS

Delays might result from
time required by abortion
committees to review cases
and lack of a hospital bed.

Both Johnston and Dr.
David Irving, president of
the Alberta Medical
Association, said abolition
of the committees would not

Influences jurors

necessarily mean abortion
on demand, Instead it would
mean “ oving
procedure farther forward .
. to reduce complications.”
As an alternative to com-
mittees, they suggested
monitoring of a physician's
performance by his peers
which wouldn’t ‘open the
floodgates by any means for
abortion on demand.”

As well as recommending
the abolition of therapeutic
abortion committees, the
Alberta Medical Asociation
urged more day surgery
facilities in hospitals so that
abortions can be processed
more quickly.

However, ‘‘we do not
support the view that
abortion clinics are an
answer to the problem,”
Johnston said.

“Qut-patient facilities in
hospitals are a far better
alternative.”

Appeals courtroom TV

MIAMI (AP) — The in-
fluence of television is going

on trial again and the
question is whether jurors
were affected when they
saw themselves on a TV
news show.

Lawyers for Eastern
Airlines have filed a motion
in circuit court seeking a
new trial or reversal of a
$1.6-million award won by
lawyer Ellis Rubin for a
pilot who claimed Eastern
ruined his career.

The motion claims jurors
were s0 thrilled with being
on a television news show

that they were “improperly
motivated by the television
coverage to return a suf-
ficiently spectacular anc
newsworthy verdict in the
hope and expectation that
they would receive further
television coverage ...”

Florida is conducting a
oneyear experiment
allowing television and still.
cameras in the courtrooms.

Rubin recently attracted
attention when he offered
“television-induced i
sanity’ as the defence for
15-year-old Ronny Zamora.
The jury rejected the

Mother pays -
child support .

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) —
A divorced father has won
custody of his two children
and child support payments
of $130 a month from his
former wife.
h this is the first time I’ve

eard of a mother
child support,” said Yell
Jennette, deputy clerk of
Wake domestic court.

The child support
arrangement was made in
an agreed judgment ‘ bet-
ween Terry Hirneisen and
his former wife, Ruth Ann.

The couple separated in
May, 1976, and were
divorced last August.
Hirneisen kept their two
children—Randy, 11, and
Penni, 7. He sued for legal
custody of the children and
support payments,

- regular basis.

“I'm very pleased,” he
said after the agreement
was reached following
several hours of testimony
Tuesday, “This is what I

' wanted—custody of the

children and financial

assistance.

“The children haye a good
home. I think we proved
that. With Ruth contributing
some money, I'll be able to
afford more of the things
they need and meet ex-
penses.”’

Hirneisen said he was
having trouble meeting
expenses on his $13,000
annual salary. Because his
wife earns about the same
amount of money, he said
she should contribute on a

argument and convicted Za-
mora of murdering 82-year-
old Elinor Haggart. ;

In the Eastern case, pilot
Dan Gellert won $350,000 in
compensatory and $1.25.
million in punitive damages

ter persuading the jury
that Eastern grounded hin
because he testified about
safety problems with the L-
1011 aircraft. That type of

lane crashed in the
verplades in December,
1072, killing 101 persons.

try and assassinate the
resident,’ said Mrs.
orter, now remarried
news conference at Harpers
and Row Publishers. “But
after the Walker accident, I
realized it was a dangerous
game he was playing.”

Religion
roundup —

DETROIT (CP)
Toronto broadcaster-author
Larry Henderson, editor of
the Catholic Register and a
former CBC newscaster,
will be guest speaker
Sunday at the o
six-part Christian
series in the Ford
Auditorium.

Henderson will be a
substitute for Archbishop
Fulton Sheen, 62, who is
recovering from heart
surgery.

BARRIE, Ont. (CP) —

ture

Frank Peters, president of _

Wilfrid Laurier University
of Waterloo, Ont., told the
city’s first prayer breakfast
that religious faith meets
the test of North America’s
most important contribution
to philosophical thought
“if it's good, it has to work.”

Science shows only that
people do not always reap
what they sow and that the
Mounties don’t always get
their man, . typ faith
provides an interpretation
of facts, he said.

“God doesn’t square His
books every 24 hours, but
that doesn’t mean he’s
abandoned the hailance
sheet.”

OSHAWA, Ont. {CP} —St.
Hedwig's Polish Roman
Catholic parish, established
in 1952 by Polish im-
migrants, survivors of

famps and veterans” by
battlefields in Africa and
Europe, celebrates its silver
jubilee Sunday.
Since the
established, it has provided
inspiration of: spiritual and
cultural heritage for almost
all Polish people in Durham
area. ‘

arish was

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heartbroken like everyone
else,” said the 36-year-old
emigre from the Soviet
Union, who speaks English.
“Then when I found out that
it was my husband
everything collapsed for
me. Ihave always hated and
disliked what he did.”
RELIEVING GUILT

Mrs. Porter, appearing
with Mrs. McMillan, ex-
plained her participation in
the book as a means for
relieving guilt. The mother
of three said that she feels
an obligation toward the
American pesple to shed
some light on the matter by
sharing her of
Oswald.

Today, Mrs Porter lives
on a 17-acre farm in Texas
with Kenneth Porter, whom
she married in 1965. They
were divorced nine years
later but have continued to
live together with the three
children.

Mrs. McMillan said her
book began as a biography.

“Et was not trying to prove
or disprove any theory
about the assassination of
President Kennedy,” she

said. -
While working on the
project, Mrs. McMillan said
she had access to most of the
men and women who knew
Oswald following his return
from the Soviet Union in
June, 1962, to Oswald's own
writings and __ other
documents contained in the
26 volumes of evidence
ublished by the Warren .
ommission, and to un-
published material gathered
y the commission and
declassified up to June, 1977.
“T believe after working
on this book that Lee Harvey
Oswald killed President
Kennedy. And, knowing
Oswald as I feel [ know him
now, I feet certain he could .
have accomplished it onl

views

. one way—alone,” she said.

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