HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-01-22, Page 7CELEBRATE BIRTHDAYS --Beverly, left, and Frances Becker, right, celebrated their
sixth, and third birthdays on January 3 this year. With them is their sister Jane. All
three are slaughters .of Mr, and Mrs. Wallace Becker, Dashwood, kirandparents in-
clude Mr. and Mrs, Harold Walper, Grated Bend, -Jack Doerr
Harness Describes Life
4
A Convict's Stor
This is the tale of crime .and
despair experienced by Jack
Harness, 35, who spent Ms early
life in Exeter.
This is the story which Magis-
trate F. G. McAlister, London,
hopes will help to convince gov-
ernment officials of the need for
penal reform. The magistrate
has ordered copies sent to reha-
bilitation and penologist /off!-
vials.
Harness Is now serving a
term of four years, six months
in penitentiary for armed rob- -
bery of two district youths who
picked him up when he wa's
hitchhiking out of London just
before Christmas.
The convict lost his leg in a
bobsled accident here while he
was going to school. His limb
had to be removed after it was
sandwiched between the side of
a farm sleigh and a telephone
pole in front of the mill on Main
street.
* ,. * v
I have been in .front of numer-
ous judges and magistrates both
in the United States and Canada
for over the period of the last
20 years and generally, when I
was up on a charge, 1 didn't
speak out in court or say any-
thing because I had always felt
that. if I did something, and:.I
got caught, well, there was a
sentence waiting there for me;
so whatever it was I took it
without saying anything.
But this time I feel there is
something I do want to say, and
I want to say it with the hope
that it may get through to some-
body , , because there is a
problem which is a very real
problem with a lot of fellows
like myself that the majority of
people don't seem to understand.
I was born up in Exeter, and
wen! 'to high school; and when 1
was around 15 years of age i
left home and went over to the
States and after traveling around
a good many of the States I
finally°got in some trouble when
.1 was 17 year old.
T was sentenced to the reform-
atory in Granite, Oklahoma, for
five years for armed robbery,
While I was down there things
were pretty rough. Chain gangs
in the States at that time were
not like they are up here in
Canada. They have a little more
human attitude up here. .But
they did everything possible
rl
down* there to break a person,
FAST RELIEF OR
RHEUMATIC
PAIN
ark
JACK HARNESS
... convict tells his story
which, 1 guess, those places are
for.
Learned Trade
But when I was down there I
learned a trade, leather work. I
learned to make saddles, cases,
and belts and purses and all
forms of leather work, and I
felt that when 1 come out 1
would he able to get a job.
Well, I was eventually deport-
ed back to Canada in 1943; that
was when the war was on, .My
mother met me down at the CPR
station and her hopes had been
built up quite high for me to get
a job and go to work and
straighten myself out.
So I went through all the rig-
marole that was necessary, like
going 'to Selective Service and
getting, .registration cards and
one thing and another; and I
finally got a job at Central Air-
craft. That was at Crumlin.
Well, my job out there -it lasted
just approximately 30 days -and
then my record caught up •with
me. Of course -it being. a war
plant - everything was under
strict security at the time, so,
le a nice way 1 was let out,
Record Cost Jobs
Well, I started a :round of
various jobs here in the city and
in several different plants. I
went to work in two of them. I
was let out because of, my re-
cord; because I had failed to
fill out the proper application.
The applications at that time
asked you if you had any crimin-
al record and if you put in that
you had a criminal record you
didn't get the job; and if you
lied about it you were found out
eventually and your job was
gone anyway,
Another one that I did get;
and had i been a little older and
thought mare about it 1 prob-
ably could have kept it.
"BLt there were several cracks
made that, didn't go clown with
a fellow 20 years old. When
these cracks started corning
about, "They are hiring every-
body today, even convicts," I
blew up at the job and I quit,
In 1945 1 tried to steal a car
over :in Stratford. 1 was sent
down to'Mimico for a five-month
sentence.
Alt Addicted
While I was down there in
Mimic° '1 met a fellow down
there who introduced me to
drugs. He had been using drugs
and we got lo' talking about k
and when we got out of the place
we went to Toronto.
I feel probably that through
association with him I became
introduced to drugs. 1f I hadn't
been there, 1 might not have
taken them. But 1 don't know;
maybe that's the way it• was
supposed to be.
However, when 1came out of
Mimic», instead of coming back
to .London -by that time 1 had.
decided, well, to chuck, every-
thing -so I went down to Toron-
to and .1 stayed at the same
place that this fellow and his
wife stayed.
Eventually we were all 'ad-
dicted to drugs, and sooner or
later I got arrested and went up
to Burwash for illegal posses-
sion of drugs.
I come out of there right back
to Toronto, got off at the station
and didn't go any place but down
to the corner to the connection
to score for some more drugs,
and I was back on the old rat
race again.
I come down here and 1 com-
mitted the crimes that I have
been convicted of. But by being
in the penitentiary you see, my
wife and my baby are taken
care of. They get an allotment
when the next baby is born; and
in three months time the hos-
pitalization will be all taken
care of and everything like that.
Myself and a lot of fellows
like me know numerous case
histories that I could give to
anybody if they wanted to check
into them that show people that
you can't beat society,
All right, in .five years time
you finish your sentence and
then you .walk out the door.
That's when your big time starts.
That's' when yon have to go
ahead and buck society.
Faith And Trust
My reason for speaking up is
that I feel there is a lot of fel-
lows that keep going back to the
penitentiaries but who, if they
had a job -you see a feeling of
trust and faith has to be put in
a roan --would work hard. They
could come out and know that
they were going to a job and
know that the men knew every-
thing about there and were still
willing to put them out there.
I know that there's a lot of
them: that, probably would be
shooting angles and one thing
and another, just to try to play
on all kinds of sympathy to .get
a little bit ahead; 'but there
would be a lot of guys that were
sincere and that wanted to go to
work, But they have to know
the people accept them for what
they are - ex -convicts not
continual conviets from the time
that they are sentenced to the
time that they walk out the
door.
I'm not saying that because I
am bitter for having to do all
this time, but the thing is it
.does not solve any problems to
take a man and keep putting
him back there and putting him
back there.
HoW To da it?
1 am interested iii seeing the
Dashwood Zion Church
Chooses New Officers
r4fty men attended. the annua
voter's ,tneeting of Zion Lutliera
Church, Dashwood, Sunday -
After a film, the rneetln
opened hvith meditation an
prayer by the pastor.
It was reported that :the Finan
Oat goals of ,$8,000 for kiln
needs 'and $4,800 for mission
had both been surpassed in 1958
Officers elected for 1959 were:
president, Reinhold Miller, vice
president, Wilfred Becker, sec
retary, Kenneth Draft; .genera
treasurer. James Hayter; elders
Ed w a rd Gaekstetter, Charles
Martene and -Gordon Kraft.
Trustees, Oscar Miller, Albert
Rader and Eai'l. Datars; general
financial secretary Ndward Stire;
mission financial s e c r e t a r y,
Lloyd Rader; mission treasurer,
Lloyd Willert.
Board' of finance, Gerald Marr
tend and Howard Datars; stew-
arrlshin committee, Elgin Rader
and Edgar Eestemayex; even
1;0mm committee, Harry Hay
ter and Leo Gibson; education
committee, Martin Laub and
Raymond Wein.
Projects planned for 1959 were:
to purchase for the congregation
a silver. plated set of individuaCommunioncomunion ware; to make
Money available to Sunday
School to purchase junior chairs
for kindergarten Glasse; to give
a gift of $10.00 to the Lutheran
Deaconess Association; to insu-
late the :parsonage and to paint
the fence surrounding the
church's cemetery.
Financial, goals set for .1959
were $8,000 for home needs and
$5,500 for missions.
Mri and Mrs. Orval Wessman,
formerly of London but now re-
siding at Grand Bend were re-
ceived and welcomed into mem-
berslhip,
Ted Nielson, Earl Weiherg,
Earl Miller, Leeland Restemayer-
t and Orval Wassman were ac-
cepted into voting membership.
Delmar Miller, Donald Rader
and James Becker were added to
the ushering staff. Mrs. Alma
Genttner was employed as the
church's caretaker for 1.959.
A letter of thanks be sent to
all organizations of the church
for their faithful service in the
past 3 ear.
Village Trustees Meet
The village trustees held their
first meeting .for the year Mon -
I day, Jan. 12. Ervin Bader was
n elected chairman, Clifford Sal-
mon, secretary -treasurer, .a n d
g Harold Schroeder will look alter
d the roads.
Repair and improvement of
- sidewalks Is first on the plans
e for the year.
s A banquet Is planned for the
volunteer firemen the first week
in February -
Mervyn Tiernan is to look
after the street lights.
1 Plans for the coming months
include quilting and a family
night.
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fellow that wants to make good
getting an opportunity to make
good, Now a lot of people will
tell you "Listen, when you get
out this time you have to get a
job and straighten up," but
what a let of the fellows are
looking for is somebody to tell
then just how to do it. They
know what they have to do.
They know they have to have a
job, but they know that they
have to have a job where they
are not afraid that something is
going to pop up, somebody is
going to walk in and tell the
boss, "That roan has been in the
penitentiary," and your job is
out the window. A man that is
working under tension like that
is not doing his best work any-
way.
nyway.
Well, 'I don't know that there
is much more that I can say.
It's a case of thousands of linen
and out of the thousands that do
come out there must be a lot of
them that are sick and tired of
Jiving their life behind bars; and
they want freedom, but they
want real freedom when they
come out because they feel, like
I have always felt, that every
time that. I serve a sentence I
felt that I had served it, felt that
1 have paid for my crime.
Ladies` Aid Meeting
Church adiesmet dWednof esdaioyLutheithi
an
attending the first of the LWAML
quarterly meetings.
Mrs. Airs. K. Zorn showed two films.
Twenty-four boxes were sept
Happenings In
Bianshard
By MRS, GLADWYN HOOPER
Mrs. T. Waugh of London
spent Tuesday with Mr. and
Mrs, Leonard Thacker.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Young
of St. Marys were Wednesday
evening guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Massey.
Mrs. Claire Sisson is spend•
ing a few days with her mother,
Mrs. Fred Petch of Strathroy
while her father Mr. Fred Fetch
is a patient in the hospital.
Mrs. Lottie Jones of Rannoch
spent the weekend with Mr. and
Mrs. Wm Jones
Message From
Centralia
By MRS. FRED BOWDEN
W,M.S, Meets
"Growing Magnanimity" was
the theme for the January meet-
ing of the Woman's Missionary
Society,
Mrs. Elmer Powe led the wor-
ship service andwas assisted by
Mrs. Lloyd Hodgson and Mrs.
Lloyd Morgan. Mrs: K. Hodgins
favored with a piano solo.
The chapter on. "Health and
Welfare" from "Iuhow Your
Neighbors" was presented by
Mrs. Hodgson, representing the
W.M.S•; Mrs. Powe, the Horne
Missions. and 11Irs. Morgan. the
Social Service. They reminded
their listeners that all the health
and welfare needs of people, who
are North. American neighbors,
are not being met. A clipping
was read by Mrs. Albert Smith.
Annual reports were given
showing that the year had been
a successful one.
Plans were made, for the World
Day of • Prayer on February 13
at 8 p.nh. Hostesses were Mrs.
G. McFalls, Mrs. It McFalls
and Mrs. F. Lewis.
Personal items
Mrs. Harold Barrett has 're.
turned home from South Huron
hospital, Exeter, where she had
been receiving treatment follow-
ing an attack of pleurisy.
Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Wilson
and Mrs. T. Boyes were Sunday
visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Doug
Wilson and family in Strathroy.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Thompson
visited. on Monday with the Tat-
ter's father in Victoria Hospital,
London.
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put to ,the shut -.ins at •Christmas,
Little Joanne Iiayter sant ac
companied Mary ,Aline flay'.
-ter.
Devotions were conducted by
Mrs. Lorne Seeker, gra. Lorne
Genttner and Mrs. AZlifred Mer-
ner.
Men Ent rtein Ladies
The men's club of Dashwood
held ladies' night at the Legion
hall, Grand Bend on Friday with
approximately 100 attending.
Euchre winners were, high,
Mrs. Cliff Salmon; low, Airs.
Ralph Weber; hidden score, Mrs.
Hubert Miller.
Jade Thyme of Brussels en-
tertained- with his -violin and
readings. Bill Marshall's orches -r
tri from Exeter provided music
for dancing and Grand Bend Le -
Bion Auxiliary served lunch.
The Tits.:-Advocotii 4lan4ary 224.- ,193 ► PtsgI 7
On behalf t the ladies, Airs. Itga Zia Li therao web*
l;r Thein Rader commit eea inecharge was League ,attended cQnVen Uon r ot
Aiervylz Webb, Sid Baker. Cliff the Missouri Synod; to StirEt fo,
,Tint J1ayter ,and Cen ever rile weekend.
McCrae. .Iacob Querin
Per§?nal .item
Mr, and Mrs. William Haugh
and Shirley, Mrs. Elmore Da-
Jars, Mrs. Lorne Luther, Mr. and
Airs. Howard Datars and, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Datars of Grand
Bend attended the funeral .of Mr.
Arnold_ Schutnaeker at Fort Aus-
tin, Mich., on Friday.
Miss Ellen Gilbert of Stratford
spent ,a few days with Mr. and
Mrs. Courtney Burmeister last
week.
Misses Brenda and Carol Bee -
Jacob Querin. Qf Mount Casmail
died in London. MopSlay, Jag, 42
his :68t11 year.
He is survived by size Astor.
Mrs. ,Mary Mahoney of .Dxun1:
Keller, Alberta, and h niece, Ell.
zabeth Miller of Mount Carn el
The body rested at the Hoff-
man funeral home until 1'rida;r'
when. requiem mass was sung itµ
the church of Our Lady, Mount
-Carmel. Interment was in •Mount
Carmel cemetery. Father Prtul*
of Centralia officiated.
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