THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1979
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1; HARTFORD, Conn. — The state
organizafcolans to show John J. Palm the gate
to freedom next April after 42 years
ill spejlui* confinement, but Connecticut’s
arbookp: h )n g est ' serv T n g inmate says he
■’Oti’t leave until he’s declared inno-
nt of a holdup murder.
Palm, 68, has been incarcerated
since 1937 for the killing of a deputy
sheriff. Last week, the state Board
^ of Pardons decided to commute his
A I sen t en ee on grounds of mercy.
11 /I | But Palm is balking and correc-
jtions officials are scratching their
heads.
Pal m said he couldn t accept the
’ f\ iWardon for the same reasons be had
£|,JJ|tu;hed down a chance to apply for
I parole 20 years ago.
Iffie wants to leave prison an inno-
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„ Pardons Board Secretary Burton
-Ro ]ad»Kfaffie said Wednesday the board
nstable in t a( j no t been notified about Palm’s
home of Refusal to be released.
Jarreauai ^ “We thought he el be delighted.
We weren’t told he was dissatis-
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Yaffie said the board won’t meet
;ain until Nov. 19 and “if anything
to be done about Palm it won’t
)pen before then.
‘This is a very unusual case,’’ As-
istant Corrections Commissioner
laymond Lopes said. “To my
nowledge, and I’ve been with the
epartment for 10 years, we’ve
er had anyone who refused to be
ididatefor released before.’
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ipfinement in a mental hospital.
'He originally was sentenced to
rath in the electric chair for shoot-
ig Deputy Sheriff Peter Kaminski
iring a New Milford holdup.
But he suffered a mental break-
iwn on death row in 1938 and was
Jt to Norwich State Hospital. He
Is returned to prison in 1963.
Palm was convicted mainly on the
it, and tl jfest imony of two women who iden-
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task that covered half his face,
uesday. Palm wrote to a news-
er stating he won’t accept the
mmutation.
|I am not taking that sort of par-
I am innocent and I’m not
Haywooi going to sell myself out after suffer
ing all these years,” Palm told the
^■r^flbrtford Courant.
fl wanted an unconditional par
ti • d to sue the state for
'ery day I was in prison. They can’t
Ve my life back, but they could
Ike my last years cozy with the
[ney I should have from the suit,”
ies blm wro
“State correction officials refused
ednesday to grant requests to
terview Palm, saying recent pub-
Jty about his case has caused him
imotional strain.
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Speaking ‘dolphinese’
tried with new computer
United Press International
MALIBU, Calif. — When man
first began communicating with
dolphins, it was done in human lan
guage. Today, new computers make
it possible to talk in “dolphinese,”
which may mean a communications
breakthrough with the clever ani
mals.
Dr. John Lilly, who pioneered
the original research into dolphin
communication in the 1950s, will
begin this month using a new com
puter to try to communicate with
two dolphins on their own fre
quency.
Dolphins, Lilly said, have four
individual voices and talk 10 times
faster and at a 10 times higher pitch
than do humans. Previous technol
ogy was unable to find that pitch or
match the speed, he said.
He showed off the computer, part
of “Project Janus,” for reporters at
his isolated home above Malibu. Al
though there are no dolphins at the
house, their images are all over. A
large blue flag with two dolphins on
it flutters from a pole while a
wooden replica cavorts at the front
entrance.
The research, financed by Lilly’s
non-profit Human-Dolphin Foun
dation, will be conducted at Marine
World Africa USA in Redwood City
with two Atlantic bottlenose dol
phins and $100,000 worth of equip
ment.
Hooked up to the computer are
two television screens — one for the
human operator and another
underwater for the dolphins — and
equipment to pick up and transmit
sound both ways.
“This is the first computer that
can talk in the dolphin’s own fre
quency range,” Lilly said. “Earlier
experiments depended on us using
our own voices. The dolphins kept
trying to raise the pitch when
matching sounds. They tried to talk
in English,’ but their accent is ter
rible.”
Letters, numbers and other sym
bols were assigned to 48 various
tones to give the human operators a
reference point. The computer
translates the sounds to both human
and dolphin pitches, some ul
trasonic. The assigned letter ap
pears on the screens, adding the
visual stimulation that dolphins
seem to love.
For example, tones assigned to
the letters SUQBK will be the signal
to get the dolphins’ attention. As a
tone, SUQBK translates into the
first few notes of the tune used to
hail aliens in the space film “Close
Encounters of the Third Kind.”
“This is the beginning step,” Lilly
said. “We hope the dolphin will as
sociate the sounds with the letters.
As we work out the rules in the
game of language, we will be able to
communicate. This will take a long
time.”
Listening long enough, one can
recognize tone patterns as one rec
ognizes a song melody. Eventually,
Lilly hopes to work up to simple
words, such as ball or hello.
There is something, maybe it’s
the way they seem to smile, that has
always drawn humans to dolphins.
“There is an ancient lure,” the
soft-spoken Lilly said. “They’re so
kind to us. They rescue us, they
never hurt us. They have a sense of
humor.”
But why bother to talk to them?
“We re curious. What are they
doing? What are they thinking?
They’ve been around for 50 million
years with brains larger than ours. I
want to know what they have to tell
us, what they know about survival.
Maybe man was here before and
didn’t survive — but they did.”
He has always been impressed by
the intelligence of the creatures and
their learning behavior. Once, he
said, he was nearly bitten by a
young dolphin. An older animal
whacked the younger one on the
head. The young one never bit any
one again.
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