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Poge 10/The Battalion/Tuesday, December 6,1983 Mother sentenced to 30 days after assertive letter to judge United Press International MIAMI — A judge said he felt justified in sentencing a middle- aged woman to 30 days in jail on a contempt charge for writing him a letter protesting his treat- of her wayward s ment ot her wayward sons. Doris Adams, 51, of Miami, Texas, served 28 days of the sentence for her July 14 letter to state District Judge Grainger Mcllhany, 65, of Wheeler. Adams told the Pampa News that said several of her sons had had troubles with the law, rang ing from simple mischief to theft and burglary. Her letter com plained tnat they were not tre ated fairly by the judge and Roberts County authorities. The part of the letter that offended Mcllheney read: “The only way you can win with the law anymore is if you can buy your way out, and it’s done every day. You know I can’t pay so you stick my boys good.” Mcllneney ordered Adams to appear at an Oct. 7 hearing be cause of that particular passage. “Well, I’ll put it this way, if somebody accused you of being a taker of bribes, would you con sider that a proper matter?” he told the newspaper. Adams, a part-time barmaid who said she is ignorant about legal proceedings, appeared without a lawyer. Court records show Mcllheney put her on the wit ness stand, read her letter aloud, said “that’s good enough for me” and ordered her jailed for 30 days. “That was a minimum penal ty,” the judge said last week. “She could have been put in jail six months and fined $500. She didn’t serve the full month for that matter.” “I really didn’t know what to do,” she said. “He just took it personal. It was just a statement. I thought you had the freedom of speech — I really did.” Claudia Stravato of Amarillo, spokeswoman for the Panhan dle chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, called the jailing “harsh, punitive, in appropriate” and an “abridge ment of her First Amendment rights of freedom of speech.” New operation may improve vision United Press International NEW ORLEANS — An in- AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823 8051 novative cornea treatment that behaves like a “living contact lens” could give sight to thousands whose vision is so im- { jaired spectacles or contact enses are useless, Louisiana surgeons say. 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