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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1951)
;.3 Tho Stat nan, Salem. Orm Newspaperman Accused of 'Needline'M XJLKE CHARLES, La., Dec 5 , CP) - District Attorney Griffin Hawkins testified today that a newspaperman one of five on trial for allegedly defaming 16 public officials and .three gam blers "needled" him in a news paper column for nearly a year. . Hawkins, one of ' the officials allegedly defamed during a law enforcement campaign conducted by the Lake Charles American Pros, said: "X am at a total loss to under stand why Mr.Kenneth L.) Dix on would take advantage of his position as managing editor of the American Press to hurt me. , . . Dixon is the first of the five newsmen on trial on defamation charges, in this southwest Louis tana city of 50,000 population "1 used to gamble but I haven't for years," the district attorney testified. "I drink when I want to but . that is my personal life." Based on Editorial Dixon's indictment was based on an editorial he wrote entitled "Legal Double-Talk," and an edi torial column he writes called Charley Lake Says." Hawkins said he could not un derstand "that for a period of a year, I have been continuously needled about my official actions." He said his personal life was one thing but his official life was another. Dixon's editorial and column were written about an opinion an assistant? of Hawkins, Melvin Wetherill, gave the parish police Jury (county governing body.) Asked Resolution A group of ministers supporting the newspaper's campaign against wide-open gambling in this area had asked the police jury to pass m resolution calling for the strict enforcement of gambling laws. Wetherill, a legal advisor of the police jury, said in his opinion that such a resolution would be blanket condemnation of public officials and suggested the body go on record "favoring the en forcement of all laws." On the stand Wetherill said there had been a lot of communist attempts to discredit public of ficials and he did not want the police jury "to follow the com munist line of blanket accusa tions of all officials." Dixon's column and editorial referred to Wetherill's advice to the police jury as "legal double talk." Based on the articles, a grand Jury indicted the 35-year-old Dix on on charges of defaming Weth erill, Hawkins and the police jury. W. D. Hussey, Ex-Textile Worker, Dies William David Hussey, a former textile finisher at the Thomas Kay Woolen mills, and a resident of Salem for the past 18 years, died Wednesday at the residence, 1241 Court st. He was 75. Although he was born in San Francisco Dec. 2, 1876, Hussey spent most of his life in and around Guilford and Oldtown, Maine, where he was educated. In 1907 he was married to Estella Rachel Wheeler, his widow who survives him, in Guilford. Hussey came to Salem in 1933, from Long Beach, Calif., where he had lived for 11 years. He was a member of the Mt. Kineo lodge AF & AM 109 in Guilford, Maine. Besides his widow, he is sur vived by two sons. Robert of Sa lem and James W. of Hillsboro; a sister, Mrs. Sadie McNaughtan of Oldtown, Maine; a brother, Har ry Benson of Pittsburgh, Calif., and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday In the Virgil T. Lrolden chapel with the Rev. John Salisbury officiating. Ritual istic services will be by Santiam lodge AF & AM 25. Interment will be in Belcrest Memorial park. State Highway Board to Open Bids Dec. 20,21 Bids for state highway projects aggregating a cost estimated at $4,800,000 will be considered at a two-day meeting of the state high way commission in Portland Thursday and Friday, December 20 and 21. There are 13 projects en the agenda. These include, in the Sa lem area: Construct reinforced concrete building at Salem shops. Grading and paving 2.3 miles of the Sheridan-Deer creek section of the Salmon river highway, east from Sheridan, in Yamhill county. Student Enters Political Race LA GRANDE, Dec S-tfVEas-tern Oregon College of Education pre-law student and Korean vet eran, Paul Mytinger, announced Ida candidacy for delegate-at-large to the GOP national convention next summer In Chicago. Mytinger revealed today that he has sent the necessary papers to Secretary of State Earl Newbry tar entering his name on the Ore- i republican ballot in the spring r. He is a native of Fendle- The young veteran favors Gov ernor Eari warren, of California, m republican candidate for presi dent. He is 25 years old. 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