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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1955)
5 ' I I I I i I f I I I I I I I I I I ! I I I I I Texan Kills Wife, 3 Children', Himself as Divorce Looms By GARTH JONES I DALLAS, Tex. uJl - Mm. Mary Calhoun, 13, who expected to . massacre at the East Dallas home were: Mrs. Calhoun, who married Cal- b divorced Friday, and her three Mp , 1MJ; h WB Lynn infant children were shot and; 19 months, and her twin daugh stabbed to death Tuesday by an ters. Pamela Sue and Patricia Lou. t5tranged husband who fatally wounded himself as officers cor nered him. "No one will ever know the fear three, months old. Another Weuaded Bullets from Calhoun's pistol critically wounded still another Mary uvea wun, relatives said person. He was John Warren. Mrs. as they told a story of terror that Calhoun's l-year-old son-in-law, dripped an entire family for the who was hit in the back and chest past year. t as be fled from the Calhoun home. Buford V. Calhoun broke into Calhoun was a 32-year-old wi th house through a window. employed auto repairman with a Dead in the bloody 4:30 a. m. 1 prison and police record who only stop juggling ypiir Christmas . Budget HERE'S A GIFT IDEA for your small chanf that really nets you dollars-a beautiful caumumimbV Chat changes dates as you insert colas. The perfect gift for family and frieodjLafldjoene -beautful -durable-to p'u. k raow to gtvi nv ' We offer the Calendar-banks as a service for exactly -- what they tost us... ops eountif with or r (f lai7 i L OREGON'S . Ladd & Bush Salem Branch State and Commercial North Salem Branch , 1990 Fairgrounds Road University Branch 1311 State Street West Salem Branch 1117 Edfe water OWN STATS-WIDE IANK last night brag i ed: "I'm Just like a rattlesnake. I give a warning before I strike." He fired the final bullet into his own head even as officers rounded him while he stood in a telephone booth in a big neighbor hood drug store. Talking Pawae Even as he pulled the trigger ea his own life, he was talking on the phone with a Dallas police lieuten ant. I The police lieutenant had success fully kept' Calhoun on the phone while other officers traced the call and rushed to the drugstore. When Calhoun fired his Inst bullet, police In the drugstore opened fire on the booth and ap proximately SO terror-stricken cus tomers In the store ran for cover as bullets whined. Calhoun died eight hours later from the single wound In his right temple. Doctor -said powder burns indicated he shot himself. He had been talking on the phone for 30 minutes. In one conversa tion he had threatened his sister-in-law, Mrs. R. N. LaPrade and had told her how he killed his family. "I guess you know you're next," he sneered. Pellce Eater He was talking with police Lt. G. M. Doughty when police swarm-1 ed through the door. Doughty heard the shots and, the sound of Cal houn's body 'crashing to the floor. About 20 relatives of Mrs. Cal houn huddled, under police guard until they heard Calhoun had been captured. In Fort Worth. Mrs. Frank Ten- nison, 27, Calhoun's former wife, was under police guard for several hours. Her three children, by Cal houn, were in children's home in Dallas. Mrs. Tennison said she had released custody of the three chil dren to Calhoun after he married I the second time. 4: 6 rV 1-JS-33-W m AMI MAS. 33 SUM USA. AW 21 MAY II MAY X) JUNIB JUNt 33 MAY 33 11 14-18-441 40 363 uo JULY 34 , ALIO M V 4-15-J9 341 AUC 34 ITVIJ4-41.4 MV$47.7J S TAR GA2EK' M Br CLAY K FOLLAN " H fur-Mr Adirty Cwde M AcnrrJinf H H. Stmn. To develop messoge for Wednesdoy, rood wordi correspondtriQ to ntnber$ of your Zodiac birth sign I Not 31 Canfefcnce 41 It lb 32 Awyrtri A2 CW 3 Rmm 33 Day 43 foe 4 Succttt 34 AutpiciOUt 44 Tokmf 3 Hev ' 3 J Accd 4 Sftm 34 for 7 Mow J7 T. 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The defendant, Rufua Riddle, asked for a prison sentence rather than a fine. But Judge Boldt said he felt the fine would be best, in view of Riddle's age. Riddle didn't explain his request. Boldt imposed a $300 fine and a year's probation. "Making some corn aqueetings Staff smart, Salem, Ore., TVecI., Dee. 14, "S3 )-!J', Soviet Bom Praines Woolens of Kanhmir . SRINAGAR (I) - Kashmiris are mulling aver a high but not new compliment Irani Soviet Commu nist party boss Nikita Khrushchev his visit here. He told them their merchandise is very good and would sell well in Russia. He added that Moscow would send traders to dicker for It. The west ern world long has worn and ad mired Kashmir woolens. for the holidays Is one thing, but having loo gallons on hand is an other," the Judge told Kiddle. Beaverton Firm Navigation Work PORTLAND UP - United" Build ers. Inc.. Beaverton, was the )nw bidder Tuesday at I2S3 XH for building a navigation guide wall at the Oregon Trunk Railway Bridge at Ceulo - The guide wall will be necessary In the pool to be created behind The Dalles Dam. Army Knxineers said the low bid was $73,000 under the govern ment estimate. There were 11 other bidders. Bankrupt Man Once Millionaire MEMPHIS. Tenn. tit - The for sale' sign was out Tuesday on many of the properties .in the holdings of a bankrupt commod ities speculator, L. V. Butler, once a multi-millionaire. Authority to gather offers on the properties', was given Monday by bankruptcy referee "Carl Graves. He said the assets of three corpor ations owned by Butler may be dis posed of by negotiated sales. Five grain elevators, four cotton gins and an alfalfa meal process ing plant are among the proper ties of the three firms Black Gin Co., Butler-Foster Milling Co., and Butler-Foster Farms, Inc. The Memphis speculator was forced into bankruptcy eight months ago by two large grain firms that accused him of sell ing them over four million dollars worth 1.800.000 bushels) of "non existent" soybeans. COl'RTHOl'SE TO CLOSE . BAKER OH The Baker County courthouse will be closed on Sat urdays, beginning Dec. U. The county court ordered the closure after a hearing in which no dis senters appeared. A number of counties have reached the same decision this year. Ilfii S fUK'Bflll The Oregon Room OPEN TODAY FOR LUNCHEON FOR TEA . FOR DINNER ... FREE STORE-SIDE PARKING FOR OVER 1,000 CARS . FROM 1 1 A.M. TO 2:30 P.M. . . FROM 3:15 TO 4:30 P.M. 4 . . FROM 5 TO 8:30 P.M. 0 Portland Man Wins Post in Joined Unions BOISE, Idaho Or) - An AFL organizer from Portland has been assigned sj regional director for Idaho and Montana in the new rbmbined CIO-AFL, secretary El mer Mclntire of 4he Idaho Feder ation of Labor said Tuesday. I Mclntire said the official, Charles Smith, contemplated mak ing his headquarters In Boise andr would arrive Wednesday night to arrange for office space. His assistant, Mclntire said, will be Jim Leary, a CIO official from Missoula, Mont. Mclntire said Robert Lenaghen, president of the state federation, has called a meeting of the group's executive- council for Jan. 13 in Boise and Jpvited members' of the state executive council of the CIO. ' 455 Court or 9 t ft C 7"r Phone VA I I CONDITIONS WORSE BONN. Germany Iff) West Ger man Socialists say conditions have worsened for 23.000 political pris oners in East German concentra tion camps. The Socialists, who have good contacts in the Soviet Zone, report hunger is prevalent because the prisoners have not been allowed to receive food par eels since August and that there has been an increase in diseases, particularly tuberculosis. Open Daily from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. EXCEPT SATURDAY 'TIL CHRISTMAS - SAVE 4. 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