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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1956)
"t Insanity Verdict in Triple Slaying Draws Bitter Courtroom Outcry GALVESTON, Texas I Aiterly by Jack McPherioii, 19. bro Jury'i decision that Ellii Lauhonther, son and grsndsoa of the was insane when he thot three three victim, member of a-Dickinson, Texas,1 "What are they going to do family to death drew a bitter keep him In jail for a year or courtroom reaction from a rela- two and then let him loot, to live of the victim). kill again," be atked attorney!. Lauhnn wi Insane before he He got no answer, ahot them and ii lnne now, the He tat, trying not to cry, at jury alao declared after six houri the crowded courtroom emptied, of deliberation. But tears spotted his cheek as he The jury's verdict means the stood and searched thi court-Sft-year-old former airman from room with his eyes. AltUK, Ark , will not be tried for Two Pictures the June 22 deaths of Mr. Ruby I When he saw Mrs Pat Morton, "Thia i my little brother that your brother killed,' he aid. "Ho was my ldoL" McPhenon told her before be walked away. Laughon wa givin a ride by Mr. McPhersnn at Beaumont as ho was returning to her borne frorri Sulphur, La. She took him to her home after be gavt her hard-luck itory. Six day after the (laying he waa picked up in Negate, Mexico, when he tried to tell her ear. He told officers he ahot the family McPherson. 42. hi-r .on r.wirw lanahr i .- h. ..lk """'' leareo mey i mi k.. -..i... u" Z" " wouia repon mm Norman, 93. I "I want you to ee this," he, CrtltWim Voiced isaid reaching into his pocket for The verdict wss received bit-', two pictures. . for being force. i Estate of Missing Wife Runs Into Complication LOS ANGELKS W-While police particularly to sheriffs in Reno, looked for L. Ewing Scott in Nov- La Vega and Tonopah, Nev. The ada gambling resorts, his missing bulletin said Scott has a pistol in wife's $600,000 estate ran into fur-; hi possession and "is believed to ther complications in Superior j have a large number of $100 bills." Court here. Scott, 59, a Bel-Air Investment Sheriff Eugene W. Bincailuz is- counselor, is sought on a bench sued new all-points bulletin for! warrant issued May IS when he Bcott Wednesday, addressing it failed to appear to plead to an Valley Uriels j AWOL from the ail Feared Report ' Before the verdict wss return ed Wednesday night, Laughon talked freely with reporter. "Alter the murder I felt like I had eonquered somebody," he satrf. He didn't think he did wrong, he said. "To tell you the truth, I didn't think about American so ciety not liking murder." Blue Birds Ask Ike to Revise Plans DALLAS, Texas vft-Tbe Loyal Eleven Blae Birds have decided fluUy how to sacad W.7S H'M from a bake sale Utt Febraary. The girls, mast af them aaeVf 1 years old, wiU spend the meaey oa a train trip to Waca, Tex., la kapes af havlag laack wita President Eisenhower ear lag bis visit this week. Their letter af larllallea.weet lata the mall Wednesday, signed by all 11 BhM Birds. There's one difficulty. The FresMeat's address to a special eaavaratioa at Baylor Univer sity Is set far Friday meralag. and Elsenhower Is scaedaled la 1y hack to Washlagtoa aa hoar ar sc later. Friday Is a school day aad the Blae Blras raa'l make the trip aatll SiUraay. They explained this la their letter aad hope the President wlU be able to stay aniil Satar day to have laarh with them. indictment charging foreerv and grand theft. The charges are in i : :'T" .V", , V,1".""?;0 Ik hi. ht.nHl.xr f Ik. -r "- IW UIS- connection with his handling of the !,;,,:.., ..I.I. . f.l., Tl, ,.!,., i ""Ku'n Scott, 63, missing a year. Settlement Needed "Toe only thing I want and fed I deserve is rest," Laughon Dam Worker Killed A procesiion of mentsi experts As Tractor Topples testified at the trial-some claim- ,,,.,- -i,,. . ... . ing he is snd was sane, others KLAMATIJ FALLS - A bank saying be had never been nor- taved in unflw tartar Wednes mal. day, plunging Laverne Paradis, Most of the testimony by psy- Klamath Falls, to his death rhiatrists snd psychologists was at lnf Lemolo Falls Dam project, that Laughon was a oaranoid SO miles northwest of here. raraais attempted to lump Solon Claims 'Slow Down' Of A-Powcr WASHINGTON , UP - Charges and denials thst private industry i on a "sitdown" strike in the atomic power fie were aired be fore the Senate-House Atomic En ergy Committee. The charges were made by Sen. Morse (D-Ore), who said Industry is balking at pushing nuclear pow er plant construction, until it gets government "subsidies" and "free dom from regulation." Walker Cisler, president of De troit Edison Co., contended the power program is progressing as satisfactorily "as can reasonably be expected " He said that for the federal government to step in with a "crash" program to build A plants would waste taxpayers' dollars and inject "senseless politi cal" complications. He was one of six industry rep resentatives opposing a proposal by Sen. Gore (D-Tcnni that the Statesman, Salem, Ore., Frt, May 25, 58 (Sec Il2 12-Year-Old Gets Reply to Letter Written to Bulganin (Picture Wirt Photo Page) CLEVELAND un-Twelve-year- old Jimmy Niaenson, who collects odd information from the news papers, provided a headline about ! himself by getting an answer to a letter he wrote to Soviet Premier Nicolai A. Bulganin, car of Mos cow. Jimmy, a sixth grader, read a tone paragraph item in a news paper last March about a 141-year-old Russian farmer. "It seemed kind of unbelievable, so I wrote a letter to Bulganin asking about." he said. Mmcow Yeata He got an answer, in English, from one Caauol of the Anti Fas cist Committee of Soviet Youth in Moscow. The letter. Incidentally, added postage costing 40 kopecks and one ruble to Jimmy's stamp collection. It contained this infor mation: Makhmud Bagier Ogoy Fivaxov, an Azerbaijan farmer, still lives in the mountain town of Piras- State Grand Master of sura where he was bom 141 years ago. He haa 21 sons and daughters, and his eldest daughter is now about 120 years old. His whole family, including all his grand children, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren, consist of 152 persons. He was on of the first and most active organiiers of collective, farm m his village. And recently he turned down, a government retirement pension. Seeks Answers , Jimmy said ho writes to find out when he reads something that seems baffling or Incomplete to him. "I collect this odd information he said. "I cut It out and pasta it la a acrapbook. I'm Interested in science." ' tiatnic Tractors. Supporters of the bill included Odd Fellows Chosen wrong. between right and clear, but failed to make it, I the tractor roller5 over him. Morse and William F. Schrutzlcr, secretary -treasurer of the AFL CIO. Dr. Henry J. Smyth, form-' er member of the Atomic Energy ' Commission,' testified: j "The A EC should be ready to build promising types of reactors: and that for one reason or another do I i not attract private capital." 1 TILLAMOOK - The Rev. J. Palmer Sorlien, Portland, was named grand master of the Ore gon Odd Fellows at their looth annual meeting Wednesday. Roy Terney, Pendleton, was named deputy master; Wilford Beard, Salem, warden; Thomas Wells, Heppner, conductor. SUtttnua Ntwi Srrtct Superior Judge Clyde C. Tripled ruled yesterday court nor the that neither his Citizens National Clear Lake The annual Bank can control Mrs. Scott's as-elean-up of Claggett Cemetery is and property until a trustee scheduled Saturday according to!hip appeal is settled. T. C. Mason. Volunteers are urged Scott is appealing the bank's to turn out at I a.m., bringing their! appointment as trustee. His at tools. torney argued that the court now has no jurisdiction and the bank AamsvUle - Mrs. Agnes eannot icgay exercise control Booth, county school superintend- 0Ver Mrs. Scott's nrooertv The ent, will speak at the Aumsville Grade School grauuation at t p.m. Friday. The combined Aumsville and Turner grade school bands will play. Ajiburn PTA Ends Season SUtf.aian npwi Srrvlrt AUBURN Auburn PTA closed It.' year with a covered dish din rei and recognition of retiring of ficers and faculty members. Clayton Jacobson, president elect, presented a gift to Calvin Bonney, retiring president. Bobby Proctor presented a pe- judge agreed. Earlier, Asst. Chief Dep. Dist. Atty. Adolph Alexander said police have established that Scott was in the sparsely settled mining country around Tonopah last month while awaiting grand jury investigation of his wife's disappearance. Alex ander did not elaborate. Reported Seea Scott was reported seen in Bishop, Calif., about 500 miles north of here in the High Sierra, May 2, 3. 4 and S. said Gordon Bov.'ers, chief of the sheriff's de tectives. During his stay there, Bowers said, Scott asked a me chanic for. special attention to his car's water hoses and fan belt, possibly indicating he had moun tain driving in mind. Bowers pointed out that the cial gift to, Mrs. Catherine Luyx,route from Bishop to Tonopah who is retiring. Mrs. Luyx nas f ads through 7,164-loot-high Mont-1 been cook at the school for nine gomery Pass. j years. Mrs. Walter Mosef msde The Nevada hunt also was spur-! the presentation speech to the fac- red by a report that a maa an-; ulty. Iswering Scott's description was Dr. Charlos Martin was guest seen in a Reno gambling club May i speaker and Mrs. Douglas Free-! 1. cashing f 100 bills from a huge i rou, pome saw. I Officers also were Investigating la report that a man resembling Scott was seen at a West Los An jgcles post office last May 10. born was chairman of the commit tee on "Faculty Life" program. Members of the panel included Mrs. L. E. Marschat, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Gangware, Ted Miller, Mrs. M a r j o r i e Thompson and Jesse Buddy Poppies On Sale Friday lUlnmu Ntwi Servfct SHERIDAN-Sheridan and Wil lamina Girl Scouts Will conduct s door-to-door "Buddy Poppy Sale" In the Sheridan, Willamina and Grand Ronde areas on May 25-26 in helping the VFW Auxiliary to Post 4211. sponsors of the annual poppy sale. The girl scout selling the most poppies will be crowned "Poppy Queen of "5" at an auxiliary spon sored picnic in Sheridan City park Sunday. The four runner-ups will also receive prizes and will ride in, the Phil Sheridan day parade. Valley Obituary MARY JANE HOPKINS DAYTON Services were held at McMinnville May 19 for Mary Jane Hopkins, 16, who died May 16 following a short illness. Inter ment was at the Dayton IOOF cemetery. She wss a student at Dayton High School. Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hopkins, Dayton, and two sisters, Mrs. Leola Laverne Parr, Portland, and Mrs. Lois Jean Asher, Petal uma, Calif. EVENT SUCCESSFUL NORTH HOWELL North Howell Grange's "Church Sunday" was well attended. Some 200 people gathered at the Grange Hall after church services where dinner was served. The rooms were beautiful ly decorated with arrays of spring flowers. Group pictures were tak en outside the building to be used for the Grange scrapbook. SCHAEFERS RHEUMATIC REMEDY FOR THE RELIEF OF RHEUMATISM, I U M B AGO, SCIATICA and GOUT. One teaspoonful followed by full glass of water before meals. Relieving stiffness and swelling to the joints or mas cles when of rheumatic or gou ty origin. PRICE 1.50 SCHAEFER'S DRUG STORE Open Dally 7:30 a.m. to S pjn. Sundays, J a. m. to 3 p.m. US N. 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