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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.
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