WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1949
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
PAGE THREE
Deaf Mute Held
As Suspect in
Attack on Aunt
San Francisco, April 20 mi
Nell Olive Hammack, 26, a fragile
(leaf mute held for questioning
about the near-fatal beating' of
her aunt, admitted today that
they quarreled over her frustrat
ed love for a roomer.
She steadfastly denied assault
ing her aunt, but wrote on a note
pad that her mind had become
"very troubled."
The quarrel took place, she (old
police only a few hours before
her aunt, Mrs. Effie Payne, 62,
was found lying savagely beaten
with a hammer In a pool, of blood
late Monday night.
Miss Hammack was jailed on
susijicion of assault with intent
to commit murder. Mrs. Payne
was attacked first with a claw
hammer, then with a poker and
finally with a brass candlestick.
Police said they would propose a
psychiatric examination for her
niece.
, May Recover
Mrs. Payne was in a hospital
wjth a "fair" chance to live after
undergoing an emergency opera
tion. She had a fractured skull,
contusions and a broken wrist.
Miss Hammack, who insisted on
being called "Nancy," told police
she was in love with George Wil
lis, 42, a roomer in her aunt's
house. Her .face flamed as she
wrote on a notepad of her infatua
tion. "Does he know it?"
Her lips formed the word, "no."
She said she- had been in love
with him since March 18, when
she first met him on coming from
Los Angeles to stay with Mrs.
Payne.
"Did your aunt know?"
- Miss Hammack nodded.
"Is that why you quarreled?"
"I think so," she wrote.
Not Interested
"Didn't she want you to love
him?"
"No. I don't know why."
Willis said he had no interest
In the girl, although he kissed her
on the cheek a few times before
leaving for work In the same way
he kissed Mrs. Payne and his own
mother, Mrs. Gertrude Willis,
who lived at the Payne house un
til a few weeks ago.
Miss Hammack, writing eager
ly in a curiously garbled syntax,
said she and her aunt began talk
ing about Willis early Monday
evening.
"She didn't want me to help her
any in the house when George
was here. She was very fast speak
to me. I make her angry when I
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alo community last night at a
don't speak because of I can't un
derstand what she says.
"Then I become very nervous.
So much fuss at table. I told her
not so fuss at me any time what
she wants me to do."
Then, she continued, her deli
cate features darkening, my mind
became'"very troubled."
"I was low, blue, very weak.
My mind has been full of poison.
My eyes like dreams. Then my
mind become different become
black."
Although denying that she beat
her aunt, Miss Hammack said she
wants to stay in a hospital be
cause "I still know some day my
mind has been dangerous to life.
. . . I can remember, all my life,
have dangerous thought would
beat some person ..."
ham dinner in the Tumalo com
munity hall attended by 165 per
sons. The program included brief
talks by representatives of both
visiting delegations, with C. L.
Allen, Deschutes county judge
and resident of the Tumalo com
munity, extending a welcome to
the Redmond and Bend groups.
The program included talks by
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clapp, who
recently returned from an air
tour of Europe. There also were
brief talks by Tommy Thompson,
president of the Redmond cham
ber, and Frank H. Loggan, head
of the Bend chamber. Thompson
and Kessler Cannon were in gen
eral charge of the program, with
J. A. Chamberlin in charge for
the Tumalo grange. Other speak
ers included W. J. Baer, member
of the Bend city commission, and
C. J. Morgan, Bend, who announc
ed plans for the George Aiken
plaque dedication at the Wizard
Square Dance Club
Will Meet Tonight
After a week's lay off due to
schedule conflicts, the Old Time
Square Dance club wilt hold its
weekly session tonight in the high
school gym. Members of the phy
sical education department who
sponsor the group plan the Intro
duction of several new figures to
night, New dances to be present
ed tonight are "Inside ArcH and
Outside Under", "Four Leaf Clo
ver", "Forward Six and Fall Back
Eight", as well as some others.
Some work on mixers, simple in
form, will also be stressed.
As in the past newcomers and
beginners are welcome, club lead
ers said. While the group is ac
quiring more experience as a
whole there are still some new
faces' every session. Several par
ties have followed the practice of
bringing a group of four couples
to form their own set.
The sessions will start at 8:00
p.m. and usually run until 9:30
p.m.
falls hatchery Sunday.
Highlighting the entertainment
program were songs, with the en
tire group joining in community
singing as the program ended.
Hugh Amsberry, Redmond, was
presented in several songs, with
Mrs. Amsberry as accompanist,
and B. A. Stover, Carl B. Hoog
ner, Kessler Cannon and Hugh
Amsberry appeared in quartet
numbers. Also on the program
was a Tumalo trio Mrs. Dean
Davis, Mrs. William Kurts and
Mrs. Neal Davis.
The dinner was served by thp
Tumalo grange home economics
club, with Mrs. B. A. Chaney as
chairman. Assisting in serving
the dinner were 4-H club girls, in
cluding three of the outstanding
clubbers in the county Mary
Ann Kiesow, Betty Koth and Ar
lene Chaney.
Loggan today extended his
thanks to the' Bend chamber's ag
ricultural committee for its part
in selling tickets locally and oth
erwise assisting with the meeting.
Ralph Adams is chairman of the
committee.
The past winter in Norway was
the mildest in that country in 100
years.
Hanford Project
Still Hazardous
Richland, Wash., April 20 nil
David E.'Llllcnthal, chairman of
the atomic commission, disclosed
today that the government cannot
allow irrigation of an area near
the Haniord, Wash., plutontum
plant because of the remote possi
bility of a disaster."
Lillenthal said the AEC was
forced to close the Wahlukc slope
after hearing a secret report from
scientists on safety factors in
volved in the Hanford operation.
He said the scientlsst recom
mended againsf Increased settle
ment within 10 miles of Hanford
until such time as technical devel
opments ruled out the possibility
of a mishap. '
Members of three basin irriga
tion districts have long sought
to persude the AEC to allow irri
gation of. 150,000 acres on and
east of the Wahluke slope,
Electric Space
Heating Opposed
Tacoma, April 20 LP The
north utilities conference commit
tee has recommeri'ded that a ban
be placed on electric space heat
ing and that no further industrial
loads in excess of 500 kilowatts be
accepted until the current over-all
northwest power shortage ends,
Chairman C. A. Erdahl said here
today.
Erdahl said there would be a de
ficiency of electric power In the
Pacific northwest periodically
during the next few years and
that further conservation meas
ures would have to be applied
from time to time.
tie said electric space heating
was relatively new and that nu
merous fuels could be adopted
for the same purpose.
To produce a ton of steel over
a ton of coal Is used.
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