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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 21, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 2 Page 7 Stone Slab Tells Cause of Death of Scio Knife Victim By BEN MAXWELL Capital Journal Writer James A. Young, who died "from the effects of wounds with a knife'" wielded by Charley Thomas 92 years ago, lies buried In the cemetery adjacent to Pleas ant Grove church erected in 1856 ana now tne oldest Presbyterian church standing in Oregon. Rev. Phillip Condit and his ions, Slyvanus and Cyrenus, started construction of Pleasant Grove Presbyterian church, the second in Oregon Territory, 100 years ago. Tradition relates that lumber for its building was hauled from Oregon City to the site by oxen and carpenters planed the lumber by hand to make pews still in use by the church. Scio in the 1860s was a rough and tumble frontier village with something of reputation for brawl ling. During the morning of March 30, 1864 Jim Young and Charley Thomas were engaged in 1 loud and violent quarrel that seethed with abuse and threats. Townspeople parted the fractious pair and hoped for the best. But their hopes were short lived. During the afternoon Charley Thomas followed his adversary into a Scio store and there assailed him with a knife. He stabbed Young once and then stabbed him again and again. Jim Young reeled and collapsed on the floor a gory pile. Within 10 minutes he was dead at the age of 29 leaving a young widow and fevera! tots to mourn his death. Feelings ran high that night In Scio. Thomas was hustled away to safety in Albany jail. Within a few weeks the best legal Winds in the Willamette valley were confronting each other at the trial of Charley Thomas in Judge Reuben Boise's court at Albany. May 16, 1864, he was ac quitted by a jury that pondered long and earnestly. A plain and weathered stone slab in Pleasant Grove cemetery marks Jim Young's grave and re lates the cause of his death "from the effects of wounds with I knife." A marker at Pleasant Grove church was organized January 1, 18S5 and that the building was finally completed in 1858. In recent years the church has been hut liHIp ncpH nnH nnui (ho nnln occupants appear to be a large nd lively swarm of bees. Ruling Given On Soil Bank WASHINGTON U) The De partment of Agriculture an nounced Thursday that crop land grazed up to June 22 this year may be placed under the new soil bank program. , Heretofore, regulations had banned from inclusion in the soil bank any crop land on which a crop had already been harvested, hay cut or grazed any time this year. The revised regulation still ex eludes any land on which crops have been harvested or hay cut. 3 rrtWi' '"' "("'"'p- Gravestone of James A. Young In Pleasant Grove church cemetery relates that he died "from the effects of wounds with a knife." He was fatally stabbed in Scio by Charley Thomas, March 30, 1864 and died at the age of 29. Two Men Arrested On Liquor Charge State police arrested two men late Wednesday afternoon on charges involving the use of in toxicating liquor, near Donald. Melvin Leo Kertzman, Route 1, Box 223, Hubbard, was charged with driving while under the in fluence of intoxicating liquor. Bail was fixed at $250. Lloyd Lee Sims, Route 1, Box 317, Hubbard, was accused of being drunk on a public high way. He posted $25 bail. I i. J I- u , , , ,, u IPS Pleasant Grove Presbyterian church on the road between West Stayton and Aumsvilte wai organized January 1, 4855. The edi fice li now the oldest and the second built by Presbyterians in Oregon. Completion date was 1858. Salem Woman Joins Family Mrs. Clarence Hileman, whose five-year-old daughter, Deanna, was killed and husband and four-year-old son, Gregory, seriously injured in an auto accident Mon day near Albuquerque, N. M left here by plane Wednesday to go to her family. Prior to her departure from here Mrs. Hileman told friends her husband, Clarence, formerly a truck driver .here for John Fowler, had not regained con sciousness since the accident. He received severe head injuries in the head-on collision. Their son was reported to have severe in ternal injuries. The accident, which claimed the life of the Hileman's daugh ter, also was fatal to Hileman's father, Ernest J. Hileman, 48, Brunswick, Ga and Howard W. Hutchins, 48. Snyder, Texas, dri ver of the other auto. Hileman left Salem last Fri day night with his children and was going to his former home in Georgia. His parents were also making the trip. Mrs. Hileman Monday filed suit for divorce in the Marion county circuit court and asked custody of the children. Y Budget Group MeetingThursday The board of directors of the Y M C A resumed deliberations Thursday noon in connection with the preparation of a budget for next year. The budget, when completed, will be turned over to United Fund for considera tion. The directors held their first budget session a week ago but adjourned before completing the the job which involves additional operating expenses because of the necessity of staffing and op erating the new youth wing. VonKarnianto Receive Medal LOS ANGELES Wl A presi dential Medal of Freedom, high est honor for a civilian, was pre sented last night to Dr. Theodore Von Karman at an Institute of Aeronautical Sciences dinner in his honor. ' Dr. Von Karman's complex theoretical work is credited by by aviation leaders as providing much of the foundation for mod ern aerodynamics. Dr. Von Karman, born in Hun gary and a U.S. citizen since 1936, served as director of the Guggen heim Aeronautical Laboratory at California Institute of Technology from 1930 to 1944. He is now chair man of the NATO advisory group for air research and development. Most dope addicts use mor phine and heroin, opium deriva tives, rather than opium because they are far less bulky and easier to hide. NewsHandling Of Ike Illness Is Questioned Public Controversy Brought About by Present Reports By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP)-Something has come unstuck in the fine mechanism of White House public relations. It is too soon to know whether the dislocation is serious and permanent, but it easily could be both. The cold political fact which now is beginning to trouble Re publican political strategists is this: Just about every circumstance relating to President Eisenhower's current illness and surgery has blended into an angry public con troversy. Hagerty Hero Earlier White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty was the hero of Mr. Eisenhower's convalescence from last September'a heart at tack. That same Hagerty may be the goat of the President's come back from surgery for an abdom inal obstruction. There is division of opinion with in the White House itself on the handling of the news of Mr. Eisen hower's current illness. Those who criticize Hagerty hold that he made a basic mistake. If so, it was to permit the attending sur geons to commit themselves pub licly a few hours after looking in side Mr. Eisenhower to the prop osition that he would recover in fine style and be fit for a second term. That opinion, coming from the attending medicos, had great po litical significance. It invited po litical challenge and it got it. Med cal opinions on the expected rate of recovery and the potental rate of recurrence of Mr. Eisenhower's illness now are a nickel a dozen and cheapening fast. Politics Among Medics Instead of a national atmosphere of unadulterated sympathy and good wishes for the President's re covery, there has developed an at mosphere of angry political contro versy in the field of medicine. Everyone wishes him speedy re covery, of course, but it would be unrealistic to believe that Demo cratic strategists want to face Mr. Eisenhower again in a presidential election. If the President's conva lescence turned out to be much slower than his attendants have predicted, the democrats could take the news gracefully. There were some murmurs of dissent from the sturdy confidence of Dr. Paul Dudley White that Mr. Eisenhower'! heart attack woQId not put him on the bench. But there was nothing like the current dispute. The charge against Hagerty ii that he permitted the opinions to be made public too soon. All of this must baffle Jim. He is being rebuked now for what gained him the highest praise when Mr. Eis enhower was recovering from a heart attack the instant transmis sion to the public of all the infor mation he could obtain, good or bad. itewiBMtti Jy h Albany Parade In Danger of Being Cancelled ALBANY Unless additional floats are entered In three prin cipal divisions there is a pos sibility the grand Timber Car nival parade, slated for 10:30 a.m. July 2, will he cancelled, Chairman Warren Randle said Wednesday. As of Wednesday only tM-o floats had been entered In the open, senior organizations, and specialities divisions. Randle pointed out that while the parade lures thousands of persons to downtown Albany be sides area residents, there will be, no attraction if sufficient floats are not entered. Other parade divisions, all of which are gaining sufficient entries, are logging trucks, an tique automobiles, sports cars, riding clubs and farm implem- i ents. i Wilson Named to Commission Gov. Elmo Smith Wednesday appointed Morris Wilson, Condon and Gilliam county wheat grow er to a five year term on the Ore gon Wheat Commission. Wilson, who was endorsed for the commission post by the Ore gon Wheat Growers League, re places Marion T. Weatherford, Arlington. Wilson for many years has been active in the Wheat Growers league and erved as president of the league In 1954. Also announced by Gov. Smith was the reappointment to the Public Employes Retirement board of W. P. Stalnaker, Port land insurance firm executive. Soap'n water will clean up your feet but thev won't clear up ATHLETES FOOT Make this easy test. Get instant drving T-4-L at any drug store. This powerful fungicide will give relief IN ONE HOUR or your 40c back. Today at Perry's Drug Store. After-Eating Hangover?is: Always carry Tumi for top-speed relief of acid distress. No mixing, oo waiting. 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