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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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