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Univ. of Oregon Library , EUGEWS, 0R5GOJJ 'i- ' rrY. : MiTT TTTT71 I LDtT TTT TT " Generally fair tonight with F()f CCQSt inci-Mting cloudiness on Sun day. Lows tonight 10-15. Highs tomorrow, 40-45. mrm High yesterday, 43 degrees. Low last night, 19 degrees. Sunset today, 4:27. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:27. JLL inUHi iEDIUJLj-iU. Hi and Lo DJ JL Jl SERVING BEND AND CENTRAL OREGON 61st Year Wife slaying brings life to Thompson MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) Deputies hustled criminal at torney T. Eugene Thompson off to prison today to start serving a life sentence at hard labor for masterminding the slaying of his wife for more than SI million insurance. Authorities apparently hoped to get the suave, 35-year-old Thompson behind bars at Still water State Prison before his lawyers can file an appeal, which will be Monday at the' earliest. ! Thus Thompson will change ms nign-pnced suits for pnson dungarees less than 24 hours after six men and six women found him guilty of conspiring to have his wife, Carol, mur dered. And In so doing the one-time farm boy's promising and al ready high-paying career fell into ruin for at least 17 years and four months when he will be eligible for parole unless the appeal should upset the verdict. Thompson's brunette para mour Mrs. Jacqueline Olesen, 27, opened the door of her apartment only far enough to tell reporters they would have to see her attorney for any statement. Thompson's four children, Jeffrey, 14, Patricia, 12, Mar jorie, 10, and Amy, 7, appar ently will go to live with his sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Besche. The Besches have a 700-acre farm near Blue Earth, Minn. Prosecutor William B. Ran dall made plans to proceed with murder trials for two oth er persons in the case. He said he was ready to try Norman J. Mastrian, 40, former prize fighter and one-time col lege classmate of Gene and Carol Thompson and in more recent days a law client of the defendant. And after that It will be Dick W. CI Anderson, 35, a decorat ed Korean veteran who became a sometime salesman and a continuous hard-drinker later. The jury foreman told ques tioners Thompson's affair with Mrs. Olesen, then a divorcee, did not have much to do with the verdict. He indicated the primary reason for the slaying was the $1 million In insurance Thompson had purchased on his wife. Hit-and-run victim dies Mrs. Margaret Frederick, 43, 686 N. Alder, Burns, died Fri day at St. Charles Memorial Hospital, from injuries suffered when she was struck by a car last Sunday at Alfalfa junction. She was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. She had stepped out of her husband's stalled car, and into the eastbound lane. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m., at the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ter Day Saints, in Lakeview. Burial will be In Sunset Ceme tery there. Mrs. Frederick was born July 17, 1920, in Lyman, Wyo. She was a charter member of the VFW Auxiliary in Lakeview. She had lived in Burns six years. She Is survived by her hus band, Henry, of Burns, and four children: Mrs. Clair Bodily, Provo, Utah, and Charlene, Jim and Larry, at home. There are six brothers: Richard Gingell, Ely, Nevada; Steven Gingell, Prineville, and the following in California: Jack Gingell, Cov ella; William Gingell and Louis Gingell, Loomis; Larry, Auburn. There are five sisters: her twin, Mrs. Marjorie Batman, and Mrs. Vivian Smith, both of Lakeview; Mrs. Barbara Lewis, Prineville; Mrs. Agnes Ander son, Evanston, Wyo., and Mrs, Mary Tollman, Burley, Idaho. The Niswonger-Heynolds Fune ral Home is in charge of ar rangements. Paar to quit weekly show NEW YORK (UPI) - NBC officials said this week they hoped to dissuade television personality Jack Paar from quitting his weekly Friday night show. Paar announced his resigna tion Thursday, apparently over his dissatisfaction with the net work's decision not to expand his show from one hour to 90 minutes. Paar said his decision was "irrevocable." Eight Pages rvprjjr- ' $ l J., ivL ; tv " if c 1 JOY TO BRUINS Things were really looking up for the Bend High School Lava Bears over at Prineville last night when the Bruins picked up a 72-43 basketball victory. This new sports enthusiasm seems to have captured rally girls, Kathy LeBlanc, left, and Vicki White, right. Kathy is a junior, Vicki a senior. No absolute protection seen for president NEW YORK (UPI) -Former President Dwight D. Eisenhow er said today "there could be no absolute protection against" an assassin " who : is "deter mined" to kill a president. Eisenhower, noting that he received an average of 250 "crackpot" letters weekly while in office, said he "thought it realistic to assume that my safety was largely out of my hands." ". . .If a determined Individu al was willing to die to accom plish his purpose, there could be no absolute protection against him," Eisenhower said in an article in the Saturday Evening Post. Eisenhower also urged that succession to the presidency be changed to keep the administra tion "heading in the same poli tical direction" in the event of an emergency. Eisenhower said the present line from the president, vice president, to the speaker of the House, president pro tempore of the Senate and then to the cab inet is illogical. The former chief executive said he preferred a previous system that called for the sec retary of state and other cabi net members to follow the vice president in line of succession. This was tne law prior to 1947. "I believe that the earlier or der of succession is a more log ical one which would keep the presidency heading in the same political direction until the elec torate has an opportunity to make its further wishes known," Eisenhower said. When Lyndon B. Johnson be came president House Speaker John McCnrmack 72, and Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz., 85, be came next in line respectively to succeed to the presidency. Druggists seek legal opinion By United Press International President Jim Mead of the Portland Retail Druggists Asso ciation said this week he will seek a legal opinion on whether druggists can write off unpaid claims against the State Welfare Commission as bad debts for tax purposes. The Welfare Commission re cently cut reimbursements to druggists to about 65 cents on tiie dollar because of a shortage of funds. Mead said he was uncertain what the tax status of the losses would be because there was no written contract with the com mission, but he added, "we had a gentleman's agreement about payments." Meanwhile, some Lane County druggists reportedly were charg ing persons on welfare one-third of the cost of their prescriptions to make up for the reduced state payments, rt'fu Oregon OEA votes to back move for state sales fax PORTLAND (UPI)-The Ore gon Education Association voted Friday to support a state sales tax with the money to be ear marked for education. The or ganization said it would initiate the measure, if necessary. The action came at a meet ing of about 200 delegates . to the OEA's Representative Coun cil. There were estimates It might cost as much as $74,000 to run the initiative campaign. Tne council also voted to re sist any attempts by school boards to lower teacher salaries as a result of voter defeat of Federal government rests case in trial of 7 land developers PENDLETON (UPI) -The federal government rested its case Friday in the trial of seven men charged with mail fraud and conspiracy in connection with the Lake Valley land de velopment project. The defense will open its case Monday in federal court here. The federal indictment issued against the Harney County Land Development Corp. charges the defendants with promoting de sert land with misleading bro chures and newspaper advertis ing. The 6,919-acre Lake Valley tract is 22 miles south of Burns. The defendants are Abraham Koolish, 70, and his son, David F. 43, Both of Winnetka, 111.; John Milton Phillips Jr., 38, Evanston, IU.; Jack Cecil Cher bo, 37, Chicago; Richard Dale Walker, 40, Los Angeles; George Edward Isaacs, 30, Glendale, Calif., and Maurice Arthur Hall, 39, Beverly Hills, Calif. The prosecution sought to dis credit the desirability of the area with a parade of witnesses who testified on the area's agri cultural potential, recreational Plane crash claims three Friday night ESTACADA, Ore. (UPI) -Three men were killed when their twin-engine plane crashed in an open field about 10 miles north of here Friday night. The aircraft, a four-place Ces sna 310, was on a training flight from the Skyways, Inc., flying school at Troutdale. The victims were William A. Smith, 31, Portland, an instruc tor for Skyways; Harry Sank, 35, Anchorage, Alaska, a private pilot who was being checked out for a commercial license, and Charles N. Gates, 38, Trout- dale, manager en Skyways i flight division who was along st a psjsfgsgf . Saturday, December 7, 1963 the legislature's tax bill Oct. 15. Some school distnet budgets are expected to be cut as much as 25 per cent next year be cause of an anticipated $12 mil lion slash in the $141 million state aid to education fund for the next biennium. Another motion to have, the OEA take action if teacher In crement raises are withheld next year was defeated The OEA also reaffirmed its stand against a merit raise plan for teachers and spoke out for a teacher starting minimum of $6,000 yearly with a $13,000 top after ten years. advantages and on retirement and investment opportunities. Elmer Kolberg, a Portland real estate appraiser, said Fri day fair market value of land in the subdivision is $10 an acre. The corporation has been selling sites for $395 dollars an acre $5 down and $5 a month. The land was purchased by the developers for $24 an acre from Robert Monroe of Mendocino, Calif., who testified he paid $8 an acre for 11,000 acres of Lake Valley land. Shortly after the prosecution rested its case two motions by the defense, for acquittal and charging a mistrial, were pre sented. Both were denied by federal Judge John F. Kilken ny. The motion for acquittal was made on the grounds the gov ernment had failed to present evidence which proved its case. Kilkenny said he would recon sider it after the defense had presented its side. The mistrial motion alleged misconduct in the courtroom by acting U.S. Atty. Sidney I. Le zak. Defense Attorney William H. Morrison objected to the manner in which Lezak read a letter into the record and to the jury. wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmm For eiichdrisfic COngreSS SK!MSa Pope Paul considering trip to India VATICAN CITY (UPI)-Pope Paul VI will attend a eucharis tic congress next fall in Bom bay, India, if his pilgrimage to the Holy Land next month "goes well," high Vatican sources said today. "So far, no final decision has been made, but if the trip to the Holy Land goes well the Holy Father will go to Bom bay," the sources said. The pontiff makes his "peace pilgrimage" to the Holy Land, the birthplace of Christianity, Jan. 4-6. It is the first time Racial angle again enters in testimony EVREUX. France (UPI)-An American Negro soldier said a barracks brawl in which a white airman was killed started after two Negro soldiers en j tered the airmen's barracks to discuss racial incidents in Ala- I Dama, a iruui uimi uai whs iuiu Pfc. Raymond C. Bost, Pitts burgh, one of two soldiers ac cused of unpremeditated mur der and assault, made the statement about Alabama to special investigation officers, the court was told. Accused with Bost of the murder of Airman l.C. Robert Padgett of Woodlawn, Va., is Pfc. Robert Burrell, Philadel phia. Padgett died a few hours after the fight in his barracks Sept. 6. They face a maximum penal ty of life imprisonment Read in Court The statement, prepared by Bost for the investigation offi cers, was read to the court. In it Bost admitted drinking heav ily the night of the incident and, after discussing Alabama with soldiers in his own barracks, he and another colored soldier crossed to the airmen's bar racks. He said they wanted to see if the airmen were concerned with what was happening in Alabama. Bost said he was drunk and remembered little of finding himself in the. hallway of the Air Force barracks. Lying on Floor He said later he saw a man lvine on the floor. Bost and Burrell and four other defen dants, who will be tried later, have been accused by the pros ecution of attacking the airmen with pipes and sucks. The defense has attempted to show that racism led to the in cident Sept.. 6; But the majority of the more (half 20 witnesses have denied this. Earlier, the courtmartial re ceived medical evidence that Padgett may have died from an injury suffered in a hospital. Medical authorities testified Friday that, although Padgett died of a fractured skull and a blood clot on the brain, only su perficial injuries were diag nosed when he first entered the hospital following the fight. Hit with Bar It had been believed that Padgett was hit over the head with a steel bar during the brawl, but evidence was intro duced Friday to show he also fell out of his hospital bed. An orderly told the court he found Padgett lying on the floor beside his bed. The airman died about 50 minutes later, the orderly testified. A rail had been set up on one side of Padgett's bed be cause he was thrashing around. The other side of the bed was against a wall, but the orderly said the bed had been pushed away from the wall when he found Padgett. Other airmen and medical au thorities have testified that Padgett had been drinking be fore the fight broke out. Earlier testimony indicated that when Padgett was brought to the hospital, X-rays showed no sign of a fractured skull. POLICE BOOK SAMARITAN SAN JOSE. Calif. UJPI)Da vid Manuel Tapia, 19, visited the Santa Clara County Jail Thursday night to bail out a friend arrested for a traffic vi olation. The friend went free, but Ta pia stayed after detectives dis covered he was wanted and booked him on a misdemeanor narcotics charge, Investigation of armed robbery and six traf fic citations. been to the places where Christ was born, lived, died and was resurrected, and the first time since 1812 that a pontiff has left Italy. The eucharistic congress In Bombay is to last from Nov. 28 to Dec. 6. The last such con gress was held in Munich, Ger many, in 1960, and'at that time there were Indications the late Pope John XXIII wanted to at tend. A eucharistic congress is an international Catholic gathering, normally presided over by a papal delegate, li the Pope to - '.high s FA 4fc for y aaile Johnson adopts HST custom, fakes brisk morning walk WASHINGTON (UPI)-Prcsl-dent Johnson today adopted a custom made, familiar by for mer President Harry S. Tru man the morning walk. Johnson strode briskly through the streets near his home in northwest Washington before getting into his car and driving to the White House for a day of conferences with aides. No formal appointments were on his agenda. The Chief Executive sur prised his police motorcycle es cort and perhaps the Secret Service agents who guard him when he walked out ot ine driveway of his home, and pro ceeded down the middle of 52nd Oswald said tied with Walker shot CHICAGO (UPI)-Lee Harvey Oswald wrote of his attempt to kill former MaJ. Gen. Edwin A. Walker in a document found bv the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation, the Chicago Sun-Times said today. The Sun-Times quoted govern ment sources ui Washington as saying the document was dis covered in the effects of Os wald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Nov. 22. Federal officials refused to disclose what Oswald had writ ten about his attempt to shoot Walker or where agents had come upon the document. was found by FBI agents a few days after Oswald was slain in Dallas police neaaquaners wov. 24. The Sun-Times said that pre sumably Oswald's writings about the Walker shooting were found in searches of the Irving, Tex., residence where his fam ily lived or in the Dallas lodging-house room he occupied alone for days before the slay ing of Kennedy. The newspaper said the inves tigation revealed Oswald to be a prolific writer who corre sponded with the Communist party and with agenU of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Meeting set by Democrats Members of the Deschutes County Democratic Central Committee will hold a brief meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Superior Cafe. Only business that will come before the group will be casting of a ballot to recommend a rural route carrier for a vacan cy at the Bend Dost office. Al Weeks, chairman of the committee, said that Howard Morgan had been scheduled as a speaker, but in view of the moratorium on politics during the 30 days mourning period for the late President John F. Ken nedy, this program has been re scheduled for January u. went, he probably would pre side. Such a congress is devoted to religious exercises, addresses and discussions intended to hon or the sacrament of the altar and increase devotion to it. Meanwhile, a high Vatican source said the pontiff "would certainly be greatly pleased" it leaders of other Christian churches joined him in his Holy Land pilgrimage. The source commented on re ports that leaders of other Christian churches might jofj the Pope when he goes to Jor Ten Cents St., N.W. Three agents formed an es cort and he walked with long strides through the neighbor hood, still quiet as neighbors apparently were sleeping in onj a cool baturday morning. I BERUN (Upl) Tne Eas( His limousine, the Secret j German Communist govern Service car and two other cars ; ment set Drice todav that ai in the motorcade followed slow ly behind him, along with the police motorcycle escort. , The sun was bright but the weather was near freezing. An aide told the President it was 34 degrees. But Johnson was hatless and wore no gloves. And he wore only a cotton rain coat over his suit. This was reminiscent of Tru man who reguarly took a long walk before starting his work day at the White House. He stiU insists on his morning stroll, whether he's at home in Inde pendence, Mo., or elsewhere. The President usually has come out of his house very quickly and sped away to the White House, about 6V4 miles away. This he will not be doing for very long. The new First Family plans to move into tne mansion beginning this week end. Mrs. John F. Kennedy moved out Friday. Press Secretary Pierre Salin ger said Johnson will fly to New York City Sunday to at tend the funeral of former Sen. Herbert H. Lehman, D-N.Y., who died of a heart attack. Marks First Trip Johnson will attend the funer al service only, Salinger said, and not the burial which will be private. This will be John son's first trip outside Washing ton since he took office. Salinger said the President was "inviting a number of peo ple to fly with him" but no list was immediately available. The Chief Executive wound up one of his lightest work days Friday in the two weeks since the assassination of Pres ident Kennedy. He spent one hour conferring with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Rob ert S. McNamara, and other top military and diplomatic aides. The group discussed de fense problems, including the plan to set up a multi-lateral naval force among the NATO nations. Officers named by Pioneers Antone Fossen was elected president of the Deschutes Pio neers Association, at the annual meeting Friday night. He w i 1 1 succeed D. Ray Miller in the office. Also elected to offices were Cecil Moore, vice - president; Mrs. Dean Won?er. wcrPtsry, and Mrs. Edith Hollinshead, treasurer. Harold Hunnell was added to the board of trustees. Installation will be at the an nual dinner meeting, January 18. It will be held this time at the Masonic Temple. A secret committee of three will select a queen for 1964. Her identity will be revealed during a coronation ceremony at the dinner meeting. dan and Israel Jan. 44 on a pilgrimage to places associated with the life of Jesus Christ. Proposals for what has been called a "holy summit" meet ing in Jerusalem came from Orthodox Catholic circles. They were warmly received in Rome as a sign of increasing good will among Christian churches. The sources said that so far as he knew, no definite plans for meetings between the Pope and other Christian leaders have been made. A number of Orthodox leaders have expressed a desire to see the Pope during his trip. No. 2 pre Brandt says 2 conditions unacceptable paiently is too high for the West to consider letting West Beiiiners visit East Berlin for Christmas. The East German press of fice announced that East Ger many is ready to allow West Bcrhners to cross the Red-built anti-refugee wall between Dec. 15 and Jan. 5. But it said West Berlin May or Willy Brandt must negotiate with East German Deputy Pre mier Alexander Abusch and that oflices to issue passes for visits to the East must b opened in West Berlin. Both of these conditions hava been declared unacceptable to the West. Hopes Dashed The Eastern announcement and the Western reaction to it dashed hopes that West Berlin ers would be able to spend Christmas with their friends and relations in East Berlin for the first time since the vail went up on Aug. 13, 1961, West Berlin officials said tha Communist proposal was not acceptable and there was no reason to hope that Christmas would bring a reunion of fam ilies split by the wall. The city government had warned West Berliners earlier against raising their hopes too high that the wall might be opened for Christmas. A West Berlin spokesman said the issue would depend on whether the East Germans atr tempted to exercise sovereign ty in West Berlin. Ente-ing Wedge The conditions set by tha East German Communists Indi cated clearly they wanted to use the issuance of passes as an entering wedge for recogni tion by the West. Mayor Willy Brandt, In a statement today, said it was re grettable that an official an nouncement Friday night creat ed the false impression that West Berliners had considered the announcement a wonderful Christmas present. City officials said today that the East German government in fact has announced its will ingness to issue passes to West Berliners during a three week period. They added that every thing depends on how and where the passes will be issued. They said the Communists will not be allowed to open of fices in West Berlin, a maneu ver they attempted shortly aft er the wall went up. The ma neuver was considered an East German attempt to win recogni tion. At Crossing Point The city government wants the East Germans to Issue the Dasses at crossing points in the wall. Authorities said the ques tion will be decided during reg ularly scheduled talks between East and West German trade officials. Foreigners and West Ger mans are permitted to cross the wall. But West Berliners are not and many East Berlin ers have been shot trying to sneak through. Dispute erupts over elm tree PORTLAND (UPI) - Port land's 63 - year - old Flanders Street elm must go, say city fathers. No so, say tree lovers led by architect Lewis Crutcher. The City Council voted 3-1 this week to condemn the old tree, which was planted at NW Flanders and 23rd in 1900. City Engineer L. H. Rosenthal said the elm's roots had ripped up 100 feet of sewer line and caused $1,800 worth of damage.