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o TEH MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, November 10. 1955 Suspect in Bryan Murder Satisfied With Jury Panel Oakland, Calif. (U.R) Burton W. Abbott said today he would be satisfied with almost any 12 jurors who might be picked to decide whether he kidnaped and murdered a 14-year-old school girl. Abbott indicated the endless process of choosing a jury is be ginning to bother him. His trial is now in its fourth day. "I feel completely detached about this whole business," he said. "This is my trial and these are the people who are going to judge me. Yet I can't see any reason for challenging anyone on this panel, except perhaps gomeone who had a deep con viction against inflicting the death penalty." May Be Excused ' Under California law, a juror may be excused if he says he would refuse to inflict the death penalty in a murder case. Abbott, 27, a tubercular ac counting student, is accused of murderine Stephanie Bryan of Berkeley last April 23. Some of her beloneines were found in the basement of his Alameda home in July. A few days later her body was found in a shallow grave near his mountain cabin. The frail defendant appeared more at ease yesterday than he did on Tuesday. He sat in his chair at the defense table, his hands clasped loosely, as his at torneys questioned the venire men. The jury selection resumed to day. So far, 31 members of the first panel of 60 have been ex cused. Another 65-member panel is standing by. Prosecution and defense show ed intense interest yesterday in how much, if at all, the pros pective jurors have been influ enced by newspaper accounts of the case, one of the most sensa tional in recent' California his tory. Attorney Rebuked Defense Attorney Harold Hove was rebuked by Superior Judge Charles Wade Snook when he tried to question the pane.1 about reports that Abbott's family had called police when they found Stephanie's purse in the base ment of their home. "Mr. Hove, I believe I have ruled on that before," Snook said. "I don't want you to pur sue that line of questioning." "But " Hove started to reply. "Mr. Hove, you have nothing to. say to me any more. I have already ruled." West Germany Issues Optimistic Budget Bonn, Germany (U.R) The West German Government today published a "strongly optimistic'' budget for fiscal 1956-57 with an estimated six per cent increase in revenues despite some tax re ductions as its main feature. The Finance Ministry said it expects higher revenues despite tax cuts due to the continued economic expansion of the booming nation. f -JrSS J fMi If if I SITTING AT COUNSEL TABLE, Burton W. Abbott discusses strategy with attorneys as his trial for fcidnap-murder of Stephanie Bryan, 14, gets under way in Oakland. From left: Harold Hove (profile to camera); John Hansen, Abbott and Stanley Whitney .(International) CIO Officials Praise New Packard Contract Detroit U.R CIO United Auto Workers officials said to day their new three-year con tract with Packard Division of Studebaker-P a c k a r d Corp., which includes a guaranteed wage plan, is "the best in the auto industry." Company and union negotia tors reached agreement Wednes day on the pact covering some 9,000 Packard workers in the Detroit area. A UAW spokesman said the contract "fully meets the pattern" of contracts be tween the union and Ford Motor Co. and General Motors and Chrysler Corporations. Plans Improved UAW Vice-President Norman Matthews said although the guaranteed wage plan provides the same economic terms as oth er contracts, it is tne best in the auto industry" because of several improvements on plans agreed upon with other major auto producers. , UAW officials also stated Ohio voters' decision to defeat a guaranteed wage proposal in Tuesday's election did not en danger plans affecting Ford and GM workers in other states. To be effective, the plans specified that states in which 67 per cent of workers affected live must change or interpret their laws to permit laid-off workers to receive both state unemploy ment compensation and supple mental payments from the companies. The UAW said favorable rul ings already have been handed down in Michigan, Delaware, New York and Massachusetts. The union pointed out these rul ings already have been handed down in Michigan, Delaware, New York and Massachusetts. The union pointed out these rul ings covered more than 60 per cent of Ford and GM workers leaving only seven per cent to go." Packard employees will re ceive a six-cent hourly wage in crease or a 2V'2 per cent pay boost, whichever is greater, for each of the three years. Wage increases are retroactive to Aug. 28. the date the old contract expired. Escalator Clause Skilled workers will receive an additional eight-cent hourly increase and an adjusted "cost-of-living escalator clause" will provide all hourly rated work ers with an added one-cent boost retroactive to Sept. 1. The contract also included im proved pension, insurance, vaca tion and holiday provisions. Sal aried workers represented by the union received a full union shop and a three per cent an nual improvement factor. Company and union officials said now that a Packard settle ment has been reached, they will concentrate efforts on negotiat ing a contract for some 9000 Studebaker division workers at South Bend, Ind. Striking Workers Rap .. Westinghouse Company Pittsburgh (U.R) The CIO International Union of Electri cal Workers, on strike against Westinghouse Electric Corp. since Oct. 17, charged the com pany today with "wanton dis regard for human lives and fortunes." The union, representing 55,000 Westinghouse employees, said company negotiators were in sisting on "bankers' hours, lei surely lunches and long re cesses during negotiations aimed at ending the 25-day walk out. Blind Broom Makers Return To Job; Lions Club Helps Portland (U.R) Twenty-one blind broom-makers were to re turn today to jobs they lost Tues day at the Oregon State Blind Ike Expected To Get Big 'Welcome Home' Washington (U.R) Officials today predicted 200,000 Wash ingtonians will give President Eisenhower the warmest recep tion since his inauguration when he returns home tomorrow. The chief executive will see a huge "Welcome Home Ike" banner unfurled over an arch way of fire ladders and bunting as he drives over Memorial Bridge across the Potomac in a plastic-topped car from National Airport to the White House. ' MORE SNAKES Medora, N.D. (U.R) James Barnhardt picked up a rattle snake and put it in a glass cage for display in his bar as a "cur iosity." When he opened up the next morning, he found eight little "curiosities" had arrived. WD mm EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTOR WANTED FOR JACKSON COUNTY The- A.luminum-Lock Shingle Corporation, manufacturers of a . ' patented new low-cost 4-way interlocking aluminum shingle is ex panding its sales division and is seeking a reliable, financially re- . sponsible man for an exclusive protected distributorship for Med ford and including all of Jackson county for Aluminum-Lock Lifetime Guaranteed Shingles claimed by experts to be the great est improvement in roofing of. all time. 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Portland 2, Oregon Phone BE. 6-1191 Chilean Government Grants Firm's Request Santiago, Chile (U.R) The government was reported Wednesday night to have grant ed the petition of the Anaconda and Kennecott copper companies to increase from 200 to 300 pesos the rate of exchange it pays for dollars returned by . them to Chile for their copper exports. Informed sources said that in return for the increase, the com panies had agreed to advance the government $15,000,000 to cover the deficit in Chile's dollar ex change budget for 1955. Most failures of farm sewage disposal systems can be traced to the final disposal field. Divorce Blamed for Multiple Slaying San Diego (U.R) A second divorce from the same woman was blamed today for provoking a sailor to shoot and kill his wife and two young children and then commit suicide, police reported. Officers said Machinist Mate First Class George H. Smith last night shot his wife, Anne Ruth, 27, his daughter, Connie, 8, and his son, George Jr., 6, with a .22 calibre automatic rifle, then turned the gun on himself. Before the shooting yesterday, Mrs. Smith appeared in court to file her second divorce action against the sailor. The : Smiths were divorced several years ago. She married another man, but divorced him and remarried Smith. Commission workshop here. The workshop was closed by Commission Administrator Clif ford Stocker after Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton ruled its employees were not eligible for state industrial accident coverage. i Members of the Northwest Lions club have offered to pay one-month premiums for private insurance coverage - for the handicapped workers, however, and Stocker said he hoped to have' the insurance transfer com pleted in time for the workers to return tomorrow. Another encouraging an nouncement came from Salem where Thornton said he would "make every effort to work out a proper and legal method" of solving the blind workers' in surance problems. The blind workers involved met yesterday and cancelled a "march" on the state capitol. City Dads Learn About 'Shaker Rattle, Roll' Toronto (U.R) It was "shake, rattle and roll" for a group of city officials who went on a seven-hour bus tour of 13 local municipalities Wednesday. One of their two 18-year-old buses couldnt' make it up a hill and had to be towed. The other broke down twice. Last Tributes Paid To Peter Gruening Sydney, Australia U.R) Press, radio and diplomatic col leagues paid their last tributes to Peter Gruening, late United Press manager for, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pa cific, at brief funeral services today. Gruenings brother, Hunt, was the chief mourner, representing his parents and family. 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