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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.
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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.
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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. He flew
to Sydney from Alaska to help
in the search for Peter, who had
been missing since Oct.' 28. His
body was found last Saturday.
Camels, yafc s, water buf-
' ifilo, ewef end rervdser a used. :
as a source of milk in Some parts
of the world today.
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Pyle Doubts Ike
Will Pick Candidate
Pasadena, Calif. U.R) How
ard Pyle, deputy assistant tb
President Eisenhower, says he
does not believe the President
will "pick anybody" to be his
successor if he decides not to
run for reelection.
"It is presumptuous to discuss
the matter because I still think
there is a 50-50 chance that the
President will be a candidate,"
the former Arizona governor
told the Annual Conference of
the Council of Profit Sharing
Industries last night.
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