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EIGHT MXDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, January 24, 195S Marjorie Smith . Wins Temporary Custody Battle San Jose U.R) Mrs. Marjo rie Smith of Portland, Ore., who was acquitted last April of the car-bombing murder of her law yer husband, has won at least a temporary victory in her fight to regain the custody of her 3-year-old dfughter. The 34year-old mother was granted temporary custody of the little girl yesterday by Supe rior Court Judge J. G. Del Mato la. The child, Susan, has been living at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Ellen Hightower, of Los Gatos, Calif. Taken From Home Mrs. Hightower took Susan from the Smith home at Port land last April 25 after Mrs. Smith was arrested for complic ity in the murder of her hus band. Mrs. Smith was subse quently tried and acquitted of conspiring with Victor Laurence Wolfe. 45, to commit the mur der. Wolfe was convicted of murder in the second degree. Mrs. Smith testified yester day that she saw her daughter Sunday night for the first time since last April, but the little girl did not recognize her. However, Judge Del Matola ordered Mrs. Hightower to turn the child over to her mother "as noon as it is practical" because there is "no provision In Cali fornia law" , for the present ar rangement. The judge ordered Mrs. Smith to keep Susan in Santa Clara county until it is determined whether she. or Mrs. Hightower has the legal right to take care of the child. Mrs. Hightower's attorneys said in court yesterday that they would prove that Mrs. Smitn was "dissolute and promiscu ous" and therefore an unfit guardian for her daughter. March of Dimes Coming Events Events scheduled throughout Qllckson county in the next few days to raise March of Dimes funds for the fight against polio Include the following: Tonight Modern dance at Oasis, Eagle Point, 8 p.m. -to 12 p.m. Music by Dick Spain, Bill Lively and Rogue Valley Boys. Crater high school Fresh man class Dutch auction and ' box social, 7:30 p.m., Crater high gym, Central Point. Jan. 25 Square dance spon sored by Jackson Ceunty square dance association at YMCA, 9 p.m. Policemen vs. Firemen basketball game at.Medford high school, preliminary Yellow Cab vs. Hawkinson's, 7:30 p.m. Crater Lions club auction, KBES-TV, 9:30 p.m. Jan. 26 Radio auction, at KWIN, Ashland. Jan. 2ft Radio Auction, KWIN, Ashland. Yoggi Hussane and Texas wrestling, with lady referees, 8:30 p.m., Ashland junior' high gym, sponsored by Ashland Lions club. Phoenix Lady Lions dance at Commun ity clubhouse. Music by Melody Wranglers. Local talent show at intermission. Modern dance at Rogue River. Baked food sale by Crater high school students. O "Keep the Army out of Politics" General Ridgway Last weckThe Saturday Evening Post made headlines with Gen eral Ridgway's outspoken report on his years as Army Chief of Staff. This week he continues his scries of articles and shows why atomic warfare hasn't les sened the need for the foot soldier . . . and why putting all our eggs in one basket can lead to disaster. Don't miss the recently retired Army Chief of Staffs report on what's happening to our Army and why. Get your copy of the Post today and read "My Battles in War and Peace" by General Matthew B. Ridgway. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Richmond, Va. Virginia Gov. Thomas B. Stanley on a confer ence of five southern governors to plan their states' attacks on the U.S. Supreme court school desegregation order: Tucson, Ariz. Adlai E. Stevenson on the reaction of President Eiienhower to controversy surrounding Secretary of Slate Dulles and former Chief of otaff Gen. Matthew Ridgway: "I must confess, I'm still confused." Los Angeles Frank B. Parrish, engineer of the Santa Fe train which overturned, on the wreck which killed 29 persons: "I am solely responsible." Washington Rep. Carl Vinson (D.-Ga.) rejecting an Invitation to visit the Navy's new atomic submarine Nautilus because of a dive he look in a submarine in 1917: "I was too scared to move." Washington Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson calling on Congress to challenge the insurance industry to come up with some practical flood insurance plan: "There should be enough ingenuity in this country in the insur ance industry and in the government to find a solution to this problem." Washington Rep. George Mahon (D.-Tex.) announcing a sweep ing review of President Eisenhower's military spending plans: "I think we must face up to the possibility that Russia may be J ahead of the United States in the field of guided missiles and in the , race for the development of intercontinental ballistics missile." i ! Cortina, Italy Figure skating coach Gus Lussi, claiming that ! America's Ronny Robertson of Long Beach, Calif., spins on skates j faster than anyone in history: "Sometimes the blood comes out of his skin through fast spin ning." Cause of Train Wreck Investigated Wiliamson, W. Va.ttJ.R) Of ficials awaited a pathologist's report today on whether a 62-year-old engineer died of a heart attack or was killed in the wreck of a Norfolk and Western passenger train which injured 30 persons. Mingo County Coroner Tabor Ball said officials were explor ing the possibility that engineer Walt Willard, of Bluefield. W. Va., died at the controls of the train just before the wreck. Half of the fast Norfolk, Va., to Cincinnati, O.. train left the rails on a curve in a mountain ous section 30 miles southeast of here early Monday near the small community of Cedar, W. Va. The train plunged over an embankment above the Tug river on the West Virginia-Kentucky border. None of the injured was hurt seriously. 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