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o FOTgiTEElf MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, January 29, 1958 Custody Case Of Susan Smith May Be Over Tuesday O San Jose, Calif OJ.R) The judge hearing the legal battle over custody of three-year-old Susan Smith has warned both sides that the case must be fin ished Tuesday or he will have to postpone it. Judg M. G. Del Mutolo ex plained the action was necessary O due to other business on the court calendar. Late Friday the little girl's . mother, Mrs. Marjorie Smith, 34, of Portland, Ore., began her case against charges that she is not a fit mother for the child. The charges were brought by the child's aunt. Mrs. Ellen Hightower, 38, of Los Gatos, Calif.; who testified earlier in the day. . Took Child Mrs. Hightower told the court how she went to Portland last April after her brother, Kermit Smith, was murdered in an auto- bombin She said she took Su san home when Mrs. Smith was arrested for complicity in her husband's death. Mrs. Smith was acquitted of charges and obtained a court or der for the return of her child, but Mrs. Hightower refused to give up the girl on grounds Mrs. Smith was an unfit mother. On the stand Mrs. Smith, nearly in tears, denied that she had anything to do with the death of her husband or that she had ever been intimate with Laurence Wolf, the man convict ed of the slaying. She said that if granted cus tody of Susan, she would take the child back to Portland and provide for her to the best of her ability. Chicago Juvenile Terror Continues Gthicago (U.R) The family of a teen-age gang victim lived under a 24-hour police guard Saturday after receiving a death threatening letter in the latest phase of juvenile terror here. The poison-pen letter was turned over to the FBI for in vestigation. The letter was received by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Stevens whose son, Donald, 18, is hospitalized with injuries f r o m a beating with a tire wrench by "a teen-age gang. Four teen-age boys are under indictment for beating the youth. The letter, released by Police Capt. Phillip Breitzke, said: "You've got one shotgun. We have three. You might as well order a coffin for your son now. I'm gonna draw the short straw to do the job." The letter was signed, "The Future Killer of Your Son." The shotgun apparently refer red to one kept handy by Ste vens for protection following the attack on his son. Oregon Airman Gets Peacetime Award Anchorage, Alaska U.R) Airman 1st Class Norman L. Teague of the headquarters com mand, Alaskan Air Command, has been awarded the Soldiers Medal, the nation's highest peacetime award, for saving the life of another serviceman last August, the Air Force announ ced Saturday. Teague, of McMinnville, Ore., was one of four persons aboard an Air Force plane which crash landed and sank in near freezing waters in Alaska's Chinitna bay last Aug. 16. After reaching shore with two other men Teague saw Staff Sgt. Richard E. Thompson flounder ing in several feet of water. Al though he was very cold and near exhaustion, Teague left the shore to assist Thompson and towed the semi-conscious ser geant approximately 40. yards to safety. . Teague is presently at the Al askan liaison office in Seattle. Team Completes Relocation Survey Portland U.R) A survey team looking for sites for re location of the Portland airbase left here for Washington, D. C, Saturday after studying about a dozen sites in the Willamette valley and Clark county, Wash. Col. Wilson H. Banks, an Air Force officer who headed the team, said that until his group studies its findings it will not know what sites, if any, it will recommend . to Air Force head quarters for further study. He said no announcement of a final choice of a new site . is likely until the selection is made by higher officials. Banks is head of the base selection branch in the office of the as sistant chief of staff for several months. Services Are Held For Frank Putnam Tonasket, Wash. (U.R) Fu neral services were conducted here Saturday for Frank Put nam, pioneer Washington news paper publisher, who died Jan. 19 in New Mexico at the age of 78. Putnam settled at Conconully in 1905 when it was the Okanog an county seat. He established the Okanogan Record and in 1914 founded the Tonasket Times. He sold that paper , in 1952 and moved to Truth Or Consequences, N. M. Moss Claims Secrecy Tends To Dictatorship Washington U.R) Chair man John E. Moss of a House information subcommittee said Saturday the present trend to ward government secrecy could end in a dictatorship. . The California Democrat cal led for a line to be drawn on information the government con ceals. "And it should be drawn on the liberal side," he said. Moss' subcommittee has been scrutinizing different govern ment agency information poli cies. 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