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Madman Killer of Truck Driver, Two Divorcees Sought by Police Carlsbad. N.M. State po lice extended the search for a madman killer to the back roads and isolated towns of southern New Mexico today. Road blocks were thrown up for 10 miles around the little town of Tenny, N.M., after a man possibly the slayer of three persons on lonely New Mexico roads Monday night terrorized the postmistress, Mrs. Virginia Guest, 40. In California, police ponder ed whether the New Mexico slayer was the same person who killed two policemen at El Se- qundo. A .22 caliber weapon was used in both crimes, and there was time for the killer to travel from California to New Mexico. The New Mexico victims were truck driver J. D. Cantrell, 26, of Carlsbad, and two young di vorcees, Mrs. Barbara Lemmons and Mrs. Dorothy Gibson, both 23 and both from Hobbs, N.M. Cantrell's body was found be side his truck on U.S. Highway 180, 30 miles east of Carlsbad, shot five times at close range. Two Accidenls Are Reported to Police Two accidents on Highway 99 were reported to state police yes terday. . Darwin E. Hazlett, 1325 Mt Pitt ave., a passenger in a car driven by his son, Robert B. ..Hazlett? Portland, suffered a cut on his hand whei the car in which they were riding collided with another car at the inter section of Highway 99 and Scenic ; ave., north of Central Point, op ; erated by Byron Charles Tea- ; cock, route 1, box 318, Central ; Point, police said. Teacock was .' cited for failure to "yield right of . way to oncoming traffic, offi ' cers reported. ! At 9:55. p.m., Rachel June I.Thompson, Grants Pass, reported ' to state police that a car she was ' driving on Highway 99 one ; mile north of Rogue River was ; sideswiped by another vehicle ; which did not stop at the scene ! of the accident, according to po i lice. Thirty five miles away, 10 miles south of Hobbs, the bodies of the women were found six hours later. They too had been killed with .22 caliber bullets. Asked for Bed The Tenny incident occurred Tuesday afternoon, several hours after the killings. Mrs. Guest told police the man came into the post office and asked for a bed for the night, and then tried to cash a money order. She refused both requests. She said he looked at the cri minal wanted circulars on the post office bulletin board and asked: "How come my picture isn't up there?" He asked Mrs. Guest to come with him to his car, she said, but she refused. "I have something in my car that will make you come with me," he said and started for his car, a red 1952 Hudson. Mrs. Guest said she took a revolver from a drawer and fired a shot in his general di rection. The postmistress said the man dropped and for a sec ond she thought she had hit him. But he got up, ran to his car and drove west, away from Tenny and Carlsbad. Doubtful Suspects Meanwhile, Sheriff Jewell McAdoo said the former hus bands of the two dead women, Charles Lemmons of Carlsbad and Pete Gibson of Hobbs, have agreed to take lie detector tests. East Oregon Fire Situation Controlled Portland (W Guy John son, regional dispatcher for the U.S: Forest Service, said today the fire situation in eastern Ore gon was under control in na tional forests and that no im mediate further trouble was ex pected. John Hunt, fire control officer for the Bureau of Land Manage ment, said the situation on rangelands also had eased fol lowing a rugged night Monday when fires broke out in rugged country. A crew of ranchers worked all night 10 miles north of Drewsey in eastern Harney county to halt one blaze. Another fire, near Halfway, was brought under control Mon day night after covering some 2,000 acres. There are about 1,100 known tributaries of the Amazon river. 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They surmise he shot Cantrell, forced the women into his own car and drove to the site he chose to kill them. Graham Planning Vacation Aug. 15 New York (U) Evangelist Billy Graham said Tuesday night that if his extended New York Crusade "goes beyond Aug. 10 they may have to get another preacher." The 38-year-old minister said he had no idea who started the "rumor" that the crusade would continue until Labor Day but that he definitely was .going on a vacation with his wife Aug. 15. It was learned earlier, how committee holds an option on Madison Square Garden through Sept. 2. Addressing some 3 5,000 per sons in the Garden, at the open ing sesson of the second New York Crusade extension, Gra ham said that many of them had betrayed Jesus Christ for a "mo ment of passion, a moment of lust." "There are hundreds of you here tonight who have betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver, some of you for less than that." Tuesday night's attendance raised the total for the crusade which began May 15 to 1,218, 100. There were 369 new "de cisions for Christ." making a grand total of 37,471 during the crusade. Pickin' Pears News and Notes Frcm Camp White By SID HOLLINSWORTH Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Schoen berg are planning a trip to Cen tral America about the end of August. They plan to visit with their son, Richard, who is with a British trading company in Honduras. Domiciliary Officer R. H. Ruf fin is another Camp White rep resentative who expects to vaca tion south of the border. He plans to go to Mexico and a fish ing trip. The recreational interest which have assembled in Building 218 will be moved to the volunteer section of the post office build ing. Three buildings of this wing, 216, 217 and 218, are being con verted into dormitories for Sec tion A convalescents, as a con venience and a short cut to the dining hallway.. Regardless of the fact that the .Camp White team plays away from home all this month, interest has been generated by the soft ball league games at Memorial Field. In addition to the mens' and girls teams, a pee wee league of boys has estbalished a regular schedule with at least one game in the afternoon each week. This week Central Point and Ashland are billed to play at 8 p.m. Wednesday as the second game of a double header. Camp White is now the center of a budding recreation area with a new amusement park and outdoor theatre being built across the highway. Chaplain Lawrence Eskay gave a report last Sunday of his Higher Demand for Electric Power Seen Port Angeles, Wash. (IP) William A. Pearl, Bonneville Power administrator, said here Tuesday lumber, pulp, paper, composition board and plywood mills are expected to increase their demands for electric power about 185 per cent by 1980. Addressing a Kiwanis Club meeting, Pearl said forest prod ucts are one of the Pacific North west's greatest users of electric energy. He said they consumed more than four, billion kilowatt hours in 1955. Three Sizes mm m&mr Lovely oval doily in three sizes to use as a place mat, centerpiece, or scarf. Favorite pineapple design with bands of petal stitches easy crochet. Pattern 7108: Crochet small doily 14x17, medium 14x28, long 14x34 inches in No. 30 cot ton. Send Thirty-five cents (coins) for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Sta tion, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PAT TERN NUMBER. A bonus for our readers: two FREE patterns, printed in our new Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book for 1957! Plus a variety of designs to order crochet, knitting, embroidery, h u c k weaving, toys, dolls, others. Send 25 cents for your copy of this nedlecraft book now! 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The scope of the operation, however, extends to other recla mation areas in Oregon. Murder Charged In Child's Death Roseburg (W A Douglas county grand jury indictment re turned Tuesday charged Mrs. Edith Ott, 47, Roseburg, with second degree murder in connec tion with the death of her adopt ed daughter, 19-month-old Wen dy Kay, June 14. Wendy Kay, a Korean orphan adopted by Mr. and Mrs. How ard Ott last year, died June 14. Mrs. Ott was arrested Tuesday evening, but released on $5,000 bail. She was to be arraigned today. Earlier, District Attorney Av ery Thompson sought to have Mrs. Ott's other three foster children taken from her, but the petition was denied for lack of evidence that the children had been mistreated. The child who died was a Ko rean orphan brought to this country by Harry Holt, Creswell farmer. One of the other three foster children of the Otts also is a Korean orphan. Holt's wife, in Portland for a church meeting Tuesday night, defended the Otts as a "wonder ful Christian family." Wednesday, July 24, 19S7 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE 4 CLUB -UH NEWS Phoenix Dairy Club Phoenix Dairy club held a meeting at the Calkins' home Sunday, July 21. Showmanship was practiced before the meet ing was called to order. ; During the meeting it was decided to have a sign to iden tify the club at the county fair. Roberta Calkins, sister of mem ber Vernon Calkins, is going to draw the picture to be used on the sign. The club members decided to have a swimming party on the Applegate river after the coun ty fair. After the meeting Mrs. Cal kins served homemade ice cream and cupcakes for refresh ments. Gail Glidden, Reporter Central Point Clubs The Central Point 4-H clubs will have a pre-fair Saturday, July 27, at the C. W. Anhorn farm on Freeman rd., Central Point, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Livestock should be there be fore 9 a.m. to be weighed. 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