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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1959)
1 I f'f . 1 I if ADMITS KILLING Clifford Fortner, 15, is comforted by his mother, Mrs. Norman Fortner, as his father looks on after the youth confessed to the stab slaying of Lorna Lax, 12, in her "secret hideaway". (UPI Telephoto) Boy, 15, Confesses To Slaying of Girl Kentfield, Calif. - (UPD - A 13-year-old boy was charged with murder Wednesday night for . the sex slaying of Lorna ijax, a lonely, 12-year-old girl who was found hanged and stabbed in a secret hide away less than one block from her home. , Clifford Fortner, a tall, gangly, pimple -faced youth, was scheduled to be arraigned today before Superior Judge Benson To Undergo Surgery Friday Washington (UPD Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson will undergo surgery for removal of his gall blad der, Walter Reed Army Med ical Center announced today. A spokesman said Benson entered the hospital Wednes day night, and that the oper ation will be performed Fri day. . The surgery was decided upon, a hospital official said, because Benson has been suf fering a period of "intermit tent acute attacks of gall bladder cholic." . Benson is- expected fo be hospitalized for the next .10 days or two weeks. Thomas F-. Keating in San Rafael. Bod; Found By Brother i Sheriff . Louis" Mountanos said Fortner told investigators Wednesday he killed. the han dicapped youngster after hav ing sexual intercourse with her shortly after midnight on Sunday, Nov. 15. The body was found late the following,, day by Clif ford's 13 - year-old - brother, Norman. "Something came over me I don't know what-after the sex act," Clifford told Assist ant District Attorney Bruce Bales. ; The youth said he struck the girl on the head several times with a flashlight, and then attempted to hang her when he saw she was still alive. Finally he stabbed her in the abdomen with -a steak knife-part of a set Lorna had bought to give her parents at Christmas'. Slight Speech Defect The girl was handicapped by a cleft palate that opera tions had not entirely cor rected and was teased by oth er youngsters because of a slight speech defect. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Lax, said this was a factor m her personality prob lems, such as hiding out in her various "forts." MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thursday, Dec. 3, 1959 7 Fog, Ice Hamper Travel in Oregon Salem -(UPD- Fog and icy spots hampered highway and air traffic in parts of Oregon today. The Portland and Salem airports were socked in by thick fog much of the night j although commercial aircraft j were landing this morning in 1 Portland. ' Fog also was reported at Tillamook, Corvallis, Salmon! river, Roseburg, Grants Pass.j Medford, Siskiyou summit, Coquille and Bly. i Icy spots were reported at ; Wilson River, Green Springs, ! Prospect, Santiam pass, Sis ters, Ochoco summit, Lapine, East Side McKenzie high way, Willamette pass,, Che mult, East Diamond lake, Pendleton and Meacham. Margaret Sanger Disputes President Tucson, Ariz.-d'PD-Margaret Sanger, former international president of the Planned Par enthood Federation, Wednes day disputed President Eisen hower's statement that birth control is none of the govern ment's business. "It is just as much a gov ernmental problem as any thing such as polio or any dis ease that affects all of the people," Miss Sanger said. "It comes under -the same cate gory as other state and county health operations." Miss Sanger, founder of seven organization? favoring birth control, said she thinks the U.S. should help any over populated nation that asks for aid. Witnesses Questioned In fP&L Rate Hearing Salem (UPD Attorneys for Pacific Power and Light Com pany began cross-examination Wednesday of witnesses for the the Public "Utility Com mission in PP&L's rate hike case now before the PUC. PUC consultant David A. Kosh, Washington, D.C., was on the stand most of the day. The utility seeks a 14.5 per cent increase-in rates. 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