California Youth
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medferd, Or.
Monday, March 7, 1960 A
5
Held in 6
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Slav
ings
During 19-
m
Miami - (DPI) Once started
killing came easy to 17-year-old
Dennii Whitney. He shot
hi victims in the head be
cause "it seemed like the logi
- cal place."
-The red-haired youth snuff -
" "ves and critically
wounded a seventh in a 19-
- day spree that started in Cali
fornia and ended on "a weedy
- Florida sand dune fronting
" the Atlantic.
Whitney was captured Sat
urday and readily admitted to
three murders in the Miami
' area. Then he stunned author
ities Sunday with the state
ment: '
"I might as well clean 'em
all up."
Details Crime
He ticked off the details of
how he killed three other men
in robberies as he traveled
uoin Laiitnrnia t tti--;4-
Whitney, who has been in
minor troubles since he was
10, started his killing after he
left home at North Holly
wood, Calif., last month.
He said he. killed a service
station attendant in a robbery
at Victorville, Calif., because
. "I was broke and hungry."
He said he killed another
service station man at Tucson,
Ariz., and a Negro man who
befriended him in Phoenix,
; Ariz. He hitched a ride to
Miami and killed two service
station attendants in robberies
because "I couldn't get a job."
He wounded another man
critically and then slew a
woman whose car he stole to
break out of a south Florida
dragnet.
Breaks Down One
The youth's moods flitted
back and forth as he detailed
his crimes.
He was truculent as he told
detective Warren Holmes: "I
planned to kill maybe a dozen
or so."
But when police took him
to tne scene of one of the men
he killed here they said, "he
put his head in his arms and
blubbered for two or three
minutes. It was the first and
only time he broke down."
He was contrite when he
told reporters Sunday night:
"I don't think I intended to
kill. I . don't feel too good
about it."
But his voice was cold when
he told why he shot all his
victims in the head: "It seem
ed like the logical place."
He dropped his head and
teemed afraid when he talked
about what might happen to
him.
"I figure I'll either get the
chair or life in prison." he
muttered. "I've thought a lot
about what the electric chair
would be like. I suppose I
would go to hell."
Prosecution To End
Motherwell Case
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prosecution was expected to
end its case today when the
Larry Lord Motherwell trial
opens after a three-day recess.
" The remaining prosecution
witnesses are expected to at
tack Motherwell's statement
that he never was in Marys
ville, Calif., before Aug. 14,
1958.
That was the day he regis
tered at a motel there with
Mrs. Pearl Putney, 72, weal
thy Washington, D. C widow,
A year and a day later bleach
ed bones - identified as those
of Mrs. Putney - were found
in a mountain forest near
here.
'Defense attorney Jack
"Reges has indicated that he
. will take three or four days
" to present his case.
Missile Project
Slated in Idaho
'":. Mountain Home, Idaho -(UPD
V S . 1 I 1
lirouna was xo De orueu
today for a mammoth con
struction project in the desert
near here that will put nine
Titan missiles into the nation's
operational arms system."
. Gov. Robert Smylie was
scheduled to turn the first
spadeful of earth for the $28,
899,000 project at ceremonies
near Orchard. The construc
tinn of the complexes will
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tae 18 to 24 monms. .
' Each of three complexes'
will house three Titans with!
one spare. The complexes will
be built in Elmore and Owy-i
hee counties.
': The number of men needed
to maintain a missile squadron
on a round-the-clock alert has
not been revealed, but esti-;
mates place the number at
about 700.
Day Spree
DENNIS WHITNEY
Killing Came Easy
SUGGESTS STIFF TALKS
Berlin -(UPD- Erich Mende,
head of the West German Free
Democratic Party, S u n d sty
suggested stiff talk to Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
by the Western "Allies against
any surrender of West Berlin.
Such action, he said, "would
at least give a chance of
reaching a compromise be
cause Khrushchev does not
want a war either."
San Francisco - Biggest fish
in the world is the whale
shark, about 50 feet long and
weighing up to several tons.
By contrast the whale, a
mammal, reaches a weight up
to 150 tons.
Outlook Improved
Vale, Ore.-(DPD-The outlook
for irrigation water supplies
in Malheur county has im
proved considerably since
Feb. 1, ' and now ranks be
tween fair and average, it was
reported today.
W. T. Frost, snow survey
expert with the Soil Conser
vation service, said snowfall
and - rain during February
were above normal.He said
water content of the moun
tain snow pack in the eastern
Oregon area averages 92 per
cent of normal and 134 per
cent of the total at this time
last year.
Frost added that the pres
ence of low-elevation snow
cover this year contrasts
strongly with its absence last
year. -
Moisture in watershed soil
has improved especially at
lower elevations where rain
fell or snow melted on unfroz
en soil, he said.
' Flow of the Owyhee river is
forecast at 53 per cent of
normal for the March-July
period. Flow of the Malheur
river is forecast at 74 per cent
of normal.
Frost said the "normal" fig
ures were for the 15-year per
iod from 1943 through 1957.
Tokyo-flJPD-A six-man Jan
anese team returned today
from a two-month Himalyan
expedition in search of the
"abominable snowman" in
Nepal. Expedition leader Tei
zo Ogawa reported the team
brought back evidence that
made members believe "the
snowmen really exist." .
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HAM SIGNALS BOUNCED Ham radio operator Perry
Klein, 17, left, top photo, of Bethesda, Md., bounced signals
from earth satellites to communicate with , a t, fellow ham
operator, Rafaei Soifer, 17, right, top photo, 'of New York,
a Massachusetts Institute of Technology freshman. M.I.T.
reported that the . youths had accomplished what the. best
scientists and equipment had failed to do when they made
radio contact between Bethesda and New York. After more
than 100 observations during the past two years, the youths
made contact by bouncing radio signals from U.S. Explorer
VII satellite and Russia's Sputnik III as they passed almost
simultaneously in low orbit over .the Atlantic coast. The
lower photo shows an artist's sketch of the paths of the
satellites at the same time the contact was made.
(UPI Telephotos)
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