MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Missing Stepmother Of Mass Slayer Is Found in Grave
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13, 1962
Sigourncy, Iowa -I'Pl
Newsmen's curiosity and a i
relative's concern about the I
missing stepmother of a mass blow with
slayer led Tuesday to the find
ing of her body in a shallow
Brave beside her home.
I Authorities said the skull of
red-haired Mrs. Juanita Smith
was crushed by a powerful
blunt instrument
before the body was placed in
the lime-sprinkled grave. She
was positively identified
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Mrs. Smith was the step
mother of Gayne Gilbert
Smith, who has admitted the
May 26-27 fatal shootings of
his uncle and aunt. Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew McBcth, and
three of their four children.
The lone survivor of the Mc
Beth family. Patsy, 13. suffer
ed a Fhoulder wound in the
night of carnage at the Mc
Beth farm near Hayesville,
Iowa.
Smith, 24, a farmhand and
ex-Marine, was captured in a
barn near Unionville. Iowa.
40 miles from Hayesville, on
Memorial Day, following a
three-day man hunt.
Denied Knowledge
Smith's attorney, Stephen
Gerard, told United Press In
ternational his client denied
any knowledge of his step
mother's death.
Mrs. Smith apparently was
last seen alive Oct. 2, 1961,
when she made a bank depos
it. Her stepson said she had
left for California and there
had been no apparent concern
about her until the ilayings
of the McBeth family. Then
her sister, Mrs. Irene Brown,
PORTS
filed a missing person report
on Mrs. Smith.
Radio and teltvision news
men Cedar Rapid?. Iowa,
learned of the report and dis
covered that Mrs. Smith had
vanished shortly after col
lecting S9S0 in settlement for
i Minister Gives Sober
I Warning to Grooms
METS GIVE BONUS
Longview, Was h.-(UP)-Pat
Lambert, 18-year-old catcher
from Mark Morris High
school here, has signed a
bonus contract with the New
York Mets, Dick Wilson,
Northwest scout for the team,
said today. Lambert will join
Santa Barbara of the Class C
California League.
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Misoula, Mont. - fUPIl - Mon
tana State university's Mike
Buckley was named to the
1962 All-America ski team
Tuesday. Buckley is from
Yakima, Wash. He is a junior,
majoring in pre-dentistry.
Graham Speaks on
Child Discipline
Chicago -flJPH- Evangelist
Billy Graham told a crowd
which included street gang
members Tuesday night "God
never intended that young
people should be disciplined
by the courts, but by their
parents."
Graham, addresing 36.000
persons at McCormick Place
in the 14th meeting of his
Greater Chicago Crusade,
urged parents to give up the
"cheap glitter of modern liv-1
ing and offer their children
Christian guidance.
Among the throng, which
brought to nearly 460.000 the
number of persons attending
the revivals thus far, were 350
members of various South
Side youth gangs, crusade of
ficials said.
The officials said Nathaniel
Unger, a gang leader who
made a "decision for Christ"
last week, sent the youths to
Tuesday night's meeting.
The protestant evangelist
said "The parent is the only
God-ordained superior
youngsters.'.'
injuries in an auto accident. Bradford Englan(J alpp
They learned that she had or-, The Rev. Charles Manchester
dcred dentures from an Ot- has refused to marry any
tumwa. Iowa, dentist but nev- jniore bridegrooms who need
cr picked them up. courage to walk up the aisle.
A search for her body be-j "At least half the bride
gan. After several fruitless grooms smell like a brewery
excavations, the body was land walk to the altar a little
found yesterday in a 26-inch 'bit tipsy," he said. "If I had
deep grave near the north-1 a couple of whiskies or a few
east corner of the house in beers the bride and groom
Hedrick, Iowa. i would take a dim view of it."
PROMOTED
Curtis E. Hopkins, son ot
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hopkins, (
Old Stage rd., Mcdford, has
been promoted to lieutenant
colonel in the U.S. Air Force, j
He is now assigned as com- j
mander of the 906th Air Re-!
fueling Squadron at Minol
AFB, N.D. The colonel, who is
a Medford High school grad
uate, entered the service in
1943.
Communist Leader
Praises Pope John
Warsaw - HOT - Polish Com
munist party leader Wlady
slaw Gomulka Tuesday
praised Pope John XXIII for
what he said was his anti-war
policy.
"The anti-war attitude of
the head of the Catholic
Church coincides with the
peaceful policy of the socialist
countries," Gomulka told the
Polish Peace Congress.
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try in a Strategic Army Corps
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Peyton, a rifleman in the in
fantry's Company C, entered
the Army in September, 1961,
and received basic training at
Ft. Ord, Calif. He attended
Mcdford High school.
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