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Supreme Gouri Declares State Prayer in Schools Illegal Former Marine Confesses laying Two Young Girls - Morris Plains, N.J. - IUPD- Jamcs Vance Jr., who broke down and admitted the brutal lovers' lane slayings of two pretty teen-age girls, told po lice he was driven into a norm cidal fury when one of his victims called him a liar The 18-year-old ex-Marine who was honorably discharg ed from the service after re. ceiving psychiatric treatment, Sunday confessed to murder Ing the two Morris Plains girls, Noreen Buckley, 17, and 15-year-old Margaret Ann Kennedy. Police said it was Margaret Ann's charge that Vance was a liar that sent the slender crew-cut youth into a rage and triggered the crimes. In his confession, Vance In sisted the girls had asked him to drive them home from the Colonial Luncheonette In Mor ristown last Wednesday, the night of the slaying. Delay Highway Noted for 238 Traffic Traffic will be delayed for periods of up to one hour Wednesday, June 27, on High way 238 between Jacksonville and Applegate, according to representatives of the Oregon State Highway department. Crews will be moving tele phone poles preparatory to the rebuilding of the highway. The work could possibly continues into part of Thurs day. Provisions will be made for emergency vehicles, It was explained. 300 Pound Bear Killed Hillsboro - IUPD - A 300 pound black bear, which wan dered into a strawberry patch was shot and killed at Art Hendrickson's farm on Dixie Mountain Saturday. Vance said he agreed. Then the girls asked him to take them to the lovers lane where he had wrecked a car in a recent accident. The girls said they wanted to see the car. But the car was not there because police had removed it earlier. Vance, who had a reputa tion among his schoolmates for telling wild stories, said Margaret Ann called him a liar when she didn't see the car. He then picked up the tire iron and hit her. Vance said Noreen tried to flee, but he caught up with her and beat her to death He was arraigned Saturday afternoon In Morris Township Policeman Captures Hospital Escapees Arlington, Ore. - IUPD - An Oregon state police pa trolman captured five es capees from the Eastern Washington State hospital at Cheney after a high - speed chase west of Boardman ear ly Sunday. Patrolman T. Haven Jones spotted the five in a car stolen from Medical Lake, Wash., going west on U.S. Highway 30 and gave chase. The fugi tives, all from the maximum security ward of the hospi tal and considered extreme ly dangerous, pulled their car off the road and attempted to flee through the sagebrush. Jones hod all five round ed up by the time help ar rived. They were held in the city jail here for Washington authorities. State police Identified the men as Clarence Thomas, Richard Humphries, Donald Ballou, William Reid and Lawrence Braun. They es caped Saturday afternoon. ONE DAY Kodachrome & Ektachrome SERVICE! See Our Used and Shop-Worn Cameras ANDERS PHOTO SHOP 232 E. Main 772-5646 Municipal Court. Although he had been nervous at a Satur day morning questioning ses sion, he appeared composed as he was charged with bludgeoning the girls to death "willfully and with malice aforethought." Frank C. Scerbo, Morris country prosecutor, said Vance called out from his Jail cell and confessed the murd ers because "he wanted to get the matter off his chest." Move To Bring Thornton Info Probe Criticized Salem -IUPD- A Republican state representative from Multnomah county described the attempt to inject Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton into the Camp Wlthycombe inves tigation as "cheap" and "po litically motivated." Rep. Bob Chappel (R-Port-land) criticized the suggestion made Thursday by State Rep. Richard Eymann (D-Mohawk) that if Gov. Mark Hatfield did not call Thornton into the in vestigation it would be tan tamount to a "whitewash." Thornton Is the Democratic nominee for governor against Hatfield. Last week, Hatfield ordered the state police to investigate the disappearance of $6,000 worth of property at Camp Wlthycombe, an Oregon Mili tary Department reservation in Clackamas county. Chappel, a Portland city police detective, said Ey mann's suggestion was a de liberate attempt to interject politics into the matter. "Obviously Eymann lacks confidence in the elected offi cials of his own party, spe cifically the district attorney and sheriff of Clackamas county," Chappel said. Both the D.A. and sheriff are Dem ocrats. Chappel said while the law does not give the attorney general power to conduct a criminal investigation on his own, "there is sufficient pow er in the statute for the at torney general to consult with, advise, or direct the dis trict attorney if he is Interested." jlilfeTfe Dovnlovn "til 1 1 ill Thru Muni HSWuH 'mmmmmmmmBBHNnQIKfiNBCSEmmmlt I SENSATIONAL REPEAT SPECIAL! Imported white sheets. 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Black wrote the majority opinion and said that "by using its public school system to en courage recitation of the Re gents' Prayer, the state of New York has adopted a prac tice wholly inconsistent with the establishment clause (of the First Amendment)." He said the court agrees with the contention of par ents who opposed the prac tice that the establishment clause was violated because the prayer was "composed by government officials as part of a governmental program to further religious beliefs." With spectators in the court room sitting in rapt at tention, Black cited the words of James Madison that "It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties ..." . The dissenter in the opin ion was Justice Potter Stew art. Justices Felix Frankfur ter and Byron R. White did not participate. Black said, "It has been argued that to apply the Con stitution in such a way as to prohibit state laws respecting an establishment of religious services in public schools is to indicate a hostility toward religion or toward prayer." "Nothing, of course, could be more wrong," he said. But he added: "It is neither sacrilegious nor antireliglous to say that each separate government in this country should stay out of the business of writing or sanctioning official prayers and leave that purely relig ious function to the people themselves and to those the people choose to look to for religious guidance." The decision came as the court cleared out a backlog of cases on the final day of its 1962 term. In other major decisions handed down today, it: -Struck down that part of California's health and safe ty code which punishes addic tion to narcotics except when administered by licensed per son. Writing the majority opinion, Justice Potter Stew art said it was unlikely that any state "In this moment in history would make It a crim inal offense to be mentally 111, or a leper, or to be af flicted with a venereal dis ease." This applied to the drug statute, he said. -Clarified its obscenity test and at the same time set aside an order barring from the malls copies of three maga zines said to appeal to homo sexuals. Justice John M. Har lan wrote that although the magazines can be described as "unpleasant, uncouth and tawdry," this is not enough to make them obscene. Agricultural Official Admits Proposal For Estes To Keep Cotton Allotments Washington - IUPD - An Ag' riculture Department official has admitted recommending against his better judgment that Billle Sol Estes be al lowed to keep his cotton acre age allotments, Secretary Or ville L. Freeman said today. The official is Thomas H. Miller, acting Southwest area director of the department's Agricultural Stabilization and Con servation Service. He made the recommendation to the direction of a superior who since has resigned. Freeman said he had or dered that Miller be repri manded. No Direct Penalty A department official said the reprimand does not car ry any direct penalty. He said it would become a part of Miller's employment rec ord and would be considered if Miller came up for a pro motion or transfer. At the same time, an assist ant secretary of agriculture in the Eisenhower admini stration denied that he ever contacted anyone in the de partment In behalf of Estes. The former official, James A. McConnell, told House in vestigators he "never even heard" Estes' name mention ed while he was with the de partment. As for Miller, Freeman said In a statement that the offi cial now states that the rec ommendation he made was "contrary to his own Judg ment, and that It was made at the direction of Emery E. Jacobs." Jacobs, former deputy ad ministrator of the depart ment's Agricultural Stabiliza tion and Conservation Serv ice, was Miller's superior at the time. Jacobs resigned April 3 after testimony In Texas linked his name with the Estes case. The House Investigators called McConnell to check on charges of a link between Estes, Commercial Solvents Corp. and the Agriculture Department. McConnell became an of ficer of Commercial Solvents Corp., New York, after he re signed as assistant secretary in December, 1955. He said the first time he heard of Estes was at a Commercial Solvents board of directors meeting Nov. 24, 1958, when 'the board passed on a pro posed line of credit for Mr. Estes." Previous testimony by com pany witnesses before the in vestigating s u b c o m mittee showed the firm loaned Estes $900,000 late in 1958. Estes used $225,000 of the loan to go into the grain storage busi ness. He used the remainder in connection with his ferti lizer operations. The subcommittee is trying to find out if Estes received favored treatment from the Agriculture Department in his grain storage operations. It also will look for possible conflict of Interest. Estes received his financ ing In grain storage - money to buy grain elevators - from Commercial Solvents Corp. The firm also sold Estes mil lions of dollars worth of fer tilizer and extended him mil lions more in credit. Protest Boat Sails For Testing Area Honolulu - (UPO - The pac ifist protest boat Everyman II and its faithful compan ion, a Coast Guard cutter, sailed the Pacific Ocean to day headed for the fringe of the U.S. nuclear testing area at Johnston Island. The cutter was there to make sure the Everyman and its three-man crew stays out of the danger zone. The Coast Guard had orders to keep hands off unless the 28-foot ketch ventures within the test area. Dr. Monte Steadman, San Francisco, skipper of the Ev eryman, said he would sail to the edge of the Johnston Is land zone and not beyond. He and two other Californi ans, C. George Benello, Ber keley, and Franklin Zahan, Pomona, are making the voy age to protest U.S. nuclear testing. Stocks Come Under Selling Pressure New York -IUPK- The stock market came tinder new sell ing pressure todny. Some blue chips recovered part of the opening losses but Texaco, Union Carbide and Procter & Gamble showed losses running past a point in the industrials along with Norfolk Western In the rails and Public Service Gas in the utility column. Nearly all the leading steels and motors were off fraction ally along with the chemicals and many of the oils. Beck man rose l'i while IBM dip ped around 2',j In a mixed list of glamor growth Issues. A number of drugs were down at least a point, among them Abbott Labs, Sterling, and Smith, Kline & French. In cosmetics, Revlon dipped Hi on news of n government price-fixing suit. Pre-Schoolers To Have Swim Class Swimming classes for moth. ers and pre-school children will begin Tuesday, June 26. I at 10:15 a.m. in the local YMCA. The class is limited to 20 mothers with their children. First stages of the class will teach water adjustment. The course will also Instruct water safety and will teach mothers how to teach small children to swim and use life Jackets. Further Information may be obtained by calling the Salem Man Heads Legion Department Seaside -WPD- A. C. Friesen of Salem was elected depart ment commander of the Ore gon American Legion organi zation Saturday. Friesen, an employee of the State Tax commission, suc ceeds Charles Draper of Al- Dany. Norman Happel of McMinn ville was elected vice com mander. Reelected were Tom Stough ton of Portland, finance offi cer; Morton Booth of Albany, chaplain, and Percy Freeman of Portland, historian. About 5,000 persons attend ed the state convention. Regional Edition Page 2-A MedfordJTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1962 Foreign Briefs U.A.A.. RUSSIA SIGN LONG-TERM PACTS Moscow-iUPIi-U.A.R. economy minister Abd Al-Munim Al-Qayiuni left Moscow for Cairo today after signing long term trade and payment pacts, the Soviet news agency Tasi said. BRITISH ENVOY IN ROME FOR TALKS Rome-ttlPII-Brlliih Lord Privy Seal Edward Health arrived In Rome today for talks with high Italian officials concern ing hit country's projected entry Into the European common market. REUNIFICATION DEAL WOULD BYPASS U.S. Frankfurt, Germany-iTPII-The tiny right-radical German Reich party, a minor splinter political goup, Sunday pro posed a European deal with Soviet Russia by-patsing the United Slates to attain the reunification of Germany. CUBAN SPECULATORS FACE PRISON TERMS Havana-lTluCuban food speculators will be sent to prison for up to six months under a new law announced by Premier Fidel Castro's government. An announcement Saturday night said that anyone who buys more than 23 pounds of agricultural products in a week or hauls food In a vehicle that does not belong to the slate or a food producer will be considered a speculator. If you need a SUM of money for a SUMMER vacation, whisper the sum to us. Then pick up your cash. CITY FINANCE COMPANY 185 E. Main St. Phone: 432-2431, Ashland Life insurance available on all loans at low group rates 2522 TO 150022 McConnell was a director of the company at the same time he served the Agricul ture Department as a consult ant, according to government records. The subcommittee planned to question McConnell on his activities in behalf of Com mercial Solvents during the time he was on the compa ny's board while also serv ing as a consultant to Ben son. 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