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.
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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.
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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."
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Bill of Rights
Freedom Said
To Be Violated
Washington - d'PD - The
Supreme Court ruled today
that the daily recital of an
official state prayer in pub
lic schools Is unconstitutional
because it violates the reli
gious freedom guaranteed in
the Bill of Rights.
The court's 6-1 ruling In
volved the state of New York,
which in 1951 adopted the
Regents' Prayer for use in lo
cal schools if desired. It was
not compulsory.
Justice Hugo L. 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.
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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.
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McConnell was a director
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The subcommittee planned
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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. It was during that peri
od - early in 1959 - that Es
tes got his first grain storage
contracts from the Agncul'
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