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10 A SUNDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Recount Declared Void; Vilburn Is Elected Sheriff St. Helens (UPD Two ctr- came out the winner by 41 , County Clerk Robert Wei- cuit court Judges have ruled that a recount o votes In the Columbia County sheriffs race is void and declared Re publican candidate Roy S. Wilburn elected. Judges J. S. Bohannan and Glen Hicber agreed with Wil burn's charges that the bal lots had been tampered with between the canvass after the Nov. 6 election and a recount Nov. 20. Wilburn led Democratic in cumbent Spencer Younce by 300 votes, 4.273 to 4,173 in the initial canvass. Younce then demanded a recount and votes, 4.214 to 4.173. wood Wilburn immediately filed ! "We observe there was a pivil mil a.uino n,ai th i flagrant lack of security" in recount be declared void, lie handling the ballots after the election J u ri B e Bohannan Kumciiuca inai some Daiiois said. Testimony had indict had been altered and other de stroyed. Columbia County Dist. Atty. David B. Williamson said immediately after the de cision he will continue an in ted one door to the vault where the ballots were kept did not lock and the key was readily available to the other. Younce said the recount was not his idea. He said two vestigation in an attempt to i of his friends came forward find out who was responsible on the last day on which the for the fraud. recount demand could be The two judges and one of made and offered to put up Younce's attorneys, Marshall the $340 necessary for filing Hjclte, were highly critical of I it. After some discussion he the election procedures of agreed, Younce said. Win KISSES from Your MRS. with this New HOOVER Portable the vacuum cleaner with everything... INSIDE ATTACHMENTS FOR EVERY NEED! TELESCOPING WAND! NEW TUFFLEX HOSE (always attached) KING-SIZE BAG! LIGHT! CONVENIENT! ATTRACTIVE! the most powerful HOOVER cleaner ever built! 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Robert McLaughlin, defending the 25-year-old San Diego, Calif., airman at a mili tary hearing here, said the of fice of special investigation (OSI) agents here working on the case pressed Theodore Thomas Dickie, 22, Boise, un til he denied killing Mrs. Nancy Joy Johnson, 22, and her son, Daniel, 2',2, last Ap ril 9. Agent John W. Peters test ified Dickie told him Dec. 4 he had murdered the wom an. But on Dec. 7, Peters said, Dickie told him he went to Mrs. Johnson's home the night of the murders and found her dead and Anderson in the liv ingroom crying. Deny Murders McLaughlin claimed then ' tliat once the agents got I Dickie to deny the murders j their Investigation of Dickie hailed. I Anderson was released - from a civil charge of mur dering Mrs. Johnson only last month, but the Air Force said it was unsatisfied and charged Anderson with premeditated murder of both the mother and child. Subsequently, the Idaho civil authorities charg- ed Dickie with the two mur ders. Dickie also is charged with the rape-slaying of a 10-year- old Boise girl on Nov. 9. A civil rights battle in the Anderson case is pending in a federal district court at Boise because Anderson charged the OSI coerced him into confessing by using psy- cnoiogicai methods. Prospects Brighten For Citrus Growers Lakeland, Fla. IUPD- Weary citrus workers and vegetable growers who spent Friday night battling frost ended their vigil Saturday morning with assurances from the Weather Bureau that they won'thave to repeat the per formance. Preliminary reports indi cated that the freeze of three days last week has affected about R0 per cent of Flori da's 163-million box citrus crop, valued at about $500 million. The federal - stale frost warning service at Lakeland said farmers had a relatively easy time with the cold Fri day nighl, especially in t h e north and central portions of the citrus belt. Forecaster James Georg said the sub-freezing temper atures lasted only a short time in most districts before the mercury began rising. Hardest hit were the farm ing areas along the lower east coast and Everglades dis tricts, where temperatures ranged from 25 to 3a degrees last night. Georg said there was heavy frost in the area. m Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Register and Tribune Syndicate 1962) Blue Heron Is Among Most Statuesque of Water Birds There is a solitary, sentry always alone, that stands by the edge of the swamp or poses statue-like in the shal low water usually just at the edge of the dividing line be tween near-shallow and deeper channels. Recognized as about the most statuesque of water birds, this sentry is the great blue heron. If he has seen you, and probably he has, he becomes a part of the land scape: not a muscle moves, not a feather flickers. He will watch you as well as the water at his feet, ready to leave or spear a fish, which ever happens first. If you mark carefully his exact location by fixing in your mind a water weed, a stone or any other permanent object, and return tomorrow or a week later, you may be surprised to find he is still in the same place. You might al most believe he has stood there all the time you have been gone. Of course he has moved several times, may even have gone back to his nest in the top of some tall tree, but he has come back to fish. That one particular place is his fishing spot, and unless he is loo frequently disturbed or the fishing prospects de teriorate to about the vanish ing point, he will always be there, for he knows that there is the one place where a meal of fish is reasonably assured. If you are a careful observ er, or interested in the reason for things, you might investi gate that particular location. There is a very good reason why he selected that one par ticular snot. There may be a channel close where the bird can stand in shallow water and reach over into deeper water, or it may be a regular path where small iish ire- quently swim past to avoid what they know to be danger ous waters a little offshore. But by an instinct wiser than any planning the big bird has figured out where the chances are the best for the procurement of food. We might hate to admit it but that heron is pretty familiar with the habits and character istics of the fish or the toads or frogs on which it depends for survival. Should you disturb him, he will lean forward, pull in his neck, spread his wings and, with deliberate, unhurried wing strokes, fly away over the water or the swamp. He 1 will wait until you are gone ! or show no hostility toward him, then fly back to take up 1 his position in his fishing j place. Once settled in the old familiar place, he again as-1 sumes the shape of a statue, 1 ever alert and always with the neck cocked and the long, sharp beak ready to spear the unwary fish that sooner or later will surely come along. One of the strangest habits of the great blue herron is his 1 desire to be alone. Never will you see two of the birds to gether. He is a solitary figure, neither a recluse or a bach elor, but he works on the formula that "he fishes best who fishes alone." Aloneness to the blue heron is a virtue; he stands alone, as docs his mate, a solitary figure against a background of water or marshgrass. But all the time he stands there, or walks carefully in the shallows after a running fish, he knows, away back in the far recesses of his mind, exactly where his mate is standing, also alone, and in tent on her own fishing. If he is disturbed, and leans for ward to take off, he utters his harsh cry of alarm. She may be as much as a quarter or even a half mile away, but she hears the call; she too abandons her fishing spot and takes to the air. Listen closely when he flies Sams Valley Program Slated Sams Valley The annual Christmas program at Sams Valley Elementary school will be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium. All grades one through six will participate. Parents and pa trons of the school are invited to attend. "A Visit From St. Nich olas" will be the title of a comedy pantomime that will be presented by third grade youngsters. "The Talking Christmas Tree," a novelty Christmas play, will be given by fourth, fifth and sixth graders. First and second grade stu- for shortly you can hear the answering call; she is telling him she has heard and is taking what measures are nec essary to avoid whatever dan ger is abroad in the marsh land or the lonely beach. dents will sing songs. The' chorus will sing appropriate Christmas numbers in con nection with the play. The new sets of bells will be used and the fourth grade tonette band will perform. Christmas treats will be presented the youngsters when Santa makes his an nual visitation. This poition' of the program is sponsored by the Sams Valley Parent Teachers association. Funds, for treats were derived from . a PTA chili supper given Dec. 1 that was a success. On Thursday Mrs. Jean Smith, school cook, will pre pare and serve a Christmas dinner with all of the trim mings in the school cafeteria. There will be the usual lunch charge. Room parties with room mothers in charge of arrange ments are planned for Wednesday. Missile Research Offered to Britain Paris 0JPII The United States has offered to turn over to Great Britain free of charge more than $400 mil lion worth of research mate ria) on the Skybolt missile if Britain decides to "go it alone" in producing it, in formed American sources said Saturday. 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