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; ! ; 3 I PAGE TWO HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON TUESDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1958 Multiple Slay Suspect Says He 'Just Flipped' SAN . DIEGO, Calif. (AP) -Thomas Pendergast stared at the lanky, pimply-faced youth who had just confessed slaying Pen dergast's wife and four children. "Why did you do it?" he screamed. "They were all I had in the world." Young Carl Eder slumped in his chair at the police station. His mouth opened and shut several times but no sound came out. Finally he blurted: "I ... I didn't want to, Tom." The meeting between Pender gast and the 16-year-old runaway New York youth he had befriended came Monday night after Eder had been captured in a beach community a few miles north of San Diego. Police had been looking for him since Friday when the bodies of Mrs. Lois Pendergast, 37, and her four children were found in their home. The mother had been shot, the children slashed and stabbed with a knife. The 6-foot-3 teen-ager, whose description had been widely broad cast, was recognized by a resi. dent of Mission Beach and ar rested by an off-duty policeman and a lifeguard. After a brief show of defiance the boy started crying and admitted he was Eder and that he had killed Mrs. Pen dergast and the children. "DENNIS THE MENACE"' DOORS OPEN :30 P.M. ENDS TONIGHT ! sum IVES 6VPSY .Mstm Vi0Eiirjfs ROAD Imi RAGING INFERNO OF WAR! WHERE KIDS LEARNED TO KILL OR BE KILLED - SQUAD "i 'I just flipped," his captors quoted him as saying. At the ban Diego police station. officers said they got-a detailed confession from the youth Pender- ast picked up as a hitchhiker six weeks ago and took into his home because he felt sorry for him. They said Lder told them he became angry because one of the children, Diane, 4, was making a lot of noise. He stormed into the bedroom and threw the girl on the floor, cutting her head. Mrs. Pendergast rushed up, took the child into the bathroom to bandage her and told Eder to call a doctor. Instead, the youth got a pistol from the garage and came back and snot the mother. He killed Diane and her brother Allen, 2, by cutting their throats with a hunting knife. And when David, 9. and Tom, 6, came home from school he killed them the same way. He was waiting outside when Pendergast came home from his job as an aircraft worker and forced him to drive him toward San Diego before the father had a chance to enter the house and find out what had happened. He left Pendergast at a service station in San Diego. About the man who had befriended him, he said: "1 didn't want to kill him. He's been real good to me." hder said ha had been sleeping in a ballroom closed for the winter since Friday. He was spotted while walking on the boardwalk near the ballroom. The San Diego Union telephoned Eder's parents in Irondequoit, N. Y.. a suburb of Rochester, and reported in a copyrighted story that his father Karl Eder said he never wanted to see the boy again, l m glad they got him, the father said. "I don't want to see that boy no more. I don't want to see him ever again. And the youth s grandmother Mrs. Martha Sadra told the Union's reporter, "The only thing I wish is that they hadn't found mm alive. Young Eder showed little' emo tion until he was confronted by Pendergast at the police station. Then the grief-stricken father screamed at him: "Why, oh, why: My little Diane ... My little Allen My little Tom ... Mv little David ... Why?" Eder flushed, his jaw drooped and tears streamed from his eyes. Masons Schedule Installation MAL1N John H, Freitag will be installed as worshipful master ot Mann Masonic Lodge, No. 194, A.F. & A.M. at a public installa tion, December 17,-in the Masonic Temple at 8 p.m. Other officers to serve during v.i.a will be Kobert victonne, sen ior warden; Robert Trotman, jun ior warden; Ted A. DeMerritt, treasurer; Howard Henderson, sec retary; Axel K. Felt, senior dea con; Thomas Chatburn, junior dea con; Norman Jacob, senior stew ard; Elmont Kenyon, steward, and Cecil Zeidors, tiler. Installing officers will be Vaclav Kalina. master; Homer Depuy. marshal; Bernace Wilson, secre tary; Warren Fruits, chaplain, all past masters of Malin Lodge. Harvey Clugston, retiring mas ter, will be master of ceremonies. Entertainment will include a pi ano solo by Lucile Gray and a coronet solo by Ray Biggers, mem ber of Klamath Falls Lodge, No. 77, A.F. & A.M. When xxj picked me up. ya suereo a coupla . PtGKM E6SS I FOUND IN THE PARK. Gunston Hall, Home Of Biff Of Rights Author, Is Now National Shrine Senator Mike Mansfield Terms Budget Adequate WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-MonO today viewed an 80-billion-dollar federal budget as big enough for next year. But he said Congress won't parcel out the money just as President Ei senhower wants. Mansfield, assistant Senate Democratic leader, served notice that the newly strengthened Dem ocratic majorities in Congress will put a stamp of their own on fur ther government outlays. The Montana legislator spoke in an interview after Republican congressional chiefs spent Mon day in a legislative and budget preview at the White House. The seven GOP leaders came away from the session with Eisen hower, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and agency heads saying the administration is drawing up a balanced budget calling for rec ord peacetime spending in the new fiscal year starting next July 1. This year's outgo is estimated at $79,200,000,000, about 12 billions above the government's antici pated income. There was no indication of any tax cut proposals next year. In fact, there was talk of a possible penny-a-gallon tax rise on gaso line and another penny increase on first-class mail. Defense spending would be held near its present 4-billion-dollar rate, some of the White House conferees said. On legislation, the GOP leaders spoke of a moderate civil rights program, labor reform, paring down veterans' compensation, housing, social security and water resources bills. Sen. Styles Bridges (NH). chair man of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, said "the wild spend ers in Congress" will be to blame if the Treasury runs into heavy red ink. "We're not going to run wild," Mansfield said, declaring that 80 billion dollars should be enough to run the government another year. "I am sure we can find places .total budget requests by several vhere savings can be made." billions." However, the Democratic Iead- ;r said, his party members will iave some program of their own .0 push. "In the last two sessions we voted substantially more than :he President asked for defense, health and welfare," Mansfield said. But, over-all, we cut the Dependable Coverage MAYFLOWER AUTO INSURANCE VERN W. EMLEY Bn ffto Stftttt. ,. Offle Phn t-KSB "ill ttk Worker Says He Was Fired Because He Liked Chief By JOSEPHINE E. HARPHAM EUGENE Gracious Gunston Hall, in Virginia, the home of George Mason, author of the Vir ginia Declaration of Rights, which became the basis for our Bill of Rights which was added to the Constitution 166 years ago on De cember 15, is now one of the most famous historical shrine homes in America. The custodians of this American shrine are the National Society of the Colonial Dames of Ameri ca. By their deep patriotism; fi nancial assistance; and their taste ful, capable and intelligent re search they have restored Gunston to its original loveliness. They have been most ably assisted by the Garden Club of Virginia. The mansion is located 25 miles south of Washington. D.C., n f f Route 1, and on the Shirley High way. It overlooks the Potomac River in Fairfax County. It is open to the public every day from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (except Christ mas Day). In 1750 George Mason IV mar ried a beautiful Maryland girl named Ann Eilbeck. It is said that she was also the first love of young George Washington. In 1755 the Masons started to build their cherished home, which was com pleted in 1758 and named Gunston Hall, after an ancestral estate in Staffordshire, England. William Buckland. t h e architect, was Texas Fire Kills Four Children WASKOM, Tex. (AP) Four children, from 22 months to 8 years old, were burned to death Monday when fire destroyed their frame home. Neighbors were turned back by (lames when they tried to enter lhe Negro iamily's home. Consta ble Tommy Coleman reported the children s mother, Mrs. Ruby Lee Mack, said she left the children alone while she went for firewood. Labor Terms School Unfair PORTLAND (AP)-The Multno mah County Labor Council Mon day night placed a Roman Catho lic high school here on its unfair list. "Parents who are members or supporters of organized labor should withdraw their children from school," said Glenn Balake, the council president. . The school placed on the unfair list is Central Catholic High School, which has an enrollment of 965 students. Its principal, the Rev. Willis Whalen, said he had no immedi ate comment on the council action. Blake said the action was taken because the school refused to sign a contract with the Building Service Employes Union, elected the bargaining agent by the school's janitors in a 3-1 vote. "Nearly all of the students are from working families," Balake said. He added that pickets might be placed around the school later this week. brought from London as an in dentured servant to create one of the most beautiful homes in Colo nial America. "Gunston Hall is a plantation house of brick, a story and one half, with steep pitched roof flanked on either side with tall chimneys, and the overall design Georgian. William Buckland, highly skilled as a carver, and with an unsurpassed knowledge of classical . ornament, used satiny white pine and seasoned hardwood for the interior. Also used were oversized handmade bricks for the walls and limestone for the steps, foundations, and corners. Each room has unusual beauty and rich ness, and reflects exquisite taste notable among them, however, is the famous Palladian - drawing room, witn us superb carvings; also in addition the first Chinese Chippendale room in America. Of great interest too is Mason's lit tle sitting room, where may be seen the table on which the Dec laration of Rights was written. From the unique south porch. which was modeled after a design ot a ureek temple on an old com, are seen tne Potomac River be yond and the quaintly beautiful gardens in the foreground. The lat ter are of 18th Century des en. and they contain the gorgeous box wood hedges 250 ft. long, 12 ft. high planted by Mason himseif; the lovely terraces, and a pano ramic view of the surrounding countryside. Near the beautiful home h'e loved so well, George Mason lies buried beside the wife to whom he gave a life of devotion. For all time he will remain one of our greatest Americans, never again to be the "forgotten man" of history, because of the dedicat ed efforts of the Colonial Dames of America and of the Garden uub of Virginia. I -L -4 .111 .1 -I pOOHS CfS.H 6;3Q P. M. C!scpi5-mo MMa ,'Af j Starts WEDNESDAY ' Tom micvcv .. MOM I ' l Vt- EWtLLRooNEY Mjckev 'a SHAUSHNESSyi Vim MERRLL JNO MATURE i r JVIIirt T1TTTV EUGENE, Ore. (AP Because he was a Republican and liked Ike, D.F. Pickert said, he was fired a's a part-time caretaker by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore). "It was just the idea I was a Republican that was too strong for him, said the 66-year-old Pickert, who had worked part- time at Morse s farm near here 25 years. He was paid $1 an hour, Morse said In Washington, D.C., that he did not dispense with Pickert's services because the caretaker is a Republican but because he had not been loyal to my friendship. Pickert said at his home here that last October, after Morse had criticized President Eisenhower in a speech, he remarked to Morse that: "Eisenhower has forgot more about war than the common man will ever know. 'I never saw a man get so mad," Pickert said. The dis charge, he said, followed. "I campaigned for him in 1944 and 1950, but in 1956 I was neither for him or against him. He must Toastmistresses Schedule Party The Mt. Mazama Toastmistress Club will entertain at the annual Christmas party Thursday, Decem ber 18, at 5:30 p.m. at the Wil lard Hotel. Delia Baty will have the open ing; Fanny Mae Thompson, flag salute; Ingeborg Pex will be topic- mistress and Floy Johnson, toast- mistress. Reba Martz will be in charge of gifts; Edna Howell will present a recitation; Doris Abernathy will present a ballet number; Eva Cook will be in charge of music; Virginia Fuller, St. Nicholas, and the Christmas story will be told by Eunice Bunnell. The "Night Be fore Christmas" will be given by Eva Morey. Leigh Fenning will be in charge of refreshments. have thought I was against him since I wasn't for him," Pickert said. After Pickert made the com ments Monday, the Eugene Reg ister Guard said it received a telegram from Morse criticizing the newspaper for running a story about the discharge. Morse's criticism was complete ly unfounded, the newspaper said, because up until then it had never run such a story. In its Monday afternoon edi tions, the newspaper printed the telegram on its front page. It said: "I am amused by your story that I discharged an employe be cause he supported President Ei senhower. If you had quoted the entire letter that I wrote that em ploye instead of excerpting out of context, you would have been journalistically fair. "I did not dispense with my employe's services because he was a Republican, as I pointed out in my tetter to him. I dis pensed with his services because he had not been loyal to my friendship." After the discharge, Pickert said, he received ' a letter from Morse which said: "I'm very sorry it has become necessary to end ' our working relationship. However, I have found from experience that when one has such strong differences with my political views which you expressed to others, loyalty and friendship is sacrificed. HUNTERS JAILED Two Klamath Falls men were sentenced recently to 10 davs each in the county jail in lieu of $25 fines after they entered pleas of guilty to hunting migratory water- iowi witnout Oregon hunting li censes. Allison Eugene Thomas, 22, and Kenneth Dale Baldwin, 33, appeared before District Judge D. MS. Van Vac-tor. Oregon state police game officers and U.S. game management agents appre hended the pair hunting west of Merrill. ChAn Fak Cifte : L JIIVp VI Will J MEN REALLY f f c appreciate Free Inside Parking SMITH i AUTO SUPPLY I 919 Klamath Sports Pilots Name New Chief Harold "Bud" Cloake has been elected president of the Klamath Falls Chapter. Sportsmen Pilots of Oregon. Serving with him dur ing 1959 will be Maury Clark, vice president; Merle Rush, sec ret ary-treasurer. The new nead of the pilots will announce his board of directors and committees in the near fu ture to facilitate plans for 1959 projects including Aviation Week, LAY AWAY FOR CHRISTMAS! APEX . World's Most Powerful Home Cleaner! APEX Strato-Cleoner 1 9Q9S Modl 5502. 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ELECTRIC GRIDDLE West 27 Bend 95 Also A Complete Selection Of - Sunbeam Small Appliances Cosco Kitchen Utility Carts VERN OWENS' Cascade Home Furnishings 124 North 4th Phone TU 4-8365 air tours, the proposed weather station and other ideas (or ex pansion and programs. Election was held following the S iner at the Yacht Club IS Tl f l f III t potluck dinner liie niKiii ui ucvruiuer 10 wmui guests. Mrs. Harold Cloake, gen eral chairman of the dinner was, assisted by members of the SPOi a Auxiliary. Police Probing Kingsize Thefts SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (API King-sized thefts being investi gated by police: A Irtirk. trailer riff, with a fliant construction tractor on the trail- W er. stolen from a truck terminally parking lot. Iff A 16-foot house trailer towed ft away from the Wilmot Mann K home. S A 10-foot pine tree, uprooted g from F. F. llinlzc's lawn andlg found propped on the front porch g of a University of Utah fraternity The nicest gift of all! Famous MOJUD NYLONS Nont finer than famous Mojud! In all the new winter shades . . attractively 0'f boxed. Give three pair to make her Christmas com plete. $1 35 Pair Three Pairs $3.85 $165 Otheri ' Balr 3 Pairs $4.80 (he fJow! Don Bazaar 4480 So. 6th Next to Oregon Food SOUR MASH lift L"!! 86 PROOF- There's sM time to giveKitwk)fs iest! MLL" MILL Give.. .serve ...enjoy TASTES SO RICH . . . SWALLOWS. SO SMOOTH Long tlie favorite Bourbon of many of your liest friends,- Hill and Hill is now handsomely gift wrapped to lie doubly welcome at Holiday time. Kentucky Bourbon at its Best Truly American Wlttikey Q rui nit u. iinsnu. iimumi i mtmn itsimits rutuii cbwmt-um'ecu jmitn 1011101 miun-u itf. - T uouse. I W M M A W JtH ; IV a
