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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.
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'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.
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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
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Worker Says He Was Fired
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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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parking lot. Iff
A 16-foot house trailer towed ft
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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
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