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PAGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Wednesday. February 24. 19(50 Former Model Accused Of Murdering Husband DETROIT (AP) - "No, It isn't rue," the pretty widow screamed "How can they do that when they know it's not true. I didn't kill Bill." Nelle Lassiter, 38, was near hys terics Tuesday when suddenly she wai charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy in the bludgeon-shooting ot her wealthy husband, Parvin (Bill) Lassiter, Gordon Watson, 44, friend and business associate of the slain suburban Royal Oak car dealer, was named in a similar warrant. The silver-blonde former model held in jail without bond, was to be arraigned today before subur ban Dearborn Township Justice John L. Mokersky. Watson was arrested In Los Angeles where he had been work uig since November. He said he would waive extradition and "go back to Michigan and clear it up. Girl Killed; Youth Held BILLINGS, Mont. (API - A teen-age boy was arrested at his noma Tuesday after officers fol lowed a snowy trail of blood and footprints from the home of a slain 15-year-old girl two blocks away. Detectives said the boy, also 15, wore clothes stained with blood. They quoted him as saying he had fallen and bloodied his noso while walking Monday night. It was then that blonde Judie And erson, a popular high school soph omore, was stabbed and beaten1 to death while alone in her par ents' eight-room home. Juvenile authorities look custo dy Of the boy on a petition filed by County Atty. William J. Speare and signed by Disl. Judge Charles B. Sando. The .fudge and juvenile officers refused to say whether charges have been filed. The boys' Identity Is protected Under Montana law which re quires that minors not be named in juvenile court cases. The . slender, curly-haired youngster was described as a cas ual acquaintance of the girl. 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Hicks, Jones and Charles W Nash, all of Chattanooga, Tenn. were brought to trial last week on first-degree murder charges Jones pleaded guilty to second- degree murder last Thursday Hicks entered a similar plea Tues day. First-degree murder is pre meditated. Lassiter was killed after re turning from a business flight The state said he was met at the airport by the three men, taken to a lonely spot, beaten and shot to death. His body was found in a field near Willow Run Airport The prosecution maintains Hicks set up the killing by offering the other two a $500 fee and whatever money would be found on the body. The car dealer was known to carry large sums of money but had only $.120 the night he was slain. State police Lt. Howard Whaley said his office had been convinced from the start Mrs. Lassiter and Watson were involved. He said po lice got a break when Jones entered his guilty plea. Whaley said money apparently was the motive in Lassiter's slay ing. Under the victim's will, Mrs. Lassiter would inherit at least $100,000 in assets, plus the couple's $50,000 home. The Lassllers came to Detroit from Murray, Ky. She is the daughter of Henry Rhodes of .Murray, a hog and cattle buyer Lassiter had been a drover and truck driver for Rhodes. The couple married 19 years ago. The Lassiter estate, filed in Oak land County Probate Court, amounts to roughly $107,000. Most of the money the car dealer left in trust to "my beloved , wife, Nolle." Graham Talks To 30,000 SALISBURY, Rhodesia (UPfl- American evangelist Billy Graham told a meeting of local clergymen and missionaries Tues day that the so-called "beat gen eration" sprang up because many young people have lost- (heir ideals. Despite this, however, interest in the Gospel in America was greater among college-age groups than any others, Graham said. "Many of the ideals a varsity student had a few years ago have crumbled," Graham said. "That's why we have the beatnik genera tion which says the world is noth ing." About his mass meetings, Graham said he knew "the pit falls and criticism of them," but there was something about a mass meeting that brings his lis teners spiritually and psychologi cally closer to God. The North Carolina Baptist min ister later in the day preached before 30,000 persons while a thun derstorm raged all around. BABY GIRL HOLLYWOOD (AP' - It's a baby daughter or TV actor Nick Adams and his wile. Their first child, named Allison Lee, was burn Tuesday, 7 pounds 1 ounce. for DELIVERY! of excellence! "DENNIS THE.MENACE" 'Tkats funny; every Km ewr Basin Boaters invite the public to a crab feed at 7 p.m. Friday, February 26, at the Airport Cafe, Klamath Falls municipal airport. Tickets are available from any club member and will be on sale at the restaurant. Shirley Brannnck, Veterans Ad ministration contact officer, will explain old and new pension laws to all veterans and widows who receive VA pensions at 8 o'clock tonight at Fremont School. Boyd W. Casper, son of Mrs. Lcunie E. Casper, 615 California Avenue; and whose wite, Marietta, lives at 41106 Avalon Street, recent ly arrived in Germany where he is a member of an engineer com pany. Ho entered the Army last September. Klamath Mineral Club will have a regular meeting Thursday eve ning, February 25, at the Naiior. al Guard Armory on Shaaia Way. Bring your agate specimens to the meeting as they will be the sub ject for discussion. Refreshments will be served. Public is invited. Mr. and Mrs. George Salisbury, 324!) South Sixth Street, learned last night in a telephone call from their son, Wayne, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, that he had been promoted to Specialist Fourth. Mrs. (iladys Samples is eager to contact talent for the Golden Age Chili. Anyone who plays an in.slrumr.it, sings, or has other tal ents, please phone her at TU 4-5847 or call TU 4-9006 or TU 4-5923. Bill Mayhew will call for the Merry Mixers' square dance in their Pelican Cily hall Friday, Feb ruary 26, starting at 8 p.m. La dies please bring doughnuts. Kuh-vlpw PTA will observe Founders Day at the school Thurs day, February 25. The meeting will open at 2:15 p.m. following an executive board meeting at 1 n m. Numbers on the Drociam will bo by a boys' ensemble, girls' en semble and a mixed chorus. Quota Club members should re member to phone reservations for the annual Woman of Achieve ment banquet at the Pelican Cafe. Friday, February 26, to Joy Rolph. TU 4-6259. not later than Thurs day. Dinner time will be 6 p.m. The Midland Community Club will meet Thursday, February 25, at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Helen Hubbard on Miller Island Road. Members are reminded to get the surprise package ready for the rummage sale to be held in Klam ath Falls early in March. Visitors welcome. Mrs. Kilith Wiard, 2705 Wiard Street, will he hostess to mem bers of the Friendly Circle for a noon potluck on Thursday, Febru ary 25. Carol rrrswell, 1135 Lowell Street, will be. hostess to recent graduates of A.U'W, 8 p.m. Wed nesday. February 24. Nancy Smith Herald anbeto Kl.m.tn r.llf. Orefon Serving. Southann Oregon and Northern California PuhM.hed daily except Saturd.e tor South.rn Oregon Publishing Company Mam at Etplanad. Phon. ri)rdo 4-SI11 FRANK JENKINS. Editor RILL JENKINS. Managing tdltnr FLOYD WYNNE. City Editor Entered a. .eeand cla. matl.r at tha poat office at Klamath rail.. Oragon. on August 30. 1906. under act of Congr.u. March S. 179 Second-claa. poat.g. paid al Klamath ran. Oregon, nd at additional m.tllnp offlcea. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier 1 Month Montha t SO 111 SUM I so I M is no 1 Year Mail - In Advance 1 Month Month. 1 Year , Carrier and Dealer. weak day. copy M Sunday., copy . IDC UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATED PRESS AUDI1 miREAU Or CIRCULATION Sunaerther. not receiving delivery of their Herald and New., pleaae phon. TUsedo e-gni before PM After T PH. rhonp Maurice Miller Cir culation. Manager at TUaede e4Tsa. CITY BRIEFS this one is locked will give the program on "The Farm Policy." Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, founder and for many years executive sec retary of the Oregon TB and Health Association, is convalescing from an illness and would appre ciate hearing from her friends here. Cards will reach her at the Lovejoy Rehabilitation Center, 933 Northwest 25th Street, Portland 10. Mrs. Dunbar recently received word of the death of her son, Al lan. Yacht Club Crab Feed will be held Friday, February 26, at the club house. It is planned for members and their families. Serv ing will start at 7 p.m. Members are reminded to make reservations by calling the club immediately. First Prhvbrlan fhiirrh Wnm. en's meeting, 10 a.m. Thursday, February 25. Take a sack luncn. The Wcslcyan Service Guild of the First Methodist Church will have a chili-vegetable soup lunch con Saturday, March 5, in the church basement. The public is invited. Serving will be from 11:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 85 cents per luncheon. Congcr-Falrvlew Home inten sion Unit will meet at 10 a.m., March 4 in Joan's Kitchen at the fairgrounds for a' lesson on soap and detergents. Take a sack lunch and soaps. The Girl Scout Sing scheduled for February 26 at Mills School has been canceled for the month of February. Orb Mystery Said Solved WASHINGTON (AP) - The De fense Department thinks it has solved the mystery of the mystery satellite: It probably is part of a Discoverer rocket that was sup posed to come back to earth but didn't. The department said Tuesday it came to this conclusion after con tinuing study by Navy and Air Force tracking stations. The ex istence of the silent satellite, tum bling in a nearly polar orbit, was announced Feb. 3. There was much speculation about it, including theories that it was a Soviet spy satellite or that it was a tiny natural moon nobody lud noticed before. The Soviet Un ion denied having anything to do with it. The Defense Department an nouncement said "it is believed this vehicle most probably is the ejected recovery capsule of Dis coverer V launched into polar or bit in August 1959. This capsule was programmed to be ejected downward and back ward by a retro-rocket which im parts to the capsule a velocity of about 1.300 to 1.400 feet per sec ond with respect to its carrier rocket." Frolicsome Doe Smashes Window SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) lt wasn't a bull in a china shop but a doc in Margaret Logan's dress shop. The frolicsome female charged in through a window Tucsdav. scampered among the dresses and knocked Miss Logan down. It tried to jump through a floor-length mir ror and left its hoof prints on wall-to-wall carpeting. Finally Miss Logan opened the door." The deer returned to the nearby hills. TROUBLESOME RAZOR KARLSTAD, Sweden tlPD-A television station ran a newspaper ad Tuesday promising listeners it would install anti-interference de vices to eliminate the static caused by a man who lives next to the station's transmitter and uses an electric raior. Ex-Con, Dying Of Cancer. By MARTIN HEERWALD SEATTLE (UPIi - "I'm dirty and messed up. I'll come out as soon as I wash my hands and change my shirt." That's what Earl W. (Buz) Sawyer, 31, an ex-convict who realizes he is dying of cancer, telephoned police when they sur rounded a South Seattle home Tuesday and fired tear gas into the attic where Sawyer had re treated. When Sawyer, charged with the $7,000 holdup of a Spokane, Wash., supermarket, seemed to be tak ing his time, police phoned him and asked what was delaying him. 'I'm having a short, quick drink," Sawyer replied. "Then I'm going to put on my coat and come out." The short, stocky parolee, be lieved to have but a year to live with leg cancer, then walked out with the guns of two dozen po licemen and a battery of televi sion and flashing still cameras aimed at him. Soon handcuffed, Sawyer chain smoked cigarets although he was coughing from the effects of tear gas and his bloodshot eyes streamed tears. Sawyer's bushy hair was carrot red, the result of a dye job his woman friend, Connie Moses also known as Connie Enriquez didn't gel to finish because police busi ness came first. Connie, 27-year-old woman with long police record for drunken and disorderly arrests, also was taken into custody to be asked why Sawyer was in her home and what she knew of his ac tivities. Police had been watching the woman's bungalow for some time. A neighbor, Mrs. Betty Fuller, was sent to Connie's home as an agent" on the pretense of bor THE MOST DIABOLICAL KILLER WHO EVER BAFFLED SCOTLAND YARD! a iiiammniii mi M1.MMMtI1l,MMMMM.,.,,.MM . H ' The swinging purse ... the swaying hips ... the sensuous body, then, the sudden glint of a knife ... a choked scream . . . fleeing footsteps and over and over he would repeat his brutal, compulsive act of killing! st.mnjLEE PATTERSON EDDIE FEATURE TIMES: "Jack Th Ripper". 7:10 and 10:05 "TKt Big Night" Shown At 8:40 Only Doors Open Tonite At 6:45 P.M. rowing a cup of sugar. Mrs. Ful ler managed to leave the house about an hour after police had surrounded It. She told police that Sawyer, also wanted for Civil Rights Proponents Withhold Debate Shutoff WASHINGTON (AP) - Civil rights advocates today withheld any move to shut off Senate de bate in hopes that other pressures would overcome the resistance of Southern foes. For the time being, the principal effort apparently will be directed at wearing down the Dixie forces by longer and longer Senate ses sions in an election - year battle now in its second week. Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex) and Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen (R III) joined Tuesday in serving notice that round-the-clock ses sions may start Monday in a drive to bring civil rights legisla tion to a vote. Lengthening sessions were in prospect for the rest of this week. Tuesday the Senate was in ses sion for more than 11 hours, be fore quitting at i0:ll p.m. The Southerners' chief strate gist, Sen. Richard B. Russell (D (ia) said they would combat round-the-clock sessions with every rule in the book. Russell protested that other bills had been debated for much longer periods without similar efforts to bring pressure on their opponents. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-NV) told newsmen he knew of no plans now to try to cut off debate. Similar word came from an aide of Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill). Javits and Douglas are among the chief sponsors of civil rights proposals, advocating even U1 LIU BYRNE BETTY McDOWALL EWEN e?s era 1 At fi i Surrenders To NW Police questioning about a $5,000 super market robbery here Saturday, was "heavily armed" and had crawled into the attic. But as things turned out, po- stronger measures than the Eisen hower administration program now pending before the Senate. Before any attempt to invoke the cloture, Javits said, he wanted to see whether a vote could be forced through round-the-clock sessions. Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D-La) said bluntly that, if 24-hour ses sions are ordered, he will at tempt to bring all committee hearings and other Senate busi ness to a standstill. Holding the floor at Tuesday night's session, Sen. John Spark man ID-Ala) attacked the ad ministration proposal for court-appointed referees to oversee regis tration, voting and vote-counting in areas where systematic discrimi nation against Negroes is found. Sparkman said the plan, cover ing state and local as well as fed eral elections, would pave the way for federal "snooping in state af fairs." Sparkman spoke after a 92-page speech by Sen. James O. East land (D-Miss), who called the referee measure "a Republican proposal to control elections in the South." RADIATOR STOLEN OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - It was ice cold here Tuesday, but motorist Henry Harris noticed his car engine running too hot. He stopped, checked under the hood, and reported to police someone had stolen his radiator. SOLON SB--'- -sv-3t - "WW. ;.vij fte-w.iii Uhvi.. flKiSiJ"-"" AND-A Timely Story of Today's Youth! lice found only a .38 caliber pistol which Sawyer said wasn't his and an air pistol which had the ' ap pearance of a .45. Sawyer was suspected, of being a member of a holdup gang. Five other ex-convicts were arrested last week and held in the city jail here. One of them, Gordon A. Graham, 28, was charged along with Sawyer in the Spo kane robbery. The four others were being held for investigation. Sawyer has been in and out of the Monroe State Reformatory on burglary convictions and parole violations since 1954. He was pa roled again last month, at which time reformatory doctors said ha was suffering from a rare form of cancer, Seattle detective James A. Hanson said Sawyer probably would lose his leg within a year and his life soon after. Hanson said Sawyer was aware of his dim prospects. PLENTY OF FREE PARKING SPACE g MURDER 1 CAN BE S FUN! 4T.. ., ' GLENN DEBBIE I FORD REYNOLDS I he GA IE B0 I M, CARL REINER I imJOHN McGIVER-OtmiStopt I
