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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. They
attended differont high schools.
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Mrs. Lassiter was arrested In
the chambers of Circuit Judge
Joseph Rashid. She was waiting
to appear as a prosecution wit
ness against three men the state
contends murdered her husband
last April 6.
Five others were named as co
conspirators but not defendants in
the charge against Mrs. Lassiter
and Watson. They include Roy C
Hicks, also a Lassiter business
associate, and Richard W. Jones,
who the state said was the inter
mediary in arranging the car
dealer's death.
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
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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!
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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
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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
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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.
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