fuesdav, N'ovrmbrr II, 1963
HERALD AND NEWS.
Cancerous Leg
Despite Fears,
Cleveland, Ohio upi -
Christine Simko, the 14-year-old
who led from the hospital last
week in fear of the amputation
of her right leg to save her
cancer . threatened life, today
was in satisfactory condition
after undergoing the surgery
Monday. I
Christine's mother, Lillie,
who opposed the operation, said
after the amputation was com
pleted that her daughter would
"fret and fret."
The hemi-pelvectnmy re
moval of tlie leg at the hip
was performed by a team of
surgeons at Metropolitan Gen
eral Hospital in a six-hour op
eration. A malignant tumor
threatened Christine's life.
- Physicians said it would be
about five years before it would
be known if the operation was a
success. Mrs, Simko, S3, a di
vorcee, said she didn't under
stand how an artificial limb
could be fitted to her daughter
without a hip, but doctors as
sured her a waist attachment
could be used.
Mrs. Simko's opposition to
the operation resulted in a Ju
venile Court ruling granting
permission for the amputation.
Mme. Nhu
Sets Trip
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.
(UPl South Viet Nam's Mme.
Ngo Dinh Nhu had airline reser
vations to go to Rome today for
a reunion with her three young
er children.
But the former first lady of
the troubled Asian nation com
plained of feeling ill late Mon
day and whether or not she
makes the trip hinged on tlie
diagnoses of the Beverly Hills
doctor w ho w as called in to see
her.
Dr. John Sharpe was called
to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Allen Chase where Mme. Nhu
and her 18-ycar-old daughter,
Le Thuy. have been staying. Her
hosts said she "felt very, very
tired and weak."
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Klamath Falls. Oregon
Removed
Protests
Christine was under the court's
jurisdiction because her mother
had reported her unmanageable
alter several instances of run
ning away from home about
year ago.
Referring to court and social
workers. Mrs. Simko said,
"Now they will always know
where she is; she will be in a
chair."
Doctors said the operation
went well and there were no
complications. They said no
sign of further spread of the
cancer was detected.
When Christine ran away
from the hospital last week aft
er the court granted permission
for her operation, she went lo
her mother's apartment. She
was found hiding in the base
ment there the following day
and was returned to the hos
pital. High Court
Refuses
Hoffa Plea
WASHINGTON (UPD The
Supreme Court refused today to
examine the claim of Teamster
President James R. Hoffa that
he was indicted on charges of
jury tampering in Tennessee by
an improperly constituted
grand jury.
The brief order let stand
lower federal court rulings that
this legal issue should not be
brought up at this stage in the
proceedings. It thus cleared the
way for the trial to take place.
A federal grand jury charged
Hoffa and six .others with ap
proaching jurors and their rela
tives in the fall of 1962, offer
ing cash and other inducements
to acquit Hoffa in a trial then
taking place. The trial, involv
ing Taft-Hartley Act charges,
ended in a hung jury.
A federal district court in
Nashville had set Oct. 14 for
the jury tampering trial when
holla challenged the grand
jury. He contended that Ne
groes, Catholics. Jews, manual
laborers and members of or
ganized labor were improperly
excluded from the panel. He
also contended that the "sug
gestors" who proposed names
of grand jurors were not a true
cross-section of the community.
Hoffa also said he didn't get
a fair break because the "sug
gestors" knew the grand jury
was especially established to
consider the case of one "who
lias been the target of an un-.
precedented, well - publicized
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LITTLE RELAXATION Eugene Thompson poses in liv
ing room of his St. Paul home as he relaxes by reading a
magazine. After a long holiday weekend Thompson, who
is accused of the March murder of his wife, returned to
the court room today. Thompson's wife decorated the
room in blues and greens just befre she was slain. A pic
ture of his late wife is in the background. UPI Telephoto
Thompson Trial Turns
To Details Of Murder
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. (UPD
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and fact foundation begins in
Hennepin District Court today.
The Thompson "hire-a-mur-dcr"
trial moves from the te
dium of the life-insurance policy
blank to the gory business of
the arena of violent death.
Timler Eugene Thompson, the
insurance man's bonanza, now
sits to hear the state's detailing
of the botched brutality that
switched his wife's slaying from
alleged pretended drowning to
sadistic bludgeoning and stab
bing. The state contends Thompson,
a 35-year-old criminal lawyer,
went into the hire-a-murdor
market and put someone else in
the driver's scat. This, the state
charges, was after an 11-month
spree of buying insurance on
her life totaling $1.055.000 with
himself as beneficiary.
The insurance testimony in
the first-degree murder trial
consumed the first week of evi
dence in the stale's case against
the baby-faced little towhead, a
former Presbyterian elder and
man of impeccable social stand
ing in the Twin City of St. Paul.
The stale now turns to the
terror of the crime itself. It will
attempt to prove the motives
were money (the million in in-
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tal death) and mistress (a gay,
allegedly, palling divorcee who
told Thompson she was tired
of his "vague" promises and
got from him a request to give
him just. 11 months more to
raise "enough money for us to
live on." I.
But the enormity of the
crime's execution will occupy a
major portion of the prosecution
effort from now on if they can
get the grisly pictures of the
savagely killed women and
some of the testimony about her
condition into the record. She
was so badly beaten that the
condition of her face turned the
stomachs of hospital doclors.
" Among the upcoming witness
es was Mrs. Harry C. Nelson,
into whose home Carol Thomp
son staggered around 9 a.m.
last March 6, a knife blade
broken off into her windpipe,
her face unrecognizable. Anoth
er was Dick W, C. Anderson,
34, a hard-drinking salesman
w ho was reported to have con
fessed performing' the actual
slaying after bungling his
chance to make death appear
the result of an accidental fall
and bathtub drowning.
The state will attempt to
prove Anderson was hired by a
middleman named Norman J.
Mastrian, a college mate of the
Thompsons who used cash
passed to him by the defendant.
Power Granting Proposal
Splits Council Three Ways
In. ted Press International
VATICAN CITY UP1-U.S.
bishops at the Ecumenical
Council split three ways today
in a vigorous debate over a
proposal to gi ant ecclesiastical
law-making powers to church
groups like the U.S. National
Catholic Welfare Conference
(NCWCi.
James Francis Cardinal Mc
Intyrc of Los Angeles vche
hcmenlly opposed the entire
idea as a threat to papal su
premacy. Joseph Cardinal Rit
ler of St. Louis indorsed it as
an effective way to promote de
centralisation of authority in the
Catholic Church.
Albert Cardinal Meyer of Chi
cago, speaking for 120 of the
approximately 160 U.S. bishops
at the council, took a middle
position.
He said national conferences
of bishops should have author
ity to adopt binding legislation
on matters which have been
delegated to them by the Pope
fur decision.
Cardinal Mclnlyre, one of the
most conservative members of
the U.S. Catholic hierarchy,
said he favors national confer
ences of bishops only if they
are completely voluntary, like
the NCWC at present, and have
no power whatever lo force any
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Justice Department Fights Grand Jury
WASHINGTON iL'PD The
Justice Department sought a
court order today to block an
Alabama grand jury from sub-
County Tax
Deadline
Approaches
The deadline for paying per
sonal and real property taxes
is next Fric'jy, Nov. 15, Asses
sor Clyde "Hap" Caldwell re
minded Klamath County tax
payers today.
Taxpayers who pay their fees
on or before Nov. 15 are en
titled to a three per cent dis
count. Those who pay their tax
es after tlie deadline will be
assessed a small i n t er e s t
charge, accrued quarterly, on
the balance due. Caldwell said.
The total revenues to be
raised in county taxes this year
amounts to $5,285,394.39, as dis
closed by Caldwell.
Generally, the tax burden is
considerably less this year than
it was in 19(2 for residents of
the county's 45 taxing districts.
Tlie overall drop in taxes is
primarily the result of an in
crease of some $2.5 million in
I lie assessed valuation of the
county which is up from $88. 1
million to SM.6 million since
last year. The effect of this in
creased value of the county is
to broaden the tax burden
among more taxpayers.
Of the 45 taxing districts, tax
es were down in all but one dis
trict, Caldwell said.
Bureau Appeals
For Sales Tax
SALEM (UPI) The Oregon
Farm Bureau Federation opened
a three-day convention here to.
day with an appeal for enact
ment of a state sales lax.
Farm Bureau President Har
old Beach told delegates the bu
reau previously had called for
enactment of a sales tax and
"that should be foremost on our
list of projects."
The Farm Bureau proposal is
closely aligned with a sales tax
plan of Hep. Joe Rogers, R-In-dependencc.
Resolutions asking for lessen
ing of governmental controls on
farms were to be introduced.
GETS EARLY STAUT
WASHINGTON (UPD Theo
dore C. Sorenscn, special coun
sel to President Kennedy, point
ed up a possible 1964 presiden
tial campaign issue Monday.
Sorensen told the Women's
National Democratic Club that
Kennedy had "devoted more
years to major elective office
than the leading three Republi
can candidates combined." He
listed Sen. Barry Goldwatcr,
R-Ariz., New York Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller and Michigan
Gov. George Romney.
individual bishops to abide by
their decisions.
Cardinal Rittcr, one of the
most liberal U.S. prelates, told
the council that "it Is false" to
assert that the national confer
ences would amount to an inter
vening authority between the
Pope and individual bishops.
He said concerted action on
the part of all the bishops of
a country is an imperative ne
cessity in these days, especial
ly on social and moral prob
lems. Rider urged approval of the
document before the council as
it stands.
Boat Capsizes,
Pair Survives
BANDON. Ore. (UPI) Two
Coast Guardmcn escaped injury
when their 14-foot aluminum
boat capsized in the mouth of
the Coquille River Monday.
Tlie men, wearing life jackets,
drifted in the o c e a n about a
mile down the coast line and
were washed onto the beach
near here.
The were Larry Sims, 25, and
Martin Mas, 21, both stationed
at the Coast Guard Electronic
Repair Station at Empire.
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poenaing several U.S. officials
in an investigation of free
tramportation provided to Ne.
gro leader Martin Luther King
Jr. by tlie government.
The 6uit a.sked the federal
court to forbid six Dallas Coun
ty officials from using the
grand jury to "harass, frus
trate and obstruct" federal law
enforcement efforts in the coun
ty. In its request for tlie restrain
ing order, the government
charged that the grand jury
was part of a larger pattern of
attempted intimidation of poten
tial Negro voters in the county-
The suit was filed in U.S. Dis
trict Court. The grand jury had
subpoenaed seven Justice De
partment officials and a num
ber of Negroes active in voter
registration efforts in the county-Named
as defendants in the
suit were Blanchard McLeod,
solicitor of the Dallas County
judicial circuit; Henry Reese,
county solicitor; James G.
Clarke Jr., county sheriff;
James Hare, circuit court judge
in Dallas County; iM.H. Hous
ton, circuit court clerk; Rotiert
D; Wilkinson Jr., foreman of the
circuit court grand jury; (lie
Dallas County citizens council
and seven of its officers.
The subpoenas in question
were issued by the grand jury
Nov. 4. They called for the ap-
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MOSCOW (UPD-The Soviet
Union today announced it had
launched an unmanned artifi
cial earth satellite Monday and
preliminary data showed it is
operating close to its prescribed
orbit. ,
The offficial Soviet news
agency Tass identified the satel
lite as Cosmos 21.
"Scientific equipment has
been installed in the Sputnik lo
continue the exploration of out
er space in conformity with the
program announced by Tass on
March 16," the news agency
,said.
Tass then said the Cosmos
sctics of space vehicles was
designed to study radiation and
communication and prepare the
way for further manned flights.
Tass said Cosmos 21 was
"put on an orbit close to the
designed orbit."
U said the space vehicle in
itially completes a journey
around the earth once every
88.5 minutes at a maximum dis
tance from the earth of 142.1
miles and a minimum distance
of 120.9 miles.
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civil rights division Nov. 6 after
he admitted he lied when he de
nied loaning a government
rented car to a private citizen.
The car was used to drive
King from Birmingham to a
Negro rally in Selma and was
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