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wrizzly Bears Kill
1 Girls; Maul Boy
By CLYDE JABIN
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
JPI ) —The grizzly normally
?.lies his ferocious scientific
ame—ursus horribilis, the hor
ble bear.
But two of the usually pacifist
rizzlies turned killer Saturday
ight. They savagely chewed
ad clawed to death two 19-
ear old girls and mauled a
:en-aged boy.
Authorities today hoped to
uestion four distraught witnes
es and the youth, to determine
hat happened in the two
idely separated incidents, the
irst killings by bears in the 57-
ear history of the park.
The victims were two sum
mer employes on weekend
utings 35 miles apart. Julie
lelegson of Albert Lea, Minn.,
nd Michelle Koons of San
liego, Calif., were killed.
Park superintendent Keith
Jielson immediately ordered all
ourists out of the areas and
ent armed park rangers in
vith orders to shoot the
uspected killer bears.
Roy Ducat, 18, of Perrysburg,
Jhio, a companion of Miss
-lelegson, was clawed and
>itten by the bear that killed
rer.
His doctor said the youth may
>e able to disclose today details
>f the tragedy.
Miss Koons and four friends
vent on an overnight trip. They
lad just bedded down in
deeping bags when the killer
sear came sniffing into their
lamp.
Four of the campers, Ray T.
Sfoseck, his brother Ronald,
Paul Dunn and Denise E.
Huckle, all employed in sum
ner jobs at the park, jumped
from their sleeping bags and
climbed trees.
The Koons girl couldn’t get
out of her sleeping bag. Her
friends told authorities Michelle
seemed to ‘‘be trapped . the
zipper locked like it stuck.” The
bear dragged her out of the
area and partially devoured her.
The witnesses were so upset
they were given sedation and
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put to bed without being
questioned further.
Dave Cutler, deputy Flathead
County coroner who examined
the victims, said the Helegson
girl died “from loss of blood
and puncture wounds around
her chest. She was covered with
claw marks and bites—many of
them heavy.”
Cutter said the Koons girl was
“partially devoured . . . she had
large, gaping wounds over all of
her body.”
Ducat suffered both claw and
bite wounds. He was taken from
the area by helicopter after he
ran for help.
Romney Plans
3-Week Tour
Os Europe
By RICHARD HUGHES
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich.
(UPD—Michigan Gov. George
W. Romney, looking more and
more like a presidential candi
date, plans a three-week tour of
Europe next month which may
include stops in Russia.
Romney made the announce
ment Sunday after a tennis
match with Rhode Island Gov.
John Chafee that concluded
Romney’s weekend of relaxation
at his summer mansion.
Romney met with Chafee,
New York Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller and former Penn
sylvania Gov. William Scranton
reportedly to discuss his pres
idential chances.
The European swing, expect
ed to include Romney’s first
visit to Russia and possibly
stops in the Middle East, is
being tailored to bolster Rom
ney’s foreign policy credentials
—an area of some political
weakness.
Observers said the trip would
also allow Romney to bask in
the spotlight of international
news at a time when President
Johnson’s popularity, according
to polls is going downhill.
Still unannounced as a candi
date for the Republican pres
idential nomination in 1968,
Romney seems to be increasing
the tempo of his “long, hard
look” at seeking the nomination.
Chafee told reporters after the
gathering that they were
“devoted” to securing the
nomination for Romney.
Ilia
BOMMER
A dim light aids rescuers as they worked around the
clock to free 15-year-old Leonard Boyce.
Boy Rescued
From Trap In
Sandstone Well
By LLOYD D. LEWIS
WILLIAMSON, W. Va. (UPI)
—“Leonard’s toes look nice and
pink today and we’ll probably
send him home in three or
four days.”
That’s the way Dr. M. C. Ca
baltica described the condition
of Leonard Boyce, 15, who was
rescued Saturday after being
trapped under rocks and debris
for 24 hours in a sandstone
well near his home at Lenore,
20 miles from here.
Cabaltica said Boyce no long
er is on a liquid diet and is
“eating everything.” He said
nothing is wrong with the boy
other than several scratches
and a large bruise on his left
hip.
Taken To Hospital
Boyce was taken to William
son Memorial Hospital after
about 50 rescuers who toiled by
searchlights throughout Friday
night carefully brought him
through the partially caved - in
wall of the well at 5:15 p.m.
Saturday.
Boyce suffered from severe
frostbite of all ten toes, sever
al scratches and some bruises
after his tiring ordeal.
Willard Howell, 61, near
the well where Boyce was
trapped 15 feet below the sur-
Attorney Guilty
In Garrison Probe
By JAY McCUNE
NEW ORLEANS (UPD—A
five-man jury early today found
attorney Dean Andrews Jr.
guilty on three-counts of perjury
in connection with Dist. Atty.
Jim Garrison’s investigation of
the Kennedy assassination.
Andrews was being tried on
charges he lied to the grand
jury investigating the assassina
tion last March when he said he
could not determine whether it
was Clay L. Shaw, using the
name Clay Bertrand, who
phoned asked him to represent
Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas.
Andrews showed no emotion
when the verdict was an
nounced. Earlier while waiting
for the jury to return, he turned
to his lawyers and said,
“perjury, what away to go.”
Andrews was the first person
to be tried in connection with
Garrison’s assassination investi
gation.
Shaw, charged with conspiring
to kill President John F.
Kennedy, is the next person to
face, vowed, “There’ll never be
another well there again.”
Soon after the rescue, he had
bulldozers fill it, and the tench
through which Boyce was car
ried to safety, with dirt.
Proolng Efforts
Nine times during the rescue,
dirt and rocks caved in to pro
long the efforts. James Wol
ford, a correspondent for a Wl
liamson radio station and a
former Navy medical corps
man, gave Boyce three shots to
ease the pain and relax him.
He noted once that dirt was
-completely packed in around
Boyce’s head but said the safe
ty helmet he was wearing and
a wooden cylinder shielding his
head probably saved him from
being crushed by rocks.
Boyce’s father, Ben, 45, stood
guard at the top of the well
throughout Friday night, talk
ing to his son to keep him
awake.
“I was afraid if he went to
sleep, he’d die,” the elder
Boyce said. “He’s got more
nerve — he just wanted to live
so bad.”
Leonard’s mother, Faye, 41,
also stayed close to the scene
of the rescue with her other 10
children.
be tried in connection with the
investigation. His trial probably
will begin in September or
October.
Andrews faced up to five
years in prison. Judge Shea did
not say when he would sentence
Andrews, but attorneys in the
case said sentence might be
passed today.
Under Louisiana law bond can
not be posted prior to sentenc
ing.
Defense attorneys said the
case will be appealed as soon as
possible.
10 Killed In
Weekend Mishaps
By United Press International
A grinding head-on collision
near Eatonton Sunday night
killed a 17-year -old Eatonton
youth and hospitalized four At
lanta residents.
Billy Doster died in the crash.
His death raised the Georgia
weekend accidental death toll to
10.
Joseph Russell Pope, 17, of
Atlanta was killed Sunday when
he apparently fell asleep while
driving on a road near Carnes
ville. The State Patrol said
Pope’s car struck a bridge
abutment when It ran off the
road.
A Hiram youth, Wilburn
Wayne Ford, 16, was killed
while riding a bicycle on a
Paulding County Road. Ford
apparently pulled out in front
of an oncoming car and was
killed.
Troopers said Pitman Spen
cer Jr., 27, of Atlanta lost con
trol of his car and was killed
when it struck a steel obstacle
in the front yard of a DeKalb
County home.
Also Sunday, Robert Lee Bur
gess, 49, of Winder, died when
he lost control of his car and
it overturned on a Barrow
Sheriff’s Wife Slain
In Tennessee Ambush
SELMER, Tenn. (UPD — It
takes a tough man to ride herd
on the moonshiners and gamb
lers who flourish in the rural
red clay country along the Ten
nessee-Mississippi border.
Sheriff Buford Pusser is a
tough man.
A 6-3, 210-pound former wrest
ler, the McNairy County sher
iff had dodged death half a
half dozen times since being
elected three years ago. He had
been threatened as recently as
last month.
He dodged death again Satur
day, but this time his wife was
killed. Pusser escaped with a
bullet in the jaw.
Pusser got a disturbance call
at his home early Saturday and
his pretty, blonde wive, Pauline,
insisted that she accompany
him in case he needed help.
It was a trap.
As the sheriff’s car headed
down a dark county road, an as
sassin’s car roared up with its
lights off and blazing guns sent
lead flying.
“He said it sounded like a
bunch of machine guns opened
fire on him,” said Selmer Po
lice Chief Hugh Kirkpatrick.
By early today police had
questioned several suspects and
Kirkpatrick said, “We think we
know who’s behind it.” No ar
rests had been made.
Pusser, who made many ene
mies in relentless battle against
moonshining, bootlegging and
gambling, swerved his car for
the shoulder of the road when
the first volley rang out, but it
was too late. One of the first
bullets struck his 33-year-old
wife in the head, killing her.
The assassin’s car flew by
and Pusser, cradling his dead
Wife’s head in his lap, headed
for help.
The car returned, however,
and more shots were fired. A
bullet struck Pusser in the jaw
before the killer’s automobile
roared away for the last time,
leaving at least 11 bullet holes
in the sheriff’s car.
Tire burly lawman managed to
mumble a call for help into the
radio then fled for town. He was
found five miles from the shoot
ing scene, weak from the loss of
blood and in shock from the
grief of losing his wife.
Pusser, at 29 one of the
youngest sheriffs in the state,
was taken to a Memphis hos
pital where he was reported in
satisfactory condition.
Despite his age, Pusser was a
legend in the tough west Ten
nessee flatlands. In three years
he had been shot three times,
stabbed twice and run down by
a moonshiner’s car.
Time Limit On
$1.5 Million
Theft Runs Out
BOSTON (UPD—The Federal
Statute of Limitations on the
$1.5 million Plymouth mail
robbery, the nation’s largest
cash holdup, expires today. No
more indictments were expect
ed.
Three persons, two men and
an attractive blonde mother of
four, were indicted two weeks
ago in the Aug. 14, 1962, holdup
of a Boston-bound mail truck.
They are he only persons who
have been cnarged in the crime.
U.S. Atty. Paul F. Markham
said the federal grand jury was
not expected to sit today and no
further indictments were antici
pated. The state still has five
years in which to seek
indictments.
The federal government ad
mits it already has spent more
in investigating the daring
crime than the bandits stole.
County road south of Winder.
Three persons were killed in
Saturday accidents. They were
James M. Newman, 56, of Sa
vannah, who was killed in a
head-on collision near Eden; an
Austell man, Jack Durlin Mey
ers, 38, who died when his car
overturned on a Cobb County
road and John Lesley Stokes,
18, of rural Macon, who was
killed when his car ran off a
state road and overturned east
of Macon.
Sequin Tyler Curry, 6, of At
lanta and Howard Fudge, 34, of
Buena Vista, were pedestrians
killed in separate accidents in
their respective hometowns Fri
day night.
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State Briefs
Man Killed In
Fall From Tower
ROME, Ga. (UPD — James
Frank Story, 55, of St. Leo,
Fla. was killed here Saturday
when he fell 40 feet from a ra
dio station (WRGA) tower he
was painting.
Atlanta Firm
Gets Road Order
ATLANTA (UPD — The Mac-
Donald Construction Co. of At
lanta, was awarded to contract
to complete Atlanta’s Interstate
285 highway system. The seven
mile strip is scheduled for com
pletion Oct. 15, 1969. Total cost
of the highway system will be
about $13,405,028.
Michigan Man Gets
Rosa Parks Award
ATLANTA (UPD— Rep. John
Conyers, D-Mich., has received
the Rosa Parks Freedom
Award presented annually by
the Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference.
Dr. Martin Luther King, head
of SCLC, said Conyers, the first
Negro to serve on the House
Judiciary Committee, has been
"an outspoken supporter of a
peaceful resolution of the war
in Vietnam and has called for
drastic increases in the pover
ty war and other domestic wel
fare programs, especially in ed
ucation and housing.”
Wardens Told
Os Hazards
In Fire Check
ATLANTA (UPI) — Wardens
in most state and county prison
units today faced the task of
correcting fire hazards after a
state fire marshall’s report con
demned prison fire safety stan
dards.
State Fire Commissioner
James L. Bentley issued the
report which called 14 of the
state’s 97 prison units “critical”
fire safety hazards.
Included in the critical group
were the state’s three largest
prisons Reidsville, Alto and
Buford.
The fire inspection rated 26
other prisons as “high hazard,”
47 as "moderate hazard” and
10 as “low hazard.”
At Reidsville, the state’s larg- I
est prison, inspectors found
“defective and makeshift wir
ing, defective portable water
heaters made from scrap me
tal, fire extinguishers complete
ly non existent, no evidence of
a fire evacuation plan, no fire
alarm system” and various mi
nor defects. Similar defects
were found at Alto and Buford.
“The great majority of viola
tions are minor and can be cor
rected, but a substantial num
ber of discrepancies create ser-
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By Wayne G. Brandstadt, M.D.
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Good care of your baby’s
tender skin helps to prevent
rashes. Mothers often contribute
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Don’t dress your baby in
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This will take up excess
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ious hazards for men behind
bars,” Bentley said.
In addition to the three large
state prisons, inspectors found
critical hazards at county pri
son camps in Cobb, Meriweth
er, Jones, Coweta, Carroll, Cal
houn, Pike, Laurens, Walton,
Dougherty and Chattooga Coun
ties.
The two safest state prison
branches were in Chatham and
Macon counties. Eight country
camps were also in the low
hazard group — Colquitt, Chat
ham, Burke, Wilkes, Muscogee,
Sumter, Screven and Fulton
(Alpharetta branch).
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