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Youths Killed Bus-Car CITY EDITION Cloudy Eugene LANE COUNTY'S Guard (Weather Page 12) Report, NEWSPAPER 91st Year, No. 164 12 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Saturday, April 5, 1958 at the Entered as postoffice, Second Eugene, Class Ore. Matter Price 5 Cents (Register-Guard photo by Wolcott) FIVE DIE IN CAR-BUS WRECK Five occupants of this car were killed instantly when it collided with a Greyhound bus (at right) late Friday a half-mile south of Creswell. Killed were Donald K. (Buddy) Mathews, 16; John Louis Brodigan, 17, (both pictured above); Peggy Jean Work, 16; Deanna Gayle Oleson, 15, and Thomas Riley Huckabee, 21.

Nine bus passengers suffered minor injuries and were taken to Sacred Heart Hospital for treatment. Film Star's Daughter Kills Mother's Suitor HOLLYWOOD (P) Actress Lana Turner's 14-year-old daughter killed Friday night a handsome Hollywood underworld figure romantically linked with her mother. Police said brown-haired Cheryl plunged a knife into the Crane abdomen of husky Johnny Stompanato, 42, in a pink-carpeted of Miss Turner's home. Stompanato, an associate of gangster Mickey Cohen, died instantly. ACTRESS THREATENED Beverly Hills Police Chief Clinton Anderson said he was told that Cheryl stabbed Stompanato after he threatened her 38-yearold mother in a stormy scene in the glamorous blonde movie star's bedroom.

Cheryl, sobbing, serene, were taken to the and her mother, Beverly Hills station. Miss Tursecond husband n.d Cheryl's father, Stephen Crane, met them there. Cheryl booked on suspicion of murder and then turned over to juvenile authorities. She was given sedation and held overnight at the jail. Anderson said Cheryl and her mother told him this story: Stompanato, who returned from an Acapulco, vacation with Miss Turner March 19, went to Cuban Rebels Delay Drive Easter Sunrise Services to Be Held Sunday The public is invited to worship at an interdenominational Easter sunrise service beginning Sunday at 6:30 a.m.

in McArthur Court, or at 5:30 a.m. in the Willamalane Memorial Bldg. Springfield. The Eugene service, sponsored by the Eugene Ministerial Assn. and the University Religious Council, will feature Harry Dillin, president of Linfield College, speaking on "Because Christ Is Alive." The Springfield sunrise service, arranged by the terial association of that city, will feature Howard Larsen, minister of Springfield Christian Church, as speaker.

Other towns planning union sunrise services include Creswell, Cottage Grove, Harrisburg, Junction City and Oakridge. Catholics have scheduled Saturday midnight masses in their churches throughout the Emerald Empire. Participating in the nationwide "Operation Easter Carlift," the Moose Lodge members will transport people to church on Sunday. To arrange transportation, call DI 5-3021. HAVANA (P--Fidel Castro's "total, implacable war" against Cuban President Fulgencio Batista began Saturday as a war of nerves.

The nation was tense but relatively calm. The big push "to be free or to perish" as Castro put it in his declaration of war against the strongman President -may not come until after Easter holidays end Monday morning. There was also no sign of Castro's long-threatened call for a general strike. Rumors in Havana said the bearded insurgent leadwould issue the call from his er mountain hideout on Tuesday. claims 50,000 supporters would then pour into the streets, halt all commerce and do battle with the police and the army.

But the government, with backing of the powerful Cuban Confederation of Labor, has vowed Cere will be no strike. Workers have been authorized to kill anyone who urges them to walk off their jobs. Those who strike will lose their jobs permedently. threatened Employers it Chey close have been down their businesses. Castro's declaration of war went into effect at one minute past midnight but not a shot was heard in downtown Havana at that time and there were no reports of steppe Op rebel activity from anywhere in Cuba.

Crash 9 Others Injured In Headon Smash South of Creswell By DEAN REA Of the Register-Guard Two teenage girls and three young men were killed instantly when their car smashed headon into a Greyhound bus, injuring nine of the 27 persons aboard at 8:45 p.m., Friday, a half-mile south of Creswell on Highway 226. None of the bus passengers was injured seriously. Three were hospitalized and six received out-patient care at Sacred Heart Hospital. The dead were identified as: Donald Keith (Buddy) Mathews, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Hollis H. Mathews, 140 S. 17th Cottage Grove. Peggy Jean Work, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Vernon Work, Anlauf. Deanna Gayle Oleson, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Oleson, Curtin. John Louis Brodigan, 17, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Nial Brodigan, BB Box 8, Cottage Grove. Thomas Riley Huckabee, 21, Lindsay, who was visiting in the Mathews home. State police said it appears that the southbound car in which the traffic victims were riding was partially in the northbound lane when it collided with the northbound bus at the Market Road intersection. Driver of the fatal car was identified by police as 16-year-old Donald Keith Mathews of Cottage Grove.

The bus driver, who passengers said suffered a slight head cut, was identified as Gilbert Eugene Rich, 33, of Portland. (Kennell Ellis photo) JOHN L. BRODIGAN SP to Slice Freight Rates PORTLAND (P)-The Southern Pacific railroad Friday said it will cut its freight rates next month on lumber shipments from Oregon to California and Arizona. The reductions will amount to as much as 30 per cent in some cases, the firm said. E.

C. Ordway, the railroad's freight traffic manager, said the present rate for shipping a minimum of 50,000 pounds of lumber from Portland to Los Angeles is 95 cents a hundredweight. Under the new schedule the rate will drop to 81 cents, he said. In addition, a 69-cent rate will become effective on 60,000 pound shipments and 64 cents 70,000 pounds from here to Los Angeles. The rate of $1.25 a hundredweights for 50,000 pound shipments from here to Phoenix, will be lashed 97 cents.

The rate schedule is to be in May, Ordway said. More Stormy Weather Expected Along Coast FLORENCE The Pacific's play of power along the Oregon coast ended momentarily early Saturday but more stormy weather apparently is in the offing. Oswald Allik, lighthouse keeper at the U. S. Coast Guard Station at Heceta Head, said Saturday morning that the barometer was continuing to fall.

There is every indication that will regain some of its intensity by Saturday night, he the storm said. Swells which were running up to 20 feet heige Thursday and early Frida were back to normal Saturday. High tide Friday was 5 feet. Earlier, it was feared that the combination of giant swells and a relatively might cause the Siuslaw River to Pick up 05 00 Note DelVered Stump Blast Kills Farmer At Jasper A Jasper farmer, Floyd G. Miller, 66, was killed instantly while blasting stumps on his farm about 10:30 a.m.

Friday. Lane County Fred Buell said Saturday an autopsy showed that Miller died of a ruptured aorta, the result of the dynamite blast. Buell said that Mrs. Miller heard the blast at 10:30 a.m. husband.

and went in search for her The body wasn't discovered, however, until Mrs. Miller went to call him for lunch at 12:35 p.m., Buell said. The Millers had resided 15 years on a 200-acre farm in Edenvale Community on the south Jasper Road, one mile south of Jasper Bridge. arrangements are pendat Buell Survivors include his widow, Mildred; four daughters, Mrs. Nile Alexander of Monroe, Mrs.

Johnny Williams of Tuscaloosa, Mrs. Alvin Zweidorff of North Street, Mrs. Marley Dent, Roseville, Calif. Also a son, Marvin of Cottage Grove; mother, Mrs. Margaret Miller of Alhambra, sister, Mrs.

Clara Banks of Alhambra, and a brother, George, of LaSalle, Colo. At home are Mrs. Miller's children by a former marriage, James, Cecil and Joe Loggains and two girls, Peggy and Johnnie Loggains. Logger Killed ROSEBURG (P) A log rolled off a cold deck Friday and fatally crushed Keith Krewson, 25. He was working at a Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.

yarding area 35 miles northeast of here. Krewson lived at Sutherlin. BONN, Germany (P A new note from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was delivered Saturday. BUDDY MATHEWS Creswell Crash One of Worst On Record Friday night's tragedy near Creswell was the fifth auto accident in the Emerald Empire since 1946 in which four or more persons died. In December, 1946, eight died when the car in which they were riding crashed into a bus 11 miles north of Eugene on Highway 99.

Five were killed on Aug. 4, 1950, in a headon collision a mile south of Sutherlin. Eight others were injured. Five died Oct. 11, 1953, in a two-car collision at Judkins Point.

Two others were injured. On Feb. 3, 1956, four teenagers were killed when a car plunged off Highway 36 into the Siuslaw River two miles west of Mapleton. The year 1958 started out as one of the worst in recent Lane County history, with 21 traffic deaths so far. For the entire year of 1957, there were 29 traffic deaths in Lane County.

The year 1946 was the worst for auto fatalities in Lane year County since state police started a record system in 1944. In 1946, 45 persons died in the county. Another bad year was 1951 when 41 persons died. Levee Breaks; Farms Flooded SAN FRANCISCO -A major in the San Joaquin River break levee Saturday sent water spillof ing rich over ranch several land. thousand Stanislaus Sheriff Dan Kelsay said County the break-14 of Modesto threatened scattered farm families and livestock throughout the area.

The sheriff's office said there no chance the break could appeared be dammed Onediately. The land is most natural pasture, but includes alfalfa and clover fields. Large numbers livestock graze in the area. The break came as California, declared a major disast President Eisenhower last day, braced for still more Easter weekend rain. CO Auto Thrown 60 Feet The 1951 four-door sedan was thrown 60 feet from the point of impact to the west ditch bordering the southbound lane.

Police worked almost two hours prying the twisted metal to free the dead from the wreckage. The single-deck bus went out of control after the impact and stopped right side up in a shallow ditch at its left side of the road, according to state police. The car was a total wreck and the front and left sides of the bus were damaged. Tentative identification of the three young men killed in the mishap was completed two hours after the collision. Lane County Coroner Fred Buell, his deputies and state police established identity of the girls shortly after 3 a.m.

Saturday. Delay in identifying three of the victims resulted when two sets of cards found on the person of Donald Mathews indicated his name might be either Donald or his brother, Ace. There were no immediate clues to identify the girls, police said, and a number of tips from spectators were followed in tracing their identity. A relative of one of the victims drove from south of Cottage Grove at 2 a.m., to verify findings of the coroner and police. The accident caused the second highest toll in a single killed Lane County car-bus when their car collided with a bus 11 miles accident.

Eight passengers in an auto were in December, 1946 north of Eugene on Highway 99. A high school dance at Creswell was the destination of the Friday night. victims. At Cottage Grove, H. H.

Mathews said he had given the car to his son, Donald, earlier in the evening. "I didn't know about the accident until my other son, Ace, who was on the way to the same dance, saw the car in the Mathews said. her home Friday night and started berating her. Cheryl heard the argument and went into the bedroom. 'ILL STOMP YOU' "I'll get you if it takes a year, a week or a day," Stompanato raged at Miss Turner.

"I'll cut you up. I'll stomp you and if I can't do it myself I'll find someone who can." Cheryl went to the kitchen, picked up a 10-inch butcherknife and returned to the bedroom. "You don't have to take that, Mama," Cheryl said. Then she stabbed Stompanato, pulled the knife out of his body and laid it on a coffee table. Stompanato fell dead at the of a king-size bed.

Miss Turner telephoned her mother, Mrs. John Turner, and asked her to send a doctor. Cheryl telephoned her father. Chief Anderson said: "It seems that Stompanato had been unwelcome in the Turner home and resisted every effort of Miss Turner to discourage his attentions and to leave the house." has been seen in Hollywood night spots many times with Stompanato, but on their return from Acapulco she insisted there was MARRIED FIVE TIMES The five-times-married actress nothing to reports of romance between them. Cheryl came home from Happy Valley School at Calif.

Monday for Easter vacation. Anderson said on Monday heard her mother and Stompanato in bitter argument. The Anderson said, Cheryl asked for an explanation and her mother told her she was unhappy with Stompanato and afraid of him. Anderson said that on one occasion Stompanato beat Miss Turner. NOMINATED FOR Their return from Acapulco was in time for Miss Turner attending last week's Academy Award dinner at which Miss Turner was a nominee for an Oscar as best actress.

Joanne Woodward won the honor. Hollywood's famed attorney, Jerry Giesler, quickly joined Miss Turner, Cheryl and Crane at the police station. "This is justifiable homicide," he said. "There, of course, can be no trial because of the girl's age. It will be handled by Juvenile Court." But.

Cheryl was booked on suspicion of murder for the purpose LANA TURNER'S (Continued on Page 12) (AP Wirephoto) SORROWING MOTHER A tear falls from the eye of actress Lana Turner as she leaves the Beverly Hills police station early Saturday after he 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl, had been booked for the tabbing actress. of Johnny said Stompanato, recent companion of the Police Cheryl plunged a Stompanato in a pinkcarpeted bedroom of Miss Turner's home. Straight Stretch of Highway The injured were transported by Eugene Ambulance Service to Sacred Heart Hospital. None of those hurt is from County, The bus was traveling on a relatively straight stretch of the "old" Highway 99 from Cottage Grove to Creswell on a trip from San Francisco to Portland. Most of the nine bus passengers injured were riding in the front section of the bus, according 1 to Mrs.

Thomas A. Saunders, 66, Mrs. Saunders said she was riding in the right front seat Eureka, Calif. next to the aisle with her husband on her right. saw the car coming," she said while being treated at hospital.

"It looked like it was coming directly The toward the looked bus. was fast. I was hanging onto the bar across the happened so quick. It quite an impact. car like it coming front of the bus," Mrs.

Saunders said. of the passengers were asleep," she continued. "None "Some became panicky." The collision was heard by Mrs. W. B.

Nixon of Rt. 1, Box Creswell, who told a Register-Guard reporter she was talking 550, the phone when she heard a noise from the to her husband on impact. 'I Grabbed My Flashlight' it was my son stacking wood out on the back "I thought had fallen down," she said while talking to the porch reporter in the living room of her home located on a slight and it embankment above the accident scene. flashlight," she said. "Someone got.

the bus "I grabbed my the inside and the driver told me to call an door open from ambulance and police. didn't know, then, about the car." Nixon said she thought the mishap occurred about 20 Mrs. minutes before 9 p.m. The bus passengers appeared quiet, she said later. "They were real nice." of the passengers used Mrs.

Nixon's phone to call relaSome transferred to another bus and tives, she said. The passengers were many continued north toward Portland early Saturday, according to V. H. Switzer, Eugene Greyhound supervisor. The bus involved in the accident carried 26 passengers, including a baby, and the driver, according to with Switzer.

The baby Patricia Turner, who was riding was mother, Mrs. Myren Turner, 33, of Bandon, state police said. The baby wasn't hurt. List of Those Injured The three persons admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital where their 77, of 712 W. Farris, Eureka, facial conditions were listed Saturday as satisfactory are: Thomas Saunders, lacerations.

Runkle, 68, of N. 7th, Coos Bay, held for Mrs. Myrtle observation. Mrs. Nina Dawson, 58, of 9202 S.

Tacoma Tacoma, held for observation. Mrs. Runkle and Mrs. Dawson were released from the hospital Saturday passengers receiving out-patient treatment, and released morning. Bus were: Mrs.

Louise F. Curliss, 64, of 509 S. Spring Fortuna, bruises. Rindler, 36, of 396 Powell Vancouver, B. facial John bruises.

Mrs. Annie Amen, 66, of 3831 Eureka, leg abrasions. Mrs. Callie Saunders, 66, of 712 W. Farris, Eureka, bruises.

Bessie Keen, 58, Centralia, bruises. Mrs. Josef Enersberger, 27, of 1141 Comex Vancouver, B. slight abrasions. into low lying sections of downtown Florence.

The flood threat failed to materialize however. Pounding surf caused minor damage in a number of localities and littered the beaches with debris. Most local concern over storm damage involved the South Jetty, which was breached near High Fore Dune. An estimated 75,000 cubic yards of sand washed through the gap in the jetty and into the Siuslaw River, according to Siuslaw Port Commissioner Marshall Murray, The surf also upended heavy tables and deposited considerable debris at Devil's Elbow, a popular picnic and observation point on Highway 101. Winds accompanying the spring storm were strong in gusts but no steady gale force winds were reported.

A short power outage was caused by winds Friday which blew a tree limb onto a Central Lincoln PUD a transformer near Woahink Lake, south of Florence, according to Ralph Middleton, I manager. Hammarskjold Leaves Europe GENEVA (P Dag skjold flew back to U.N. headquarters in New after talks Moscow and London a three das meeting here with Foreign Minister Mahmoud the United Arab Republic. U.N. secretary general's talks with Fawzi presumably inIcluded border clashes this week between Israel and the U.A.R.G Syrian province, although the meeting reportedly had been scheduled earlier.

A communique issued after their final meeting Friday said only that they discussed Middle East and international affairs as part of Hammarskjold's normal contacts with SU.N. members..