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a APRIL 16, 1961, Lake Charles American Press TWO WAY A 5 Sign 00 MARI RETAIL CONFUSING SIGNS Strangers are are meant' to indicate two-way. traffic is to be confused by these two signs at permitted on Bilbo north of Lawrence, it a from reLawrence and Bilbo streets one which in- cent change, but who would guess dicates 1 two-way traffic in only one direction the signs. (American Press Staff Photo by and the other indicating one way traffic in Sam Guillory) the opposite direction. Actually the signs Social Problems Figure In Slaying of Housewife By DALE NELSON SEATTLE, Wash, I(AP) This is the stork. of a boy apd a woman who saw each other for the first and last time in a little corner grocery store.

His name Michael Andrew Olds. His mother was 15 and unmarried when she bore him. He has lived in 17 foster homes in his 18 years. A psychlatrist once said he had been "damaged more than the human personally can stand." The woman's name is Blossom Alta Braham. She was a former night club dancer who married a man she dated once, and corresponded with, throughout his service.

in -the. Navy. At-38, and with two children, she still was a pretty" woman. On the night of March. 28, Mrs.

Braham. entered Al Turner's cery near her home Seattle's Queen Anne HIll to' pick up. some tidbits for her husband. Young Olds came in ber I hind her, brandishing a pistol, He directed Mrs. Braham and Turner behind a counter, forced Turner to put the money from tie.

till into a brown paper bag and then said, "I'm gelting put of here As the left be fired two shots. Both hit Mrs. Braham and killed, her. Later, 1p his confession, the youth said he pulled the trigger because he believed he had seen Turner's hands move. Then Oids rap alleys to the home of his mother's third husband, Arne Richstad, where 'he had been living, and watched television for a "I hid the money 'in a cardboard -box do the he said later, I didn't count.

it until next day. I $30.30." He spent the money cm food, candy and. cigarettes. Seven, nights later, Olds bailed a taxi, pulled gun, robbed the driver of $11 and forced him to drive around town for hours. Cabby Charles E.

52, told police the boy had bragged that he was the one who. killed Brabam. It was 'a short time later that Patrolman Harold "Countryman accosted Olds on a sidewalk and arrested him. The boy at first denied the killing, but broke down the next morning. The crime shacked: Seattle and set people to asking the inevitable question: Why? Olds gave his qwa answer, do meeting with, marine his confession.

I pave only myself 10 Hinton, elites of Wash. Bureau of Juvenile has another Reporter Gives Analysis Of Air Attacks on Cuba Editor's Note: Robert Berrellez, who has been -reporting from Cuba since Fidel Castro took power, gives his analysis in the foltowing dispatch of the situation in which Castro finds himself today.) By ROBERT BERRELLEZ HAVANA, -The air attacks on three Cuban air bases Saturday underline the seething internal opposition Fidel Castro's 28-month-old regime. The blows struck at dawn by rocket-firing airplanes, said to have been part of Castro's now nearly depleted Air Force, were the most spectacular of the attacks on government property in the last 11 days-11 days packed with arson, bombings and shootings. Since April 5, saboteur's and terrorists have struck hard six different times in widely scattered parts of the island, causing losses conservatively estimated at $10 million. These acts of terrorism, together with outbreaks of rebel violence from one end of the island to the other, seem to support the contention of foreign observers and anti-Castro Cubans here that the present opposition Castro, outweighs by far that which con-! fronted deposed dictator Fulgencio Batista on the eve of his flight Jan.

1, 1959. These opposition blows have been admitted recently by the government: April 5-Fire at Hershey refinery destroys about 25,000 tons of sugar, Loss estimated at $2 million. April 6-Terrorist bomb smash-, American Killed In Auto Mishap POITERS, France (AP) Lt. Col. John Brizzard, 29-year-old American, was killed Saturday when his automobile and a truck collided at a crossroads at Vendeuvre, near here, then smashed into a roadside stone wall.

The truck driver, a Frenchman, was not injured. Police said Brizzard had stationed until recently at the American base at Orleans and had just been transferred to base near Poitiers. Brizzard's home address was Box 58, Rt. 1, Pearl River, La. Bank Building Gutted by Fire CORDON'S GIVES YOU: NEW ORLEANS (AP) The night building superintendent hospitalized after a fire caused an estimated $30,000 damages on the eighth floor of a bank building in the central business district Saturday.

Leonard Smith, 66, was ed in good condition at Baptist Hospital. The fire damaged the offices of the Waterman Steamship Corp. located on the eighth floor of the National Bank of Commerce es display windows at El to, nation's largest department store and Castro's show piece in Havana. April. 7-Aqueduct at La Salud, supplying Havana with heavily damaged by bomb and some areas of the capital left' without water temporarily.

April 13-Saboteurs destroy El Gas Station Blaze Claims Fire Fighters PHILADELPHIA (AP)-Three, firemen were. killed Saturday, when two rapid explosions spread flaming gas through a quiet, neighborhood and leveled a threestory building housing a gas sta-; tion. Twenty-eight firemen and two civilians were treated at hospitals for burns, brulses and cuts caused by flying glass and debris. The explosions shattered Marly's Sunoco station in Re tial and commercial Kensington section of North Philadelphia. Firemen were climbing ladders when they were caught by one of tire explosions.

Just before the explosion, George Wier, 42, of Clifton Heights, a Sunoco repairman, entered the basement of the station. Outside Joseph Russo, 34, of Chester, was delivering the station. 3,000 gallons of gasoline to Weir spotted burning liquid in corner of the basement. He raced to the street screaming at Russo to move the big oline truck. Russo drove down the street.

An attendant, Francis Schmeltzer, 48, was pumping gas into a car when Weir came running out shouting, "Fire," Schmeltzer sent the motorist racing from the station. Then. Schmeltzer said, came tire first blast. Capt. Arthur Grover, 42, said he was inside the building walkfrom the second to the third floor when the blast came.

N. O. Cartoonist Death Announced NEW ORLEANS (AP) Roy E. Aymond, 65, former cartoonist for The New Orleans States, died Saturday after a heart attack. Aymond joined The States shortly after World War I and remained with the newspaper after it was bought by The Times-Picayune Publishing Co.

He retired in 1 August, 1945. During World War I he was an aviator and served with Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker in France. He worked briefly for the New York Sun. Aymond was a native of Bunkie where funeral services will be held Sunday.

Survivors include his widow and two brothers, Dr. Branch Aymond of New and Dave L. Aymond of Bunkie. to DISCOUNT had a chance for the decent things in life. "In a day when we are thinking of shooting rockets to the moon, we should not allow conditions to; exist where child is starved emotionally and' shuttled about! helplessly." And what about Alford the man the young showgirl met and dated in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1940 and married four years later? Braham, now 38 and running a parking was in a movle with a son when the police called to! tell him his wife was dead.

He too was looking for explanations. "It was such a senseless killing," he said, "a woman's life for such a little bit. of On ELGIN- GRUEN HAMILTON LG OR YOUR SATISFACTION MONEY BACK WITHIN GUARANTEED 3A DAYS 2 DIAMONDS Our Regular 118.95 6 DOWN 1 A WEEK Seth have 17 jewels Our Regular 13895 Charge it His Lavely is, water drams and style far shock $1995 DOWN 41 A WEEK! Pay as law as '4 MONTHLY! Encanto store by fire. Loss estlmated at $7 million or more. per warehouse destroyed by fire, Nine bombs explode in Havana suburbs.

April 14-Sugar cane field neat Camaguey set afire. Four persons killed. Untold damage. Damage from Saturday's alr attacks could be substantial, with thousands of dollars worth of imported ammunition in flames. But observers here commented that the Castro regime will suffer most from eventual economic losses.

By mobilizing workers' militia units, as ho did Saturday, Castro reduced the number of laborers. available to harvest Cuba's big moncy crop sugar canc. While arsonist and terror bombers were active throughout a flarcup of Insurgent was reported In four provinces: Oriente, Camaguey, Las Villas, and Pinar del Rio. Mobilization had been carried; on quietly until Saturday, but it' was known thousands of militiamen were called to arms to fight rebel bands in the mountains. Cotton Dealers I Are Favored by Policy Changes (AP) The WASHINGTON Agriculture Department A11- (nounced Saturday that porters who receive government subsidies can lake the payment in cash, use it to repay federal redeem It for cotcotton loans or ton from government stocks.

This Is a change from the pres: ent program, which permits the be paid only in cot. ton drawn from government stocks! exporters (o gathered under the price support program. those who lake cash However, wait at least 60 days before! in their subsidy certiti must turning cates. The government subsidy is nor. tessary to keep U.S, colton with other colton in for.

petitive cign markets. The department announced Feh. 21 that the rate of payment would be 8.5 cents a pound for cotton: between next Aug. 1 anti shipped 'July 31, 1962. Any cotton shipped between now: then will come under the old: and The rate of This is 6 program.

cents a pound. However. exporters have been getting the bulk of their collon from the government at prices running 2 to 8 cents below the basic support tale. To qualify, an files nos lice with the department ot tention to export cotton mid files notice on the day he actual. lv makes the shipment, Then the exporter receives a certificate, which can be for one of three ways: 1.

111 repayment of upland cotton purchased by the government. 2. In repayment of 1961-crop cotton loans made under the cotton loan program. 3. For cash not carlier than 60 days after the certificate has been fissned.

Mental Health Group Here Sets Film Showing The film. "A Family Affair." will ho shown Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the assembly room of the Public Health unit on Prien Lake Road Showing of the film Is sponsored Thy the Southwest chapter of the Association of Mental. flealth. The fitm showing is open to the public.

11 depicts a family not lacking in affection for each other, hut experiencing strained relations by t-the defiance of an adolescent son. C. M. (JACK) JACKSON NO. INDEPENDENT NO.

24 CANDIDATE Council 24 For City sincerely thank you for the vote and support that you I first primary on April 8, and I ask you to gave me in the continue to support me in the runoff election on May 13. To those of you who did not vote for me, I hope that you consider my record and qualifications now, and I will humbly ask you to support me. PROS 146 I AM AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE, I HAVE ONCE ANYONE, WHETHER THEY BE A CANDIDATE FOR AGAIN, I REMIND YOU THAT NO TIES OR OBLIGATIONS TO THEY WHETHER BE JUST ORDINARY CITIZENS. 1 AM ANY PUBLIC OFFICE, OR MY OWN MERITS, AND I WANT THE SUPPORT OF RUNNING MY CAMPAIGN ON FACTION, OR JUST ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE. IF I ALL OF YOU, NOT JUST ONE OBLIGATED TO ANY ONE PERSON, OR ANY GROUP OF PERSONS, 1 COULD WERE NOT EARNESTLY AND SINCERELY ASK YOU TO VOTE FOR ME.

I think that you want someone on your City Council who will represent all of the people all of the time, and certainly not just one group or faction. I think that you want soincone who loves your children, and someone who is willing to give his time in helping your chitdren, think that you want someone who is educated, someone who is successful In business, and 'above all, someone who will represent you fairly and impartially. Ladies and gentlemen, if you do want this someone, then go to work and support me. Talk me up to your friends. Check my record and see for yourself what I have done for the City of Lake Charles.

I believe in you, I believe In your children, I believe In Lake Charles, and this is the reason that I am seeking this office. I ask you to believe in me, and give me a chance to show you what I can and will do for all of us. WIIEN YOU GO TO THE POLLS ON MAY 13, YOU MUST VOTE FOR SEVEN COUNCIL CANDIDATES OR YOUR VOTE WILL NOT COUNT. MAKE ONE OF THEM C. M.

(JACK) JACKSON, NUMBER 24, AND YOUR TRUST AND CONFIDENCE WILL NEVER BE BETRAYED. began the moment he was brought, into the world." Records show that six months after be was born Olds was found to be so neglected and undernourished that he had to be taken to King County Hospital for treatment. After that came the many foster homes. The records show, he ran away repeatedly, looking for his mother. When he was 11, he accidentally met her on a bus.

promised to come see him, but, she never did. However, six days after the boy's arrest, Mrs. Arnold C. Sleipness, 34, a housewife in near-. by Edmonds, Identified herself publicly as Michael's mother and said they would- "never be parted again." Mrs.

Sleippess bitterly blamed society for her son's, plight and her troubled years which followed his birth in a home. for unwed mothers. She: said the birth re: sulted: from a rape committed when site: was: 14. Afterward, disowned by. her father and other relatives, she and the boy were shunted from home to home, unwanted and separated most of the time.

She stole milk from porches to keep him alive as, an infant. She said that not until six years ago when she met the man who 1s now Her fourth husband did she feel needed. "I found love and God," she said, adding that the difficult decision to tatep from' obscurity. to help her son was encouraged by her husband and minister. But Mrs.

Sleipness said Michael, whom she lost track of seven years ago, had nothing to hold onto. In September, 1959; when He was. 16. court records show that Olds admitted choking a 4-yearold boy Into unconsciousness the child said he "looked like a tramp." He was commilted to the King County Juvenile Court. The court's consulting psychiatrist, Dr.

Richard: B. Jarvis, said thep: will able to that. a better Mike ever than marginal adjustment, for he has been damaged more than the human personality can stand without permanent scarring." Olds was placed in a custodial school: on nearby Mercer Island. He was paroled last May to RichBut, Harmop, he, had been by the time the school received him. "He was starving for the things we take for granted, He never Travel Service Slated TOKYO (API The Soviet Upplans to open regular passesliner service between Tokyo and Siberia next month, the first HAMILTONI 17 JEWELS SHOCK-RESIST SWEEP- HAND Hamilton BAND EXPANSION 8 HAMILTON A 17 JEWELS NEW 1961 STYLE EXPANSION BAND Our Regular $69.50 Our Regular $55.

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